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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akio Konishi, Hiratsuka, JP;
Assignee:
Komatsu Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21C 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C21C 1/00 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for fabricating a powdery thermoelectric material comprising a rotating disk having durability to thermal shock, having no reactivity with raw material and capable of high speed rotation, the apparatus comprising a container for mixing raw material of predetermined composition and heating and melting the same, a funnel or a pouring port for pouring the molten metal of the heat-melted raw material and a rotating disk made of silicon nitride or a material containing silicon nitride for scattering the poured molten metal.