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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2005
Yang-tse Cheng, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Wangyang NI, East Lansing, MI (US);
Leonid Charles Lev, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Michael J. Lukitsch, Port Huron, MI (US);
David S. Grummon, E. Lansing, MI (US);
Anita M. Weiner, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Yang-Tse Cheng, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Wangyang Ni, East Lansing, MI (US);
Leonid Charles Lev, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Michael J. Lukitsch, Port Huron, MI (US);
David S. Grummon, E. Lansing, MI (US);
Anita M. Weiner, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Abstract
A material and method for adhering at least two materials that includes the step of interposing at least one intermediate layer between the two materials and associated adhesion material. The materials to be adhered exhibit at least one characteristic dissimilarity and the intermediate material interposed contains at least one shape memory alloy, the shape memory alloy capable of exhibiting superelasticity.