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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2003
Applicant:
Norikazu Niimi, Kasugai, JP;
Inventor:
Norikazu Niimi, Kasugai, JP;
Assignee:
NGK Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C04B 35/10 (2006.01); C04B 35/115 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to lower the sintering temperature required for a sintered body of yttrium-aluminum garnet, to improve the corrosion resistance of the sintered body and to prevent the reduction of the transmittance thereof. A sintered body of yttrium-aluminum garnet is produced from a source compound for yttrium and a source compound for aluminum using aluminum nitride as a sintering aid. It maybe considered that aluminum nitride reacts with alumina and yttria to generate liquid phase and to reduce the sintering temperature during the sintering process.