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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2007
Applicants:

Guodong Zhan, Spring, TX (US);

Youhe Zhang, Tomball, TX (US);

Feng Yu, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);

Xian Yao, Sandy, UT (US);

J. Daniel Belnap, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);

Yuelin Shen, Houston, TX (US);

Madapusi K. Keshavan, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Inventors:

Guodong Zhan, Spring, TX (US);

Youhe Zhang, Tomball, TX (US);

Feng Yu, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);

Xian Yao, Sandy, UT (US);

J. Daniel Belnap, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);

Yuelin Shen, Houston, TX (US);

Madapusi K. Keshavan, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Assignee:

Smith International, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 10/46 (2006.01); B24D 3/04 (2006.01); C22C 26/00 (2006.01); C22C 29/06 (2006.01); B24D 3/02 (2006.01); B22F 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 10/46 (2013.01); C22C 26/00 (2013.01); B22F 2005/001 (2013.01); C22C 29/06 (2013.01); B24D 3/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A sintered body for cutting tools that includes hard particle phase comprising a plurality of hard particles, wherein at least a portion of the hard phase particles comprise a coating deposited by atomic layer deposition disposed thereon; and a binder phase is disclosed. The hard particles that may be included in the sintered bodies may include tungsten carbide, diamond, and boron nitride particles.


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