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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
May. 25, 2012
Stig Åke Andersin, Robertsfors, SE;
Bernd Heinrich Ries, Huenfeld, DE;
Frank Friedrich Lachmann, Burghaun, DE;
Lars-ivar Nilsson, Robertfors, SE;
Stig Åke Andersin, Robertsfors, SE;
Bernd Heinrich Ries, Huenfeld, DE;
Frank Friedrich Lachmann, Burghaun, DE;
Lars-Ivar Nilsson, Robertfors, SE;
Element Six Limited, County Clare, IE;
Abstract
A method for making a treated super-hard structure, the method including providing a super-hard structure comprising super-hard material selected from polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PCBN) material or thermally stable polycrystalline diamond (PCD) material; subjecting the super-hard structure to heat treatment at a treatment temperature of greater than 700 degrees centigrade at a treatment pressure at which the super-hard material is not thermodynamically stable, for a treatment period of at least about 5 minutes to produce the treated super-hard structure.