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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:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2013
Applicants:
University of Limerick, Limerick, IE;
Medical Engineering and Development Institute, Inc., West Lafayette, IN (US);
Inventors:
Syed A. M. Tofail, Limerick, IE;
James Butler, Aherlow, IE;
James M. Carlson, Lafayette, IN (US);
Garry Warren, Bruff, IE;
Abbasi A. Gandhi, Ahmedabad, IN;
Peter Tiernan, Caherconlish, IE;
Assignees:
Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Bloomington, IN (US);
University of Limerick, Limerick, IE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22C 19/03 (2006.01); C22C 1/04 (2006.01); C22C 30/00 (2006.01); B22F 3/12 (2006.01); B22F 3/14 (2006.01); B22F 3/24 (2006.01); B22F 3/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C22C 30/00 (2013.01); B22F 3/10 (2013.01); B22F 3/12 (2013.01); B22F 3/14 (2013.01); B22F 3/24 (2013.01); C22C 1/04 (2013.01); C22C 1/045 (2013.01); C22C 19/03 (2013.01); B22F 2301/155 (2013.01);
Abstract
A mixture of powders for preparing a sintered nickel-titanium-rare earth (Ni—Ti—RE) alloy includes Ni—Ti alloy powders comprising from about 55 wt. % Ni to about 61 wt. % Ni and from about 39 wt. % Ti to about 45 wt. % Ti, and RE alloy powders comprising a RE element.