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Preparation and uses of amorphous boron carbide coated substrates
Assignee: United States Department of Energy
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Filing: 1979-12-05
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Granted: 1981-09-01
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Expires: 1999-12-05
Abstract
Abstract Cloth is coated at a temperature below about 1000 DEG C. with amorphous boron-carbon deposits in a process which provides a substantially uniform coating on all the filaments making up each yarn fiber bundle of the cloth. The coated cloths can be used in the as-deposited condition for example as wear surfaces where high hardness values are needed; or multiple layers of coated cloths can be hot-pressed to form billets useful for example in fusion reactor wall armor. Also provided is a method of controlling the atom ratio of B:C of boron-carbon deposits onto any of a variety of substrates, including cloths.
Inventors
- 👤 Robert E. Riley
- 👤 Lawrence R. Newkirk
- 👤 Flavio A. Valencia
- 👤 Sr. Terry C. Wallace
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 18:57
CPC Classifications
B; B32; B32B; B32B5/00; B32B5/22; B32B5/24; B32B5/26; B32B18/00; C; C04; C04B; C04B35/00; C04B35/515; C04B35/56; C04B35/563; C04B35/622; C04B35/626; C04B35/628; C04B35/62844; C04B35/62857; C04B35/6286; C04B35/62884; C04B35/64; C04B35/645; C04B35/71; C04B35/78; C04B35/80; C04B41/00; C04B41/009; C04B41/45; C04B41/50; C04B41/5053; C04B41/5062; C04B41/507; C04B41/80; C04B41/81; C04B41/85; C04B41/87; C23; C23C; C23C16/00; C23C16/22; C23C16/30; C23C16/32; B32B2262/00; B32B2262/10; B32B2262/106; C04B2235/00; C04B2235/02; C04B2235/50; C04B2235/52; C04B2235/5208; C04B2235/5216; C04B2235/524; C04B2235/5248; C04B2235/5252; C04B2235/5264; C04B2235/65; C04B2235/656; C04B2235/6567; C04B2235/70; C04B2235/74; C04B2235/76; C04B2235/767; C04B2235/77; C04B2235/79; C04B2237/00; C04B2237/30; C04B2237/32; C04B2237/36; C04B2237/38; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S428/00; Y10S428/902; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/30
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
86 words
A method of coating graphite cloth with a coating of amorphous boron carbide which is substantially uniform on all filaments throughout each yarn bundle of said cloth, said method comprising: contacting said graphite cloth with a mixture of BCl 3 , at least one hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of propene and methane, and hydrogen at a coating temperature within the range from about 850° to about 900° C. and at a total pressure within the range from about 15 torr to about 35 torr.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
86 words
A method of coating graphite cloth with a coating of amorphous boron carbide which is substantially uniform on all filaments throughout each yarn bundle of said cloth, said method comprising: contacting said graphite cloth with a mixture of BCl 3 , at least one hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of propene and methane, and hydrogen at a coating temperature within the range from about 850° to about 900° C. and at a total pressure within the range from about 15 torr to about 35 torr.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
79 words
A method of producing a hot-pressed billet, said method requiring no additional adhesive material and comprising: hot-pressing multiple layers of graphite cloth coated according to the method of claim 1 in a die at a hot-pressing temperature within the range from about 1900° to about 2100° C., at a hot-pressing pressure within the range from about 20 to about 40 MPa, and for a period of time of hot-pressing within the range from about 10 to about 30 minutes.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
42 words
A method according to claim 2 wherein said hot-pressing temperature is about 2100° C., wherein said hot-pressing pressure is about 32 MPa, wherein said period of time of hot-pressing is about 15 minutes, and wherein 10 layers of coated cloth are hot-pressed.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
12 words
An article of manufacture prepared according to the method of claim 3.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
42 words
An article of manufacture comprising a unified, compacted, hot-pressed structure comprising a multiplicity of layers of ceramic cloth formed from multifilamentary ceramic yarn, substantially all tiny filaments of which are surrounded by and separated from each other by interstitially deposited boron carbide.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
42 words
An article of manufacture comprising a unified, compacted, hot-pressed structure comprising a multiplicity of layers of ceramic cloth formed from multifilamentary ceramic yarn, substantially all tiny filaments of which are surrounded by and separated from each other by interstitially deposited boron carbide.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
61 words
An article of manufacture according to claim 5, wherein said hot-pressed structure has been compacted sufficiently so that it has a density which is near theoretical density and wherein theoretical density is defined by the formula: ______________________________________
Theoretical Volume Density of
Density = percent of coating
coating material material
+ 100 - Volume filament
percent of cloth
coating density
material
______________________________________
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
13 words
An article according to claim 6, wherein said ceramic cloth comprises graphite cloth.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
28 words
An article according to claim 7, wherein said interstitially deposited boron carbide has an atom ratio of B:C lying within the range from about 1:1 to about 14:1.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
43 words
An article according to claim 8, wherein said interstitially deposited boron carbide is B 4 C, wherein the content of B 4 C is less than about 35 volume percent, and wherein said hot-pressed structure consists of B 4 C and graphite cloth.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
32 words
An article according to claim 9 wherein said B 4 C is amorphous and wherein said hot-pressed structure has a density which differs from said theoretical density by less than about 1.5%.
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