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Heat insulator for hot isostatic pressing apparatus

US4620839A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 14, 1984
Grant dateNov 4, 1986
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Expiry dateSep 14, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/30
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A heat insulator for a hot isostatic pressing apparatus including a plurality of non-perforated graphite sheets; a plurality of perforated graphite sheets, each one of the plurality of perforated graphite sheets being sandwiched between and making at least substantially planar contact with, but not being bonded to, adjoining ones of the plurality of non-perforated graphite sheets; and a gas having an extremely low thermal conductivity substantially confined in the perforations in the plurality of perforated graphite sheets.

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