Single-cast, high-temperature, thin wall structures and methods of making the same

US6071363A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Allison Engine Company, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kurt F. O'Connor · Carmel, US
• James Paul Hoff · Greenwood, US
• Donald J. Frasier · Greenwood, US
• Ralph E. Peeler · Reelsville, US
• Heidi Mueller-Largent · Indianapolis, US
• Floyd Freeman Trees · Bloomington, US
• James Rodney Whetstone · Indianapolis, US
• John H. Lane · Indianapolis, US
• Ralph Edward Jeffries · Indianapolis, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 3, 1996
• Grant date: Jun 6, 2000
• Expiry date: Jun 3, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/12493
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A single-cast, thin wall structure capable of withstanding impinging gases at temperatures of 4300.degree. F. and higher, and method of making the same.