Method of producing platelets

US6732961B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Consortium für elektrochemische Industrie GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Horst Leigeber · Oberhaching, DE
• Franz-Heinrich Kreuzer · Martinsried, DE
• Adolf Gurtner · Wildenau, AT
• Volker Stanjek · Ampfing, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 15, 2001
• Grant date: May 11, 2004
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C09K19/586
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of producing platelets, wherein a material to be processed into platelets is applied in a flowable or gaseous state to a substrate, consolidated, removed from the substrate, and subjected to a crushing or grinding process, wherein the material is applied to the substrate in succeeding layers such that after application, a lamina pack is present which, in cross section perpendicular to its surface, has individual laminae of a thickness of between 0.2-1000 &mgr;m, and said lamina pack, having been stripped from the substrate, is treated in such a way that the material disintegrates into individual laminae and the individual laminae are reduced in size to a particle size of 0.5-10000 &mgr;m.