Method for making and using a rod assembly

US7897103B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Eric Allen Ott · Cincinnati, US
• Andrew Philip Woodfield · Cincinnati, US
• Clifford Earl Shamblen · Cincinnati, US
• Peter Wayte · Cincinnati, US
• Mike Eugene Mechley · Cincinnati, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 27, 2005
• Grant date: Mar 1, 2011
• Expiry date: Jul 14, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02W30/50
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An elongated rod assembly is made by preparing a plurality of rods. Each rod is prepared by the steps of furnishing at least one nonmetallic precursor compound, thereafter chemically reducing the precursor compounds to produce the metallic material, and thereafter consolidating the metallic material to form the rod, wherein the rod has a rod length equal to the assembly length. The rods are bundled together to form a bundled rod assembly. The rod assembly may be used as a consumable feedstock in a melting-and-casting operation.