A composite material comprising a plurality of round particles bound together by a binding material. Each of the plurality of round particles includes a wear resistant element, an intermediate coating on the wear resistant element, and a round outer layer encapsulating the intermediate coating and the wear resistant element. The intermediate coating is metallurgically bonded to the wear resistant element, and is metallurgically bondable to the binding material.

The present invention relates to a method of producing a composite rod from a braze material and a sheet of material comprising cermet. The method comprises scoring a surface of the sheet to produce at least one line of localised stress and subsequently causing the sheet to break along the line of localised stress, thereby to produce a plurality of cermet chunks. The cermet chunks can be combined with the braze material to produce the composite rod. In a particular embodiment, the sheet of material may be a used cermet cutting tip.

An implement including a first plate and a second plate, each plate having a contact surface which abuts a contact surface of the other plate to establish an interface plane, and a gradient of at least one additive that is more concentrated at the interface plane and less concentrated in decreasing amounts progressing away from the interface plane and the contact surface for each plate, wherein the at least one additive alters at least one property of each plate. Materials with internal gradients and methods of making same.

A method for manufacturing a deposition mask having a plurality of openings arranged in a matrix pattern in an active region formation portion of a mask base, which is fixed to a frame while being tensioned, the method including: a step A of preparing a mask base of an initial state fixed to a frame while being tensioned in a predetermined condition so as to define an xy plane; a step B of preparing target coordinate data that identifies a position of each of the plurality of openings in the xy plane; a step C of predicting, for each of the plurality of openings, an amount of displacement from the target coordinate data caused by the formation of the openings to generate such correction data that reduces the amount of displacement; and a step D of forming each of the plurality of openings at a position that is identified based on the target coordinate data and the correction data, wherein: in the step C, the correction data for each of the plurality of openings is associated with an order in which the plurality of openings are formed; and in the step D, the plurality of openings are formed in the order.

A knife configured for use with an electrosurgical forceps having curved jaw members and a method of manufacturing the same. The knife includes a distal body having an inner side and an outer side, a first etching on the outer side of the distal body defining a distal cutting edge and a second etching on the outer side of the distal body extending along a portion of a length of the distal body to define relatively protruded and relatively recessed surfaces extending along a portion of the length of the distal body on the outer side thereof.

Provided is a roller laser texturing processing equipment and its processing method, comprising the following steps: dividing the processing area, determining the distribution scheme: obtaining a distribution scheme of end-to-end, unordered and uniform texturing lattice according to said roller processing unit parameters and morphological parameters; determining the output signal: the laser output position signal, beam energy regulation signal and deflection signal of one-dimensional beam deflection unit are obtained through the information processing module; performing roller laser texturing processing: said laser output position signal is used to control the light source module to emit the laser; said beam energy regulation signal and deflection signal of one-dimensional beam deflection unit are input into the laser terminal output module, respectively, to generate an unordered laser lattice, each laser terminal output module is used to process a roller processing unit. The present invention can guarantee the unordered degree of the texturing points and the uniformity of the morphology distribution at the same time, the surface consistency of the produced cold-rolled plate is better in the subsequent coating treatment.

There is described a method of laser-processing a metal workpiece. The method generally has a step of laser-hardening a portion of the metal workpiece by momentarily exposing said portion to an out-of-focus region of a pulsed laser beam, the exposed portion heating to a given temperature and quenching thereafter, the sequence of said heating and said quenching thereby hardening said exposed portion, and a step of laser-cleaning the hardened portion by momentarily exposing said hardened portion to an in-focus region of said pulsed laser beam, thereby cleaning said hardened portion.

The invention relates weldments useful as heat transfer tubes in pyrolysis furnaces. The invention relates to tubes that are useful in pyrolysis furnaces. The weldments include a tubular member and at least one mixing element. The tubular member comprises an aluminum-containing alloy. The mixing element comprises an aluminum-containing alloy. The mixing element's aluminum-containing alloy can be the same as or different from the tubular member's aluminum-containing alloy. Other aspects of the invention relate to pyrolysis furnaces which include such weldments, and the use of such pyrolysis furnaces for hydrocarbon conversion processes such as steam cracking.

A method includes removing a section of electrical insulation proximate an end of a tubing-encased conductor (TEC) to form an end of electrical insulation that is axially recessed relative to the end of the TEC. The method includes welding an end member to an outer surface of the outer tube at a weld joint that is axially between the end of the TEC and the end of the electrical insulation to protect the electrical insulation from heating damage from welding. The method includes replacing the section of electrical insulation proximate the end of the TEC by inserting a spacer into the end of the TEC between the outer tube and the electrical conductor after welding the end member to the outer surface of the TEC. A tool can be electrically connected to the electrical conductor and the tool can be welded to the end member.