Fiber reinforced composite material system

• Main Authors: ROBERT ANTHONY RESS, MARK STEPHEN HENRY, AMIT CHATTERJEE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.03.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ALLOYS; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; BEARINGS; BLASTING; CASTING; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; HEATING; INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO MACHINES OR ENGINES OTHER THANNON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, TO WIND MOTORS,TO NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT PUMPS, AND TO GENERATING COMBUSTIONPRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY; INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUSSUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04; INDUCTANCES; LIGHTING; MAGNETS; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METALLURGY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWDER METALLURGY; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; SHAFTS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; TRANSFORMERS; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS; WEAPONS; WORKING METALLIC POWDER

The present invention contemplates a high strength magnetic composite material system (35) comprising a plurality of high strength fibers (30) coupled together by a soft magnetic alloy (31). In one embodiment an internally reinforced structure is formed of the composite material system (35) and has strengths greater than the monolithic magnetic alloy. The structure having been consolidated through a combined pressure and thermal cycle.