US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Materials on Jan. 20 for "Hard composite material" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,744, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Mitsubishi Materials Corp. (Tokyo).

"Hard composite material" was invented by Masahiro Yano (Naka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cBN sinter comprising cubic boron nitride grains and a binder phase, the binder phase comprising Ti2CN and Co2B, wherein the ratio ITi2CN/ICo2B of a peak intensity ITi2CN assigned to Ti2CN appearing at 2Theta=41.9deg to 42.2deg to a peak intensity ITiAl3 assigned to Co2B appearing at 2Theta=45.7deg to 45.9deg is in a range of 0.5 and 2.0 in an XRD measurement."

The patent was filed on March 9, 2021, under Application No. 17/910,950.

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