Claims
- 1. A method for joining a ceramic or metal ceramic electrical heating element to a electrical terminal, the heating elements having been manufactured using micropyretic synthesis, the method for joining comprising the steps of:
- (1) preparing the electrical terminals by
- (a) blending a mixture comprising between about 5% and 95% by weight of at least one reactive system, wherein said reactive system comprises at least two particulate combustible materials which will react exothermically with one another by micropyretic synthesis and are present in such proportion to one another that combustion will occur when ignited, upto 95% by weight of a filler material, and a sufficient amount of a liquid phase in order to form a slurry and
- (b) fashioning said slurry into a desired wet and uncombusted shape for said terminal;
- (2) placing said heating element into close contact with said wet, uncombusted terminal so as to attach said terminal to said element;
- (3) drying the terminal portion of the terminal-element attachment; and
- (4) combusting the terminal portion of said terminal-element attachment by ignition at a temperature between about 150.degree. C. and 1800.degree. C.
- 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said reactive system is selected from the group consisting of Ni and Al, Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 and Al and C, MoO.sub.3 and Al and B, MoO.sub.3 and Ai and Si,Ti and B, Ti and Si, Nb and Al, Zr and B, Nb and B, Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 and Al, Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 and Al,Ti and B and Al, Hf and B,Ta and B,Ti and C,Ti and Ni,Ti and Pd,Ti and Al,Ti and Fe,Ti and C and Ni and combinations thereof.
- 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said filler material is selected from the group consisting of: SiC, MoSi.sub.2, Cr.sub.2 C.sub.3, WC, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, SiO.sub.2, SnO.sub.2, C, Be, La, Co, Ni, rare earth elements from the Lanthanide series with atomic numbers from 57 to 71, ZnO, Y.sub.2 O.sub.3, ZrO.sub.2, Cu, Ni alloys containing Al and Ti, Co alloys containing Al and Ti, Ni-Co alloys containing Al and Ti, Sb.sub.2 O.sub.3, CuO, Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, GeO, Fe.sub.3 O.sub.4, V.sub.2 O.sub.5, FeO, Mo, Nb, Cr, Al, Si, Y, Fe, Si.sub.3 N.sub.4, B, alloys and mixtures thereof.
- 4. The composition according to claim 1 wherein said liquid phase comprises up to 90% by weight of a plasticizer.
- 5. The method according to claim 4, wherein said plasticizer is selected from the group consisting of: polyvinyl butyral, polyurethane, colloidal silica, 2-5% aqueous ethyl cellulose solution, phosphoric acid, bentonite, and a mixture of fused silica with equal volumetric amounts of colloidal alumina, zirconia and cerium acetate.
- 6. The method according to claim 5, wherein said solvent is selected from the group consisting of: acetone, water and acetone-water.
- 7. The method according to claim 6, wherein said mixture comprise from about 20% to about 85% of said filler material, about 15% to about 85% of said reactive system, and 0% to about 25% of said plasticizer by weight, based on the total weight of said mixture.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/197,166, filed Feb. 16, 1994, now abandoned, which is a divisional, of application Ser. No. 08/028,354, filed Mar. 9, 1993.
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Continuations (1)
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