Patent ID: 11969797
Assignee: POWDERMET, INC.
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C | IPC B  C

Claim 13:
14. A deformable syntactic metal foam composite that is substantially free of non-syntactic porosity; said deformable syntactic metal foam composite includes metal-coated microballoons and a metal matrix material; said metal-coated microballoons have been at least partially secured together by a sintering process; each of said metal-coated microballoons includes a microballoon and a metal coating; each of said microballoons constitutes a greater weight percent of said metal-coated microballoon than said coating of metal material on said metal-coated microballoon prior to said sintering together of said metal-coated microballoons; said metal coating on each of said microballoons is formed by chemical vapor deposition or by immersion in a metal slurry prior to said sintering together of said metal-coated microballoons; at least a portion of said metal matrix material is formed from a metal additive and said metal coating on said metal-coated microballoon; said metal coated microballoon is a carbon microballoon coated with titanium; said metal carbon microballoon has a particle size of 5-180 microns; said metal matrix material includes titanium.