Patent ID: 6254743
Filing Date: 2001-07-03
Classification: C23F,C25B,C25C,Y10T

Abstract:
A greatly expanded titanium metal mesh of enhanced void fraction, said greatly expanded mesh being selected from the group consisting of titanium metal, titanium metal alloys, and intermetallic mixtures containing titanium metal, said titanium mesh having a pattern of substantially diamond-shaped voids having LWD and SWD dimensions for units of the pattern, the pattern of voids being defined by a continuum of metal strands interconnected at nodes, wherein the mesh is a flexible and stretchable titanium mesh with strands of thickness less than 0.125 cm and having a void fraction of at least 90%, said flexible and stretchable mesh being coilable and uncoilable about an axis along the LWD dimension of the pattern units and being stretchable along the SWD dimension of the pattern units and further being bendable in the general plane of the mesh about a bending radius in the range from 5 to 25 times the width of the mesh, with the mesh nodes being of double strand thickness.