IP Library Granted Patent US 7,601,431
Granted Patent B2
US 7,601,431 · App. 11/285,486 · Granted Oct 13, 2009

Process for coating articles and articles made therefrom

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Patent No.
US 7,601,431
App. No.
11/285,486
Granted
Oct 13, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

In one embodiment, a coated turbine article comprising a uniform enhanced coating on at least a portion of the turbine article, wherein the enhanced coating comprises a coating material and a structural enhancer, wherein the structural enhancer is selected from the group consisting of oxide, carbide, nitride, intermetallic material, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing, wherein the structural enhancer has an average particle size, as measured along a major axis, of about 0.01 μm to about 100 μm.

Claims (11)

1. A coated article, comprising:

an enhanced coating on at least a portion of the article,

wherein the enhanced coating comprises a coating material, a first structural enhancer, and a second structural enhancer;

wherein the first structural enhancer comprises an intermetallic compound consisting of two or more metals, and

the second structural enhancer comprises an oxide selected from the group consisting of alumina, zirconia, silica, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing oxides, and

wherein the first structural enhancer and the second structural enhancer has an average particle size, as measured along a major axis, of about 1.0 μm to about 50 μm.

2. The article of claim 1 , wherein the average particle size is about 5 μm to about 25 μm.

3. The article of claim 1 , wherein the coating material comprises MCrAlY, wherein M is selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, iron, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing.

4. The article of claim 3 , wherein the coating material further comprises an element selected from the group consisting of silicon, ruthenium, iridium, osmium, gold, silver, tantalum, palladium, rhenium, hafnium, platinum, rhodium, tungsten, alloys comprising at least one of the foregoing, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing.

5. The article of claim 3 , wherein the coating material further comprises an element selected from the group consisting of ruthenium, iridium, osmium, gold, silver, tantalum, palladium, rhenium, platinum, rhodium, tungsten, alloys comprising at least one of the foregoing, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing.

6. The article of claim 1 , wherein the oxide comprises alumina.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 17, 2023
From: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
To: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Reel/Frame 065727/0001 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 18, 2016
From: DEUTSCHE BANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH
To: CELANESE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039743/0924 →