Ceramic to metal seal

Patent · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1976

OSTI ID:862502

Snow, Gary S ^[1]; Wilcox, Paul D ^[1]

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1. Albuquerque, NM

Providing a high strength, hermetic ceramic to metal seal by essentially heating a wire-like metal gasket and a ceramic member, which have been chemically cleaned, while simultaneously deforming from about 50 to 95 percent the metal gasket against the ceramic member at a temperature of about 30 to 75 percent of the melting temperature of the metal gasket.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA
• DOE Contract Number: AT(29-1)-789
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States Energy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 3951327
• OSTI ID: 862502
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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