Abstract:
The ruthenium compound [Ru.sub.2 N(H.sub.2 O).sub.2 Cl.sub.8 ]K.sub.3 is prepared by refluxing a mixture of hydrated water soluble ruthenium chloride, having approximately 40% ruthenium content, and sulphamic acid, the latter having approximately half the molar concentration of the former, for several hours and then precipitating the desired compound by adding solutions of potassium chloride and hydrochloric acid. Electrical contacts on the reeds of sealed reed switches produced by electroplating from an aqueous solution of the salt produced in this manner are found to be particularly resistant to the thermal shock involved in the sealing of the switches.
Abstract:
A magnetic material of high retentive capacity consisting essentially of 40 to 60 atomic percent platinum with good results when the Pt proportion is 45 to 55 atomic percent, balance cobalt (preferably 50 atomic percent + OR - 1 atomic percent platinum and 50 atomic percent + OR - 1 atomic percent cobalt), constituting a platinum/cobalt component and present as the balance of the magnetic material with between 4 and 15 atomic percent iron alone or with up to 5 atomic percent nickel (preferably above 0.1 atomic percent), the latter being present with or without copper in an amount up to 5 atomic percent copper (preferably at least 0.01 atomic percent) in the magnetic alloy. The cobalt proportion is in excess of the iron (in terms of atomic percent).
Abstract:
A technique for the fabrication of a sealed remanent reed, selflatching magnetic switch is described. Appropriate magnetic properties are developed through a series of processing steps terminating first in a strand anneal of round wire; secondly a stamping operation which results in some mechanical working and, consequently, physical hardening of the magnetic alloy; and, finally, in a terminal phase-precipitation anneal.
Abstract:
A miniature mercury switch, comprising an enclosure including a tube having a mercury wettable inner surface, within which a contact carrying shuttle is movable along the axis of the tube. The shuttle is not mercury wettable except for a slot or groove extending between its ends and for contact surfaces at its ends, but it rides on a mercury layer attached to the inner surface of the tube. Secured within and extending into the ends of the tubes are unwettable rods of magnetic material having stationary end contacts which are mercury wettable. The contacts on the shuttle ends include tantalum or niobium spacers extending beyond mercury wettable end contact surfaces on the shuttle, the spacers accepting the impacts when the relay contacts operatively close, which implies that the wettable contact areas on the shuttle ends closely approach the stationary end contacts, so that the mercury layers coalesce, but the wettable surfaces do not impact. The quantity of mercury within the enclosure is only sufficient to form a layer of mercury on the mercury wettable surfaces within the enclosure, but insufficient to form a pool of mercury, or to cover unwettable surfaces while wettable surfaces are covered, and the slot or groove in the shuttle facilities transfer of mercury from end to end of the enclosure, which prevents pooling at either end of the enclosure concomitant with depletion at the other, due to imbalance of mercury transfer during relay operation. Stationary contacts are, for open contact condition, spaced from movable contacts, by mercury unwettable surfaces of the enclosure, and the quantity of mercury available is insufficient to cover these unwettable surfaces and also to form a mercury layer on the mercury surfaces.
Abstract:
RUTHENIUM (RU) IS VAPOR DEPOSITED DIRECTLY ON A SPRINGY MAGNETIC CONTACT CARRIER OF IRON-NICKEL ALLOY, AT PRESSURES OF LESS THAN 10**-1, AND PREFERABLY LESS THAN 10**-4, MM. HG TO FORM ADJACENT CRYSTAL COLUMNS EXTENDING IN A DIRECTION ESSENTIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO THE SURFACE OF THE CONTACT CARRIER FACING THE RUTHENIUM CONTACT LAYER.
Abstract:
A switching device such as a reed switch having moving contacts whose outer contacting surface consists of an outer layer of metal such as ruthenium or rhodium having thickness of from 0.1 to 5.0 Mu m with an interrupted or non-interrupted underlayer of at least 1 percent by volume of non-metal.
Abstract:
A mercury relay having nonsticking mercury wettable surfaces, one of the surfaces carrying a button of mercury wettable material surrounded by a rim of nonmercury wettable material, preferably tantalum, which extends beyond the button and forms a physical barrier against physical impact between the mercury wettable surfaces.
Abstract:
Alloys having the nominal composition in weight percent 30 percent cobalt, 15 percent chromium, 5 percent manganese, 0.05 percent carbon, remainder iron, when cold worked to an area reduction of at least 50 percent and annealed at a temperature of 500 degrees to 650 degrees C. for a time of from one minute to 10 hours, exhibit a square hysteresis loop, medium coercive force, and high residual induction, enabling their use in a variety of magnetic devices such as bistable switches and memories.