MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641048496 A) filed by Sathishkumar Natesan; Karthikeyan KMB; Saitejas Y; Sushil P; and Thoufiq Adnan O, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, on April 16, for 'submerged and intermittent argon purging stir casting technique.'
Inventor(s) include Karthikeyan KMB; Saitejas Y; Sushil P; and Thoufiq Adnan. O.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The stir-casting technique is an effective industrial fabrication method for producing composite materials composed of lightweight metal matrices. During solidification, the melt is agitated with reinforcements, forming reinforcement phases. This enhances the strength of the material produced through stir casting. The stir casting method is associated with significant disadvantages, including the clumping together of reinforcement particles, poor wetting ability, breakage of the reinforcement particles, trapping of gas, and forming a vortex with contaminants during mechanical stirring and local solidification. The proposed unique methodology of implementing submerged and intermittent purging with argon gas in manufacturing metal matrix composites addresses significant flaws, making it a promising fabrication technique for lightweight metal matrix composite castings in typical industrial settings."
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