Aluminum-containing member and a method for producing such an aluminum-containing member

U.S. Patent Number: 6364965

Abstract: A method for producing an aluminum-containing member, comprising the steps of heating a substrate containing at least metallic aluminum in vacuum of not more than 10.sup.-3 torrs, and continuing with the heating step, forming a nitride in a surface portion of the substrate by heating/nitriding the substrate in a nitrogen atmosphere continuously to the above heating step.

Inventors: Masuda; Masaaki (Nagoya, JP); Tsutsumi; Taketoshi (Mie Pref., JP); Katsuda; Yuji (Tsushima, JP)

Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP)

Application Number: 09/497,892

Issued: 2002-04-02

Expired: 2006-04-02

Classes: 148/223 ; 148/238

Field of search: 148/223,238

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