Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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From the Ford Patent:
"Keeping the thickness of the shell 50 thin, say 0.3 millimeters or less, can reduce material costs. To facilitate the molding of the shell 50 at such thicknesses, the molding cavity for the shell 50 can be induction heated along with, if needed, a core of the molding tool. Molding the shell 50 in a hot tool reduces the viscosity of the molten material that will form the shell 50 and can and enable the molding of thinner sections.

Increasing the temperature of the tool used to mold the shell 50 can also reduce the temperature differential between the molten material that will form the shell 50 and a, typically steel, surface of the tool. If the cavity temperature is within 200 degrees Celsius of the molded material, a life of the tool may be extended to beyond 1,000,000 shots in some examples."

This is specific to LM106C and the hot crucible molding technique. No other BMG can get down to 0.3 mm thickness. So this is clearly a patent aimed at LQMT. I also am not sure about "LM107". I am thinking it is a typo since the patent states "LM 107" and "LM 105" and LM105 is no longer in our design guide. So they must have meant 106C instead of 107 as all the further patent details match 106C.