Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[Gamesc]

From Honda .... never seen this come up with them before


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[0031] In block 810, the method 800 may include welding a metallic reinforcement material to portions of a metallic blank to form a hood frame blank. In an aspect for example, the operator may weld the metallic reinforcement material to the portions of the metallic blank to form the hood frame blank. Both the metallic reinforcement material and the metallic blank may be flat sheets. In an implementation, the metallic reinforcement material may be a metal-matrix composite such as a ceramic bearing metal-matrix composite. In another implementation, the metallic reinforcement material may be one of: AL/Alumina (aluminum oxide or AL2O3) metal-matrix composite, silicon carbine metal-matrix composite, carbon fiber metal-matrix composite, glass fiber metal-matrix composite, basalt fiber metal matrix composite discontinuously reinforced metal (DRX), bulk metallic glass (BMG), or high entropy alloy (HEA). Candidate materials for the metallic reinforcement include materials that have a relatively high specific stiffness, the ratio of an elastic modulus of the material to density, optionally greater than approximately 25 MN-m/kg, while being ductile enough to undergo the forming process to create the hood frame without fracturing. In an implementation, the metallic reinforcement material may be approximately 1.0-3.0 mm thick, preferably 1.5-2.0 mm thick. In another implementation, the metallic reinforcement composite material may be between 10% and 150% of a thickness of the metallic blank, preferably between 50% and 100% of the thickness of the metal blank. U.S. Patent Application Publication Number 2019/0047031 describes methods of adding a reinforcement to a metal blank prior to a forming process and is incorporated by reference herein. “