The present invention is directed to secreted and transmembrane polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.

Secreted and Transmembrane Polypeptides and Nucleic Acids Encoding the Same

A method of repairing a turbine blade (10) which includes performing a heating operation on the blade (10) in which the blade is heated to achieve a predetermined temperature distribution, sensing the temperature of the blade at least at one position by temperature sensing means (57-63) and controlling the application of heat in accordance with the temperature determined by said at least one sensing means and monitoring the temperature of the blade at a location adjacent said at least one position with a monitoring means (57a-63a).

Turbine blade repair

To repair or join sections of a metal article, matching metal powder is sintered in the solid state to form a porous structure in the joint. A layer of matching powder, modified to incorporate melting point depressants such as boron and silicon is subsequently added to the surface of the sintered region. The joint is processed at a temperature where the modified layer melts while the sintered layer and base metal remain solid. The modified material flows into the sintered layer by capillary action and promotes liquid phase sintering, resulting in a dense joint with properties approaching those of the base metal.

Powder metallurgy repair technique

A series of braze materials for brazing superalloy substrates at effective brazing temperatures above about 2300° F. is described. The braze materials are formulated as mixtures of cobalt- and nickel-base alloy powders. Each such braze material contains at least two components, one of which is predominantly liquid at the effective brazing temperature, and one of which remains substantially solid at that temperature. The brazing materials solidify by an isothermal solidification process. Unless otherwise limited by the temperature capability of the superalloy substrate being joined, these brazing alloys provide joints that have useful strength at temperatures significantly higher than joints made with prior art brazing alloys.

Alloy powder mixture for brazing of superalloy articles

A method for repairing a blade tip of a turbine blade of a gas turbine engine. The method is particularly directed to replacing the squealer tip (14) of a directionally solidified (DS) or single crystal (SX) turbine blade (10), and can be carried out using a brazing or welding technique. The method generally entails the step of machining the tip (14) to remove any damaged, worn, oxidized or eroded portions thereof sustained by the blade (10) during engine operation. A DS or SX superalloy replacement tip (18) is then placed on the surface generated by the machining operation. If a brazing operation is used, a brazing alloy composition (16) is first applied to the blade tip or replacement tip (18) prior to placement of the replacement tip (18). The brazing alloy composition (16) is composed of at least two alloys, one of which having a melting point lower than the recrystallization temperature and solvus temperature of the superalloy of the turbine blade (10), such that heating causes the brazing alloy composition (16) to flow and thereby join the replacement tip (18) to the blade tip of the turbine blade (10). Alternatively, if a welding operation is employed, the joining operation entails transmitting current through the turbine blade (10) and replacement tip (18) to resistance weld the replacement tip (18) to the blade tip of the blade (10).

Method for replacing blade tips of directionally solidified and single crystal turbine blades

A powder alloy mixture for use in a method of repairing high temperature superalloy articles includes a first, higher temperature alloy powder in the range of about 35-65 weight percent of the mixture. The first alloy powder is based on at least one element selected from Ni and Co and is characterized as having good strength and environmental resistance along with the substantial absence of melting point depressant elements selected from Si and B in amounts greater than about 1% Si and 0.5% B. The second alloy powder is of a lower melting temperature alloy of Ni--Cr--Si--B--Co and is characterized by the substantial absence of C.

Mark Steward Hilboldt

Papers

Superalloy article repair method and alloy powder mixture