US 12,404,632 B2
High strength wire
Jeremy E. Schaffer, Fort Wayne, IN (US); Robert A. Mitchell, Huntington, IN (US); and Andrew Kritsch, Fort Wayne, IN (US)
Assigned to Fort Wayne Metals Research Products, LLC, Fort Wayne, IN (US)
Appl. No. 18/019,348
Filed by Fort Wayne Metals Research Products, LLC, Fort Wayne, IN (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 3, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/044395
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 2, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/031740, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/060,417, filed on Aug. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0272578 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
Int. Cl. D07B 1/06 (2006.01)
CPC D07B 1/068 (2013.01) [D07B 1/0686 (2013.01); D07B 2201/2009 (2013.01); D07B 2205/3082 (2013.01); D07B 2205/3085 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A high strength cable construct comprising a plurality of drawn alloy filaments formed from a molybdenum-rhenium alloy, wherein the cable construct exhibits strength up to 4800 N/mm2 of break load per solid cross-sectional filament area;
wherein the plurality of filaments are formed from an alloy consisting of about 41 wt. % rhenium and balance molybdenum and inevitable impurities; and
wherein each of the plurality of filaments has a diameter of between 7-12 μm and exhibits tensile strength up to 6.9 GPa.