Abstract:
In a method of removing bubbles from glass in glass bonded ceramic pieces (44), the bonded pieces are inserted into a furnace (32). The furnace is evacuated by a pump (56) and argon under pressure is introduced into the furnace which is heated to above the working point of the glass. This temperature and pressure are held for a time to reduce the quantity and size of bubbles in the glass. The furnace is then cooled to the anneal temperature of the glass and the temperature and pressure are held for a time to anneal the glass. Thereafter, the chamber is rapidly cooled and the pressure released.
Abstract:
In a method of bonding ceramic bodies together by causing molten glass to flow between the surfaces to be bonded and cooling the glass to ambient temperature, the glass is heated to a temperature in excess of a low stress anneal temperature of the glass, and the glass is quickly cooled from the low stress anneal temperature to ambient temperature at a rate greater than about 5°C/minute.
Abstract:
A gapped magnetic core (10) is comprised of core material (12) of one type. Magnetic gapping material (16) having a magnetic saturation level that is lower than that of the core material, "completely" bridges the core gap. The gapping material prevents the gap from acting as a transducer gap until the gapping material becomes magnetically saturated. When gapped cores as described above are stacked to form a multitrack head (100), the effects of inductive coupling between the cores is prevented; i.e., when, for example, one core of the stack of cores is actuated by magnetically saturating its gap, all other cores of the stack are inherently immune to inductive coupling to the actuated core. This is because induced flux in all non-actuated cores is magnetically short-circuited through their respective magnetic gaps.