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High temperature glass thermal control structure and coating
Assignee: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Filing: 1981-10-02
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Granted: 1983-04-26
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Expires: 2001-10-02
Abstract
Abstract A high temperature stable and solar radiation stable thermal control coating either useful as such, applied directly to a member to be protected, or applied as a coating on a re-usable surface insulation (RSI) has a base coat layer and an overlay glass layer. The base coat layer has a high emittance, and the overlay layer is formed from discrete, but sintered together glass particles to give the overlay layer a high scattering coefficient. The resulting two-layer space and thermal control coating has an absorptivity-to-emissivity ratio of less than or equal to 0.4 at room temperature, with an emittance of 0.8 at 1200° F. It is capable of exposure to either solar radiation or temperatures as high as 2000° F. without significant degradation. When used as a coating on a silica substrate to give an RSI structure, the coatings of this invention show significantly less reduction in emittance after long term convective heating and less residual strain than prior art coatings for RSI structures.
Inventors
- 👤 with respect to an invention of Beggs James M. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 👤 David A. Stewart
- 👤 Howard E. Goldstein
- 👤 Daniel B. Leiser
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
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2026-10-30 21:28
CPC Classifications
C; C04; C04B; C04B41/00; C04B41/009; B; B64; B64G; B64G1/00; B64G1/22; B64G1/226; B64G1/46; B64G1/50; B64G1/52; B64G1/58; C03; C03C; C03C17/00; C03C17/02; C03C17/34; C03C17/3411; C03C8/00; C03C8/14; C04B41/45; C04B41/50; C04B41/5022; C04B41/80; C04B41/81; C04B41/85; C04B41/86; F; F24; F24S; F24S50/00; F24S50/80; B64G1/503; C03C2217/00; C03C2217/40; C03C2217/42; Y; Y02; Y02E; Y02E10/00; Y02E10/40; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/249921; Y10T428/249953; Y10T428/249967; Y10T428/249969; Y10T428/25; Y10T428/252
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
66 words
A re-usable, thermal control structure comprising ceramic substrate and a coating including a first, high emittance glass layer on said substrate and a second, high scattering coefficient glass layer on said first layer, said second layer including discrete but sintered together glass particles in said layer which are of a size which will scatter incident short wavelength radiation, but which is substantially transparent to thermal radiation.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
66 words
A re-usable, thermal control structure comprising ceramic substrate and a coating including a first, high emittance glass layer on said substrate and a second, high scattering coefficient glass layer on said first layer, said second layer including discrete but sintered together glass particles in said layer which are of a size which will scatter incident short wavelength radiation, but which is substantially transparent to thermal radiation.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
24 words
The re-usable, thermal control structure of claim 1 in which said second glass layer has a higher silica content than said first glass layer.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
30 words
The re-usable, thermal control structure of claim 1 in which said first glass layer comprises a reactive borosilicate glass frit reaction cured with an emittance agent and a flux glass.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
31 words
The re-usable, thermal control structure of claim 3 in which said emittance agent is silicon tetraboride, silicon hexaboride, boron or silicon carbide, and the flux glass is a soda borosilicate glass.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
22 words
The re-usable, thermal control structure of claims 1, 2, 3 or 4 in which said second glass layer is a borosilicate glass.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
15 words
The re-usable, thermal control structure of claim 1 in which the ceramic substrate is fibrous.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
51 words
A thermal control coating comprising a inner, high emittance glass layer and a outer high scattering coefficient glass layer on said inner layer, said outer layer including discrete but sintered together glass particles of a size which will scatter incident short wavelength radiation, but which is substantially transparent to thermal radiation.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
51 words
A thermal control coating comprising a inner, high emittance glass layer and a outer high scattering coefficient glass layer on said inner layer, said outer layer including discrete but sintered together glass particles of a size which will scatter incident short wavelength radiation, but which is substantially transparent to thermal radiation.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
21 words
The coating of claim 7 in which said outer glass layer has a higher silica content than said inner glass layer.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
27 words
The coating of claim 7 in which said inner glass layer comprises a reactive borosilicate glass frit reaction cured with an emittance agent and a flux glass.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
27 words
The coating of claim 7 in which said emittance agent is a boron silicide, boron or silicon carbide, and the flux glass is a soda borosilicate glass.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
19 words
The coating of claims 7, 8, 9 or 10 in which said outer glass layer is a borosilicate glass.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
28 words
A glass coating comprising a layer of discrete but sintered together glass particles of a size which will scatter incident solar radiation but substantially transmits emitted thermal radiation.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
28 words
A glass coating comprising a layer of discrete but sintered together glass particles of a size which will scatter incident solar radiation but substantially transmits emitted thermal radiation.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
15 words
The glass coating of claim 12 in which said glass particles are a borosilicate glass.
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