Patent 7842383 was granted and assigned to Fujimi on November, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A thermal spraying powder contains granulated and sintered particles of an yttrium-aluminum double oxide formed by granulating and sintering raw-material particles. The crushing strength of the granulated and sintered particles is 15 MPa or more, and 10% particle size of the granulated and sintered particles is 6 μm or more. The thermal spraying powder is suitable for use in forming a thermal spray coating through plasma spraying.