History of SAES Patents

From the early fifties up to nowadays the company history and success are strongly linked with the capacity of continuously innovate.

Innovation for SAES Getters encompasses both the capability to develop and continuously improve products as well as the capability to readily adapt to business changes and the courage, willingness and commitment to enter into new markets/applications, such as gas purification in the eighties, or shape memory alloy in these latest years.

This pattern can be readily observed by the following list of patents that could be considered milestones for SAES history:

• Patent no. 942959 for Improvements in and relating to Getter Materials
• Patent no. 2,824,640 for Getter Containers and a Method of Manufacturing such containers
• Patent no. 3,389,288 for Gettering Device including a Getter Metal and a Gas Releasing Material
• Patent no. 3,636,302 for Metal Vapor Generators
• Patent no. 4,146,497 for Supported Getter
• Patent no. 3,657,589 for Mercury Generator
• Patent no. 3,856,709 for Coating a Substrate with Soft Particles
• Patent no. 4,312,669 for Non-Evaporable Ternary Gettering Alloy and Method of Use for the sorption of water, water vapor and other gases
• Patent no. 2 177 079 for Superpurifiers for Argon Gas and process for purifying argon gas
• Patent no. 4,137,012 for Modular Getter Pumps
• Patent no. EP 0 856 193 B1 for Method for the Manufacture of supported Thin Layers of Non-Evaporable Getter Material
• Patent no. US 6,169,361 B1 for Oxigen Dispenser for High Pressure Discharge Lamps
• Patent no. 5,520,560 for Combination of Materials for Mercury-Dispensering Devices, Method of Preparation and Devices thus obtained
• Patent no. 6,680,571 B1  for Device for introducing small amounts of Mercury into Fluorescent Lamps
• Patent no. 6,107,737 for Device for Dispensing Mercury, sorbing reactive gases, shielding electrodes in Fluorescent Lamps and a process      for making such device
• Patent no. 5,961,750 for Non evaporable Getter Alloys
• Patent no. 7,820,592 B2 for Composition and Devices for Gas sorption and process for their manufacturing
• Patent no. EP 1 410 433 B1for Support with integrated deposit of gas absorbing material for manufacturing microelectronic,  microoptoelectronic or micromechanical devices
• Patent no. EP 1 412 550 B1 for Support for Getter-Material for Micromechanical device
• Patent no. US 8,430,981 B1 for Nichel-Titanium Alloys, related products and methods
• Patent no.  US 8,287,247 B2 for Combined Pumping System comprising a Getter pump and an Ion pump
• Patent no. US 7,396,385 B1 for System and Method efficiently separating Hydrogen Gas from a Mixed Gas Source.