Patent 7285152 was granted and assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries on October, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of manufacturing the chain-structure metal powder comprises precipitating a metal powder by a reaction performed in an aqueous solution in which nickel ions, complex ions, and titanium ions containing trivalent titanium ions (Ti3+) and tetravalent titanium ions (Ti4+) are present.