Method of producing manufactured object and manufactured object

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11813769-B2
Application number	US-202016855865-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 22, 2020
Priority date	Oct 27, 2017
Publication date	Nov 14, 2023
Grant date	Nov 14, 2023

Abstract

Provided is a method of producing a manufactured object including forming the manufactured object by performing, once or a plurality of times, a step of forming a powder layer from material powders containing powders of an inorganic compound and a step of irradiating a predetermined region of a surface of the powder layer with an energy beam and thereby fusing/solidifying the material powders. In the step of fusing/solidifying the material powders, an amorphous-rich region and a crystalline-rich region are formed separately by changing at least one of an output of the energy beam, a relative position between the surface of the powder layer and a focus of the energy beam, and a scanning rate.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of producing a manufactured object comprising forming the manufactured object by performing, once or a plurality of times, a step of forming a powder layer of material powders containing at least one inorganic compound and a step of irradiating a surface of the powder layer with an energy beam to fuse/solidify the material powders, wherein in the step of fusing/solidifying the material powders, forming an amorphous-rich region and a crystalline-rich region separately by changing, depending on irradiated regions of the energy beam, at least one of an output of the energy beam, a relative position between the surface of the powder layer and a focus of the energy beam, and a scanning rate of the energy beam, wherein the amorphous-rich region includes an amorphous substance and the crystalline-rich region includes a crystalline substance, the amorphous substance and the crystalline substance containing the one inorganic compound in common.

2. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 1 , wherein the amorphous-rich region is formed by irradiating the surface of the powder layer with the energy beam under a focused state and the crystalline-rich region is formed by irradiating the surface of the powder layer with the energy beam under an unfocused state.

3. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 1 , wherein the amorphous-rich region is formed by relatively increasing the scanning rate of the energy beam and the crystalline-rich region is formed by relatively decreasing the scanning rate of the energy beam.

4. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 1 , wherein the amorphous-rich region is formed by relatively increasing the output of the energy beam and the crystalline-rich region is formed by relatively decreasing the output of the energy beam.

5. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 1 , further comprising a step of removing the amorphous-rich region.

6. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 1 , wherein the material powders contain ceramic powders, wherein per unit area having a size of 100 μmφ or more, the amorphous-rich region contains an amorphous substance more than the crystalline-rich region and/or the crystalline-rich region contains a crystalline substance more than amorphous-rich region.

7. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 1 , wherein the powders of an inorganic compound contain a mixture of aluminum oxide with zirconium oxide or a mixture of aluminum oxide with a rare earth oxide.

8. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 1 , wherein the crystalline-rich region has a phase-separated structure having two or more phases, a first phase of the phases is formed of the one inorganic compound, and a second phase of the phases is formed of an inorganic compound other than the one inorganic compound.

9. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 1 , wherein 70 vol % or more of the amorphous-rich region is amorphous.

10. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 1 , wherein 80 vol % or more of the crystalline-rich region is crystalline.

11. A method of producing a manufactured object comprising forming the manufactured object by performing, once or a plurality of times, a step of forming a powder layer of material powders containing an inorganic compound and a step of irradiating a surface of the powder layer with an energy beam to fuse/solidify the material powders, wherein in the step of fusing/solidifying the material powders, forming an amorphous-rich region and a crystalline-rich region separately by changing, depending on irradiated regions of the energy beam, at least one of an output of the energy beam, a relative position between the surface of the powder layer and a focus of the energy beam, and a scanning rate of the energy beam, wherein the amorphous-rich region is formed partially by setting, at least one of the output of the energy beam, the relative position between the surface of the powder layer and the focus of the energy beam, and the scanning rate of the energy beam so that a D/L ratio of a solidified portion formed when scanned with the energy beam once in one direction in which L represents a width in a direction vertical to a scanning direction and D represents a depth from a surface becomes more than 1.0.

12. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 11 , wherein the amorphous-rich region is formed partially by setting, at least one of the output of the energy beam, the relative position between the surface of the powder layer and the focus of the energy beam, and the scanning rate of the energy beam so that the D/L ratio becomes 1.2 or more.

13. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 11 , wherein the crystalline-rich region is formed partially setting, at least one of the output of the energy beam, the relative position between the surface of the powder layer and the focus of the energy beam, and the scanning rate of the energy beam so as to give D/L ratio of 0.2 or more to 0.7 or less.

14. A method of producing a manufactured object comprising forming the manufactured object by performing, once or a plurality of times, a step of forming a powder layer of material powders containing an inorganic compound and a step of irradiating a surface of the powder layer with an energy beam to fuse/solidify the material powders, wherein in the step of fusing/solidifying the material powders, forming an amorphous-rich region and a crystalline-rich region separately by changing, depending on irradiated regions of the energy beam, at least one of an output of the energy beam, a relative position between the surface of the powder layer and a focus of the energy beam, and a scanning rate of the energy beam, wherein the crystalline-rich region is formed partially by setting, at least one of the output of the energy beam, the relative position between the surface of the powder layer and the focus of the energy beam, and the scanning rate of the energy beam so that a D/L ratio in which L represents a fusion width and D represents a fusion depth, each of the material powders, becomes 1.0 or less at the time of linear irradiation with the energy beam.

15. The method of producing a manufactured object according to claim 14 , wherein the crystalline-rich region is formed partially by setting, at least one of the output of the energy beam, the relative position between the surface of the powder layer and the focus of the energy beam, and the scanning rate of the energy beam so as to give D/L ratio of 0.2 or more to 0.7 or less.

16. A method of producing a manufactured object comprising:
a step of forming a first powder layer having material powders containing powders of an inorganic compound,
a step of irradiating a first region of the first powder layer with an energy beam,
a step of forming a second powder layer having material powders containing powders of an inorganic compound,
a step of irradiating a second region of the second powder layer with an energy beam,
wherein, in the step of irradiating the first region with an energy beam, forming, from the powders of the inorganic compound in the first region, an amorphous-rich region in which a volume of amorphous substance is more than a volume of crystalline substance per a portion including an area of 1 mm 2 in the first region,
wherein, in the step of irradiating the second region with an energy beam, forming, from the powders of the inorganic compound in the

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Oshima Kanako
• Yabuta Hisato
• Yasui Nobuhiro

Classifications

• B28B1/001 Primary

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