System for metal injection and counter pressure and method using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017304899-A1
Application number	US-201615136162-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 22, 2016
Priority date	Apr 22, 2016
Publication date	Oct 26, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

A system for metal injection and counter pressure has: a particle providing assembly; and a forming unit having a melting module, a counter pressure module and a mold module; wherein, the particle providing assembly provides particles with metal powder and a binding agent to the melting module, the particles is formed into melted flow by the melting module, the melted flow is provided to the mold module, the counter pressure module provides a counter gas with predetermined pressure to the mold module, the melted flow forms into a green part inside of the mold module.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system for metal injection and counter pressure, comprising:
a particle providing assembly; and a forming unit, having a melting module, a counter pressure module and a mold module; wherein, the particle providing assembly provides particles with metal powder and a binding agent to the melting module, the particles is formed into a melted flow by the melting module, the melted flow is provided to the mold module, the counter pressure module provides a counter gas with a predetermined pressure to the mold module, the melted flow forms into a green parts inside of the mold module.

2 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a debinding unit, for receiving the green part so as to apply a debinding process to the green part; and a sintering unit, for receiving the green part after debinding so as to apply a sintering process to the debinded green part into an end product.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the particle providing assembly further comprises:
a mixing unit, for mixing the particles with metal powder and a binding agent into a mixture; a blending unit, for receiving and blending the mixture in a high temperature so as to form a blend; a pulverizing unit, for receiving and pulverizing the blend into a powder; and a granulation unit, for receiving the powder and processing the powder into particles.

4 . The method for metal injection and counter pressure, comprising the steps of:
providing particles; and enabling a green part to be molded in a manner that the particles are fed into a melting module for melting the particles into a melted flow that is guided to flow into a mold module while having a counter pressure module to apply a counter gas with a predetermined pressure to the mold module during the molding of the green part.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the predetermined pressure is ranged between 45 bar and 200 bar.

6 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the providing of the particles further comprises a step selected from the group consisting of:
using a particle providing assembly to apply a mixing process, a blending process, a pulverizing process and a granulation process upon particles with metal powder and a binding agent so as to transforming the mixture of the particles with metal powder and the binding agent into the particles; and using a mixing unit to mix particles with metal powder and a binding agent in a predetermined ratio so as to form a mixture, and then providing the mixture to a blending unit to be blended into a blend, and then providing the blend to a pulverizing unit to be pulverized into a powder, and then providing the powder to a granulation unit to be granulated into the particles.

7 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising the steps of:
providing the green part to a debinding unit for applying a debinding process to the green part at a first preset temperature; providing the green part after debinding to a sintering unit for applying a sintering process to the green part at a second preset temperature so as to sinter the green part into an end product.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the debinding of the green part is composed of a cold debinding procedure and a thermal debinding procedure that are designed to be performed sequentially one after another; or in a condition when the binding agent used is a polymer material, the debinding of the green part is performed using an acid gas for removing the polymer material from the green part.

Assignees

• Univ Chung Yuan Christian

Inventors

• Chen Shia-Chung
• Chang Jen-An
• Chang Yung-Hsiang
• Lee Kuan-Hua

Classifications

• B22F1/0062

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B22F3/225 Primary

  by injection molding · CPC title

• B22F2998/10

  Processes characterised by the sequence of their steps · CPC title

• B22F3/1021

  Removal of binder or filler (removal of binder from ceramics C04B35/638) · CPC title