Member with flow passage and method for manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9453596-B2
Application number	US-201214237224-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 6, 2012
Priority date	Aug 9, 2011
Publication date	Sep 27, 2016
Grant date	Sep 27, 2016

Abstract

A member with flow passage includes: a base member; a plate-like member including two flat plate portions that are positioned at both widthwise ends and have main surfaces passing over one and the same plane, and a convex portion that is provided between the two flat plate portions and has a cross section shaped in a thickness direction so as to protrude with respect to the flat plate portions, and forming the flow passage; and a metal deposit layer that is formed by, while main surfaces of the flat plate portions opposite to a top of the convex portion are facing the base member, accelerating powder of metal or alloy together with a gas, and spraying and depositing the powder in a solid-phase state on a surface of the plate-like member at the top side of the convex portion and a surface of the base member.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A member with a flow passage provided thereinside, comprising:
a base member made of metal or alloy;
a plate-like member made of metal or alloy in a plate-like shape, including: two flat plate portions that are positioned at both widthwise ends and have main surfaces passing over one and the same plane; and a convex portion that is provided between the two flat plate portions and has a cross section shaped in a thickness direction so as to protrude with respect to the flat plate portions, and forming the flow passage; and
a metal deposit layer that is formed by, while main surfaces of the flat plate portions opposite to a top of the convex portion are facing the base member, accelerating powder of metal or alloy together with a gas, and spraying and depositing the powder in a solid-phase state on a surface of the plate-like member at the top side of the convex portion and a surface of the base member,
wherein end portions of the plate-like member are wider with increasing proximity to the base member.

2. A member with a flow passage provided thereinside, comprising:
a base member made of metal or alloy;
a plate-like member made of metal or alloy in a plate-like shape, including: two flat plate portions that are positioned at both widthwise ends and have main surfaces passing over one and the same plane; and a convex portion that is provided between the two flat plate portions and has a cross section shaped in a thickness direction so as to protrude with respect to the flat plate portions, and forming the flow passage;
a metal deposit layer that is formed by, while main surfaces of the flat plate portions opposite to a top of the convex portion are facing the base member, accelerating powder of metal or alloy together with a gas, and spraying and depositing the powder in a solid-phase state on a surface of the plate-like member at the top side of the convex portion and a surface of the base member; and
a second plate-like member made of metal or alloy in a plate-like shape, and joined to the opposite main surfaces of the plate-like member such that the flow passage is formed together with the plate-like member,
wherein the end portions of the plate-like member are wider with increasing proximity to the base member, and
end portions of the second plate-like member are wider with increasing proximity to the base member and extend outward beyond the plate-like member.

3. The member with flow passage according to claim 2 , wherein the second plate-like member has a flat-plate shape.

4. The member with flow passage according to claim 2 , wherein
the second plate-like member includes: two second flat plate portions that are positioned at both widthwise ends and have main surfaces passing over one and the same plane; and a second convex portion that is provided between the two second flat plate portions and has a cross section shaped in a thickness direction so as to protrude with respect to the second flat plate portions, and is joined at main surfaces of the two second flat plate portions opposite to a top of the second convex portion, to the opposite main surfaces of the two flat plate portions of the plate-like member,
the base member has a concave portion that is formed on a flat surface and is capable of placement of the second convex portion, and
the metal deposit layer is formed while the second convex portion is placed in the concave portion.

5. The member with flow passage according to claim 2 , wherein the second plate-like member is wider than the plate-like member.

6. The member with flow passage according to claim 1 , wherein an angle formed by the flat plate portions and a direction in which the convex portion rises with respect to the flat plate portions is smaller than 90 degrees.

7. The member with flow passage according to claim 6 , wherein the angle formed by the flat plate portions and the direction in which the convex portion rises with respect to the flat plate portions is smaller than 70 degrees.

8. The member with flow passage according to claim 1 , wherein a step height between the surface of the base member and the upper surface of the plate-like member is 0.8 mm or less.

9. The member with flow passage according to claim 2 , wherein the base member is formed by accelerating powder of metal or alloy together with a gas, and spraying and depositing the powder in the solid-phase state at least on a surface of the second plate-like member.

10. The member with flow passage according to claim 1 , wherein
the plate-like member is made of stainless steel, copper, or copper alloy, and
the base member and the metal deposit layer are made of aluminum or aluminum alloy.

11. The member with flow passage according to claim 2 , wherein the second plate-like member is made of stainless steel, copper, or copper alloy.

12. A method for manufacturing a member with flow passage in which a flow passage is provided in the member made of metal or alloy, comprising:
a step of placing, on a base member made of metal or alloy, a plate-like member made of metal or alloy in a plate-like shape, including: two flat plate portions that are positioned at both widthwise ends and have main surfaces passing over one and the same plane; and a convex portion that is provided between the two flat plate portions and has a cross section shaped in a thickness direction so as to protrude with respect to the flat plate portions, and forming the flow passage, such that main surfaces of the flat plate portions opposite to a top of the convex portion are facing the base member;
a metal deposit layer formation step of forming a metal deposit layer by, while the plate-like member is placed on the base member, accelerating powder of metal or alloy together with a gas, and spraying and depositing the powder in a solid-phase state on a surface of the plate-like member at the top side of the convex portion and a surface of the base member; and
a second metal deposit layer formation step of removing the base member, accelerating powder of metal or alloy together with a gas, and spraying and depositing the powder in a solid-phase state on a surface of a second plate-like member and an exposed surface of the metal deposit layer,
wherein the plate-like member placing step includes placing, on the base member, the second plate-like member made of metal or alloy in a plate-like shape, and joined to the opposite main surfaces of the plate-like member such that the flow passage is formed together with the plate-like member.

13. The member with flow passage according to claim 2 , wherein an angle formed by the flat plate portions and a direction in which the convex portion rises with respect to the flat plate portions is smaller than 90 degrees.

14. The member with flow passage according to claim 13 , wherein the angle formed by the flat plate portions and the direction in which the convex portion rises with respect to the flat plate portions is smaller than 70 degrees.

15. The member with flow passage according to claim 2 , wherein a step height between the surface of the base member and the upper surface of the plate-like member is 0.8 mm or less.

16. The member with flow passage according to claim 2 , wherein
the plate-like member is made of stainless steel, copper, or copper alloy, and
the base member and the metal deposit layer are made of aluminum or aluminum alloy.

Assignees

• Yamauchi Yuichiro
• Hideshima Hidemitsu
• Hirano Satoshi
• Nhk Spring Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamauchi Yuichiro
• Hideshima Hidemitsu
• Hirano Satoshi

Classifications

• C23C24/04 Primary

  Impact or kinetic deposition of particles · CPC title

• F28F3/12

  Elements constructed in the shape of a hollow panel, e.g. with channels {(F28D1/02, F28D1/03 take precedence)} · CPC title

• F16L9/02 Primary

  of metal (F16L9/16 - F16L9/22 take precedence) · CPC title

• F28F7/02

  Blocks traversed by passages for heat-exchange media {(F28D7/0008 takes precedence)} · CPC title