Metal powder for metal additive manufacturing and molded object produced using said metal powder
AssigneeJX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
InventorsYoshitaka Shibuya, Kenji Sato
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A metal powder in which a coating made of one or more types of elements selected from Gd, Ho, Lu, Mo, Nb, Os, Re, Ru, Tb, Tc, Th, Tm, U, V, W, Y, Zr, Cr, Rh, Hf, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm and Ti is formed on a surface of a copper or copper alloy powder, wherein a thickness of the coating is 5 nm or more and 500 nm or less. A metal powder for metal additive manufacturing based on the laser method which can be efficiently melted with a laser while maintaining the high conductivity of copper or copper alloy, and a molded object produced by using such metal powder are provided.
Claims16
A metal powder comprising particles of a copper or a copper alloy powder and a coating formed on a surface of each of the particles, wherein the copper or copper alloy powder has a grain size d50 of 20 μm or more and 100 μm or less, and wherein the coating consists of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Gd, Ho, Lu, Mo, Nb, Os, Re, Ru, Tb, Tc, Th, Tm, U, V, W, Y, Cr, Rh, Hf, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm and Ti and has a thickness of 5 nm or more and 500 nm or less.
A metal powder comprising particles of a copper or a copper alloy powder and a coating formed on a surface of each of the particles, wherein the copper or copper alloy powder has a grain size d50 of 20 μm or more and 100 μm or less, wherein the coating consists of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Gd, Ho, Lu, Mo, Nb, Os, Re, Ru, Tb, Tc, Th, Tm, U, V, W, Y, Zr, Cr, Rh, Hf, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm and Ti and has a thickness of 5 nm or more and 500 nm or less, wherein the metal powder consists of the particles and the coating formed on the surface of each of the particles, and wherein the coating formed on the surface of each of the particles consists of a single coating layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.