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US 12,042,952 B2Granted
Method of producing ceramic manufactured object
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNobuhiro Yasui, Kanako Oshima, Hisato Yabuta
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Abstract
A method of producing a ceramic manufactured object including (i) a step of leveling a ceramic powder to form a powder layer, (ii) a step of irradiating the powder layer with a laser beam based on three-dimensional data to crystallize an irradiated site, and (iii) performing the steps (i) and (ii) in repetition, wherein in the step (ii), a surface of the powder layer is irradiated with the laser beam in an unfocused state.
Claims15
A method of producing a ceramic manufactured object, comprising repeatedly performing:
- (i) a step of leveling a ceramic powder to form a powder layer;
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- (ii) a step of irradiating the powder layer with a scanned laser beam being scanned based on three-dimensional data to melt an irradiated site of the powder layer and then solidifying the irradiated site to form a solidified portion;
- wherein a focal position of the scanned laser beam formed by a laser focusing optical system is shifted from a surface of the powder layer, and the solidified portion includes a crystalline region and an amorphous region smaller than the crystalline region,
- wherein the crystalline region and the amorphous region contains at least one oxide in common,
- wherein in the step (ii), the surface of the powder layer is irradiated with the laser beam so that a ratio D/L falls within a range of 0.2≤D/L≤0.7, thereby suppressing formation of an amorphous substance, and
- wherein (L) represents the width of fusion and (D) represents the depth of the fusion at the solidified portion formed by one-line scan irradiation of the power layer with the scanned laser beam.
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