US 12,037,664 B2
Iron alloy manufacturing method
Masaki Shinkawa, Saitama (JP); and Kazuo Kikawa, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/341,615.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-100948 (JP), filed on Jun. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0388473 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. C22C 33/02 (2006.01); C21D 6/00 (2006.01); C22C 38/04 (2006.01)
CPC C22C 33/0207 (2013.01) [C21D 6/005 (2013.01); C22C 38/04 (2013.01); C21D 2211/001 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An iron alloy manufacturing method in which an iron alloy is manufactured with a metal additive manufacturing method, the iron alloy manufacturing method comprising:
a base driving step of a base drive moving a base in a downward direction by a predetermined distance;
a raw material supply step of a raw material supply device supplying raw material powder to a powder container with an iron alloy product being present in the powder container;
a forming step of laminating and forming iron alloy layers on the base, by irradiating the raw material powder of the iron alloy with either a laser beam or an electron beam and melting the raw material powder;
a first temperature control step of, during execution of the forming step, controlling an iron alloy layer temperature T1° C. of a predetermined number of laminated layers from a surface layer of the iron alloy layers formed in the forming step such that the iron alloy layer temperature T1° C. is kept within a range of Ms ° C.≤T1° C.≤Ms ° C.+α where Ms ° C. is a martensitic transformation start temperature and a is a predetermined value; and
a second temperature control step of, during execution of the forming step, controlling a temperature T2° C. of the base such that the temperature T2° C. of the base is kept within a range of Mf ° C. β≤T2° C.≤Mf ° C. where Mf ° C. is a martensitic transformation finish temperature and β is a predetermined value, wherein
the first temperature control step and the second temperature control step are executed simultaneously during execution of the forming step at a timing at which the iron alloy layers are laminated on an upper surface of the iron alloy product.