US 11,739,396 B2
Powder material and method for manufacturing molded article
Nobuaki Kato, Kiyosu (JP); Hiroyuki Ibe, Kiyosu (JP); and Junya Yamada, Kiyosu (JP)
Assigned to FUJIMI INCORPORATED, Kiyosu (JP)
Filed by FUJIMI INCORPORATED, Kiyosu (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/36,259.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-180440 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0094097 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. C22C 1/051 (2023.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 70/10 (2020.01); B22F 10/00 (2021.01); B22F 1/148 (2022.01); B23K 26/342 (2014.01); B23K 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC C22C 1/051 (2013.01) [B22F 1/148 (2022.01); B22F 10/00 (2021.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 70/10 (2020.01); B22F 2301/15 (2013.01); B22F 2302/10 (2013.01); B23K 15/0086 (2013.01); B23K 26/342 (2015.10)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A powder material for additive layer manufacturing used to manufacture a three-dimensional shaped molded article by irradiation with a laser light or an electron beam, the powder material comprising:
cobalt;
a first component comprising vanadium carbide;
a second component serving as a carbon supply source, wherein a content of the second component is less than 5% by mass, wherein the second component consists of carbon; and
a balance of tungsten carbide, wherein
a content of the first component is 0.6% by mass or more and 5% by mass or less.