	US 12,480,185 B2
	Component, in particular for a vehicle, and method for producing such a component
Robert Behr, Wernau (DE); Bernd Schietinger, Esslingen (DE); and Juergen Weber, Besigheim (DE)
Assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed by Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed on Aug. 2, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/793,195.
Application 18/793,195 is a division of application No. 17/609,193, previously published as PCT/EP2020/059734, filed on Apr. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 003 187.3 (DE), filed on May 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0392416 A1, Nov. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. C22C 21/02 (2006.01); B22F 10/28 (2021.01); C22F 1/04 (2006.01); C22F 1/043 (2006.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01)

CPC C22C 21/02 (2013.01) [B22F 10/28 (2021.01); C22F 1/043 (2013.01); B22F 2301/052 (2013.01); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12)]

2 Claims

1. A method for producing a component, the method comprising:

providing a powder or a wire, wherein the powder or the wire is formed from an aluminum alloy which comprises:

12% by weight to 40% by weight silicon;

0.3% by weight to 4% by weight copper;

0.2% by weight to 0.7% by weight magnesium;

at most 1% by weight iron;

at most 0.5% by weight zirconium; and

a remainder which comprises aluminum and further accompanying elements and/or production-related impurities that each have a mass fraction of at most 0.3 percent individually and that in total have a mass fraction of at most 1.5 percent; and

producing at least a sub-region of the component from the powder or the wire by an additive manufacturing process.