13416 results about "Powder" patented technology

Methods for laser additive manufacture are disclosed in which a plurality of powder layers (48, 50 and 52) are delivered onto a working surface (54A) to form a multi-powder deposit containing at least two adjacent powders layers in contact, and then applying a first laser energy (74) to a first powder layer (48) and a second laser energy (76) to a second powder layer (52) to form a section plane of a multi-material component. The multi-powder deposit may include a flux composition that provides at least one protective feature. The shapes, intensities and trajectories of the first and second laser energies may be independently controlled such that their widths are less than or equal to widths of the first and second powder layers, their intensities are tailored to the compositions of the powder layers, and their scan paths define the final shape of the multi-material component.

A method for increasing the resolution when forming a three-dimensional article through successive fusion of parts of a powder bed, said method comprising providing a vacuum chamber, providing an electron gun, providing a first powder layer on a work table inside said vacuum chamber, directing an electron beam from said electron gun over said work table causing the powder layer to fuse in selected locations to form a first cross section of said three-dimensional article, providing a second powder layer on said work table, directing the electron beam over said work table causing said second powder layer to fuse in selected locations to form a second cross section of said three-dimensional article, reducing the pressure in the vacuum chamber from a first pressure level to a second pressure level between the providing of said first powder layer and said second powder layer.

There is disclosed a method of making a metallic or ceramic component, such as a cutting or forming tool, from at least two distinct powder precursors. In one embodiment, the method comprising forming a first mixture comprised of a plurality of coated particles, such as Tough-Coated Hard Powder (TCHP) composite particles created by encapsulating extremely hard core particles with very tough binder and structural materials, and at least one support powder, such as a carbide, typically WC—Co. The mixture is formed into a green body and sintered to form a functionally graded or multicomponent article. Non-limiting examples of the articles made from the disclosed methods are also disclosed and include drills, mills, cutting tools, forming tools, wires dies and mechanical components.

Disclosed are methods for making ultrafine silica particles in a plasma system, apparatus for making ultrafine silica particles, and coating compositions comprising ultrafine silica particles made by such methods and/or apparatus.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a B4C-Al composite material, which is characterized by comprising the following steps of: 1, uniformly mixing a certain proportion of raw material boron carbide powder with aluminum alloy powder in a high-energy ball milling way; 2, compressing the uniformly-mixed power for molding; 3, sintering compression-molded compact in the step 2 at certain temperatures; 4, extruding sintered compact sintered in the step 3 at certain temperatures; and 5, conducting multiple-time hot rolling for the extruding-molded material in the step 4 at certain temperatures to obtain B4C-Al composite boards. By adopting the preparation method in the invention, the ball milling efficiency is high, the preparation process almost has no material loss, and the prepared B4C-Al composite boards have the characteristics of uniform distribution of boron carbide and good mechanical property and can be applied to neutron absorption/shielding.

The invention discloses a powder spreading device for rapid forming equipment. The device mainly comprises a quantitative powder conveying device, a movable silo, a movable arm, a movable frame and the like. The quantitative powder conveying device is used for supplying powder to the movable silo. Whether the powder falls down or not is controlled through a rotating sheet. According to the section of parts, the movable silo does regular translational motion within a working plane under the drive of the movable arm and the movable frame, and a scraper on the silo can realize dynamic powder spreading. By combining the movable arm and the movable silo with the movable frame, defining the powder within the area of the parts and adjusting the magnitude and the position of spread powder according to the change of the section of the parts, not only can the amount of the used powder is greatly saved, but also the powder spreading speed is high; and the structural design of the powder spreading device is simple, the powder spreading device is convenient to disassemble and assemble, the realization is easy, the cost is lower and the powder spreading device has an important application value to the improvement of the overall technical level of a powder bed quick forming technology.

A method for creating a particle from a powder according to one embodiment includes applying a droplet of a liquid to a bed of powder, wherein a particle is formed at about a point of contact of the droplet with the bed. A composite particle according to one embodiment includes a liquid-absorbing material and a liquid-induced binding agent substantially homogeneously dispersed in the particle. A composite particle according to yet another embodiment includes a liquid-absorbing material and a byproduct of a liquid-induced gas forming agent substantially homogeneously dispersed in the particle. A composite particle suitable for use as an animal litter according to an embodiment includes a liquid-absorbing material, where the particle has at least one of the following properties: hollow, cupped, and generally bagel shaped. A composite particle in yet another embodiment includes a material formed in a shape substantially defined by a droplet of liquid.

A method and apparatus for producing metastable nanostructured materials employing a ceramic shroud surrounding a plasma flame having a steady state reaction zone into which an aerosol or liquid jet of solution precursor or powder material is fed, causing the material to be pyrolyzed, melted, or vaporized, followed by quenching to form a metastable nanosized powder that has an amorphous (short-range ordered), or metastable microsized powder that has a crystalline (long-range ordered) structure, respectively.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods of forming powder metals materials and parts. More specifically, certain embodiments of the present invention relate to methods of forming powder metals materials and parts by densifying at least a portion of a surface of the materials and/or parts after sintering and prior to densifying one or more core regions of the materials and/or parts. Other embodiment provide powder metal parts, such as gears and sprockets, having surface regions that are uniformly densified to full density to depth ranging from 0.001 inches to 0.040 inches, and core regions that can have at least 92 percent theoretical density and further can have essentially full density, or full density. Still other embodiments relate to brazed, welded, plated and gas-tight powder metal parts and components that can be made in accordance with the various non-limiting methods disclosed herein.

The invention discloses a macromolecule heat conduction and dissipation blended composite material. The macromolecule heat conduction and dissipation blended composite material is prepared from, by mass, 35-75 parts of matrix resin, 0-10 parts of flexibilizer, 20-50 parts of heat conduction filler, 0.2-1.0 part of antioxidant 1010, 0.2-1.0 part of phosphite ester antioxidant 168, 0.5-1.5 parts of powder surface activation treating agents and 0.5-1.5 parts of lubricant. An automatic preparation method of the macromolecule heat conduction and dissipation blended composite material includes the steps of firstly, conducting surface treating on heat conduction filler for 20 min through powder surface activation treating agents in a high-speed stirring machine; secondly, making the heat conduction filler enter another high-speed stirring machine through an automatic conveying device to be evenly mixed with other materials; thirdly, automatically conveying the mixture obtained in the second step to an internal mixer to be mixed and kneaded for 15 min; fourthly, making the obtained mixture directly enter a double-screw extruder to be extruded and granulated. The prepared heat conduction and dissipation material has the high mechanical property and heat conduction performance, automatic and continuous production is achieved, a large amount of labor is saved, the production period is greatly shortened, the production cost is greatly reduced, and the macromolecule heat conduction and dissipation blended composite material can be widely applied to the fields of LED illumination, electronic electrical appliances, automobiles and the like where good heat conduction and dissipation performance is required.

The invention relates to 316L stainless steel powder for the 3D printing technology and a preparation method thereof. The vacuum melting technology is adopted for the method, an ultrasonic vibration and air flow classification method is used for matching powder of different granularities, and the 316L stainless steel powder suitable for the 3D printing technology of different types of metal is prepared through the vacuum degassing technology. Compared with the prior art, the 316L stainless steel powder has the advantages of being high in sphericity degree, uniform in granularity distribution, low in oxygen content, low in impurity content, capable of meeting performance requirements of different 3D printing technologies for powder material and promoting the development of the metal material increasing manufacturing technology and the like.

A container (210) for holding granular or powdered material and formed by a top wall (212), a bottom wall (214), a front wall (216), a rear wall (218), a first side wall (220), and a second side wall (222). A rotatably removable lid (D) is interiorly mounted with a scoop (32) and is pivotally hinged to a collar (300) that includes a sealing gasket (330). The collar (300) mounts to the walls of the container (210). A sealing wall 240 of the lid (D) cooperates with the gasket 300 to prevent the contents from spilling. The container (210) incorporates additional sealing features wherein the gasket (330) projects inwardly from the collar (300) into an interior space (H, I) of the container (210) to be biased against the sealing flange (284). The sealing wall includes modifications that funnel powder into the interior space (H,I) of the receptacle (280).

The invention relates to a high-performance sand-soil consolidation material, as well as a preparation method and a using method thereof. The high-performance sand-soil consolidation material belongs to a mortar composition and is characterized by comprising the following raw materials in parts by weight: 5-40 parts of cement clinker, 3-6 parts of gypsum, 4-10 parts of alkali additive, 0.5-6 parts of compound activating agent, 1-4 parts of early strength agent, 2-10 parts of mineral activating agent, 3-8 parts of expansion agent and 22-77 parts of micro-powder formed by fine grinding of blast furnace water-quenched slag. The invention provides the high-performance sand-soil consolidation material which has the advantages of simple operation, convenient construction, good water resistance, fast consolidation, high early strength, stable improvement of post-strength, resistance to erosion of underground inorganic salt water, excellent anti-seepage performance and low production cost, as well as the preparation method and the using method thereof. The high-performance sand-soil consolidation material is suitable for consolidating mine tailings, natural weathered sand, fly ash, gravel, stone chips, stone powder, soil, sludge, construction waste, coal gangue and phosphorus slag into a solid material, and can be used for laying a subgrade, constructing a wall body and constructing a site foundation.

The present disclosure generally relates to methods for additive manufacturing (AM) that utilize support surrounding structures in the process of building objects, as well as novel surrounding support structures to be used within these AM processes. The support structure surrounds at least a portion of the object with a continuous thickness of powder disposed between the support structure and the object, the continuous thickness of powder having a maximum thickness that does not exceed 10 mm.

The invention discloses a formula of a ceramic aggregate aerated concrete brick and a method for making the concrete brick. The compositions in portion by weight of the concrete brick are: 12 to 26 portions of cement, 26 to 46 portions of fly ash, 16 to 28 portions of ceramic aggregate, 2 to 6 portions of slag, 2 to 6 portions of cinder, 16 to 26 portions of water and 2 portions of addition agent, wherein the concrete matters in percentage by weight of the addition agent are: 10 to 18 percent of aluminum powder (a foaming agent), 20 to 45 percent of polycarboxylate (a water reducing agent), 15 to 35 percent of 1122 fly ash excitant and 20 to 50 percent of coagulant hardening accelerator in which calcium chloride and sodium sulfate compounds respectively occupies 50 percent. The concrete steps for making the ceramic aggregate aerated concrete brick are as follows: raw materials are weighed; the weighed raw materials are placed in a stirring machine to carry out stirring and mixing in advance; an addition agent is added in the stirring machine to carry out full stirring; a brick die is prepared, and stirred raw materials are cast in the brick die; initial set and forming are carried out; stripping is carried out; a water-proofing agent is sprinkled on a stripped brick; and natural curing is carried out. Moreover, the obtained brick has light dead weight, low density, high strength, low water absorption rate and excellent sound insulation performance and heat-shielding performance.