Sandvik Intellectual Property Ab

Sandvik Ab

Carl-Johan Maderud

Susanne Norgren

Udo K Fischer

Jan Engqvist

Michael John Carpenter

Ake Ostlund

Tomas Berglund

Leif Åkesson

Leif E Akesson

Jan-Erik Karlsson

Anders Stenberg

Elias Forssbeck Nyrot

Magnus Ekelund

Johan Sundstrom

Thomas Ericson

Jane Smith

Fredrik Meurling

Sven Englund

John De Flon

Tommy Flygare

Mathias Tillman

Johan SUNDSTRÖM

The present disclosure relates to a method of making a powder of dense and spherically shaped cemented carbide or cermet granules. The present disclosure also relates to a powder produced by the method and use of said powder in additive manufacturing such as 3D printing by the binder jetting technique. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) process for manufacturing a product by using said powder.

Method of making cermet or cemented carbide powder

A cutting tool made of a cemented carbide substrate of WC, a metallic binder phase and gamma phase is provided. The cemented carbide has a well distributed gamma phase and a reduced amount of abnormal WC grains. The cutting tool has a more predicted tool life and an increased resistance against plastic deformation.

Cutting tool

A coated cutting tool of a cemented carbide substrate made of WC, a metallic binder phase and a gamma phase has a well distributed gamma phase and a reduced amount of abnormal WC grains. Further, the coated cutting tool is provided with a CVD coating of TiCN and an &#x3b1;-AlOlayer, wherein the &#x3b1;-AlOlayer exhibits a texture coefficient TC(0 0 12)&#x2265;7.2 and wherein in the ratio I(0 0 12)/I(0 1 14)&#x2265;1. The coated cutting tool has an increased resistance against plastic deformation. whilst maintaining toughness.

Coated cutting tool

The present invention relates to a powder mixture for three-dimensional (3D) printing of a cermet or a cemented carbide body. The powder mixture includes 65-85 wt % of porous cemented carbide or cermet particles of a median particle size (D50) of 10-35 &#x3bc;m, and 15-35 wt % of a dense cemented carbide or cermet particles of a median particle size (D50) of 3-10 &#x3bc;m. The present invention also relates to a method of making a cermet or cemented carbide body, the method including the steps of forming the powder mixture, 3D printing a body using the powder mixture and a printing binder and thereby forming a 3D printed cermet or cemented carbide green body and sintering the green body and to form a cermet or cemented carbide body.

Three dimensional printing of cermet or cemented carbide

The present invention relates to a method of making a cemented carbide or a cermet body comprising the steps of first forming a powder blend comprising powders forming hard constituents and metal binder. The powder blend is then subjected to a mixing operation using a non-contact mixer wherein acoustic waves achieving resonance conditions to form a mixed powder blend and then subjecting said mixed powder blend to a pressing and sintering operation. The method makes it possible to maintain the grain size, the grain size distribution and the morphology of the WC grains.

Method of making a cemented carbide or cermet body

A method of manufacturing an as-cast composite roll by metallurgically bonding one or more rings of cemented carbide to a cast iron casing. The composite roll may be used for hot or cold rolling. The cast iron has the following composition in addition to Fe, in weight %, 1.9-2.8% Si, 0.02-0.10% Mg, 0.5-4% Ni, 0.1-1% Mn, balance Fe and a C &equals;2.5-6.

Method of manufacture of as-cast composite roll

A composite roll including one or more rings of cemented carbide metallurgically bonded to a cast iron casing. The composite roll may be used for hot or cold rolling. The cast iron has the following composition in addition to Fe, in weight %, 1.9-2.8% Si, 0.02-0.10% Mg, 0.5-4% Ni, 0.1-1% Mn, balance Fe and a C.sub.eqv =2.5-6.

Composite roll and method of manufacture thereof

There is now provided a roll for hot rolling comprising 70-95 weight %, preferably 85-94 weight %, WC in a binder phase consisting of only cobalt or alternatively a Co--Ni--Cr alloy containing 20-35 weight % Ni and up to 10 weight % Cr, possibly with small additions of molybdenum. The WC grains are rounded with an average grain size between 3-10 .mu.m, preferably 4-8 .mu.m. The maximum grain size should not exceed 2 times the average grain size and no more than 2% of the grains be less than half of the average grain size.

Roll for hot rolling with increased resistance to thermal cracking and

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Carl-Johan Maderud