Fujimi Incorporated

Fumi Shinoda

Hiroyuki Ibe

Hiroaki Mizuno

Kazuyuki Tsuzuki

Kazuto Sato

Kyohei Ota

This invention provides a thermal spray slurry capable of forming a favorable thermal spray coating. The thermal spray slurry comprises a dispersion medium and thermal spray particles formed of at least one material selected from the group consisting of a ceramic, a cermet and a metal. 800 mL of the thermal spray slurry contains A kg of the thermal spray particles; when 800 mL of the thermal spray slurry in which the thermal spray particles are dispersed is supplied at a flow rate of 35 mL/min to a horizontally-placed tube and collected, the collected slurry contains B kg of the thermal spray particles; and the slurry has a supply efficiency index If of 70% or higher, determined by the next equation If (%)=B/A&#xd7;100.

Thermal spray slurry, thermal spray coating and method for forming thermal spray coating

Provided is a material for molding, without a mold, a highly uniform structure comprising a resin and a non-resin such as metals and ceramic. The molding material provided by this invention is formed of a powder comprising a resin and at least one species of non-resin selected among metals and ceramic. The resin material has a uniformity index N below 0.2. N is determined by depositting the powder in a softened or melted state to form a structure in a temperature range between the resin material's minimum molding temperature and maximum molding tempeature+100&#xb0; C.; measuring the structure's porosity Rn at 12 locations by image analysis; and dividing the variance of porosity Rn by the average porosity Rn. The minimum and maximum molding temperatures are the lowest and highest heater temperatures at which the resin material can be molded at a pressure of 3500 psi by injection molding, respectively.

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