Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Kabushiki Kaha

Nobuhiro Yasui

Toru Den

Yoshihiro Ohashi

Kanako Oshima

Tohru Den

Ryoko Horie

Hisato Yabuta

Tatsuya Saito

Yoshinori Kotani

Ryoko Ueyama

Makoto Kubota

Kazuhiko Fukutani

Koji Suzuki

Hiroshi Saito

Yoshinori Shibutani

Tatsuya Iwasaki

Yasushi Shimizu

Shunsuke Murakami

Shigeru Ichihara

Akira Uebayashi

Tomoyuki Oike

Satoshi Yamabi

Akira Tsuboyama

Takashi Nakamura

Tamaki Kobayashi

Yasuhiro Matsuo

Aya Imada

Hiroshi Okura

To achieve local melting of an inorganic material powder containing an inorganic material as a main component in an additive manufacturing technology, to thereby achieve high shaping accuracy. Provided is an inorganic material powder to be used in an additive manufacturing method involving performing shaping through irradiation with laser light, the inorganic material powder including: a base material that is an inorganic material; and an absorber, wherein the absorber has a higher light-absorbing ability than the base material for light having a wavelength included in the laser light, and contains any one of TiO, TiO, SiO, ZnO, antimony-doped tin oxide (ATO), and indium-doped tin oxide (ITO), or contains any one of a transition metal carbide, a transition metal nitride, SiN, AlN, a boride, and a silicide.

Inorganic material powder and method of manufacturing a structural body

Provided are a method of manufacturing a ceramic article in which the improvement of mechanical strength, wear resistance, and machinability is achieved using a direct modeling system, and a ceramic article. The manufacturing method includes the steps of: (i) arranging powder containing ceramics as a main component on a base; (ii) irradiating a part or an entirety of the arranged powder with an energy beam to melt and solidify the powder, to thereby obtain an intermediate modeled article; (iii) causing the modeled article to absorb a metal component-containing liquid to impregnate the modeled article therewith; and (iv) subjecting the modeled article having absorbed the metal component-containing liquid to heat treatment.

Ceramics product manufacturing method and ceramics product

A method for manufacturing a ceramic article including (i) a step of irradiating a powder mainly containing a ceramic material with an energy beam to sinter or melt and solidify the powder into a solidified portion, wherein the step is repeated a predetermined number of times to sequentially bond the resulting solidified portions together to obtain a ceramic modeling object, (ii) a step of allowing the shaped ceramic object to absorb a metal component-containing liquid that contains inorganic particles containing a metal element; and (iii) a step of heating the shaped ceramic object that has absorbed the metal component-containing liquid.

Method for manufacturing ceramic article, metal component-containing liquid, kit for manufacturing ceramic article, and ceramic article

Provided are a method of manufacturing a ceramic article including a porous portion in which improvement in mechanical strength of a modeled article is achieved while high modeling accuracy is obtained, and a ceramic article. The method of manufacturing a ceramic article includes the steps of: (i) irradiating powder of a metal oxide containing aluminum oxide as a main component with an energy beam based on modeling data to melt and solidify or sinter the powder, to thereby form a modeled article including a porous portion; (ii) causing the modeled article formed in the step (i) to absorb a liquid containing a zirconium component; and (iii) heating the modeled article that has absorbed the liquid containing the zirconium component, wherein, in the absorbing step, the liquid is absorbed so that a ratio of the zirconium component in a metal component contained in the porous portion becomes 0.3 to 2.0 mol %.

Ceramic article production method and ceramic article

A method of producing a ceramic manufactured object including (i) a step of leveling a ceramic powder to form a powder layer, (ii) a step of irradiating the powder layer with a laser beam based on three-dimensional data to crystallize an irradiated site, and (iii) performing the steps (i) and (ii) in repetition, wherein in the step (ii), a surface of the powder layer is irradiated with the laser beam in an unfocused state.

Method of producing ceramic manufactured object

A casting core containing a ceramic and having sufficient mechanical strength to withstand a casting process over a long period of time and good solubility in alkaline solutions. The casting core includes a core, a surface layer, and an intermediate layer between the core and the surface layer. The intermediate layer has a lower relative density than the surface layer and the core.

Casting core containing ceramic and method for manufacturing cast article using the same

Provided are a powder for laser manufacturing which can be stably manufactured and from which a three-dimensional manufactured object ensuring a manufacturing accuracy can be obtained and a using method thereof. A powder for ceramic manufacturing for obtaining a manufactured object by repeatedly sintering or fusing and solidifying in sequence a powder in an irradiation portion with laser light, in which the powder includes a plurality of compositions, at least one composition of the compositions is an absorber that relatively strongly absorbs the laser light compared to other compositions, and at least a part of the absorber changes to a different composition that relatively weakly absorbs the laser light by irradiation with the laser light and a using method of a powder in which the powder is used.

Powder for ceramic manufacturing, ceramic manufactured object, and manufacturing method thereof

An article including an inorganic compound according to the present invention includes a porous part and a no-porous frame body surrounding the porous part in a plane direction, and includes a stress relaxation part between the porous part and the frame body.

Article including inorganic compound and method of manufacturing article including inorganic compound

A scintillator unit with less light leakage from a scintillator to an adhesive layer and a radiation detector that can improve sensitivity to radiation and the resolution of an image to be formed. Specifically disclosed is a scintillator unit including an adhesive layer between a scintillator and a supporting member and a low-refractive-index layer with a lower refractive index than the adhesive layer between the scintillator and the adhesive layer.

Scintillator unit and radiation detector

Provided is a method of producing a manufactured object including forming the manufactured object by performing, once or a plurality of times, a step of forming a powder layer from material powders containing powders of an inorganic compound and a step of irradiating a predetermined region of a surface of the powder layer with an energy beam and thereby fusing/solidifying the material powders. In the step of fusing/solidifying the material powders, an amorphous-rich region and a crystalline-rich region are formed separately by changing at least one of an output of the energy beam, a relative position between the surface of the powder layer and a focus of the energy beam, and a scanning rate.

Method of producing manufactured object and manufactured object

A scintillator unit that can reduce crosstalk when the scintillator unit includes a plurality of scintillators and a radiation detector are provided. More specifically, a scintillator unit includes a reflective layer between a plurality of scintillators and the plurality of scintillators, wherein an adhesive layer and a low-refractive-index layer with a lower refractive index than the adhesive layer are located in this order on the scintillators between the scintillators and the reflective layer.

A material powder for additive modeling including a nitride, and a eutectic oxide, the nitride having an average density lower than an average density of the eutectic oxide, is used to produce a structure using an additive modeling method.

Powder for additive modeling, structure, semiconductor production device component, and semiconductor production device

A powder for ceramic shaping to be used for obtaining a structure by repeating the execution of a process of sequential melting and solidification by irradiation of a laser beam contains inorganic compound particles and an organic compound, the organic compound being provided on the surfaces of the inorganic compound particles, and the organic compound has an absorption band that overlaps the wavelength of the laser beam.

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Nobuhiro Yasui