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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2018
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
John Joseph Marcin, Marlborough, CT (US);
Steven J. Bullied, Pomfret Center, CT (US);
Santosh Ranganath, Glastonbury, CT (US);
RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of fabricating a casting is provided. The method includes creating a mixture of ceramic powder and a binder, pouring the mixture around sacrificial patterns, executing a first thermal treatment to set the mixture into a solid mold without damaging the sacrificial patterns, executing a second thermal treatment to remove the sacrificial patterns without removing any of the binder from the solid mold, executing at least one of a third thermal treatment and a chemical treatment to remove a quantity of the binder to transform the solid mold into a solid breakaway mold and pouring molten metallic material into the solid breakaway mold.