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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 1997
Filed:
May. 17, 1995
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method of producing an infrared ray transmitting material, a large-sized one which can be manufactured at a low price, consisting of a polycrystal not liable to cleavage, which makes only a slight absorption of infrared rays all over the region of 8-11 .mu.m wave lengths, thus being highly transmissive. The material is a polycrystalline barium fluoride sintered body excellent in transmission to infrared region of 8-11 .mu.m wave lengths, one that is most excellent in the infrared transmission and being produced by a method of hot press sintering and an HIP treatment in combination, one that gives somewhat inferior transmission but which is low-priced produced by a method of CIP molding and normal pressure sintering in combination, and one that is regarded as an intermediate between the aforementioned two by a method comprising the CIP molding, normal-pressure sintering and the HIP treatment in combination, in all cases entirely without the addition of any binder or sintering aid.