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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2000
Tilmann Haug, Uhldingen-Muehlheim, DE;
Steffen Rauscher, Ulm, DE;
Michael Scheydecker, Nersingen, DE;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A component is made, in regions, of a ceramic-metal composite material. A porous sacrificial body produced from ceramic precursors is filled with softened metal and/or a metallic alloy at a predeterminable filling temperature at or above the softening temperature of the filling metal and under superatmospheric pressure. The filled sacrificial body is heated to or above a reaction temperature which is higher than the filling temperature, where a reaction between the filling metal (FMe) and the metal of the ceramic of the sacrificial body (CMe) is carried out, forming the ceramic-metal composite material comprising a ceramic phase and a metallic phase. The ceramic phase comprises CMe,B,and/or CMe,C,and/or CMe,CN and FMe,O,, and the metallic phase comprises an intermetallic compound of a metal of the ceramic (CMe) and a filling metal (FMe). The sacrificial body is filled with the filling metal (FMe) during pressure casting of the component. A shape at least close to the final shape of the component, comprising a filled sacrificial body and the intermediate element(s) free of the sacrificial body, is cast by the pressure casting tool, and the component after casting is complete is heated to or above the reaction temperature in the region of the sacrificial body.