WO1998018973A1 - Method of making cemented carbide by powder injection molding - Google Patents
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- WO1998018973A1 WO1998018973A1 PCT/SE1997/001715 SE9701715W WO9818973A1 WO 1998018973 A1 WO1998018973 A1 WO 1998018973A1 SE 9701715 W SE9701715 W SE 9701715W WO 9818973 A1 WO9818973 A1 WO 9818973A1
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
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- C22C1/00—Making non-ferrous alloys
- C22C1/04—Making non-ferrous alloys by powder metallurgy
- C22C1/05—Mixtures of metal powder with non-metallic powder
- C22C1/051—Making hard metals based on borides, carbides, nitrides, oxides or silicides; Preparation of the powder mixture used as the starting material therefor
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
- B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
- B22F3/00—Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor ; Presses and furnaces
- B22F3/22—Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor ; Presses and furnaces for producing castings from a slip
- B22F3/225—Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor ; Presses and furnaces for producing castings from a slip by injection molding
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
- C22C—ALLOYS
- C22C29/00—Alloys based on carbides, oxides, nitrides, borides, or silicides, e.g. cermets, or other metal compounds, e.g. oxynitrides, sulfides
- C22C29/02—Alloys based on carbides, oxides, nitrides, borides, or silicides, e.g. cermets, or other metal compounds, e.g. oxynitrides, sulfides based on carbides or carbonitrides
- C22C29/06—Alloys based on carbides, oxides, nitrides, borides, or silicides, e.g. cermets, or other metal compounds, e.g. oxynitrides, sulfides based on carbides or carbonitrides based on carbides, but not containing other metal compounds
- C22C29/08—Alloys based on carbides, oxides, nitrides, borides, or silicides, e.g. cermets, or other metal compounds, e.g. oxynitrides, sulfides based on carbides or carbonitrides based on carbides, but not containing other metal compounds based on tungsten carbide
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- the present invention relates to a method of making cemented carbide by powder injection molding.
- Cemented carbide is generally made by powder metallurgical methods comprising wet milling in an alcohol-water solution of a powder mixture containing powders forming the hard constituents and binder phase, drying the milled mixture to a powder consisting of agglomerates about 0.1 mm in diameter with good flow properties by means of spray drying, pressing the dried powder to bodies of desired shape and finally sintering.
- An alternative method of making cemented carbide parts is by injection molding. Injection molding is a common production method in the plastics industry for the production of 'net-shape' or 'near net-shape' parts.
- a paste consisting of or containing thermoplastics or thermosetting polymers is heated to a suitable temperature and forced through a nozzle into a form with desired geometry.
- PIM Powder Injection Molding
- the mixture obtained is generally referred to as feedstock.
- the surfactant is used as a mixing aid. It makes it possible to increase the amount of powder that can be blended into the polymer matrix by enhancing the adhesion of the binder polymer and the metallic or ceramic powder. Additionally the surfactant acts as a dispersant i.e. is used as a remedy to obtain an even powder distribution through out the compound, which is the end product of the mixture of polymer constituents and the powder.
- the amount of binder must be 55-25% by volume and the amount of surfactant should correspond to at least one monolayer of the surfactant on the metal/ceramic powder.
- the mixing step is very critical because it is the base for the other process steps.
- the binder must have suitable properties during the molding and be easily burned out prior to sintering without leaving any unwanted carbon or other undesired residue. As a result of the mixing a compound is obtained.
- the mixing should be done in a twinscrew extruder at temperatures well above the melting interval for the polymer constituents with the to ensure that a thorough homogenisation is practicable.
- Molding a part into desired shape takes place in a conventional plastic injection molding machine.
- the feedstock is heated to about 100-240°C, depending on the polymer constituents used in the polymer matrix, and forced into a cavity of desired shape. After cooling the molded part is ejected out from the cavity and removed.
- Binder removal can be made in a number of ways. Generally the binder is removed by heating or by extraction in a suitable solvent or by a combination of both. IV. Sintering is performed essentially in the same way as for tool pressed parts.
- binder components are simultaneously mixed with powder in a batchwise mixing equipment, of Brabender or Haake type, in molten state.
- the components are mixed in an extruder simultaneously.
- the surfactant is dryblended with the powder before mixing is performed in molten state, in a batchwise or continuous mixing equipment.
- the surfactant is dryblended with the powder and the same or another surfactant is mixed with a part of or the rest of the binder constituents before mixing in molten state as in I and II.
- cemented carbide powders are milled. Milling is considered necessary in order to obtain a uniform distribution of the binder phase in the milled mixture.
- the milling operation is performed in mills of different sizes using cemented carbide milling bodies.
- the milling time is in the order of several hours up to days.
- the milling operation produces a slurry which subsequently is spray dried. As a result of the spray drying a powder is obtained essentially consisting of spherical agglomerates of around 0.1 mm size.
- the binder adheres to the powder agglomerates and in that way helps to keep the agglomerates together. If agglomerates are broken up into particles during the mixing step there will be homogenizing problems due to poor wetting of the binder on the powder .
- the object of the present invention is to provide a method of enhancing dispersion of the surfactant to ensure that the surfactant is adhering to particles and smaller agglomerates, rather than just to larger agglomerates .
- the surfactant can be a single fatty acid like hexadecanoic acid, tetradecanoic acid, 9,10 Octadecanoic acid, 9,12 Octadienoic acid or 9,12,5 Octadecatrienoic acid mixed with the powder in ethanol, acetone, benzene.
- the surfactant can be some kind of organo- metallic compound, Zn-stearate, or corresponding alcohol to a fatty acid such as 1-hexadecanol . It can also be an a ine such as octadecylamine . All these surfactants can be milled in ethanol .
- Zn-salts of higher molecular nonsaturated fatty acids with melting point at 75-95 °C can be used or Zn-salts of high molecular mostly unsaturated fatty acids with a melting point of 97-105 °C, which can be milled together with benzene, ethanol, xylol .
- the surfactant is Zn salts of high molecular mostly unsaturated fatty acids or hexadecanol .
- the slurry obtained is dried preferably by spray drying.
- the dried powder is then mixed with the rest of the binder at a temperature well beyond the melting point of these components.
- the binder components composition can be a wax mixed with a polyolefine i.e. paraffin wax or a microcrystalline wax mixed with EVA(Ethene Vinyl Acetate) , EBA(Ethene Butyl Acrylate) , EAA (Ethene Acrylic Acid), PE (Polyethylene) , PP (Polypropylene) alone or in combination or solely mixed with the wax.
- Preferred binders are paraffine wax mixed with PP.
- Example 1 30 kg WC-powder with average grain size 1.3-2.9 ⁇ m and 3 kg Co-powder was mixed with 0.5 kg cetylalcohol and was wetmilled for 30 h in an alcohol-water solution 90:10. The slurry obtained was spraydried to a powder. The spraydried powder was mixed with PP (Polypropylene) and paraffine waxes and pelletized in an extruder. The pellets were fed into a conventional injection molding equipment and molded to a tangential insert at cylinder temperatures between 125-165°C.
- PP Polypropylene
- the binder was eliminated first by extraction in Methyl- Ethyl-Ketone and 1-Propanol and after that by heating to 400°C in flowing H2 gas under atmospheric pressure. After this debinding step the parts were sintered according to standard practice. The sintered parts were found to have a porosity level of A00+B02+C00 according to ISO 4505, and 1-2 macropores/cm ⁇ .
- Example 1 was repeated with the exception that 0.7 kg stearic acid was milled with the powder in an ethanol solution and then spray dried and mixed as in Example 1. The sintered parts were found to have a porosity level of A00+B00+C00 and 1-2 macropores/cm 2 .
- Example 3 24 kg WC-powder with average grain size 3 - 4 ⁇ m and 2 kg Co-powder was mixed with 0.17 kg Zn salts of high molecular nonsaturated fatty acids and was wetmilled for 22 h in an alcohol-water solution 90:10. The slurry obtained was spraydried to a powder . The spraydried powder was mixed with PP (Polypropylene) and paraffine waxes and pelletized in an extruder. The pellets were fed into a conventional injection molding equipment and molded to a Q-Cut insert at cylinder temperatures between 150-170°C. From the molded parts the binder was eliminated first by extraction in para menta 1,8-dien and after that by drying in vacuum at 50°C. After this debinding step the parts were sintered according to standard practice. The sintered parts were found to have a porosity level of A00+B00+C00 according to ISO 4505, and no macropores .
- Example 1 was repeated with the exception that the cetylalcohol was added together with the powder during the mixing step.
- the molded parts were sintered together with those from Example 1.
- the sintered parts were found to have a porosity level of A00+B02+C00 and 8-10 macropores/cm 2 .
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AT97910662T ATE229574T1 (en) | 1996-10-25 | 1997-10-14 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CEMENTED CARBIDE BY POWDER INJECTION MOLDING |
DE69717861T DE69717861T2 (en) | 1996-10-25 | 1997-10-14 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CEMENTED CARBIDE BY INJECTION MOLDING POWDER |
EP97910662A EP0963454B1 (en) | 1996-10-25 | 1997-10-14 | Method of making cemented carbide by powder injection molding |
JP52034898A JP2001507075A (en) | 1996-10-25 | 1997-10-14 | Method for producing sintered carbide alloy by powder injection molding |
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