Patent ID: 11866808
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  B | IPC B  C

Claim 0:
1. A method for manufacturing a thixomolding material comprising:
a drying step of heating a mixture containing a first powder that contains Mg as a main component, a second powder that contains C as a main component, a binder, and an organic solvent to dry the organic solvent contained in the mixture so that the second powder covers the first powder with the second powder being attached to a surface of the first powder;
a stirring step of stirring the mixture heated in the drying step; and
a debindering step of debindering at least a part of the binder contained in the mixture so that an attachment amount of the second powder attached to the first powder is 9.2% or greater and 27.9% or less after removal of the part of the binder, the attachment amount being a ratio of a mass of the second powder attached to the first powder with respect to a mass of the first powder.