Patent ID: 11883978
Assignee: POLITECNICO DI TORINO
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C  Y | IPC B  C

Claim 17:
18. The vacuum additive manufacturing process according to claim 2, wherein the single step process comprises the following procedure within the production chamber for simultaneously shaping and consolidating:
1) spreading a thin layer of metallic and non metallic mixed powders on a building platform by a coater blade;
2) preheating the layer of powder by one or more energy sources;
3) selective melting of the powder by one or more energy source at high energy;
4) turning (of the metallic particles) to the molten phase and reacting with non metallic particles powder;
5) repeating the sequence of steps 1-4 until the complete realization in height of the component according to the CAD design of the ceramic component to be realized;
6) post-processing.