Patent ID: 8440931

Claim:
A method of manufacturing an electrode for electrical-discharge surface treatment, wherein the electrode is used in an electrical-discharge surface treatment for forming a film composed of electrode material or material obtained from a reaction of the electrode material to electrical-discharge energy on the surface of a workpiece to be treated by using pulsed electrical-discharge energy obtained by generating a pulsed electrical discharge between a conductive electrode and the workpiece, the method comprising: kneading a first electrode material composed of at least one of metal powder and insulating powder and a second electrode material composed of conductive organic bonding agent in which a conductive resin is dissolved or dispersed in a solvent, to fabricate a slurry; molding the slurry, to form a compact; and desiccating the compact at a temperature below a thermal decomposition initiating temperature at which a thermal decomposition of the conductive organic bonding agent starts.