US Patent Issued to NIPPON PISTON RING on June 2 for "Method for manufacturing three-dimensional object, three-dimensional object, titanium-containing intermediate three-dimensional object, and titanium-containing three-dimensional object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,148, issued on June 2, was assigned to NIPPON PISTON RING Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Method for manufacturing three-dimensional object, three-dimensional object, titanium-containing intermediate three-dimensional object, and titanium-containing three-dimensional object" was invented by Masahiro Kimura (Saitama, Japan), Yusuke Tachibana (Saitama, Japan) and Atsushi Yamamoto (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object includes: a modeling step of modeling an intermediate object by applying a binding fluid to a metal powder containing titanium; and a sintering step of sintering the interme...