Provided is a powder material for forming a three-dimensional object, the powder material containing granulated particles containing: a resin; and inorganic particles of which primary particles have a volume average particle diameter of 1 micrometer or less, wherein the granulated particles have a volume average particle diameter of 10 micrometers or greater but 70 micrometers or less and a BET specific surface area of 6 m.sup.2/g or greater but 8 m.sup.2/g or less.

A method of manufacturing synthetic quartz used for supporting and placing a wafer with a focus ring or edge ring ceramic member which is used during a semiconductor manufacturing process, and the present invention is directed to providing a method of manufacturing cylindrical synthetic quartz which is capable of improving a yield by minimizing temporal loss and quantitative loss and significantly increasing the rate of synthetic quartz production.

A method of manufacturing synthetic quartz used for supporting and placing a wafer with a focus ring or edge ring ceramic member which is used during a semiconductor manufacturing process, and the present invention is directed to providing a method of manufacturing cylindrical synthetic quartz which is capable of improving a yield by minimizing temporal loss and quantitative loss and significantly increasing the rate of synthetic quartz production.

A method of manufacturing a ceramic filter for hot gas filtration, and, more particularly, to a method of manufacturing a ceramic filter for hot gas filtration through a drying process. The ceramic filter manufactured by the method is advantageous in that the pore size thereof can be easily adjusted, and the filtering area thereof can be maximized, thus improving the performance thereof. Consequently, the method of manufacturing a ceramic filter can be usefully used in the filter-related industry because a high-performance ceramic filter can be manufactured at a low cost and at low energy.

A workpiece processing method is a method for successively processing a plurality of workpieces including a first workpiece and a second workpiece in a single machining area. The workpiece processing method includes: performing additive manufacturing on the second workpiece in the machining area; and performing subtractive manufacturing on the first workpiece in the machining area while keeping on standby the second workpiece on which additive manufacturing is performed. In this way, the workpiece processing method with improved productivity is provided.

A workpiece processing method is a method for successively processing a plurality of workpieces including a first workpiece and a second workpiece in a single machining area. The workpiece processing method includes: performing additive manufacturing on the second workpiece in the machining area; and performing subtractive manufacturing on the first workpiece in the machining area while keeping on standby the second workpiece on which additive manufacturing is performed. In this way, the workpiece processing method with improved productivity is provided.

The present invention is a sintering method of a ceramic for sintering characterized by forming a layer containing a carbon powder on a surface of an article consisting of a ceramic for sintering, and then irradiating with laser a surface of the carbon powder-containing layer of a lamination obtained.

The present invention is a sintering method of a ceramic for sintering characterized by forming a layer containing a carbon powder on a surface of an article consisting of a ceramic for sintering, and then irradiating with laser a surface of the carbon powder-containing layer of a lamination obtained.

A combined additive manufacturing method applicable to parts and molds relates to moldless-growth manufacturing of parts and molds, which includes steps of: S1: layering and slicing a three-dimensional CAD (computer-aided design) model of a workpiece to be formed according to shape, thickness and dimensional accuracy requirements of the workpiece, so as to obtain a plurality of layered slice data; S2: planning a forming path according to the layered slice data, and generating layered slice numerical control codes for forming; and S3: deposition-forming a powder material on a substrate layer-by-layer and performing pressure forming or milling forming according to the layered slice numerical control codes in the step S2, which uses a numerically controlled high-speed cold spray gun to spray the powder material to a determined position for deposition-forming. The method of the present invention overcomes thermally induced adverse effects of hot processing and drawbacks of cold spray deposition.

A method of impregnating a fiber texture of hollow shape, the method including introducing a first suspension containing a first powder of solid particles of ceramic or carbon material into an inside volume defined by an inside face of a fiber texture of hollow shape placed in a mold, an outer face of the fiber texture being presented facing a wall of the mold; and using the action of centrifugal force to impregnate the fiber texture with the first suspension by causing the mold to rotate and varying the speed of rotation of the mold during the impregnation of the texture with the first suspension.