IP Library Granted Patent US 12,539,540
Granted Patent B2
US 12,539,540 · App. 16/651,614 · Granted Feb 3, 2026

Cemented carbide composite material, method for producing same, and cemented carbide tool

Inventors: Hiroshi Shiratori (Tokyo, JP); Hirotsugu Kawanaka (Tokyo, JP); Shuho Koseki (Tokyo, JP); Tadashi Furuya (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
B22F7/08B22F10/25B22F10/362B22F10/64B32B15/04B33Y10/00B33Y80/00C22C29/08C22F1/10
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Patent No.
US 12,539,540
App. No.
16/651,614
Granted
Feb 3, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a cemented carbide composite material including cemented carbide and non-cemented carbide having better high-temperature strength than conventional materials and capable of suppressing breakage and peeling of the composite material. A cemented carbide composite material includes: a cemented carbide part including WC—Co-based cemented carbide; a substrate part including metal that contains at least one of Ni and Co that accounts for 50 mass % or more in total. This cemented carbide composite material has an intermediate layer between the cemented carbide composite material and the substrate part, the intermediate layer containing components of the cemented carbide part and components of the substrate part. The intermediate layer includes a part having a gamma phase fraction of 80% or more and having Vickers hardness less than 700 HV.

Claims (10)

1 . A method for producing a cemented carbide composite material including: a cemented carbide part including WC—Co-based cemented carbide; and a substrate part including Ni-based alloy or Co-based alloy, the method comprising:

a preheat step of preheating the substrate part at a temperature of 350° C. or higher and 1300° C. or lower; and

a composite material producing step of forming the cemented carbide part on the substrate part by additive manufacturing, and producing the cemented carbide composite material having an intermediate layer between the substrate part and the cemented carbide part, such that the intermediate layer includes a center part with an area of at least 200 μm×200 μm in which components of the substrate part and components of the cemented carbide part are mixed, and the center part has a Vickers hardness less than 700 HV,

wherein Co (cobalt) content of the cemented carbide part is 40 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less,

wherein the substrate part has a Vickers hardness which is lower than the Vickers hardness of the center part of the intermediate layer, and

wherein a measurement of the intermediate layer by XRD shows an area of a main peak of M 6 C type carbide that is 2% or less of an overall constituent phase.

2 . The method for manufacturing the cemented carbide composite material according to claim 1 , wherein the preheat step preheats the substrate part at the temperature of 500° C. or higher and 1300° C. or lower.

3 . The method for manufacturing the cemented carbide composite material according to claim 1 , further comprising a heat treatment step after the composite material producing step, the heat treatment step heat treating the cemented carbide composite material at a temperature of 1000° C. or more and 1300° C. or lower.

4 . The method for manufacturing the cemented carbide composite material according to claim 3 , wherein the heat treatment step heat treats the cemented carbide composite material at a temperature of 1200° C. or more and 1300° C. or lower.

5 . The method for manufacturing the cemented carbide composite material according to claim 1 , wherein the preheat step preheats the substrate part at the temperature of 350° C. or higher and 600° C. or lower.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 9, 2023
From: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
To: PROTERIAL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063581/0815 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 27, 2020
From: SHIRATORI, HIROSHI; KAWANAKA, HIROTSUGU; KOSEKI, SHUHO; FURUYA, TADASHI
To: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 052246/0370 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-192951 · Oct 2, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200299814A1 · Sep 24, 2020
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