US Patent Issued to Noritake on Sept. 30 for "Additively manufactured ceramic core and manufacturing method for the ceramic core" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,566, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Noritake Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Additively manufactured ceramic core and manufacturing method for the ceramic core" was invented by Hirokazu Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan), Akihiro Kawahara (Nagoya, Japan), Tsuyoshi Hondo (Nagoya, Japan), Kouji Inukai (Nagoya, Japan) and Shinji Kato (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, an additively manufactured ceramic core having both strength and collapsibility, and meltability and moreover having surface roughness improved is provided. The additively manufactured ceramic core disclosed herein is an additively manufacture...