PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING POWDER INJECTION MOLDED PARTS

摘要

A process for manufacturing powder injection molded parts which comprises the steps of quickly raising the temperature of a molded body comprised of a binder composition, which contains at least two kinds of thermoplastic binder components having different evaporation starting temperatures not lower than the injection molding temperature, to a level higher than the evaporation starting temperature of a binder component of the lowest evaporation starting temperature so as to remove the binder component of the lowest evaporation starting temperature from the molded body while retaining this increased temperature, and thereafter raising the temperature of the molded body up to a level not lower than the evaporation starting temperature of a binder component having the highest evaporation starting temperature so as to remove all of the binder components. This process serves to eliminate the unstability of the shape of a final product which constitutes a problem with the conventional techniques, thus satisfying the dimensional accuracy, and to reduce the binder removing time.