PURPOSE: To obtain the silicon carbide molding which is tough and wrinklefree even if the molding is thin by placing the sheet of a silicon carbide precursor polymer on an air permeable support and crosslinking and insolubilizing the sheet, then calcining the sheet.
CONSTITUTION: A polycarbosilane/styrene copolymer is used as the silicon carbide precursor and is heated to melt in a nitrogen atmosphere of about ≤10ppm oxygen concn. The copolymer is defoamed in a vacuum of about 0.5Torr. The deformed copolymer melt is extruded from a die having a slit shape to form the sheet 1 of the polycarbosilane/styrene copolymer. This sheet 1 is placed on the support having air permeability, for example, a wire net 2 of about 10 mesh and is heated in an air atmosphere to crosslink and insolubilize the sheet, following which the sheet is heated and calcined in a nitrogen atmosphere of about 10ppm oxygen concn., by which the flat molding of the silicon carbide sheet is obtd.
KINOSHITA SAIJIRO
TAKAKURA ISAO
SHIMADA KEIZO