ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING-ENABLED PLATFORM FOR MODULAR CONSTRUCTION OF VEHICLES USING DEFINITION NODES

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING-ENABLED PLATFORM FOR MODULAR CONSTRUCTION OF VEHICLES USING DEFINITION NODES

A platform for building a plurality of vehicle types is disclosed. In an embodiment, a facility may include a processing system for designing a plurality of definition nodes for a vehicle and identifying a relative position for each definition node. Based on the design, the internal volume and other...

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Hauptverfasser: LAKSHMAN, Narender Shankar, MACEY, Stuart Paul, O'CONNELL, David Charles, CZINGER, Kevin Robert, MARTINEZ, Antonio Bernerd, TENHOUTEN, Broc William, GUNNER, John Paul
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OFTHREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVEAGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING,STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING
LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
MOTOR VEHICLES
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
TRAILERS
TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:A platform for building a plurality of vehicle types is disclosed. In an embodiment, a facility may include a processing system for designing a plurality of definition nodes for a vehicle and identifying a relative position for each definition node. Based on the design, the internal volume and other vehicle parameters can be determined. The facility includes a 3-D printer for additively manufacturing the definition nodes. In an embodiment, a plurality of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) parts are acquired and the definition nodes are designed to interface with the COTS parts. The facility may also include a station, or primary location where the major portions of the vehicle are assembled. In another embodiment, multiple such geographically-distributed facilities can be used, such that one facility can manufacture a desired vehicle type on behalf of another facility, e.g., in the event of an overflow.