Additive manufacturing system and method

An additive manufacturing system including a two-dimensional energy patterning system for imaging a powder bed is disclosed. Improved structure formation, part creation and manipulation, use of multiple additive manufacturing systems, and high throughput manufacturing methods suitable for automated...

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Hauptverfasser:	Toomre, Erik, DeMuth, James A, Fees, Heiner, Berdichevsky, Eugene, Leard, Francis L, Kamshad, Kourosh
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	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 AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDEDFOR ELSEWHERE BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS CASTING CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES CHECKING-DEVICES CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL CONTROLLING CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH ISMODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THEDEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY,COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g.SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION ELECTRICITY FREQUENCY-CHANGING FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS HAND TOOLS INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES B29B, B29C OR B29D, RELATING TO MOULDING MATERIALS MACHINE TOOLS MAKING METALLIC POWDER MANIPULATORS MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS NON-LINEAR OPTICS OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS OPTICS PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICS PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS POWDER METALLURGY REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES REGULATING SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS, SLAG, OR MIXTURESCONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING TECHNIQUES OR PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS TRANSPORTING VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS WELDING WORKING BY LASER BEAM WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE WORKING METALLIC POWDER WORKING OF PLASTICS WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL
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Zusammenfassung:	An additive manufacturing system including a two-dimensional energy patterning system for imaging a powder bed is disclosed. Improved structure formation, part creation and manipulation, use of multiple additive manufacturing systems, and high throughput manufacturing methods suitable for automated or semi-automated factories are also disclosed.