Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of fabricating space satellite tank components utilizing additive manufacturing and spin forming
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Application No.: US15196636Application Date: 2016-06-29
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Publication No.: US10088103B2Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Inventor: Ian Ballinger , Wayne H. Tuttle
- Applicant: Keystone Engineering Company
- Applicant Address: US CA Long Beach
- Assignee: Keystone Engineering Company
- Current Assignee: Keystone Engineering Company
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Long Beach
- Agency: Kinney & Lange, P.A.
- Main IPC: B21D22/16
- IPC: B21D22/16 ; F17C1/08 ; B22F3/105 ; F17C1/14 ; B22F7/08 ; B23K26/342 ; B23K9/04 ; B23K9/10 ; B23K9/167 ; B23K15/00 ; B21D51/18 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y80/00 ; B22F5/10 ; B22F5/00 ; B23K101/12 ; B23K103/04 ; B23K103/10 ; B23K103/14
Abstract:
A method of forming a thick wall section on a specific region of a thin wall spinformed metallic tank shell includes forming a thin wall metallic tank shell blank by spinforming a metal sheet over a mandrel and removing the tank shell blank from the mandrel. The method further includes mounting the blank in an additive manufacturing system and adding metallic structural features to the tank shell according to a 3D model stored in memory in the additive manufacturing system.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170002978A1 METHOD OF FABRICATING SPACE SATELLITE TANK COMPONENTS UTILIZING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND SPIN FORMING Public/Granted day:2017-01-05
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