Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Additive manufactured conglomerated powder removal from internal passages
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Application No.: US14946874Application Date: 2015-11-20
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Publication No.: US10232414B2Publication Date: 2019-03-19
- Inventor: Joe Ott , Wendell V Twelves, Jr. , Lexia Kironn , Evan Butcher
- Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CT Farmington
- Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Farmington
- Agency: Bachman & LaPointe, P.C.
- Main IPC: B08B7/00
- IPC: B08B7/00 ; B23K26/146 ; B08B9/043 ; B22F3/105 ; B22F3/24 ; B22F5/10 ; B33Y80/00 ; B29C64/35 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y40/00 ; B29L23/00
Abstract:
A tool includes a head that extends form the flexible section, an emitter within the head; and a nozzle to eject a cooling fluid therefrom. A method of additively manufacturing a component including delivering series of thermal shocks to a conglomerated powder within an internal passage of an additively manufactured component to facilitate removal of the conglomerated powder.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170144381A1 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED CONGLOMERATED POWDER REMOVAL FROM INTERNAL PASSAGES Public/Granted day:2017-05-25
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