Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Controlling an intensity profile of an energy beam with a deformable mirror in additive manufacturing
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Application No.: US15655229Application Date: 2017-07-20
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Publication No.: US10307822B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Hou T. Ng , Ron Naftali , Christopher G. Talbot
- Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: H04N5/74
- IPC: H04N5/74 ; B22F3/105 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B33Y50/02 ; G02B26/08 ; B29C64/135 ; B29C64/153 ; B29C64/171 ; B29C64/245

Abstract:
An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a platform, a dispenser to dispense layers of feed material on the platform, and a fusing system to direct an energy beam to fuse at least a portion of the outermost layer of feed material. The fusing system includes an energy source to emit the energy beam, a deformable mirror to receive the energy beam and reflect the energy beam, wherein a shape of the deformable mirror defines at least in part an intensity profile of the energy beam on the outermost layer of feed material, an actuator coupled to the deformable mirror, and a controller coupled to the actuator and configured to cause the actuator to deform the shape of the deformable mirror to adjust the intensity profile of the energy beam on the outermost layer of feed material in accordance to a desired profile.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180029126A1 CONTROLLING AN INTENSITY PROFILE OF AN ENERGY BEAM WITH A DEFORMABLE MIRROR IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
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