Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for channel formation in binder jet printing
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Application No.: US15436344Application Date: 2017-02-17
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Publication No.: US10343214B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Arunkumar Natarajan , Carlos Bonilla Gonzalez , Vadim Bromberg , Jeffrey Jon Schoonover , Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam , Prabhjot Singh , Kwok Pong Chan
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Niskayuna
- Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Current Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Niskayuna
- Agency: Fletcher Yoder, P.C.
- Main IPC: B22F3/105
- IPC: B22F3/105 ; B22F3/10 ; B28B1/00 ; B33Y10/00 ; B22F3/00 ; B28B11/24 ; B29C64/153 ; B29C64/40 ; B33Y40/00 ; B29L31/00 ; B29K505/08 ; B29K509/02

Abstract:
A method of binder jet printing a part includes depositing a layer of a powder on a working surface and selectively printing a binder solution comprising a binder into the layer of powder in a first pattern to generate a printed layer. The pattern is representative of a structure of a layer of the part. The method also includes selectively printing a channel support agent solution comprising a channel support agent into the layer of powder to generate a green body. The channel support agent is selectively printed in a second pattern representative of an internal channel of the part. The method further includes heating the green body part above a first temperature to remove the binder and generate a brown body part and heating the brown body part above a second temperature to sinter the powder to generate the part having the internal channel generated from removal of the channel support agent.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180236731A1 METHOD FOR CHANNEL FORMATION IN BINDER JET PRINTING Public/Granted day:2018-08-23
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