Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Grain size control in laser based additive manufacturing of metallic articles
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Application No.: US15409483Application Date: 2017-01-18
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Publication No.: US10376960B2Publication Date: 2019-08-13
- Inventor: John A. Sharon , Daniel V. Viens , Tahany Ibrahim El-Wardany , Gajawalli V. Srinivasan , Joseph J. Sangiovanni , Ranadip Acharya
- 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: Kinney & Lange, P.A.
- Main IPC: B22F5/00
- IPC: B22F5/00 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y80/00 ; B22F3/105 ; B23K26/342 ; F01D5/02 ; B22F7/06 ; B23K26/00 ; B23K26/082 ; B23K101/00 ; B23K103/18

Abstract:
An additively manufactured alloy component has a first portion formed of the alloy and having a first grain size, and a second portion formed of the alloy and having a second grain size smaller than the first grain size. In an embodiment, the alloy component is an alloy turbine disk, the first portion is a rim region of the alloy turbine disk, and the second portion is a hub region of the alloy turbine disk. The first and second grain sizes may be achieved by controllably varying the laser power and/or scan speed during additive manufacturing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180200798A1 GRAIN SIZE CONTROL IN LASER BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF METALLIC ARTICLES Public/Granted day:2018-07-19
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