- Patent Title: Additive manufacturing apparatus and method for large components
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Application No.: US14744982Application Date: 2015-06-19
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Publication No.: US10449606B2Publication Date: 2019-10-22
- Inventor: Gregory Muster Morris , Guenter Helmut Wilfert , Todd Jay Rockstroh
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- Main IPC: B22F3/00
- IPC: B22F3/00 ; B22F3/105 ; B33Y30/00 ; B33Y10/00 ; B23K26/342 ; B23K15/00 ; B29C64/153 ; B29C64/20

Abstract:
An additive manufacturing apparatus includes: first and second spaced apart side walls extending along a pre-defined path and defining a build chamber therebetween; one or more build units mounted for movement along the pre-defined path, the one or more build units including at least one of: a powder dispenser positioned above the build chamber; an applicator configured to scrape powder dispensed into the build chamber; and a directed energy source configured to fuse the scraped powder.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160368050A1 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LARGE COMPONENTS Public/Granted day:2016-12-22
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