- Patent Title: Magnetic field control for magnetohydrodynamic metal manufacturing
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Application No.: US15451303Application Date: 2017-03-06
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Publication No.: US10543532B2Publication Date: 2020-01-28
- Inventor: Emanuel Michael Sachs , Mark Gardner Gibson , Richard Remo Fontana
- Applicant: Desktop Metal, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Burlington
- Assignee: Desktop Metal, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Desktop Metal, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Burlington
- Agency: Wiggin and Dana LLP
- Agent Joseph Casino; Jonathan D. Hall
- Main IPC: B22F3/115
- IPC: B22F3/115 ; B33Y30/00 ; B33Y10/00 ; B22F3/00 ; B33Y50/02 ; B05B5/025

Abstract:
Devices, systems, and methods are directed to applying magnetohydrodynamic forces to liquid metal to eject liquid metal along a controlled pattern, such as a controlled three-dimensional pattern as part of additive manufacturing of an object. Magnets used to form the magnetohydrodynamic forces are thermally managed to facilitate directing strong magnetic fields into liquid metals at high temperatures. Such strong magnetic fields can be useful for imparting, under otherwise equivalent conditions, higher magnetohydrodynamic forces to liquid metal being ejected from a nozzle to form an object.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170252826A1 MAGNETIC FIELD CONTROL FOR MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC METAL MANUFACTURING Public/Granted day:2017-09-07
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