Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-light beam energy delivery with rotating polygon for additive manufacturing
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Application No.: US15960478Application Date: 2018-04-23
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Publication No.: US10940641B2Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: Jeffrey L. Franklin , Hou T. Ng , Nag B. Patibandla
- 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: G02B5/09
- IPC: G02B5/09 ; G02B26/12 ; B29C64/268 ; B29C64/218 ; B29C64/209 ; B29C64/214 ; B29C64/277 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B29C64/153 ; B29C64/245 ; B29C64/205 ; B22F3/105

Abstract:
An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a platform, a dispenser to dispense a plurality of layers of feed material on a top surface of the platform, and an energy delivery system. The energy delivery system has one or more light sources configured to emit a first light beam and a second light beam, and one or more reflective members each having reflective facets to redirect the first light beam or the second light beam toward an uppermost layer of feed material to deliver energy to the uppermost layer. The one or more reflective members are each rotatable such that motion of each sequential facet of the reflective facets of each of the one or more reflective members sweeps the first light beam along a first path on the uppermost layer or sweeps the second light beam along a second path on the uppermost layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180339454A1 MULTI-LIGHT BEAM ENERGY DELIVERY WITH ROTATING POLYGON FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Public/Granted day:2018-11-29
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