Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Setter assembly for additive manufacturing
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Application No.: US16891294Application Date: 2020-06-03
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Publication No.: US11000900B2Publication Date: 2021-05-11
- Inventor: Ananda Barua , Sathyanarayanan Raghavan , Ken Salas Nobrega , Vadim Bromberg , Arunkumar Natarajan
- 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: B33Y10/00
- IPC: B33Y10/00 ; B29C64/379 ; B29C64/165 ; B28B1/00 ; B22F10/00 ; B33Y40/00 ; B33Y80/00 ; C04B35/622 ; C04B35/634 ; C04B35/638 ; C04B35/64

Abstract:
A method includes assembling a setter assembly onto a binder-jet printed part, wherein the setter assembly includes a base, a top setter, a bottom setter positioned between the base and the top setter, and a support pin extending between the base and the top setter having a terminus that abuts an inward facing surface of the top setter, such that at least portion of the binder-jet printed part is nested between the top setter and the bottom setter. The method includes heating the binder-jet printed part and the setter assembly to debind or sinter the binder-jet printed part, wherein a length of the support pin decreases in response to the heating to move the top setter toward the base.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200290120A1 SETTER ASSEMBLY FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Public/Granted day:2020-09-17
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