Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Additive manufacturing with a polygon scanner
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Application No.: US17256628Application Date: 2019-05-09
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Publication No.: US11518100B2Publication Date: 2022-12-06
- Inventor: Wei-Sheng Lei , Mahendran Chidambaram , Visweswaren Sivaramakrishnan , Kashif Maqsood
- 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.
- International Application: PCT/US2019/031534 WO 20190509
- International Announcement: WO2019/217690 WO 20191114
- Main IPC: B29C67/00
- IPC: B29C67/00 ; B29C64/268 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B33Y50/02 ; B23K26/082 ; B23K26/342 ; B23K26/70 ; B29C64/153 ; B29C64/393 ; B22F12/49 ; B22F12/41 ; B22F10/28 ; B22F10/366 ; B23K26/06 ; B28B1/00 ; B28B17/00

Abstract:
An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a platform, a dispenser configured to deliver a plurality of successive layers of feed material onto the platform, at least one light source configured to generate a first light beam and a second light beam, a polygon mirror scanner, an actuator, and a galvo mirror scanner. The polygon mirror scanner is configured to receive the first light beam and reflect the first light beam towards the platform. Rotation of the first polygon mirror causes the light beam to move in a first direction along a path on a layer of feed material on the platform. The actuator is configured to cause the path to move along a second direction at a non-zero angle relative to the first direction. The galvo mirror scanner system is configured to receive the second light beam and reflect the second light beam toward the platform.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210260826A1 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WITH A POLYGON SCANNER Public/Granted day:2021-08-26
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