Invention Application
- Patent Title: SELECTIVELY MELT MICRON-SIZED PARTICLES USING MICRO-MIRRORS
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Application No.: US16606084Application Date: 2018-07-31
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Publication No.: US20210331252A1Publication Date: 2021-10-28
- Inventor: Seongsik Chang , Krzysztof Nauka , Alejandro Manuel De Pena , Lihua Zhao
- Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US TX Spring
- Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Current Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Spring
- International Application: PCT/US18/44653 WO 20180731
- Main IPC: B22F12/43
- IPC: B22F12/43 ; B22F10/28 ; B22F10/36 ; B28B1/00 ; B28B17/00 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B33Y50/02 ; B23K26/06

Abstract:
According to examples, an apparatus may include an array of micro-mirrors, each of the micro-mirrors being individually controllable to selectively be in a first position or a second position, and a light source to direct a pulse of light onto the array of micro-mirrors with sufficient intensity to cause micron-sized particles on a powder bed upon which the light is directed from the array of micro-mirrors to at least partially melt. Each of the micro-mirrors that is in the first position may reflect light onto a respective area on a layer of micron-sized particles to at least partially melt the micron-sized particles in the respective area and each of the micro-mirrors that is in the second position may reflect light away from the powder bed on which the micron-sized particles are supported.
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