Additive manufacturing with heat-flexed material feeding

    公开(公告)号:US10828698B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-10

    申请号:US15831995

    申请日:2017-12-05

    Abstract: In additive manufacturing, a composite build material filament and a release material filament are dropped from respective spools to a print head. Each of the composite build material filament and the release material filament includes a metal or ceramic powder plus a binder. On the spools and over the drop height, the filaments are heated to a temperature that flexes the filaments but does not soften them to a breaking point. The drop height is of similar linear scale to the build plate. The materials are debound and sintered.

    Supports for sintering additively manufactured parts

    公开(公告)号:US10556384B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-11

    申请号:US16057730

    申请日:2018-08-07

    Abstract: A method comprising depositing, in layers, a shrinking platform formed from a composite including metal particles embedded in a first matrix, depositing shrinking supports of the composite upon the shrinking platform, forming a separation clearance dividing at least one shrinking support into fragments, depositing, from the composite, a part upon the shrinking platform and shrinking supports, depositing a separation material intervening between the part and the shrinking supports, the separation material including a ceramic powder and a second matrix, and forming, from the shrinking platform, shrinking supports, separation material, and part, a portable platform assembly in a green state, wherein the shrinking support is configured to prevent the portable platform assembly from distorting from gravitational force during sintering of the metal particles of the assembly in a brown state, and wherein the ceramic powder of the separation material is configured to separate the shrinking support from the part following sintering.

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