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公开(公告)号:US10888908B2
公开(公告)日:2021-01-12
申请号:US16132614
申请日:2018-09-17
Applicant: Stratasys, Inc.
Inventor: J. Samuel Batchelder , Robert L. Zinniel
Abstract: A magnetically throttled liquefier assembly for use in an additive manufacturing system and configured to heat a metal-based alloy to an extrudable state includes an array of magnets to generate a magnetic field in order to induce a viscosity in the heated metal-based alloy and to control the flow rate of the heated metal-based alloy through the liquefier for extrusion and the building of a three-dimensional object with the metal-based alloy.
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公开(公告)号:US10759107B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-01
申请号:US16389452
申请日:2019-04-19
Applicant: Stratasys, Inc.
Inventor: J. Samuel Batchelder , William J. Swanson , S. Scott Crump
IPC: B32B37/15 , D01F1/02 , D01F1/10 , B29C48/05 , B33Y70/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y40/00 , B29C69/00 , D01D5/42 , B32B38/00 , B32B38/18 , B29C48/06 , B29C48/21 , B29C48/00 , B29C48/80 , B29C48/88 , B29C64/118 , B29C48/18 , B33Y50/02 , B33Y10/00 , B32B38/04 , B29L7/00 , B29K509/00 , B29K509/08 , B29K509/04 , B29K509/02 , B29K509/10 , B29K101/12
Abstract: A consumable material for use in an extrusion-based digital manufacturing system, the consumable material comprising a length and a cross-sectional profile of at least a portion of the length that is axially asymmetric. The cross-sectional profile is configured to provide a response time with a non-cylindrical liquefier of the extrusion-based digital manufacturing system that is faster than a response time achievable with a cylindrical filament in a cylindrical liquefier for a same thermally limited, maximum volumetric flow rate.
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公开(公告)号:US10670019B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-02
申请号:US15337503
申请日:2016-10-28
Applicant: Stratasys, Inc.
Inventor: Robert L. Zinniel , J. Samuel Batchelder
IPC: F04D3/02 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y50/02 , B29C48/285 , B29C64/20 , B29C64/386 , B29C64/106 , B22F3/00 , B29C48/395 , B29C48/02
Abstract: A pump assembly for use in an additive manufacturing system includes a viscosity pump having a first end and a second end wherein the first end has a cross sectional area greater than a cross sectional area of the second end. The viscosity pump has a conical shaped inner surface defining a pump chamber, an inlet proximate the first end and an outlet proximate the second end. The viscosity pump includes an impeller having an axis of rotation, where the impeller has a shaft positioned through the first end of the first housing and into the pump chamber. The impeller includes a distal tip-end at a distal end of the shaft wherein the impeller is configured to be axially displaced within the pump chamber of the viscosity pump parallel to the axis of rotation. An actuator is coupled to a proximal end of the impeller, wherein the actuator is configured to move the impeller parallel to the axis of rotation.
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公开(公告)号:US10576693B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-03
申请号:US14887770
申请日:2015-10-20
Applicant: Stratasys, Inc.
Inventor: William J. Swanson , J. Samuel Batchelder , Kevin C. Johnson , Timothy A. Hjelsand , James W. Comb
IPC: B29C64/20 , B29C67/00 , B29C64/106 , B29C41/52 , B33Y30/00
Abstract: A print head assembly that includes a print head carriage and multiple, replaceable print heads that are configured to be removably retained in receptacles of the print head carriage. The print heads each include a cartridge assembly and a liquefier pump assembly retained by the cartridge assembly.
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公开(公告)号:US10471702B2
公开(公告)日:2019-11-12
申请号:US15376050
申请日:2016-12-12
Applicant: Stratasys, Inc.
Inventor: Paul J. Leavitt , J. Samuel Batchelder
IPC: B33Y70/00 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y50/02 , B29C64/118 , B29K279/00 , B29C64/386
Abstract: A method of additive three-dimensional object production includes depositing liquefied material to produce two roads and placing an extruder tip having a bottom surface that surrounds an orifice such that one portion of the bottom surface is sealed against one of the two roads and another part of the bottom surface is sealed against the other of the two roads and the orifice is positioned over a space between the two roads. Liquefied material is then extruded through the orifice to fill the space between the two roads.
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公开(公告)号:US10471631B2
公开(公告)日:2019-11-12
申请号:US15378767
申请日:2016-12-14
Applicant: Stratasys, Inc.
Inventor: J. Samuel Batchelder
IPC: B29C33/52 , B29C31/04 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y50/02 , B29C64/112 , B29C64/386 , B29C64/40 , B29L31/00
Abstract: A method to form a part in an additive manufacturing system includes providing a melt pool configured to retain and dispense an electrically resistive consumable material and an array of channels in fluid communication with the melt pool. The method includes providing an array of channels in fluid communication with the melt pool, where each of the array of channels have a hollow electrically conductive nozzles wherein each of the array of nozzles is coupled to a distal end of one of the array of channels such that the consumable material can flow from the melt pool to each of the nozzles. The method includes providing a grid spaced from of the array of nozzle array wherein the grid defines a uniform ground potential, wherein the ground potential of the grid is substantially the same as a potential of the part being printed and the consumable material spaced from the grid. A plurality of drivers is in electric communication with the array of nozzles wherein each of the drivers is configured to modulate a voltage of a single nozzle of the array of nozzles wherein a difference in voltage from the array of nozzles to the ground potential allows passage of droplets of the consumable material to be ejected from each nozzle and pass through the grid, whereby electrostatic distortions of a drop from each nozzle selectively launches drops of support in response to changes of the potential of a nozzle by its driver such that consumable material is deposited in a layer by layer manner to form a portion of a mold for a part. The method includes depositing molten part material within the mold.
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公开(公告)号:US10226916B2
公开(公告)日:2019-03-12
申请号:US15403805
申请日:2017-01-11
Applicant: Stratasys, Inc.
Inventor: David M. Kozlak , Steven A. Chillscyzn , J. Samuel Batchelder
IPC: B29C33/44 , B29C33/52 , B29C41/20 , B29C70/70 , B33Y10/00 , G06K19/07 , B29C64/112 , B29C64/188 , B29C64/118 , B29C64/153 , B29C64/129 , B29C64/135 , G06K17/00 , B33Y40/00 , B33Y50/00 , G06K7/10 , B29C64/106 , B29C64/124 , B29C64/386 , B29C64/40 , B29C64/35 , B29C70/68
Abstract: A method for building a three-dimensional object containing an identification-tag insert, the method comprising performing a build operation to form layers of the three-dimensional object using a layer-based additive technique, placing the identification-tag insert on at least a portion of the layers during the build operation, and reading information from the identification-tag insert.
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公开(公告)号:US20180370155A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-27
申请号:US15630781
申请日:2017-06-22
Applicant: Stratasys, Inc.
Inventor: Blake Zachary Courter , Zeiter Farah , Steven A. Chillscyzn , J. Samuel Batchelder
Abstract: A method of printing a part using an additive manufacturing system includes identifying a part or parts to print and orienting a digital representation of the part(s) in a build volume. A digital representation of porous support structures for the part(s) is generated to form a digital representation of a part block of the part(s) to be printed. In the part block, a porosity of the support structure increases as a distance from an outer surface of the part increases within the print volume. The digital representation of the part block, including the part(s) and porous support structures, is sliced for printing.
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公开(公告)号:US20180029300A1
公开(公告)日:2018-02-01
申请号:US15714871
申请日:2017-09-25
Applicant: Stratasys, Inc.
Inventor: J. Samuel Batchelder
IPC: B29C64/393 , B33Y50/02 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B29C64/153 , B29C64/264
CPC classification number: B29C64/393 , B29C64/106 , B29C64/153 , B29C64/264 , B29C64/386 , B29K2105/251 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y50/02 , G03G15/1625 , G03G15/224 , G03G15/225 , G03G15/5062
Abstract: A method for printing a three-dimensional part with an additive manufacturing system includes providing a bitslice stack having a plurality of bitslices and printing a plurality of successive layers of the three-dimensional part with the additive manufacturing system based on the bitslices in the bitslice stack. The method includes measuring density of the three-dimensional part under construction near an intermediate build surface after one or more of the successive layers are printed. The method includes determining differences across the intermediate build surface of the measured density to a targeted density to identify one or more density error regions across the intermediate build surface, wherein the density error regions comprise low density regions, and modifying the bitslice stack to compensate for the one or more density error regions.
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公开(公告)号:US09868255B2
公开(公告)日:2018-01-16
申请号:US14218102
申请日:2014-03-18
Applicant: Stratasys, Inc.
Inventor: James W. Comb , J. Samuel Batchelder
CPC classification number: B29C64/153 , B29C64/141 , B29C64/147 , G03G15/224
Abstract: A method and system for printing a three-dimensional part, which includes producing a developed layer of a part material with one or more electrophotography engines of an additive manufacturing system, transferring the developed layer from the one or more electrophotography engines to a transfer assembly of the additive manufacturing system sintering the developed layer at the transfer assembly to produce a sintered contiguous film, cooling the sintered contiguous film down to a transfer temperature, and pressing the cooled sintered contiguous film into contact with an intermediate build surface of the three-dimensional part with a low applied pressure.
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