Harry Kenneth Shuttleworth

Title: Harry Kenneth Shuttleworth and Additive Manufacturing Process Monitoring

Introduction

Harry Kenneth Shuttleworth is an inventor associated with Huddersfield, Great Britain, and Wayland Additive Limited. His patent work addresses monitoring and influencing additive layer manufacturing, a process that builds three-dimensional articles by selectively fusing powder in successive layers.

Latest Patents

The supplied information identifies one patent for Shuttleworth: “Method of Monitoring and Influencing an Additive Layer Manufacturing Process.” The invention delivers excess powder to a work space and spreads it to form a layer in the build zone, while excess material gathers in an adjoining accumulation zone. A structured-light pattern is projected onto the accumulation and imaged from a different direction. The resulting distortion is evaluated to determine the accumulation’s volume, and those measurements are used to influence the manufacturing process. This approach provides information about powder distribution during successive build layers.

Career Highlights

Shuttleworth’s listed patent reflects work on process monitoring and control in additive manufacturing. By measuring excess powder through optical imaging, the method is designed to provide data that can help guide the manufacturing process.

Collaborations

The supplied information lists Andrew Thomas Lees as a coworker and Wayland Additive Limited as Shuttleworth’s company.

Conclusion

Harry Kenneth Shuttleworth’s identified patent focuses on using structured-light imaging to measure excess powder and inform additive layer manufacturing, connecting optical measurement with process control.