General Electric Company

Adnan Bobar

Jan Vladimir Schwerdtfeger

Archie Lee Swanner, Jr

Juan Vicente Haro Gonzalez

Danijel Medved

Juan Vicente Haro

Malte Oliver Schinkel

An additive manufacturing apparatus includes an energy beam source adapted to emit an energy beam, and a component building area including a base extendable between and vertically movable relative to opposed walls. The component building area includes a platform supported by the base and extendable between the walls, the platform having a layer onto which powdered material is applied, the powdered material being melted or sintered by the energy beam to form a component. The component building area includes an articulation device for rotating the platform about a horizontal axis, and a powder recovery arrangement. The apparatus includes subsequent to formation of the component, the articulation device rotating the platform about the horizontal axis for collecting loose powder by the powder recovery arrangement by virtue of gravity.

Additive manufacturing apparatus

Build plates for additive manufacturing systems are disclosed. The build plates of the additive manufacturing systems may include a body including a build surface, and a bottom surface positioned opposite the build surface. The build plates may also include a first conduit formed through the body and extending between the build surface and the bottom surface. The first conduit may be configured to be in fluid communication with a first aperture formed through a surface of a first component that may be built on the build surface of the body of the build plates.

Build plates including conduits for additive manufacturing systems and methods of building components on build plates

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Birr, Switzerland

Adnan Bobar