General Electric Company

Kamala Chakravarthy Raghavan

Ertugrul Berkcan

Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov

Karim Younsi

Laura Cerully Dial

Sachin Narahari Dekate

Mark Gerard Adamiak

Meisam Salahshoor Pirsoltan

A control system for use in an additive manufacturing system. A recoating device is configured to distribute powder for forming a component and a recoating motor is configured to move at least one of the powder bed and the recoating device relative to each other. The control system includes at least one vibration sensor configured to collect vibration data, a torque sensor coupled to the recoating motor and configured to collect the torque output data, and an optical sensor configured to collect reflected light data. The control system includes a controller configured to receive the vibration data, receive the torque output data, and receive the reflected light data, the controller further configured to determine at least one powder bed characteristic based on at least one of the data, and control at least one recoating parameter of the recoating device based on the at least one determined powder bed characteristic.

Systems and methods for additive manufacturing recoating

A monitoring system includes a capacitor can having one or more capacitors. The monitoring system includes an antenna. The monitoring system includes at least one sensor disposed within the capacitor can and configured to detect an operating characteristic associated with health of the one or more capacitors of the capacitor can. The monitoring system includes a processor configured to receive a first signal from the at least one sensor indicative of the operating characteristic. The processor is configured to send a second signal, via the antenna, indicative of a value of the operating characteristic to a receiving device outside of the capacitor can.

Passive wireless monitoring of individual capacitor cans

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Glenville, NY, United States of America

Kamala Chakravarthy Raghavan