In Motion Technologies Pty., Ltd.

In Motion Technologies

Effusiontech Pty Ltd

Lyell Embery

Steven Peter Camilleri

Dean James Patterson

Byron John Kennedy

Toby Jarrett

An apparatus for forming 3D objects from metallic powder, includes a delivery mechanism adapted to emit a flow of metallic powder at sufficiently high velocity to enable it to form a solid mass on a substrate; and a positioning mechanism adapted to set or adjust the distance and/or angle between the delivery mechanism and the substrate as powder builds up on the substrate. A control system is adapted to receive measured geometry data representing the state of the object as it builds and to control adjustment of the positioning means in response to that data for accurate formation of the object.

Apparatus for forming 3D objects

The present invention provides a method and machine for producing a slotted wound core (). The machine includes a punch arrangement () arranged to punch apertures in a length of material (), a mandrel () for receiving the punched material, a control means and a mandrel indexing means. The positioning of the punch arrangement () and the mandrel () is fixed and the mandrel () is arranged to be rotated by the mandrel indexing means after each operation of the punch arrangement so that a roll of punched material is formed on the mandrel (). The mandrel () is rotated by an amount (&ggr;) determined by the control means. The control means determines the indexed amount so that selected apertures punched in the length of material align with one another when the material () is rolled onto the mandrel () so that the aligned apertures form respective slots () of a desired configuration in the core ().

Automated manufacturing machine

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Northern Territory, Australia

Lyell Embery