Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Pol Morral

Fernando Juan

Pau Martin Vidal

Joaquim Brugue Garvi

Ricardo Sanchis Estruch

Sergi Culubret

Daniel Gonzalez Perello

Esteve Comas

Lluis Hierro

Pablo Dominguez Pastor

Gerard Mosquera

Jordi Gimenez Manent

Marcel Llorach

In one example, an apparatus includes a carriage to carry a payload through a manufacturing space at the urging of control elements in a control space and a belt movable with the carriage to block contaminants in the manufacturing space from passing to the control space along a carriage travel path.

Contaminant barrier

A build platform () for a printing station is described comprising a trolley () and a print bucket (). The print bucket may be mounted on the trolley and may comprise coupling elements (A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B), respectively engageable to receiving elements (A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B) of the printing station (). The coupling elements may cause the print bucket to at least partially disengage from the trolley when the coupling elements engage with the receiving elements of the printing station.

Mounting print buckets on printing stations

A removable build module to connect to a host apparatus, may include a build platform to support an object-to-be-built, a drive unit to move the build platform, a memory to receive and store build parameters, and an interface circuit to communicate the build parameters to the host apparatus.

Removable 3D build module comprising a memory

Printing stations to receive build units are disclosed. The printing stations may comprise a first wall comprising two fixed receiving ports to engage with two fixed mounting elements of the build units, respectively, and a second wall comprising a third fixed receiving port to engage with a third fixed mounting element of the build units, and a calibration receiving port to be coupled to a fourth fixed mounting element when the build unit is inserted into the printing station.

Calibrating printing stations

An assembly of a large format media handling system comprises a planar cross structure, and a support structure, the support structure including two side supports, wherein the two side supports extend perpendicularly to the cross structure and are connected to the cross structure at respective side edges of the side supports. A tensioning component is associated with each of the side supports, wherein the tensioning component transmits a tensioning force between the cross structure and the side edges of the side supports in a direction parallel to the side supports.

Media handling system assembly

An assembly of a large format media handling system, including a planar longitudinal cross structure; and a support structure, the support structure including two side supports comprising a number of fixed references and at least one adjustable reference, wherein the side supports are supported by the longitudinal cross structure at said references; wherein the at least one adjustable reference is formed by a wedge element slidably attached to the support structure; and the side supports are fixed to the planar longitudinal cross structure wherein the cross structure is in contact with all of the references.

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