General Electric Company

Theodore Anderson

Todd Jay Rockstroh

Zachary David Fieldman

David Richard Barnhart

Mark Richard Shaw

Ronald Redden

Gregory Muster Morris

Nicholas Joseph Kray

Nitesh Jain

Mary Kathryn Thompson

Apostolos Pavlos Karafillis

Michael Edward Eriksen

Travis Gene Sands

Joel Francis Kirk

Kishore Budumuru

Deepak Ghiya

Edward Atwood Rainous

Thomas Chadwick Waldman

Sreekanth Kumar Dorbala

Mojibur Rahman

Veeraraju V

Light weight fan casing configurations for energy absorption are disclosed herein. An apparatus includes a first set of metal bands positioned within a containment casing of a turbofan engine, and a second set of metal bands traversing the first set of metal bands, the first set of metal bands and the second set of metal bands to surround at least a portion of the turbofan engine.

Light weight fan casing configurations for energy absorption

The present disclosure generally relates to additive manufacturing systems and methods involving a mechanism for feeding in a desired amount of fresh recoater blade. This can be accomplished by, for example, spooling the fresh blade material from a spool. This helps prevent work stoppage when a portion of a recoater blade becomes damaged. As such, the present disclosure also relates to a system and method for detecting whether a recoater blade is damaged, and if there is damage, then causing a fresh blade portion to be fed in.

Apparatuses for continuously refreshing a recoater blade for additive manufacturing including a blade feed unit and arm portion

A method for producing a component layer-by-layer. The method includes the steps of: depositing particulate material to form a layer of particulate material having a first area over a build platform; applying at least one exothermic material over the build platform so that a selected portion of the first area is uniformly coated with the exothermic material; selectively sintering a second area of the layer smaller than the selected portion of first area, using an application of radiant energy to trigger an exothermic reaction in the at least one exothermic material, in a specific pattern that defines the geometry of a cross-sectional layer of the component; and repeating the steps of depositing, applying, and sintering for a plurality of layers until the component is complete.

Selective sintering additive manufacturing method

An additive manufacturing apparatus includes: a build module comprising a build chamber, and a least one of but less than all of the following elements: (a) a directed energy source; (b) a powder supply; (c) a powder recovery container; and (d) a powder applicator; and a workstation comprising the remainder of elements (a)-(d) not included in the build module.

Apparatus and methods for production additive manufacturing

Method and apparatus for continuously refreshing a recoater blade for additive manufacturing

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Theodore Anderson