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Torsten Kuntoff

Daniel Brueck

Karsten Huebinger

Naveed Iqbal

Peter Koerner

Bernd Mueller

Daniel Brück

Hendrik Jargstorf

Zhuo Peng

Soenke Weiss

A process chamber housing for an additive manufacturing apparatus comprising a process chamber with a bottom, a ceiling, and sidewalls jointly enclosing a volume of the process chamber, with a gas inlet in a front wall and a gas outlet in a rear wall of the sidewalls. The gas inlet and outlet are positioned at opposite sides of an opening in the bottom and face each other, which allows for an improved removal of smoke out of the process chamber if the gas inlet has a width w, the opening has a width w, and the gas outlet has a width w, such that at least one of the relations (i) w&#x2265;w&#xb1;4 cm and w&#x2265;w&#xb1;4 cm; (ii) w&#x2265;wand/or w&#x2265;w; and (iii) w&#x2265;w+1 cm and/or w&#x2265;w+1 cm is satisfied.

Additive manufacturing apparatus and method for operating the apparatus

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Lübeck, Germany

Torsten Kuntoff