Wijnand Christiaan Germs

Title: Wijnand Christiaan Germs and Additive Manufacturing

Introduction

Wijnand Christiaan Germs is an inventor associated with Gorinchem, the Netherlands, and Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO. His patent work addresses additive manufacturing, with a method designed to improve the formation of objects made from different building materials.

Latest Patents

Germs is associated with 1 patent, titled “Method of Apparatus for Forming an Object by Means of Additive Manufacturing.” The invention describes consecutively providing layers of building material and selectively curing pixels in each layer with radiation. It identifies contour pixels in a first layer that align with a featured region in a subsequent layer made from a different material. Before exposure, the method increases the radiation dose for those contour pixels, then exposes them using the increased dose. This approach is intended to support the formation of objects with regions made from different materials.

Career Highlights

Germs’s listed patent reflects work on layer-based manufacturing processes and the coordination of material boundaries during printing. His professional association with TNO connects this work to an organization focused on applied scientific research.

Collaborations

Herman Hendrikus Maalderink and Fabien Bernard Jacques Bruning are identified as Germs’s coworkers. Their names are provided as professional associations, though specific roles in the patent are not stated.

Conclusion

Wijnand Christiaan Germs’s patent focuses on adjusting radiation exposure at material boundaries in additive manufacturing, highlighting a practical approach to forming objects from multiple building materials.