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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2017
Covestro Deutschland Ag, Leverkusen, DE;
Dirk Achten, Leverkusen, DE;
Thomas Büsgen, Köln, DE;
Roland Wagner, Leverkusen, DE;
Bettina Mettmann, Dormagen, DE;
Levent Akbas, Witten, DE;
Julien Guiu, Düsseldorf, DE;
Covestro Deutschland AG, Leverkusen, DE;
Abstract
A method of treating at least part of a surface () of an article () in which an article () is treated, at least part of a surface () of the article having been produced by an additive manufacturing method from a construction material, and the construction material provides a temperature Tat which the storage modulus G' of the construction material (determined by dynamic-mechanical analysis according to ISO 6721 at a shear rate of 1/s) is 10 MPa. The article is preferably placed into an evacuable volume and the volume is evacuated. By heating and exerting pressure, the surface is plastically deformed and can be smoothed thereby.