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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2012
Applicant:
Gerald J. Bruck, Oviedo, FL (US);
Inventor:
Gerald J. Bruck, Oviedo, FL (US);
Assignee:
SIEMENS ENERGY, INC., Orlando, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 5/00 (2006.01); B23K 26/34 (2014.01); B23K 26/32 (2014.01); B23K 26/342 (2014.01); B23K 103/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 5/005 (2013.01); B23K 26/32 (2013.01); B23K 26/34 (2013.01); B23K 26/342 (2015.10); B23K 2103/50 (2018.08); F05D 2230/31 (2013.01); F05D 2300/606 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for epitaxial addition of repair material onto a process surface () of a directionally solidified component (). The component is positioned in a fluidized bed () to drift particles of a repair material over the process surface as laser energy () is rastered across the surface to melt the particles and to fuse repair material onto the entire surface simultaneously. The component is moved downward () in the bed in a direction parallel to the grain orientation in the component as material is added to the surface, thereby providing continuous epitaxial addition of material to the surface without recrystallization.