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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2016
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hou T. Ng, Campbell, CA (US);
Nag B. Patibandla, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Ajey M. Joshi, San Jose, CA (US);
Bharath Swaminathan, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashavani Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Eric Ng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bernard Frey, Livermore, CA (US);
Kasiraman Krishnan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Additive manufacturing of an object includes dispensing a plurality of successive layers of powder over a top surface of a platform, fusing an object region in each of the plurality of successive layers to form the object, and fusing a brace region in a particular layer from the plurality of layers to form a brace structure to inhibit lateral motion of the powder. The brace structure is spaced apart from the particular object region by a gap of unfused powder.