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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Subhrajit Roychowdhury, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Brian McCarthy, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Michael Tucker, Niskayuna, NY (US);
David C Bogdan, Jr., Charlton, NY (US);
Michael Evans Graham, Slingerlands, NY (US);
William Carter, Galway, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments facilitate creation of an industrial asset item via a rotary additive manufacturing process. For example, a build plate may rotate about a vertical axis and move, relative to a print arm, along the vertical axis during printing. An industrial asset item definition data store may contain at least one electronic record defining the industrial asset item. A frame creation computer processor may slice the data defining the industrial asset item to create a series of two-dimensional, locally linear frames helically arranged as a spiral staircase of steps (and each step may be oriented normal to the vertical axis. Indications of the series of two-dimensional frames may then be output to be provided to a rotary three-dimensional printer.