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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2018
Desktop Metal, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Ricardo Fulop, Lexington, MA (US);
Alexander Nicholas LeGendre, Boston, MA (US);
Jonah Samuel Myerberg, Lexington, MA (US);
Charles Edward Martin, Freedom, NH (US);
Justin Cumming, Topsfield, MA (US);
Robert Michael Shydo, Jr., Pelham, NH (US);
George Hudelson, Billerica, MA (US);
Jamison Go, Orlando, FL (US);
Andrew E. Kuklinski, Arlington, MA (US);
Michael Daniel Santorella, Boston, MA (US);
Desktop Metal, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
A build box associated with a powder bed fabrication system may comprise a housing defining a housing cavity, and a powder print bed disposed within the housing cavity. The powder print bed may be characterized by state information. The build box may further comprise a medium configured to facilitate access to the state information, and a coupling interface for removably engaging the build box with at least one subsystem of the powder bed fabrication system. The state information may comprise one or more state information elements of object identification, object location, current processing state, next subsystem processing step, previous subsystem processing step, object model information, object material composition, and current powder print bed temperature profile. The medium may comprise a memory device coupled with a transceiver. The medium may alternatively comprise an RFID device, or an optically perceivable designator, such as a bar code or QR code.