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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2017
Divergent Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Antonio Bernerd Martinez, El Segundo, CA (US);
Eahab Nagi El Naga, Topanga, CA (US);
David Brian TenHouten, Los Angeles, CA (US);
John Russell Bucknell, El Segundo, CA (US);
Broc William TenHouten, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Chukwubuikem Marcel Okoli, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Thomas Samuel Bowden, Jr., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Muhammad Faizan Zafar, Long Beach, CA (US);
Divergent Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for joining nodes and subcomponents are presented herein. An additively manufactured first node or subcomponent has a groove. An additively manufactured second node or subcomponent has a tongue configured to extend into and mate with the groove to form a tongue-and-groove connection between the first and second node or subcomponent. In some aspects, the tongue-groove connection may extend substantially around a periphery of the node or subcomponent. In other aspects, a first subcomponent having a fluid pipe interface may be coupled via a tongue-groove connection to a second subcomponent having a fluid pipe interface, thereby enabling fluid to flow between subcomponents of the resulting integrated component.