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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2017
Applicant:

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

William Yerazunis, Acton, MA (US);

Avishai Weiss, Cambridge, MA (US);

Bingnan Wang, Belmont, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B64G 1/10 (2006.01); B29C 64/106 (2017.01); B29C 64/386 (2017.01); B29C 64/20 (2017.01); B29C 64/118 (2017.01); B64G 99/00 (2009.01); B33Y 40/00 (2020.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01); B22F 3/105 (2006.01); B29L 31/30 (2006.01); C22C 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B29C 64/106 (2017.08); B29C 64/118 (2017.08); B29C 64/20 (2017.08); B29C 64/386 (2017.08); B33Y 40/00 (2014.12); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12); B64G 1/10 (2013.01); B64G 9/00 (2013.01); B22F 3/1055 (2013.01); B22F 2003/1056 (2013.01); B29L 2031/3097 (2013.01); C22C 1/0416 (2013.01);
Abstract

Spacecraft including a spacecraft bus. An additive manufacturing system of the spacecraft bus including at least one extruder for delivering feedstock to print an object outside of the spacecraft bus. A sensor for determining a pose of the spacecraft bus relative to an astronomical body. At least one processor in communication with the additive manufacturing system and the sensor, controls an operation of the additive manufacturing system as a function of the pose of the spacecraft bus, to manufacture the object outside of the spacecraft bus.


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