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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:
Aug. 10, 2021

Filed:

May. 29, 2018
Applicant:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

David Masayuki Ishikawa, Mountain View, CA (US);

Paul J. Steffas, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Ajey M. Joshi, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B22F 10/20 (2021.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01); B23K 26/082 (2014.01); B29C 64/393 (2017.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B29C 64/165 (2017.01); B29C 64/205 (2017.01); B22F 3/00 (2021.01); B22F 10/30 (2021.01); B29C 64/135 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B22F 10/20 (2021.01); B23K 26/082 (2015.10); B29C 64/165 (2017.08); B29C 64/205 (2017.08); B29C 64/393 (2017.08); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12); B22F 3/003 (2013.01); B22F 10/30 (2021.01); B29C 64/135 (2017.08);
Abstract

A method of additive manufacturing includes storing a plurality of predetermined cell processing recipes, dispensing a layer of a plurality of successive layers of feed material on a platform, receiving data describing an area of the layer of the feed material to fuse, determining a combination of a plurality of non-overlapping cells that substantially cover the area, and sequentially processing the plurality of cells. Each cell processing recipe includes scan path data indicating a path for an energy beam to follow, and different cell processing recipes having different paths for the energy beam. Each cell of the plurality of cells gets an associated cell processing recipe selected from the plurality of predetermined cell processing recipes. Each cell is processed by causing an energy beam to follow the first path for the cell processing recipe associated with the cell.


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