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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2017
Applicant:
National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Llc, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Inventor:
David Robinson, Hayward, CA (US);
Assignee:
National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B33Y 70/00 (2020.01); B23K 26/342 (2014.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); C23F 1/02 (2006.01); B23K 103/16 (2006.01); B32B 5/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/342 (2015.10); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 70/00 (2014.12); B23K 2103/16 (2018.08); B32B 5/22 (2013.01); C23F 1/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A metal film for use by an additive manufacturing apparatus is described herein. The metal film has a support structure and metal voxels removably attached to the support structure by respective junctions. When a metal voxel in the metal film is impacted by an energy pulse from an energy source of the additive manufacturing apparatus, one or more junctions that attach the metal voxel to the support structure are broken, resulting in the metal voxel detaching from the metal film (at a desired location in a two-dimensional plane).