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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:
Sep. 19, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2018
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);

Inventors:

Kristopher J. Erickson, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Anthony McLennan, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Lihua Zhao, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 64/106 (2017.01); B29C 64/264 (2017.01); B29C 64/188 (2017.01); B22F 12/13 (2021.01); B22F 12/30 (2021.01); B22F 10/64 (2021.01); B22F 1/054 (2022.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B33Y 40/20 (2020.01); B22F 10/25 (2021.01); B22F 10/28 (2021.01); B22F 10/39 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 64/106 (2017.08); B22F 1/054 (2022.01); B22F 10/64 (2021.01); B22F 12/13 (2021.01); B22F 12/30 (2021.01); B29C 64/188 (2017.08); B29C 64/264 (2017.08); B22F 10/25 (2021.01); B22F 10/28 (2021.01); B22F 10/39 (2021.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B33Y 40/20 (2020.01);
Abstract

An example system includes a three-dimensional (3D) printer to generate a 3D object and a surface feature formation arrangement to receive the 3D object. The 3D object has at least one surface with a layer of at least partly uncured material. The surface feature formation arrangement includes a controller and a heat source. The controller is to operate the heat source to selectively apply heat to the at least one surface of the 3D object. The heat from the heat source is to transform the at least partly uncured material to form a selected feature on the at least one surface.


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