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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2021
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David A Mantell, Rochester, NY (US);
Christopher T. Chungbin, Rochester, NY (US);
Daniel Cormier, Pittsford, NY (US);
David G. Tilley, Williamson, NY (US);
Walter Hsiao, San Mateo, CA (US);
PriyaankaDevi Guggilapu, Webster, NY (US);
Michael F. Dapiran, Webster, NY (US);
Dinesh Krishna Kumar Jayabal, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A three-dimensional (3D) metal object manufacturing apparatus is operated to form sloping surfaces having a slope angle of more than 45° from a line that is perpendicular to the structure on which the layer forming the slope surface is formed. The angle corresponds to a step-out distance from the perpendicular line and a maximum individual step-out distance determined from empirically derived data. Multiple passes of an ejection head of the apparatus can be performed within a layer to form a sloped edge and the mass of the sloped structure is distributed within the sloped edge so the edge is formed without defects.