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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2021
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Eric M. Chapman, Lake Tapps, WA (US);
Cory C. Cunningham, Auburn, WA (US);
Troy A. Haworth, Snohomish, WA (US);
Dana Alexander Henshaw, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew Thomas Hollinger, Issaquah, WA (US);
Ashley Marie Jones, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin Michael Mejia, Sammamish, WA (US);
Christopher Perez, Bothell, WA (US);
Russell William Waymire, Gig Harbor, WA (US);
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of configuring an additive-manufacturing machine comprises a chamber, a platform, movable inside the chamber and comprising a build-plane surface, and a laser, having a laser focal plane within the chamber. The method comprising steps of flowing a gas within the chamber in accordance with a first set of process parameters and identifying a value of a flow characteristic of the gas at a predetermined point in the laser focal plane while flowing the gas within the chamber in accordance with the first set of process parameters. The method also comprises additively manufacturing a test coupon using the laser while flowing the gas within the chamber in accordance with the first set of process parameters, wherein the test coupon has a test-coupon peripheral surface.