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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.

Patent No.:

US 11904409 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024

Filed:

Apr. 21, 2020

System and method for determining additive manufacturing beam parameters

Applicant:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

Eric M. Chapman, Bonney Law, WA (US);

Dana A. Henshaw, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorneys:

The Small Patent Law Group LLC

Philip S. Hof

Primary Examiner:

Tu B Hoang

Assistant Examiner:

Erwin J Wunderlich

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/342 (2014.01); B29C 64/153 (2017.01); B29C 64/393 (2017.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01); B22F 10/36 (2021.01); B22F 10/28 (2021.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B33Y 50/00 (2015.01); B29C 64/268 (2017.01); B23K 26/064 (2014.01); B23K 26/04 (2014.01); B23K 26/06 (2014.01); B23K 26/08 (2014.01); B22F 10/38 (2021.01); B22F 10/80 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/342 (2015.10); B22F 10/28 (2021.01); B22F 10/36 (2021.01); B22F 10/38 (2021.01); B22F 10/80 (2021.01); B23K 26/04 (2013.01); B23K 26/06 (2013.01); B23K 26/064 (2015.10); B23K 26/08 (2013.01); B29C 64/153 (2017.08); B29C 64/393 (2017.08); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12); B29C 64/268 (2017.08); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B33Y 50/00 (2014.12);
Abstract

Additive manufacturing system includes one or more processors configured to determine one or more geometrical characteristics of each of multiple segments of a build part at a candidate position of the build part relative to an additive manufacturing instrument. The geometrical characteristics include an angle of incidence between a beam line extending from a beam emitter and a surface normal of a respective skin of the corresponding segment proximate to the beam line. The one or more processors select, based on the determined geometrical characteristics, a first set of beam parameters for forming a first segment of the build part and a second set of beam parameters for forming a second segment of the build part. At least one of the beam parameters in the second set differs from the beam parameters in the first set.

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