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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2020
Haier Us Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Michael Goodman Schroeder, Louisville, KY (US);
Amelia McDow Elliott, Knoxville, TN (US);
Ayyoub Mehdizadeh Momen, Knoxville, TN (US);
Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
UT-Battelle, LLC, Knoxville, TN (US);
Abstract
A method for additively manufacturing a microstructure from a caloric material includes providing a geometry of the microstructure to a processor of an additive manufacturing device, the geometry defining a plurality of microfeatures of the microstructure. The method also includes generating, via the processor, a three-dimensional (3D) model representative of the geometry of the microstructure, wherein one or more of the plurality of microfeatures are represented in the 3D model by a non-arcuate profile. Further, the method includes printing, via the additive manufacturing device, the microstructure from the caloric material according to the 3D model. As such, the non-arcuate profile reduces a file size of the 3D model as compared to an arcuate profile.