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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Justin Mamrak, Loveland, OH (US);
Mackenzie Ryan Redding, Mason, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An additive manufacturing machine () includes a plurality of subsystems, such as a condensate evacuation subsystem () for removing byproducts of the additive manufacturing products near a powder bed, a closed loop subsystem () for cleaning contaminants from sensitive machine components (), and/or an electronics cooling subsystem () for cooling an electronics compartment (). Each subsystem () may include a dedicated gas circulation loop () that is operably coupled to a gas circulation device () for urging a clean flow of gas () to each of the subsystems () to perform a particular function.