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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2022
Applicant:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/342 (2014.01); B23K 26/14 (2014.01); B23K 26/146 (2014.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/342 (2015.10); B23K 26/1462 (2015.10); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12);
Abstract
An additive manufacturing apparatus including: a wire nozzle that feeds a wirelike material onto a workpiece; and a machining head that irradiates the material fed onto the workpiece with a laser beam, and jets shielding gas from a supply source of the shielding gas. The machining head includes: a pipeline having a cylindrical shape and extending in a traveling direction of the laser beam, the laser beam being passed through the pipeline; and a gas supply port from which the shielding gas from the supply source is supplied to the pipeline.