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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2024
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Hojjat Nasr, West Chester, OH (US);
Jinjie Shi, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Christopher Michael Bryant, Harrison, OH (US);
Jay Matthew Lang, Martins Ferry, OH (US);
Valeria Stoughton, Blue Ash, OH (US);
Glen Charles Fedyk, Fairfield, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A powder removal apparatus includes an extraction housing comprising a sidewall that is sized and configured to extend around a powder bed of a build module and a top wall that is sized and configured to extend between opposite sides of the sidewall and over the powder bed. The sidewall and top wall are configured to form a chamber portion of a turbulence chamber. The top wall has a vacuum exit opening that is configured to fluidly connect to a vacuum source. The sidewall has a plurality of sidewall inlet flow channels that extend from an inlet opening at an exterior side of the sidewall to an outlet opening at an interior side of the sidewall. A side exit channel is configured to extend along the top wall from a collector opening in communication with the chamber portion toward the vacuum exit opening.