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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.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2013
Applicant:
Xactiv Inc., Fairport, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Xactiv, Inc., Fairport, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D 1/06 (2006.01); B05C 5/02 (2006.01); B05D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D 1/007 (2013.01); B05C 5/0254 (2013.01);
Abstract
An object fabricating apparatus is comprised of at least one charged powder cloud generating system, at least one electrode proximate to the powder cloud generating system and comprising at least one shaped slot, and a voltage supply in communication with each electrode to electrostatically modulate the flow of charged powder to a conductive substrate electrically biased to provide an electrostatic attraction of the charged powder to the substrate. An object fabricating method is also disclosed that uses the object fabricating apparatus.