Title:
TAILORED PARTICLES FOR POWDER-BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2021/006916
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a plurality of powder particles configured to be joined in an additive manufacturing process to form a part, and wherein each one of the powder particles comprises a three dimensional, non-spherical shape. The non-spherical shape of each one of the plurality of powder particles may be at least one of identical in three dimensional shape, or at least partially complementary in three dimensional shape, to each other. The plurality of powder particles may further be of dimensions enabling fitting individual ones of the plurality of particles in abutting relationship with one another with substantially no voids between them.
Inventors:
WATTS SETH EVAN (US)
DUDUKOVIC NIKOLA (US)
DUOSS ERIC (US)
DUDUKOVIC NIKOLA (US)
DUOSS ERIC (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2019/041522
Publication Date:
March 11, 2021
Filing Date:
July 12, 2019
Export Citation:
Assignee:
L LIVERMORE NAT SECURITY LLC (US)
International Classes:
B22F1/06; B22F3/105; B22F1/05
Foreign References:
| US20170209963A1 | 2017-07-27 | |||
| EP3266593A1 | 2018-01-10 | |||
| US20040009089A1 | 2004-01-15 | |||
| US20150360288A1 | 2015-12-17 | |||
| US20160200045A1 | 2016-07-14 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
ELCHUK, Mark D. (US)
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