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US 10,307,817 B2Granted
Additively manufactured casting articles for manufacturing gas turbine engine parts
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsThomas N. Slavens, Mark F. Zelesky, JinQuan Xu, Joel H. Wagner
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Abstract
A casting article according to another exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a circuit forming portion including an interior channel and an outer shell body that surrounds the interior channel. An engineered failure feature is formed in the outer shell body and is configured to increase compressibility of the casting article during a casting process.
Claims13
A casting article, comprising:
- a circuit forming portion including an interior channel and an outer shell body that surrounds said interior channel;
- and
- at least one porous area formed in said outer shell body at a portion of said outer shell body surrounding said interior channel and having a first density that is less than a second density of a second portion of said outer shell body and configured to increase compressibility of the casting article during a casting process, wherein the at least one porous area is configured to deflect, crush, or collapse at a preferred location during solidification of a molten metal encapsulating the casting article.
A casting article, comprising:
- a circuit forming portion including a plurality of interior channels establishing a leaching path through said circuit forming portion and an outer shell body that surrounds one of said plurality of interior channels;
- and
- a thinned portion formed in a rib forming wall of said outer shell body configured to form a rib between said plurality of channels at a portion of said outer shell body surrounding said one of said interior channels, said thinned portion having a reduced thickness compared to a second portion of said outer shell body and configured to deflect, crush, or collapse at a preferred location during solidification of a molten metal encapsulating the casting article.
A casting article, comprising:
- a circuit forming portion including a plurality of interior channels establishing a leaching path through said circuit forming portion and an outer shell body that surrounds one of said plurality of interior channels;
- and
- at least one porous area formed in a rib forming wall of said outer shell body configured to form a rib between said plurality of channels at a portion of said outer shell body surrounding said one of said interior channels and having a first density that is less than a second density of a second portion of said outer shell body and configured to deflect, crush, or collapse at a preferred location during solidification of a molten metal encapsulating the casting article.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.