Equipment and method for the generative manufacture and/or repair of components
AssigneeMTU Aero Engines AG
InventorsThomas Hess, Georg Schlick, Alexander Ladewig
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Abstract
Equipment for the generative manufacture and/or repair of components, in particular of gas turbines, includes a solidifying means for the layer-by-layer, local, particularly optical, thermal, and/or chemical solidification of particularly powdered, granular, and/or fluid material, and an electrodeposition means for the electrostatic deposition of particles and/or gas from a region between a layer of material, which is to be solidified or is solidified, and the solidifying means, as well as a method for the generative manufacture and/or repair of components, in particular of gas turbines, by means of such equipment.
Claims9
Equipment for the generative manufacture and/or repair of components of gas turbines, comprising:
- a solidifying device for the layer-by-layer, local, optical, thermal, and/or chemical, solidification of powdered, granular, and/or fluid material;
- a container disposed around a vertically moveable working platform;
- a bin disposed at least partially around the container;
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- an electrodeposition device including a deposition electrode, a counter electrode and a voltage source for application of a DC or AC voltage between the deposition electrode and the counter electrode for removal of particles and/or gas through electrostatic deposition from a region between a layer of material, which is to be solidified or is solidified, and the solidifying device,
- wherein the counter electrode is vertically spaced from the deposition electrode,
- wherein the deposition electrode is vertically spaced from the bin, and
- wherein the counter electrode is disposed on or is part of the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.