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US 10,626,974 B2Granted
Structured material alloy component fabrication
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsTahany I. El-Wardany, Aaron T. Nardi, Daniel V. Viens, Wenjiong Gu, Eric J. Amis, Hayden M. Reeve
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Abstract
A novel manufacturing method for functionally graded component includes a cold sprayed additive manufactured core material and a cold sprayed additive manufactured set of teeth around said core made from another material.
Claims9
A method of manufacturing a component comprising:
- spraying a first powdered metal onto a substrate to form an additive manufactured core;
- spraying a second powdered metal to form an additive manufactured set of teeth around the additive manufactured core, the second powdered metal different than the first powdered metal;
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- removing the substrate, wherein the step of spraying a first powdered metal onto the substrate comprising cold spraying the first powdered metal onto the substrate having a mandrel shape center to form a gear shaft inner diameter upon removal of the substrate.
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