Additive manufacturing with coolant system
AssigneeApplied Materials, Inc.
InventorsHou T. Ng, Nag B. Patibandla, Ajey M. Joshi, Bharath Swaminathan, Ashavani Kumar, Eric Ng, Bernard Frey, Kasiraman Krishnan
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Abstract
An additive manufacturing system includes a platen having a top surface to support an object being manufactured, a feed material dispenser to deliver a plurality of successive layers of feed material over the platen, an energy source positioned above the platen to fuse at least a portion of an outermost layer of feed material, and a coolant fluid dispenser to deliver a coolant fluid onto the outermost layer of feed material after at least a portion of the outermost layer has been fused.
Claims19
An additive manufacturing system, comprising:
- a platen having a top surface to support an object being manufactured;
- a feed material dispenser to deliver a plurality of successive layers of feed material over the platen;
- an energy source positioned above the platen to fuse at least a portion of an outermost layer of feed material;
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- a coolant fluid dispenser to deliver a coolant fluid onto the outermost layer of feed material after at least a portion of the outermost layer has been fused.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.