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US 10,751,988 B1Granted
Additive manufactured waveguides
AssigneeMade In Space, Inc.
InventorsMichael Snyder, Andrew Rush, Derek Thomas
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Abstract
A system comprising an additive manufacturing device to create a macrostructure as a continuous piece, an applicator to apply a conductive coating to an inner surface of the macrostructure, and a signal attenuation tuner to attenuate a signal by modification of a physical dimension of the macrostructure. A method and another system are also disclosed.
Claims26
A system to create a continuous macrostructure, the system comprising:
- an additive manufacturing device to create a macrostructure as a continuous piece;
- an applicator to apply a conductive coating with at least one of a powder production additive manufacturing process and a layering additive manufacturing process, to an inner surface of the macrostructure and to apply a surface applicant to at least one of wash and alter a surface prior to application of the conductive coating;
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- a signal attenuation tuner to attenuate a signal by modification of a physical dimension of the macrostructure
- wherein the applicator further provides for at least one layer of the conductive coating having a different property than an adjacent layer.
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A method of creating a continuous microstructure comprising:
- manufacturing a macrostructure with an additive manufacturing process;
- applying a conductive coating, with at least one of a powder production additive manufacturing process and a layering additive manufacturing process, wherein the process provides for at least one layer of conductive coating having a different property than an adjacent layer;
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- tuning the macrostructure with a signal attenuation tuner by modification of a physical dimension of the macrostructure.
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A system, the system comprising:
- an additive manufacturing device to create a macrostructure wherein the additive manufacturing device initially manufactures the macrostructure with at least one of a solid inner wall and solid outer wall and a solid inner wall and porous outer wall, and a porous inner wall and porous outer wall,
- an applicator to apply a conductive coating to an inner surface of the macrostructure with at least one of a powder production additive manufacturing process and a layering additive manufacturing process and to apply a solvent to the inner wall when the inner wall is porous to create a solid inner wall, wherein the applicator provides for at least one layer of the conductive coating having a different property than an adjacent layer;
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- a signal attenuation tuner to attenuate a signal by modification of a physical dimension of the macrostructure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.