Method for manufacturing a component by thermal spraying
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsOliver Hofacker, Ursus Krueger
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to manufacturing methods. The teachings thereof may be used to manufacture a component in which the component is applied by thermal spraying with a coating jet carrying building material. For example, a method for manufacturing a component may include: producing a mold for the component layer-by-layer on a building platform using a generative process incorporating data describing the mold; building the component in the mold by filling the mold with a building material using thermal spraying with a coating jet; and removing the mold from the component.
Claims8
A method for manufacturing a component, the method comprising:
- producing a mold for the component layer-by-layer on a horizontal building platform using a generative process incorporating data describing the mold, wherein the mold includes at sidewalls having at least a portion of non-vertical walls;
- building the component in the mold by filling the mold with a building material using thermal spraying with a coating jet;
- pivoting the building platform from horizontal to a different angle to change an orientation of the coating jet with respect to the sidewalls, resulting in the coating jet spraying tangentially to the non-vertical portion of the sidewalls;
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- removing the mold from the component;
- wherein the mold includes an interior wall surface defining a contour of the component and struts transferring forces from the interior wall to the building platform, and wherein the struts maintain the interior wall surface to eliminate distortion of the contour as the component is built.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.