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US 11,376,791 B2Granted
Contaminant barrier
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsLluis Hierro, Pol Morral, Sergi Culubret
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Abstract
In one example, an apparatus includes a carriage to carry a payload through a manufacturing space at the urging of control elements in a control space and a belt movable with the carriage to block contaminants in the manufacturing space from passing to the control space along a carriage travel path.
Claims8
An apparatus for an additive manufacturing machine, comprising:
- a dispenser carriage to carry a fusing agent dispenser over a build area in a manufacturing space to dispense a fusing agent on to a build material in the build area;
- a spreader carriage to carry a spreader over the build area in the manufacturing space to spread the build material over the build area;
- a drive mechanism in a control space to move the carriages along a path between the control space and the manufacturing space;
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- a belt movable with the carriages to block contaminants in the manufacturing space from passing to the control space along the path, the belt separate from the drive mechanism and movable at the urging of the carriages.
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An additive manufacturing machine, comprising:
- a build area in a manufacturing space;
- a spreader in the manufacturing space to spread a build material over the build area;
- a fusing agent dispenser in the manufacturing space to dispense a fusing agent on to the build material in the build area;
- a spreader carriage to carry the spreader over the build area;
- a dispenser carriage to carry the fusing agent dispenser over the build area;
- a drive mechanism in a control space to move the carriages along a path between the control space and the manufacturing space;
- a belt barrier movable with the carriages along the path to block contaminants in the manufacturing space from entering the control space, the belt separate from the drive mechanism and movable at the urging of the carriages.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.