Additive manufacturing device and additive manufacturing method
AssigneeIHI Corporation
InventorRiku Shimizu
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Abstract
An additive manufacturing device is provided with a beam irradiation unit irradiating a conductive powder disposed in a layered shape with a beam, a nondestructive inspection unit detecting a flaw in a surface layer of an additively manufactured article formed of the hardened conductive powder, and an energy control unit controlling energy of the beam. The energy control unit increases energy of a beam when a repairing region set in accordance with results of flaw detection by the nondestructive inspection unit is irradiated with the beam.
Claims4
An additive manufacturing device comprising:
- a beam irradiation unit irradiating a conductive powder disposed in a layered shape with a beam;
- a nondestructive inspection unit detecting a flaw in a surface layer of an additively manufactured article formed of hardened conductive powder;
- and
- an energy control unit controlling energy of the beam,
- wherein the energy control unit increases energy of the beam when a repairing region, set in accordance with results of flaw detection by the nondestructive inspection unit, is irradiated with the beam,
- wherein the beam irradiation unit is provided with
- an electron gun performing emission of an electron ray serving as the beam,
- an acceleration power source supplying an acceleration voltage to the electron gun, and
- a coil portion forming a magnetic field in a region in front of an irradiation port of the electron gun,
- wherein the energy control unit includes
- an acceleration voltage controller controlling the acceleration voltage, and
- a coil controller controlling the beam by the coil portion,
- wherein the nondestructive inspection unit is a probe, and
- wherein the probe includes a plurality of inspection coils disposed side by side, each of the inspection coils provided with an excitation coil and a plurality of detection coils.
An additive manufacturing method for manufacturing a three-dimensional laminate shaped article by irradiating a conductive powder disposed in a layered shape with a beam and melting and hardening the conductive powder, the additive manufacturing method comprising:
- a melting step of melting the conductive powder of a first layer by irradiating the conductive powder of the first layer held by a holding unit with the beam;
- a nondestructive inspection step of detecting a flaw in a surface layer of the three-dimensional laminate shaped article after the conductive powder of the first layer has been melted and hardened;
- a laminating step of laminating the conductive powder of a second layer on the three-dimensional laminate shaped article;
- and
- a repairing step of repairing a region set in accordance with results of flaw detection in the nondestructive inspection step,
- wherein in the repairing step, when the conductive powder of the second layer is irradiated with the beam, the region is repaired by increasing energy of the beam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.