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US 11,685,107 B2Granted
Additive manufactured multi-portion article
AssigneeRaytheon Technologies Corporation
InventorsWayde R. Schmidt, Paul Sheedy, John A. Sharon, Dustin D. Caldwell, Slade R. Culp
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Abstract
An additive manufactured multi-portion article includes a first portion of an article manufactured by a first additive manufacturing process; and a second portion of the article manufactured by a second additive manufacturing process different than the first additive manufacturing process, the second portion attached to the first portion.
Claims7
A method of constructing an additive manufactured multi-portion article, comprising:
- additive manufacturing a first portion of the multi-portion article with a first additive manufacturing process;
- additive manufacturing a second portion of the multi-portion article with a second additive manufacturing process different than the first additive manufacturing process;
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- mechanically attaching the second portion to the first portion at an integral joining geometry, wherein the first additive manufacturing process is of a higher resolution than the second additive manufacturing process and the first additive manufacturing process operates at a different volumetric build rate than the second additive manufacturing process, the second portion forms a majority portion of the multi-portion article.
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