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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsIgnacio Alejandre Fernandez, Emilio Cano Arribas, Cintia Perez Gutierrez
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An example additive manufacturing system comprises a first fan associated with a print chamber to flow gas from the print chamber into an exhaust conduit. A sensor is arranged to detect one or more conditions of the gas flowed into the exhaust conduit from the print chamber by the first fan and to output a signal indicative thereof. A second fan is spaced apart in a downstream direction along the exhaust conduit from the first fan and a control unit is arranged to receive the signal from the sensor and to control the second fan in dependence thereon to maintain one or more conditions of the gas extracted from the print chamber.
An additive manufacturing system, comprising:
Machine executable instructions stored on a non-transitory machine-readable medium, the instructions being executable by a controller of an additive manufacturing system having a first fan associated with a print chamber to maintain one or more conditions in the print chamber by at least assisting flowing air from the print chamber into an exhaust conduit, a sensor to detect one or more conditions of the gas in the exhaust conduit and to output a signal indicative thereof, a second fan spaced apart along the exhaust conduit from the first fan, the machine executable instructions comprising instructions to control the second fan in dependence on the one or more conditions of the gas in the exhaust conduit thereby assisting the first fan in maintain the one or more conditions in the print chamber.
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