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US 12,313,283 B2Granted
Air-diffusion system manufactured via additive manufacturing
AssigneeBVN Architecture Pty Ltd
InventorsNinotschka Anna Titchkosky, Tim Schork, Christopher James Bickerton, Michael John Bennett, Mitchell Robert Page, David Anthony Pigram, Tran Tuan Anh Dang
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an air-diffusion system, a computer-implemented method of designing an air-diffusion system, an apparatus for additive manufacturing an air-diffusion system, and a method of additive manufacturing an air-diffusion system.
Claims11
An air-diffusion system comprising:
- a plurality of ducts that convey air in an environment, wherein:
- the ducts are unitarily manufactured using additive manufacturing,
- at least one of the ducts includes an integrated diffuser having a porosity configured to diffuse air into the environment at a designated airflow,
- the porosity of the diffuser is provided by the diffuser defining a plurality of pores, spaced apart at predefined intervals based on the designated airflow, within a wall of the at least one of the ducts,
- a plurality of asymmetric cross-sections defined by the diffuser form a continuous tapering to maintain a designated air pressure and a designated velocity of the designated airflow in the at least one of the ducts, and
- the porosity of the diffuser is manufactured by altering, relative to a portion of the at least one of the ducts spaced apart from the diffuser, the additive manufacturing of the at least one of the ducts;
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- a plurality of connectors unitarily manufactured using additive manufacturing, wherein at least one of the connectors connects at least two of the ducts.
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A computer-implemented method of designing an air-diffusion system for an environment, the computer-implemented method comprising:
- inputting parameters including a desired airflow characteristic of a plurality of additive manufactured ducts of the air-diffusion system, wherein at least one of the plurality of additive manufactured ducts includes an integrated diffuser having a porosity configured to diffuse air into an environment at a designated airflow, a plurality of asymmetric cross-sections defined by the diffuser being continuously tapered to maintain a designated air pressure and a designated velocity of the designated airflow, the porosity of the diffuser is provided by the diffuser defining a plurality of pores, spaced apart at predefined intervals based on the designated airflow, within a wall of the at least one of the additive manufactured ducts;
- automatically simulating, using the inputted parameters and based on at least one additive manufacturing limitation of the ducts, the diffuser, and a plurality of connectors of the air-diffusion system, designs of geometries of the plurality of ducts, the diffusers, and the connectors;
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- determining an optimized design of geometry of the ducts, the diffusers, and the connectors from the simulated designs of geometries.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.