US 12,351,718 B2 · Engineered feedstocks for additive manufacture of glass

Engineered feedstocks for additive manufacture of glass

AssigneeLawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

InventorsRebecca Dylla-Spears, Theodore F. Baumann, Eric B. Duoss, Joshua D. Kuntz, Robin Miles, Du Nguyen, Christopher Spadaccini, Tayyab I. Suratwala, Timothy Dexter Yee, Cheng Zhu, Cameron David Meyers, Nikola Dudukovic, Tyler Fears, Fang Qian, Koroush Sasan, Joel Destino

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Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method includes forming a structure by printing an ink, the ink including a glass-forming material, and heat treating the formed structure for converting the glass-forming material to glass. According to another embodiment, an ink composition includes a glass-forming material and a solvent.

Claims69

Dependent claims

An ink composition, comprising:

a glass-forming material configured to be densified to a glass form,
wherein the glass-forming material consists essentially of inorganic particles of a single composition;
and
a solvent.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Application

16/212,525Filed 6 Dec 2018 · continuation in part

Priority

6 Jun 2016

Published

US 2020/0024465 A123 Jan 2020

Granted

8 Jul 2025

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Classification17 codes

B29C 64/106
Processes of additive manufacturing: using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material
C09D 11/03
Printing inks: characterised by features other than the chemical nature of the binder
B33Y 10/00
Processes of additive manufacturing
B33Y 70/00
Materials specially adapted for additive manufacturing