Integrating additively-manufactured components
AssigneeDivergent Technologies, Inc.
InventorAntonio Martinez
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Abstract
Methods for joining components, and apparatuses comprising components to be joined, are described. An apparatus in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure comprises a first component comprising a first feature having a first surface profile, and an additively-manufactured second component comprising a second feature having a second surface profile, wherein the second surface profile is generated at least in part from the first surface profile of the first interface, such that the first surface profile is configured to mate with the second surface profile.
Claims10
A method for additively manufacturing components, comprising:
- additively manufacturing a first component having a first interface at a first resolution as a tongue structure, wherein a top surface and a front surface of the first component is additively manufactured with rough surfaces such that a space or gap exists when the top surface of the first component and the front surface of the first component are coupled into a second interface of a second component to allow for adhesive flow;
- scanning a surface profile of the interface of the first component;
- generating a complementary surface profile from the scanned surface profile of the interface of the first component;
- additively manufacturing the second component having a second interface as a groove structure, the second interface having a second resolution higher than the first resolution of the first interface of the first component, the second interface having the complementary surface profile;
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- configuring the groove structure to mate with the tongue structure to form the space or gap between the top surface of the first component and a front surface of the first component and the second interface of the second component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.