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US 12,759,112 B2Granted
Abrasive articles and methods for forming same
AssigneesSaint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc., Saint-Gobain Surface Solutions France
InventorsBrahmanandam V. Tanikella, Charles J. Gasdaska
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Abstract
A method for forming an abrasive article via an additive manufacturing technique including forming a layer of powder material comprising a precursor bond material and abrasive particles, compacting at least a portion of the layer to form a compacted layer, binding at least a portion of the compacted layer and repeating the steps of forming, compacting and binding to form a green body abrasive article.
Claims20
A batch of abrasive articles comprising:
- a plurality of bodies in the form of two or more green body abrasive articles or two or more finally-formed abrasive articles, the plurality of bodies including abrasive particles contained in a bond material, wherein each body comprises a Microstructure Feature greater than 1;
- and wherein the plurality of bodies comprises a batch density variation of not greater than 20% of an average density value of the batch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.