Terrestrial and space-based manufacturing systems
AssigneeMade In Space, Inc.
InventorsMichael Snyder, Jason Dunn, Aaron Kemmer, Michael Chen
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Abstract
A system including an additive manufacturing device to perform at least one additive manufacturing process and to include a prefabricated component during the at least one additive manufacturing process to accelerate build completion of a produced object. Another system and a method are also disclosed.
Claims25
A system comprising:
- an additive manufacturing device to perform at least one additive manufacturing process and to include a prefabricated component during the at least one additive manufacturing process to accelerate build completion of a produced object;
- and
- an interchange mechanism to enable the produced object to be created from multiple materials via more than the at least one additive manufacturing process.
A manufacturing system for producing an object, the manufacturing system comprising an additive manufacturing device to perform at least one additive manufacturing process creating at least a portion of the object, and a manipulator to place a prefabricated component as a second portion of the object and further configured to remove the object from a build surface.
A method comprising:
- performing at least one additive manufacturing process with a manufacturing system to create at least a portion of a produced object;
- placing a prefabricated component as a second portion of the produced object with a manipulator;
- and
- removing the produced object from a build surface with the manipulator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.