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US 2017/0123406 A1Published application
Additive manufacturing system and method
AssigneeCaterpillar Inc.
InventorZachary S. Birky
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing an object using an additive manufacturing process. The method includes determining a location on the object for a code based on an identification information for the object wherein the determined location is a part of the code and embedding a code by an additive manufacturing process at that location.
Claims20
A method of manufacturing an object using an additive manufacturing process comprising:
- determining a location on the object for a code based on an identification information for the object;
- the determined location being a part of the code;
- and
- embedding the code by the additive manufacturing process at the determined location.
1 more element
An object comprising:
- a code formed by an additive manufacturing process at a location within the object;
- the location being a part of the code and determined based on an identification information of the object.
An additive manufacturing system for manufacturing an object comprising:
- a location generator for selecting a location for a code from a set of locations based on an identification information of the object, the selected location being a part of the code;
- and
- a machine for manufacturing the object and embedding a code in the object at the selected location by an additive manufacturing process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.