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US 2017/0246801 A1Published application
Additive manufacturing device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsSam A. Stodder, Morad M. Samii, Ben Wynne
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Abstract
An additive manufacturing device for forming a three-dimensional object includes a parking station for receiving a number of removably seated modules and a movable carriage having a carriage latching mechanism for receiving one of the removably seated modules. Movement of the carriage to a module transfers the module to the carriage.
Claims15
An additive manufacturing device for forming a three-dimensional object comprising:
- a parking station for receiving a number of removably seated modules;
- and
- a movable carriage having a carriage latching mechanism for receiving one of the removably seated modules;
- wherein movement of the carriage to a module transfers the module to the carriage.
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A method comprising:
- with a processor, controlling a carriage of an additive manufacturing device to be moved to a parking station, the parking station comprising a number of removably seated modules;
- and
- with the processor, controlling the carriage to transfer one of the removably seated modules from the parking station to the carriage by latching that module to the carriage.
An additive manufacturing device comprising:
- a processor;
- a parking station to receive a number of removably seated modules;
- and
- a movable carriage having a carriage latching mechanism, wherein the processor executes instructions to cause the carriage to be coupled to a first module by:
- controlling the carriage to move in a first direction toward a parking station holding the number of modules until the carriage latching mechanism comes in contact with and captures the first module;
- controlling the carriage to move in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to unlock the first module from the parking station;
- and
- controlling the carriage to move in a third direction parallel and opposite to the first direction such that the carriage latching mechanism pulls the first module out of the parking station.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.