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US 2020/0399764 A1Published application
Gear shaft and method of manufacturing
AssigneeHamilton Sundstrand Corporation
InventorsJasen Deforge, Andy Mugrage
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a gear shaft including depositing only a first material via directed energy deposition (DED), forming a first portion of the gear shaft via the depositing only the first material via directed energy deposition (DED), forming a transitioning portion of the gear shaft via depositing of a varying ratio of the first material with a second material via DED, and forming a second portion of the gear shaft via the depositing via DED of only the second material.
Claims16
A method of manufacturing a gear shaft comprising:
- depositing only a first material via directed energy deposition (DED);
- forming a first portion of the gear shaft via the depositing only the first material via directed energy deposition (DED);
- forming a transitioning portion of the gear shaft via depositing of a varying ratio of the first material with a second material via DED;
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- forming a second portion of the gear shaft via the depositing via DED of only the second material.
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A gear shaft comprising:
- a first portion including only a first material;
- a second portion including only a second material;
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- a transitioning portion, attached to both the first portion and the second portion, including a varying ratio of the first material to the second material along a length of the transitioning portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.