Three-dimensional forming with functional elements
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorWill ALLEN
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Abstract
A system for three-dimensional forming of an object includes a set of functional elements, with each of the functional elements including a housing and a processor, memory, power supply, sensor, and wireless communication module each within the housing, a position module to determine an individual position of each of the functional elements, and a fuse module to determine instructions to fuse selective ones of the functional elements based on the individual position of each of the functional elements to form the object with the selective ones of the functional elements.
Claims15
A system for three-dimensional forming of an object, comprising:
- a set of functional elements, each of the functional elements including a housing and a processor, memory, power supply, sensor, and wireless communication module each within the housing;
- a position module to determine an individual position of each of the functional elements;
- and
- a fuse module to determine instructions to fuse selective ones of the functional elements based on the individual position of each of the functional elements to form the object with the selective ones of the functional elements.
A system for three-dimensional forming of an object, comprising:
- an accumulation of functional elements, each of the functional elements including a housing and a processor, memory, power supply, sensor, and wireless communication module each within the housing,
- wherein, based on a respective position within the accumulation of functional elements, selective ones of the functional elements are fused to adjacent ones of the functional elements to form the object.
A method of three-dimensional forming of an object, comprising:
- grouping a plurality of functional elements, each of the functional elements including a housing and a processor, memory, power supply, sensor, and wireless communication module each within the housing;
- determining an individual position of each of the functional elements;
- and
- fusing selective ones of the functional elements to form the object based on the individual position of each of the functional elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.