Additive manufacturing system with at least one electronic nose
AssigneesUT-Battelle, LLC, University of Tennessee Research Foundation
InventorsIlia N. Ivanov, Eric S. Muckley
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Abstract
An additive manufacturing system comprising at least one electronic nose (e-nose) is provided. The e-nose may comprise a housing and gas sensors. The housing may have an air channel. The active sensor portion of the sensors are positioned in the air channel. The housing may be mounted to an extruder head of an additive manufacturing device. The system may also comprise a processor. The processor may determine whether there is an abnormality in an additive manufacturing process based on one or more combinations of outputs from the gas sensors received during the additive manufacturing process input into a deployed machine learning model; and generate a report for the additive manufacturing process containing the determination.
Claims19
An additive manufacturing system comprising
- at least one electronic nose (e-nose) comprising:
- a housing having openings on corresponding ends thereof to enable air flow, the housing having air channel for air to flow between the ends;
- a plurality of thin film gas sensors, each having an active sensor portion in the air channel;
- and
- a mount configured to mount the housing to an extruder head of an additive manufacturing device, and
- a processor configured to:
- supply power to the plurality of thin film gas sensors to bias the sensors;
- receive output from each of the plurality of thin film gas sensors;
- determine whether there is an abnormality in an additive manufacturing process manufacturing a product from one or more materials based on one or more combinations of outputs from the plurality of thin film gas sensors during the additive manufacturing process and a deployed machine learning model;
- and
- generate a report for the additive manufacturing process containing the determination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.