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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsEsteve COMAS CESPEDES, Michel Georges ENCRENAZ, Sergi CULUBRET CORTADA, Davinia FONT CALAFELL, Luis GARCIA GARCIA
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According to one example, there is provided an apparatus to process volume of particulate build material. The apparatus comprises a sealable chamber to house a volume of particulate build material, a gas supply to supply the chamber with a predetermined gas, a gas circulator to circulate the gas within the volume of build material, a temperature controller to heat the circulated gas to a predetermined heating temperature to heat the volume of build material to the heating temperature and then to cool the circulated gas to a predetermined cooling temperature to cool the volume of build material to the cooling temperature.
Apparatus to process volume of particulate build material, comprising:
A method of thermally processing a volume of build material in a process chamber comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium on which is stored computer-readable instructions that when executed by a processor of a build material processing apparatus cause the apparatus to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.