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Title: Build platform that provides mechanical engagement with additive manufacturing prints

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1425925

A build platform and methods of fabricating an article with such a platform in an extrusion-type additive manufacturing machine are provided. A platform body 202 includes features 204 that extend outward from the body 202. The features 204 define protrusive areas 206 and recessive areas 208 that cooperate to mechanically engage the extruded material that forms the initial layers 220 of an article when the article is being fabricated by a nozzle 12 of the additive manufacturing machine 10.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
Assignee:
UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN)
Patent Number(s):
9,908,287
Application Number:
14/548,701
OSTI ID:
1425925
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2014 Nov 20
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (4)

Automated 3D build processes patent July 2012
Coiled material with surface hook texture patent November 2014
Process of and apparratus for three-dimensional printing patent-application March 2006
Additive Manufacturing Apparatus and Method patent-application October 2011

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