Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Support structures for additively-manufactured components and methods of securing a component to a build platform during additive manufacturing
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Application No.: US16133963Application Date: 2018-09-18
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Publication No.: US10967580B2Publication Date: 2021-04-06
- Inventor: Jeffrey Alan Kohler , Valeria Proano Cadena
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Dority Manning, P.A.
- Main IPC: B29C64/40
- IPC: B29C64/40 ; B22F3/105 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y30/00

Abstract:
Additively manufactured components include a support structure and a component body integrally formed with the support structure using an additive-manufacturing process. The support structure includes an array of support members and at least some of the support members have a conduction gate such that the array of support members includes conduction gates distributed at a multitude of locations along the vertical axis of the respective support members. Methods of securing a body of a component to a build platform during additive manufacturing include forming a support structure and a component body integrally with the support structure using the additive-manufacturing process, in which the support structure includes an array of support members and at least some of the support members have a conduction gate such that the array of support members includes conduction gates distributed at a multitude of locations along the vertical axis of the respective support members. The support members that include a conduction gate have a first cross-sectional width and the conduction gate has a second cross-sectional width narrower than the first cross-sectional width.
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