Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Additive manufacturing facility with successive nested confinement chambers
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Application No.: US16065658Application Date: 2016-12-20
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Publication No.: US11040400B2Publication Date: 2021-06-22
- Inventor: Albin Effernelli , Gilles Walrand , Frédéric Pialot , Christian Geay
- Applicant: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
- Applicant Address: FR Clermont-Ferrand
- Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
- Current Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
- Current Assignee Address: FR Clermont-Ferrand
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: FR1563241 20151223
- International Application: PCT/FR2016/053587 WO 20161220
- International Announcement: WO2017/109395 WO 20170629
- Main IPC: B29C64/25
- IPC: B29C64/25 ; B29C64/20 ; B22F12/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B29C64/153 ; B33Y10/00 ; B22F10/10

Abstract:
An additive manufacturing facility operating in an automated and contained manner. The facility includes a containment chamber inside which a plurality of additive manufacturing machines is installed, each machine comprising a manufacturing chamber, inside the containment chamber, a supply device and a supply circuit for supplying the various machines of the facility with an additive manufacturing powder, a conveying device for conveying additive manufacturing container/tray assemblies comprising at least one conveying chamber circulating between the various machines, and (4) a cleaning device comprising at least one cleaning chamber for cleaning, in an automated and contained manner, the additive manufacturing trays in the cleaning chamber.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190009334A1 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FACILITY WITH SUCCESSIVE NESTED CONFINEMENT CHAMBERS Public/Granted day:2019-01-10
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