Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Additive manufacturing systems and methods of pretreating and additively printing on workpieces
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Application No.: US16434384Application Date: 2019-06-07
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Publication No.: US11298884B2Publication Date: 2022-04-12
- Inventor: Jinjie Shi , Richard Roy Worthing, Jr. , Hongqing Sun
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US MA Boston
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Boston
- Agency: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- Main IPC: B33Y10/00
- IPC: B33Y10/00 ; B29C64/393 ; B29C64/153 ; B29C64/35 ; B29C64/268 ; F01D5/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B33Y50/02 ; B33Y80/00 ; B29L31/08

Abstract:
Methods of additively printing an extension segment on a workpiece may include pretreating a workpiece-interface of a workpiece using an energy beam from an additive manufacturing machine, providing a pretreated workpiece-interface having received a pretreatment, with the pretreatment remediating an aberrant feature of the workpiece and/or the workpiece-interface. Such methods may additionally include additively printing an extension segment on the pretreated workpiece-interface using the energy beam from the additive manufacturing machine. Exemplary additive manufacturing system for printing an extension segment on a workpiece may include a controller operably coupled to a vision system and an additive manufacturing machine.
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