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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for additive manufacturing
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Application No.: US17021281Application Date: 2020-09-15
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Publication No.: US11318674B2Publication Date: 2022-05-03
- Inventor: Mark Stewart Wilenski , Samuel F. Harrison , Nick Shabdeh Evans , Faraón Torres
- Applicant: The Boeing Company
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Dascenzo Gates Intellectual Property Law, P.C.
- Main IPC: B29C64/393
- IPC: B29C64/393 ; B29C64/165 ; B29C64/314 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B29C70/38 ; B29C70/24 ; B29C64/295 ; B29C64/209 ; B29C70/16 ; B29C70/20 ; B33Y50/02 ; B29C64/147 ; B29C64/336 ; B33Y70/00 ; B29C64/106 ; B29K105/08 ; B29L31/30

Abstract:
A system for additively manufacturing an object comprises a fiber supply that dispenses elongate fibers, a resin supply that applies a resin to the elongate fibers to create a feedstock line with the resin in a first non-rigid uncured state, a rigidizing mechanism that transforms the resin from the first non-rigid uncured state to a rigid uncured state, a delivery guide that deposits the feedstock line along a print path, a feed mechanism that feeds the feedstock line through the delivery guide, a de-rigidizing mechanism that transforms the resin from the rigid uncured state to a second non-rigid uncured state, and a curing mechanism that transforms the resin from the second non-rigid uncured state to an at least partially cured state.
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