Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Build plate clamping-assembly and additive manufacturing systems and methods of additively printing on workpieces
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Application No.: US17743651Application Date: 2022-05-13
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Publication No.: US11858067B2Publication Date: 2024-01-02
- Inventor: Glen Charles Fedyk , Jinjie Shi , Joseph Edward Hampshire , Richard Roy Worthing, Jr.
- 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: B23K26/142
- IPC: B23K26/142 ; B23K26/042 ; B23K26/342 ; B23K26/00 ; B23K26/03 ; B23K26/08 ; B23P6/00 ; F16B21/16 ; B25B5/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B22F10/28 ; B22F10/73 ; B22F12/30 ; B22F12/82 ; B22F12/90 ; B23K26/70 ; B23K101/00 ; B22F10/12 ; B22F10/14 ; B22F10/18 ; B22F10/25 ; B22F12/44 ; B22F12/49 ; B22F10/80

Abstract:
A build plate-clamping assembly may include a work station having a build plate-receiving surface and a lock-pin extending from the build plate-receiving surface of the work station. The lock-pin may include a hollow pin body, a piston disposed within the hollow pin body, with the piston axially movable from a retracted position to an actuated position, and a plurality of detents, with the plurality of detents radially extensible through respective ones of a plurality of detent-apertures in the hollow pin body responsive to the piston having been axially moved to the actuated position. A methods of working on workpieces may include lockingly engaging a build plate at a first work station, performing a first work-step, releasing the build plate from the first work station, lockingly engaging the build plate at a second work station, and performing a second work-step. An additive manufacturing system may include a vision system with a first build plate-receiving surface and an additive manufacturing machine with a second build plate-receiving surface.
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