ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUSES INCLUDING ENERGY EMITTERS FOR LOCALIZED HEATING

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Inventor(s)

William Joseph Steele of Lawrenceburg IN (US)

David Scott Simmermon of Felicity OH (US)

Brian Thomas Thompson of Loveland OH (US)

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUSES INCLUDING ENERGY EMITTERS FOR LOCALIZED HEATING

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240408821 titled 'ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUSES INCLUDING ENERGY EMITTERS FOR LOCALIZED HEATING

Original Abstract Submitted

a printing assembly for an additive manufacturing apparatus includes an energy emitter configured to steer one or more emissions across a build platform to raise a temperature of a build material on the build platform from an initial temperature to a first temperature, the first temperature being less than a threshold temperature set by material dependent metallurgical properties, and a fusing beam emitter configured to generate one or more laser beams to raise the temperature of the build material on the build platform from the first temperature to a second temperature, the second temperature being greater than the threshold temperature.