US Patent Application 18032988. SURFACE LATTICE STRUCTURE FORMATION simplified abstract
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SURFACE LATTICE STRUCTURE FORMATION
Organization Name
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Inventor(s)
James Andrew Mccutcheon of Vancouver WA (US)
Alberto Maria Canals Pou of Sant Cugat del Valles (Barcelona) (ES)
Geoffrey Schmid of San Diego CA (US)
SURFACE LATTICE STRUCTURE FORMATION - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18032988 titled 'SURFACE LATTICE STRUCTURE FORMATION
Simplified Explanation
The patent application describes a system that creates a 3D object using a lattice structure.
- The system defines sub-volumes within a bounding object based on beams of a unit cell of the lattice structure.
- These sub-volumes are determined by the beams cutting through the bounding object.
- The system then intersects these sub-volumes with a trimmed version of the lattice structure.
- This intersection forms a surface lattice structure with beams that connect to the unit cells of the trimmed lattice structure.
Original Abstract Submitted
In some examples, a system defines sub-volumes within a bounding object based on beams of a unit cell of a lattice structure for a 3D object to be built. The sub-volumes are defined based on the beams cutting through the bounding object that contains the unit cell. The system intersects the sub-volumes of the bounding object with a trimmed version of the lattice structure. The system forms a surface lattice structure having beams identified based on the intersecting, the beams of the surface lattice structure to connect to unit cells of the trimmed version of the lattice structure.
