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Processing machines and methods for heating a powder to produce three-dimensional components

US11679557B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH · DE

Inventors

Markus Pieger · Stuttgart, DE
Matthias Allenberg-Rabe · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 8, 2020
Grant date	Jun 20, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 13, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02P10/25
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The disclosure relates to processing machines and methods for producing three-dimensional components by irradiating powder with a processing beam, the machines including a container with a moveable support for the powder, as well as an irradiating device with a scanner device for aligning the processing beam on a processing field at an opening of the container. The irradiating device includes a heating device that includes a heating radiation source for generating a heating beam for heating the powder from above and including a beam shaping optical unit configured to convert a first beam profile of the heating beam into a second beam profile, e.g., a ring-shaped beam profile, of the heating beam.

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