Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Additive manufacturing in metals with a fiber array laser source and adaptive multi-beam shaping
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Application No.: US16901612Application Date: 2020-06-15
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Publication No.: US11267074B2Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Inventor: Mikhail A. Vorontsov , Abtin Ataei
- Applicant: II-VI Delaware Inc.
- Applicant Address: US DE Wilmington
- Assignee: II-VI Delaware Inc.
- Current Assignee: II-VI Delaware Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US DE Wilmington
- Agency: Blank Rome LLP
- Main IPC: B23K26/082
- IPC: B23K26/082 ; B29C64/153 ; B29C64/236 ; B29C64/268 ; B23K26/08 ; B23K26/06 ; B29C64/245 ; B33Y30/00 ; B33Y10/00

Abstract:
A system that uses a scalable array of individually controllable laser beams that are generated by a fiber array system to process materials into an object. The adaptive control of individual beams may include beam power, focal spot width, centroid position, scanning orientation, amplitude and frequency, of individual beams. Laser beam micro scanner modules (MSMs) are arranged into 2D arrays or matrices. During operation of the MSMs, a fiber tip that projects the laser beam is displaced along the x and y-axis in order to scan the focal spot. Each MSM within a matrix can process a corresponding cell (e.g., one square centimeter) during focal spot scanning, and the plurality of MSMs may be operated in parallel to process a plurality of corresponding cells (e.g., with a 10×10 matrix of MSM, 100 cm2) without rastering or otherwise repositioning the assembly over the build surface.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200306880A1 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING IN METALS WITH A FIBER ARRAY LASER SOURCE AND ADAPTIVE MULTI-BEAM SHAPING Public/Granted day:2020-10-01
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