Build platform that provides mechanical engagement with additive manufacturing prints

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9908287
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14548701

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A build platform and methods of fabricating an article with such a platform in an extrusion-type additive manufacturing machine are provided. A platform body 202 includes features 204 that extend outward from the body 202. The features 204 define protrusive areas 206 and recessive areas 208 that cooperate to mechanically engage the extruded material that forms the initial layers 220 of an article when the article is being fabricated by a nozzle 12 of the additive manufacturing machine 10.

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  • UT-BATTELLE, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Elliott, Amelia M Cleveland, US 16 63

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