ALIGNING LASERS OF A LASER ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM

• Main Authors: CREAR, Donnell Eugene, SWANNER JR., Archie Lee, SCHICK, David Edward
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 20.05.2020
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; CASTING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; MACHINE TOOLS; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWDER METALLURGY; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; TRANSPORTING; WELDING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM; WORKING METALLIC POWDER; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

Methods for aligning a pair of calibrated lasers (134, 136) of a laser additive manufacturing system (100) in an overlap region (182) in which the pair of calibrated lasers (134, 136) selectively operate are provided. Respective first and second plurality of layers (190) of a test structure (180) ar...