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Three-Dimensional Printer Laminating Fusible Sheets

A 3D printer successively fuses sheet material in a stack to form a three-dimensional object. The sheet material may provide a mesh separating islands of material that will be fused to produce the de...
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Thomas (Rock) Mackie, Brandon Walker, Nathan Schumacher | P190125US01

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3-D Printer for High Quality, Large-Scale Metal Parts

Despite recent advances in additive manufacturing, especially rapid plastic prototyping, there is still a need for better 3-D metal printers. Current techniques are relatively slow and not up to the t...
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Thomas (Rock) Mackie, Brandon Walker | P150236US01

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Radial 3-D Printer for Improved Prototyping Efficiency

3-D printing, or rapid prototyping, makes use of additive manufacturing to produce a 3-D object. Additive manufacturing is the transformation of a virtual design into a physical object by creating suc...
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Thomas (Rock) Mackie, Nathan Patterson, Benjamin Cox, Nathan Schumacher, George Petry | P120012US01

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