US 11,858,043 B2
Method and system for software defined metallurgy
Nihan Tuncer, Cambridge, MA (US); Brian D. Kernan, Andover, MA (US); Animesh Bose, Burlington, MA (US); and Mark Sowerbutts, Townsend, MA (US)
Assigned to Desktop Metal, Inc., Burlington, MA (US)
Filed by Desktop Metal, Inc., Burlington, MA (US)
Filed on Jan. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/572,521.
Application 17/572,521 is a continuation of application No. 16/224,432, filed on Dec. 18, 2018, granted, now 11,237,529.
Application 16/224,432 is a continuation of application No. 15/901,265, filed on Feb. 21, 2018, granted, now 10,191,456, issued on Jan. 9, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/492,744, filed on May 1, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0326668 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. B22F 3/00 (2021.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01); B22F 3/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/04847 (2022.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); F27D 19/00 (2006.01); F27D 21/00 (2006.01); B22F 3/24 (2006.01); B33Y 40/20 (2020.01); B33Y 40/00 (2020.01); G05B 13/04 (2006.01); B22F 10/14 (2021.01)
CPC B22F 3/003 (2013.01) [B22F 3/1007 (2013.01); B22F 3/1017 (2013.01); B22F 3/1021 (2013.01); B22F 3/24 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B33Y 40/00 (2014.12); B33Y 40/20 (2020.01); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12); F27D 19/00 (2013.01); F27D 21/00 (2013.01); G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); B22F 10/14 (2021.01); B22F 2203/11 (2013.01); F27D 2019/0003 (2013.01); F27D 2019/0096 (2013.01); G05B 13/042 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of generating and employing a user-adjustable thermal processing parameter profile for a sintering furnace, comprising:
receiving, through a user interface, one or more materials properties desired in an additively manufactured part, wherein the material properties include one or more of (i) a hardness, (ii) a ductility, (iii) a microstructure, (iv) a material content, (v) a surface property, and (vi) a transverse rupture strength;
communicating with a sintering furnace to ascertain one or more thermal processes associated with the sintering furnace;
determining a thermal processing parameter profile of at least one thermal processing parameter corresponding to each of the thermal processes according to the desired material properties, the thermal processing parameter profile characterizing a cycle of the one or more thermal processes;
employing the thermal processing parameter profile to conduct the one or more thermal processes with the sintering furnace; and
processing the additively manufactured part according to the one or more thermal processes.