US 12,030,252 B2
Additive manufacturing system
Nathan Andrew Stranberg, Post Falls, ID (US); Andrew John Overby, Coeur d'Alene, ID (US); Andrew Michael Stulc, Harrison, NJ (US); Stephen Tyler Wilson, Coeur D'Alene, ID (US); Ryan C. Stocket, Spokane, WA (US); and Brock Adam Jahner, Kalispell, MT (US)
Assigned to Continuous Composites Inc., Coeur d'Alene, ID (US)
Filed by Continuous Composites Inc., Coeur d'Alene, ID (US)
Filed on Apr. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/657,995.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/180,633, filed on Apr. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0339866 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B29C 64/118 (2017.01); B29C 64/165 (2017.01); B29C 64/209 (2017.01); B29C 64/241 (2017.01); B29C 64/245 (2017.01); B29C 64/295 (2017.01); B29C 64/336 (2017.01); B29C 64/357 (2017.01); B29C 64/379 (2017.01); B29C 64/393 (2017.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B29C 64/227 (2017.01); B33Y 40/10 (2020.01); B33Y 70/10 (2020.01)
CPC B29C 64/336 (2017.08) [B29C 64/118 (2017.08); B29C 64/165 (2017.08); B29C 64/209 (2017.08); B29C 64/241 (2017.08); B29C 64/245 (2017.08); B29C 64/295 (2017.08); B29C 64/357 (2017.08); B29C 64/379 (2017.08); B29C 64/393 (2017.08); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B29C 64/227 (2017.08); B33Y 40/10 (2020.01); B33Y 70/10 (2020.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A print head for an additive manufacturing system, comprising:
a housing;
a wetting module mounted to the housing and configured to wet a reinforcement with a liquid matrix and discharge the wetted reinforcement to form an object; and
a matrix supply remote from the wetting module and configured to hold a quantity of the liquid matrix and to supply the liquid matrix to the wetting module, wherein the matrix supply includes:
a cartridge having a base end and a discharge end; and
a cap closing off the base end and moveable towards the discharge end to push liquid matrix from the cartridge out through the discharge end towards the wetting module.