US 12,083,599 B2
Nozzle cleaning in jetting of metal alloys
Chu-Heng Liu, Penfield, NY (US); Scott James Vader, Pittsford, NY (US); Paul J. Mcconville, Webster, NY (US); David A. Mantell, Rochester, NY (US); Christopher T. Chungbin, Webster, NY (US); and Peter M Gulvin, Webster, NY (US)
Assigned to Additive Technologies LLC, Palm City, FL (US)
Filed by Additive Technologies LLC, Palm City, FL (US)
Filed on Apr. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/844,524.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/832,912, filed on Apr. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0324341 A1, Oct. 15, 2020
Int. Cl. B22F 10/22 (2021.01); B22F 3/115 (2006.01); B22F 10/50 (2021.01); B22F 12/53 (2021.01); B22F 12/90 (2021.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B33Y 70/00 (2020.01)
CPC B22F 3/115 (2013.01) [B22F 10/22 (2021.01); B22F 10/50 (2021.01); B22F 12/53 (2021.01); B22F 12/90 (2021.01); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B33Y 70/00 (2014.12)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
2. A method of cleaning a nozzle, the nozzle ejecting liquid metal from a chamber through an opening, the chamber having associated therewith an electromagnetic actuator for causing liquid metal to be ejected from the chamber through the opening in the nozzle, the method comprising chemically removing a clogging material from the nozzle by submerging the nozzle in a molten metal that contains a flux.