US 12,454,099 B2
Part manipulation using printed manipulation points
James A. DeMuth, Woburn, MA (US); Erik Toomre, Los Altos, CA (US); Francis L. Leard, Sudbury, MA (US); Kourosh Kamshad, Hudson, NH (US); Heiner Fees, Bietigheim-Bissingen (DE); and Eugene Berdichevsky, Oakland, CA (US)
Assigned to Seurat Technologies, Inc., Wilmington, MA (US)
Filed by Seurat Technologies, Inc., Wilmington, MA (US)
Filed on May 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/317,369.
Application 18/317,369 is a continuation of application No. 15/336,581, filed on Oct. 27, 2016, granted, now 11,691,341.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/248,783, filed on Oct. 30, 2015.
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Claims priority of provisional application 62/248,969, filed on Oct. 30, 2015.
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Prior Publication US 2023/0302729 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
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OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A manufacturing method, comprising:
operating an additive manufacturing system comprising an energy source and a powdered material;
performing, by the additive manufacturing system during the operating, an additive process to form a structure embedded within an unfused portion of the powdered material, the structure having a manipulation point;
separating, after the performing, the structure from the unfused portion of the powdered material;
moving, after the separating, the structure using a manipulator device to engage the manipulation point; and
removing the manipulation point from the structure after the moving,
wherein the manipulation point comprises a prismatic locking cavity configured to guide the manipulator device in engaging the manipulation point, the prismatic locking cavity comprising a cavity within the structure.
 
13. A method of manufacturing parts, comprising:
obtaining a powder material;
operating an additive manufacturing system, the operating comprising spreading successive layers of the powdered material and directing an energy beam onto selected portions of the successive layers to form a structure embedded within an unfused portion of the powdered material, the structure comprising a manipulation point and a plurality of additively manufactured parts connected together by one or more additively manufactured connecting links;
moving the structure from the additive manufacturing system using a manipulator device to engage the manipulation point; and
removing the manipulation point from the structure after the moving,
wherein the manipulation point comprises a prismatic locking cavity configured to guide the manipulator device in engaging the manipulation point,
the prismatic locking cavity comprising a cavity within an additively manufactured part.