US 12,130,608 B2
Determining optimal of additive manufacturing and/or three dimensional printing processes
Sanjay Bhaskara Panikkar, Bangalore (IN); Mukundan Sundararajan, Bangalore (IN); and Saikat Mukhopadhyay, Kolkata (IN)
Assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/643,709.
Prior Publication US 2023/0185276 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. G05B 19/4099 (2006.01); B29C 64/386 (2017.01); B33Y 50/00 (2015.01)
CPC G05B 19/4099 (2013.01) [B29C 64/386 (2017.08); B33Y 50/00 (2014.12); G05B 2219/49007 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A manufacturing process for remanufacturing a gear component of a machine with the gear component defining a gear ratio characteristic of the machine, the process comprising:
receiving a product specification data set including information indicative of a first gear design that defines a first gear ratio when used in the machine;
receiving a manufacturing process data set including information indicative of an additive manufacturing process that may be used to transform a first gear made according to the first gear design by adding at least one gear tooth to the first gear to convert the first gear into a second gear made according to a second gear design that defines a second gear ratio when used in the machine;
using the manufacturing process data set to convert the first gear which has physical existence and is made according to the first gear design into a second gear, which has physical existence and is made according to the second gear design; and
physically installing the second gear in the machine to operate the machine at the second gear ratio in order to repurpose the first gear.