US 12,465,979 B2
Three-dimensional printer components
Dean Albert Tarrant, Gilroy, CA (US); Joseph Andrew Tralongo, El Cajon, CA (US); Benyamin Buller, Cupertino, CA (US); Richard Romano, San Jose, CA (US); Thomas Brezoczky, Los Gatos, CA (US); Anatolii Vitanov, Milpitas, CA (US); Erel Milshtein, Morgan Hill, CA (US); Gregory Ferguson Brown, San Jose, CA (US); Robert Martinson, Palo Alto, CA (US); Daniel Christiansen, Mountain View, CA (US); and Alex Brudny, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to VELO3D, INC., Fremont, CA (US)
Filed by Velo3D, Inc., Fremont, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 6, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/434,272.
Application 18/434,272 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2022/052030, filed on Dec. 6, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/430,327, filed on Dec. 5, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/289,779, filed on Dec. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0189912 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
Int. Cl. B29C 64/236 (2017.01); B22F 12/00 (2021.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01)
CPC B22F 12/224 (2021.01) [B29C 64/236 (2017.08); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for directional traversal in an environment contaminated by debris of three-dimensional printing, the device comprising: a flexible coupler configured to couple wheels including a first wheel and a second wheel, the flexible coupler configured to facilitate travel of the wheels along a long axis of a railing that is imperfect and/or is contaminated by the debris, the wheels being (i) coupled to a carriage by the flexible coupler and (ii) configured to engage with the railing along which the wheels are configured to directionally traverse, the flexible coupler is configured to facilitate bearing loads that are even or substantially even, the bearing loads being on the wheels as they travel along the railing, the device being comprised in, or being operatively coupled to, a three-dimensional printer.