Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Gene D. Fleischauer
  • Method and material for processing a component for laser machining
    Patent number: 6329633
    Abstract: A method and material 52 for blocking a laser beam L during laser machining is disclosed. The material comprises a thermoplastic polymer. Various details are developed which promote filling and removing the blocking material from a component 10. In one detailed embodiment, the thermoplastic polymer is formed of only carbon and hydrogen and forms harmless effluent during burnout of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Foster P. Lamm, John H. Vontell, Joseph Bak, James Whitton