Abstract: A lip balm receptacle, comprising: a curved, multi-layered upper portion, formed by a single two-step overmolding injection process. The curved, multi-layered upper portion comprising: i) an interior layer having an outer surface that identifies the lip balm flavor contained in the lip balm receptacle; and ii) an exterior layer. The exterior layer may have a) an outer surface with a different texture, material, or visual appearance than the outer surface of the interior layer; and b) a durable cutout design that comprises at least one aperture through said exterior layer exposing the outer surface of the interior layer.

Abstract: A device includes a recoater that can be moved in an application direction across a build area, the recoater having at least a first recoating unit for applying a layer of the building material to the build area and a solidification device that can be moved in the application direction across the build area, the solidification device having at least a first solidification unit for selectively solidifying the applied layer of the building material at positions that correspond to a cross-section of the object to be produced. The device can repeat the steps of applying and selectively solidifying until the object is completed. The recoater includes at least a second recoating unit that is arranged at the other side of the first solidification unit than the first recoating unit with respect to the application direction.

Abstract: The invention refers to a device and a method of manufacturing a three-dimensional object. The object (3) is manufactured on at least one support (2) movable in height. The horizontal extent of the support/s defines a construction field (5). An input device (6, 8, 9) directs radiation of at least one radiation source in a controlled way onto regions of an applied layer. The input device (6, 8, 9) directs a plurality of beams simultaneously onto different regions of the applied layer. Each one of the plurality of beams is directed exclusively onto a partial region of the layer assigned to it, wherein the partial region is smaller than the complete construction field (5). The complete construction field (5) is covered by the total number of partial regions. The input device (6, 8, 9) is controlled by means of a control unit (10). At least one of the partial regions overlaps with at least one of the other partial regions partially, but not completely.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a three-dimensional object by layer-wise applying and selectively solidifying a building material. The method includes (a) applying a layer of the building material to a build area by means of an application device, (b) selectively solidifying the applied layer at positions that correspond to the cross-section of the object in the respective layer and at positions that correspond to the cross-section of an envelop region and (c) repeating the steps of applying and selectively solidifying until the object and the envelop region are completed. The envelop region encloses the object in at least a section thereof, wherein those positions that correspond to the envelop region are solidified less strongly than those positions that correspond to the three-dimensional object.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing earth observation (EO) data and analytics are provided. An example method may include providing EO images of geographical areas of a pre-determined size. The EO images can be associated with geographical coordinates and an EO data type. The method may include providing a user interface to configure a use case query. The use case query may include a use case geographical area and a use case EO data type. The method may include determining, based on the use case query, a subset of the EO images overlapping with the use case geographical area and associated with the use case EO data type. The method may include generating, by the analysis module and based on the subset of the EO images, a resulting EO image corresponding to the use case geographical area and displaying, via a graphic user interface, the resulting EO image.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an object in a build area by successive layer-by-layer solidification of a building material in powder form. The method includes applying a layer of the building material in powder form having a predetermined thickness onto a layer of the building material already previously applied which has been solidified in a region corresponding to a cross section of the object A recoater is moved in a direction across the layer already previously applied, and the building material is solidified in a shape corresponding to a cross section of the object. Prior to the application of a layer, for a solidified region having a thickness d1 in the layer applied before, the maximum of the product of the extension of this region in movement direction of the recoater and the thickness d1 is determined and during the application of the layer, at least an additional powder amount proportional to the value of the maximum is additionally provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for layered production of a three-dimensional object, wherein a powdery or fluid building material, which can be solidified by the effects of electromagnetic or particle radiation, is applied in layers having a layer thickness d, and the locations in each layer which correspond to a cross-section of the object allocated to said layer are solidified by means of electromagnetic or particle radiation. According to the invention, each cross-section consists of a contour region and an inner region and the method comprises the following sub-step: in a sequence of N successive cross-sections, wherein N is a whole number greater than 1, a partial region is defined in every cross-section as a critical region and the rest of the cross-section is defined as a non-critical region, a number of N layers are applied successively, without solidification of the non-critical regions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a beam melting installation and method for producing components thereof, in which a component to be produced is produced layer-wise, wherein, a coating slide moves across a build platform, a powder layer is applied onto the build platform and already produced component layers by a blade fastened on the coating slide, and melt traces are subsequently inscribed in the powder layer by means of a directed beam, so that the powder melts in the melt trace and bonds to underlying component layers, wherein, during the travel of the coating slide in order to apply a new powder layer, perturbations of the travel of the coating slide or components connected thereto are metrologically detected, and in particular the beam melting installation is controlled and/or regulated as a function of the detected measured values. The invention furthermore relates to a device for retrofitting beam melting installations.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for generatively manufacturing a three-dimensional object by a layer-by-layer application and selective solidification of a building material. The method includes applying a layer of the building material to a build area by a recoater and selectively solidifying the applied layer of the building material at points corresponding to a cross-section of the object to be manufactured by a solidification device. The steps of applying and solidifying are repeated until the three-dimensional object is completed. A heating element locally introduces thermal energy into the newly applied layer of the building material and/or into the layer of the building material which is already selectively solidified. In the course of this, the thermal energy released by the heating element is adjustable depending on the position of this point in the build area.