Abstract: A rotating machine component, particularly a gas turbine combustion component, having at least one part built from a porous material with a plurality of pores, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of pores is at least partly filled with a gas with a composition different from air and/or with a powder, wherein the porous material is a laser sintered or laser melted material in which void local regions form the plurality of pores. The component counter-acts vibrations. A rotating machine or gas turbine engine may have such a component.

Abstract: Provided is a method for computer-aided processing of quality information of an object manufactured by stacked printed layers in an additive manufacturing system, including the steps of: receiving a quality indicator for each printed layer of the object from the manufacturing system, assigning a color out of a predefined set of colors to each quality indicator depending on the value of the quality indicator, visualizing the quality indicators of the received manufactured layers as a sequence of colored bars ordered according to the sequence of the manufactured layers the color of each bar indicating the value of the quality indicator of the respective printed layer on a graphical user interface.

Abstract: Movement restraining device (1) for partially immobilizing a body joint (10) facilitating rotation of a body part (20) about a joint axis (40). The device comprises a) a first stopper element (50) having an abutment surface (70); b) a second stopper element (60), comprising an abutting surface (100), pivotable, relative to the first stopper element. The second stopper element can be pivoted into an abutting pivot position, in which position the abutting surface is in surface contact with the abutment surface; c) skin attachment means (90) for attaching the stopper elements to skin at the body joint; and d) electrical contact elements (310, 320), connectable to an indicator device for providing an indication when the contact elements are in electrical contact with each other. The first contact element can be brought into electrical contact with the second contact element by pivoting the second stopper element into the abutting pivot position.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for monitoring a quality of an object of a 3D-print job series of identical objects, each object built from a multitude of stacked 2D-layers printed by a 3D-printer in an additive manufacturing process, including: determining a layer quality indicator of a currently printed layer of an object, comparing the determined layer quality indicator of the currently printed layer with a predetermined lower confidence limit of the layer, the predetermined lower confidence limit being calculated depending on layer quality indicators of previously completely manufactured objects complying with predefined quality requirements, and generating a warning signal, if the layer quality indicator of the currently printed layer has a value equal or lower than the lower quality limit is provided.

Abstract: A blockchain database representing an additive manufacturing process includes a plurality of data blocks, wherein integrity of the blockchain is ensured by cryptographic encoding of consecutive blocks of the blockchain, and wherein each block of the blockchain holds data about an additive manufacturing process of a component which is to be manufactured via an additive manufacturing device, wherein data of each layer for the component is linked in a separate block of the blockchain.

Abstract: The present invention provides an enhanced setup of a 3D-printing device, especially to a laser powder bed fusion 3D-printing device. It is for this purpose, that data relating to previously printed products are stored in a database. When a new product is to be printed, the features of the new product are matched with features of previously printed products stored in the database. Accordingly, a suggestion for setting-up the 3D-printing device based on corresponding previously printed products and their setup parameters can be automatically determined and applied to the 3D-printing device.

Abstract: A method of providing a dataset for additive manufacturing includes collecting a first type of data for the dataset during the additive buildup of a at least one layer of a component to be manufactured, evaluating of the structural quality of the layer by the first type of data, modifying the first type of data in that fractions of the data representing an insufficient structural quality of the layer are deleted from the first type of data, and superimposing second type of data, to the first type of data, wherein the second type of data is suitable to support a validation of the structural quality of the as-manufactured component.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing of a component having the steps of manufacturing of a first segment for the component by a powder-bed manufacturing process, and the manufacturing of a second segment for the component originating from the first segment by an additive manufacturing process, such that the second segment projects by a projecting distance over at least one side face of the first segment. Furthermore, a component has the first segment being manufactured by the powder-bed manufacturing process and the second segment being manufactured by the additive manufacturing process, wherein the second segment projects by a projecting distance over at least one side face of the first segment.

Abstract: Movement restraining device (1) for partially immobilizing a body joint (10). The device comprises stopper elements (50, 60) having an abutment surface (100) and an abutting surface (70). One stopper element is pivotable, relative to the other stopper element. The device further has skin attachment means (90, 120) for attaching the stopper elements to skin. The abutment surfaces are arranged or shaped such that, in an abutting pivot position, they prevent pivoting in a first pivot direction (150), while allowing pivoting in a second pivot direction (160), opposite to the first pivot direction.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing system having at least one powder based additive manufacturing machine having a build chamber, at least one stationary powder storage container, and a powder feeding device for feeding powder from the at least one powder storage container into the build chamber. The build chamber, stationary powder storage container and powder feeding device form a part of a powder handling system, which is hermetically sealable in a powder-tight manner and to which a movable powder storage container is connected. The powder handling system selectively feeds powder from the movable powder storage container to the stationary powder storage container or removes powder from the build chamber in the hermetically sealed state. A method for feeding powder into and removing powder from a build chamber of at least one additive manufacturing machine, where the feeding and the removal of the powder takes place within a hermetically sealable powder handling system.

Abstract: A method for producing a workpiece, includes providing a substrate having a predetermined surface structure; coating the surface structure with a coating material, wherein the coating material is resistant to a production temperature of an additive production method; the additive production of a material for the workpiece on the coated surface structure using the additive production method such that the coated surface structure defines a base surface of the workpiece to be produced, and the detachment of the substrate. A workpiece is produced by the described method.

Abstract: The present invention provides an enhanced setup of a 3D-printing device, especially to a laser powder bed fusion 3D-printing device. It is for this purpose, that data relating to previously printed products are stored in a database. When a new product is to be printed, the features of the new product are matched with features of previously printed products stored in the database. Accordingly, a suggestion for setting-up the 3D-printing device based on corresponding previously printed products and their setup parameters can be automatically determined and applied to the 3D-printing device.

Abstract: A burner device for a gas turbine with a burner body, wherein the burner body has an axial end face, a first supply channel having a first opening in the axial end face, and a burner end element arranged at the axial end face. The burner end element has a first plenum chamber coupled to the first opening of the first supply channel, such that a first fluid is feedable from the first supply channel to the first plenum chamber. The burner end element further has a lattice structure with a plurality of interconnected pores, wherein the first plenum chamber is coupled to the lattice structure for feeding the first fluid into the lattice structure. The lattice structure forms a part of a burner surface which points to a burning chamber of the gas turbine such that a fluid connection between the burning chamber and the lattice structure is formed.

Abstract: A turbomachine component, gas turbine combustor component, or burner component, including a body with a first, second and third section, the sections being integrally formed with another and built from a same material, and an end face of the first section of the body. The end face, during operation, is exposed to a first temperature higher than a second temperature of a cooling fluid. The second section is located between the first and third section and is formed in parts as a lattice structure. The lattice structure has a plurality of rod-shaped struts, wherein each of a first set of the plurality of struts has a first end, the first end being connected to the first section, and a void penetrated by the plurality of struts, the void providing at least one fluid passage via which the cooling fluid is guidable through an interior of the second section during operation.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing of a component having the steps of manufacturing of a first segment for the component by a powder-bed manufacturing process, and the manufacturing of a second segment for the component originating from the first segment by an additive manufacturing process, such that the second segment projects by a projecting distance over at least one side face of the first segment. Furthermore, a component has the first segment being manufactured by the powder-bed manufacturing process and the second segment being manufactured by the additive manufacturing process, wherein the second segment projects by a projecting distance over at least one side face of the first segment.

Abstract: A rotating machine component, particularly a gas turbine combustion component, having at least one part built from a porous material with a plurality of pores, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of pores is at least partly filled with a gas with a composition different from air and/or with a powder, wherein the porous material is a laser sintered or laser melted material in which void local regions form the plurality of pores. The component counter-acts vibrations. A rotating machine or gas turbine engine may have such a component.

Abstract: A part (P) includes a first (FP), and a second portion (SP), which meet at an interface (IF). A channel (CH) extends from the first portion (FP) through the interface (IF) into the second portion (SP). Further there is a method to generate the part (P). To refurbish a part with tiny geometry channels, the second portion (SP) is produced by additive manufacturing technology on the interface (IF) with the first portion (FP), the channel (CH) has a first average diameter (DI) in the first portion (FP) and the interface (IF), and the channel (CH) has a second average diameter (D2) in the second portion (SP) at said interface (IF). The second diameter (D2) is larger than the first diameter (DI). The channel (CH) has a first tapered portion (TP) which narrows in the second portion (SP) at increasing distance from the interface (IF).

Abstract: A burner device for a gas turbine with a burner body, wherein the burner body has an axial end face, a first supply channel having a first opening in the axial end face, and a burner end element arranged at the axial end face. The burner end element has a first plenum chamber coupled to the first opening of the first supply channel, such that a first fluid is feedable from the first supply channel to the first plenum chamber. The burner end element further has a lattice structure with a plurality of interconnected pores, wherein the first plenum chamber is coupled to the lattice structure for feeding the first fluid into the lattice structure. The lattice structure forms a part of a burner surface which points to a burning chamber of the gas turbine such that a fluid connection between the burning chamber and the lattice structure is formed.

Abstract: A part (P) includes a first (FP), and a second portion (SP), which meet at an interface (IF). A channel (CH) extends from the first portion (FP) through the interface (IF) into the second portion (SP). Further there is a method to generate the part (P). To refurbish a part with tiny geometry channels, the second portion (SP) is produced by additive manufacturing technology on the interface (IF) with the first portion (FP), the channel (CH) has a first average diameter (DI) in the first portion (FP) and the interface (IF), and the channel (CH) has a second average diameter (D2) in the second portion (SP) at said interface (IF). The second diameter (D2) is larger than the first diameter (DI). The channel (CH) has a first tapered portion (TP) which narrows in the second portion (SP) at increasing distance from the interface (IF).

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a component by selective laser melting and to provide heat treatment to the component is provided. The method includes building a heat treatment device adapted to provide a heat treatment to the component as part of the same selective laser melting for manufacturing the component and providing a heat treatment to the component by the heat treatment device.