Patents by Inventor Diana Giulietti

Diana Giulietti has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10220422
    Abstract: A method includes issuing a state change fluid into an internal passage of an additively manufactured article and causing the state change fluid to change from a first state having a first viscosity to a second state that is either solid or has a second viscosity that is higher than the first viscosity within the internal passage. The method can also include causing the state change fluid to change back from the second state to the first state and flushing the state change fluid from the internal passage to remove residual powder from the additively manufactured article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Diana Giulietti, Eric Karlen, Sergey Mironets, Colette O. Fennessy, Kiley J. Versluys
  • Patent number: 10195667
    Abstract: A method includes placing an additively manufactured article having one or more internal channels in a non-reactive liquid to remove remainder powder from within the one or more internal channels, wherein the non-reactive liquid is a gas at room temperature and/or pressure. Placing the additively manufactured article in the non-reactive liquid includes can include placing the additively manufactured article in liquid nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Delavan Inc.
    Inventors: Diana Giulietti, Eric Karlen, Kiley J. Versluys
  • Publication number: 20180370216
    Abstract: An example method of making a component includes providing a digital model of a component to software, the software operable to slice the model into layers and raster each layer into segments, the segments delineated by raster lines. The method further includes depositing a layer of powder onto a platform, compacting the layer of power into a compacted layer, sintering the compacted layer along lines corresponding to the raster lines using a laser, wherein the laser operates at a first power and a first scan speed, the first power being between about 200 and 230 W, then sintering the compacted layer along a perimeter of the compacted layer using the laser to form a unitary layer, wherein the laser operates at a second power and a second scan speed, the second power being between about 100 and 200 W. An apparatus for making a component is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Sergey Mironets, William Louis Wentland, Diana Giulietti, Colette Opsahl Fennessy
  • Publication number: 20180370215
    Abstract: An example method of making a component includes providing a digital model of a component to a software program, the software program operable to slice the digital model into digital layers and raster each digital layer into digital segments, the digital segments delineated by digital raster lines. The method further includes depositing a first layer of powdered material onto a platform, compacting the first layer of powered material into a first compacted layer, sintering the first compacted layer along lines corresponding to the digital raster lines using a laser, wherein the laser operates at a first power and a first scan speed, and sintering the first compacted layer along a perimeter of the first compacted layer using the laser to form a first unitary layer, wherein the laser operates at a second power and a second scan speed, wherein the ratio of the first power to the second power is less than about 3. An apparatus for making a component is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Sergey Mironets, William Louis Wentland, Diana Giulietti, Colette Opsahl Fennessy
  • Publication number: 20180210996
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating a manufacturing dataset having cloned geometric features for an additive manufacturing process includes identifying, via a processor, a repeating design feature in a first manufacturing dataset that defines a three-dimensional workpiece. The method further includes determining, via the processor, a processing cost or benefit for cloning the repeating design feature, and generating, via the processor, a second dataset having with repeating design feature isolated responsive to the determined processing benefit. The method includes generating, via the processor, a third dataset from the first manufacturing dataset. The third dataset that replaces the repeating design feature with a reference to the second dataset having the repeating design feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventor: Diana Giulietti
  • Publication number: 20180111191
    Abstract: A method for making an article is disclosed. According to the method, a digital model of the article is inputted into an additive manufacturing apparatus. The additive manufacturing apparatus applies energy from an energy source to a metal powder to fuse the metal powder particles and form fused metal at a first density in at least a portion of the article corresponding to the digital model. The fused metal is heated with application of an electric field and applying pressure to increase the density of the fused metal to a second density greater than the first density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Sergey Mironets, Diana Giulietti, Kiley James Versluys
  • Publication number: 20180085829
    Abstract: A method of making an article includes coating an article formed using an additive manufacturing process technique, such as with laser sintering or a powder bed fusion technique. Pressure is thereafter applied to the coating and one or more surface-connected pores defined within the article are closed with the pressure. The coating is thereafter removed from the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventor: Diana Giulietti
  • Publication number: 20170369205
    Abstract: A powder container can include a body defining a chamber having a bulk opening, a moveable cover configured to selectively cover the bulk opening, and a hopper nozzle extending from the body and in fluid communication with the chamber configured to allow powder to exit or enter the chamber, the hopper nozzle being smaller than the bulk opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Diana Giulietti, Matthew Donovan, Kiley J. Versluys, Daniel Brindley
  • Publication number: 20170364058
    Abstract: A method of producing a heat exchanger includes designing the heat exchanger to include a wall with a target thickness. A model is created relating process parameters to geometry of a single track melt pool and relating the single track melt pool geometry to a heat exchanger wall thickness. At least one variable process parameter is defined. The model, heat exchanger wall target thickness, and variable process parameters are used to identify a set of process parameters to produce the heat exchanger wall target thickness. The melt pool geometry is predicted based on the model and process parameters. The heat exchanger wall target thickness is predicted based on the melt pool geometry. The process parameters that will produce the heat exchanger wall target thickness are identified. The additive manufacturing process is controlled based upon the identified set of process parameters to create the heat exchanger wall target thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Vijay Jagdale, Ranadip Acharya, Tahany Ibrahim El-Wardany, Colette O. Fennessy, Sergey Mironets, Diana Giulietti, Kiley James Versluys
  • Publication number: 20170291263
    Abstract: A method for selecting an alloy for additive manufacturing includes melting a first material and a second material together to create a material melt, spinning the material melt to create melt spun ribbons, welding the ribbons together to produce a weld, and determining a weld quality of the weld.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Sergey Mironets, William L. Wentland, Eric Karlen, Matthew Donovan, Thomas J. Ocken, Kiley J. Versluys, Robert Bianco, Diana Giulietti
  • Patent number: 9718086
    Abstract: A cap for an additive manufacturing recoater rake includes a clip portion defining a slot configured to receive a side edge portion of a recoater rake, and an angled surface extending from the clip portion. The angled surface is configured to contain powder pushed by the recoater rake on the powder bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Diana Giulietti, Kiley J. Versluys
  • Publication number: 20170197248
    Abstract: A method of making an article is disclosed in which a fusible material is fused with an energy beam applied to the fusible material at a build location with a scanning pattern comprising a plurality of parallel lines terminating at the contoured edge. An energy beam is also applied with a vector scanning pattern at the build location along the contoured edge to liquefy and re-solidify material at the build location along the contoured edge. The method also includes controlling vector scanning energy beam intensity, vector scanning energy beam scanning speed, vector scanning energy beam focus depth, or any combination thereof as a function of an angle between the plurality of parallel lines and the vector along the contoured edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Diana Giulietti
  • Publication number: 20170197249
    Abstract: A method of making an article is disclosed involving determining a plurality of patterns of discrete sections for a plurality of layers of fusible material. According to the method, the patterns are determined having section boundaries that avoid alignment with section boundaries of other layer patterns among the plurality of patterns according to criteria specified for the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Kiley James Versluys, Diana Giulietti
  • Publication number: 20170144226
    Abstract: A method includes placing an additively manufactured article having one or more internal channels in a non-reactive liquid to remove remainder powder from within the one or more internal channels, wherein the non-reactive liquid is a gas at room temperature and/or pressure. Placing the additively manufactured article in the non-reactive liquid includes can include placing the additively manufactured article in liquid nitrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Diana Giulietti, Eric Karlen, Kiley J. Versluys
  • Publication number: 20170136702
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an image from an optical imaging device disposed in operative communication with an additive manufacturing machine, wherein the image includes at least part of a build area of the additive manufacturing machine, determining a reflectance of at least a portion the build area based on the image to create reflectance data, and determining a quality of one or more of an additive manufacturing process and/or product based on the reflectance data. The method can further include converting the image to greyscale if the image is not in greyscale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Diana Giulietti, Kiley J. Versluys
  • Publication number: 20170136704
    Abstract: A method includes receiving torque data of a powder recoater operatively connected to an additive manufacturing system. The torque data includes torque data of the recoater when the recoater traverses a build area. The method also includes determining a quality of one or more of an additive manufacturing process and/or product based on the torque data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Diana Giulietti, Kiley J. Versluys
  • Publication number: 20170136695
    Abstract: A method includes receiving torque data of a powder recoater operatively connected to an additive manufacturing system. The torque data includes torque data of the recoater when the recoater traverses a build area. Receiving torque data includes receiving force data from a plurality of load cells, each load cell operatively associated with a blade segment of a recoater blade assembly. The method also includes determining a quality of one or more of an additive manufacturing process and/or product based on the torque data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Kiley J. Versluys, Diana Giulietti
  • Publication number: 20170113253
    Abstract: A method includes issuing a state change fluid into an internal passage of an additively manufactured article and causing the state change fluid to change from a first state having a first viscosity to a second state that is either solid or has a second viscosity that is higher than the first viscosity within the internal passage. The method can also include causing the state change fluid to change back from the second state to the first state and flushing the state change fluid from the internal passage to remove residual powder from the additively manufactured article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Diana Giulietti, Eric Karlen, Sergey Mironets, Colette O. Fennessy, Kiley J. Versluys
  • Publication number: 20170113242
    Abstract: A cap for an additive manufacturing recoater rake includes a clip portion defining a slot configured to receive a side edge portion of a recoater rake, and an angled surface extending from the clip portion. The angled surface is configured to contain powder pushed by the recoater rake on the powder bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Diana Giulietti, Kiley J. Verslys
  • Publication number: 20170080496
    Abstract: A method for forming a part includes: forming a first portion of the part at a first level; forming a second portion of the part at a second level; wherein forming the first and second portions includes exposing the first and second levels to a sintering process and portions of the first and second levels to an electron beam; causing a magnetorheological (MR) fluid to move into a passage inside the first and second portions; exposing the first and second portions to a magnetic field causing motion of particles in the MR fluid to move and break up sintered material in the passage; and removing some or all of the sintered material in the passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Eric Karlen, Sergey Mironets, Diana Giulietti, Kiley James Versluys, Colette O. Fennessy, William Louis Wentland