Patents by Inventor DION VAUGHAN

DION VAUGHAN 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).

  • Manufacturing apparatus comprising collocated reduction apparatus, processor and additive-manufacturing apparatus
    Patent number: 11498128
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for manufacturing a metallic article involve providing a non-metallic feedstock, for example in the form of an oxide of a desired metal or a mixture of oxides of the components of a desired metal alloy. A manufacturing apparatus has a reduction apparatus for electrochemically reducing the feedstock to a metallic product and a processor for converting the metallic product to a metallic powder. The powder is fed into an additive-manufacturing apparatus for fabricating the metallic article from the metallic powder. At least the reduction apparatus and the processor, and preferably also the additive-manufacturing apparatus, are collocated, or located in the same container, or in the same building, or on the same site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: METALYSIS LIMITED
    Inventors: Dion Vaughan, Melchiorre Conti
  • MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20190275589
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for manufacturing a metallic article involve providing a non-metallic feedstock, for example in the form of an oxide of a desired metal or a mixture of oxides of the components of a desired metal alloy. A manufacturing apparatus has a reduction apparatus for electrochemically reducing the feedstock to a metallic product and a processor for converting the metallic product to a metallic powder. The powder is fed into an additive-manufacturing apparatus for fabricating the metallic article from the metallic powder. At least the reduction apparatus and the processor, and preferably also the additive-manufacturing apparatus, are collocated, or located in the same container, or in the same building, or on the same site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: DION VAUGHAN, MELCHIORRE CONTI