Patents by Inventor Eugene Gore
Eugene Gore 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).
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Patent number: 11969938Abstract: A three-dimensional object comprises stacked substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material comprising engineered powder that is transformed into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions, and does not infiltrate negative regions, in the substrate layers. The powder may be emulsion aggregation powder, chemically-produced toner powder, or a combination. It may be a thermoplastic or thermosettable polymer and may include nylon, elastomers, polyolefins, polyethylene, polyether ether ketone, polyimide, polyetherimide, polyphenylene sulfide, polystyrene, polypropylene, polymethyl methacrylate, and polyaryletherketone, or a combination. The powder particles may have a pre-specified controlled shape and/or a non-homogenous composition. Surface treatments and/or additives may be used to control powder flow and charge distribution. Each substrate layer may be a sheet-like structure comprising fibers held together by binder.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist, Michael Vasquez, John Bayldon
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Patent number: 11970584Abstract: Waste product from any of a variety of processes (injection molding, selective laser sintering) is processed to form powders that have particle size and distribution optimal for a 3D printing technology known as Composite Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM). Alternative recycling processes include grinding and sieving, emulsion extruding, and liquid-liquid phase separation.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Michael Vasquez, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore
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Patent number: 11969954Abstract: A method and apparatus for resistive heating usable in composite-based additive manufacturing is disclosed. The method includes providing a prepared stack of substrate sheets, placing the stack between electrode assemblies of a compression device, applying a current to thereby heat the stack to a final temperature to liquefy applied powder, compressing the stack to a final height, cooling the stack, and removing the cooled, compressed stack from the compression device. The apparatus comprises at least two plates, a power supply for providing current, a first electrode assembly and a second electrode assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, John Bayldon, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore
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Patent number: 11904536Abstract: An apparatus and method for the automated manufacturing of three-dimensional (3D) composite-based objects is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a material feeder, a printer, a powder system, a transfer system, and optionally a fuser. The method comprises inserting a stack of substrate sheets into a material feeder, transferring a sheet of the stack from the material feeder to a printer, depositing fluid on the single sheet while the sheet rests on a printer platen, transferring the sheet from the printer to a powder system, depositing powder onto the single sheet such that the powder adheres to the areas of the sheet onto which the printer has deposited fluid, removing any powder that did not adhere to the sheet, optionally melting the powder on the substrate, and repeating the steps for as many additional sheets as required for making a specified 3D object.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist, John Bayldon, Chris Wagner, Nicholas Tarzian, Evangeline Su
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Patent number: 11904549Abstract: A felt gripper head contains two regions of felt material each on plates that slide and form a slight angle with respect to each other during engagement with a fibrous substrate material.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: James Brough, Robert Swartz, Nick Tarzian, Eugene Gore
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Patent number: 11904532Abstract: A system and method for lifting substrate sheets off of a stack of porous sheets one at a time, even though the sheets tend to stick together. A felt tamp is lowered onto the stack of sheets, and as the tamp is raised, a set of edge flickers create a downward force on the corners of the top sheet. This causes the edges of the top sheet to bend downward slightly just enough to pry the second sheet loose from the top sheet. The tamp can then be further raised with only the top sheet adhering to the felt, and the lifted sheet can be deposited at the next station in the process. Periodically, a brush is used to renew the surface of the felt to prevent matting of the felt fibers.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, James Brough, Eugene Gore
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Publication number: 20230391976Abstract: Waste product from any of a variety of processes (injection molding, selective laser sintering) is processed to form powders that have particle size and distribution optimal for a 3D printing technology known as Composite Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM). Alternative recycling processes include grinding and sieving, emulsion extruding, and liquid-liquid phase separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2022Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS, INC.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Michael Vasquez, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore
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Patent number: 11806935Abstract: A method of residual ink removal in an ink-dependent 3-D printing process includes pre-heating a build block to an evaporation temperature. This is preferably done after stacking and before compression. Later compression will then involve a higher temperature to allow fusing of thermoplastic material in the build block, but without residual ink.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist, Darren Fill, John Bayldon
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Publication number: 20230339174Abstract: A three-dimensional object comprises stacked substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. Each substrate layer is a sheet-like structure that comprises fibers held together by a sodium silicate binder. The substrate layer material may be non-woven or woven. The substrate layer may be a non-woven fiber veil bound by a sodium silicate binder. The fibers may optionally include carbon fibers, ceramic fibers, polymer fibers, glass fibers, metal fibers, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist, Michael Vasquez, John Bayldon
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Publication number: 20230313352Abstract: A method, product, apparatus, and article of manufacture for the application of the Composite Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) method to produce objects in metal, and in metal fiber hybrids or composites. The approach has many advantages, including the ability to produce more complex geometries than conventional methods such as milling and casting, improved material properties, higher production rates and the elimination of complex fixturing, complex tool paths and tool changes and, for casting, the need for patterns and tools. The approach works by slicing a 3D model, selectively printing a fluid onto a sheet of substrate material for each layer based on the model, flooding onto the substrate a powdered metal to which the fluid adheres in printed areas, clamping and aligning a stack of coated sheets, heating the stacked sheets to melt the powdered metal and fuse the layers of substrate, and removing excess powder and unfused substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, John Bayldon, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore
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Patent number: 11679601Abstract: A method/system of mechanical holdowns allows a substrate sheet in a CBAM (composite-based additive manufacturing technology) process to lie flat during printing. The invention includes a process of mechanically clamping sheets to be printed by a print head to a flat platen using a set of barrel cam driven clamping fingers. The finger supports are attached to the platen and the fingers can be raised and lowered with respect to the platen. Each finger can rotate while swinging downward toward a sheet at the edge of the platen. To clamp the sheet, the fingers are rotated to the perpendicular position and swung lower down to pinch the sheet to the platen. The process can include additional steps that release some, but not all, of the fingers to allow the sheet to relax before re-clamping them.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore, Drew Marschner
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Patent number: 11674207Abstract: A method, product, apparatus, and article of manufacture for the application of the Composite Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) method to produce objects in metal, and in metal fiber hybrids or composites. The approach has many advantages, including the ability to produce more complex geometries than conventional methods such as milling and casting, improved material properties, higher production rates and the elimination of complex fixturing, complex tool paths and tool changes and, for casting, the need for patterns and tools. The approach works by slicing a 3D model, selectively printing a fluid onto a sheet of substrate material for each layer based on the model, flooding onto the substrate a powdered metal to which the fluid adheres in printed areas, clamping and aligning a stack of coated sheets, heating the stacked sheets to melt the powdered metal and fuse the layers of substrate, and removing excess powder and unfused substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, John Bayldon, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore
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Patent number: 11673320Abstract: A three-dimensional object comprises stacked substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. Each substrate layer is a sheet-like structure that comprises fibers held together by a sodium silicate binder. The substrate layer material may be non-woven or woven. The substrate layer may be a non-woven fiber veil bound by a sodium silicate binder. The fibers may optionally include carbon fibers, ceramic fibers, polymer fibers, glass fibers, metal fibers, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist, Michael Vasquez, John Bayldon
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Patent number: 11673336Abstract: A collection of camera-based monitoring sub-systems can be added to a composite-based additive manufacturing (CBAM) system to autonomously inspect the integrity of each layer and remediate issues in real time. Cameras are located at various stations throughout the process. Resulting images are analyzed to see if processed pages are within tolerance based on comparison with models. Cameras can be placed at the print platen, on a rear conveyor that conveys powdered pages to the stacker and in the stacker itself to make sure pages are stacked and aligned properly. The present invention provides quality assurance and quality control to validate the build process at the layer level. This reduces the amount of post-build labor to perform, and since it shows data internal to the part, it dramatically reduces the amount of destructive testing required.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Leonard Wanger, John Bayldon, Jeffrey Saltzman, Charles Pint, Eugene Gore, Gintaras Vaisnys, Giovanni Meier, Alon Henson
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Patent number: 11667081Abstract: A double dump valve apparatus has the doors flap open in opposite horizontal orientations and directions.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventor: Eugene Gore
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Patent number: 11584080Abstract: A platen for a 3D printer apparatus contains tab pairs for the winding of a single wire to form the platen surface after being wound back and forth across its length. Punch backs for hole punching onto such a sheet exist on aluminum blocks that secure rails between which the platen is assembled onto the printer table top.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore
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Publication number: 20230043624Abstract: A platen for a 3D printer apparatus contains tab pairs for the winding of a single wire to form the platen surface after being wound back and forth across its length. Punch backs for hole punching onto such a sheet exist on aluminum blocks that secure rails between which the platen is assembled onto the printer table top.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore
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Publication number: 20230042869Abstract: An apparatus and method for the automated manufacturing of three-dimensional (3D) composite-based objects is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a material feeder, a printer, a powder system, a transfer system, and optionally a fuser. The method comprises inserting a stack of substrate sheets into a material feeder, transferring a sheet of the stack from the material feeder to a printer, depositing fluid on the single sheet while the sheet rests on a printer platen, transferring the sheet from the printer to a powder system, depositing powder onto the single sheet such that the powder adheres to the areas of the sheet onto which the printer has deposited fluid, removing any powder that did not adhere to the sheet, optionally melting the powder on the substrate, and repeating the steps for as many additional sheets as required for making a specified 3D object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: Impossible Objects Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist, John Balydon, Chris Wagner, Nicholas Tarzian, Evangeline Su
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Publication number: 20230042876Abstract: A felt gripper head contains two regions of felt material each on plates that slide and form a slight angle with respect to each other during engagement with a fibrous substrate material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: James Brough, Robert Swartz, Nick Tarzian, Eugene Gore
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Patent number: 11413790Abstract: An apparatus and method for the automated manufacturing of three-dimensional (3D) composite-based objects is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a material feeder, a printer, a powder system, a transfer system, and optionally a fuser. The method comprises inserting a stack of substrate sheets into a material feeder, transferring a sheet of the stack from the material feeder to a printer, depositing fluid on the single sheet while the sheet rests on a printer platen, transferring the sheet from the printer to a powder system, depositing powder onto the single sheet such that the powder adheres to the areas of the sheet onto which the printer has deposited fluid, removing any powder that did not adhere to the sheet, optionally melting the powder on the substrate, and repeating the steps for as many additional sheets as required for making a specified 3D object.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS, INC.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist, John Bayldon, Chris Wagner, Nicholas Tarzian, Evangeline Su