Patents by Inventor Oliver Refle

Oliver Refle 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: 9120269
    Abstract: A device and a method are described for feeding a material layer onto a construction platform, or onto at least one material layer located on the construction platform, for producing an object, which is mounted to linearly move relative to a material reservoir and the construction platform along a motion plane. A circulating band is stretched around at least two molded bodies and contacts the molded bodies at least in segments. A drive circulates the band around the at least two bodies. The band has a band segment which can be fixedly in position relative to at least one body in the longitudinal section around the at least two molded bodies. At least the segments contact the material stored in the material reservoir during the linear motion from the material reservoir to the construction platform so that at least a part of the material is stripped off from the material reservoir and is applied as the material layer to the construction platform to compress the material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Andrzej Grzesiak, Oliver Refle, Hans-Jürgen Richter, Reinhard Lenk
  • Publication number: 20120118705
    Abstract: A device and a method are described for feeding a material layer onto a construction platform, or onto at least one material layer located on the construction platform, for producing an object, which is mounted so it is linearly movable relative to a material reservoir and the construction platform along a motion plane, to which the material reservoir and the construction platform can be orthogonally deflected. A circulating band IS stretched around at least two molded bodies, which contacts at least in segments the molded bodies. a drive circulates the band around the at least two bodies. The band has a band segment which can be fixedly assigned relative to at least one body in the longitudinal section around the at least two molded bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Andrzej Grzesiak, Oliver Refle, Hans-Jürgen Richter, Reinhard Lenk