Abstract: A method for manufacturing an article on top of a base device with an additive manufacturing device, having a build plate, using an additive manufacturing process is provided. The method includes positioning the base device on the build plate and providing a cover layer on the build plate, wherein the cover layer has a recess for the base device. The method further include manufacturing the article on top of the base device.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an article requiring support on top of a base device using an additive manufacturing process in an additive manufacturing device having a build plate, is provided. The build plate includes a receptacle arranged for receiving the base device and an insert, provided in proximity to the base device. The insert is arranged for having a support for the article manufactured thereon. The method includes the step of manufacturing the article on top of the base device, and manufacturing the support for the article on top of the insert.

Abstract: A method for producing a metal cutting tool component and a metal cutting tool component. The method includes the step of producing a front module having a main body and a front module interface at a rear end thereof, providing an intermediate element and building, using an additive manufacturing process, the main body on the build surface of the intermediate element. Further, a rear module including a coupling part at a rear end thereof and a rear module interface at a front end thereof is provided, and mounting the front module on the rear module by immovably connecting the front module and rear module interfaces, after the front module has been mounted on the rear module, machining at least one surface of the main body, and heat treating the intermediate element with the built main body, wherein at least the main body is hardened.

Abstract: A binder jet printer for additive manufacturing includes a build chamber and at least one further build chamber, a powder supply source configured to provide powder to both of the build chambers, a leveling assembly for leveling the powder beds in the build chambers to form leveled powder beds in the build chambers, a print head configured for depositing binder on the leveled powder beds, a radiant configured to irradiate the powder beds, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the powder supply source to provide powder to the build chamber and the further build chamber, control the leveling assemblies in both build chambers, control the print head to deposit binder on the leveled powder beds, wait a predetermined time for the deposited binder to soak into the powder beds, and control the radiant to irradiate the soaked powder beds in the build chambers.

Abstract: A powder dispensing apparatus for an additive manufacturing system includes a container. The container has an upper opening for introducing powder, a bottom formed by an elongated roller rotatable around a central rotation axis that extends in a longitudinal direction, wherein the roller, in a main section thereof, has an outer surface having a single or several cavities distributed therein for receiving and holding powder, and a first and a second side wall extending upwards from the roller along the main section. The apparatus further includes an elongated scraping device extending in the longitudinal direction beside the roller and below a lower edge of the first side wall and arranged to contact the outer surface of the roller along the main section and, when the roller is rotated, to slide into and out of the cavities and thereby scrape the inside of the cavities and remove any powder therefrom.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an object of metal, wherein the object is built with an additive manufacturing process on at least one base device having a build surface at one end. The base device is part of a base device system, which includes the base device and a supporting means holding the base device in a fixed position during the additive manufacturing process. The method includes the steps of building the object on at least a part of the base device build surface with the additive manufacturing process, removing the base device from the supporting means, connecting the base device to a CNC machine provided with at least one machining tool, and separating the built object from the base device by means of a machining tool in the CNC machine.

Abstract: A tool body and a tool for cutting machining, wherein the tool body extends in an axial direction and at least a portion of the tool body is formed with a solid outer jacket encasing a core structure. The core structure includes a three-dimensional open lattice structure attached to the outer jacket and made of a lattice structure material. The core structure further includes a filling structure of a solid phase filling material that is different from the lattice structure material, wherein the filling structure surrounds the lattice structure. The lattice structure and the outer jacket are manufactured using additive manufacturing and the filling material is added to the lattice structure in the form of a liquid or a powder, which is thereafter solidified.

Abstract: A tool for chip-removing machining including a tool body and at least one cutting insert mounted in an insert seat of the tool body. The cutting insert includes an upper side and a lower side directed toward a bottom contact surface of the insert seat. The cutting insert is formed by sintering together two compacted powder parts, one of the parts forming an upper part and the other forming a lower part. An imaginary plane is defined between the lower and upper parts. A side surface extends between the upper and lower sides around the periphery of the cutting insert, and at least one cutting edge is formed in a transition between the upper side and the side surface. The tool is configured so that the tool body contacts the side surface of the cutting insert only above the imaginary plane along an upper part of the side surface.

Abstract: A tool body and a tool for cutting machining, wherein the tool body extends in an axial direction and at least a portion of the tool body is formed with a solid outer jacket encasing a core structure. The core structure includes a three-dimensional open lattice structure attached to the outer jacket and made of a lattice structure material. The core structure further includes a filling structure of a solid phase filling material that is different from the lattice structure material, wherein the filling structure surrounds the lattice structure. The lattice structure and the outer jacket are manufactured using additive manufacturing and the filling material is added to the lattice structure in the form of a liquid or a powder, which is thereafter solidified.

Abstract: A method for transferring an assembly of oriented nanowires from a liquid interface onto a surface including providing a first liquid and a second liquid, wherein the first and second liquids phase separate into a bottom phase, a top phase and an interface between the bottom phase and the top phase, providing nanowires in the first and second liquids such that the majority of the nanowires are located at the interface and providing the nanowires onto a substrate such that a majority of the nanowires are aligned with respect to each other on the substrate.

Abstract: A tool for chip-removing machining including a tool body and at least one cutting insert mounted in an insert seat of the tool body. The cutting insert includes an upper side and a lower side directed toward a bottom contact surface of the insert seat. The cutting insert is formed by sintering together two compacted powder parts, one of the parts forming an upper part and the other forming a lower part. An imaginary plane is defined between the lower and upper parts. A side surface extends between the upper and lower sides around the periphery of the cutting insert, and at least one cutting edge is formed in a transition between the upper side and the side surface. The tool is configured so that the tool body contacts the side surface of the cutting insert only above the imaginary plane along an upper part of the side surface.

Abstract: An indexable cutting insert for a milling tool includes an upper side defining an upper extension plane and a lower side defining a lower extension plane parallel to the upper extension plane. A side surface connects the upper side and the lower side, the side surface including a plurality of upper main clearance surfaces and secondary clearance surfaces. At least six identical and alternately usable upper cutting edges extend around the upper side. Each cutting edge has a chip removing main cutting edge portion and at least one secondary cutting edge portion. The main cutting edge portion is formed in a transition between the upper side and one of the upper main clearance surfaces. The secondary cutting edge portion is formed in a transition between the upper side and one of the secondary clearance surfaces between two main cutting edge portions. The upper main clearance surfaces are formed at an obtuse inner angle ? with respect to the upper extension plane as seen in side elevation view.

Abstract: A face milling tool includes a tool body having a central rotation axis around which the tool is rotatable, and at least one insert seat formed in a transition between a front end and an envelope surface of the tool. The tool further includes at least one cutting insert mounted in the insert seat, the cutting insert having an upper side defining an upper extension plane, a cutting edge extending around the circumference of the upper side, and a lower side defining a lower extension plane directed towards the bottom support surface of the insert seat. A center axis extends perpendicularly through the upper and the lower extension planes. The tool is configured such that a main cutting edge portion is at an entering angle ? smaller than 80° and such that the upper extension plane is at a radial tipping-in angle ?60°??f??25° and at an axial tipping-in angle ?20°??m?0°, such that an angle of inclination ? of the main cutting edge portion is within the range 15°???50°.

Abstract: A method for transferring an assembly of oriented nanowires from a liquid interface onto a surface including providing a first liquid and a second liquid, wherein the first and second liquids phase separate into a bottom phase, a top phase and an interface between the bottom phase and the top phase, providing nanowires in the first and second liquids such that the majority of the nanowires are located at the interface and providing the nanowires onto a substrate such that a majority of the nanowires are aligned with respect to each other on the substrate.

Abstract: A double-sided, indexable milling insert has a round basic shape defined by an imaginary cylinder, which is concentric with a center axis and extends between two reference planes that extend perpendicular to the center axis and are equidistantly separated from a neutral plane. The milling insert includes a pair of opposite chip faces located in the reference planes between which an envelope surface concentric with the center axis extends, a plurality of identical and alternately usable cutting edges along the peripheries of the chip faces, and lock means for rotationally securing the milling insert in one of several predetermined index positions. The individual cutting edge has the shape of a wave trough and includes two edge segments that meet at a bottom point.

Abstract: An indexable cutting insert for a milling tool includes an upper side defining an upper extension plane and a lower side defining a lower extension plane parallel to the upper extension plane. A side surface connects the upper side and the lower side, the side surface including a plurality of upper main clearance surfaces and secondary clearance surfaces. At least six identical and alternately usable upper cutting edges extend around the upper side. Each cutting edge has a chip removing main cutting edge portion and at least one secondary cutting edge portion. The main cutting edge portion is formed in a transition between the upper side and one of the upper main clearance surfaces. The secondary cutting edge portion is formed in a transition between the upper side and one of the secondary clearance surfaces between two main cutting edge portions. The upper main clearance surfaces are formed at an obtuse inner angle ? with respect to the upper extension plane as seen in side elevation view.

Abstract: A face milling tool includes a tool body having a central rotation axis around which the tool is rotatable, and at least one insert seat formed in a transition between a front end and an envelope surface of the tool. The tool further includes at least one cutting insert mounted in the insert seat, the cutting insert having an upper side defining an upper extension plane, a cutting edge extending around the circumference of the upper side, and a lower side defining a lower extension plane directed towards the bottom support surface of the insert seat. A center axis extends perpendicularly through the upper and the lower extension planes. The tool is configured such that a main cutting edge portion is at an entering angle ? smaller than 80° and such that the upper extension plane is at a radial tipping-in angle ?60°??f??25° and at an axial tipping-in angle ?20°??m?0°, such that an angle of inclination ? of the main cutting edge portion is within the range 15°???50°.