Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for fusing one or more cross sections in a powder layer for building one or more objects layer by layer with electron beam powder bed fusion. The method may include: pre-sintering only the cross sections in the powder layer by scanning the cross sections with a first line energy; and fusing the cross sections by scanning the cross sections with a second line energy. The second line energy exceeds the first line energy by at least a factor of 2.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a component in layers includes dropwise application of a liquid material using a printhead. More particularly, a layer (14) of the component to be produced is divided into an outer region (20) and a central core region (18), and the liquid material (16) is applied successively in the outer region (20) and the core region (18). One or more parameters relating to the spacing between paths to be traversed, the drop size, the spacing between successive drops, etc. is selected so that the layer (14) will have a thickness that is as uniform as possible.

Abstract: An improved exhaust system and method for an apparatus that removes support material from additively manufactured parts is disclosed. The apparatus includes an enclosed chamber in which the additively manufactured parts are placed. A heated detergent fluid is sprayed at the additively manufactured parts. The improved exhaust system exhausts heated air from the chamber. The improved exhaust system includes an exhaust channel having an inlet end open to the chamber through which heated air from the chamber is caused to flow. Relatively cooler air is caused to flow across the outside of the exhaust channel. When the heated air from the chamber encounters the exhaust channel across which the relatively cooler air is caused to flow, evaporated fluids in the heated air condense and fall back into the chamber. The improved exhaust system can be retrofitted onto older models of the support removal apparatus that do not have the improved exhaust system.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for cleaning powder residues of an additive layer build-up method away from an at least partly additively manufactured component by a cleaning device, wherein a machine plate and the component arranged thereon are excited to mechanical oscillation during a cleaning process by a vibration actuator of the cleaning device with a set resonant frequency of the machine plate. According to the invention, before the cleaning process is carried out, a resonant frequency of the machine plate is set to the set resonant frequency by an arrangement of a mass element on a securing element of the machine plate.

Abstract: A sintered material includes diamond grains and a binder. A boron concentration in the diamond grains is more than or equal to 0.001 mass % and less than or equal to 0.9 mass %. A boron concentration in the binder is more than or equal to 0.5 mass % and less than or equal to 40 mass %.

Abstract: A diamond coated tool includes a base material and a diamond layer provided on the base material. The diamond layer has a boron content of 1×103 ppma or more and 1×106 ppma or less and an oxygen content of 1×102 ppma or more and 1×105 ppma or less in a first region surrounded by a surface of the diamond layer and a first imaginary plane located at a distance of 1 ?m from the surface in a thickness direction.

Abstract: A guide for cutting a dowel pin of a rotor assembly is provided. The guide includes a catch basin, including a first catch basin portion and a second catch basin portion, and a shim. The first catch basin portion and the second catch basin portion form a cutting tool receiver. The shim extends from a first edge having a cross-section that is complementary to a surface of the rotor assembly. The first catch basin portion and the second catch basin portion form a receptacle that accommodates and retains portions of a dowel pin during and after removal of the dowel pin from the rotor assembly. The cutting tool receiver is defined by a receiver edge configured to guide a cutting surface of a cutting tool through a cross-section of a dowel pin.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a working depth of a tool. The method includes arranging a tool and a depth determination device on a depth setting device; and applying a predetermined compression force in axial direction to the depth determination device, such that at least a part of the depth determination device is elastically compressed by a certain compression amount against a contact surface, obtaining a compressed state of the depth determination device. The method further includes securing a mounting device to a clamping region of a shaft of the tool in the compressed state of the depth determination device such that the mounting device is firmly mounted to the clamping region, whereby a tool assembly is formed; releasing the compression force from the depth determination device, and removing the tool assembly from the depth setting device.

Abstract: A drill for forming through holes in a glass fiber reinforced substrate includes a drill body having a cutting edge part on a front end side, and a neck part on a base end side. The cutting edge part has a larger diameter than the neck part. The drill body has a step formed between the cutting edge and neck parts and a single continuous chip evacuation groove having main and secondary grooves. The main groove has an L-shaped cross section and is extending from front end of the cutting edge part over the step to the neck part. The secondary groove has a U-shaped cross section and smaller groove width and depth than the main groove and is extending along the main groove from the front end of the cutting edge part over the step to the neck part and merging into the main groove at the neck part.

Abstract: A cutting tool body includes a first member and a second member, both having a substantially cylindrical shape, and arranged such that a tool body central axis coincides with a central axis of each of the first and the second members. The first member has a tool characteristic of a first magnitude and the second member has the tool characteristic of a second magnitude, different from the first magnitude. The cutting tool body includes a transition member arranged between the first and second members and connected at a first end to the first member and at a second end to the second member. The tool characteristic in the transition member is of the first magnitude at the first end and of the second magnitude at the second end. The transition member has a transition region between the first and the second ends in which the tool characteristic transforms from the first magnitude to the second magnitude.

Abstract: A pneumatic tool for joining steel decking includes a pneumatic actuator assembly which drives a push rod. The push rod is coupled to a linkage assembly including a rocker link having one end coupled to the frame of the tool, a punch arm having one end coupled to the frame, and a coupler link rotatably coupled to both the rocker link and the punch arm. At the bottom of the tool, a punching mechanism is formed. A trigger mechanism releases a flow of pressurized air into the actuator assembly, thereby driving the push rod out of the housing of the actuator assembly. Movement of the push rod causes the rocker link to rotate about a joint link, thereby driving the coupler link toward the punch arm and causing the punch to rotate about the joint link and mate with the fixed die.

Abstract: A cutting head for a hydraulic power tool includes a first jaw that includes a first ear configured with a slot for receiving a corresponding ear. The second jaw includes a second ear with a third ear bore that aligns in between a first ear bore and to a second ear bore of the first ear when the second ear is coupled in the slot of the first ear. The cutting head further includes a spring-biased flange coupled to a blade mounted to the first jaw and a retained coupled at a fixed position to a blade mounted to the second jaw. The retainer is configured to receive the flange during a cutting action such that the flange prevents the blades from shifting out of alignment during the cutting action.

Abstract: A method for grinding a gear toothing, in which a target value with a tolerance range is defined for the tooth width.

Abstract: An electric discharge machining wire includes a core material composed of brass with zinc concentration of more than 40 mass %, and a coating layer provided around the core material. The zinc concentration of the coating layer is higher than the zinc concentration of the core material.

Abstract: An electrochemical machining device that electrochemically machines a preformed impeller including a plurality of blades arranged along an outer periphery of the impeller. The electrochemical machining device includes a discharge electrode having an electrode surface extending along a machined surface of one of the plurality of blades, and a first nozzle that is disposed adjacently to the discharge electrode and has a first outlet from which electrolyte solution is discharged, the electrolyte solution flowing into a space between the electrode surface and the machined surface along the electrode surface.

Abstract: A shielding gas ejecting device includes a nozzle body extending along an axis, an inner shielding gas ejection path provided inside the nozzle body and opened on the axis, an outer shielding gas ejection path surrounding the inner shielding gas ejection path from a periphery, and an intermediate shielding gas ejection path provided between the inner shielding gas ejection path and the outer shielding gas ejection path. A flow velocity of an intermediate shielding gas ejected from the intermediate shielding gas ejection path is lower than a flow velocity of an inner shielding gas ejected from the inner shielding gas ejection path and a flow velocity of an outer shielding gas ejected from the outer shielding gas ejection path.

Abstract: An ultrasonic welding device includes a sonotrode, an anvil, a touching element, a lateral slide, a stop element and a receiving chamber in which joining partners are received and which is defined by bordering components of the ultrasonic welding device. The receiving chamber is defined on a first side by the sonotrode and on a second side by the anvil. The receiving chamber is further defined on a third side by the touching element and on a fourth side by the lateral slide. The receiving chamber is further defined on a fifth side, extending transverse to the first to fourth sides, by the stop element. The first stop element is electrically conductive on its surface directed toward the receiving chamber in order to form a first electrode.

Abstract: A multi-source self-adaptive low-stress additive manufacturing apparatus including a multi-axis manipulator additive manufacturing system, a high-energy sound beam regulation system, a substrate and a self-adaptive additive manufacturing workbench. The multi-axis manipulator additive manufacturing system includes multi-axis manipulator(s), welding torch(es), manipulator controller(s) and a guide rail, where base(s) of the multi-axis manipulator(s) is connected with the guide rail, the welding torch(es) is held by distal end(s) of the multi-axis manipulator(s), the multi-axis manipulator(s) is controlled by the manipulator controller(s) to move the welding torch(es) to conduct low-stress additive manufacturing on the workpiece to be additive manufactured.

Abstract: An ultrasonic welding system is provided. The ultrasonic welding system includes a support structure for supporting a workpiece. The ultrasonic welding system also includes a weld head assembly including an ultrasonic converter carrying a sonotrode. The ultrasonic welding system also includes a conductive pin supply configured to provide a plurality of conductive pins for welding using the sonotrode.

Abstract: The ignition system holds a quantity of a reaction mixture in a hopper. The hopper is closed at the bottom by a movable gate. When the gate is opened, powder falls from the hopper, though a passage, and through an ignition chamber. High voltage electrodes are provided in the ignition chamber. As the powder falls through the ignition chamber, the electrodes are energized, generating an electrical arc. The arc ignites the falling powder. The ignited powder falls from the bottom of the chamber and into the reaction chamber of an exothermic mold, where the ignited powder initiates a thermite reaction that generates molten metal to form an exothermic weld.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for running a laser system (10) for providing a laser beam (22) for heating a surface (68) of a target (66) located in a reaction chamber (62) of an evaporation system (60), the laser system (10) comprising a laser light source (20) for providing an at least essentially parallel laser beam (22) with an at least essentially centrally peaked intensity profile (24). In addition, the present invention is related to a laser system (10) for heating a surface (68) of a target (66) located in a reaction chamber (62) of an evaporation system (60), the reaction chamber (62) comprising a chamber window (64), and the laser system (10) comprising a laser light source (20) for providing an at least essentially parallel laser beam (22) with an at least essentially centrally peaked intensity profile (24).

Abstract: A teaching device is provided with a processor. The processor generates a path image showing a moving path MP on which a laser processing device moves laser light with respect to a workpiece in laser processing, generates an input image for inputting a data set of a progress parameter indicating progress of the laser processing and a laser parameter of the laser light, and displays on the path image a position corresponding to the progress parameter on the moving path MP.

Abstract: A laser irradiation apparatus irradiates an irradiation object with a laser beam. The apparatus comprises scanning pattern formation sections that change at least either of an emitting direction and a shift amount (size) of a laser beam periodically so that a position irradiated with a laser beam moves periodically along a predetermined scanning pattern on a predetermined plane. And the apparatus comprises an irradiation control section that stops irradiation of a laser beam directed to an excessive irradiation prevention area set in some area in the scanning pattern or makes an intensity of the laser beam lower in comparison with an intensity of a laser beam directed to an area other than the excessive irradiation prevention area.

Abstract: A weldment manufacturing method includes a recess forming step of forming recesses on a first target member and a second target member, the recesses delineating holes each of which spans across the first target member and the second target member and that are arranged along a boundary between the first target member and the second target member when the first and second target members that are the objects to be welded together are brought into abutment against each other; an abutting step of bringing the first and second target members into abutment against each other by aligning the recesses so that the recesses delineate the respective holes; and a welding step of placing filler material in the respective holes irradiating and scanning the filler material with the laser to cause the filler material to melt so as to fill the holes with the molten filler material.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an external component of a watch, of a fashion item or of a jewellery item, wherein the external component includes depositing an opaque base layer on all or part of the surface of an inner face of a substrate made of a transparent material, localised ablation of the base layer by laser machining, so as to form at least one pocket the bottom of which has a diffraction grating.

Abstract: A laser processing head conducts laser energy to process a workpiece. A fiber input emits the laser energy, and internal optics focus the laser energy as a laser beam to a focus spot relative to an output on the head. A relay between the fiber input and the internal optics directs a portion of process light, which has returned from the process through the internal optics to the relay. The effects of the internal optics form the returned process light as a hollow converging cone toward the fiber input. The relay is located in an angular space situated an extent outside the diverging cone of the emitted laser energy from the fiber input, such as at a numerical aperture that is about 10 percent greater than the numerical aperture of the fiber input. A sensor detects the portion of the process light directed to it.

Abstract: A device for inspecting a welded state between a tab, which protrudes from a plurality of electrodes stacked with a separator therebetween, and a lead welded to the tab. The device for inspecting a welded state may include a pair of tab probes, which are in contact with the tab and spaced apart from each other in a width direction of the tab, and a pair of lead probes which are in contact with the lead and spaced apart from each other in a width direction of the lead. Related methods for inspecting the welded state between a tab and a lead thereby are provided.

Abstract: A shape sensor is provided for acquiring a shape profile along an extension direction of an existing weld bead, and a control unit includes a welding information acquisition unit for acquiring welding information during formation of an adjacent weld bead when forming the adjacent weld bead at a position adjacent to the existing weld bead, and a defect candidate extraction unit for determining an angle characteristic portion having a base angle equal to or greater than a threshold in the existing weld bead based on the shape profile, determining a welding characteristic portion of the welding information based on the welding information, and extracting the welding characteristic portion corresponding to the angle characteristic portion as a defect candidate by associating the welding characteristic portion with the angle characteristic portion.

Abstract: Reduced tube pitch within a shell-and-tube heat exchange reactor such as, for example, an EO reactor, is provided by utilizing a welding material that has a high tensile (i.e., a tensile strength of greater than 600 MPa). Reduced tube pitch allows for more elongated tubes (the tubes are filled with a catalyst) to be present in a reactor, and thus a smaller reactor can be manufactured. Notably, the use of a high tensile strength welding material allows the implementation of a small welding groove located between a beveled sidewall of a beveled upper portion of an opening provided in a tube sheet overlay material (that is located atop a tube sheet) and an outermost sidewall of the elongated tube passing through the opening in the tube sheet overlay material.

Abstract: A steek suitable for structural components used in contact with liquid lead or liquid lead alloys in nuclear reactors consisting of in weight % (wt. %): C 0.02-0.09; Si 0.1-1.6; Mn 1.5-3.0; Cr 9.0-12.0; Ni 10.0-16.8; Al 2.0-3.4; Ti 0.1-1.0; Nb?0.5; V?0.5; Ta?1.5; Y?0.5; Mo?1.5; W?1.5; Cu?1.7; N?0.06; Co?1.0; B?0.1; Zr?0.5; Hf?0.5; RE?0.2; Ca?0.1; Mg?0.1; Bi?0.1; SE?0.1 and balance Fe apart from impurities, wherein the content of RE does not include the amount of Y but only the amount of the elements having an atomic numbers 21 and 57-71, wherein the steel fulfils one or more of the following requirements: CrEq=18.5-21 and NiEq=11-20 wherein CrEq=Cr+3Al+2Si+1.5[(Ti+Nb+V+Ta+Zr)?4.5(C+N)] and NiEq=Ni+0.5((Mn+Cu+Co). 5-25 volume % delta ferrite.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides battery module manufacturing clamping assembly and a method of clamping a battery pallet for welding. According to the present disclosure, a battery module manufacturing clamping assembly comprises a pallet assembly, a clamping plate, and a lift system for actuating the pallet assembly with respect to the clamping plate. The pallet assembly comprises a spring under each battery cell in the battery pallet, and the battery pallet can be actuated by the lift system into a clamped position where the pallet base plate and the clamping plate cause a top portion of the plurality of battery cells to be in contact with the conductive lattice structure for welding, and wherein a pre-determined contact force is applied to the battery cells by the plurality of springs.

Abstract: A device for jointing elements of a pipeline for the transport of fluids includes a support structure on which a pipeline section to be jointed is intended to be mounted, two parallel fixed rails, four plates each comprising a first element capable of cooperating with a rail and a second element fixed on the support structure. The first and the second elements of each plate is linked by a first cylinder aligned along a first adjustment axis and a second cylinder aligned along a second adjustment axis, and a system for controlling the cylinders of the plates to achieve movements along the first and second adjustment axes and capable of cooperating with a system for guiding in translation the support structure along the longitudinal axis of the pipeline section to allow jointing of the pipeline section and the pipeline element.

Abstract: A device for jointing elements of a pipeline for the transport of fluids includes a support structure on which a pipeline section to be jointed is intended to be mounted, two parallel fixed rails, four plates each comprising a first element capable of cooperating with a rail and a second element fixed on the support structure. The first and the second elements of each plate is linked by a first cylinder aligned along a first adjustment axis and a second cylinder aligned along a second adjustment axis, and a system for controlling the cylinders of the plates to achieve movements along the first and second adjustment axes and capable of cooperating with a system for guiding in translation the support structure along the longitudinal axis of the pipeline section to allow jointing of the pipeline section and the pipeline element.

Abstract: A method for repairing a crack in a structure includes mounting a manifold to the structure around the crack. The structure has a nonplanar surface contour that surrounds the crack. The manifold has a base portion, a cover portion, and a plug. The base portion has a grip surface configured to conform to the nonplanar surface contour of the structure. The cover portion is connected to the base portion, and has an injection port and a vent port in fluid communication with a channel aligned to the crack. The injection port transfers a bonding material into and out of the channel. The plug closes and opens the vent port. The method includes filling the channel with the bonding material to direct the bonding material into the crack, and draining the bonding material from the manifold.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a rolling ring shrink fitting tool for rotary equipment, including a lifting frame; a movement slot is formed in a bottom surface of a top of the lifting frame; an output end of a first motor is connected with a main gear; guide rollers are embedded in a lifting seat through bearings; shrink fitting plates are two semicircular structures; lifting lugs are welded on outer sides of the shrink fitting plates; tooth rings are arranged outside the shrink fitting plates; stop rods are fixed on inner walls of the tooth rings; supporting screw rods are embedded at sunken positions on inner walls of the shrink fitting plates through bearings.

Abstract: A mounting frame for being mounted with either one of first and second screwdrivers, includes a main frame, a mounting seat, and first and second mounting plates. The mounting seat has a plate attachment hole set. The first mounting plate has a first seat attachment hole set operable to be connected to the plate attachment hole set, and a first driver attachment hole set for the first screwdriver to be attached thereto. The second mounting plate has a second seat attachment hole set operable to be connected to the plate attachment hole set, and a second driver attachment hole set for the second screwdriver to be attached thereto.

Abstract: A 4-axis positioner comprising two 2-axis assemblies sharing a common frame, with a platform connected between them. Each 2-axis assembly comprises a fixed assembly secured or integral to the common frame, two input assemblies secured to the fixed assembly by independently actuated linear motion connections, and a translation assembly secured to the input assemblies by additional linear motion connections. The connections between the input assemblies and the fixed assembly are parallel with one another, and the connections between the input assemblies and the translation assembly are both non-parallel from the connections to the fixed assembly, and non-parallel from one another. The translation assemblies move in two linear axes by common or opposing motion of the input assemblies. The platform is connected to each translation assembly by joints, and moves in two linear axes by common motion, and two rotational axes by opposing motion, of the translation assemblies.

Abstract: A coolant processing apparatus removes sludge from a coolant discharged from a machine tool. The coolant processing apparatus includes a first reservoir and a second reservoir provided in a tank for retaining the coolant. The first reservoir includes a flow path in which the discharged coolant flows, and a portion downstream of the flow path to retain the coolant such that the sludge remains in the first reservoir. The flow path has at least one bend to bend a flow of the coolant at least once in a horizontal direction. The second reservoir retains the coolant flowing out from the first reservoir. A boundary wall is provided between the first and second reservoirs, at a location downstream of the at least one bend of the flow path, and has such a height that allows a supernatant of the coolant in the first reservoir to flow into the second reservoir.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining a pressure distribution of a molding tool device (1) for reshaping a sheet metal component (2). The pressure distribution represents a load on the sheet metal component (2) caused by reshaping in the molding tool device (1). The method includes introducing a piezoelectric material (3) into a raw material (12) of the sheet metal component (2) to form a composite sheet metal component (4) that provides an electrical voltage under mechanical loads. The method proceeds by arranging the composite sheet metal component (4) in the molding tool device (1) and reshaping the composite sheet metal component (4) with the molding tool device (1). The method then uses at least one sensor device (5) for detecting spatially resolved electric voltage signals that emanate from the composite sheet metal component (4) during the reshaping and determining the pressure distribution using the detected spatially resolved voltage signals.

Abstract: A tire pre-conditioning system includes a first mandrel, a second mandrel spaced apart from the first mandrel, and a controller in communication with the first mandrel and the second mandrel. The first mandrel is fixedly attached to a first shaft and including a first tapered sidewall. The second mandrel is fixedly attached to a second shaft and including a second tapered sidewall. The controller is operable to axially move the first mandrel and the second mandrel toward one another until the first and second tapered sidewalls are opposing respective beads of a tire, and supply pressurized fluid into an internal cavity of the tire to inflate the tire. The inflating causing the beads to move relative to mandrels while contacting the opposing respective tapered sidewalls to burnish the beads of the tire.

Abstract: In a work polishing apparatus, a polishing head including a head base portion, in an upper portion, to which a vertically movable and rotatable head shaft is fixed, and a holding member, in a lower portion, having a lower surface on which a work is held, is provided with, on the upper surface side of the holding member, a vertically movable partitioning portion and first and second fluid chambers respectively on the inner and outer circumference sides of the partitioning portion. Pressure in the first fluid chamber and in the second fluid chamber can be independently increased or decreased. The partitioning portion can be lowered at least to a position where the first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber are partitioned such that a pressure difference can be produced between the interior of the first fluid chamber and the interior of the second fluid chamber.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus which can efficiently polish an entirety of a back surface of a substrate, with the back surface facing downward, is disclosed. The polishing apparatus includes: a substrate holder configured to rotate the substrate; a polishing head configured to polish the back surface of the substrate; a tape advancing device; and a translational rotating mechanism configured to cause the polishing head to make a translational rotating motion. The substrate holder includes a plurality of rollers which are rotatable about their own axes. The plurality of rollers have substrate-holding surfaces capable of contacting a periphery of the substrate. The polishing head is disposed below the substrate-holding surfaces. The polishing head includes a polishing blade configured to press the polishing tape against the back surface of the substrate, and a pressing mechanism configured to push the polishing blade upward.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus includes a holding table for holding a workpiece thereon, a polishing head disposed above the holding table and having an acrylic plate for polishing the workpiece held on the holding table, a moving mechanism for moving the polishing head toward the workpiece held on the holding table, and a polishing water supplying unit for supplying polishing water between the acrylic plate and the workpiece held on the holding table.

Abstract: A polishing pad has a polishing layer comprising a polymer matrix comprising the reaction product of an isocyanate terminated urethane prepolymer and a chlorine-free aromatic polyamine cure agent and chlorine-free microelements. The microelements can be expanded, hollow microelements. The microelements can have a specific gravity measured of 0.01 to 0.2. The microelements can have a volume averaged particle size of 1 to 120 or 15 to 30 micrometers. The polishing layer is chlorine free.

Abstract: Provided is a retainer ring, a chemical mechanical polishing apparatuses including the same, and a substrate polishing method using the same. A slurry groove is upwardly recessed from a bottom surface of the retainer ring. The slurry groove extends in an arc shape from an inner surface of the retainer ring toward an outer surface of the retainer ring. A curvature radius of the slurry groove is greater than a distance between a center of the retainer ring and a curvature center of the slurry groove.

Abstract: A grinding or disc cutting-type hand-held tool including: a casing housing a motor and an output shaft rotated by the motor along an axis of rotation. The output shaft is capable of rotating: a first type of accessory having a threaded central opening; and a second type of accessory having a smooth central opening. The output shaft has: an end portion supporting a first connection element for rigidly connecting the first type of accessory; and an intermediate portion supporting a second connection element for rigidly connecting the second type of accessory.

Abstract: The invention refers to a hand-held and hand-guided motor driven polishing or sanding tool (2). The tool (2) has a tool housing (4) and a motor (6; 62) located therein. The tool (2) further has a polishing or sanding working element (8) attached to a tool shaft (10) of the tool (2). The motor (6; 62) is adapted to drive the tool shaft (10) in a first direction of rotation (12). It is suggested that the tool (2) is equipped with a switch (44) for changing the sense of rotation of the tool shaft (10) between the first direction of rotation (12) and a second direction of rotation (42) opposite to the first direction of rotation (12).

Abstract: An abrasive slurry regeneration method includes: collecting at least a used abrasive slurry containing an abrasive component and a constituent component of a polishing target object discharged from a polishing machine; inactivating a metal ion dissolved in the used abrasive slurry; dispersing the abrasive component and the constituent component of the polishing target object contained in the used abrasive slurry; separating the dispersed abrasive component and constituent component of the polishing target object to remove the constituent component of the polishing target object; and preparing a regenerated abrasive slurry containing the abrasive component.

Abstract: Systems and methods for processing additively manufactured objects are described herein. In some embodiments, for example, a system includes a controller configured to provide one or more control signals; a heater coupled to the controller, where the heater comprises one or more heating elements arranged to heat a blasting medium in response to the one or more control signals; a chamber coupled to the controller, where the chamber comprises an agitatable drum shaped to receive a plurality of additively manufactured objects, and to agitate the plurality of additively manufactured objects in response to the one or more control signals; and an applicator coupled to the controller, where the applicator comprises a nozzle operative to direct, in response to the one or more control signals, a plurality of thermally conductive particles in the blasting medium toward the plurality of additively manufactured objects within the agitatable drum.

Abstract: An abrasive blasting system that includes a blast hose; and a deadman assembly operably coupled therewith for controlling discharge out of the blast hose. The deadman assembly has a position of either a signal-flow or a no-flow position. When engaged to the signal-flow position, a burst or pulse of purge air is transferred to a mixer via a water injection conduit.