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Automated manufacturing system using thin sections

  • US 5,088,047 A
  • Filed: 10/16/1989
  • Issued: 02/11/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/16/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for manufacturing a three-dimensional object directly from design that comprises:

  • a. means for receiving electronic sectional data corresponding to an electronic representation of the object to be manufactured;

    b. means for exposing a charged electro-photographic element with an electromagnetic radiation pattern corresponding to said electronic section to form an electrostatic latent image on said electrophotographic element;

    c. means for applying a plurality of forming powders to said electrostatic latent image contained on said electrophotographic element to form a physical lamina;

    d. means for transferring said physical lamina to an intermediate support;

    e. means for causing said physical lamina to become tacky;

    f. means for transferring and bonding said physical lamina to previously formed laminae, and building up a physical replication of said object in a step-wise fashion whereby the three dimensional object is auto-matically formed from a composite of laminae.

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