Patent ID: 11872758
Assignee: SEURAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 11:
12. An apparatus, comprising:
a powder bed fusion additive manufacturing apparatus comprising at least a powder bed and an ingester system, the powder bed fusion additive manufacturing apparatus configured to initiate a print job according to a set of printing parameters,
wherein, while the print job is being performed, the ingester system is configured to perform operations comprising:
collecting one or more powder samples of a powdered material supplied to the powder bed during performance of the print job; and
measuring a particle size distribution and at least one other property of the one or more powder samples,
wherein the at least one other property comprises one or more of thermal diffusivity, density, surface roughness, weight, emissivity, absorptivity, reflectance, transmissivity, temperature, and color.