Patent ID: 11858043
Assignee: DESKTOP METAL, INC.
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  F  G  Y | IPC B  F  G

Claim 0:
1. A method of generating and employing a user-adjustable thermal processing parameter profile for a sintering furnace, comprising:
receiving, through a user interface, one or more materials properties desired in an additively manufactured part, wherein the material properties include one or more of (i) a hardness, (ii) a ductility, (iii) a microstructure, (iv) a material content, (v) a surface property, and (vi) a transverse rupture strength;
communicating with a sintering furnace to ascertain one or more thermal processes associated with the sintering furnace;
determining a thermal processing parameter profile of at least one thermal processing parameter corresponding to each of the thermal processes according to the desired material properties, the thermal processing parameter profile characterizing a cycle of the one or more thermal processes;
employing the thermal processing parameter profile to conduct the one or more thermal processes with the sintering furnace; and
processing the additively manufactured part according to the one or more thermal processes.