Patent ID: 11938540
Assignee: SEURAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 11:
12. A manufacturing system, comprising:
a printer chamber having a printer bed configured to support a printable material layer of a plurality of layers of a printable material, the printer chamber having an inner wall and an outer wall surrounding the inner wall with an layer of insulation sandwiched between the inner wall and the outer wall;
a primary laser source directable against a sub-portion of the printable material layer on the printer bed to print a part;
an internal contact heating device built into the printer chamber and configured to direct a patterned heat energy onto the printer bed and the supported manufacturing materials; and
a secondary heating device configured to direct a patterned heat energy into the printable material layer, wherein the secondary heating device comprises multiple segments of heaters, each heater of the multiple segments of heaters being independently controlled to heat a corresponding portion of the printer bed, and
wherein the internal contact heating device comprises:
a heating element embedded within the inner wall of the printer chamber that cools the outer wall of the printer chamber, the cooling element being isolated from the heater element by a layer of insulation sandwiched between the inner wall and the outer wall printer.