Patent ID: 9327452
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: B29B,B29C,B29K,B33Y

Claim Text:
1. A method for additively manufacturing a part in successive layers, the method comprising: supplying a reinforced filament having a matrix material impregnating a plurality of reinforcing strands aligned along the reinforced filament; receiving the reinforced filament at a shearing region moved together with a nozzle; shearing the reinforced filament at the shearing region; guiding the reinforced filament to drag through the nozzle; heating the reinforced filament at the nozzle as the reinforced filament is displaced out of the nozzle; applying mechanical pressure by pressing with the nozzle to continuously compact the reinforced filament into a previously added layer of the part as the reinforced filament is fused into the part.