Additive manufacturing system and method for printing three-dimensional parts using velocimetry

JS Batchelder - US Patent 9,527,240, 2016 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The present disclosure relates to additive manufacturing systems for
printing or otherwise building three-dimensional (3D) parts with layer-based, additive …

Additive manufacturing system and method for printing three-dimensional parts using velocimetry

JS Batchelder - US Patent 10,369,776, 2019 - Google Patents
An additive manufacturing system that retains a print head for printing a three-dimensional
part in a layer-by-layer manner using an additive manufacturing technique, where the …

Ultrasonic monitor of material composition and particle size

WN Cobb - US Patent 7,047,809, 2006 - Google Patents
A method and apparatus for determining the composition of a containerized material,
typically a suspension, through which ultrasonic waves are passed. The component ratios …

Method and apparatus for determination of the concentration of particles in multi-component fluid systems

A Priev, VP Ponomarev - US Patent 7,484,414, 2009 - Google Patents
A method for determining the concentration of a large particle component in a multi-
component system. The method requires first separating and concentrating the large particle …

Process monitoring and particle characterization with ultrasonic backscattering

PD Panetta, RA Pappas, BJ Tucker - US Patent 7,114,375, 2006 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Suspensions or slurries having moderate and high particle concentrations
are found in a variety of industries such as chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing and …

Printer with laser scanner and tool-mounted camera

AJ Buser, A Douglas, NB Pettis - US Patent 9,789,649, 2017 - Google Patents
A three-dimensional printer includes a laser line scanner and hardware to rotate the scanner
relative to an object on a build platform. In this configuration, three-dimensional surface data …

Apparatus and method of lensing an ultrasonic beam for an ultrasonic flow meter

TJ Bailey, M Fernald, C Dang, C O'keefe - US Patent 7,673,526, 2010 - Google Patents
3,851,521 A 12/1974 Ottenstein 3,885,432 A 5, 1975 Herz1 portion and aligned to receive
ultrasonic signals transmitted from the transmitter; 2) selectively operating the ultrasonic …

Three-dimensional printer with laser line scanner

H Boyer, AJ Buser, A Douglas, NB Pettis - US Patent 9,172,829, 2015 - Google Patents
A three-dimensional printer includes a laser line scanner and hardware to rotate the scanner
relative to an object on a build platform. In this configuration, three-dimensional surface data …

Injection system for controlled delivery of solid oil field chemicals

DMD Fouchard, DL Gibson, S Gon - US Patent 10,717,918, 2020 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems, methods and apparatus for injecting a solid chemical for inhibiting,
decreasing or preventing precipitation and/or deposition of foulants and/or contaminants in …

Speckle adaptive medical image processing

B Rao, D Zhao - US Patent 7,983,456, 2011 - Google Patents
Image processing adapts to speckle. Speckle is identified from signal transitions. For
example, peaks, valleys or mean crossings of image signals as a function of space or spatial …