US Patent Issued to ACTECH on April 15 for "Device for cleaning three-dimensional components made of adhesive powder particles, said components being printed in a powder bed" (German, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,063, issued on April 15, was assigned to ACTECH GmbH (Freiberg, Germany).

"Device for cleaning three-dimensional components made of adhesive powder particles, said components being printed in a powder bed" was invented by Jens Fischer (Grossschirma, Germany), Norbert Demarczyk (OT Grumbach, Germany) and Hana Kastner Maxova (Teplice, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides for cleaning three-dimensional (3D) components printed in a powder bed from adhering powder particles. The 3D-printed components are cleaned with a negative pressure-induced volumetric flow. The 3D-printed components are first removed fr...