ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,140, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Stacking plan creating method" was invented by Shuo Huang (Hyogo, Japan) and Satoshi Chikaguchi (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target shape is set from a three-dimensional shape data of an additively-manufactured object, and the set target shape is sliced into a plurality of bead models having shapes corresponding to weld beads. A dripping amount of a filler metal to a lower layer during bead formation in a bead deposition portion where the sliced bead models overlap vertically is predicted according to welding conditions of the weld beads. A bea...