US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on March 11 for "Additive manufacturing apparatus and machining head" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,396, issued on March 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Additive manufacturing apparatus and machining head" was invented by Yuji Nojiri (Tokyo), Kazuya Horio (Tokyo) and Satoshi Hattori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing apparatus including: a wire nozzle that feeds a wirelike material onto a workpiece; and a machining head that irradiates the material fed onto the workpiece with a laser beam, and jets shielding gas from a supply source of the shielding gas. The machining head includes: a pipeline having a cylindrical shape and extending in a traveling direction of the laser beam, t...