US Patent Issued to MTU Aero Engines on June 17 for "Method for avoiding resonance damage during cleaning of an at least partly additively manufactured component, cleaning device, mass element, and system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,216, issued on June 17, was assigned to MTU Aero Engines AG (Munich).

"Method for avoiding resonance damage during cleaning of an at least partly additively manufactured component, cleaning device, mass element, and system" was invented by Kaspar Wolf (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a method for cleaning powder residues of an additive layer build-up method away from an at least partly additively manufactured component by a cleaning device, wherein a machine plate and the component arranged thereon are excited to mechanical oscillation during a cleaning process by a vibration actuator of the cleanin...