8. Selective laser melting (SLM)
• Selective laser melting (SLM) is an additive
manufacturing process that uses 3D CAD data as a
digital information source and energy in the form of a
high powered laser beam (usually an ytterbium fiber
laser) to create three-dimensional metal parts by fusing
fine metallic powders together.
• The industry standard term, chosen by the ASTM F42
standards committee, is laser sintering, although this is
acknowledged as a misnomer because the process
fully melts the metal into a solid homogeneous mass.
The process is also sometimes referred to by the trade
names DMLS or LaserCusing. A similar process
is Electron beam melting(EBM), which, as the name
suggests, uses an electron beam as the energy source.
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12. 重要專利-US5837960
US5837960:Selective Laser Melting
Assignee:University of California U.S. DoE.
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Method and apparatus for forming articles from
materials in particulate form in which the materials
are melted by a laser beam and deposited at
points along a tool path to form an article of the
desired shape and dimensions. Preferably the tool
path and other parameters of the deposition
process are established using computer-aided
design and manufacturing techniques. A controller
comprised of a digital computer directs movement
of a deposition zone along the tool path and
provides control signals to adjust apparatus
functions, such as the speed at which a deposition
head which delivers the laser beam and powder to
the deposition zone moves along the tool path.