The present invention relates to a device for producing a reinforcing structure, which comprises a fiber-reinforced strip having a thermoplastic material, onto a molded body surface. The device is characterized in that emission direction vectors of at least two laser diodes of a laser diode array are aligned in a non-parallel manner to one another and are directed toward one another in the direction of a heating surface of the strip and/or the molded body surface.

The disclosed embodiments relate to the monitoring and control of additive manufacturing. In particular, a method is shown for removing errors inherent in thermal measurement equipment so that the presence of errors in a product build operation can be identified and acted upon with greater precision. Instead of monitoring a grid of discrete locations on the build plane with a temperature sensor, the intensity, duration and in some cases position of each scan is recorded in order to characterize one or more build operations.

A processing machine includes a laser irradiation device that emits an annular laser beam, and a wire feeding device that feeds a wire from an inside of the annular laser beam. When a workpiece irradiation proportion parameter (WIP) represented by an equation WIP=P.sub.wp/P (P.sub.wp: laser beam power introduced onto a workpiece surface when the wire exists in an irradiation region of the laser beam, P: the laser beam power introduced onto the workpiece surface when the wire does not exist in the irradiation region) is defined, a control device controls the wire feeding device so that a wire end abuts on the workpiece surface at a beginning of additive manufacturing. The control device determines initial power P.sub.0 based on the WIP at the beginning of the additive manufacturing, and controls the laser irradiation device so that the workpiece is irradiated with the laser beam at the initial power P.sub.0.

An additive manufacturing system includes a work region having a layer of metallic powder distributed across at least a portion of the work region. The system further includes a power source, a scanning and focusing system and a processor. The processor is configured to control the power source to emit a beam of energy at a power level and to manipulate the beam of energy across the work region in a plurality of build tracks to form a part from the fused metallic powder. The processor further determines a cooling rate at a termination of each of the plurality of build tracks and controls the power level of the power source in response to the determined cooling rate.

A method for marking, at the outlet of a forming machine using a laser beam, a marking area on hot glass containers comprises determining the longitudinal and transverse positions of the marking area of each container by positioning a first optical axis of a first light sensor and a second optical axis of a second light sensor in a non-parallel manner to each other, in a detection plane parallel to the conveying plane of the containers, detecting the instant of intersection or disengagement, by a container, of the first optical axis and the instant of intersection or disengagement, by a container, of the second optical axis, and calculating said transverse and longitudinal positions from these instants and in consideration of a known or constant speed of translation of the containers. The method can determine the marking instant for each container running past the laser apparatus.

A calculation device used in a manufacturing apparatus for producing a 3D manufactured object from a solidified layer formed by heating a layer-shaped material layer formed of a powder material by irradiation with an energy beam includes a detection unit configured to obtain a state of the material layer based on a shape of the formed material layer, and an output unit configured to output information on the state of the material layer obtained by the detection unit to set a manufacturing condition of the manufacturing apparatus.

The present discloses provides a method to cut and chamfer glass or glass-like workpieces such as glass, quartz, glass-ceramic or sapphire in one operation or process. The workpiece is cut and chamfered to arbitrary shapes by the same process without the need to separate cutting process and chamfering process. In the present disclosure, the workpiece material is selectively removed through a fast chemical reaction induced by locally heating using a laser beam.

An additive manufacturing system is disclosed that heats a feedstock and a workpiece in preparation for depositing and tamping the feedstock onto the workpiece. The system comprises a first laser/optical instrument pair for precisely heating the feedstock and a second laser/optical instrument pair for precisely heating the workpiece. The laser beam from each laser is shaped into an ellipse and each beam is rotated around an angle of rotation to ensure that the feedstock and the workpiece are properly heated. The system employs feedforward, a variety of sensors, and feedback to adjust the angle of rotation of each laser beam.

An apparatus (1) for additive manufacturing of three-dimensional objects (2) by successive, selective layer-by-layer exposure and thus solidification of construction material layers of a construction material (3) that can be solidified by means of an energy beam, comprising at least one temperature control device (11), which is provided for at least partial temperature control of a construction material layer formed in a construction plane, wherein the temperature control device (11) comprises at least one temperature control element (12), which is provided for generating an, especially electromagnetic, temperature control beam, wherein the at least one temperature control element (12) is formed as or comprises a temperature control diode.

A method for joining a modular hot gas component by welding and high-temperature soldering. In order to optimally join high-temperature components, a first component is plugged into pins of a second component, a soldering material is placed between the two components, and the pins of the second component are welded to the first component.