US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Jan. 27 for "Additive manufacturing apparatus and additive manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,730, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Additive manufacturing apparatus and additive manufacturing method" was invented by Daiji Morita (Tokyo), Nobuyuki Sumi (Tokyo) and Hisashi Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufacturing apparatus includes: a machining head; a beam nozzle through which a beam emitted from the machining head passes; a material feed unit that feeds a material to a workpiece; a first drive unit that moves a tip portion of the material relative to the workpiece; a second drive unit that moves the beam in a direction included in a reference plane perpendicu...