US Patent Issued to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN on Aug. 25 for "Print head for additive manufacturing using continuous fibers and thermoplastic matrix materials for cutting in a hot zone of the print head by radial or rotational movement of a cutting device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,173, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN (Berlin).

"Print head for additive manufacturing using continuous fibers and thermoplastic matrix materials for cutting in a hot zone of the print head by radial or rotational movement of a cutting device" was invented by Mathias Czasny (Berlin), Aleksander Gurlo (Berlin), Stephan Korber (Berlin) and Onur Kaba (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print head for additively manufacturing fiber-reinforced composite materials includes a feed channel, a heating block, a nozzle and a cutting unit. A filament of the fiber-reinforced material enters an inlet of the noz...