US Patent Issued to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS on Feb. 17 for "Recoater and powder additive manufacturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,098, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Recoater and powder additive manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Naoki Ueda (Tokyo) and Seiya Hiramatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recoater supplies a predetermined amount of powder and spreads the supplied powder across a powder bed. The recoater includes a main shaft, a moving mechanism, and a powder guiding part. The main shaft rotates about an axis parallel to a surface of the powder bed. The moving mechanism moves the main shaft in a moving direction perpendicular to the main shaft and parallel to the surface of the powder bed. The pow...