1068results about "Manufacturing platforms/substrates" patented technology

A three-dimensional (3D) printing system is configured to print a 3D article in a layer-by-layer manner and includes a vertical beam, an elevator, and a build platform. The elevator is configured for vertical translation along the vertical beam and includes an upper support and a lower support. The lower support includes at least one elevator actuator extending upward from an upper side. The upper support has a lower side including a datum surface in engagement with the actuator. The elevator actuator is configured to modulate a position of the upper side of the upper support. The build platform includes a build plate coupled below a support plate. The build plate has a lower side for formation of the 3D article. The support plate has a lower side that engages the upper side of the upper support of the elevator to support the build platform.

The utility model discloses a hot bed and a 3D printer, and relates to the technical field of 3D printing, the hot bed comprises a printing platform, a support frame and a locking assembly, the printing platform is provided with a printing plane used for bearing a printing piece; the supporting frame is arranged on the side, back to the printing plane, of the printing platform, the supporting frame and the printing platform are arranged at intervals in the first direction and elastically connected through an elastic piece, and the first direction is perpendicular to the printing plane; the locking assembly is arranged on the printing platform and provided with a friction face abutting against the supporting frame, the friction face is parallel to the first direction, friction force parallel to the first direction exists between the friction face and the supporting frame, and the friction force is used for limiting relative movement of the printing platform and the supporting frame in the first direction. According to the technical scheme, the connecting structure of the hot bed is simplified, and the leveling efficiency of the hot bed is improved.

Systems, devices, and methods for additive manufacturing of objects are provided. In some embodiments, a device for supporting an object during an additive manufacturing process includes a build platform having a surface, and a plurality of support structures extending above the surface of the build platform. Each support structure can be configured to couple to a portion of an additively manufactured object. The device can also include a plurality of actuators, each actuator being configured to adjust a position of a corresponding support structure relative to the build platform.

The utility model discloses a hot bed and a 3D printer. The hot bed comprises a bed plate and a heating device, the supporting piece is arranged on one side of the bed board; the elastic leveling device is connected with the bed board and the supporting piece and is used for adjusting the flatness of the bed board; the locking assembly is connected with the bed board and the supporting piece and used for locking the position of the bed board relative to the supporting piece after the bed board is leveled. According to the hot bed in the embodiment, the locking assembly is used for locking the position of the bed board relative to the supporting piece after the bed board is leveled, so that deformation and displacement of the bed board can be reduced, the overall rigidity of the hot bed is improved, and then the printing quality of the 3D printer is improved.

This invention relates to an apparatus and method for fabricating microanodes using localized electrochemical deposition additive manufacturing, belonging to the fields of 3D printing technology and electrochemical deposition. The y-axis moving device is threadedly connected to the frame assembly, and the dual-nozzle device is also threadedly connected to the y-axis moving device. The z-axis moving device is fixed to the frame assembly, and the heated bed platform is fixed to the z-axis moving device. An inert metal wire cutting device is installed on the connecting shaft between the z-axis moving device and the heated bed platform. The advantages are: it automates the fabrication of microanodes using localized electrochemical deposition additive manufacturing, improving the efficiency of microanode fabrication and saving manpower, material resources, and financial resources; it solves the difficulties of traditionally using capillary glass tubes to encapsulate extremely fine inert metal wires, allowing for convenient encapsulation of inert metal wires with diameters below 20 micrometers; it utilizes laser cutting for post-processing the electrode, avoiding the difficulty of grinding a smooth electrode surface; and the electrode shape can be designed by computer, without shape limitations.

The present disclosure provides a 3D printer including a receiving surface for accepting the accumulation of material layers, and a gantry having a shaft and carriage that is translated along the shaft, and an extruder assembly that is articulated to rotate a printing plane, wherein the extruder assembly is attached to the carriage and the articulated extruder assembly is manipulated to rotate the printing plane away from parallel with the receiving surface.

The utility model discloses a hot bed and 3D printer relates to 3D printing technical field, the hot bed includes shell and heating module, the shell is equipped with the cavity, forms the power supply area in the cavity, the power supply area deviates from the middle area of the cavity, the shell is used for bearing the printing panel; the heating module comprises a plurality of heating units, the two ends of each heating unit are connected to the power supply area, and the heating units form an annular structure. The technical scheme provided by the utility model aims to improve the heating efficiency of the hot bed.

The invention discloses an automatic leveling machine structure of a 3D printer and the 3D printer. The automatic leveling machine structure of the 3D printer comprises a fixed base, a printing platform, three leveling driving units evenly distributed on the circumference, a distance measuring sensor and a controller. The leveling driving unit is of a wedge-shaped transmission structure, a lead screw is driven through a leveling motor, a horizontal wedge block is driven to move, and then a vertical wedge block and a supporting table are pushed to ascend and descend precisely. The supporting table is connected with the printing platform through the spherical hinge assembly, the driving shell is rotatably arranged on the fixed base, and the design can adaptively eliminate internal stress in the leveling process. The distance measuring sensor moves along with the printing head to measure height data of a plurality of points of the platform; and the controller fits a platform plane by using a least square method, calculates the adjustment amount of each supporting point, and drives the leveling motor to complete automatic leveling. The problems that an existing leveling technology is low in precision and prone to clamping stagnation, internal stress exists and the like are solved, and high-precision and high-reliability automatic leveling is achieved.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus, a system, and a method. The apparatus is configured to depowder and extract one or more printed parts prepared by a three-dimensional (3D) printer. The apparatus includes an elevated frame, a perforated plate, a lifting-lowering mechanism, a depowdering unit, and at least one gripper. The elevated frame is removably secured to an open top of a first container and configured to transversely receive fully raised at least one 3D printed layer and partially raised at least one powder layer. Upon lifting the elevated frame along with the perforated plate, the depowdering unit is configured to depowder the at least one powder layer and powder in between the one or more 3D printed parts. The at least one gripper is configured to automatically extract the one or more 3D printed parts.

The invention belongs to the technical field of 3D printing additive manufacturing, and provides a large-breadth 3D printing local area double-camera grafting printing device and method.The large-breadth 3D printing local area double-camera grafting printing device comprises an image collecting device, a high-precision ceramic calibration plate, a to-be-grafted part clamp and a printing equipment upper computer; the double cameras are fixed on an equipment top plate through supports, the field of view of the large-field-of-view camera completely covers the whole breadth of the substrate, and the field of view of the small-field-of-view camera completely covers a local area to be grafted; the calibration plate is divided into two specifications of adaptive double cameras, the clamp can be used for detaching and fixing parts and leveling a grafting surface, and the upper computer is electrically connected with the double cameras and the printing equipment to receive positioning data and adjust a printing model; according to the method, the grafting precision is smaller than or equal to 0.1 mm, the total cost of the double cameras is reduced, the manual workload is reduced, the problems that according to an existing scheme, coverage and precision are contradictory, cost is high, and automation is low are solved, and the method is suitable for large-format 3D printing local grafting scenes.

A method of additive layer manufacture (ALM) of an article in an ALM machine by producing a substrate 24 in-situ in the machine by cohering powder 27 together and then forming the article on the subst

The application discloses a kind of polymer material 3D printing additive and subtractive integrated machine and its control method, including rack body, movement module, milling cutter module, material spraying module, camera module, rack body is the frame structure of near body face opening, movement module is set in the middle frame of rack body;Movement module includes X-axis movement component, Y-axis movement component, Z-axis movement component, and the model of 3D printing forming is formed on the bearing platform by material spraying module;The cutter is provided below the milling cutter module by R-axis connecting seat, and the printed model is polished by the rotation of cutter.The control method provided by the application corrects the model sprayed by milling cutter module to material spraying module, and adopts the way of layer-by-layer spraying and layer-by-layer correction, which greatly improves the precision of spraying forming.

The present application relates to the field of intelligent protection, and particularly relates to a 4D printing system and method of a bionic energy-absorbing honeycomb structure with adjustable configuration, which can consider deformation and efficient energy absorption when facing different collision conditions, fully protect the integrity of the passenger cabin or cargo cabin, and effectively reduce the injury of passengers or goods. The printing device contains a double-material extrusion system, a control system and a dynamic forming platform. The double-material extrusion system integrates a digital magnetic control system with an auxiliary magnetic field material extrusion system. In the printing process, by planning the printing path and applying a magnetic field, a patterned ferromagnetic domain pattern can be obtained while forming a complex honeycomb structure. Under the coupling effect of a high-frequency induction heater and a driving magnetic field, combined with the dynamic chemical properties of the base material, the obtained honeycomb structure can adjust the cell structure and material stiffness of the honeycomb material to cope with different collision conditions, realize active intelligent protection, and has great application potential in the field of transportation.

The utility model discloses a printing platform assembly and three-dimensional forming equipment, which can realize the release of the swelling amount of a hot bed substrate through the relative movement between the bracket or the hot bed substrate and the first connecting piece mainly through a movable space between the first connecting piece and at least one of the hot bed substrate and the bracket. According to the main technical scheme, the printing platform assembly comprises a hot bed base plate; a bracket; the first connecting pieces are connected with the hot bed base plate and the support respectively, a movable space is formed between at least one of the hot bed base plate and the support and the first connecting pieces, and the movable space is used for avoiding expansion deformation of the hot bed base plate. The utility model is mainly used for connecting models.

High speed, accurate, scalable, and dimension-insensitive additive manufacturing of a Three-Dimensional (3D) object may use incrementally solidifying light-sensitive resin layers. A new layer is formed by supplying the resin liquid via a cavity in the formed 3D object, and curing the supplied resin by a focused light beam, such as a laser beam. The added layers are formed by supplying, 2024 / 184876 using a pump, the light-cured resin fluid to one or more bottom openings to be output from the top opening (or to multiple openings) via a vertical cavity (or multiple cavities) of the 3D object. The curing is by focusing a light beam to the area of the resin output from the top opening, while keeping the top opening non-cured, so that resin can be passed via the cavity. Such 3D printing may be directly applied to any surface, such as a floor, wall, wing structure, or machined part.

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for printing three-dimensional (3D) objects. A system for printing a 3D object may comprise at least one platform configured to hold a film of at least one mixture, a deposition unit for providing the film of the at least one mixture, and a building unit for forming at least a portion of the 3D object from the film of the at least one mixture. The system may further comprise a controller operatively coupled to the at least one platform. The controller may be configured to direct the at least one platform to move from the deposition unit to the building unit, or vice versa, along a plurality of non-overlapping paths.

An additive manufacturing device includes a stage configured to support a substrate. The device also includes a printhead disposed above the stage. The printhead is configured to heat a build material to a molten build material and to deposit the molten build material on the substrate in the form of droplets to fabricate an article. The device also includes a controlled heating and ablation system disposed proximal the printhead. The controlled heating and ablation system is configured to heat the substrate and ablate oxides on a surface of the substrate.

The present disclosure describes a method of making a composite product (20) by additive manufacturing. The method includes providing an additive manufacturing apparatus having a build platform, the build platform having a planar face on which the product is formed; securing a fabric (22) sheet to the planar face (11) to provide a planar fabric surface thereon; additively manufacturing an intermediate object on the planar fabric surface in the apparatus (12) by light polymerizing a dual cure resin to produce an intermediate object on the build platform, the intermediate object including the fabric (22) sheet having the three-dimensional object (21) adhered thereto; and concurrently with or following the additively manufacturing step, further curing the intermediate object to produce a composite object including the fabric sheet having the three-dimensional object adhered thereto. Composite object and products are also described herein.

The utility model discloses a placing platform for 3D printing in the technical field of 3D printing, which comprises a platform base and a platform main body, the platform base is mounted above a base of an external 3D printer, the upper wall of the platform base is connected with the platform main body in a suction manner, and the platform main body comprises a mounting frame, a platform steel plate, a convex ring, a through groove and a magnetic suction block. A through groove is formed in the lower wall of the installation frame, a magnetic attraction block is installed in the through groove in an inserted mode, the magnetic attraction block can be connected with the platform base in an attracted mode, a protruding ring is installed on the inner side wall of the installation frame, and the platform steel plate can be inserted into the installation frame. A platform steel plate can be pressed through a convex ring on the inner side of the mounting frame, meanwhile, a plurality of magnetic attraction blocks are arranged below the mounting frame to attract the steel plate, so that the levelness of the platform steel plate is guaranteed, the quality of subsequent 3D printing is guaranteed, and in addition, a leveling mechanism is arranged, and leveling treatment can be conducted on the platform base and the platform body above the platform base.

The invention provides a method for providing a composite object (400) comprising a 3D printed part (1) adhering to a metal part (420), wherein: the method comprises the step of providing the metal part (420) followed by a 3D printing stage comprising layer-wise depositing 3D printable material (201) by means of fused deposition modeling on the metal part (420), to provide the composite object (400); wherein the 3D printed part (1) comprises a layer (322) of 3D printed material (202); the 3D printing stage comprises guiding the 3D printable material (201) through a printer nozzle (502) at a nozzle temperature TN; during a first 3D printing stage of the 3D printing stage, wherein 3D printable material (201) is deposited on the metal part (420), the following applies: (i) the 3D printable material (201) comprises first 3D printable material (2011) comprising a thermoplastic material (401) and metal particles (410); wherein metal (411) of the metal particles (410) has a melting temperature TP, and (ii) TN>TP.

Disclosed is a belt tensioning mechanism for a 3D printer and a 3D printer. The belt tensioning mechanism comprises a base, a driving pulley, at least one timing pulley, a sliding block, a tensioning pulley, a spring, a tensioning pulley cover, and a locking screw. The base is provided with a first sliding groove. The driving pulley and the at least one timing pulley are mounted on the base and are connected in series with each other via a belt. The sliding block is mounted on the base and is capable of sliding along the first sliding groove. The tensioning pulley is mounted on the sliding block and is connected in series with the driving pulley and the at least one timing pulley via the belt so as to tension the belt. The spring is configured to apply an elastic force to the sliding block. The tensioning pulley cover is fixedly mounted on the base and is provided with a second sliding groove corresponding to the first sliding groove. The locking screw passes through the second sliding groove and is in threaded connection with a threaded hole in the sliding block, such that the sliding block is locked and fixed relative to the tensioning pulley cover.

The invention is generally a system for drying, recycling, and washing off residual resin from three-dimensionally (3D) printed objects. Exemplary systems may include a system for washing off residual printing material from a surface of a 3D-printed. In an exemplary embodiment, a chamber is adapted to receive the 3D-printed object and a printing material disruption module is adapted to disrupt a composition of residual printing material on a surface of the 3D-printed object. Additionally, a washing force module may be adapted to apply a washing force field to the 3D-printed object and wash off the residual printing material.

An additive manufacturing process for all or part of a tire tread configured to smooth any raised areas (R) present on a circumferential bearing surface (5) of said tire by depositing an extruded material forming the tread, wherein a pressure regulating device (24) inside the extruder is controlled in real time, via a pressure control loop, according to a pressure measured by the pressure sensor and a constant pressure setpoint. The process is configured to smooth a plurality of raised areas (R) present on a circumferential bearing surface (5) of the tire. Figure for the abstract: Fig 8A

An apparatus for manufacturing a high-aspect-ratio, high-resolution fine pattern according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a transparent substrate; a photocurable resin applied to one side of the transparent substrate and cured by light; a light source providing light to the other side of the transparent substrate to cure the photocurable resin; and a lens member which is disposed between the light source and the transparent substrate and focuses the light from the light source onto the other side of the transparent substrate to cure the photocurable resin into a high-aspect-ratio, high-resolution fine pattern according to a self-propagating polymer waveguide (SPPW) process.

The invention provides integrated 3D printing equipment and technology capable of eliminating step lines, and belongs to the technical field of 3D printing equipment. The problems of uneven spraying, low efficiency and the like due to the fact that step lines are eliminated manually in the prior art are solved. An upper bin and a lower bin which are arranged up and down are arranged in a machine box, and a workbench and a lifting mechanism used for driving the workbench to vertically ascend and descend are further arranged in the machine box; a printing device is arranged in the upper bin and used for printing workpieces, and a spraying and curing device is arranged in the lower bin and used for spraying and curing the printed workpieces. The method has the advantages that after printing is completed, the step pattern post-treatment process can be automatically carried out, and the production efficiency is improved.

The application relates to a wire transfer multi-material additive manufacturing device and method, which device comprises a rack, a station switching module, a lifting module, a forming module and a printing platform; the station switching module is fixedly installed on the rack, the printing platform is connected with the station switching module, and the printing platform is arranged above the station switching module; at least one aluminum profile rack is arranged on the rack, and the lifting module is installed on each aluminum profile rack; the forming module is arranged on the lifting module, the forming module is used for coating a film transfer material and selectively transferring the material to the printing platform; the station switching module moves the printing platform in the horizontal direction, the forming module completes line-by-line coating, forming and demolding of the material on the printing platform, and realizes coverage from a line to a plane. The application not only optimizes the structure of the multi-material additive manufacturing device, improves the stability and operation convenience of the device, but also overcomes the precision and material compatibility problems of existing high-viscosity photocurable materials in the multi-material additive manufacturing technology.

The invention discloses equipment for pattern design and cultural and creative product printing, and relates to the field of printing equipment. The printer body is arranged on the bracket; the moving assembly is arranged in the bracket; the printing table is arranged in the moving assembly, and the moving assembly can drive the printing table to horizontally move in the support; the printing table comprises a base which is arranged on the moving assembly; the plurality of vertical rods are arranged at the top of the base; the movable plate is arranged between the vertical rods in a sliding and penetrating manner; the lifting part is arranged between the base and the moving assembly and used for driving the movable plate to move upwards or downwards on the top of the base, through the structural design, the risk that products are scratched, deformed or broken possibly caused by traditional manual prying, scraping and shoveling and other operations is avoided, and the lifting device is especially important for cultural and creative products with flat bottom faces, and the production efficiency of the cultural and creative products is improved. And the yield and the quality of good products can be effectively improved.

The application discloses a kind of electrofluid printing substrate active leveling device and leveling method, its device includes movable printing platform, droplet observation module, work computer and main control board, and printing platform top is equipped with printing substrate;Printing platform is used to carry out electrofluid printing on demand on printing substrate;Droplet observation module is used to observe the process of droplet ejection in the printing process of printing platform on printing substrate;Work computer is connected with main control board, and the leveling of printing platform and printing substrate is controlled by motion interpolation program control printing platform movement displacement;Main control board is used to control the observation of three-axis motion of printing platform, droplet observation module and the waveform output of control high-voltage power supply;The height of the nozzle distance substrate can be controlled to 0.8-1 microns by the application, reduces the electric field intensity fluctuation of electrostatic field, improves the stability and consistency of electrofluid printing;Actual Z-axis movement height is realized by calculation to level plane substrate;It has the advantages of high leveling precision, stability and good consistency.

A work carrier, particularly a work carrier for manufacturing three-dimensional screen printing workpieces, comprises at least one print bed having a print area to be printed, and a support structure that supports the print bed and is formed separately from the print bed, the support structure having a support base and at least one stop for the print bed, the print bed being positioned on the support base, and in the position on the support base, the print bed being in contact with the at least one lateral stop.

The utility model provides a bottom supporting structure of a 3D printer. The bottom supporting structure comprises a base, a fence fixedly installed on the top face of the base, a supporting seat connected with a supporting plate through a spring, the supporting plate fixedly installed at the bottom of a heated plate, a glass platform arranged at the top of the heated plate, and a long screw connected with a stabilizing mechanism. The base is adopted as a bottom supporting structure of the 3D printer to support the printing device, meanwhile, the glass platforms with the intervals are installed on the heated plate to be used for bearing finished products, the heated plate can enable the glass platforms to be evenly heated, and the situation that the glass platforms are formed due to temperature difference changes is avoided; the horizontal supporting structure is ensured to improve the printing precision, the springs are arranged to achieve elastic supporting of the supporting structure, vibration generated when the printing device works cannot affect the supporting structure, control is achieved through the stabilizing mechanism according to the weight of a printed finished product, and a stabilizing rod abuts against the bottom of the heated plate to achieve further supporting. And the processing precision of the 3D printer is improved.