2725 results about "3d printed" patented technology

A 3D Printing Rapid Prototyping process using Al/Mg particles coated with a metal (i.e. copper, nickel, zinc, or tin) that (1) prevents oxidation of the Al/Mg particles, and (2) either alone, or when alloyed with the aluminum or magnesium core metal, melts below the liquidus temperature of the core.

A coated print bed for a 3D printer having a permanent print-surface coating permanently secured to a print bed substrate plate, having a smooth, planar surface that provides an adhesive interface layer between a first layer of an applied plastic print material and the coated print bed. The coating contains a matrix-forming compound, such as a solvent- or water-based epoxy resin, an adhesive material, and optionally a filler. The user can print a series of print object directly onto the permanent print surface coating of the coated print bed, without having to refresh or refurbish the print surface, such as by applying to the print bed surface a temporary coating such as painter's tape, or a liquid adhesive.

Additive manufacturing method and apparatus for embedding cable in articles of additive manufacture in cooperation with a filament extrusion nozzle to increase their strength and functionality. This capability can be provided autonomously by integrating cable guides and cable cutters with new or existing print heads, enabling them to transition between filament-only, cable-only, and combined cable and filament printing modes to form mechanically stronger objects, integrated circuits within objects, and cable alternatives to filament scaffolding.

The invention relates to an intracranial tumor comprehensive operation planning and simulating method based on the 3D print technology. DICOM data obtained through patient spiral CT craniocerebral enhancement scanning are utilized first, different partition methods are adopted for data information extraction and reconstruction according to characteristics of skulls, blood vessels and tumors, and registration and fusion of the skulls, the blood vessels and the tumors are achieved in the same coordinate system; craniocerebral entity models of patients are obtained through a rapid prototyping technology and a virtual three-dimensional geometrical model after optimizing processing is conducted; information of diameters, sizes and the number of tumors and adjacent relations between the diameters, the sizes and the number of tumors and important blood vessels and tissue around is extracted, and preoperative comprehensive risk analysis, operation plan design, operation plan simulation and operation risk response analysis are carried out on the basis of the craniocerebral entity models of the patients, personalized operation plans are provided for the patients in order to improve the accuracy and success rate of intracranial tumor excision operations, and a feasible intracranial tumor operation planning and simulating method based on the 3D print technology is explored.

The application discloses a 3D (Three Dimensional)-printing-based package substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, which are based on re-examination on an existing package substrate (with multilayer circuit boards) and manufacturing methods of wiring layers of the package substrate. According to the application, an insulation layer and a package layer with complicated stereo structures are considered as a main body of the package substrate (with the multilayer circuit boards); passive/active electronic devices and electronic connection devices are embedded in the package layer; a lead, a guide pillar, a bonding pad and composite members with different structures are taken as the electronic connection devices, equally treated with the passive/active electronic devices and standardized. According to the technical scheme, almost all processes of the manufacturing of the wiring layer in the prior art are cancelled, and the production manner and the manufacturing technology of the package substrate (with the multiple circuit boards) are changed.

A system for printing 3D objects protects a 3D object file from being copied by separating the file into a series of instructions for printing the 3D object and sends those instructions piecemeal to a printing facility. The system enforces a methodology that forces the print facility to delete a previous set of instructions before the print facility can receive the next set of instructions to print a 3D object. By using such a system, the print facility never has the entire 3D print file in memory, preserving the rights of the creator of the 3D print file.

The invention discloses a slicing processing method aiming at a non-closed STL model with boundaries for a 3D (three-dimensional) printer. The method comprises the following steps that point, edge and surface information of triangles in an STL model are extracted, and in addition, the topology relationship among the point, edge and surface information is built; all boundary edges are extracted according to the boundary edge judging rule; lamination slicing processing is carried out on non-closed lattices to obtain non-closed 2D polygons; printable inner and outer contour lines obtained after the deflection processing on the polygons are subjected to path optimization for reducing idle strokes; a slicing file is used for outputting universal Gcode files which are read and printed by the 3D printer. The invention provides the slicing method aiming at non-closed STL model input from the boundary extraction aspect for the first time, and breaks through the limitation that the traditional 3D printer can only carry out the slicing processing on the closed STL model, and the slicing processing on the non-closed STL model with the boundaries is realized, so that the non-closed STL model can be directly printed and formed.

The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method of manufacturing customised 3D objects. The method includes retrieving a source model for a 3D object and a plurality of defined control points for the 3D object from a database; receiving modifications to at least some of the control points from a first user; automatically applying the modifications to the source model to create a modified model; and automatically generating print instructions for manufacture of a customised version of the 3D object. A system and 3D models generated by the method are also disclosed.

The invention relates to the technical field of biomedical materials, and particularly relates to a BMP microsphere loaded 3D printing porous metal stent and a preparation method thereof. According to the invention, a loaded microsphere-containing three-dimensional micro-stent is built in each hole of a 3D printing titanium stent. The problem that in the prior art, because the diameter of a hole is overlarge, cells only can be subjected to climbed growth on the two-dimensional space of the wall of the hole, and difficult to be subjected to three-dimensional hierarchical growth in the whole hole is solved, and by filling the three-dimensional micro-stent with a rhBMP-2 or rhBMP-7 loaded chitosan microsphere, a better growth and differentiation environment is provided for cells, thereby further promoting the combination of bone tissues and the stent. The three-dimensional micro-stent provided by the invention makes the complete healing of numerous patients with bone tissue defect caused by illnesses and accidents and the like possible; the three-dimensional micro-stent can also be used as a novel interbody fusion instrument, and applicable to an interbody fusion surgery, therefore, the three-dimensional micro-stent has an important clinical application value.

The invention provides a joint test specimen method using 3D (three-dimensional) printing for making a structure surface containing specific geometrical characteristics, and belongs to a specimen making method of model test specimens similar to joint rock bodies. According to the method, the structure surface is independently designed according to study requirements, or the actual rock body structure surface appearance is obtained through a surface outline scanning technology; the designed structure surface penetrates through a complete cylinder model in 3D graphics software, two parts of complementary test block models obtained through separation are obtained through Boolean operation, and a 3D printer is used for respectively printing and forming the two parts of test block models; printing molds are respectively put into two specimen making boxes and are assembled, similar materials are cast into the specimen making boxes, and the mold dismounting maintenance is carried out after the materials are solidified and formed; the two parts of test blocks are correctly combined to obtain the standard test specimens containing the designed structure surface. The method has the advantages that (1) the operation of the method is safe, simple and convenient; (2) the complicated and variable structure surface is embedded in the standard test specimens, the actual rock body structural surface can be reproduced through being matched with the surface outline scanning technology, and the reasonable test result is obtained.

The invention is directed to a bone void filler comprising a scaffold or matrix. The scaffold or matrix may include a porous inorganic matrix component and/or a 3D-printed implantable device. The bone void filler may include a cellular component containing cells, some of which are capable of making extracellular matrix resembling native bone tissue. The bone void filler may include an organic matrix, such as, an organic biopolymer that aids in cell retention and renders the scaffold or matrix moldable. The bone void filler may include growth factors and/or cytokines. The bone void filler may include a clotting agent.

A method for producing a 3D print fastening piece of a three-layer structure from inside to outside comprises the specific steps that computer modeling and layer-by-layer cutting are carried out; graphs are converted to light beams carrying graph information, a photosensitive drum is charged to obtain electric potential, and an electrostatic latent image is formed through light beam scanning; the electrostatic latent image passes through a magnetic brush and attracts powder to from an internal component, the surface of the internal component is processed, the steps are executed repeatedly to print the intermediate layer and the outer layer, and the surfaces of the intermediate layer and the outer layer are processed. The 3D print fastening piece made through the method has the advantages of being high in manufacturing precision, long in service life, and good in performance.

The invention relates to the technical field of three-dimensional printers, in particular to an intelligent anti-vibration three-dimensional printer for a ship. The three-dimensional printer comprises a printing mechanism and an anti-vibration platform; the printing mechanism comprises a printing sprayer, a shift rod, a lifting rod and a rotary table; the anti-vibration platform comprises an upper platform, a lower platform and actuator bars, and the actuator bars are used for connecting the upper platform with the lower platform. According to the intelligent anti-vibration three-dimensional printer for the ship, the rotation of the rotary table is precisely controlled, the shift rod moves up and down on the lifting rod, the printing sprayer horizontally moves on the shift rod and spatial three-dimensional point searching can be performed, so that three-dimensional printing can be realized; the actuator bars with the same structure of the anti-vibration platform respectively connect the upper platform with the lower platform through the two ends of flexible spherical hinges; multivariant interference vibration of an object, such as a ship body, is changed into independent unidirectional vibration by the actuator bars and is isolated by the actuator bars. The intelligent anti-vibration three-dimensional printer for the ship solves the problem of anti-vibration of a three-dimensional printer, and can be applied to three-dimensional printing in a vibration environment.

The invention discloses a method for producing high-strength fasteners in batch by using a 3D (three dimensional) printing technology. The method specifically comprises the following steps: carrying out computer modeling, segmenting layer by layer, converting a graph into a light beam loaded with graph information; charging a photosensitive drum to obtain a potential, scanning by the light beam to form an electro-static latent image; enabling the electro-static latent image to pass through a magnetic brush, absorbing powder to form an internal member; forming the internal member; and carrying out punching cutting and surface treatment. According to the method for producing the fasteners in batch, the production efficiency is high, the accuracy is high, and the obtained fasteners in batch are excellent in performance.

A system for post-print processing of 3D printed parts includes an automated breakout system for separating 3D printed parts from printing media in a tray and a vibratory media cleaning system for removing printing media from the 3D printed parts. The automated breakout system includes a tray input mechanism, a bed including a first end disposed adjacent the tray input mechanism, the bed including one or more passageways configured to pass printing media through the bed, a vibration generator coupled to the bed and configured to vibrate the bed, and a part terminator disposed adjacent a second end of the bed. The vibratory media cleaning system include a vibratory bin, a vibration generator coupled to the vibratory bin and configured to vibrate the vibratory bin, an automated parts loader configured to introduce 3D printed parts to be cleaned into the bin, and an automated parts removal mechanism.

The invention discloses a bionic vascularized soft tissue with a multilayer vascular structure and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the steps of: employing a moulding process or 3D printing way to obtain a sacrificial membrane with a branched structure; coating or spraying a polymer solution containing a pore-foaming agent on the surface of the sacrificial membrane toobtain a polymer film; removing the treated sacrificial membrane of the structure and the pore-foaming agent to obtain a vascular channel-like structure with surface pores; conducting perfusion planting of endothelial cells in the channel of the vascular channel-like structure; planting smooth muscle cells or fibroblasts in the surface pores of the vascular channel-like structure; and placing thetreated vascular channel-like structure in a mold, adding an aquogel solution containing parenchymal cells, and conducting moulding so as to obtain the bionic vascularized soft tissue. The method provided by the invention can construct bionic blood vessels with a multilayer structure in artificial tissues.

Systems and methods are disclosed for treating teeth to correct for malocclusions. This may be accomplished by applying a series of labels to a digital dental model and applying a rolling ball process to identify tooth boundaries separating one tooth from a neighboring tooth and to also determine the crown/gum margin. The user may further assign regions to the dental model to indicate hard regions and soft regions. With the dental model labeled and defined, the user may then generate a treatment plan for moving the labeled and defined tooth or teeth relative to one another to correct for any malocclusions. Upon approval of the treatment plan, a series of 3D printed dental appliances or aligners to be worn in series by the patient may be fabricated to ultimately move the tooth or teeth to a desired position.

The invention discloses a customized earphone based on a 3D (three-dimensional) printing technology and a manufacturing method of the customized earphone. The earphone comprises an earphone shell, a hard sound induction tube, a unit clamping groove, a sounding unit, a sound outlet connection device, a frequency dividing circuit, a seal cover and a wire socket; the earphone shell, the unit clamping groove, the hard sound induction tube and the seal cover are formed by a 3D printer in a printing manner; the frequency dividing circuit is connected with the sounding unit and the wire socket; the sounding unit is arranged in the unit clamping groove; the sounding unit is communicated with the hard sound induction tube through the sound outlet connection device; the seal cover is used for sealing the earphone shell to form the customized earphone. The thickness, internal structure, mechanical characteristics and acoustics characteristics of the customized earphone shell can be precisely controlled, the sound induction tube material can be optimized, the limitation on a soft material can be broken through, the labor and time cost can be greatly reduced, and the yield of the customized earphone can be greatly increased.

Disclosed is a process whereby diverse classes of materials can be 3D printed and fully integrated into device components with active properties. An exemplary embodiment shows the seamless interweaving of five different materials, including (1) emissive semiconducting inorganic nanoparticles, (2) an elastomeric matrix, (3) organic polymers as charge transport layers, (4) solid and liquid metal leads, and (5) a UV-adhesive transparent substrate layer, demonstrating the integrated functionality of these materials. Further disclosed is a device for printing these fully integrated 3D devices.

The invention provides a method for preparing cartilage with a high mechanical property based on 3D bioprinting. The method comprises the following steps: preparing silk fibers, preparing a gelatin solution, preparing ciological ink containing cells, carrying out 3D cartilage printing, performing cell culture and differentiation on a printed tissue to form the cartilage. The method solves the problems of polarization of 2-dimension culture for cells and high body and surface ratio of cells through the 3D bioprinting technology; sodium alginate and calcium ions form ionic bonds, and gelatin and methacrylic anhydride form covalent bonds, so that the 3D bioprinted cartilage is good in mechanical property and is not easily broken; the gelatin has biocompatibility and degradability of normal biological material hydrogel, has bioactivity, and is good for cell growth and differentiation and realization of cell functions.

A seat includes one or more cushions secured to a shell. The cushions include a 3D printed lattice of repeating cells. The cells may include nodes interconnected by branches. The nodes may be arranged in a cubic, parallelepiped, diamond, or other arrangement. The branches may extend directly between nodes or may be bent. The branches may extend from each node to an adjacent node that is closest to its point of attachment to the each node or the branches may be curved or bent to secure to a different adjacent node. The 3D printed lattice may include 3D printed barbs formed thereon that engage receptacles in the seat shell. The 3D printed lattice may be printed with a groove that engages a fastening structure on a cover or a separate fastening element. The cover may be a perforated sheet of material or fabric.

A system for distributing data that represents and can be converted into a physical object such as a printed photograph or three-dimensional “3D printed” object provides a variety of user controls to direct the flow of data and restrict the use of consumable supplies.