3D Printing Assembly Synchronous Reciprocation Guide Rails
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
The existing 3D printing devices have low printing efficiency due to the limitations of their working principle, which affects the speed and accuracy of the printing process.
Innovation Solution
The integration of material-dropping guide rails, printing guide rails, and printing mechanisms on a support frame allows for synchronous reciprocation, reducing positioning times and ensuring horizontal stability, enabling rapid and continuous printing with improved accuracy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the material-dropping mechanism and printing mechanism are arranged separately with independent positioning, then each mechanism can operate independently, but the positioning times increase and printing efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the material-dropping mechanism and printing mechanism onto a common reciprocating carriage that moves along shared guide rails. This merging allows both mechanisms to reciprocate synchronously as a single unit, eliminating the need for separate positioning operations and reducing positioning time, thereby improving printing efficiency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the working box and lifting component are positioned frequently for adjustment, then adaptability is improved, but positioning accuracy decreases and stability is affected
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the working box mechanism from the lifting component, allowing the working box to be independently replaceable while the lifting component remains fixed. This segmentation enables adaptability through easy working box replacement without requiring repositioning of the lifting mechanism, thereby maintaining positioning accuracy and stability.
3Device complexity
If the printing assembly components are integrated on a support frame, then device complexity is reduced and space occupation decreases, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the material-dropping guide rails, printing guide rails, and their respective mechanisms onto a single support frame structure. This integration simplifies the overall device complexity and reduces space occupation while maintaining manufacturing precision through the synchronous reciprocation design that ensures coordinated movement of all components.
Data Source
Figure 1
Figure 2~3
Figure 4~5
AI summary
A printing assembly and a 3D printing device are provided, wherein the 3D printing device includes the printing assembly. The printing assembly includes symmetrically arranged material-dropping guide rails, multiple printing guide rails, multiple material-dropping mechanisms and multiple printing mechanisms. The multiple printing guide rails and the multiple material-dropping mechanisms are arranged between two symmetrically arranged material-dropping guide rails. At least one printing guide rail is slidably provided with one printing mechanism. The printing assembly and the 3D printing device can realize synchronous reciprocating movement of the material-dropping mechanisms and the printing mechanisms along the material-dropping guide rails, so that continuous printing can be realized, so as to effectively improve the printing efficiency and greatly save the space occupied by the device.