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US 12,649,282 · App. 17/659,701 · Granted Jun 9, 2026

Method for manufacturing three-dimensional shaped object and information processing device

Inventor: Satoshi Yamazaki (Matsumoto, JP)
Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
B29C64/393B29C64/118B29C64/209B33Y10/00B33Y30/00B33Y50/02B29C64/386
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Patent No.
US 12,649,282
App. No.
17/659,701
Granted
Jun 9, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object includes a first step of receiving a selection of a shaping mode for the three-dimensional shaped object, a second step of generating, based on the received shaping mode, shaping data for shaping the three-dimensional shaped object, and a third step of shaping the three-dimensional shaped object based on the shaping data, in which the third step includes a step of controlling a discharge adjusting unit configured to adjust a discharge amount of a shaping material from a nozzle, and the number of times the discharge adjusting unit is controlled in the third step is different depending on the shaping mode received in the first step.

Claims (36)

1 . A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object, comprising:

a first step of receiving a selection of a shaping mode for a three-dimensional shaped object;

a second step of generating, based on the received shaping mode, shaping data for shaping the three-dimensional shaped object, wherein the shaping data includes an inner shell shaping data and an outer shell shaping data, which includes an outermost periphery of the three-dimensional shaped object and one inner periphery of the outermost periphery; and

a third step of discharging a shaping material to shape the three-dimensional shaped object based on the shaping data, wherein

the inner shell shaping data includes path information, which includes a first plurality of linear partial paths for discharging the shaping material, wherein each linear partial path includes a start point and an end point connected to the start point,

the third step includes adjusting a discharge amount of the shaping material from a nozzle,

the discharge amount is individually adjusted for each linear partial path,

the number of times of adjusting of the discharge amount in the third step is different depending on the shaping mode received in the first step,

the outer shell shaping data includes path information, which includes a second plurality of linear partial paths and each linear partial path includes a start position and an end position connected to the start position with one line,

the discharge amount of the shaping material from the nozzle is adjusted by starting and temporarily stopping discharging of the shaping material at the start position and the end position of each linear partial path, respectively, and

the shaping material is suctioned from a nozzle opening of the nozzle after temporarily stopping discharging of the shaping material.

2 . The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object according to claim 1 , wherein

the shaping mode includes at least one of a mode related to intensity of the three-dimensional shaped object and a mode related to a shaping time of the three-dimensional shaped object.

3 . The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object according to claim 2 , wherein

the mode related to the shaping time of the three-dimensional shaped object is a mode related to at least one of dimensional accuracy, a surface roughness, and a filling rate.

4 . The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object according to claim 1 , wherein

when a non-standard mode including a mode for shaping a three-dimensional shaped object with intensity higher than that in a standard mode or a mode for shaping a three-dimensional shaped object for a time longer than that in the standard mode is selected, the number of times of adjusting of the discharge amount in the third step is different from that in a case where the standard mode is selected as the shaping mode.

5 . The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object according to claim 4 , wherein

when the non-standard mode is selected, the number of times of adjusting of the discharge amount in the third step is larger than that in the case where the standard mode is selected.

6 . The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object according to claim 5 , wherein

when the non-standard mode is selected, the number of times of adjusting of the discharge amount in the third step at the time of shaping an outer shell region of the three-dimensional shaped object is larger than that in the case where the standard mode is selected.

7 . The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object according to claim 4 , wherein

when the non-standard mode is selected, compared with the case where the standard mode is selected, at least one of the following is performed in shaping the three-dimensional shaped object in the third step: (1) narrowing a line width; (2) narrowing a deposition pitch; (3) increasing a filling rate; (4) increasing the number of partial paths included in a movement path of the nozzle; (5) slowing down a moving speed of the nozzle; and (6) increasing a material usage amount.

8 . The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object according to claim 4 , wherein

the discharge amount is adjusted by a butterfly valve provided in a flow path communicating with a nozzle opening of the nozzle, and

when the non-standard mode is selected, a maximum opening degree of the butterfly valve is smaller than that in the case where the standard mode is selected.

9 . The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object according to claim 4 , wherein

when the non-standard mode is selected, the number of times of suctioning operations is larger than the case where the standard mode is selected as the shaping mode, the suctioning operation being performed between adjusting of the discharge amount and a nozzle opening of the nozzle, and configured to suction the shaping material.

10 . The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object according to claim 4 , wherein

when the standard mode is selected, the adjusting of the discharge amount temporarily stop discharge of the shaping material when an angle at which two consecutive partial paths included in the movement path of the nozzle are coupled is equal to or larger than a first angle in the third step, and

when the non-standard mode is selected, adjusting of the discharge amount is controlled to temporarily stop the discharge of the shaping material when the angle is equal to or larger than a second angle which is smaller than the first angle.

11 . The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object according to claim 1 , wherein

the number of times of adjusting of the discharge amount in the third step is the number of a series of control including; setting the discharge amount of the shaping material from the nozzle to zero by

adjusting an opening degree of a channel through which the shaping material flows,

suctioning the shaping material from the nozzle opening of the nozzle, and

after a lapse of a predetermined period, increasing the discharge amount by adjusting the opening degree of the channel while discharging the shaping material sucked from the nozzle opening.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 19, 2022
From: YAMAZAKI, SATOSHI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 059634/0874 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-072225 · Apr 22, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220339880A1 · Oct 27, 2022
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