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US 10,882,140 · App. 15/125,385 · Granted Jan 5, 2021

Three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus, control method of three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus, and control program of three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus

Inventors: Keiichi Noriyama (Shiga, JP); Hirohisa Kuramoto (Shiga, JP)
Assignee: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
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Patent No.
US 10,882,140
App. No.
15/125,385
Granted
Jan 5, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

The temperature of a molten pool is measured based on an image captured by an infrared camera or the like. A three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus include a material ejector that ejects a material of a three-dimensional laminated and shaped object. The three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus includes a light beam irradiator that irradiates the ejected material with a light beam. The three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus includes an image capturer that captures a molten pool of the material formed by irradiating the ejected material with the light beam. The three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus includes a temperature deriving unit that derives a temperature of the molten pool based on a luminance of an image of the molten pool captured by the image capturer.

Claims (33)

1. A three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus comprising:

a material ejector that ejects a material for a three-dimensional laminated and shaped object;

a light beam irradiator that irradiates the ejected material with a light beam;

an image capturer that captures a molten pool formed by irradiating the ejected material with the light beam;

a processor that is configured to:

(a) derive a changing scanning direction of the light beam in progress of laminating and shaping the object,

(b) derive a temperature distribution of the molten pool based on a luminance of an image of the molten pool captured by said image capturer,

(c) derive a shape of the molten pool based on the luminance and the changing scanning direction,

(d) derive a cooling rate of the molten pool based on the luminance, a scanning distance of the light beam, and the changing scanning direction, and

(e) derive a width of the molten pool in a direction perpendicular to the changing scanning direction based on the luminance and the changing scanning direction, using a preset boundary of a threshold of the luminance.

2. The three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the luminance comprises a luminance of emitted light from the molten pool.

3. A three-dimensional laminated and shaped object shaping method comprising:

ejecting a material of a three-dimensional laminated and shaped object;

irradiating the ejected material with a light beam;

capturing a molten pool formed by irradiating the ejected material with the light beam;

deriving a temperature of the molten pool based on a luminance of an image of the molten pool captured in the capturing;

deriving a changing scanning direction of the light beam in progress of laminating and shaping the object;

deriving a shape of the molten pool based on the luminance and the changing scanning direction;

deriving a cooling rate of the molten pool based on the luminance, a scanning distance of the light beam, and the changing scanning direction; and

deriving a width of the molten pool in a direction perpendicular to the changing scanning direction based on the luminance and the changing scanning direction, using a preset boundary of a threshold of the luminance.

4. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a three-dimensional laminated and shaped object shaping program for causing a computer to execute a method comprising:

ejecting a material of a three-dimensional laminated and shaped object;

irradiating the ejected material with a light beam;

capturing a molten pool formed by irradiating the ejected material with the light beam;

deriving a temperature of the molten pool based on a luminance of an image of the molten pool captured in the capturing;

deriving a changing scanning direction of the light beam in progress of laminating and shaping the object;

deriving a shape of the molten pool based on the luminance and the changing scanning direction;

deriving a cooling rate of the molten pool based on the luminance, a scanning distance of the light beam, and the changing scanning direction; and

deriving a width of the molten pool in a direction perpendicular to the changing scanning direction based on the luminance and the changing scanning direction, using a preset boundary of a threshold of the luminance.

5. The three-dimensional laminating and shaping method according to claim 3 , wherein the luminance comprises a luminance of emitted light from the molten pool.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 4 , wherein the luminance comprises a luminance of emitted light from the molten pool.

7. The three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to derive the changing scanning direction of the light beam from a moving direction of a shaping table based on a current position and past position of the shaping table.

8. The three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to derive the shape of the molten pool as an elliptic shape, which is long in the changing scanning direction and is short in a direction perpendicular to the changing scanning direction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 12, 2016
From: NORIYAMA, KEIICHI; KURAMATO, HIROHISA
To: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
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Continuity (1)
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