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Granted Patent B2
US 11,001,006 · App. 16/121,124 · Granted May 11, 2021

Additive manufacturing apparatus

Inventors: Yasuhiro Sekine (Yokohama, JP); Toshiki Ito (Kawasaki, JP); Yukio Hanyu (Isehara, JP)
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B29C64/393B29C64/129B29C64/264B29C64/364B33Y10/00B33Y30/00B33Y40/00B33Y50/02B33Y70/00
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Patent No.
US 11,001,006
App. No.
16/121,124
Granted
May 11, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An additive manufacturing apparatus in which a streak in a manufacturing direction is difficult to be made on the surface of a product manufactured object in a boundary region of projection regions of exposure images is provided. In this apparatus, a vessel holds a photosetting liquid resin material, a first projector makes a first exposure image incident from an incident surface and projects it into the resin material, a second projector makes a second exposure image, continuous with the first exposure image, incident from the incident surface and projects it into the resin material, and a controlling unit adjusts on a projection surface a boundary region between a first projection image obtained by projecting the first exposure image by the first projector and a second projection image obtained by projecting the second exposure image by the second projector.

Claims (10)

1. A manufacturing apparatus comprising:

a first transmitting member configured to hold a photosetting liquid resin material, wherein an exposure image for solidifying the resin material is transmitted and incident into the resin material through the first transmitting member;

a second transmitting member configured to form a space between the second transmitting member and the first transmitting member;

an image projecting unit configured to transmit the exposure image through the second transmitting member and the first transmitting member and project the transmitted exposure image into the resin material; and

a moving unit configured to move in a stepwise manner a layer to which the resin material has been solidified by the exposure image,

wherein:

the first transmitting member is oxygen permeable; and

the space between the first transmitting member and the second transmitting member is filled with a gas having a pressure higher than an atmospheric pressure containing oxygen or an oxygen-soluble liquid in which oxygen having a mole fraction of 0.001 or more is dissolved.

2. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a liquid supplying device configured to introduce a liquid to the space.

3. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the oxygen-soluble liquid contains at least one selected from perfluorooctane, perfluorobutyl perfluorotetrahydrofuran, perfluoro-1-isopropoxyhexane, and perfluoro-1,4-diisopropoxybutane.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 6, 2018
From: SEKINE, YASUHIRO; ITO, TOSHIKI; HANYU, YUKIO
To: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 047415/0913 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP JP2016-046345 · Mar 9, 2016 · national
JP JP2017-016261 · Jan 31, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2017006458 · Feb 22, 2017
Related Publication 20180370148A1 · Dec 27, 2018