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US 11,796,980 · App. 17/047,010 · Granted Oct 24, 2023

Additive-manufactured object design supporting device and additive-manufactured object design supporting method

Inventors: Takashi Hamaguchi (Tokyo, JP); Tadashi Fujieda (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
G05B19/4099B22F10/80B33Y50/00B33Y50/02G06F30/00G06F30/20B22F10/28G05B2219/49023G06F2113/10G06F2119/18
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Patent No.
US 11,796,980
App. No.
17/047,010
Granted
Oct 24, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

When the temperature history in a fine mesh is obtained for the entire modeled object, it takes a huge amount of time in calculation. In order to solve the problem, An additive-manufactured object design supporting device, comprising: an analysis unit configured to analyze a modeling process of a macro-region and a micro-region by using a product shape, a material condition, and a modeling condition of a modeled object as input; a temperature history extraction unit configured to extract, from a temperature analysis result of the macro-region, a local temperature history by referring to a database that stores a temperature history of the micro-region; a mapping unit configured to map a structure distribution obtained from a temperature history distribution of the modeled object to the modeled object; and an extraction unit configured to extract a defective structure that does not satisfy a structure condition by using an allowable structure condition as input.

Claims (25)

1. An additive-manufactured object design supporting device, comprising:

an analysis unit configured to analyze a modeling process of a macro-region and a micro-region of a modeled object, which is an additive-manufactured object, by using a shape, a material condition, and a modeling condition of the modeled object as input, wherein the macro-region includes an entirety of the modeled object and the micro-region is a part of the macro-region;

a temperature history extraction unit configured to extract, from a database, a temperature history of the micro-region, which is stored in the database as part of a temperature analysis result of the macro-region;

a mapping unit configured to map a structure distribution obtained from a temperature history distribution of the modeled object to the modeled object;

an extraction unit configured to extract a defective structure of the modeled object that does not satisfy a structure condition of the modeled object by using an allowable structure condition as input;

an additional analysis determination unit configured to determine a temperature boundary condition of a temperature of the micro-region based on a pre-heat input temperature classification table of threshold temperatures of the micro-region before and after a heat input that are stored in the database, and cause the analysis unit to analyze the micro-region when the temperature boundary condition is different from a temperature boundary condition of a temperature of the macro-region, and add an analysis result of analyzing the micro-region to the database; and

a three-dimensional printer configured to output the modeled object as a three-dimensional object.

2. The additive-manufactured object design supporting device according to claim 1 , wherein

the threshold temperatures in the pre-heat input temperature classification table are used to determine the defective structure.

3. An additive-manufactured object design supporting device, comprising:

an analysis unit configured to analyze a modeling process of a macro-region and a micro-region of a modeled object, which is an additive-manufactured object, by using a shape, a material condition, and a modeling condition of the modeled object as input, wherein the macro-region includes an entirety of the modeled object and the micro-region is a part of the macro-region;

a temperature history extraction unit configured to extract, from a database, a temperature history of the micro-region, which is stored in the database as part of a temperature analysis result of the macro-region;

a mapping unit configured to map a structure distribution obtained from a temperature history distribution of the modeled object to the modeled object;

an extraction unit configured to extract a defective structure of the modeled object that does not satisfy a structure condition of the modeled object by using an allowable structure condition as input;

an additional analysis determination unit configured to determine a geometric shape classification of the micro-region based on a geometric shape classification table stored in the database, the geometric shape classification table including a plurality of different geometric shapes of the micro-region, and to cause the analysis unit to analyze the micro-region when the geometric shape classification is different from a geometric shape classification of the macro-region, and add an analysis result of analyzing the micro-region to the database; and

a three-dimensional printer configured to output the modeled object as a three-dimensional object.

4. The additive-manufactured object design supporting device according to claim 3 , wherein

the plurality of different geometric shapes includes a powder shape, a molten shape, and a solidified shape, which are used to determine the defective structure.

5. An additive-manufactured object design supporting method, comprising:

a step of analyzing a modeling process of a macro-region and a micro-region of a modeled object, which is an additive-manufactured object, by using a shape, a material condition, and a modeling condition of the modeled object as input, wherein the macro-region includes an entirety of the modeled object and the micro-region is a part of the macro-region;

a step of extracting, from a database, a temperature history of the micro-region, which is stored in the database as part of a temperature analysis result of the macro-region;

a step of mapping a structure distribution obtained from a temperature history distribution of the modeled object to the modeled object;

a step of extracting a defective structure of the modeled object that does not satisfy a structure condition of the modeled object by using an allowable structure condition as input;

a step of determining a temperature boundary condition of a temperature of the micro-region based on a pre-heat input temperature classification table of threshold temperatures of the micro-region before and after a heat input that are stored in the database, analyzing the micro-region when the temperature boundary condition is different from a temperature boundary condition of a temperature of the macro-region, and adding an analysis result of analyzing the micro-region to the database; and

a step of outputting, by a three-dimensional printer, the modeled object as a three-dimensional object.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 12, 2020
From: HAMAGUCHI, TAKASHI; FUJIEDA, TADASHI
To: HITACHI, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054032/0186 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-077301 · Apr 13, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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