Lamination molding apparatus
AssigneeSodick Co., Ltd.
InventorKatsutaka Muranaka
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Abstract
A fume collector can be operated continuously for a long time, and an influence on a three-dimensional article is minimized. Provided is a lamination molding apparatus (1) in which an inert gas supply/discharge apparatus (4) includes an inert gas supply apparatus (43) configured to supply an inert gas into a chamber (10), and a fume collector (6) including a charging section (63) having a charging electrode (631) configured to positively or negatively charge fumes, a charging electrode cleaner (71) configured to remove fumes adhered to the charging electrode (631) and a dust collecting section (65) configured to collect the charged fumes, wherein the charging electrode cleaner (71) removes the fumes when formation of the sintered layers by a laser radiation apparatus (2) is not being performed in operation.
Claims6
A lamination molding apparatus comprising:
- a chamber that is closed;
- a laser radiation apparatus configured to radiate a laser beam to a predetermined irradiation region on a powder material layer formed by uniformly spreading a powder material in the chamber and form a sintered layer;
- and
- an inert gas supply/discharge apparatus configured to supply an inert gas into the chamber such that the chamber is always filled with the inert gas to a predetermined concentration or more and discharge fumes to the outside of the chamber,
- wherein the inert gas supply/discharge apparatus includes:
- an inert gas supply apparatus configured to supply the inert gas into the chamber;
- and
- a fume collector including a charging section having a charging electrode configured to positively or negatively charge the fumes, a charging electrode cleaner configured to remove the fumes adhered to the charging electrode, and a dust collecting section configured to collect the charged fumes,
- wherein the charging electrode cleaner removes the fumes when formation of the sintered layer is not being performed by the laser radiation apparatus in operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.