Metal laminating/shaping device
AssigneeToshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
InventorNorihiro Suzuki
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Abstract
A metal laminating/shaping device includes a base, a head unit including a base material injection device, and drive devices that change a positional relationship between the base and the head unit in a spatial coordinate system. The base material injection device includes a base material heating unit that heats a base material that is a metal piece having a fixed shape such that a temperature of an interior of the base material is raised to a temperature below a melting point and a temperature of a surface of the base material is raised to the melting point, and a base material injection unit that injects the heated base material toward the base. The metal laminating/shaping device can form a metal shaped article having a complicated structure at a low cost.
Claims14
A metal laminating/shaping device comprising:
- a base;
- a head including a base material injection device, the base material injection device including a base material heater and a base material injector;
- a driver that changes a positional relationship between the base and the head in a spatial coordinate system;
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- circuitry configured to:
- control the base material heater to heat pieces of base material, each piece of the base material being a metal piece having a fixed shape and heated in such a way that a temperature of an interior of the piece of base material is raised to a temperature below a melting point of the piece of base material and a temperature of only a surface layer of the piece of base material is raised to the melting point of the piece of base material, and
- control the base material injector to shoot the pieces of base material heated by the base material heater piece by piece toward target coordinates of the base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.