Back to results
US 11,992,878 B2Granted
Cure time for 3D printing green parts
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsFernando Viciano Martin, Jason Cassidy Hower, Sergio Puigardeu Aramendia
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
In one example, a memory having instructions thereon that when executed cause a 3D printing system to determine a cure time for a functional agent applied to print a part as a function of build platform position and then cure the functional agent for the determined cure time.
Claims7
A 3D printing system, comprising:
- a printing unit, including:
- a drive to lower a platform incrementally to accommodate a succession of layers of build material;
- a layering device to layer powdered build material on to the platform;
- an applicator to selectively apply a functional agent to build material on the platform;
- a curing unit to cure functional agent applied to the build material;
- and
- a controller programmed to:
- instruct the drive to lower the platform incrementally to accommodate the succession of layers of build material that together form a powder bed of build material;
- instruct the applicator to apply the functional agent to the build material in some or all of the layers of build material to form a part in the powder bed;
- determine a depth of the powder bed;
- determine a cure time based on the determined depth;
- and
- display the determined cure time, and/or automatically instruct the curing unit to cure the functional agent for the determined cure time, or a combination thereof.
10 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.