3D printed object cleaning
AssigneesPeridot Print LLC, Nanyang Technological University
InventorsJonathan Munir Salfity, William J. Allen, Huy Nguyen Dinh, Nicholas Adrian, Joyce Xin Yan Lim, Quang-Cuong Pham
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Abstract
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system is described. The system includes a reader to extract cleaning instructions associated with a three-dimensional (3D) printed object. The cleaning instructions include a termination condition to indicate when object cleaning is complete. The system also includes a controller to instruct at least one cleaning device to clean the 3D printed object based on the cleaning instructions. A measurement system of the system determines when the termination condition is met.
Claims14
A system, comprising:
- a reader to extract cleaning instructions associated with a three-dimensional (3D) printed object, the cleaning instructions comprising a termination condition to indicate when object cleaning is complete, wherein the cleaning instructions are generated based on modeling the physics of build material, geometry of the 3D printed object, and operations of an additive manufacturing process of the 3D printed object;
- a controller to instruct at least one cleaning device to clean the 3D printed object based on the cleaning instructions;
- and
- a measurement system to determine when the termination condition is met.
A method, comprising:
- generating cleaning instructions based on modeling the physics of build material, geometry of the 3D printed object, and operations of an additive manufacturing process of the 3D printed object;
- extracting cleaning instructions associated with a three-dimensional (3D) printed object, wherein the cleaning instructions comprise a termination condition to indicate when object cleaning is complete;
- executing cleaning operations based on the cleaning instructions;
- measuring a characteristic of the 3D printed object during execution of the cleaning operations;
- and
- responsive to the characteristic meeting the termination condition, terminating the cleaning operations.
The method of 7, wherein the cleaning instructions comprise at least one of:
- grasp parameters for the 3D printed object during cleaning;
- a sequence of cleaning operations;
- a duration of each cleaning operation;
- a sequence of cleaning motions;
- indication of cleaning modalities;
- tool paths;
- and
- cleaning forces.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:
- identify a three-dimensional (3D) printed object;
- extract cleaning instructions associated with the 3D printed object, wherein the cleaning instructions are generated based on modeling the physics of build material, geometry of the 3D printed object, and operations of an additive manufacturing process of the 3D printed object;
- determine from the cleaning instructions, cleaning device parameters specific to the cleaning devices of a cleaning station;
- identify a pose of the 3D printed object to identify grasping locations indicated in the cleaning instructions;
- and
- execute cleaning operations based on the cleaning instructions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.