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US 12,691,639 B1Granted
Multi-material additive fabrication with different application-specific properties
AssigneeInkbit, LLC
InventorsWojciech Matusik, Gregory Ellson, Shai Elisha Almagor, Liam Schwartz
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Abstract
An approach to multi-material additive fabrication incorporates application-specific surface and near-surface regions into a model used for control of fabrication, for example, using feedback controlled jetted fabrication.
Claims24
A method additive fabrication comprising:
- receiving a solid model of an object;
- receiving a specification of a surface characteristic of at least some of the surface of the object, wherein the surface characteristic comprises a chemical resistance characteristic;
- computing a modified model of the object, the modified model having a volume corresponding to the solid model and having a surface and near-surface region specified to be formed of a surface material and bulk regions specified to be formed from a bulk material;
- and
- providing the modified model for additive fabrication of the object.
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A method additive fabrication comprising:
- receiving a solid model of an object;
- receiving a specification of a surface characteristic of at least some of the surface of the object;
- computing a modified model of the object, the modified model having a volume corresponding to the solid model and having a surface and near-surface region specified to be formed of a surface material and bulk regions specified to be formed from a bulk material;
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- providing the modified model for additive fabrication of the object;
- wherein in the object comprises a fluid static mixer, and the surface of the object comprises an inner surface of the mixer to be in fluid contact during operational use of the mixer.
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A method for fabricating a multi-material object, the method comprising:
- receiving a model of an object, the model specifying surface and near-surface coating regions to be fabricated using a surface material and specifying a bulk region to be fabricated using a bulk material;
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- controlling jetted deposition of the surface material and the bulk material in a plurality of successive layers, at least some layers comprising both the surface material and the bulk material.
An object fabricated by additive fabrication, a modified model for the object being determined by a method comprising:
- receiving a solid model of an object;
- receiving a specification of a surface characteristic of at least some of the surface of the object;
- computing a modified model of the object, the modified model having a volume corresponding to the solid model and having a surface and near-surface region specified to be formed of a surface material and bulk regions specified to be formed from a bulk material;
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- providing the modified model for additive fabrication of the object;
- and the object being fabricated by a method comprising:
- receiving the modified model of the object, the modified model specifying surface and near-surface coating regions to be fabricated using a surface material and specifying a bulk region to be fabricated using a bulk material;
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- controlling jetted deposition of the surface material and the bulk material in a plurality of successive layers, at least some layers comprising both the surface material and the bulk material.
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A method of additive fabrication comprising:
- receiving a solid model of an object;
- receiving a specification of a surface characteristic of at least some of the surface of the object, wherein the surface characteristic comprises a heat resistance characteristic;
- computing a modified model of the object, the modified model having a volume corresponding to the solid model and having a surface and near-surface region specified to be formed of a surface material and bulk regions specified to be formed from a bulk material;
- and
- providing the modified model for additive fabrication of the object.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.