Three-dimensional molding device
AssigneeRoland Dg Corporation
InventorShigeki Kikuchi
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a three-dimensional molding device for producing a three-dimensional molded object. The three-dimensional molding device comprises a receptacle for retaining a light-curing resin, a light source for irradiating light to cure the light- curing resin retained inside the receptacle, wherein the three-dimensional molded object is produced by curing the light-curing resin, and a flexible three-dimensional molded object holding plate, which adheres to the light-curing resin and holds the three-dimensional molded object when the resin in the receptacle is cured.
Claims20
A three-dimensional molding device for producing a three-dimensional molded object, the device comprising:
- a receptacle for retaining a light-curing resin;
- a light source for irradiating light to cure the light-curing resin retained inside the receptacle, wherein the three-dimensional molded object is produced by curing the light-curing resin;
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- a flexible three-dimensional molded object holding plate, which adheres to the light-curing resin and holds the three-dimensional molded object when the resin in the receptacle is cured.
A method for molding a three-dimensional object, the method comprising:
- pouring a light-curing resin in a liquid form into a receptacle of a three-dimensional molding device comprising a flexible membrane and a flexible three-dimensional molded object holding plate;
- positioning the three-dimensional molded object holding plate above the membrane;
- irradiating light onto the light-curing resin retained in the receptacle, using a light source of the three-dimensional molding device;
- curing the light-curing resin according to a shape of the light to mold a three-dimensional object;
- detaching the cured three-dimensional molded object from the membrane by shifting up the three-dimensional molded object holding plate, and
- detaching the three-dimensional molded object from the three-dimensional molded object holding plate by bending the three-dimensional molded object holding plate when the production of the three-dimensional molded object is completed,
- wherein an upper surface of the cured to a lower surface of the three-dimensional molded object holding plate and a lower surface of the cured resin, which becomes a layer of the three-dimensional molded object, ia adhered to a surface of the membrane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.