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US 2016/0243762 A1Published application
Automated design, simulation, and shape forming process for creating structural elements and designed objects
OwnerRobert J. Fleming, Daniel Vasquezinventors
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Abstract
A three-dimensional printer, system and method is provided for individually creating three-dimensional structural elements (individually termed fundamental structures) which are sequentially positioned into formation of a shaped object.
Claims20
A system for designing a structure, the system comprising:
- a design sub-system including an interface to receive a set of inputs form a designer, the set of inputs specifying (i) an object to be produced, and (ii) one or more functional requirements of the object;
- wherein the design interface includes logic for selecting, based on the design inputs, one or more physical characteristics of a fundamental structure produced by a fiber in order to meet the one or more functional requirements of the object;
- a tool interface to control operation of a tool for producing object;
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- a tool, controllable by input from the tool interface, to form a plurality of fundamental structures in accordance with the one or more functional requirements of the object.
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A tool comprising:
- a delivery sub-system that separately combines a coating and a fiber to form multiple frames in continuity on a target region;
- a curation and cutting mechanism to cure and cut individual frames formed on the target region, so as to create an aggregation of fundamental structures that collectively form a portion of a desired shaped object.
A method for forming a shaped object, the method comprising:
- separately combining a coating and a fiber to form multiple frames in continuity on a target region;
- curing and cutting individual frames formed on the target region, so as to create an aggregation of fundamental structures that collectively form a portion of a desired shaped object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.