US 2017/0001381 A1Published application

Shaping system and shaping method

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsNoriyuki Suzuki, Ikuo Sobue, Shigeki Sakurai

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Abstract

A shaping system of a three-dimensional object includes a control unit which performs an operation of supplying data of a calibration marker to the material layer forming unit and stacking a material layer formed based on the data of the calibration marker on the stage, and an operation of supplying, to the material layer forming unit, data for arranging the shaping material in an entire area of the shaping area excluding an arrangement area of the calibration marker after the material layer formed based on the data of the calibration marker and stacking, on the stage, a material layer formed based on the data for arranging the shaping material in the entire area of the shaping area excluding the arrangement area of the calibration marker.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A shaping system of a three-dimensional object, comprising:

a material layer forming unit which arranges a shaping material based on supplied data to form a material layer;
a shaping unit which stacks the material layer on a shaping area of a stage;
and
a control unit which controls the material layer forming unit and the shaping unit, wherein
the control unit performs an operation of supplying data of a calibration marker to the material layer forming unit and stacking a material layer formed based on the data of the calibration marker on the stage, and an operation of supplying, to the material layer forming unit, data for arranging the shaping material in an entire area of the shaping area excluding an arrangement area of the calibration marker after the material layer formed based on the data of the calibration marker and stacking, on the stage, a material layer formed based on the data for arranging the shaping material in the entire area of the shaping area excluding the arrangement area of the calibration marker.

2 more elements

A shaping method of fabricating a three-dimensional object by sequentially stacking a material layer, in which a shaping material is arranged based on data, in a shaping area of a stage, the shaping method comprising the steps of:

forming a material layer based on data of a calibration marker and stacking the material layer in the shaping area;
and
arranging the shaping material in the entire shaping area excluding a area in which the material layer formed based on the data of the calibration marker is arranged.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/193,728Filed 27 Jun 2016
Priority: JP 2015-13176330 Jun 2015
Published: 5 Jan 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

B29C 64/147
Using only solid materials: using sheet material, e.g. laminated object manufacturing [LOM] or laminating sheet material precut to local cross…
B29C 64/141
Processes of additive manufacturing: using only solid materials
B29C 64/393
Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing: for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
G03G 15/1625
Of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern , e.g. magnetic transfer: on a base other than paper