Print dead zone identification
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsSebastia Cortes, Xavier Vilajosana, Jun Zeng
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Abstract
A sensor may be to detect a property indicative of a print dead zone caused by a defect of build material to be used for generating the three-dimensional object or a malfunction of a heater that is to heat the build material, a build material distributor that is to provide the material, or a carriage. A processor may be to receive, from the sensor, dead zone data relating to the print dead zone, and to prevent the malfunction of the heater, the build material distributor, or the carriage, or to modify data representing the three-dimensional object to cause the three-dimensional object to be shifted such that three-dimensional object is to be printed outside the print dead zone.
Claims15
A system comprising:
- a sensor to detect a property indicative of a print dead zone caused by a defect of build material to be used for generating the three-dimensional object or a malfunction of a heater that is to heat the build material, a build material distributor that is to provide the build material, or a carriage;
- a processor to receive, from the sensor, dead zone data relating to the print dead zone, and to prevent the malfunction of the heater, the build material distributor, or the carriage, or to modify data representing the three-dimensional object to cause the three-dimensional object to be shifted such that three-dimensional object is to be printed outside the print dead zone.
A method comprising:
- measuring, by a sensor, a property of build material to be used for generating a three-dimensional object, of a heater to be used to heat the build material, of a build material distributor to be used to provide the build material, or a carriage;
- based on the measured property, identifying a print dead zone caused by a defect of the build material or a malfunction of the heater, the build material distributor that is to provide the build material, or the carriage;
- based on the identification, preventing the malfunction of the heater, the build material distributor, or the carriage, or transforming data representing the three-dimensional object to cause the three-dimensional object to be shifted such that three-dimensional object is to be printed in an area of the build material outside the print dead zone;
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- generating the three dimensional object using the correctly functioning heater, build material distributor, or carriage, or in accordance with the modified data.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- receive, from sensors, data representing measured properties of build material to be used for generating the three-dimensional object or of a heater to be used to heat the build material;
- receive or determine an identification of a print dead zone resulting from a defect of the build material or a malfunction of a heater, the identification based on the measured properties;
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- prevent the malfunction of the heater or modify data representing the three-dimensional object to shift the printing location of the three-dimensional object outside the print dead zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.