Shaping apparatus, shaping method, and shaped object
AssigneeMimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
InventorKenji HARAYAMA
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Abstract
A shaping apparatus, a shaping method and a shaped object are provided. The shaping apparatus for shaping a shaped object that is stereoscopic and in which at least one part is colored is provided and includes: inkjet heads which are coloring heads that eject a coloring ink; an inkjet head which is a light reflective material head that ejects a white ink to become a light reflective material; and a controller. The shaped object including a region to be colored is shaped as the shaped object. At least a part of the region to be colored is formed by arranging a plurality of color cells set in advance as a unit of coloring. Each of the color cells includes a reflective core formed of the white ink, and an outer peripheral portion formed of the coloring ink.
Claims14
A shaping apparatus for shaping a shaped object that is stereoscopic and in which at least one part is colored, the shaping apparatus comprising:
- a coloring head that ejects a coloring material as a material of the shaped object;
- a light reflective material head that ejects a light reflective material as a material of the shaped object;
- and
- a controller that controls operations of the coloring head and the light reflective material head,
- wherein
- the shaped object including a region to be colored, which is a colored region, is shaped as the shaped object,
- at least a part of the region to be colored is formed by arranging a plurality of color cells set in advance as a unit of coloring,
- each of the color cells includes:
- a reflective core which is a part formed of the light reflective material inside the color cell, and
- an outer peripheral portion which is a part that surrounds a periphery of the reflective core, and
- in an operation of forming the region to be colored, the controller causes the light reflective material head to eject the light reflective material to form the reflective core in each of the color cells, and causes the coloring head to eject the coloring material to form the outer peripheral portion in each of the color cells.
A shaping method for shaping a shaped object that is stereoscopic and in which at least one part is colored, the shaping method comprising:
- using a coloring head that ejects a coloring material as a material of the shaped object;
- using a light reflective material head that ejects a light reflective material as a material of the shaped object;
- shaping, as the shaped object, the shaped object including a region to be colored, which is a colored region;
- and
- forming at least a part of the region to be colored by arranging a plurality of color cells set in advance as a unit of coloring,
- wherein
- each of the color cells includes:
- a reflective core which is a part formed of the light reflective material inside the color cell, and
- an outer peripheral portion which is a part that surrounds a periphery of the reflective core, and
- in an operation of forming the region to be colored, the light reflective material head is caused to eject the light reflective material to form the reflective core in each of the color cells, and the coloring head is caused to eject the coloring material to form the outer peripheral portion in each of the color cells.
A shaped object that is stereoscopic and in which at least one part is colored, the shaped object comprising:
- a region to be colored, which is a colored region,
- wherein
- at least a part of the region to be colored is formed by arranging a plurality of color cells set in advance as a unit of coloring, and
- each of the color cells includes:
- a reflective core which is a part formed of a light reflective material inside the color cell, the reflective core being formed of the light reflective material, and
- an outer peripheral portion which is a part that surrounds a periphery of the reflective core, the outer peripheral portion being formed of a coloring material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.