Method for Making an Object
AssigneePhotoCentriC Limited
InventorPaul Mayo Holt
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Abstract
This invention describes a method for making a three dimensional (3D) image by additive manufacturing using, as a light source, an off-the-shelf visual display screen. The invention also relates to apparatus for carrying out said methods.
Claims12
1-41. (canceled)
A method for creating a 3-dimensional object, the method comprising forming more than two layers of a cured polymer by exposing liquid photopolymer to light emitted by a single liquid crystal display screen, wherein none of the light emitted by the screen is UV light, and wherein the photopolymer contains a visible light photoinitiator, the photoinitiator being organometallic or metallocene.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.