Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ensuring additive manufacturability of object model using meso-skeleton analysis
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Application No.: US16714916Application Date: 2019-12-16
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Publication No.: US11361130B2Publication Date: 2022-06-14
- Inventor: Erva Ulu , Nurcan Gecer Ulu , Walter Hsiao , Saigopal Nelaturi
- Applicant: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Mueting Raasch Group
- Main IPC: B29C64/393
- IPC: B29C64/393 ; B33Y50/02 ; G06F30/23 ; B29C64/153 ; B29C64/321 ; B29C64/343 ; B29C64/209 ; B22F10/00 ; B29C64/182 ; G06F113/10 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B22F10/10 ; B33Y80/00

Abstract:
A three-dimensional object model is divided into a plurality of slices that are targeted for an additive manufacturing process having a minimum printable feature size. For each of the slices, a thinning algorithm is applied to one or more contours of the slice to form a meso-skeleton, where topological features of the thinned slice that are smaller than the minimum printable feature size are reduced to skeletal paths. A corrected slice is formed using the meso-skeleton by sweeping the meso-skeleton with the minimum printable feature size. The corrected slices are assembled into a corrected object model and the corrected object model is used in the additive manufacturing process.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210039312A1 ENSURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURABILITY OF OBJECT MODEL USING MESO-SKELETON ANALYSIS Public/Granted day:2021-02-11
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