Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Three-dimensional shaping apparatus and three-dimensional shaped article production method
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Application No.: US17239724Application Date: 2021-04-26
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Publication No.: US11701833B2Publication Date: 2023-07-18
- Inventor: Shigeru Yamazaki
- Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Global IP Counselors, LLP
- Priority: JP 20078137 2020.04.27
- Main IPC: B29C64/393
- IPC: B29C64/393 ; B29C64/118 ; B29C64/295 ; B33Y50/02 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B29C64/209 ; G05B19/4065

Abstract:
A three-dimensional shaping apparatus includes a plasticizing section that includes a drive motor, a heater, and a screw rotated by the drive motor and that plasticizes a material to form a shaping material, an ejection section that ejects the shaping material toward a stage, a moving mechanism section that changes a relative position of the ejection section to the stage, a prediction section that predicts a residual service life of the heater from an observation result of a state observation section that observes a state of the heater, and a control unit that controls the plasticizing section and the moving mechanism section to shape a three-dimensional shaped article. The control unit has a first mode in which a temperature of the heater is set to a first temperature and a second mode in which the temperature of the heater is set to a temperature lower than the first temperature, and shapes the three-dimensional shaped article in the first mode when a first residual service life when the temperature of the heater is set to the first temperature exceeds a first value, and shapes the three-dimensional shaped article in the second mode when the first residual service life is equal to or less than the first value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210331418A1 THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPING APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPED ARTICLE PRODUCTION METHOD Public/Granted day:2021-10-28
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