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- Patent Title: Methods of producing polyurethane three-dimensional objects from materials having multiple mechanisms of hardening
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Application No.: US14977876Application Date: 2015-12-22
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Publication No.: US09598606B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Jason P. Rolland , Kai Chen , Justin Poelma , James Goodrich , Robert Pinschmidt , Joseph M. DeSimone , Lloyd M. Robeson
- Applicant: Carbon3D, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood City
- Assignee: Carbon, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Carbon, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood City
- Agency: Myers Bigel, P.A.
- Main IPC: B29C41/02
- IPC: B29C41/02 ; B29C71/02 ; B29C71/04 ; C09D175/08 ; G03F7/00 ; B29C67/00 ; B29D11/00 ; B29C35/08 ; C08K3/00 ; C08K5/00 ; C08L75/04 ; C09D135/02 ; C09D175/04 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y70/00 ; B29K75/00 ; B29K105/04 ; B29L11/00 ; B29L31/10 ; B29K105/00 ; B29K105/16 ; B29K509/00 ; B33Y80/00 ; B29L31/00

Abstract:
A method of forming a three-dimensional object of polyurethane, polyurea, or copolymer thereof is carried out by: (a) providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, the carrier and the build surface defining a build region therebetween; (b) filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid, the polymerizable liquid including at least one of: (i) a blocked or reactive blocked prepolymer, (ii) a blocked or reactive blocked diisocyanate, or (iii) a blocked or reactive blocked diisocyanate chain extender; (c) irradiating the build region with light through the optically transparent member to form a solid blocked polymer scaffold and advancing the carrier away from the build surface to form a three-dimensional intermediate having the same shape as, or a shape to be imparted to, the three-dimensional object, with the intermediate containing the chain extender; and then (d) heating or microwave irradiating the three-dimensional intermediate sufficiently to form from the three-dimensional intermediate the three-dimensional object of polyurethane, polyurea, or copolymer thereof.
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