US 12,145,321 B2
Three-dimensional shaping device
Keitaro Hashizume, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/088,832.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-213938 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0202118 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. B29C 64/393 (2017.01); B29C 64/209 (2017.01); B29C 64/245 (2017.01); B29C 64/295 (2017.01); B29C 64/40 (2017.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01)
CPC B29C 64/393 (2017.08) [B29C 64/209 (2017.08); B29C 64/245 (2017.08); B29C 64/295 (2017.08); B29C 64/40 (2017.08); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A three-dimensional shaping device comprising:
a stage;
a heater covering a shaping region of the stage and facing the stage;
a head configured to:
dispense a shaping material toward the stage to form a shaping layer; and
dispense a support material toward the stage to form a support layer that supports the shaping layer, wherein
first and second outer edges of the shaping layer contact the support layer, and
third and fourth outer edges of the shaping layer are exposed toward an outside without contacting the support layer;
a thermal sensor configured to measure a temperature of a measurement region of the shaping layer;
an actuator configured to move the stage and the thermal sensor relative to each other and move the stage and the head relative to each other;
a memory configured to store a program; and
a processor configured to execute the program so as to:
control the head and the actuator to form the shaping layer and the support layer on the stage;
set the measurement region based on information of a shape of the shaping layer and the support layer, the measurement region being a point on the shaping layer, the point having a lowest heat dissipation property within the shaping layer, an outer edge of the shaping layer being excluded from the point;
cause the thermal sensor to measure the temperature of the measurement region;
determine whether the measured temperature is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, the predetermined value corresponding to a temperature at which the shaping layer is cured;
control the head and the actuator to dispense the shaping material from the head toward the shaping layer to form another shaping layer on the shaping layer when the processor determines that the measured temperature is equal to or lower than the predetermined value; and
repeat the measurement of the temperature, the determination of the measured temperature, and the control of the head and the actuator to form a three-dimensional shaped object,
wherein a thermal conductivity of the support material is equal to or less than a thermal conductivity of the shaping material, and
the measurement region includes the point at which a first shortest distance from each of the first and second outer edges of the shaping layer is largest in a plan view and at which a second shortest distance from each of the third and fourth outer edges of the shaping layer is largest in the plan view.