IPC분류정보
| 국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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| 국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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| 출원번호 |
US-0190604
(1988-05-05)
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발명자
/ 주소 |
- Rando Joseph F. (Los Altos Hills CA)
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| 출원인 / 주소 |
- Spectra-Physics, Inc. (San Jose CA 02)
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| 인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
68 인용 특허 :
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초록
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Three dimensional objects or models, such as three dimensional images or shapes stored in a computer, are generated as real models by addition of material to a base, such as with photo-hardenable liquid, or by removal of material from an initially oversized mass. Optical feedback is employed to mono
Three dimensional objects or models, such as three dimensional images or shapes stored in a computer, are generated as real models by addition of material to a base, such as with photo-hardenable liquid, or by removal of material from an initially oversized mass. Optical feedback is employed to monotor the actual condition of the model being formed, at each work site. The condition of the model at the work site, e.g. the presence or absence of material, is fed back to the machine or building tool, or to a computer controlling the tool. On the basis of such monitoring and feedback, decisions are made whether or not to perform more work at any particular work site. In this way, the actual three dimensional model being constructed is made to conform substantially to stored information relative to the desired dimensions of the model. In a preferred embodiment, models are produced by ablating a mass of small spheres held together by a relatively weak wax or cement. The spheres are cemented together preferably only at their small areas of contact. The ablating may be accomplished by a laser beam whose energy is focused in succession on balls which are to be removed, heating them and breaking the wax or cement bonds. Feedback of the model condition may be optical, e.g. by laser distance measuring non-contact sensors. Alternatively, the spherical balls may be removed by blasts of hot air or gas delivered through a narrow tube. In this case monitoring and feedback may be via measuring of capacitance between the air-delivering tube and the model, representing distance, or by monitoring of the pressure in the tube, indicating distance from the model.
대표청구항
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A method of constructing a three dimensional solid model, said method comprising, (a) scanning a first area having a plurality of predetermined, known work location sites with a work element which can be selectively activated either to perform work or not to perform work at each one of the work loca
A method of constructing a three dimensional solid model, said method comprising, (a) scanning a first area having a plurality of predetermined, known work location sites with a work element which can be selectively activated either to perform work or not to perform work at each one of the work location sites, (b) supplying model information to the work element during said scanning of said first area, (c) activating the work element to perform work at each of the work location sites only when the model information signals that work is to be done at that site, (d) examining the actual condition of material at each site as affected by the action of the work element on the site, (e) feeding back information on said actual condition of material at each site, (f) comparing the feedback information on the actual condition of material at each site with the desired condition of material at that site as called for by the model information supplied pursuant to paragraph (b), (g) making an appropriate correction for increasing or decreasing the amount of work done by the work element when the difference between the actual condition and the desired condition of the material at the work sites is greater than a selected difference, (h) moving the work element to a second area having a plurality of predetermined and known work location sites, (i) repeating steps (a) through (g) for the second area, and (j) repeating step (i) for additional areas until the solid model has been physically constructed by the action of the work element. Apparatus for automated production of a three-dimensional model, comprising, a block or mass of ablatable material which has dimensions larger than those of the three-dimensional shape to be created, an end effector tool having means effective to direct a stream of energy at specific work sites on the block of material at which the end effector tool is aimed, and means for moving the end effector tool around the surface of the mass or block of material as required by the shape to be produced, means for monitoring the dimensions of material at work sites to determine the condition of the work site, i.e. the amount of material which remains at the work site, feedback means for feeding back information from the monitoring of dimensions at the work sites, and controller means for controlling the end effector tool, for receiving fed back information from the feedback means, and for making decisions as to whether further energy is to be directed at particular work sites based on the information fed back to the controller, and for effecting such decisions by either directing further energy to a work site using the end effector tool or not directing further energy to the work site.
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