Ceramic photosensitive resin based anti-precipitation three-dimensional (3D) printing apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11325277-B2
Application number	US-201916726479-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 24, 2019
Priority date	Dec 26, 2018
Publication date	May 10, 2022
Grant date	May 10, 2022

Abstract

The present invention discloses a ceramic photosensitive resin based anti-precipitation three-dimensional (3D) printing apparatus, including a trough having a light transmitting area at the bottom, a projector directly below the light transmitting area, a printing platform directly above a containing cavity of the trough, a first lifting drive device for driving the printing platform into or out of the containing cavity, a lifting frame, a disturbing wheel mounted on the lifting frame and protruding downward from the lifting frame, a second lifting drive device for driving the lifting frame together with the disturbing wheel to reciprocate in the containing cavity, a rotating motor located outside the containing cavity and having an output shaft passing through the trough in a sealed manner, a friction driving wheel located in the containing cavity and mounted on the output shaft, and a friction driven wheel mounted coaxially with the disturbing wheel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A ceramic photosensitive resin based anti-precipitation three-dimensional (3D) printing apparatus, comprising
a trough having a light transmitting area at the bottom,
a projector directly below the light transmitting area,
a printing platform directly above a containing cavity of the trough, and
a first lifting drive device for driving the printing platform into or out of the containing cavity,
wherein the 3D printing apparatus further comprises
a lifting frame,
a disturbing wheel mounted on the lifting frame and protruding downward from the lifting frame,
a second lifting drive device for driving the lifting frame together with the disturbing wheel to reciprocate in the containing cavity,
a rotating motor located outside the containing cavity and having an output shaft passing through the trough in a sealed manner,
a friction driving wheel located in the containing cavity and mounted on the output shaft, and
a friction driven wheel mounted coaxially with the disturbing wheel;
the lifting frame and the disturbing wheel are respectively offset from the printing platform along a length direction of the trough;
when the second lifting drive device drives the lifting frame downward to a position where the friction driven wheel abuts against the friction driving wheel, the rotating motor drives the disturbing wheel to rotate through friction drive between the friction driving wheel and the friction driven wheel.

2. The 3D printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a gap between the disturbing wheel and a bottom surface of the containing cavity when the friction driving wheel abuts against the friction driven wheel is 1 to 10 mm.

3. The 3D printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a rotation center line of the disturbing wheel and the output shaft are both disposed along a width direction of the trough.

4. The 3D printing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the lifting frame comprises a rotating shaft and a first vertical arm and a second vertical arm spaced apart in the width direction of the trough; a first end of the rotating shaft is mounted on the first vertical arm, and a second end of the rotating shaft is mounted on the second vertical arm; the disturbing wheel is sleeved on a portion of the rotating shaft between the first vertical arm and the second vertical arm; the friction driven wheel is mounted on a portion of the second end of the rotating shaft that passes through the second vertical arm.

5. The 3D printing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the first vertical arm and the vertical second arm are parallel to each other.

6. The 3D printing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the rotating shaft and the disturbing wheel together form an integral structure.

7. The 3D printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the friction driven wheel is aligned with the friction driving wheel along the length direction of the trough when abutting against the friction driving wheel.

8. The 3D printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the disturbing wheel is provided with a thread groove with a notch located outside the disturbing wheel; a spiral center line of the thread groove coincides with the rotation center line of the disturbing wheel.

Assignees

• Univ Dongguan Technology
• Wuxi Jingu Intelligent Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Shenggui
• Zhou Jiyao
• Sun Zhenzhong
• Li Nan
• Zhu Jingbo
• Lu Bingheng

Classifications

• B29C64/218

  Rollers · CPC title

• B28B1/001 Primary

  Rapid manufacturing of 3D objects by additive depositing, agglomerating or laminating of material (selective deposition modelling of metallic powder B22F10/00; rapid manufacturing of 3D objects in general and in particular of plastics B29C64/00) · CPC title

• B33Y30/00

  Apparatus for additive manufacturing; Details thereof or accessories therefor · CPC title

• B29C64/227

  Driving means · CPC title

• B33Y40/00

  Auxiliary operations or equipment, e.g. for material handling · CPC title