A kind of optical fiber laying device and method based on 3D printing
Technical field
The present invention relates to rapid forming equipment technical field, in particular to a kind of optical fiber laying based on 3D printing
Device and method.
Background technology
3D printing technique is a series of general designation of rapid prototyping forming techniques;Its general principle is that layered manufacturing forms 3D realities
Body.Consumptive material of the entity generally as needed for printing melts again cooled and solidified and is formed by fuse machine, but the hardness of consumptive material and intensity
It is not high, cause the entity made fragile.
It is general using sensor is placed in physically at present in order to solve the above problems, by sensor real-time monitoring
The deformation degree of printout.The common practice is that sensor is pasted on into real part surface.When detected entity is deformed upon,
The colloid for pasting sensor can also be deformed upon;But the difference of the elastic modelling quantity of its colloid and tested entity, thus sensor
Measurement result produce error cause the percent defective of the entity for printing still higher.
The content of the invention
The first purpose of the embodiment of the present invention is to provide a kind of optical fiber laying device based on 3D printing, its printhead cluster
Part and optical fiber are laid component and are slidably matched by with the first guide rail and the second guide rail, can realize on operating surface while manufacturing
Object is while laying optical fiber;Entity to be measured is imbedded so as to form a component with sensing function by optical fiber, is reached straight
The deformation quantity for detecting entity to be measured is connect, so as to avoid plastic deformation.The laying apparatus simple structure, easy to operate, applicable surface
Extensively;Improve certainty of measurement and optimize printing effect, reduce the percent defective of printout.
The second purpose of the embodiment of the present invention is to provide a kind of optical fiber laying method based on 3D printing, based on above-mentioned
Optical fiber laying device, the characteristics of possess optical fiber laying device.
What embodiments of the invention were realized in:
A kind of optical fiber laying device based on 3D printing, including the first guiding assemblage, the second guiding assemblage, the 3rd guiding are total
Into, print head assembly, optical fiber laying component and supporting arrangement;Supporting arrangement is including the base with bearing-surface, located at bearing-surface
On workbench and around base surrounding set support.Workbench is operating surface away from the end face of bearing-surface;First leads
Include at least two the first guide rails for being relatively arranged on base two ends to assembly, the first guide rail is connected and parallel to operation with support
Face;Second guiding assemblage includes at least two spaced second guide rails, two ends on the second rail length direction respectively with
The first guide rail for being arranged at base two ends is slidably connected;3rd guiding assemblage is vertical at bearing-surface including at least one
3rd guide rail, for support works platform.Print head assembly is slidably connected to the second guide rail, for existing along the second guide rail movement
3D components are printed on operating surface;Optical fiber laying component includes laying bearing and the fixture located at laying bearing, laying rolling
Axle and optical fiber guide rail;Laying roller bearing is by roller support on laying bearing;The two ends of optical fiber guide rail are connected to laying
Roller bearing and laying bearing;Fixture has a relative two ends, and wherein first end is rotatably coupled with laying bearing, the other end with
Optical fiber separably coordinates;Optical fiber extends up to be wound in laying roller bearing along optical fiber guide rail, and coordinates with fixture;Laying branch
Seat is slidably connected on another second guide rail, for optical fiber to be embedded in into 3D components along the second guide rail movement.
Inventor has found:Typically use to be placed in sensor at present and physically realize real-time monitoring deformation quantity, it is common
The practice is that sensor is pasted on into real part surface.But the difference of the elastic modelling quantity that it pastes colloid used and tested entity,
Thus the measurement result generation error of sensor causes the percent defective of the entity for printing higher.
Above-mentioned situation is aimed to solve the problem that, inventor devises a kind of optical fiber laying device based on 3D printing, its printhead cluster
Part is slidably connected to the second guide rail, for printing 3D components on operating surface along the second guide rail movement;Laying bearing can
It is slidably connected on another second guide rail, for optical fiber to be embedded in into 3D components along the second guide rail movement.Second guide rail is along
One slide, so as to drive print head assembly to be moved in operating surface with optical fiber laying component.The elevating movement of its operating surface is led to
Cross the completion that is slidably connected of the 3rd guide rail.Its optical fiber laying component includes laying bearing and the fixation on the laying bearing
Part, laying roller bearing and optical fiber guide rail;Wherein laying roller bearing is located on laying bearing by roller support;And the two of optical fiber guide rail
End is connected to laying roller bearing with laying bearing.Fixture has relative two ends, and wherein one end is rotatable with laying bearing
Ground connection.When optical fiber extends up to be wound in laying roller bearing along optical fiber guide rail, the other end of fixture is used to divide with optical fiber
Liftoff cooperation.The laying apparatus simple structure, it is easy to operate;One is collectively forming with biography by the way that optical fiber is imbedded entity to be measured
Feel the component of function, reach the deformation quantity for directly detecting entity to be measured, so as to avoid plastic deformation;Improve certainty of measurement and
Printing effect is optimized, the percent defective of printout is reduced.
In one embodiment of the invention:
Second guiding assemblage also includes the first motor, and the first motor is used to drive the second guide rail to be moved along the first guide rail;The
Three guiding assemblages also include the 3rd motor, and the 3rd motor is used to drive workbench along the 3rd guide rail liftably away from or near branch
Bearing surface.
In one embodiment of the invention:
Print head assembly is additionally provided with the second motor, and the second motor is used to drive print head assembly to be moved along the second guide rail;Beat
Print head assembly includes shower nozzle, radiator, heat melting device and consumptive material feeder;Consumptive material feeder is provided with the 4th motor and gear member, the
Four motors coordinate for consumptive material to be squeezed into heat melting device jointly with gear member;Shower nozzle is connected for the consumption that will melt with heat melting device
Material sprays;Radiator is at shower nozzle.
In one embodiment of the invention:
Radiator includes at least one radiator fan, and radiator fan is additionally provided with the air outlet of alignment shower nozzle;Consumptive material feeder
Fin is additionally provided between heat melting device.
In one embodiment of the invention:
Optical fiber laying component also includes fiber drum, on end face of the fiber drum located at laying bearing away from laying roller bearing.
In one embodiment of the invention:
Fiber drum is additionally provided with elastic component, and elastic component is connected with the optical fiber for being wound in fiber drum.
In one embodiment of the invention:
Laying bearing is additionally provided with the first retainer ring for fixing optical fiber with the junction of optical fiber guide rail;Also set on workbench
There is the second retainer ring of fixed optical fiber.
In one embodiment of the invention:
Optical fiber laying component is additionally provided with the 5th motor, and the 5th motor is used to drive optical fiber laying component to be moved along the second guide rail
It is dynamic.
In one embodiment of the invention:
Hott bed is also equipped with operating surface.
A kind of optical fiber laying method based on 3D printing, comprises the following steps:
S1:Prepare 3D printing, workbench rises away from bearing-surface along the 3rd guide rail, until after reaching the maximum height of limitation
Stop;
S2:Heat melting device and hott bed start preheating, when the temperature of shower nozzle and hott bed reaches predetermined temperature, start to print work
Make;
S3:Behaviour of the shower nozzle by the cooperation of the first motor and the second motor along the first guide rail and the second guide rail on the table
Make face movement;Consumptive material needed for printing is squeezed into heat melting device by consumptive material feeder by the 4th motor, and common by gear member
The consumptive material that will melt with pressure is sprayed by shower nozzle;Shower nozzle is successively printed on hott bed, and has often printed an aspect;Workbench
Will pass through the 3rd motor and decline a height unit along the 3rd guide rail, continue to print next aspect;
S4:When print procedure proceeds to needs optical fiber laying aspect, shower nozzle, will according to optical fiber paving track number of bends
Optical fiber laying aspect is divided into multiple regions;Often bend and be once divided into two regions, constitute the optical fiber duct and optical fiber paving for accommodating optical fiber
If mouth;Then shower nozzle exits the working region of operating surface, and optical fiber laying component is moved by the cooperation of the first motor and the 5th motor
Operating surface top is moved to start to lay fiber work;Optical fiber is pulled out from fiber drum, through the first retainer ring along optical fiber guide rail
After being wound on optical fiber roller bearing, optical fiber is fixed and pressed into optical fiber duct by fixture;The optical fiber for laying away from fiber drum one
Through the second retainer ring on workbench, the 5th motor drives optical fiber laying component to exit the working region of operating surface at end;Shower nozzle
Continue to start print job, successively printing is until printing terminates in optical fiber laying aspect.
Embodiments of the invention have the advantages that:
A kind of optical fiber laying device based on 3D printing that embodiments of the invention are provided, its print head assembly spreads with optical fiber
If component is slidably matched by with the first guide rail and the second guide rail, can realize manufacturing object on operating surface while spreading
If optical fiber;Entity to be measured is imbedded so as to form a component with sensing function by optical fiber, is reached to directly detect and is treated
The deformation quantity of entity is surveyed, so as to avoid plastic deformation.The laying apparatus simple structure, it is easy to operate, it is widely applicable;Improve survey
Accuracy of measurement and printing effect is optimized, reduce the percent defective of printout.
A kind of optical fiber laying method based on 3D printing that embodiments of the invention are provided, dress is laid based on above-mentioned optical fiber
Put, the characteristics of possess optical fiber laying device.
Brief description of the drawings
Technical scheme in order to illustrate more clearly the embodiments of the present invention, below will be attached to what is used needed for embodiment
Figure is briefly described, it will be appreciated that the following drawings illustrate only certain embodiments of the present invention, thus be not construed as it is right
The restriction of scope, for those of ordinary skill in the art, on the premise of not paying creative work, can also be according to this
A little accompanying drawings obtain other related accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of optical fiber laying device in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of the second guide rail in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of print head assembly in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the structural representation inside print head assembly in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 5 is the structural representation of optical fiber laying component in the embodiment of the present invention.
Icon:100- optical fiber laying devices;10- supporting arrangements;101- bases;102- bearing-surfaces;103- supports;104- works
Make platform;105- operating surfaces;The retainer rings of 106- second;107- hott beds;The guide rails of 201- first;The guide rails of 202- second;203- the 3rd leads
Rail;30- print head assemblies;301- shower nozzles;302- radiators;303- heat melting devices;304- consumptive material feeders;305- consumptive material pipes;
The motors of 306- the 4th;307- gear members;308- air outlets;309- fin;40- optical fiber lays component;401- lays bearing;
402- fixtures;403- lays roller bearing;404- optical fiber guide rails;405- roller supports;406- fiber drums;407- elastic components;
The retainer rings of 408- first.
Specific embodiment
To make the purpose, technical scheme and advantage of the embodiment of the present invention clearer, below in conjunction with the embodiment of the present invention
In accompanying drawing, the technical scheme in the embodiment of the present invention is clearly and completely described, it is clear that described embodiment is
A part of embodiment of the present invention, rather than whole embodiments.Present invention implementation generally described and illustrated in accompanying drawing herein
The component of example can be arranged and designed with a variety of configurations.
Therefore, the detailed description of embodiments of the invention below to providing in the accompanying drawings is not intended to limit claimed
The scope of the present invention, but be merely representative of selected embodiment of the invention.Based on the embodiment in the present invention, this area is common
The every other embodiment that technical staff is obtained under the premise of creative work is not made, belongs to the model of present invention protection
Enclose.
It should be noted that in the case where not conflicting, the embodiment in the present invention and the feature in embodiment can phases
Mutually combination.
It should be noted that:Similar label and letter represents similar terms in following accompanying drawing, therefore, once a certain Xiang Yi
It is defined in individual accompanying drawing, then it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent accompanying drawing.
In the description of the invention, in addition it is also necessary to explanation, unless otherwise clearly defined and limited, term " setting " should
It is interpreted broadly, for the ordinary skill in the art, can understands above-mentioned term in the present invention with concrete condition
Concrete meaning.
Embodiment
Embodiment
Fig. 1 is refer to, Fig. 1 shows a kind of optical fiber laying device 100 based on 3D printing provided in an embodiment of the present invention
Concrete structure, it include the first guiding assemblage, the second guiding assemblage, the 3rd guiding assemblage, print head assembly 30, optical fiber laying
Component 40 and supporting arrangement 10.
Supporting arrangement 10 includes the support of the base 101 with bearing-surface 102 and the surrounding setting around base 101
103;Center of its workbench 104 by the support of the 3rd guiding assemblage on bearing-surface 102.3rd guiding assemblage includes vertical
The 3rd guide rail 203 being connected on bearing-surface 102 and the 3rd motor being connected with the 3rd guide rail 203;3rd motor drives
Dynamic 3rd guide rail 203 drives workbench 104 liftably away from or near bearing-surface 102.Wherein workbench 104 is away from bearing-surface
102 end face is operating surface 105;The operating surface 105 is also equipped with hott bed parallel to bearing-surface 102 and in the operating surface 105
107.The second retainer ring 106 is additionally provided with side of the workbench 104 by proximal wall.It should be noted that the number of the 3rd guide rail 203
Amount is not limited;In the present embodiment, the 3rd guide rail 203 is one.Fabricate for convenience, the shape of base 101 and workbench 104
Shape can be rectangle, circle etc.;In the present embodiment, base 101 and workbench 104 are rectangle, and workbench 104 length
Two ends on the direction two ends bearing of trend relative with base 101 is consistent.
First guiding assemblage includes two first guide rails 201 at the two ends being respectively arranged on the length direction of base 101;The
One guide rail 201 is fixedly connected positioned at the top of operating surface 105 by with support 103, parallel to operating surface 105 and in base 101
Two ends on width extend.Second guiding assemblage includes two motors of spaced second guide rail 202 and first;The
Two guide rails 202 are slidably connected by connector with the first guide rail 201, and the first motor is used to drive the second guide rail 202 to be led along first
Rail 201 is moved.It is embodied in:Led with positioned at the first of the two ends of base 101 respectively at the two ends of the length direction of the second guide rail 202
Slide connection on rail 201, the first motor is connected so as to drive the second guide rail 202 to be moved along the first guide rail 201 with slide.
In order to realize manufacturing object while laying the purpose of optical fiber, print head assembly 30 is slided with the second guide rail 202
Connection, and driven by the second motor of corresponding configuration and be able to be moved along the second guide rail 202, for being printed on operating surface 105
Go out 3D components.Optical fiber laying component 40 is slidably connected with another second guide rail 202, and the 5th motor drive for passing through corresponding configuration
It is dynamic to be able to be moved along the second guide rail 202;For optical fiber to be embedded in into 3D components, just can so produce one has Fibre Optical Sensor work(
The component of energy..It should be noted that in the present embodiment, the second guiding assemblage is two second guide rails 202, print head assembly
30 are slidably connected with two second guide rails 202 one by one respectively with optical fiber laying component 40;But in other specific embodiments, the
The quantity of two guide rails 202 is not limited.Fig. 2 is referred to, Fig. 2 shows that print head assembly 30 and two second guide rails 202 are slided and connected
Connect, the connected mode of the optical fiber laying guide rail 202 of component 40 and second is similarly.
Refer to the concrete structure diagram of the print head assembly 30 shown in Fig. 3;Print head assembly 30 is block structure, with work
It is the support 103 of carrier.At least provided with a radiator 302 at the appearance of support 103, to ensure that radiating is abundant.In this reality
Apply in example, radiator 302 is radiator fan, the temperature for reducing print head assembly 30.As the printing head of core component
301 are used for alignment function face 105 located at the lower end of support 103, its shower nozzle 301 perpendicular to the surface of support 103 and in inverted cone shape.For
Further optimization radiating effect, is additionally provided with small-sized radiator fan at shower nozzle 301, and the fan has one and is right against
The air outlet 308 of shower nozzle 301;Its role is to not only reduce the temperature of shower nozzle 301, but also accelerate from shower nozzle 301
The consumptive material solidification of ejection and then quickening print speed.
Refer again to Fig. 4 combinations Fig. 3, Fig. 4 show be provided with inside print head assembly 30 heat melting device 303, consumptive material pipe 305 with
Consumptive material feeder 304.It is sequentially provided with for the heat melting device 303 for heating consumptive material and consumptive material feeder 304 located at the top of shower nozzle 301.
Its consumptive material pipe 305 is connected with shower nozzle 301, is the passage for conveying consumptive material;And consumptive material feeder 304 is exactly as the dynamic of conveying consumptive material
Power source, auxiliary charging is carried out by the 4th motor 306 that can provide certain torsion.In order to reach more efficient charging effect, remove
In the side of consumptive material pipe 305 it is provided with the rotor of the 5th motor;It is provided with equipped with spring in the relative opposite side of consumptive material pipe 305 in addition
Gear member 307;By the rotor of above-mentioned 4th motor 306 extruding consumptive material pipe 305 synchronous with the cooperation of gear member 307, will consume
Material presses to shower nozzle 301.Wherein near the top of shower nozzle 301 is heat melting device 303, its role is to consumptive material is melted;Then lead to
Later the consumptive material feeder 304 in face continues to extrude forward, it is possible to allow the consumptive material being in a liquid state for having melted to be extruded by shower nozzle 301
Come;So as to print 3D components on operating surface 105.It should be noted that being provided between shower nozzle 301 and heat melting device 303
Fin 309, the thermal conductivity its role is to avoid metal good does sth. in advance top consumptive material to be entered to melt, so as to lead to not
Charging.
In the present embodiment, consumptive material is common ABS plastic and PLA plastics, is respectively provided with high intensity, good toughness, weight low
And surface it is smooth the advantages of;In other specific embodiments, the material of consumptive material is not limited to above-mentioned.
Fig. 5 is refer to, Fig. 5 is the concrete structure that optical fiber lays component 40;It include laying bearing 401, fixture 402,
Elastic component 407, fiber drum 406, laying roller bearing 403 and optical fiber guide rail 404.
End face on laying bearing 401 away from first mechanical arm is provided with the roller support for fixed laying roller bearing 403
405, laying roller bearing 403 is rotatably coupled with roller support 405.The two ends of optical fiber guide rail 404 extend respectively to lay roller bearing
403 with laying bearing 401, and optical fiber guide rail 404 with laying bearing 401 junction be additionally provided with the first retainer ring 408.Optical fiber
Reel 406 is pulled out located at the inside of laying bearing 401, optical fiber from fiber drum 406, is stretched out again from the surface of laying bearing 401
Through the first retainer ring 408, and along optical fiber guide rail 404 until being pulled out around the laying circle of roller bearing 403 1.Fixture 402 has phase
To two ends, wherein one end with laying bearing 401 be rotatably coupled;The other end separably coordinates with optical fiber, and it is acted on
In:Optical fiber from laying roller bearing 403 pull out when and when being contacted with the surface of 3D components, fixture 402 away from laying bearing 401 one
Hold for applying certain pressure to optical fiber, optical fiber is embedded in 3D components.
In order to allow optical fiber to keep certain tensile force and preventing optical fiber from being pulled out from fiber drum 406 excessive, near light
Elastic component 407 is additionally provided with fine reel 406.The elastic component 407 is equipped with the swingle of elastic connection therewith, the swingle its
In one end be rotatably attached, the other end is provided with clasp.When optical fiber is through clasp and outer extension, swingle can be pulled to rotate,
And then stretch the elastic component 407 being connected with swingle;Elastic component 407 can overcome the elastic force of itself in drawing process, reversely
Swingle is acted on to be rotated up toward the side opposite with the direction of rotation of script by it.It should be noted that in order to control optical fiber
From the speed that fiber drum 406 is pulled out, in the present embodiment, the outer peripheral face of fiber drum 406 is provided with certain friction resistance
The damping pieces such as the anti-skidding pad pasting of power;In other specific embodiments, it is also possible to be provided with spring at the relative two ends of fiber drum 406
Deng elastomeric element.
To sum up, a kind of optical fiber laying device 100 based on 3D printing that embodiments of the invention are provided, its print head assembly
30 are slidably connected to the second guide rail 202, and 3D components are printed on operating surface 105 for being moved along the second guide rail 202;Paving
If bearing 401 is slidably connected on another second guide rail 202, optical fiber is embedded in 3D for being moved along the second guide rail 202
Component.3D components to be measured are imbedded so as to form a component with sensing function by optical fiber, are reached and are directly detected
The deformation quantity of entity to be measured is so as to avoid plastic deformation.The laying apparatus simple structure, it is easy to operate, it is widely applicable;Improve
Certainty of measurement and printing effect is optimized, reduce the percent defective of printout.
Embodiments of the invention also provide a kind of optical fiber laying device 100 based on 3D printing, are spread based on above-mentioned optical fiber
If device 100, the characteristics of possess optical fiber laying device 100.Comprise the following steps:
S1:Heat melting device 303 and hott bed 107 start preheating, until the temperature of shower nozzle 301 and hott bed 107 reaches predetermined temperature
When, start print job;
S2:Shower nozzle 301 is directed at hott bed 107 and adjusts distance by first mechanical arm;Consumptive material feeder 304 passes through the 5th
Consumptive material needed for printing is squeezed into heat melting device 303 by motor, and pressure passes through the consumptive material of thawing jointly by gear member 307
Shower nozzle 301 sprays;The manipulator of shower nozzle 301 and first coordinates the mobile beginning on hott bed 107 successively to print 3D components jointly;
S3:When print procedure proceeds to needs optical fiber laying aspect, shower nozzle 301 is according to the bending time of optical fiber paving track
Number, multiple regions are divided into by optical fiber laying aspect;Often bend and be once divided into two regions, constitute the optical fiber duct and light for accommodating optical fiber
Fibre laying mouth;Then shower nozzle 301 exits the working region of operating surface 105, and optical fiber is laid component 40 and moved by the second manipulator
Start to lay fiber work to the top of operating surface 105;Optical fiber is pulled out from fiber drum 406, through the first retainer ring 408 along light
After fine guide rail 404 is wound on optical fiber roller bearing, optical fiber is fixed and pressed into optical fiber duct by fixture 402;The optical fiber for laying away from
Through the second retainer ring 106 on workbench 104, the second mechanical hand-motion optical fiber lays component 40 for one end of fiber drum 406
Exit the working region of operating surface 105, and to the lower section movement of workbench 104 keeping the tight state of optical fiber;Shower nozzle 301 after
It is continuous to start print job, continue successively to print in optical fiber laying aspect until printing terminates.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention are the foregoing is only, is not intended to limit the invention, for the skill of this area
For art personnel, the present invention can have various modifications and variations.It is all within the spirit and principles in the present invention, made any repair
Change, equivalent, improvement etc., should be included within the scope of the present invention.