CN110679704A - Chocolate 3D printer - Google Patents

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CN110679704A
CN110679704A CN201910982256.XA CN201910982256A CN110679704A CN 110679704 A CN110679704 A CN 110679704A CN 201910982256 A CN201910982256 A CN 201910982256A CN 110679704 A CN110679704 A CN 110679704A
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潘凯轮
项忠霞
宫怀叡
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Abstract

The invention discloses a chocolate 3D printer, which comprises 1) a three-degree-of-freedom transmission mechanism: the first part provides up-and-down movement, namely the z-direction movement, through a screw rod mechanism, and a motor a is arranged in a base to provide power for a screw rod; the second part is used for realizing the movement in an xy plane by matching two serial rotating shafts connected with a screw rod nut, so that the three-dimensional movement of 3D printing is realized; 2) a heating device; 3) the extrusion device is a pneumatic extrusion device; 4) a feedback device: the base shell is provided with a switch button, and the surface of the base is provided with an annular LED indicating lamp. The chocolate 3D printing machine is small in size, large in printing area, capable of well displaying the printing process, centered on a user, attractive and soft in appearance and capable of providing interesting chocolate 3D printing experience.

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Chocolate 3D printer
Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of 3D printing equipment and the field of industrial design, in particular to a novel chocolate 3D printer which can better show interesting printing processes of 3D printing in a novel printing mode, has attractive and elegant appearance, can realize individual customization of chocolate appearance and meets the increasing demand of people on good life.
Background
The existing traditional solutions at home and abroad are mainly divided into two categories:
① rectangular box (XYZ) type structure 3D food printer, such as CN 104824301A, CN 107509845A, etc. the 3D food printer adopting the rectangular box (XYZ) type structure is fixed to be square, the installation is complex, and because the printing position is at the intersection of the XYZ three axes, the printing range is wrapped in the middle of the three axes due to the fixed structure, and the interesting process of printing is not easy to show.
② Delta type 3D printer, for example, CN 108973124A, CN 108094641A, etc. when the Delta type 3D printer is used for printing food with the same volume and size, because the Delta type structure maps XY coordinates to three vertical axes by trigonometric function, the structure has higher requirement on the weight of a nozzle, so that J-head and gear type extruders are generally used.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to design a brand-new chocolate 3D printer, the emotion and user experience of a user are considered in the design process, a transparent glass cover with three hundred and sixty degrees is used as a shell, and the interesting process of 3D printing is displayed in all directions; based on products and users, a new mechanism is designed, the mechanism is different from a common rectangular box (XYZ) type structure 3D food printer and a common delta type structure 3D printer, and three axial movements of XYZ are realized through a linear motion form; and can print bigger scope under the prerequisite that occupies littleer volume under new structure, can all-round show the interesting printing process of 3D printing again.
The technical scheme of the invention is that the chocolate 3D printer comprises a three-degree-of-freedom transmission mechanism, a heating device, an extrusion device and a feedback device;
1) three-degree-of-freedom transmission mechanism:
the first part provides up-and-down movement, namely the z-direction movement, through a screw rod mechanism, and a motor a is arranged in a base to provide power for a screw rod; the second part is used for realizing the movement in an xy plane by matching two serial rotating shafts connected with a screw rod nut, so that the three-dimensional movement of 3D printing is realized;
2) the heating device is arranged on the inner wall of the lower part of the printing head and can heat and melt the solid chocolate;
3) the extrusion device is an air pressure type extrusion device, namely, the extrusion device in the product base provides stable air pressure and outputs the air pressure to the printing head along a hose of the extrusion device to extrude the chocolate in a molten state at a constant speed;
4) a feedback device: the base shell is provided with a switch button, and the surface of the base is provided with an annular LED indicating lamp;
two small servo motors are attached to a rotating block rotating around a screw rod nut, wherein one small servo motor c is connected with the screw rod nut through a synchronous belt, so that the rotation of a first screw rod is realized; and the other small servo motor b directly drives the extrusion device to rotate, so that the xyz three-axis movement of 3D printing is realized.
The base outer shell is assembled with the base inner shell, and a groove formed among the base outer shell, the base inner shell and the bottom plate is used for placing the glass outer cover.
The annular LED indicating lamp visually reflects the printing process through the gradually-lighted LED lamp.
The upper part and the lower part of the printing head buckle the lower part connecting piece of the printing head and the upper part connecting piece of the printing head together through the printing head connecting block;
the printing head transmission block is welded and assembled with the lower part of the printing head, the motor b is directly transmitted with the printing head transmission block, and the motor b controls the printing head to rotate;
the motor b and the motor c are fixedly embedded on two sides of the link transmission piece, and the link transmission piece can rotate around a fixed piece screw rod nut connecting piece a and a fixed piece screw rod nut connecting piece b which take a screw rod nut as an axis;
wherein, motor c passes through the hold-in range and is connected with the gear a that is fixed in the screw-nut, and through the transmission of hold-in range, the drive links the driving medium rotation.
The motor a and the inner support are fixed on the bottom plate through screws, and the motor a, the coupler, the screw rod and the screw rod nut are screw rod transmission mechanisms and provide vertical movement, namely z-direction movement, for the printing head.
The motor d drives the crank block mechanism to convert the rotary motion into linear motion, so as to drive the piston to move left and right.
When the piston moves leftwards, the left air chamber can only discharge air, and the right air chamber can only discharge air, or vice versa, stable air pressure can be output by the reciprocating motion of the air cylinder piston.
The outer sides of the two ends of the air cylinder are provided with outward one-way valves, and the inner sides of the two ends of the air cylinder are provided with inward one-way valves.
Advantageous effects
Compared with the traditional 3D printer with a rectangular box (XYZ) structure and an delta structure, the printing device disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the size is smaller, the printing area is larger, the printing process can be well shown, a user is taken as a center, the appearance is attractive and soft, and interesting chocolate 3D printing experience can be provided.
In addition, the invention is simple to use and only has one entity switch button; the annular lamp of the base gradually brightens along with the printing progress and visually feeds back the printing progress in a light form; the chocolate taste can be customized individually, and the increasing demand of people for good life is met.
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FIG. 1 is a front overall structural view of the chocolate 3D printer of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is an internal overall structural view of the chocolate 3D printer of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a detailed view of the internal overall structure of the chocolate 3D printer of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a detailed view of the internal structure of the connecting part of the driving block of the chocolate 3D printer.
FIG. 5 is a structural view of the inside of a pneumatic extrusion device of the chocolate 3D printer.
FIG. 6 is an overall structure diagram of a pneumatic type extruding device of the chocolate 3D printer according to the present invention.
The reference numbers in the figures illustrate: 1-switch button, 2-glass outer cover, 3-base outer shell, 4-base inner shell, 5-annular LED indicator light, 6-lower printing head part, 7-lower printing head part connecting piece, 8-upper printing head part connecting piece, 9-printing head connecting piece, 10-upper printing head part, 11-printing head transmission block, 12-columnar outer shell, 13-link transmission piece, 14-heating plate, 15-printing head air inlet, 16-bearing a, 17-bearing b, 18-inner support, 19-screw rod, 20-coupling, 21-motor a, 22-motor b, 23-screw rod nut, 24-gear a, 25-synchronous belt, 26-gear b, 27-motor c, 28-screw rod nut connecting piece a, 29-screw nut connector b, 30-bearing c, 31-bottom plate, 32-fixed groove, 33-motor d, 34-crank rotating block, 35-crank connecting block, 36-sliding block, 37-one-way valve, 38-air cylinder, 39-piston, 40-hose a, 41-hose b, 42-hose c, 43-air valve, 44-hose d, 45-vent a, 46-hose e, 47-vent b, 48-vent c.
Detailed Description
The invention is described in detail below with reference to the figures and examples.
Referring to fig. 1-6, the base outer shell 3 is assembled with the base inner shell 4, and the groove formed between the base outer shell 3, the base inner shell 4 and the bottom plate 31 is used for placing the glass outer cover 2, so that the glass outer cover is convenient to disassemble and clean.
The annular LED indicator lamp 5 visually reflects the printing process through the gradually-lighted LED lamp.
The lower printing head part 6 and the lower printing head part connecting piece 7 are assembled together through screws, the upper printing head part connecting piece 8 and the upper printing head part 10 are assembled together through an adhesive, and the upper part and the lower part of the printing head buckle the lower printing head part connecting piece 7 and the upper printing head part connecting piece 8 together through the printing head connecting block 9.
The printing head transmission block 11 is welded with the printing head lower part 6, the motor b22 is directly transmitted with the printing head transmission block 11, and the motor b22 controls the printing head to rotate;
the motor b22 and the motor c27 are fixedly embedded on two sides of the link transmission piece 13. The link actuator 13 is rotatable about a fixed member feed screw nut connection a28 and a feed screw nut connection b29 about the feed screw nut 23. The motor c27 is connected with a gear a24 fixed on the feed screw nut 23 through a timing belt 25, and drives the link transmission piece 13 to rotate through the transmission of the timing belt.
The above described two tandem rotation axes coupled with the feed screw nut cooperate to achieve movement in the xy plane of the print head.
The motor a21 and the inner bracket 18 are fixed on the bottom plate 31 through screws, and the motor a21, the coupler 20, the lead screw 19 and the lead screw nut 23 are a lead screw transmission mechanism and provide the up-down movement, namely the z-direction movement, for the printing head.
The motor drives the crank block mechanism to convert the rotary motion into linear motion, so as to drive the piston 39 to move left and right;
the outer sides of both ends of the air cylinder 38 are provided with outward check valves, and the inner sides of both ends of the air cylinder 38 are provided with inward check valves, so that when the piston 39 moves leftwards, the left air chamber can only discharge air, and the right air chamber can only discharge air, or vice versa, thereby realizing the function of outputting stable air pressure by the reciprocating motion of the air cylinder piston.
The air comes out of the one-way valve 37 at one end of the air cylinder and enters the hose a40 (the air movement of the one-way valve at the other end is the same), and the hose a40 and the hose b 41 are linked together through the air valve 43; the gas is connected to the air vent a45 of the link transmission piece 13 through a spiral hose d44 (the hose 44 is stretched into a state shown by the hose 42 to meet the requirement of movement in the vertical direction); the flexible pipe e46 is connected to the vent b47 of the lower printing head part 6, and the flexible pipe e46 is in a surrounding shape, and a surrounding space is still reserved in the printing head transmission block 11, so that gas can be connected to the vent b47 through the flexible pipe e46 under the condition that the rotation function of the printing head is met; finally, the gas enters the interior of the printing head through the internal vent c48 of the upper printing head part 10, so that the function of gas extrusion is realized by the built-in hose on the basis of ensuring the appearance and realizing the possibility.

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1. The chocolate 3D printer is characterized by comprising a three-degree-of-freedom transmission mechanism, a heating device, an extrusion device and a feedback device;
1) three-degree-of-freedom transmission mechanism:
the first part provides up-and-down movement, namely the z-direction movement, through a screw rod mechanism, and a motor a is arranged in a base to provide power for a screw rod; the second part is used for realizing the movement in an xy plane by matching two serial rotating shafts connected with a screw rod nut, so that the three-dimensional movement of 3D printing is realized;
2) the heating device is arranged on the inner wall of the lower part of the printing head;
3) the extrusion device is an air pressure type extrusion device, namely, the extrusion device in the product base provides stable air pressure and outputs the air pressure to the printing head along a hose of the extrusion device to extrude the chocolate in a molten state at a constant speed;
4) a feedback device: the base shell is provided with a switch button, and the surface of the base is provided with an annular LED indicating lamp;
two small servo motors are attached to a rotating block rotating around a screw rod nut, wherein one small servo motor c is connected with the screw rod nut through a synchronous belt, so that the rotation of a first screw rod is realized; and the other small servo motor b directly drives the extrusion device to rotate, so that the xyz three-axis movement of 3D printing is realized.
2. The chocolate 3D printer of claim 1, wherein the base outer shell is assembled with the base inner shell, and a groove is formed between the base outer shell, the base inner shell and the bottom plate for placing the glass outer cover.
3. The chocolate-based 3D printer according to claim 1, wherein the ring-shaped LED indicator light visually reflects the printing process through a gradually-lit LED light.
4. The chocolate 3D printer according to claim 1, wherein the upper part and the lower part of the printing head buckle the lower printing head part connecting piece and the upper printing head part connecting piece together through the printing head connecting block;
the printing head transmission block is welded and assembled with the lower part of the printing head, the motor b is directly transmitted with the printing head transmission block, and the motor b controls the printing head to rotate;
the motor b and the motor c are fixedly embedded on two sides of the link transmission piece, and the link transmission piece can rotate around a fixed piece screw rod nut connecting piece a and a fixed piece screw rod nut connecting piece b which take a screw rod nut as an axis;
wherein, motor c passes through the hold-in range and is connected with the gear a that is fixed in the screw-nut, and through the transmission of hold-in range, the drive links the driving medium rotation.
5. The chocolate 3D printer according to claim 1, wherein the motor a and the inner support are fixed on the bottom plate through screws, and the motor a, the coupler, the screw rod and the screw rod nut are a screw rod transmission mechanism and provide the printing head with movement in an up-down direction, namely a z direction.
6. The chocolate 3D printer of claim 1, wherein the motor D drives the slider-crank mechanism to convert the rotary motion into the linear motion, thereby driving the piston to move left and right.
7. The chocolate 3D printer of claim 6, wherein the gas cylinder piston reciprocates to output a steady gas pressure when the piston moves to the left and the right chambers are vented, and vice versa.
8. The chocolate 3D printer of claim 1, wherein the cylinder is provided with outward check valves on the outside of both ends and inward check valves on the inside of both ends.
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