EP3496935A1 - Production device - Google Patents
Production deviceInfo
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- EP3496935A1 EP3496935A1 EP17748505.9A EP17748505A EP3496935A1 EP 3496935 A1 EP3496935 A1 EP 3496935A1 EP 17748505 A EP17748505 A EP 17748505A EP 3496935 A1 EP3496935 A1 EP 3496935A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C64/00—Additive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3D] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3D printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering
- B29C64/30—Auxiliary operations or equipment
- B29C64/307—Handling of material to be used in additive manufacturing
- B29C64/321—Feeding
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29B—PREPARATION OR PRETREATMENT OF THE MATERIAL TO BE SHAPED; MAKING GRANULES OR PREFORMS; RECOVERY OF PLASTICS OR OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF WASTE MATERIAL CONTAINING PLASTICS
- B29B13/00—Conditioning or physical treatment of the material to be shaped
- B29B13/02—Conditioning or physical treatment of the material to be shaped by heating
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29B—PREPARATION OR PRETREATMENT OF THE MATERIAL TO BE SHAPED; MAKING GRANULES OR PREFORMS; RECOVERY OF PLASTICS OR OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF WASTE MATERIAL CONTAINING PLASTICS
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29B—PREPARATION OR PRETREATMENT OF THE MATERIAL TO BE SHAPED; MAKING GRANULES OR PREFORMS; RECOVERY OF PLASTICS OR OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF WASTE MATERIAL CONTAINING PLASTICS
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- B29B13/08—Conditioning or physical treatment of the material to be shaped by using wave energy or particle radiation
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C64/00—Additive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3D] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3D printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering
- B29C64/10—Processes of additive manufacturing
- B29C64/106—Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material
- B29C64/118—Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using filamentary material being melted, e.g. fused deposition modelling [FDM]
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C64/00—Additive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3D] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3D printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C64/00—Additive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3D] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3D printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering
- B29C64/20—Apparatus for additive manufacturing; Details thereof or accessories therefor
- B29C64/205—Means for applying layers
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B33—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
- B33Y—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B33—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
- B33Y—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B33—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
- B33Y—ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a manufacturing apparatus for layering a three-dimensional object. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for producing a three-dimensional object in layers.
- the layered production of three-dimensional objects is known.
- This is particularly used as a variant of "rapid prototyping" to produce objects quickly and in any shape, such as fused deposition modeling (fused filament fabrication), in which the object to be manufactured is layered from a fusible material
- this applicator also called extrusion head
- the starting material is melted to produce a layer of the three-dimensional object, followed by the applicator and / or a platform supporting the object shifted by a layer thickness, so that a new layer can be applied to the old layer.
- Thermoplastics are known in the art which are suitable for use in such manufacturing processes. Such plastics have up to 9 wt .-% of water, which can cause great problems in the processing process. Excessive water retention in the plastic leads to vapor bubbles during processing and / or foaming. Furthermore, filling problems, demolding problems, viscosity fluctuations, scattering process parameters and / or fluctuating throughputs result. In a further processing of the produced three-dimensional objects problems during galvanizing or painting can occur. In other types of plastic, the water triggers a chemical reaction during the melting of the plastic, which alters the molecular structure. This reaction, referred to as hydrolysis, results in a reduced molecular weight, with the result that the viscosity of the plastic decreases. Last but not least, the use of plastics that are too moist results in optical, chemical and / or physical disadvantages. Obvious defects are in particular streaks, cavities, holes and / or bubbles on the surface.
- the manufacturing device comprises a supply device and an applicator.
- the supply device is designed to supply a starting material.
- Strand-shaped starting material can be fed in particularly advantageously so that the feed device feeds the strand-shaped starting material to the application device.
- the applicator serves to melt and layer-wise form the molten starting material into the three-dimensional object to be produced.
- the applicator is advantageously designed as a nozzle, which can bring the melted starting material, preferably the molten plastic, in a two-dimensional shape.
- the applicator essentially corresponds to a printhead, wherein one layer of the three-dimensional object can be produced per printing operation. Subsequently, a further layer of the molten starting material can be applied to the layer thus produced.
- the supply device comprises a drying device or a drying device is connected upstream of the supply device.
- the drying device is designed to dry the starting material.
- the starting material is dry before it reaches the applicator. In this way, in particular the steps of melting and drying are separated.
- the drying device ensures that a sufficiently dry starting material is present.
- the drying device is set up to reduce the proportion of absorbed water within the starting material to a predefinable or predetermined weight percent limit value.
- pre-dried starting material must be laboriously stored, thus During storage, the moisture of the feedstock does not increase to subsequently use the pre-dried feedstock in a hermetically sealed manufacturing facility.
- the invention also relates to a method for producing a three-dimensional object in layers.
- the method comprises the following steps: First, a feedstock is fed to an applicator.
- the application device is designed in particular as a nozzle and preferably makes it possible to melt the starting material.
- the melting of the starting material by the applicator is also provided.
- a layered shaping of the melted starting material to the produced three-dimensional object takes place.
- the applicator in each case forms a layer, so that subsequently a further layer can be applied to the previously formed layer.
- the starting material is thereby dried during the feeding to the applicator or before being fed to the applicator.
- the drying device comprises a heating device and / or a microwave generator and / or desiccant and / or an osmotic gradient and / or a vacuum.
- the starting material With the heater, the starting material is heatable. Due to the increase in temperature, the moisture in the starting material evaporates, as a result of which the starting material can be dried.
- the desiccant and / or the osmotic gradient and / or the vacuum drying takes place without heating the starting material
- the heating device preferably comprises an infrared heater and / or an electrical heating element and / or a microwave generator.
- a heat transfer takes place on the starting material, while the starting material is passed through the heating device.
- the infrared heater and / or the electric heating element and / or the microwave generator thus has a length along the starting material which allows sufficient heat to be supplied to the raw material carried by the heater.
- the heating device must be of a length along the starting material such that the previously described maximum weight percent limit of water within the starting material can be achieved.
- the power of the drying device preferably the heating power of the heater, adaptable, in particular depending on the predetermined or predetermined weight percent limit value of the water content.
- the manufacturing device comprises a control or regulating device, which is designed to adjust the power of the drying device, in particular the heating power of the heating device.
- At least one, the drying device upstream, first measuring device is provided, which is designed to determine the water content within the starting material before it is supplied to the drying device and / or at the entrance of the drying device.
- the first measuring device can determine the water content of the starting material by means of microwave resonance and / or capacitively and / or via ohmic resistance and / or via infrared reflection.
- the control or regulating device is preferably designed to control the power of the drying device, in particular the heating power of the heating device, as a function of the water content within the starting material determined by the first measuring device and the predefinable or predetermined weight percent limit value of the water portion.
- At least one second measuring device may be provided, which is designed and arranged to determine the water content within the starting material during the drying of the starting material in the drying device and / or at the outlet of the drying device in order to check that the starting material is at the outlet Drying device has a water content which does not exceed the predetermined or predetermined weight percent limit.
- the control or regulating device can increase or decrease the output of the drying device on the basis of the water content determined by means of the at least one second measuring device.
- the starting material is heated to a temperature below its melting temperature. In this way it is prevented that the starting material already melts in the feed device. The melting takes place only in the Applicator. Before reaching the applicator, the starting material has a solid state. The heater thus serves only to dry the starting material.
- the drying device advantageously comprises a fan.
- the blower is particularly advantageous combined with the heating device described above.
- the drying is optimized.
- an ambient air can be moved and / or diverted around the starting material, whereby a drying performance is improved by receiving water from the starting material by the ambient air and / or by dissipating the moisture.
- the drying device preferably has a dry air supply and a moist air discharge. About the dry air supply air for drying the starting material can be fed. About the moist air removal, the moist air after drying of the starting material can be discharged. Thus, the moisture can be removed from the starting material.
- the drying device preferably comprises a substrate for moisture absorption.
- the moisture absorption is particularly useful for dehumidification.
- the moisture that is removed by the drying device from the starting material can be stored in the substrate. In this way, moistening an environment of the manufacturing device is avoided.
- the substrate for moisture absorption and / or dehumidification is advantageously exchangeable and can therefore be changed when it has absorbed a predefined amount of moisture.
- the supply device preferably has a first section and a second section. Over the first section undried starting material can be passed to the drying device. Via the second section, the dried starting material from the drying device to the applicator is feasible. In particular, the first portion and / or the second portion completely surrounds the starting material. It is thus ensured in particular that the starting material can not absorb moisture again during the feeding from the drying device to the applicator along the second section. Alternatively, the first portion and the second portion only partially surround the starting material. In order to prevent absorption of moisture, it is then preferably provided that the starting material only comes into contact with dried air or is passed through a vacuum.
- the starting material can be removed from a supply roll via the first section.
- stock rolls are known from the prior art and serve to store the starting material safely and reliably.
- the supply device comprises a tube element.
- the starting material is feasible.
- the tubular element can advantageously be made flexible and thus be a hose element.
- the starting material is preferably tightly guided so that a necessary pressure can be applied to the starting material needed for molding by the applicator.
- the pressure necessary for molding is applied to the starting material solely by the applicator.
- the tube element shields the starting material from an environment, whereby a recording of moisture from the environment is avoided.
- the supply device additionally comprises the above-described first section and second section.
- the drying device is integrated into the pipe element, so that the drying device extends at least over a partial region of the pipe element. About this portion of the tubular element, the starting material is thus dry.
- the supply device is designed in a particularly advantageous manner to supply the application device with a first starting material and a second starting material.
- the drying device is designed for drying both the first starting material and the second starting material.
- the first starting material is advantageously a production material from which the three-dimensional object is to be manufactured.
- the second starting material is in particular an auxiliary material which serves to create supporting devices. This auxiliary material can be removed after finishing the three-dimensional object.
- the supply device of the production device preferably has a discharge device.
- the discharge device is designed to emit ionizing radiation.
- the discharge device may be, for example, a lon-air gun.
- the ionizing radiation discharges the starting material electrostatically.
- the electrostatic discharge prevents sticking, especially of dust particles or Impurities on the surface of the starting material.
- a plasma source may be used to pretreat and / or sterilize the surface of the starting material.
- the supply device of the manufacturing device comprises a measuring device.
- the measuring device the starting material can be checked for a required cross-sectional geometry. Above all, the diameter, the ovality and / or the roundness are important parameters of the starting material. If the starting material does not meet the required properties, the supply of the starting material via the feeding device can be stopped in order not to waste starting material for expected misprints and thus waste.
- said measuring device uses an optical measuring method.
- light radiation is emitted, preferably via a light-emitting diode, which is detected at a receiver.
- the starting material In the beam path of the emitted radiation is the starting material.
- the feeding device By evaluating the detected radiation, a conclusion can be drawn about the diameter of the starting material.
- an advance of the supply device can be regulated.
- the feeding device usually comprises friction wheels for driving the starting material. Based on the relative position of the shorter to longer half-axis, the speed of the friction wheels can be controlled.
- the position of the semi-axes is influenced before the entry of the starting material in the region of the friction wheel or the friction wheels so that always bears on the friction wheel or on the friction wheels, the longer or shorter half-axis.
- This can be advantageously realized via guide panels which are pressed onto the side edges of the oval starting material. In this way, the starting material can be aligned.
- the supply device of the production device comprises a test unit based on visual inspection and / or magnetic fields and / or electric fields and / or electromagnetic fields and / or ultrasound.
- a visual inspection unit is used in particular for determining a color and / or a geometry of the starting material.
- a test unit based on magnetic fields and / or electric fields and / or electromagnetic fields and / or ultrasound serves in particular for the detection of impurities and / or filament defects.
- Such a test unit can advantageously be a camera and / or Hall sensors and / or an infrared sensor. With such a test can be detected foreign bodies and / or impurities and / or filament defects. Filament defects are in particular voids or deviating Gearstoffgehalte.
- the surface of the starting material can be checked for impurities and / or surface condition. Again, therefore, a manufacturing process can be stopped if the starting material does not have the required properties.
- the color of the starting material is preferably determined by a visual inspection unit. On the basis of the color influences of the filler content and / or the crystallinity can be recognized. Finally, damage in the polymer structure of the starting material can be detected.
- the supply device of the manufacturing device is equipped with a thermometer unit. The thermometer unit is used to measure a temperature of the starting material. In this way it is preventable that too high a surface temperature of the starting material already causes an unwanted onset or melting of the starting material. If the surface of the starting material has too high a temperature, countermeasures can advantageously be initiated in order to prevent (premature) onset or melting of the starting material.
- the feeding device of the manufacturing device has a surface processing unit.
- the feeding device advantageously comprises friction wheels used for propelling the starting material.
- the surface treatment unit may comprise a spray source for applying dispersed adhesion-promoting substances to the surface of the starting material, in particular spraying it on.
- the supply device preferably has a hardness measuring device for determining a hardness of the starting material.
- a hardness measuring device for determining a hardness of the starting material.
- damage to the polymer structure of the starting material can be recognized simply and with little effort. Such damage can occur, in particular, due to UV radiation or other aging effects during the storage of the starting material. This may affect the mechanical properties of the starting materials and thus the three-dimensional objects made from the starting materials.
- damage to the polymer structure can also be determined by means of the hardness measuring device on the basis of the hardness of the Recognize starting material. In particular, the Shore hardness is checked to detect damage to the polymer structure of the starting material.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic illustration of a production apparatus according to a first exemplary embodiment of the invention
- Fig. 2 is a schematic illustration of a manufacturing apparatus according to a second embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 3 is a schematic illustration of a manufacturing apparatus according to a third embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 4 is a schematic view of a manufacturing apparatus according to a fourth embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 1 shows schematically a manufacturing apparatus 1 according to a first embodiment of the invention.
- the production device 1 comprises a supply device 2 and an application device 3. Via the supply device 2, a starting material from a supply roll 7 can be fed to the application device 3.
- the application device 3 serves to melt the starting material and to form a layer of the starting material. Once the layer is formed, another layer is applied to the previously completed layer. In this way, a three-dimensional object can be produced in layers from the starting material.
- the feed device 2 comprises a first section 5, a second section 6, and a drying device 4.
- the starting material can be removed from the supply roll 7 via the first section 5 and fed to the drying device 4. Via the second section 6, the starting material from the drying device 4 to the applicator 3 can be guided.
- the drying device 4 comprises a heating device 8 and a fan 9.
- the heating device 8 is in particular an electrical heating element and serves to heat the starting material to a temperature below its melting temperature. Thus, the starting material is not on or melted, but at the same time is reduced by the heat supplied to the water content within the starting material. In this way, the starting material can be dried by the drying device 4.
- the blower 9 is used in particular for distributing the heat generated by the heating device 8 and in particular also for removing moist air, which results from the drying of the starting material.
- the heating device 8 may also include an infrared heater and / or a microwave generator and / or desiccant and / or an osmotic gradient and / or a vacuum.
- the drying device 4 is thus integrated into the feed device 2. This enables a simple and cost-effective drying of the starting material, wherein no additional process time is required for the drying and the production method of the three-dimensional objects is thus not delayed by the applicator 3. At the same time it is ensured that the applicator 3 processes only such material, which has a low moisture. Low moisture is understood to mean that a water content of the starting material is below a predefinable or predetermined weight percent limit value. The processing of dried starting material thus avoids the problems described above.
- a heating power of the heating device 8 is particularly adaptable.
- a control or regulating device 17 is provided, with which the heating device 8 can be controlled.
- the heating power by means of the control or regulating device 17 is adjustable.
- the manufacturing device 1 also has a first measuring device 15 connected upstream of the drying device 4.
- the first measuring device is designed to determine the water content within the starting material at the inlet of the drying device 4.
- the first measuring device 15 can determine the water content of the starting material by means of microwave resonance and / or capacitively and / or via ohmic resistance and / or via infrared reflection.
- the control or regulating device 17 is designed to control the heating power of the heating device 8 as a function of the water content of the starting material and of a predeterminable or predetermined weight percent limit value of the water content.
- the manufacturing apparatus 1 has a second measuring device 16.
- the second measuring device 16 is designed and arranged to determine the water content within the starting material at the outlet of the drying device 4 in order to check that the starting material at the outlet of the drying device 4 has a water content which does not exceed the predefinable or predetermined weight percent limit value.
- the control or regulating device can increase or decrease the output of the drying device on the basis of the water content determined by means of the at least one second measuring device.
- Fig. 2 shows schematically a manufacturing apparatus 1 according to a second embodiment of the invention.
- the same reference numerals as in Fig. 1 show the same or similar components as in the first embodiment.
- the manufacturing apparatus 1 includes two raw materials.
- a first supply roll 71 and a second supply roll 72 is present.
- a first starting material is present, while in the second supply roll 72, a second starting material is present.
- the first starting material is a building material, with which a three-dimensional object 12 can be built up in layers.
- the second starting material is a support material with which a support structure 13 can be produced.
- the support structure 13 is removable after completion of the three-dimensional object 12.
- the feeding device 2 in turn comprises a first section 5, a second section 6 and a drying device 4.
- the drying device 4 is identical to the one formed in the first embodiment. The only difference is that both the first starting material and the second starting material are passed through the drying device 4 in order to dry these materials.
- Both the first section 5 and the second section 6 of the feed device 2 comprise a first tube element 10 and a second tube element 1 1.
- the first starting material of the applicator 3 can be fed.
- the second tubular element 1 1 the second starting material of the applicator 3 can be fed.
- the application device 3 comprises for each starting material its own application nozzle (not shown), via which the molten first starting material or second starting material can be applied to a platform 14.
- the applicator 3 is movable within a plane parallel to the platform 14, which is indicated in Fig. 2 by the first directions of movement 100. As a result of the movement of the application device 3 along the first directions of movement 100, it is thus possible to form a layer on the platform 14.
- the layer can be formed both by the first starting material and by the second starting material, so that either a layer of the object to be produced 12 or an additional support structure 13 can be applied.
- the platform 14 is moved along a second direction of movement 200.
- the method along the second direction of movement 200 corresponds to a lowering of the platform 14, so that a new layer can be applied to the previously produced layer by the application device 3.
- the three-dimensional object 12 can be produced in layers. Since the application device 3 is provided with dried starting material for producing the layers of the three-dimensional object 12 at all times, a safe and reliable production of the three-dimensional object 12 is enabled. The problems mentioned above are thus avoided.
- Figure 3 shows a third embodiment of the manufacturing apparatus 1.
- the third embodiment substantially corresponds to the first embodiment.
- the drying device 4 is connected upstream of the feed device 2.
- the starting material is taken out of the supply roll 7 by the drying device 4 and dried so that the feeding device 2 takes over the dried starting material from the drying device 4.
- the operation of the other components is identical to the first embodiment.
- Fig. 4 shows a fourth embodiment of the manufacturing apparatus 1.
- the fourth embodiment substantially corresponds to the first embodiment, with some additional inspection devices for checking the starting material are present.
- some additional inspection devices for checking the starting material are present.
- an integrated input control of the quality of the starting material is made possible.
- properties that the starting material must have in order to perform a printing of the three-dimensional object 12 can be predefined. If the starting material does not have one, several or all of the required properties, the pressure can be aborted.
- a discharge device 18, a measuring device 19, a test unit 20 based on visual inspection and / or magnetic fields and / or electric fields and / or electromagnetic fields and / or between the application device 3 and the second measuring device 16 are provided Ultrasonic, a thermometer unit 21, a surface processing unit 22 and a hardness measuring device 23 are arranged.
- friction wheels 24 are shown, which serve to drive the starting material.
- the starting material is unwound from the supply roll 7 by the friction wheels 24 and supplied to the applicator 3.
- the additional verification devices may also be arranged in an order different from that shown in FIG.
- all or part of the checking devices can alternatively also be arranged between the supply roll 7 and the drying device 4.
- the starting material is supplied to the discharge device 18 after the second measuring device 16 in the fourth embodiment.
- an electrostatic discharge of the starting material takes place by means of ionizing Radiation.
- a plasma source can be used on the discharge device 18 in order to pretreat the surface of the starting material, in particular to sterilize it.
- the starting material is supplied to the surveying device 19.
- the measuring device 19 is used in particular for determining an ovality and / or roundness of the starting material and / or a diameter of the starting material.
- the surveying device 19 has a light source and a light receiver.
- the starting material passes through a beam path from the light source to the light receiver. On the basis of the received light radiation a conclusion on the diameter is made possible. Likewise, a degree of roundness and / or ovality of the starting material can be determined in this way. This is particularly advantageous for the control of the friction wheels 24.
- the speed and thus the feed of the friction wheels 24 is regulated.
- an orientation of the starting material is such that the position of the semi-axes is modified such that always bears on the friction wheels 24, the longer and / or shorter half-axis. This advantageously takes place via guide panels (not shown) which exert a force on side flanks of the starting material and thereby align the starting material.
- the starting material is supplied to a test unit 20 based on visual inspection and / or magnetic fields and / or electric fields and / or electromagnetic fields and / or ultrasound.
- this test unit 20 it is possible in particular to recognize a geometry and / or a color and / or a damage of the starting material.
- foreign objects and / or impurities and / or filament defects can be detected in particular.
- Filament defects are in particular cavities and / or areas with a different filler content. This can be determined in particular on the basis of data from a camera and / or from data from Hall sensors.
- the color can be determined by means of infrared sensors.
- the polymer structure of the starting material may be damaged by UV radiation or other effects during storage. Leave these damages can be identified by optical and / or mechanical checking of the starting material, since said damage influences the optical and / or mechanical properties of the starting materials.
- the polymer structure can be checked visually by means of a test unit 20 and damage to the polymer structure can be reliably and reliably detected.
- the hardness measuring device 23, which serves to mechanically check the starting material is also particularly advantageous. Since, as already described, damage to the polymer structure is also reflected in mechanical properties of the starting material, such damage to the polymer structure can be detected by determining the hardness, in particular the Shore hardness, of the starting material.
- the starting material 3 is supplied to the thermometer unit 21.
- a temperature of the Ausgansmaterials can be determined.
- a surface temperature of the starting material can be determined in order to detect the risk of an unwanted onset or melting of the starting material. If the surface of the starting material has too high a temperature, countermeasures can advantageously be initiated in order to prevent the starting material from melting or melting.
- cooling can take place or a power of the drying device 4, in particular of the heating device 8, can be regulated based on the temperature determined by the thermometer unit 21.
- the starting material is supplied to the surface treatment unit 22 before being fed to the friction wheels 24.
- the surface processing unit 22 a surface of the starting material is workable to increase adhesion between the starting material and the friction wheels 24.
- the surface treatment unit 22 comprises a radiation source or a particle beam source, via which the surface of the starting material can be changed and / or coated.
- the surface of the starting material can be roughened by Mikrozerspanvor réelle or forming pressing operations.
- the surface treatment unit has a spray source via which dispersed adhesion-promoting substances can be applied to the surface of the starting material.
- the risk of misprints is reduced.
- material defects of the starting material can be already before feeding the starting material to the Applicator 3 reliably recognize. This prevents in particular that the starting material, which could be of sufficient quality for other prints, is wasted due to a misprint and thus for the production of rejects.
- a safe and reliable driving of the starting material by the friction wheels 24 takes place.
- a reliable feeding of the starting material to the applicator 3, whereby a uniform print image in the manufacture of the three-dimensional object 12 on the platform 4 is ensured.
- test unit based on visual inspection and / or magnetic fields and / or electric fields and / or electromagnetic fields and / or ultrasound
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