EP3934886A1 - Platform unit, 3d printing device and 3d printing process - Google Patents
Platform unit, 3d printing device and 3d printing processInfo
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Definitions
- the proposed solution relates to a platform unit for a 3D printing device, a 3D printing device and a 3D printing method.
- three-dimensional components are usually built up in layers from one or more materials.
- the materials used here are, for example, plastics, resins, ceramics and / or metals.
- melt layer process or strand deposition process Fused Deposition Modeling, FDM for short
- FDM Fusion Modeling
- At least one printing nozzle of a 3D printing device e.g. in the form of a so-called 3D printer, printing material is applied to a base plate.
- the respective component is built up layer by layer with the aid of the computer as the printing material emerges from the pressure nozzle.
- a corresponding 3D printing device is known from WO 2018/039261 A1.
- an exchangeable base plate is usually provided on the 3D printing device, the height of which is adjustable within the 3D printing device in order to build up the component to be printed on it in layers.
- a base plate accordingly regularly functions as a printing plate of the 3D printing device, which defines a flat printing surface for the three-dimensional component to be printed.
- base plates are comparatively large and heavy, so that a Removal of the base plate from the 3D printing device, for example for cleaning the base plate, may only be possible in a comparatively expensive manner.
- base plates known from practice typically do not integrate any additional functions and are therefore generally not very suitable for making the components to be printed with a 3D printing device more flexible.
- the proposed solution is based on the object of making it possible to improve a 3D printing device and a 3D printing method.
- a proposed platform unit is set up and provided for the arrangement on a base plate of a 3D printing device and defines a printing surface for a component to be built up three-dimensionally in layers.
- the proposed platform unit can be releasably attached to the base plate and has
- At least one heating device for heating the printing surface and / or
- the proposed solution is thus based on the basic idea of providing a separate platform unit that can be detachably fastened to a base plate of the 3D printing device and that provides at least one additional function.
- This additional function can be the possibility of defined heating of the printing surface during the 3D printing process, the provision of a background plate that can be fed to a downstream sintering process together with the printed component arranged on it, or magnetization with the 3D printing device Act (with) printed magnetic particles for the component to be manufactured.
- the platform unit can be removed from the base plate and in particular be designed to be exchangeable. This can in particular facilitate the preparation of the platform unit before it is arranged on the 3D printing device.
- different platform units can be kept available, which can be optionally attached to the base plate, depending on the desired additional function.
- the platform unit can be set up and provided for equipping with different additional functions. The releasable fastening of the platform unit to the base plate also makes it easier to equip the platform unit outside of the 3D base device.
- the base plate to which the platform unit is to be detachably attached, can itself be removed from the 3D printing device.
- the base plate on the 3D printing device can be height-adjustable in order to enable or at least support the layered structure of the component to be produced.
- the platform unit can form, for example, a separately preassembled structural unit which is provided for attachment to the base plate.
- the platform unit has at least one guide body which is set up and provided for mounting on a guide device of the base plate in order to displaceably mount the platform unit on the base plate.
- a guide device can then have, for example, at least one guide rail on which the at least one guide body of the platform unit can be displaceably arranged in order to be able to move the platform unit already arranged on the base plate relative to the base plate along an adjustment path when the 3D printing device is set up until it is locked in a specified end position.
- the platform unit has at least one locking element, via which the platform unit can be locked in an end position assumed with the aid of the guide device.
- the platform unit can thus be arranged, for example, on the guide device of the base plate, so that the platform unit is in an extended starting position.
- the platform unit is then transferred along the guide device into the intended end position, in which the locking can then be carried out with the aid of the at least one locking element.
- at least one latching element for example in the form of a latching lug or a latching hook, is provided on the platform unit, via which the platform unit can be electrically connected to a power supply and / or control electronics of the 3D printing device in a designated end position on the base plate .
- the platform unit When the platform unit is mounted on the base plate, the platform unit engages via the at least one latching element with a counter-latching element on the base plate and creates an electrically conductive connection, for example to supply the at least one heating device and / or the at least one magnetizing device with power and / or being able to control the operation of the at least one heating device and the at least one magnetization device, in particular during a 3D printing process, via electrical signals.
- the at least one latching element of the platform unit only comes into engagement with a device-side or baseplate-side counter-latching element when the platform unit has been transferred to a designated end position on the baseplate.
- the locking element can already snap into a counter-locking element when the platform unit is arranged on the base plate and thus in particular if, after this arrangement on the base plate, the platform unit is only subsequently transferred to an end position (e.g. by moving it from a start position with the aid of a guide device on the base plate) .
- the platform unit comprises a base carrier on which the at least one heating device and / or the at least one background plate and / or the at least one magnetization device are fixed.
- the at least one heating device and / or the at least one removable background plate and / or the at least one magnetization device can be optionally and thus interchangeably fixed on the base carrier. This can in particular enable the platform unit to be used in the 3D printing device with and without the at least one heating device and / or the at least one removable background plate and / or the at least one magnetization device.
- the base carrier can thus be equipped, for example, with just one of the three aforementioned components or assemblies or with several (at least two) of these components / assemblies in the manner of modules as required.
- at least one first (heating) plate is provided which carries the heating device.
- a second (carrier) plate which carries the background plate
- a third (magnetization) plate which carries the at least one magnetization device, can be provided.
- the platform unit is set up so that the mentioned first, second and / or third plates can be arranged on top of one another, in particular stacked or layered on one another, so that during printing on a printing surface provided by the platform unit with the aid of the 3-D printing device, all or only part of the proposed additional functions can be provided.
- a background plate can only be provided on the platform unit if the component to be printed is to be fed to a subsequent sintering process.
- the removable background plate can simplify the further production process in that the background plate with the component printed thereon can be separated from the platform unit and fed to a subsequent sintering process. If no subsequent sintering process is planned, the platform unit is used without a background plate.
- a background plate can consist of a ceramic material, for example.
- a ceramic and therefore non-magnetic background plate is particularly advantageous for combining it with a magnetization device on the platform unit.
- a variant of the platform unit can provide that different first, second and / or third plates can be fixed in different combinations on a base support of the platform unit, of which a first (heating) plate carries the at least one heating device, a second (Carrier) plate which carries at least one removable background plate and a third (magnetization) plate which carries at least one magnetization device.
- a platform unit can thus be equipped with different plates in a modular manner in order to be able to flexibly provide different functions on the platform unit, in particular depending on the three-dimensional components to be printed and / or the printing material used for this.
- the base support has at least one plug connector - for example in the form of a connector socket or a connector plug - for an electrical connection, in particular with a view to making it easier to replace the heating device and / or magnetizing device arranged on it to the at least one heating device and / or to the at least one magnetization device.
- the heating device and / or the magnetizing device can thus be connected in a simple manner via an electrically conductive plug connection to a power supply of the 3D printer device and / or to control electronics of the 3D printing device via the plug connector of the base support.
- a heating plate can be provided which carries the at least one heating device and which is arranged below a magnetization plate on the platform unit which carries the at least one magnetization device.
- the magnetization plate carrying the magnetization device is consequently arranged in this embodiment variant above and thus in particular on a heating plate, so that a pressure surface of the platform unit, which is defined for example by the magnetization plate or an additional plate arranged on the magnetization plate, is heated and a certain magnetic field for the Alignment of magnetic particles can be provided.
- the at least one heating device comprises, for example, a heating wire and / or a heating coil.
- the at least one magnetization device comprises, for example, a magnetic coil and / or a magnet.
- a magnet of the magnetization device can be, for example, a permanent magnet or an electromagnet.
- the platform unit has, for example, several exchangeable magnetization plates which, depending on the component to be produced, can optionally be fixed on the platform unit. These magnetizing plates then differ, for example, with regard to the strength of the magnets / coils provided thereon and / or the number of magnets / coils and / or the arrangement of the magnets / coils. For example, it can be provided that, depending on which component is to be printed, the platform unit is equipped with a different one of several magnetization plates provided, via which magnetic particles are aligned differently during the printing process.
- the background plate can for example be provided on a carrier plate from which the background plate can be lifted.
- the background plate is fixed to the platform unit via the carrier plate and can be lifted off this carrier plate with the printed component located on the background plate in order to feed the component with the background plate to a subsequent sintering process.
- the component can therefore not have to be lifted off by itself and carried out for further processing. Rather, the background plate provided for this purpose, on which the printed component is arranged, can simply be lifted off.
- the background plate is arranged, for example, in a bearing opening in the carrier plate.
- a further development provides that the background plate arranged in the bearing opening ends flush, in particular flush with a circumferential edge of the bearing opening. In this way, at least the part of the carrier plate that encompasses the edge of the bearing opening, together with the background plate, can form the printing surface within the 3D printing device.
- an embodiment variant provides at least one recess for a tool to attack on a peripheral edge of the background plate and / or on the carrier plate.
- the background plate can be lifted off the carrier plate via this at least one recess with the aid of the tool.
- the tool is a manually operable or a motorized (and thus in particular also computer-assisted) lifting tool. This lifting tool can reach behind the plate edge of the background plate via the recess in order to then lift the background plate out of the bearing opening of the carrier plate and feed the background plate with the printed component arranged thereon to a subsequent processing process.
- the proposed solution also includes a 3D printing device for building up a three-dimensional component in layers with at least one proposed platform unit.
- a further aspect of the proposed solution provides a 3D printing device which comprises at least one magnetization device for aligning magnetic particles printed for the component on a printing surface of the 3D printing device.
- the 3-D printer device proposed according to this aspect thus has a corresponding magnetization device, regardless of whether or not such a magnetization device is provided on an additional platform unit to be provided. Accordingly, this also includes, for example, an embodiment variant in which at least one magnetization device is provided on a base plate of the 3D printing device.
- a corresponding magnetization device includes, for example, the presence of at least one magnet and / or at least one coil for the targeted alignment of magnetic particles in the printing material present on a printing surface of the 3D printing device for the formation of the component.
- Another aspect relates to a method for building up a three-dimensional component in layers on a printing surface of a 3D printing device, in which it is provided that magnetic particles printed for the component are aligned on the printing surface with the aid of at least one magnetization device.
- a corresponding printing method can thus be implemented in particular with a proposed 3D printing device, in particular using an embodiment variant of a proposed platform unit, but also independently of this.
- printed magnetic particles are present in an at least partially liquid binding agent of a printing material for the component to be built up when the printed magnetic particles are aligned on the printing surface with the aid of the at least one magnetization device.
- the printing material with the magnetic particles present in its binder is thus applied to the printing surface, where the magnetizing device and a magnetic field generated with it are used to align the magnetic particles in a targeted manner in order to set predetermined magnetization effects on the manufactured component during the printing process.
- FIGS. 1A-1B show, in different views, an embodiment variant of a proposed platform unit with a heating plate carrying a heating device on a base plate for a 3D printer device;
- FIG. 2 shows a plan view of the platform unit without a heating plate
- FIGS. 3A-3B show the platform unit of FIGS. 1A and 3 in different views
- FIG. 3C shows, on an enlarged scale, the platform unit of FIGS. 3A and 3B with a printing nozzle via which magnetic printing material is applied strand by strand;
- FIG. 4 shows a top view of a platform unit with a removable one
- FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of the platform unit of FIGS. 1A to 4 in an extended (starting) position on the base plate;
- FIG. 6 shows a perspective view of an exemplary 3D printing device in which a platform unit from FIGS. 1A to 5 is used.
- FIG. 6 shows a perspective view of a 3D printing device V, for example in the form of a so-called 3D printer, for building up a component layer by layer within a printing space R of the 3D printing device.
- a three-dimensional component can be built up in layers on a base plate D of the 3D printing device.
- a so-called melt layer process or strand deposition process (English “Fused Deposition Modeling”, or FDM for short) can be implemented.
- a guide device 2 is provided in order to be able to releasably attach a separate platform unit 1 to it.
- the platform unit 1 (not shown in FIG. 6) can be arranged via the guide device 2 and then moved into an end position. In this way, a pressure surface F is ultimately defined on the platform unit 1, which is detachably fastened to the base plate D, on which the three-dimensional component is built up in layers within the pressure space R.
- FIGS 1A to 5 show differently equipped variants of a platform unit 1 to be attached to the guide device 2 of the base plate D.
- the platform units 1 of Figures 1A-1B, 2, 3A-3C, 4 and 5 can be different equipment variants of the same platform unit 1 or various platform units 1, which can optionally be fixed to the base plate D, act.
- Each of the platform units 1 has a base support B, via which a detachable attachment to the guide device 2 of the base plate D is possible and which can optionally be equipped with different plates 10, 14 and 15 which provide various additional functions.
- the base carrier B of the platform unit 1 is shown in an end position on the guide device 2.
- the base support B is held displaceably via guide bodies in the form of two guide strips 1.5 and 1.6 on two spaced-apart, parallel guide rails 20 and 21 of the guide device 2.
- the base support 2 is locked via laterally accessible locking elements 1.1-1.4.
- Two locking elements 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3, 1.4 are assigned to each guide rail 20, 21 and thus to each longitudinal side of the base support B.
- the base support B has a front handle 1c.
- a force can be applied to this manually in order to move the base support B and thus the entire platform unit 1 via the guide device 2 of the base plate D between the end position and an extended (start) position.
- the base carrier 1 In the extended position, the base carrier 1 can be lifted off the guide device 2 via two lateral handles 1a and 1b of the base carrier B and the entire platform unit 1 can thus be separated from the base plate D.
- a heating plate 10 is provided on the base support B.
- This heating plate 10 defines a pressure surface F for a top side Component to be printed with the 3D printing device V.
- a heating device in the form of a heating coil 100 or a heating wire is embedded in the heating plate 10.
- the Heinz coil 10 runs along the heating plate 10 in a meandering manner. Using the heating coil 100, the printing surface F can thus be heated in a targeted manner during the printing process, for example to help a newly applied layer of printing material to adhere to an existing layer of printing material and to keep the already applied layers of printing material at a certain temperature.
- the base support B For the electrical contacting of the heating coil 100 of the heating plate 10, the base support B comprises, according to the illustration in FIG. A corresponding plug connector can then be plugged into this on the underside of the heating plate 10 when the heating plate 10 is fixed to the base support B as intended.
- a differently configured electronic component can also be provided on the base support B in order to enable control and / or supply of power to (module) plates to be attached to the base support B.
- the base carrier B also has a switching valve 13 in the embodiment variant shown. This switching valve 13 is provided in a variant for a pneumatically controlled locking of a (module) plate on the base carrier B. Via a pneumatic circuit coupled to the switching valve 13, a plate arranged on the base carrier B can be clamped in a vibration-proof manner.
- a rear side of the base support B facing away from the front handle 1c Latching elements in the form of latching lugs 11a, 11b can be provided. These snap-in lugs 11a, 11b engage positively in counter-locking elements on the base plate D when the base support B has been moved into the end position on the base plate D.
- the base carrier B of the platform unit 1 is equipped with a magnetizing plate 14.
- This magnetization plate 14 carries a magnetization device, which is formed by a plurality of magnets 141a, 141b, 141c and a coil 140.
- the plurality of magnets 141a to 141c are arranged in a defined pattern on the magnetizing plate 14 and, for example, as Executed electromagnets and / or permanent magnets (which in particular includes a combination of electromagnets and permanent magnets).
- magnetic particles printed on the magnetizing plate 14 on an upper side of the magnetizing plate 14 defining the printing surface F can be specifically aligned via the magnetizing device 140, 141a-141c of the magnetizing plate 14. If printing material applied to the printing surface F of the magnetization plate 14 thus contains magnetic particles, these can be specifically aligned via the magnetization device 140, 141a-141c under the action of the magnetic force of the magnetization device 140, 141a-141c. For example, it is provided in this context that magnetic particles that are also printed, which are still present in an at least partially liquid binding agent of the applied printing material, are aligned.
- magnetization plate 14 on the base support B of the platform unit 1 can also be easily exchanged, it can also be provided that different magnetization plates 14, which differ, for example, in the number and / or arrangement of the magnets 141a to 141c provided thereon, optionally - in particular depending on the magnetic particles to be printed and the magnetic particles to be aligned therein - can be fixed on the base carrier B.
- the magnetizing plate 14 is combined with the heating plate 10.
- the magnetization plate 14 is provided above the heating plate 10 so that the magnetization plate 14 completely covers the heating plate 10 and the printing surface F for the component to be printed is defined by the magnetization plate 14.
- several modules in the form of plates 10 and 14 for the integration of different additional functions are thus arranged one above the other on the base support B of the platform unit 1 and are stacked one on top of the other. Under the heating effect of the heating plate 10, e.g. a printing material applied to the top of the magnetization plate 14 can also be heated in a targeted manner.
- FIG. 3C shows, on an enlarged scale, the platform unit 1 equipped with the magnetization plate 14 during the application of printing material 30 containing magnetic particles.
- the printing material 30 is applied in strands to the magnetization plate 14 in the area of a magnet 141b via a printing nozzle 3, so that the (activated ) Magnets 141b which are in the printing material 30 contained magnetic particles can be targeted during the printing process.
- a carrier plate 15 is provided on the base carrier B, which carries a background plate 150 that can be removed from the platform unit 1.
- the background plate 150 is arranged in a bearing opening 151 of the carrier plate 15, so that the background plate 150 is flush with the carrier plate 15 with an upper side defining the printing surface F.
- the background plate On the circumferential side, the background plate has a recess 150a, 150b or 150c in each case at several (in the present case three) locations distributed relative to one another.
- a lifting tool can grip these recesses 150a-150c on the edge of the present circular disk-shaped background plate 150 and reach behind the background plate through the recess 150a-150c in order to lift the background plate 150 manually or automatically, for example with the help of a robot arm, from the carrier plate 15.
- the recesses 150a-150c are shown in cross-section in the form of a segment of a circle in FIG. 4, the recesses 150a-150c can also have a different (cross-sectional) shape, e.g. be circular in cross section.
- the carrier plate 15 can have a recess or a plurality of recesses for the action of a lifting tool on the edge of the bearing opening 151 facing the background plate 150.
- the recesses 150a-150c of the background plate 150 when assuming a predetermined orientation of the background plate 150 within the bearing opening 151 are opposite the recesses of the carrier plate 15 in order to create a larger opening for the lifting tool to attack to provide.
- the background plate 150 is set up and provided to be fed to a subsequent sintering process. In this way, a three-dimensional component printed in the printing space R of the 3D printing device V can be lifted off the platform unit 1 together with the background plate 150 and fed to a subsequent sintering process without the component being lifted separately from the platform unit 1 beforehand and at the risk of damage must become.
- the carrier plate 15 with the background plate 150 can in principle be provided on the base carrier B alone.
- the support plate 15 is also as further module plates can be combined with one or more module plates in the form of the heating plate 10 or the magnetization plate 14.
- it can be provided that below the carrier plate 15 with the background plate 150 used therein above / on the heating plate 10, above / on the magnetization plate 14 or above / on a composite of heating plate 10 and magnesium plate 14 on the
- Base carrier B is arranged.
- the base carrier B can thus in the one shown
- Design variant of a platform unit 1 can be flexibly equipped in order to integrate different functions on the platform unit 1 depending on the requirement profile.
- the background plate 150 is made of ceramic, for example. A ceramic
- Background plate 150 offers the particular advantage that as a result, one of the magnetization device 140, 141a to 141c is one below
- Magnetizing plate 14 generated magnetic field is not influenced.
- the platform unit 1 can be detached as a whole from the base plate D in order to be able to preassemble the platform unit 1 as a separate structural unit and attach it to the base plate D only afterwards.
- the platform unit 1 not only can the printing processes that can be implemented with the 3D printing device V become more flexible. Rather, the setup of the 3D printing device V is also considerably facilitated as a result.
- the platform unit 1 is shown in the extended position on the base plate D. In the extended position shown in FIG. 5, the platform unit 1 can be removed from the guide device 2. In contrast, the platform unit 1 is displaced along the guide rails 20 and 21 for the transfer to an intended end position according to FIGS. 1A to 4.
- the displaceable mounting of the platform unit 1 on the base plate D also makes it easier to remove a printed component from a printing surface F provided by the platform unit 1.
- the platform unit 1 can be displaced longitudinally along two opposite displacement directions R1 and R2 via its base carrier B, which is held displaceably on the guide rails 20 and 21 of the guide device 2.
- the platform unit 1 can be moved into the extended position along the adjustment direction R1 by pulling on the front handle 1c. As a result, the platform unit 1 is displaced outside the pressure space R.
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