Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Company Limited

Junji Shirai

Shigeru Nagamori

Yoshinao Hirano

Katsuhide Murata

Katsumi Sato

Kazuhito Horikiri

Katsumo Sato

An optical molding method includes the step of radiating a light flux onto a photocurable fluid substance while moving the light flux in such a manner as to draw a section of a target object so as to cure the irradiated portion. A plurality of light fluxes having different diameters is used in such a manner that only a light flux having a large diameter, or both a light flux having a large diameter and a light flux having a small diameter are used for a section having a thickness larger than the diameter of the light flux having a large diameter, while only a light flux having a small diameter is used for a section having a thickness smaller than the diameter of the light flux having a large diameter.

Optical molding method

An optical molding apparatus is used for an optical molding method including the steps of radiating light onto a photocurable resin so as to cure the irradiated portion and laminating the cured objects. The apparatus comprises: a container provided with an aperture on a bottom surface or a side surface thereof; a base which is movably away from a surface of the aperture; a light radiation apparatus for radiating light into the container through the aperture; and a cured object holding plate which is freely mounted and dismounted from above the base. A movable base device for the optical molding apparatus comprises the base and an elevator erected on a peripheral edge of the container so as to lift and lower the base. The base is provided with a frame, one end thereof constituting a slide portion vertically moved along the elevator, a model holding plate removably mounted on the frame, frame supporting members with the base end sides thereof rotatably supported by the slide portion. The frame supporting members assume both a supporting state for supporting the frame when they are connected to the frame and an evacuated state when the connection is released and the free end sides are rotated upward.

Optical molding apparatus and movable base device therefor

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Okayama, Japan

Junji Shirai