Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yunsheng Sun

Yohei Osanai

Shozo Sakura

Kohichiroh Tanaka

There is provided a method of fabricating a three-dimensional object. The method includes supplying, flattening, and collecting. The supplying supplies, with a powder supplier, powder to a fabrication chamber. The fabrication chamber includes a fabrication stage to store powder and an outer edge portion outside the fabrication stage, the outer edge portion having one bottom surface. The flattening flattens, with a flattener, the powder supplied by the supplying. The collecting collects, with a powder collector, the powder having overflowed from the fabrication stage to the outer edge portion by the flattening into the fabrication stage.

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Telford, United Kingdom

Yunsheng Sun