Jiangnan University

Zilong Zhao

Hao Zhang

Gang Wang

Jianxin Zhao

Daming Fan

Bowen Yan

Huayu Yang

Wenhua Gao

Jianlian Huang

Hongwei Cao

Liming Jin

Disclosed are 3D printing equipment, a system, and a method for food design and production. The 3D printing equipment has a bipolar microwave heating antenna for focusing heating on a material in an extrusion nozzle. The extrusion nozzle is between the anode antenna and the cathode antenna of the bipolar microwave heating antenna. The anode antenna and the cathode antenna limit a microwave electric field between them, thereby implementing focused heating on the material.

Microwave-coupled 3D printing system and equipment for food design and production

The disclosure relates to a three-dimensional printer coupled with microwave and a printing method applied for food design. A microwave heating probe embedded in the inner wall of a barrel releases microwaves at the front end, and in combination with the setting of a vertical distance between the front end of the microwave heating probe and an extrusion nozzle, the effect of instant curing of an extruded material is realized. A cooling device is disposed so as to ensure that a material to be printed in the barrel is not cured by microwave heating before the material to be printed enters the extrusion nozzle.

Three-dimensional printer coupled with microwave and printing method applied for food design

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Wuxi, China

Zilong Zhao