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Patent No.:

US 11173703 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2019

Method for forming three-dimensional object, three-dimensional-object forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program for three-dimensional-object forming apparatus

Applicant:

Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;

Inventor:

Kazuhiro Ochi, Nagano, JP;

Assignee:

MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Nagano, JP;

Attorney:

Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

Primary Examiner:

Yung-Sheng M Tsui

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/04 (2006.01); B29C 33/44 (2006.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01); B29C 64/194 (2017.01); B29C 64/112 (2017.01); B29C 64/153 (2017.01); B29C 64/40 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/04 (2013.01); B29C 33/448 (2013.01); B29C 64/112 (2017.08); B29C 64/153 (2017.08); B29C 64/194 (2017.08); B29C 64/40 (2017.08); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12); B29K 2995/002 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for forming a three-dimensional object by extruding ink droplets from ink-jet heads includes forming an inner build region of the object. A colored region is formed outside of the inner build region so as to color the object. A support region is formed outside of the colored region so as to support the object while the object is being formed. An intermediate region is formed between the inner build region and the colored region. The intermediate region is formed in such a manner that affinity between the intermediate region and the inner build region and affinity between the intermediate region and the colored region are higher than affinity between the colored region and the support region.

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