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Patent No.:

US 11433610 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 19, 2019

3d printing using microled array coupled with voice coil

Applicant:

X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Jason Grundmann, San Jose, CA (US);

Neil David Treat, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

X Development LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:

Fish & Richardson P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Suresh Suryawanshi

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B33Y 50/02 (2015.01); B29C 64/282 (2017.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B29C 64/393 (2017.01); B29C 64/129 (2017.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 64/282 (2017.08); B29C 64/129 (2017.08); B29C 64/393 (2017.08); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12);
Abstract

The disclosure provides an apparatus that includes: a stage defining a build plane; a micro light emitting diode (μLED) array including multiple pixels and configured to emit ultraviolet (UV) light towards the build plane; a two-dimensional (2-D) voice coil manipulator mechanically coupled to the μLED array and configured to align the pixels of the μLED array with the build plane; and a control module programmed to cause the μLED array to illuminate a UV curable material at the build plane to form a stack of layers of the three-dimensional object, wherein the apparatus adjusts a UV illumination pattern for the layers of the UV curable material by varying an output intensity of UV light from the pixels of the μLED array and by varying an alignment between the μLED array and the build plane using the 2-D voice coil manipulator.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Grundmann, Michael. (2022). 3d printing using microled array coupled with voice coil (U.S. Patent No. 11433610). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11433610

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