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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Big Gimicart Ltd., Lod, IL;
Inventors:
Igor Yakubov, Herzliya, IL;
Moshe Uzan, Bet Shemesh, IL;
Assignee:
Massivit 3D Printing Technologies LTD, Lod, IL;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 67/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 67/0055 (2013.01); B29C 67/0092 (2013.01); B29C 67/0081 (2013.01); B29C 67/007 (2013.01); B29C 67/0088 (2013.01); B29C 67/0059 (2013.01); B29C 67/0066 (2013.01);
Abstract
The current document discloses an apparatus and method that support manufacture of large 3D hollow objects or shells with thin walls including curved surfaces with high and low curvature change ratio and alleviate or significantly reduce the need for support structures. Further to this, introduction of support structures becomes a function of the curved surface curvature change ratio.