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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2013
Applicant:
Makerbot Industries, Llc, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Inventors:
Aljosa Kemperle, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Filipp Gelman, Staten Island, NY (US);
Peter Joseph Schmehl, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
MakerBot Industries, LLC, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 41/22 (2006.01); B29C 41/52 (2006.01); B29C 67/00 (2006.01); B29C 47/92 (2006.01); B29C 47/08 (2006.01); B29C 47/02 (2006.01); B29C 47/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 67/0055 (2013.01); B29C 47/025 (2013.01); B29C 47/0822 (2013.01); B29C 47/92 (2013.01); B29C 67/0051 (2013.01); B29C 67/0088 (2013.01); B29C 47/0002 (2013.01); B29C 47/0864 (2013.01); B29C 47/0866 (2013.01); B29C 2947/9258 (2013.01); B29C 2947/92704 (2013.01);
Abstract
An extruder or other tool head of a three-dimensional printer is instrumented to detect contact force against the extruder, such as by a build platform or an object being fabricated. The tool head may also be instrumented to detect deflection forces and the like acting on the tool that might indicate an operating error. The resulting feedback data can be used in a variety of ways to control operation of the three-dimensional printer during fabrication or diagnostics.