公开(公告)号：US20190263144A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-29

申请号：US16265888

申请日：2019-02-01

Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.

Inventor： Fusao NISHIURA

IPC: B41J11/00 ,  B41M7/00

Abstract: An irradiation device for causing distension of a thermally distensible sheet that distends due to heat, comprising: a temperature sensor; a humidity sensor; an irradiation unit that irradiates the thermally distensible sheet with electromagnetic waves; and a controller configured to: estimate an amount of moisture contained in the thermally distensible sheet on the basis of values of measurements from the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor, set a relative speed between the irradiation unit and the thermally distensible sheet in accordance with the estimated amount of moisture in the thermally distensible sheet, and cause the irradiation unit or the thermally distensible sheet to move relative to each other at the relative speed that has been set while irradiating the thermally distensible sheet with the electromagnetic waves.

公开(公告)号：US20170088943A1

公开(公告)日：2017-03-30

申请号：US15208076

申请日：2016-07-12

Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.

Inventor： Fusao NISHIURA ,  Hideaki TERADA

IPC: C23C16/02

CPC classification number: B41M3/06 ,  B41J3/407 ,  B41J11/002 ,  B41M3/001 ,  B41M3/006 ,  B41M3/16 ,  B41M7/009

Abstract: A method of forming a structure, including forming a photo-thermal conversion material on a medium having an expanding layer by printing, before the expanding layer is expanded, wherein the expanding layer is expanded when heated, forming at least one of a white material and a coloring material on the photo-thermal conversion material formed on the medium, by printing, and expanding the expanding layer by heating.

公开(公告)号：US20180079118A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-22

申请号：US15641578

申请日：2017-07-05

Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.

Inventor： Fusao NISHIURA

IPC: B29C44/60 ,  B29C44/02 ,  H04N1/00

CPC classification number: B29C44/60 ,  B29C44/022 ,  B29K2105/04 ,  B29K2105/256 ,  B29L2031/722 ,  B29L2031/7232 ,  H04N1/00411 ,  H04N1/0044

Abstract: For creating a surface-textured image on a thermally expandable sheet, an image editor edits the original image data in a plurality of editing manners to generate a plurality of edited image data, the plurality of edited image data corresponding to mutually different textured surface profiles to be created on the thermally expandable sheet, and the image editor causes a display unit to display a plurality of preview images that are generated in accordance with the plurality of edited image data, respectively, in such a manner as to enable a comparison of differences among the plurality of editing manners by a user.

公开(公告)号：US20200262217A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-20

申请号：US15777346

申请日：2016-10-28

Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.

Inventor： Fusao NISHIURA

IPC: B41J11/00 ,  B41J3/407 ,  B41M3/06 ,  B41M7/00 ,  B41J2/01

Abstract: A structure forming method of present invention includes a first step including forming a first pattern serving as a fine pattern using an electromagnetic wave thermal conversion material on a first surface, on the side on which an expansion layer which expands by heating is provided, of a medium including the expansion layer and then irradiating an electromagnetic wave toward the electromagnetic wave thermal conversion material to expand a portion, corresponding to the first pattern, of the expansion layer, and a second step including forming a second pattern including a coarser pattern than the first pattern using an electromagnetic wave thermal conversion material on a second surface, on the opposite side to the side on which the expansion layer is provided, of the medium and then irradiating an electromagnetic wave toward the electromagnetic wave thermal conversion material to expand a portion, corresponding to the second pattern, of the expansion layer.

公开(公告)号：US20190224999A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-25

申请号：US16371737

申请日：2019-04-01

Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.

Inventor： Fusao NISHIURA ,  Hideaki TERADA

IPC: B41M3/06 ,  B41J11/00 ,  B41J3/407

Abstract: A structure forming apparatus includes a printing unit which prints a photo-thermal conversion material, a white material, and a coloring material in order on an expanding layer in an overlapping manner, where the expanding layer is expanded when heated with thermal energy of light. The apparatus also includes a heating unit which irradiates light on the expanding layer from a side of the coloring material to expand the expanding layer, and a controlling unit which sets a printing density of the photo-thermal conversion material lower by a level corresponding to a quantity of heat conducted from the coloring material than the printing density of the photo-thermal conversion material to be printed when the coloring material has no photo-thermal conversion characteristic in the case in which the coloring material has photo-thermal conversion characteristic, and prints the photo-thermal conversion material of the set printing density.

公开(公告)号：US20180178450A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-28

申请号：US15793468

申请日：2017-10-25

Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.

Inventor： Fusao NISHIURA

IPC: B29C64/386 ,  B41M5/26 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B32B3/10

Abstract: A three-dimensional image forming system includes a high congestion area specifying unit that specifies, in print data for printing a grayscale image used to thermally expand a desired area on a thermally expandable sheet, a high congestion area which is an area having higher congestion of a density pattern included in the grayscale image than a predetermined value and a density adjusting unit that adjusts the density of the grayscale image such that the expanding height of the high congestion area is to be a desired height.