公开(公告)号：US20200231713A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-23

申请号：US16741821

申请日：2020-01-14

Applicant: CARBON, INC.

Inventor： John R. Tumbleston ,  Ariel M. Hermann ,  Matthew Panzer ,  Tabor Baranti

IPC: C08F2/01 ,  G03F7/09 ,  H05B6/06 ,  C09D11/101

Abstract: A test cell useful for determining the photosensitivity of a photopolymerizable material, includes a support plate having a top surface portion, a bottom surface portion, and an opening extending therebetween, a light-transmissive base member removably or permanently connected to said bottom surface portion to form with said opening a well, into which well photopolymerizable material can be deposited, and a sensor comprising a thermal sensor, strain sensor, or combination thereof operatively associated with said light-transmissive base member.

公开(公告)号：US12131102B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-29

申请号：US17450575

申请日：2021-10-12

Applicant: Carbon, Inc.

Inventor： Kyle Laaker ,  Bob E. Feller ,  Matthew Panzer

IPC: G06F30/10 ,  B29C64/124 ,  B29C64/393 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  G06F113/10

CPC classification number: G06F30/10 ,  B29C64/124 ,  B29C64/393 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  G06F2113/10

Abstract: Various embodiments described herein provide a method of making an object from a three-dimensional geometry file and a light polymerizable resin on a light-transmissive window by projection of light through the window in a bottom-up stereolithography process. The method may comprise: slicing the file into a series of sequential images. Temperature fluctuations in the resin may be calculated for at least some of the sequential images upon light polymerization thereof based on sequential exposure of the resin to light, the light corresponding to the series of sequential images. During producing of the object, the production may be modified based on the calculated temperature fluctuations by: (i) reducing production speed during at least a portion of the production; (ii) activating a window cooler during at least a portion of the production; or (iii) increasing production speed during at least a portion of the production.

公开(公告)号：US11859027B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-02

申请号：US16741821

申请日：2020-01-14

Applicant: CARBON, INC.

Inventor： John R. Tumbleston ,  Ariel M. Herrmann ,  Matthew Panzer ,  Tabor Baranti

IPC: G01N33/68 ,  G01N21/33 ,  G01N21/64 ,  G01N33/52 ,  C07C309/65 ,  C07C309/73 ,  A01N1/02 ,  G01N1/40 ,  C08F2/01 ,  C09D11/101 ,  H05B6/06 ,  G03F7/09 ,  C08F2/48 ,  B29C64/295 ,  B29C64/393 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y30/00 ,  B33Y40/00 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  B33Y70/00

CPC classification number: C08F2/01 ,  B29C64/295 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y30/00 ,  B33Y40/00 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  B33Y70/00 ,  C08F2/48 ,  C09D11/101 ,  G03F7/09 ,  H05B6/06

Abstract: A test cell useful for determining the photosensitivity of a photopolymerizable material, includes a support plate having a top surface portion, a bottom surface portion, and an opening extending therebetween, a light-transmissive base member removably or permanently connected to said bottom surface portion to form with said opening a well, into which well photopolymerizable material can be deposited, and a sensor comprising a thermal sensor, strain sensor, or combination thereof operatively associated with said light-transmissive base member.

公开(公告)号：US20230150189A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-18

申请号：US17754518

申请日：2020-10-28

Applicant: Carbon, Inc.

Inventor： Matthew Panzer ,  Kyle Laaker ,  John R. Tumbleston ,  Bob E. Feller ,  Soren Rademacher ,  Stephen Paul Land ,  Henry Quarles Bibb, III ,  David Shirvanyants ,  Alexander Ermoshkin

IPC: B29C64/124 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B29C64/223 ,  B29C64/245

CPC classification number: B29C64/124 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B29C64/223 ,  B29C64/245

Abstract: Methods of making a three-dimensional object from a light polymerizable resin are described. A method may include: (a) providing a window, a light polymerizable resin, a laterally translatable substrate between said window and said resin to which said resin is adhered, and a carrier platform above said window; (b) irradiating said resin with light through said window and said translatable substrate, and vertically advancing said carrier away from said window, to produce a growing object on said carrier platform and consume resin beneath said growing object; and (c) laterally advancing said translatable substrate with said resin adhered thereto across said window to drag fresh resin beneath said growing object, continue producing said growing object and continue consuming fresh resin, until said three-dimensional object is produced.

公开(公告)号：US11440223B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-13

申请号：US16526071

申请日：2019-07-30

Applicant: Carbon, Inc.

Inventor： Matthew Panzer ,  John R. Tumbleston

IPC: B29C35/02 ,  B29C35/08 ,  B29D11/00

Abstract: An apparatus useful for rapidly producing at least one object having a contoured surface portion from a light-polymerizable resin is provided. The apparatus includes (a) a window containing an inhibitor of polymerization, on which window a coating of light polymerizable resin can be placed, with the inhibitor of polymerization forming a first dead zone of unpolymerizable resin in the light polymerizable resin; (b) a polymerizing light source operatively associated with the window and positioned for projecting polymerizing light through the window; (c) a controller operatively associated with said light source and configured to pattern and project said polymerizing light at a first light dosage sufficient to form the object in the resin under stationary conditions, while spatially modulating the first light dosage so that the first dead zone is spatially contoured in thickness, to produce a first contoured surface portion on each object, which first contoured surface portion is in contact with the first dead zone of unpolymerizable resin.

公开(公告)号：US20180370139A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-27

申请号：US16012172

申请日：2018-06-19

Applicant: Carbon, Inc.

Inventor： Matthew Panzer

IPC: B29C64/314 ,  B29C64/106 ,  B29C64/371

Abstract: Resin products useful for making three-dimensional objects by additive manufacturing, as well as methods of making the same, and of using the same, are provided. The resin products may include additional oxygen solubilized in a resin in addition to that amount of oxygen otherwise absorbed by the resin from the ambient atmosphere prior to or during packaging of the resin in a container, less nitrogen solubilized in the resin as compared to that amount of nitrogen otherwise absorbed by the resin from the ambient atmosphere prior to or during packaging of the resin in a container, or both.