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公开(公告)号:US11524456B2
公开(公告)日:2022-12-13
申请号:US16879835
申请日:2020-05-21
Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yuji Horiuchi
IPC: B29C64/165 , B29C64/141 , B29C64/245 , B29C64/268 , B29C64/295 , B29C64/236 , B29C64/393 , B41M5/26 , B41M7/00 , B29C44/00 , B33Y50/02 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00
Abstract: A method of fabricating a shaped object includes: preparing a formation sheet including a base and a thermally expansive layer stacked on a first main surface of the base, the thermally expansive layer including a binder and thermally expandable material; heating the base of the formation sheet to a temperature lower than an expansion initiation temperature at which the thermally expandable material starts to expand; and heating the thermally expansive layer of the formation sheet after heating of the base, to a temperature higher than or equal to the expansion initiation temperature at which the thermally expandable material starts to expand, thereby causing expansion of the thermally expansive layer.
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公开(公告)号:US11097565B2
公开(公告)日:2021-08-24
申请号:US16389521
申请日:2019-04-19
Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Inventor: Hideki Takahashi , Yuji Horiuchi , Yoshimune Motoyanagi , Satoshi Mitsui
IPC: B32B3/10 , B41M3/06 , B29C44/02 , B41M5/392 , B41M7/00 , B41M5/385 , B29C44/34 , B32B29/00 , B29K105/04 , B32B27/10
Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes a base, a thermally expansive layer, and a color adjustment layer. The thermally expansive layer is provided on a first side of the base and includes a thermally expandable material that distends in accordance with an amount of heat absorbed, the heat being generated from a thermal conversion layer that includes a thermal conversion material that converts electromagnetic waves to heat. The color adjustment layer is provided on at least one of the thermally expansive layer and a second side of the base and includes a color adjusting agent. When the thermal conversion layer is provided on the color adjustment layer, the color adjustment layer reduces a visual difference in color between a first region where the thermal conversion layer is provided and a second region where the thermal conversion layer is not provided.
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公开(公告)号:US10703046B2
公开(公告)日:2020-07-07
申请号:US15719105
申请日:2017-09-28
Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yuji Horiuchi , Yoshimune Motoyanagi
IPC: B29C64/393 , B29C64/112 , B29C64/291 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y50/02 , B29C61/04 , B33Y30/00 , B41M3/16 , B41M3/06 , B29K105/00 , B29K105/04
Abstract: A shaping system includes: a printing device that prints an image using predetermined ink on a thermal expansion sheet having a thermal expansion layer on one side; and a heating device that performs: an identifier detection process of detecting an identifier provided on the thermal expansion sheet; a heating condition setting process of setting a heating condition for heating the thermal expansion sheet, based on the identifier; and a heating process of heating the thermal expansion sheet based on the set heating condition.
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公开(公告)号:US11685185B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-27
申请号:US17141826
申请日:2021-01-05
Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yuji Horiuchi , Yoshimune Motoyanagi , Satoshi Mitsui , Hideki Takahashi
IPC: B44C1/17 , B32B1/00 , B32B27/08 , B32B7/02 , B32B27/24 , B32B27/30 , B32B7/06 , B32B27/32 , B32B27/10 , B32B27/36 , B32B27/40 , B32B7/12 , B29C44/02 , B41M1/30 , B41M7/00 , B29L31/00
CPC classification number: B44C1/1737 , B29C44/02 , B32B1/00 , B32B7/02 , B32B7/06 , B32B7/12 , B32B27/08 , B32B27/10 , B32B27/24 , B32B27/304 , B32B27/306 , B32B27/32 , B32B27/36 , B32B27/40 , B41M1/30 , B41M7/0081 , B29C2795/002 , B29L2031/722 , B32B2307/4023 , B32B2307/51 , B32B2405/00 , B32B2451/00
Abstract: A three-dimensionally shaped object forming sheet includes: a thermally expansive layer distending at a predetermined temperature or higher; a base laminated on one side thereof with the thermally expansive layer; and a photothermal conversion layer for converting absorbed light to heat, formed on at least one side, wherein the base includes a first base and a second base that are laminated; and the first base has an elasticity that is greater than an elasticity of the second base.
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公开(公告)号:US11633906B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-25
申请号:US16689138
申请日:2019-11-20
Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yuji Horiuchi , Kenji Iwamoto
IPC: B29C61/04 , B29C61/06 , B29K701/12
Abstract: An expansion apparatus includes: a first expander for irradiating with electromagnetic waves emitted from a lamp a thermal conversion layer for conversion of the electromagnetic waves to heat, to cause at least a portion of a thermal expansion layer to expand, the thermal conversion layer being laminated to a molding sheet including a base and the thermal expansion layer laminated to a first main surface of the base; and a second expander for causing expansion of a region (C) of the thermal expansion layer that is smaller in size than a region (B) of the thermal expansion layer expanded by the first expander.
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公开(公告)号:US10562263B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-18
申请号:US15883576
申请日:2018-01-30
Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yoshimune Motoyanagi , Yuji Horiuchi
Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes: a first thermally expansive layer that is formed on one side of a base and contains a first thermally expandable material; and a second thermally expansive layer that is formed on the first thermally expansive layer and contains a second thermally expandable material, wherein the second thermally expandable material further contains white pigment.
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公开(公告)号:US11273626B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-15
申请号:US15898287
申请日:2018-02-16
Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yuji Horiuchi , Yoshimune Motoyanagi , Hideki Takahashi , Satoshi Mitsui
Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet in which a thermally expansive layer that contains a thermally expandable material is formed on one side of a base, and where the thermally expansive layer is distended, the base deforms following distension of the thermally expansive layer and the base deforms into an embossed shape.
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公开(公告)号:US11203220B2
公开(公告)日:2021-12-21
申请号:US15934200
申请日:2018-03-23
Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Inventor: Hideki Takahashi , Yuji Horiuchi , Yoshimune Motoyanagi , Satoshi Mitsui
IPC: B41M5/46 , B41M5/41 , C09D11/037 , B41M3/00 , C09D11/322 , C09D11/38 , B41J11/00 , B41M3/06 , B41M5/26 , B41M7/00 , C23C16/02 , B41M3/16
Abstract: An ink for forming a photothermal conversion layer used to cause at least a portion of a thermal expansion layer of a thermal expansion sheet to swell. The ink includes an inorganic infrared absorbing agent having a higher absorptivity in at least one region of the infrared light spectrum than in the visible light spectrum.
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公开(公告)号:US10960700B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-30
申请号:US16718145
申请日:2019-12-17
Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yuji Horiuchi , Kenji Iwamoto
Abstract: In a setting apparatus including a control unit, the control unit is configured to: set, by a user operation, an irradiation condition of a laser beam for a thermally expandable sheet, a surface of the thermally expandable sheet being heated and expanded by being irradiated with the laser beam; and control an output and a scanning speed of the laser beam in accordance with the set irradiation condition, and in the setting, (i) a surface state of the thermally expandable sheet after expansion is selectable from a plurality of mutually different surface states, and (ii) the irradiation condition is set by the user operation according to the surface state selected from among the plurality of surface states.
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公开(公告)号:US10414076B2
公开(公告)日:2019-09-17
申请号:US15985129
申请日:2018-05-21
Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yuji Horiuchi
Abstract: An apparatus for forming a three-dimensional image, the apparatus including a cartridge that stores ink which a printing head discharges and which has a photothermal conversion property; a conveying unit that conveys a thermally expandable material so as to pass the thermally expandable material through a first position where the printing head faces and so as to form an image on the thermally expandable material with the ink discharged by the printing head; and a light irradiating unit that emits light toward a second position which is in a downstream side from the first position in a conveying path of the conveying unit, so as to perform photothermal conversion. The cartridge is disposed at a position which deviates from an extending line of an irradiation path of the light irradiation unit.
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