Method and apparatus for producing three-dimensional objects

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5151813
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07492607

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A three-dimensional object producing method, and the apparatus for carrying it out, of the type in which a beam is irradiated on a liquid surface of a liquid photo-curable resin to form a succession of cured resin layers corresponding to successive cross-sectional laminae of the three-dimensional object and step-wise moving the cured resin layers as they are formed to build up a three-dimensional copy of object, wherein the improvement of the method comprises vector-scanning the beam on a first layer of photo-curable resin along one or more paths corresponding to the contour or contours of a first one of the cross-sectional laminae of the object, thereafter, raster-scanning the beam on one or more layers of photo-curable resin which are subsequent to the first layer of photo-curable resin, and alternating repeating these different scanning steps until a complete copy of the object is thereby produced.

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SONY CORPORATION A CORP OF JAPAN7-35 KITASHINAGAWA-6 SHINAGAWA-KU TOKYO

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Itoh, Kazumine Tokyo, JP 3 79
Yamamoto, Masanobu Kanagawa, JP 145 2434

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