Class 700/120 - Stereolithography

Subclass of Class 700 - Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
Definition: Subject matter wherein the building material is a confined
No. of applications: 40
Last issue date: 05/24/2012

Application No.	Application Title	Issue Date
20120130530	3D MODELING APPARATUS, 3D MODELING METHOD, AND MODELED OBJECT A 3D modeling apparatus includes: a support body which supports a modeled object formed by laminating a resin material that is cured by energy of an energy ray; an illumination mechanism which illuminates the resin material with the energy ray, on the basis of image dat...	05/24/2012
20120070814	HEAD MODEL FOR BRAIN-IMAGING DEVICE AND TECHNIQUE FOR PRODUCING SAME A head model according to one example of an embodiment is a head model that may be provided for use in the calibration for a brain-imaging device, where a part corresponding to the skull and a part corresponding to at least one specific region of the brain are each form...	03/22/2012
20120041586	METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPED OBJECT AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPED OBJECT OBTAINED BY THE SAME There is provided a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object. The method of the present invention comprises the repeated steps of: (i) forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of a powder layer on a base plate with a light beam...	02/16/2012
20110313560	FOR RAPID PROTOTYPING APPARATUS A stereolithography apparatus and an exposure system for a stereolithography apparatus, wherein light emitting diodes are used as light sources. The invention relates to aligning light from the light emitting diode and to the exchange and control the light emitting diod...	12/22/2011
20110106290	METHOD OF APPLYING MULTIPLE MATERIALS WITH SELECTIVE LASER MELTING ON A 3D ARTICLE In a method for manufacturing an article (1), particularly a prototype of a product or component, a tool prototype or spare part, by using selected laser melting, for the application onto the article (1) of a layer (13) or portion of a second metall...	05/05/2011
20100319204	METHOD OF FORMING A FUNCTIONAL RAZOR CARTRIDGE AND A FUNCTIONAL RAZOR CARTRIDGE A method of forming a functional razor cartridge for repeated shaving comprises rapid prototyping a housing of a razor cartridge. The housing has a front wall, a rear wall and opposing side walls disposed transverse to and between said front and rear walls. The method f...	12/23/2010
20100305743	ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRODUCT A method and arrangement for production of three-dimensional bodies by successive fusing together of selected areas of a powder bed, which parts correspond to successive cross sections of the three-dimensional body, which method comprises the following method steps: app...	12/02/2010
20100290319	Methods and Apparatus for Self-Assembled Time-Keeping Device In illustrative implementations of this invention, a mechanical clock is produced in a manner such that, once its separate parts are made, the clock requires no further assembly. In one implementation of this invention, a mechanical clock is designed using standard CAD ...	11/18/2010
20100262272	METHOD OF REDUCING THE FORCE REQUIRED TO SEPARATE A SOLIDIFIED OBJECT FROM A SUBSTRATE A method and apparatus for making a three-dimensional object from a solidifiable material such as a photopolymer is shown and described. In accordance with the method, positions relative to a build axis are subdivided into first and second exposure data subsets, and the...	10/14/2010
20100233655	FABRICATION OF DENTAL ARTICLES USING DIGITALLY-CONTROLLED REDUCTIVE AND DIGITALLY-CONTROLLED ADDITIVE PROCESSES By capturing a highly detailed three-dimensional digital model of dentition, a suitable replacement dental article be fabricated with a combination of digitally-controlled reductive processes such as milling and digitally-controlled additive processes such as digital pa...	09/16/2010
20100228369	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC SUPPORT GENERATION FOR AN OBJECT MADE BY MEANS OF A RAPID PROTOTYPE PRODUCTION METHOD The present invention is directed to an improved method for supporting an object made by means of stereo lithography or any other rapid prototype production method. The generation of the support begins by determining the region that requires support in each layer of the...	09/09/2010
20100228381	THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT A three-dimensional modeling apparatus includes a stage, a supply mechanism, a head, a movement mechanism, and a lifting and lowering mechanism. On the stage, a powder material is accumulated. The supply mechanism supplies the powder material on the stage for each prede...	09/09/2010
20100174399	VOLUME ELEMENT PRINTING SYSTEM WITH PRINTHEAD GROUPS OF VARYING VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT FROM SUBSTRATE A volume element (voxel) printing system for printing a three-dimensional object includes a first printhead group having a plurality of first printheads configured to print a first voxel layer on a substrate; at least one second printhead group having a plurality of sec...	07/08/2010
20100168890	Three-Dimensional Data Extraction Using Ray Casting Methods are provided for solid free-form fabrication of an article without using a slice stack file. These apply ray casting a number of times to an electronic representation of the article to create data objects for use directly as printing instructions or which are co...	07/01/2010
20100121475	METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CO-MOLDED INSERTS A method for manufacturing a co-molded insert part for use in composite, plastic, or metal parts is disclosed. The method comprises the step of providing a three-dimensional molding insert produced by a layer additive manufacturing process. The method further comprises ...	05/13/2010
20100114357	Method and Apparatus Associated with Anisotropic Shrink in Sintered Ceramic Items A manufacturing method for producing ceramic item from a photocurable ceramic filled material by stereolithography. The method compensates for the anisotropic shrinkage of the item during firing to produce a dimensionally accurate item....	05/06/2010
20100105008	Methods For Manufacturing Dental Implant Components A method of manufacturing a rapid prototype overmold for locating a dental implant analog in a modified stone model for use in creating a tooth prosthesis is provided. An impression of a mouth having a first installation site that has a dental implant and a gingival hea...	04/29/2010
20100082148	COMPUTER-AIDED IMPLANTING OF ORTHODONTIC ANCHORAGE DEVICES USING SURGICAL GUIDES A system for implanting a temporary anchorage device in a jaw bone of a patient makes use of a digital representation of at least a portion of the patient's dental arch, including teeth and corresponding roots, in order to select a temporary anchorage device (TAD) impla...	04/01/2010
20090287332	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FULL AND PARTIAL DENTURES There is provided a system for fabricating at least a portion of a denture. The system includes a three-dimensional scanning device for scanning a surface of a denture template, and a computer-readable medium including a computer program for receiving data from the scan...	11/19/2009
20090271323	Transactional Method for Building Three-Dimensional Objects The present invention is a method (10) for manufacturing a three-dimensional object. The method (10) includes receiving (14) digital information of the three-dimensional object over a communication line and building (30) the three-dimensional...	10/29/2009
20090132081	Method and device for producing a three-dimensional object, and computer and data carrier useful therefor The invention relates to a method for producing a three-dimensional object by solidification of a material solidifiable under the action of electromagnetic radiation by means of energy input via an imaging unit comprising a predetermined number of discrete imaging eleme...	05/21/2009
20080021586	Method and device for producing a three-dimensional object, and computer and data carrier useful therefor The invention relates to a method for producing a three-dimensional object by solidification of a material solidifiable under the action of electromagnetic radiation by means of energy input via an imaging unit comprising a predetermined number of discrete imaging eleme...	01/24/2008
20070162888	Method and apparatus to determine if a pattern is robustly manufacturable One embodiment provides a method to determine if a pattern is robustly manufacturable. During operation, the system may receive a first pattern and a design intent, wherein the first pattern is intended to generate the design intent. Next, the system may determine a sec...	07/12/2007
20070160820	Architectural ferrocement laminar automated construction A method for producing free form three-dimensional architectural objects by placing construction materials in a matrix of sequential layers or laminations along with fill materials intended for later removal. A digital model specifies the composition of various areas of...	07/12/2007
20070106973	Diffused aerial image model semiconductor device fabrication A lithography method has a simulation method for mathematically approximating a photoresist film pattern with a Diffused Aerial Image Model (“DAIM”) for semiconductor device fabrication. The DAIM is applied with at least two acids having heterogeneous diffusion char...	05/10/2007
20070101307	Design supporting system of semiconductor integrated circuit, method of designing semiconductor integrated circuit, and computer readable medium for supporting design of semiconductor integrated circuit A design supporting system of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a unit that converts a defective circuit pattern into computer detectable information when a layout of the chip is determined, and corrects the defective circuit pattern of layout of the chip base...	05/03/2007
20070074144	Method and system for selective optical pattern compensation A method and system for making a photographic mask. The method includes determining a first contact area, processing information associated with the first contact area, and determining whether a first optical compensation should be applied to the first contact area base...	03/29/2007
20070074143	Dense OPC A method of calculating process conditions for performing optical and process correction (OPC) or other resolution enhancement techniques on a layout design. Process conditions are estimated on a layout database on a substantially uniform grid. Contour curves are create...	03/29/2007
20070067752	Method for verifying optical proximity correction using layer versus layer comparison A method for verifying optical proximity correction (OPC) using a layer-versus-layer (LVL) comparison. The method includes performing optical proximity correction of an original design of a semiconductor device to prepare a revised design of the semiconductor device; co...	03/22/2007
20070067058	Fractal structure, super structure of fractal structures, method for manufacturing the same and applications A three-dimensional fractal structure body that had not been realized by the prior art and newly developed technologies is provided. The fractal structure body partially or entirely comprises a three-dimensional fractal structure, the fractal structure body having a loc...	03/22/2007
20070061773	METHOD FOR SELECTING AND OPTIMIZING EXPOSURE TOOL USING AN INDIVIDUAL MASK ERROR MODEL Methods are disclosed for selecting and optimizing an exposure tool using an individual mask error model. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a model of a lithography process including an optical model of an exposure tool and a resist model, creating an indiv...	03/15/2007
20070022401	METHOD OF CORRECTING MASK PATTERN AND CORRECTING APPARATUS THEREOF A method of correcting a mask pattern is provided. First, an original writer drawing data of a circuit layout pattern is inputted. Then, according to the original writer drawing data, a correcting writer rule is selected by searching from a look-up table. According to t...	01/25/2007
20060277521	Method, program product and apparatus for performing double exposure lithography A method of generating complementary masks based on a target pattern having features to be imaged on a substrate for use in a multiple-exposure lithographic imaging process. The method includes the steps of: defining an initial H-mask corresponding to the target pattern...	12/07/2006
20060259886	Computer readable mask shrink control processor An apparatus comprising computer readable media is provided. The computer readable media comprises computer readable code for receiving a feature layout and computer readable code for applying shrink correction on the feature layout. The computer readable code for apply...	11/16/2006
20060161287	Rapid prototyping and manufacturing of photocured objects using LCD panel as programmably variable photomask An improved rapid prototyping and manufacturing system. The improvement is at least two liquid crystal display panels interposed between a UV light source and a descendible platform to form a variably programmable photomask. A computer is connected to each display panel...	07/20/2006
20050251282	Method and apparatus for forming structures proximate to workpieces A method and apparatus for applying packaging material to workpieces, with a high degree of precision, and resulting articles. A machine vision system including at least one camera is operably associated with a computer controlling a system for application of material s...	11/10/2005
20050235246	Use of models in integrated circuit fabrication A method and system are described to reduce process variation as a result of the electrochemical deposition (ECD), also referred to as electrochemical plating (ECP), and chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) processing of films in integrated circuit manufacturing processe...	10/20/2005
20050148843	System and method of designing and manufacturing customized instrumentation for accurate implantation of prosthesis by utilizing computed tomography data A method and system may be used to design and control the manufacture of a surgical guide for implanting a prosthetic component. The system includes a bone surface image generator, a surgical guide image generator, and a surgical guide image converter. The bone surface ...	07/07/2005
20050060682	Resolving phase-shift conflicts in layouts using weighted links between phase shifters A method of assigning phases to shifters on a layout is provided. The method includes creating a link between any two shifters within a predetermined distance from each other. In one embodiment, the predetermined distance is larger than a minimum feature size on the lay...	03/17/2005
20050012246	High resolution and rapid three dimensional object generator The device makes 3 dimensional objects. Micro-displays with quick reactant of material enable to produce the 3 dimensional objects very rapidly and with high resolution. Optionally, the 3 dimensional input device is embedded to the system to create the instant duplicati...	01/20/2005

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Class 700/120 - Stereolithography