Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – Stereolithographic shaping from liquid precursor
Patent
1995-06-06
1998-07-14
Tentoni, Leo B.
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
Stereolithographic shaping from liquid precursor
264308, 36446827, 4251744, B29C 3508, B29C 4102
Patent
active
057799679
ABSTRACT:
A system for generating three-dimensional objects by creating a cross-sectional pattern of the object to be formed at a selected surface of a fluid medium capable of altering its physical state in response to appropriate synergistic stimulation by impinging radiation, particle bombardment or chemical reaction, successive adjacent laminae, representing corresponding successive adjacent cross-sections of the object, being automatically formed and integrated together to provide a step-wise laminar buildup of the desired object, whereby a three-dimensional object is formed and drawn from a substantially planar surface of the fluid medium during the forming process.
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3-D Systems, Inc.
Smalley Dennis R.
Tentoni Leo B.
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