INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, MODELING DEVICE, MODELING SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20190315066A1
• Filed: 05/21/2019
• Published: 10/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2016
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: MAEDA, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US16/418,196
• Publication Number:
  US 20190315066A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 64/393 for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
• CPC Class Codes: B33Y 50/02 for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4099 Surface or curve machining, making 3D objects, e.g. desktop manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/49018 Laser sintering of powder in layers, selective laser sintering SLS
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/49023 3-D printing, layer of powder, add drops of binder in layer, new powder

Abstract

An information processing device includes a read unit, a storage unit, and a correction unit. The read unit is configured to read instruction information that causes a modeling device to execute a modeling procedure about a first modeling material body. The storage unit is configured to store modeling material body information about a second modeling material body and modeling material body information about the first modeling material body. The correction unit is configured to correct a first parameter value about the first modeling material body, which is a first parameter value contained in the instruction information read by the read unit, according to the modeling material body information about the second modeling material body and the modeling material body information about the first modeling material body stored in the storage unit.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a read unit configured to read instruction information that causes a modeling device to execute a modeling procedure about a first modeling material body;

a storage unit configured to store modeling material body information about a second modeling material body and modeling material body information about the first modeling material body; and

a correction unit configured to correct a first parameter value about the first modeling material body, which is a first parameter value contained in the instruction information read by the read unit, according to the modeling material body information about the second modeling material body and the modeling material body information about the first modeling material body stored in the storage unit.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the modeling material bodies are filaments;

the modeling material body information about the first modeling material body includes first outer shape information representing outer shape information about the first modeling material body,

the modeling material body information about the second modeling material body includes second outer shape information representing outer shape information about the second modeling material body, and

the correction unit corrects an amount of the first modeling material body to be ejected, which is an amount serving as the first parameter value contained in the instruction information read by the read unit, by using a value that is calculated according to the amount and the first outer shape information and the second outer shape information that are stored in the storage unit.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the storage unit stores

correspondence information indicating a correspondence relationship between identifying information of nozzles that eject modeling material bodies and identifying information of the modeling material bodies and

modeling material body information about a modeling material body contained in the correspondence information, which is modeling material body information serving as the modeling material information about the second material body, and

the correction unit corrects the first parameter value contained in the instruction information about the first modeling material body according to the modeling material information corresponding to the identifying information of the modeling material body that is associated with the identifying information of the nozzle of the modeling device in the correspondence information.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the modeling material information includes a second parameter value about the second material body corresponding to the first parameter value about the first material body, and

the correction unit corrects the first parameter value contained in the instruction information about the first modeling material body by replacing the first parameter value with the second parameter value stored in the storage unit.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, wherein

the instruction information includes, as the first parameter value, a temperature that fuses the first modeling material body.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising

an inter-layer correction unit configured to correct instruction information about an upper layer according to instruction information about a lower layer in the instruction information.

8. The information processing device according to claim 7, wherein

the inter-layer correction unit incorporates standby information until start of modeling in the instruction information about the upper layer according to a time required to model the lower layer.

9. The information processing device according to claim 7, wherein

the inter-layer correction unit corrects a temperature about a modeling material body of the upper layer according to a temperature about a modeling material body of the lower layer.

10. An modeling device that performs modeling based on the first parameter value corrected by the correction unit of the information processing device according to claim 1.

11. A modeling system comprising the information processing device and the modeling device according to claim 10.

2. (canceled)

12. A method comprising:

reading instruction information for executing a modeling procedure about a first modeling material body;

reading modeling material body information about a second modeling material body and modeling material body information about the first modeling material body; and

correcting a first parameter value about the first modeling material body contained in the instruction information according to the material body information about the second modeling material body and the modeling material body information about the first modeling material body.

13. A computer-readable recording medium that contains a program that causes a computer of an information processing device including a storage unit that stores modeling material body information about a second modeling material body and modeling material body information about a first modeling material body to function as

a read unit configured to read instruction information for executing a modeling procedure about the first modeling material body;

a read unit configured to read the modeling material body information about the second modeling material body and the modeling material body information about the first modeling material body from the storage unit; and

a correction unit configured to correct a first parameter value about the first modeling material body, which is a first parameter value contained in the instruction information read by the read unit, according to the modeling material body information about the second modeling material body and the modeling material body information about the first modeling material body read by the read unit.