SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
To the defect that exists among the prior art, the embodiment of the utility model provides a storage device for photocuring printer.
For solving the technical problem, the embodiment of the utility model adopts the following technical scheme:
a magazine for a photocuring printer comprising:
a carrier having a light-transmitting laying surface for laying a light-curable material;
the scraper is arranged above the laying surface and forms a reserved gap with the laying surface;
a drive mechanism for driving the blade to reciprocate linearly parallel to the paving surface; and
an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the scraper to vary the reserve gap between the scraper and the paving surface;
the scraper is provided with a containing groove for containing the light-cured material and a flow guide channel capable of enabling the light-cured material to flow into the paving surface, so that when the driving mechanism drives the scraper to do linear motion, the scraper can pave a layer of light-cured layer corresponding to the thickness of the reserved gap on the paving surface.
Preferably, the adjusting mechanisms comprise two; the scraper comprises a scraping and paving part and two connecting arms respectively connected to two ends of the scraping and paving part; the scraping and paving part and the paving surface form the reserved gap; the two adjusting mechanisms are respectively positioned at two sides of the scraper and respectively connected with the two connecting arms.
Preferably, the storing device further comprises a substrate; the substrate is provided with a hollow part, and the carrier is embedded in the hollow part; a rectangular groove is formed on the carrier, and the bottom of the rectangular groove forms the laying surface; the scraping and paving part is arranged in the rectangular groove, and two ends of the scraping and paving part extend to two opposite first groove walls of the rectangular groove; the two adjusting mechanisms are respectively arranged on the base plates positioned on the two sides of the scraper, and the two connecting arms respectively extend out of the rectangular grooves and then are connected with the two adjusting mechanisms; the driving mechanism is used for driving the two adjusting mechanisms to move so as to drive the scraper to reciprocate between the other two opposite second groove walls of the rectangular groove.
Preferably, the accommodating groove is formed in the scraping and spreading portion.
Preferably, the driving mechanism comprises a belt arranged along the movement direction of the scraper, a belt wheel arranged on the base plate and used for supporting the belt, and a motor arranged on the base plate and used for driving the belt wheel to rotate; wherein,
the adjusting mechanism is connected to the belt so that the adjusting mechanism moves with the belt.
Preferably, the adjusting mechanism comprises a guide frame and a micrometer; a guide long hole is formed in the substrate along the movement direction of the scraper; the lower part of the guide frame is connected with the belt through a connecting block after penetrating through the guide long hole; the micrometer is installed on the upper portion of leading truck, the micrometer includes the ejector pin and through rotary drive the adjusting nut that the ejector pin removed, the ejector pin passes through the drive linking arm in order to change scrape spread the portion with lay between the face reserve clearance.
Preferably, be formed with vertical guide rail on the leading truck, be provided with in the vertical guide rail and follow the slider that vertical guide rail removed, the slider is fixed on the ejector pin, be provided with the rotating member on the slider, the rotating member can be relative the slider rotates, linking arm detachable installs on the rotating member, and can follow the rotating member rotates.
Preferably, the groove bottom of the rectangular groove is made of a transparent material.
Preferably, a linear guide rail is further disposed on the base plate, the linear guide rail extends along the movement direction of the scraper, and the connecting block portion is disposed in the linear guide rail and can move along the linear guide rail.
The utility model also discloses a photocuring printer, including foretell a storage device for photocuring printer.
Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the utility model provides a storage device for photocuring printer's beneficial effect is: the utility model discloses a storage device utilizes the scraper to lay the one deck and prints the material then print the one deck to can prevent to print defects such as shrinkage porosity, shrinkage cavity from appearing in the model, make the model after printing inside more closely knit, intensity is better, and prints the precision height.
Detailed Description
In order to make the technical solution of the present invention better understood by those skilled in the art, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description.
As shown in fig. 1 to 4, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a storage device for a photo-curing printer, which includes a carrier 20, a scraper 40, a driving mechanism 50 and an adjusting mechanism 30. The carrier 20 has a laying surface 22 for laying a light-curable material, and the laying surface 22 is light-transmissive, that is, when a layer of light-curable material is laid on the laying surface 22, light can be irradiated on the light-curable material through the laying surface 22 to cure the light-curable material. The scraper 40 is disposed above the paving surface 22, and a reserved gap is formed between the scraper 40 and the paving surface 22, and the scraper 40 is provided with a containing groove 43 for containing the light-curing material and a flow guide channel (not shown in the drawing) for allowing the light-curing material in the containing groove 43 to flow into the paving surface 22, so that when the scraper 40 moves linearly above the paving surface 22, the light-curing material flows into the paving surface 22 through the flow guide channel and a layer of the light-curing material is paved through the scraper 40, and the reserved gap determines the thickness of the paved light-curing material, thereby determining the printing speed and precision of the printer (the larger the reserved gap is, the faster the printing speed is, the lower the printing precision is, and the smaller the reserved gap is, the higher the printing precision is, the slower the printing speed is). The driving mechanism 50 is configured to drive the scraper 40 to perform a reciprocating linear motion parallel to the laying surface 22 above the laying surface 22, and lay two layers of light-curing materials (hereinafter referred to as light-curing layers) by the reciprocating linear motion. The adjusting mechanism 30 is used for adjusting the vertical distance of the scraper 40 relative to the paving surface 22 to change the reserved gap between the scraper 40 and the paving surface 22, thereby adjusting the thickness of the light curing layer to be paved.
When the storage device of the utility model is applied to a pull-up type photocuring printer, one layer of photocuring layer is printed by light when the scraper 40 lays one layer, the thickness of each layer is determined by a preset reserved gap, and the scraper 40 enables the inside of the photocuring layer to be more compact by scraping and paving, compared with a mode of photocuring printing by lifting the preset height of a printing model immersed in the photocuring material (when the printing model is lifted, an air pocket is easily formed between the lower end surface of the printing model and the photocuring material, so that the printed model is easy to generate shrinkage porosity or shrinkage cavity, the inside of the printed model is not compact enough, when the printing material is a material with higher viscosity, the phenomena of generating shrinkage porosity and shrinkage cavity are more obvious), the storage device of the utility model can prevent the printing model from generating the defects of shrinkage porosity, shrinkage cavity and the like, and enables the inside of the printed model to be more compact, the intensity is better, and prints the precision height.
As shown in fig. 3, in order to ensure that the reserved gap formed between the scraper 40 and the paving surface 22 is equal at each position, that is, the scraper 40 and the paving surface 22 have high parallelism, two adjusting mechanisms 30 are respectively arranged at two sides of the scraper 40, and the scraper 40 specifically includes a scraping and paving portion 41 for scraping and paving the light-cured material and connecting arms 42 connected to two ends of the scraping and paving portion 41; the two connecting arms 42 are correspondingly connected with the two adjusting mechanisms 30 respectively, the scraping and paving part 41 is in a strip shape, the strip-shaped scraping and paving part 41 extends towards the two adjusting mechanisms 30, the bottom of the scraping and paving part 41 is a plane opposite to the paving surface 22, the accommodating groove 43 is arranged at the upper part of the scraping and paving part 41, the flow guide channel penetrates from the groove bottom of the accommodating groove 43 to the plane of the bottom of the scraping and paving part 41, and chamfers (or named wedge surfaces) are arranged on two sides of the bottom of the scraping and paving part 41 in the moving direction so as to store redundant light-cured materials flowing out of the flow guide channel. In this way, the height of the two ends of the scraper 40 is adjusted by the two adjusting mechanisms 30 so that the scraper-laying portion 41 has a high degree of parallelism with the laying surface 22, thereby making the thickness of the laid photocured layer more uniform. By providing a chamfer at the bottom of the scraping and spreading portion 41, the light-curable material remaining after the completion of the spreading is stored in the space enclosed by the chamfer and the spreading surface 22 and is used as a supplement to the subsequent spreading.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the storing device further includes a substrate 10, the substrate 10 is installed on a working platform of the printer and can be used as a part of the working platform, a hollow portion 12 is provided in the center of the substrate 10, the carrier 20 is embedded in the hollow portion 12, a rectangular groove 21 is formed in the middle of the carrier 20, the bottom of the rectangular groove 21 is a plane, and the plane is used as the laying surface 22. The strip-shaped scraping and spreading part 41 is arranged in the rectangular groove 21, two ends of the scraping and spreading part 41 extend to two opposite groove walls (the two groove walls are not named as first groove walls) of the rectangular groove 21, the two adjusting mechanisms 30 are arranged on the base plate 10 positioned at two sides of the scraper 40 and can move in a direction perpendicular to the strip-shaped scraping and spreading part 41 (the two groove walls are not named as second groove walls); the two connecting arms 42 extend out of the rectangular grooves 21 respectively and then are connected with the two adjusting mechanisms 30; the driving mechanism 50 is used for driving the two adjusting mechanisms 30 to move simultaneously, so that the two adjusting mechanisms 30 drive the scraping and paving part 41 to do linear reciprocating motion between the two second groove walls through the two connecting arms 42. Preferably, the bottom of the rectangular groove 21 is made of a transparent material, such as quartz glass or acrylic plate. In the present embodiment, the rectangular groove 21 defines the laying surface 22 of the blade 40 and has a converging action on the light-curing material to prevent the light-curing material having fluidity from flowing out of the rectangular groove 21. Set up rectangular channel 21 and make the utility model discloses a storage device still can use on the printer that the mode that the model of utilizing to dip among the prior art carries out printing, has expanded storage device's range of application.
There are various structures of the adjusting mechanism 30 for adjusting the clearance between the spreading portion 41 of the scraper 40 and the spreading surface 22, and there are also various structures of the driving mechanism 50 for driving the adjusting mechanism 30 to move, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the adjusting mechanism 30 includes a guide frame 31, a micrometer 32, a slider 33, a rotating member, and a shift fork 35; two long guide holes 11 extending along the movement direction of the scraper 40 are formed in the base plate 10 on two sides of the rectangular groove 21; the micrometer 32 includes a jack 321 and an adjusting nut that drives the jack 321 to move by rotation; the guide frame 31 is provided with a vertical guide rail 311, the lower part of the guide frame 31 is connected with the driving mechanism 50 after penetrating through the guide long hole 11, the micrometer 32 is arranged on the upper part of the guide frame 31, the ejector rod 321 vertically extends downwards into the vertical guide rail 311, the sliding block 33 is arranged in the vertical guide rail 311 and fixed on the ejector rod 321, and the adjusting nut is rotated to enable the ejector rod 321 to drive the sliding block 33 to move up and down along the vertical guide rail 311; the rotating piece is rotatably connected to the sliding block 33 through a pin shaft perpendicular to the mandril 321, and the shifting fork 35 is connected to the rotating piece in a swinging manner; the notch has all been seted up on the tip of the linking arm 42 of scraper 40 and the rotating member, and shift fork 35 swings in order to block the notch of linking arm 42 towards the direction of linking arm 42 to make linking arm 42 be connected as an organic whole with the rotating member, shift fork 35 swings in order to block the notch of rotating member towards the rotating member direction, thereby makes linking arm 42 and rotating member can separate. In this way, the two push rods 321 can be driven to vertically move by respectively screwing the adjusting nuts on the two adjusting mechanisms 30, so that the distances between the two ends of the scraping and paving part 41 and the paving surface 22 are respectively adjusted, and the scraping and paving part 41 and the paving surface 22 can be guaranteed to have higher parallelism; the angle between the plane of the bottom of the paved part and the paving surface 22 is adjusted by rotating the rotating piece so as to adapt to the paving of the light-cured materials with different viscosities and different paving requirements.
As shown in fig. 3 and 4, the driving mechanism 50 specifically includes two belts 52, four pulleys 53, a motor 51, and a transmission shaft 55, the two belts 52 are arranged along the moving direction of the scraper 40, and the two belts 52 are disposed below the base plate 10 and correspond to the position of the guide frame 31 of the adjusting mechanism 30; the four belt wheels 53 are all fixed below the base plate 10 and respectively correspond to each other two by two to respectively support the two belts 52, the motor 51 is fixed below the base plate 10 and is used for driving one of the belt wheels 53, the transmission shaft 55 is used for connecting the two belt wheels 53 which are respectively used for supporting the two belts 52 and are opposite in position, and the guide frames 31 of the two adjusting mechanisms 30 are respectively and fixedly connected with the two belts 52. Thus, the motor 51 drives the belt wheel 53 to rotate, the belt wheel 53 drives the two belts 52 to synchronously drive through the transmission shaft 55, so as to drive the two guide frames 31 and the scraper 40 to synchronously move, and the reciprocating motion of the scraper 40 can be realized by changing the rotation direction of the output shaft of the motor 51.
In order to make the movement of the guide frame 31 more smooth, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, a linear guide 13 is provided at the bottom of the base plate 10 at a position corresponding to the guide long hole 11, the linear guide 13 extends in the moving direction of the doctor blade 40 (or in the transferring direction of the belt 52), the lower portion of the guide frame 31 is fixed to the belt 52 by a connecting block 54, and the connecting block 54 is partially provided in the linear guide 13, so that the connecting block 54 can move along the linear guide 13. In this way, the guide frame 31 and the scraper 40 can smoothly perform reciprocating linear motion by the cooperation of the linear guide 13 and the connecting block 54.
The utility model also discloses a photocuring printer, this photocuring printer include foretell storage device, and wherein, this photocuring printer is still including setting up the light source in the below of carrier 20 and setting up the equipment that is used for attaching the printing model above carrier 20, and this light source sends light and makes light pierce through to lay face 22 and shine and realize the one deck on the photocuring layer of laying and print to finally print out the spare part model.
The above embodiments are only exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention is defined by the claims. Various modifications and equivalents of the invention can be made by those skilled in the art within the spirit and scope of the invention, and such modifications and equivalents should also be considered as falling within the scope of the invention.