Obvious 3D printer technology based on 16. Partial, overdone or excessive action: Difference between revisions

Broad and/or obvious patent claims for 3-D printing technology may hamper the open-source 3-D printing community's ability to innovate. Previous work on an algorithm protected 3-D printing materials. This page is part of a MTU Open Source 3-D Printing class project to investigate 3-D printing concepts using TRIZ and is presented here as a defensive publication of prior art to help identify obvious 'inventions' for 3-D printing.

Examiners: The ideas on this page dated Dec 3, 2015 and Nov 29, 2016 were developed by university students with less than a semester of formal 3-D printing experience (or by an instructor in class) and thus should be considered unpatentable because of obviousness to any person skilled in the art of additive manufacturing.
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ngtanike (talk) 07:17, 1 December 2015 (PST)

• improve resolution (atomic)

Print with variable hotend nozzle sizes

• improve print speed (instantaneous)

• enhance material availability (all)

• reduce parts of the printer (1?)

• reduce costs of printer (free)

• reduce costs of materials (free)

• make it easier to use (McDonald's screen)

• make it easier to assemble (self)
• make it easier to maintain (none, unbreakable, self healing)

• make fully assembled products (anything - computer, car, smartphone, dinner)

• use functional printing materials (e.g. electronics)
• reduce waste (zero)
• use less energy (zero or ambient)
• quieter printing (soundless)
• ubiquitous printing (everywhere)
• print smaller (nanoscale)
• print bigger (apartment complex, Great Wall of China, planet?)
• enable auto calibration
• enable auto leveling
• enable auto monitoring
• enable quality control
• enable real-time feedback
• make it safer (infant approved)
• make is smell good (designer imposters?)
• make it from current waste products (CO2, flyash, spent fuel rods?)

• Improve filament lay down

1. Heat filament more Remichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
2. Cool filament once layedRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)

1. make printer largerRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
2. make print bed moveRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)

#conveyer belt bedRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST) #wheel print bedRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST) #heated wheel print bedRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST) #Rolling dice print bedRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)

1. improve range of printer head movementRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
2. use taller printer columnsRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
3. make jointed armsRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
4. make flexible printing armsRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
5. use magnet field as printing armsRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
6. Floating print headsRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
7. multiple floating print headsRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
8. make printer assembly parts biggerRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
9. print small assembly parts togetherRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
10. make whole top and bottom of printer one pieceRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
11. Use tensile filament for bridgingRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
12. replace magnet attachements with velcroRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
13. replace magnet attachements with rubber bandsRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)

#add rubber bands to magnet attachments sitesRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)

1. heat bed then rapidly cool to release partsRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
2. Use magnetic to move bedsRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
3. Use two extruder motors to etrude two filamentsRemichae (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2016 (PST)
4. high resolution by printing more and removing

Partial, overdone or excessive action

Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)

1. Use electric coils instead of magnets Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
2. Reduce number of metal rods (make one for each side) Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
3. Add one more stepper motor in order to move the printing bed Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
4. Create exchangeable printing beds to reduce the amount of support Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
5. Create exchangeable nozzles with predefined shapes of the holes Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
6. Preheat the whole spool in order to melt a large amount of plastic at the same time Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
7. Create a melting chamber to mix filament colors before printing Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
8. Design moving bed to use gravity to modify solidifying object Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
9. Use gears for extruder motor to change feeding rate Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
10. Use gears for xyz motors to increase precision Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
11. Use gas flow to create finer filament flow Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
12. Use pulsed extrusion moves to increase precision of printed object (analog of paper ink-jet printers) Aliaksei Petsiuk (talk) 07:14, 4 December 2018 (PST)
13. Use laser in calibration
14. Use "lubricant/sticky layers" with another kind of filament to print parts on top of each other
15. Use robotic arm to add metal/wooden/... other parts in between layers
16. Use metal particles to use magnetic field during print