阅读说明：本技术 一种替代人工的生日蛋糕裱花3d打印方法 (3D printing method for decorating birthday cake instead of manual work ) 是由 刘文海 于 2021-08-05 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种替代人工的生日蛋糕裱花3D打印方法,所述方法为：将蛋糕胚放入3D打印机器的旋转平台上,通过图像采集设备采集蛋糕胚的图像；对蛋糕胚的图像进行识别,确定蛋糕坯的尺寸,从数据库中匹配对应尺寸蛋糕坯的裱花方案；用户选择相应的裱花方案或者自行录入裱花的3D打印方案；3D打印机器接收到裱花打印指令后,开始按照程序自动进行裱花3D打印；打印完成后,从3D打印机器内取出蛋糕。本发明解决了现有生日蛋糕裱花质量难以把控、受人工经验影响大的问题。(The invention discloses a 3D printing method for decorating birthday cake instead of manual work, which comprises the following steps: putting the cake embryo on a rotating platform of a 3D printing machine, and collecting an image of the cake embryo through image collection equipment; identifying the image of the cake blank, determining the size of the cake blank, and matching the decorating scheme of the cake blank with the corresponding size from the database; a user selects a corresponding decoration scheme or automatically inputs a decoration 3D printing scheme; after receiving the decoration printing instruction, the 3D printing machine starts to automatically perform decoration 3D printing according to a program; and after printing is finished, taking out the cake from the 3D printer. The invention solves the problems that the decoration quality of the existing birthday cake is difficult to control and is greatly influenced by manual experience.)

1. A3D printing method for decorating birthday cake instead of manual work is characterized by comprising the following steps:

putting the cake embryo on a rotating platform of a 3D printing machine, and collecting an image of the cake embryo through image collection equipment;

identifying the image of the cake blank, determining the size of the cake blank, and matching the decorating scheme of the cake blank with the corresponding size from the database;

a user selects a corresponding decoration scheme or automatically inputs a decoration 3D printing scheme;

after receiving the decoration printing instruction, the 3D printing machine starts to automatically perform decoration 3D printing according to a program;

and after printing is finished, taking out the cake from the 3D printer.

2. The 3D printing method for replacing manual birthday cake decorating as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image collecting device collects the front and side images of the cake blank, and measures the thickness, diameter and side length of the cake blank by the laser measuring instrument, and the measured data is sent to the central processing unit.

3. The 3D printing method for replacing manual birthday cake decorating as claimed in claim 2, wherein the central processor generates three-dimensional image data of cake embryo according to the collected cake embryo image and size data and stores the three-dimensional image data.

4. The 3D printing method for replacing manual birthday cake decorating as claimed in claim 2, wherein the central processor matches the corresponding decorating scheme from the database according to the three-dimensional image data of the cake embryo to form a decorating scheme list.

5. A3D printing method replacing manual birthday cake decorating according to claim 4 characterized in that the decorating scheme list shows a plurality of decorating patterns through the display, the user can select the favorite decorating scheme and send the selected decorating scheme to the central processor.

6. The 3D printing method for replacing manual birthday cake decorating as claimed in claim 3, wherein the CPU can receive a decorating scheme designed by a user, the user can design a corresponding decorating scheme according to the requirement in a personalized manner, the decorating scheme is adjusted in equal proportion according to the size of a cake blank, and the decorating scheme designed by the user can be added into the database after the user agrees.

7. The 3D printing method for replacing manual birthday cake decorating as claimed in claim 6, wherein the CPU sends the received decorating scheme to the controller of the 3D printing machine, and printing and painting of the decorating pattern are performed through the 3D printing nozzle.

8. A 3D printing method replacing artificial birthday cake decorating according to claim 7, characterized in that the 3D printing machine comprises: former feed bin, mixing bunker, three-dimensional running gear and 3D print the shower nozzle, including a plurality of partitioned cabins in the former feed bin, different raw materials are added to the different cabins, and every cabin all can be through the pipeline with raw materials injection mixing bunker in, mixing bunker stirs the raw materials, 3D prints the shower nozzle and installs on three-dimensional running gear, is located mixing bunker below, and the raw materials after the mixture gets into 3D and prints the shower nozzle, carries out the printing of mounting flower.

9. The 3D printing method for replacing manual decoration of birthday cake as claimed in claim 8, wherein the three-dimensional walking mechanism moves under the control of the controller, and drives the 3D printing nozzle to perform multi-angle and multi-directional inkjet printing according to the decoration scheme.

10. The 3D printing method for replacing manual birthday cake decorating as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rotary platform is driven by a motor to rotate the cake blank in cooperation with the 3D printing nozzle for 3D printing of decorating.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of 3D printing, in particular to a birthday cake decorating 3D printing method capable of replacing manual work.

Background

At present, the decoration process links of birthday cakes and pastries in the baking industry on the market are mainly completed manually. Baking the birthday cake blank in advance, and then coating and molding the decoration raw materials such as cream, jam, chocolate paste and the like on the birthday cake blank by a decorator to form various patterns, shapes and the like. The method has low efficiency and large workload, and the exquisite degree of the decoration is determined by the personal skill of the decorator.

3D printing technology, in short, is actually a rapid prototyping device using photocuring and low lamination. It is a technique for constructing objects by layer-by-layer printing method using bondable materials based on digital model files. In the process of making birthday cakes in the baked food industry, the decorating process is very important. Whether the birthday cake is exquisite or not is determined by the individual skills of the decorator. A qualified decorator needs to be cultured by a long technique and trained by a hard technical skill to grow into a decorator, so that a birthday cake can be skillfully made. Can stabilize through 3D printing technique and mount the flower quality to the accuse, promote preparation efficiency.

Disclosure of Invention

Therefore, the invention provides a 3D printing method for decorating birthday cake instead of manual work, and aims to solve the problems that the decorating quality of the existing birthday cake is difficult to control and is greatly influenced by manual experience.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme:

the invention discloses a 3D printing method for decorating birthday cake instead of manual work, which comprises the following steps:

putting the cake embryo on a rotating platform of a 3D printing machine, and collecting an image of the cake embryo through image collection equipment;

identifying the image of the cake blank, determining the size of the cake blank, and matching the decorating scheme of the cake blank with the corresponding size from the database;

a user selects a corresponding decoration scheme or automatically inputs a decoration 3D printing scheme;

after receiving the decoration printing instruction, the 3D printing machine starts to automatically perform decoration 3D printing according to a program;

and after printing is finished, taking out the cake from the 3D printer.

Furthermore, the image acquisition equipment acquires the front and side images of the cake blank, the thickness, the diameter and the side length of the cake blank are measured by the laser measuring instrument, and the measured data are sent to the central processing unit.

Furthermore, the central processing unit generates and stores three-dimensional image data of the cake embryo according to the collected cake embryo image and size data.

Further, the central processing unit matches the corresponding decorating scheme from the database according to the three-dimensional image data of the cake blank to form a decorating scheme list.

Further, the decoration scheme list shows a plurality of decoration patterns through a display, and a user can select a favorite decoration scheme and send the selected decoration scheme to the central processing unit.

Furthermore, the central processing unit can receive a decoration scheme designed by a user, the user can design a corresponding decoration scheme according to the requirement in a personalized manner, the equal proportion adjustment is carried out according to the size of the cake blank, and the decoration scheme designed by the user can be added into the database after the user agrees.

Further, the central processing unit sends the received decoration scheme to a controller of the 3D printing machine, and printing and spray painting of the decoration pattern are carried out through the 3D printing nozzle.

Further, the 3D printing machine comprises: former feed bin, mixing bunker, three-dimensional running gear and 3D print the shower nozzle, including a plurality of partitioned cabins in the former feed bin, different raw materials are added to the different cabins, and every cabin all can be through the pipeline with raw materials injection mixing bunker in, mixing bunker stirs the raw materials, 3D prints the shower nozzle and installs on three-dimensional running gear, is located mixing bunker below, and the raw materials after the mixture gets into 3D and prints the shower nozzle, carries out the printing of mounting flower.

Furthermore, the three-dimensional travelling mechanism moves under the control of the controller, and the 3D printing nozzle is driven to perform multi-angle and multi-directional spray painting according to the pattern mounting scheme.

Further, rotary platform passes through motor drive, and the cooperation 3D prints the shower nozzle and rotates the cake embryo, carries out the 3D printing of mounting patterns.

The invention has the following advantages:

the invention discloses a 3D printing method for decorating birthday cake instead of manual work, which comprises the steps of collecting an image of a cake blank through an image collecting device, measuring the size of the cake blank through a laser measuring instrument, constructing three-dimensional image data of the cake blank, matching a decorating scheme from a database or designing the decorating scheme by a user, selecting the decorating scheme, then printing the decorating through a 3D printing machine, controlling the decorating quality without being influenced by the experience of a decorating operator, providing various decorating schemes for selection, improving the decorating efficiency and realizing unmanned baking.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below. It should be apparent that the drawings in the following description are merely exemplary, and that other embodiments can be derived from the drawings provided by those of ordinary skill in the art without inventive effort.

The structures, ratios, sizes, and the like shown in the present specification are only used for matching with the contents disclosed in the specification, so as to be understood and read by those skilled in the art, and are not used to limit the conditions that the present invention can be implemented, so that the present invention has no technical significance, and any structural modifications, changes in the ratio relationship, or adjustments of the sizes, without affecting the effects and the achievable by the present invention, should still fall within the range that the technical contents disclosed in the present invention can cover.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of an alternative artificial 3D printing method for decorating birthday cake according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a 3D printing machine according to an embodiment of the present invention;

in the figure: 1-raw material bin, 2-mixing bin, 3-three-dimensional traveling mechanism, 4-3D printing nozzle and 5-rotary platform.

Detailed Description

The present invention is described in terms of particular embodiments, other advantages and features of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following disclosure, and it is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention and that it is not intended to limit the invention to the particular embodiments disclosed. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Examples

The embodiment discloses a 3D printing method for decorating birthday cake instead of manual work, which comprises the following steps:

putting the cake embryo on a rotating platform 5 of a 3D printing machine, and collecting an image of the cake embryo through image collection equipment;

identifying the image of the cake blank, determining the size of the cake blank, and matching the decorating scheme of the cake blank with the corresponding size from the database;

a user selects a corresponding decoration scheme or automatically inputs a decoration 3D printing scheme;

after receiving the decoration printing instruction, the 3D printing machine starts to automatically perform decoration 3D printing according to a program;

and after printing is finished, taking out the cake from the 3D printer.

The image acquisition equipment is used for acquiring images of the front side and the side face of the cake blank, measuring the thickness, the diameter and the side length of the cake blank through the laser measuring instrument, and transmitting measured data to the central processing unit. The cake embryo generally has cylindric or cuboid form, measures height and diameter to cylindric cake embryo, and cuboid form cake embryo measures length and width height, shoots cake embryo three-dimensional image to special-shaped cake embryo, carries out the segmentation measurement through laser measuring instrument, marks specific dimensional information.

And the central processing unit generates and stores three-dimensional image data of the cake embryo according to the collected cake embryo image and size data. After receiving the collected cake embryo image and size data, the central processing unit builds a three-dimensional model and extracts effective elevation points related to the elevation of the cake embryo from the digital surface model; finding out an actual elevation point of the cake embryo according to the effective elevation point, and calculating an elevation value of a control point on a center line of the cake embryo according to the actual elevation point; generating a cake blank surface space triangulation network according to the height value of the control point on the central line, the cake blank central line and the cake blank width attribute; optimizing the triangular net connection of the width change position of the cake blank; optimizing the triangular net connection of the positions of the ring roads of the cake blank; and constructing a three-dimensional model of the cake blank according to the space triangulation network optimized in the step.

The central processing unit matches corresponding decoration schemes from the database according to three-dimensional image data of the cake embryo to form a decoration scheme list, multiple decoration schemes are stored in the database in advance, each scheme can be amplified or reduced in equal proportion and is adaptive to the cake embryos of different sizes, the decoration scheme list displays multiple decoration patterns through the displayer, a user can select the favorite decoration schemes and sends the selected decoration schemes to the central processing unit, and the central processing unit adjusts the decoration schemes according to the three-dimensional model adaptability of the cake embryos and adapts to the current cake embryos. After the user selects the decoration scheme, the user can adjust the decoration scheme on the basis of the original scheme, and the original decoration content is added, deleted or changed.

The central processing unit can receive a decoration scheme designed by a user, the user can design a corresponding decoration scheme according to the requirement in an individualized way, the equal proportion adjustment is carried out according to the size of a cake blank, and the decoration scheme designed by the user can be added into the database after the user agrees, so that the database is continuously updated, the database capacity is expanded, and the requirements of more users are met.

And the central processing unit sends the received pattern mounting scheme to a controller of the 3D printing machine, and printing and spray painting of the pattern mounting are carried out through the 3D printing nozzle 4.

The 3D printing machine includes: former feed bin 1, mixing bunker 2, three-dimensional running gear 3 and 3D print nozzle 4, including a plurality of divided cabins in the former feed bin 1, add different raw materialss in the different cabins, every cabin all can be through the pipeline with the raw materials injection mixing bunker 2 in, this embodiment includes two cabins, including animal nature light cream in a cabin, plant fat cream or fruit cake, chocolate, turn over materials such as sugar, place the fruit cake in another cabin, chocolate, turn over materials such as sugar, the temperature difference in the different control cabins of placing the material according to the cabin, get into mixing bunker 2 with the flow of the interior raw materials of helping the cabin. Install the agitator in the mixing bunker 2, stir the raw materials, 3D prints shower nozzle 4 and installs on three-dimensional running gear 3, is located mixing bunker 2 below, and the raw materials after the mixture gets into 3D and prints shower nozzle 4, mounts the flower and prints. Rotary platform 5 passes through motor drive, and cooperation 3D prints 4 rotation cake embryo of shower nozzle, carries out the 3D printing of mounting patterns. According to different decoration schemes, the proportion and the variety of the raw materials entering the mixing bin 2 are different. The materials such as animal light cream, non-dairy cream or fruitcake, chocolate, sugar-turning and the like can be used independently and can be used in a mixed mode to form different colors, so that the decorative materials with different colors can be used, and the requirements of the public on various cakes are met.

The embodiment discloses a 3D printing method for replacing manual birthday cake decoration, the image of a cake blank is collected through image collection equipment, the size of the cake blank is measured through a laser measuring instrument, three-dimensional image data of the cake blank is constructed, a decoration scheme is matched in a database or is designed by a user, after the decoration scheme is selected, printing of decoration is carried out through a 3D printing machine, decoration quality is mounted in control mode and is not influenced by experience of a decorator, multiple decoration schemes can be provided for selection, decoration efficiency is improved, and unmanned baking is achieved.

Although the invention has been described in detail above with reference to a general description and specific examples, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that modifications or improvements may be made thereto based on the invention. Accordingly, such modifications and improvements are intended to be within the scope of the invention as claimed.