阅读说明：本技术 一种环状夹心多材料4d打印喷头及4d打印设备 (Annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle and 4D printing equipment ) 是由 周燕 甘杰 李霏 文世峰 蔡志娟 马国财 段隆臣 史玉升 于 2020-12-29 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提供一种环状夹心多材料4D打印喷头,包括喷头本体,所述喷头本体上沿周向设置有多个进料口,所述喷头本体的底端设置有与进料口一一对应的环状同轴的出料口,所述进料口和出料口通过依次内嵌的流道连通。本发明提供的4D打印喷头通过将多个进料口以内嵌流道的方式与出料口同轴化设置,既极大提升了喷头本体空间结构的利用率,又能保证异种材料的相互隔离、互不浸染,同时提高了打印效率与精度。(The invention provides an annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle which comprises a nozzle body, wherein a plurality of feeding holes are formed in the nozzle body along the circumferential direction, annular coaxial discharging holes which correspond to the feeding holes one by one are formed in the bottom end of the nozzle body, and the feeding holes are communicated with the discharging holes through flow channels which are embedded in sequence. According to the 4D printing nozzle provided by the invention, the plurality of feed inlets and the discharge outlets are coaxially arranged in an embedded runner mode, so that the utilization rate of the spatial structure of the nozzle body is greatly improved, the mutual isolation and mutual non-dip-dyeing of heterogeneous materials can be ensured, and the printing efficiency and precision are improved.)

1. The utility model provides a shower nozzle is printed to annular sandwich multi-material 4D, a serial communication port, includes the shower nozzle body, be provided with a plurality of feed inlets along circumference on the shower nozzle body, the bottom of shower nozzle body is provided with the cyclic annular coaxial discharge gate with the feed inlet one-to-one, feed inlet and discharge gate are through embedded runner intercommunication in proper order.

2. The annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle according to claim 1, wherein the nozzle body is circumferentially provided with a first feed port, a second feed port, a third feed port, a fourth feed port and a fifth feed port, the bottom end of the nozzle body is provided with a first discharge port, a second discharge port, a third discharge port, a fourth discharge port and a fifth discharge port which are annular and coaxial, the first feed port and the first discharge port are communicated through a first flow passage, the second feed port and the second discharge port are communicated through a second flow passage, the third feed port and the third discharge port are communicated through a third flow passage, the fourth feed port and the fourth discharge port are communicated through a fourth flow passage, the fifth feed port and the fifth discharge port are communicated through a fifth flow passage, the second flow passage is embedded in the first flow passage, and the third flow passage is embedded in the second flow passage, the fourth runner is embedded in the third runner, and the fifth runner is embedded in the fourth runner.

3. The annular sandwich multi-material 4D print head of claim 2, wherein the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth flow channels are coaxial.

4. The annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle according to claim 2, wherein a first chamber is formed between an inner wall of the first flow passage and an outer wall of a second flow passage, a second chamber is formed between the inner wall of the second flow passage and an outer wall of a third flow passage, a third chamber is formed between the inner wall of the third flow passage and an outer wall of a fourth flow passage, and a fourth chamber is formed between the inner wall of the fourth flow passage and an outer wall of a fifth flow passage; the printing material that gets into from first feed inlet flows to first discharge gate along first cavity, and the printing material that gets into from the second feed inlet flows to the second discharge gate along the second cavity, and the printing material that gets into from the third feed inlet flows to the third discharge gate along the third cavity, and the printing material that gets into from the fourth feed inlet flows to the fourth discharge gate along the fourth cavity, and the printing material that gets into from the fifth feed inlet flows to the fifth discharge gate along the inner wall of fifth runner.

5. The annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle according to claim 2, wherein the first feed opening, the second feed opening, the third feed opening, the fourth feed opening and the fifth feed opening are circular in cross section.

6. The annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle of claim 2, wherein the first flow channel, the second flow channel, the third flow channel, the fourth flow channel and the fifth flow channel are all in an inverted cone shape.

7. The annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle according to claim 2, wherein the bottom end of the first flow passage has a smaller cross-sectional diameter than the first feed opening, the bottom end of the second flow passage has a smaller cross-sectional diameter than the second feed opening, the bottom end of the third flow passage has a smaller cross-sectional diameter than the third feed opening, the bottom end of the fourth flow passage has a smaller cross-sectional diameter than the fourth feed opening, and the bottom end of the fifth flow passage has a smaller cross-sectional diameter than the fifth feed opening.

8. An annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing device, which is characterized by comprising the annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle of any one of claims 1 to 7.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of additive manufacturing, in particular to an annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle and 4D printing equipment.

Background

Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is a rapid modeling process which is widely applied, a heater is adopted to melt other thermoplastic materials such as ABS, PLA, PPSF and the like into liquid, the molten thermoplastic materials are extruded into filaments through a spray head, and deposition modeling is performed in a layer-by-layer overlapping mode according to a 3D data model of a part.

The 4D printing of multiple materials is always a technical bottleneck in the printing field, and the common FDM extrusion type printer at present generally adopts a method for increasing the number of spray heads to realize the integrated molding of the multiple materials, but the increase of the number of the spray heads causes the design difficulty of corresponding supporting devices (such as a heating device) to be increased, and the arrangement of the multiple spray heads increases the volume ratio of the equipment; secondly, the biggest defect of many shower nozzles FDM printer lies in being difficult to in accurate position timely change material, and printing speed, precision and efficiency are difficult to reach higher level.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, the invention provides an annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle and 4D printing equipment, so as to solve the problems that FDM multi-nozzle printing equipment is complex in design, printing materials are difficult to accurately and rapidly change, and the combination precision of multi-nozzle extrusion materials is low.

The invention provides an annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle which comprises a nozzle body, wherein a plurality of feeding holes are formed in the nozzle body along the circumferential direction, annular coaxial discharging holes which correspond to the feeding holes one by one are formed in the bottom end of the nozzle body, and the feeding holes are communicated with the discharging holes through flow channels which are embedded in sequence.

Furthermore, a first feed inlet, a second feed inlet, a third feed inlet, a fourth feed inlet and a fifth feed inlet are arranged on the spray head body along the circumferential direction, the bottom end of the nozzle body is provided with a first discharge hole, a second discharge hole, a third discharge hole, a fourth discharge hole and a fifth discharge hole which are annular and coaxial, the first feed inlet is communicated with the first discharge outlet through a first flow passage, the second feed inlet is communicated with the second discharge outlet through a second flow passage, the third feed inlet is communicated with the third discharge outlet through a third flow passage, the fourth feed inlet is communicated with the fourth discharge outlet through a fourth flow passage, the fifth feed inlet is communicated with the fifth discharge outlet through a fifth flow passage, the second flow passage is embedded in the first flow passage, the third runner is embedded in the second runner, the fourth runner is embedded in the third runner, and the fifth runner is embedded in the fourth runner.

Further, the first flow passage, the second flow passage, the third flow passage, the fourth flow passage and the fifth flow passage are coaxial.

Further, a first cavity is formed between the inner wall of the first flow channel and the outer wall of the second flow channel, a second cavity is formed between the inner wall of the second flow channel and the outer wall of the third flow channel, a third cavity is formed between the inner wall of the third flow channel and the outer wall of the fourth flow channel, and a fourth cavity is formed between the inner wall of the fourth flow channel and the outer wall of the fifth flow channel; the printing material that gets into from first feed inlet flows to first discharge gate along first cavity, and the printing material that gets into from the second feed inlet flows to the second discharge gate along the second cavity, and the printing material that gets into from the third feed inlet flows to the third discharge gate along the third cavity, and the printing material that gets into from the fourth feed inlet flows to the fourth discharge gate along the fourth cavity, and the printing material that gets into from the fifth feed inlet flows to the fifth discharge gate along the inner wall of fifth runner.

Furthermore, the cross sections of the first feed inlet, the second feed inlet, the third feed inlet, the fourth feed inlet and the fifth feed inlet are circular.

Further, the first flow passage, the second flow passage, the third flow passage, the fourth flow passage and the fifth flow passage are all in an inverted cone shape.

Further, the diameter of the cross section of the bottom end of the first flow channel is smaller than that of the first feed opening, the diameter of the cross section of the bottom end of the second flow channel is smaller than that of the second feed opening, the diameter of the cross section of the bottom end of the third flow channel is smaller than that of the third feed opening, the diameter of the cross section of the bottom end of the fourth flow channel is smaller than that of the fourth feed opening, and the diameter of the cross section of the bottom end of the fifth flow channel is smaller than that of the fifth feed opening,

further, the volumes of the first chamber, the second chamber, the third chamber, the fourth chamber and the fifth flow passage are the same.

Further, the material of shower nozzle body is metal material or other heat-resisting non-metal material such as cast iron, brass, stainless steel, the shower nozzle body adopts the general technique in the additive manufacturing field such as SLM (Selective Laser Melting), EBM (Electron Beam Melting), SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) etc. to carry out integrated into one piece.

The invention also provides annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing equipment comprising the annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle.

The working process of printing by using the annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle provided by the invention comprises the following steps:

(1) heating various printing materials to a molten state in each material tank; the printing material comprises two or more than two SMP (Shape Memory Polymer) materials and a binder material, wherein the SMP materials comprise a thermotropic SMP material, an electric induced SMP material, a photoinduced SMP material, a magnetic induced SMP material, a chemical induced SMP material and the like; the light-induced SMP material is one of materials with light-induced shape memory effect, such as polyethylacrylate, liquid crystal elastomer, crosslinked polyacrylate, 6-N-double-benzopyran-containing polyurethane-acrylate block copolymer, and the like; the binder material is a material which does not generate cross linking and complexing with other various shape memory polymer materials; the thermotropic SMP material is one of materials with thermotropic shape memory effect, such as cross-linked polyethylene (XL PE), polynorbornene, trans-1, 4-polypentadiene (TPI), Polyurethane (PU) and the like; the electro SMP material is one of materials with electro shape memory effect, such as metal filled shape memory polymer composite material, carbon black filled shape memory polymer composite material, carbon nanotube filled shape memory polymer composite material, carbon fiber filled shape memory polymer composite material and the like;

(2) connecting a material tank filled with a photoinduced SMP material with a first feed inlet through a pipeline, connecting a material tank filled with a binder material with a second feed inlet and a fourth feed inlet through pipelines respectively, connecting a material tank filled with a thermotropic SMP material with a third feed inlet through a pipeline, and connecting a material tank filled with an electroformed SMP material with a fifth feed inlet through a pipeline;

(3) after butt joint is completed, the printing materials in the material tanks are synchronously extruded to a deposition bottom plate from corresponding discharge ports at the speed of 20mm/s to 100mm/s through a pneumatic device or a mechanical device connected with the material tanks, namely, the photoinduced SMP materials flow to the first discharge port through the first cavity, the adhesive materials flow to the second discharge port and the fourth discharge port from the second cavity and the fourth cavity respectively, the thermotropic SMP materials flow to the third discharge port from the third cavity, the electro-type SMP materials flow to the fifth discharge port from the fifth flow channel, and the photoinduced SMP materials, the adhesive materials, the thermotropic SMP materials, the adhesive materials and the electro-type SMP materials are laminated and molded until a final sample is formed.

The technical scheme provided by the invention has the beneficial effects that:

1. according to the 4D printing nozzle provided by the invention, the plurality of feed inlets and the discharge outlets are coaxially arranged in an embedded runner manner, so that the utilization rate of the spatial structure of the nozzle body is greatly improved, the mutual isolation and mutual non-dip-dyeing of heterogeneous materials can be ensured, and the printing efficiency and precision are improved;

2. the annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle controls the pushing of different feed port slurries or the replacement of the material tank through a pneumatic or mechanical transmission device, so that wires extruded from the nozzle are different sandwich combinations of various materials, the wires extruded from the nozzle are single materials, and a thought is provided for the diversified forming of multi-material 4D printing;

3. the shape memory polymer composite material printed and formed by the annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle provided by the invention can have composite self-sensing functions of light sensing, temperature sensing, electricity sensing and magnetism sensing at the same time through later-stage proper training.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a front view of an annular sandwich multi-material 4D print head of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a side view of an annular sandwich multi-material 4D print head of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a top view of an annular sandwich multi-material 4D print head of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a half-sectional view of an annular sandwich multi-material 4D print head of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a shape memory polymer composite formed by a 4D print head with a ring-shaped sandwich multi-material according to the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a radial end view of a formed annular sandwich shape memory polymer composite;

FIG. 7 is an axial cross-sectional view of a formed annular sandwich shape memory polymer composite.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, embodiments of the present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, an embodiment of the present invention provides an annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle, which includes a nozzle body 10, a first feeding hole 101, a second feeding hole 102, a third feeding hole 103, a fourth feeding hole 104, and a fifth feeding hole 105 are circumferentially disposed on the nozzle body 10, a first discharging hole 106, a second discharging hole 107, a third discharging hole 108, a fourth discharging hole 109, and a fifth discharging hole 110 are annularly and coaxially disposed at a bottom end of the nozzle body 10, and each feeding hole corresponds to each discharging hole one by one.

The first feed port 101 and the first discharge port 106 are communicated through a first flow channel 111, the second feed port 102 and the second discharge port 107 are communicated through a second flow channel 112, the third feed port 103 and the third discharge port 108 are communicated through a third flow channel 113, the fourth feed port 104 and the fourth discharge port 109 are communicated through a fourth flow channel 114, the fifth feed port 105 and the fifth discharge port 110 are communicated through a fifth flow channel 115, the second flow channel 112 is embedded in the first flow channel 111, the third flow channel 113 is embedded in the second flow channel 112, the fourth flow channel 114 is embedded in the third flow channel 113, the fifth flow channel 115 is embedded in the fourth flow channel 114, the first flow channel 111, the second flow channel 112, the third flow channel 113, the fourth flow channel 114 and the fifth flow channel 115 are coaxial, the bottom ends of the first flow channel 111, the second flow channel 112, the third flow channel 113, the fourth flow channel 114 and the fifth flow channel 115 are positioned on the same horizontal plane, and a first chamber 116 is formed between the inner wall of the first flow channel 111 and the outer wall of the second, a second chamber 117 is formed between the inner wall of the second flow passage 112 and the outer wall of the third flow passage 113, a third chamber 118 is formed between the inner wall of the third flow passage 113 and the outer wall of the fourth flow passage 114, and a fourth chamber 119 is formed between the inner wall of the fourth flow passage 114 and the outer wall of the fifth flow passage 115; the printing material entering from the first feeding hole 101 flows to the first discharging hole 106 along the first chamber 116, the printing material entering from the second feeding hole 102 flows to the second discharging hole 107 along the second chamber 117, the printing material entering from the third feeding hole 103 flows to the third discharging hole 108 along the third chamber 118, the printing material entering from the fourth feeding hole 104 flows to the fourth discharging hole 109 along the fourth chamber 119, and the printing material entering from the fifth feeding hole 105 flows to the fifth discharging hole 110 along the inner wall of the fifth flow passage 115, so that the different materials are isolated from each other and are not impregnated with each other.

In this embodiment, the cross sections of the first feed opening 101, the second feed opening 102, the third feed opening 103, the fourth feed opening 104 and the fifth feed opening 105 are circular, and the cross sections of the first feed opening 101, the second feed opening 102, the third feed opening 103, the fourth feed opening 104 and the fifth feed opening 105 are 15mm, 12.5mm, 10mm, 7.5mm and 5mm in sequence; the end parts of the first feed port 101, the second feed port 102, the third feed port 103, the fourth feed port 104 and the fifth feed port 105 are all provided with threads, and are connected with an external material tank through pipelines, so that different printing materials can be replaced.

In this embodiment, the first flow channel 111, the second flow channel 112, the third flow channel 113, the fourth flow channel 114, and the fifth flow channel 115 are all in an inverted cone shape, and the cross-sectional diameters of the bottom ends of the first flow channel 111, the second flow channel 112, the third flow channel 113, the fourth flow channel 114, and the fifth flow channel 115 are 5.5mm, 4.5mm, 3.5mm, 2.5mm, and 1.5mm in sequence.

In this embodiment, the material of the nozzle body 1 is a metal material such as cast iron, brass, stainless steel, or other heat-resistant non-metal material, and the nozzle body 1 is integrally formed by using a general technique in the additive manufacturing field, such as SLM (Selective Laser Melting), EBM (Electron Beam Melting), SLS (Selective Laser Sintering, powder material Selective Laser Sintering), and the like.

The process of printing by using the 4D printing nozzle provided by this embodiment is:

(1) respectively heating the used adhesive material 20, thermotropic SMP material 30, electroluminescent SMP material 40 and photoinduced SMP material 50 to a molten state in each material tank;

(2) connecting a material tank filled with a photoinduced SMP material 50 with a first feed inlet 101 through a pipeline, connecting a material tank filled with a binder material 20 with a second feed inlet 102 and a fourth feed inlet 104 through pipelines respectively, connecting a material tank filled with a thermotropic SMP material 30 with a third feed inlet 103 through a pipeline, and connecting a material tank filled with an electro-SMP material 40 with a fifth feed inlet 105 through a pipeline;

(3) after the butt joint is completed, each printing material in each material tank is synchronously extruded to the deposition bottom plate from the corresponding discharge port at the speed of 50mm/s through a pneumatic device or a mechanical device connected with each material tank, namely, the photoinduced SMP material 50 flows to the first discharge port 106 through the first cavity 116, the adhesive material 20 flows to the second discharge port 107 and the fourth discharge port 109 from the second cavity 117 and the fourth cavity 119 respectively, the thermotropic SMP material 30 flows to the third discharge port 108 from the third cavity 118, the electro-type SMP material 40 flows to the fifth discharge port 110 from the fifth flow channel 115, and the photoinduced SMP material 50, the adhesive material 20, the thermotropic SMP material 30, the adhesive material 20 and the electro-type SMP material 40 are laminated and molded until the SMP sample is finally molded.

In this embodiment, the photo SMP material 50 used is a liquid crystal elastomer; the binder material 20 is an epoxy resin; the thermotropic SMP material 30 is cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE); the electro-SMP material 40 is a carbon black filled PLA (polylactic acid) composite.

The shape memory polymer composite material printed and formed by the annular sandwich multi-material 4D printing nozzle is shown in fig. 5, fig. 6 is a radial end view of the shape memory polymer composite material, and fig. 7 is an axial cross-sectional view of the shape memory polymer composite material.

In this document, the terms front, back, upper and lower are used to define the components in the drawings and the positions of the components relative to each other, and are used for clarity and convenience of the technical solution. It is to be understood that the use of the directional terms should not be taken to limit the scope of the claims.

The features of the embodiments and embodiments described herein above may be combined with each other without conflict.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.