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Three-dimensional object and method of producing the same

US7354643B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 23, 2004
Grant dateApr 8, 2008
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Expiry dateJun 24, 2024

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/31855
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

It is intended to provide an optical three-dimensional object as will be described below which has a high impact resistance and is superior in dimensional accuracy, mechanical properties such as tensile strength, and other properties such as water resistance, moisture resistance and heat resistance, and a method of producing the same. An optical three-dimensional object includes multiple cured resin layers containing at least one cured resin layer that has a sea-island microstructure in which fine island components of a polymer differing from a cured resin constituting the sea component and have a particle diameter of 20 to 2,000 nm are dispersed in the sea component made of the cured polymer; and a method of producing this optical three-dimensional object by stereolithographic molding method with the use of a photo curable resin composition containing a homogeneous mixture of a curable resin component for forming the sea component with a component (preferably a polyalkylene ether compound) for forming the polymeric island components.

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