US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Dec. 2 for "Three-dimensional shaping device and three-dimensional shaped object manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,616, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Three-dimensional shaping device and three-dimensional shaped object manufacturing method" was invented by Masaaki Ogihara (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional shaping device includes: a nozzle configured to discharge a shaping material from a nozzle opening toward a stage; a position changing unit configured to change a relative position between the nozzle and the stage; a discharge amount adjusting unit configured to adjust a discharge amount by changing an opening area of the flow path; a pressure adjusting unit including a branch flo...