US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Feb. 3 for "Three-dimensional shaping device and data generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,671, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Three-dimensional shaping device and data generation device" was invented by Manabu Watanabe (Shiojiri, Japan) and Makoto Omura (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional shaping device includes a position changing unit configured to change relative positions of a first head having a first nozzle and a stage and relative positions of a second head having a second nozzle and the stage, a cleaning part configured to clean the second nozzle, and a control unit. The control unit executes first deposition processing of depositing a layer of the fir...