US Patent Issued to MIMAKI ENGINEERING on March 25 for "Shaping apparatus and shaping method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,766, issued on March 25, was assigned to MIMAKI ENGINEERING Co. Ltd. (Nagano, Japan).

"Shaping apparatus and shaping method" was invented by Masayuki Furuse (Nagano, Japan) and Shunta Hanaoka (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shaping apparatus includes an inkjet head forming one shaped layer by performing multiple main scans of ejecting an ink droplet of a curable ink that cures according to light of a predetermined wavelength toward a shaping table while reciprocating in a main scanning direction; a light source provided at least at one position on a front side in a forward or return direction in the main scan with re...