Carbon fiber, as a high-performance material, has excellent tensile strength, high modulus, low density, and strong fatigue resistance. How to manufacture lightweight and high-strength complex structural components using high-performance carbon fiber materials through 3D printing technology has been a hot research topic both domestically and internationally in recent years.

Recently, the team of Jinggong Technology Carbon Fiber Research Institute successfully developed a robot composite 3D printing flexible manufacturing equipment using carbon fiber short cut fiber reinforcement materials. By combining robot flexible motion control with 3D printing technology, it is possible to break through the limitations of traditional 3D printing equipment space and achieveLarge and complex geometric shapes and structuresThe manufacturing of composite components to meet the needs of various specific application scenarios.

Intelligent system:The company has independently developed a 3D printing slicing software based on carbon fiber composite materials, which supports multiple 3D model file formats. It can perform editing operations, slicing processing, part layout, and trajectory code output on imported models in various modes, making it better suited for printing equipment and meeting diverse printing needs;

3D printing path simulation interface for carbon fiber composite materials

High precision control:Adopting advanced high-precision motion control algorithms to accurately drive the coordinated motion of each axis of the robot, ensuring stable and precise operation of the 3D printing nozzle in complex spatial trajectories;

Real time feedback:The intelligent electronic control unit has real-time monitoring and feedback functions, which can monitor and dynamically adjust various parameters during the printing process, such as temperature, speed, extrusion volume, etc., effectively ensuring the consistency and stability of composite printing;

Integrated design:The electronic control system adopts a highly integrated and modular design, which can reduce the occurrence rate of failures while greatly improving the maintainability and scalability of the system, providing solid and reliable support for the efficient and flexible production of composite 3D printing equipment.

Robot composite 3D printing

Compared to existing major composite manufacturing technologies such as hot press molding, transfer molding (RTM), winding molding, and automatic placement, the main advantage of robotic composite 3D printing technology is its ability toRealize complex structural composite componentsofRapid gradient integrated manufacturing, can be widely applied toLow altitude economy, aerospace, automobile manufacturing, mold manufacturing, cultural creativity, and industrial prototypeIn other fields.

Composite 3D printing finished products

The successful development of Jinggong Technology's robot composite 3D printing flexible manufacturing equipment demonstrates and verifies the possibility of transforming lightweight and high-strength carbon fiber materials into complex structural components through 3D printing technology. This will help carbon fiber new materials to be applied more economically, conveniently, and widely in many fields, and further promote the rapid development of this new material and technology.