Lose its value for the underlying technologies. Slowly but surely, the moniker of rapid prototyping began to The 3D printing world, Stratasys, with his wife Lisa Crump. He later co-founded one of the juggernauts of In 1989, Steven Scott Crump, after a frustrating attempt toĬraft a toy frog for his daughter made from a hot glue gun, invented fusedĭeposition modelling (FDM). To finally be seen as a means of industrial manufacturing. This breakthrough allowed for 3D printing Additive Manufacturing makers EOS deposited the name Direct Metal Laser Melting, was developed at the Fraunhofer Institute in Auchen Germany SLS would still take a long time to become commercially available.Ī similar technology, but one that worked with metal powders, Selective Inĭoing so, he acquired the help of Professor Joe Beaman at UT-Austin till heĪpplied for a patent on SLS technology in 1994. Was only able to produce small pieces of plastics…still, this was enough forĭeckard to continue refining his design throughout his Masters and Ph.D. Powder, Deckard was able to demonstrate what he called SLS, Selective Laser Sintering, asĪ viable method of rapid prototyping. (Austin) undergraduate, was busy developing an entirely different methodīy using lasers to selectively bond together granules of Just as Charles Hull’s SLA-1 was hitting the market in 1988, Carl Inventions of different types of 3D printing technologies Years, or at most, a decade and a half ago. They first heard about 3D printing, surely the answer would not be more than five If we were to ask the average consumer when Proliferation of affordable 3D printers has ways to go before the technologyĬould be considered mainstream. Within the reach of the average consumer. 3D Systems SLA_1ģD printing technology has only just begun to truly come Hull founded his now globally recognized company in the same year and produced the first commercially available stereolithography-based 3D printer, the SLA-1, in 1988. Thankfully, for theįuture of 3D printing, Chuck’s patent was granted in 1986. Provided him with a small lab to test and work on his idea. The tabletop and furniture manufacturer that he worked for Manufactured by curing resin via the UV lamps already used to cure furniture Of his frustration at the lead times that were common back then for the Hull’s idea for the resin-curing technique was developed out Patent for “Stereolithography” in 1984, just three weeks after the French trio. World’s first rapid prototyping 3D printerĬharles “Chuck” Hull, globally recognized now as the pioneeringįounder of 3D printing, forming the company, 3D Systems Inc.
That the third time was indeed the charm. Their patent filing too was destined for inconsequential doom, as both CILAS and CGE abandoned the project along with the patent filing. CNRS reluctantly concluded that the technology greatly lacks viable areas of application. The trio presented the design to the CNRS in 1984, only to have it turned down. Olivier de Witte at CILAS, and Alain le Méhauté at Compagnie Générale d’Electricité (CGE, now Alcatel-Alsthom), collectively worked on a stereolithography-based 3D printer design. Three French scientists: Jean-Claude André at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Then-novel technology by no means diminished. Patent office for failure to file the patent within the one-year deadline.ĭespite Doctor Kodama’s failure to secure a patent, the intrigue in this Way of either a mask pattern or through the use of a scanning fiberĪlas, however, the patent application was rejected by the A term that carried on today to mean the creation of the initialĭesign of a product or object intended for proof of concept and pre-productionīoth approaches utilized the photo-hardening property ofĬertain thermosetting plastics when selectively exposed to ultraviolet light by Research Institute applied for the patent of two methods of 3D printing objects. Doctor Hideo Kodama of Nagoya Municipal Industrial Principle technology of a resin-curing 3D printer was applied for with the US
It was not until 1981 that the first patent to describe the Origins of 3D printing – why it was invented
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