METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OPTICAL COMPONENT BY 3D PRINTING, AN OPTICAL COMPONENT AND A LIGHTING DEVICE

• Main Authors: HIKMET, Rifat, Ata, Mustafa, VAN HAL, Paulus, Albertus, LIEDENBAUM, Coen, Theodorus, Hubertus, Fransiscus, BOONEKAMP, Erik, Paul, GOMMANS, Hendrikus, Hubertus, Petrus
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 11.09.2019
• Subjects: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OFTHREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVEAGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING,STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCESIN A PLASTIC STATE; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

An illumination device includes at least one light source and at least one optical component formed by a stack of at least two biconvex cylinder lenses, each lens having an optical axis perpendicular to a stacking direction of the optical component. The optical component is manufactured using a 3D printing process using fused deposition modeling.