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公开(公告)号:US11185396B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-30
申请号:US16774403
申请日:2020-01-28
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou , Guy Nesher , Ziv Gilan
IPC: A61C8/00 , A61C13/00 , A61C5/00 , A61C19/00 , C08F2/46 , C08F2/50 , C08G61/04 , B29C64/268 , B29C64/205 , A61C13/08 , B33Y70/00 , B33Y80/00
Abstract: A three-dimensional dental device is fabricated in a layer-by-layer approach using a support material. The support material is deposited in a liquid form on a surface, hardened by cooling or ultraviolet (UV) curing, and selectively ablated to create an area within which the desired structure of the dental device will be formed. Active dental material is deposited into this area, and the layer-by-layer process repeated until the three-dimensional dental device has been completed. Thereafter, any remaining support material is removed by water or other solvent.
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公开(公告)号:US11097465B2
公开(公告)日:2021-08-24
申请号:US16383891
申请日:2019-04-15
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou , Ziv Gilan
IPC: B41J2/14 , B29C64/268 , B29C64/205 , B29C64/112 , B41M5/00 , B33Y10/00 , B05D1/02 , B05D3/06
Abstract: Laser jetting of droplets of a viscous material, such as an ink, is performed by coating a layer of ink on a mesh-like transport screen, with the ink being retained within spaces of the mesh-like transport screen. The ink-coated mesh-like transport screen is conveyed to a working area and a laser beam is used to heat the ink within the spaces of the mesh-like transport screen, thereby causing ink droplets to be jetted from the spaces of the mesh-like transport screen. Structures are formed on a receiving substrate arranged near the working area by jetting the ink droplets, either in an aggregation or sequentially, across a gap from the mesh-like transport screen to the receiving substrate and displacing the mesh-like transport screen and the laser beam relative to one another at times between the jetting of the droplets, or by directly printing ink droplets onto the receiving substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20210060849A1
公开(公告)日:2021-03-04
申请号:US16946638
申请日:2020-06-30
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou
Abstract: A conductive coil fabricated by an additive manufacturing process. The coil is printed as a plurality of partially complete rounds, each printed as at least a portion of a respective layer of material. Pillars interconnecting successive ones of the partially complete rounds in different ones of the respective layers of material are also printed and may be staggered across a circumference of the partially complete rounds. Scaffolding elements such as a supporting material matrix and/or a core internal to the partially complete rounds of the coil may be printed as part of each respective layer of material concurrently with printing the plurality of partially complete rounds.
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公开(公告)号:US20200180190A1
公开(公告)日:2020-06-11
申请号:US16703423
申请日:2019-12-04
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou , Ziv Gilan , Daniel Liptz , Yuval Shai
Abstract: Systems and methods that prevent oxygen inhibition of a light-initiated polymerization reaction by forcing the oxygen away from the reaction surfaces. In some embodiments, oxygen is purged by bringing a planarizing surface (e.g., a thin transparent film and/or a transparent planar surface) into contact with a layer of UV curable material disposed on a workpiece and then moving the planarizing surface away from the workpiece one the UV material is cured.
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公开(公告)号:US10603684B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-31
申请号:US16292599
申请日:2019-03-05
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou , Ziv Gilan
Abstract: Systems and methods for dispensing liquid materials as may be used in applications for coating flexible films and the like. Such a film may be coated by dispensing a rheological material onto its surface while drawing the film through a gap between a pair of rollers. The gap defines the thickness of a layer of the material applied to the film and is maintained at a desired width by microwires positioned through the gap. Another film across the gap from that to which the rheological material is applied aids in the coating of the layer and a contact area of the second film may be adjusted relative to the gap, e.g., when changing materials or when the coating film becomes abraded or deformed.
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公开(公告)号:US20200023582A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-23
申请号:US16509121
申请日:2019-07-11
Applicant: IO Tech Group, Ltd.
Inventor: Ziv Gilan , Daniel Liptz , Michael Zenou
IPC: B29C64/245 , B29C64/268 , B29C64/379
Abstract: A leveling system for a 3D printing system for laser dispensing includes inner and outer frames, each supported at its corners by respective actuators of first and second sets of actuators. The outer frame supports an optical plane within which material to be dispensed by laser irradiation is disposed. The inner frame supports a receiving medium plane within which a substrate on which said material to be dispensed by laser irradiation is disposed. Each actuator operates independently to displace a respective frame corner in the vertical direction. The inner and outer frames each is attached at their respective corners to a respective actuator by a rod, thus allowing the inner and outer frames to freely rotate with respect to one another. An additional frame may support sensors for monitoring the 3D printing system.
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公开(公告)号:US12238862B2
公开(公告)日:2025-02-25
申请号:US18678263
申请日:2024-05-30
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou , Guy Nesher
Abstract: Systems and methods for printing a printed circuit board (PCB) from substrate to full integration utilize a laser-assisted deposition (LAD) system to print a flowable material on top of a substrate by laser jetting to create a PCB structure to be used as an electronic device. One such system for PCB printing includes a jet printing unit, an imaging unit, curing units, and a drilling unit to print metals and other materials (epoxies, solder masks, etc.) directly on a PCB substrate such as a glass-reinforced epoxy laminate material (e.g., FR4) or others. The jet printing unit can also be used for sintering and/or ablation of materials. Printed materials are cured by heating or by infrared (IR) or ultraviolet (UV) radiation. PCBs produced according to the present systems and methods may be single-sided or double-sided.
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公开(公告)号:US12179382B2
公开(公告)日:2024-12-31
申请号:US18306430
申请日:2023-04-25
Applicant: Ivoclar Vivadent AG , IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Lorenz Josef Bonderer , Jürgen Rudolf Laubersheimer , Wolfgang Josef Wachter , Michael Zenou
IPC: B28B1/00 , B28B11/24 , B29C64/165 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y40/00 , B33Y70/00 , C08K5/3465 , C08L71/02 , C08L91/06 , B29K509/02
Abstract: A material for use as support material for energy-pulse-induced transfer printing, which contains (a) at least one energy transformation component, (b) at least one volume expansion component and (c) at least one binder and which has a viscosity at 25° C. of from 0.2 Pas to 1000 Pas and a surface tension at 25° C. of from 20 to 150 mN/m. The invention furthermore relates to a process for producing three-dimensional objects using the support material.
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公开(公告)号:US12059700B2
公开(公告)日:2024-08-13
申请号:US17933299
申请日:2022-09-19
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou , Ziv Gilan
IPC: B05C11/02
CPC classification number: B05C11/028
Abstract: Systems and methods for coating a thin film with a viscous material, such as a liquid, a paste, or an adhesive, at a desired thickness. In such a system, two films move adjacent to one another, optionally in opposite directions, atop two rollers separated by a known gap that defines a coating thickness, with the material being transferred from one film to the other. The rollers may be maintained in their relative positions by springs and/or linear actuators and positioned using linear encoders. In alternative arrangements, the material to be coated could be low viscosity material such as a polymeric solution. Air knives may be provided near the gap to create an air flow that aids in preventing the free flow of low viscosity materials outside the bounds of the film during coating.
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公开(公告)号:US20230264416A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-24
申请号:US18309991
申请日:2023-05-01
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Ziv Gilan , Michael Zenou , Guy Nesher
IPC: B29C64/194 , B29C64/112 , B29C64/357 , B29C64/129 , B29C35/08
CPC classification number: B29C64/194 , B29C35/0805 , B29C64/112 , B29C64/129 , B29C64/357 , B33Y10/00
Abstract: Methods and apparatus for the fabrication of solid three-dimensional objects from liquid polymerizable materials at high resolution. A material is coated on a film non-digitally, excess material is removed digitally, by laser, leaving an image of a layer to be printed, and the image is then engaged with existing portions of an object being fabricated and exposed to a non-digital heat source. Since the only part of the process that is digital is the material removal, and this part is done by laser, the speed of printing and the robustness of the manufacturing process is improved significantly over conventional additive or 3D fabrication techniques.
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