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公开(公告)号:US20220256698A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-11
申请号:US17249217
申请日:2021-02-24
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:US20220055296A1
公开(公告)日:2022-02-24
申请号:US17453723
申请日:2021-11-05
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Ziv Gilan , Michael Zenou , Guy Nesher
IPC: B29C64/194 , B29C64/112 , B29C64/357 , B29C64/129 , B29C35/08
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 UV curing light 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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公开(公告)号:US20220016707A1
公开(公告)日:2022-01-20
申请号:US17296292
申请日:2019-09-23
Applicant: Ivoclar Vivadent AG , IO Tech Group Ltd
Inventor: Hendrik John , Michael Zenou , Christian Ritzberger
Abstract: A method for layer-wise additive manufacturing of a shaped body made up of slices of processed layers, including the steps: creating a layer of a slurry, the slurry including binder, a dispersing medium and a particulate filler material, solidifying the slurry layer, directing electromagnetic radiation to the solidified layer for processing it by debinding and/or sintering, and repeating the above-mentioned steps to successively build the shaped body. A laser induced forward transfer (LIFT) process utilizing a laser to direct laser beam pulses acts on a coating of slurry on a carrier to transfer droplets of slurry to a receptor surface to create the slurry layer which is then processed further by above-mentioned steps of solidifying, and debinding and/or sintering.
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公开(公告)号:US20210331196A1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-28
申请号:US17248301
申请日:2021-01-19
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou , Ziv Gilan
IPC: B05C11/02
Abstract: Systems and methods for coating of 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 alternate 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:US20210237184A1
公开(公告)日:2021-08-05
申请号:US16807489
申请日:2020-03-03
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou , Ziv Gilan , Guy Nesher
Abstract: Systems and methods in which dot-like portions of a material (e.g., a viscous material such as a solder paste) are printed or otherwise transferred onto an intermediate substrate at a first printing unit, the intermediate substrate having the dot-like portions of material printed thereon is transferred to a second printing unit, and the dot-like portions of material are transferred from the intermediate substrate to a final substrate at the second printing unit. Optionally, the first printing unit includes a coating system that creates a uniform layer of the material on a donor substrate, and the material is transferred in the individual dot-like portions from the donor substrate onto the intermediate substrate at the first printing unit. Each of the first and second printing units may employ a variety of printing or other transfer technologies. The system may also include material curing and imaging units to aid in the overall process.
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公开(公告)号:US20210121911A1
公开(公告)日:2021-04-29
申请号:US17247860
申请日:2020-12-28
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:US10562231B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-18
申请号:US16126565
申请日:2018-09-10
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou , Ziv Gilan
IPC: B22F3/00 , B23K26/402 , B29C35/08 , B29C64/106 , B29C64/393 , B29C64/40 , B29C64/118 , B29C64/112 , B29C64/165 , G05B19/4099 , B29C64/379 , B29C64/209 , B29C64/277 , B29C64/268 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00
Abstract: A system of solid free form fabrication (SFF) is disclosed. The system comprises: receiving SFF data collectively pertaining to a three-dimensional shape of the object and comprising a plurality of slice data each defining a layer of the object. The system also comprises, for each of at least a few of the layers, dispensing a building material on a receiving medium, straightening the building material, and selectively ablating the building material according to respective slice data.
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公开(公告)号:US20190322036A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-24
申请号:US16383891
申请日:2019-04-15
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou , Ziv Gilan
IPC: B29C64/112 , B29C64/205 , B29C64/268 , B33Y10/00 , B41M5/00
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:US12089328B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-10
申请号:US18499009
申请日:2023-10-31
Applicant: IO Tech Group Ltd.
Inventor: Michael Zenou , Guy Nesher
CPC classification number: H05K1/111 , H05K3/341 , H05K13/046 , H05K2201/10666
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. PCB s produced according to the present systems and methods may be single-sided or double-sided.
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公开(公告)号:US12064899B2
公开(公告)日:2024-08-20
申请号:US18306415
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
CPC classification number: B28B1/001 , B28B11/243 , B29C64/165 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y40/00 , B33Y70/00 , C08K5/3465 , C08L71/02 , C08L91/06 , B29K2509/02
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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