SBIR Phase I: High Speed Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Using Electron Beams

SBIR 第一阶段：使用电子束进行高速快速原型设计和制造

• 批准号: 0060046
• 负责人: Richard Adler
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: North Star Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-01-01 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0060046&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Speed; Rapid; Prototyping

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will combine electron beam curing and dynamic beam control technology to create equipment for electron beam rapid prototyping/manufacturing. The unique advantage of this technique is that it offers 'ultra-high' speeds in the range of 5 - 20 cc/second. If successful, the resulting technology can produce one liter sized, large, complex plastic parts in times of order 1 minute. This increase in speed will dramatically reduce the cost of rapid prototyping so that this technique can be used in small and medium production run manufacturing. In addition to increasing speed, electron beam curing can use a much wider range of materials than optical curing because the electrons stimulate polymerization directly, without requiring photoinitiators as part of the cured compound . Electron beams can also be used to integrate metals and carbon fibers into the rapid prototyped part. In Phase I, crude parts will be produced using this technique, and develop plans for a complete Phase II system that will focus on the large variety of available electron beam curable plastics.Applications for the technology include production of parts for small lot production such as electronic enclosures, custom mechanical equipment or medical equipment.

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目将结合电子束固化和动态束流控制技术，创建用于电子束快速成型/制造的设备。这项技术的独特优势是它可以提供5-20毫升/秒的超高速。如果成功，所产生的技术可以在1分钟的订单时间内生产出1升大小的复杂塑料部件。这种速度的提高将极大地降低快速成型的成本，以便该技术可以用于中小型生产运行的制造。除了提高速度，电子束固化可以使用比光学固化更广泛的材料，因为电子直接刺激聚合，而不需要光引发剂作为固化化合物的一部分。电子束还可以用来将金属和碳纤维集成到快速成型零件中。在第一阶段，将使用这项技术生产毛坯零件，并制定计划，建立一个完整的第二阶段系统，重点放在各种可用的电子束固化塑料上。该技术的应用包括生产小批量生产的零件，如电子外壳、定制机械设备或医疗设备。