Outdoor surface marking 3D thermoplastic printer - for printing 'invisible' electronics and surface coding 'tags' for machine reading (by cars, and smartphones used by partially blind/sighted)

户外表面标记 3D 热塑性打印机 - 用于打印“隐形”电子产品和表面编码“标签”以供机器读取（由汽车和部分失明/失明人士使用的智能手机）

• 批准号: 131673
• 金额: $ 3.15万
• 依托单位: MICROPPLY LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=131673
• 关键词: Outdoor; surface; marking; 3D; thermoplastic

Surface Markings applied to asphalt give facilities owners ability to construct safety, education, and advertising in prime locations, leading to global opportunities in playgrounds, car parks, road safety markings. A $50bn industry, employing 250,000 people. Current systems typically apply as thermoplastic bonded to surface using a naked flame. This gives variable results, is unsafe, and banned in underground applications /confined spaces. This project develops the worlds 1st outdoor ground marking 3D printer system capable of printing ultrathin markings; which can be 3D print-coated/embedded with machine readable electronics (tags). Tags will be readable by 1bn cars and 0.28bn partially sighted pedestrians, enabling them to ‘see’ curb edges, road markings, etc. Key challenges are, speed of heating, material choice,effectiveness of 3D printed electronics. A demonstrator system will be built to show the system in operation.

应用于沥青的表面标记使设施所有者能够在黄金地段进行安全、教育和广告宣传，从而在游乐场、停车场和道路安全标记方面带来全球机会。一个价值 500 亿美元的产业，拥有 25 万名员工。目前的系统通常使用明火作为热塑性塑料粘合到表面。这会产生不同的结果，不安全，并且禁止在地下应用/密闭空间中使用。该项目开发了世界上第一个能够打印超薄标记的户外地面标记3D打印机系统；可以通过 3D 打印涂覆/嵌入机器可读电子设备（标签）。标签将可供 10 亿辆汽车和 2.8 亿弱视行人读取，使他们能够“看到”路缘边缘、道路标记等。主要挑战是加热速度、材料选择和 3D 打印电子产品的有效性。将建立一个演示系统来展示系统的运行情况。