Design, construction, and verification of a printhead - Tolerant towards bubbles - Dosing liquid wax using rapid prototyping techniques

Thomas Ottnad, Franz Irlinger, Tim C. Lueth

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Abstract

Since invention of ink-jet printing many new techniques and solutions to dose liquid media as drops have been developed. Today there are numerous drop on demand printheads for different fluids and applications. However characteristics of the fluid and working conditions have significant influence on the drop on demand printhead itself. Adapting a printhead to using other fluids often means extensive development work or even a completely new design. Thus, checking whether a certain principle of printing will work is decisive. In this paper design and construction of a piezo-element bender actuator based printhead using rapid prototyping techniques is presented. The result is a drop on demand printhead dosing liquid wax manufactured in less than a day.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2011
Pages215-219
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2011 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 3 Jul 20117 Jul 2011

Publication series

NameIEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2011
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period3/07/117/07/11

Keywords

  • 3D printer for wax
  • Formation of drops
  • Piezo-element bender actuator
  • Rapid Prototyping

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