TY - GEN
T1 - Development of in-Mold Assembly process for realizing mesoscale revolute joints
AU - Ananthanarayanan, Arvind
AU - Gupta, Satyandra K.
AU - Bruck, Hugh A.
AU - Yu, Zuyuan
AU - Rajurkar, Kamlakar P.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In-Mold Assembly process at the mesoscale presents several manufacturing challenges. Results reported in this paper demonstrate the technical feasibility of creating rigid body mesoscale revolute joints using In-Mold Assembly process. The following new results are reported in this paper. First, we describe a mold design with varying cavity shape to perform In-Mold Assembly. This mold design uses an accurate mold piece positioning method to avoid damage to delicate mesoscale parts during the cavity change step. Second, we describe a mold insert fabrication process for making mold inserts with the desired surface characteristics for mesoscale molding. Finally, we describe methods to limit the adhesion at the interfaces and hence create articulated revolute joint. Using the advances reported In this paper we have successfully molded a mesoscale revolute joint. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of In-Mold Assembly process using a varying cavity shape mold to create a mesoscale revolute joint.
AB - In-Mold Assembly process at the mesoscale presents several manufacturing challenges. Results reported in this paper demonstrate the technical feasibility of creating rigid body mesoscale revolute joints using In-Mold Assembly process. The following new results are reported in this paper. First, we describe a mold design with varying cavity shape to perform In-Mold Assembly. This mold design uses an accurate mold piece positioning method to avoid damage to delicate mesoscale parts during the cavity change step. Second, we describe a mold insert fabrication process for making mold inserts with the desired surface characteristics for mesoscale molding. Finally, we describe methods to limit the adhesion at the interfaces and hence create articulated revolute joint. Using the advances reported In this paper we have successfully molded a mesoscale revolute joint. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of In-Mold Assembly process using a varying cavity shape mold to create a mesoscale revolute joint.
KW - In-Mold Assembly
KW - Injection molding
KW - Meso molding
KW - Micro electro discharge machining
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34547992907
SN - 0872638529
SN - 9780872638525
T3 - Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME
SP - 303
EP - 310
BT - Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME 2007 - Papers Presented at NAMRC 35
T2 - 35th North American Manufacturing Research Conference, NAMRC 35
Y2 - 22 May 2007 through 25 May 2007
ER -