On-demand method of making PCB pallets using additive manufacturing
AssigneeJabil Inc.
InventorsLuke Rodgers, Erik Gjovik
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Abstract
A method of making a printed circuit board pallet is provided. The method of making the pallet illustratively includes the steps of: providing a base in a form of a polymer sheet stock; applying a fluid onto the base at selective locations where the pallet will be built-up to a three-dimensional form; depositing a polymer powder onto the base at the selective locations applied with the fluid; removing any excess amounts of the polymer powder not adhered to the fluid; and heating the pallet to fuse the polymer powder together and to the base.
Claims11
A method of making a printed circuit board (PCB) pallet, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a base in a form of an inorganic sheet stock;
- providing an extant portion of first pallet on the inorganic sheet stock;
- applying a fluid onto the base solely at selective locations where the PCB pallet will, in combination with the extant portion, be built-up to a three-dimensional form the PCB pallet;
- depositing a polymer powder on the base at the selective locations applied with the fluid;
- removing any excess amounts of the polymer powder not adhered to the fluid;
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- heating to fuse the polymer powder together, to the extant portion, and the base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.