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US 2022/0088926 A1Published application
Selective Resistive Sintering - A New Additive Manufacturing Method
AssigneeBoard of Trustees of the University of Arkansas
InventorsWenchao Zhou, Austin Van Horn, Nicholas Holt, Lucas Galvan Marques
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Abstract
A system and method for selective heating and/or sintering of a material including first and second substrates, an array of one or more resistive heating elements arranged on a planar surface of a substrate and material to be heated located on the other substrate.
Claims4
A printhead for selective heating of a material comprising:
- a substrate;
- an array of one or more resistive heating elements arranged on a planar surface of said substrate;
- each heating element in electrical communication with a pair of interconnects;
- and
- said interconnects contact said heating elements and then extend away from said planar surface.
2 more elements
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.