Development of a drop-on-demand system for multiple material dispensing

L. Li; J. H. Ng; J. Y.H. Fuh; Y. S. Wong; H. T. Loh; W. Feng; M. Saedan; J. Sun; S. T. Thoroddsen; L. Lu

doi:10.1109/ICAL.2008.4636120

Development of a drop-on-demand system for multiple material dispensing

L. Li^*, J. H. Ng, J. Y.H. Fuh, Y. S. Wong, H. T. Loh, W. Feng, M. Saedan, J. Sun, S. T. Thoroddsen, L. Lu

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In drop-on-demand (DoD) printing, each type of actuation mechanism for the dispensing nozzle has its own uniqueness and limitation in dispensing material properties. To meet the growing requirement of complex parts in industry with multiple properties of materials, this paper proposes a multinozzle drop-on-demand (DoD) inkjet printing machine that can dispense multiple material using different type of nozzles. Starting from single nozzle dispensing, a DoD machine generally consists of motion stage, dispensing unit, and visualization system. In multi-nozzle DoD machine, real-time synchronization among the multiple dispensing units is also one of the crucial factors for successful printing with a multi-nozzle machine. A microcontroller-based synchronizer has been designed to synchronize the printing process from multi-nozzle with respect to a movable position stage. This real-time control contributes to accurate micro-droplet deposition. In addition, some measures have also been proposed to improve the machine compactness and save the expense cost, such as the multiplexer, mechanical mounting and so on. Integrated with these techniques into the DoD machine, the developed multi-nozzle system can achieve accurate deposition with a wide range of functional materials using various types of dispensing print heads.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2008
Pages	61-66
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2008.4636120
State	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2008 - Qingdao, China Duration: Sep 1 2008 → Sep 3 2008

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Name	Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2008

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Other	IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2008
Country/Territory	China
City	Qingdao
Period	09/1/08 → 09/3/08

Keywords

DoD inkjet printing
Multi-nozzle machine
Multiple material dispensing
Synchronizer

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Hardware and Architecture
Control and Systems Engineering

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Li, L., Ng, J. H., Fuh, J. Y. H., Wong, Y. S., Loh, H. T., Feng, W., Saedan, M., Sun, J., Thoroddsen, S. T., & Lu, L. (2008). Development of a drop-on-demand system for multiple material dispensing. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2008 (pp. 61-66). Article 4636120 (Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2008). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2008.4636120

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Development of a drop-on-demand system for multiple material dispensing. / Li, L.; Ng, J. H.; Fuh, J. Y.H. et al.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2008. 2008. p. 61-66 4636120 (Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2008).

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