The present disclosure relates generally to a print head and, more particularly, to a print head for use in an additively manufacturing composite tubes.
3D-printing of composite tubes into free space is a known technology. For example, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2017/0297250 of Tyler filed on Apr. 15, 2016 (“the '250 publication”) discloses a print head having a rotating fiber guide. Matrix-coated fibers pass through the rotating fiber guide, and the rotation of the fiber guide functions to weave the matrix-coated fibers into a tube. The tube of woven material is then directed radially outward to pass over a diverter, which establishes an inner diameter of the tube. A UV light located at an end of the diverter and inside of the tube instantly cures and hardens the matrix at discharge. As the composite tube is discharged from the print head and cured, the print head is moved by an associated support (e.g., a robot arm or gantry) to vary a trajectory of the tube in free space.
Although the print head and method of the '250 publication disclose a way to fabricate a 3-dimensional composite tube in free space, the print head may be complex and expensive. The disclosed print head and method are directed at addressing this and other issues of the prior art.
In one aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a print head for an additive manufacturing system. The print head may include a housing configured to receive a prefabricated woven sleeve, and a fiber guide disposed at least partially inside the housing and configured for insertion into the prefabricated woven sleeve. The print head may also include a diverter connected to an end of the fiber guide inside of a downstream mouth of the housing, and at least one cure enhancer located at the mouth of the housing.
In another aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a method of additively manufacturing a composite tube. The method may include loading a finite length of a prefabricated woven sleeve into a print head, and wetting the prefabricated woven sleeve with a liquid matrix. The method may also include discharging the prefabricated woven sleeve from the print head, and directing a cure energy onto the prefabricated woven sleeve to cure the liquid matrix during discharging from the print head.
In yet another aspect, the present disclosure is directed to another method of additively manufacturing a composite tube. This method may include loading a finite length of a prefabricated woven sleeve into a print head, and wetting the prefabricated woven sleeve with a UV curable liquid matrix while the prefabricated woven sleeve is inside of the print head. The method may also include discharging the prefabricated woven sleeve from the print head, and directing UV light onto the prefabricated woven sleeve to cure the UV curable liquid matrix on the prefabricated woven sleeve during discharging from the print head. The method may additionally include moving the print head during discharging such that the composite tube has a three-dimensional trajectory.
Head 16 may be configured to receive or otherwise contain a matrix. The matrix may include any type of material (e.g., a liquid resin, such as a zero-volatile organic compound resin; a powdered metal; etc.) that is curable. Exemplary matrixes include thermosets, single- or multi-part epoxy resins, polyester resins, cationic epoxies, acrylated epoxies, urethanes, esters, thermoplastics, photopolymers, polyepoxides, thiols, alkenes, thiol-enes, reversible resins (e.g., Triazolinedione, a covalent-adaptable network, a spatioselective reversible resin, etc.) and more. In one embodiment, the matrix inside head 16 may be pressurized, for example by an external device (e.g., an extruder or another type of pump—not shown) that is fluidly connected to head 16 via a corresponding conduit (not shown) and/or dispenser (e.g., jet, valve, etc.). In another embodiment, however, the matrix pressure may be generated completely inside of head 16 by a similar type of device. In yet other embodiments, the matrix may be gravity-fed through and/or mixed within head 16. In some instances, the matrix inside head 16 may need to be kept cool and/or dark to inhibit premature curing; while in other instances, the matrix may need to be kept warm for the same reason. In either situation, head 16 may be specially configured (e.g., insulated, chilled, and/or warmed) to provide for these needs.
The matrix may be used to coat, encase, saturate, and/or otherwise at least partially surround any number of continuous reinforcements that make up at least a portion of tube 12. In the disclosed embodiment, the continuous reinforcements are pre-woven (i.e., woven prior to being loaded into head 16) into a tubular sleeve. The tubular sleeve may be available in many different configurations, each configuration having a different number, size, type, and/or weave pattern of reinforcements. The reinforcements may include, for example, carbon fibers, vegetable fibers, wood fibers, mineral fibers, glass fibers, metallic wires, optical tubes, etc. It should be noted that the term “reinforcement” is meant to encompass both structural and non-structural types of continuous materials that can be at least partially encased in the matrix discharging from head 16.
A finite length of the tubular sleeve may be periodically loaded into and stored within head 16. It is contemplated that the tubular sleeve may be wetted with the matrix before, during, and/or after storage within and discharge from head 16, as desired. In one example, the sleeve is manually and/or automatically wetted with liquid matrix prior to being loaded into head 16. In another example, the matrix coating the reinforcements of the sleeve is at least partially dried prior to loading. In yet another embodiment, the sleeve is wetted (or further wetted) with the matrix after the sleeve is loaded into head 16. In a final example, the sleeve is wetted (or further wetted) as the sleeve discharges from head 16.
The sleeve may be discharged from head 16 via pultrusion. For example, the reinforcements making up the sleeve may be pulled from head 16, such that a tensile stress is created in the reinforcements during discharge. In this mode of operation, the matrix wetting the sleeve (if pre-wetting is utilized) may cling to the reinforcements and thereby also be pulled from head 16 along with the reinforcement. Alternatively, the matrix may be discharged from head 16 under pressure, along with the pulled reinforcement. The resulting tension in the reinforcements may increase a strength of tube 12, while also allowing for a greater length of unsupported sleeve to have a straighter trajectory (i.e., the tension may act against the force of gravity to provide free-standing support for tube 12).
The sleeve may be pulled from head 16 as a result of movement away from an anchor point 18. In the disclosed embodiment, anchor point 18 is a permanent fitting to which tube 12 should be joined. In another embodiment, anchor point 18 is only a temporary feature configured to provide a starting point for the fabrication of tube 12. At a start of structure-formation, a length of matrix-impregnated sleeve may be pulled from head 16, deposited onto a stationary anchor point 18, and cured, such that the discharged material adheres to anchor point 18. Thereafter, head 16 may be moved away from anchor point 18, and the relative movement may cause additional sleeve to be pulled from head 16. It should be noted that the movement of the sleeve through head 16 could be assisted (e.g., via internal feed mechanisms), if desired. However, the discharge rate of the sleeve from head 16 may primarily be the result of relative movement between head 16 and anchor point 18, such that tension is created within the reinforcement.
One or more cure enhancers (e.g., one or more light sources, ultrasonic emitters, lasers, heaters, catalyst dispensers, electron beam generators, microwave generators, etc.) 20 may be mounted at a distal end of head 16 and configured to enhance a cure rate and/or quality of the matrix as it is being discharged. Cure enhancer 20 may be controlled to selectively expose internal and/or external surfaces of tube 12 to energy (e.g., light energy, electromagnetic radiation, vibrations, heat, a chemical catalyst or hardener, etc.) during the formation of tube 12. The energy may increase a rate of chemical reaction occurring within the matrix, sinter the material, harden the material, or otherwise cause the material to cure as it discharges from head 16.
A controller 22 may be provided and communicatively coupled with support 14, head 16, and any number and type of cure enhancers 20. Controller 22 may embody a single processor or multiple processors that include a means for controlling an operation of system 10. Controller 22 may include one or more general- or special-purpose processors or microprocessors. Controller 22 may further include or be associated with a memory for storing data such as, for example, design limits, performance characteristics, operational instructions, matrix characteristics, reinforcement characteristics, characteristics of tube 12, and corresponding parameters of each component of system 10. Various other known circuits may be associated with controller 22, including power supply circuitry, signal-conditioning circuitry, solenoid/motor driver circuitry, communication circuitry, and other appropriate circuitry. Moreover, controller 22 may be capable of communicating with other components of system 10 via wired and/or wireless transmission.
One or more maps may be stored in the memory of controller 22 and used during fabrication of tube 12. Each of these maps may include a collection of data in the form of models, lookup tables, graphs, and/or equations. In the disclosed embodiment, the maps are used by controller 22 to determine desired characteristics of cure enhancers 20, the associated matrix, and/or the associated reinforcements at different locations within tube 12. The characteristics may include, among others, a type, quantity, shape, size, and/or configuration of reinforcement and/or matrix to be discharged at a particular location within tube 12, and/or an amount, intensity, shape, and/or location of desired curing. Controller 22 may then correlate operation of support 14 (e.g., the location and/or orientation of head 16) and/or the discharge of material from head 16 (a type of material, desired performance of the material, cross-linking requirements of the material, a discharge rate, etc.) with the operation of cure enhancers 20, such that tube 12 is produced in a desired manner.
An exemplary configuration of head 16 is illustrated in
Housing 24 may be generally tubular, and have an open upstream end 34 and an opposing open downstream end 36. An inner diameter of housing 24 may be larger than an outer diameter of fiber guide 26 (e.g., at least 25% larger), and an internal axial length of housing 24 may be about the same as a combined length of fiber guide 26 and diverter 28. The inner diameter and axial length of housing 24 may be selected to accommodate a maximum accordioned diameter and length of the reinforcement sleeve to be stored therein around fiber guide 26. An endcap 38 may be located at upstream end 34, in some embodiments, to close off housing 24 and/or to provide support for an upstream end of fiber guide 26. In some embodiments, endcap 38 is integral with fiber guide 26. In other embodiments, endcap 38 is removably connected to fiber guide 26. A seal (e.g., an o-ring) 40 may be disposed between housing 24 and endcap 38 at upstream end 34 and/or around fiber guide 26 to inhibit liquid matrix from leaking out of housing 24.
Fiber guide 26 may embody a solid or hollow rod that is connected (e.g., integrally or removably) to diverter 28 at a downstream end. Fiber guide 26 may generally remain stationary relative to housing 24 and diverter 28, and be used primarily to hold the reinforcement sleeve during loading of head 16. It is contemplated, however, that fiber guide 26 could be vibrated, rotated, and/or axially translated during loading and/or during fabrication of tube 12.
Diverter 28 may be generally bell-shaped and have a domed or conical end located away from mouth 32. The domed or conical end may connect to fiber guide 26, have a smaller diameter than mouth 32, and be configured to slide easily into a downstream end of the reinforcement sleeve. Mouth 32 may flare radially outward from the domed end, and have an outer diameter larger than an outer diameter of fiber guide 26 and smaller than the inner diameter of housing 24. Diverter 28, due to its outwardly flaring contour, may function to divert the reinforcements of the sleeve radially outward. In this manner, a resulting internal diameter of tube 12 may be dictated by the outer diameter of diverter 28. In addition, diverter 28 may divert the fibers against the inner diameter of housing 24, thereby sandwiching the fibers within gap 30. Accordingly, the diverting function of diverter 28, in addition to establishing the internal diameter of tube 12, may also dictate the wall thickness of tube 12.
Cure enhancers 20 may be configured to continuously expose internal and/or external surfaces of tube 12 to cure energy (e.g., UV light, sound waves, electromagnetic radiation, etc.) during the formation of tube 12. The cure energy may increase a rate of chemical reaction occurring within the matrix material discharging through gap 30, thereby helping to decrease a time required for the matrix material to cure. In the disclosed embodiment, inner cure enhancer 20a is mounted within mouth 32 of diverter 28 in general alignment with an axis of fiber guide 26, and oriented to direct the cure energy axially and/or radially away from diverter 28. In this same embodiment, multiple cure enhancers 20b are equally distributed in a collar 40 located around mouth 32. In this orientation, cure enhancers 20b may direct cure energy radially inward toward the outer surface of tube 12. The amount of cure energy from cure enhancers 20 may be sufficient to cure the matrix material before tube 12 axially grows more than a predetermined length away from mouth 32. In one embodiment, tube 12 is completely cured before the axial growth length becomes equal to an external diameter of tube 12.
The disclosed print head may be used to continuously manufacture a composite tube having a three-dimensional trajectory, in a simple, efficient, and inexpensive manner. The disclosed print head may be simple, efficient, and inexpensive due, at least in part, to the ability to use finite lengths of prefabricated reinforcement sleeve. This simplicity may be increased even more when the prefabricated reinforcement sleeve is pre-impregnated (e.g., saturated with matrix and at least partially dried) prior to entering the print head. The composite tube may have any desired cross-sectional size, shape, length, density, and/or strength. The composite tube may include any number of different reinforcements of the same or different types, diameters, shapes, configurations, and consists, each coated with a common or unique matrix. Operation of system 10 will now be described in detail.
At a start of a manufacturing event, information regarding a desired tube 12 may be loaded into system 10 (e.g., into controller 22 that is responsible for regulating operations of support 14 and/or head 16). This information may include, among other things, a size (e.g., diameter, wall thickness, length, etc.), a contour (e.g., a trajectory), surface features (e.g., length, thickness, etc.) and finishes, connection geometry (e.g., locations and sizes of couplings, tees, splices, etc.), location-specific matrix stipulations, location-specific reinforcement stipulations, etc. It should be noted that this information may alternatively or additionally be loaded into system 10 at different times and/or continuously during the manufacturing event, if desired. Based on the component information, one or more different reinforcements (e.g., prefabricated sleeves) and/or matrixes may be selectively installed and/or continuously supplied into system 10.
Installation of the reinforcement sleeve may be performed in different ways. In one embodiment, print head 16 may first be disconnected from support 14 (referring to
As described above, the reinforcement sleeve may be wetted with matrix prior to the loading process, or after. For example, after loading of the reinforcement sleeve into fiber guide 26 is complete, the subassembly disclosed above may be reassembled to housing 24. Housing 24 may thereafter be filled with liquid matrix and/or an associated supply source (e.g., a jet) may be activated to advance matrix onto the reinforcement sleeve while the sleeve is inside of housing 24 and/or discharging from housing 24.
Head 16 may then be moved by support 14 under the regulation of controller 22 to cause matrix-coated reinforcements to be placed against or on a corresponding stationary anchor point 18 (referring to
The component information may then be used to control operation of system 10. For example, the reinforcements may be pulled from head 16 (along with the matrix) over diverter 28, while support 14 selectively moves head 16 in a desired manner during curing, such that an axis of the resulting tube 12 follows a desired trajectory (e.g., a free-space, unsupported, 3-D trajectory). Diverter 28 may function to establish an internal diameter of the resulting tube, as well as a wall-thickness in some instances. In addition, diverter 28 may help to fully saturate the sleeve with the matrix and/or to inhibit excessive matrix from being pulled out of housing 24 along with the sleeve. Once the accordioned sleeve is pulled completely from housing 24, another length of sleeve may be loaded into housing 24. It is contemplated that printing of tube 12 may be complete prior to usage of the full length of loaded sleeve. In this situation, once tube 12 has grown to a desired length, tube 12 may be disconnected (e.g., severed) from head 16 in any desired manner Printing of a new tube may then be started in the same manner described above.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the disclosed print head and method. Other embodiments will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosed print head and method. For example, although the disclosed embodiment utilizes a robot arm and/or gantry to move the disclosed head during tube discharging, it is contemplated that the disclosed head could be held and/or moved by hand during discharging. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope being indicated by the following claims and their equivalents.
This application is based on and claims the benefit of priority from U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/526,448 that was filed on Jun. 29, 2017, the contents of which are expressly incorporated herein by reference.
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