Soft Tooling-Friendly Inductive Mold Heating—A Novel Concept

In order to economize injection molded prototypes, additive manufacturing of, e.g., curable plastics based tools, can be employed, which is known as soft tooling. However, one disadvantage of such tools is that the variothermal process, which is needed to produce polymeric parts with small features,...

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Main Authors: Tobias Vieten, Davide Zanin, Andrea Knöller, Thomas Litwin, Wolfgang Eberhardt, André Zimmermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
Series:Micromachines
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/12/4/454