COOLING APPARATUS - USING 3D PRINTED MICRO POROUS MATERIAL

• Main Authors: BECKLEY, DANIEL VERN, MCCLINTOCK, STEVEN DOUGLAS, O'BRIEN, TIMOTHY FRANCIS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 09.04.2015
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

Cooling apparatus having a cooling box with integrated cooling and attachment features providing end of arm tooling to demold and cool molded parts. There is provided a net fit between a porous tool nest portion of the cooling box and the molded part being manufactured to allow the cooling cycle time to be reduced as the molded part finishes the cooling cycle in the end of arm tooling while a mold is closed and starts making the next molded part. The cooling box is connected to at least one vacuum line having a vacuum unit to generate a vacuum allowing for part demolding and cooling. The fully assembled form fitting cooling box is 3D printable to effectively create a partially solid and partially microporous cooling box.