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Connecting metal foils/wires and components in 3d printed substrates with wire bonding

Connecting metal foils/wires and components in 3d printed substrates with wire bonding
Inventors: Ryan Wicker, David Espalin, Eric MacDonald
Patent No. 10,259,081

Description:
This patent application embodies a system for wire bonding that connects metal pins in 3D printed substrates. The system allows isolated metal structures to be electronically and mechanically interconnected for improved system integration.

Abstract:
A three-dimensional electronic, biological, chemical, thermal management, or electromechanical apparatus and method thereof. One or more layers of a three-dimensional structure are deposited on a substrate. The three-dimensional structure is configured to include one or more internal cavities using, an extrusion-based additive manufacturing system enhanced with a range of secondary embedding processes. The three-dimensional structure includes one or more structural integrated metal objects spanning the one or more of the internal cavities of the three-dimensional structure for enhanced electromagnetic properties and bonded between two or more other metal objects located at the same layer or different layers of the three-dimensional structure.

Issue Date: 04/16/2019
Application Date: 02/07/2017
Post Date: 05/08/2018

UTEP Docket No: 2016-018