Flashlamp Light Guide for Precise Pulsed Radiation Profiling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current industrial processes using pulsed broadband radiation sources lack sufficient control over radiation profiles and intensity at target areas, limiting their effectiveness in applications like composite manufacturing, heating, cleaning, and sintering.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a pulsed broadband radiation source, such as a flashlamp, and a light guide with a light transmitting material that can move relative to the radiation source, allowing for precise control and focusing of radiation to achieve a predetermined radiation profile at the target area.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If a pulsed broadband radiation source is used for industrial processes, then radiation can be delivered to target areas, but control over radiation profiles and intensity is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
A light guide is introduced as an intermediary component between the pulsed broadband radiation source and the target area. The light guide transmits and shapes the radiation, enabling precise control over radiation profiles and intensity at the target area without requiring complex modifications to the radiation source itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The radiation delivery system is divided into separate functional components: the pulsed broadband radiation source and the light guide. This segmentation allows independent optimization of each component, with the light guide specifically designed to control radiation profiles, thereby improving manufacturing precision without increasing overall system complexity.
2Productivity
If radiation intensity is increased for better processing effectiveness, then industrial process efficiency improves, but control and focusing capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The light guide serves as a mediator that can transmit high intensity radiation while simultaneously shaping and focusing it. The light guide's optical properties enable it to maintain radiation intensity for productivity while providing the necessary control and focusing capability for manufacturing precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The light guide is designed with specific optical characteristics that allow different regions of the radiation to be controlled differently. This enables precise focusing and profiling of high intensity radiation at the target area, maintaining both productivity and manufacturing precision.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This system enables greater control over radiation profiles and intensity, enhancing the efficiency and precision of industrial processes like composite manufacturing, heating, and sintering by ensuring consistent and targeted energy delivery.
Implementation Method 1
a light guide adapted to guide light emitted by the pulsed broadband radiation source to a target area, wherein the light guide comprises at least a portion ahead of the pulsed broadband radiation source, relative to the target area, comprising a light transmitting material
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AI summary
An apparatus for manufacturing a composite article from a composite material. The apparatus comprising: a pulsed broadband radiation source comprising a flashlamp and a light guide adapted to guide light emitted by the pulsed broadband radiation source to a target area. The light guide comprises at least a portion ahead of the pulsed broadband radiation source, relative to the target area, comprising a light transmitting material.