Shaped Abrasive Particle Placement Tool Cavities
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current abrasive articles face challenges in cost, performance, and lifespan, particularly in applications like finishing welding beads and castings, where the manufacturing process is inefficient due to issues with shaped abrasive particle placement and adherence.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a shaped abrasive particle placement tool that receives and situates particles with specific characteristics into cavities, ensuring proper alignment and adherence to a substrate using binding materials, with features like vibration to optimize particle placement and removal of improperly situated particles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If shaped abrasive particles are received and placed into cavities using a shaped abrasive particle placement tool, then particle placement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The placement tool is segmented into multiple cavities, each designed to receive and hold a specific shaped abrasive particle. This segmentation allows for precise placement of individual particles while keeping each cavity结构简单, resolving the contradiction between placement precision and device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The shaped abrasive particles themselves serve the placement function by being received and held in the cavities. The particles' own geometry and properties enable them to be properly positioned and oriented in the cavities, reducing the need for complex active placement mechanisms
2Manufacturing precision
If vibration is applied to the placement tool to situate particles in cavities, then particle placement effectiveness is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Vibration is applied to the placement tool to facilitate the movement and proper siting of shaped abrasive particles into the cavities. The vibration helps particles settle into the correct positions and orientations, improving placement effectiveness while using minimal energy through controlled oscillatory motion
Solution Approach 2:
The vibration is applied as a periodic action during the particle placement process. This periodic mechanical energy input is sufficient to achieve proper particle siting without continuous energy consumption, resolving the contradiction between placement effectiveness and energy use
3Reliability
If multiple receiving operations are performed to ensure threshold number of properly situated particles, then abrasive article performance is improved, but manufacturing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The placement tool is designed with cavities that pre-position and hold shaped abrasive particles in their correct orientations before the actual abrasive article manufacturing. This preliminary arrangement ensures that when particles are transferred, the threshold number of properly situated particles is already achieved, improving performance without requiring multiple receiving operations and reducing manufacturing time
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 approach enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of abrasive articles by ensuring proper particle placement, leading to improved grinding performance and extended tool life, while reducing manufacturing costs.
Implementation Method 1
vibrating the shaped abrasive particle placement tool to situate shaped abrasive particles of the shaped abrasive particles into a cavity of the cavities
Implementation Method 2
releasing the shaped abrasive particles from the shaped abrasive particle placement tool into at least one binding material on a substrate to adhere the first shaped abrasive particles and the second shaped abrasive particles to the substrate
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides systems, devices, and methods for abrasive articles and manufacturing the same. A method includes receiving, at a shaped abrasive particle placement tool comprising cavities (1020), shaped abrasive particles (502, 504), determining whether a threshold number of cavities of the cavities (1020) includes a shaped abrasive particle situated properly therein, in response to determining there is not a threshold number of cavities of the cavities (1020) with a shaped abrasive particle (502, 504) situated properly therein, receiving, at the shaped abrasive particle placement tool, further shaped abrasive particles, and in response to determining that at least the threshold number of cavities of the cavities (1020) includes a shaped abrasive particle (502, 504) of the shaped abrasive particles situated properly therein, releasing the shaped abrasive particles (502, 504) from the shaped abrasive particle placement tool into a binding material (508) on a substrate (506) to adhere the shaped abrasive particles (502, 504) to the substrate (506).