Heater and heater assemblies from Thermal Circuits, installed in printers, improve printing/copying from start to finish
Accuracy is the closeness of a measured value to a standard or known value, while precision is the closeness of two or more measurements to each other. 3D printing is replacing machining. Etched foil heater’s accurate and precise thermal profiles or temperature gradients are a key enabler to printing objects in the medical, dental and industrial fields.
Applications: 3D Printing Technologies
- MultiJet Printing (MJP) aka MultiJet Fusion (MJF)
- Stereolithography (SLA)
- Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
- Color Jet.
Thermal Circuits’ heaters cover or wrap a reusable thermally conductive plate or enclosure. This enclosure houses containers with metals, thermal plastics, solid ink, waxes, acrylate and other thermal plastics. When called upon, the heaters warm the printable materials and enable a phase change from a solid to liquid.
250ºC Melt-Plate Heater
2D and 3D Printing
Kapton®/Polyimide etched foil heater laminated to aircraft grade aluminum that has been bent and formed with a progressive die.
Reusable heater assembly that encloses container of wax or acrylate
Used in MultiJet Print (MJP), Selective Laser Powder Sintering (SLS), and Multijet Fusion (MJF) technologies.
Umbilical or conduit heaters.
Heated tubes transfer the liquid media from its original container to the printhead. By maintaining a uniform thermal profile along the entire length, the media remains in a liquid state through deposition.
As the name implies, the printhead does the work/printing and contains the most elaborate and detailed watt density distribution. This near-infinite distribution of heat is created element pass-by-pass and similar to how pixels create a high definition image, voxels create a three-dimensional object. Voxels by definition are a volumetric pixel (volume pixel). These three-dimensional pixels are the tiniest distinguishable element of a 3D object. Alternatively, voxels are a volume element that occupies a specific location in 3D space.
Umbilical Heater Assembly for 4-Color Printhead or Jetstacks
Heater is thermally insulated with silicone foam. This multizoned flexible heater has 4 integral thermistor temperature sensors and thermal fuses
High-Speed MultiJet Print Technology, MJP, with Thermal Printhead, Melts Solid Ink.
260ºC Umbilical Heater for 2D and 3D Printing
This flexible assembly independently distributes power to each zone and transmits each zones' temperature to the PCBA
High-Speed MultiJet Print Technology (MJP) with Thermal Printhead
Umbilical Heater for2D and 3D Printing
This flexible assembly independently distributes power to each zone and transmits each zones' temperature to the PCBA
High-Speed MultiJet Print Technology (MJP) with Thermal Printhead
Platen heaters
Used to maintain the temperature of the already-deposited media/object at a temperature that is just below the melt point.
Similarly, hopper heaters are used to maintain the temperature of the pre-deposited media at a temperature that is just below the melt point.
Etched Foil Conductive Heater Assembly with Kapton® Polyimide Insulation
Heated Vacuum Bed Plenum, to hold down print media.
Engineered Products
Flexible Heaters from Thermal Circuits are light, bendable and can conform to irregular shapes, contours and 3-dimensional patterns. They are simple to apply, yet are capable of higher output than traditional metal-clad heaters. Thermal Circuits designs materials that are compatible with integration and challenging environments
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Flexible Heaters
Kapton® Heaters
Heater Assemblies
Heaters with Sensors
InfraRed Emitters
