Abstract: An apparatus for producing a printed circuit board on a substrate, has a table for supporting the substrate, a function head configured to effect printing conductive and non-conductive materials on the substrate, a positioner configured to effect movement of the function head relative to the table, and a controller configured to operate the function head and the positioner to effect the printing of conductive and non-conductive materials on the substrate. The apparatus optionally has a layout translation module configured to accept PCB multilayer circuit board files and convert multilayer circuit board layout data of the PCB multilayer circuit board files to printing data files for controlling the function head to print conductive material and nonconductive material onto the substrate to produce a printed circuit effecting functionality of the multilayer circuit board layout data.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 1, 2014
Date of Patent:
September 15, 2020
Assignee:
BotFactory, Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Knox, Andrew Ippoliti, Georgios Kyriakou, Carlos Ospina, Nicolas Vansnick
Abstract: An apparatus for producing a printed circuit board on a substrate, has a table for supporting the substrate, a function head configured to effect printing conductive and non-conductive materials on the substrate, a positioner configured to effect movement of the function head relative to the table, and a controller configured to operate the function head and the positioner to effect the printing of conductive and non-conductive materials on the substrate. The apparatus optionally has a layout translation module configured to accept PCB files or multilayer PCB files to printing data for controlling the function head to print conductive material and nonconductive material onto the substrate. Conductive traces having varying thickness may be produced on a common substrate. Conductive regions are printed to electrically isolate traces and optional to present an approximately level surface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 6, 2016
Date of Patent:
January 28, 2020
Assignee:
BotFactory Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Knox, Andrew Ippoliti, Georgios Kyriakou, Carlos Ospina, Nicolas Vansnick