Systems, devices, and methods for large area micro mechanical systems

• US 7,893,413 B1
• Filed: 08/14/2009
• Issued: 02/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation d/b/a RTX
• Original Assignee: Mikro Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Appleby, Michael P., Fraser, Iain, Atkinson, James E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vanore; David A
• Application Number:
  US12/541,610
• Time in Patent Office: 557 Days
• Field of Search: 250/505.1, 378/147, 378/154
• US Class Current: 250/505.1
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 33/302 Assembling a large number of mould elements to constitute one cavity
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 33/3842 Manufacturing moulds, e.g. shaping the mould surface by machining
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 33/42 characterised by the shape of the moulding surface, e.g. ribs or grooves
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 39/34 for undercut articles
• CPC Class Codes: B29K 2083/00 Use of polymers having silicon, with or without sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, or carbon only, in the main chain, as moulding material
• CPC Class Codes: G21K 1/02 using diaphragms, collimators
• CPC Class Codes: G21K 1/025 using multiple collimators, e.g. Bucky screens; other devices for eliminating undesired or dispersed radiation

Abstract

Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a first isogrid defining a first plurality of zones, each zone from said first plurality of zones comprising a plurality of ligaments, each zone from said first plurality of zones defining a plurality of spaces, each space bounded by a first sub-plurality of ligaments from said plurality of ligaments, each of said ligaments comprising a plurality of ligament surfaces.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a cast component, said cast component comprising a plurality of component surfaces, a predetermined component surface from said plurality of component surfaces comprising a plurality of 3-dimensional micro-features that substantially spatially invertedly replicate a mold surface formed by a plurality of layers of a metallic foil stack lamination parent mold, said plurality of 3-dimensional micro-features comprising at least one protruding undercut, said plurality of component surfaces defining a periphery of a layer-less volume, said predetermined component surface comprising a predetermined composition of matter.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a static mixer component.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a heater component.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component comprises a plurality of fins.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a thin-walled tubular heat exchanger component.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a Peltier effect heat exchanger component.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a Seebeck effect heat exchanger component.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a Joule effect heat exchanger component.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a fuel cell component.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a turbomachine component.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a multiple-aperture electrode component.

12. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a propulsion component.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as an ion thruster component.

14. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as an ion beam grid component.

15. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as an actuator component.

16. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as an attenuator component.

17. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as an orientation detector component.

18. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a displacement detector component.

19. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a motion detector component.

20. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a mirror component.

21. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a grating light valve component.

22. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a fuse component.

23. The device of claim 1, wherein:

said cast component is adapted to function as a signal detector collimator component.