Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Plasticity induced bonding
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Application No.: US15312446Application Date: 2015-05-20
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Publication No.: US10213960B2Publication Date: 2019-02-26
- Inventor: Nikhil Padhye , David Moore Parks , Bernhardt Levy Trout , Alexander H. Slocum
- Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- International Application: PCT/US2015/031666 WO 20150520
- International Announcement: WO2015/179461 WO 20151126
- Main IPC: B29K1/00
- IPC: B29K1/00 ; C09J5/00 ; B29C65/00 ; B29C65/02 ; B29C65/14 ; B29C65/72 ; B29C65/82 ; B29K23/00 ; B29K25/00 ; B29K31/00 ; B29K33/00 ; B29K69/00 ; B29K83/00 ; B32B37/00 ; B32B37/06 ; B32B37/10 ; G05G15/08 ; B29K105/00

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for bonding polymeric parts are disclosed. Specifically, in one embodiment, the polymeric parts are bonded by plastically deforming them against each other while they are below the glass transition temperatures. A method includes: placing a first polymeric part in contact with a second polymeric part; and plastically deforming the first polymeric part and the second polymeric part against each other to bond the first polymeric part to the second polymeric part. Additionally, during the plastic deformation, a temperature of the first polymeric part is less than a glass transition temperature of the first polymeric part and a temperature of the second polymeric part is less than a glass transition temperature of the second polymeric part.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170080637A1 PLASTICITY INDUCED BONDING Public/Granted day:2017-03-23
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