Approaches herein provide a device, such as a battery protection device, including a cathode current collector and an anode current collector provided atop a substrate, a cathode provided atop the cathode current collector, and an electrolyte layer provided over the cathode. An interlayer, such as one or more layers of silicon, antimony, magnesium, titanium, magnesium lithium, and/or silver lithium, is formed over the electrolyte layer. An anode contact layer, such as an anode or anode current collector, is then provided over the interlayer. By providing the interlayer atop the electrolyte layer prior to anode contact layer deposition, lithium from the cathode side alloys with the interlayer, thus providing a more isotropic or uniaxial detachment of the anode contact layer.

A system for additive manufacturing of an electronic device includes providing a printing support with an electric circuitry embedded in a dielectric encapsulation and at least one supply terminal connected to the electric circuitry. The method further includes an additive printing the electronic device on the printing support by forming a conductive structure embedded in a dielectric base material and at least one device terminal exposed on a surface of the electronic device, wherein the at least one supply terminal of the printing support is arranged to electrically contact the at least one device terminal. The method further includes applying electric signals from the at least one supply terminal to the at least on device terminal to measure an electric characteristic of the conductive structure during the process of additive printing of the electronic device.

The present invention relates to a mold for molding a component, in particular a particle foam part and a method for manufacturing the component using such a mold. In one embodiment, a mold for molding a component comprises (a.) a mixture of a polymer material and a filler material, (b.) wherein the filler material is adapted to allow a heating of the component inside the mold by means of an electromagnetic field.

A method of forming a dielectric barrier and torque transfer member between a drive shaft and a driven shaft of a torque transfer assembly. The method includes assembling the drive shaft and the driven shaft in axially adjacent relationship to one another, the drive shaft and the driven shaft each having a recess formed therein such that when the shafts are assembled, the recesses cooperate to define a chamber extending across the interface between the drive and driven shaft and into the interior of both the drive and the driven shaft. The method further includes injecting a dielectric adhesive or resin material into the chamber to fill the chamber and to extend across the interface between the drive and the driven shaft, and curing the dielectric material to form a dielectric barrier between and to provide torque transfer between the drive and the driven shaft.

Described is a system for producing a three-dimensional (3D) printed radio frequency (RF) absorber. The system includes a computer configured to produce a computer model and a 3D printer. The 3D printer has an extruder controlled by a motor directed by the computer to deposit melted plastic filament loaded with a RF absorber material in computer controlled patterns according to the computer model to produce a RF absorber having a custom profile of desired RF absorption properties and desired dielectric properties.

Provided is a dielectric material (1, 2, 3, 4) to solve the problems of low production efficiency and high production cost of the existing dielectric material. The dielectric material (1, 2, 3, 4) is a tube structure. The tube wall of the tube structure is formed from a foam material foamed. The dielectric material further includes metal wires (11, 21, 31, 41). The metal wires (11, 21, 31, 41) are disposed in the longitudinal direction of the tube structure, and are evenly distributed in the tube wall of the tube structure without being in contact with each other. The dielectric material (1, 2, 3, 4) with such a structure has the advantages of simple structure, accurate control of the dielectric constant, light weight per unit volume, easy and efficient production, and stable technical indicators. Further provided is a dielectric material production method.

A wiring harness assembly includes a plurality of electrical conductors having wires enclosed within insulative sheaths that are integrally formed of an electrically insulative material. The assembly also includes a lattice support structure that is attached to the insulative sheaths at multiple locations. The lattice support structure is configured to maintain a desired shape of the assembly. The lattice support structure is formed of filaments that may be formed using an additive manufacturing process The filaments may be arranged such that lattice support structure defines a plurality of hexagonally shaped apertures. A process for manufacturing the wiring harness assembly and an apparatus configured to manufacture the wiring harness assembly is also presented.

Embodiments are directed to a method for manufacturing a product comprising: establishing, by a computing device comprising a processor, at least one parameter of a particular instance of a component to be used in the product, adapting, by the computing device, a baseline model of the component based on the at least one parameter to accommodate use of the particular instance of the component, growing a structure based on the adapted model to accommodate the particular instance of the component using an additive manufacturing technique, coupling the structure to the particular instance of the component, growing an electrical harness by using additive printing to establish an electrical cable, and assembling the product by coupling the electrical harness to the particular instance of the component.

The present disclosure provides methods, articles, and apparatuses related to altering electromagnetic radiation. A method of making articles includes a) forming an electromagnetic radiation altering material by providing a polymer matrix and optionally embedding dielectric particles in the polymer matrix and b) obtaining initial dielectric properties of the electromagnetic radiation altering material. The method further includes c) modeling electromagnetic radiation altering features of the material suitable for the article obtained from the material to have target electromagnetic radiation altering properties, thereby obtaining a simulation of the electromagnetic radiation altering article; and d) additive manufacturing the electromagnetic radiation altering article based on the simulation of the electromagnetic radiation altering article. An electromagnetic radiation altering article obtained by the method is also provided. Further, an apparatus is provided including the electromagnetic radiation altering article. Methods of altering electromagnetic radiation are provided, including integrating an electromagnetic radiation altering article into either an electronic device or an electromagnetic radiation producing device, or placing the article in the vicinity of the device. Aspects of the present disclosure advantageously contribute to achieving optimized materials and designs for electromagnetic radiation altering articles.

A biaxially stretched polypropylene film which has a thickness of from 1.0 ?m to 3.5 ?m, a tensile fracture stress at 135? C. of 70 MPa or more in a first direction, and a difference between the tensile fracture stress at 125? C. in the first direction and the tensile fracture stress at 135? C. in the first direction of from 0 MPa to 15 MPa (inclusive).