US 11,807,957 B2
Creating defined electrospun fiber geometries
Russell Kirk Pirlo, Oakwood, OH (US)
Filed by University of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton, OH (US)
Filed on May 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/327,849.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/028,645, filed on May 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0363663 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. D01D 5/00 (2006.01); D01D 5/08 (2006.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01)
CPC D01D 5/0069 (2013.01) [D01D 5/0076 (2013.01); D01D 5/0092 (2013.01); D01D 5/08 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A collector array system, comprising:
a build plate comprising:
a non-conductive surface; and
conductive pins disposed within the non-conductive surface;
an electric deposition device orientable in operative arrangement with the build plate, wherein the electric deposition device comprises an electrically conductive gel-polymer-electrolyte (GPE) solution printer for printing the electrically conductive GPE solution onto the non-conductive surface; and
a controller coupled to the build plate, wherein the controller is operatively programmed to:
control individual ones of the conductive pins to be in a selected state, the state of at least one conductive pin affecting control of a deposition from the electric deposition device during operation thereof;
wherein the build plate includes at least one actuator that is controlled to move a corresponding insulated conductive pin to make contact with GPE printed by the GPE solution printer.