US 12,434,296 B2
Additive manufacturing of devices from assemblies of discretized component voxel elements
Richard Neill, Garrison, NY (US)
Assigned to ADVANCED PRINTED ELECTRONIC SOLUTIONS LLC, Fishkill, NY (US)
Filed by Advanced Printed Electronic Solutions LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Jan. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/155,976.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/966,922, filed on Jan. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0229091 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. H05K 7/02 (2006.01); B22F 10/10 (2021.01); B29C 64/171 (2017.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01)
CPC B22F 10/10 (2021.01) [B29C 64/171 (2017.08); H05K 7/023 (2013.01); H05K 7/026 (2013.01); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12)] 39 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An additive manufactured apparatus comprising:
an assembly of additive manufactured component voxels, at least some of the component voxels having been fabricated at least in part by additive manufacturing directly on other component voxels of the assembly, each additive manufactured component voxel exhibiting a corresponding functionality, each additive manufactured component voxel comprising:
a base layer;
an outer layer, an interior space of the component voxel being defined in a volume adjacent to the base layer and the outer layer; and
a component structure associated with the functionality of the component voxel, the component structure being one or more of (i) disposed in the interior space of the component voxel and (ii) embedded in the base layer, wherein a first component structure of a first voxel and a second component structure of a second voxel are configured to operate together to perform a defined overall apparatus functionality, wherein the component structure of at least one component voxel of the assembly comprises a metamaterial device,
in which at least one of the component voxels comprises a fluidic network structure fluidically connected to a fluidic network structure of one or more other component voxels of the assembly.