Process for thin metal-encoder discs and strips
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Precision Micro product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Mar 5, 2010
Precision Micro has developed LEEF (Laser Evolved Electroforming), a manufacturing process that can produce any volume of intricate and fine-featured metal-encoder discs and strips.
The process can meet standard slot counts and bespoke requirements in the same economical fashion.
Small and accurate metal encoder disks, with apertures under 15 micron, can be produced by Precision Micro in any volume.
It can achieve apertures of less than 15 microns - with high repeatability and smooth walls with optically sharp edges - without the use of prohibitively expensive glass master tooling.
It uses electrodeposition, which, atom by atom, forms burr- and stress-free discs onto a digitally patterned mandrel; these can be either totally flat or multi level.
The multi-level process can produce discs and strips that are exceptionally thin in the feature area to facilitate a crisp, well-defined light pulse, while being thicker in other areas to meet mechanical requirements.
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