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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2017
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Carsten Franke, St. Paul, MN (US);
Joseph C. Dingeldein, Blaine, MN (US);
Jay A. Esch, River Falls, WI (US);
Robert L. W. Smithson, Mahtomedi, MN (US);
Jayshree Seth, Woodbury, MN (US);
Olester Benson, Jr., Woodbury, MN (US);
Karen J. Calverley, Stillwater, MN (US);
Alexander J. Huffman, St. Paul, MN (US);
Serkan Yurt, St. Paul, MN (US);
Setareh Niknezhad, Woodbury, MN (US);
Michael A. Kropp, Cottage Grove, MN (US);
John P. Baetzold, North St. Paul, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A method of making an adhesive is provided, including obtaining an actinic radiation-polymerizable adhesive precursor composition disposed against a surface of an actinic radiation-transparent substrate and irradiating a first portion of the actinic radiation-polymerizable adhesive precursor composition through the actinic radiation-transparent substrate for a first irradiation dosage. The method further includes irradiating a second portion of the actinic radiation-polymerizable adhesive precursor composition through the actinic radiation-transparent substrate for a second irradiation dosage. The first portion and the second portion are adjacent to or overlapping with each other and the first irradiation dosage and the second irradiation dosage are not the same. The method forms an integral adhesive having a variable thickness in an axis normal to the surface of the actinic radiation-transparent substrate. Also, an adhesive article is provided, including a substrate having a major surface and an integral adhesive disposed on the major surface of the substrate. Further, methods are provided, including receiving, by a manufacturing device having one or more processors, a digital object comprising data specifying an article; and generating, with the manufacturing device by an additive manufacturing process, the article based on the digital object. A system is provided, including a display that displays a 3D model of an article; and one or more processors that, in response to the 3D model selected by a user, cause a 3D printer to create a physical object of an article.