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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 17, 2020
Applicant:

Vito NV, Mol, BE;

Inventors:

Jasper Lefevere, Mol, BE;

Bart Michielsen, Mol, BE;

Monika Kus, Mol, BE;

Assignee:

VITO NV, Mol, BE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 64/30 (2017.01); B29C 64/118 (2017.01); B29C 64/264 (2017.01); B29C 64/295 (2017.01); B29C 64/393 (2017.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01); B33Y 40/20 (2020.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01); B33Y 70/10 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 64/30 (2017.08); B29C 64/118 (2017.08); B29C 64/264 (2017.08); B29C 64/295 (2017.08); B29C 64/393 (2017.08); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 30/00 (2014.12); B33Y 40/20 (2020.01); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12); B33Y 70/10 (2020.01);
Abstract

A method and system for manufacturing three-dimensional porous structures. Filaments are deposited in a predetermined interconnected arrangement in a plurality of stacked layers for forming a porous structure with interconnected pores. Furthermore, the porous structure is subjected to a heat treatment in a heat chamber in order to reduce a moisture, solvent and/or organic material, solvent or organic material content (drying and/or calcination) of the porous structure by irradiating microwave energy through said porous structure. The applied microwave energy is selected based on the structural interconnected arrangement of the deposited filaments defining the shape and size of the pores of the three-dimensional porous structure.


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