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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2014
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Wojciech Szeremeta, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Robert G. Fairchild, Tustin, CA (US);
Brian S. Nihei, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method may comprise generating a first electronic model of a workpiece to be manufactured using an injection-molding process. The first electronic model may then be analyzed and the workpiece in the first electronic model may then be selectively distorted according to the analysis. A second electronic model of the distorted workpiece may then be generated. The workpiece may then be injection-molded within a mold generated using the second electronic model. Thereafter, the workpiece may be cooled such that the injection-molded workpiece gradually assumes the shape or substantially the shape of the workpiece in the first electronic model.