Vader Systemswill be familiar to readers of3D Printing Industryfrom our earlier articles reporting on the New York based company.
Powering their promise to, “build the factory of tomorrow 100x faster than existing market solutions with safer handling and less waste” is a patented 3D printing technology referred to as Magnet-o-Jet.
Zach Vader, co-founder of Vader Systems, explained the earlierMK1实验金属3D打印机as working by melting metal wire feedstock that is fed into a ceramic nozzle, the MK1 3D printer then uses, “electromagnetism to induce a current and induce a radial inward force that produces a droplet.”
Vader Systems现在已经超越了MK1实验3D打印机，并使用了三个新的金属添加剂制造系统。雷电竞充值这些是Vader Polaris，磁体射流子系统和ARES微球生产系统。
Vadar Polaris
Vader Polaris被描述为liquid metal 3D printing system, and features a chamber capable of reaching 1200°C. This high temperature allows the Vader Polaris to melt aluminum that is then propelled through, “print nozzles similar to an inkjet printer”. Vader Systems highlights the fact that aluminum is an abundant metal, and that the wire feedstock is substantially less expensive than metal powders used in powder bed fusion additive manufacturing systems.
维德的技术亮点北极星金属3 dprinting system:
Droplet Diameter: 0.012 in. (300 μm) to 0.20 in. (508 μm)
最大负载：88磅。（40公斤）
Deposition Rate: Up to 1 lb. (0.45 kg / hr.)
Isotropic material properties and complex geometries
Vader Magnet-o-Jet Subsystem
这Magnet-o-Jet Subsystem is designed for incorporation with existing manufacturing technologies, for example as part of a CNC machining setup. This system can be used to create hybrid manufacturing equipment.
Other material options for the Magnet-o-Jet subsubsystem include aluminum welding wires 4043, 4047, and 1100. Under development and currently going through a qualification process are 365, 6061, 7075, copper, and bronze.
Vader Systems says that metal additive manufacturing solutions they are developing are suitable for a range of markets including重工业，汽车，消费者和国防。
特定的应用程序在国防金属3 dprinters include, in theater manufacturing, sustainment, rapid prototyping, printed circuit boards and antennas and supply chain vertical integration.
这Ares Microsphere Production System
Vader Systems还提供ARES微球生产系统。该系统是为了生产公司称为Vaderite的材料而设计的。ARES系统生产用于基于粉末的添加剂制造系统的金属粉（又名Vaderite）。雷电竞充值使用Magnet-O-Jet技术Vader说，所产生的材料具有“无与伦比的球形，高流量和狭窄的粒径分布”。
这company lists 98.6% spherical beads and a 100% yield as two of the primary features of this process for making metal powders. The system appears to be currently targeted toward the production of smaller batches of material, potentially useful for research teams. Other highlights of the system include a narrow particle size distribution with the example of 160µm with a 10µm standard deviation given.
这technology offered by Vader Systems is certainly novel compared to other options available for metal 3D printing and we will continue to watch as the company develops.
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Featured image shows the Vader Ares Microsphere Production System. Image via Vader Systems.
