Controlled Foam Compressibility Using Constant Wall Thickness Between Cells

Abstract: in one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a foam material includes generating a two-dimensional surface enclosed by one or more boundaries and populating the two-dimensional surface with a number of points. the method further includes generating, for each of the number of points, a corresponding cell region on the two-dimensional surface, where each cell region has a cell surface area bounded by a cell wall, and where each cell wall has the same thickness. the method further includes generating, for each of the one or more surface boundaries, a boundary wall having a particular boundary-wall thickness; applying the two-dimensional surface to a foam material; and creating, in the foam material, cells in accordance with the cell regions within the two-dimensional surface.

Inventor(s): Shafae Ali, Forrest Tran, Ziwen Jiang, Lin Sun, John Novak, Matthew Buchholz, Eunseo Cho, Nigel Clarke, Ivan France

CPC Classification: B23K26/40 (taking account of the properties of the material involved)

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