Development of automation technology for fabricating thin film PVC gel used in multilayered PVC gel actuator based on a digital printing technology

• DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2017.1p2-f10
• Publication Date: 2017-11-24T22:26:39Z
• Authors: Ayumi FURUSE; Minoru HASHIMOTO

Plasticized poly vinyl chloride (PVC) gel which has a large deformation by applying voltage and high driving stability in the atmosphere is considered as promising material for soft actuator. To fabricate more flexible performance multilayered PVC actuator, this study, we attempt to develop automation technology fabricating thin film used actuator based on digital 3D printing technology. We proposed system examined adjust amount of coating control condition coating. Under 0.06 mg/shot coated per shot, average dot diameter point was about 0. 86 mm height 8 μm. It expected that several μm can be automatically produced an arbitrary shape using system.