Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2022): Trans. AMMM
https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2022.2209662

Material Properties, Structural Designs, and Printing Technologies, ID 662

A non-assembly approach for an additively manufactured finger prothesis

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Felix Harden (TH Lübeck), Benjamin Guido Förster (TH Lübeck), Christian Damiani (TH Lübeck), Roland Kral (TH Lübeck)

Abstract

A new approach to print non-assembly mechanisms with reduced joint clearance is used to create an additive manufactured finger prosthesis. Like other additive manufacturing methods, Fused Layer Modeling (FLM) requires a sufficient clearance between parts to archive moveable non-assembly mechanisms. A two-material design and a heat treatment allowed improving the accuracy of the movement beyond the printing limitations. It was shown that a functional finger prosthesis can be produced using this technique.

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Harden, F., Förster, B. G., Damiani, C., & Kral, R. (2022). A non-assembly approach for an additively manufactured finger prothesis. Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, 4(1), 662. https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2022.2209662