Achieving Flexibility in Adhesive Curing

A line lamp for curing adhesives and other multi-functional polymers offers flexibility while providing high-intensity curing.

Achieving Flexibility in Adhesive Curing

A line lamp for curing adhesives and other multi-functional polymers offers flexibility while providing high-intensity curing.

In its standard variant, the lamp is available with water cooling with optimized water flow, suitable for clean rooms. It is available with wavelengths of 365 nm, 400 nm and 460 nm, making it suitable for UV-curing as well as light-curing products. It has a service life of more than 20,000 hours.

This plug-and-play lamp head is controlled and supplied with power via the base units of the DELOLUX pilot A series, which are available as touch and PLC-capable models. Both models feature automatic temperature compensation so that the LEDs deliver constant intensity even as they heat up.

A line lamp for curing adhesives and other multi-functional polymers, DELOLUX 301 from DELO offers high curing speeds and great flexibility for integration into production systems. The lamp is suitable for highly automated processes in small and narrow production lines, like those found in consumer electronics assembly. It can also be used, for example, in the lamination of thin-film solar cells.

Offering very high intensity of up to 30 W/cm², the lamp not only enables maximum speeds for curing adhesives and other multi-functional polymers, but also allows large working distances of up to 100 mm from lamp to components. The lamp’s compact lamp head dimensions, measuring 42.7 mm x 13 mm x 67.2 mm, contribute to a high degree of flexibility for integration into production systems as well. It produces a linear irradiated area of 38.7 mm x 8.45 mm.

The lamp can be operated as a single head or be seamlessly combined to form a larger array. When the lamp heads are combined in up to three directions, users can easily implement individual as well as homogeneous exposure geometries. For example, a wide row of lamps can be used for the roll-to-roll lamination process of flexible thin-film solar cells, where adhesives are often needed to protect cells made of organic materials and perovskite from humidity ingress.