Basic Development of Electrochemical Machining (Part 1) Facile Small Additive Machining with Local Electroplating

摘要

In this paper，the electrochemical machining method is developed to conduct the facile equipment for low cost and small scale manufacturing. This method applies plating and correct mechanical control to micro fabrication. And, it can be additive micro machining in one process. Long and thin probe electrode (anode) brings the localization of deposit in workpiece (cathode). And，the probe electrode scanning with electric current supplying is enabled to generate the arbitrary pattern of deposition. Moreover，it is verified that the deposition growth is proportional to electric quantity. In addition，because of ion migration，the copper(foreign metal as bath metal ion) deposition is generated without nickel deposition in cathode workpiece with using copper probeelectrode (anode) in electrolytic Ni bath.