Abstract: Embodiments are directed to laser-based processes for forming features on the surface of a part. The feature may include a geometric element, a color element, and/or a surface finish element. In some cases, the laser-formed features are formed as a pattern of textured features that produce an aesthetic and/or tactile effect on the surface of the part. In some cases, the texture features may be sufficiently small that they may not be discerned by the unaided human eye. Also, in some cases, a multiple laser-based processes are combined to form a single feature or a finished part having a specific aesthetic and/or tactile effect.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a textile structure of varying thickness including using a loom to weave a fiber texture in the form of a strip extending lengthwise along a longitudinal axis and widthwise along an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and causing the texture to be wound under tension onto a mandrel. The texture includes a portion presenting extra thickness. During the winding of the texture, a spacer element is interposed between adjacent turns of the fiber texture onto the mandrel. Each spacer element extends in the width direction of the texture over a portion thereof situated outside the portion of extra thickness and presenting, over the portion of the texture situated outside the portion of extra thickness, a thickness that corresponds at least to the difference between thicknesses of the portion of extra thickness and of the portion of the texture situated outside the portion of extra thickness.

Abstract: The invention relates to self-assembled organosilane coatings for resorbable medical implant devices. The coatings can be prepared from coating compositions containing organosilane and can be applied to metal or metal alloy substrates. Prior to applying the coatings, the surfaces of the substrates can be pretreated. The coatings can be functionalized with a binding compound that is coupled with an active component. The coatings can be selectively removed, e.g., patterned, to expose portions of the uncoated substrate. Selecting different patterns can provide the ability to regulate or control various properties, such as, corrosion and hydrogen generation.

Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for a laminated glass having improved appearance which has a MD and TD direction; and one end, and another end being opposite side of and thicker than the one end. The one end and other end are positioned on both sides of the interlayer film in the TD direction. When the distance between the one end and other end is X, the absolute value for the difference between the largest and smallest thermal shrinkage ratios from among three thermal shrinkage ratios is 15% or less. The three thermal shrinkage ratios are positioned from the one end towards the other end in MD direction with a first thermal shrinkage ratio at 150° C. at a first position at 0.05X, a second thermal shrinkage ratio at 150° C. at a second position at 0.5X, and a third thermal shrinkage ratio at 150° C. at a third position at 0.95X.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are floor tiles comprising, for instance, a substrate and a surface coating, wherein the surface coating comprises (i) a base formula comprising a glaze and (ii) particles comprising alumina trihydrate.

Abstract: An elastomeric tape having a shape configuration that provides an enhanced longitudinal stretch characteristic is provided herein. The exemplary tape comprises a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, a first side and a second side opposite the first side where the first side comprises a series of alternating peaks and troughs and the second side comprises a series of alternating peaks and troughs.

Abstract: A spunbond nonwoven fabric. The fabric has a first surface and a second surface and at least a first and second visually discernible zone on at least one of the first and second surface, each of the first and second zones having a pattern of three-dimensional features, each of the three-dimensional features defining a microzone. Each microzone has a first region and a second region, the first and second regions having a difference in values for an intensive property, and wherein the difference in values for an intensive property for at least one of the microzones in the first zone is different from the difference in values for the intensive property for at least one of the microzones in the second zone.

Abstract: A component is formed by welding a plurality of sheets of metal to form a blank with a number of weld nuggets, placing the blank between a die section and a lid section, heating the die section to heat the blank, and introducing a pressurized gas between the lid section and the die section to press the blank into a mold in the die section to form a component. The number of weld nuggets has a desired thickness ratio between about 1.1 to about 1.25 such that the plurality of sheets of metal and the component formed have a number of characteristics that are substantially the same.

Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel plate of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention has a groove formed on a surface, wherein a curvature radius RBb at a position where a depth of the groove is maximum is 0.2 ?m to 100 ?m, and a curvature radius RSb on the groove surface from the position where the depth of the groove is maximum to a quarter-way position of the depth D of the groove is 4 ?m to 130 ?m.

Abstract: Embodiments of a glass laminate structure comprising a non-strengthened glass sheet, a strengthened glass sheet, and at least one polymer interlayer intermediate the external and internal glass sheets are disclosed. The strengthened glass sheet can have a thickness ranging from about 0.3 mm to about 1.5 mm, the non-strengthened glass sheet can have a thickness ranging from about 1.5 mm to about 3.0 mm, and the polymer interlayer can have a first edge with a first thickness and a second edge opposite the first edge with a second thickness greater than the first thickness. The glass laminate structures provide advantageous optical properties. The glass laminate structure can be employed to provide a transparent display screen that minimizes image offset between two images formed by two reflections at two surfaces of the strengthened internal glass sheet.

Abstract: Implementations described herein include films with maintained or decreased light transmittance despite a reduction in gauge. In particular, one or more implementations include a multi-layer film with each layer having differing opacity agents. The combination of the two different opacity agents in two different layers can have a synergistic effect that provide decreased light transmittance. Indeed, in one or more embodiments a multi-layer film with differing opacity agents in each layer has a decreased light transmittance despite a reduction in gauge and opacity agents.

Abstract: A laminated composite interior part includes a first member made of synthetic resin and having a mating surface; and a second member made of elastically deformable synthetic resin and having a plate portion substantially parallel to the mating surface. The plate portion has integrally-formed and interspersed protrusions protruding toward the mating surface. The second member is placed on the first member with distal end portions of the protrusions being in contact with the mating surface. Cushioning properties are provided by elastic deformation of the protrusions, caused as the protrusions' distal end portions are relatively pressed against the mating surface. Flexural rigidity of each of the protrusions against a compressive load is anisotropic about its axis, so that the protrusion is flexurally deformed in one direction about its axis with the distal end portion thereof sliding on the mating surface. Surface roughness of the mating surface is less than 0.20.

Abstract: Provided is an embossed product on which a deep bumpy design is formed and which is also excellent in terms of a bumpy design shape-imparting property and cushioning performance and durability thereof. A composite material for embossing is a composite material in which a flexible polyurethane foam sheet is laminated on one surface of a skin material, in which the flexible polyurethane foam sheet has a thickness of 3 to 15 mm and a compression percentage of 5% to 40% in a temperature range of 100° C. to 150° C. In addition, an embossed product is obtained by embossing a surface of the skin material of the composite material for embossing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ferrite sintered plate having a composition comprising 47 to 50 mol % of Fe2O3, 7 to 26 mol % of NiO, 13 to 36 mol % of ZnO, 7 to 12 mol % of CuO and 0 to 1.5 mol % of CoO, as calculated in terms of the respective oxides, in which the ferrite sintered plate has a volume resistivity of 1×108 to 1×1012·cm and a thickness of 10 to 60 ?m; and a ferrite sintered sheet comprising the ferrite sintered plate on a surface of which a groove or grooves are formed, and an adhesive layer and/or a protective layer formed on the ferrite sintered plate, in which the ferrite sintered sheet has a magnetic permeability at 500 kHz a real part of which is 120 to 800 and an imaginary part of which is 0 to 30, and a product (?m) of the real part of the magnetic permeability at 500 kHz of the ferrite sintered sheet and a thickness of the ferrite sintered plate is 5000 to 48000.

Abstract: The cellulose product comprises at least a first ply of embossed cellulose material and a second ply of embossed cellulose material, glued together. The first ply comprises: a first series of embossing protuberances with a first height (H?1) and a top surface to which a glue is applied which bonds the first ply and the second ply to one another; a second series of micro-embossing protuberances with a second height (H?2) lower than the first height (H?1); a third series of micro-embossing protuberances with a third height (H?3) lower than the second height (H?2). The protuberances of the first series are distributed over areas of the first ply, where the micro-embossing protuberances of the second series and the micro-embossing protuberances of the third series are absent.

Abstract: A multilayer magnetic sheet is described which comprises a plurality of stacked magnetic component layers separated by first electrically insulating layers. Each of the plurality of magnetic component layers comprises a plurality of isolated magnetic sublayers having a magnetic layer thickness of less than one micron. The multilayer magnetic sheet has a magnetic fraction between about 5% and about 80%; a total magnetic thickness of greater than or equal to 5 microns; and a relative composite permeability of greater than about 20.

Abstract: There are provided an electronic component housing package and the like which have high efficiency of heating by infrared rays. An electronic component housing package includes an insulating substrate including a plurality of insulating layers stacked on top of each other, an upper surface of the insulating substrate being provided with an electronic component mounting section. The plurality of insulating layers each contain a first material as a major constituent. The electronic component housing package comprises one or more infrared-ray absorbing layers disposed between the plurality of insulating layers and/or disposed on an upper surface of uppermost one of the plurality of insulating layers. The one or more absorbing layers contain a second material which is higher in infrared absorptivity than the first material.

Abstract: A ceramic-based component including laser-etched markings, an electronic device including a ceramic-based component, and methods of forming the same. The ceramic-based component may include an outer surface, and a laser-etched marking formed on the outer surface. The laser-etched marking may include a recess having a substantially uneven surface formed in the outer surface. The recess may have a material composition distinct from a material composition of the outer surface. The method of forming the ceramic-based component may include laser etching an outer surface of a ceramic-based component, and in response to the laser etching, forming a laser-etched marking on the outer surface of the ceramic-based component. The method may also include altering the optically reflective properties of the laser-etched marking and/or altering a material composition of the laser-etched marking relative to a distinct material composition of the outer surface of the ceramic-based component.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a vehicular windshield having a laminated glass structure in which an interlayer film for laminated glass is interposed between at least a pair of glass plates, which contains few air bubbles remaining between the glass plates and the interlayer film for laminated glass to have an excellent appearance and is less likely to cause ghosting when external rays of light are seen through the vehicular windshield.

Abstract: The application relates to a nonwoven composite containing a lofty nonwoven layer and a film. The lofty nonwoven layer contains a plurality of primary fibers and defines a plurality of peak regions and a plurality of valley regions. The film contains a thermoplastic polymer and has a peak film thickness in the peak regions of the layer. The film is present on at least a majority of the second surface of the nonwoven layer. Within the valley regions, the film encapsulates a plurality of fibers from the nonwoven layer. The cross-sectional area fraction of total fibers in the film within the valley regions is at least about 8% and the cross-sectional area fraction of total fibers in the film within the peak regions is less than about 5%.