Abstract: A sliding member of the present invention includes a coating on a base material. The coating contains hard metal particles and corrosion-resistant metal particles that have hardness lower than that of the hard metal particles. The hard metal particles contain particles that have at least Vickers hardness of 600 Hv or higher. The corrosion-resistant metal particles are made of at least one kind of metal selected from the group consisting of copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), and nickel (Ni), or are made of an alloy containing said metal. The coating has a cross section in which the hard metal particles are dispersed in an island manner in a particle aggregate of the corrosion-resistant metal particles and in which an area ratio of the corrosion-resistant metal particles is 30% or larger. Thus, corrosion of the hard metal particles in the coating is prevented, whereby the sliding member maintains wear resistance for a long time.

Abstract: A thermal barrier coated component, such as a turbine blade formed from a superalloy substrate, includes a thermal barrier coating applied onto the substrate. A metallic bond coat layer is on the substrate and includes rare-earth luminescent dopants. A ceramic top coat layer is on the bond coat layer. A temperature sensing thermally grown oxide (TGO) layer is formed at the interface of the bond coat layer and ceramic top coat layer. The temperature sensing TGO layer includes grown rare-earth luminescent ions migrated from the metallic bond coat layer in an amount sufficient to enable luminescence sensing of the TGO layer for real-time phosphor thermometry temperature measurements at the TGO layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides processes for forming angular ceramic particles. In at least one embodiment, a process for forming angular ceramic particles includes providing a slurry having a ceramic raw material having alumina. The process includes atomizing the slurry into droplets and coating seeds comprising alumina with the droplets to form green pellets. The process includes sintering the green pellets to form sintered pellets. The process includes breaking the sintered pellets to form the angular ceramic particles comprising a sintered ceramic material. The angular ceramic particles can have an abrasion loss that is less than that of angular ceramic particles formed by crushing the green pellets prior to sintering.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an etched glass article including the steps of jetting an image with a UV curable inkjet ink on a surface of the glass article; curing the image; etching the surface not covered by the UV cured image to obtain an etched image; and solubilising the UV cured image in an aqueous alkaline solution.

Abstract: Described herein, are methods for providing a protective coating to a storage container for storing nuclear material, the method comprising depositing nickel particles on at least one surface of the substrate to produce the protective coating, wherein the nickel particles are deposited by cold spraying a composition comprising nickel particles and a carrier gas comprising nitrogen. In one aspect, the carrier gas consists essentially or consists only of nitrogen. The methods do not require pretreatment or modification of the nickel particles prior to cold spraying, which makes the methods described herein economically practical. The coatings produced by the methods described herein possess several advantageous properties including, but not limited to, high adhesion strength to the storage system and low porosity. The coatings produced by the methods described herein are effective against chemical attack such as, for example, CISCC.

Abstract: A hydrogen-developing body of an apparatus for producing hydrogen from an electrolyte solution is disclosed. The hydrogen-developing body is formed from magnesium (Mg) or zinc (Zn) or the like, or an alloy thereof, or has an electrolyte-contacting surface which is formed from magnesium (Mg) or zinc (Zn) or the like, or an alloy thereof. The electrolyte-contacting surface has regions formed from iron (Fe) or a Fe alloy, or the like, which are pellet-shaped and stochastically embedded into the surface such that the Fe/Fe alloy pellets are exposed to the environment of the body.

Abstract: Provided is a coating die enabling coating of two layers of coating films stably. The coating die includes: a first block including a first manifold to receive a first coating liquid; a second block including a second manifold to receive a second coating liquid; and a shim sandwiched between the first block and the second block.

Abstract: Coating installations are provided that include storage tanks for an aqueous base component and a non-aqueous hardener component, circulation lines for the components from the respective storage tanks, a mixer and an entrance to the mixer with a connection between each circulating line and the entrance to the mixer, and a release valve for the non-aqueous hardener component. The coating installation downstream of the non-aqueous hardener release valve is filled with a non-aqueous solvent composition comprising 0 to 10 wt. % of N-alkyl pyrrolidone, 0 to 5 wt. % of dimethyl sulfoxide, 10 to 50 wt. % of ?-butyrolactone, 10 to 50 wt. % of at least one monoalcohol, 10 to 60 wt. % of at least one organic solvent inert towards isocyanate groups, other than ?-butyrolactone, other than N-alkyl pyrrolidone, and consisting of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and, optionally, nitrogen, and 0 to 10 wt. % of at least one additive.

Abstract: A fluid applicator for use in a fluid application system includes a base plate comprising at least one rail and a housing slidably coupled to the base plate. The fluid applicator also includes a plurality of fluid permeable pads positioned within the housing and a fluid delivery conduit coupled to the base plate and to the housing. The fluid applicator further includes an actuator configured to selectively move the housing and the plurality of pads along the rails between a first position and a second position. The plurality of fluid permeable pads are in flow communication with the fluid delivery conduit in the first position, and the plurality of fluid permeable pads are prevented from being in flow communication with the fluid delivery conduit in the second position.

Abstract: Provided is a method for forming a multilayer coating film, the method being capable of forming a multilayer coating film having excellent chipping resistance, adhesion, and finished appearance. The method for forming a coating film uses a 3-coat and 1-bake system in which a three-layered multilayer coating film obtained by sequentially applying a first coloring paint (X), a second coloring paint (Y), and a clear coating paint (Z) onto an object to be coated is heated and cured at the same time, wherein the first coloring paint (X) and the second coloring paint (Y) contain a hydroxyl group-containing resin, and the clear coating paint (Z) contains a hydroxyl group-containing acrylic resin (a) and an aliphatic triisocyanate compound (b1) having a molecular weight within a specific range.

Abstract: An imprint apparatus includes an ejection device which ejects ejection material and a substrate stage which moves a substrate in a first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The imprint apparatus causes the ejection device to eject ejection material to the substrate while moving the substrate stage. At the time of ejecting ejection material to a second field adjacent to a first field in succession to an ejection to the first field in the first direction, the ejection device accepts an ejection start signal for the second field and determines an ejection start timing in the second field before ejection operation in the first field is completed.

Abstract: Described are shoes, in particular a sports shoe, wherein at least a portion of an upper of the shoe includes a first layer and a functional second layer, wherein the functional second layer is directly printed onto the first layer.

Abstract: A method for producing a layered structure in a multi-component process includes the steps of: generating a basic substrate composed of a transparent plastic, in particular of polycarbonate, in a first manufacturing step, and coating the basic substrate with a transparent resin layer, in particular composed of polyurethane, in a second manufacturing step.

Abstract: A coating method in which a first coating composition is applied to the surface of an object to be coated to obtain a first uncured coating film, a second coating composition is applied to the first uncured coating film to obtain a second uncured coating film, and the first uncured coating film and the second uncured coating film are then cured simultaneously by heating, wherein the first coating composition contains a hydroxyl group-containing resin component and the second coating composition contains an isocyanate component containing a triisocyanate represented by general formula (I) (in the formula, the multiple Y1 each independently are a single bond or a C1-20 divalent hydrocarbon group which optionally contains one or more selected from the group consisting of an ester group and an ether group, and R1 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-12 monovalent hydrocarbon group) and the above-mentioned hydroxyl group-containing resin component, is provided.

Abstract: The disclosure features lifting apparatuses for building cylinders in machines for producing 3D components. The apparatuses include a first bracket that receives the building cylinder, a first guide body that controls the first bracket movably and moves the building cylinder into a working plane in a process chamber, and a main drive that controls a piston that can be coupled to a substrate plate of the building cylinder with a stroke movement. At least one further guide body is associated with the first guide body, and both guide bodies are movable on at least one guide. The additional guide body has a bracket on which the main drive is provided, and the first and additional guide bodies have at least one driving apparatus to move them successively along the guide.

Abstract: Some devices, systems, and methods obtain a material map of a region; divide the region into a plurality of subregions; perform, for each of one or more subregions of the plurality of subregions, a first drop-pattern-generation process, wherein the first drop-pattern-generation process generates a respective initial drop pattern for the subregion based on the material map; and perform, for each of the one or more subregions of the plurality of subregions, a second drop-pattern-generation process, wherein the second drop-pattern-generation process generates a respective revised drop pattern for the subregion based on the material map and on the respective initial drop pattern for the subregion.

Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus including a holding unit configured to hold a material, a measurement unit configured to measure a position of the material held by the holding unit, a detection unit configured to detect dechucking of the material in the holding unit, and a control unit configured to control continuation processing for continuing an imprint process if the detection unit has detected the dechucking, wherein the control unit performs, as the continuation processing, processing of causing the holding unit to hold the dechucked material again without unloading the material from the imprint apparatus, and processing of measuring, by the measurement unit, a position of the material held again by the holding unit before the imprint process to use the position for alignment in the imprint process.

Abstract: A method for heating ware in a kiln. The ware space of the kiln includes a plurality of temperature control zones oriented in a first direction, and a plurality of temperature control zones oriented in a second direction. The method includes heating the ware space in a first heating stage, a second heating stage, and a third heating stage. At least one of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) in one of the heating stages, a temperature control zone oriented in the first direction has a setpoint temperature that is different from a setpoint temperature of one other temperature control zone oriented in the first direction; and (ii) in one of the heating stages, one temperature control zone oriented in the second direction has a setpoint temperature that is different from a setpoint temperature of one other temperature control zone oriented in the second direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing structural layers for guiding liquid flow on a porous substrate, by printing onto at least one area of at least one surface of the substrate a printing solution containing an aqueous dispersion of a poly(lactic acid)-based copolymer.

Abstract: When forming valve seat coats at opening portions (16a1 to 16a8) of intake ports (16) provided at a cylinder block mounting surface (12a) of a semimanufactured cylinder head (3), the nozzle of a cold spray apparatus moves along a nozzle movement path for air intake (Inp1) that is set between any two of the plurality of opening portions (16a1 to 16a8), while continuing to spray a raw material powder. When forming valve seat coats at opening portions (17a1 to 17a8) of exhaust ports (17), the nozzle moves along a nozzle movement path for air exhaust (Enp1) that is set between any two of the plurality of opening portions (17a1 to 17a8), while continuing to spray the raw material powder.