Abstract: An ice cube producing unit comprising a tray formed as an ice cube tray having at least one ice cube compartment, a lid which is suitable for being mounted on the tray to seal contents of the at least one ice cube compartment inside said at least one ice cube compartment, a displacing mechanism connecting the tray and the lid and having two positions: a closed position where the lid is held in a position where it abuts the tray and an open position where the lid is held in a position where it is separated from the tray so that an ice cube formed in the tray can leave the tray. The displacing mechanism comprises a bi-stable element arranged between the lid and the tray, said bi-stable element having a first stable state when the tray and the lid are in the closed position and a second stable state when the tray and lid are in the open position. In this way, a simple construction is provided which is easy to use and has a simple displacing mechanism.

Abstract: A template according to the present embodiment is a template used in a lithography process of a semiconductor manufacturing process. A first substrate includes a first face, a second face protruded from a portion of the first face, and a lateral face being a lateral face positioned between the second face and the first face and inclined with respect to the second face at a connection portion to the second face. A first material film is provided at least on the lateral face.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a plastic substrate having excellent thickness uniformity, and a plastic substrate having excellent thickness uniformity manufactured thereby.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making clear ice utilizes an insulated cooler tray, a container, and degassed water arranged in the container. The container includes a chamber in an upper portion and at least and preferably a plurality of receptacles in a lower portion, with the chamber and receptacles being filled with degassed water. The container is arranged in the cooler tray which includes a greater amount of insulating material in the bottom of the tray than in the top. When the container and cooler tray are arranged in a freezer, the tray causes directional freezing of the degassed water which forces any residual gas or air in the water to the bottom of the container into the receptacles. When directional freezing is complete, the bottom portion of the container may be broken away and the clear ice product removed from the container chamber for use.

Abstract: A display panel, a display module, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a total reflection display unit and a frame enclosing the reflective display unit. The frame includes a light-shielding portion and a reflective layer. The light-shielding portion has a first surface parallel to a first direction and a second surface oppositely located to the first surface. The reflective layer covers the first surface or the second surface. The reflective layer can reflect the light irradiated on the surface of the light shielding portion or entering the light shielding portion back to the total reflection display unit again, avoiding the waste caused by the scattered light caused by the propagation path of the light, thereby improving the utilization rate of light.

Abstract: A ball is provided forming an inside structure of the snow person, the ball having an inner and outer surface. The ball is a unitary work piece that is free and unconnected to other work pieces. An adhesion surface is disposed on the outer surface of the ball, the adhesion surface provided with nodules that extend away from the surface of the ball to adhere snow while the ball is rolled. Light units are integrated into the surface of the ball and having light emitting portions that extend away from the surface of the ball. A light output of the light units is selected to transmit light through a layer of snow. Connections between the light units situated within the ball connect the light units together.

Abstract: Within examples, elastomeric apparatuses for use in manufacture of a composite component, and methods for altering a surface rigidity of an elastomeric apparatus for use in manufacture of a composite component are described. In one example, an elastomeric apparatus comprises an elastomer housing, and a plurality of magnets within the elastomer housing at predetermined positions to provide surface rigidity to the elastomer housing based on one or more alignments of certain magnets of the plurality of magnets due to magnetic forces. An increase in temperature causes a loss in one or more of the magnetic forces of one or more of the plurality of magnets resulting in a reduction of stiffness of the elastomer housing at corresponding predetermined positions.

Abstract: An imprinting apparatus and methods of forming imprinted patterns are provided. The imprinting apparatus may include an imprint template and an exposure system. The imprint template may include a mesa portion and a light blocking layer. The mesa portion may have a patterned surface providing imprinting patterns, and the light blocking layer may define a window region. The exposure system may be configured to alternately generate a first exposure light travelling toward the window region and a second exposure light travelling toward the patterned surface.

Abstract: A process for producing a glass melting component composed of refractory metal. A surface zone of the glass melting component is densified at least in sections by application of local compressive stress. As a result the surface zone has its porosity reduced compared to a volume section which is located underneath the surface zone and which has residual porosity.

Abstract: A composite prepreg laminate such as a hat type-stringer is formed on a contoured mandrel using a combination of mechanical sweeping and vacuum forming.

Abstract: An integral homogeneous rod lens and the manufacturing thereof from a raw glass body are provided by melting the raw glass body in a mold, whereby a protruding part of the raw glass body deforms into a dome shape with a spherical or nearly spherical surface that defines a convex lens portion of the rod lens.

Abstract: An elastomeric substrate comprises a surface with regions of heterogeneous rigidity, wherein the regions are formed by exposing the elastomeric substrate to an energy source to form the regions such that the regions include a rigidity pattern comprising spots.

Abstract: A mould (10) for a tire, comprising two shells (30) that are each intended to mould a lateral sidewall of the tire, a ring of sectors (20) intended to mould a tread of the tire, each sector (20) of the ring of sectors comprising a radially inner face (21) having a moulding lining (22). The mould (10) has microstructures (50) that are designed to fill a clearance between two moulding linings (22) of adjacent sectors (20) and/or between a moulding lining (22) of one sector (20) and a shell (30), when the mould is closed.

Abstract: A wettable silicone hydrogel contact lens having a low ionoflux and low evaporation is manufactured by curing a silicone hydrogel polymerizable composition in a contact lens mold comprising front and back lens-forming surfaces, where one of the lens-forming surfaces has a higher polarity than the other lens-forming surface.

Abstract: A foam backed composite panel having two or more layers of materials adhesively bonded to each other. The panel has a face layer and an optional core layer with both made of any material except polyurethane foam. The panel's backside consists of a layer of exposed polyurethane foam and is supported by a frame. The foam backed panel is comprised on one or more layers of cast materials and has increased impact and fire resistance.

Abstract: The present invention discloses manufacturing methods of a powder for compacting rare earth magnet powder and rare earth magnet that omit jet milling process, which comprises the steps as follows: 1) casting: casting the molten alloy of rare earth magnet raw material by strip casting method to obtain a quenched alloy with average thickness in a range of 0.2˜0.4 mm; 2) hydrogen decrepitation: decrepitating the quenched alloy and a plurality of rigid balls into a rotating hydrogen decrepitation container simultaneously, the quenched alloy is crushed under a hydrogen pressure between 0.01˜1 MPa, cooling the alloy and the balls, then screening the mixture to remove the rigid balls and obtain the powder. As the jet milling process is omitted, the oxygenation during the process of the jet milling may be avoided, therefore the process may be non-oxide, and the mass production of magnet with super high property may be possible.

Abstract: Various ways in which material property variations of raw materials used in additive manufacturing can be identified and accounted for are described. In some embodiments, the raw material can take the form of powdered metal. The powdered metal can have any number of variations including the following: particle size variation, contamination, particle composition and particle shape. Prior to utilizing the powders in an additive manufacturing operation, the powders can be inspected for variations. Variations and inconsistencies in the powder can also be identified by monitoring an additive manufacturing with one or more sensors. In some embodiments, the additive manufacturing process can be adjusted in real-time to adjust for inconsistencies in the powdered metal.

Abstract: A process for welding metallic sections that includes providing first and second metallic sections to be welded together, and wherein the welded rail sections will include a weld fusion zone that further includes a weld terminus at each rail section; providing thermite welding dies for use in welding the metallic sections together; covering the thermite welding dies with an oxide displacing or oxide dissolving flux added locally to the edges of the thermite welding dies that are immediately adjacent to the weld fusion zone and the metallic sections; positioning the thermite welding dies on the metallic sections in the region where the metallic sections are to be joined together; and initiating an exothermic reaction between the thermite welding dies and the metallic sections by introducing molten metal into the region where the metallic sections are to be joined together, wherein the exothermic reaction creates a weld between the metallic sections.

Abstract: Within examples, elastomeric apparatuses for use in manufacture of a composite component, and methods for altering a surface rigidity of an elastomeric apparatus for use in manufacture of a composite component are described. In one example, an elastomeric apparatus comprises an elastomer housing, and a plurality of magnets within the elastomer housing at predetermined positions to provide surface rigidity to the elastomer housing based on one or more alignments of certain magnets of the plurality of magnets due to magnetic forces. An increase in temperature causes a loss in one or more of the magnetic forces of one or more of the plurality of magnets resulting in a reduction of stiffness of the elastomer housing at corresponding predetermined positions.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet-shaped mold possessing a high strength and having a low breakage rate in demolding even in a case where the mold is thin and has a large-area. The sheet-shaped mold is prepared by combining a cured silicone rubber containing a polyorganosiloxane and a fiber for reinforcing the cured silicone rubber. The fiber may comprise a cellulose nanofiber. The sheet-shaped mold may have an uneven pattern on at least one surface (or side) thereof. The fiber may be surface-treated with a hydrophobizing agent. The fiber may forma nonwoven fabric, and the nonwoven fabric may be impregnated with the cured silicone rubber. The cured silicone rubber may comprise a two-component curable silicone rubber having a polydimethylsiloxane unit. The sheet-shaped mold may be a mold for nanoimprint lithography using a photo-curable resin.

Abstract: A mold injection tool includes a first mold plate having first and second columns of mold cavities, each of the cavities and a first cull block arranged between the first and second columns. A plurality of first channel sections is formed between an adjacent pair of mold cavities. Each of the first channel sections are configured to guide liquefied molding material from the first cull block into the adjacent pair of mold cavities in the first and second columns. The mold injection tool further includes a second mold plate having similarly configured mold cavities, cull block, and channel section. Adjacent ones of the first and second channel sections form a contained chamber when the first and second mold plates are pressed together. The mold plates are configured to inject liquefied molding material through an entrance that is in open communication with each contained chamber.

Abstract: A cement form includes a unitary body portion having a first surface arranged vertically and configured to support a volume of cement, a second surface arranged horizontally and configured to contact a ground support surface, a foam material, and a detachable portion. The cement form may include a connector groove formed in the weight bearing surface and extending along at least a portion of a length of the body portion. The connector groove is configured to receive a connecting member that extends between adjacent positioned cement forms. The detachable portion may be positioned adjacent to the connector groove.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a fiber composite component with a base element, and with at least one ancillary element bonded to the base element. A reinforcement element is introduced in at least one bonding region of the base element or the ancillary element for purposes of developing a bonding surface for the ancillary element or the base element. A reinforcement element with fiber sections, the ends of which emanate from a bonding surface is provided. A fiber composite component is provided with a base element, in the bonding regions of which reinforcement elements are introduced, on the bonding surfaces of which ancillary elements are bonded with one such.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite insert includes forming a polymer mold from a polymer sheet which may have a glass transition temperature of 70 to 160° C., the polymer mold either includes a cavity or may form a cavity disposed between the polymer mold and the carrier. The method proceeds by depositing a liquid reactive composite insert composition, which may be a two-component composition including a first part comprised of an isocyanate-epoxy blend and a second part comprised of an alcohol-epoxy blend, into the cavity under low pressure conditions of 0-10 bar and low temperature conditions of 15-100° C. The composition is then allowed to become dimensionally stable either within the polymer mold or between the polymer mold and the carrier.

Abstract: Methods for fabricating composite tools and composite tools are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a method for fabricating a composite tool includes providing a master mold and forming a low temperature cured resin laminate overlying the master mold. The low temperature cured resin laminate is heated and compressed to form a cured low temperature cured resin laminate, the low temperature cured resin laminate heated to a first temperature. The cured low temperature cured resin laminate is removed from the master mold and a high temperature cured resin laminate is formed overlying the cured low temperature cured resin laminate. The high temperature cured resin laminate is heated and compressed to form a cured high temperature cured resin laminate. The high temperature cured resin laminate is heated to a second temperature, wherein the second temperature is higher than the first temperature.

Abstract: A cast mold for manufacturing a contact lens or an intraocular lens, wherein the cast mold is provided with a central part and a bearing ring and a flexible connection between the central part and the bearing ring. Further, an injection mold is provided for manufacturing such a cast mold and a method for manufacturing such a cast mold. The injection mold is provided with a mold cavity with a plunger biased by a spring towards the mold cavity which serves for compensating shrinkage which occurs during the curing of the plastic injected into the injection mold. Also described is a method for manufacturing a contact lens or intraocular lens with the aid of the cast mold, as well as a contact lens or intraocular lens obtained with this method.

Abstract: A composite bonding tool may comprise a mold surface made from a composite material including a fibrous material and a matrix disposed about the fibrous material. The resin may be cured and have a thermal conductivity greater than about 10 watts per meter Kelvin. The fibrous material may be further metal coated or plated to increase thermal conductivity. Carbon nanomaterials may be added to the matrix or onto the surface of the fibrous material in order to further enhance thermal conductivity. The mold surface has a relatively high thermal conductivity and relatively low coefficient of thermal expansion, and a relatively low mass.

Abstract: A method of producing an injection molding tool for molding an article includes producing a replica of the article using at least one of an additive manufacturing process, a solid freeform fabrication process, or a computer numerically controlled (CNC) process. A support block is configured to receive at least a portion of the replica of the article and support the replica with at least one of an outer peripheral surface of the replica or an inner peripheral surface of the replica positioned at a spaced distance from a peripheral surface of the support block. The replica is supported inside the support block at the spaced distance, a ceramic resin material is introduced into the spaced distance and cured to form a ceramic shell insert, the insert is removed from the cavity and sintered, and the insert is positioned within the support block to form a part of a mold tool adapted for installation in a standard plastic injection molding machine.

Abstract: A molding unit comprises a chamber supplied with pasta-filata and having outlets A mold has two rows of channels opening on a first surface of the mold facing downwards and arranged adjacent to the outlets. Driving elements drive the mold with reciprocating motion between a first position and a second position. A consolidation tub is arranged below the molding unit. A first chute and a second chute are arranged between the molding unit and the consolidation tub. Each chute has an inlet end substantially parallel to the plane defined by the axes of the channels, and an outlet end slanting with respect to the horizontal plane by a delivery angle in the range 0° to 45°.

Abstract: A method for producing, in a composite material, a component that has a re-entrant angle, includes stacking layers of fibers which have been pre-impregnated with a resin so as to obtain a preform and placing the preform in a tooling fixture in order to subject it to a polymerization cycle including a temperature cycle, with a temperature-increase phase and at least one soak at which the temperature is maintained, and a pressure cycle on the outside of the tooling fixture with a pressure-increase phase and a pressure-hold phase, with the layers of pre-impregnated fibers being able to slip against one another when the temperature of the temperature cycle is equal to or higher than a threshold temperature Tf dependent on the resin. The temperature-increase phase includes a soak at a temperature higher than or equal to Tf, the soak beginning before the end of the pressure-increase phase.

Abstract: A modular connector system for facilitating the construction of a playing area or non-playing area, such as an outdoor or backyard ice hockey or skating rink, a netted or lighted area, sand box, garden, and the like. Spanning boards and/or inserted poles can be used to join side connectors to corner connectors and to side connectors to form a free standing, fully enclosed, partially enclosed, walled-in, netted, or partitioned area.

Abstract: Automatic analyzers, in which the liquids to be analyzed are in so-called reaction vessels, simultaneously acting as optically high-quality cuvettes (10), are used in laboratories for analyzing various liquids. Further described is a handling package for cuvettes (10). A removable bonding strip (100) is fastened on the rows of cuvettes (10), the strip (100) binding the rows of cuvettes (10) during transport, and being easily removable when the cuvettes (10) are loaded into the instrument. The cuvettes (10) are loaded into the instrument by supporting the package in its place from the brackets (24) located in the ends of the cuvettes (10), so that the strip (100) can be pulled off the supported package of cuvettes (10).

Abstract: A method of reducing residual stress in a composite assembly may include assembling a first composite part to a second composite part to form a detail assembly. The first and second composite part may each have a flange and a web connected by a bend radius. The webs may be arranged back-to-back. The detail assembly may be cured on a compensated cure tool compensated for cure shrinkage spring-in predicted to occur in the first and second composite part. The method may include allowing the first and second composite part to spring in from cure shrinkage, and assembling the detail assembly to an uncured third composite. The method may also include co-bonding the detail assembly to the third composite part on an assembly cure tool to form a composite assembly having reduced cure shrinkage residual stress in the bend radii of the first and second composite part.

Abstract: A ceramic die for a hot press is provided, along with a method of constructing a ceramic die. The ceramic die includes a ceramic die body defining a mold surface configured to shape a part during a superplastic forming process. The mold surface defines at least one curved surface and at least one non-curved surface, spaced apart from the at least one curved surface. The ceramic die also includes a plurality of fibers disposed within the ceramic die body. The plurality of fibers may be preferentially located proximate the at least one curved surface such that a first portion of the ceramic die body proximate the at least one curved surface has a greater percentage of fibers than a second portion of the ceramic die body proximate the at least one non-curved surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the replication of a patterned surface relief microstructure, comprising the steps of generation of a first layer with a patterned surface relief microstructure, generation of a master, by copying the microstructure of the first layer into a second layer, thereby involving at least one dry or wet etching step, characterized by an additional step, in which the microstructure of the master is brought into contact with a replica material, such that the microstructure of the master is reproduced in the replica. The invention further relates to the elements made as a replica according to the method. The surface relief microstructures are suitable to display images with a positive-negative and/or color image flip. The elements according to the invention are particularly useful for securing documents and articles against counterfeiting and falsification.

Abstract: A seat having particular application for a chair to enhance the comfort of one seated in the chair. A plurality of (e.g., foam) cushion layers laying one over the other are located at the top of the seat. One of the plurality of foam cushion layers is manufactured from a material having a memory which conforms to and temporarily retains the shape of the user. Located at the bottom of the seat below the plurality of cushion layers are a plurality of coil springs that stand upwardly against the cushion layers in side-by-side alignment with one another so that the back of the seat is firmer than the front. The plurality of cushion layers are arranged in a stack such that the density of the memory foam cushion layer is greater than the density of the other ones of the plurality of cushion layers.

Abstract: A seat having particular application for a chair to enhance the comfort of one seated in the chair. A plurality of (e.g., foam) cushion layers laying one over the other are located at the top of the seat. One of the plurality of foam cushion layers is manufactured from a material having a memory which conforms to and temporarily retains the shape of the user. Located at the bottom of the seat below the plurality of cushion layers are a plurality of coil springs that stand upwardly against the cushion layers in side-by-side alignment with one another so that the back of the seat is firmer than the front. The plurality of cushion layers are arranged in a stack such that the density of the memory foam cushion layer is greater than the density of the other ones of the plurality of cushion layers.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a bag body that has a bag-shaped member made of an elastic and airtight material, and a granular substance filled inside of the bag-shaped member, includes a step of preparing a core for forming the bag-shaped member, by hardening the granular substance; a step of forming the bag-shaped member by forming a covering made of the elastic and airtight material around the core; and a step of breaking up the core that is inside of the bag-shaped member.

Abstract: The invention features a method for producing replicas of a desired structure, a master and a mold obtained from it for use in such a method. The master includes a desired structure (200) to be reproduced and an additional structure (206, 208) that assists in removal of the master from a mold, e.g. by permitting portions of the mold on opposite sides of the additional structure to flex away from one another when the master is removed from the mold. The method includes immersing the master comprising the desired structure (200) and the additional structure (206, 208) in a molding material (142), solidifying the molding material (142) to make a mold, removing the master from the mold and using the mold to produce replicas of the desired structure (200).

Abstract: Methods of operating a recording media press system are described. The method may include clamping, with a plurality of first tabs, an outer perimeter portion of a first embossing foil to a first die of a die press and clamping with a plurality of second tabs, an outer perimeter portion of a second embossing foil to a second die of the press. The method may also include receiving a magnetic recording disk in the die press, interleaving the plurality of first tabs with the plurality of second tabs to close the die press around the magnetic recording disk, and pressing the first and second embossing foils against the recording media disk to emboss a front and backside of the recording disk with a discrete track recording pattern.

Abstract: An optical lens includes a lens portion having an optical axis, and an exterior portion connected to an outer periphery of the lens portion. The exterior portion has first and second surfaces that are disposed along a direction parallel to the optical axis and spaced apart from each other, a first annular surface that extends from a periphery of the second surface parallelly with respect to the optical axis, and a second annular surface that interconnects the first annular surface and the first surface. The second annular surface extends obliquely with respect to the first annular surface.

Abstract: A method for producing a substrate having a concavity and convexity pattern includes: a step for applying a sol containing a silica precursor on a substrate to form a coating film; a step for drying the coating film; a pressing step for pressing a mold having a concavity and convexity pattern against the dried coating film with a pressing roll; a step for peeling off the mold from the coating film; and a step for baking the coating film to which the concavity and convexity pattern has been transferred. The coating film is dried in the drying step so that the ratio of weight of the coating film to dried weight of the coating film is in a range of 1.4 to 8.8, the dried weight being obtained by baking the coating film at a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius. The coating film may be heated in the pressing step.

Abstract: A mold for forming a coated intramedullary (IM) nail can include a tubular member having an insertion end and an opposite end. The tubular member can comprise a sidewall extending along a longitudinal axis between an outer surface and an inner surface. The sidewall can define at least one threaded inlet port therealong. The tubular member can be configured to receive the IM nail therein. The tubular member can be further configured to locate a flowable material against the IM nail within the inner surface.

Abstract: An article of manufacture includes a jig including a flat surface with a curved groove therein; a light guide located within the curved groove, the light guide including an internal groove; and a bend-aid located in the internal groove of the light guide.

Abstract: A method and template for preparing small, tender cakes is provided. The method includes preparing sheet cakes and slicing them into sleeves of cake. Frosting is template and frozen, and then rolled around the narrow cake leaf. Fillings may be added inside the cake leaf before rolling. The cake is then rolled similarly to maki-style sushi, sliced into shorter segments, and presented vertically on a serving dish. Decorations and additional frosting may be used.

Abstract: An apparatus for making frozen comestibles including a base having a plurality of apertures formed within said first site thereof, and a plurality of molds attached to or formed integrally with the base. Each of the molds includes a receiving surface and an opening aligned with a corresponding one of the apertures of the base. Each of the molds is moveable between a first position, in which a substantial portion of at least one mold is positioned within the interior portion of the base and said receiving surface forms a molding cavity that is adapted to receive a comestible to be frozen, and a second position, in which a substantial portion of the mold extends outwardly from the first side of the base and the receiving surface of the mold is exposed externally.

Abstract: A modular mold system for manufacturing a shell part of an oblong composite structure having a longitudinal direction from a fiber reinforced matrix material. The modular mould system includes a number of mold sections, which are adapted to being assembled to an assembled mold part. The number of mold sections includes a first mold section having a first molding surface with a contour that defines a surface of a first longitudinal part of the shell part and a first end section; and a second mold section having a second molding surface with a contour that defines a surface of a second longitudinal part of the shell part and a second end section; which, when the modular mold system is assembled to the assembled mold, the second end section of the second mold section abuts the first end section of the first mold section.

Abstract: An ice mold includes a first mold assembly and a second mold assembly, each including a base with an aperture and a mold attached to the base. Each of the molds includes a receptacle that forms a cavity. The first mold assembly is attached removably to the second mold assembly such that a liquid-tight seal is formed between the molds. When the first mold assembly and the second mold assembly are attached to one another, the cavities of the molds form a molding cavity. When the first mold assembly and the second mold assembly are detached from one another, each of the receptacles is moveable from a first molding position, in which the receptacle is positioned within the respective aperture of the base, and a second inverted position, in which at least a portion of the receptacle of extends outwardly from the aperture.

Abstract: The invention relates to a molding tool for the production of components composed of fiber composite materials, in which the molding tool has a fiber composite structure and an electrical resistance heating element, whereby carbon fibers or carbon filaments are embedded into the fiber composite structure of the molding tool in a plastic matrix, close to the shaping surface of the molding tool. Such a molding tool is further developed in that the carbon fibers or carbon filaments in the plastic matrix, close to the shaping surface, essentially determine the mechanical strength of the molding tool, and that the electrical resistance heating element is interconnected in such a manner that at least individual sections of the electrical resistance heating element form an electrical parallel circuit with one another.

Abstract: An ice maker includes an upper tray that includes a plurality of upper cells that each have a hemispherical shape and an ice making tube disposed at outer circumferential surfaces of the upper cells and configured to cool each of the upper cells. The ice maker also includes a lower tray that includes a plurality of lower cells that each have a hemispherical shape. The lower tray is rotatably connected to the upper tray. The ice maker further includes a rotation shaft connected to a rear end of the lower tray and a rear end of the upper tray, and configured to rotate the lower tray with respect to the upper tray.