Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for manufacturing cast silicon. The systems and methods include a plurality of inductive coils configured to form a space to contain molten silicon, and configured to generate an electromagnetic field when an electrical current is supplied to the inductive coils to support the molten silicon so that a gap is maintained in a portion of the space between at least one substantially vertical wall of the molten silicon and at least one of the inductive coils, and when a portion of the molten silicon solidifies into a solid silicon ingot as the molten silicon is cooled by the cooling device, a concave liquid/solid interface is formed between the molten silicon and the solid silicon ingot.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects of optical tape technology, tape manufacturing, and tape usage.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for synthesizing a conductive composite with enhanced electrical conductivity. The apparatus includes: an injection-molding machine which injection-molds pellets created by mixing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with polymers; and an electric field generator which applies an electric field to the pellets that are melted while the melted pellets are injection-molded and thus rearranges the CNTs included in a composite into which the melted pellets are injection-molded.

Abstract: An injection molding apparatus is disclosed having an actuated part that is movable in forward and rearward directions with a coupling part attached thereto having a spring coupling and a magnetic coupling. A valve pin for opening and closing a mold gate is coupled to the coupling part to be movable with the actuated part. When the actuated part is moved and the valve pin experiences a stopping force, either a spring of the spring coupling is positioned for dampening the stopping force encountered by the valve pin or the magnetic coupling, which is magnetically coupled to the actuated part and/or the valve pin, decouples from the actuated part or the valve pin to limit or prevent continued movement of the valve pin with the actuated part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a blowing or stretch-blowing device (1) for making vessels from thermoplastic blanks with a collar, that comprises a blowing nozzle (3) mobile between an upper position and a lower position for blowing a pressurised fluid into a blank having a body provided in the moulding cavity of a mould and having a collar protruding outside the mould, the device includes a clamping means (4) provided above the mould and capable of holding a blank by the collar thereof, a holding means (20, 21) for the clamping means for moving the same between two raised or lowered positions, wherein at least one branch (7, 8) of the clamping means being transversally mobile; mechanical coupling means (5) provided between the clamping means and the blowing nozzle and capable of synchronising the movements of the clamping means with the movement of the blowing nozzle.

Abstract: The method comprises differentiated separation of the strips holding the silicone cores with respect to the honeycomb produced, by simply curving one of the strips corresponding to one of the faces of the honeycomb and by progressive action of pulsed magnetic fields in the other of the strips holding the silicone cores, progressively separating the honeycomb and preventing breakages in the walls of the same. In a device equipped with an alignment of electromagnets which act on the strip bearing the elastic cores to be separated and which exert an action of pulsed magnetic fields on the same, progressively separating the strip from the honeycomb.

Abstract: An imprint lithography apparatus and manufacturing method can lead to mechanical stress being formed in a substrate to which an imprint pattern is being applied. This may cause strain within the substrate leading to misalignment of a subsequent pattern with an earlier pattern in a part of the substrate, which is strained. An apparatus and method is disclosed which allows for stress relaxation in the substrate prior to further patterning to reduce, minimize or prevent such misalignment from residual strain. This is achieved by locally unclamping a portion of substrate (including optionally the entire substrate) from a corresponding portion of substrate holder so that mechanical stress leading to local strain may relax prior to further patterning. To overcome residual frictional force between the substrate and substrate holder, the substrate and substrate holder may be physically separated prior to further patterning.

Abstract: Each of a plurality of injection molding machines is provided with clamp plates fixed on platens and a plurality of magnet units to generate magnetic force for fixing a mold to the clamp plate fitted on the clamp plates; and the plurality of injection molding machines are provided with a plurality of common connectors having the same structure, each of which is electrically connected to the magnetic unit, a molding machine control unit and a power source device; and the mold fixing system comprises a set of operation control units to be shared by the plurality of injection molding machines, and when a mold is to be exchanged in any of the injection molding machines, the plurality of magnet units are switched to the non-adsorbing state or the adsorbing state via the operation control unit in the state where the operation control unit is connected to the common connector of the injection molding machine.

Abstract: An actuated part, such as a valve pin plate or actuator piston, is movable in forward and rearward directions. A coupling part is located rearward of the actuated part and held in position by magnetic attraction between the coupling part and the actuated part. A valve pin is coupled to the coupling part. The valve pin extends in the forward direction for opening and closing a mold gate. When a stopping force applied to the valve pin is greater than a force of the magnetic attraction between the coupling part and the actuated part, the actuated part moves away from the coupling part in the forward direction, thereby reducing the stopping force on the valve pin.

Abstract: A mold structure including a disc-shaped base material; a concavo-convex pattern formed on one surface of the base material; and a member extendable and contractible by an external force.

Abstract: A mold includes a pot for accommodating resin, a cavity for accommodating a semiconductor chip to be resin-molded and a runner as a resin passage for transporting the resin accommodated in the pot to the cavity. A foreign matter retention pocket is disposed which is a recess formed by digging further a partial inner surface of the runner. A runner magnet attracts and attaches a metallic foreign matter contained in fluid transported in the runner to the inner surface of the foreign matter retention pocket.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a rare earth anisotropic bond magnet containing a hollow cylindrically shaped magnetic molded body having, at the hollow cylindrically shaped side face thereof, at least 4 or more orientation portions that are oriented with semi-radial distribution by compression molding of a magnetic material after thermally orienting step, wherein intermediate aligning magnetic fields applied in the thermally orienting step to between adjacent cavities are the mostly same in their magnetic directions. A plurality of rare earth anisotropic bond magnets can be efficiently produced at one time.

Abstract: An exemplary molding apparatus includes a first and a second mold core, a mold core receiving member, at least three positioning members and pushing members. The first and second mold core respectively have a first and a second molding portion, the first and second molding portion are configured for cooperatively defining a mold cavity. The mold core receiving member defines a through hole for receiving the second molding portion, at least three spaced receptacles in an inner wall thereof, and at least three spaced receiving holes in communication with the respective at least three receptacles. The at least three positioning members are received in the at least three receptacles. The at least three pushing members are movably received lengthwise in the at least three receiving holes, and being configured for urging the at least three positioning members to move toward the second molding portion thus hold the second molding portion.

Abstract: A magnetic roll for embossing, the magnetic roll incorporating a cylindrical core having a base radial dimension, the base radial dimension being less than a finished radial dimension; magnet receiving channels within the cylindrical core; a multiplicity of magnets attached within the magnet receiving channels; at least a first armature effect resisting metal band, the band adhering to the cylindrical core's first circumferential surface, the band overlying a plurality of the magnets, and the band consisting of a deposition of metal sprayed molten metal droplets; and an outer surface, the outer surface being a radially outer periphery of the at least first armature effect resisting metal band, the outer surface being ground to reside at a finished radial dimension.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnetic sheet includes a slurry sheet forming step, a local magnetic field applying step, and a slurry curing step. In the slurry sheet forming step, slurry is formed by mixing flat soft magnetic metal powder in a binding material, and a slurry sheet is formed by shaping the slurry into a sheet. In the local magnetic field applying step, only the orientation of the flat soft magnetic metal powder, which exists in the partial area, of the entire flat soft magnetic metal powder mixed in the slurry sheet is unified in a predetermined direction by locally applying a magnetic field to a partial area of the expanded slurry sheet in a predetermined direction. In the slurry curing step, a magnetic sheet is formed by curing the slurry sheet after the local magnetic field applying step.

Abstract: A machine for treating or processing a conveyable material, particularly a free-flowing or pasty material or a bulk material comprises at least one passage section having at least one passage through which the conveyable material, which is to be treated or processed, can be conveyed along a direction of conveyance. The at least one passage section forms at least one partial area of a channel of the machine and is mounted so that it can move in relation to this channel. This at least one passage section is coupled to at least one source, which is provided for effecting oscillations and by means of which the passage section can be set in mechanical oscillatory motion with regard to the channel of the machine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus and methods of vibration. In particular, the present invention relates to apparatus and methods of vibration for tooling in a structure, such as, for example, a fuselage. In one implementation, the tooling comprises at least two conductors that create a force to vibrate the media in the tooling, which improves the compaction of the media in the tooling and the extraction of the media from the tooling. Other implementations may be used for compaction and/or extraction of the media in the tooling.

Abstract: There are provided an apparatus and an associated method for manufacturing superplastically formed structural assemblies from preforms. The apparatus includes first and second co-operable dies structured to define a die cavity therebetween for at least partially receiving the preform, at least one heater in thermal communication with the die cavity for heating the preform to a forming temperature, and at least one injector in fluid communication with the die cavity. The injector is structured for injecting pressurized gas into the die cavity to urge the preform against one of the dies to form the preform into the structural assembly. Further, at least one of the injectors is structured for injecting a quenchant into the die cavity to thereby heat treat the structural assembly while distortion of the structural assembly is being at least partially restrained by at least one of the dies.

Abstract: A contact lithography apparatus, system and method use a deformation to facilitate pattern transfer. The apparatus, system and method include a spacer that provides a spaced apart parallel and proximal orientation of lithographic elements, such as a mask and a substrate, when in mutual contact with the spacer. One or more of the mask, the substrate and the spacer is deformable, such that deformation thereof facilitates the pattern transfer.

Abstract: A filling shoe for rotary tablet presses, comprising a filling shoe housing with at least one discharge opening for a starting product which is to be compressed and with a seal for sealing the gap between the die plate and filling shoe housing, which seal can be fastened exchangeably to a bottom wall of the filling shoe housing. In order to make it possible to achieve shorter downtimes when changing the seals, the seal in the mounted state is fastened to the bottom wall by means of magnetic force. Changing the seal can then take place, if appropriate even without any further aids, by overcoming the magnetic holding force and replacing the seal with a new seal. The invention also relates to the seal for sealing the gap, which seal can be fastened according to the invention by means of magnetic elements.

Abstract: A system includes a mold having a receptacle. The mold is configured to form a body panel of a vehicle. Alternating inserts are each configured to be selectively retained by and released from the receptacle. Each respective alternating insert, when selectively retained by the receptacle, is configured to form a labeling region on a body panel formed in the mold. A method for forming a body panel of a vehicle includes providing a mold having a receptacle. A first insert is selectively retained within the receptacle, and a first body panel is formed in the mold to have a first labeling region provided by the first insert. The first insert is released from the receptacle and a second insert is selectively retained within the receptacle. A second body panel is formed in the mold to have a second labeling region provided by the second insert.

Abstract: A mold clamping device uses an electromagnet to generate clamping force. In the mold clamping device, a coil holding member holds a coil which constitutes a part of the electromagnet. A coil placement part is arranged in a surface of the coil holding member to place the coil therein, wherein the coil is embedded in the coil placement part by a molding material. The mold clamping device is able to cool the coil of the electromagnet appropriately.

Abstract: By arranging such that the crystal fractures of alloy raw meal powder having crystal orientational relationship with one another get combined in the magnetic field, there is provided a molding apparatus which is capable of molding a molded body having an extremely high orientation. The molding apparatus of this invention has: a cavity for filling thereinto a powder that is polarized in magnetic field or electric field; means for generating magnetic field or electric field capable of charging the powder filled in the cavity with the magnetic field or electric field; an agitating means for agitating the powder in a state of being charged with the magnetic field or the electric field, thereby orienting the powder; and a pressurizing means for applying a compression force in the magnetic field or electric field to the agitated and oriented product.

Abstract: A method for producing solid multicrystalline silicon ingots or wafers, comprising: introducing a silicon-bearing gas into a reactor chamber, wherein the reaction chamber includes a reactor chamber wall having (i) an inside surface facing a reaction space and (ii) an opposing outside surface, and a product outlet; generating a plasma in the reactor space; thermally decomposing the silicon-bearing gas by subjecting the silicon-bearing gas to a sufficient temperature to produce liquid silicon; maintaining the inside surface of the reactor chamber wall at an equilibrium temperature below the melting point temperature of silicon while thermally decomposing the silicon-bearing gas; and introducing the liquid silicon from the product outlet directly into a module for casting the liquid silicon into solid multicrystalline silicon ingots or multicrystalline silicon wafer.

Abstract: A press machine 10 includes a die 12 with a through hole 12a that defines a cavity, a first press surface 14a and a second press surface 16a for pressing a magnetic powder 18 loaded in the cavity, and magnetic field generating means for applying an aligning magnetic field to the magnetic powder 18 in the cavity. At least one of the first and second press surfaces 14a and 16a has a region made of a material having a Vickers hardness that is higher than 200 but equal to or lower than 450. In pressing the powder under the aligning magnetic field, the press machine 10 minimizes the disturbance in the orientation of the powder.

Abstract: A method of making a masonry block employing a mold assembly having a plurality liner plates each having a major surface that together form a mold cavity having an open top and an open bottom, wherein at least one liner plate is moveable between a retracted position and a desired extended position within the mold cavity. The method includes providing a negative of a desired texture on the major surface of the moveable liner plate, moving the moveable liner plate to a retracted position, closing the bottom of the mold cavity by positioning a pallet below the mold assembly, filling the mold cavity with dry cast concrete via the open top, vibrating the mold assembly and dry cast concrete therein, and moving the moveable liner plate to a desired extended position during the vibrating.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method forming conductive templates that includes providing a substrate; forming a mesa on the substrate; and forming a plurality of recessions and projections on the mesa with a nadir of the recessions comprising electrically conductive material and the projections comprising electrically insulative material. It is desired that the mesa be substantially transparent to a predetermined wavelength of radiation, for example ultraviolet radiation. As a result, it is desired to form the electrically conductive material from a material that allows ultraviolet radiation to propagate therethrough. In the present invention indium tin oxide is a suitable material from which to form the electrical conductive material.

Abstract: A method for processing thermoplastics in a shaping device, whereby before and/or during its passage in the shaping device the thermoplastic is submitted to a static electrical field.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting machine comprising at least one moving type cutting table (1), in which the plastic material to be cut (2) is placed; a plurality of lower electromagnets (3) and a plurality of upper electromagnets (4) a ferromagnetic sphere (5); microwave emitting means (6); computer numerical control means (7). This machine is based on the use of a sphere (5) cutting plastic materials by means of thermal fusion, and which is controlled in space by magnetic means.

Abstract: Electrospinning apparatus and methods for spinning a polymer fiber from a fluid comprising a polymer in the presence of an electric field established between at least one collector and a jet supply device, in a first embodiment comprising: a) forming an electrospinning jet stream of the fluid directed toward the at least one collector; b) controlling dispersion characteristics of the fluid by applying a magnetic field between the jet supply device and the at least one collector; c) forming at least one polymer fiber at the at least one collector; and in a second embodiment comprising: a) forming an electrospinning jet stream of the fluid directed toward a plurality of collectors; b) controlling dispersion characteristics of the fluid by applying different voltages to at least two collectors of the plurality of collectors; c) forming at least one polymer fiber at least one collector of the plurality of collectors.

Abstract: A tire mold and a molding device for forming a sunken groove in a tire are provided. The molding device includes one or more rigid elements joined to a flexible member. The flexible member is formed from a flexible material, preferably a superalloy, or hyperelastic material. The molding device may further comprise a magnet. A portion of the flexible member is positioned in contact with a first surface of a relief forming element of a mold and the rigid element has a mating surface in mating contact with a second surface of the relief forming element. The mold further may further comprise a second relief forming element positioned adjacent the first relief forming element, wherein the rigid element further includes an outer surface in mating contact with a surface of said second relief forming element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for moulding mixtures, preferably concrete mixtures for producing blocks. The device comprises a mould for receiving the concrete mixture, a table, to which the mould is coupled by means of brace elements, a vibration generation system, mounted on the table, for generating harmonic vibrations and for transmitting the latter to the table, a load in the form of a ram for exerting a force on the concrete mixture, first spring elements for elastically supporting the table and second spring elements for elastically supporting the load. A device of this type is equipped with at least eight rotating unbalanced shafts with parallel rotational axes in the vibration generation system. The unbalanced shafts are coupled in pairs for their rotational motion, each pair of unbalanced shafts having a common rotational axis and being driven independently of the other pairs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus and methods of vibration. In particular, the present invention relates to apparatus and methods of vibration for tooling in a structure, such as, for example, a fuselage. In one implementation, the tooling comprises at least two conductors that create a force to vibrate the media in the tooling, which improves the compaction of the media in the tooling and the extraction of the media from the tooling. Other implementations may be used for compaction and/or extraction of the media in the tooling.

Abstract: An injection molding machine is provided. Permanent magnets are attached to a planetary roller spindle and/or ball screw spindle or to the spindle nut of the injection molding machine. Thus, the permanent magnets are integrated into the planetary roller spindle and/or ball screw spindle or to the spindle nut of the injection molding machine.

Abstract: A magnetic induction foam molding apparatus comprising: a pair of electromagnet parts, each of which has a core part composed of a ferromagnet and a coil part placed on the outer circumference surface of the core part, and that are placed so as to face each other and depart from each other with a predetermined distance in the axis direction of the core part; a foaming mold interposed between the pair of electromagnet parts, inside which a cavity is defined; and a yoke part connecting back surfaces of the respective core parts of the pair of the electromagnet pats so as to form a magnetic path between a pair of the back surfaces. In the cavity of the foaming mold, a uniform magnetic field is formed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium including, a mold structure formed of a disc-shaped substrate having on a surface thereof a concavo-convex pattern having convex portions which correspond to a servo area and a data area of a magnetic recording medium; and an imprinting and magnetic field applying unit which transfers a concavo-convex pattern on the basis of the concavo-convex pattern of the mold structure into an imprint resist layer that is made of an imprint resist composition and that is formed on a magnetic layer of a magnetic recording medium base by pressing the mold structure against the imprint resist layer, and which transfers magnetism to the servo area by application of a magnetic field via the mold structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a molding die and a control method thereof aimed at shortening cycle time from heating to cooling of a molding cavity of the die with a simple and inexpensive configuration. In a molding die equipped with a molding cavity to mold a base material, a magnetic die material is used for the molding cavity, cooling means to feed a refrigerant is installed inside the molding cavity along a molding face and heating means by high-frequency induction is installed around the cooling means, and the molding cavity is alternately heated and cooled repeatedly by the heating means and the cooling means when the base material is molded with the molding cavity. Here, the cooling means includes a tubular body installed in the molding cavity, feeds a refrigerant when the molding cavity is cooled, and is in a hollow state of not containing the refrigerant when the molding cavity is heated.

Abstract: Various mold apparatuses and methods for forming a polymer with induction heat energy are provided. In one embodiment of the present invention, a mold apparatus for forming polymer includes a mold having a top mold portion and a top mold surface that is magnetic. The bottom mold portion of the mold includes an induction heating unit that is at least partially embedded in the bottom mold portion that provides induction heat energy to the mold. The mold apparatus is constructed and arranged to dissipate greater than about 50% of the induction heat energy in the top mold portion. The induction heating unit of the bottom portion of the mold provides rapid heating the top mold surface to provide high surface quality polymer parts a shorter molding cycle time while utilizing less energy.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic coder device, the method being of the type consisting in making a mixture of ferromagnetic particles or ferrites in a matrix, in molding the matrix, and in subjecting the molded matrix to a magnetic field so as to obtain a continuous alternation of north and south magnetic poles, which method consists in using a matrix having viscosity that is sufficiently low to enable the ferrites to migrate, in applying a magnetic field during the molding operation while maintaining the matrix at a given temperature in order to reduce its viscosity and thereby making it easier to cause the ferromagnetic particles to migrate and become oriented in their direction of easy magnetization, and to obtain discontinuous shapes having high particle concentration, and in suddenly cooling the matrix while the magnetic field is maintained so as to freeze the particles in the matrix.

Abstract: A displacement sensor system for use with a tooling die having a die parting line between die sections includes a target that is attachable to one of the die sections and a laser sensor that is attachable to another of the die sections. The laser sensor is operative to transmit a laser toward the target, receive a reflected laser from the target, and produce a signal representing a distance between the die sections.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting machine comprising at least one moving type cutting table (1), in which the plastic material to be cut (2) is placed; a plurality of lower electromagnets (3) and a plurality of upper electromagnets (4) a ferromagnetic sphere (5); microwave emitting means (6); computer numerical control means (7). This machine is based on the use of a sphere (5) cutting plastic materials by means of thermal fusion, and which is controlled in space by magnetic means.

Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus and methods of vibration. In particular, the present invention relates to apparatus and methods of vibration for tooling in a structure, such as, for example, a fuselage. In one implementation, the tooling comprises at least two conductors that create a force to vibrate the media in the tooling, which improves the compaction of the media in the tooling and the extraction of the media from the tooling. Other implementations may be used for compaction and/or extraction of the media in the tooling.

Abstract: A device for transforming thermoplastic matrix composite materials or thermosetting materials, includes two mold casings that are mobile relative to each other, electrically conductive, and include a molding zone designed to be in contact with the material to be transformed. The faces of one of the two mold casings are situated so as to be facing magnetic field generator, except for the molding zones, and are coated with a shielding layer made of a non-magnetic material preventing the magnetic field from penetrating into the mold casings. The mold casings are electrically insulated from each other during the molding phase so that the faces of the two mold casings demarcate an air gap wherein flows the magnetic field that induces currents at the surface of the molding zones thus localizing the heating at the interface between the molding zone and the material to be transformed.

Abstract: A tire mold and a molding device for forming a sunken groove in a tire are provided. The molding device includes one or more rigid elements joined to a flexible member. The flexible member is formed from a flexible material, preferably a superalloy, or hyperelastic material. The molding device may further comprise a magnet. A portion of the flexible member is positioned in contact with a first surface of a relief forming element of a mold and the rigid element has a mating surface in mating contact with a second surface of the relief forming element. The mold further may further comprise a second relief forming element positioned adjacent the first relief forming element, wherein the rigid element further includes an outer surface in mating contact with a surface of said second relief forming element.

Abstract: A magnetic blockout assembly including a concrete barrier element having a front side, a back side and a cavity in the front side, at least one magnet embedded within the back side of the concrete barrier element, and a flange connector having an engagement surface sized and shaped to fit within the cavity of the concrete barrier element, so that the concrete barrier element may be coupled to the flange connector to position the flange connector in a predetermined location and protect a surface of the flange connector from concrete and other foreign substances.

Abstract: A device capable of producing an annular magnet or arcuate magnet with excellent dimensional accuracy and magnet performance, of which the mass is not greatly scattered. The device for producing the annular magnet, for example, includes a preforming section for obtaining an annular preformed body from a compound of a mixture of an anisotropic magnet powder and a thermosetting resin, a magnetic field orienting and forming section for obtaining an annular intermediate formed body by subjecting the annular preformed body to orienting and pressure-forming, a main forming section for obtaining an annular magnet by further forming the annular intermediate formed body, and a work transferring section for transferring works.

Abstract: This invention relates to a permanent magnet molding apparatus and has as an object an improvement in productivity and reliability thereof.

Abstract: A micro-filer and an injection molding machine using the micro-filer and an injection molding method are disclosed.

Abstract: A stud for vehicle tyres includes a central body, a tip connected to a first end of the central body, and a base provided on a second end of the central body. The first end of the central body is opposite the second end. The stud has at least one abutting shoulder arranged at a predefined distance from the tip. A method for manufacturing a tyre for vehicle wheels including the studs, a vulcanization mould for tyres including seats designed to retain the studs, a tyre for vehicle wheels including the studs, and a premoulded tread band containing the studs for retreading a tyre are also disclosed.

Abstract: A system includes a mold having a receptacle. The mold is configured to form a body panel of a vehicle. Alternating inserts are each configured to be selectively retained by and released from the receptacle. Each respective alternating insert, when selectively retained by the receptacle, is configured to form a labeling region on a body panel formed in the mold. A method for forming a body panel of a vehicle includes providing a mold having a receptacle. A first insert is selectively retained within the receptacle, and a first body panel is formed in the mold to have a first labeling region provided by the first insert. The first insert is released from the receptacle and a second insert is selectively retained within the receptacle. A second body panel is formed in the mold to have a second labeling region provided by the second insert.