Abstract: A production method for a low molecular weight polymer suitable for a melt-blown non-woven fabric and a production device for melt-blown non-woven fabric, with which a high molecular weight polymer can be reduced in molecular weight by applying a shear force to the high molecular weight polymer without adding an additive. The low molecular weight polymer and the melt-blown non-woven fabric are produced using a continuous high shearing device that applies a shear force to the high molecular weight polymer serving as a raw material by rotation of a screw body to reduce the molecular weight of the high molecular weight polymer so as to obtain a low molecular weight polymer, and cools the low molecular weight polymer by passing the low molecular weight polymer through a passage arranged in the axial direction inside the screw body.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing system includes an additive manufacturing unit configured to shape an object including a plurality of layers, a measurement unit configured to measure a state of each of the plurality of layers, and a control unit. The control unit includes a storage unit configured to store reference information based on internal defect information indicating a defect existing inside a sample object shaped by the additive manufacturing unit and including the plurality of layers, based on an electromagnetic wave which has passed through the sample object, and sample measurement information indicating a measurement result of the plurality of layers of the sample object measured by the measurement unit, and an estimation unit configured to estimate whether a defect occurs inside the object, based on measurement information indicating a measurement result of the plurality of layers of the object measured by the measurement unit and the reference information.

Abstract: Provided are a carbon fiber composite material having high strength and elasticity and containing recycled carbon fibers, and a method for producing same. When a raw material is transported along the outer circumferential surface of a screw main body 37 having a passage 88 therein, the transport of the raw material is restricted by a barrier portion 82 provided on the outer circumferential surface, a shearing force is applied to the raw material by the screw main body 37, and a stretching force is applied to the raw material by passing the raw material from the inlet 91 of the passage 88 provided on the outer circumferential surface to the outlet 92 of the passage 88, thereby obtaining a carbon fiber composite material having good strength and elasticity and containing 50-70 wt % of recycled carbon fibers well dispersed therein.

Abstract: A surface treatment device includes a housing unit, a surface treatment element, and a stirring element. The housing unit houses a workpiece. The surface treatment element performs surface treatment on the workpiece housed in the housing unit. The stirring element stirs the workpiece when the surface treatment element performs the surface treatment on the workpiece.

Abstract: A nozzle includes a nozzle member includes a first passage, a second passage surrounding the first passage and configured to eject powder and fluid from an end portion, a diffusion room apart from the end portion and configured to supply the powder and the fluid to the second passage, and a supply path to supply the powder and the fluid to the diffusion room. A first inner surface of the nozzle member includes a first curved surface in a conical shape having a diameter decreasing toward the end portion. A second inner surface of the nozzle member includes a second curved surface in a conical shape having a diameter decreasing toward the end portion. The second passage is formed between the first curved surface and the second curved surface. The diffusion room is formed between the first inner surface and the second inner surface.

Abstract: A processing apparatus for processing a workpiece includes a tool holding part 9 for holding a tool 3 for processing a workpiece 5, a transferring part 11 for transferring the tool 3 for processing the workpiece 5 with the tool 3, and a control unit 13 for controlling the transferring part 11 so as to transfer the tool 3 with respect to the workpiece 5 on the basis of an NC program, and in the NC program, an arithmetic expression for calculating the position of the tool 3 is incorporated and the program is corrected on the basis of the relationship between the cutting transferring distance, the wear amount, and the deflection amount in addition to the contour error of the tool 3.

Abstract: A signal acquisition unit of an abnormality detection device for a twin-screw extrusion molding machine, when the twin-screw extrusion molding machine that melts and kneads a fed resin raw material is in operation, acquires an AE output of an AE sensor installed on a surface of a housing of the twin-screw extrusion molding machine. A determination unit determines whether an abnormality occurs in the twin-screw extrusion molding machine, based on a relationship between the AE output and a first threshold and a second threshold.

Abstract: There is provided a molten resin fluidity index measuring method which can detect the fluidity of a molten resin online even during successive molding operations. The method includes: assuming that a narrow flow path, formed in a flow path for the molten resin, is a capillary or an orifice in a metering step in which the molten resin is collected in front of the screw; measuring, with an injection apparatus of the injection molding machine, the amount of the metered resin and the back pressure applied to the screw during the metering step; and calculating, based on the amount of the metered resin and the back pressure, a fluidity index which indicates the fluidity properties of the metered molten resin.

Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide an injection molding machine capable of preventing a molding defect and a method of controlling the injection molding machine. An injection molding machine according to the present embodiment is an injection molding machine that molds a product for each execution of a molding cycle through an injecting process of injecting a material into clamped molds, a dwell process of controlling dwell pressure of the material in the molds, and a cooling process of cooling the material in the molds, the injection molding machine including a mold opening amount sensor and a controlling unit, the mold opening amount sensor being configured to detect a mold opening amount of the molds, the controlling unit being configured to control clamping force of the molds and the dwell pressure based on the mold opening amount during the molding cycle.

Abstract: 1. A plasticizing device includes a barrel including a resin material supply port portion and a fiber supply port portion which is formed on a distal side from the resin material supply port portion; and a screw that comprises a shaft body and a flight, and is received in the barrel. The barrel is disposed with a posture in which its axial line intersects a gravitational direction. A maximum length of an opening in the barrel of the fiber supply port portion along an axial direction of the barrel is 1 time or more and 2 times or less as much as a pitch of the flight disposed in a portion of the screw which faces the opening in the barrel of the fiber supply port portion in a direction perpendicular to the axial line of the barrel.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first roll and a second roll on each of which a pattern is formed, a first motor and a second motor to rotate the respective rolls, a shaft direction supporting mechanism to support the second roll along a shaft direction and an axial position adjusting mechanism configured to move the shaft direction supporting mechanism along the shaft direction. The posture of the rotating shaft of the second motor is maintained constant at all times, and the second roll is moved in the shaft direction along the first roll, thereby adjusting the positions of both patterns on the first roll and the second roll along the shaft direction.

Abstract: A gap control part controls a clamping device so that mating surfaces in a die face each other across a gap, and thereby a cavity and an external part of the die communicate across the gap. A molten metal feed control part controls a molten metal feed device so as to feed molten metal into a sleeve when the gap is being maintained. An injection control part controls an injection device so as to start a forward movement of a plunger at a time when the gap is maintained and there is the molten metal in the sleeve. A clamping control part controls a clamping device so as to make the mating surfaces abut against each other to eliminate the gap after the forward movement of the plunger is started and before the molten metal reaches a molten metal surface height at which the molten metal flows into the gap.

Abstract: An injection molding machine includes: a timing belt wound around a driving-side rotation member and a driven-side rotation member and configured to transmit power from the driving-side rotation member to the driven-side rotation member; a driving-side rotation detecting unit configured to detect a rotational speed of the driving-side rotation member; a driven-side rotation detecting unit configured to detect a rotational speed of the driven-side rotation member; and an abnormality detecting unit configured to detect an abnormality in the timing belt based on a relative speed difference between the rotational speed of the driving-side rotation member detected by the driving-side rotation detecting unit and the rotational speed of the driven-side rotation member detected by the driven-side rotation detecting unit in a predetermined period after the driving-side rotation member starts to rotate from a stopped state.

Abstract: A run-around circuit makes a hydraulic fluid discharged from a rod-side chamber along with a forward movement of a piston in an injection cylinder flow into a head-side chamber. A servo valve is provided in the run-around circuit and is connected to a tank. In a first state, the servo valve permits flow from the rod-side chamber to the head-side chamber, while prohibits flow from the rod-side chamber to the tank. In a second state, the servo valve prohibits flow from the rod-side chamber to the head-side chamber, while permits flow from the rod-side chamber to the tank. The servo valve can control the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid discharged from the rod-side chamber in each of the first state and second state.

Abstract: There is provided a barrel support apparatus of an injection apparatus which can effectively reduce bending of the barrel due to its own weight. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a barrel support apparatus includes: a barrel support member for supporting a barrel from below; and a leg portion which supports the barrel support member, and can move following the forward and backward movement of the barrel.

Abstract: A die casting machine of an embodiment includes: a base; a fixed die plate fixed onto the base and holding a fixed die; a movable die plate provided on the base to be movable in a mold opening and closing direction and holding a movable die to face the fixed die; an injection device filling a molten metal into a cavity formed by the fixed die and the movable die and applying a first pressure to the molten metal; a first pressurizing device pressurizing the molten metal filled in the cavity in a region other than a product region of the cavity and applying a second pressure to the molten metal; and a control device controlling the first pressurizing device so that the second pressure becomes higher than the first pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first roll and a second roll on each of which a pattern is formed, a first motor and a second motor to rotate the respective rolls, a shaft direction supporting mechanism to support the second roll along a shaft direction and an axial position adjusting mechanism configured to move the shaft direction supporting mechanism along the shaft direction. The posture of the rotating shaft of the second motor is maintained constant at all times, and the second roll is moved in the shaft direction along the first roll, thereby adjusting the positions of both patterns on the first roll and the second roll along the shaft direction.

Abstract: A molding machine of an embodiment includes: a base; a fixed die plate holding a fixed die; a movable die plate provided on the base and closing direction and holding a movable die to face the fixed die; a toggle mechanism capable of clamping the fixed die and the movable die; a link housing provided on the base and allowing one end of a link of the toggle mechanism to be fixed thereto; a first motor driving the toggle mechanism; a second motor moving the movable die plate and the link housing; an extrusion plate allowing an extrusion pin to appear and disappear in the movable die; a guide bar fixed to any one of the link housing and the movable die plate, penetrating the extrusion plate, and slidably holding the extrusion plate; a positioning member positioning the extrusion plate; a tie bar; and an injection device.

Abstract: A deep ultraviolet LED with a design wavelength ?, including a reflecting electrode layer (Au), a metal layer (Ni), a p-GaN contact layer, a p-block layer made of a p-AlGaN layer, an i-guide layer made of an AlN layer, a multi-quantum well layer, an n-AlGaN contact layer, a u-AlGaN layer, an AlN template, and a sapphire substrate that are arranged in this order from a side opposite to the sapphire substrate, in which the thickness of the p-block layer is 52 to 56 nm, a two-dimensional reflecting photonic crystal periodic structure having a plurality of voids is provided in a region from the interface between the metal layer and the p-GaN contact layer to a position not beyond the interface between the p-GaN contact layer and the p-block layer in the thickness direction of the p-GaN contact layer, the distance from an end face of each of the voids in the direction of the sapphire substrate to the interface between the multi-quantum well layer and the i-guide layer satisfies ?/2n1Deff (where ? is the design wav

Abstract: A workpiece machining device includes a positional deviation correction unit configured to correct a positional deviation of a radius end mill by detecting a positional deviation between a real contour line and an ideal contour line of the radius end mill. The positional deviation correction unit calculates a first correction value configured to make a center of a first arc section formed into an arc shape at a corner portion of the ideal contour line and a center of a second arc section formed into an arc shape at a corner portion of the real contour line to be identical to each other in a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis, and corrects a machining point by the radius end mill using the first correction value.