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 method for making an aerodynamic element, particularly for an aircraft, including an external face and a plurality of parallel ribs and/or grooves formed on the external face, the method including making the element and its ribs and/or its grooves simultaneously with a mold, including a step to supply a film made of a deformable material that includes ribs and/or grooves complementary to the ribs and/or grooves of the element, a step to position the film on a wall of the mold, a step in which the element is molded, a step in which the element is separated from the mold simultaneously with the film, and a step in which the film is separated from the element.

Abstract: A film mold according to the present embodiment includes a first resin layer having a pattern region including a concavo-convex pattern and constituted by a resin composition, and a first glass substrate layer constituted by thin film glass and laminated on a surface on an opposite side to a surface on which the pattern region is formed in the first resin layer.

Abstract: An apparatus for fabricating an object on a substrate, the apparatus including a plurality of nozzles arranged in an array and each nozzle being in communication with a supply of build material and configured to expel a quantity of the build material therefrom, and also including a controller configured to selectively operate each nozzle to deposit a portion of the build material, responsive to data relating to a geometry of the object. During operation, the controller selectively operates at least some of the nozzles to deposit portions of the build material in specific locations corresponding with the object geometry, wherein at least one of the portions abuts the substrate and the portions are progressively deposited until the portions form the object.

Abstract: A method for producing a functionally graded component layer-by-layer includes: depositing radiant-energy-curable resin on a build surface defined by a resin support, the resin containing filler including at least two groups of particles with different physical properties; allowing the filler to settle such that the groups of particles separate from each other, defining at least two regions within the resin; positioning a stage relative to the build surface so as to define a layer increment in the resin; selectively curing the resin using an radiant energy applied in a specific pattern so as to define the geometry of a cross-sectional layer of the component; moving the build surface and the stage relatively apart so as to separate the component from the build surface; repeating at least the steps of positioning and selectively curing for a plurality of layers, until the component is complete.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated iron core includes preheating a laminated body in which a plurality of iron core pieces are laminated and which includes a resin filling hole, measuring a temperature of the laminated body after preheating the laminated body, determining whether or not the temperature measured is within a predetermined range, feeding the laminated body into a molding device in a case where it is determined that the temperature is within the predetermined range, and filling the resin filling hole of the laminated body with a resin material in the molding device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making a composite sandwich structure. The method comprises the steps of: providing a base lay-up on a surface, wherein the base lay-up comprises a first reinforcement material layer; providing a core layer on to the base lay-up, wherein the core layer comprises an open cellular structure and wherein the open cellular structure is at least partially filled with unbound particles; providing a top lay-up on top of the core layer, wherein the top lay-up comprises a second reinforcement material layer; sealing the arrangement within a hermetically sealed enclosure; introducing matrix material into the arrangement via the at least one conduit through a pressure differential; and curing the matrix material.

Abstract: A vertical additive processing system for use with a blow molding machine having a flow head from which a plastic parison is delivered to a mold and producing an article. The system has a servo-controlled accumulation technology (SCAT) unit including (a) an accumulator collecting plastic material when retracted and delivering plastic material when extended, and (b) an actuator directing the accumulator to retract and extend. The system further has a tooling unit including a bushing body adapted to engage the flow head, a distribution ring, a bushing cap, a central aperture defining a main parison flow path, and a distribution channel delivering additional plastic material received from the accumulator to the main parison flow path. The system still further has a material duct connecting the two units through which plastic material delivered by the SCAT unit is transported to and received by the tooling unit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, under a condition that a substrate is installed on a substrate installation unit, a mold is installed on a mold installation unit, and a mask unit is installed in a mask-unit installation unit, a transfer apparatus controls an operation of a mold presser unit so as to press the mold against the substrate, the operation of a first positioning unit so as to position the mask unit with respect to the mold and the operation of an irradiation unit so as to irradiate an uncured material provided on the surface of the substrate with electromagnetic waves of a predetermined wavelength.

Abstract: Particular embodiments of the inventive technology relate to apparatus and methods for cutting multi-layered material to reconfigure it so it may be used to construct sub-compartments in a larger storage container. The inventive technology, in particular embodiments may feature one or more of the following: dual blades, “staggered” blades (where one blade is more forward than another), a blade(s) angled upwards and forwards, blades separated in a left-right direction, prong recesses to accept trailing tips of blades, a rearwardly angled handle and/or a removed material ejection ramp, in conjunction perhaps with other features such as, e.g., a guide prong. One or more of such features may appear in the various manifestations of a defluting cutter or through cutting apparatus, whether guided or unguided, and/or manual or powered.

Abstract: A spacecraft includes an additive manufacturing (A/M) subsystem and one or both of a thermal control arrangement and a contamination control arrangement. The A/M subsystem includes an A/M tool, feedstock and a workpiece and is configured to additively manufacture the workpiece using material from the feedstock. The thermal control arrangement is operable, in an on-orbit space environment characterized by near vacuum pressure and near zero-g force, to maintain temperature of at least one of the A/M tool, the feedstock, and the workpiece within respective specified ranges. The contamination control arrangement is operable, in the on-orbit space environment, to control outgassing of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

Abstract: The rack assembly of one 3D construction printer comprises two rows of vertical supporting posts anchored from the ground. Within each row of vertical supporting posts, between two neighboring vertical supporting posts, longitudinal beams are provided and extended along the length direction of the rack assembly, the longitudinal beams are configured to provide support and allow a cart carrying a 3D construction printer to move. On a top of the rack assembly, ring frame is provided, and on each of the longitudinal ends of the rows of vertical supporting beams, a cantilever extension end, being suspended, is connected to said rectangular ring frame. Further on the upper surface of a bottom longitudinal beam of the rectangular ring frame, guiding rails are provided in order for the cart carrying a crane to move along the longitudinal direction of the ring frame.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object is provided. The method reduces the difference between the amount of build material used and the amount of decorative ink used. The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object including an object body portion (A) and a decorative portion (C) is provided. The method includes forming the object body portion (A) from at least decorative ink and build material and forming the decorative portion (C) from the decorative ink. The decorative portion (C) covers the object body portion (A).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a tubular component as an article from a thermoplastic synthetic material while using an injection-molding device having a tool that forms an article cavity, having means for filling the article cavity with a thermoplastic molding compound, and having an injection device for injecting a fluid into the article cavity, wherein the injection device comprises a nozzle body, wherein the method provides that the nozzle body is used as a mold core for molding the shape of an end of the article, that the nozzle body is used as a carrier for an additional component to be incorporated into the article, wherein: a) the nozzle body first equipped with the additional component, b) the nozzle body is introduced into the closed article cavity, or the tool is closed around the nozzle body, c) the article cavity in a further method step is at least partially filled with the thermoplastic molding compound, d) a pressurized fluid is then induced into the article cavity by means of

Abstract: An adhesive composition is comprised of a film forming polymer, (ii) a lower crystallinity polynitroso compound, (e.g., poly-(1,4-phenylyenazine-N,N-dioxide)), (iii) a higher crystallinity polynitroso compound (e.g., poly-(1,4-phenylyenazine-N,N-dioxide)), and (iv) a carrier liquid. The composition is useful in bonding metal and rubber to make, for example, components to damp noise, vibration or harshness.

Abstract: A 3D printer is provided herein. In some embodiments, a 3D printer includes an ink tank for storing ink comprising a magnetic body, an injection nozzle which is linked to the ink tank and is adapted to inject ink, a substrate on which the injected ink is deposited, a heating unit so as to heat the ink coated onto the substrate by means of induction heating, and which is positioned behind the injection nozzle such that injection of ink occurs prior to induction heating of the ink; a carriage unit for changing the positions of the injection nozzle and the heating unit relative to the substrate: and a control unit for controlling the heating unit and the carriage unit.

Abstract: A method for the layered construction of a shaped body of highly viscous photopolymerizable material, includes forming layers of the shaped body one after the other and one on top of the other by each forming a material layer of predetermined thickness (a) of the highly viscous photopolymerizable material in a tank, lowering a construction platform, or the shaped body at least partially formed on the construction platform, into the material layer so as to cause a layer of the highly viscous photopolymerizable material to form between the construction platform or the shaped body and the tank bottom, curing such layer in a position-selective manner, in particular by irradiation through the tank bottom, to provide the desired shape of the shaped body layer, wherein the thickness (a) of the material layer is varied at least once during the layered construction of the shaped body.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to plastic-metal junctions and methods of making the same. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of forming a junction between a metal form and a solid plastic. The method can include contacting a metal including a plurality of pores and a flowable resin composition including a polybutylene terephthalate and a polyethylene terephthalate. The method can also include curing the flowable composition to form the solid plastic, to provide the junction between the metal and the solid plastic.

Abstract: The molding system including a molding apparatus comprising, a mold clamping force sensor for detecting a mold clamping force generated in a mold, a detection unit for detecting an apparatus failure of the molding apparatus and/or molding of a defective article by the molding apparatus based on an amount of change in mold clamping force detected by the mold clamping force sensor, an operation mode prediction unit for predicting the operation mode of the molding apparatus based on an amount of change in mold clamping force detected by the mold clamping force sensor and, an actual operation mode acquisition unit for acquiring the actual operation mode of the molding apparatus without relying on the mold clamping force sensor.

Abstract: Disclosed are processes for producing molded polyurethane elastomers and products, such as filter end caps, that include such elastomers. The elastomers are the reaction product of a non-foaming reaction mixture comprising an isocyanate-reactive composition and an organic polyisocyanate prepolymer with an internal mold release agent.