Abstract: A drape, such as but not limited to, a drape that can be used to cover a C arm of a medical device is provided. The drape includes material, at least one cuff and at least one adhesive strip. The material has a select property and has a select shape. The at least one cuff is formed along at least one edge of the material. The at least one cuff is configured to allow manipulation of the drape by a user. The at least one adhesive strip is configured to selectively adhere the drape to a surface to be covered by the drape.

Abstract: A contoured composite structure includes an axis of curvature and at least one curved leg. The structure is fabricated by laying up a flat stack of prepreg fiber plies each having non-zero degree fiber orientations relative to an axis of curvature, and laying up at least one prepreg fiber ply on the stack having a zero degree fiber orientation. Laying up the zero degree ply includes placing prepreg tows in segments arranged end-to-end on at least a portion of the stack. The stack is formed into a web and a curved leg.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a two-dimensional polymer optical waveguide, which is used for manufacturing a two-dimensional optical waveguide through simplified processes using a single imprint original master.

Abstract: Aspects of the methods and apparatuses herein involve applying fluids onto an advancing substrate. The apparatuses and methods herein may provide for the application of viscous fluids, such as adhesives, in pre-determined patterns to an advancing substrate. The fluid application apparatus may include a slot die applicator and a substrate carrier. The slot die applicator may include a slot opening, a first lip, and a second lip, the slot opening located between the first lip and the second lip. And the substrate carrier may be adapted to advance the substrate past the slot die applicator as the slot die applicator discharges adhesive onto the substrate. In operation, when a first surface of the substrate is disposed on the substrate carrier, the substrate carrier advances a second surface of the substrate past the slot opening of the slot die applicator.

Abstract: A method of forming a composite material includes providing an uncured substrate. The method further includes applying a bond ply to the substrate and a peel ply to the bond ply. In some embodiments, the bond ply comprises a fiber veil, such as a glass fiber veil. The method further includes curing the substrate and removing the bond ply and peel ply from the cured substrate, thereby exposing an active surface on the substrate. Removing the bond ply and peel ply can create fractures in the active surface that increase the roughness and bondability of the active surface. In several embodiments, the composite materials described herein can be compatible with a wide range of adhesives, including room temperature adhesives.

Abstract: Aspects of methods and apparatuses herein relate to making elastic laminates, and more particularly, methods and apparatuses for applying fluids onto elastic material positioned on an advancing substrate. The elastic material may be in various forms, such as for example, elastic strands, ribbons, and/or panels. Particular embodiments of the apparatuses and methods disclosed herein provide for the application of viscous fluids, such as adhesives, in pre-determined patterns to elastic material positioned on an advancing substrate.

Abstract: A device and a method for producing laminated safety glass from at least two glass panes having an adhesive layer arranged in between. In order to provide a device and a method for producing laminated safety glass that allow for the cost-effective production of laminated safety glass, the device includes a base plate and a cover plate that can be adjusted relative to each other between an operating position and a removal position, a sealing frame disposed in a pressure tight manner in the operating position on the base plate and the cover plate, means for creating a vacuum in a hollow space formed between a cladding material covering the glass panes in the operating position and the base plate, means for creating an overpressure in the working space created between the cover plate and the flexible cladding material arranged on the glass panes in the operating position, and heating means for heating the glass panes to be joined.

Abstract: A sandwich structure based on a composite panel made of a thermoplastic core layer connected to at least one fiber-reinforced thermoplastic layer, in particular in-situ manufactured sandwich panels, comprises a thermoplastic core, which is arranged between two cover layers, in which the core is reinforced with fiber-reinforced thermoplastic reinforcing ribs which extend between the cover layers. Preferred methods for the manufacture are also described.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the use of injection molding to form polymeric interlayers directly between two rigid substrates that are positioned so that after injection of the melted polymeric material and after cooling, the resulting multiple layer panel functions as a safety panel that can be used in any appropriate conventional safety glazing application. Methods of the present invention utilize a relatively low molecular weight polymer, multiple injection points, mold compression, and/or a heated substrate in order to facilitate the injection of polymer into the relatively narrow space between glazing substrates that is typically found in safety glazings.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a resin-based composite material includes: a stage in which prepregs are stacked on a jig; a stage in which the stacked prepregs and the jig are covered and pressurized heat treatment is applied thereto to form a first semi-molded article and a second semi-molded article; a stage in which board thicknesses of the first semi-molded article and the second semi-molded article are measured, a stage in which the number of additional plies is determined based on the measured board thicknesses, a desired board thickness of the resin-based composite material, and physical properties of the additional plies; and a stage in which a layered product is formed by stacking the predetermined number of additional plies between the first semi-molded article and the second semi-molded article, the layered product and the jig are covered with a bagging material, and pressurized heat treatment is applied thereto.

Abstract: Methods of assembling a stiffened composite structure include loading a stiffener onto an inner mold line layup mandrel; positioning a filler structure on an upper side of a filler location tool; following the loading and the positioning, locating, with the filler location tool, the filler structure within the stiffener cavity of the stiffener; repeating the loading, the positioning, and the locating to load a plurality of stiffeners and filler structures; and following the repeating, affixing a skin segment over the plurality of filler structures and to the plurality of stiffeners to form at least a portion of the stiffened composite structure. Systems for assembling stiffened composite structures include a supply of stiffeners; a supply of filler structures; an inner mold line layup mandrel; and a filler location tool configured to locate a filler structure within the stiffener cavity of a stiffener that is loaded onto the mandrel.

Abstract: Methods of and systems for assembling stiffened composite structures are disclosed. Some methods include loading a stiffener onto an inner mold line layup mandrel and then loading a filler structure within the stiffener cavity of the stiffener. Some methods include loading, with a loading tool, a stiffener charge and a filler structure onto an inner mold line layup mandrel so the respective stiffener charge conforms to a stiffener form of the inner mold line layup mandrel to form a stiffener. Some methods include loading, with a loading tool, a stiffener and a filler structure onto an inner mold line layup mandrel.

Abstract: A method for assembling insulating glass panes from two or more glass sheets filled with a gas other than air, two plates facing each other, arranged parallel to each other vertically or inclined with adjustable mutual distance, a horizontal conveyor arranged near the lower edge of the plates, a first sealing device and a second sealing device, positioned at the protruding edges of both the plates or near these edges or between the plates and can extend between the horizontal conveyor and a point lying above the horizontal conveyor, and having means for feeding a gas other than air into a chamber, delimited on both the sides by the two plates and by the two sealing devices. For assembling overlong insulating glass panes, the glass sheets, at one of which a frame-like spacer is attached on both the sides, are positioned between the plates opposite each other.

Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.

Abstract: A method of conforming upper and lower detached edge portions of a label to upper and lower contoured sections of a container, includes moving the container along a travel path, and heating at least the upper and lower detached edge portions of the label to a sufficient temperature to achieve a sufficient degree of plasticity as the container moves along the travel path. The method also includes moving the container between a compression plate and a vertically oriented belt disposed about at least two rotatable drums, thereby applying pressure to at least a portion of the label. The method further includes applying pressure to the upper detached edge portion of the label with a first linear brush held in a rigid supporting structure, and applying pressure to the lower detached edge portion of the label with a second linear brush held in a rigid supporting structure.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing fluorescent powder substrate includes (1) providing a fluorescent powder and glass panels of which one forms a through hole; (2) mixing the fluorescent powder in deionized water solvent to form a slurry; (3) applying the slurry to form a fluorescent powder layer on one glass panel; (4) laying flat a loop of low melting point glass powder on the glass panel on which the fluorescent powder layer is formed; (5) laminating the other glass panel on the glass panel; (6) burning the laminated glass panels at a temperature of 400-550° C. to completely combust organic substance therebetween and to have the low melting point glass powder bonding the glass panels together; (7) evacuating interior between the glass panels through the through hole; and (8) sealing the through hole to form a fluorescent powder substrate.

Abstract: Described is a functional layer for high-temperature fuel cells and to a method for the production of functional layers. The functional layer is in particular a low-sintering, electrically conductive, ceramic layer which is formed between an interconnector and a cathode of a fuel cell. The functional layer is formed from a material which has at least two phases. A first phase is a perovskite ceramic material containing bismuth-cobalt and a second phase is a bismuth manganite and/or bismuth cobaltite (Bi—Mn—Co—0).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for the manufacture of semiconductor devices wherein the apparatus includes a bonding module that has a vacuum chamber to provide bonding of wafers under pressure below atmospheric pressure; and a loadlock module connected to the bonding module and configured for wafer transfer to the bonding module. The loadlock module is also connected to a first vacuum pumping device configured to reduce the pressure in the loadlock module to below atmospheric pressure. The bonding and loadlock modules remain at a pressure below atmospheric pressure while the wafer is transferred from the loadlock module into the bonding module.

Abstract: Process for manufacturing gloves (2) and the like, which comprises the following operating steps: —inserting a lining (3) into a glove (2), wherein glue is arranged between the glove (2) and the lining (3); —inserting a plug (1) in the zone of the wrist of the glove (2) provided with the lining (3); —pumping a fluid into the lining (3) for pressing it from the inside against the inner surface of the glove (2). The present invention also relates to a device which carries out said process, as well as gloves or the like obtained with this process or device.

Abstract: When manufacturing hybrid components, especially the fan blades or stator vanes of an aircraft gas turbine including a metallic enveloping structure and a supporting structure in fiber-composite material, the mating faces of the metallic structure are cleaned and roughened with plasma prior to fitting the fiber-composite material and the metallic molecules activated so that high attractive forces take effect and an intimate, extremely strong adhesive connection is produced between the metal and the fiber-composite material. Fan blades or stator vanes of the fan structure of a gas-turbine engine which are manufactured according to this method are capable of transmitting high loads and feature a long service life.