Abstract: A method for performing thermo-fusion additive fabrication so as to allow the fusion with a member shaped by an arbitrary method, a method allowing a thermo-fusion additive fabrication object to be surely fused with another member, and a structure at least partially including the thermo-fusion additive fabrication object are provided. A method for performing thermo-fusion additive fabrication such that fusion can be performed on a shaped member even afterward includes: a step of providing a near infrared ray absorption material on the member by the thermo-fusion additive fabrication, the near infrared ray absorption material containing a near infrared ray absorption agent that absorbs a near infrared ray and a resin in which the near infrared ray absorption agent is dispersed; and a step of providing a thermoplastic resin material on the near infrared ray absorption material by the thermo-fusion additive fabrication.

Abstract: A system for manufacturing a laminated film, in which a first film and a second film are sequentially laminated, and the system includes: a film supplying part which supplies the first film and the second film; a bonding part which includes a first roll and a second roll that rotate in opposite directions, and compresses the first film and the second film supplied from the film supplying part and bonds the first film and the second film as the laminated film; and a bending inducing part which supports and bends the laminated film bonded and output from the bonding part, in which the second roll shifts in a direction along a circumference of a virtual circle having a larger radius than a radius of the first roll to control the bending of the laminated film.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, a support table may include: a baseplate including a support structure, the support structure defining a support region over the baseplate to support at least one of a workpiece or a workpiece carrier therein; and one or more light-emitting components disposed between the baseplate and the support region. The one or more light-emitting components are configured to emit light into the support region.

Abstract: A composite structure such as a stringer is produced by laying up composite charges at a layup station, spooling the charges onto a roll and transporting the roll to a forming station where the charges are unrolled and formed into individual components of the stringer. The components are then transferred to an assembly station where they are assembled together and vacuum bagged in preparation for curing.

Abstract: A coated article includes a substrate having an interference laser-treated surface portion, and a single-stage coating adhered directly to the interference laser-treated surface portion. A system and method for making a coated article are also disclosed.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for forming an information carrying card or a core layer of an information carrying card using a radiation curing, and an apparatus configured to provide such a radiation curing. The method includes providing a carrier layer that defines at least one cavity, providing an inlay layer supporting at least one electronic component, and positioning at least a portion of the inlay layer in the at least one cavity. The method further comprises dispensing a radiation crosslinkable polymer composition over the inlay layer, and irradiating the radiation crosslinkable polymer composition.

Abstract: A laser welding method and system for joining portions of first and second workpieces of thermoplastic material that is partially permeable to a laser beam but absorbs radiation from the laser beam. The first and second workpieces, which are made of material that absorbs radiation from a laser beam, are clamped together. A mask is placed on a first surface of the first workpiece, the first surface being opposite the surface engaging the second workpiece. The mask is impermeable to a laser beam and forms a slot for passing a laser beam to the portion of the first surface of the upper workpiece exposed by the slot, so that heating and melting of the material of the workpieces is limited to the width of the slot. A laser beam is directed onto the slot and moved in a manner to illuminate the slot to melt and join the workpieces.

Abstract: A curved screen laminating apparatus and a laminating method is provided. The flexible display panel is driven to bend via a photoactive polymer layer which is controlled by a light source; next, the bent flexible display panel and the curved glass are laminated; last, the flexible display panel and the curved glass are laminated. Compared with the prior art, air bubbles are effectively discharged from edges by employing a segmented lamination which ensures product yields.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates more to processes for making a filter element that includes a filter membrane having a strip of thermoplastic polymer material laminated thereto, for example, as a strip along an edge of the filter membrane. For example, one such process includes providing a sheet of filter membrane having a first surface and an opposed second surface; providing a strip of thermoplastic polymer material having a first surface and an opposed second surface; contacting the first surface of the strip of thermoplastic polymer material with the first surface of the filter membrane; and softening the strip of thermoplastic polymer material at at least its first surface by irradiation with laser radiation; such that the softened polymer material of the first surface of the strip of thermoplastic polymer material bonds to the first surface of the filter membrane upon hardening.

Abstract: Disclosed are an adhesive composition that includes: a first photopolymerization initiator having a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of about 350 nm to about 370 nm and a second photopolymerization initiator having a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of about 380 nm to about 390 nm, and a method of manufacturing a display device.

Abstract: A bonder and a method for bonding corrugated sidewalls to a thermoplastic belt at a splice joint. Two heating jaw assemblies with complementary and confronting corrugated vertical faces clamp a thermoplastic belt to a base of the bonder with a corrugated sidewall section separated from the belt across a splice joint received in a corrugated slot formed between the confronting vertical faces. Corrugated bonding strips at the bottoms of the corrugated vertical faces apply heat to melt the bottom of the sidewall section on opposite sides to bond the corrugated sidewall section to the base.

Abstract: The utilization of heat in the manufacturing of footwear may be accomplished through microwave energy. The microwave energy is conveyed to the footwear components through a microwave transparent window of a tool. The microwave transparent tool window forms as least a portion of a part-contacting surface of the tool. Another surface of the tool is formed from a microwave reflecting material, such as aluminum. The footwear component(s) are exposed to microwave energy while within the tool such that the microwave energy passes through the tool window to cause a dielectric heating of one or more materials within a tool cavity of the tool.

Abstract: An adhesive article is described comprising a foamed adhesive layer and a non-foamed adhesive layer. The adhesive of each adhesive layer comprises a tetrahydrofurfuryl (meth)acrylate copolymer; an epoxy resin; a polyether polyol; and optionally a hydroxy-functional film-forming polymer. The adhesive may be used in structural and semi-structural bonding applications and is designed to fail cohesively.

Abstract: A waveguide segment with two sub-segments including a first sub-segment with a first wall and a second wall, each having an inner face by which laser light can be reflected. The inner faces are opposite to each other and a depth of the sub-segment is defined by a distance between the first and the second inner face. Further, each wall has an exit side, and an opposite entry side, a height defined by the distance between the exit and the entry side and a width. At least part of the entry side of each wall extends in an angle to the height, for which applies: 0°<?<90°. The second sub-segment may be formed complementary and the second sub-segment has a portion at the exit side of each wall. Laser light passing through the second sub-segment enters the first sub-segment between the first and the second portion.

Abstract: A plastic welding machine for welding plastic parts together is capable of controlling the weld force vector in both magnitude and direction.

Abstract: A new method for fully automatically manufacturing a fluid container with a pressure unit is described, which pressure unit is mounted in a fluid container. In a station the high-pressure container of the pressure unit is mounted with the closure and the bottom part and is clamped at the upper and lower ends by clamping means and is rotated by rotating means associated with the clamping means. The rotating pressure unit is welded by first laser means and by second laser means, whereas the laser beam of the first laser means being directed to a first joint area of the bottom part of the pressure unit with the container, and the laser beam of the second laser means being directed to a second joint area of the bottom part of the pressure unit with the container, which first and second joint area are separated at a distance to each other.

Abstract: A cutter module, the cutter module comprising a blade and a sacrificial face. The blade and the sacrificial face face each other along a cutting axis, the blade and the sacrificial face being arranged on either side of a plane of passage for a tape for cutting, and at a distance therefrom, the cutter assembly and the sacrificial face being movable in translation along the cutting axis and respectively in two opposite cutting directions in order to enter into contact in the plane of passage during a stage of cutting, the cutter assembly and the sacrificial face being movable in translation along the cutting axis and respectively in two opposite return directions in order to move away from the plane of passage after the cutting operation.

Abstract: A dielectric welding film capable of tightly welding adherends of a polyolefin resin or the like within a relatively short time through dielectric heating, and a bonding method using the dielectric welding film are provided. The dielectric welding film is configured to bond a plurality of adherends of the same material or different materials through dielectric heating, the dielectric welding film containing (A) a polyolefin resin and (B) a dielectric filler whose mean particle size measured in accordance with JIS Z 8819-2 (2001) is in a range from 1 to 30 ?m, a thickness of the dielectric welding film ranging from 10 to 2,000 ?m. The method uses the dielectric welding film.

Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for adhesive fixturing include UV light sources that are connectable to a fixture when the fixture is not attached to the stage of a workcell. A support structure holds the UV light sources in alignment with gripper pins communicating through the fixture. A bus connector operably connects the UV light sources to a control box of the workcell. Attaching the UV light sources to the fixtures outside of the workcell increases the throughput of the workcell and reduces the cost of the fixtured work pieces.

Abstract: A method of forming an antireflection optical body includes: an application step of applying a photocurable resin onto one surface side of an adherend; a pressing step of pressing a substrate film having a fine structure body at one surface side against the photocurable resin from an opposite surface side by a light guide; a curing step of curing the photocurable resin by transmitting light through the light guide; and a peeling separation step of releasing the pressing of the substrate film and peeling fixed fine structure body that is fixed to the adherend through the cured photocurable resin substrate film while separating the fixed fine structure body from fine structure body on the substrate film other than at a location fixed through the photocurable resin such that the fixed fine structure body is formed on the adherend as an antireflection optical body.