Abstract: Provided is a mold adapted for producing a wind turbine blade, including a first carrier and a shell for accommodating blade building elements to be embedded in a resin matrix for building a blade body part, which shell is placed on the first carrier, and a second carrier changeable in its length and elongating the first carrier adapted to accommodate a prefabricated blade tip to be connected to the blade body part when the blade body part is built.

Abstract: Described are fibrous materials comprising a plurality of fibers having a longitudinal alignment gradient and/or a longitudinal composition gradient. Also described are methods of preparing the fibrous materials thereof and methods of treating organ or tissue damage with the fibrous materials.

Abstract: Various implementations include a device for pumping grout. The device includes a body and a pump. The body defines a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening. Each of the first, second, and third openings is in fluid communication with each other. The first opening includes a first one-way valve configured to allow the flow of grout toward the second and third openings, and the second opening includes a second one-way valve configured to allow the flow of grout away from the first and third openings. The pump is sealingly coupled to the third opening and in fluid communication with the first and second openings. The pump is configured to increase and decrease pressure within the body to cause the flow of grout from the first opening to the second opening.

Abstract: In order to allow or improve a laminar air flow in a transition region between aerodynamic profile elements, a pressure plate arrangement is proposed. The pressure plate arrangement comprises a pressure plate body and at least one cover strip, in particular a sealing strip. The pressure plate body has an outlet region from which free-flowing sealant can exit during pressing. The cover strip already contains cured sealant and presses the free-flowing sealant flat in order to be able to form the transition region.

Abstract: A method for producing solid cellulose filaments from a fluid of the cellulose by extruding the fluid through a plurality of extrusion openings, whereby fluid filaments are produced, and solidifying the filaments in a coagulation bath, the filaments being bundled in the coagulation bath and being deflected as a bundle in order to be drawn from the coagulation bath above the coagulation bath level, the bundle of filaments assuming a deflection width on a deflecting device, which deflection width is defined in accordance with a formula. A device therefor is also provided.

Abstract: A method is described of making a training firearm that has a replaceable magazine. The training firearm is not an actual firearm but possesses a visual look and tactile fee of an actual firearm, to enable a user to train realistically but safely.

Abstract: A machine for making filled pasta includes first and second feeding device for feeding first and second layers of pasta dough, and a shaping device for shaping the filled pasta, located downstream of the feeding devices. The machine controls the advancing of the first and second layers the respective feeding device such that at least along a first stretch of the path of the first layer between the first feeding device and the shaping device, an excess length of the first layer of pasta dough forms by gravity a respective bend along the unrolling direction and at least along a first stretch of the path of the second layer between the second feeding device and the shaping device, an excess length of the second layer of pasta dough forms by gravity a respective bend along the unrolling direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for the processing of plastics, with a container with a rotatable mixing, where, in a side wall, an aperture is formed, where a conveyor is provided, with a screw rotating in a housing, wherein the imaginary continuation of the longitudinal axis of the conveyor in a direction opposite to the direction of conveying passes the axis of rotation, and wherein the ratio (V) of the active container volume (SV) to the feed volume (BV) of the container or of the cutter compactor (1), where V=SV/BV, is one where 4?V?30, where the active container volume (SV) is defined by the formula SV = D 3 ? ? 4 and D is the internal diameter of the container, and where the feed volume (BV) is defined by the formula BV = D 2 ? ? 4 · H , where H is the height of the intake aperture.

Abstract: Provided is a base (1) for a flexible mold that is to be wound in an endless manner, and the base includes: an intermediate sheet (2); and first and second resin sheets (3, 5) bonded to both main surfaces of the intermediate sheet (2) through intermediation of first and second bonding layers (4, 6), respectively. The intermediate sheet (2) includes: first and second spacer sheets (7, 8), which are each made of a resin, and are arranged at one end portion and another end portion in a winding direction, respectively; and a glass sheet (9) arranged between those spacer sheets (7, 8).

Abstract: A method of molding a personal care product, a manifold, and a cosmetic product molding apparatus are provided. In one embodiment, the method of molding a personal care product comprises: moving a material through a temperature controlled manifold, opening one or more injection valves between the temperature controlled manifold and one or more mold cavities, injecting the material at a controlled pressure into the one or mold cavities in a closed position to form one or more articles, closing the one or more injection valves between the temperature controlled manifold and one or more mold cavities after injecting the material into the one or more mold cavities, opening the one or more mold cavities, and removing the one or more articles from the one or more mold cavities.

Abstract: The invention is an apparatus and method for printing 3D objects using a high-viscosity photosensitive material. A 3D printer may include a fluid retaining assembly which comprises a rotating tank. A printing platform is situated in a manner such that a bottom surface of the printing platform makes contact with the printing solution in the tank. To facilitate printing using the high-viscosity printing material, a scraper assembly may be implemented in order to properly prepare the printing solution onto a surface of the tank. The scraper assembly prepares the material by scraping a layer of the material onto the surface of the tank for facilitating curing of the layer onto the printing platform.

Abstract: Electrospinning apparatus and method for electrospinning of material by ejecting spinning material from a nozzle outlet. The electrospinning apparatus includes a spinning material supply unit, a nozzle unit with a nozzle outlet, a collector unit for collecting a fibre formed during operation of the electrospinning apparatus and a voltage supply unit for applying a voltage difference between the nozzle unit and collector unit. An imaging device is present for capturing an image of a conus and the fibre being formed during operation, as well as a processing unit connected to the imaging device, spinning material supply unit and voltage supply unit. The processing unit is arranged to determine a shape of the conus, and control operation of the electrospinning apparatus based on the determined shape of the conus.

Abstract: A mold for manufacturing a wind turbine blade, including: a lower mold component, and an upper mold component, wherein the lower mold component and the upper mold component form a mold cavity in the shape of a wind turbine blade, and the upper mold component includes at least two upper mold parts is provided. The required floor-to-ceiling height of a production hall is decreased and the required lifting capacity of a crane is lowered.

Abstract: A rapid sintering system and rapid sintering method, the rapid sintering system comprising: a furnace body (110) comprising a hearth (111) and a furnace mouth (112) that communicate with each other; a lifting device (120) arranged below the furnace mouth (112), comprising a support (122) and a sample stage (121), the sample stage (121) being disposed on the support (122); a temperature acquisition device (130), disposed on the sample stage (121); a control device (140), disposed outside of the hearth (111), electrically connected to the lifting device (120) and the temperature acquisition device (130) and used to control lifting of the lifting device (120) according to a temperature acquired by the temperature acquisition device (130) and a preset sintering condition; and a spacer (150), disposed at a first end of the lifting device (120), a first spacing being present between the spacer (150) and the sample stage (121), and the furnace mouth (112) is blocked by the spacer (150) when the rapid sintering syste

Abstract: An imprint system includes a replica mold manufacturing apparatus which manufactures a replica mold of a master mold by performing a first imprint process using the master mold, an imprint apparatus which performs a second imprint process using the replica mold, and a controller which controls a first imprint condition that is an imprint condition of the first imprint process and a second imprint condition that is an imprint condition of the second imprint process. The controller corrects the first imprint condition based on an overlay state between a pattern formed on a shot region by the second imprint process and the shot region.

Abstract: A process for transfer imprinting using a novel family of anti-sticking layers, such as for nanoimprint lithography processes, is described.

Abstract: A multi-material molding apparatus and method includes a single mold having, within a mold cavity, one or more movable partitions that segregate at least first and second molding materials. The first molding material is processed to form a first molded portion of the multi-material part. The second molding material is then flowed, through the movable partition, into contact with the first molded portion. That second molding material is then solidified to form a second molded portion of the multi-material part.

Abstract: A hot or cold runner device for an injection mold includes a distributor block for polymer melts or polymeric liquids such as liquid silicone. The distributor block includes at least one central supply line, at least one melt channel, at least one fluid outlet, and at least one exchangeable deflection and/or distribution insert. The deflection and/or distribution insert has a sleeve and a cone element for deflecting and/or distributing the melts or liquids and is mounted without gaps and without offset at flow channel transitions by a pressing-in process, and the cone element is held in the sleeve in a self-locking manner.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing system including a base assembly and a tray assembly. The base assembly includes a build window, substantially transparent to electromagnetic radiation; a projection system configured to project electromagnetic radiation toward an upper surface of the build window; and a tray seat arranged around a perimeter of the build window. The tray assembly is configured to engage with the base assembly in an engaged configuration and includes: a tray structure defining a registration feature configured to engage the tray seat to locate an aperture proximal to the upper surface of the build window in the engaged configuration; and a separation membrane that is configured to laminate across the upper surface of the build window in response to an evacuation of gas from an interstitial region and configured to separate from the build window in response to injection of gas into the interstitial region.

Abstract: A refrigerator has an ice maker. The ice maker has a longitudinal axis; a rotatable, stretchable ice cube tray having an upper face defining a plane offset from the longitudinal axis with openings for ice cubes and a bottom surface, and the upper face and the bottom surface being parallel to the longitudinal axis, the offset being at least a depth of an ice cube; and an axially mounted, rotatable cam with a convex surface, the cam is coaxial with the longitudinal axis and positioned between the longitudinal axis and the bottom surface of the tray, so that the convex surface is engageable with the bottom surface of the tray. Ice cubes are released by rotation of the cam as the convex surface outwardly flexes the tray.