Abstract: A device for a lacquer transfer includes a frame, transfer roller with a circumferential lateral wall, drive unit for rotating the transfer roller, and slit nozzle with a muzzle end for dispensing lacquer. The slit nozzle includes a first nozzle-part, second nozzle-part and deformation unit. The deformation unit is attached to the first nozzle-part, the lateral wall passing in a rotation direction subsequently the deformation unit and the muzzle end during transfer unit rotation. The lateral wall of the transfer roller is deformed by the deformation unit in the radial direction resulting in a deformation section of the lateral wall in the rotation direction behind the deformation unit, the muzzle end of the slit nozzle arranged for dispensing lacquer into depressions of the lateral wall. The transfer roller can roll with the outside contact surface on a work surface of a work piece for transferring lacquer from the depressions to the work surface of the work piece.

Abstract: A controller controls a plunger to operate at a measurement speed and discharge the viscous material from the nozzle before applying the viscous material to the workpiece. The controller measures a period of time, from when the plunger starts operating at the measurement speed until a discharge amount of the viscous material reaches a predetermined value, as a time delay amount. The controller further determines an operation speed of the plunger and/or a moving speed of the nozzle during application of the viscous material to the workpiece according to the measured time delay amount.

Abstract: A mask frame assembly, including: a hollow frame, which is provided with a hollow area; and a first howling stick, disposed across the hollow area of the hollow frame in a first direction; wherein the mask frame assembly is configured to support a fine metal mask plate which includes a mask pattern area and an invalid mask area surrounding the mask pattern area; in a state of the fine metal mask plate being supported by the mask frame assembly, opposite ends of the fine metal mask plate are fixed on the hollow frame in a second direction; the mask pattern area of the fine metal mask plate is disposed in the hollow area of the hollow frame; and a projection of the first howling stick on the fine metal mask plate is in the invalid mask area. An evaporation device is also disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus for coating carpet webs in a coating apparatus with varying adhesives includes a controller, one or more sensors for detecting a volume of a puddle of the adhesive pooled in front of an application roller, and an electronic valve in fluid communication with each of a plurality of mixers. The electronic valve directs flow of the adhesive from any of the mixers to the coating apparatus. To switch from one of the adhesives to new adhesive as a next carpet web passes through the coating apparatus, the controller calculates a remaining length of the carpet web that can be coated with the adhesive in the puddle of adhesive based on the volume of the puddle, so that the puddle of the adhesive coats the carpet web, and then proximate a seam to the next carpet web, the new adhesive begins to coat the next carpet web.

Abstract: A height detection apparatus successively changes the brightness of white light from a first level to a second level in accordance with a position of a Z stage and captures an image of interference light while moving a two-beam interference objective lens relative to a paste film in an optical axis direction, detects, as a focus position, a position of the Z stage where the intensity of interference light is highest in a period during which the brightness of white light is set to the first or second level, for each pixel of the captured image, and obtains the height of the paste film based on a detection result.

Abstract: A drop cloth is configured to wrap around an enclose a ceiling-mounted light fixture with an attached fan. The drop cloth has a plurality of seams that are capable of being selectively closed to accommodate different sizes of fans and motors and light fixtures via a removable fastener. A cinching cord is disposed at the bottom.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a plasma processing apparatus includes an analysis unit that obtains wavelengths of the light correlated with a plasma processing result, selects, from the obtained wavelengths, a wavelength having a first factor that represents a deviation in an intensity distribution of the light and is larger than a first predetermined value, and predicts the plasma processing result using the selected wavelength, or an analysis unit that obtains values computed using each of light intensities of a plurality of wavelengths and correlated with the plasma processing result, selects, from the obtained values, a value having a second factor that represents a deviation in a distribution of the obtained values and is larger than a second predetermined value, and predicts the plasma processing result using the selected value.

Abstract: Systems for producing, applying and evaluating coating compositions are disclosed. An automatic color matching system includes an automatic coating component dispenser, a container, a mixer for mixing the components of the coating composition and a solvent, an automatic pressurization station to apply pressure to the mixed coating composition, and a robotic arm to transport the container to and from the mixer. A coating composition dispensing system includes a computer to provide a target formulation for a coating composition, an automated component dispenser containing the components of the coating composition, a container positionable adjacent to the component dispenser to receive the components of the coating composition, and an automated component sensor to measure the amounts of each of the components dispensed into the container.

Abstract: A mask plate and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The mask plate comprises a first sub-mask plate and a second sub-mask plate stacked with each other, the first sub-mask plate is provided with at least one first opening therein, a size and a shape of the first opening correspond to those of a target display panel; the second sub-mask plate is provided with a second opening region, which covers at least one of the at least one first opening and includes a plurality of second openings. Since it is only required to ensure that the sizes and shapes of the first openings are the same as those of the target display panels respectively, and it is unnecessary to further manufacture openings for forming pixel patterns, comparing with the existing mask plate, the manufacturing process of the present disclosure is more simple and the manufacturing cost is lower.

Abstract: An electrostatic coating device is provided with a housing, which has a cascade housing section that houses a cascade, and a motor housing section that houses an air motor. A clearance between the cascade and the inner wall of a first housing hole forms a first air flow passage. Furthermore, an annular clearance between the air motor (specifically, an air turbine) and the inner wall of a motor chamber forms a second air flow passage. The first air flow passage and the second air flow passage are communicated with each other via, for instance, a third air flow passage that includes a first communication passage, a circular recessed section, a second communication passage, and a third communication passage.

Abstract: A web coating platform for depositing molten metal on flexible substrates is provided. The web coating platform can be used for manufacturing solid lithium anodes for use in energy storage devices, for example, rechargeable batteries. The coating platform can be designed for double-sided coating of a continuous flexible substrate (e.g., a copper foil) with molten lithium followed by double-sided lamination or passivation. The coating platform integrates novel coating elements unique to handling and processing molten metals. For example, some implementations of the present disclosure incorporate double-sided molten metal coating elements, which include at least one of a molten metal application assembly (e.g., kiss roller, slot-die, Meyer bar, and/or gravure roller), a primary melt pool assembly, a secondary melt pool assembly, and an engagement mechanism.

Abstract: Described is a roller for the automatic application of at least one adhesive on a sheet for mattresses, which makes it possible to optimise the time needed for processing and the precision of the distribution of adhesive on the sheet in relation to the desired pattern, eliminating the waste of adhesive.

Abstract: Implementations described herein provide for thermal substrate processing apparatus including two thermal process chambers, each defining a process volume, and a substrate support disposed within each process volume. One or more remote plasma sources may be in fluid communication with the process volumes and the remote plasma sources may be configured to deliver a plasma to the process volumes. Various arrangements of remote plasma sources and chambers are described.

Abstract: An electronic component manufacturing apparatus has a holding member for holding an electronic component body, a surface plate, a moving unit that causes the holding member and the surface plate to relatively move, and a control unit that controls the moving unit. The control unit causes the moving unit to simultaneously perform a distance changing movement for changing, by shortening or extending, the distance between an end face of each electronic component body and a surface of the surface plate, and a position changing movement for changing a two-dimensional position where the end face of the electronic component body is projected on the surface of the surface plate in such a manner that the direction in which the two-dimensional position moves in parallel with the surface of the surface plate successively varies (for example, along a circular path).

Abstract: A device for a lacquer transfer includes a transfer roller mounted at and rotatable relative to a frame. The roller includes a cylindrical support-body, first ring-element, second ring-element, and a tire including a middle-section forming a circumferential outer contact surface with depressions, the roller configured to roll with the outer contract surface on a work surface of a workpiece for transferring lacquer from the outer contact surface and the depressions to the work surface. The tire includes two annular end-sections attached to a cylindrical outer shell of the support-body resulting in two axially separated and circumferentially extending connections, the tire, connections, and outer shell of the support-body being fluid-tight. The first and second ring-elements are in the first cavity seated on the support-body at a distance in an axial direction of the roller from one another and the middle-section of the tire between the first and second ring-elements is prestrained in the axial direction.

Abstract: A system and method includes pre-warping a mask to induce strain when affixed to a substrate and ensure positive contact between the mask and the substrate during all phases of deposition. A film is applied to the mask at a rate sufficient to impart stress to the film faster than such stress can be released. Depending on the features defined by the mask, the pre-warping may be concentric, linear along one axis, or complex along a plurality of axes.

Abstract: A powdering system, having a working configuration and a cleaning configuration and including a powder reservoir, including a supply chamber receiving powder; a sprayer, including a powder applicator, and a cleaning inlet, fluidly connected to the supply chamber such that, in the cleaning configuration, a cleaning air supply source can be connected to the cleaning inlet so as to circulate cleaning air in the supply chamber, wherein the powder reservoir includes a discharge opening, arranged through a wall of the supply chamber and opening into the supply chamber, and a movable plug, which is movable between a closing position, in the working configuration, and an open position, in the cleaning configuration, such that the circulation of cleaning air causes residual powder to be discharged through the discharge opening.

Abstract: A separation device includes a first ejection unit that ejects a material containing a fiber together with gas and supplies the material onto a first surface of the mesh, a first suction unit that sucks a part of the material supplied onto the first surface, a second ejection unit that ejects gas toward a second surface, and a second suction unit that sucks and collects, the material that does not pass through the mesh by the first suction unit and remains on the first surface. Q1<Q2 and Q3<Q4, where a flow rate of gas ejected from the first ejection unit is Q1, a flow rate of gas sucked by the first suction unit is Q2, a flow rate of gas ejected from the second ejection unit is Q3, and a flow rate of gas sucked by the second suction unit is Q4.

Abstract: A coating mask for bearing and covering a portion of a to-be-plated component includes at least one bearing unit. Each bearing unit includes a first bearing portion, a second bearing portion, and at least two ribbed plates. An annular groove is defined between the first bearing portion and the second bearing portion. The at least two ribbed plates are formed in the annular groove. Each of the at least two ribbed plates includes a first ribbed portion and a second ribbed portion connected to the first ribbed portion. The first ribbed portion is connected to the second bearing portion; the second ribbed portion is connected to the first bearing portion. An included angle ?1 is defined by the first ribbed portion and the second ribbed portion, and ?1 is an obtuse angle. The disclosure also relates to a coating device.

Abstract: An insulated electrostatically-assisted insulated spraying extender (10) is described, which is installed on the spraying bar (100) of a spraying device and positioned adjacent to a hydraulic nozzle (20) that atomizes the spray solution, said extender (10) being equipped with an insulated internal shaft (12) for the passage of the power supply cable (30) and the placement of an encapsulated electric device (13) that feeds the induction electrode (151) surrounding the opening (21) of the hydraulic nozzle (20), causing the dielectric rupture of atomized drops, eliminating or decreasing the wetting of the induction electrode (151) and of the power supply cable (30), as well as of other electric parts that affect the efficiency and the full operation of the spraying nozzle, while hindering leakage of the electric current through cable (30) by contacting any section of the machine structure.