Abstract: A system and method for production of a customizable food and beverage cooler are disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, a mold includes two primary halves configured to produce an injection molded part that is a component of the food and beverage cooler. An aperture intersects one of the primary halves of the mold to accommodate an insertion block that includes a reverse image thereon such that molten plastic flow around the reverse image produces an integrally molded image on the component of the food and beverage cooler. Further, the aperture accommodates a combination insertion block and insertion plate having the reverse image thereon. One of the insertion block or combination insertion block and insertion plate is selected for disposing in the aperture based on the desired production run of the injection molded part.

Abstract: An object printing system facilitates the printing of articles of manufacture. The system includes at least one printhead, a transfer device, an ultraviolet (UV) radiator, a pressurized gas source operatively connected to the transfer device, a plurality of actuators, and a controller. The controller is configured to operate the at least one printhead to form an image on a substrate, move the substrate bearing the image past the UV radiator as the controller operates the UV radiator to cure the ejected marking material partially to prevent ink movement, and operates the pressurized gas source to conform the substrate and partially cured ejected material to a shape corresponding to a surface of an object placed on the substrate to transfer the partially cured marking material onto the surface of the object. The transfer device can be an inflatable bladder or a molded vacuum chamber.

Abstract: The present invention addresses at least the problem of providing a method for forming a high-resolution foil image regardless of the hydrophilicity of a recording medium. In order to solve said problem, the present invention provides a method wherein an adhesive ink that is formed by dispersing or dissolving a polymer resin in water and in a water-soluble organic solvent is used as an adhesive for a foil, the adhesive is applied by means of inkjet printing, and a foil image is formed. The polymer resin of the adhesive ink is a polymer of a monomer that includes (meth)acrylic acid and a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester having a C2-12 alkyl group, the acid value of the polymer resin being 50-120 mg KOH/g, and the glass transition temperature of the polymer resin being 30-110° C.

Abstract: An electronic cigarette with a memory and ability to record the amount and duration of inhalation of nicotine vapor. The electronic cigarette may be integrated with a smart phone application or other software to record usage and provide feedback to the smoker. The application may include an algorithm for the development of a withdrawal schedule for the user to quit smoking or vaping.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cigarette cutter for cutting cigarettes. The cigarette cutter includes a housing assembly with a base portion and sidewall portion surrounding the base portion that together form a cavity wherein the base portion is coupled to a spring assembly and the spring assembly is coupled to a plunger assembly through a guide rail. The plunger assembly includes a base plate coupled to a cutter assembly that includes a blade that extends a distance from the base of the plunger assembly. In addition, formed along the sidewall portion is an aperture and coupled with the aperture is a cigarette receiving plate for receiving a cigarette and the receiving plate includes a groove or slot that runs vertical to the cigarette. The plunger when compressed extends the blade through the aperture and through the cigarette and to the bottom of the groove or through the slot so as to provide a clean cigarette cut.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an atomizer head assembly, comprising: an outer tube; an inner tube disposed in the outer tube, having a outer supporter openings formed on a lateral side of wall of the inner tube; a liquid storage chamber formed between the inner tube and the outer tube; a liquid inlet opening formed on a lateral side of wall of the outer tube; and an atomizing member having an end arranged in the one or more outer supporter openings. Moreover, the atomizing head assembly of the present invention comprises a plurality of atomizing members for atomizing liquid electrically connected in parallel and spatially arrange in various configurations, such that the atomizer head assembly can operated with an elevated voltage such that the heat generated per unit time by the atomizer head assembly is increased and the volume of atomized cigarette liquid in the atomizing chamber is increased accordingly.

Abstract: Handheld vaporizing devices with improved heating element and temperature controls, improved e-liquid reservoir, and capacitive technology to activate the heating element to prime the device to deliver aerosol on demand.

Abstract: A material deposition head may include a body that defines first and second ends, an exterior surface, an interior surface, and one or more material delivery channels, where the exterior surface includes fluting. In some examples, a system may include a fluted material deposition head, a fluidized powder source, and an energy source.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for producing an extruded protein product. In particular, a system for making an extruded protein product using a system that includes a die including channel having a transverse cross section that is a continuous loop along at least a portion of the length of the die is disclosed.

Abstract: A housing assembly is formed of upper and lower cases with top and bottom plates and an intermediate plate separating the upper and lower cases. An agitation assembly includes water in the lower case. A plurality of paddles submerged in the water are rotatable to agitate the water. An inlet assembly includes an inlet pipe having a top end above the top plate and a bottom end submerged in the water. A heating assembly includes a chamber interiorly and a cylinder exteriorly forming an annular passageway terminating at the top end of the inlet pipe. A heating coil system within the vaporizing chamber is adapted to vaporize the selected material whereby vapors released will tumble down the annular passageway then down the inlet pipe into the water. An outlet assembly includes an outlet pipe having a top end and a bottom end terminating below above the water.

Abstract: The present invention is a smoking device comprising a glass housing having lower and upper open end portions and an inner portion. The smoking device further comprises a body rotatably and sealably engaged with the lower open end portion of the glass housing by at least one o-ring. The smoking device further comprises an auger comprising a first end portion engaged with the body and a second end portion extending within the inner portion of the glass housing to form a bowl area. Rotation of the body causes the auger to rotate and the smoking material to be moved upward thru the inner portion of the glass housing to the bowl area where it is ignited by a match, lighter or other heat source.

Abstract: A male mold element includes a cooling circuit having first passage elements obtained in a first component of the male mold element and second passage elements obtained in a second component of the male mold element, the first passage elements and the second passage elements being distributed around a longitudinal axis of the male mold element so that there exist a plurality of angular positions of the first component relative to the second component in which the first passage elements are in fluid communication with the second passage elements.

Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that molds an imprint material on a shot region of a substrate by using a mold, comprising a detection unit configured to detect first light with which a first mark of the mold and a second mark of the substrate are irradiated and measure a position deviation between the first mark and the second mark, a heating unit configured to irradiate the substrate with second light for heating the substrate and deforming the shot region, and a control unit configured to control alignment between the mold and the substrate based on the position deviation, wherein a parameter of the detection unit or the heating unit is set not to detect the second light by the detection unit while the first light is detected and the substrate is irradiated with the second light.

Abstract: A waveguide includes multiple segments having different bend radii with substantially consistent cure profiles and related methods and systems for making and using the same. The waveguide is formed by modifying a laser beam used to write the waveguide to provide the consistent cure profile in the multiple segments. A marker characteristic of laser writing may be present in the waveguide. A method or system modifies an intensity profile or a shape profile of a laser beam to proactively compensate for exposure convolution based on the geometry of each waveguide segment. A convolution compensator is positioned in the path of the laser beam to modify the beam spot profile during writing to form the multiple segments of the waveguide in a photo-curable layer.

Abstract: A system for dispensing and curing activation of an adhesive agent includes: a housing defining a sealed chamber; a dispenser arranged to dispense the adhesive agent within the chamber; and a curing device arranged to cure the adhesive agent within the chamber. A method of binding a first item to a second item includes: loading the first item and the second item into a sealed chamber defined by a housing; dispensing an adhesive agent through a dispenser in the chamber at a location where the first item contacts the second item; and directing a curing source to cure the adhesive agent with a curing device.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided that has enhanced traction performance. A shoulder main body portion of a first shoulder block is formed with a step portion projecting out in a tire circumferential direction. A height of the step portion is set lower than a height of a tread face of the shoulder main body portion and higher than the height of a lug groove. The step portion extends from a tire equatorial plane side end portion of the shoulder main body portion, beyond a tire width direction ground contact edge, to a tire shoulder portion.

Abstract: A blank sheet including a plurality of main fibers arranged in parallel with each other, auxiliary fibers and a resin that consolidates the fibers is heated to a temperature at which the resin softens, and then pressed against a fan blade mold with the direction of the main fibers aligned with the longitudinal direction of the fan blade mold. The fan blade mold is shaped so that the length thereof in the longitudinal direction along the surface of a center part thereof in the width direction is shorter than the length thereof in the longitudinal direction along the surface of end parts thereof in the width direction. When the blank sheet is pressed against the fan blade mold, a center part in the width direction of the blank sheet at an end part in the longitudinal direction is pulled with a greater force than end parts in the width direction of the blank sheet at the end part in the longitudinal direction, thereby preventing occurrence of wrinkling.

Abstract: The present invention discloses and describes 3D printers that print 3D objects with acceptable precision and accuracy. Such 3D printers may comprise one or more of: an extrusion core with particularized temperature controls; an extrusion core with particularized filament pathway geometry; an extrusion core with a nozzle that is integral with a heating block; an extrusion core with nozzles of variable orifice-openings; a filament feeding system using smooth-faced-rollers; a build plate with an adhesion-layer for wetting between the extrudate and the adhesion-layer; an alignment-plane for anchoring axis positioning systems to a common plane to minimize tolerance stacking problems; and a single z-axis guide, a mono-rail, for guiding movement of a build plate in the z-axis direction; which may permit use of minimal mechanical fit tolerances between the mono-rail and a complimentary receiving sleeve.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing system improves the collection of waste materials during object printing. The printing system includes an ejector head configured to eject material, a platform configured to move in a process direction to a position opposite the ejector head to enable the ejector head to eject material onto the platform, and first and second planarizers configured to remove a first portion and a second portion, respectively, of the material ejected onto the platform. The printing system further includes a first housing defining a first chamber in which at least one of the first planarizer and the second planarizer is positioned, and a first vacuum source connected to the first housing, the first vacuum source being configured to produce a first vacuum in the first chamber to pull material removed by the at least one of the first planarizer and the second planarizer from the first chamber.

Abstract: A drum unit includes a screen with numerous apertures through which airborne material including at least fiber passes, and a cylinder section without apertures, disposed to a rotating cylinder; a housing unit encloses the screen part of the drum unit inside and contacts the cylinder section; and a forming unit forms sheets using material that passes through the apertures.