Abstract: A method for forming a preform for a container having a hollow cylindrical main body having a first thickness, a hollow cylindrical thick portion having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, and a curved end portion. Inner surfaces of the main body, the thick portion, and the end portion form a cavity.

Abstract: Example implementations relate to compensating for shrinkage in 3D printing. One example implementation receives an object model to print a corresponding object in a three-dimensional (3D) printer, the object model having a plurality of surface coordinates. A plurality of dimensional modification compensation factors are determined dependent on respective locations within a printing volume of the 3D printer. The object model is adjusted at the plurality of surface coordinates using respective dimensional modification compensation factors depending on the location of the surface coordinates within the printing volume in order to generate a printable object model.

Abstract: A nanocomposite electrode including a substrate, a binding compound, a conductive additive, and zinc doped molybdenum vanadium oxide (ZMV) nanorods. The substrate is at least partially coated on a first side with a mixture including the ZMV nanorods, the binding compound, and the conductive additive. A battery including the nanocomposite electrode.

Abstract: An injection molding machine includes a connection member that connects a nozzle touch mechanism and a fixed platen. The connection member has: an arm part that rises upward from a support frame part on a side of the fixed platen; and a platen connection part that is provided on an upper section of the arm part and serves as a second connection section connected to the fixed platen. The platen connection part has: a connection pin that is fixed to the arm part and extends in a left-right direction coinciding with the width direction of a machine frame; and a rotary member that is fixed to the fixed platen and can rotate around the connection pin, wherein the connection pin is disposed so as to pass through the center axis of a nozzle and include a plane parallel to a mount surface of the machine frame.

Abstract: A method for preparing an antibacterial and fresh-keeping fruit-packaging material through three-dimensional (3D) printing includes the following steps: dissolving gum arabic and pullulan separately in deionized water to obtain a gum arabic solution and a pullulan solution; subjecting a probiotic to cultivation, centrifugation, and resuspension to obtain a bacterial suspension; mixing the bacterial suspension, the gum arabic solution, and the pullulan solution to obtain a core layer solution; mixing polyvinyl chloride, a modifier, and a plasticizer to obtain a shell layer solution; injecting the shell layer solution and the core layer solution into two syringes, respectively; conducting coaxial 3D printing to finally obtain a coaxial 3D printing product with a core-shell structure; and conducting uniaxial 3D printing with the shell layer solution alone to form an outer layer on the coaxial 3D printing product to obtain the antibacterial and fresh-keeping fruit-packaging material with inner and outer layers.

Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to food contact compliant three-dimensional printing kits and systems. In one example, a multi-fluid kit of food contact compliant agents for three-dimensional printing can include a food contact compliant fusing agent and a food contact compliant detailing agent. The fusing agent can include from about 70 wt % to about 96 wt % water, a food contact compliant carbon black dispersion in an amount of from about 3 wt % to about 10 wt % by solids weight of the carbon black dispersion, and food grade propylene glycol in an amount from about 1 wt % to about 15 wt %. The detailing agent can include from about 70 wt % to about 90 wt % water, food grade propylene glycol in an amount from about 10 wt % to about 25 wt %, and a food contact compliant chelating compound in an amount of from about 0.01 wt % to about 1 wt %.

Abstract: Methods for additive manufacturing are provided. In embodiments, such a method comprises illuminating a photothermal base with light, the photothermal base comprising a photothermal material and mounted in an additive manufacturing system to form a first interface between a surface of the photothermal base and a curable composition comprising thermally curable components, wherein the light induces light-to-energy conversion in the photothermal base to generate heat at the first interface, thereby inducing curing of the thermally curable components to form a first cured region. Additive manufacturing systems and photothermal bases are also provided.

Abstract: A molding system capable of reducing molding defects including first and second parison forming devices; first and second molds configured to be opened and closed; and a control unit. The first parison forming device comprises a first extruder, a first accumulator, and a first injection head, the first parison forming device is configured to form a first parison by injecting a first molten resin from the first injection head after the first molten resin extruded from the first extruder is accumulated in the first accumulator, the second parison forming device comprises a second extruder, a second accumulator, and a second injection head, the second parison forming device is configured to form a second parison by injecting a second molten resin from the second injection head after the second molten resin extruded from the second extruder is accumulated in the second accumulator.

Abstract: A continuous press arrangement for manufacture of building panels comprises an upper rotatable inlet drum connected to an upper rotatable outlet drum via an upper continuous press belt, and a lower rotatable inlet drum connected to a lower rotatable outlet drum via a lower continuous press belt. The upper and lower press belts form a product path therebetween for feeding a product in response to rotation of one or more of the drums. Upper and lower press tables each comprise a displaceable pressure cushion extending along at least a portion of the path and facilitate a pressure zone between the press table and the press belt. The press table comprises a displacement groove and the pressure cushion is configured to be at least partially received in the displacement groove. The pressure cushion comprises a friction seal element configured to be in contact with the press belt.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and techniques for producing complex components using a reinforced thermoplastic material. The complex components can include contoured or curved outer surfaces, and in some cases define a cavity. In certain examples, one or more thermoplastic materials are arranged to form a wheel component, such as that adapted to define a rim of the bicycle. Thermal bonding can be used to join multiple reinforced thermoplastic materials to one another in order to form a cavity of the wheel component or other complex shape. In certain examples, a portion of a tooling assembly can be pressurized to maintain a shape of the cavity during thermal bonding and cooling. This can remove the need for a sacrificial bladder or other structure that would maintain the shape of the cavity, allowing for a seamless final component, optionally absent indicia of bladder exit or other seams.

Abstract: A consumable assembly for a 3D printer includes a spool carrying wound filament. A 3D printer includes a print head configured to receive filament material and a spool cabinet configured to have a filament spool positioned therein to provide a controlled environment for filament on the filament spool. A dock of the 3D printer is located outside of a chamber of the spool cabinet and is configured to receive a filament key fob, including a spool chip, of the filament spool to maintain the spool chip outside of the controlled environment of the chamber.

Abstract: The tire mold comprises lower 12 and upper portions 14 which are movable relative to one another between a close-together position for molding the tire and a distanced position for extracting said tire from the mold, and a plurality of central sectors 16 which are in axial contact with the lower 12 and upper portions 14 in their close-together molding position. For each sector 16, the mold comprises an upper member 22 for permanently coupling said sector to the upper portion 14, and a lower member 20 for temporarily coupling said sector to the lower portion 12, said coupling members 20, 22 being configured so as to obtain, during an axial distancing movement of the lower 12 and upper portions 14 from their close-together molding position, a radial displacement of said sector 16 toward the outside followed by an angular pivoting.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a three-dimensional work piece is provided. The apparatus comprises an irradiation unit comprising at least one scanning unit configured to scan a radiation beam over an uppermost layer of raw material powder to predetermined sites of the uppermost layer of the raw material powder in order to solidify the raw material powder at the predetermined sites. An axis corresponding to the radiation beam when it impinges on the uppermost layer of raw material powder at an angle of 90° is defined as a central axis for the scanning unit. The apparatus further comprises a control unit configured to receive work piece data indicative of at least one layer of the three-dimensional work piece to be produced, and assign at least a part of a contour of the layer of the three-dimensional work piece to the at least one scanning unit.

Abstract: An ice mold for forming hollow, elongated ice structures intended to be used as drinking straws. The ice mold includes an outer tube, an inner tube concentrically positioned within the outer tube, and top and bottom caps that fluidly seal a chamber defined between the outer tube, the inner tube, the top cap, and the bottom cap.

Abstract: A method of making a nonwoven from continuous filaments is provided. The method comprises the steps of spinning continuous filaments from a spinneret to move along a vertical travel path in a vertical travel direction, cooling and stretching the filaments downstream of the spinneret in a cooler and a stretcher, and depositing the cooled and stretched filaments at a deposition location on a foraminous belt moving horizontally underneath the cooler and stretcher and having an array of openings of which a portion are plugged with a sealing compound to create a partially plugged foraminous belt. The method comprises drawing air downward through unplugged openings in the foraminous belt to stabilize the continuous filaments deposited on the foraminous belt, and pre-consolidating the deposited nonwoven into final form.

Abstract: Automatic table-top machines for kneading and extruding pasta are disclosed. The present machines overcome problems associated with prior known automatic table-top pasta machines that exhibit safety problems in relation to a detachable connection of a dough forming tank. The present invention provides one or more automatic table-top machines for kneading and extruding pasta of the specified type, which allows, among other advantages, an operator to carry out the assembly and disassembly operations of a dough forming tank in a safe and easy manner.

Abstract: A resin molding apparatus includes: a first molding mold provided with a first member and a second member configured to move relative to the first member, and configured to form a cavity by the first member and the second member; a second molding mold configured to hold a substrate; and a mask member so as to be relatively immovable with respect to the first member, configured to make contact with a portion of the substrate when the first molding mold and the second molding mold are clamped, and formed with a flow portion through which a resin material existing in the cavity and pressurized by the second member is capable of flowing.

Abstract: A coaxial powder-feeding nozzle includes a partition wall-type shell, a powder flow area, a cooling liquid flow area and a shielding gas conveying channel. A powder self-cleaning filter is on the outer side of the partition wall-type shell; the powder self-cleaning filter includes a set of powder collecting tubes on each side of the partition wall-type shell in the axial direction; each set of powder collecting tubes includes at least one powder collecting tube; under the coaction of a suction force applied by a powder collecting system and the self-weight of residual powder, a residual powder inlet of each powder collecting tube causes the residual powder on the opposite side to roll down to the bottom along the wall surface of a metal tube to be processed on the same side, and to be gathered at the front end of the residual powder inlet of the powder collecting tube.

Abstract: Extrusion dies and methods of manufacturing extrusions dies, the extrusion die including a first plate and a second plate. The first plate has first upstream and downstream surfaces. A first material of the first plate has a first elastic modulus. The first plate includes pins formed between a plurality of slots. The pins and slots define a discharge face for the extrusion die at the first downstream surface of the first plate. The second plate has second upstream and downstream surfaces. The second plate is joined at the second downstream surface to the first upstream surface of the first plate. A second material of the second plate has a second elastic modulus. The second elastic modulus is greater than the first elastic modulus. A plurality of feed holes extend from the second upstream surface of the second plate through the extrusion die into communication with the slots.

Abstract: A platform is moved to translate contents of a print chamber to a secondary chamber. Negative pressure is applied to the secondary chamber and print chamber during motion of the platform, to reduce friction between the contents of the print chamber and sidewalls of the print chamber.