Abstract: A three-dimensional print head apparatus comprising a hopper, a nozzle, a barrel, a heating system, a fume extraction system, a dry air purge system, and an agitator. The hopper may having a cavity and may have a lower aperture. The nozzle may have an upper aperture and may have a lower aperture. The heating system may be positioned along at least a portion of the barrel, which may defined a heated zone of the barrel. The dry air purge system may be in fluid communication with the hopper. The agitator may have at least one paddle.

Abstract: Methods of making a composite aircraft primary structure include selecting a compression moldable composite sheet molding compound; preparing a first and a second layup with the compression moldable composite sheet molding compound to form a first and a second 3D preform; and compression molding the first and the second 3D preforms to form a first and a second component part. Further, the first component part comprises first geometric joint features, the second component part comprises second geometric joint features, and the second geometric joint features are complementary to the first geometric joint features such that the second geometric joint features are configured to mate with the first geometric joint features. The method further includes assembling the aircraft primary structure by joining the first component part with the second component part by aligning and mating the first geometric joint features and the second geometric joint features; and securing the same.

Abstract: According to one aspect, there is provided a method of selectively solidifying successive layers of build material in a 3D printing system. The method comprises obtaining data relating to a 3D object to be generated, forming a layer of build material on a build platform, applying to the formed layer a pattern of fusing agent corresponding to a portion of the layer to be solidified to form a layer of the object, applying to the formed layer a pattern of anti-caking agent on portions of the formed layer that are not to be solidified to form a layer of the object, and applying energy to the whole of the formed layer to cause portions of the layer on which fusing agent was applied to heat up, melt, coalesce, and then solidify upon cooling, and to cause portions of the formed layer on which anti-caking agent was applied to control caking of build material in those portions.

Abstract: This disclosure describes three-dimensional printing kits, methods of making three-dimensional printed objects, and systems for three-dimensional printing. In one example, a three-dimensional printing kit can include a powder bed material and a fusing agent to selectively apply to the powder bed material. The powder bed material can include polymer particles and a redox-active inorganic salt mixed with the polymer particles. The fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber, wherein the electromagnetic radiation absorber absorbs electromagnetic radiation energy and converts the electromagnetic radiation energy to heat.

Abstract: A material dispensing device includes a material storage unit that stores a material therein and has an outlet portion at a lower portion thereof, and a dispensing unit that dispenses the material dispensed from the outlet portion to an outside with at least a part of the material being plasticized. The material dispensing device includes a remaining amount detection unit that detects a remaining amount of the material stored in the material storage unit from above the material storage unit. A three-dimensional shaping device includes the material dispensing device that dispenses a material for shaping, and a stage on which the material dispensed from the material dispensing device is stacked.

Abstract: A system includes a carrier film including an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface is configured to contact rollers. The system further includes a first blade configured to form a layer of resin on the outer surface of the carrier film. The system further includes a second blade configured to prevent printed features from contacting the first blade. The system further includes a build platform. A portion of the layer of resin is to be added to an object being formed on the build platform.

Abstract: In a tire tread pattern, lug grooves with sipes each include: a lug groove and a first sipe further extending from the lug groove to a second circumferential main groove and pass through a land portion region. Second sipes are alternately disposed with the lug grooves with sipes in a circumferential direction and pass through the land portion region. The second sipes extend inclined with respect to a lateral direction in a direction opposite to a direction in the circumferential direction in which the lug grooves with sipes are inclined. At an opening end at which the lug groove opens to a first circumferential main groove, the lug grooves with sipes and the second sipes are joined. Thus, triangular blocks surrounded by the second circumferential main groove, the lug grooves with sipes, and the second sipes are disposed side by side in the land portion region in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A method for producing jewelry from human milk and an epoxy resin involving mixing human milk with a transparent epoxy resin, placing it in the mold and allowing it to harden, in which an epoxy resin and an amine hardener are used, wherein a quantity of cysteine and/or serine equal to at least 0.1 percent by weight of the milk is first added to human milk and the resulting mixture is introduced into the mixture of an epoxy resin with an amine hardener in an amount between 0.1 percent and 40 percent by volume of the mixture of an epoxy resin and a hardener.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are drawn to additive manufacturing methods. An exemplary method may include generating a tool path for forming a component via additive manufacturing, and assessing the tool path to identify a change in direction. The method may also include determining if the change in direction exceeds a predetermined angle, and adding a tangent arc to the tool path before the change in direction if the change in direction exceeds the predetermined angle.

Abstract: A method of making a homogeneous mixture of polyolefin solids and liquid additive without melting the polyolefin solids during the making. The method comprises applying acoustic energy at a frequency of from 20 to 100 hertz to a heterogeneous mixture comprising the polyolefin solids and the liquid additive for a period of time sufficient to substantially intermix the polyolefin solids and the liquid additive together and while maintaining temperature of the heterogeneous mixture above the freezing point of the at least one liquid additive and below the melting temperature of the polyolefin solids, thereby making the homogeneous mixture without melting the polyolefin solids.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chamber environment controlling apparatus for a three-dimensional bioprinter including a printing chamber having an internal space in which printing is performed and which is defined by wall surfaces including sidewalls. The apparatus may include a temperature adjustor including a heater configured to heat the internal space of the printing chamber and an air circulator including an air guide portion extending from an outside of the printing chamber along a sidewall on one side and formed so that air flowing in through an inlet moves along an inside, is heated by the temperature adjustor, and is discharged into the internal space of the printing chamber through an outlet, a circulation fan configured to circulate air along the air guide portion, and a filter configured to filter the air circulating along the air guide portion.

Abstract: A separator plate is produced by hot compacting a pliable and malleable material made from a blend of powder containing at least 70% carbon powder, 10-20% of poly-phenylene sulfide, PPS, and 0.005-10% PolyTetraFluoroEthylene, PTFE. Advantageously, the powder is suspended in water without using isopropanol. A method of producing a separator plate is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of making a homogeneous mixture of polyolefin solids and a particulate solid additive without melting the polyolefin solids or the particulate solid additive during the making. The method comprises applying acoustic energy at a frequency of from 20 to 100 hertz to a heterogeneous mixture comprising the polyolefin solids and the particulate solid additive for a period of time sufficient to substantially intermix the polyolefin solids and the particulate solid additive together and while maintaining temperature of the heterogeneous mixture below the melting point of the at least one particulate solid additive and below the melting temperature of the polyolefin solids, thereby making the homogeneous mixture without melting the polyolefin solids or the at least one particulate solid additive.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for producing three-dimensional workpieces (15), comprising a carrier (7) for receiving raw material powder (9), a build chamber wall (11, 11a, 11b) which extend substantially vertically and which is adapted to laterally delimit and support the raw material powder (9) applied to the carrier (7); an irradiation unit (17) for selectively irradiating the raw material powder (9) applied to the carrier (7) with electromagnetic radiation or particle radiation in order to produce on the carrier (7) a workpiece (15) manufactured from the raw material powder (9) by an additive layer building method, wherein the irradiation unit (17) comprises at least one optical element; and a vertical movement device (31) which is adapted to move the irradiation unit (17) vertically relative to the carrier (7).

Abstract: A system and method is provided to construct a structure using three dimensional printing of extrudable building material to a wall surface of a structure. According to one embodiment, a printing assembly is moveably disposed above the surface, and extrudable building material is applied from a nozzle onto the surface. One or more profilometers measure at periodic intervals along a geometric cross-section of a bead of extrudable building material. One or more controllers compare the measured cross-section to a predetermined, target cross section and one or more controllers periodically change, for example, the rate of application and/or the viscosity of the extrudable building material applied along the longitudinal axis. The nozzle direction can change, and the profilometers can be rotated about the nozzle along different longitudinal axes, or directions, depending on the wall locations being formed.

Abstract: An irradiation device for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects may include a beam generation device configured to generate an energy beam, an optical modulator including a micromirror array disposed downstream from the beam generation device, and a focusing lens assembly disposed downstream from the optical modulator. The micromirror array may include a plurality of micromirror elements configured to reflect a corresponding plurality of beam segment of the energy beam along a beam path incident upon the focusing lens assembly. The focusing lens assembly may include one or more lenses configured to focus the plurality of beam segments such that for respective ones of a plurality of modulation groups including a subset of micromirror elements, a corresponding subset of beam segments are focused to at least partially overlap with one another at a combination zone corresponding to the respective modulation group.

Abstract: A method of making a homogeneous mixture of polyolefin solids and carbon solids without melting the polyolefin solids during the making. The method comprises applying acoustic energy at a frequency of from 20 to 100 hertz to a heterogeneous mixture comprising the polyolefin solids and the carbon solids for a period of time sufficient to substantially intermix the polyolefin solids and the carbon solids together while maintaining temperature of the heterogeneous mixture below the melting temperature of the polyolefin solids, thereby making the homogeneous mixture without melting the polyolefin solids.

Abstract: A resin-sealed electronic component includes an electronic component main body sealed with a resin housing. The resin housing includes a pair of resin members aligned in a first direction with sandwiching a housing space housing the electronic component main body, and a sealing member including a molding resin and being molded so as to cover at least a portion of each of the pair of resin members. A portion of one resin member of the pair of resin members and a portion of the other resin member are aligned in a second direction intersecting the first direction to constitute a suppression structure that suppresses the molding resin from entering the housing space.

Abstract: A three-dimensional print head apparatus including a hopper, a nozzle, a barrel, and a heating system. The apparatus may further include a fume extraction system and a dry air purge system. The hopper may have a cavity and a lower aperture. The nozzle may have an upper aperture and a lower aperture. The heating system may be positioned along the barrel, and the dry air purge system may be in fluid communication with the hopper.

Abstract: In one aspect, inks for use with a three-dimensional (3D) printing system are described herein. In some embodiments, an ink described herein comprises up to 80 wt. % oligomeric curable material; up to 80 wt. % monomeric curable material; up to 10 wt. % photoinitiator; up to 1 wt. % non-curable absorber material; and up to 10 wt. % one or more additional components, based on the total weight of the ink, and wherein the total amount of the foregoing components is equal to 100 wt. %. Additionally, the photoinitiator is operable to initiate curing of the oligomeric curable material and/or the monomeric curable material when the photoinitiator is exposed to incident curing radiation having a peak wavelength ?. Moreover, the ink has a penetration depth (Dp), a critical energy (Ec), and a print through depth (DPT) at the wavelength ? of less than or equal to 2×Dp.