Abstract: Provided is a method of treating a surface of a mold to achieve good demoldability and capable of preventing wearing of the mold by avoiding load concentration on one part of the surface of the mold. After a first blasting is performed on the surface of the mold to remove a hardened layer produced on the surface and/or to adjust the surface roughness, a second blasting is performed to create fine irregularities on the surface. Then, an elastic abrasive in which abrasive grains are carried on an elastic body, or a plate-like abrasive having a planar shape with a maximum length that is 1.5 to 100 times the thickness thereof, is ejected onto the surface of the mold at an inclined ejection angle such that the abrasive is caused to slide along the mold surface to flatten peaks of the irregularities created on the mold surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a constant amount of abrasive which can supply even dry ice particles, ice particles, or the like as abrasive in a constant amount is provided. In order to take out abrasive contained in measuring holes 21 of a rotating disc 20, an abrasive mixing section 40 for blowing a compressed gas into each of the measuring holes 21 has a cylinder 41? which opens toward one surface of the rotating disc at the position where the measuring holes are formed. A piston 43? is inserted into the cylinder. A fluid channel 45 opens toward the cylinder 41? through the intermediary of the rotating disc 20 and whose opening rim 45a is in sliding contact with another surface of the rotating disc 20. One of the cylinder 41? and the fluid channel 45 communicates with a compressed-gas supply source through the intermediary of a compressed-gas introduction path 52. The other one of the cylinder 41? and the fluid channel 45 communicates with the abrasive transport path 51.

Abstract: The present invention provides a light-transmitting member that not only exhibits high antiglare properties but also shows a transmission image with a sharp outline. A reflecting surface of a light-transmitting member formed of an optically transparent material, for example, a glass plate, has minute hubbly surface profile formed therein by blasting the reflecting surface with an abrasive or the like to mill the surface. The minute hubbly surface profile in the reflecting surface are formed so that, when the reflecting surface is divided into minute compartments of a prescribed size and a histogram is constructed on the basis of measurement values obtained by measuring the height in each compartment, the probability density of the mode in the histogram is 10 to 30%, and the variance (?2) in the histogram, calculated on the basis of the heights, is less than 0.4 (?m2).

Abstract: A method for producing a metal mask for screen printing is provided, in which dross that is deposited at the time a boring operation is conducted via a laser beam is removed, without causing warpage or bending. The method for producing a metal mask for screen printing includes steps of: forming openings in the metal plate by melting the metal plate at positions irradiated by the laser beam; and ejecting an abrasive onto the other surface of the metal plate after the openings are formed. The abrasive ejected in the abrasive ejection step is one having a predetermined flat shape (plate-shaped abrasive), so as to form a plate shape having a flat surface, or an elastically deformable abrasive, with an average grain diameter of a dispersed or carried abrasive grain being 1 mm to 0.1 ?m, and which is ejected at an incident angle of equal to or less than 80 degrees with respect to the other surface of the metal plate, and at an ejection pressure of 0.01 MPa to 0.

Abstract: Provided is a moving mechanism for a blast gun which can easily move a blast gun accommodated in a blasting chamber and which can easily perform other operations from the outside thereof without leaking dust. A plurality of arm members (first input arm 21, second input arm 22, first output arm 31, and second output arm 32) are interlocked to form an input arm 20 and an output arm 30, each having one pair of arm members, one arm of the two arm members is pivotally attached to the other arm so as to be rotatable around an interlocked portion serving as a fulcrum, the input arm 20 is disposed outside the blasting chamber 3, and the output arm 30 is disposed inside the blasting chamber 3.

Abstract: A blasting chamber capable of conducting painting on a workpiece subsequent to a blasting process in the same working chamber is provided. A dust collection unit 20 that ventilates a main unit 10 during blasting work and a ventilation unit 30 that ventilates a main unit during a painting step are provided. A side wall 11 of the main unit is provided with an entrance 11a and an opening-and-closing member 11b that opens/closes the entrance, the dust collection unit is provided so as to project from a roof panel 15 to a floor panel 16 at a position closer to an other side wall 12 that is opposed to this side wall so as to partition the interior of the main unit, and a working space 10a and a ventilation duct 10b are defined in the main unit. A roof panel 15 above a working space has air suction holes 17 formed therein, and an intake opening 22 that communicates between the dust collection unit and the ventilation duct is provided.

Abstract: An abrasive that can impart a mirror finish, glossiness, or the like to a surface of a workpiece by blasting is provided. A crosslinked polyrotaxane compound having a network structure where crosslinking points are circular molecules of polyrotaxane and also having abrasive grains dispersedly mixed therein is obtained by causing chemical bonding between the circular molecules of the polyrotaxane in a state where the abrasive grains and the polyrotaxane are mixed. Then, the crosslinked polyrotaxane compound is granulated to a predetermined grain diameter to obtain a gel-like abrasive where a part of the dispersedly mixed abrasive grain is exposed at the surface. By using the thus-obtained gel-like abrasive in blasting by projecting the abrasive at an angle tilted with respect to a surface of a workpiece, mirror finishing or the like is possible without making the surface of the workpiece pearskin-like.

Abstract: Particularly, a thin-film solar cell panel or the like is processed without necessity of attaching and detaching of mask and washing steps with respect to a workpiece in a fine blasting employing a fine abrasive. A negative pressure space (20) and an opposing negative pressure space (40) having openings (22, 42) are opposed by being spaced at a movement allowable interval of the workpiece such as a thin-film solar cell panel or the like and so as to face one side edge in the same direction as a moving direction of the workpiece.

Abstract: A bottom wall surface of a blasting chamber of a blasting machine provided with hoppers for recovering an abrasive is formed at a lowest possible position. A cabinet 3 of a blasting machine 1 is compartmentalized at a predetermined position into an upper space and a lower space by mesh members (21, 22) that allow the abrasive to pass therethrough to form a blasting chamber 2 having a bottom wall surface 20 defined by the mesh members (21, 22). Hoppers 10 substantially shaped like an inverted quadrangular pyramid are disposed below the mesh members (21, 22) such that top portions of the hoppers 10 are opened toward the mesh members (21, 22) and that the bottom end of each of the hoppers 10 is made to communicate with suction means, such as a dust collector, through a recovery pipe 30.

Abstract: To provide an apparatus for supplying a constant quantity of abrasive that can accurately control abrasive quantity supplied to a blasting machine. A rotating disk 20 that rotates in the horizontal direction is provided inside an abrasive tank 10, with a gap 3 being capable to rotate the rotating disk 20, being formed at an end 11a of a mixed fluid flow path 11 arranged on one surface of the rotating disk 20, and at an end 12a of a gas flow path 12 arranged facing other surface of the rotating disk 20 via the rotating disk 20 at the end 11a of the mixed fluid flow path 11. Hole sections 21 are provided in the rotating disk 20 on a rotation locus passing through the gap 3, equally spaced and passing through in a thickness direction of the rotating disk 20, with stirrer blades 22 protruding from the upper surface of the rotating disk 20, and the rotating disk 20 being immersed in abrasive stored inside the abrasive tank 10, except for a part positioned in the gap 3.

Abstract: An abrasive, which makes it possible to polish a surface to be processed of a workpiece with a blast processing, and together therewith, can bear using for a long period of time or a plurality of times, and a method for blast processing with the abrasive are provided. The abrasive is composed of a base material as an elastic body and abrasive grains, wherein the abrasive grains of 10 to 90% by weight are compounded and dispersed into the base material of 90 to 10% by weight such that a content rate (compounding ratio) of the abrasive grains in the abrasive is 10 to 90% by weight when an amount of the abrasive is 100% by weight. The method for blast processing includes a step of injecting or projecting the abrasive at a predetermined angle of incidence with respect to the surface to be processed of the workpiece.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a constant amount of abrasives that can accurately control the amount of the abrasives to be supplied to a blasting machine is provided. A horizontally rotating disc 20 is provided in an abrasive tank 10 so as to be embedded in the abrasives. An opening at one end 11a of an abrasive transport path 11 is formed so as to be close to or in contact with one surface of the disc 20, an opening at one end 12a of a supply channel 12 for transport air flow is formed so as to be close to or in contact with the other surface of the disc 20, and an abrasive retrieve section 5 is formed between the both openings. Furthermore, measuring holes 21 penetrating the disc 20 in the thickness direction are formed at regular intervals along a rotation orbit of the disc 20 passing through the retrieve section 5, and an introduction path 17 for compressed gas which is ejected to the abrasives disposed above the measuring holes 21 and outside the retrieve section 5 is provided.

Abstract: Particularly, a thin-film solar cell panel or the like is processed without necessity of attaching and detaching of mask and washing steps with respect to a workpiece in a fine blasting employing a fine abrasive. A negative pressure space (20) and an opposing negative pressure space (40) having openings (22, 42) are opposed by being spaced at a movement allowable interval of the workpiece such as a thin-film solar cell panel or the like and so as to face one side edge in the same direction as a moving direction of the workpiece.

Abstract: Flaky particles whose thickness is ½ or less of a long side of a flat surface thereof are continuously injected together with a compressed gas onto a layer-forming surface of a workpiece to orient the flaky particles so that its flat surface is in line with the surface of the workpiece. By coating a binder to the surface of the workpiece in advance, a bonding between the flake particle thus oriented and the workpiece may be accomplished via this binder, or by generating heat at a point of collision between the surface of the workpiece and the flaky particle and at a collision point in which the subsequent flaky particles collide with the flaky particles that have already reached the surface of the workpiece, the bonding may be accomplished by means of this heat.

Abstract: In blasting with an abrasive containing liquid to confer elasticity, the abrasive from which liquid evaporates in the course of continuance use is uniformly supplied with liquid. Liquid for swelling an elastic abrasive is sprayed in an air flow for transporting the abrasive in a blasting machine 1 including an abrasive-recovery duct 91 communicating between a bottom of a cabinet 2 and an abrasive-recovery tank 3, the abrasive-recovery tank 3, a compressed gas before being introduced into a blasting gun 8, and so forth. Since the abrasive being transported in the air flow is separated into individual particles, each abrasive can be uniformly supplied with liquid.

Abstract: A bottom wall surface of a blasting chamber of a blasting machine provided with hoppers for recovering an abrasive is formed at a lowest possible position. A cabinet 3 of a blasting machine 1 is compartmentalized at a predetermined position into an upper space and a lower space by mesh members (21, 22) that allow the abrasive to pass therethrough to form a blasting chamber 2 having a bottom wall surface 20 defined by the mesh members (21, 22). Hoppers 10 substantially shaped like an inverted quadrangular pyramid are disposed below the mesh members (21, 22) such that top portions of the hoppers 10 are opened toward the mesh members (21, 22) and that the bottom end of each of the hoppers 10 is made to communicate with suction means, such as a dust collector, through a recovery pipe 30.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a constant amount of abrasives that can accurately control the amount of the abrasives to be supplied to a blasting machine is provided. A horizontally rotating disc 20 is provided in an abrasive tank 10 so as to be embedded in the abrasives. An opening at one end 11a of an abrasive transport path 11 is formed so as to be close to or in contact with one surface of the disc 20, an opening at one end 12a of a supply channel 12 for transport air flow is formed so as to be close to or in contact with the other surface of the disc 20, and an abrasive retrieve section 5 is formed between the both openings. Furthermore, measuring holes 21 penetrating the disc 20 in the thickness direction are formed at regular intervals along a rotation orbit of the disc 20 passing through the retrieve section 5, and an introduction path 17 for compressed gas which is ejected to the abrasives disposed above the measuring holes 21 and outside the retrieve section 5 is provided.

Abstract: A method for producing a metal mask for screen printing is provided, in which dross that is deposited at the time a boring operation is conducted via a laser beam is removed, without causing warpage or bending. The method for producing a metal mask for screen printing includes steps of: forming openings in the metal plate by melting the metal plate at positions irradiated by the laser beam; and ejecting an abrasive onto the other surface of the metal plate after the openings are formed. The abrasive ejected in the abrasive ejection step is one having a predetermined flat shape (plate-shaped abrasive), so as to form a plate shape having a flat surface, or an elastically deformable abrasive, with an average grain diameter of a dispersed or carried abrasive grain being 1 mm to 0.1 ?m, and which is ejected at an incident angle of equal to or less than 80 degrees with respect to the other surface of the metal plate, and at an ejection pressure of 0.01 MPa to 0.

Abstract: An abrasive has a plate shape with a flat surface, in which a maximum diameter of the flat surface thereof is in the range of 0.05 mm to 10 mm, and 1.5 to 100 times as the maximum diameter as thick of the adhesive, and the blast processing method is one in which this abrasive is ejected by being inclined at an incident angle with respect to a surface of a product to be treated. The ejected plate-shaped abrasive slides along the surface of the product to be treated while having the flat surface in slidable contact with the surface of the product to be treated which is an object surface to be treated, so that the surface of the product to be treated is flattened by removing the peaks only, without increasing the depth of the valleys of the roughness curve.

Abstract: Provided is a moving mechanism for a blast gun which can easily move a blast gun accommodated in a blasting chamber and which can easily perform other operations from the outside thereof without leaking dust. A plurality of arm members (first input arm 21, second input arm 22, first output arm 31, and second output arm 32) are interlocked to form an input arm 20 and an output arm 30, each having one pair of arm members, one arm of the two arm members is pivotally attached to the other arm so as to be rotatable around an interlocked portion serving as a fulcrum, the input arm 20 is disposed outside the blasting chamber 3, and the output arm 30 is disposed inside the blasting chamber 3.