Abstract: There is provided a method of fabricating a three-dimensional object. The method includes supplying, flattening, and collecting. The supplying supplies, with a powder supplier, powder to a fabrication chamber. The fabrication chamber includes a fabrication stage to store powder and an outer edge portion outside the fabrication stage, the outer edge portion having one bottom surface. The flattening flattens, with a flattener, the powder supplied by the supplying. The collecting collects, with a powder collector, the powder having overflowed from the fabrication stage to the outer edge portion by the flattening into the fabrication stage.

Abstract: A thermos cup vacuumizing device and method are provided. The thermos cup vacuumizing device includes a pre-vacuumizing chamber, a heating chamber, a welding chamber, and a cooling chamber. A continuous conveying device is provided at a bottom of each of the chambers. The thermos cup vacuumizing device further includes a controllable and movable laser welding device and multiple transparent windows. A laser beam of the laser welding device passes through the transparent windows to melt a welding ball at provided at a hole in the center of the bottom of the thermos cup. A vertically movable inlet valve is provided at an inlet of the pre-vacuumizing chamber, and a vertically movable outlet valve is provided at an outlet of the cooling chamber. The present disclosure realizes the continuous vacuumizing operation on the thermos cups, improves the product qualification rate and processing efficiency, and realizes automatic mass production.

Abstract: A fiber aggregation contains fiber containing a thermoplastic resin, each of the fiber being mutually joined and aligned.

Abstract: A three-dimensional fabrication apparatus includes a flattening member and a rotation drive unit. The flattening member moves on layers of a fabrication material to flatten an upper surface of the layers of the fabrication material. The rotation drive unit rotates the flattening member and determines a circumferential position of the flattening member.

Abstract: A resin powder contains a resin, wherein the proportion of fine powder having a number diameter of 40 percent or less of a mean number diameter Mn of the resin powder is 30 percent or less in the resin powder.

Abstract: A resin powder for solid freeform fabrication is provided which maintains the degree of smoothness of a thin layer formed with the resin powder for solid freeform fabrication even when the speed of supplying the resin powder for solid freeform fabrication using a recoater is increased and reduce lowering of the degree of smoothness of the thin layer caused by the resin powder for solid freeform fabrication that has scattered and accumulated on the recoater and others.

Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic resin powder, including a heat-resistant antistatic agent in an amount of 0.01% by mass or greater but 30.0% by mass or less. Also provided is a resin powder, including resin particles and resin fine particles having a number-based primary particle diameter of 1.50 micrometers or less.

Abstract: A video decoder includes a stream dividing circuit configured to divide a stream to obtain a plurality of sub-streams, a processing circuit including a plurality of processing units configured to perform entropy decoding and inverse quantization on the plurality of sub-streams in parallel to obtain inversely quantized data, an inverse transform circuit configured to inversely transform the inversely quantized data to obtain inversely transformed data, and an output circuit configured to output a decoded video according to the inversely transformed data.

Abstract: A resin powder contains a resin containing particles, wherein the proportion of the particles in an aspect ratio range X represented by the following inequality 1 is 50 percent by number or more in a number distribution of an aspect ratio of the resin powder: A50?1?X?A50+1 Inequality 1, where A50 represents a median of the aspect ratio.

Abstract: A fiber aggregation contains fiber containing a thermoplastic resin, each of the fiber being mutually joined and aligned.

Abstract: A resin powder contains a resin, wherein the proportion of fine powder having a number diameter of 40 percent or less of a mean number diameter Mn of the resin powder is 30 percent or less in the resin powder.