Abstract: An apparatus (1) for shaping plastic preforms (10) into plastic containers (2) is disclosed. Said apparatus (1) comprises a conveying device (2) on which a plurality of blowing stations (8) are arranged. Each of said blowing stations (8) encompasses a blow mold, within which a plastic preform (10) can be shaped into a plastic container (20). The apparatus (1) further comprises a clean chamber (6), within which the plastic preforms (10) can be conveyed. According to the invention, the zone of the conveying device (2) in which the blowing stations are arranged is located in the clean chamber (6), and at least one additional zone of the conveying device (2) is located outside the clean chamber (6).

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for forming a patient-specific surgical implant based on mold system. The apparatus comprises a forming tool and a mold that may be generated using imaging and processing techniques and rapid prototyping methods. The mold apparatus includes at least two non-adjacent surface features for securing an implant forming material (such as a titanium mesh) during the forming process, enabling the implant forming material to be stretched beyond its elastic and thus permanently deformed with the correct patient-specific curvature. The implant may include one or more anatomic surface features for guidance and registration when transferring the implant to a patient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ball shaped product and a method for making the same. The method includes the following steps of: (a) placing a ball shaped interior material on a supporting seat, wherein a part of an outer surface of the ball shaped interior material is exposed outside the supporting seat; (b) placing the ball shaped interior material and the supporting seat in a chamber; (c) covering a wrapping material on the chamber; (d) vacuum pumping the chamber, so that the wrapping material is attached to the exposed part of the outer surface of the ball shaped interior material; (e) releasing the vacuum of the chamber; and (f) rotating the ball shaped interior material, and repeating the step (a) to step (e) at least one time.

Abstract: A device for producing plastic spirals for use in a machine for producing a fibrous web includes at least two rolls between which an adjustable roll nip is formed. The rolls have a shape which differs in at least one region from a cylinder shape and/or have a surface structure in at least one region on the surface thereof.

Abstract: In a pultrusion method for manufacturing a fibre-reinforced composite product comprising reinforcing fibres embedded in a thermoplastic matrix material, the following is performed along a path of pultrusion: providing a preform; further downstream, inductively heating the preform to a processing temperature of the thermoplastic matrix material; and, further downstream, introducing the preform into a die and consolidating the preform by means of the die while the preform passes through the die.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprint template used for imprint includes a pattern region, a peripheral region, a region, and a first transmittance control part. The pattern region is provided with a first protrusion. The peripheral region surrounds the pattern region. The region is provided in the peripheral region and provided with a second protrusion. The first transmittance control part is provided in the peripheral region and configured to control intensity of light transmitted through the template in thickness direction. The template has a planar shape axisymmetric with respect to a line passing through center of the template. The region provided with the second protrusion and the first transmittance control part are provided at positions axisymmetric to each other with respect to the line passing through the center of the template.

Abstract: A structure stamp with a flexible stamp which has a microstructured or nanostructured stamp surface for embossing of an embossing structure which corresponds to the stamp surface on an embossing surface, and a frame for clamping the stamp. Moreover, the invention relates to a device for embossing an embossing pattern on an embossing surface with the following features: a stamp receiver for accommodating and moving a structure stamp, an embossing material receiver for accommodating and placing an embossing material opposite the structure stamp, an embossing element drive for moving an embossing element along the structure stamp.

Abstract: A roller-type depressing device, an imprint device and an imprint method utilizing the same which can depress an object like a die or a molding target by controlling the depressing force of a roller is provided. A roller-type depressing device to depress the object with a roller includes a pressure adjusting plate provided with the roller, a roller moving unit moving the roller relative to the object, a pressure adjusting unit holding the pressure adjusting plate in such a way that force produced by a pressure difference in fluid applied to both faces of the pressure adjusting plate acts on the roller, a pressure receiving stage receiving the pressure of the roller via the object, and a pressure adjuster adjusting the pressure difference in fluid applied to both faces of the pressure adjusting plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for riveting, especially in a component of a motor vehicle, a riveting tool, and a riveting, an air bag component. In the prior status of technology, the riveting is known and proven with deformable plastic rivets, especially in the automobile sector. The present invention herein is to detect the riveting force individually to the rivet stamps of a riveting tool.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a radius filler may include providing a plurality of fibers, braiding the plurality of fibers into a braided preform, shaping the braided preform into a braided radius filler, and cutting the braided radius filler to a desired length.

Abstract: A medical device-includes a polymer stent crimped to a catheter having an expansion balloon. The stent is crimped to the balloon by a process that includes heating the stent to a temperature below the polymer's glass transition temperature to improve stent retention without adversely affecting the mechanical characteristics of the stent when later deployed to support a body lumen.

Abstract: A composite part including a resin matrix and fibers reinforcing the resin matrix in a first portion of the matrix. A second portion of the resin matrix is substantially devoid of fibers. The fibers may be in the form of a woven mat that defines an opening. Alternatively, the fibers may be loose fibers that are deposited in a mold that includes predetermined areas that are shielded from the deposit of the loose fibers. A method of making the composite part is disclosed in which a woven mat having an opening is filled with resin. Another method is also disclosed in which loose fibers are shielded from being deposited in a portion of the mold that is subsequently filled with resin.

Abstract: A method comprising: a) contacting an article comprising one or more blades (10), the one or more blades (10) having a leading edge (12) curved upward and separated into prongs (14) by one or more notches (16) in the one or more blades (10), with two or more substrates joined by a pasty material overflowing at one or more seams (18), where the one or more notches (16) of the article straddle the one or more seams (18); and b) moving the article or the substrates (20,22) such that the pasty material overflowing at the one or more seams (18) is removed.

Abstract: An apparatus for fabricating a stack of adhesive plies for attaching a doubler to a surface on a structure includes a digital scanner, configured for scanning the surface and for producing a first set of digital data representing a contour of the surface, and a computer, coupled to the digital scanner, having a processor and system memory. The computer is programmed for mapping a gap between a bonding surface on the doubler and the surface on the structure using the first set of digital data and a second set of digital data representing the bonding surface, and for segmenting the mapped gap into layers corresponding to the adhesive plies.

Abstract: A method of correcting aperture size variations on an aperture plate, includes characterizing variations in aperture size in an array of apertures in a nozzle plate, obtaining a transfer function that relates mask aperture size to a final ablated aperture size, and using the transfer function to create a modified imaging mask.

Abstract: In sterile, additive manufacturing wherein one lamella is successively built upon an underlying lamella until an object is completed, a sterile manufacturing environment is provided. A major chamber large enough to accommodate the manufactured object has sterile accordion pleated sidewalls and a sterile top closed with flap valves. A minor chamber for supporting the nozzles positioned above the major chamber has similar valves in corresponding positions. Nozzles for material deposition penetrate the pair of valves to block air and particles from entry into the major chamber where the nozzles make layer by layer deposition of the object using XY areawise nozzle motion relative to the object as well as Z nozzle vertical motion with the major chamber expanding as the object is formed.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for processing medical images, the apparatus including: an imaging processing unit that sets an output range in a three-dimensional (3D) medical image, determines tissue properties for each region of the object that falls within the output range, and converts tissue property data representing the tissue properties of the object and the 3D medical image to a form that can be output by a 3D printer; and a communication unit that transmits the result obtained by converting the tissue property data and the 3D medical image to the 3D printer.

Abstract: The current document discloses an apparatus and method that support manufacture of large 3D hollow objects or shells with thin walls including curved surfaces with high and low curvature change ratio and alleviate or significantly reduce the need for support structures. Further to this, introduction of support structures becomes a function of the curved surface curvature change ratio.

Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement additive manufacturing processes whereby the constituent material of an object to be fabricated is manipulated prior to, or during, the respective deposition process such that different portions of the deposited constituent material can be made to possess different material properties. In one embodiment, an additive manufacturing apparatus includes: a nozzle configured to accommodate the extrusion of a constituent material through it and deposit the constituent material onto a surface in accordance with an additive manufacturing process to build up an object to be fabricated; and a subassembly configured to manipulate the material properties of some portion of the constituent material such that different portions of the deposited constituent material can be made to possess different material properties; where the subassembly is configured to begin said manipulation prior to, or concurrently with, its deposition onto a surface.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and a mask development system (MDS) for constructing a three-dimensional (3D) facial mask for air supply and air exchange are provided. The MDS receives images of a face and biometric data, constructs a 3D facial structure of the face's actual size using one or more facial parameters obtained from the received images and biometric data, and constructs a 3D mask structure that fits on internal and/or external areas of one or more facial parts of the 3D facial structure. The MDS configures the 3D mask structure by creating a seal around the internal and/or external areas, configuring grooves proximal to the internal and/or external areas for incorporating air supply and air exchange elements, and configuring design parameters, in the 3D mask structure. The MDS transmits the configured 3D mask structure to a 3D printer for constructing the 3D facial mask for air supply and air exchange.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for forming a workpiece by 3-D extrusion, wherein the device is provided with three vertical spindles drivable by spindle motors, a horizontal work platform for the workpiece connected to the spindles, wherein the vertical position of the work platform at the position of the spindles is adjustable by these spindles, a displacing member for horizontal displacement of an extrusion head and a control member for controlling the spindle motors, the displacing member and the extrusion head, wherein the device comprises a measuring device for measuring the vertical position of the work platform at the spindles and the control member is configured to move the work platform close to the extrusion head, to measure the vertical position of the work platform at each spindle and to correct the vertical position of the work platform by means of the spindle motors. The extrusion head thus always moves parallel to the work platform.

Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement additive manufacturing processes to fabricate highly customized products tailored to unique situations.

Abstract: A method for producing a panel includes steps of providing a core element, covering the core element with a strip of impregnable flexible material that continues beyond the core element, providing a following core element alongside the preceding covered core element on that portion of the strip of flexible material that extends beyond the preceding core element, covering the following core element with a following strip of flexible material that extends beyond the following core element, and repeating each of those steps at least once. The method further includes impregnating the strips of material with a hardenable fluid, and hardening the impregnated strips. Each following strip of flexible material is fitted over the top face of a following core element, as well as over the preceding strip of flexible material extending over the top face of a preceding core element.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to extending the usable life of one or more wearable surfaces, such as the treads of a tire or the surface of a conveyor, for example. According to example embodiments of the invention, the treads of a tire or the surface of a conveyor are cleaned and a polymer is applied to the one or more wearable surfaces so as to rebuild and recondition the tire or conveyor thereby extending the usable life of the tire or conveyor. An aggregate or colorant may be added to the polymer to improve its performance or to identify that the tire has been treated in such way. The colorant may also be applied for cosmetic or other identification purposes. The polymer may also change or optimize the tire's tread pattern for changes in weather, for example.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device which can uniformize heat distribution by using an existing heater mat for repairing or joining members. A heat dispersion device includes a bag with a fluid sealed inside, and is disposed on a second surface of a heater mat which has a first surface to be directed toward an object to be heated and the second surface opposite to the first surface. The fluid inside the bag is preferably heated with a heat source.

Abstract: The invention relates to wafer-level manufacturing of optical devices such as modules comprising micro-lenses. In one aspect, passive optical components such as truncated lenses are manufactured by providing a substrate on which a multitude of precursor optical structures is present; and removing material from each of said multitude of precursor optical structures. Another aspect comprises a method for manufacturing a device comprising a set of at least two passive optical components, said method comprising the steps of using a tool obtained by carrying out the steps of manufacturing a precursor tool having a replication surface; and modifying said replication surface by removing material from said precursor tool.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides recycled elastomeric particles, methods of preparing such elastomeric particles, elastomeric products containing such elastomeric particles, and methods and apparatuses for recycling used flat-proofed materials from industrial tires and producing flat-proofed tires using the recycled material.

Abstract: A rotary body is divided into four to form multiple partitioned members. A chuck mechanism includes an expanding and contracting mechanism that expands and contracts each partitioned member in a radial direction of the rotary body. The chuck mechanism mounts and dismounts the beginning of a wire in an interlocked relationship with expansion and contraction of each partitioned member. The expanding and contracting mechanism includes a guide member that moves each partitioned member back and forth in the radial direction, and a cam member that moves each partitioned member between a large-diameter position and a small-diameter position. The chuck mechanism includes a chuck arm, a coil spring that biases the chuck arm in a direction in which the chuck arm is closed, an arm member that opens and closes the chuck arm, and a cam actuator that makes the arm member pivot.

Abstract: An apparatus for compacting stalk material, having a feeding device for feeding material to be pressed, having at least one pair of press drums which can be driven in opposite directions and which each have circumferential receiving grooves and compression rings in an alternate manner alongside one another in the axial direction, wherein the compression rings of one press drum engage in the receiving grooves of the other press drum, wherein at least one press drum is provided with a cavity and wherein this at least one press drum has a multiplicity of radially extending press channels in a manner distributed over the circumference, said press channels in each case connecting the groove bottom of the receiving grooves to the cavity, provision is made for the compression rings to have a circumferential profile having protrusions formed for example by radially external teeth having tooth tips.

Abstract: An apparatus for pelletizing renewable raw materials, such as stalk material, having a feeding device for feeding the materials to be pelletized and having at least one press drum pair that is settable into opposite rotational movements, wherein the feeding device has a drivable conveyor belt which conveys the material to be compressed into the region of a feed hopper between the press drum pair, and which wraps around one of the two press drums regionally over an angle of at least 20° in order to form a precompaction region, and wherein the precompaction region has a constant width with respect to its length, said width corresponding more or less to the width of the press drums.

Abstract: To provide a decompressing jig that can apply pressure on a workpiece after a space for accommodating the workpiece is sufficiently decompressed and a method for applying pressure on a workpiece by using the decompressing jig. The decompressing jig 1 is configured by integrating a first member for decompression 10, a second member for decompression 20, a sealing member 30, a first member for preliminary decompression 40, and a second member for preliminary decompression 50. The first member for decompression 10 is formed by spreading a first sheet 12 made of a flexible sheet across a first frame 11. In the first frame 11 a path for suction 15 that is connected to a device for suction via a port for suction 14 and that is connected to a space S for accommodating the workpiece is formed. The first member for preliminary decompression 40 forms a chamber Y for preliminary decompression between it and the first sheet 12 so that the chamber Y can be decompressed.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for dewatering wood material (2). The apparatus (1) comprises a first roll (3) and a second roll (4) that form a nip (N1) in which water can be pressed out of the wood chips (2). An endless permeable conveyor (5) is arranged to pass through the nip (N1) and carry wood chips (2) through the (N1). The invention also relates to a method of dewatering wood material in which the inventive apparatus is used.

Abstract: A cover panel, for at least partially transparently covering at least one display instrument in a vehicle, has a microstructure applied on at least one surface. The microstructure is suitable for scattering visible light which is incident on the cover panel. The at least one window region of the cover panel is cutout from the microstructure. A method for manufacturing such a cover panel uses a molding tool with an applied microstructure matrix for forming a microstructure on a part of the molding tool which is assigned to a surface of a molded cover panel. The parts of the molding tool which are assigned to window regions are cut out from the microstructure matrix.

Abstract: A transfer film having a transfer layer disposed on a support film provided with the concave-convex structure, wherein the transfer layer includes a shape retaining layer and an adhesive layer, both the shape retaining layer and the adhesive layer containing a condensation product of a metal alkoxide, and the support film, the shape retaining layer, and the adhesive layer being disposed in this order.

Abstract: A plastic component, with fiber reinforcement, for use in a motor vehicle. The plastic component comprises a number of fiber layers connected to one another by injection of plastic and by a pressing force. The plastic component comprises at least two structural parts which overlap one another a pressing direction such that the die comprises at least one upper die portion formed with a pressing unit for applying a pressing force in the pressing direction, and at least one lower die portion which cooperates with the upper die portion to form a cavity in which the plastic component is formed. A die insert is fitted in the die and can move by and with the upper die portion and is designed to transmit the pressing force to the at least one structural part of the plastic component which is overlapped by the other structural part of the plastic component in the pressing direction.

Abstract: The invention discloses a multi-layered cushioning structure composed of a first layer of a foam material and a second layer of an elastomeric gel material. The first and second layers are separated from each other by an integration layer having a portion of the elastomeric material integrated by capillarity into a portion of the foam material. The method of fusing the two materials together is also part of the invention.

Abstract: A structurally efficient rod-stiffened panel incorporating pretressing benefits is provided, the prestress provided by pultruded rod which is already in the system. The pultruded rods being retained in either tension or compression stresses apply prestressing via interfacial behavior. The new system improves the efficiency of structural composites by tailoring the stress system within structure to fully utilize the structural potential of various components, and to avoid premature local failures within composite structures. A method for producing a prestressed rod stiffened composite structure is also provided.

Abstract: The present application relates to a hybrid component and a method for producing the same. The proposed hybrid component comprises a basic element (2) having at least one portion which is formed as a laminate (3) from a plastics foam and a fiber composite plastic.

Abstract: An environmentally-friendly composite foil that includes a first biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based film comprising a moisture barrier coating; a second biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based film comprising a thin metalized surface, disposed adjacent to the first biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based film, having a bio-adhesive disposed between the first biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based film and the second biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based film; and a third biocompostable and/or biorenewable film comprising a sugar and/or a corn-based film, disposed adjacent to the biocompostable and/or biorenewable cellulose-based second film.

Abstract: A process for producing a bulk highly oriented graphene structure, comprising: (a) preparing a graphene oxide dispersion having graphene oxide (GO) sheets dispersed in a fluid medium; (b) dispensing and depositing the dispersion onto a surface of a supporting substrate to form a layer of GO, wherein the dispensing and depositing procedure includes subjecting the dispersion to an orientation-inducing stress; (c) removing the fluid medium to form a dried layer of GO having an inter-plane spacing d002 of 0.4 nm to 1.2 nm; (d) slicing the dried layer of GO into multiple pieces of dried GO and stacking at least two pieces of dried GO to form a mass of multiple pieces of GO; and (f) heat treating the mass under an optional first compressive stress to produce the highly oriented graphene structure at a first heat treatment temperature higher than 100° C. to an extent that an inter-plane spacing d002 is decreased to a value less than 0.4 nm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a workpiece or a material containing a marking agent which comprises a marker in a molten carrier containing boric acid or borax.

Abstract: A heat-shielding laminated glass laminate contains at least one film A containing a polyvinyl acetal PA and optionally at least one plasticiser WA, and at least one film B containing a polyvinyl acetal PB and at least one plasticiser WB, positioned between two glass sheets, wherein prior to lamination: a proportion of plasticiser WA of less than 16% by weight is dispersed in film A, a proportion of plasticiser WB of at least 16% by weight is dispersed in film B, and heat-shielding particles are dispersed in film A.

Abstract: A multi-layer film having excellent surface hardness and transparency, a small heat shrinkage factor and such high brittleness that it is easily trimmed after decorative molding. The multi-layer film comprises a layer (layer A) which contains a polycarbonate resin having a viscosity average molecular weight of 13,000 or more to less than 20,000 and layers (layer B-1 and layer B-2) which contain an acrylic resin and are formed on both sides of the layer A, respectively, wherein the total thickness of the multi-layer film is 50 to 200 ?m, and the thickness of the layer A accounts for 5 to 30% of the total thickness.

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a medicine packaging sheet, and a medicine package, which do not need to enclose an oxygen absorbent in the package in addition to add the oxygen absorbent in the package material, and which have excellent oxygen absorbing properties and oxygen barrier properties. The present invention provides a medicine packaging sheet including a barrier layer and an oxygen absorbing layer, wherein the oxygen absorbing layer is composed of a resin composition including a base resin, an oxygen absorbing resin, and a reaction accelerator.

Abstract: The invention provides a film comprising at least two layers, a first layer and a second layer; and wherein the first layer is formed from a first composition comprising a polyester and/or a polylactic acid; and wherein the second layer is formed from a second composition comprising at least the following: A) a functionalized ethylene-based polymer, and B) at least one ethylene/alkylacrylate copolymer.

Abstract: Disclosed are multilayer structures comprising a polyolefin layer, a tie layer and a barrier layer wherein the tie layer is a formulation comprising a crystalline block copolymer composite (CBC) comprising i) an ethylene polymer (EP) comprising at least 90 mol % polymerized ethylene; ii) an alpha-olefin-based crystalline polymer (CAOP) and iii) a block copolymer comprising (a) an ethylene polymer block comprising at least 90 mol % polymerized ethylene and (b) a crystalline alpha-olefin block (CAOB).

Abstract: Provided is an aluminum-resin bonded body that expresses excellent bonding strength and does not show a reduction in the strength after a durability test, thus being able to keep the excellent bonding strength over a long period of time. The aluminum-resin bonded body includes: an aluminum substrate formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy; an oxygen-containing film containing oxygen, the oxygen-containing film being formed on a surface of the aluminum substrate; and a resin molded body formed of a thermoplastic resin composition containing a thermoplastic resin and an additive, the resin molded body being bonded onto the oxygen-containing film, in which the thermoplastic resin composition contains any one or both of: a thermoplastic resin containing an element having an unshared electron pair in a repeat unit and/or at an end; and an additive containing an element having an unshared electron pair.

Abstract: Provided is a surface protective sheet substrate capable of bringing about weatherability with less weathering stabilizer. The surface protective sheet substrate provided by this invention comprises a polyolefin resin accounting for more than 50% by weight of the entire substrate. The substrate comprises an inorganic weathering stabilizer-containing layer which comprises an inorganic weathering stabilizer. The inorganic weathering stabilizer-containing layer has a thickness of 10 ?m or larger, but smaller than 40 ?m. The inorganic weathering stabilizer content accounts for 8% by weight or more of the inorganic weathering stabilizer-containing layer. The inorganic weathering stabilizer content per unit area of substrate is 2.0 g/m2 or greater.

Abstract: Layered structures consisting of at least one film A containing a polyvinyl acetal PA and at most 16% by weight of plasticiser WA and at least one film B containing a polyvinyl acetal PB and at least 16% by weight plasticiser WB between two glass sheets, are produced by adhering at least one film A to at least one film B or at least one of the glass sheets by means of a liquid. The layered structure can then be pressed to form a composite glass laminate.

Abstract: An elastic laminate is made by first coextruding a film having an elastic outer film layer formed of a styrene-block copolymer and an inner film layer of lesser elasticity than the outer layer. An outer fleece web with an outer adhesive layer is then adhered to the outer film layer, and an inner fleece web with an inner adhesive layer is adhered to the inner film layer so as to form between the inner fleece web and the inner film layer a bond that is weaker than a bond formed by the outer adhesive layer between the outer fleece web and the outer film layer. Thereafter the coextruded film bonded by the inner and outer adhesive layers to the outer and inner fleece webs is prestretched such that the weak bond formed by the inner adhesive layer separates only locally from the inner film layer but the bond formed by the outer adhesive layer remains intact.