Abstract: A device for blow-molding a blow tube has a mold cavity into which the blow tube is to be at least partially received. The device further has a mold slider injectable into the mold cavity. The mold slider has to move a wall area of the blow tube into the mold cavity up to a wall area opposite of the blow tube in such a manner that an adhesion of both wall areas results.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a diesel tank or filler pipe by an extrusion-blow molding machine configured to manufacture a gasoline tank or filler pipe. The extrusion-blow molding machine includes a coextrusion head including at least one extruder configured to provide during a first period of time a first material that is a barrier to liquids and/or gases, such that during the first period of time the coextrusion head produces a first multilayer parison from which the gasoline tank or filler pipe can be manufactured. The extruder is further configured to provide during a second period of time a second material distinct from the first material, such that during the second period of time the coextrusion head produces a second multilayer parison from which the diesel tank or filler pipe can be manufactured.

Abstract: Process to produce containers out of preforms, in which the preform is inserted in a form-filling station, molded and filled in this station. Gas, which remains in the head space after the end of the filling process, is replaced by a purge gas, and a form-filling machine is provided to produce and to fill containers made of preforms.

Abstract: A form-filling machine for molding and filling a plastic preform with a liquid in a treatment station, including a slop-over protection device to prevent a liquid from slopping out of the container, including during the transition of the container filled with the liquid out of the treatment station of form-filling machine into a discharge unit, such as a discharge star wheel.

Abstract: Formed film, apparatus and methods for manufacturing formed film, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. Methods include controlled introduction of melt foldovers through modifying the surface area of a polymer melt curtain. Apparatus for same is also shown as are articles of formed film with melt foldovers.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of regulating the thickness profile of inline stretched films which are manufactured in a blowing process. The films are positioned flat in a reversing take-off, which are laid and which are subsequently stretched monoaxially in a machine direction in a stretching unit. In accordance with the present disclosure, the thickness profile of the film is regulated such that a film produced by the stretching, having a deliberate thickening in its marginal region over the total film width, is of uniform thickness.

Abstract: A rectangular substrate is prepared by providing a starting rectangular substrate having front and back surfaces and four side surfaces as ground, and pressing a rotary polishing pad perpendicularly against one side surface under a constant pressure, and relatively moving the rotary polishing pad and the substrate parallel to the side surface, for thereby polishing the side surface of the substrate. In the imprint lithography, the rectangular substrate is capable of controlling compression and pattern shape at a high accuracy and thus transferring a complex pattern of fine feature size to a recipient.

Abstract: A compact pressing body with a pressing surface smaller in area than a welding range welds together sheet-like members over the whole area of the welding range by pressing the sheet-like members being reliably moved in a direction substantially orthogonal to a pressing direction of the pressing body.

Abstract: An adhesive aid and a method for adhering components by use of an adhesive are provided. The adhesive can be found in an adhesive gap between respective adhesive surfaces of the components. At least the first component has an opening which opens into the component adhesive surface. The adhesive aid has an insert portion, which is designed to be inserted into the opening and has an insert outer contour that correlates to an inner contour of the opening, and a displacement portion, which adjoins the insert portion in order to displace adhesive in the adhesive gap. The displacement portion has a protrusion which protrudes past the insert outer contour in the radial direction, and the displacement portion is designed to be flexible, in particular elastic, at least in the region of the protrusion.

Abstract: A component crimping apparatus includes: a substrate holding part that holds a substrate of a transparent material, a component previously attached to each electrode of electrodes juxtaposed in an edge of the substrate through a photo-curable adhesive member; a supporting part having a base part with an optical path and a transparent member on the base part and connected to the optical path, and supports, by the transparent member, a region under a targeted electrode in the substrate; a crimping tool arranged over the transparent member and presses the component to the substrate; a light irradiating part that irradiates the adhesive member attached to the targeted electrode with light through the optical path; and a light shielding member that covers a portion in which the transparent member is not installed in an opening part of the optical path in the base part.

Abstract: A component crimping apparatus includes: a substrate holding part that holds a substrate of a transparent material, a component previously attached to each electrode of electrodes juxtaposed in an edge of the substrate through a photo-curable adhesive member; a supporting part that supports, by a transparent member, a region under the electrodes in the substrate; crimping tools that are juxtaposed over the transparent member and press the components to the substrate; and a light irradiating part that irradiates the adhesive member with light through the transparent member when the crimping tools press the components to the substrate. The crimping tools are configured movably in an arrangement direction of the crimping tools, the transparent member has a dimension capable of covering a whole region of a movable range of the crimping tools, and the light irradiating part irradiates a whole region of the transparent member with the light.

Abstract: A device and a method are provided for setting a press-in element into a workpiece at a predetermined location. The device includes main body; a fixing unit, which is attached to the main body and which is designed to fix the workpiece; and a processing unit, which is attached to the main body and includes: a boring unit, which is designed to create a bore in the workpiece fixed by the fixing unit; and a pressing unit, which is designed to press a press-in element into the bore. The method fixes the workpiece; creates a bore in the workpiece; positions a press-in element over the bore; and presses the press-in element into the bore, wherein a single device is used to carry out the method.

Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to sacrificial materials and methods of using the same. Various embodiments provide objects having the sacrificial material at least partially removed therefrom, and methods of making the same. Various embodiments provide sacrificial adhesives, sacrificial mechanical connectors, and methods of using the same. The sacrificial material can include a polymer including a repeating unit including a substituted or unsubstituted (C2-C20)hydrocarbylene and at least one of carboxylate, carbonate, carbamate, thiocarbonate, and thiocarbamate. The method can include exposing the sacrificial material to at least one of heat and acid, such that at least some of the sacrificial material degrades. The method can include removing at least some of the degraded sacrificial material.

Abstract: Various embodiments of methods for coating stents are described herein. Applying a composition including polymer component and solvent to a stent substrate followed by exposing the polymer component to a temperature equal to or greater than a Tg of the polymer component is disclosed. Repeating the applying and exposing one or more times to form a coating with the result that the solvent content of the coating after the final exposing step is at a level suitable for a finished stent is further disclosed.

Abstract: A method for producing a decorative lens capable of effectively suppressing deformation of the lens in laminating a film material to the lens even when lenses vary widely in shape, in which support jigs or the like for suppressing deformation of lenses need not be provided for respective lenses having different shapes. A first compartment and a second compartment are separated hermetically by a film material, the second compartment and a third compartment are hermetically separated by an elastic film, the pressure inside the first compartment 31 is made higher than the pressure inside the second compartment, and in laminating the film material is to a lens disposed inside the second compartment, the pressure inside the third compartment is made higher than the pressure inside the second compartment, so that the lens is supported by the elastic film.

Abstract: A joined structure has a first member, a second member that is joined together with the first member, and a pore portion formed on the first member and having an opening in a surface of the first member. The pore portion is filled with the second member. The pore portion has an inwardly extending protrusion on an inner periphery thereof.

Abstract: First and second composite members each containing first discontinuous fibers of fiber length La, are placed such that end surfaces thereof face each other at an interval of first length L1. Ends of the first and second composite members are melted over a second length L2 from the end surfaces. A connecting member containing second discontinuous fibers of fiber length Lb, is melted and placed to bridge a space between the ends, to form a stack. The stack is pressed, whereby the melted connecting member and the melted end portions flow into the space between the end surfaces to form a mixture portion. The mixture portion is cooled and solidified to produce a fiber-reinforced resin bonded body. The first length L1 is equal to or more than ½ of the fiber length Lb, and the second length L2 is equal to or more than the fiber length La.

Abstract: A method for forming butt joints between thermoplastic members by resistive implant welding. A tongue is formed on one member to be joined and a complementary groove is formed in the other member. A resistive implant is placed between the tongue and the groove which are then pressed together by an applied pressure. An electric current is run through the resistive implant to melt a portion of the thermoplastic material of both the tongue and groove, and the melted plastic intermingles through the implant. When the electric current is removed, the plastic cools, forming a weld.

Abstract: According to some aspects, an additive fabrication device is provided. The additive fabrication device may be configured to form layers of material on a build platform, each layer of material being formed so as to contact a container in addition to the build platform and/or a previously formed layer of material, and may comprise a build platform, a container, and a plurality of mechanical linkages each independently coupled to the container and configured to move the container relative to the build platform.

Abstract: A tool head for use in a 3D printer includes at least two drivable tools, at least one of which is an extruder tool for melting a modeling material suitable for building an object in layers. A shared or common drive system for the at least two drivable tools serves, in the context of the at least one extruder tool, to feed the modeling material into an extrusion unit. A selection device can establish an operative connection between at least one tool selected from the number of drivable tools and the drive system.

Abstract: A platform assembly has a rigid support with an array of threaded passages extending therethrough; threaded posts are engaged in the threaded passages and extend above the rigid support by a distance adjusted by rotation of each threaded post in its associated threaded passage. Manually-adjusted dog point screws can provide the threaded posts, and self-locking nuts can provide the threaded passages. A platform of smooth, slightly flexible material extends over the threaded posts and has an array of mounting elements that magnetically attach to the threaded posts to hold the platform tightly against the end of each post. Adjusting the positions of the threaded posts serves to adjust the precise position and flatness of the platform surface relative to the rigid support, and with respect to a print head of a 3D printer in which the rigid support is incorporated.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for producing a multicomponent feedstock being delivered through a print head of a 3D printer. Multiple component lengths are produced from separate feedstocks and are aligned to form the multicomponent feedstock which is fed into the print head for extrusion. The method includes providing at least two sources of feedstock of different material, feeding a distal end of a first feedstock along a feed path, cutting the first feedstock at a pre-determined length to provide a length of first feedstock having a proximal end. The method includes feeding a distal end of a second feedstock along the feed path and aligning the distal end of the second feedstock with the proximal end of the length of the first feedstock. The second feedstock is cut at a pre-determined length to provide a length of the second feedstock serially aligned with the length of first feedstock, to form a length of multicomponent feedstock. The length of multicomponent feedstock is fed into the print head.

Abstract: A heating control apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The heating control apparatus includes a heating module, a temperature sensing module, a pulse width modulation circuit, and a comparator. Input terminals of the comparator are respectively coupled to the temperature sensing module and the pulse width modulation circuit, and an output terminal of the comparator is coupled to the heating module. In the control method, a heating temperature of the heating module is sensed by the temperature sensing module, so as to provide a temperature sensing signal. The comparator receives the temperature sensing signal and a pulse width modulation signal generated by the pulse width modulation circuit and compares the temperature sensing signal and the pulse width modulation signal to generate a comparing pulse width modulation signal, so as to control the heating temperature of the heating module by using the comparing pulse width modulation signal.

Abstract: A multifunctional 3D scanning/printing apparatus is disclosed in the present invention, wherein the multifunctional apparatus comprises both 3D scanning and printing functions, by sharing a Digital Light Processing (DLP) projector or using a beam splitter (for example, a transflective mirror or a flipping mirror, etc.) to achieve a configuration for all sorts of 3D scanning and 3D printing equipment with the required elements within the same apparatus, and uses the accuracy-increasing apparatus (for example, a prism, a lenticular lens, other asymmetric lenses, etc.) so that the measurement accuracy from the two image sensors will not be restricted by the limited space.

Abstract: Provided is a laminate shaping apparatus including an ultraviolet-ray source that applies ultraviolet rays a model material ejecting unit that ejects an ultraviolet curable model material a support material ejecting unit that ejects an ultraviolet curable support material which assists shaping of a three-dimensional shaped product which is shaped by the model material a driving unit that drives at least one of the ultraviolet-ray source, the model material ejecting unit, and the support material ejecting unit, and a shaping stand on which the three-dimensional shaped product is shaped, and a control unit that controls the model material ejecting unit, the ultraviolet-ray source, the driving unit, and the support material ejecting unit.

Abstract: Techniques for improving flexural strength in 3D-printed object. The techniques generally include identifying a portion of a 3D model corresponding to the 3D-printed object to which one or more support posts should be added and adding support post descriptors to the 3D model within such a portion. The support post descriptor defines a position and at least one dimension of a support post cavity and a position and at least one dimension of a support post, both having a height corresponding to at least two layers of 3D-printable material. The model, including the support post descriptors are transmitted to a 3D printer to print the 3D model, which includes a support post cavity and a support post having a height of at least two layers.

Abstract: The present invention in one or more embodiments provides a method of forming an opening on a panel, the method including pressing in a first direction on the panel to form a protrusion with a tip portion, and cutting the protrusion with a force in a second direction to remove the tip portion to form the opening on the panel, the second direction being different from the first direction. The first direction may be a direction of gravity plus and minus up to 15 degrees. The second direction may be transverse to the first direction with an angle differential there-between of 75 to 105 degrees.

Abstract: A system and method for creating an optimized composite laminate structure containing a plurality of plies. The system has a processor and a memory, including an application interface. The application interface, when executed by the processor, is configured to operably: receive an input file having one or more of a maximum number of plies, design variables, material properties, and design constraints; determine an initial layup sequence defining parameters of a fiber orientation angle for each ply, and a total percentage of plies at a given fiber orientation angle; iteratively adjust the parameters, until an optimum set of parameters is obtained that achieves one or more predetermined margins of safety, and that achieves optimization of the composite laminate structure; and generate an output file for creating a layup, according to the parameters. The system further has a layup system for creating the optimized composite laminate structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method capable of producing a retardation film having an elongated shape, having high uniaxiality and a high in-plane alignment property, and having a slow axis in an oblique direction with high production efficiency.

Abstract: Provided is a method by which a retardation film suppressed in biaxiality, having a small Nz coefficient, and having a slow axis in an oblique direction can be produced with high production efficiency. The production method for a retardation film of the present invention includes: holding left and right end portions of a film with left and right variable pitch-type clips configured to have clip pitches changing in a longitudinal direction, respectively; preheating the film; reducing, under a state in which the clip pitch of the clips on one side out of the left and right clips is kept constant, the clip pitch of the clips on another side to obliquely stretch the film; and releasing the film from being held with the clips.

Abstract: A calculation system (1) for manufacturing an ophthalmic lens. A set of calculation modules (M1, M2, M3, M4) is associated to partial calculation in relation with manufacturing process of said ophthalmic lens. A managing unit (MU) is configured to: receive input data, and calculate output data through one or several iteration(s) of: determining one or several calculation module(s) to be activated, determining an order of activation of the one or several calculation module(s), and activating the determined one or several calculation module(s), in accordance with the determined order of activation. The managing unit transmits an indication that the output data have been calculated.

Abstract: The present invention include tire treads and methods of forming a retreaded tire, which includes the steps of providing an annular tire carcass configured for receiving a tread and providing a plurality of tread components each comprising an independent structure. The plurality of tread components are then assembled to form a tire tread, the tire tread having a thickness extending between a top side configured to engage a ground surface during tire operation and a bottom side configured for attachment to an annular tire carcass configured for receiving the tire tread. The assembled tread is bonded to the tire carcass to form a retreaded tire, the tire tread being arranged along an outer circumference of the annular tire carcass with a bonding layer between the tire tread and the tire carcass, where bonding layer includes an uncured elastomeric material being cured during the step of bonding.

Abstract: The present invention includes methods for forming a retreaded tire, which includes the steps of providing an annular tire carcass and providing a plurality of tread components each comprising an independent structure, which are then assembled to form an assembled tire tread. The tread is subsequently bonded to the tire carcass to form a retreaded tire, the tire tread being arranged along an outer circumference of the annular tire carcass with a bonding layer between the tire tread and the tire carcass, the bonding layer comprising an uncured elastomeric material being cured during the step of bonding. The tire tread is assembled such that the plurality of tread components are concurrently arranged around the outer circumference of the tire carcass to form a tire tread.

Abstract: A toe-cap molding machine has a body, a clamping device and a shoe-tree mount. The body has a base panel, a connecting mount, a clamping cylinder and a shoe-tree cylinder. The clamping device is detachably connected to the body and has two quick-release groups and a mold group. The quick-release groups are securely mounted on the assembling panel, and each has a quick-release mount, a clamping mount and a first spring. The quick-release mount has a releasing hole, a holding pin and a mounting recess. The clamping mount is pressably connected to the quick-release mount and has an engaging block, an elongated hole and an engaging head. The mold group is connected to the quick-release groups and the assembling panel and has two guiding shaft, a limiting panel, two second springs and a clamping mold. The shoe-tree mount is detachably connected to the shoe-tree cylinder below the clamping device.

Abstract: The invention is a metal hand press that compresses certain biomass materials into a briquette that can be used as a heat, fuel, or fire source. The process starts by soaking biomass materials with water, preferably shredded paper waste, sawdust, or coffee grounds. The soaked material is then placed into the biomass press and compacted using a lever and press plate. Water drains out the baseplate perforations and flows down the channel to the ground or a collection chamber. The press handle is raised and the removable basket comes out of the press, where the compacted briquette can be retrieved and set aside to dry for later use.

Abstract: A carton blank, apparatus, and method for manually folding such a carton blank to form a gusseted, lockable, rectangular box.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sandwich structural material core, where said core comprises a honeycomb structure, with hexagonal cells, where the hexagonal cells comprise at least two adjacent sides connected by an edge, where the two adjacent sides have a first length and each comprise a corrugated area, one among said two adjacent sides being the image of the other adjacent side by rotation through an angle around said edge, and also where at least one of said parallel sides has a second length and is substantially flat. The first length is substantially included between 80 and 120% of said second length.

Abstract: Composite panel for building construction comprises a first layer of honeycomb structure, and a load-bearing layer attached to the first layer of honeycomb structure contiguously or at distance for carrying external load of the composite panel in a lateral direction of the honeycomb structure.

Abstract: Laminate structures and methods of making laminate structures having overwrapped laminate edges which resist delamination and fraying or including one or more stabilizer laminates which afford greater radial and torsional rigidity in longitudinally slit tube structures.

Abstract: A composite sandwich structure for a vehicle includes a first sheet that has a first surface and an opposing second surface. The composite sandwich structure also includes a second sheet opposite the first sheet and a core coupled between the first and second sheets. The core is formed from a shape memory alloy and is configured to reversibly transform between (a) a substantially fully austenite state in response to the composite sandwich structure being within an expected operating temperature range and being subjected to a relatively low transverse force, and (b) an at least partially martensite state in response to the composite sandwich structure being within the expected operating temperature range and being subjected to a relatively high transverse force. Each of a plurality of first portions of the core correspondingly changes shape to accommodate the application of the relatively high force, such that the core reversibly deforms.

Abstract: A structural body which comprises a base and a microrelief structure layer having a microrelief structure. The microrelief structure layer is laminated on the base so as to form the surface layer of this structural body, and the microrelief structure layer has at least one physical property selected from the group consisting of (A) and (B) described below. (A) The elastic modulus at 25° C. is 50 MPa or more, and the elastic modulus at 80° C. is 30 MPa or less. (B) The tensile elongation at break at 80° C. is from 20% to 100% (inclusive).

Abstract: A liquid-absorbing multi-layered sheet with a liquid-absorbing central layer and a first and a second outer layer of fibres, tissue or film provided at each their side of the central layer is provided. The central layer is airlaid and includes cellulosic fibres, superabsorbents and heat-adhesive binder fibres. The sheet is peculiar in that the percentage of heat-adhesive binder fibres in the central layer is between 1% and 7% of the total weight of fibres in the central layer. In production, a continuous web with the three layers is conveyed through a heating zone for heating the web, wherein the heating temperature and the heating time are adapted to at least a partial melting of the heat-adhesive binder fibres in the central layer for binding the fibres in the central layer and for binding the outer layers the central layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tape with a given width, said tape being composed of an assembly of filaments extending in a direction substantially parallel to the length of the tape, and between which a powder of a polymeric material is distributed, each face of said tape being associated with a nonwoven of polymeric fibers.

Abstract: A vehicle interior panel includes a decorative skin and a polymer coating provided to increase material thickness at a desired portion of the decorative skin The polymer coating may be formed by a thermal spraying process in which a polymeric material is heated and deposited along an inner side of the decorative skin The decorative skin may be thermoformed from a uniformly thick sheet of thermoplastic material so that it includes a reduced thickness portion after forming. The polymeric material can be deposited along the reduced thickness portion to form the polymer coating, thereby restoring integrity or providing enhanced integrity to the decorative skin to aid subsequent material processes such as sewing or foam backfilling.

Abstract: The present invention relates a double-latch closing system which may be advantageously applied to aeronautical devices such as trolleys, ovens, waste compactors, galley inserts and standard units. It comprises a pair of tongues (33, 37), each operationally connected to a handle (16a, 17a). One handle (17a) is provided with a locking and safety means (17?a) which acts on the other handle (16a). Particularly preferred is the use of said closing system for aviation trolleys made with ultralight composite panels having superior mechanical properties as regards aeronautical standards. The panels may be advantageously used to construct food and beverage trolleys to be used in the aviation sector.

Abstract: Composite breathing cloth for sporting garments that comprises at least one layer having a yarn construction and that is provided with a multiplicity of filaments joining two upper and lower layers of said intermediate portion; said yarn construction being applied to upper and lower fabric layers constituting the cloth, by gluing and/or thermobonding and/or stitching. The cloth is suitable for the construction of bottoms for cycling shorts. Between the upper and/or lower layers of fabric and the yarn construction layer, one or more layers of foam can also be inserted, according to the methods already adopted in the prior art for constructing bottoms.

Abstract: In a composite lightweight fitting, at least one reinforced fiber layer (3a) of reinforced fiber layers (3) includes a reinforced fiber bundle (4) formed by aligning a large number of reinforced fibers into a belt-like shape, the reinforced fiber bundle (4) including a round portion (4a) arranged along a periphery of a through-hole (2). The round portion (4a) of the reinforced fiber bundle (4) is twisted.

Abstract: Provided is a non-weave fabric containing a thermoplastic resin fiber and a carbon fiber as major ingredients, capable of yielding a resin molded article when molded thereinto, which is excellent in mechanical strength and in appearance, and, a multi-layered sheet having the non-weave fabric and a textile layer, which is excellent in mechanical strength and less likely to warp. The non-weave fabric includes a thermoplastic resin fiber (A), a carbon fiber (B), and a thermoplastic resin (C) having a glass transition temperature lower than that of the thermoplastic resin fiber (A), the ratio of content of the thermoplastic resin (C) being 1 to 50% by weight of the total content of the thermoplastic resin fiber (A) and the thermoplastic resin (C).

Abstract: One or more layers of structured thermoplastic polymer, such as a light weight veil of thermoplastic polymer fibers, are located within the interleaf zone of laminates that are composed of fibrous layers and thermosetting resin. The thermoplastic veils are used in the interleaf zones as a replacement for thermoplastic toughening particles.

Abstract: A cementitious composite material for in-situ hydration includes a first layer having a nonwoven configuration and a cementitious material disposed within the first layer. The first layer has a first side and an opposing second side, and the first layer includes a plurality of discrete nodes spaced relative to one another along a first direction and a second direction. The cementitious composite material further includes a second layer disposed along the first side of the first layer and a third layer disposed along the opposing second side of the first layer and configured to prevent at least a portion of the plurality of cementitious particles from migrating out of the first layer. The cementitious material includes a plurality of cementitious particles, the first layer and the second layer include flexible materials, and the second layer is coupled to the first layer at the plurality of discrete nodes.