Patents Issued in March 10, 2016
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Publication number: 20160067895Abstract: A method is provided of cleaning of a portion of a mold component, the portion of the mold component including a passage configured, in use, to allow passage of fluid and to prevent passage of melt, the method comprising: entering the mold component into a cleaning configuration, whereby a portion of the passage becomes part of a molding surface; performing a molding cycle to fill in at least the portion of the passage with molding material for incorporation and removal of a residue there from. Also provided is a mold having a first mold half and a second mold half, the halves being movable relative to each other. A mold shut height adjustment apparatus can provide for a change in the mold shut height.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Jean-Christophe WITZ, Sven KMOCH, Ralf Walter FISCH
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Publication number: 20160067896Abstract: A rotary valve device includes a valve body having a valve hole and a plurality of ports connected to the valve hole. The rotary valve device further includes a rotary valve having communication passages and a motor driving to rotate the rotary valve to regulate flow of a fluid. The valve body has a first and a second supply passage that interconnect the valve hole and the ports. The second supply passage is connected to the valve hole at a position that is closer to an axial end of the valve hole than the first supply passage. The fluid supplied from the second supply passage has lower pressure than the fluid supplied from the first supply passage. Sealing members are interposed between an inner peripheral surface of the valve hole and an outer peripheral surface of the rotary valve at respective opposite ends of the valve hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Kazuyuki YAMAGUCHI, Naoki HIROSE
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Publication number: 20160067897Abstract: Wings are provided on mold components and linear ways are provided below these wings. A pad rides on each linear way below each wing. A force generator, such as a spring, is disposed between each wing and underlying pad. In this way the weight of the mold components is borne, at least in part, by the linear ways so that the weight on components that might otherwise sag is lessened.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: RAINER KINTZINGER, Christophe HALTER, Pierre GLAESENER
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Publication number: 20160067898Abstract: A clamp assembly for an injection molding machine includes: (a) a cylinder housing having an inner end and an outer end spaced axially apart from the inner end; (b) a piston assembly comprising a tie bar end portion of a tie bar and a piston head affixed to the tie bar end portion, the piston assembly slidable within the housing between a meshing position and a clamped position spaced axially apart from the meshing position; (c) a clamp chamber between the piston head and the inner end of the cylinder housing for holding pressurized fluid and urging the piston assembly to the clamped position when pressurized; and (d) a spring return device adjacent the outer end of the cylinder housing, the spring return device pushing the piston assembly from the clamped position back to the meshing position when pressure in the clamp chamber is relieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Robert D. Schad, Carsten Link
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Publication number: 20160067899Abstract: A drop-in hot runner system includes a first runner component having a first channel aperture extending into a first runner component sliding surface, and a second runner component having a second channel aperture extending into a second runner component sliding surface. A depressible protrusion is associated with the first runner component, and a receiver is associated with the second runner component. The depressible protrusion and the receiver are positioned such that when the first runner component and the second runner component are coupled together along the first and second runner component sliding surfaces the depressible protrusion is received in the receiver, and the first and second channel apertures are misaligned.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Fabrice Fairy, Chun Keung Mak, Denis Babin
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Publication number: 20160067900Abstract: An in-mold shutter (140) for embedding in an injection mold (100, 200, 300) is described herein. The in-mold shutter (140, 240, 340, 440, 540) includes a shutter actuator (148, 548) that is configured to selectively engage a first mold shoe (130) of the injection mold (100, 200, 300) with a platen of a mold clamping assembly (996) to hold the first mold shoe (130) in an extended position (E), along a mold-stroke axis (X), during a step of molding a first molded article (102A) in the injection mold (100, 200, 300). Also described herein is a molded article transfer device (150, 250) for use with the injection mold (100, 200, 300). The molded article transfer device (150, 250) includes a shuttle (154) that is slidably arranged, in use, within the injection mold (100, 200, 300).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: CHRISTOPHE HALTER, Pierre GLAESENER, François STYGA
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Publication number: 20160067901Abstract: Injection molding of plastic materials by an apparatus comprising at least one injector including a valve pin displaceable in a controlled manner between a closed position and an open position by an electric rotary actuator. At least one step is provided of detecting the value of the torque developed by the electric rotary actuator when the valve pin is in the path from the closed position to the open position, and the torque value detected is used to pilot the molding process.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Maurizio Bazzo
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Publication number: 20160067902Abstract: An extrusion die includes a first metal plate and a second metal plate. The first and second metal plates define a first entrance for receiving a first plastic flow, a first cavity including two first distributing channels, and a second cavity including two second distributing channels. The first entrance communicates with the first cavity. The first metal plate further defines a second entrance for receiving a second plastic flow of different color. The second entrance communicates with the second cavity. The first cavity communicates with the second cavity through a common side therebetween. An exit is defined at bottoms of the cavities, from which bicolor plastic sheets can be delivered. One of the first distributing channels and one of the second distributing channels are respectively curved downwardly to join to the common side between the cavities, so that the plastic flows can flow more smoothly to prevent color mixing therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Chien Yuan LIN
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Publication number: 20160067903Abstract: A material level detecting mechanism of three-dimensional system includes a bracket, a printing head, first piston, a second piston, a first detecting unit and a second detecting unit. The bracket includes an aligner holder and a supporter. The printing head detachably located in the aligner holder, and including a nozzle with an outlet for extruding the modeling material. The first piston includes a piston rod attached to a piston head, and the second piston slidably located inside the cartridge is adapted to be pushed by the first piston toward the direction of the outlet. The first detecting unit is adapted to detect the home position of the first piston and the second detecting unit is adapted to detect the touching of the first piston and the second piston which provide the initial amount of material present in the cartridge which is subject to print.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Jui-Feng Chang, Chia-Ming Chang, Clyde Ventolina Cordero
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Publication number: 20160067904Abstract: A mold comprising at least two mold portions, at least one of which includes a vent opening out to the inside of the cavity and to the outside of the mold and presenting a flow section that is predetermined to enable air to be exhausted when the mold is closed. Said mold portion comprises at least two parts that extend over an entire dimension of the mold cavity and that are assembled together, the parts being held apart from each other by at least one spacer so as to define between them a gap that opens out to the inside of the cavity and to the outside of the mold in order to form the vent. A blow-molding machine including such a mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Stylianos ELEFTHERIOU, Loys MILLESCAMPS
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Publication number: 20160067905Abstract: A method for manufacturing a plastic fuel tank including lower and upper walls and at least one reinforcing element connecting these walls, includes molding the tank from molten plastic sheets which are optionally resulting from cutting a tubular parison. The method includes molding the molten plastic sheets in a mold including cavities and a core. The reinforcing element includes a hollow plastic pillar having an opening in its lower part and an opening in its upper part, the openings being situated at locations to allow, respectively, a filling of the pillar and a degassing thereof. At least one part of the pillar is a constitutive element of an accessory that has an active role in the tank. The pillar, or at least one part of an attachment structure for this pillar, is attached to the upper and lower walls of the tank during the molding thereof using the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: PLASTIC OMNIUM ADVANCED INNOVATION AND RESEARCHInventors: Bjorn CRIEL, Vincent CUVELIER
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Publication number: 20160067906Abstract: Provided are methods and systems of orienting parts for incremental sheet forming and, in some examples, forming the parts in these orientations. A forming orientation may be identified by simulating forming operations of the same part in multiple different orientations and identifying the thinnest portions of the part for each of the orientations. The orientation with the maximum thickness of these identified portions is selected as a forming orientation. The forming simulation may be based on the Sine law by comparing the actual and projected areas of different surface elements of the shape to be formed. As such, a part formed in the forming orientation will have the greatest minimum thickness among all other possible orientations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2013Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Michael C. Elford
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Publication number: 20160067907Abstract: Methods of enhancing one or more physical properties of a thermoplastic film include incrementally stretching thermoplastic films in the machine direction and/or transverse direction. In one or more implementations, methods of incrementally stretching thermoplastic films include reducing the gauge of the films without reducing the films' machine-direction tear resistance. The methods can involve cold stretching the films and imparting rib patterns into the film. The linear ribs can have alternating thick and thin gauges. Incrementally stretched thermoplastic films can have a machine-direction tear resistance that is approximately equal to or greater than the machine-direction tear resistance of the film prior to stretching.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Michael Borchardt
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Publication number: 20160067908Abstract: A biochip includes a substrate and a patterned polymer layer molded over the substrate and formed with at least one recess that is adapted to receive biological analytes to be detected using a reader. The patterned polymer layer is bonded to the substrate through molding techniques and has structural characteristics indicative of the patterned polymer layer being formed by molding techniques. A method for making the biochip is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: TAIWAN GREEN POINT ENTERPRISES CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng-Hung YI, Pi-Ying LIU, Sung-Yi YANG, Yi-Cheng LIN
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Publication number: 20160067909Abstract: A method for generating a structured surface of an embossing tool, in particular a press sheet or a press belt, in order to produce surface-structured panel and/or strip material, in which two or more mutually different partial surfaces are structured in mutually time-separated processing sections. Each processing section involving the following steps in the sequence as follows: masking partial surfaces that are not to be structured in the processing section, as long as they are not already masked, with a cover; removing surface material of the non-masked surface in order to produce a surface structure; optionally removing means used to structure the partial surface; and optionally removing parts of the cover or the entire cover. A pressing tool thus produced can produce imitation wooden panels, the optical effect, which comes significantly closer to the appearance of real wooden panels made with conventional pressing tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2013Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: SANDVIK SURFACE SOLUTIONS DIVISION OF SANDVIK MATERIALS TECHNOLOGYInventor: Heiko PEUSTER
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Publication number: 20160067910Abstract: According to one embodiment, a pattern region for a device and a mark region are provided on one and the same surface of a substrate. First concave portions are provided in the pattern region, and second concave portions are provided in the mark region. Embedded in the substrate are alignment marks opposed to bottom surfaces of the second concave portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Masato SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20160067911Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for starting a strip material in a substrate processing machine wherein the machine is not stopped and/or operators do not have to reach into the running machine to start the strip material. Exemplary systems include a strip material guide apparatus including at least one guide arm and at least one gas stream generator configured to direct strip material from the guide arm into a substrate processing machine to join the strip material with one or more running substrates. The gas stream generator is operable to cause a leading end of a strip material dispensed from the guide arm to be conveyed via a gas stream toward the running substrates, such that the leading end of the strip material becomes engaged by the substrate processing machine and the strip material joins with the running substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Orion A. Cavins, Martin E. Koeltzow, Cynthia A. Stewart-Irvin
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Publication number: 20160067912Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasonic welding apparatus for ultrasonic machining of a material, having at least two sonotrodes and a converter device, which converts an electrical AC voltage into an ultrasonic vibration and sets the at least two sonotrodes in ultrasonic vibration, the at least two sonotrodes being arranged in such a manner that the material to be machined is arranged between them during machining and can at the same time be machined by the at least two sonotrodes. To specify an ultrasonic welding apparatus that allows effective material machining without an undesirable interaction occurring between the two sonotrodes, the converter device according to the invention excites the first sonotrode at a frequency fs1 the second sonotrode at a frequency fs2, fs2 being greater than fs1.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Arnold SCHNEIDER, Gerhard GNAD
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Publication number: 20160067913Abstract: A setting welding device is set forth for setting stud-like auxiliary joining parts in a plurality of layers of material and subjecting them to a mechanical-thermoforming process on a second layer of material and connecting them to said second layer by way of a welding operation. For this purpose, the punch is used to apply to the welding auxiliary joining part mechanical and thermal loads that follow prescribed characteristic force and current curves. Furthermore, a corresponding connecting method that can be realized with the aid of the setting welding device is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Torsten Draht, Sergej Hartwig-Biglau, Holger Thommes
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Publication number: 20160067914Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for starting a strip material in a substrate processing machine wherein the machine is not stopped and operators do not have to reach into the running machine to start the strip material. Exemplary systems include a strip material guide apparatus including at least one guide arm and at least one gas stream generator configured to direct strip material from the guide arm into a nip point of a substrate processing machine to join the strip material with the running substrates. The gas stream generator is operable to cause a leading end of a strip material dispensed from the guide arm to be conveyed via a gas stream toward the nip point or toward the running substrates, such that the leading end of the strip material becomes engaged by the substrate processing machine at the nip point and the strip material joins with the running substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: ORION A. CAVINS, Martin E. Koeltzow
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Publication number: 20160067915Abstract: A high-frequency oscillator includes an electric resonant circuit, and a high-frequency welding system and a method for controlling the frequency uses a high-frequency oscillator, in particular in a high-frequency welding system. The electric resonant circuit includes at least one electronic component having an inductance and at least one capacitor having a capacitance. At least one additional magnetic coil is associated with the electronic component and can electronically influence the inductance of the electronic component.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: KIEFEL GmbHInventor: Fernando MARTINEZ VELA
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Publication number: 20160067916Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a three-dimensional structure, in which the three-dimensional structure is manufactured by laminating a layer, the method including: forming the layer using a three-dimension formation composition containing particles having hydrophilicity on a surface thereof, a water-soluble resin, and a water-based solvent; and discharging an ultraviolet-curable ink containing a water-soluble monomer onto the layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Koki HIRATA, Shinichi KATO, Hiroshi FUKUMOTO, Chigusa SATO
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Publication number: 20160067917Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a three-dimensional structure, in which the three-dimensional structure is manufactured by laminating a layer, the method including: forming the layer using a three-dimension formation composition containing particles having an isocyanate group on a surface thereof, a water-soluble resin having a hydroxyl group, and a water-based solvent; and discharging a curable ink onto the layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Koki HIRATA, Shinichi KATO, Hiroshi FUKUMOTO, Chigusa SATO
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Publication number: 20160067918Abstract: Methods for making a three dimensional object are disclosed. The method includes positioning a nozzle of an additive manufacturing device within a support matrix, extruding a feed material through the nozzle and into the support matrix, and moving the nozzle in a three-dimensional pattern within the support matrix, while depositing the feed material, thereby forming the three-dimensional object within the support matrix. Systems for making the three-dimensional object in accordance with the methods are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Benjamin William Millar
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Publication number: 20160067919Abstract: A truss-formation apparatus comprising two truss makers and a lateral stage, wherein the truss makers create trusses and each truss maker comprises thermal dies, heaters with temperature sensors, and mandrels; wherein the truss makers form trusses that comprise parallel truss elements and battens; wherein a pultrusion actuator pulls parallel truss elements down along a mandrel; wherein a batten actuator causes a thermal die to rotate around a mandrel forming battens that connect parallel truss elements to one another; and wherein the lateral stage comprises a thermal die and traverses the gap between the parallel trusses forming cross members that connect the trusses.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: ROBERT HOYT, Gregory Kirkos, Jeffrey Slostad, Gregory Jimmerson, Todd Moser, Mark Jaster, Nicholas Barsalou
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Publication number: 20160067920Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods for a user configurable modular 3D layering system provide a modular frame assembly, and two or more deposition print heads that are user-configurably disposed along an X-axis carriage drive system. A deposition-receiving tray may have a configurable Z-axis throw. In an exemplary embodiment, an X-axis carriage drive system may include one or more sensors for detecting a starting position of the print heads. For example, the sensor may be a micro-switch engageable by one or more print heads. In an exemplary embodiment, the print heads are removable from the X-axis carriage assembly. In some embodiments, each print head may operate independently of adjacent print heads. In an exemplary embodiment, each print head may include an injection nozzle for depositing the filament. In some embodiments, a y-carriage assembly may include a height sensor for the tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Norston Fontaine
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Publication number: 20160067921Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for three dimensional print adhesion reduction using photoinhibition include, in one aspect, a method including: moving a build plate in a vat of liquid including a photoactive resin; creating a photoinhibition layer within the liquid directly adjacent a window of the vat by directing a first light through the window into the liquid, the first light having a first wavelength selected to produce photoinhibition; and creating a solid structure on the build plate from the photoactive resin within a photoinitiation layer of the liquid by directing a second light through the window into the liquid, where the photoinitiation layer resides between the photoinhibition layer and the build plate, and the second light has a second wavelength different than the first wavelength.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Karl Willis, Brian James Adzima
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Publication number: 20160067922Abstract: An apparatus for building a three dimensional (3D) object using volumetric addition. The apparatus includes a print chamber containing a volume of a curable resin. The apparatus includes a first and second curing energy sources outputting first and second beams of energy. The apparatus includes a controller operating targeting mechanisms to align the beams of energy to sequentially intersect at a plurality of curing positions associated with build volumes of a digital model of the 3D object. The energy sources may be lasers generating a desired amount of heat when their beams are crossed. The curable resin may be a heat-curable fluid curing when heated into a curing temperature range, and the amount of heat provided by intersected pairs of the first and second beams heats volumes of the heat-curable fluid, proximate to each of the curing positions only, to a temperature in the curing temperature range.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: JEFFREY VORIS, BENJAMIN FOSTER CHRISTEN, JORGE ALTED, DAVID W. CRAWFORD
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Publication number: 20160067923Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus (10) including: a container (12) configured to bound a bed of powdered metal material; a fluidization arrangement (18) configured to fluidize the bed of powered material; an articulation mechanism (40) disposed within the container and configured to support and to rotate a component (38) about at least one horizontal axis; and an energy beam (34) configured to selectively scan portions (36) of a surface of the bed of powdered metal material to melt or sinter the selectively scanned portions onto the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Allister William James, Gerald J. Bruck, Ahmed Kamel, Anand A. Kulkarni
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Publication number: 20160067924Abstract: Provided is a forming apparatus, including a stand, and a coating portion that is relatively moved with respect to the stand while ejecting a resin to coat the stand with the resin, and forms a line in the resin according to at least one of the ejection and the movement, in order to manufacture a molded article by the resin on the stand.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Shin YASUDA, Haruo HARADA, Atsushi OGIHARA
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Publication number: 20160067925Abstract: A method of infusing, infiltrating, or impregnating a three dimensional printed, free-form fabricated or additive manufactured object having at least one of pores and voids in or between particles or sheets of material from which the object is manufactured may include immersing the object in a thermoplastics material such that the thermoplastics material penetrates the object. The method may further include controlling a frequency and an amplitude of pressure oscillation such that the thermoplastics material at least partially fills the at least one of pores and voids and bonds the particles or sheets of material from which the object is manufactured.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Tim WARWICK
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Publication number: 20160067926Abstract: Disclosed is an online system for creating a figure with a customized 3D model of a head. The head is created using a 3D printer, and the 3D model of the head is generated through an interactive process between a user at a remote computer and a hosted service on a local computer. Using at least one photograph, the hosted service enables the user to customize a generic 3D head form to adequately imitate the photograph provided by the user. Once created, the customized 3D model of the head may be physically instantiated using the 3D printer for attachment to an existing physical figure, or the entire physical figure (including the customized head) may be physically instantiated together.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Keri Andrews
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Publication number: 20160067927Abstract: A method for operating a three dimensional (3D) printer to limit unauthorized copying and provide authentication of 3D objects printed from authorized models fabricated on 3D printers. The method includes providing a digital file defining a 3D model of an object to the 3D printer. The 3D model includes a model of an identification (ID) element. The method includes processing the digital file to define print layers of the 3D model, and a number of the print layers include layers of the model of the ID element. The method involves operating the 3D printer to print the layers to form a 3D object with an integrally formed ID element. The ID element is embedded within object elements of the 3D object. The integrally formed ID element may be a radio frequency ID (RFID) tag providing identification data when read by an RFD reader scanning the 3D object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey VORIS, Benjamin Foster CHRISTEN, Jorge ALTED, David W. CRAWFORD
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Publication number: 20160067928Abstract: A three-dimensional geometry is received, and sliced into layers. A first anisotropic fill tool path for controlling a three dimensional printer to deposit a substantially anisotropic fill material is generated defining at least part of an interior of a first layer. A second anisotropic fill tool path for controlling a three dimensional printer to deposit the substantially anisotropic fill material defines at least part of an interior of a second layer. A generated isotropic fill material tool path defines at least part of a perimeter and at least part of an interior of a third layer intervening between the first and second layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Gregory Thomas Mark, Rick Bryan Woodruff, David Steven Benhaim, Abraham Lawrence Parangi, Benjamin Tsu Sklaroff
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Publication number: 20160067929Abstract: A three-dimensional fabricating apparatus includes a fabrication stage, a rotator, a powder remover, and a cleaning controller. Fabrication layers including powder bonded together are to be laminated on the fabrication stage. The rotator rotates and moves relatively with respect to the fabrication stage in a direction along a stage surface of the fabrication stage to flatten a surface of the powder on the fabrication stage and form a powder layer. The powder remover contacts a circumferential surface of the rotator and removes the powder adhering to the circumferential surface of the rotator. The cleaning controller is operatively connected to the rotator to control a cleaning operation to rotate the rotator and clean the powder accumulated between the circumferential surface of the rotator and the powder remover.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Soyoung Park
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Publication number: 20160067930Abstract: An assembly for producing a fiber composite workpiece having a base tool, including a first tool part and a second tool part, arranged relative to one another either in a closed position in which they enclose an internal space, or in an open position wherein a preform can be mounted in the internal space and maintained there in a predetermined shape. The base tool includes a connection to convey matrix material into the internal space, and has a device for holding the first and second tool parts together in a closed position. A tool insert is provided which is separate from the base tool, the tool insert being mounted in the internal space of the base tool, and the tool insert including a cavity for accommodating a preform and a shaping surface, facing the cavity, for maintaining the preform in a predetermined shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Claus Fastert, Hauke Seegel, Michaela Willamowski
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Publication number: 20160067931Abstract: This invention discloses a method of forming an uneven structure on a substrate. Use a hard tool to penetrate into a mold to cut a first trench and a second trench in an order on a surface of a mold, wherein the hard tool has a smoothly-curved shape such that the transverse width of each of the first trench and the second trench increases as the penetrating depth of the hard tool increases, wherein when each of the first trench and the second trench marches along a first direction, the penetrating depth of the hard tool is controlled by repeating moving the hard tool up and down to cut the mold such that the transverse width of each of the first trench and the second trench varies according to the controlled penetrating depth of the hard tool, wherein the first trench and the second trench completely overlap with each other with no space therebetween. Then, use the surface of the mold to emboss a thin film on a substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Ching-An YANG, Han-Tsung PAN
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Publication number: 20160067932Abstract: An infrared absorption film includes a polymer resin substrate, a polymer dispersant and an infrared absorption material. The infrared absorption material has a plurality of tungsten oxide and/or composite tungsten oxide nanoparticles dispersed in the polymer resin substrate by the polymer dispersant, wherein a weight ratio of the polymer dispersant to the infrared absorption material is between 0.3 and 0.6.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Chia-Che Chuang, Yu-Chih Kao, Chen-Kuo Lu, Kuan-Yu Li, Tzu-Ching Hung, Chiu-Feng Chen
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Publication number: 20160067933Abstract: A tube material is formed by continuously extruding a thermoplastic resin material in the shape of a cylinder that has a thickness of 100 ?m and a circumferential length of 800 mm. After that, in a polishing process, the tube material is rubbed with a lapping tape of #2000 while being rotated in one direction at a fixed speed, so that circumferential stripes are formed on the outer circumferential surface of the tube material. Then, the circumferential stripes are thermally transferred by pressing the outer circumferential surface of the heated tube material against a mold surface that is finished in the shape of circumferential stripes by a thermal transfer process.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Hiroshi Tominaga
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Publication number: 20160067934Abstract: A tire mold and tire reduce manufacturing and facilities costs and improve appearance of a product tire. The tire mold includes a tread molding body that molds a tread surface of a tire and is formed by pieces aligned in a circumferential direction of the mold. The tread molding body includes, on a mold face thereof, groove forming protrusions that form grooves on the tread surface and land forming recesses that form land portions on the tread surface and are surrounded by the groove forming protrusions. In a development view in which the pieces are connected, an air release gap in communication with the mold face of the pieces is provided along a boundary line between the pieces. At least one boundary line cuts across a plurality of the land forming recesses. Each boundary line extends through a bend, and the bend is positioned in the groove forming protrusions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji KAWAGOE
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Publication number: 20160067935Abstract: A plurality of strip-like elements is applied onto a forming drum externally having a substantially cylindrical laying surface. The strip-like elements are disposed in mutually approached relationship to form at least one first annular reinforcing layer on the forming drum itself set to a first work diameter at which each of the applied strip-like elements on the laying surface subtends an arc of a circumference of a width as large as a submultiple integer of the overall circumferential extension of the laying surface itself. Adjustment devices operating on the forming drum subsequently carry out expansion of the latter to a second work diameter larger than the first work diameter, while maintaining its laying surface substantially cylindrical.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Maurizio MARCHINI, Cesare Amurri, Gianni Mancini, Gaetano Lo Presti
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Publication number: 20160067936Abstract: A quadrangular machine for forming boxes (1) from blanks (2) having a base and a plurality of segments connected thereto, comprises a die (3) operating on said base; folding elements (4) for folding and setting up said segments to define edges (5) of the box (1); feeders (6) for positioning pieces (7) of heat seal stay tapes to face the edges (5); sealing heads (8) with heatable pressers (9) movable towards and away from the box (1) perpendicularly thereto to press said pieces (7) against the respective edges (5), and with blades (10) which are movable as one with the corresponding presser (9) to cut the stay tapes; each presser (9) comprising a portion (9a) which is movable independently of the blade (10) towards and away from the box (1) to press a portion of the stay tape against the respective edge (5) whilst the blade (10) is at a position of non-interference relative to the stay tape.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Mauro MAZZINGHI, Pablo BARONI
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Publication number: 20160067937Abstract: A bottom-gusseted package comprises a package body, and a bottom gusset positioned transversely of a longitudinal axis of the package body. Formation of the bottom-gusseted package is effected by positioning individual sleeves transversely of the longitudinal axis of a flexible web which forms the package body. During package formation, the flexible web is cut to form individual packages, with each individual sleeve positioned to form a bottom gusset in a respective package. Cooperating heat-sealing jaws, including cooperating U-shaped sealing surfaces, act to integrate and seal each individual sleeve with the flexible web to form the bottom gusset of each package, with the heat-sealing jaws preferably configured to include cooperating top sealing surfaces for simultaneously forming a top seal in an adjacent one of the packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: James W. Yeager, John F. Hogan
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Publication number: 20160067938Abstract: In accordance with a broad embodiment of the invention, a novel paper product is comprised of two or more slit sheet packing material layers, each layer having its own slit pattern design to create interlocking layers of expansion sheet packaging materials. Each layer expands to create a three dimensional open netting of cells of hexagons, and the like, and is designed to have limited nesting with its opposing layer, thereby maximizing the thickness of the combined layers as compared to nested layers. Adjacent layers have differing slit patterns and can be expanded through expander type machinery such that the expansion rates of the differing slit pattern layers can be varied to deliver the same width of exiting expanded material from each layer. Preferably the differing slit patterns produce when expanded, inclined land area that have the same number of rows per inch, but different angles of inclination of the land areas, such that adjacent layers can interlock, that is, have a restricted amount of nesting.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: David P. Goodrich
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Publication number: 20160067939Abstract: The invention refers to a disposable absorbent article such as a diaper, a pant or a sanitary napkin. The disposable absorbent article further comprises a structure which is able to elongate and simultaneously convert from an initial flat configuration into an erected configuration and which comprises multiple levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Tina LIEBE, Mathias Konrad HIPPE, Mark James KLINE
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Publication number: 20160067940Abstract: The invention refers to a disposable absorbent article such as a diaper, a pant or a sanitary napkin. The disposable absorbent article further comprises a structure which is able to elongate and simultaneously convert from an initial flat configuration into an erected configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Tina LIEBE, Mathias Konrad HIPPE, Mark James KLINE
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Publication number: 20160067941Abstract: Composite materials with high damping and high stiffness at relatively low density. These materials include three-dimensional structures of interconnected ligaments, which have multiple concentric layers alternating between stiff constraining layers and soft damping layers, so that bulk deformation of the structure results in high local shear strain and correspondingly high bulk damping.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Tobias A. Schaedler, Alan J. Jacobsen, William Carter, Geoffrey P. McKnight
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Publication number: 20160067942Abstract: The invention relates to composite formed board used as a construction element for pavements, platforms, terraces, floors, walkways, particularly intended to be used in the open, outside buildings. This invention is an additional invention for the invention of the application No. PL 401233.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Andrzej PAWLAK
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Publication number: 20160067943Abstract: An adhesive decorative pattern with a pliable polymer film includes first and second pliable polymer films, a first decorative element made out of fabric and consisting of a plurality of fibers each extending in irregular directions, and a releasing paper defining a front releasably coated with a glue layer. The first pliable polymer film, the first decorative element, the second pliable polymer film, and the releasing paper are stacked together into a pile. The first decorative element is sandwiched between the first and second pliable polymer films. The glue layer is sandwiched between the second pliable polymer and the front of the releasing paper. The adhesive decorative pattern with the pliable film includes the first pliable polymer film, the first decorative element, and the second pliable polymer film bonded securely together, and includes the releasing paper being able to be released from the glue layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Chi-Shih Lee
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Publication number: 20160067944Abstract: Disclosed are a decorative tape including a printing layer, a base film layer on the printing layer, a nickel deposited layer on the base film layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on the nickel deposited layer; a method of manufacturing the decorative tape; and a decorative cover using the decorative tape.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Joonsik Hwang, Hanbyol Shim