Abstract: A method of analyzing cells disposed in media within a vessel includes the steps of providing a vessel having an original volume of media about the cells, reducing the original volume of media about at least a portion of the cells to define a reduced volume of media, and analyzing a constituent related to the cells within the reduced volume of media. An apparatus for analyzing cells includes a stage adapted to receive a vessel holding cells and a volume of media, a plunger adapted to receive a barrier to create a reduced volume of media within the vessel including at least a portion of the cells, the barrier adapted for insertion into the vessel by relative movement of the stage and the plunger, and a sensor in sensing communication with the reduced volume of media, wherein the sensor is configured to analyze a constituent disposed within the reduced volume.

Abstract: A method, circuit and apparatus for detecting capacitance on a droplet actuator, inter alia, for determining the presence, partial presence or absence of a droplet at an electrode on a droplet actuator by: (a) providing a droplet actuator comprising: (i) a substrate comprising electrodes arranged on the substrate for conducting droplet operations on a surface of the substrate; (ii) a capacitance detection circuit for detecting capacitance at the droplet operations surface at one or more of the electrodes; (b) detecting capacitance at the droplet operations surface at one or more of the electrodes; and (c) determining from the capacitance the presence, partial presence or absence of a droplet at the droplet operations surface at the electrode.

Abstract: A system for processing a plurality of biological samples contains a support and a temperature controller. The support is configured to hold a case that includes an inner chamber and a substrate located within the inner chamber, the substrate containing a plurality of isolated reaction sites containing one or more biological samples. The temperature controller is configured to maintain or control a temperature of at least one of the support, the case, or the one or more biological samples during an assay or reaction on the one or more biological samples. The support is also configured to maintain at least one of the surfaces of substrate at a positive angle relative to a horizontal plane during the assay or reaction.

Abstract: A microfluidic structure comprising a thermoplastic portion (200) defining a microfluidic recess (220), a bonding layer (240) on the thermoplastic portion and a siloxane elastomer portion (252) covalently bonded to the bonding layer to seal the microfluidic recess. The microfluidic recess can therefore be formed simply, quickly and cheaply using known injection moulding techniques, which are not hampered by the need for a curing step. However the positive qualities associated with elastomers can be brought to the structure by using this to seal the microchannels. The bonding layer can be formed by silica deposited on the thermoplastic portion using techniques known in the field of optics.

Abstract: For the present small solenoid valve, a stem is coupled to a solenoid plunger, and a valve body is attached to a distal end of the stem. A circular-ring shaped valve seat on which the valve body is seated is provided in a valve chamber of a valve casing, and a seal ring is externally fitted on the stem between the valve chamber and the solenoid plunger with an outer peripheral portion of the seal ring made to contact with an inner surface of the valve casing. The valve casing and the seal ring are made of a rubber-like polymer elastic body, a first port is connected to communicate with the valve chamber, and a second port is connected to communicate with an inner side of the valve seat. At actuation of the solenoid, when the stem moves in an axial direction, the seal ring follows the movement by only elastic deformation without sliding.

Abstract: The present technology provides for a heater substrate that contains networks of heater elements configured to controllably and selectively deliver heat to one or more PCR reaction chambers in a microfluidic substrate with which the heater substrate makes contact. In exemplary embodiments, the heater substrate can deliver heat to 12, 24, 48, or 96 chambers independently of one another, or simultaneously. The heater substrate is located in a heater unit that may be introduced into a diagnostic apparatus that can receive and position a microfluidic substrate, such as in a cartridge, in contact with the heater unit, receive one or more polynucleotide containing samples into one or more lanes in the microfluidic substrate, and cause amplification of the polynucleotides to occur, and detect presence of absence of specified polynucleotides in the amplified samples.

Abstract: Sample tube racks having retention bars to retain sample tubes in the racks during processing of the contents of the sample tubes are described. An example rack for holding sample tubes includes a tube holder to hold the sample tubes in a substantially vertical orientation. A retention cover pivotally engages the tube holder at a first end and locks against the tube holder at a second end. The second end of the retention cover pivots relative to the tube holder about an axis that is non-parallel relative to a longitudinal axis of the retention cover while the first end of the retention cover is pivotally captured by the tube holder.

Abstract: A grinding machine for grinding foodstuffs, such as meat or the like, includes an orifice plate at the outlet of a grinding head. The orifice plate has collection passages that discharge a mixture of soft material and hard material through the orifice plate. A separator assembly is located downstream of the orifice plate for separating the soft material from the hard material. The separator assembly includes a tapered, perforated separator chamber that receives the mixture of soft material and hard material, in combination with a rotatable separator screw located within the separator chamber. Rotation of the separator screw functions to separate the soft material from the hard material and force the soft material through the perforations in the separator chamber. An adjustment arrangement enables the axial position of the separator screw to be adjusted within the separator chamber.

Abstract: A powder processing apparatus includes a rotor 5, multiple impact pins, and a collision ring 8. The rotor rotates around a horizontal shaft. The impact pins are radially attached on a front surface of the rotor 5. The collision ring 8 covers a side surface of the rotor 5 in which the impact pins are attached and is peripherally disposed along an outermost raceway surface of the impact pins. A part of members (a detachable portion 6b) included in the impact pin is detachably attached to the other (a fixing portion 6a). Multiple types of the detachable parts are prepared to adjust a distance between the impact pins and the collision ring 8.

Abstract: A system for suppressing and inhibiting fires in coal pulverizer mills can include a fire suppression solution storage tank, a flow control cabinet, an equipment control/pumping enclosure, an air distribution system, and injection piping and nozzles installed at various positions in one or more pulverizer mills. A first set of nozzle assemblies in communication with the fire suppression solution can be positioned in the mill to disperse the suppression solution within the classifier zone of the mill. A second set of nozzle assemblies in communication with the suppression solution can be positioned within the mill to disperse the suppression solution within the grinding zone. A third set of nozzle assemblies can be positioned within the primary air duct of the mill.

Abstract: This separator device includes a separation chamber having an inlet and an outlet, an oil recovery chamber coupled to the separation chamber, an emitter electrode, a collector electrode, and an electronic unit connected to the emitter and collector electrodes, for during a charging phase, bringing the emitter electrode to a negative potential, so as to negatively charge oil drops, and bringing said at least one collector electrode to a zero or positive potential, so as to collect negatively charged oil drops. The separator device further includes a pressure-drop generating member in the separation chamber. The oil recovery chamber is coupled to the downstream portion of the separation chamber via a vacuuming port, so that the oil recovery chamber is depressed.

Abstract: A rotatable spray head, a multi-material spraying apparatus using the rotatable spray head, and a method of spraying multiple materials are provided. The multi-material spraying apparatus includes the rotatable spray head. The rotatable spray head includes an outer shell and an inner shaft tube, for creating relative rotational motion between each other to switch the spraying material. Different materials can be sprayed one at a time through a same ejecting outlet of the rotatable spray head. A recycling step of the method allows the sprayed material to be recycled back to a material supplying pipe or a material holder, before switching to a different spraying material, in order to prevent the mixing of different spraying materials.

Abstract: A thin film fabricating apparatus includes: an electrode bath which contains a thin film-forming material; a plurality of needle electrodes disposed in the electrode bath; a plurality of ring electrodes disposed on the electrode bath at positions corresponding to the needle electrodes; and a substrate stand disposed opposite to the needle electrodes and the ring electrodes, where the substrate stand holds the substrate, on which a thin film is to be formed.

Abstract: A spray dispenser is provided, the spray dispenser comprising a container for holding a liquid to be dispensed and a dispensing assembly for extracting liquid from said container, the dispensing assembly comprising a pressure-relief valve for release of excessive pressure in the container and a filter arranged to permit egress of gas through the filter, inhibit egress of liquid from the container and to inhibit ingress of contaminants into the container through the pressure relief valve. A dispensing assembly for use is a spray dispenser is also provided.

Abstract: A nozzle through which a liquid coolant is discharged is provided with an outer tube, a projecting member and an inner tube disposed inside the outer tube, and an elastic body disposed between the inner tube and a discharge port of the outer tube. If foreign matter accumulates on a nozzle opening of the inner tube, the elastic body is compressed by the inner tube under the pressure of the coolant, so that the inner tube moves toward the discharge port. Consequently, the projecting member penetrates the nozzle opening, thereby automatically removing the foreign matter accumulated on the nozzle opening.

Abstract: A conduit treatment system for uniformly apply coatings or treatments to the inner walls of conduits without excessive build-up or creation of blockages. The conduit treatment system generally includes a tube having an absorbent first layer and a non-absorbent second layer. When not inverted, the first layer is the interior of the tube and the second layer is the exterior of the tube. The first layer will be adapted to absorb a treatment which is to be applied within a conduit. By securing a tether between an inversion unit and a closed-off end of the tube, the tube may be wound onto the inversion unit's shaft. The first end of the tube may then be anchored to the inversion unit's connector head to allow for inversion of the tube within a conduit. Upon inversion, the first layer will apply its absorbed treatment to the inner walls of the conduit.

Abstract: A film-margin adjuster, including: four shielding plates, for shielding an area of the peripheral edge-portions of a film-formation substrate respectively; the four shielding plates are oppositely disposed in pairs, and at least one pair of the oppositely disposed shielding plates has a adjustable relative distance therebetween. The film-margin adjuster, by virtue of the at least one pair of the oppositely disposed shielding plates having an adjustable relative distance therebetween, can adjust the area of the peripheral edge-portions of the film-formation substrate shielded by the shielding plates, thus achieving adjustment of the size of film-margin, and improving yield of production line.

Abstract: An apparatus for flocking a curved article is disclosed. The apparatus includes a flocking machine having a curved mesh with a plurality of sectors, the curved mesh being constructed to conform to the curve of a curved object to be flocked. The curved object also includes a plurality of sectors, and is placed at a distance from the curved mesh such that a constant gap is provided between each sector on the curved object and the corresponding sector of the curved mesh.

Abstract: Web lifter and/or stabilizer and method of lifting and/or stabilizing a travelling web and for coating a web. The device creates a web hold down force via a negative pressure slot at its exit side, which draws the web down against the surface on the entry side. The device can be actuated to move the web relative to a slot die coater off the die lips and stop the application of slurry to the web, thereby creating uncoated regions on the web surface. The device can then be actuated to move the web back into contact with the coater to start the application of slurry to the web, thereby creating coated regions on the web surface. Web lifting can be accomplished by rotating the device in first and second directions to lift the web off of the slot die coater and return the web back into contact with the coater.

Abstract: A device and method for applying a material to a surface. The device has a sensor and one or more applicator nozzles. The device further includes a reservoir for containing a material to be deposited, and a CPU. The method includes providing information from the sensor about the surface to the CPU, which uses the information to identify where the material is to be deposited and/or how much to deposit.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally related to methods of depositing parylene. The methods include introducing a first precursor into a processing chamber, and photolysing the first precursor into a second precursor using ultraviolet radiation. The second precursor is introduced into second and third regions of the processing chamber, separated by respective first and second showerheads. A substrate is exposed to the second precursor in the third region of the processing chamber to facilitate deposition of a parylene film on the substrate.

Abstract: The composite structural material of the present invention includes a base (X) and a layer (Y) stacked on the base (X). The layer (Y) includes a reaction product (R) of a metal oxide (A) and a phosphorus compound (B). In the infrared absorption spectrum of the layer (Y) in the range of 800 to 1400 cm?1, the wave number (n1) at which the infrared absorption reaches maximum is in the range of 1080 to 1130 cm?1.

Abstract: Described herein is a bead-coated sheet and methods of making wherein a sheet substrate selected from a metal, a glass, and/or a glass-ceramic, comprises a layer of microspheres that are partially embedded into the surface of the sheet substrate such that a portion of each of the microspheres projects outwardly from the surface of the sheet substrate.

Abstract: Polymer particles containing a polyoxymethylene polymer for coating metallic substrates are described. The polymeric particles contain a polyoxymethylene polymer in combination with an adhesion promoter which may comprise an acid modified polyolefin and performance enhancing additives. The polyoxymethylene polymer and the adhesion promoter may also be combined with a thermoplastic elastomer and optionally a coupling agent. Also disclosed is a process where the polymeric particles are used to from a fluidized bed for coating metallic substrates. In one embodiment, after being coated with the polymer particles, the coated metal substrate is gas cooled followed by cooling the coated substrate in a bath containing an aqueous medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of polyamide of high melt flow in the form of particles having a specific median diameter D50 in the manufacture of impregnated cloths used in the manufacture of composite materials. The field of the invention is that of composite materials and their processes of manufacture.

Abstract: There is provided a vibration generating device including: a housing having an internal space; a vibration member having one end fixedly attached to the housing; a piezoelectric element installed on the vibration member; and a mass body fixedly attached to the vibration member, wherein the vibration member includes an installation part on which the piezoelectric element is installed, and an extension part extended from at least one side surface of the installation part, and a maximum displacement portion of the vibration member is changed depending on a vibration mode.

Abstract: A screen lining having an adapter strip for fastening a screen mat or two screen mats arranged adjacent to each other to a supporting substructure in such a way that the screen mat or screen mats can be replaced. The adapter strip has projections on the side of the adapter strip facing away from the screen mats, which projections are integrally formed on the adapter strip in order to be inserted into openings on the substructure and have a bearing region on the side of the projections facing the screen mats, in which bearing region at least one hollow for the form-fitting fastening of the screen mats is arranged. The adapter strip has integrated deflecting blades, the top sides of which are angled downward with respect to a plane defined by the screen mats.

Abstract: An apparatus that facilitates the manual sorting of objects is disclosed. The apparatus includes a display surface having a surface that can be selectively illuminated and that is adapted for receiving the objects. An identification reader reads identification information stored on the objects. A controller causes an area on the display surface corresponding to one of the objects to be illuminated based on the identification information and indicates a location to which the illuminated object is to be moved. In one aspect of the invention, the display surface includes an area adapted for positioning a receiver for the objects. The display surface provides an indication of a position in the receiver at which the one of the objects is to be placed.

Abstract: A substrate-treating apparatus includes a liquid-providing part, a first liquid-removing knife and a returning part. The liquid-providing part provides a first liquid chemical for cleaning a substrate that includes a metal pattern and a photoresist pattern on the metal pattern, and for removing an etchant that remains on the substrate. The first liquid-removing knife sprays a second liquid chemical in a direction inclined and opposite to a returning direction of the substrate, so as to remove the first liquid chemical, the first liquid chemical including a metal precipitate. The returning part returns the substrate from the liquid-providing part toward the first liquid-removing knife in the returning direction.

Abstract: A flexible high pressure fluid cleaning lance drive apparatus includes a guide rail having a longitudinal axis adapted to be positioned within a boiler water box and aligned in a fixed position with respect to a central axis of the water box. A tractor drive module is mounted on the guide rail, a helix clad high pressure fluid hose drive module is mounted on the guide rail operable to propel a flexible lance helix clad hose through the drive module along an axis parallel to the guide rail longitudinal axis, and a right angle guide rotator module is mounted on the guide rail and connected to the tractor module for positioning a rotatable high pressure nozzle carried by the helix clad hose within a guide tube attached to the rotator module.

Abstract: A liquid processing method for liquid-processing a substrate includes setting a substrate on a substrate holding device which rotates the substrate such that the substrate is held in horizontal position, supplying processing liquid to center portion of the substrate such that the center portion positioned center side with respect to peripheral portion of the substrate is liquid-processed, positioning a discharge port of a processing liquid nozzle toward downstream side in rotation direction such that the liquid is discharged to the peripheral portion obliquely to surface of the substrate and along tangential direction of the substrate while the substrate is rotated, and discharging gas from a gas nozzle perpendicularly to the surface of the substrate toward position that is adjacent to liquid landing position of the liquid on the surface of the substrate and is on the center side of the substrate, while the liquid is discharged to the peripheral portion.

Abstract: An all-in-one cleaning device, e.g., such as may be used in cleaning the inside of a shower. The device may provide the ability to dispense the composition carried within the device itself, and scrub the composition into or against the surfaces to be cleaned (e.g., shower walls, floors, corners, etc.). Activation of the dispensing mechanism of the cleaning device may dispense a metered dose of composition, in a generally horizontal direction, onto and/or into a nonwoven or other substrate. The dispensing mechanism may not rely on gravity for dispensing, and may be sealed to prevent unwanted backflow of shower water or other material, preventing contamination.

Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus includes a turntable, a rotative drive unit, a holding pin provided on the turntable, a protection disk for covering a lower surface of a substrate, and a magnetic levitation mechanism that levitates the protection disk from the turntable. The protection disk is vertically movable relative to the turntable between a lower position and an adjacent position above the lower position and close to a lower surface of the substrate. The magnetic levitation mechanism includes a protection disk permanent magnet and an annual guard permanent magnet held by a splash guard. When a guard drive mechanism moves up the splash guard, the protection disk is levitated from the turntable and held at the adjacent position by a magnetic repulsive force generated between the permanent magnets.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for treating the surface of a microelectronic substrate, and in particular, relate to an apparatus and method for scanning the microelectronic substrate through a cryogenic fluid mixture used to treat an exposed surface of the microelectronic substrate. The fluid mixture may be expanded through a nozzle to form an aerosol spray or gas cluster jet (GCJ) spray and may impinge the microelectronic substrate and remove particles from the microelectronic substrate's surface. In one embodiment, a two-stage gas nozzle may be used to expand a fluid mixture with a liquid phase concentration of greater than 10% by weight.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for treating the surface of a microelectronic substrate, using a cryogenic fluid mixture used to treat an exposed surface of the microelectronic substrate. The fluid mixture may be expanded through a nozzle to form an aerosol spray or gas cluster jet (GCJ) spray may impinge the microelectronic substrate and remove particles from the microelectronic substrate's surface. The system may include a two-stage gas nozzle that expands the high pressure incoming gas within two inline expansion chambers. However, in other embodiments, the system may include a single stage nozzle design with one expansion component.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning a substrate includes a suction unit generating a suction force, a suction head suctioning contamination particles remaining on the substrate that is transferred in a first direction by using the suction force, and a suction tube connected to the suction unit and the suction head so as to transfer the suction force into the suction head and providing the contamination particles suctioned by the suction head into the suction unit. The suction head may include: a plurality of suction regions arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction; and a plurality of shutters for opening and closing the suction regions. The suction regions corresponding to a width of the substrate in the second direction are opened by the shutters so as to suction the contamination particles.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for treating the surface of a microelectronic substrate, and in particular, relate to an apparatus and method for scanning the microelectronic substrate through a cryogenic fluid mixture used to treat an exposed surface of the microelectronic substrate. The fluid mixture may be expanded through a nozzle to form an aerosol spray or gas cluster jet (GCJ) spray may impinge the microelectronic substrate and remove particles from the microelectronic substrate's surface. In one embodiment, the fluid mixture may be maintained to prevent liquid formation within the fluid mixture prior to passing the fluid mixture through the nozzle. The fluid mixture may include nitrogen, argon, helium, neon, xenon, krypton, carbon dioxide, or any combination thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for treating the surface of a microelectronic substrate, using a cryogenic fluid mixture used to treat an exposed surface of the microelectronic substrate. The fluid mixture may be expanded through a nozzle to form an aerosol spray or gas cluster jet (GCJ) spray may impinge the microelectronic substrate and remove particles from the microelectronic substrate's surface. The fluid mixture may include nitrogen, argon, helium, neon, xenon, krypton, carbon dioxide, or any combination thereof. The incoming fluid mixture may be maintained pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature greater than the condensation temperature of the fluid mixture. The fluid mixture may be expanded into the treatment chamber to form an aerosol or gas cluster spray. In this embodiment, the nozzle may be positioned within 50 mm of the microelectronic substrate during the treatment, more preferably within 10 mm of the microelectronic substrate.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes: an accommodation unit that accommodates a cleaning cloth; a drawing-out unit that draws out the cleaning cloth; a cleaning clot setting mechanism unit including an ascend/descend member that ascends and descend together with the cleaning cloth drawn out by the drawing-out unit; and a projection unit that upwardly projects as far as a position between an ascended position and a descended position of the ascend/descend member. When the ascend/descend member is located at the ascended position, the cleaning cloth can be drawn out, and when the ascend/descend member is located at the descended position, the projection unit engages the cleaning cloth, and a robot causes an optical device to be pressed against the cleaning cloth engaged by the projection unit, thereby cleaning the optical device.

Abstract: A system for treating a contaminated soil. The system includes a soil receptacle, a first conveyance mechanism in communication with the soil receptacle, and a second conveyance mechanism in communication with the first conveyance mechanism. The second conveyor is placed lower relative to the first conveyor so that the contaminated soil drops in elevation as it passes from the first conveyor to the second conveyor. One or more pretreatment sprayers are positioned substantially at a junction between the first conveyor and the second conveyor and that spray the contaminated soil as it moves from the first conveyor to the second conveyor. One or more sprayers are also positioned on the second conveyor such that they can spray the contaminated soil as it passes. An aerator is located at a depositing end of the second conveyor, by which the contaminated soil is further aerated as it drops of the depositing end of the second conveyor and contacts the aerator.

Abstract: A bending die for pre-bending a workpiece section includes a die section with a slot for partially receiving a bending punch for hemming a workpiece section during hemming, the slot leading from a bearing surface into the interior of the bending die, and a hemming section, arranged laterally with respect thereto, with a hemming surface. The bending punch includes a punch section (12) extending from a punch base surface and a hemming section arranged laterally thereto, with a hemming surface. In this case, the hemming surface on the bending die is set back in a step-like manner with respect to a bearing surface of the die section, with the result that a stop surface extending from the bearing surface to the hemming surface is formed and the hemming section on the bending punch protrudes with respect to the punch base surface in the direction of the punch tip, with the result that the hemming surface protrudes in a step-like manner with respect to the punch base surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a forging apparatus, comprising forging rams (4) that are guided in the direction of stroke and accommodate forging tools (3), and lifting drives (7) which can be driven by a shaft (10) and which are supported in a non-positive manner on an abutment (12) of the forging rams (4) held under pretension in contact on the lifting drives (7). In order to provide simple constructional conditions it is proposed that the shafts (10) of the lifting drives (7) comprise two drive cams (11) which are angularly offset by 180° in relation to each other, are centrally symmetric with respect to the shaft axis, and cooperate with the abutments (12) of the forging rams (4).

Abstract: A method of coupling a pipe to a variety of standard off-the-shelf components by circumferentially grooving the pipe and placing at least one O-ring on the grooved pipe, which has thus become a universal fitting, and by applying a visually identifiable adhesive and/or crimping with a crimp tool.

Abstract: A device and a method for forming hollow cylindrical bodies. The device has a plurality of stations. A tool is allocated to each station. The tools are arranged on a common carrier. The tool can be moved between two reversing positions via a main drive. This reciprocating movement is executed intermittently. One of the two reversing positions forms a rest position in which the tool carrier stops in a rest phase. While the tool carrier stops in a rest position in the rest phase, a transport device transports the bodies from one station to the respective next station.

Abstract: Tool for metallic wire tying and untying, comprising a resistant elongated body, defining between the end sections thereof two tubular channels (1) which open into the outside area through said end sections (2), at least, and extends from the opposite end section into a coaxial pin (6).

Abstract: A method for forming a wave form for a stent includes moving a first forming portion of a first forming member across an axis along which a formable material is provided in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the axis to engage and deform the formable material while engaging the formable material with a first forming portion of the second forming member. The method includes moving the first forming portion of the first forming member and the first forming portion of the second forming member across the axis in a second direction that is substantially opposite the first direction to draw and form the formable material over the first forming portion of the second forming member, disengaging the first forming member from the formable material, and moving the first forming member to position a second forming portion of the first forming member to face the formable material.

Abstract: A main purpose of the present invention is to provide a continuous casting method for a slab satisfying reductions of center segregation and center porosity, and inhibitions of surface cracks and internal cracks of a slab. The method includes a step of carrying out reduction on a slab having an unsolidified part by horizontal rolls and a step of alternatively carrying out reduction on the slab completely solidified by horizontal rolls and vertical rolls, wherein in the former step, reduction ratio of the slab is more than 0.5% and no more than 3% and a ratio of a width of the unsolidified part at the cross section of the slab to a width of a contact part of the slab and the rolls is 0 to 7.15, and in the latter step, each reduction ratio of the slab by the rolls is 5.4% to 6.8%.

Abstract: A casting component comprising essentially no macro porosity by having the casting material fill the mold cavity with a laminar flow is disclosed. In one embodiment, the gas within the mold cavity will not be entrained when the flow is laminar. Control of this flow behavior is directly related to the microstructure and thixotropy of the alloy. The SLC slurry have a thixotropic nature and a non-turbulent way of flowing into a casting die, allowing the process to be capable of producing cast parts having thin sections, geometric complexity and close dimensional tolerances without entrapped gas porosity. The thixotropic aluminum slurry may be characterized by a uniform primary aluminum particle size in the range of 50 to 80 microns. A uniform distribution of this microstructure throughout the injected aluminum volume encourages laminar flow of the aluminum into the die cavity.

Abstract: Metal sheets (13) are produced from strand-shaped profiles (8) having a low thickness, made of magnesium or magnesium alloys by way of an extrusion system (1). The open or closed extruded profile (8) exiting the extrusion die (6-7) of an extrusion press (1) is shaped to obtain a fiat metal sheet (13) and is then subjected to a defined shaping process by way of stretch-forming. The system for carrying out the method is essentially composed of an extrusion press (1) comprising a die plate generating the extruded profile and a shaping unit (5) following the die plate, wherein the shaping unit (5) is composed of a severing unit (2), a bending unit (3), and an unrolling unit (4).

Abstract: [Problem to be solved] To provide a pouring control method, for a ladle-tilting automatic pouring device, where the operation for identification of the parameters, which normally takes much time to complete, can take less time and the device can pour with a high degree of precision by sequentially updating pouring model parameters according to the pouring situation.