Patents Issued in November 24, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160339605
    Abstract: A stiffened composite panel is fabricated using modular tooling. Composite pre-preg is laid up and formed over forming block modules each of which is assembled by co-linearly arranging a plurality of forming block segments. The formed stiffeners are respectively transferred to individual cure tool modules that are assembled by co-linearly arranging a plurality of cure tool module segments. The stiffeners are assembled by arranging the cure tool modules side-by-side, and a composite skin is placed on the assembled stiffeners. The panel is vacuum bagged using a segmented vacuum bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Martin Wayne Hansen
  • Publication number: 20160339606
    Abstract: Although plaster (gypsum) loses water at temperatures above 300° F. and converts to plaster of Paris that has reduced structural strength, plaster (gypsum) is used in this invention as a mandrel (form or mold) at temperatures in excess of 300° F., at about 600° F. or higher in the manufacture of composite products or other products, such as metals, requiring exposure at such high temperatures. According to this invention, a plaster mandrel is effective with controlled exposure to such high temperature. Specified additive(s) to plaster, used according to this invention, greatly expand the utility of plaster containing mandrels in high temperature applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Matt Wallen
  • Publication number: 20160339607
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for fabricating a custom splint for use in an immobilization system. In one aspect, a method for fabricating a splint is provided. The method comprises identifying a region of interest of a limb around which a splint is to be positioned, placing markers about the region of interest on the limb, and scanning the region of interest having the markers to generate data for the splint to be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Javier Muñoz, Toni Climent, Luis Monzón, Lucas Pedrajas, Juan Monzón
  • Publication number: 20160339608
    Abstract: A locking includes a locking member, a guiding rod, and a space member. The guiding rod is fixedly connected to the locking member. The mold includes a first mold plate, a second mold plate, a stripper plate, and a top plate. The first mold plate, the second mold plate, the stripper plate, and the top plate are connected in sequence. A receiving hole is defined in the first mold board. A through hole is defined in the second mold board corresponding to the receiving hole. The guiding member movably passes through the through hole. The through hole includes a first retaining portion and a second retaining portion. The space member is sleeved on the locking member. A diameter of the space member is greater than that of the receiving hole and the second retaining portion. The disclosure also supplies a mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: JUN LIU, SHAN-XUE NIU
  • Publication number: 20160339609
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a free-standing polymer film with micropores in a simple and economical way, and particularly to a method for preparing a free-standing polymer film with micropores that includes: (a) forming a thin film of a water-soluble polymer on a substrate; (b) forming a thin film of a hydrophobic polymer on the water-soluble polymer thin film; (c) treating the substrate having the polymer thin films formed on with a mixed solution of a solvent and a C1-C3 alcohol and drying the substrate; and (d) immersing the dried substrate in water to dissolve the water-soluble polymer thin film and thereby to peel the hydrophobic polymer thin film from the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Ho-Suk Choi, Van Tien Bui
  • Publication number: 20160339610
    Abstract: Prosthetics created in layers, and methods of making them, comprising one or more materials. The methods utilize a clay sculpture from which is made a negative impression cast in silicone, which is used to cast a durable positive prosthetic, which is used to create either durable or temporary negative production impressions into which the layers can be built to form the finished prosthetic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Stephen Bettles
  • Publication number: 20160339611
    Abstract: An assembly of thermoplastic parts for forming a final composite part is presented where the assembly includes at least two prefabricated shells fabricated of thermoplastic. Each prefabricated shell has substantially the same shape as the final composite part and where the shapes of the prefabricated shells have dimensions that allow the prefabricated shells to be assembled into a nest for placement into a mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Aaron William Bartel, Wallace Chan, Paul B. Diep, Bernhard Dopker, David Gideon
  • Publication number: 20160339612
    Abstract: The surface of a tooling insert is coated with a polymer layer having a low surface energy in order to cover surface irregularities and thereby provide a smooth surface against which a composite part may be compression molded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Kevin O'Brien Gaw, Michael Harris Larson
  • Publication number: 20160339613
    Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus for manufacturing a foam molded product in which a foam molded product (1A, 1B) is formed by integrally adhering together a foam body (2) that is formed by the foaming of a foaming raw material, and an air-permeable component (3). A cavity (23) is provided between a plurality of mold components (21, 22, 31) and is defined by respective cavity surfaces (21a, 22a, 31a) of the mold components (21, 22, 31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi ITABASHI, Taisuke YONEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160339614
    Abstract: Injection molded articles and methods for making them from bio-based materials are described. More specifically, injection molded articles and methods for making them from bio-based materials that behave like high-molecular-weight thermosets such as lignin or protein-based materials including corn gluten meal, corn gluten feed, distillers dried grains with solubles, wet distillers grains, modified wet distillers grains, canola meal, wheat gluten, barley, cottonseed meal, sunflower meal, linseed meal, soy, rapeseed, sorghum proteins, maize, rice proteins, potato proteins, cassava proteins, sweet potato proteins, yam proteins, plantain proteins, keratin, or collagen are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Dara L. WOERDEMAN, Scott Kinney, Marko Koorneef, Ken Bush
  • Publication number: 20160339615
    Abstract: An FRP shaping jig has a main structure holding jig (22) and a reinforcement part holding jig (26A; 26D) with flexibility. The FRP shaping jig is used when a main structure (12) and a reinforcement part (14A; 14B) are joined to shape an FRP structure 10. The main structure holding jig (22) positions and holds the main structure (12) configured from a fiber component. The reinforcement part holding jig (26A; 26D) is positioned to the main structure holding jig (22) and positions and holds the reinforcement part (14A; 14B) while pushing the reinforcement part (14A; 14B) configured from a fiber component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Toshio ABE, Tetsuya KATO, Kiyoka TAKAGI, Takayuki KOYAMA, Katsuya YOSHINO, Kazuaki KISHIMOTO, Koichi SAITO, Takashi ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20160339616
    Abstract: A mold injection tool includes a first mold plate having first and second columns of mold cavities, each of the cavities and a first cull block arranged between the first and second columns. A plurality of first channel sections is formed between an adjacent pair of mold cavities. Each of the first channel sections are configured to guide liquefied molding material from the first cull block into the adjacent pair of mold cavities in the first and second columns. The mold injection tool further includes a second mold plate having similarly configured mold cavities, cull block, and channel section. Adjacent ones of the first and second channel sections form a contained chamber when the first and second mold plates are pressed together. The mold plates are configured to inject liquefied molding material through an entrance that is in open communication with each contained chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Choon Huey Wang, Chau Fatt Chiang, Swee Kah Lee, Chee Hong Fang
  • Publication number: 20160339617
    Abstract: A thin multilayer container having favorable gas barrier properties is provided using a technique applicable to the molding of the thin multilayer container, by means of ensuring the gas barrier properties at a joint of ends of a film, when the container is molded with disposing the film having the gas barrier properties in a portion to be a container trunk portion. When molding the container with disposing in advance the film having the gas barrier properties in the portion to be the container trunk portion, while a container surface resin is fed from an injection molding nozzle into a container trunk forming portion of a mold, a gas barrier resin is fed into a position corresponding the joint of the label film as an intermediate layer between a portion of the container surface resin being spread along a core mold and a portion of the container surface resin being spread along a cavity mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Minoru YAMAZAKI, Yasuhiko TAKEUCHI, Hiromitsu MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20160339618
    Abstract: An injection molding system comprising: a manifold, a nozzle comprising a nozzle body having an outer circumferential surface that reduces in cross-sectional diameter or radial length beginning from a selected upstream point to a selected downstream point, a sleeve having a hollow bore having an inner surface complementary to the outer circumferential surface of the nozzle body such that the downstream end of the nozzle body is insertable into the upstream end of the hollow bore and further insertable downstream through the hollow bore to a point of maximum downstream travel at which the outside circumferential surface of the nozzle body engages the inside surface of the hollow bore, the engaged surfaces preventing further downstream travel of the sleeve body through the hollow bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Vito Galati
  • Publication number: 20160339619
    Abstract: A nasal dilator and method of making nasal dilators are provided. The dilator may have a composite base element of at least two regions, the base element having an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface of the base element having a pressure-sensitive adhesive disposed thereon; the base element further including a spring element which imparts return memory into the base element so that the base element returns towards a planar conformation during use. The spring element has elastic memory effected by differential properties in the at least two regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Liberman Distributing and Manufacturing Co., d/b/a Lidco Products ("Lidco")
    Inventors: David A. Gray, Mark A. Litman
  • Publication number: 20160339620
    Abstract: This sheet manufacturing apparatus is provided with: a nozzle for extruding a heated resin sheet; a main roll with a surface on which microstructures are formed; a follower roll disposed at a distance from the main roll; and an electricity-supplying mechanism. The electricity-supplying mechanism heats an electrically conductive section of the main roll by supplying electricity to the electrically conductive section from both edges of the main roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., MGC FILSHEET CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Reiki Akita
  • Publication number: 20160339621
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a first operating machine (208; 203; 303) arranged for processing objects (P), a second operating machine (207; 208; 306) positioned downstream of said first operating machine (208; 203; 303) and arranged for further processing said objects (P), accumulating means (252; 262) interposed between said first operating machine (208; 203; 303) and said second operating machine (207; 208; 306) and arranged for receiving said objects (P) and control means (257; 267) arranged for detecting a parameter indicating the quantity of said objects (P) contained in said accumulating means (252; 262) and regulating the operation of said second operating machine (207; 208) on the basis of said parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: FIORENZO PARRINELLO, ZENO ZUFFA, MATTEO CAMERANI, IVAN BONZI, GABRIELE STOCCHI
  • Publication number: 20160339622
    Abstract: An apparatus for heating plastic preforms includes a first transport device that transports the plastic preforms in a separated manner, wherein said first transport device has a plurality of recesses for receiving the plastic preforms, and a second transport device that takes over the plastic preforms transported by the first transport device and transports said plastic preforms along a predetermined transport path. The second transport device has a plurality of holding elements for holding the plastic preforms. The apparatus also includes at least one heating device that heats the plastic preforms transported by the second transport device, wherein at least the first transport device is a circulating transport device, wherein a relative position of the recesses of the first transport device in the circulation direction of the first transport device relative to a position of the holding elements in respect of the transport path can be changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Wolfgang Schoenberger
  • Publication number: 20160339623
    Abstract: A molding unit (10) for manufacturing preforms (100) made of plastics material, includes at least one “HR”-type mold (10), a nozzle (14) including at least a nozzle body (28) and a nozzle orifice (30) incorporating a preform (100) stabilizer (34) that forms with a tubular member (40) a mobile assembly that is able to slide axially relative to the nozzle orifice (30) between at least a top position and a bottom position, wherein the tubular member (40) is guided so as to slide axially with respect to the nozzle body (28) by at least one guiding element (46) which is interposed radially between the nozzle body (28) and the tubular inlet member (40), and the stabilizer (34), fixed to the tubular member (40), is guided with respect to the nozzle body (28) only by way of the at least one guiding element (46).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Cedric LEMAIRE, Olivier ALIX, Frederic BRACHAIS
  • Publication number: 20160339624
    Abstract: The invention is related in general to equipment and methods for preparing curved fibers in a batch or continuous process. Fiber strands comprising a thermoplastic material are placed on a cylindrical surface and heated such that they soften and become malleable. The fiber strands assume the curvature of the cylindrical surface and, upon cooling below their softening temperature, retain the curvature. The curved-fiber strands are then cut to a desired length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Gerard Daccord
  • Publication number: 20160339625
    Abstract: Methods and systems for manufacturing re-entrant structures, such as the structures exhibiting superomniphobic characteristic, in a continuous, well-controlled, high-rate (mass production, volume) manner are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Joey L. Mead, Carol M. F. Barry, John Shearer, Artee Panwar, Jinde Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160339626
    Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, an imprint apparatus for contacting a mold with a resin applied to a substrate to perform patterning on the substrate is provided that comprises a dispenser configured to apply the resin to the substrate; and a resin supply unit configured to supply the resin to the dispenser, wherein the resin supply unit comprises a resin storage tank configured to store the resin; a pump configured to continuously circulate the resin between the resin storage tank and the dispenser, and a filter arranged at a flow path of circulated resin, configured to remove a foreign matter or a metal ion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Van Nguyen Truskett, Matthew S. Shafran, Saul Lee, Yoshikazu Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20160339627
    Abstract: A transformable material and comprising a base material having a natural shape, with a second material disposed on the base material in a particular pattern so as to impose a transformed shape on the base material, the transformed shape being different than the natural shape. More particularly, the base material is a stretchable 2-dimensional material, and is subjected to pre-stressing before and during disposition of the second material, whereupon after release of the stress, the stretchable base material with the disposed second material thereon automatically transform into a predetermined 3-dimensional manufactured shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Skylar JE Tibbits, Athina Papadopoulou, David N. Constanza, Christophe Guberan
  • Publication number: 20160339628
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for membrane bonding. A bonding agent may be applied to one or both of an ultrasonic device and membrane. The membrane may be placed on the ultrasonic device such that the membrane is in contact with the ultrasonic device through the bonding agent. The membrane and the ultrasonic device may be placed in between a first flat plate and a second flat plate, such that the second flat plate rests on top of the membrane. Light pressure may be applied to the membrane. The light pressure may be applied by one or more of the weight of the second flat plate and a pressure providing device applying pressure to either or both of the first flat plate and the second flat plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew Joyce, Sean Taffler, Paul Reynolds, Nicholas Lavada Nemeth, Adam Stephen Elhadad
  • Publication number: 20160339629
    Abstract: A composite radius filler having a varying cross-sectional shape is pre-conditioned before being pultruded through forming dies. The composite filler radius filler includes a tab ply having a varying width that is laminated onto a supporting, full width base ply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Donald J. Sutkus, Sandie H. Cheung Hallman, Courtney M. Fix, Douglas A. McCarville
  • Publication number: 20160339630
    Abstract: A fastening structure (10) includes: a resin member (14) that contains a resin material, and that has a through-hole (14H) for mounting having a tapered inner wall surface (14T); a member for fastening (16) that is made of metal, and that has a collar portion (16C) that is inserted within the through-hole (14H) for mounting and whose intermediate portion has a tapered outer wall surface (16T) that abuts the tapered inner wall surface (14T), and a flange portion (16F) that projects out along an obverse face of the resin member (14) at an end portion (16Z) at a large-diameter side of the collar portion (16C); and an adhesive (18) that is provided between the obverse face (14A) of the resin member and the flange portion (16F), and that adheres the resin member (14) and the member for fastening (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Satoshi OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20160339631
    Abstract: An article of manufacture that has at least three layers of sealable material. There is at least one first seal between at least two of the layers in a first area having a first sealing affinity effected at a first sealing parameter. There is also at least one second seal between at least two more layers, where at least one of these two layers is distinct from the at least two layers joined by the first seal, in a second area having a second sealing affinity effected at a second sealing parameter, where the second sealing parameter is different than the first sealing parameter, thereby allowing for sealing of discrete areas of the article in discrete steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Robert J. Mileti
  • Publication number: 20160339632
    Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method of a tank. The manufacturing method comprises a cooling process of cooling down a resin-adhering fiber bundle that has a resin adhering to a fiber bundle; and a winding process of winding the resin-adhering fiber bundle that is cooled down by the cooling process, on a rotating liner. The cooling process cools down the resin-adhering fiber bundle to make a temperature of the resin-adhering fiber bundle that is being wound on the liner in the winding process, equal to or lower than a set temperature which is set in advance as a temperature to provide a viscosity of the resin that prevents the resin from being splashed from the resin-adhering fiber bundle by rotation of the liner in a course of winding the resin-adhering fiber bundle on the liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kei KATO
  • Publication number: 20160339633
    Abstract: A thermoplastic filament adapted for use in a fused filament fabrication (FFF) printer which has a plurality of segments wherein each pair of adjacent segments is compositionally different and is arranged in a specific order. Also, a method for printing a three-dimensional (3D) article by printing such a filament in a fused filament fabrication (FFF) printer, wherein the fused filament fabrication (FFF) printer carries out a pattern of printing synchronized with the order of the segments in such a filament. Further, a method and device for fabricating such thermoplastic filaments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: GRAPHENE 3D LAB INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Stolyarov, Elena Polyakova
  • Publication number: 20160339634
    Abstract: The present invention discloses and describes 3D printers that print 3D objects with acceptable precision and accuracy. Such 3D printers may comprise one or more of: an extrusion core with particularized temperature controls; an extrusion core with particularized filament pathway geometry; an extrusion core with a nozzle that is integral with a heating block; an extrusion core with nozzles of variable orifice-openings; a filament feeding system using smooth-faced-rollers; a build plate with an adhesion-layer for wetting between the extrudate and the adhesion-layer; an alignment-plane for anchoring axis positioning systems to a common plane to minimize tolerance stacking problems; and a single z-axis guide, a mono-rail, for guiding movement of a build plate in the z-axis direction; which may permit use of minimal mechanical fit tolerances between the mono-rail and a complimentary receiving sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Kenneth Fuller
  • Publication number: 20160339635
    Abstract: A pin actuated printhead includes an orifice through which a material is ejected, a chamber to hold the material to be ejected, a channel connecting the chamber to the orifice, and an actuated pin, to enter the orifice and to eject the material from the orifice. The printhead is configured to eject a material with a viscosity of 10,000 cP or more at an elevated temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Peter J. Nystrom, Barry P. Mandel, Andrew W. Hays, Jun Ma, David Allen Mantell, Gary D. Redding, Peter M. Gulvin
  • Publication number: 20160339636
    Abstract: According to one aspect there is provided apparatus for generating a three-dimensional object. The apparatus comprises a first agent distributor to selectively deliver a coalescing agent onto portions of a layer of build material, a second agent distributor to selectively deliver a coalescence modifier agent onto portions of a layer of build material, and a controller to control the agent distributors to selectively deliver each of the agents onto a layer of build material in respective patterns derived from data representing a slice of a three-dimensional object to be generated, so that when energy is applied to the layer the build material coalesces and solidifies to form a slice of the three-dimensional object in accordance the patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Alejandro Manuel DE PENA, Esteve COMAS CESPEDES, LUIS BALDEZ
  • Publication number: 20160339637
    Abstract: A mobile cart that moves through a three-dimensional object printing system includes a platform, and at least one bearing operatively connected to the platform and configured to engage with a lower surface of a rail of the printing system in order to locate the platform with respect to an ejector head positioned opposite the rail. The cart further includes at least one other bearing operatively connected to the platform and configured to engage with an upper surface of the rail and apply a bias force that urges the at least one bearing against the lower surface of the rail. The rail can be configured to block material ejected by the ejector head from reaching the lower surface thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Paul M. Fromm, Erwin Ruiz, Steven M. Russel, Jeffrey J. Bradway, Jorge M. Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20160339638
    Abstract: A mobile cart that moves through a three-dimensional object printing system includes a first member having a pair of surface that slide along a pair of tracks, a receiver mounted to the first member that moves the cart along the tracks, and a planar member that has a surface for forming a three-dimensional object, and that is connected to the first member. The planar member and the first member are configured to enable an ejector head positioned opposite the track to pass between the planar member and the first member as the cart moves along the track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Paul M. Fromm, Erwin Ruiz, Steven M. Russel, Jeffrey J. Bradway, Jorge M. Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20160339639
    Abstract: The invention is a method and device for producing three-dimensional objects, having a gradient of properties and multi-material objects, from powders. A method involves the selection of powders of various materials according to diameter, the successive application of layers of powder of a given thickness during the vertical displacement of a piston of a device build chamber with an object to be sintered, and the programmed selective sintering/melting of a given area in the plane of each layer. After sintering, piston is raised, unsintered powder is removed from a layer. The piston is then returned, and a layer of powder having a different diameter and being of a dissimilar material is applied and selectively sintered. When the object-sintering process is finished, the unsintered powder is removed from the build chamber, and the powders are separated according to diameter. The separated powders are returned to feed containers of device for re-use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Jury Aleksandrovich CHIVEL
  • Publication number: 20160339640
    Abstract: A build module is provided. The build module may include a housing and a build material chamber in the housing to hold build material. The build module may include a build chamber in the housing. The build material chamber may be beneath the build chamber or next to the build chamber. The build chamber may include a moveable support member to receive successive layers of the build material from a build material distributor. The build module may be removably insertable into a build receiver of an additive manufacturing system to allow the additive manufacturing system to solidify a portion the successive layers to be received onto the movable support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Fernando JUAN, Alejandro Manuel DE PENA, Esteve COMAS, Edward Dale DAVIS
  • Publication number: 20160339641
    Abstract: A temperature control method of printing and a device thereof are provided, wherein the method and the device is adapted to a 3D printer which has a discharge nozzle. The control method includes the following steps. A temperature rule table is provided, and the temperature rule table is formed by a printing speed parameter and a discharge speed parameter of the 3D printer. At least one printing speed information and at least one discharge speed information are received. Corresponding temperature information is obtained from the temperature rule table according to the printing speed information and the discharge speed information. Further, a temperature of the discharge nozzle is adjusted according to the printing speed information, the discharge speed and the at least one temperature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Kwan Ho, Yu-Chuan Chang
  • Publication number: 20160339642
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system may include a controller to determine an emissivity of a portion of a layer of build material based on a measured optical property of the portion, or based on object design data representing a degree of intended solidification of the portion. The controller may be to determine a temperature of the portion based on the determined emissivity and a measured radiation distribution emitted by the portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: David H. Donovan
  • Publication number: 20160339643
    Abstract: A method of printing a three-dimensional (3D) color object, layer-by-layer, comprises: obtaining a 3D CAD specification defining a 3D geometry and a surface color distribution for the color object to be printed, defining regions on a surface of the color object; defining colors for each region based on the CAD specification; determining, using the 3D geometry of the specification, conditions applying at respective regions that are liable to cause color variation, such that using the colors as defined at the respective regions may give rise to a coloration error; selecting color corrections defined for respective determined conditions; correcting the defined colors; and printing the 3D color object with the color corrections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel DIKOVSKY, Stanislav SHTILERMAN, Yoav BRESSLER
  • Publication number: 20160339644
    Abstract: Before forming a shaped object, processing in which a calibration marker formed from a shaping material is formed by an imaging forming unit and the calibration marker is laminated on a stage via a transfer member is performed. The calibration marker laminated on the stage is detected by a sensor, and image distortion of the calibration marker laminated on the stage is measured based on this detection result. When the shaped object is formed, correction to reduce the image distortion is performed on slice image data provided to the image forming unit, based on the image distortion measured in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Ikuo Sobue, Shigeki Sakurai, Noriyuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160339645
    Abstract: A 3D object (the “New Object”) is fabricated layer by layer by 3D printing. The shape and relative dimensions of the various parts of the New Object match that of another 3D object (the “Target Object”). In addition, the exterior of the New Object appears to be a photographic likeness of the Target Object. The “photographic” likeness is created by variations in visual characteristics of materials in the layers comprising the New Object, and in particular by variations at or near the surface of the New Object. Thus, the photographic likeness is an integral part of these layers comprising the New Object. An object is scanned, from which a texture map is obtained. A CAD model is sliced into slices (bit maps files) which are then colored by a program with the boundary to match the color or gray scale to color the appropriate pixels, derived from the texture map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Swartz, Stephen Ness, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist
  • Publication number: 20160339646
    Abstract: In a method for printing a three-dimensional (3D) parts with an additive manufacturing system, a developed layer of an electrically charged powder material is produced on a transfer medium using an electrophotographic (EP) engine. The transfer medium and the developed layer are fed in a feed direction. A position of the developed layer on the transfer medium is detected using a first sensor having a first output that indicates the position. A position of a moveable build platform is adjusted relative to the transfer medium to reduce one or more overlay errors between the developed layer and an intermediate build surface of a three-dimensional structure retained on the moveable build platform based on the first output. The developed layer is transferred to the intermediate build surface using a pressing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: James Baecker, J. Samuel Batchelder
  • Publication number: 20160339647
    Abstract: A fiber placement system including a fiber placement station at a first location, the fiber placement station including a tool and a fiber placement assembly configured to construct a reinforcement layup on the tool, the first fiber placement assembly including a compaction roller rotatable about an axis of rotation, the compaction roller at least partially defining a nip, a thermoplastic composite ply extending through the nip and a heating unit positioned to heat the thermoplastic composite ply proximate the nip, and a consolidation station at a consolidation location, the consolidation location being different from the first location, the consolidation station including a consolidation tool and a consolidation system configured to consolidate a reinforcement layup assembly that includes the reinforcement layup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Marc R. Matsen, Mark A. Negley, Jeffery L. Marcoe, Stephen G. Moore, Brice A. Johnson, Alexandra K. Dillon, Megan M. Petersen
  • Publication number: 20160339648
    Abstract: A method of producing FRP includes disposing a preform made of a reinforcing fiber base material in a cavity of a mold, providing a resin injection path and a suction path that sucks at least air to the mold, and causing resin from the resin injection path to flow in a direction toward the suction path in the cavity to be impregnated into the preform, wherein 1) a high flow resistance region for partially making the resin flowing in the preform hardly flow is formed in the preform itself, 2) a flow front of the resin flowing in the direction toward the suction path through the high flow resistance region is controlled to settle within a permitted region that has been predetermined relative to a shape of a product to be molded, 3) the resin injection path is formed from a runner provided around the preform and the suction path is disposed at a central portion of the preform, and the high flow resistance region is formed at a corresponding part corresponding to a part around the suction path as a high flow resi
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Kohnosuke Yamamoto, Seiji Tsuji, Kazuya Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20160339649
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing and controlling the curing of a composite material part using information derived from composite material test samples obtained using an ex-situ analytical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas J. Rose, Johann D. Rose
  • Publication number: 20160339650
    Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method of a tank. The manufacturing method comprises a preparation process of providing a fiber bundle in which a resin adheres to at least part of fibers when the fiber bundle is viewed in a section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of fibers and in which an amount of the resin adhering to fibers on one side of the fiber bundle is smaller than an amount of the resin adhering to fibers On the other side of the fiber bundle in the section; and a winding process of winding the fiber bundle on a rolling body that includes a liner and a fiber bundle already wound on the liner, such that the fibers on the other side of the fiber bundle is located below the fibers on the one side in a stacking direction of the fiber bundle when the fiber bundle is stacked on the liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato UEDA, Tomoyoshi KOBAYASHI, Kei KATO
  • Publication number: 20160339651
    Abstract: A composite article lay up comprising a first layer of resin impregnated fiber material and a second layer of resin impregnated fiber material. An open cell material is layered between the first layer and the second layer. The open cell material has no resin during a first stage of a resin cure cycle. The open cell material has passages configured to flow volatiles formed during the first stage of the resin cure cycle. The open cell material is configured to fill with the resin during a second stage of the resin cure cycle. The open cell material is configured to form an integral structure with the first layer and the second layer as part of the composite article at the completion of the resin cure cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Parkin, Charles R Watson
  • Publication number: 20160339652
    Abstract: Systems and processes for enabling an off-site expert to interact with an on-site technician during repair of composite structure. The off-site expert can provide real-time guidance to an on-site technician before and during the performance of repair procedures to avoid errors. The off-site expert is also able to monitor the repair procedures in real time to verify that correct procedures are being employed. In particular, the systems and processes disclosed herein can provide direct visual guidance, feedback, and out-of-plan warnings for manual or automated scarfing and other operations during repair of composite structure. In some embodiments, the repair process combines optical three-dimensional surface measurement, illumination by at least one of visible, ultraviolet and infrared light, and digital light processing projection to provide step-by-step monitoring of the repair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Morteza Safai, Gary E. Georgeson
  • Publication number: 20160339653
    Abstract: There is described a method of creating a transparent window (W*) in a security, especially paper, substrate (1) for security printing applications, the method comprising the steps of (i) providing a security substrate (1), (ii) forming an opening (10*) into and through the security substrate (1), and (iii) filling the opening (10*) with transparent material (2) thereby forming the transparent window (W*). The filling of the opening (10*) with the transparent material (2) is carried out in a state where the opening (10*) is open on both sides of the security substrate (1) and extends through the security substrate (1), the filling of the opening (10*) including (10 the application of a first side (I) of the security substrate (1) against a supporting surface (21A) of a supporting member (20?, 21) in such a way as to block one side of the opening (10*), while the transparent material (2) is applied inside the opening (10*) from the other side (II) of the security substrate (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Aurélie BERTHON, Johannes Georg SCHAEDE
  • Publication number: 20160339654
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and mold for fabricating a contact lens and controlling excess material and a method for fabricating the same mold and comprises steps: fabricating a first mold having a mold cavity and a side wall formed around the rim of the mold cavity and having protuberances, fabricating a second mold having a round protrusion; using a disc-shape cutter to cut the side wall and protuberances and form a groove; placing a liquid contact lens material in the mold cavity; matching the round protrusion with the mold cavity to make the liquid contact lens material have a spherical shell shape with the curvature of the round protrusion and make the residual material flow to the groove and between two protuberances. Thereby, all the excess material are attached to the first mold and separated together with the first mold from the second mold in demolding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: SHIH-HONG CHU, YUNG-CHIH LIU