Abstract: A device for introducing continuous fiber into a product material is provided. The continuous fiber is provided from at least one continuous fiber supply. The device comprises a housing having a first opening and a second opening. A channel is formed through the housing from the first opening to the second opening. At least one fin member extends from the housing into the channel with the at least one fin member having a conduit formed therethrough. Upon the product material travelling through the channel of the housing, the continuous fiber travels from the continuous fiber supply, through the conduit, and into the product material. The continuous fiber increases strength and stiffness of the product material while decreasing time-dependent creep deformation of the product material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a preform coating device (10) provided with a cylindrical transfer roller (11) for rotating about a center shaft (111), and an application device for applying a coating liquid in a predetermined thickness to an external peripheral face of the transfer roller (11), the external peripheral face of the transfer roller (11) rotating so as to touch an external peripheral face of a preform (1), and the coating liquid thereby being transferred from the external peripheral face of the transfer roller (11) to the external peripheral face of the preform (1).

Abstract: A forming mold (311) is configured to include: a pair of split mold bodies (312) in which an intermediate molded product (61) is accommodated; a pair of handle holding split molds (312) provided in the split mold bodies (315) so as to be slidable in a direction orthogonal to the opening and closing direction of the split mold bodies, and sandwiching a handle (30) therebetween; and driving means (313) connected to the handle holding split molds (312) for sliding the handle holding split molds individually.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an integrally blow-moulded bag-in-container (2) and preform (1, 1?) for blow-moulding the bag-in-container. An inner layer (11) and an outer layer (12) are used, wherein the preform forms a two-layer container upon blow-moulding, and wherein the obtained inner layer of the container releases from the thus obtained outer layer upon introduction of a gas at a point of interface (14) between the two layers. At least one of the inner and outer layers includes at least one additive allowing both inner and outer layers to reach their respective blow-moulding temperatures substantially simultaneously.

Abstract: The invention relates to a base for a mould, for a clippable bottle, comprising, on the upper face thereof, a wall for moulding the bottom of the container to be produced, from which a head extends along a longitudinal axis A2, said head comprising a peripheral surface comprising at least one blind opening, characterised in that the portion of said peripheral surface in line with said blind opening can move between a forward position, wherein said portion is aligned with the rest of said peripheral surface, and a rear position, wherein said portion is set back from the axis parallel to the axis A2 and passing through the bottom of said blind opening.

Abstract: An electromagnetic processing module includes: a main body having a front face; a light emitting assembly including a plurality of light emitting sources, the light emitting assembly being such mounted onto the main body as to radiate frontwards; a fluidic circuit provided within the main body for thermal regulation of the light emitting assembly; and at least one confinement element made of a material opaque to the emitting light and having a confinement face exposed to the emitted light. The confinement element is mounted onto the main body so as to be in thermal contact therewith, whereby thermal regulation of the confinement face is provided by the fluidic circuit.

Abstract: The unit (1) for processing hollow-body plastic blanks (2) includes a chamber (6) wherein the blanks (2) move along a predetermined path. The chamber (6) is defined, on both sides of the path, by two side walls (3, 4) having inner surfaces (5) that face each other. The chamber (6) includes a main section (9) wherein at least one of the walls (3, 4) is provided with a plurality of electromagnetic radiation sources (10). The side walls (3, 4) define therebetween, on at least one end of the chamber, an opening (8) for the preforms to pass therethrough. The chamber (6) includes at least one optical confinement section (12) that extends between the main section (9) and the opening (8) and wherein the inner surfaces (5) of the side walls (3, 4) are optically reflective and converge toward the opening (8).

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprinting apparatus is provided. The imprinting apparatus includes a controller that controls a resist drop position on a wafer to be imprinted with a pattern, using a first resist drop recipe corresponding to a first topography of the wafer.

Abstract: A method for producing a liner hose (2) for lining pipelines, comprising the method steps of moving a circumferentially closed inner film hose (4) over a winding mandrel (6) of a winding apparatus (8) and wrapping the inner film hose (4), which is guided on the winding mandrel (6) by means of a guide mechanism (18), with a fibrous strip (12) which has been impregnated with curable reaction resin, is characterized in that the inner film hose (4) is guided via endless pulling means (14) that circulate without a drive, and in that the inner film hose (4) that has been wrapped with the fibrous strip (12) is moved off of the winding mandrel (6) solely by a pull-off mechanism (16) which acts from the outside on the fibrous strip (12). The invention further relates to a device for carrying out the method.

Abstract: This invention offers a method to install a wear-resistant polymeric sleeve in a pipe bend stiffener with a metal inner wall, including the following steps: calculate thickness of the internal wall of the stiffener that can removed; remove the thickness of at least a portion of the calculated inner wall; and apply a polymeric material sleeve in the inner wall of the stiffener, where the polymeric material sleeve has the thickness of the inner wall removed.

Abstract: A joining method for joining a first member having a hole that is opened on at least one surface, to a second member including a material of which a melting temperature is lower than that of a constituent material of the first member, includes: laminating the second member on the first member so as to cover an opening of the hole; and introducing that material of the second member which is softened or melted into the hole through the opening and curing the material of the second member.

Abstract: A film tube installed and sealed in a hollow composite part acts as an internal vacuum bag that eliminates the need for an internal mandrel to react compaction forces applied by autoclave pressure during curing of the part.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a three-dimensional object includes a support assembly having a build platform, a track extending through a build area, and a deposition mechanism mounted on the track and configured for producing the three-dimensional object in a layer-by-layer technique. The deposition mechanism includes a carriage moveable along the track, a supply of a flowable material mounted on the carriage, a roller in communication with the flowable material, where the roller is rotatably mounted on the carriage and configured for rotating to carry the flowable resin to an application for application to produce the object, and an exposure device mounted on the carriage. The exposure device emits electromagnetic waves to an exposure site to solidify the applied flowable material to produce the object. The roller is permeable to the electromagnetic waves, such that the waves pass through the roller in traveling from the exposure device to the exposure site.

Abstract: Various articles, such as footwear, apparel, athletic equipment, watchbands, and the like, and methods of forming those articles are presented. The articles are generally formed, in whole or in part, using rapid manufacturing techniques, such as laser sintering, stereolithography, solid deposition modeling, and the like. The use of rapid manufacturing allows for relatively economical and time efficient manufacture of customized articles. Portions of the articles may be manufactured using rapid manufacturing and those portions may be joined with portions formed using conventional, non-rapid manufacturing techniques. The methods may also include performing a scan of an appropriate body part of a user, such as a foot, in order to create a customized article of footwear for the user.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shaping method deforms and deposits a plurality of shaping raw materials in a predetermined solid shape. The three-dimensional shaping method includes: by a conveying unit, conveying the plurality of shaping raw materials to a deforming unit; by the deforming unit, deforming the shaping raw materials; by a shaping-material forming unit, twisting and arranging the deformed shaping raw materials in a helical fashion to form a shaping material; and by a shaping unit, sequentially depositing the shaping material to form a three-dimensional shaped object.

Abstract: A consumable material for use in an extrusion-based digital manufacturing system, the consumable material comprising a length and a cross-sectional profile of at least a portion of the length that is axially asymmetric. The cross-sectional profile is configured to provide a response time with a non-cylindrical liquefier of the extrusion-based digital manufacturing system that is faster than a response time achievable with a cylindrical filament in a cylindrical liquefier for a same thermally limited, maximum volumetric flow rate.

Abstract: A functionally graded material is formed by pipetting individual micro-or-nano-litter droplets with a variety of materials including multi-nanostructured material (nanowires, carbon nanotubes, enzymes, multi-element and/or multi-color, multi-biomolecules) and UV polymerization of the flat hydrogel meniscus surface formed at the carrier fluid interface. After step-by-step droplet pipetting and subsequent layer-by-layer UV polymerization via a digital mask, the complete fabricated part without supporting layers is taken out of the carrier fluid while the un-cured micro-litter residue is conveniently suctioned out of the carrier fluid.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a three-dimensionally formed object in which the three-dimensionally formed object is manufactured by laminating layers to forma laminate, includes: forming a constituent layer corresponding to a constituent region of the three-dimensionally formed object; forming a support layer which is in contact with the constituent layer and supports the constituent layer by ejecting a flowable composition including a resin from an ejecting portion in the form of liquid drops; solidifying the support layer; and heating the laminate which is formed in the formation of the constituent layer, the formation of the support layer, and the solidification of the support layer.

Abstract: Apparatus and a method of forming a composite component (8) by additive layer manufacturing are provided. The method includes the steps of providing an elongate tape (2) of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), applying stretching force to the tape (2) whereby to align the carbon nanotubes to the tape and form an aligned tape (27), impregnating the tape (27) with matrix material (40, 48, 50), forming the aligned tape (27) into portions (43) of required size and transferring the portions as required to a component build location whereby to form the component (8), layer by layer.

Abstract: A method includes receiving torque data of a powder recoater operatively connected to an additive manufacturing system. The torque data includes torque data of the recoater when the recoater traverses a build area. Receiving torque data includes receiving force data from a plurality of load cells, each load cell operatively associated with a blade segment of a recoater blade assembly. The method also includes determining a quality of one or more of an additive manufacturing process and/or product based on the torque data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for the additive manufacture of components through the layered bonding of powder particles to one another and/or to a semi-finished product or substrate already produced, using selective interaction of the powder particles with a high-energy beam, wherein, during the bonding of the powder particles into a layer made of powder particles with the aid of the high-energy beam, a gas flow, which has a flow direction having a directional component directed at least partially parallel to the layer of powder particles, is provided across the layer of powder particles and/or the bonding region in the layer of powder particles, wherein the directional component of the gas flow directed at least partially parallel to the layer of powder particles during the bonding of the powder particles in a layer is generated in at least two directions, which have oppositely directed directional components.

Abstract: Methods for manufacturing structures are provided. The methods include manufacturing a shell structure by additive manufacturing methods and sectioning panels with predetermined shapes from the shell structure. The panels are subsequently coupled to shell structure. Devices for performing various steps of the methods are also provided.

Abstract: Methods and devices for manufacturing paneled structures are provided. The methods include manufacturing a frame structure by additive manufacturing methods and scanning a surface of the frame structure to determine whether there is more than a nominal surface deviation at a location where a panel will be disposed. When there is more than a nominal surface deviation, the methods also include generating a panel to be disposed at the location of the frame structure, wherein the panel has an engagement surface that is complimentary to the surface deviation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a composite part are provided to enable composite parts to be assembled with precise control over the orientation and spatial distribution of reinforcing or other particles within a matrix material. The method and apparatus use magnetic fields applied during various additive manufacturing processes to achieve complex particles orientations within each layer of the part. The composite parts can achieve enhanced properties, including mechanical, thermal, electrical and optical properties.

Abstract: A three dimensional tissue printing method is disclosed. The three dimensional tissue printing method includes the following steps: performing large support stand printing to form a first printing body; performing small support stand printing to form second printing body on the first printing body and forming a tissue structure by crossly connecting in between the first printing body and the second printing body. Besides, a three dimensional tissue printing device and artificial skin are also presented.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a three-dimensional object includes a support assembly having a build platform, a track extending through a build area, and a deposition mechanism mounted on the track and configured for producing the three-dimensional object in a layer-by-layer technique. The deposition mechanism includes a carriage moveable along the track, a supply of a flowable material mounted on the carriage, a roller in communication with the flowable material, where the roller is rotatably mounted on the carriage and configured for rotating to carry the flowable resin to an application for application to produce the object, and an exposure device mounted on the carriage. The exposure device emits electromagnetic waves to an exposure site to solidify the applied flowable material to produce the object. The roller is permeable to the electromagnetic waves, such that the waves pass through the roller in traveling from the exposure device to the exposure site.

Abstract: A method includes receiving an image from an optical imaging device disposed in operative communication with an additive manufacturing machine, wherein the image includes at least part of a build area of the additive manufacturing machine, determining a reflectance of at least a portion the build area based on the image to create reflectance data, and determining a quality of one or more of an additive manufacturing process and/or product based on the reflectance data. The method can further include converting the image to greyscale if the image is not in greyscale.

Abstract: A computer implemented apparatus and method for receiving tool paths that a dispensing head follows to deposit roads of material for successively building object layers of a 3D object during an additive manufacturing process, generating simulated object layers of a simulated 3D object from the tool paths, wherein the simulated object layers represent an interior geometry of each one of the object layers, determining a contact surface area between adjacent ones of the simulated object layers, and determining a predicted mechanical property of the 3D object from the contact surface area and a material property of the material.

Abstract: A method includes receiving torque data of a powder recoater operatively connected to an additive manufacturing system. The torque data includes torque data of the recoater when the recoater traverses a build area. The method also includes determining a quality of one or more of an additive manufacturing process and/or product based on the torque data.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to designing an object having thermal interface properties to form a thermal interface between electronic components. An exposed surface of a first electronic component is electronically scanned. Measurement data associated with the exposed surface is derived based on the electronic scanning. The measurement data includes surface topography data. A thermal interface object having thermal interface properties is created based on the measurement data, which includes translating the first surface topography data to customize a first surface of the thermal interface object. The first surface of the thermal interface object is mated with the exposed surface of the first electronic component.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object fabrication device, a three-dimensional object fabrication method, and a three-dimensional object decorated in any desired colors are provided. In the three-dimensional object, second colored regions of the layers overlap each other, and a discharged ink volume of a coloring ink per unit volume is reduced to a smaller volume in the second colored region than in a first colored region adjacent to the second colored region.

Abstract: A filament feeding device includes a drive mechanism and a displacement sensor. The drive mechanism is configured to feed a filament along a feed path. The displacement sensor is positioned adjacent the feed path and is configured to determine a velocity and direction in which the filament is fed along the feed path based on at least two capacitance measurements that vary in response to movement of the filament along the feed path.

Abstract: Systems and methods for fabricating three-dimensional objects. The system includes an optical imaging system providing a light source; a photosensitive medium adapted to change states upon exposure to a portion of the light source from the optical imaging system; a control system for controlling movement of the optical imaging system, wherein the optical imaging system moves continuously above the photosensitive medium. The method includes moving a maskless optical imaging system providing the light beam in a continuous sequence; presenting the light beam on a portion of the photosensitive medium; lowering a plate upon which the photosensitive medium resides; and applying a new layer of the photosensitive medium.

Abstract: There are provided a support structures design device and method, a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a program, a structure forming apparatus, and a structure manufacturing method capable of appropriately adding the data of a support structures to the three-dimensional data of a luminal structure. The up-and-down direction of a luminal structure is determined, the core line of the luminal structure is extracted, a lowermost point of a cross section of the luminal structure by a plane perpendicular to a tangential direction at a point, which corresponds to each of a plurality of points on the core line, on a projected core line is extracted as a support point, and three-dimensional data is generated by adding the data of a support structures for supporting the support point to three-dimensional data.

Abstract: A cartridge for a stereolithography machine, including a container provided with an access opening, a reservoir for containing a base material, liquid or pasty, suited to be solidified through exposure to a predefined radiation, said reservoir being permanently associated with said container, feeding means suited to feed said base material from said reservoir towards said container, characterized in that the bottom of said container is at least partially transparent to said predefined radiation and is situated opposite said access opening.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing an insulation component in which an insulating foam material is placed in a mold and in which (a) isocyanates, (b) polymeric compound having hydrogen atoms reactive towards isocyanate, (c) chain extenders and/or crosslinkers, and (d) catalysts are mixed to give a reaction mixture and the reaction mixture is injected into the mold and cured to form a seamless outer material enclosing the insulating foam wherein the average functionality of the polyols (b) and the chain extenders and/or crosslinkers (c) and the isocyanates (a) is greater than 2.2. The invention further relates to an insulation component obtainable by such a process and a door or wall component for cold storage that is made from that insulation component.

Abstract: A high-moisture-permeability, microporous plastic film randomly having a lot of recesses having different opening diameters and depths, with clefts formed in the recesses, is produced by pressing a first pattern roll randomly having a lot of high-hardness, fine particles having sharp edges on a roll body surface to a flat-surface metal roll, to produce an anvil roll randomly having a lot of recesses on a metal roll surface; arranging a second pattern roll randomly having a lot of high-hardness, fine particles having sharp edges on a roll body surface oppositely to the anvil roll; and passing a plastic film through a gap between the second pattern roll and the anvil roll.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to composites. One composite may include a resin and oxidized polyacrylonitrile fibers. The oxidized polyacrylonitrile fibers may be provided as a nonwoven fabric. An additional composite may include a resin and material scraps respectively including carbon fibers. The material scraps may be positioned to at least partially overlap one another and define a substantially continuous layer. The material scraps may be provided as a fabric and/or a plurality of loose fibers.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing an SMC component provided with a unidirectional fiber reinforced. The method includes: a) a blank of a unidirectional fiber reinforced is laid on the tool surface of a lower part of a preform tool, b) the preform tool is closed by moving a preform upper part and the preform lower part of the preform tool towards each other, thus forming the unidirectional fiber reinforced; c) the unidirectional fiber reinforced is pre-cured in the preform tool by heating; d) the removed unidirectional fiber reinforced together with at least one nondirectional SMC semi-finished product are laid in a press tool, onto the tool surface of a press tool lower part; e) the press tool is closed, wherein a press tool upper part and the press tool lower part of the press tool are moved towards each other to mold together the unidirectional fiber reinforced and the at least one non-directional SMC semi-finished product; and f) the produced SMC component is fully cured by heating.

Abstract: An article comprising a polyurethane composition and an array of fibers wherein said array of fibers are embedded in said polyurethane composition such that a portion of said fibers extends beyond an internal surface of said molded article and an external surface of said molded article.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a tank including a tubular body portion, and dome-shaped side end portions formed on both sides of the body portion, the manufacturing method includes forming a tubular compact serving as at least part of the body portion from one fiber reinforced resin sheet by winding the fiber reinforced resin sheet including reinforced fibers impregnated with thermoplastic resin is wound several times around a peripheral surface of a core from a direction perpendicular to an axial center of the core in a state where the thermoplastic resin is melted.

Abstract: A method of producing a composite material molded article includes enclosing a core fiber base material formed from unwoven fabric in a molding tool with the core fiber base material placed between a first reinforcing fiber base material and a second reinforcing fiber base material, injecting matrix resin into the first and second reinforcing fiber base materials in the molding tool, and injecting foamable resin into the core fiber base material in the molding tool.

Abstract: A method of making a composite board and a product made thereby are disclosed. The method includes a lining forming step, a fiber pipe rolling step, a fiber pipe mounting step, a fiber material covering step, and a board body forming step. The product includes a lining acting as a board body, a plurality of long slots formed on the lining, a fiber pipe placed in each of long slots, a foam material mounted in each of fiber pipes, and a fiber material covering an external periphery of the lining. The fiber materials and the fiber pipes are melted and combined together by heat, thereby shortening the operating time. The fiber pipe becomes a reinforcement support structure to increase a structural strength of the composite board, thereby producing a finished product with a light weight and a strong structure.

Abstract: A system and method for molding complex three-dimensional articles is disclosed. The system includes a mold for receiving an article made of at least one moldable material and, in one example, the article comprises at least one flat region and at least one radial region. The mold comprises an inner bladder that conforms to an inner surface of the article when pressurized and an outer mold that contacts an outer surface of the article. The system also includes an inner electrode spaced from an outer electrode, and a generator operable to generate an alternating electric field between the electrodes and across the article in the mold to obtain substantially even heating of the moldable material in the flat region and the radial region at the end of the heating cycle.

Abstract: Provided is a mold cleaning system. When cleaning a mold, the mold cleaning system acquires three-dimensional image data of a molding surface of the mold by a camera and, on the basis of the acquired image data, the mold cleaning system controls the movement of arms using a control device, moves a laser head along the molding surface while irradiating with a laser beam supplied by a laser oscillator and, as a result, removes dirt adhered to the molding surface.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for compacting metal chips comprising a power screw; a compactor cylinder adapted to receive metal chips from one end and to receive the power screw from another end to compact the metal chips; a worm gear operably connected to the power screw for applying pressure to the compactor cylinder; a motor; a worm screw adapted to be powered by the motor and to be connected to the worm gear for rotating the worm gear when the motor is in operation; a sensor for measuring the velocity of the power screw; and a microcontroller adapted to be connected to the motor and to the sensor; wherein the microcontroller is adapted to power the motor for rotation as long as the velocity of the power screw is above a given velocity threshold and to stop powering the motor when the velocity reaches said given velocity threshold.

Abstract: A container assembly for use in a high-pressure press having a central pressure cell and a method of sealing a central pressure cell. The container assembly includes a container that receives a sample to be pressed, and a gasket distinct from the container, the gasket meeting the container at an interface. The container and the gasket are dimensioned to locate the interface within the central pressure cell.

Abstract: A rotary-type film folding machine comprises a feeding mechanism providing a tubular material for a folding mechanism in an axial direction, with a first driving mechanism driving the feeding mechanism to operate; a folding mechanism folding the tubular material delivered by the feeding mechanism, with a second driving mechanism driving the rotation of an outer sheath of the folding mechanism; a pressing mechanism pressing the tubular material folded by the folding mechanism, with a third driving mechanism driving the rotation of a first inner rotor for rotating the pressing mechanism and the folding mechanism; said pressing mechanism being driven by a fourth driving mechanism to move up and down; and the operations of the first, second, third and fourth driving mechanisms are controlled by a controller.

Abstract: This invention relates to a multi-component absorbent floor mat. The floor mat contains a textile component, an absorbent component, and a base component. The textile component and the base component are attached to one another by a variety of mechanisms, including magnetic attraction. The magnetic attraction is provided by incorporation of magnetic particles in both the textile and base components. The textile component is designed to be soiled, washed, and re-used, thereby providing ideal end-use applications in areas such as building entryways. The absorbent component is designed to be soiled and recycled or otherwise discarded and replaced.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer lining plate for essentially horizontal support surfaces such as floors or floor coverings, comprising a main layer having at least two longer sides and two shorter sides, including at least one part, and a ductile upper decorative layer, wherein the lining plate comprises along an outer edge of each of the longer sides of the main layer a ductile machinable portion that can be machined to form a connecting profile for connection of the lining plate with other plates; wherein the at least one part of the main layer is more rigid than the upper decorative layer; and wherein the at least one part of the main layer is made of magnesium oxide, fibrocement or mortar with perlite and/or vermiculite and/or cellulose.