Abstract: A three-dimensional printer includes a platform, a lifting mechanism and a carrying base, wherein the lifting mechanism includes a vertical screw, a linear sliding rail, a movable component, a stand and a pair of limiting members. The linear sliding rail is arranged with the vertical screw in parallel. One end of the movable component is disposed with an inner screw hole while the other end has a guide portion. The guide portion is vertically connected to the linear sliding rail in a slidable manner. The stand is disposed on the horizontal two sides of the movable component. The pair of limiting members is respectively sandwiched between the two sides of the movable component and the stand. One end of each limiting member is fixed to the movable component while the other end has a sliding portion. Each sliding portion abuts on the stand.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to cell assemblies for fabricating superhard materials (e.g., used in a high-pressure cubic press) and methods of using the same. The disclosed cell assemblies include a plurality of internal anvils, at least some of which are positioned internally relative to a cell pressure medium of the cell assembly. Such a configuration for the cell assemblies may enable one or more of intensifying cell pressure, reducing processing time, or reducing costs for fabricating such superhard materials.

Abstract: A thermal protection apparatus is disclosed. The thermal protection apparatus may comprise a thermally insulative layer positioned proximate to a portion of a structure having a dimensional transition, wherein the dimensional transition is thermally protected.

Abstract: A flexible packaging material including: a core portion having a geometrically patterned structure defining two spaced-apart substantially planar faces and providing air space therebetween, the core portion including cellulosic fiber-based walls having a core grammage; and at least one cellulosic fiber-based liner bonded to a respective one of the planar faces of the core portion and having a liner grammage lower than the core grammage, the material being flexible along a plane defined by the at least one liner.

Abstract: Photocatalyst microparticles are provided in a photocatalyst layer coming into contact with a base film, the photocatalyst microparticles are irradiated with ultraviolet rays, and voids are formed in a boundary region between a protective layer and the photocatalyst layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure sensitive adhesive sheet containing, laminated in this order, a supporting substrate, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer (X), a continuous void-containing layer including a composition containing fine particles (excepting silica), and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer (Y), the continuous void-containing layer having a mass concentration of the fine particles of from 45 to 100%.

Abstract: A painless medical adhesive tape easy to be torn includes: a layer of upper medical adhesive base fabric, a layer of lower medical adhesive base fabric and a layer of anti-adhesive paper (4), wherein: the layer of lower medical adhesive base fabric (2) has multiple holes (20), and the layer of lower medical adhesive base fabric (2) and the layer of upper medical adhesive base fabric (1) that have a same length and width are combined together; through an adhesive applicator, a medical adhesive (3) is applied to a lower portion of the layer of lower medical adhesive base fabric (2); during an adhesive process, the layer of upper medical adhesive base fabric (1) and the layer of lower medical adhesive base fabric (2) are limitedly adhered together by means of permeation of the medical adhesive (3); and the layer of anti-adhesive paper (4) is directly adhered to the lower portion of the layer of lower medical adhesive base fabric (2) through the medical adhesive (3).

Abstract: An adhesive-bonded component including a first workpiece having a first substrate and a first mating surface including a plurality of protrusions. The component also includes a second workpiece comprising a second substrate having a second mating surface contacting the first mating surface and adhesive positioned on the first mating surface. In various embodiments, the second mating surface comprises troughs receiving the protrusions of the first workpiece, and the plurality of protrusions of the first workpiece and the troughs of the second workpiece may be arranged in multiple mating patterns. The technology also includes processes of making the components.

Abstract: A nonwoven fabric contains a plurality of fibers having average fiber diameter Dave in a range from 10 nm to 3 ?m, inclusive. The nonwoven fabric has a plurality of fusion portions among the plurality of fibers. The nonwoven fabric has a first principal surface and a second principal surface on an opposite side to the first principal surface. Average number Nh of the fusion portions observed per 500 ?m2 on the first principal surface is six or more.

Abstract: A laminated roofing underlayment includes a synthetic roofing underlayment on one side, a reflective layer on the other side, and insulation between the synthetic roofing underlayment and the reflective layer.

Abstract: Provided are a metal foam stack and a manufacturing method thereof. The metal foam stack includes one or more stack units. The stack unit includes: a first metal foam sheet including an open cell, in which a plurality of internal cells is connected with one another; a first bonding member positioned on the first metal foam sheet; and a second metal foam sheet positioned on the first bonding member, and including an open cell, in which a plurality of internal cells is connected with one another. Materials of an interface between the first metal foam sheet and the first bonding member and an interface between the second metal foam sheet and the first bonding member are atomically diffused.

Abstract: A construction board comprising a foam layer, an pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that is at least partially cured, and a release liner.

Abstract: Described herein are insulating structures that include at least one microporous layer including a plurality of pores, a porous layer adjacent to the microporous layer, and a monolithic aerogel structure extending through the plurality of pores of the microporous layer and through at least part of the porous layer. The microporous layer filters aerogel dust from cracked or damaged aerogel within the scaffold, slowing or preventing loss of dust from the insulating structures.

Abstract: Described herein are aerogel composites. The aerogel composites comprise at least one base layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, the base layer comprising a reinforced aerogel composition which comprises a reinforcement material and a monolithic aerogel framework, a first facing layer comprising a first facing material attached to the top surface of the base layer, and a second facing layer comprising a second facing material attached to the bottom surface of the base layer. At least a portion of the monolithic aerogel framework of the base layer extends into at least a portion of both the first facing layer and the second facing layer. The first facing material and the second facing material each consist essentially of fluoropolymer material.

Abstract: An inorganic fibrous insulating material is provided that exhibits an excellent insulating performance wherein heat transfer by air convection within the insulating material and by the inorganic fibers is suppressed. This is an inorganic fibrous insulating material in which a plurality of inorganic fibrous mats are stacked. The inorganic fiber constituting the inorganic fibrous mat has a fiber diameter of 3 to 5 ?m and a fiber length of at least 20 mm. The inorganic fibers are bonded to each other at their contact points by a thermosetting binder. The areal weight of each inorganic fibrous mat is 300 to 600 g/m2, and the orientation angle of the inorganic fibrous mats with respect to a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the inorganic fibrous insulating material is inclined at from more than 0° to not more than 20°.

Abstract: A glass and polymer film assembly including a glass film and a polymer film bonded to a surface of the glass film. The polymer film is directly bonded to the glass film by applying the polymer to the glass film when the glass film is above a bonding temperature of the polymer film. The glass film may have a thickness less than about 1 mm and the polymer film may be an oriented semicrystalline homopolymer which is permanently bonded to a major surface of the glass film.

Abstract: A laminated automotive glazing unit including two glass sheets joined by a thermoplastic interlayer sheet, a system of conductive layers applied to one of the sheets, and including on an edge of the same sheet a substantially opaque masking strip, making contact with the glass sheet, the system of conductive layers covering at least partially the masking strip. The glazing unit further includes busbars for supplying electrical power, the busbars making contact with the layer system in the portion covering the masking strip. The masking strip includes a set of layers that absorb visible radiation, the layers being formed by cathodic sputtering.

Abstract: A viscoelastic plastic interlayer to be incorporated between two glass sheets forms a laminated glazing with vibro-acoustic damping properties. The interlayer includes at least one layer made of viscoelastic plastic with vibro-acoustic damping properties. The interlayer is tinted in the bulk at least on a part of its surface. The interlayer is such that the resonant frequency f2 of the second resonance mode of a laminated glazing bar with a surface area of 25 mm×300 mm composed of two glass sheets each 2.1 mm thick, between which is incorporated the interlayer, determined by measuring the mechanical impedance (MIM) at 20° C. according to standard ISO 16940, is between 760 Hz and 1000 Hz and the loss factor ?2 of the second resonance mode of the same bar, determined by MIM under the same conditions, is greater than or equal to 0.25.

Abstract: A multi-layer panel for use as structural sheathing. A first or base layer is a wood structural panel, such as OSB or plywood, which coated or treated with a product that provides fire resistance. The fire resistant treatment may be integrated with the material forming the wood structural panel, or may be one or more FR coating layers, one or more sides of the wood structural panel. A third layer is a weather or water resistive barrier (WRB), which may be applied as a coating on one or more sides in the manufacturing line. The multi-layer panel product provides fire-rated structural sheathing with WRB in a single product, which is less reliant on skilled labor for installation at a job site and reduces installation time.

Abstract: A protective drainage wrap comprises a cross-woven material portion, cross-laminate material portion or mesh material portion in first and second directions and a breathable solid layer portion. The material in the first and second directions comprises a polyolefin, polyester, nylon or combinations thereof. The first direction being roughly perpendicular to the second direction. The cross-woven, cross-laminate or mesh material portions being adapted to facilitate a drainage path. The breathable solid layer portion is attached to the cross-woven material portion, cross-laminate material portion or mesh material portion. The breathable solid layer portion is adapted to allow water vapor to flow therethrough.

Abstract: A fire-resistant polymeric membrane includes a polymer layer such as PVC, TPO, or EPDM affixed to a carbon fiber composite. The carbon fiber composite includes one or two layers of non-woven carbon fibers and at least one of an inert fiber mat or a metal foil layer, wherein the metal foil layer has a melting temperature of at least about 660° C. The present invention also provides an underlayment, wherein the underlayment is formed from one or more fibrous carbon layers affixed to at least one of an inert fiber mat or a metal foil having a melting temperature greater than 660° C.

Abstract: A structure, and methods of making the structure are provided in which the structure can include: a membrane having a first layer and a second layer, the first layer comprising polymer chains formed with coordination complexes with metal ions, and the second layer consisting of a porous support layer formed of polymer chains substantially, if not completely, lacking the presence of metal ions. The structure can be an asymmetric polymeric membrane containing a metal-rich layer as the first layer. In various embodiments the first layer can be a metal-rich dense layer. The first layer can include pores. The polymer chains of the first layer can be closely packed. The second layer can include a plurality of macro voids and can have an absence of the metal ions of the first layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a composite element comprising a single- or multi-part core and an envelope which are in a force fit combination with each other, at least comprising providing a single- or multi-part core of an evacuable organic material; at least partly enveloping the core with an envelope to obtain a composite element precursor; and treating the composite element precursor for a period leading to an at least partial softening of the evacuable organic material and of the envelope surface apposing the core. The present invention further relates to composite elements obtained or obtainable by a method of the present invention and also to the method of using a composite element of the present invention as a vacuum insulation panel or as a thermal insulation material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat shrinkable multilayer film for pallet or multipack shrink applications comprising at least one ionomer layer comprising from 5 to 40 weight % of the film, consisting essentially of a copolymer of ethylene and methacrylic acid or acrylic acid wherein from about 1 to about 99% of the carboxylic acid groups are neutralized to carboxylate salts comprising metal ions; and at least one additional layer comprising 60 to 95 weight % of the film, comprising a polyolefin. Also disclosed are uses and methods to collation shrink the film around objects.

Abstract: This invention relates to a transparent plastic sheet including a support layer composed of a polycarbonate-based resin layer and a surface layer formed on the support layer and composed of a polymethylmethacrylate-based resin layer having a glass transition temperature of 120 to 135° C., wherein the polymethylmethacrylate-based resin layer has a thickness corresponding to 5 to 20% of a total thickness of the sheet, and the sheet has a total transmittance of 89 to 94% based on ASTM D1003, whereby the transparent plastic sheet can be minimally deformed under high-temperature and high-humidity conditions and can thus be usefully applied as a window cover for various display products, in lieu of glass.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a biaxially-stretched layer polyamide film which is excellent in bag breakage resistance, impact resistance and bending fatigue resistance, particularly in bending fatigue resistance under low-temperature environments, is excellent in an effect such as bag breakage prevention during transportation or storage of products when used as a packaging material for packaging foods or the like, can exhibit both high heat seal strength and good appearance even when being automatically filled with a liquid soup, a seasoning agent, or the like at a high speed, and further has improved volume reduction performance and environmental friendliness as compared with conventional polyamide films, and is thus suitable for various packaging applications, particularly for packaging bags for filling liquid materials such as soup and sauce. The biaxially-stretched layer polyamide film comprising: an A layer of a mixed polymer containing 97 to 70 wt. % of an aliphatic homopolyamide, 3 to 20 wt.

Abstract: A packaging structure includes a plurality of laminated blocks produced by laminating a plurality of corrugated cardboards and then bonding them together. The laminated blocks are stacked in a vertical direction and interposed between a lower face of a packaged article and a bottom face of a packaging box.

Abstract: A method of transferring a graphene sheet comprising one or more layers of graphene formed on a metal film, such as a copper film, coating a surface of a metal or alloy substrate onto a target substrate. The method includes fixedly contacting the graphene sheet with a contacting surface of the target substrate by applying substantially uniform pressure and heat on a layered assembly. The layered assembly comprises the metal or alloy substrate, the graphene sheet, and the target substrate. At least one layer of graphene of the graphene sheet formed on the copper film coating the surface of the metal or alloy substrate is transferred onto the contacting surface of the target substrate by the substantially uniform pressure and heat, and the at least one layer of graphene forms a graphene film on the contacting surface of the target substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure can provide an aerogel composite. The aerogel composite comprises at least one base layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, the base layer comprising a reinforced aerogel composition which comprises a reinforcement material and a monolithic aerogel framework, a first facing layer comprising a first facing material attached to the top surface of the base layer, and a second facing layer comprising a second facing material attached to the bottom surface of the base layer. At least a portion of the monolithic aerogel framework of the base layer extends into at least a portion of both the first facing layer and the second facing layer. The first facing material and the second facing material can each comprise or consist essentially of elastic fibers such as spandex, nylon, lycra, elastane, or combinations thereof.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a floor covering product comprises at least a first step of forming a single- or multi-layered substrate by consolidating synthetic material-based starting material. The method comprises a second step after the first step, which is performed in line with the first step. The at least one continuous film is laminated onto the substrate, and the laminating is performed by means of a belt press.

Abstract: A method for producing a composite multi-layered absorbent article. At least two of the layers include a colored region.

Abstract: A particle micro/nanoparticle filled paste is employed to create an absorbing/sintering interlayer for a bonding process which avoids the need to grind/polish large substrates and eliminates the need for more expensive sputtering process.

Abstract: A curved display panel manufacturing method is provided. The curved display panel manufacturing method in which a display panel in a desired curved shape is manufactured using a prefabricated flat liquid crystal panel including a lower substrate and an upper substrate formed of glass and opposite each other, each of the lower substrate and an upper substrate being provided with a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, includes separating the polarizing plates from the lower substrate and the upper substrate, removing the outer surface of the liquid crystal panel to reduce the lower substrate and the upper substrate from which the polarizing plates are separated to a designated thickness, and bending the liquid crystal panel having the removed outer surface in a desired curved shape.

Abstract: A curved display panel manufacturing method is provided. The curved display panel manufacturing method in which a display panel in a desired curved shape is manufactured using a prefabricated flat liquid crystal panel including a lower substrate and an upper substrate formed of glass and opposite each other, each of the lower substrate and an upper substrate being provided with a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, includes separating the polarizing plates from the lower substrate and the upper substrate, removing the outer surface of the liquid crystal panel to reduce the lower substrate and the upper substrate from which the polarizing plates are separated to a designated thickness, and bending the liquid crystal panel having the removed outer surface in a desired curved shape.

Abstract: An evaporation device includes a carrier stage, a base and a light source. The carrier stage is placed on the base; the base provides with a vacuum pin; the vacuum pin can move with respect to the base; the carrier stage provides with a pin hole; the vacuum pin can pass through the pin hole to absorb a substrate. A side of the carrier stage away from the base is coated with a photosensitive adhesive, the light source is used to irradiate the photosensitive adhesive between carrier stage and the substrate in order to decrease the adhesiveness of the photosensitive adhesive so that the substrate and the carrier stage can be separated smoothly in order to achieve a small deformation and improve the product yield rate. The evaporation method can achieve a small deformation and improve the product yield rate when separating the substrate and the spacing pad.

Abstract: A starting point for separating a separation layer and a layer to be separated is formed in a process member. A first step of irradiating a first portion of the process member with first laser light in a frame-like shape and a second step of irradiating at least part of a region which is irradiated with the first laser light with second laser light are performed. The process member includes a first substrate, the separation layer, the layer to be separated, and an adhesive layer which are stacked in this order. In the first portion, the adhesive layer overlaps with the first substrate with the separation layer and the layer to be separated provided therebetween. In the first step, the first laser light is absorbed by at least the layer to be separated and the adhesive layer. In the second step, the second laser light is absorbed by at least the separation layer.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a provision unit configured to provide a screen via which a plurality of condition items indicating features of a three-dimensional object can be specified, a reception unit configured to receive, via the screen, a specification of a condition item indicating an feature of an object desired to be molded by a user, and a determination unit configured to determine settings to be used for molding of the object desired to be molded by the user, based on the received specification of the condition item, wherein the settings to be used for the molding determined by the determination unit include molding settings for molding specified with respect to a molding apparatus.

Abstract: A transfer printing process that exploits the mismatch in mechanical or thermo-mechanical response at the interface of a printable micro- or nano-device and a transfer stamp to drive the release of the device from the stamp and its non-contact transfer to a receiving substrate are provided. The resulting facile, pick-and-place process is demonstrated with the assembling of 3-D microdevices and the printing of GAN light-emitting diodes onto silicon and glass substrates. High speed photography is used to provide experimental evidence of thermo-mechanically driven release.

Abstract: A device for hot-foil stamping on printing materials includes a heated stamping cylinder, a counterpressure cylinder, and a device for providing stamping foil. The device for providing stamping foil guides the stamping foil between the stamping cylinder and the counterpressure cylinder in a direction tangential to the cylinders. The device for providing stamping foil has an adjustable guide element that is disposed downstream of the stamping cylinder and of the counterpressure cylinder for guiding the stamping foil. The hot-foil stamping device advantageously allows the stamping quality to be optimized.

Abstract: A punching mechanism comprises a punching member, a drive section and a reciprocation assisting section. The punching member punches a hole in a sheet. The drive section causes the punching member to reciprocate with respect to the sheet. The reciprocation assisting section stores part of the energy generated from the reciprocation of the punching member and the driving of the drive section during the period the punching member starts reciprocating from an initial position and returns to the initial position. The reciprocation assisting section outputs the stored energy as an auxiliary force used for assisting the punching member in the next reciprocation.

Abstract: The present application provides an overprint orientation system. The overprint orientation system may include a first printer for printing on a substrate a first field and one or more orientation indicators within a second field, a second printer for overprinting the second field, and an orientation sensor. The orientation sensor determines whether the orientation indicators are visible.

Abstract: A blade assembly of a waste catchment system for a roller comprises a support plate for attachment to a tray of the waste catchment system and a blade holder. The blade holder is configured to receive a blade having a free edge adapted to engage with the roller to be cleaned. The blade holder includes a channel for receiving and retaining the blade, the blade being insertable into and removable from the blade holder by sliding with respect thereto. The blade holder and the blade comprise respective co-operating elements configured to permit sliding of the blade relative to the blade holder in the longitudinal direction of the blade and to constrain the blade against movement relative to the blade in a direction perpendicular to the said longitudinal axis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a print system, such as an ink jet printer, which performs printing on a medium, such as a sheet that is transported.

Abstract: A transfer material is provided that can be more firmly attached to an image substrate without deteriorating printing characteristics concerning image bleeding, printing resolution, and the like. An ink receiving layer is of a gap-absorbing type. An adhesive layer includes discretely disposed adhesive pieces provided on a surface of the ink receiving layer so as to leave exposed portions on the surface of the ink receiving layer.

Abstract: A nozzle firing cell may comprise a firing transistor and a pre-charge transistor having a source and drain coupled between a pre-charge line and a gate of the firing transistor wherein the pre-charge line is routed over the gate of the pre-charge transistor. A fluid ejection device may comprise a circuit comprising a nozzle firing ceil, the nozzle firing cell comprising a firing transistor and a pre-charge transistor having a source and drain coupled between a pre-charge Sine and a gate of the firing transistor in which the pre-charge line is routed over the gate of the pre-charge transistor. A circuit may comprise a number of firing transistors and a number of pre-charge transistors each having a source and drain coupled between a pre-charge line and a gate of one of the firing transistors in which the pre-charge line is routed over each of the gates of the pre-charge transistors.

Abstract: A printer is disclosed. The printer spits printing fluid from nozzles using a spit pattern. The spit pattern is non-uniform along the spit pattern length.

Abstract: When a processor of a print device determines that an elapsed time since a circulation operation of a liquid is not less than a fixed time and does not determine that the elapsed time is not less than a first time, the processor performs a first circulation operation that circulates the liquid in a state in which a supply flow path and a circulation flow path are not open to the atmosphere. When the processor determines that the elapsed time is not less than the fixed time, is not less than the first time, and is less than a second time, the processor performs a second circulation operation that agitates the liquid more than the first circulation operation does. Therefore, the print device is able to agitate the liquid in accordance with the time that has elapsed since the circulation operation was last performed.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid jetting apparatus including a conveyor, a liquid jet head, a carriage, a carriage moving device, and a controller. The controller carries out printing by repeating a scan-printing operation and a conveyance operation, and carries out a process of determining a jet-timing such that the jet-timing and a predetermined reference timing may deviate oppositely from each other between a print area on the upstream side and a print area on the downstream side along a scanning direction for the carriage to move in the scan-printing operation with respect to a predetermined reference position in the scanning direction, based on a value of a correction parameter. The correction parameter is set to the same value for nozzles included in an identical one of nozzle groups and to different values for the corresponding nozzles included in different ones of the nozzle groups.

Abstract: A method of preparing a printer cartridge for transport may comprise applying a volume of immiscible fluid to a nozzle bore of a printhead. A printer cartridge may comprise a volume of immiscible fluid deposited into a nozzle bore of a nozzle of the printhead and a layer of immiscible fluid applied over the nozzle bore opening. A printhead die may comprise a volume of immiscible fluid deposited into a nozzle bore of the die and a layer of immiscible fluid applied over the nozzle bore opening.

Abstract: A nozzle plate includes a nozzle substrate and a liquid-repellent film. The nozzle substrate includes a nozzle to discharge liquid. The liquid-repellent film is disposed on a liquid discharge side of the nozzle substrate and including a fluororesin having a fluorine-containing heterocyclic structure with ether linkage in a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) skeleton. The liquid-repellent film includes a slope region that slopes in a direction in which a film thickness of the liquid-repellent film is smaller toward an edge of the nozzle in a peripheral portion of the nozzle.