Patents Issued in January 4, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180001551
    Abstract: Methods for making densified carbon printed articles from carbon powder are described. Three-dimensional binder jet printing is used to make a printed article from the carbon powder. The printed articles are infiltrated with pitch and may be heated to graphitize at least a portion of the pitch to provide a near net shape densified carbon printed article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Jesse M. Blacker
  • Publication number: 20180001552
    Abstract: A method of forming a three-dimensional object including a continuous sheet of material includes: (a) providing at least one drive roller and a build plate, with the build plate including an optically transparent member, with the optically transparent member including a build surface, and with the build surface at least partially defining a build region and the at least one drive roller adjacent the build region; (b) filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid; (c) irradiating the build region with light through the optically transparent member to form a solid polymer from the polymerizable liquid; and (d) rotating the at least one drive roller to form the three-dimensional object from the solid polymer and/or to advance (or draw) the continuous sheet of material away from the build region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Gregory W. Dachs, II, David Moore, Georgios Katsikis
  • Publication number: 20180001553
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) printing processes, apparatuses, software, and systems for the production of at least one desired 3D object. The 3D printer system (e.g., comprising a processing chamber, build module, or an unpacking station) described herein may retain a desired (e.g., inert) atmosphere around the material bed and/or 3D object at multiple 3D printing stages. The 3D printer described herein comprises one or more build modules that may have a controller separate from the controller of the processing chamber. The 3D printer described herein comprises a platform that may be automatically constructed. The invention(s) described herein may allow the 3D printing process to occur for a long time without operator intervention and/or down time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Benyamin BULLER, Zachary Ryan MURPHREE, Richard Joseph ROMANO, Thomas Blasius BREZOCZKY, Alan Rick LAPPEN
  • Publication number: 20180001554
    Abstract: 3-D printing system include development stations positioned to electrostatically transfer build and support materials to an intermediate transfer surface, a transfer station adjacent the intermediate transfer surface, guides adjacent the transfer station, and platens moving on the guides. The guides are shaped to direct the platens to repeatedly pass the transfer station and come in contact with the intermediate transfer surface at the transfer station. The intermediate transfer surface transfers a layer of the build and support materials to the platens each time the platens contact the intermediate transfer surface at the transfer station to successively form layers of the build and support materials on the platens. The platens and the intermediate transfer surface include alignment features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Thresh, Michael N. Soures, Jonathan Ireland, James D. Van Bortel, Bruce H. Smith
  • Publication number: 20180001555
    Abstract: 3-D printing system include development stations positioned to electrostatically transfer build and support materials to an intermediate transfer surface, a transfer station adjacent the intermediate transfer surface, guides adjacent the transfer station, and platens moving on the guides. The guides are shaped to direct the platens to repeatedly pass the transfer station and come in contact with the intermediate transfer surface at the transfer station. The intermediate transfer surface transfers a layer of the build and support materials to the platens each time the platens contact the intermediate transfer surface at the transfer station to successively form layers of the build and support materials on the platens. The platens and the intermediate transfer surface include rack and pinion structures that temporarily join at the transfer station, as the platens pass the transfer station, to align the platens with the intermediate transfer surface as the platens contact the intermediate transfer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Roberto A. Irizarry, Donald R. Fess, Carlos M. Terrero, Brian A. Hanna, Lynn C. Saxton
  • Publication number: 20180001556
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) printing processes, apparatuses, software, and systems for the production of at least one desired 3D object. The 3D printer system (e.g., comprising a processing chamber, build module, or an unpacking station) described herein may retain a desired (e.g., inert) atmosphere around the material bed and/or 3D object at multiple 3D printing stages. The 3D printer described herein comprises one or more build modules that may have a controller separate from the controller of the processing chamber. The 3D printer described herein comprises a platform that may be automatically constructed. The invention(s) described herein may allow the 3D printing process to occur for a long time without operator intervention and/or down time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Benyamin BULLER, Zachary Ryan MURPHREE, Richard Joseph ROMANO, Thomas Blasius BREZOCZKY, Alan Rick LAPPEN
  • Publication number: 20180001557
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) printing processes, apparatuses, software, and systems for the production of at least one desired 3D object. The 3D printer system (e.g., comprising a processing chamber, build module, or an unpacking station) described herein may retain a desired (e.g., inert) atmosphere around the material bed and/or 3D object at multiple 3D printing stages. The 3D printer described herein comprises one or more build modules that may have a controller separate from the controller of the processing chamber. The 3D printer described herein comprises a platform that may be automatically constructed. The invention(s) described herein may allow the 3D printing process to occur for a long time without operator intervention and/or down time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Benyamin BULLER, Zachary Ryan MURPHREE, Richard Joseph ROMANO, Thomas Blasius BREZOCZKY, Alan Rick LAPPEN, Robert Michael MARTINSON
  • Publication number: 20180001558
    Abstract: Described is a high throughput machine for manufacture of large size 3D objects. The machine uses a combination of a large size main material dispensing head with a satellite lightweight material dispensing head. A motion system could move each material dispensing head along a path identical to the other dispensing head path or move it along a path different from the path of the other material dispensing head. Such complementary movement supports increase in machine throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: MASSIVIT 3D PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Itzhak Taff, Ido De La Vega
  • Publication number: 20180001559
    Abstract: A recoating unit (40) serves for equipping or retrofitting a device (1) for additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object (2) by selectively solidifying a building material (15), preferably a powder, layer by layer. The device (1) comprises a recoater (16) movable across a build area (8) for applying a layer (31b, 32b) of the building material (15) within the build area (8) and a solidification device (20) for selectively solidifying the applied layer (31b, 32b) at positions corresponding to a cross-section of the object (2) to be manufactured. The device (1) is formed and/or controlled to repeat the steps of applying and selectively solidifying until the object (2) is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems
    Inventors: Stefan Paternoster, Stefan Grünberger
  • Publication number: 20180001560
    Abstract: A three-dimensional printing apparatus in which an amount of resin material used in forming a three-dimensional object is reduced, includes a core rod including a central shaft, a rotation mechanism that rotates the core rod about the central shaft, a guide rail extending above the core rod and along an axis of the core rod, a shaping head slidably provided on the guide rail and discharging a thermoplastic resin to the core rod, and a moving mechanism that moves the shaping head along the guide rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Makoto YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20180001561
    Abstract: A system and method for generating investment casting patterns by 3D printing. CAD software is used to generate a hollow 3D model of a solid 3D model of a desired pattern. The pattern is generated by a 3D printer which prints the exterior of the pattern in pattern wax and the interior in support wax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Michael G. Hascher, William Buckley
  • Publication number: 20180001562
    Abstract: A method for illuminating a three-dimensional area (1), the three-dimensional area being divided into at least two successive layers (2), which are illuminated temporally sequentially, each layer (2) being divided into at least two illumination fields (3) with at least one first subarea (4), one second subarea (4?), if appropriate a third subarea (4?) and if appropriate further subareas, wherein adjacent illumination fields (3) overlap in individual subareas (4?, 4?) to avoid defectively illuminated regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas FITZINGER, Simon GRUBER
  • Publication number: 20180001563
    Abstract: An exposure control device (31) serves for equipping and/or retrofitting a generative layer-wise building device (1). The latter comprises an exposure device (20) which emits electromagnetic radiation (22) or particle radiation and is configured to irradiate positions to be solidified in a layer in such a way that after cooling they exist as an object cross-section or part of the same. The exposure control device (31) has a first data output interface (36), at which control commands can be output to the exposure device (20). The control commands which are output specify one of a plurality of exposure types wherein an exposure type is defined by a predetermined combination of a radiation energy density to be emitted by the exposure device (20) and a scanning pattern with which the radiation (22) is being directed to a region of a layer of the building material (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems
    Inventors: Markus Frohnmaier, Michael Göth, Robert Achim Domröse, Stefan Fröbe, Joachim Wichner, Harald Häger
  • Publication number: 20180001564
    Abstract: A variety of techniques are disclosed for customizing a digital model of an aesthetic housing to receive a functional component and an interface component for the functional component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Ryan Kroner, Neil Joseph Hickey, John Michael Briscella, John S. Dimatos
  • Publication number: 20180001565
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods according to the present disclosure are configured for use in additive manufacturing, e.g. 3D printing. Various materials, including thermoplastic materials, can be used with an additive manufacturing system to create a part composite. Systems, devices, and methods described herein can be used to identify a characteristic of a material or of a material container for use with an additive manufacturing system. The identified characteristic can be used to determine an authenticity of the material. Based on the authenticity, one or more features or functions of the additive manufacturing system can be updated. The characteristic of the material may be optical information on the container of the material, e.g. a bar code, may be identified by emitting x-ray radiation and receiving a spectral characteristic, may be an electrical or magnetic characteristic or may be engraved on the surface of the material itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas Hocker
  • Publication number: 20180001566
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to substructures for 3D objects are described. In an example, a method for providing a three-dimensional halftone threshold matrix is described. The method may comprise receiving a substructure model representing a three-dimensional material structure and populating each location in the substructure model at which the structure exists with a halftone threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter MOROVIC, Jan MOROVIC, Jay S GONDEK, Juan Manuel GARCIA REYERO VINAS
  • Publication number: 20180001567
    Abstract: A removable build module to connect to a host apparatus, may include a build platform to support an object-to-be-built, a drive unit to move the build platform, a memory to receive and store build parameters, and an interface circuit to communicate the build parameters to the host apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Fernando JUAN, Pau MARTIN VIDAL, Esteve COMAS, Jordi GIMENEZ MANENT, Pol MORRAL, Pablo DOMINGUEZ PASTOR
  • Publication number: 20180001568
    Abstract: A method of calibrating an apparatus for generating a three-dimensional object is described in which a calibration substrate is generated by depositing build material and applying energy to the build material to form a fused surface; a calibration pattern is generated on the calibration substrate by depositing an agent on the calibration surface according to a predetermined pattern; and an attribute of the calibration pattern is measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Salvador Sanchez Ribes, David Ramirez Muela, Sergio Puigardeu Aramendia, Pol Fornos
  • Publication number: 20180001569
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus associated with three-dimensional objects are described. In an example, a method comprises receiving data representing a three-dimensional model object, the data comprising object model data and object property data. For at least one object property, a sub-region of the object in which the object property is non-variable is identified and, for at least one location within the object, all sub-regions in which the location is situated are identified. Based on the combination of identified sub-regions for a location, print material data is determined for the location. Control data for the production of a three-dimensional object is generated according to the print material data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Juan Manuel GARCIA REYERO VINAS, Peter MOROVIC, Jan MOROVIC
  • Publication number: 20180001570
    Abstract: Embodiments describe a means to authenticate manufacture of AM parts to a third party using witness artifacts. Embodiments describe cryogenic processing of additive manufactured (AM) metal and metal-matrix items to improve mechanical, physical, electrical, and/or chemical properties. Embodiments also describe a method of scientific testing and engineering analysis that validate cryogenically treated, AM items by measuring and contrasting enhancements in wear, corrosion, fracture, fatigue, and electro-chemical properties against baseline samples. Embodiments also describe a certification method, using a MIL-STD format digitized or written report that outputs a standards-based, First Article Test report and certification statement. The embodiments describe a lean processing method and value stream map that captures defects and identifies and segregates discrepant parts along with proxy witness test samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Jack Cahn
  • Publication number: 20180001571
    Abstract: A method of friction welding a workpiece to a fluid element includes the step of placing a workpiece weld surface in contact with a fluid element weld surface. The workpiece weld surface is driven in a predetermined pattern along the fluid element weld surface. Pressure is applied between the workpiece weld surface and the fluid element weld surface to produce friction and heat sufficient to raise the temperature of the weld surfaces to welding temperature. A weld bond is formed by stopping the driving of the workpiece weld surface while applying the pressure between the weld surfaces. Before and/or after the weld bond is formed, at least a portion of the workpiece is machined to form at least a portion of a fluid fitting configured to receive and sealingly attach to a pipe in a non-leaking manner to convey a flow of fluid therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: William H. Lennon, George Hodson
  • Publication number: 20180001572
    Abstract: A method for surface preparation of composite substrates prior to adhesive bonding. A curable surface treatment layer is applied onto a curable, resin-based composite substrate, followed by co-curing. After co-curing, the composite substrate is fully cured but the surface treatment layer remains partially cured. The surface treatment layer may be a resin film or a removal peel ply composed of resin-impregnated fabric. After surface preparation, the composite substrate is provided with a chemically-active, bondable surface that can be adhesively bonded to another composite substrate to form a covalently-bonded structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: CYTEC INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventors: Leonard MacAdams, Dalip Kohli
  • Publication number: 20180001573
    Abstract: A method and device for inserting a tongue in an insertion groove in a panel by a device, wherein the method includes: displacing a tongue guiding device in a first direction by displacing a puncher in the first direction, and displacing a tongue between a first part and a second part of the tongue guiding device and into an insertion groove in panel by further displacing the puncher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Andreas BLOMGREN, Jonas FRANSSON
  • Publication number: 20180001574
    Abstract: There is described a forming assembly (10b) for forming a plurality of sealed packs (3) starting from a tube (2) of packaging material, comprising first conveying means (15b) movable along a first path (Q) comprising: a first operative branch (Q1), which has a main elongation direction parallel to an advancing direction (A) of the tube (2); and a first return branch (Q2) comprising an initial portion (35b) which is arranged immediately downstream of the operative branch (Q1) and extends transversally to the advancing direction (A); first conveying means (14b, 15b, 14b?) comprise one of a sealing element (22b) or a counter-sealing element (22a); and a first half-shell (21b), which is movable along the operative branch (Q1) between: a first rest position, in which it is detached from the tube (2) or the formed pack (3); and a first operative position, in which it grips the tube (2) or the formed pack (3); the first half-shell (21b) is arranged in the first operative position along a first portion (34b) of the f
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Paolo Fontanazzi, Massimo Pradelli, Fabrizio Rimondi
  • Publication number: 20180001575
    Abstract: A seal carving apparatus includes a thermal head having a plurality of heat generating elements disposed in lines, and thermal drive control means that performs a control process of selectively and thermally driving the individual heat generating elements while moving the thermal head and a porous material in relative to each other with the thermal head being in abutment with the porous material, thereby forming a seal face on the porous material. The thermal drive control means controls a pulse time width for thermally driving the individual heat generating elements of the thermal head under pulse width modulation control based on gradation image data having a gradation value, thereby forming a seal with a gradation on the porous material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: SHACHIHATA INC.
    Inventors: Eiji ABE, Masayoshi UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20180001576
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an aerogel material with a porosity of at least 0.55 and an average pore size of 10 nm to 500 nm, having the following steps: a) preparing and optionally activating a sol; b) filling the sol into a casting mold (10); c) gelling the sol, whereby a gel is produced, and subsequently aging the gel; at least one of the following steps d) and e), d) substituting the pore liquid with a solvent; e) chemically modifying the aged and optionally solvent-substituted gel (6) using a reaction agent; followed by f) drying the gel, whereby the aerogel material is formed. The casting mold used in step b) is provided with a plurality of channel-forming elements (2) which are designed such that the sol filled into the casting mold lies overall at a maximum distance X from a channel-forming element over a specified minimum length L defined in the channel direction of the elements, with the proviso that X<15 mm and L/X>3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: EMPA EIDGENOSSISCHE MATERIALPRUFUNGS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT
    Inventors: MATTHIAS KOEBEL, LUKAS HUBER
  • Publication number: 20180001577
    Abstract: A carbon-fiber-reinforced resin composite material includes: carbon fibers including carbon fiber bundles and a thermoplastic resin, in which (1) a coefficient of variation (CV1) of a total areal weight of the carbon-fiber-reinforced resin composite material is 10% or lower, (2) a coefficient of variation (CV2) of a carbon fiber volume fraction (Vf) in the carbon-fiber-reinforced resin composite material which is defined by Expression (a) is 15% or lower, and (3) a weight average fiber length of the carbon fibers is 1 to 100 mm. Carbon Fiber Volume Fraction (Vf)=100×Volume of Carbon Fibers/(Volume of Carbon Fibers+Volume of Thermoplastic Resin) . . . Expression (a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Shuhei Onoue, Makoto Ootsubo, Yasunori Nagakura, Naoaki Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20180001578
    Abstract: A composite prepreg laminate such as a hat type-stringer is formed on a contoured mandrel using a combination of mechanical sweeping and vacuum forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew Elmer Modin, Alexander Edward Petkus
  • Publication number: 20180001579
    Abstract: In one aspect, there is a method of making a pre-cured laminate having a total number of plies in a mold, the mold having a periphery defined by a forward edge, an aft edge, and outboard ends. The method includes selecting a first plurality of resin impregnated plies that continuously extend beyond the periphery of the mold, the first plurality of resin impregnated plies includes at least 50 percent of the total number of plies; laying the plies in a mold; compacting the plies in a mold; and pre-curing the plies to form a pre-cured laminate, which can extend beyond the periphery of the mold. In an embodiment, a pre-cured laminate includes a first plurality of resin impregnated plies that continuously extend beyond the periphery of the mold, the first plurality of resin impregnated plies includes at least 50 percent of the total number of plies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
    Inventors: David G. Carlson, John R. McCullough, Douglas K. Wolfe, Andrew G. Baines, George R. Decker
  • Publication number: 20180001580
    Abstract: A reinforcing fiber composite material includes at least a matrix resin and discontinuous reinforcing fibers which include discontinuous reinforcing fiber aggregates, wherein the discontinuous reinforcing fibers include at least 5 wt % of discontinuous reinforcing fiber aggregates (A) in each of which a most widened section, where the width of the discontinuous reinforcing fiber aggregate in a direction intersecting the alignment direction of the discontinuous reinforcing fibers is made greatest when the discontinuous reinforcing fiber aggregate is two-dimensionally projected, is present at a position excluding both ends of the discontinuous reinforcing fiber aggregate, and the aspect ratio (width of the discontinuous reinforcing fiber aggregate/thickness of the discontinuous reinforcing fiber aggregate) of the most widened section is 1.3 times or more the aspect ratio of at least one of the ends of the discontinuous reinforcing fiber aggregate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Miyoshi, Takafumi Hashimoto, Tetsuya Motohashi, Kenta Bamba
  • Publication number: 20180001581
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices to fabricate one or more device components are disclosed. An example method includes fabricating one or more subject specific device components generated from receiving one or more images of one or more features of the first eye of the subject; designing a three dimensional virtual geometric model of the ophthalmic device using the one or more images; generating a plurality of virtual cross-sections of the three-dimensional virtual geometric model, wherein the cross-sections are defined by a set of physical parameters derived from the three-dimensional model; and fabricating the one or more subject specific features using the plurality of virtual cross-sections of the three dimensional model to direct an additive manufacturing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Jayant K. Patel, Cheng Sun, Hao F. Zhang, Rushi K. Talati, Kieren J. Patel
  • Publication number: 20180001582
    Abstract: The invention relates in particular to a method for creating patterns in a layer (410) to be etched, starting from a stack comprising at least the layer (410) to be etched and a masking, layer (420) on top of the layer (410) to be etched, the masking layer (420) having at least one pattern (421), the method comprising at least; a) a step of modifying at least one zone (411) of the layer (410) to be etched via ion implantation (430) vertically in line with said at least one pattern (421); b) at least one sequence of steps comprising: b1) a step of enlarging (440) the at least one pattern (421) in a plane in which the layer (410) to be etched mainly extends; b2) a step of modifying at least one zone (411?, 411?) of the layer (410) to be etched via ion implantation (430) vertically in line with the at least one enlarged pattern (421), the implantation being carried out over a depth less than the implantation depth of the preceding, modification step;) c) a step of removing (461, 462) the modified zones (41
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Nicolas POSSEME, Stephan LANDIS, Lamia NOURI
  • Publication number: 20180001583
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a rubber caterpillar track with tensile members has a cylindrical internal shape for forming the inside contour of the rubber caterpillar track, wherein the internal shape has a cylindrical dome which, in the circumferential direction (U) on its radial outer side, has a plurality of recesses for accommodating unvulcanized shaped elements for internal teeth, and has a cylindrical external shape for forming the outside contour of the rubber caterpillar track, wherein the external shape has a plurality of external shape segments in the circumferential direction (U). The external shape segments each have a recess on their radial inner side for accommodating an unvulcanized shaped element for external teeth. The invention further relates to a method for producing a rubber caterpillar track with tensile members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Achim Huels, Carsten Behrens
  • Publication number: 20180001584
    Abstract: A pair of annular inserts of elastomeric material is circumferentially applied by spiraling around a laying surface of an auxiliary drum. Then a plurality of strip-like elements disposed in parallel side by side relationship with each other in the circumferential extension of the laying surface is applied onto the auxiliary drum, so as to form at least one first belt layer. Respectively opposite end portions of each strip-like element are radially superposed, each against one of the annular inserts, so that each of the annular inserts projects from a respective end edge of the strip-like element. The cap structure formed on the auxiliary drum is coupled to a carcass structure through toroidal conformation of the latter, in such a manner that the radially external ends of sidewall portions previously manufactured on the carcass plies are associated with the axially external ends of the annular inserts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: PIRELLI TYRE S.p.A.
    Inventor: Gianni MANCINI
  • Publication number: 20180001585
    Abstract: A filament is fed to an extrusion head. The filament has a semi-crystalline polymeric reinforcement portion and a polymeric matrix portion. The reinforcement and matrix portions run continuously along a length of the filament. The reinforcement portion has a higher melting point and a higher crystallinity than the matrix portion. The temperature of the filament is raised in the extrusion head above the melting point of the matrix portion but below the melting point of the reinforcement portion so that the matrix portion of the filament melts within the extrusion head, thereby forming a partially molten filament within the extrusion head. The partially molten filament is extruded from the extrusion head onto a substrate, the reinforcement portion of the partially molten filament remaining in a semi-crystalline state as it is extruded from the extrusion head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Benjamin FARMER, Jonathan MEYER
  • Publication number: 20180001586
    Abstract: A clothing compression press that is of a sufficient height so as to compact clothing for baling in a single pass of a piston within the chamber. The press includes an inner cavity defined by a base with a front wall, a back wall and first and second sidewalls extending upwardly therefrom. A plate extends within the inner cavity which is driven by a hydraulic cylinder from a first position spaced apart from the base to a second position proximate the base, to in turn, compress clothing between the plate and the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: John Desser, Paul Land
  • Publication number: 20180001587
    Abstract: A slotter head, a slotter apparatus, and a box making machine form a joining piece with a high degree of accuracy by each being provided with: a cutter rest; a movable block mounted in an outer peripheral portion of the cutter rest; a first cutting blade that is fixed to the movable block along a shaft direction and along a direction inclined in a circumferential direction by a predetermined angle; a first support shaft that supports, on the cutter rest, the movable block rotatably around a first shaft center along the shaft direction; and a second support shaft that supports, on the cutter rest, the movable block rotatably around a second shaft center along the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Kunihiko YAMAMURO, Kazuya SUGIMOTO, Osamu HATANO
  • Publication number: 20180001588
    Abstract: An automated multi-purpose quilling device includes a housing and a driver element. The housing accommodates an electrical unit. The housing defines a through-hole and is configured to receive at least one tool attachment to perform one or more functions of quilling. The driver element is attached to the electrical unit of the housing. A first end of the driver element is placed onto the electrical unit within the housing and a second end of the driver element protrudes externally from the through-hole. The second end of the driver element is configured to receive the at least one tool attachment. The driver element is further configured to rotate when actuated by the electrical unit and in turn operate the at least one tool attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Disha KATHARANI
  • Publication number: 20180001589
    Abstract: An elongate flattened thermoplastic tube has an inflation edge and an opposite edge. The tube includes spaced transverse seals that define sides of pouches. The tube includes lines of weakness that allow adjacent dunnage units to be separated. A frangible line of connection is disposed in one two superposed layers of the tube proximate to the inflation edge. This frangible connection may be broken to permit inflation of the inflatable pouches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Rick Steven Wehrmann, Bernard Lerner
  • Publication number: 20180001590
    Abstract: In one aspect, there is a method of making a composite skin for a tiltrotor aircraft including providing a first skin in a mold, the first skin having a periphery defined by a forward edge, an aft edge, and outboard ends; providing a plurality of honeycomb panels having an array of large cells onto the first skin, each cell having a width of at least 1 cm; assembling the plurality of honeycomb panels along the longitudinal axis of the first skin to form a honeycomb core having an outer perimeter within the periphery of the first skin; positioning a second skin onto the honeycomb core, the second skin having an outer perimeter within the periphery of the first skin; and curing an adhesive to create a bond between the first skin, the honeycomb core, and the second skin to form a composite skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
    Inventors: David G. Carlson, John R. McCullough, Douglas K. Wolfe, Andrew G. Baines, George R. Decker
  • Publication number: 20180001591
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter relates to multi-layer nonwoven materials and their use in absorbent articles. More particularly, the presently disclosed subject matter relates to layered structures that have high absorbency performance while having less absorbent mass than other commercially available materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Georgia-Pacific Nonwovens LLC
    Inventors: Jacek K. Dutkiewicz, Brian Fong
  • Publication number: 20180001592
    Abstract: The present invention relates to method for producing a printed decorative paper comprising the steps of: i) providing a substrate paper; ii) applying to said substrate paper a decorative layer; iii) applying to said decorative layer a liquid coating consisting essentially of a polymerizable mixture; iv) applying polymerization conditions to form a polymerized layer on said decorative layer. An object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a printed decorative paper, which decorative paper is processed to form a decorative panel, which decorative panel thus obtained will exhibit a good resistance against weather influences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Trespa International B.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Henri Dominique Maria SYMKENS, Isabel Maria MARQUES DA SILVA MACEDO
  • Publication number: 20180001593
    Abstract: A method for producing a sandwich panel with a reinforced foam core includes inserting rod-shaped, thermoplastic reinforcing elements into a thermoplastic foam material such that the reinforcing elements extend through the foam material. End regions of the reinforcing elements project out of the foam material. The foam material is thermoformed to form a reinforced foam core, wherein the end regions of the reinforcing elements are integrally formed by applying temperature and pressure to the cover surfaces of the foam material and are bonded to the foam material in a fused connection. A thermoplastic cover layer is laminated on either side by applying temperature and pressure to the reinforced foam core on the cover surfaces of the foam material in order to form the sandwich panel, wherein the cover layers are bonded to the reinforced foam core in a fused connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Tilman ORTH, Jonas GRUENEWALD, Patricia PARLEVLIET
  • Publication number: 20180001594
    Abstract: A sheetlike composite material including at least one layer A of a nonwoven thermoplastic fiber web or a thermoplastic film, and at least two unidirectional oriented-fiber layers B and B?, the layers B and B? having a bidirectional fiber orientation. The layers are not only needled but also stitched to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: QUADRANT PLASTIC COMPOSITES AG
    Inventor: Burak BASER
  • Publication number: 20180001595
    Abstract: There are provided rolls comprising an air and water barrier article having opposing first and second major surfaces, a pressure sensitive adhesive disposed on at least the first major surface of the article, and a liner having a first major surface that contacts the opposing second major surface of the article, and at least two adhesion modifying zones disposed between the second major surface of the article and the first major surface of the liner, wherein both of a first and second adhesion modifying zones contact the first major surface of the liner, and wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive contacts a second major surface of the liner when wound in the roll. There are also provided films made using these air and water barrier articles and building envelopes made using such films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Taylor M. Seabaugh, Martin J. Widenbrant, Daniel R. Fronek, Alan J. Hollo, Jayshree Seth
  • Publication number: 20180001596
    Abstract: An aluminum-alloy-clad plate in which a plurality of aluminum alloy layers are layered and diffusion heat treatment is performed thereon, wherein aluminum alloy layers having a specific composition are layered so as to each have a different content Mg or Zn, the structure of the aluminum alloy clad plate after diffusion heat treatment thereof has a minute crystal grain diameter and a predetermined amount of a specific Mg and Zn inter-diffusion region in which Mg and Zn of layered aluminum alloy layers are diffused with each other, and increased strength and high moldability are obtained at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Katsushi MATSUMOTO, Kazufumi SATO
  • Publication number: 20180001597
    Abstract: A method for forming a copper film is provided. In the method, a base film that is a titanium nitride film, a tungsten film or a tungsten nitride film is formed along a surface of an insulating film of an object. A copper film is formed on the base film of the object cooled to a temperature of 209 K or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TOSHIMA, Atsushi SHIMADA, Tatsuo HIRASAWA, Tatsuo HATANO, Shinji FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180001598
    Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which the flexural rigidity of laminated glass can be enhanced over a wide temperature range and the sound insulating properties of laminated glass can be enhanced over a wide temperature range. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention has a shear storage equivalent elastic modulus of 10 MPa or more and 500 MPa or less in a temperature region of 80% or more of the temperature region of 0° C. or more and 60° C. or less, a value obtained by dividing a shear storage equivalent elastic modulus at 10° C. by a shear storage equivalent elastic modulus at 50° C. of 1 or more and 10 or less, a glass transition temperature falling within the range of ?25° C. or more and 0° C. or less, and a largest value of tan ? in a temperature region of ?50° C. or more and 0° C. or less of 0.1 or more and 1 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Kaoru Mikayama, Yuji Oohigashi
  • Publication number: 20180001599
    Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which the flexural rigidity, sound insulating properties and long-term adhesive stability of laminated glass can be enhanced. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention has a shear storage equivalent elastic modulus of 10 MPa or more and 500 MPa or less in a temperature region of 80% or more of the temperature region of 0° C. or more and 30° C. or less, a value obtained by dividing a shear storage equivalent elastic modulus at 10° C. by a shear storage equivalent elastic modulus at 30° C. of 1 or more and 10 or less, a glass transition temperature falling within the range of ?25° C. or more and 0° C. or less, and a largest value of tan ? in a temperature region of ?50° C. or more and 0° C. or less of 0.1 or more and 1 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Kaoru Mikayama, Yuji Oohigashi
  • Publication number: 20180001600
    Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which the flexural rigidity of laminated glass can be enhanced and the sound insulating properties of laminated glass can be enhanced. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention includes a thermoplastic resin, and has a smallest value of the shear storage elastic modulus in a temperature region of 10° C. or more and 40° C. or less measured at a frequency of 0.5 Hz of 3 MPa or more, a ratio of a shear storage elastic modulus at 20° C. measured at a frequency of 0.5 Hz to a shear storage elastic modulus at ?30° C. measured at a frequency of 0.5 Hz of 0.01 or more and 0.8 or less, a glass transition temperature falling within the range of ?20° C. or more and 0° C. or less, and a largest value of tan ? in a temperature region of ?20° C. or more and 0° C. or less of 0.1 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Yuji Oohigashi, Kaoru Mikayama