Abstract: A system and method for cutting a bread loaf into sandwiches comprising two partially connected slices of bread with a pocket there between. The system and method comprise measuring the outline of the bread loaf and cutting a sandwich pocket as well as cutting a sandwich off the bread loaf, according to a predetermined sandwich width or per user's preferences.

Abstract: An entry sheet for drilling comprising: a metallic foil; and a layer of a resin composition, the layer formed on the metallic foil without interposing an adhesion layer, wherein the surface of the layer of the resin composition, the surface being in contact with the metallic foil, has a dispersion term ?SD of surface free energy in a range from 27.0 to 37.0 mJ/m2 and a polar term ?SP of the surface free energy in a range from 0 to 5.0 mJ/m2.

Abstract: A cylindrical sleeve for attaching to a cylindrical platform of a die cutting machine, the cylindrical sleeve including a first elastic member and a second elastic member substantially identical to the first elastic member, each of the first elastic member or the second elastic member comprising an inner surface, an outer surface opposite to the inner surface, a first abutting surface, a second abutting surface opposite to the first abutting surface, a first end surface, and a second end surface opposite to the first end surface, wherein the first abutting surface and the second abutting surface are planar surfaces, wherein the cylindrical sleeve is formed by aligning the first abutting surface of the first elastic member to the second abutting surface of the second elastic member, and aligning the second abutting surface of the first elastic member to the first abutting surface of the second elastic member, and wherein an inner surface of the cylindrical sleeve formed by the inner surfaces of the first and s

Abstract: Arbors for circular saws and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an arbor includes a coupler and a flange. The coupler can include an interior mounting face and an engagement feature, and the engagement feature can be shaped to extend through an opening in a saw blade. The flange can include an exterior mounting face and a recess, and the recess can be shaped to at least partially receive the engagement feature. The interior mounting face and the exterior mounting face can be configured to clamp the saw blade therebetween to mount the saw blade to a drive shaft of the circular saw.

Abstract: A guide bar of a chain saw according to the present invention includes: an elongated plate-shaped guide bar body that supports a saw chain on its peripheral edge portion; a plurality of elongated holes formed through the guide bar body and positioned at both sides of a region that has a predetermined width and includes a central axis line CL extending in a longitudinal direction of the guide bar body, such that the region is positioned between the elongated holes, which are elongated in the longitudinal direction; and a plurality of attachment members, each of which is pre-formed in such a shape as to seal up a corresponding one of the elongated holes and attached to the corresponding elongated hole.

Abstract: A guide assembly for aligning a workpiece on a table of a saw device includes a guide member having a first end and a second end along the longitudinal axis that is sized to span a dimension of the table. The guide member includes first and second locking mechanisms located at opposite ends of the guide member that are operable to secure the guide member to the table. The guide assembly further includes a fine adjustment mechanism incorporated into the guide member that is operable when the first and second locking mechanisms are locked. The adjustment assembly includes a side plate movably mounted to the guide member between the first and second ends, and a movement mechanism for moving the side plate relative to the guide member in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A method of modifying a cutter link (240) of cutting chain (200) for a chainsaw (100) may include forming the cutter link (240) to include a base portion (280) and a cutting portion (270) extending away from the base portion (280). The cutting portion (270) may include a side plate (300/500) and a top plate (310/510). The top plate (310/510) may include a top plate leading edge (312/412/512) and a bottom face (314/414/514). The side plate (300/500) may include a side plate leading edge (302/402/502) and an inside face (304/404/504). The method may further include removing at least a portion of material forming the bottom face (314/414/514). The portion of material forming the bottom face (314/414/514) that is removed decreases as distance from the top plate leading edge (312/412/512) increases.

Abstract: A movable conveyor 42 of a post-gluing conveyor 33 (sliding extendable roller conveyor) is provided, in a front portion, with a non-driving roller 42d (guiding roller) disposed so as to be inclined toward a reference surface (ruler) 42e at a predetermined angle with respect to a width direction such that a leading end of a veneer is guided toward the reference surface (ruler) 42e (one lateral side) of a movable conveyor 42. When the veneer is detected by a veneer detecting sensor 45 (veneer detecting means), a post-gluing conveyor controller 47 (slide movement control means) retracts the movable conveyor 42 in an extended state, in a contracting direction in a state in which forward rotational driving of a driving roller 42a of the movable conveyor 42 is maintained.

Abstract: An adjustable miter gauge for use with a table saw includes a miter attachment and an adjustable guide bar coupled to the miter attachment. The miter attachment rests on a working surface of the table saw. The guide bar is received in a slot in the working surface. The guide bar includes a main body, which has first and second surfaces parallel to side walls of the slot, an adjustable body, which has a third surface parallel to the first surface, and a deformable biasing member. The adjustable body is coupled to the main body and slidable between a first position, wherein the second and third edge surfaces are coplanar, and a second position, wherein the second and third edge surfaces are not coplanar. The biasing member is arranged between the main body and the adjustable body and biases the adjustable body toward the second position.

Abstract: A safety system is provided for a power tool having a motor-driven cutting blade, a safety mechanism operable by a controller to stop and/or move the cutting blade and a blade guard. The safety system includes an electrically active surface provided on the blade guard that is configured to change an electrical characteristic in response to contact between the body of an operator and the active surface. An active surface controller is operable to provide electrical power to the electrically active surface, to generate a signal in response to the change in the electrical characteristic, the signal indicative of an unsafe condition, and to transmit the signal to the controller for the safety mechanism.

Abstract: This invention relates to a new binder composition and a process using it for the production of new and improved wood fibre boards.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes and apparatuses for producing fiber cement sheets as well as fiber cement sheets obtainable therewith. The processes according to the present invention at least comprise the steps of: (a) providing a cementitious slurry comprising fibers, (b) continuously discharging the slurry on an endless water-permeable transport belt, and (c) removing excess of water from the slurry through the water-permeable transport belt to form a fiber cement sheet with a predetermined thickness. By using a water-permeable transport belt for removing the excess of water from the fiber cement sheet, both the thickness and the density of the sheet can be accurately tuned, without resulting in a spring-back of the thickness of the sheet at the end of the production process. The present invention further relates to various uses of the fiber cement sheets obtainable by the processes of the invention in the building industry.

Abstract: A slurry feed apparatus for depositing a slurry upon a moving forming web having a direction of travel, including: a headbox mounted transverse to the direction of travel of the moving web, having a back wall, sidewalls, a concave transverse front wall, an open top, and an open bottom for directing slurry onto the forming web; a moveable dam releasably attached to the back wall, a seal attached to a bottom wall of the dam; and a headbox support system extending from opposed the sidewalls. Also disclosed is a continuous process for depositing a uniform layer of a cementitious slurry containing reinforcing fibers from the headbox onto a traveling web.

Abstract: To provide a concrete-reinforcing shaped body containing concrete-reinforcing fibers and having a plate-like shape. The concrete-reinforcing fibers each preferably have a diameter of 0.3 mm smaller and a length of 5 mm or larger and 25 mm or smaller.

Abstract: A method in which a stream of dry cementitious powder passes through a first conduit and aqueous medium stream passes through a second conduit to feed a slurry mixer to make cementitious slurry. The cementitious slurry passes through a third conduit and a reinforcement fiber stream passes through a fourth conduit to feed a fiber-slurry mixer which mixes the slurry and discrete fibers to make a stream of fiber-slurry mixture. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed.

Abstract: Continuous method including: mixing water and cementitous powder to form slurry; mixing the slurry and reinforcement fibers in a single pass horizontal continuous mixer to form fiber-slurry mixture, the mixer including an elongated mixing chamber having a reinforcement fiber inlet port, and upstream of the fiber inlet port is an inlet port to introduce water and cementitous powder together as one stream or at least two inlet ports to introduce water and dry cementitous powder separately as separate streams into the chamber, a rotating horizontal shaft/s within the chamber, part of the chamber for mixing the fibers and slurry and moving the fiber-slurry mixture to a mixture outlet; discharging the fiber-slurry mixture from the mixer outlet; forming and setting the fiber-slurry mixture on a moving surface; cutting the set mixture into fiber reinforced concrete panels and removing the panels from the moving surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic machining device for a high-speed rail pantograph carbon contact strip and a machining method therefor. The automatic machining device is sequentially provided with a milling position, a sawing position and a chamfering position, and comprises a rack, a band sawing machine, a workpiece milling device, a workpiece chamfering device, a CNC computer numerical control system and a pneumatic system. A carbon contact strip workpiece to be machined is arranged on the rack and is sequentially subjected to milling, sawing and chamfering machining; and a saw frame of the band sawing machine is also provided with a saw band upper guide servo rotating device and a saw band lower guide servo rotating device, and the saw band upper guide servo rotating device and the saw band lower guide servo rotating device can freely, synchronously and correspondingly rotate a band saw blade within a certain range.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a turbine engine blade out of composite material including fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix, the method including using multilayer weaving to make a first fiber that has a first portion forming a blade root preform and extended by a second portion, the second portion forming a tenon preform; using multilayer weaving to make a second fiber preform, the second preform including a first portion made up of two skins defining between them an internal housing, the first portion forming an airfoil preform, and a second portion extending from an outside surface of the skins, the second portion forming a platform preform; assembling the first preform with the second preform in the non-consolidated state by engaging the second portion of the first preform in the internal housing; and co-densifying the first and second preforms as assembled together in this way to obtain a turbine engine blade.

Abstract: A machine that removes the bead wires from tires for the purpose of reclaiming the wire and recycling of the tire. The bead of the tire is placed over a drive wheel and tension rollers, the tension rollers move away from the drive wheel which stretches the bead against the drive wheel. The drive wheel is driven by a drive system and causes the bead to rotate. As the bead rotates a blade contacts the inner periphery of the bead and severs the rubber and reinforcement material. Directly following the blade are two plates that are spaced apart approximately equal to the diameter of the bead wire. The plates push the rubber and reinforcement material off of the bead wire as the bead rotates.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a tank includes connecting a pressure source to a nozzle on a male mold, inflating the male mold via the nozzle, forming a tank by applying at least one layer over the outer surface of the male mold, the tank having a port formed about the nozzle, deflating the male mold, and withdrawing the male mold through the port. A method of fabricating a tank includes 3D-printing a male mold, connecting a pressure source to a nozzle on the male mold, inflating the male mold via the nozzle, forming a tank by applying at least one layer over the outer surface of the male mold, the tank having a port formed about the nozzle, deflating the male mold, and withdrawing the male mold through the port. A method of fabricating a tank includes forming a tank on a mold formed from a foam blocks.

Abstract: A release agent for being coated onto a tire bladder made of a zinc-oxide-incorporated butyl rubber during pneumatic-tire molding, the release agent containing (A) organopolysiloxane, which contains a carboxy group indicated by the general formula (1) below (in the formula, R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C30 monovalent hydrocarbon group excluding R2, R2 is a carboxy-group-substituted C1-C30 monovalent organic group, R3 is R1 or R2, and n is an integer of 3 to 2000.). This release agent produces a longer service life of a tire bladder and leads to reduced tire production cost because the amount of silicone that migrates to the tire side is low when the tire is released, and repeated mold-release performance is enhanced.

Abstract: A method of forming an iso-grid structure may include filling multiple pockets of the iso-grid structure with a filler material, attaching a support structure to the perimeter of the iso-grid structure, shaping the iso-grid and support structures, and removing the support structure from the iso-grid structure. The support structure may be thinned and stretched during the shaping process.

Abstract: A reinforced thermoplastic product may include a main body and a fabric reinforcing sheet that is disposed within a wall of the main body. The wall of the main body may be formed of or from a cast thermoplastic material and the fabric reinforcing sheet may extend circumferentially around the main body in order to reinforce the wall. The fabric reinforcing sheet may include a plurality of fiber bundles and a thermoplastic material that impregnates each fiber bundle.

Abstract: An insulating sheet is pushed into a first mold portion, and formed in a first shape along a shape of the first mold portion. The insulating sheet of the first shape inside the first mold portion is pushed into the second mold, and is deformed by a front mold portion, a front guide portion, and a bent convex portion of the front mold, and a rear mold portion and a rear guide portion of the rear mold, and is formed in a second shape. The insulating sheet of the second shape is inclined such that the front end portion overlaps the rear end portion in a first direction, and the width in a front-rear direction becomes narrower toward the front and the rear end portions. The insulating sheet inserted in the second mold and formed in the second shape is inserted into a slot of a stator core.

Abstract: A structural polymeric composite includes a stiffening layer. The composite is made in a continuous extrusion process in which the stiffening layer is pulled through a cross-head die as a polymer is extruded over it. The layer includes a film or textile carrier, a filler of carbon fibers, fiberglass, organic fibers or minerals forming a mat. A binder may be dispersed over the mat and a second carrier applied. The mat is subjected to heat and pressure to soften the carriers and binder so they penetrate into the interstices of the filler and binds mechanically with them and the carriers and binder bind chemically with each other to form the stiffening layer. A polymer is then extruded over the stiffening layer, which may be used flat, provided with holes or punches for composite action with the polymer, formed into a profile, or segmented to provide spaced-apart stiffening layers.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a matched die mold including a male die mold and a female die mold wherein the male die mold includes a first contoured surface and the female die mold includes a second contoured surface. The apparatus further includes a frame which defines an opening wherein the frame is positioned between the male die mold and the female die mold such that the frame is adapted to position a film layer across the opening and the opening is positioned in alignment with at least one of the first contoured surface and the second contoured surface.

Abstract: A method for the continuous production of pre-insulated piping having an inner metal carrier pipe having an interior surface and an exterior surface and an envelope of foamed insulation surrounding the inner metal carrier pipe exterior surface. A molding apparatus is provided for forming an annulus about a pipe to be insulated into which foam can be injected. The pipe is continuously moved through the apparatus with foaming material being injected into the annulus where it is molded and cured to form a foam insulated pipe. The molding apparatus is a roller-drum having a cylindrical length and a plurality of individual rollers arranged in a series of linearly staggered, circular arrays which define the annulus where the foaming material is cured.

Abstract: A method for the continuous production of pre-insulated piping having an inner metal carrier pipe having an interior surface and an exterior surface and an envelope of foamed insulation surrounding the inner metal carrier pipe exterior surface. A molding apparatus is provided for forming an annulus about a pipe to be insulated into which foam can be injected. The pipe is continuously moved through the apparatus with foaming material being injected into the annulus a where it is molded and cured to form a foam insulated pipe. The molding apparatus is a roller-drum having a cylindrical length and a plurality of individual rollers arranged in a series of linearly staggered, circular arrays which define the annulus where the foaming material is cured.

Abstract: An improved design and method is disclosed for constructing a sliding joint that constrains motion along or about one or more axes or directions and allows motion with low friction along or about a different axes or direction. The design simplifies the fabrication and assembly of sliding joints requiring accurate sliding alignment with minimal clearance between sliding members, such as milling machine bases, saddles, tables and columns. The design also enables driving means, such as those commonly found in machine tools using a leadscrew and nut, to be fabricated with essentially zero backlash at a very low cost. Finally, the design enables bearing surfaces to be reformed after they have worn without the need for disassembly of components. This allows for complete recovery of the original precisely guided configuration without the need to disassemble a machine.

Abstract: A method for producing a water jacket spacer includes using an injection mold that forms a molding space, the molding space producing an integrally molded product that includes at least a first water jacket spacer, a second water jacket spacer, and a bridge, the first water jacket spacer and the second water jacket spacer being provided so that the inner sides thereof are situated opposite to each other, and the bridge linking the inner side or the end of the first water jacket spacer, and the inner side or the end of the second water jacket spacer. The method for producing a water jacket spacer can produce a water jacket spacer having a shape that corresponds to half or part of half of the groove-like coolant passage along the circumferential direction by means of injection molding while preventing the occurrence of an adhesion-to-slide phenomenon when the mold is opened.

Abstract: An injection moulding machine used for producing a multiplicity of different injection mouldings includes a first injection mould half and a second injection mould half each having a multiplicity of partial cavities. In a closed position of the injection moulding machine, the partial cavities of the first injection mould half, together with corresponding partial cavities of the second injection mould half, form at least a multiplicity of different mould cavities corresponding to the multiplicity of injection mouldings to be produced, each of said cavities having an injection opening. The first and second injection mould halves are movable relative to an injection unit of the injection moulding machine along a second motion axis, wherein the second motion axis is perpendicular to a first motion axis, along which the injection mould halves are movable towards one another in the direction of the closed position and away from one another in the direction of an open position.

Abstract: A data management system that controls data related on a casting on a casting process, that is connected to a casting equipment, the casting equipment including: a casting apparatus configured to form the casting by using upper and lower molds into which molten metal is poured by using gravity, the upper and lower molds being able to be opened, closed, and tilted; and an engraving apparatus configured to engrave a product identifier on the casting, the data management system including: a storage device configured to store the data; an acquisition unit configured to acquire the product identifier and a tilting pattern of each of the upper and lower molds in the casting apparatus; and a control unit configured to associate the product identifier with the tilting pattern acquired by the acquisition unit, and to cause the storage device to store the associated product identifier and tilting pattern.

Abstract: A melt temperature sensing kit includes a housing and a cup. The housing defines a cavity and has an outer periphery configured to be received by a platen of an injection molding machine. The cup has a proximate end and a distal end and is configured to be received within at least a portion of the cavity. The cup includes a base enclosing the distal end of the cup and a sidewall extending from the base, the sidewall defining a first aperture at the proximate end of the cup, a second aperture disposed between the proximate end and the distal end of the cup, and an internal volume. The first aperture, the second aperture, and the internal volume cooperate to define a flow path. At least one of the housing and the cup facilitate measurement of a shot flow temperature as part of a melt temperature measurement process.

Abstract: A method of producing a microporous film includes kneading a diluent and a polyolefin resin with an extruder; discharging the polyolefin resin kneaded with the diluent from a die lip in a sheet shape; cooling and solidifying the sheet discharged from the die lip on a drum; reheating and drawing the solidified sheet with a plurality of rollers in a sheet conveying direction; cooling the sheet drawn in the sheet conveying direction; gripping both ends of the sheet with clips; introducing the sheet into a tenter; washing the diluent out to prepare a uniaxially or biaxially oriented microporous plastic film, wherein drawing is performed by a draw ratio greatest among drawing in the sheet conveying direction, and a ratio of travelling speed of the clip of the tenter at a most upstream side in the sheet conveying direction to a peripheral speed of the roller (B) is ?3% to +3%.

Abstract: To provide a method for producing a fluororesin film, whereby defects due to deterioration (such as fish-eyes due to gelation) of a melt-processable fluororesin are less likely to occur during the production. A method for producing a fluororesin film, which comprises extruding a fluororesin material containing a melt-processable fluororesin through an extruder die, wherein the temperature of the extruder die is from 305 to 355° C., and the average flow velocity v0.95 of the fluororesin material as obtained by v0.95=Q0.95/A0.95, is at least 1×10?4 m/sec. Here, when the distance from the flow inlet 22 of the extruder die to the end of the manifold 24 of the extruder die is set to be x=1, Q0.95 is the flow rate (m3/sec) of the fluororesin material flowing in the manifold 24 at a position of x=0.95 from the flow inlet 22, and A0.95 is the cross-sectional area (m2) of the manifold 24 at a position of x=0.95 from the flow inlet 22.

Abstract: A method produces a microporous plastic film including kneading a diluent and a polyolefin resin with an extruder, discharging the diluent-kneaded polymer from a die in a sheet form, cooling and solidifying the sheet discharged from the die on a drum, then reheating the solidified sheet, drawing the same in a sheet conveying direction with a plurality of rollers, cooling the sheet drawn in the sheet conveying direction, then gripping both ends of the sheet with clips, introducing the sheet into a tenter, and then cleaning the diluent, wherein: at least two rollers among the plurality of rollers are each driven by a motor; the surface of each of at least two rollers (A, B) among the rollers driven by the motor is brought into contact with a surface of the sheet on the opposite side from the surface that has come into contact with the drum; and the rotation speed of the rollers (A, B) is controlled such that the sheet can be drawn substantially between these two rollers.

Abstract: A method of producing a microporous plastic film including kneading a diluent and a polyolefin resin with an extruder; discharging the polyolefin resin kneaded with the diluent from a die lip in a sheet shape; cooling and solidifying the sheet discharged from the die lip on a drum; reheating and drawing the solidified sheet with a plurality of rollers in a sheet conveying direction; cooling the sheet drawn in the sheet conveying direction; gripping both ends of the sheet with clips; introducing the sheet into a tenter; washing the diluent out to prepare a uniaxially or biaxially oriented microporous plastic film; and pressing the sheet interposing between a nip roller having a surface coated with a rubber and a driving roller driven by a motor upstream from a roller at the most downstream side among the rollers.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin film of the present invention contains at least a base layer containing a thermoplastic resin and a heat seal layer containing a thermoplastic resin; a melting point of the thermoplastic resin contained in the heat seal layer is lower than a melting point of the thermoplastic resin of the base layer; a core roughness depth Rk of a surface of the heat seal layer being from 1.2 to 9.0 ?m; and a ratio Rzjis/Rk of a ten point height of roughness profile Rzjis to a core roughness depth Rk of the surface of the heat seal layer measured in accordance with JIS B0601:2013 Appendix 1 being from 2.0 to 9.0.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing packaging including a container. The method includes: an operation of forming the container via blow molding or stretch blow molding from a plastics preform, an operation of treating an inner surface of the container, during which a thin barrier layer is formed on the inner surface via plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition; an operation of printing on an outer surface of the container, during which ink is deposited on the outer surface to form a decorative and/or informative inscription thereon.

Abstract: A method of processing a continuous sheet of polymer material. The method includes routing the continuous sheet of polymer material from a first spool and along at least a first heated roller and a second heated roller, heating the continuous sheet of polymer material to a first temperature on the first heated roller and the second heated roller, and controlling a rotational speed of the first heated roller and the second heated roller such that the continuous sheet of polymer material is stretched when routed from the second heated roller to the first heated roller.

Abstract: Extrusion-to-sheet production line and method comprise first and second rolls set to a predetermined gap through which a continuously-extruded sheet of molten plastic material passes to calender the sheet to a predetermined thickness. The sheet passes through a nip formed between the second roll and a continuous belt looped around a third roll and a fourth roll. The belt comprises an embossing pattern of optical element shapes that is an inverse pattern of optical element shapes to be embossed at a first major surface of the sheet. The sheet remains in contact with the second roll until the sheet passes through the nip, where the pattern of optical element shapes on the belt is embossed into the first major surfaces of the sheet. Downstream of the third roll is a cooling area through which the belt passes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polymer powder for use in a layer-by-layer method in which areas of each powder layer are selectively fused by introducing electromagnetic energy. Said polymer powder contains: at least one AB-type polyamide produced by polymerizing lactams comprising 10 to 12 carbon atoms in the monomer unit or polycondensing the corresponding ?-amino carboxylic acids comprising 10 to 12 carbon atoms in the monomer unit and at least one AABB-type polyamide produced by polycondensing diamines and dicarboxylic acids, each of which comprises 10 to 14 carbon atoms in the monomer units, the AB-type polyamide containing up to 20 mole % of the AABB comonomer units and the AABB-type polyamide containing up to 20 mole % of the AB monomer units.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods method of additively manufacturing distributed sensors in a structural workpiece. The apparatus includes a movable head having an actuator coupled to an ejection port to regulate dispensation of a first thermoplastic polymer fed from an elongated chamber located in the movable head and coupled to the ejection port, wherein the movable printer head comprises a pair of electrodes proximately positioned relative to the chamber so as to direct an electric field, when the electrodes are energized, thereacross or therethough. The apparatus further includes an electric circuit operatively connected to the pair of electrodes, the electric circuit being configured to generate a poling voltage.

Abstract: A method for producing a tridimensional structure by 3D printing comprises: (a) ejecting an object material through a first print head, the object material comprising a radically curable compound and a photoinitiator; (b) ejecting a supporting material through a second print head, the supporting material comprising a cationically polymerizable compound and a photoacid generator; (c) radiation curing the object material and the supporting material; steps (a) to (c) are repeated several times in order to form the tridimensional structure layer by layer, and the object material and the supporting material comprise at least one common boundary surface; and (d) removing the cured supporting material by treatment with an aqueous medium. The supporting material is suitable for supporting overhanging components and structures located above hollow spaces.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photo-curing 3D printer comprising a storage unit for accommodating liquid photosensitive resin and a light source disposed underneath the storage unit. Wavelength of light rays emitted by the light source is 420˜460 nm. A bottom of the storage unit is configured to display a pattern composed of a shielding area for shielding the light rays and a transmissive area for passing-through of the light rays. In addition, the disclosure provides a 3D printing method. Due to the limitations of photopolymerization initiators and the LCD display unit currently available, it was unexpected to complete photo-curing 3D printing with a light source with 420˜460 nm wavelength. It is unexpected that a photo-curing 3D printer as provided in the present application not only can ensure the service life of the LCD display unit but also that the curing efficiency is significantly higher than existing devices.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a three-dimensional object, the method comprising: combining at least one of a meth(acrylate), a (meth)acrylamide, a (meth)acrylonitrile, a styrene, an acrylonitrile, a vinyl acetate, a vinylcarbazole, a vinylpyridine, a vinyl ether, a vinyl chloride monomers, a polyfunctional monomer, and a polyfunctional prepolymer with an organic photoredox catalyst to provide a reaction mixture; depositing the reaction mixture; polymerizing the monomers by irradiating the reaction mixture with a light source; and repeating the depositing step until the three-dimensional object is formed.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus including a scanner for directing a laser beam on to layers of flowable material to selectively solidify the material to form an object in a layer-by-layer manner. The scanner includes an optical component operable under the control of a first actuator to reflect the laser beam over a first range of angles in a first dimension and the or a further optical component operable under the control of a second actuator to reflect the laser beam over a second range of angles in the first dimension, wherein the second actuator provides a faster dynamic response but a smaller range of movement of the laser beam than the first actuator.

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. The articles may include one or more reinforcements configured to provide added durability to various regions of the articles. In addition, the articles may be formed from two or more materials in a single rapid manufacturing process. The rapid manufacturing additive fabrication technique may also include using of varying intensities of the laser to fuse material to form the articles.

Abstract: Additive manufacturing processes for making transparent three-dimensional parts from inorganic material powders involve selective use of vacuum to remove or avoid trapped bubbles in the parts.

Abstract: A 3D printing system configured to embed and orient reinforcing fibers in a printable matrix material in at least three directions, wherein at least one of the directions is non-parallel with a plane defined by two other of the directions. The 3D printing system may be configured to deposit a layer of printable non-metallic material along a printing path on a contoured printing surface to form a 3D printed article. The system can carry out a method of 3D printing a fiber-reinforced article that includes the steps of: depositing a plurality of layers of printable matrix material one over another to define a three-dimensional shape of the article; and embedding a reinforcing fiber in the printable matrix material during the step of depositing, with the reinforcing fiber extending into more than one of the plurality of material layers.