Patents Issued in September 20, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180264668
    Abstract: A razor includes a cartridge main body, a front of the cartridge main body and a rear of the cartridge main body are partially open, a connector mounting part which includes a first connecting part integrally formed on the rear of the cartridge main body and a second connecting part integrally formed on the rear of the cartridge main body and spaced apart from the first connecting part, a holder mounting part which is integrally formed on the rear of the cartridge main body and positioned between the first connecting part and the second connecting part, and a handle assembly which includes a handle body held by a user and a holder pivotally positioned on an upper side of the handle body and detachably connected to the holder mounting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: DORCO CO,. LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Il KIM, Byung Sun AHN
  • Publication number: 20180264669
    Abstract: The present application is directed to a razor for use in an institutional facility. The razor includes a translucent housing and a blade within the housing. The blade has one or more visually identifiable visual aspects such that the blade can be recognized during a visual inspection of the razor. The razor can also include one or more additional blades. These blades can also include one or more visual aspects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Erin Paige Howell
  • Publication number: 20180264670
    Abstract: A cutting station for a tire building machine includes a cutting device and a feeding device for feeding a strip of rubber material into the cutting device. The cutting device includes a cutting table for supporting the strip of rubber material in a support plane (P) and a cutting element for cutting the strip of rubber material along a cutting line (C) that extends parallel to the support plane (P), wherein the support plane (P) extends at a support angle (B) with respect to a first vertical plane in a range of five to thirty degrees and wherein the feeding device (5) is arranged for feeding the strip of rubber material onto the cutting table in a downward feeding direction parallel to the support plane. Also provided is a tire building machine incorporating the cutting station and a cutting method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: VMI HOLLAND B.V.
    Inventors: Gerardus Johannes Catharina Van Laar, Pieter Cornelis Meijers
  • Publication number: 20180264671
    Abstract: A hand held spiralizer includes two housing portions pivotally joined to one another to allow the housing to open and close. A pair of handle portions cooperate to form a unified handle in the closed position. A main slicing blade extends along an interior sidewall for spiral cutting, while a set of julienne blades is mounted for selective pivotal movement for optional use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Progressive International Corporation
    Inventor: Justin Bagley
  • Publication number: 20180264672
    Abstract: A machine for cutting fruit or vegetables into segments, comprising: a blade group (10), at least one of which is arranged with a radial orientation relative to a central axis (X); a presser (20) arranged above the blade group (10) and mobile according to an operating stroke along which it pushes a product (P) through the blades (10); a motor means, connected to the presser (20) for activating it along an operating stroke thereof. The presser (20) comprises: a central body (21), rigidly connected to the motor means; a peripheral body (22), arranged concentrically to the central body (21) and mobile relative to the central body (21) between a first and a second end position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: CARLO ASCARI, LUCA ASCARI
  • Publication number: 20180264673
    Abstract: A wedger includes a housing and a plunger. The housing includes an interior blade assembly and handles extending laterally away from the housing. The plunger and housing cooperate to enable the plunger to push a food item through the blade assembly and the housing. The inclusion of the handles makes the wedger invertible, so that the housing may be pushed downward toward the plunger by grasping the handles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Progressive International Corporation
    Inventor: Justin Bagley
  • Publication number: 20180264674
    Abstract: A mandoline slicer includes a slicing ramp with a rearward and forward portion defining an opening. A main slicing blade is mounted to the forward slicing portion. A spiral slicing insert is configured to fit within the opening, and includes a circular support, a spindle, and a spiral slicing blade positioned inside the circular support. In some versions, the insert is invertible, having a second spiral slicing feature on a lower side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Progressive International Corporation
    Inventor: Justin Bagley
  • Publication number: 20180264675
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cutting apparatus including a jig having a seating jig on which a machining target is seated and a fixing jig matched with the seating jig to fix the machining target, a cutter configured to cut the machining target along reference scheduled cutting lines, a first carrier reciprocating to allow the fixing jig to match with the seating jig or to be spaced apart from the seating jig, and a cooler configured to cool the machining target down to a reference temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Hee Sang PARK
  • Publication number: 20180264676
    Abstract: A web includes a curvilinear line of weakness. The curvilinear line of weakness includes a plurality of perforations. Each of the plurality of perforations is separated by a bond area. Each of the plurality of perforations has a perforation length and each bond area has a non-perforation length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kathryn Christian Kien, Deborah Sue Slovut, Jeffrey Moss Vaughn
  • Publication number: 20180264677
    Abstract: A power tool that drives rotary cutting element has a retractable guard for the cutting element, and a guard control apparatus allows a user to maintain the guard in a retracted position during operation of the power tool. The guard control apparatus includes an auxiliary handle fastened to the housing of the power tool, and latching elements linked to a spring-biased lever mounted in the auxiliary handle for selectively and temporarily retaining the retractable portion of the guard in a retracted position to enable plunge and other complex cutting operations. An alignment ring is selectively engaged by a user-manipulated alignment pin to rotationally lock the guard in one of a preset number of rotary orientations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: G. A. W. Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Arthur, Nicholas J. Russell
  • Publication number: 20180264678
    Abstract: A portable cutting device having a cutting tool for cutting a material. The cutting device includes a motor driving the cutting tool and a shroud at least partially enclosing the cutting tool. The shroud defines a debris accumulation chamber for gathering debris created by the cutting tool cutting the material. An impeller is operatively coupled to the motor and driven by the motor to create suction pressure to draw the debris out of the debris accumulation chamber and into a collection bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Charles B. Martin
  • Publication number: 20180264679
    Abstract: A method of additively manufacturing a structure comprises nuclear reactor comprises disposing a feed material on a surface of a substrate in a reaction vessel, disposing at least one material formulated and configured to react with the feed material in the reaction vessel, and exposing the feed material and the at least one material to energy from an energy source to react the feed material and the at least one material to form an additive manufacturing material and reaction by-products. The additive manufacturing material is separated from the reaction by-products and exposed to energy from the energy source to form inter-granular bonds between particles of the additive manufacturing material and form a layer of a structure comprising the additive manufacturing material. Related apparatuses and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Isabella J. van Rooyen, Clemente J. Parga
  • Publication number: 20180264680
    Abstract: A foundation having a central vertical pedestal, a plurality of radial reinforcing ribs extending radially outward from the pedestal. The pedestal and ribs forming a continuous monolithic structure. An anchoring system under the ribs with anchoring the foundation to the ground by anchoring elements connected to rock anchors, soil anchors, piles or the like. The foundation design reduces the weight and volume of materials used, reduces cost, and improves heat dissipation conditions during construction by having a small ratio of concrete mass to surface area thus eliminating the risk of thermal cracking due to heat of hydration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Ahmed Phuly
  • Publication number: 20180264681
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing objects, extrudable ceramic forming material is extruded through multiple dies arrayed around an extrusion axis, the dies mounted to permit controlled movement of the dies during the course of extrusion to vary the position of several extrudate streams exiting the dies. Extruded objects are defined by spokes corresponding to the extrudate streams with the streams having a varying spacing from a central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Robin Crawford, John Douglas
  • Publication number: 20180264682
    Abstract: A new process for creating a decorative surface on a east concrete tile. A mold is prepared by coating with mold release. An aggregate of water, coloring dye, sand, Portland cement, and preferably filler material such as pea gravel is pre-mixed. Baking soda is mixed with a significant volume of water to create a high-viscosity paste. The paste preferably has a high solid to liquid ratio so that it can be crumbled into baking soda clumps of various sizes. The dampened baking soda clumps are sprinkled randomly onto the bottom surface of the mold (which will bear against what becomes the top surface of the east tile). The pre-mixed aggregate is then added to the mold. Once the aggregate is cured, the cast concrete tile is removed. The baking soda clumps create complex voids in the tile's upper surface, producing a surface texture similar to limestone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Ann P. Gordon, Donald R. Gordon
  • Publication number: 20180264683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of a long glass fibre reinforced polypropylene composition. The process comprises: a) providing at least one continuous glass multifibre strand, b) applying a sheath of a polypropylene composition around said continuous glass multifibre strand so as to form a sheathed continuous glass multifibre strand, c) cooling the sheathed continuous glass multifibre strand to a cutting temperature, d) cutting the sheathed continuous glass multifibre strand into pellets using a rotary cutting tool at a cutting temperature that satisfies the following equations I, II and III T_max=?0.625×GF+112.5??(I) T_min=10??(II) T_min?T_cut?T_max??(III) wherein: T_cut is the cutting temperature, T_max is the maximum cutting temperature [° C.], T_min is the minimum cutting temperature [° C.], and GF is the amount of glass fibres based on the weight of the composition [wt. %].
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Carmela Tufano, Willy Joseph Dijsselbloem, Stefan Gielen, Gerard Jan Eduard Biemond, Johannes Henricus Theodorus Daalmans
  • Publication number: 20180264684
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for drying granular resin material by drawing vacuum over heating resin material in a vessel, while periodically purging the vessel with the material therein with dry air and bathing the vacuum dried material with dry air until furnished to a processing machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Maguire Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen B. MAGUIRE, Michael E. GERA
  • Publication number: 20180264685
    Abstract: In a method for producing a fiber-reinforced composite material, the fiber-reinforced composite material is formed by impregnating a reinforcing fiber sheet with a resin and curing the resin. The method includes: storing the reinforcing fiber sheet in a cavity of a forming mold; and impregnating the reinforcing fiber sheet with the resin by injecting the resin into the cavity of the forming mold, and curing the resin. In the impregnating and curing, the resin containing a magnetic powder is injected into the cavity, and a magnetic field is generated in the cavity to cause the resin containing the magnetic powder to flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsutomu KAJIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180264686
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for securely (and preferably reversibly) holding a container having a concave interior portion while a liner that abuts the concave interior portion 5 is removed from the container by peeling it therefrom. The apparatus includes a container holder having one or more holding surfaces, such as the interior of an orifice that extends through it. A holding surface (e.g., an O-ring or ridge) secures the container temporarily and reversibly, and prevents the container from disengaging from the container holder during peeling of the liner. An optional deflector can deflect a tab portion of the liner to facilitate its 10 removal from the container. After the liner is removed, the remaining portion of the container can be removed from the apparatus (e.g., and recycled).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Converter Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Millard F. WALLACE, Tim MCKEEVER
  • Publication number: 20180264687
    Abstract: A method of forming a metal mold for casting a micro-scale dry adhesive structure includes securing a master patch of material including a micro-scale dry adhesive structure on a plating fixture, electroforming the metal mold on the patch of material, and removing the metal mold from the plating fixture and patch of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: David J. Carter, Tirunelveli S. Sriram, Parshant Kumar, Clayton Morris, William W. McFarland, Eugene H. Cook, John LeBlanc, Alla Epshteyn, W. Dennis Slafer, B. Diane Martin
  • Publication number: 20180264688
    Abstract: A consumable material configured for use in an additive manufacturing system includes a polymeric matrix having polyetherersulfone (PES) in a range of between about 30 wt % and about 85 wt % of the polymeric matrix and polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) in a range between about 15 wt % and about 70 wt % of the polymeric matrix, wherein the polymeric matrix is in a media form suitable for processing in the additive manufacturing system and having a Tg that is about 190° C. or greater and a coefficient of thermal expansion of less than about 30 ?m/(m·° C.). The consumable material is suitable for use in 3D printing of composite mold tools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Vittorio L. Jaker, Brandon Cernohous
  • Publication number: 20180264689
    Abstract: The current inventive technology described methods and apparatus for the production of a helium-free balloon having customizable reflective features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher J. Wicken, Gregg A. Wicken
  • Publication number: 20180264690
    Abstract: A method is for producing seals on faces of electrochemical reactor components intended to be stacked in order to form an electrochemical reactor Each component is in the form of a plate and having a first face and an opposing second face. The first face is designed to receive a first seal and the second face is designed to receive a second seal. The method includes shaping the first seals on the first faces of the components, the first seals being at least partially polymerized; depositing the second seals on the second face of the components; and shaping the second seals by compressing a stack formed from the components alternating with molding plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Sylvain TRUNDE, Nicolas Jacques Pascal CLERGUE, Pierre-Etienne GIRARDOT, Christian QUINTERI
  • Publication number: 20180264691
    Abstract: An example system is configured to photocure a photocurable material to form a polymer film. The system includes a first chuck configured to support a first substantially planar mold, a second chuck configured to support a second substantially planar mold, and an actuable stage coupled to the first chuck and/or the second chuck. The actuable stage is configured to position the first chuck and/or the second chuck so that the first and second molds are separated by a gap. The system also includes a sensor arrangement for obtaining measurement information indicative of a distance between the first and second molds and/or a pressure between the first and second chucks at each of at least three locations. The system also includes a control module configured control the gap between the first and second molds based on the measurement information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Chieh Chang, Christophe Peroz, Roy Matthew Patterson, Matthew S. Shafran, Christopher John Fleckenstein, Charles Scott Carden
  • Publication number: 20180264692
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming a three-dimensional image, the apparatus including a cartridge that stores ink which a printing head discharges and which has a photothermal conversion property; a conveying unit that conveys a thermally expandable material so as to pass the thermally expandable material through a first position where the printing head faces and so as to form an image on the thermally expandable material with the ink discharged by the printing head; and a light irradiating unit that emits light toward a second position which is in a downstream side from the first position in a conveying path of the conveying unit, so as to perform photothermal conversion. The cartridge is disposed at a position which deviates from an extending line of an irradiation path of the light irradiation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji HORIUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180264693
    Abstract: Four gates are provided in one end surface of the inner cylinder cavity section of an injection molding die along the circumferential direction of an inner cylinder cavity section. The gates are disposed in intermediate parts between a first central line and a second central line when the first central line passes through the center of the inner cylinder cavity section in parallel to the X-axis and the second central line passes through the center of the inner cylinder cavity section 1 in parallel to the Y-axis on an X-Y plane orthogonal to a central axis of the inner cylinder cavity section. The gates are opened in the positions in which the filling rate is apt to reduce in the filter portion cavity section and the gates are not opened in the positions in which the filling rate is apt to increase in the filter portion cavity section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kenjiro TAKI, Yasuyuki MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20180264694
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for molding molded components are described herein. In an example, a molding apparatus for molding a molded component includes a first mold-half comprising a mold-facing surface, and a slider member mounted on the first mold-half and movable substantially along the mold-facing surface. The first mold-half and the slider member can form a part of a mold cavity therebetween. Further, the molding apparatus includes a second mold-half to cooperate with the first mold-half to complete the mold cavity with the first mold-half and the slider member. The slider member is movable to modify a draft angle provided in the mold cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: WEI-FENG YEN, QIU FENG YU, CHIENCHIH CHIU, BIN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20180264695
    Abstract: An injection molded component includes a wall that has an inner wall surface and an outer wall surface. A sensor is molded into one of the inner wall surface and the outer wall surface. A channel is at least partially surrounding the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Brian Robert Guerry, Matthew Richard Rutigliano, Sydney Marie Ogawa-Garcia
  • Publication number: 20180264696
    Abstract: An object is to provide a metal-resin bonded member that is easy to manufacture and has high bonding strength. The metal-resin bonded member includes a metal body having an iron oxide layer on the surface and a resin body bonded to the metal body via the iron oxide layer. The iron oxide layer has a thickness of 50 nm to 10 ?m. The iron oxide layer comprises 60-40 at % Fe and 40-60 at % O at the outermost surface side. The iron oxide layer contains magnetite (Fe3O4). The iron oxide layer is formed by heating the surface of an iron-based substrate at 200-850° C. in an oxidation atmosphere. The resin body is composed of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS). The bonding of the metal body and the resin body via the iron oxide layer can be carried out by insert molding, thermal adhesion utilizing friction heating, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Kazuhiko UMEMOTO, Hirotaka OKAMOTO, Yuji KANEKO, Shuxin DONG, Yusuke YAGI, Takeshi UYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180264697
    Abstract: An injection molding method of a part for vehicle interiors includes arranging a mold having a first injection chamber defining in negative a base of the part. Thermoplastic material is injected into the first chamber and the base is extracted from the first chamber and placed in a second injection chamber. A lining film is inserted in the second chamber and deforming it to arrange the film on an outer surface thereof, adhering to an esthetic wall of the second chamber opposite a functional wall. An intermediate plastic layer is injected in a gap between an inner wall of the base facing the lining film, and an inner surface of the lining film opposite the outer surface to create a single sandwich structure. The intermediate layer is between the lining film and the base, has lower hardness than the base and forms a yielding padding for the lining film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Carlo ISGRÒ, Piertommaso CARRARO
  • Publication number: 20180264698
    Abstract: Apparatus for injection moulding of plastic materials including a mould including a distributor of the plastic material to be injected, at least one injector including a nozzle with respect to which a valve pin is moveable, and a respective electric actuator for controlling displacement of the valve pin between a closing position and an opening position. The electric actuator is connected to a supply and control unit fixed to the mould and univocally associated thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Maurizio BAZZO, Nico TREVISIOL
  • Publication number: 20180264699
    Abstract: A method of injection moulding an article, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing an injection mould comprising a plurality of mould parts defining a mould cavity of the injection mould, the plurality of mould parts including first and second movable mould parts, the injection mould further comprising an injection inlet for injecting molten thermoplastic resin material into the mould cavity, wherein the injection inlet is located in the vicinity of the first movable mould part and the second movable mould part is remote from the injection inlet; (b) disposing the first and second movable mould parts in a first configuration so as to define a first intermediate moulding cavity, in which first configuration the first movable mould part is in a first rearward position and the second movable mould part is in a first forward position; (c) injecting molten thermoplastic resin material into the first intermediate moulding cavity through the injection inlet to fill the first intermediate moulding cavity wi
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Peter Reginald Clarke
  • Publication number: 20180264700
    Abstract: A clamping unit of an injection molding machine having platens and columns includes a clamping-type locking apparatus by which a column is securable in relation to one of the platens at any position along a travel path of the platens relative to one another. The clamping-type locking apparatus includes a clamping jacket and a clamping device for clamping-type locking of the column in relation to the clamping jacket. The clamping device is displaceable together with the column along the travel path within the clamping jacket, when the clamping device assumes a released state, and the clamping device is configured to effect a clamping action by generating between the clamping jacket and the clamping device a locking force which is directed radially outwards in relation to a longitudinal axis of the column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: DANIEL AMMER, PATRICK SCHWEISSTHAL
  • Publication number: 20180264701
    Abstract: Injection molding system having a flow control apparatus and method that controls the movement and/or rate of movement of a valve pin over the course of an injection cycle to cause the pin to move to one or select positions and/or to control the rate of movement of the pin over the course of the injection cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Vito Galati, Lin Yang
  • Publication number: 20180264702
    Abstract: Processing device of a makeup product comprising: a first plate provided with first mutually adjacent channels with parallel axes, of semicircle section, and a second plate provided with second mutually adjacent channels with parallel axes, also of semicircle section, the first and the second channels being configured such that, when the first plate and the second plate are overlapped with their respective channels facing each other, each pair of first and second channels forms a tubular element with circular section; the device having guides configured to allow the movement of a plate relative to the other, in a direction parallel with respect to the axes of the channels; and at least one movement system of a plate relative to the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Cristina Menna, Erika Motti, Mauro Gaboardi
  • Publication number: 20180264703
    Abstract: Provided is a method for forming resin film capable maximizing the effective width of the resin film while suppressing neck-in and so increasing the material utilization. The method includes: drawing molten resin extruded downward from a die exit by a cooling roll; blowing air to both ends of the molten resin from an air-blowing nozzle to cure the both ends of the molten resin while cooling the molten resin on a surface of the cooling roll for solidification. For an effective width of the resin film to be formed having a thickness in a predetermined thickness range, a target effective width is set. An amount of air to be blown and a distance from the air-blowing nozzle to the molten resin are set to form the resin film having an effective width of the target effective width or more. The resin film is formed while blowing air under the conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuo Hoshino, Yasuhiro Akita
  • Publication number: 20180264704
    Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes a die device which extrudes a molten resin in a tube shape to form a film and a controller which controls the die device. The die device includes an inner peripheral member which defines an inner periphery of an annular discharge port, an outer peripheral member which surrounds the inner peripheral member and defines an outer periphery of the discharge port, and an adjustment portion which applies a load to at least one of the inner peripheral member and the outer peripheral member to elastically deform the at least one of the inner peripheral member and the outer peripheral member and change a radial width of the discharge port. The controller controls a thickness of the film with the load applied by the adjustment portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20180264705
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing and assembling an aseptic container (100, 200) suitable for containing and supplying medical liquids comprising in sequence at least the steps of extruding a plastic material, operating on the intermediate tubular element obtained by blow moulding so as to obtain at least a hollow body (2, 202) and sealing the hollow body (2, 202) with a cap having a small size or applying an insert, comprising at least a portion (4, 204) with facilitated breakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Roberto CONSOLARO, Angelo CONSOLARO, Rajeev KABBUR
  • Publication number: 20180264706
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for adjusting the travel of a stretching sliding rod that belongs to a device for forming hollow bodies made of thermoplastic material by stretch blow molding, with the stretching rod being controlled cyclically in terms of sliding from a rest position to an adjustable stretching end position by stretching the malleable wall of a hollow body, before returning to its rest position to begin a subsequent stretching cycle of another hollow body, with the method including a control step that consists in detecting whether an axial force that opposes the sliding of the stretching rod at the end of travel is above a determined upper boundary. The stretching end position is adjusted automatically by being subjected to the axial force that is detected during the control step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Franck SANTAIS
  • Publication number: 20180264707
    Abstract: A method for heating a preform that is rotationally symmetric about its longitudinal axis, has a standard thread, and is made of a thermoplastic material. During heating, the preform is temperature conditioned to be formed into a container having a non-circular cross-section transverse to a longitudinal axis of the container by blow-molding. The preform is provided with a temperature profile along a circumference of the preform such that areas of the preform are differentially heated in a radial direction of the circumference of the preform. The standard thread of the preform is aligned in a predefined target position before the areas of the preform are differentially heated. The preform is rotated into alignment. An alignment element engages in the standard thread of the preform and thereby prevents further rotation of the preform as soon as the alignment element comes in contact with a predetermined contact surface in the standard thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Alexander SCHILL, Bernhard ORLICH, Arne WIESE
  • Publication number: 20180264708
    Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing device of a battery case including a first mold including a first space part having a shape corresponding to a storage part formed therein; a second mold including a second space part having a shape corresponding to the storage part and a through-hole communicating with the second space part formed therein, and coupled to the first mold with a laminate sheet interposed therebetween; and an air pressure regulator mounted in the through-hole in a state in which the first space part and the second space part are isolated from the outside, and increasing or decreasing an air pressure of the second space part through the through-hole to stretch and modify the laminate sheet into a shape corresponding to the first space part or the second space part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sei Woon Oh, Hyun Min Kim, Sun Hwak Woo, Yeo Kyung Yoon, Eun Ju Lee, Ji Eun Lee, Soo Ji Hwang
  • Publication number: 20180264709
    Abstract: A thermoforming mold device (1) providing a piece with a thin wall starting with a sheet of thermoplastic material is provided. At least one (3) of two parts of the mold (3, 3?) comprises at least one means (4) of local deformation of a sheet (2?) in the mold (3, 3?) in its closed state, the at least one means (4) comprises a piece of hollow molding with a peripheral edge, which can be connected selectively to a source of suction and can be displaced between a folded position, in which the molding piece is situated in close proximity with the wall of the thermoformed piece, and a deployed position, in which the molding piece is applied under pressure with its peripheral edge against the wall of the thermoformed piece upholding the other part of the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Marc SAELEN
  • Publication number: 20180264710
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for smoothing a material having wrinkles. The material is positioned on a vacuum table having a group of segments. A smoothing device is moved across a surface of the material to form a substantially smooth section of the material. A vacuum is progressively applied to a portion of the group of segments in the vacuum table corresponding to the substantially smooth section of the material to pull the substantially smooth section of the material against the vacuum table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Daniel David Bloch, Samuel Joseph Easley, Frederick Coleman Wear, Michael Brian Gedera, Nicholas Lee Buelow, Alan Frank Tegeler, William John Keyes, Joshua Bryan Reando
  • Publication number: 20180264711
    Abstract: Provided are a polyamide-based film having superior thickness uniformity as well as comparatively little variation in properties in four directions formed of the 0 degree direction, 45 degree direction, 90 degree direction and 135 degree direction, and a method for producing the same. The present invention relates to a polyamide-based film, wherein (1) the difference between the maximum value and minimum value of the respective stress at 5% elongation as determined by a uniaxial tensile test is 35 MPa or less in four directions formed of a specific direction from an arbitrary point in the film that is designated as 0 degrees and directions at 45 degrees, 90 degrees and 135 degrees relative to the specific direction in the clockwise direction, and (2) the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the respective stress at 15% elongation as determined by the uniaxial tensile test in the four directions is 40 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Masami Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20180264712
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an imprint method includes applying a resist above a substrate, and bringing a template having a concave-convex pattern into contact with the resist. Then, the imprint method includes positioning the template and the substrate with respect to each other, while monitoring an alignment mark provided on the template and an alignment mark provided on the substrate, by using an optical monitor under a state where the template is set in contact with the resist. Further, the imprint method includes monitoring a filling state of the resist into a recessed pattern provided on the template, by using the optical monitor under a state where the template is set in contact with the resist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventor: Masafumi ASANO
  • Publication number: 20180264713
    Abstract: A relay terminal that is connected to a forming apparatus that forms a three-dimensional object and accepts a forming request provided to the forming apparatus from a client terminal executes a process for displaying, on a display of the client terminal, a reforming UI for accepting a reforming request for a three-dimensional object that has already been formed, accepts a reforming request for the three-dimensional object that has been input on the displayed reforming UI on the display of the client terminal, executes, if a difference is present between the current setting of the forming apparatus and the setting of the forming apparatus upon the previous forming of the three-dimensional object as a target of the accepted reforming request, a process for displaying, on the display of the client terminal, a screen providing information related to the difference, and provides an instruction for reforming the three-dimensional object to the forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20180264714
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a custom device for external application to the head of a patient over a removed portion of the cranium of the patient is described. A three dimensional digital image portion of the external surface of the head comprising at least the removed portion is generated. A three dimensional digital image portion is processed to identify the removed portion. A digital file is generated that is utilized to manufacture the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: CRANIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: TIMOTHY R. LITTLEFIELD
  • Publication number: 20180264715
    Abstract: A three-dimensional printing system and equipment assembly for the manufacture of three-dimensionally printed articles is provided. The equipment assembly includes a three-dimensional printing build system, an optional liquid removal system and an optional harvester system. The build system includes a conveyor, plural build modules and at least one build station having a powder-layering system and a printing system. The equipment assembly can be used to manufacture pharmaceutical, medical, and non-pharmaceutical/non-medical objects. It can be used to prepare single or multiple articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: APRECIA PHARMACEUTICALS LLC
    Inventors: Jaedeok YOO, Thomas J. BRADBURY, Thomas J. BEBB, James ISKRA, Henry L. SURPRENANT, Thomas G. WEST
  • Publication number: 20180264716
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional molded product capable of performing support at high accuracy using a support material having sufficient hardness and rigidity, capable of removing the support material efficiently after molding, and requiring no finishing step in manufacturing a three-dimensional molded product by an inkjet optical molding method, and a three-dimensional molded product manufactured by this method. A roughly molded product formed from a model material forming a molded product and a support material supporting the shape of the model material during molding is immersed in a washing liquid. The support material swells at a swelling ratio of 10% or more, and is thereby peeled from an interface with the model material having a swelling ratio of 1% or less. Then, the support material is easily and completely removed without applying an external force. Furthermore, a three-dimensional molded product can be manufactured with high accuracy and high efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicants: KJ CHEMICALS CORPORATION, MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshitsugu KIYOSADA
  • Publication number: 20180264717
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a solid freeform fabrication object, includes discharging multiple liquid droplets of modeling material and multiple liquid droplets of supporting material to a stage by a discharging device, merging the multiple liquid droplets of the modeling material into a liquid droplet of the modeling material in the air and the multiple liquid droplets of the supporting material into a liquid droplet of the supporting material in the air, curing the liquid droplet of the modeling material and the liquid droplet of the supporting material on the stage to form a layered fabrication object, and repeating the discharging and the curing to laminate the layered fabrication object to manufacture the solid freeform fabrication object, wherein the discharging device stands still during at least the discharging to a boundary area of the modeling material and the supporting material on the stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kenji Sugiura, Yoshihiro Norikane, Hiroyuki Naito, Yoshihito Shimada