Abstract: A method for three-dimensional shaping of flat material, in particular material composed of natural fibers, such as paper or cardboard, for example, uses a deep-drawing piston and a die, through which or into which the material is drawn. The diameter of the deep-drawing piston plus the material thickness of the material to be deep-drawn corresponds at least approximately to the diameter of the die.

Abstract: The invention relates to a glue dam seal assembly for a glue application installation of a corrugated board plant. The glue dam seal assembly comprises a support installation and a first glue dam sealing element for tight disposal on a first roller. The first glue dam sealing element is pivotable in relation to the support installation. The glue dam seal assembly furthermore has a first urging installation for urging the first glue dam sealing element onto the first roller upon generating a first urging force acting on the first glue dam sealing element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a glue dam seal assembly for a glue application installation of a corrugated board manufacturing device. The glue dam seal assembly comprises a support installation and a first glue dam sealing element for tight disposal on a first roller, which sealing element is disposed on the support installation.

Abstract: A binding processing device includes a first pressing member including: a first convex portion; a first concave portion; and a first connection portion which is provided between the first convex portion and the first concave portion; and a second pressing member including: a second convex portion; a second concave portion; and a second connection portion which is provided between the second convex portion and the second concave portion. In a state in which the first convex portion of the first pressing member and the second concave portion of the second pressing member come in contact with each other at the first connection portion and the second connection portion, the first connection portion contacts with the second connection portion and a gap is formed between the first convex portion and the second concave portion along a pressing direction of the first and second pressing members.

Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of devices for storing drinking or non-drinking water, more specifically to water tanks and large capacity water reservoirs, characterized in that a structural reinforcement is provided which withstands greater mechanical loads, in particular on the edges thereof, which loads cause cracks or fissures that damage the entire reservoir in the known prior art models.

Abstract: A composite structure assembly includes a composite core including a flexible base and a plurality of cells extending from the flexible base. The composite core is conformable to different shapes. The plurality of cells are configured to move in response to movement of the flexible base. At least one of the plurality of cells may include a central column connected to a first flared end and a second flared end that is opposite from the first flared end.

Abstract: Provided are adhesive tapes and methods of use. The adhesive tape provides a flying splice of fibrous materials. An example adhesive tape comprises an adhesive layer, a backing adjacent to the adhesive layer, and a non-adhesive mechanical fastener.

Abstract: A laminate structure is provided for forming a package, where the laminate structure allows for access openings to be provided upon peeling of the layers. The access openings may allow air to be introduced to the contents, such as to cause an exothermic reaction for heating items, or may allow product to be dispensed from the package. The laminate structure includes a first layer laminated to a second layer via an adhesive, and score lines are formed in the second layer to define plug areas and non-plug areas. The plug areas are configured to result in a peel interface line that occurs across a constant ratio of plug areas to non-plug areas along a predefined distance of a peel area of the laminate structure. Thus, when the first layer is peeled away from the second layer, the peel force needed remains relatively uniform across the predefined distance.

Abstract: A screen film with an attachment element is used for attaching onto an electronic device having a display screen, and the attachment element is arranged on any one edge of any one side surface of the screen film. The attachment element is configured to attach onto the display screen correspondingly in order to be installed onto the display screen of the electronic device. Accordingly, the screen film can be selectively used depending upon different electronic devices in order to achieve the effect of privacy protection effectively while having the merits of quick attachment, reusable, low cost and convenient operation.

Abstract: An improved inflatable pad structure includes, in sequence from top to bottom, a first base film, a first net layer, a wire-drawing cloth layer, a second net layer, and a second base film, wherein the wire-drawing cloth layer is connected to the first net layer and the second net layer; the first base film and the first net layer receive a first heat-melting adhesive net film interposed therebetween; and the second net layer and the second base film receive a second heat-melting adhesive net film interposed therebetween, wherein the first heat-melting adhesive net film and the second heat-melting adhesive net film are meltable through heating so as to have the first base film and the first net layer tightly bonded to each other and also to have the second net layer and the second base film tightly bonded to each other.

Abstract: An expandable panel reinforcing material, including an expandable composition layer including at least a plastic component of a crosslinked polymer matrix having curability, a curing agent of the plastic component, a curing accelerator of the plastic component, a crosslinked polymer matrix, a filler, and a thermally decomposable blowing agent having a decomposition temperature of T° C., and a sheet-like fiber layer that is laminated on the expandable composition layer, in which the expandable composition layer exhibits a storage elastic modulus (G?) of 1×101 to 1×104 Pa when the storage elastic modulus (G?) is measured with a dynamic viscoelasticity measuring apparatus [provided that a measuring temperature is (T?10)° C.].

Abstract: Provided is a polarizing film laminate comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a polarizing film wherein the adhesive layer comprises: a base adhesive zone made of a transparent base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and formed over a given range from one principal surface of the adhesive layer in a thickness direction of the adhesive layer; and a refractive index adjustment zone formed over a given range from the other principal surface of the adhesive layer in the thickness direction and comprising the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and material infiltrated into the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and different from the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material, the refractive index adjustment zone having an average refractive index greater than a refractive index of the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material, and wherein the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material zone of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is located on the side of the polarizing film.

Abstract: A three-dimensional porous composite structure comprises a porous structure and at least one carbon nanotube structure. The porous structure has a plurality of metal ligaments and a plurality of pores. The at least one carbon nanotube structure is embedded in the porous structure and comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes joined end to end by van der Waals attractive force, wherein the plurality of carbon nanotubes are arranged along a same direction.

Abstract: A multilayer body that includes a multilayer structure having a surface layer portion and an inner layer portion. Each of the surface layer portion and the inner layer portion contains glass and quartz. The glass contained in each of the surface layer portion and the inner layer portion contains SiO2, B2O3, and M2O, where M is an alkali metal, and the quartz content in the surface layer portion is less than the quartz content in the inner layer portion.

Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of being enhanced in handling properties at the time of preparing laminated glass. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention has one end and the other end being at the opposite side of the one end, the thickness of the other end is larger than the thickness of the one end, and the glossiness on the surface of a maximum thickness part is 3% or more.

Abstract: A packaged film assembly includes a packaging material and an insert film. The insert film is packaged in and attached to at least a portion of the packaging material. The packaging material is not laminated to another surface.

Abstract: A transparent substrate with non-transparent film includes a transparent substrate; and a non-transparent film formed on the transparent substrate. The non-transparent film includes first projections, each having a diameter of greater than 10 ?m, in a cross section, at a height of 0.05 ?m plus a bearing height of a surface shape obtained by measuring a region of (101-111 ?m)×(135-148 ?m); and second projections, each having a diameter of 1-10 ?m or less, in a cross section, at a height of 0.5 ?m plus the bearing height of the surface shape. A maximum height of each of the first projections, with reference to a height at a lowest part in the region, is 8.0-30.0 ?m. A number of the second projections is 0.001-0.05 per 1 ?m2, and an average height of the second projections, with reference to the bearing height, is 1.50-5.00 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an interlayer film for a laminated glass that generates heat under application of a voltage and warms frozen glass to melt frost or ice and also contributes to an excellent appearance of a laminated glass when used in the production of the laminated glass. The present invention can also provide a laminated glass produced using the interlayer film for a laminated glass. The present invention relates to an interlayer film for a laminated glass including: a conductive layer including a substrate containing a thermoplastic resin and a conductive film formed on the substrate; and a first resin layer containing a polyvinyl acetal stacked on the conductive film side of the conductive layer, the substrate having a thermal shrinkage measured in conformity with JIS C2151 of 1.0% to 3.5% in both of MD and TD directions after heat treatment at 150° C.

Abstract: Example composite material devices, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods of manufacture are disclosed. An example composite material includes a first layer including a flexible veneer made of a natural fiber material; and a second layer including a flexible substrate, coupled to a first side of the first layer. The second layer is to support the first layer to be resistant to cutting and to be bendable up to 180 degrees to obtain a curvature without damaging the first layer or the second layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder resin, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder. The coupling agent is believed to increase the hydrophilicity (wetability) of the lipophilic cellulosic material.

Abstract: Herein is described a method of applying foil from a foil web to a substrate. The method may comprise: ink-jet printing a UV-curable adhesive onto the substrate in a predetermined image area; subjecting the adhesive to a first curing by exposing the adhesive to UV light in a dosage range of 140-170 mJ/cm2; passing the substrate and a foil web through a nip where the foil web is pressed against the adhesive; subjecting the adhesive disposed between the substrate and the foil web to a second curing by exposing the adhesive to UV light in a dosage of at least 250 mJ/cm2; and separating excess foil from the substrate, to leave foil on the predetermined image area. Substrates and UV-curable adhesives are also described.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multilayer polymeric film structure having an outer layer that is adhered to an inner layer. The inner layer comprises a blown film and may be coated with a peelable antifog coating. In some embodiments, the antifog coating comprises ethyl alcohol and nitrocellulose. The external and inner layers may be bonded together with an adhesive layer. The film structure may be configured to hold a food product such as produce, meat, and/or cheese.

Abstract: For the purpose of providing an electromagnetic wave absorber usable for radar having a high revolution and sufficiently adaptable to a plurality of radars different in frequency, the bandwidth of a frequency band in which an electromagnetic wave absorption amount is not less than 20 dB is not less than 2 GHz, within a frequency band of 60 to 90 GHz.

Abstract: A polymeric coating composition for use in overlaying at least a portion of a substrate element composed of a plural component polymeric system composed of a reactive blend of at least one first component and at least one second component, wherein the first component consists essentially of a polymer and/or blend of polymers present in an amount sufficient to impart a predetermined amount of tensile strength, hardness, flexibility and adhesive strength to the resulting polymeric coating, and the second component is an isocyanate or isocyanate quasi-prepolymer. The substrate element is a blast-resistant polymeric material having low surface energy and/or low reactivity at or near the surface of the substrate. Also disclosed is a blast and/or ballistic-resistant construction element composed of a structure having the aforementioned polymeric material thereover. The polymeric material has a substrate matrix containing at least one of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene, aramid materials, and the like.

Abstract: An acrylic material can block up to about 98% of ultraviolet wavelength radiation from passing through. The acrylic material can also be produced to block a substantial amount of infrared energy, resulting in a material that can be used to fabricate an enclosure that can keep occupants cool and safe from harmful ultraviolet radiation. The acrylic can be manufactured from an acrylic mix containing elements of ultraviolet blocking and infrared blocking technology. The acrylic mix can be extruded in various dimensions and thicknesses, depending on application. For marine enclosure applications, the sheets can be formed in 60-inch by 120-inch by 0.080 inch thick sheets.

Abstract: The invention relates to a face film for a wash-off label and a wash-off label comprising said face film. According to an embodiment the face film is at least uniaxially oriented and comprises at least one of the polyolefins: cyclic olefin copolymer, propylene terpolymer, propylene random copolymer, propylene homopolymer, heterophasic polypropylene and linear low density polyethylene. The face film has density between 0.85 and 0.94 g/cm3 at room temperature (23±2° C.). Further the invention relates to a labelled item comprising the wash-off label.

Abstract: A polyethylene-based composite film comprising a core layer, a first skin layer and a second skin layer, the core layer being positioned between the first skin layer and the second skin layer, wherein the core layer comprises a polymer blend of a high density polyethylene having a density of 0.940-0.970 g/cc and a melt index of 2-10 g/10 min, and a low density polyethylene having a density of 0.910 0.925 g/cc and a melt index of 0.1-1 g/10 min, wherein the first skin layer comprises greater than 50%, by polymer weight of the first skin layer, of an ethylene-based polymer comprising at least 50 wt. % units derived from ethylene, and wherein the ethylene-based polymer has a density of 0.900 0.920 g/cc and a melt index of 1-10 g/10 min, and wherein the polyethylene-based composite film has an overall density of 0.930-0.950 g/cc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to barrier films or sheets comprising cellulose nanofibrils and to laminated packaging materials comprising such films, in particular intended for liquid food packaging. The invention also relates to a packaging container comprising the laminated packaging material or being made from the laminated packaging material, in particular to a packaging container intended for liquid food packaging.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a bent component. The present disclosure moreover relates to a shaping tool for manufacturing a bent component. The shaping tool comprises a first tool half, a second tool half and at least one movable cylinder pin. The first tool half of the shaping tool is arranged opposite the second half of the shaping tool. An outer end of the at least one cylinder pin herein points in the direction of the second half of the shaping tool. A holding element for receiving a flat bendable element is assembled on this outer end of the at least one cylinder pin.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical assembly. The optical assembly comprises: a first optical film having a first surface; an adhesive disposed on the first surface of the first optical film, wherein the adhesive comprises a photo-curable portion and a thermally-curable portion mixed with the photo-curable portion, wherein the weight ratio of the thermally-curable portion of the adhesive to the adhesive is less than 5%; and a second optical film comprising a photo-curable material, wherein the adhesive is bonded to the second optical film through the bonding between the photo-curable portion of the adhesive and the photo-curable material of the second optical film without relying on the bonding between the thermally-curable portion of the adhesive and the photo-curable material of the second optical film.

Abstract: A filter apparatus includes: a housing having an inlet for supplying sewage or waste water into the housing, and an outlet for discharging purified water from the housing; and filter media arranged inside the housing. Each of the filter media includes: a porous substrate; a nanofiber web laminated on both surfaces of the porous substrate; and a fuse reinforcement material interposed between the nanofiber web and the porous substrate. The porous substrate is surrounded by the nanofiber web except for an upper edge of the porous substrate to form a protruding portion. The apparatus further includes: a discharge pipe connected to the outlet and including a fixing portion fixed to the protruding portion of the porous substrate and a connection tube connected to the fixing portion and connected to the outlet; and a pump connected to the outlet for pumping the purified water out of the housing.

Abstract: In certain example embodiments, light emitting diodes (LEDs) may be disposed on a deformable and flexible backbone sheet and chained together in an array, e.g., via flexible wiggle wires. Such flexible wiggle wires may also provide an electrical connection to an external power source. An optical out-coupling layer stack (OCLS) system may help serve as an index matching layer, heat sink, étendue conserver, etc. The backbone may be formed to a shape tailored to its ultimate application. Applications may include, for example, automotive (such as Center High Mounted Stop Lamp (CHMSL) applications), lighting, signage, and/or other applications. In an example CHMSL application, the deformable sheet with the LED array thereon has a step, sinusoidal, or other shape matched to the angle and/or curvature of the glass such that the LEDs produce light primarily in a direction parallel to a surface on which a vehicle is located.

Abstract: A water-based ink and a method to form a digital print with the water-based ink on a dense substrate including a polymer material or on surfaces that are heated and pressed after printing. The substrate is prior to the printing step preferably heated in order to prevent floating of the water-based ink drops.

Abstract: A technique for protecting a portion of a screen panel during a process for disassembling and servicing a display screen device is provided. A first part of the display screen device is separated from a screen panel part of the display screen device, where the screen panel part includes a main screen portion and a circuit of flexible printable circuit board (FPCB) portion. An encapsulant is applied onto a break protectable layer (BPL) of the circuit of flexible printable circuit board (FPCB) portion. The screen panel part is washed, with a solvent to remove residue from the main screen portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) printing methods, apparatuses, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium. The disclosure delineates real time manipulation of three-dimensional printing to reduce deformation. The present disclosure further provides 3D object formed using the methods, apparatuses, and systems.

Abstract: A system for providing a joint for connecting a first object and a second object includes a data acquisition device configured to acquire joint parameter data regarding the first object and the second object, and a controller coupled to the data acquisition device and configured to provide joint design data regarding a design of the joint based on the joint parameter data.

Abstract: Functionality is disclosed herein for producing articles with multiple color inks.

Abstract: A doctor blade (5, 7) for contact with an anilox roller (15) comprises a flat, elongate base element having a thickness of less than about 0.3 mm, which, along a longitudinal region of the doctor blade adapted for contact with said anilox roller, is provided with a coating (43). The coating comprises a metal matrix and at least about 65% by weight of one or more ceramic(s). The coating comprises 0 to 65% by weight of chromium carbide. An inking arrangement comprises an anilox roller and a doctor blade. A doctor blade is used in flexographic printing.

Abstract: A doctor blade (100), in particular for doctoring off printing ink from an impression cylinder, comprises a doctor blade body (110) with a working edge (130) and a first doctor blade side (122) which faces the impression cylinder, in particular, during operation, and a second doctor blade side (121) which faces away from the impression cylinder, in particular, during operation. The doctor blade body (110) is provided with a coating (150) which comprises a polymer, wherein the coating (150) comprises particles (160) at least in one part region. The particles (160) are configured as hard material particles (160), and a mass proportion of the hard material particles (160) in the coating (150) on the first doctor blade side (122) is higher than a mass proportion of the hard material particles (160) in the coating (150) on the second doctor blade side (121).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing decorative prints having identical quality on at least two carrier materials comprising the following steps: a) providing at least one print motif; b) converting the at least one print motif into at least one high resolution electronic data set having a resolution of up to 1200 dpi, preferably 1000 dpi, by means of at least one image processing software; c) reducing the resolution of the at least one high resolution electronic data set down to 100 dpi, preferably 60 to 80 dpi, by means of at least one image processing software; d) creating at least one first print décor on at least one first carrier material by using at least one digital printer by means of the at least one resolution reduced electronic data set; e) creating at least one print cylinder for a gravure printing process by using at least one resolution reduced electronic data set, wherein the resolution reduced electronic data set can be identical to or different from the resolution reduced

Abstract: Doctor blades (5, 7) for contact with an anilox roller (15) comprise a flat, elongate base element, which, along a longitudinal region of the doctor blade adapted for contact with said anilox roller, is provided with a coating (43). The coating comprises a metal matrix and at least about 65% by weight of a ceramic or at least about 65% by weight of chromium carbide. An inking arrangement comprises an anilox roller and a doctor blade. A doctor blade is used in flexographic printing.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a device for producing collections of sheet-like printed products from a supplied material strand, in which a switch feeds the product stream to a receiving cylinder via one of at least two collecting cylinders, as well as to a folding apparatus with such a collecting device.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet printing apparatus, satisfying elements (1) through (4) below, (1) the inkjet printing apparatus including an ink discharging unit configured to discharge an ink, (2) the ink discharging unit including an inkjet head having a nozzle diameter of 17 ?m or greater but 19 ?m or less, (3) the inkjet head including a nozzle plate and an ink repellent layer disposed on a surface of the nozzle plate, and (4) the inkjet printing apparatus using, as the ink, an aqueous dye ink including a water-soluble dye and having a viscosity of 5 mPa·s or greater but 12 mPa·s or less at 25° C.

Abstract: Fluid jetting device comprising: a nozzle plate, a fluid chamber terminating in an orifice in the nozzle plate, an actuator for generating a pressure wave in a fluid in the fluid chamber to jet fluid through the orifice from the chamber, a jetting waveform generating device connected to the actuator for generating an excitation waveform comprising two separated pulses, called a jetting pulse and a quenching pulse, for respectively generating a pressure wave in the fluid in the fluid chamber leading to a fluid droplet and for substantially cancelling a pressure wave in the fluid in the fluid chamber, wherein the jetting waveform generating device is adapted to make, when jetting two consecutive fluid droplets, a first and a second droplet, the jetting pulse of the second droplet at least partially overlap the quenching pulse directly following the jetting pulse of the first droplet.

Abstract: Examples include a fluid ejection device comprising a molded panel, an ejection die molded in the molded panel, and an integrated circuit molded in the molded panel. The ejection die comprises ejection nozzles to selectively dispense printing material. The integrated circuit receives nozzle data and controls the selective dispensation of printing material by the ejection nozzles based at least in part on the nozzle data. The molded panel has a fluid communication channel formed therethrough and fluidly connected to the ejection die.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head, including: nozzles; and a supply passage through which a liquid is supplied to the nozzles, wherein the supply passage includes (a) a first flow passage and (b) a second flow passage connected to the first flow passage and including two sections that extend in different directions from a connected position at which the first flow passage is connected to the second flow passage, the liquid being supplied to the second flow passage from the first flow passage, wherein the second flow passage has a liquid flow resistance larger in a first section than in a second section, and wherein a protrusion protruding toward the first flow passage is provided on an inner wall surface of the second flow passage facing the first flow passage, for permitting the liquid to more easily flow from the first flow passage into the first section than the second section.

Abstract: In a liquid ejection head, an ejection unit of a channel member includes an ejection hole, a pressurizing chamber connected to the ejection hole, a first channel and a second channel each connecting the pressurizing chamber and a first common channel, and a third channel connecting the pressurizing chamber and a second common channel. The first common channel, in the channel direction, includes a plurality of first portions, and a plurality of second portions each located between each two of the plurality of first portions and having smaller cross-sectional areas than those of the first portions in front and back of the same. In each of the plurality of ejection units, the first channel and the second channel are individually connected to two positions in the first common channel which sandwich at least one of the second portions between them.

Abstract: In one example of the disclosure, a first print engine is to print a first image in a first area of a web substrate, and is to leave blank a second area of the web substrate. The printed first image includes a set of fiducials 1-n. For each of fiducials 1-n, a fiducial position error is determined based upon a comparison of the detected position and a predicted position for a subject fiducial. A substrate advancement error is calculated based upon an average of the determined fiducial position errors. An insertion point is determined based upon the substrate advancement error. The insertion point is a point at which a second print engine in-line with the first print engine is to begin printing a second image in the second area.

Abstract: An image printing method includes the step of applying at least two inks that contain a color pigment, resin particles, and water onto a printing medium by ejecting the inks using an inkjet printing apparatus. The inkjet printing apparatus includes at least two printing heads sequentially arranged in a printing medium conveying direction, the printing medium is normal paper or a high-absorbency printing medium, a rub fastness additive is contained in a first ink ejected from at least a first printing head that is located at an uppermost-stream position in the printing medium conveying direction of the at least two printing heads, and the content of the rub fastness additive in an ink ejected from a printing head that is located at a position downstream of the first printing head in the printing medium conveying direction is less than the content of the rub fastness additive in the first ink.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes: a step of preparing a substrate having a first surface on which energy generation elements and a first layer are provided; and a step of forming a supply port by etching the substrate with an etching liquid or an etching gas from a second surface which is a surface opposite to the first surface so as to enable the etching liquid or the etching gas to reach the first layer, and the first layer is divided by a region which is located between a portion of the first layer covering the energy generation elements and a portion of the first layer to which the etching liquid or the etching gas is reached.