Patents Issued in December 13, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180354164
    Abstract: An apparatus 20 and a method 100 for generating and dispensing a powdered 60 release agent during an additive manufacturing build is disclosed. A solid body 28 of release agent material is ground insitu by a grinder 50 and dispensed on a surface of the part 72 to prevent adhesion of an adjacent layer of a base material 70. With the addition of the powdered 60 release agent, a support structure 76 is easily separated from the base material 70 when the part 72 is complete, saving time and preventing the part 72 from sustaining unintentional damage. Since no powdered 60 release agent is actually loaded or stored in the apparatus 20, the potential for spillage, waste, inconsistent dispensing, inadvertent dispensing, and clumping due to humidity is eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: U T-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: Randall F. Lind, Brian K. Post, Phillip C. Chesser, Andrew P. Reis, Alex C. Roschli
  • Publication number: 20180354165
    Abstract: An apparatus for making a continuous molded web includes a filling zone, a cooling zone, a plurality of rollers, a conveyer belt, a first feeding member, a pair of rails, a mounting frame, and a second feeding member. The conveyer belt includes a plurality of longitudinal and transverse grooves. The first feeding member delivers a pressurized molten resin into the longitudinal grooves, and the second feeding member delivers the pressurized molten resin into the transverse grooves, thereby forming a web of the pressurized molten resin which is moved forward into the cooling zone for making the continuous molded web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Jing-Shown Wu
  • Publication number: 20180354166
    Abstract: Present invention refers to a cylindrical mold with interchangeable volume wherein the inner volume of the mold can be modified by substituting the circumferential wall of said mold, re-usable and with the possibility of being able to add inserts into the mentioned walls which represent a cavity intended for either electric and/or gas type water heaters, through which the effectiveness of the development of polyurethane systems for this final application is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Carlos Garcia, Efren Martinez, Salvador Mejia
  • Publication number: 20180354167
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method enabling either the selection, the modification of existing and/or the creation of newly developed polymer materials which may provide an improved response to the application of a local shear and/or extensional deformation inside the polymer melt in different manufacturing technologies such as and without being exclusive injection molding (IM), injection stretch blow molding (ISBM), direct injection (DI), extrusion blow molding (EBM), sheet extrusion, thermoforming, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Johan Robbrecht
  • Publication number: 20180354168
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a plastic-metal hybrid part by plastic overmolding on a metal surface via nano-molding technology (NMT), wherein the moldable plastic material is a polyamide composition comprising a blend of a semi-crystalline semi-aromatic polyamide and an amorphous semi-aromatic polyamide. The invention also relates to Plastic-metal hybrid part, obtainable by said process, wherein a metal part is overmolded by a polyamide composition comprising a blend of a semi-crystalline semi-aromatic polyamide and an amorphous semi-aromatic polyamide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Frank Peter Theodorus Johannes VAN DER BURGT, Ruogu LIAO, Bin YU, Wei PAN
  • Publication number: 20180354169
    Abstract: A tubular product manufacturing apparatus successively delivers an injection molded tubular shaped body in the delivery direction. The manufacturing apparatus detects a defect on the surface of the molded body passing through the detection position in the delivery direction. The manufacturing apparatus separates a tubular product from the molded body. When a portion having a predetermined length in the molded body passes the detection position without detecting a defect, the manufacturing apparatus separates a tubular product from the molded body, which contains the portion having the predetermined length. When a defect is detected before a portion having the predetermined length in the molded body BT passes through the detection position, the manufacturing apparatus separates the defective tubular product from the molded body. The length of the defective tubular product is shorter than a good product length which is the length of the tubular product including the portion of the predetermined length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Yasuki SHIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180354170
    Abstract: The method of manufacturing kinesio brace includes steps of: preparing an elastic body which is tube-shaped to have a first face inside and a second face outside, the elastic body defining an axial direction; inserting an inner mold into the elastic body so that the first face faces to the inner mold; placing the inner mold with the elastic body into an outer mold and closing the outer mold, the outer mold being formed with at least one groove on an inner surface thereof; injecting a plastic material into the groove to shape into a plastic layer which is engaged with the second face of the elastic body; removing the outer mold and the inner mold from the elastic body, reversing the elastic body to make the second face and the plastic layer face inward to provide a kinesio brace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: YU-CHIEN WANG
  • Publication number: 20180354171
    Abstract: A production method for a cover attached to an outer ring of a hub unit including procedures as follows. A nut is supported by a first protrusion of a first mold. By a second protrusion of a second mold, a core bar including a cylindrical section to be inserted into the outer ring is supported. A resin material is injected into a cavity formed by the first mold and the second mold to form a cover including a nut and a core bar. The cover is detached from the second mold by moving the first mold in a direction of being separated from the second mold. After this, the cover is detached from the first mold by pushing out the cover in a die matching direction with a pin disposed in the first mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SANKAI, Teruyuki WAKISAKA, Akihiro TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180354172
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a tubular component as an article from a thermoplastic synthetic material while using an injection-molding device having a tool that forms an article cavity, having means for filling the article cavity with a thermoplastic molding compound, and having an injection device for injecting a fluid into the article cavity, wherein the injection device comprises a nozzle body, wherein the method provides that the nozzle body is used as a mold core for molding the shape of an end of the article, that the nozzle body is used as a carrier for an additional component to be incorporated into the article, wherein: a) the nozzle body first equipped with the additional component, b) the nozzle body is introduced into the closed article cavity, or the tool is closed around the nozzle body, c) the article cavity in a further method step is at least partially filled with the thermoplastic molding compound, d) a pressurized fluid is then induced into the article cavity by means of
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Hartmut WOLF
  • Publication number: 20180354173
    Abstract: Insert designed to be fitted on a support, including a body extending along a longitudinal axis and a base including at least one plate extending along a base plane, at least one through hole oriented along an orientation axis perpendicular to the base plane being formed in said at least one plate, at least one protuberance being formed on a first surface of said at least one plate and forming a hollow on a second surface of said at least one plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: BOLLHOFF OTALU S.A.
    Inventors: Sylvain FAGUER, Emmanuelle BERLIRE, Frédéric BOVAGNET, Jean-François JAMBUT, Patrick LEJARS, Raphael BASSET
  • Publication number: 20180354174
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly is provided. The nozzle assembly comprising: a nozzle defining a bore; a tip and a tip retainer housed in the downstream portion of the bore of the nozzle, the tip including a flange threadably connected to the downstream portion of the bore of the nozzle, and the tip retainer threadably connected to the downstream portion of the bore of the nozzle, the tip retainer having an upstream surface abutting a downstream surface of the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Jiping QIAN
  • Publication number: 20180354175
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic equipment housing obtained by injection molding of a resin composition including liquid crystal polyester and a filling material. In the electronic equipment housing, a projected area per filling gate mark obtained by dividing a projected area of the electronic equipment housing by the number of filling gate marks of the resin composition on a surface of the electronic equipment housing is equal to or greater than 100 cm2. In the electronic equipment housing, a ratio obtained by dividing the projected area (cm2) per filling gate mark by an average thickness (cm) of the electronic equipment housing is equal to or greater than 1,000. In the electronic equipment housing, the average thickness is greater than 0.01 cm and equal to or smaller than 0.2 cm. The liquid crystal polyester has one or more repeating units selected from the group represented by specific formulae.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shintaro KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20180354176
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improved hub extrusion casting mold. Springs (1) are arranged in guide posts (5), a large ejector rod (9) and a small ejector rod (21) are fixed onto a discharge plate (23) by an ejector rod fixing plate (4), an upper mold core (10) is fixed into an upper mold fixing plate (7-1) via connecting screws (8), locking modules are fixed onto the upper mold fixing plate, slanting guide posts (7) are fixed in the cavity formed by an upper connecting plate (6) and the upper mold fixing plate, hydraulic cylinder assemblies (14) are fixed by fixing plates (13) to assist in combination and separation of side molds (12), a side mold guide rail (15) is connected with a pressure plate (16), the pressure plate is connected with a lower mold (20) and a bottom plate (17), and a stamping guide sleeve is connected with the bottom plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Jinling Yang, Li Yang, Zhen Wang, Zhichong Liu
  • Publication number: 20180354177
    Abstract: An apparatus for injection molding of plastic materials includes a mold, at least one injector having a valve pin actuated by an electric motor, and a supply and control unit of the electric motor. The supply and control unit includes a memory and remote control drivers of the electric motor operatively connected to the memory. At least one part of the memory is separated from the drivers, arranged at a remote position with respect to the mold, and is fixed to the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Maurizio BAZZO
  • Publication number: 20180354178
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of refilling a shooting pot cavity in a molding system, the method comprising: determining that a trigger event has occurred in the molding system; and coordinating a refill of the shooting pot cavity with the occurrence of the trigger event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Manon Danielle BELZILE
  • Publication number: 20180354179
    Abstract: An injection machine which includes a mold falling prevention device that prevents a mold fixed to a mold fixing surface from falling off from the mold fixing surface and in which are provided a bottom edge restriction member at a lower portion of said mold fixing surface so that its vertical position is variable, for implementing restriction so that the bottom edge portion of the mold does not separate from the mold fixing surface, first and second intermediate restriction members at intermediate level portions of the mold fixing surface so that their horizontal positions are variable, for respectively implementing restrictions so that a one edge portion of the mold and an other edge portion thereof in the horizontal direction do not separate from the mold fixing surface, and a vertical direction position determination mechanism that receives and stops a bottom edge surface of the mold and determines a position of the mold in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Ichiro KITAURA
  • Publication number: 20180354180
    Abstract: A method of forming an oral product includes extruding a mixture, conveying the extruded mixture through one or more pairs of forming rollers, and cutting the extruded mixture into one or more oral products. The mixture can include polymer and at least one flavorant, sweetener, active ingredient, or combination thereof. The extruded mixture forms an extrudate having a predetermined cross-sectional shape. The one or more pairs of forming rollers abut to define a passage there between as each forming roller rotates. The passage has a cross-sectional shape corresponding to the predetermined cross-sectional shape. The method can be performed using a machine including an extruder, one or more pairs of forming rollers, and a cutting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Carl Gregory Miller, Charles Lester Dendy, Jeremy J. Straight, Gregory James Griscik
  • Publication number: 20180354181
    Abstract: Extrusion apparatus and methods for use in the design and operation of extrusion screws having multiple channels. In response to rotation of an extrusion screw in an extrusion process, the multiple channels of the extrusion screw can control the temperature, pressure, and/or shear rate of feedstock material flowing through the respective channels. The multiple channels of the extrusion screw can be configured to control the temperature, the pressure, and/or the shear rate of the processed feedstock material by being modeled as one or more model objects having one or more predetermined geometries. The models of the respective channels can then be analyzed using computerized analytical and/or numerical techniques in order to obtain at least estimates of desired temperatures, pressures, and/or shear rates of the processed feedstock material, based at least on specified channel lengths, channel widths, and/or channel depths of the respective channel models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: David O. Kazmer
  • Publication number: 20180354182
    Abstract: Provided is a strand producing apparatus including: an extrusion-molding unit configured to melt and knead a resin composition and extrusion-mold the resin composition into a strand shape; and a cooling/solidifying unit configured to cool and solidify the extrusion-molded resin composition having the strand shape, wherein the cooling/solidifying unit is a roll unit that includes a groove having a curvature and internally includes a coolant flow path, and wherein both of a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet of the coolant flow path are provided at the same end side of the roll unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Hirokazu MIYAKE
  • Publication number: 20180354183
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the online monitoring of film quality during a production process for a plastic film, in particular a blown film or a continuously cast film, in which method the film material (1) is fed out of an outlet device (40) that is designed as a melt lug (4) by a transport device (10). The film material (1) cools on or in front of the transport device (10) and the film material (1) solidifies in front of or on the transport device (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Torsten Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20180354184
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an injection and blow mold for an injection machine, the mold comprising one or more rows of molding cavities arranged in a base plate (5), each row of cavities including several injection cavities (1) and several blow cavities (2) arranged in an alternating manner and aligned with one another, with blow cavities (2) at opposite ends of the row. The injection cavities (1) are formed individually in respective injection blocks (3) and the blow cavities (2) are formed individually in respective blow blocks (4). The injection blocks (3) and the blow blocks (4) are separated from one another and project from the base plate (5). The injection blocks (3) are heated by external heating means relative to the base plate (5), and the blow blocks (4) are cooled by a cooling fluid circulating through cooling conduits (7a) arranged inside the blow blocks (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: MOLMASA APLICACIONES TECNICAS, S.L.
    Inventors: Angel Atance Orden, Marcos Atance Romero
  • Publication number: 20180354185
    Abstract: A liquid blow molding device for liquid blow molding a resin preform into a container having a predetermined shape. The liquid blow molding device includes a mold in which the preform is disposed; a stretch rod that axially stretches the preform disposed in the mold (; and a pressurized liquid supply that supplies a pressurized liquid to the preform. The liquid blow molding device operates such that the amount of the liquid supplied from the pressurized liquid supply to the inside of the preform before completing the stretching of the preform by the stretch rod (22) is 50% or less of the amount of the liquid to be filled in the container after the completion of the liquid blow molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiko SHIMIZU, Kenichi SUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180354186
    Abstract: By coating an inner surface of a preform, in which at least an inner surface is made of polyester and which has transparency, with a coating layer, which has elongation capacity and water insolubility, the inner surface of the preform is protected against a pressurized liquid by the coating layer when the pressurized liquid is supplied to the preform, and occurrence of cloudiness on an inner surface of a container after molding is prevented even in a case where a liquid having properties of eroding polyester and causing cloudiness on a polyester surface is used as the pressurized liquid during liquid blow molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichi OKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180354187
    Abstract: A liquid blow molding apparatus including a support pin disposed in a blow mold. The support pin includes a head and a shaft. The support pin is configured to define a gap between the head and a bottom of the preform in a state where the preform is placed in the blow mold and is also configured to support the bottom of the preform at a time of a molding process and to be displaced downward in accordance with deformation of the preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi OKUYAMA, Kenichi SUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180354188
    Abstract: A thermoforming device includes: an upper hot plate including a first heating surface configured to heat a sheet from above; a lower hot plate including a second heating surface configured to heat the sheet from below; and a substrate-supplying unit including a base configured to hold a molded substrate, and configured to attach the molded substrate to and detach the molded substrate from the base and to dispose the molded substrate at a molding position below the first heating surface with the sheet interposed therebetween, in which the upper hot plate and the lower hot plate are configured to heat the sheet simultaneously from an upper surface and a lower surface of the sheet, the lower hot plate is provided to be movable in a horizontal direction with respect to a position below the upper hot plate, and the thermoforming device die-molds or adheres, onto the molded substrate held by the base, the sheet softened by being heated by the upper hot plate and the lower hot plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Kazunori Teramoto, Masanobu Nihira, Hideki Usami
  • Publication number: 20180354189
    Abstract: A three-dimensional electronic, biological, chemical, thermal management, or electromechanical apparatus and method of configuring such an apparatus. In an example embodiment, an apparatus can include a substrate and one or more layers of a three-dimensional structure configured on and/or from the substrate. The three-dimensional structure includes one or more internal cavities configured by an extrusion-based additive manufacturing system enhanced with a range of secondary embedding processes. The three-dimensional structure can be configured with one or more structural integrated metal objects spanning one or more of the internal cavities of the three-dimensional structure for enhanced electromagnetic properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Eric MacDonald, David Espalin, Isaac Varela, Ryan Wicker
  • Publication number: 20180354190
    Abstract: The method and system for layer-wise generation of three-dimensional objects from powdered material includes sequential application of powdered material and suitable binder onto a vertically mobile worktop. Depositing is performed by a powdered material application device and a binder application device. The two application devices work in two mutually perpendicular directions along two horizontal planes parallel to each other and the worktop, performing the application in both directions of movement between their final positions. Application devices move and deposit the respective substance at a different optimal rate depending on the process. The method and the system have a wide range of applications in the casting industry for the layer-wise generation of complete sand molds and/or high precision cores directly from a three-dimensional computer model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Georgi Dimitrov Todorov, Tsvetozar Tihomirov Ivanov
  • Publication number: 20180354191
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) printing method includes applying a build material composition having a polymer particle and a radiation absorbing additive mixed with the polymer particle, the radiation absorbing additive being selected from the group consisting of inorganic near-infrared absorbers, organic near-infrared absorbers, and combinations thereof. The build material composition is preheated to a temperature below the melting temperature of the polymer particle by exposing the build material composition to radiation, the radiation absorbing additive increasing radiation absorption and accelerating the pre-heating of the build material composition. A fusing agent is selectively applied on at least a portion of the build material composition. The method further includes exposing the build material composition to radiation, whereby at least the polymer particle in the at least the portion of the build material composition in contact with the fusing agent at least partially fuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Krzysztof Nauka, Howard S. Tom, Kristopher J. Erickson, Lihua Zhao, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan
  • Publication number: 20180354192
    Abstract: A three-dimensional printing apparatus includes a holder, a printing tank, a printing table, a line head, a conveyor, and a medium placement stage. The holder holds a three-dimensional object that has been printed. The tank is disposed in the holder and stores a powder material. The table is disposed in a printing space of the tank. The powder material is placed on the table. The line head includes nozzles disposed in a straight line in a right-left direction. The conveyor moves the holder relative to the line head in a scanning direction. The stage is disposed on a portion of the holder downstream of the table in the scanning direction and is parallel or substantially parallel to the table in the right-left direction. A medium to undergo test pattern printing effected by the line head is placed on the stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi IWASE, Takafumi TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180354193
    Abstract: A nozzle check suitable for production of a three-dimensional shaped object is performed. A production method of a three-dimensional shaped object M configured to laminate unit layers (L1, L2, . . .), in which a nozzle checking step inspects at least a part of nozzles (6) for ejecting ink for forming a particular unit layer, which is performed after having started production in a case where a timing of the nozzle check is before forming the particular unit layer and this unit layer is a lowermost layer (L1), and is performed after having formed a unit layer that is located directly under the particular unit layer in a case where the timing of the nozzle check is before forming the particular unit layer and this layer is not the lowermost layer (L1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: KAZUHIRO OCHI
  • Publication number: 20180354194
    Abstract: A 3D printing head, a 3D printing device and a control method of the 3D printing head are provided. The 3D printing head includes a feeding pipe, provided with an opening at its bottom; a shutter, disposed at the opening and slidably connected to the bottom, where the opening includes a region occluded by the shutter and a region not occluded by the shutter, and the region not occluded by the shutter forms a discharge port of the 3D printing head, where the discharge port includes a first end and a second end, and the first end and the second end define a length of the discharge port; and a drive apparatus, used to drive the shutter sliding at the opening to adjust the length of the discharge port. The 3D printing head makes it possible to take both printing efficiency and printing accuracy into account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Weidong Huang
  • Publication number: 20180354195
    Abstract: There is provided a 3D printing apparatus (100) comprising: a printing module (200) comprising a print head for effecting printing of media layers at a print location; a build module (300) for receiving printed media layers (501A, 501B) from the print module and building the printed media layers to form a 3D object; and transport means (160) configured to transport media layers to the print location for effecting a printing of the media layers and to transport the printed media layers from the print location to the collator module. The printing and build modules are provided integrated in-line. The transport means provides continuous in-line transport of the media through the printing module to the build module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Conor MacCormack, Fintan MacCormack
  • Publication number: 20180354196
    Abstract: A warpage prevented printing method includes following steps: obtaining raft printing information when a printing action is about to be performed by a 3D printer (1); controlling a print-head (12) of the 3D printer (1) to print a raft (4) on a printing platform (11) of the 3D printer (1) according to the raft printing information; obtaining object printing information corresponding to a first printing layer of a 3D object; controlling the print-head (12) raising along a Z axis to a printing height of the first printing layer; controlling the print-head (12) to print a slicing object (31) of the first printing layer on the raft according to the object printing information; determining whether the 3D object is printed completely; and, re-executing above steps for printing next slicing object (31) of next printing layer of the 3D object until the 3D object is printed completely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Bo-Yi WU, Hsin-Ta HSIEH
  • Publication number: 20180354197
    Abstract: To cure a layer of curable material for building more uniformly and appropriately at the time of building an object. A building apparatus that builds an object using a curable material that is cured by being irradiated with an ultraviolet ray, the building apparatus including: an ink-jet head serving as an ejection head that ejects a curable material for building; a UV light source that emits the ultraviolet ray to the curable material ejected from the ink-jet head; and a light source driver that supplies electric power for driving the UV light source. The UV light source is a UV LED, and the light source driver supplies electric power that varies in a pulse-like form to the UV light source to drive the UV light source using a pulse driving scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ochi, Masakatsu Okawa, Kyohei Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20180354198
    Abstract: Method and device for connecting two webs (1), reinforced with unidirectionally oriented continuous fibres, by ultrasonic welding, wherein the fibres are embedded in a matrix of polycarbonate and the webs have abutting edges that are substantially square and substantially flat, characterized by the following steps:—arranging the webs abutting one another in the region of the abutting edges in a welding device between a sonotrode (2) and an anvil (3),—welding the webs by means of ultrasound, wherein the sonotrode and the anvil exert pressure on the webs to be welded in the melting region between the webs and perpendicularly to the abutting edges of the webs,—removing the welded-together webs (4) from the welding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Matthias Knaupp, Thomas Grimm, Henning Börger
  • Publication number: 20180354199
    Abstract: An improved induction sealing device is presented. The device comprises a main body (302, 402a, 402b), a magnetic field concentrator (306, 406a, 406b) held in the main body and a conductive element (304, 404a, 404b) also held in the main body (302, 402a, 402b). The magnetic field concentrator (306, 406a, 406b) is injection molded in said main body (302, 402a, 402b). For this purpose the main body (302, 402a, 402b) is provided with at least one hole (312a, 312b) to gate material for forming said magnetic field concentrator (306, 406a, 406b) into an interior of said main body (302, 402a, 402b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Daniel Sandberg, Karl Israelsson, Sebastian Heinonen, Raul Padilla, Karl-Axel Johansson
  • Publication number: 20180354200
    Abstract: A sealant is provided for use on an aircraft or other vehicle. The sealant may be used with a gasket. The sealant is a perimeter seal that comprises a polyurea member. The polyurea member is a self-curing, two-component mix. It may cure to a hardness in the range of about 40 to 100 (Shore A). It may maintain an adequate peel strength to withstand multiple thermal and pressure cycling, and may have a working life, wherein it may be shaped, of less than about eleven minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: JEFF BUSBY, CHAD KNIGHT, KENT BOOMER, MICHAEL DRY, MATT BOYD
  • Publication number: 20180354201
    Abstract: A welding process of an inflatable product is provided that includes using isolating members between first and second portions of weldable tensioning members to resist the first and second portions of the weldable tensioning structures being welded together during welding of the first portions to a first sheet of weldable material and welding of the second portions to a second sheet of weldable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Intex Marketing Ltd.
    Inventors: Hua Hsiang Lin, Yaw Yuan Hsu
  • Publication number: 20180354202
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for mechanically opening a heat-bonded connection site between two hollow, flexible, thermoplastic segments of a medical fluid flow path, the heat-bonded connection site having an axis. The connection site is compressed between two facing surfaces, and the facing surfaces are relatively moved to rotate the connection site about the connection site axis and to apply force to the connection site substantially perpendicular to the connection site axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Benjamin E. Kusters, Kyungyoon Min
  • Publication number: 20180354203
    Abstract: A high-strength structural joint is provided. The high-strength structural joint includes a first component of a first material, a second component of a second material. The second component of the second material defines a channel. The high-strength structural joint further includes a third component of a third material. A chemical bond joins the first component of the first material and the third component of the third material in the channel and the channel mechanically retains the third component of the third material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Spartan Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: James Roger Lackore, JR., Scott D. Williamson
  • Publication number: 20180354204
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus including an additively manufactured node having a socket. The apparatus includes a panel interconnected with node. The panel includes opposing surface layers and a core between at least a portion of the surface layers. The socket engages an end portion of the panel and shapes the surface layers on the end portion of the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: John Russell Bucknell, Eahab Nagi El Naga, Antonio Bernerd Martinez, Stuart Paul Macey
  • Publication number: 20180354205
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus including an additively manufactured node. The apparatus includes an additively manufactured interconnect co-printed with the node. The interconnect is configured to connect the node to a component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Kevin Robert Czinger, Broc William TenHouten, John Russell Bucknell, Eahab Nagi El Naga, Antonio Bernerd Martinez
  • Publication number: 20180354206
    Abstract: A curing system for Cured-In-Place-Pipe includes a generator, low pressure high volume blower, heater, upstream sensor and control system housed within a vehicle for mobilization from job site to job site. In use a technician inserts CIPP into a pipe requiring repair, and inputs project specifications such as diameter of CIPP, thickness of CIPP and length of host pipe into the curing system's control system. The technician connects the curing system to the upstream end of the CIPP and initiates the curing process, including the steps of evacuation of ambient air from lining system; pressurizing lining system; superheating lining system; evacuation of superheated air; and relieving pressure after liner has cooled down. During the process, an upstream sensor and a downstream sensor measure parameters such as pressure and temperature and send this data to a control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: JOSEPH ROSEMONT, JOSEPH TAYLOR
  • Publication number: 20180354207
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semifinished product or component is disclosed in which a metal support embodied as a split strip is covered with at least one prepreg containing a thermally cross-linkable thermosetting matrix with endless fibers, the thermosetting matrix of the prepreg is pre-cross-linked by means of heating, and the metal support covered with the pre-cross-linked prepreg is formed into a semifinished product or component by means of roll forming, in order to enable plastic deformation in fiber-reinforced regions of the metal support, it is proposed that during the pre-cross-linking of the thermosetting matrix of the prepreg, its matrix is transferred into a viscosity state that is higher than its minimum viscosity and prior to reaching its gel point, the prepreg is formed together with the metal support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Carola Eyssell, Rüdiger Heinritz, Reiner Kelsch, Gerhard Mayrhofer, Christian Rouet, Johannes Riegler
  • Publication number: 20180354208
    Abstract: An applicator repair system for an additive manufacturing (AM) system, and an AM system including the same are disclosed. The applicator repair system includes a repair device including a repair element configured to repair a damaged applicator element on an applicator of an AM system. The damaged applicator element is configured to distribute a layer of raw material on a build platform of the AM system. The repair device is positioned within a processing chamber of the AM system. A damaged applicator controller may be provided that is configured to cause repair of the damaged active applicator in response to the damaged applicator being identified as damaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Donnell Eugene Crear, Mikhail Pavlov, Felix Martin Gerhard Roerig, Dean Andrew Snelling
  • Publication number: 20180354209
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an antistatic film structure which comprises a transparent antistatic support structure and at least one antistatic component. The transparent antistatic support structure and antistatic component may be combined by imbibing, melt extruding, blown film extruding, calendaring, solvent casting, mold casting, wet transfer, sublimation, and solidification of a liquid to a solid using heat, UV or other means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Ronald A. Berzon, Haipeng Zheng
  • Publication number: 20180354210
    Abstract: Methods and systems for making a film made of dynamically vulcanized thermoplastic elastomeric material are provided herein. The subject methods and systems achieve dimensional stability of an elastic film by applying thermal treatment as part of the film making process and enhance the shrinkage of the film by intentionally with stretching the film while hot and freezing the film in the stretch. The systems and methods are useful in controlling shrinkage of DVA post film extrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Anna C. Claerbout, Peter W. Manders, Stefan B. Ohlsson, Willy J.J. Leysen
  • Publication number: 20180354211
    Abstract: A method to make dyed functional film comprising the steps of providing a soluble polymer material; adding an appropriate solvent to the polymer material to make a soluble polymer solution; providing a soluble dye; adding an appropriate solvent to the dye to make a soluble dye solution; adding the dye solution to the polymer or PVA solution, and introducing the dyed polymer or PVA solution to a solution casting device; removing a thin dyed functional film from the casting device; and letting the dyed functional film dry and solidified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Roger Wen Yi Hsu
  • Publication number: 20180354212
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semi-finished lens that includes a blank formed in a first material having a first hardness, the blank having an outline, a first face and a second face configured to be surfaced so as to constitute a first optical face of the ophthalmic lens, and a top layer formed in a second material having a second hardness greater than the first hardness, the top layer having an outline, a first face and a second face, the second face of the top layer being arranged on the first face of the blank. The outline of the top layer is equal to or included in the outline of the blank, and satisfies to a predetermined dimensional selection criterion involving the final outline of the ophthalmic lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Jean-Marc PADIOU, Jeanne MARCHAL, Jonathan SAULNY
  • Publication number: 20180354213
    Abstract: Contact lenses having even surface coatings are manufactured by coating a polyvinyl alcohol polymer on a lens-forming surface of a contact lens mold, applying a contact lens coating composition onto the polyvinyl alcohol polymer, and curing a contact lens formulation in the coated contact lens mold. During curing, the coating composition transfers from the mold to the contact lens surface. The polyvinyl alcohol helps prevent the contact lens coating composition from being solubilized by the contact lens composition during the curing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: CooperVision International Holding Company, LP
    Inventors: Victoria Tran, Victoria Rogers