Patents Issued in February 7, 2019
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Publication number: 20190039309Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods of printing articles using three-dimensional printing and other printing techniques, and to articles formed from such techniques, including the printing of articles containing particles. Certain embodiments are generally directed to composites comprising particles (e.g., reinforcing particles), for example, rubber particles. The particles may be used, for example, to increase slip or abrasion resistance. The composites may also contain polyurethanes or other compounds, e.g., to facilitate fabrication, e.g., using three-dimensional printing and other printing techniques. Other embodiments are directed to methods of making or using such articles. For example, in some embodiments, a composite may be prepared by mixing particles (e.g., reinforcing particles) with at least a first fluid and a second fluid within a nozzle, such as a microfluidic printing nozzle, which may be used to direct the resulting product onto a substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: VoxeI8,Inc.Inventors: Travis Alexander Busbee, Avin Dhoble, Noah Tremblay, Clara H. Rhee, Sean Christopher Troiano
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Publication number: 20190039310Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the printing of materials, using 3-dimensional printing and other printing techniques, including the use of one or more mixing nozzles, and/or multi-axis control over the translation and/or rotation of the print head or the substrate onto which materials are printed. In some embodiments, a material may be prepared by extruding material through print head comprising a nozzle, such as a microfluidic printing nozzle, which may be used to mix materials within the nozzle and direct the resulting product onto a substrate. The print head and/or the substrate may be configured to be translated and/or rotated, for example, using a computer or other controller, in order to control the deposition of material onto the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Voxel8, Inc.Inventors: Travis Alexander Busbee, Carmen M. Graves, Andrew Marschner, John Eugene Minardi, II, Max Eskin
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Publication number: 20190039311Abstract: The present disclosure is related to three-dimensionally printed articles for use in footwear and associated systems and methods. In some embodiments, a three-dimensionally printed article may comprise a closed-cell foam. The closed-cell foam may have a gradient in and/or may be a single integrated material. In some embodiments, a three-dimensionally printed article may comprise a sensor. The use of such arrangements can, according to certain embodiments, allow for the production of improved articles of footwear and/or customized articles of footwear.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Voxel8, Inc.Inventors: Travis Alexander Busbee, Andrew Marschner, John Eugene Minardi, II, Sean Christopher Troiano, Avin Dhoble, Richard Rininger, Max Eskin
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Publication number: 20190039312Abstract: According to an example, an apparatus may include a printhead to deliver a printing liquid from firing chambers through a plurality of bores arranged along a surface of the printhead. The apparatus may also include a cleaning system to apply a pressurized cleaning fluid onto the surface of the printhead while preventing application of the pressurized cleaning fluid into the firing chambers through the plurality of bores.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Ning GE, Steven J. SIMSKE, Jun ZENG
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Publication number: 20190039313Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by a layer-by-layer solidification of building material at the points corresponding to the cross-section of the object to be manufactured in a respective layer. The apparatus includes a process chamber in which the object is to be built up layer by layer by selectively solidifying layers of a building material in a build area, a gas supply device, and a recirculating air filter device, wherein the apparatus comprises a pressure stabilization device configured to keep the pressure in the process chamber substantially constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: EOS GmbH Electro Optical SystemsInventors: Georg Fey, Martin Heugel, Sebastian Friedel, Dominik Wolf, Alexander Schilling, Philip Ströbel
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Publication number: 20190039314Abstract: A three-dimensional shaping method utilizing a powder layer forming step, and a sintering step with a laser beam or electron beam, the method including the steps of a) measuring a light intensity of sparks and photographing the sparks generated with fly-off of powder caused by irradiation of the beam over the entire periphery of the sintering region, b) commanding to continue sintering within the next time unit or the next powder layer forming step, when it is detected that the region width and light intensity are within the standard ranges for a given time unit, and c) commanding to cancel sintering in the next time unit or the next powder layer forming step when a sintering defect has occurred, when it is detected that a condition has occurred in which the region width and light intensity deviate from the standard ranges for a given time unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Kouichi Amaya, Kousuke Ishimoto, Takeshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20190039315Abstract: A three-dimensional object shaping method includes the steps of a powder layer forming step, a sliding step of a squeegee on the supplied powder, and a sintering step of irradiating the powder layer, all successively repeated, wherein after dividing shaping regions into a plurality of laminating units, each laminating unit of the plurality of laminating units is divided into an inside region including a maximum prearranged sintering region, and an outside region not including the maximum prearranged sintering region, and wherein the squeegee sliding speed in the outside region is set to be greater than the sliding speed in the inside region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Kouichi Amaya, Kousuke Ishimoto
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Publication number: 20190039316Abstract: A 3D printing apparatus including a 3D printing device, a VR display device, and a processing device is provided. The VR display device displays a VR image. The VR display device includes an input device. The input device receives an input signal and the input signal in response to selecting a virtual object in the VR image. The processing device obtains a generic model data corresponding to the virtual object based on the input signal. The processing device executes an edit module to edit a 3D model corresponding to the virtual object based on the generic model data. When the processing device outputs a plurality of layered data corresponding to the 3D model to the 3D printing device, the 3D printing device prints a 3D object corresponding to the 3D model based on the plurality of layered data. Moreover, a 3D printing method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicants: XYZprinting, Inc., Kinpo Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Ching-Hua Su, Ting-Yu Lu
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Method for Automatic Creation of Cutting Paths in Interior Space of Three-Dimensional Shaped Product
Publication number: 20190039317Abstract: A method for automatic creation of cutting paths 5 in the interior space 2 of a three-dimensional shaped product 1 by the following steps, in a CAD/CAM system in which programs are designed for lamination, sintering and cutting that are necessary for creating a three-dimensional shaped product 1: defining an imaginary horizontal plane 3, creating cutting paths 5 in the interior wall section from the lower end successively toward the upper side, creating cutting paths 5 in the interior wall section toward the upper side to the upper end, and joining the cutting paths 5 of step 2 and the cutting paths 5 of step 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Satoru Tarumi, Jun Kobayashi -
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING RADIATED THERMAL ENERGY DURING AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OPERATION
Publication number: 20190039318Abstract: This disclosure describes various methods and apparatus for characterizing an additive manufacturing process. A method for characterizing the additive manufacturing process can include generating scans of an energy source across a build plane; measuring an amount of energy radiated from the build plane during each of the scans using an optical sensor; determining an area of the build plane traversed during the scans; determining a thermal energy density for the area of the build plane traversed by the scans based upon the amount of energy radiated and the area of the build plane traversed by the scans; mapping the thermal energy density to one or more location of the build plane; determining that the thermal energy density is characterized by a density outside a range of density values; and thereafter, adjusting subsequent scans of the energy source across or proximate the one or more locations of the build plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Sigma Labs, Inc.Inventors: R. Bruce Madigan, Lars Jacquemetton, Glenn Wikle, Mark J. Cola, Vivek R. Dave, Darren Beckett, Alberto M. Castro -
Publication number: 20190039319Abstract: Apparatus (1) for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects (2) by successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material (3) which can be consolidated by means of an energy beam (4), the apparatus comprising: a first detection device (15) adapted to detect at least one first process parameter (P1), particularly during operation of the apparatus (1), and to generate a first data set (DS1) comprising information relating to the detected first process parameter (P1); at least one second detection device (16) adapted to detect at least one second process parameter (P2), particularly during operation of the apparatus (1), and to generate at least one second data set (DS2) comprising information relating to the detected second process parameter (P2); a data processing device (18) adapted to link the first data set (DS1) with the at least one second data set (DS1).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: CONCEPT LASER GMBHInventors: Florian BECHMANN, Tobias Bokkes, Philipp Schumann, Alexandra Popp, Marie-Christin Ebert
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Publication number: 20190039320Abstract: A system and method is provided that facilitates computing surfaces for layers of a multi-layer part. The system may include at least one processor configured to determine a plurality of surfaces for layers of at least one material that form a multi-layer part by repeatedly carrying out a level set method computation. The level set method computation may be carried out relative to an interface surface that propagates outwardly with each determined surface for each layer with respect to an initial surface, based on data that defines at least one thickness of the material in each layer and at least one drop-off rate of the material at a boundary of the material in each layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2016Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Gilbert CHOUDURY, Gonzalo FEIJOO, Johan Arendt GRAPE
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Publication number: 20190039321Abstract: Provided are methods of fabricating an object, effected by jetting two or more different modeling material formulation, each containing a different material or mixture of materials, and at least one containing an unsaturated cyclic monomer that is polymerizable by ROMP, which, when contacted on a receiving medium, undergo a reaction therebetween to form a cured modeling material. The chemical composition of the formed cured material is dictated by a ratio of the number of voxels of each modeling material formulation in a voxel block. Systems for executing the methods, and printed objects obtained thereby are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Eynat MATZNER, Ira YUDOVIN-FARBER, Yuval VIDAVSKY, Asher RAZLAN, Lev KUNO
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Publication number: 20190039322Abstract: Certain examples described herein relate to build units that are physically connectable to at least one host apparatus of an additive manufacturing system. A build unit comprises at least one controllable device useable in an object building operation. In certain examples, the at least one device is controllable according to first control instructions originating from the at least one host apparatus when the build unit is physically connected to the at least one host apparatus. In certain examples, the at least one device is also controllable according to second control instructions generated independently of the at least one host apparatus when the build unit is not physically connected to the at least one host apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Anna TORRENT, David SORIANO FOSAS, Vicente GRANADOS ASENSIO
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Publication number: 20190039323Abstract: A three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus capable of measuring the quality of a three-dimensional laminated and shaped object in real time during shaping of the three-dimensional laminated and shaped object includes a material ejector that ejects the material of the three-dimensional laminated and shaped object onto a shaping table on which the three-dimensional laminated and shaped object is shaped, a light beam irradiator that irradiates the ejected material with a light beam, a data acquirer that acquires monitoring data used to monitor a shaping state of the three-dimensional laminated and shaped object during shaping of the three-dimensional laminated and shaped object, and a shaping quality estimator that estimates shaping quality of the three-dimensional laminated and shaped object based on the monitoring data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURINGInventor: Haruhiko NITANI
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Publication number: 20190039324Abstract: A product made by a method for bonding fibers that includes providing a first fiber layer and a second fiber layer positioned below the first fiber layer to bond the first fiber layer with the second fiber layer. The method may also include providing a first additive layer. The first additive layer is located between the first fiber layer and the second fiber layer. Then, the method may further include activating the first additive layer by directing energy at the first additive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Alan Erickson, Mackinzie Banbury
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Publication number: 20190039325Abstract: The invention relates to a strapping device for strapping packaged goods with a strapping band, said strapping device being provided with a connecting device (5) designed as an ultrasonic welding device (9) in order to form a closure. The ultrasonic welding device (9) is provided with a sonotrode device (13) to which ultrasound generated by an ultrasound converter (10) can be transmitted, and the sonotrode device (13) has a contact surface (21, 24) in a provided region which contacts the strapping band. The contact surface is designed to contact a surface of the strapping band, and the sonotrode device (13) is designed to produce ultrasonic vibrations by means of the contact surface. The aim of the invention is to allow a more compact design for such strapping devices. This is achieved in that the contact surface (21, 24) of the sonotrode (11) is aligned at an angle ? which deviates from a right angle relative to the provided vibration direction of the sonotrode (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Dimitrios Takidis, Hansjörg Hurni
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Publication number: 20190039326Abstract: A device for manufacturing and/or treating components such as flexible tubes from prefabricated tubular bodies includes at least means for supporting the components and means for moving the components in line with a plurality of work stations. The device includes transport means along a main closed path for a plurality of satellite turrets rotatingly mounted on the transport means. The satellite turrets include means for holding a plurality of components, and each satellite turret is rotated by a predetermined angle around its rotation axis when the satellite turret reaches at least one predetermined point of the main path.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2016Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: INOVIA TECHNOLOGIES SAInventors: Jean-Pierre Voigtmann, Daniel Kohlenbrenner
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Publication number: 20190039327Abstract: A high-frequency oscillator includes an electric resonant circuit, and a high-frequency welding system and a method for controlling the frequency uses a high-frequency oscillator, in particular in a high-frequency welding system. The electric resonant circuit includes at least one electronic component having an inductance and at least one capacitor having a capacitance. At least one additional magnetic coil is associated with the electronic component and can electronically influence the inductance of the electronic component.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: KIEFEL GmbHInventor: Fernando MARTINEZ VELA
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Publication number: 20190039328Abstract: A method for thermoforming an article includes extruding a sheet of material, conditioning the sheet with a roller, thermoforming the sheet to provide a web, and cutting the web to provide the article.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Jonathan EICKHOFF, Ryan DEWIG, Jeffrey A. MANN, Roy E. ACKERMAN, Dan EICHELBERGER, Holden W. BARNES, Zachary L. BAUGHMAN
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Publication number: 20190039329Abstract: Flexurally rigid molded parts are prepared by stacking a needled nonwoven mat of reinforcing fibers, at least one thermoplastic resin sheet and at least one surface sheet formed of a non-woven cloth comprising cloth fibers. The multilayered sheet obtained in this manner is subjected to heat and pressure followed by cooling under pressure, thereby forming a semi-finished product consisting of a consolidated laminated sheet with a porosity not exceeding 5% by volume. Upon reheating, the main body increases in thickness, thereby forming a porous laminated sheet that can be formed to a compact in a hot molding process.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: QUADRANT PLASTIC COMPOSITES JAPAN LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi SAKAI, Hijiri KITA, Karl-Ludwig BRENTRUP
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Publication number: 20190039330Abstract: A helical winding unit includes a plurality of guides arrayed in a peripheral direction of a liner, and adapted to guide each of a plurality of fiber bundles supplied to the helical winding unit to the liner, and an opening member arranged downstream of the plurality of guides in a travelling direction of the fiber bundle, and including an inner peripheral surface for forming a hole, through which the plurality of fiber bundles are inserted from one side to the other side in the axial direction. A plurality of opening surfaces on which the plurality of fiber bundles travel while making contact are formed on the inner peripheral surface of the opening member, and a cross-sectional shape orthogonal to the axial direction of each opening surface is linear.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Tetsuya Matsuura, Hirotaka Wada, Tatsuhiko Nishida, Shu lkezaki, Daigoro Nakamura
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Publication number: 20190039331Abstract: A pre-preg product, such as a tape or sheet suitable for forming a composite having reinforcement fibers and a liquid crystal thermoset (LCT) precursor is provided. Further aspects of the invention are directed to a method for preparation of the pre-preg product and to composite products based on the pre-preg product.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Edward T. SAMULSKI, Theodorus Jacobus DINGEMANS
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Publication number: 20190039332Abstract: Methods for manufacturing a wind turbine blade component using a layup head for automatic or semi-automatic layup of fibre material as ply sections from respective rolls of a plurality of rolls in a blade component mould are described. The methods generally include: defining a list of ply sections for the blade component including the layup sequence and length of each ply section; generating a selection of layup plans using the list, a subset of the plurality of rolls and the initial lengths of fiber material on the rolls; selecting one layup plan in constraint of at least one criterion, such as optimisation of the remaining amount of fibre material waste on the plurality of rolls in a length direction, and controlling the layup head and plurality of rolls to perform the selected layup plan in manufacturing of the blade component in the blade component mould.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Srikanth NANDIPATI, Mohammad Imdad BASHA, Alexious Arulraj DHAS, Henrik BARSLEV
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Publication number: 20190039333Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for processing objects by applying different forces and/or pressure levels to different portions of surfaces of these objects. An apparatus may include a flexible wall and a contact member. In some embodiments, the flexible wall forms a bladder such that the contact member is disposed inside the bladder. During operation, the flexible wall may be pressed against an object using a pressure differential across the wall (e.g., by pressurizing the bladder). This creates a first force acting on a first portion of the object surface. Furthermore, the contact member may be forced against the flexible wall and apply a second force to a second portion of the object surface through the wall. The second portion of the object surface may be a subset of the first portion or an entirely different portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Hans Mehling
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Publication number: 20190039334Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for processing objects by applying different forces and/or pressure levels to different portions of surfaces of these objects. An apparatus may include a flexible wall and a contact member. In some embodiments, the flexible wall forms a bladder such that the contact member is disposed inside the bladder. During operation, the flexible wall may be pressed against an object using a pressure differential across the wall (e.g., by pressurizing the bladder). This creates a first force acting on a first portion of the object surface. Furthermore, the contact member may be forced against the flexible wall and apply a second force to a second portion of the object surface through the wall. The second portion of the object surface may be a subset of the first portion or an entirely different portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Hans Mehling
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Publication number: 20190039335Abstract: Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a method for forming a reusable vacuum bag, as well as the reusable vacuum bag resulting from the method. In some embodiments, the method comprises providing a mold. The mold comprises a pair of plates that collectively define a cavity with layout of a reusable vacuum bag. A vacuum bag material is added to the cavity. For example, silicone may be added (e.g., injected or poured) into a cavity. The vacuum bag material is cured within the cavity to form the reusable vacuum bag. The reusable vacuum bag is thereafter removed from the mold. In some embodiments, the reusable vacuum bag resulting from the method comprises an integrated vacuum seal, an integrated sensor pad, an integrated vacuum port pad, an integrated vacuum track, uniform wall thicknesses, tapered or rounded edges, or any combination of the foregoing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Gregg Caprez, Maxwell Caprez, Joel Morrison
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Publication number: 20190039336Abstract: A cutting apparatus including a cutting blade configured to slide along a surface of an anvil to cut tow material. The cutting blade includes a first bottom face portion and a cutting edge. The cutting blade further includes a second bottom face portion positioned between the first bottom face portion and the cutting edge. The first bottom face portion is configured to contact the surface of the anvil when the cutting blade slides along the surface to cut the tow material. The second bottom face portion and the cutting edge are located above the first bottom face portion such that the second bottom face portion and the cutting blade are free of contact from the surface when the cutting blade slides along the surface to cut the tow material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Corydon D. Hilton, AbuMuhammed A. Zaman
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Publication number: 20190039337Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a composite laminate structure of a wind turbine blade part by means of resin transfer moulding, preferably vacuum-assisted resin transfer moulding. In a resin transfer moulding, fibre-reinforcement material is impregnated with liquid resin in a mould cavity. The mould cavity comprises rigid mould part having a mould surface defining a surface of the wind turbine blade part. The method comprises alternately stacking on the rigid mould part: i. a number of unidirectional fibre-reinforcement layers comprising electrically conductive fibres, such as carbon fibres, and ii.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Lars NIELSEN, Klavs JESPERSEN
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Publication number: 20190039338Abstract: A method for repairing a component constructed in multiple layers from a layer composite material comprises a step of removing material of the layer composite material of the component in the region of damage to the component in order to form a scarfed cutout, such that a scarfed peripheral contour formed from a plurality of layers of the component is formed. Furthermore, fiber-reinforced plastic strips, which exhibit a curable plastic material in an uncured state, are applied in layers in the cutout in order to create a replacement-structure semifinished product that is complementary to and butts against the scarfed peripheral contour of the component. In a further step, the curable plastic material contained in the fiber-reinforced plastic strips is cured in order to create a replacement structure and for joining the replacement structure to the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Peter Linde, Norbert Heltsch, Benedikt Kriegesmann, Thorsten Schüppstuhl
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Publication number: 20190039339Abstract: A device for confining a given zone of a part. The device having a first rigid sleeve open to a first end which is capable of being applied around said given zone of the part. The device further having a second flexible and elastic sleeve open to a same first end as the first sleeve and intended to be applied on the part. The second sleeve remotely surrounds the first rigid sleeve so as to form an annular space which is connected to the means for depressing the annular space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2016Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Damien Lamouche, Pierre Antoine BOSSAN
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Publication number: 20190039340Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread rubber forming a tread; and a sidewall rubber forming a sidewall and extending from an outside end in a tire width direction of the tread rubber to an inner diameter side in a tire radial direction. A circumferential groove extending in a tire circumferential direction over the tread rubber and the sidewall rubber is formed on an outer surface of the pneumatic tire. The circumferential groove includes a plurality of circumferential groove portions that are arranged at intervals in the tire circumferential direction without overlapping each other in the tire radial direction. Each of the plurality of circumferential groove portions traverses a rubber interface between the tread rubber and the sidewall rubber in the tire radial direction on the outer surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Tetsuji Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20190039341Abstract: A tire curing bladder and associated method of forming same includes an elastomeric body and a radio frequency identification device (RFID) tag chemically bonded to the elastomeric body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Patrick Keenan, Dale E. Schimmoeller
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Publication number: 20190039342Abstract: An outsole component for use in an article of footwear is manufactured using a molding process that incorporates a second polymeric material with a film component including a first layer formed of a polymeric hydrogel material. The first layer forms the external or ground-facing layer of the outsole. Methods of manufacturing the outsole component, as well as articles of footwear including outsole component and methods of manufacturing such articles of footwear are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventor: Caleb W. Dyer
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Publication number: 20190039343Abstract: A servo press machine includes an eccentric shaft, a connecting rod, a slide, an eccentric shaft-side sliding surface, a connecting rod-side sliding surface, an oil supply port, and a supply mechanism. The oil supply port opens on the eccentric shaft-side sliding surface or the connecting rod-side sliding surface, and supplies a lubricant between the eccentric shaft-side sliding surface and the connecting rod-side sliding surface. The supply mechanism supplies the lubricant to the oil supply port. The eccentric shaft-side sliding surface is formed on the eccentric shaft that is rotationally driven by a servomotor. The oil supply port is formed on the connecting rod-side sliding surface of the connecting rod that moves upward and downward due to the rotational driving of the eccentric shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventor: Takashi KOSHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20190039344Abstract: A sandwich structure employs a core sheet including alternating peaks and valleys therein, and at least one outer face sheet including grooves or ribs therein. In another aspect, a sandwich structure includes at least one core and at least one adhesively bonded outer face sheet including elongated grooves or ribs formed therein. Yet another aspect of a sandwich structure has raised ridges bridging between adjacent peaks in a core sheet in one direction but not in a perpendicular direction, which synergistically interface, engage or contact with grooves or ribs formed in an outer face sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: CELLTECH METALS, INC.Inventors: Fabien Ebnöther, Douglas Cox
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Publication number: 20190039345Abstract: A resin structure includes a first structural portion and a second structural portion. The first structural portion includes a characteristic design surface and structures an end portion at a side of the resin structure at which the characteristic design surface is disposed. An orientation direction of fibers in a first pattern portion of the first structural portion differs from an orientation direction of fibers in a second pattern portion. The second structural portion includes a region disposed at the opposite side of the first structural portion to the side at which the characteristic design surface is disposed. Fibers contained in the second structural portion differ in fiber width from the fibers contained in the first structural portion. A portion of the fibers contained in a region of the second structural portion superposed with the first structural portion are configured to be visible through the resin of the first structural portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihiro IWANO
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Publication number: 20190039346Abstract: Provided is an embossed product on which a deep bumpy design is formed and which is also excellent in terms of a bumpy design shape-imparting property and cushioning performance and durability thereof. A composite material for embossing is a composite material in which a flexible polyurethane foam sheet is laminated on one surface of a skin material, in which the flexible polyurethane foam sheet has a thickness of 3 to 15 mm and a compression percentage of 5% to 40% in a temperature range of 100° C. to 150° C. In addition, an embossed product is obtained by embossing a surface of the skin material of the composite material for embossing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Seiren Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaru YOSHIMURA
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Publication number: 20190039347Abstract: Bulk materials having a kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond is provided. The bulk materials having a kinetically limited nano-scale diffusion bond includes transparent material, absorbent opaque material and a diffusion bond. The transparent material has properties that allow an electromagnetic beam of a select wavelength to pass there through without more than minimal energy absorption. The absorbent opaque material has properties that significantly absorb energy from the electromagnetic beam. The diffusion bond is formed by the electromagnetic beam bonding the transparent material to the absorbent opaque material. Moreover, the diffusion bond has a thickness that is less than 1000 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Michael S. Sandlin, David A. Ruben, Raymond M. Karam, Georges Roussos, Thomas M. Wynne
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Publication number: 20190039348Abstract: A two-piece part may include a first portion defining at least one through hole and a second portion may be cast such that the second portion extends through the through hole thereby mechanically interlocking the first portion and the second portion together.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventor: Thomas J. Pickett
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Publication number: 20190039349Abstract: The present invention provides a barrier film laminate including a first barrier film that includes a first substrate layer and a first barrier layer formed on the first substrate layer, a second barrier film that includes a second substrate layer and a second barrier layer formed on the substrate layer, and an adhesive layer. In the barrier film laminate, the first barrier film is bonded with the second barrier film so that the first barrier layer faces the second barrier layer with the adhesive layer interposed therebetween. In one embodiment of the barrier film laminate, the adhesive layer is formed of an adhesive containing an epoxy resin, a curing agent having an amino group, and either a silane coupling agent having an epoxy group or a silane coupling agent having an amino group and two hydrolyzable functional groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryo SHODA, Fumitake SUZUKI, Koji MURATA, Masato KUROKAWA, Kengo OZONO
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Publication number: 20190039350Abstract: The invention discloses the application of carbon nanotube assemblies to the preparation of a nanocarbon impact-resistant material. The carbon nanotube assembly is a macrostructure provided with at least one continuous surface, a plurality of carbon nanotubes are densely distributed in the continuous surface, and at least partial segments of at least part of the multiple carbon nanotubes continuously extend in the continuous surface. The invention further discloses a preparation method of the nanocarbon impact-resistant material. The nanocarbon impact-resistant material has an excellent protection effect, has the advantages of being light, good in flexibility, wide in tolerable temperature range, capable of being bent freely, good in fitness, breathable, adaptable to heat-moisture balance of human bodies, good in wearing comfort and the like, and can be widely applied to bullet-proof materials, stab-proof materials and explosion-proof materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Dongmei Hu, Qingwen Li
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Publication number: 20190039351Abstract: Disclosed is a low-resistance conductive tape enhancing and maintaining RF performance and having an excellent effect of preventing galvanic corrosion and oxidation. More particularly, the low-resistance conductive tape includes a conductive fiber layer including conductive fibers, a conductive adhesive layer formed on an upper side and a lower side of the conductive fiber layer, and a metal layer which is formed on one side of the conductive fiber layer having the conductive adhesive layer formed thereon and which includes copper plated with nickel. In the low-resistance conductive tape, since the metal layer including copper plated with nickel is formed, an excellent effect of preventing galvanic corrosion and an excellent moisture-blocking effect are exhibited, and an acrylic adhesive containing no acid component is used, thus securing an excellent effect of preventing oxidation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: ICH CO., LTD.Inventor: Young Hun KIM
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Publication number: 20190039352Abstract: A cover assembly for an electronic device includes a glass layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a first having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, and an optically clear polymer film disposed on the optically clear adhesive on a side opposite the glass layer, the polymer film comprising a thermoplastic polymer. The cover assembly transmits greater than 85% of visible light as determined according to ASTM D1003-00. A method of manufacturing the cover assembly is also described. The cover assembly can be useful for use with an electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Wei Zhao, Michael M. Laurin, Xiaoyu Sun, Jong-Min Choi, Timothy Michael Allessio
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Publication number: 20190039353Abstract: A laminated glazing unit including a first and a second glass sheet, the first glass sheet being equipped with a first through-hole, a spacer film of thermoplastic polymer disposed between the first and second glass sheets, at least one conducting wire buried within the spacer film or disposed between the spacer film and the first glass sheet or disposed between the spacer film and the second glass sheet, one end of each conducting wire exiting from the laminated glazing unit via the first through-hole in the first glass sheet. The conducting wires are fed through a laminated glazing unit, with a guaranteed quality of positioning of the conducting wires, an improved field of view and with no induced noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Dominique BURELOUX, Adeline GIROD, Alexandre HENNION, Andreas SCHLARB, Bernd STELLING
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Publication number: 20190039354Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an interlayer film for a laminated glass that adheres sufficiently to glass at peripheral portions of the glass to prevent occurrence of a sealing failure at the peripheral portions and also to contribute to improved production efficiency of laminated glass in production of laminated glass, even when having a thickness at the thickest portion of 850 ?m or more, and a laminated glass produced using the interlayer film for a laminated glass. Provided is an interlayer film for a laminated glass having a large number of recesses on at least one surface, the interlayer film for a laminated glass having a thickness T (?m) measured in conformity with JIS K-6732 (1996) and a maximum height roughness Ry (?m) measured in conformity with JIS B-0601 (1994) at a thickest portion, the thickness T and the maximum height roughness Ry satisfying the following expressions (1) and (1?): Ry?0.0195×T+33.2??(1), T?850??(1?).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiko NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20190039355Abstract: A flexible display window includes a flexible base layer including a flexible resin, a first silica nano particle coating layer including full-type silica nano particles, where the first silica nano particle coating layer is disposed on the flexible base layer, a flexible hard coating layer including a flexible hard coating resin, where the flexible hard coating layer is disposed on the first silica nano particle coating layer, and a second silica nano particle coating layer including hollow-type silica nano particles, where the second silica nano particle coating layer is disposed on the flexible hard coating layer. Thus, the flexible display window can enhance impact-resistance of a flexible display while reducing reflectivity of the flexible display.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Hye-Jin Oh, Sang-Il Park, Heonjung Shin, Jeoungsub Lee, Min-Hoon Choi, Kyungtae Kim, Boa Kim, Sanghoon Kim, Hyun-Joon Oh, Junghoon Han
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Publication number: 20190039356Abstract: A multilayer film having at least one barrier layer and at least one outer layer, suitable for medical applications, such as ostomy applications, which is effective as barrier for odors and has sufficient properties with respect to provide a pliable, tear resistant with noise damping film is provided. The multilayer film includes polyolefin elastomers, plasticized PVDC, ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers and additives.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventor: Robert L. MCGEE
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Publication number: 20190039357Abstract: A paper cup includes barrier paper, the barrier paper including at least a paper base material, a reinforcing layer containing cellulose nanofibers which is formed on the paper base material, and a sealant layer formed on the reinforcing layer, in which after the paper cup is caused to free-fall 5 times towards a concrete floor surface from a height of 1 m with the bottom portion being disposed downward, the paper cup has a buckling strength of 350 N or more in a case of being sandwiched between two parallel plate surfaces and compressed in a height direction of the body portion, and has a lateral pressing strength of 4 N or more in a case where the body portion is pressed by 10 mm at a ? height, from a bottom, of the entire height of the paper cup.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Akiko SAIKI, Kosuke SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20190039358Abstract: An adhesive tape is provided comprising a duct tape having an adhesive surface and a non-adhesive surface, a white ink printed on the non-adhesive surface of the duct tape, and a colored ink printed on top of the printed white ink. The white ink and the colored ink are digitally printed and UV curable. A self-wound roll of adhesive duct tape having digitally printed ink on the non-adhesive surface of the duct tape is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Daniel Eric Festa, Windy Kathal, Ameet Santosh Kulkarni, David Adam Worley