Abstract: A system includes a bladder configured to deform to at least partially surround a draping tool. The bladder has a pattern configured to distort as the bladder deforms. The system also includes an imaging device configured to generate image data of a sequence of images of the pattern of the bladder as the bladder deforms about the draping tool.

Abstract: A film manufacturing method and manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a film having excellent dimensional stability to heat at a good product yield and performing a stress relaxation treatment of the film include performing the stress relaxation treatment while conveying the film in a non-contact state using a levitation conveyance device for jetting a heated gas from gas injection holes to the film and conveying the film in a non-contact state. The film manufacturing method and manufacturing apparatus are particularly suitable for stress relaxation treatment of a polyimide film obtained by heat-treating a polyimide film precursor.

Abstract: Method for producing a lens array, which can prevent a weld from being formed in the peripheral part of a lens part and suppress increase of a work time of a transfer mold, and a molding mold. Since a master mold 10 of a molding mold has a plurality of linear groove parts 14e surrounding a plurality of cavity parts 12, resin hardly spreads to a corner part 14p where the adjacent linear groove parts 14e and 14e intersect each other and it is possible to prevent portions of the resin which have run over toward the adjacent groove parts 14e and 14e from spreading so as to come close to each other and being brought into contact with each other to create a weld trapping air bubbles.

Abstract: A method manufactures a wheel and tire assembly for a vehicle by extruding a sprocket from a first polymer; sliding the sprocket over a drum; forming a layer by wrapping a ply around inflatable bladders; transferring the ply and bladders to the sprocket; positioning the bladders and ply to correspond to curved indentations of the sprocket; inflating the bladders to tension to position the ply; extruding a ring from a second polymer; sliding the ring over the drum; positioning the bladders and ply to correspond to curved indentations of the ring; forming cylindrical cavities by the curved indentations of the sprocket and ring; securing a layer about an outer surface of the ring; deflating the bladders; contracting the drum; removing the bladders and drum from a complete structure including the sprocket, ply, ring and the layer; curing the complete structure; and mounting the complete, cured structure on a vehicle wheel.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a tire by the steps of producing and assembling the tire structural elements on a toroidal support to form a green tire, and the step of precuring at least an inner surface of the green tire by heating the toroidal support. The radially inner surface of the toroidal support is provided with a plurality of protruding elements to reduce the time required for the outer surface of the toroidal support to reach a temperature which is suitable for ensuring a uniform and homogeneous precuring of the inner surface of the green tire, preferably of the inner surface and the bead regions of the green tire.

Abstract: A tire building drum and a method of building a tire carcass is disclosed. The tire building drum has a center section comprised of a plurality of segments that are radially and axially movable. The sleeve of the tire building drum over the center section has been eliminated, and instead has two seals located on the outer ends or shoulders of the center section of the tire building drum. The building drum further comprises shoulder sections that are axially movable. The shoulder sections include radially expandable bead locks. The method employs the steps of applying one or more carcass layers, locking the bead locks and moving the center section radially outwardly while moving the bead locks axially inwardly.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for making a vehicle tire having a tire carcass defining an axial center, a first and a second tire bead, a tire belt and a tread. The carcass is completed on a carcass drum wherein the carcass drum is free of sidewalls. The tire carcass is removed from the carcass drum and moved to a transfer position for arranging sidewalls. The sidewalls are arranged on sidewall drums on sides of the carcass. The sidewall drums are moved in axial direction toward the axial center of the tire carcass. The sidewall drums with the sidewalls are expanded and connected to the tire carcass. Thereafter, the sidewall drums are collapsed and moved outward and the tire carcass is released for further transport. The carcass and the attached sidewalls are transferred to a shaping drum where the tire carcass with the sidewalls is shaped.

Abstract: Methods for manufacturing cushioning elements for sports apparel are described. A method is provided for manufacturing a cushioning element for sports apparel from randomly arranged particles of an expanded material. The method includes positioning a functional element within a mold and loading the mold with the particles of the expanded material, wherein the loading occurs through at least two openings within the mold and/or wherein the loading occurs between different movable parts of the mold.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting dust from a cutting unit is provided. The apparatus includes a rotary valve operatively connected to the cutting unit, a conduit in fluid communication with the rotary valve, and a compacting machine disposed downstream from the conduit and configured to receive dust from the conduit. A blower is configured to pull air downstream to carry the dust into the compacting machine. The compacting machine produces a compact from the dust.

Abstract: In a unit for making sections of padding for absorbent sanitary articles comprising a first rotary conveyor for feeding and forming a continuous succession of outer pads, comprising at least one layer, a second rotary conveyor for feeding and forming a continuous succession of inner pads comprising two layers, a third rotary conveyor for the pads defining a position for superposing the outer pads and the inner pads, there are compressing means for the two-layer inner pads upstream of the superposing position and second compressing means for the superposed pads downstream of the superposing position.

Abstract: The method is for manufacturing a tube in which a stretching film is fastened for a length of over one turn on both sides of a tube mesh that is only expandable on a circumference thereof. Each film is also fastened to itself. An expandable tube is formed which is expandable to a circumference allowed by the tube mesh.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb body having a partition wall defining a plurality of cells that extend from an inflow-end face as one end face to an outflow-end face as the other end face, the honeycomb body having a circumferential shape at a cross section orthogonal to an extending direction of the cells that is a rectangular shape with four corners being chamfered and having a long diameter and a short diameter, wherein the plurality of cells are hexagon cells having a hexagonal shape at the cross section orthogonal to the extending direction of the cells, and the hexagon cells are configured so that a longest diagonal line of each hexagon cell and the short diameter S of the honeycomb body form an angle that is 0 to 6°.

Abstract: A metal-and-resin composite includes a metal substrate having a plurality of nano pores, an intermediate layer formed on the metal substrate, and a resin member. The intermediate layer fills at least portion of each nano pore. The resin member covers and bonds with the intermediate layer, thus to bond with the metal substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed at a moldable layered structure that is particularly suited for vehicular underbody applications. The structure is generally comprised of at least one layer of needled staple polyester fibers and at least one layer of spunbond polyester fibers.

Abstract: This invention relates to a moisture management fabric and methods of producing such a fabric. In some embodiments, the moisture management fabric is a multi-layered fabric comprising an inner layer, and intermediate layer and an outer layer. In other embodiments the fabric is one or two layers. In some embodiments, the inner layer comprises a fabric treated with a nanoparticle dispersion. In some embodiments, the intermediate, inner, or single layer comprises a hydrophilicity gradient. In some other embodiments, the outer layer comprises at least one nanofiber.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a nonwoven fabric made from a composite of nonwoven and pulp where the nonwoven has a high loft derived from a heat set three-dimensional relief structure and/or hydroengorged fiber structure. A nonwoven web is hydraulically treated to create a hydroengorged material having an increased loft. Alternatively a nonwoven web is treated to have a heat set three-dimensional relief structure. The treated web is then hydroentangled with pulp to form a cotendered nonwoven/pulp composite fabric.

Abstract: In the case where a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer having a refractive index adjustment zone is provided in such a manner that two PET separators are laminated to opposite surfaces of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, it is difficult to distinguish between obverse and reverse sides of the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet itself. The present invention is directed to solving the above problems and, specifically, to offering a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having a refractive index adjustment zone capable of being easily produced at low cost, in a state in which it is preliminarily laminated with a substrate provided with an electroconductive layer, thereby making it possible to resolve complexity in handling (to easily distinguish between one surface defined by the refractive index adjustment zone and the other surface defined by the remaining zone).

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a mounting system capable of affixing an object to a wall or vertical surface.

Abstract: A multi-layered film comprising at least 3, preferably at least 5, layers is provided. In the case of a 5 layered film, the multi-layer film includes a first outer layer having 80% to 100% by weight of one or more polyolefins, a first tie layer having from 5% to 100% by weight of the first tie layer of one or more functionalized polyolefins, a core layer having from 75% to 100% by weight of the core layer of polylactic acid, a second tie layer having from 5% to 100% by weight of second tie layer of one or more functionalized polyolefins, and a second outer layer having from 80% to 100% by weight of the second outer layer of one or more polyolefins, and wherein the first tie layer layer is disposed between the first outer layer and the core layer the second tie layer is disposed between the core layer and the second outer layer.

Abstract: A lightweight gypsum wallboard having a foamed gypsum core reinforced with pre-gelatinized, e.g., pre-gelled, starch and prepared by mixing an aqueous foam into a gypsum slurry comprising a source of calcined gypsum (commonly known as plaster of Paris), pre-gelled starch and a lignosulfonate dispersant; allowing the so-formed gypsum slurry to set, and then drying the set gypsum core.

Abstract: A decorative product includes a transparent member formed from an acrylic resin and a decorative layer arranged on a rear surface of the transparent member. A processed layer is located between the transparent member and the decorative layer. The processed layer is formed by performing a plasma treatment on the rear surface of the transparent member. The decorative layer is a metal layer formed on the processed layer formed by performing sputtering. The processed layer has the thickness L of less than or equal to 260 nm.

Abstract: An interlayer for a laminated glass is provided. The interlayer film contains (a) a polyvinyl acetal with an acetalization degree of 60 to 80 mol %, a content of a vinyl ester monomer unit of from 0.1 to 20 mol %, and a viscosity-average degree of polymerization of from 1400 to 4000, and (b) light-diffusing fine particles in which an absolute value difference between a refractive index of the light-diffusing fine particles and a refractive index of the intrlayer excluding the light-diffusing fine particles is 0.20 or more and a haze as measured in accordance with JIS K 7105 for a laminated glass prepared by sandwiching the interlayer film between two glass sheets with a thickness of 3 mm is 20% or less.

Abstract: Various examples are provided for polymer reinforced composite plywood and laminates. In one example, among others, polymer reinforced composite plywood includes a multilayer polymeric film bonded to a first ply of wood veneer and a second ply of wood veneer. A second multilayer polymeric film can be bonded to the second ply of wood veneer and to a third ply of wood veneer. In another example, polymer reinforced composite plywood includes a monolayer polymeric film bonded to a first ply of wood veneer and to a second ply of wood veneer. A second monolayer polymeric film can be bonded to the second ply of wood veneer and to a third ply of wood veneer. In another example, low pressure laminate includes a polymeric film layer bonded to a base layer that forms a protective lamination layer over the base layer.

Abstract: Two-component solventless adhesive compositions for lamination applications and laminated structures, including flexible laminated packaging, comprising at least two substrates, including structures comprising reverse printed ink films and/or metalized films. The adhesive comprises a prepolymer having one or more oligomers with a relatively high molecular weight.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composite comprising (i) a plastics component or (ii) a semifinished plastics product with a protective layer system, where the protective layer system comprises a plastics film and an organosilicon plasma polymer layer, the organosilicon plasma polymer layer is arranged between the (i) plastics component or the (ii) semifinished plastics product and the plastics film and, after the hardening of the (i) plastics component or of the (ii) semifinished plastics product, the organosilicon plasma polymer layer adheres more securely to the plastics film than to the (i) plastics component or the (ii) semifinished plastics product.

Abstract: A fluoropolymer composite film wire or cable wrap comprises an outer layer of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) and an inner layer of melt processable fluoropolymer film. The inner and outer layers are laminated with each other in tape form, such as by the application of heat and/or pressure thereto. The fluoropolymer composite tape is wrapped about one or more wires or cables, and is heated or sintered after wrapping to bond the tape to the wire or cable, and bond the tape to itself at the seams.

Abstract: Multiple layer interlayers comprising pairs of alternating polymer layers are provided, along with methods of making and using the same. Multiple layer interlayers according to embodiments of the present invention may include more than three polymer layers and may exhibit desirable acoustic and optical properties, which may make them suitable for use in various types of multiple layer panels, including safety glass for automotive and architectural applications.

Abstract: Described herein are resilient floor coverings made from non-vinyl materials and methods for manufacturing same. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.

Abstract: Vehicular resin glass includes: a heat ray reflection coating; a resin glass substrate that covers the heat ray reflection coating; a frame portion that covers a circumferential edge portion of the heat ray reflection coating; and a shield portion that is provided between the resin glass substrate and the heat ray reflection coating and extends from the circumferential edge portion of the heat ray reflection coating over an inner circumferential end of the frame portion.

Abstract: Epitaxial lift off systems and methods are presented. In one embodiment a tape is disposed on the opposite side of the epitaxial material than the substrate is used to hold the epitaxial material during the etching and removal steps of the ELO process. In various embodiments, the apparatus for removing the ELO film from the substrates without damaging the ELO film may include an etchant reservoir, substrate handling and tape handling mechanisms, including mechanisms to manipulate (e.g., cause tension, peel, widen the etch gap, etc.) the lift off component during the lift off process.

Abstract: A starting point for separating a separation layer and a layer to be separated is formed in a process member. A first step of irradiating a first portion of the process member with first laser light in a frame-like shape and a second step of irradiating at least part of a region which is irradiated with the first laser light with second laser light are performed. The process member includes a first substrate, the separation layer, the layer to be separated, and an adhesive layer which are stacked in this order. In the first portion, the adhesive layer overlaps with the first substrate with the separation layer and the layer to be separated provided therebetween. In the first step, the first laser light is absorbed by at least the layer to be separated and the adhesive layer. In the second step, the second laser light is absorbed by at least the separation layer.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shaped object manufacturing device is adapted to manufacture a three-dimensional shaped object by laminating a layer formed using a three-dimensional shaping composition including three-dimensional shaping powder. The three-dimensional shaped object manufacturing device includes a shaping section configured and arranged to shape the three-dimensional shaped object, a layer forming unit configured and arranged to form the layer constituted by the three-dimensional shaping composition in the shaping section, and a distance detecting unit configured and arranged to detect a distance from a predetermined reference position to the layer forming unit.

Abstract: A nozzle for a 3D printer has a body having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a material channel through the body. The body circumscribes at least a portion of the material channel. The material channel has a proximal orifice at the first end and a distal orifice at the second end. The nozzle has an ultraviolet light guide coupled with the body. The ultraviolet light guide has a first end, a second end, and a light-emitting tip with a first end and a second end. The first end of the light-emitting tip is coupled with the second end of the ultraviolet light guide.

Abstract: Methods for fabricating three-dimensional objects by 3D-inkjet printing technology are provided. The methods utilize curable materials that polymerize via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) for fabricating the object. Systems suitable for performing these methods and kits containing modeling material formulations usable in the methods are also provided.

Abstract: A machine arrangement, that sequentially processes sheet-type substrates, includes a plurality of different processing stations, one of which includes a non-impact printing device that prints the substrates. Further processing stations are a primer application device that primes the substrates and a dryer for drying the primer applied to the substrates. The primer application device and the dryer precede the non-impact printing device, in the direction of travel of the substrates. The processing station including the non-impact printing device, also includes a printing cylinder, on the circumference of which, the non-impact printing device that prints the substrates is arranged.

Abstract: Method for cutting media from a multi-roll printing system, comprising the steps of: selecting one of a first medium and a second medium, which first medium and second medium are output in parallel with respect to one another from the multi-roll printing system; transporting the selected medium to a cutting media transport path spaced apart from a further media transport path in a traverse direction perpendicular to a plane of the cutting media transport path; and cutting the selected medium positioned at the cutting media transport path. The present invention further relates to a cutting assembly and a multi-roll printing system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for cleaning the surface of a printing roll, such as an anilox roll. The device includes a laser-equipped assembly adapted to project a laser beam on the surface of the printing roll. The laser-equipped assembly uses a reflector and a lens to guide the laser beam along a predetermined path on the surface of the printing roll. In some embodiments, an autofocus system may be included to move the lens so that the desired focal point for the laser beam on the printing roll surface is achieved.

Abstract: An image forming device includes an inkjet head unit, a count acquiring section, a determining section, and a head controlling section. The inkjet head unit includes an element. The count acquiring section acquires, based on job data, an element operation count of the element. The determining section determines whether the element operation count is equal to or greater than a warning threshold count that is smaller by a predetermined count than a life threshold count corresponding to a life end point of the element. The head controlling section controls, when the element operation count is equal to or greater than the warning threshold count, the inkjet head unit to form an image by suppressing the element operation count.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid jet head with which the size-reduction can be achieved, while the resistance of wiring formed on a wiring plate such as a sealing plate is lowered, and a method for manufacturing the liquid jet head. The liquid jet head includes: a sealing plate 33 having a first surface 41 to which a pressure chamber-forming plate 29 including multiple piezoelectric elements 32 is joined and a second surface 42 which is on a side opposite from the first surface 41 and to which a drive IC 34 that outputs signals for driving the piezoelectric elements 32 is joined, wherein a lower surface-side embedded wire 51 connected to a common wire 38 common to the driving elements 32 are formed on the first surface 41 of the sealing plate 33, and the lower surface-side embedded wire 51 is at least partially embedded in the sealing plate 33.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The device comprises discharge units each including a discharge element and a driving unit configured to drive the discharge element, and a terminal unit configured to supply power to the discharge units via a wiring line. The discharge units include a first discharge unit including a first discharge element of the discharge elements and a first driving unit of the driving units and a second discharge unit including a second discharge element of the discharge elements and a second driving unit of the driving units. A length of a current path from the terminal unit to the first discharge unit is longer than a length of a current path from the terminal unit to the second discharge unit and a resistance of the first driving unit is lower than a resistance of the second driving unit.

Abstract: In a printer, when a pressed member that is movable together with a movable table pressed by an ink head causes a movement mechanism to move the movable table and the pressed member slides on the ink head, caps are moved from a separate position to a cap position by changing relative positions of nozzle surfaces and the caps in a vertical direction without changing the relative positions of the nozzle surfaces and the caps in a main scanning direction.

Abstract: A fluid ejection including a substrate having at least one fluid ejecting element adapted to eject a fluid, a flow feature layer disposed over the substrate, the flow feature layer including a plurality of flow features, a nozzle plate layer disposed over the flow feature layer, the nozzle plate layer including one or more nozzle arrays, each nozzle in each of the one or more nozzle arrays being in fluid communication with a corresponding flow feature of the plurality of flow features and a corresponding fluid ejecting element of the at least one fluid ejecting elements, at least one intake via through which fluid flows into the plurality of flow features, and at least one output via through which fluid flows out of the plurality of flow features.

Abstract: A liquid droplet ejection head includes: a main body member that includes a nozzle that ejects a liquid droplet, a first pressure chamber that is linked to the nozzle, and a second pressure chamber that is linked to the nozzle; a first piezoelectric element that pressurizes the first pressure chamber by applying a first voltage, and causes the liquid droplet to be ejected from the nozzle; and a second piezoelectric element that pressurizes the second pressure chamber by applying a second voltage which is equal to or higher than the first voltage, and deflects the direction of the liquid droplets ejected from the nozzle.

Abstract: An element substrate in which a plurality of members are layered. Plates and a substrate serving as the plurality of members being layered and adhered to each other. The element substrate including a plurality of ejection ports that eject a liquid, and a plurality of supply ports that each communicate with a different ejection port. At least one of the members includes a groove that is, when viewing, from above, a surface in which the ejection ports are formed, formed between two ejection ports, each of which communicates to a different supply port.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a substrate in which at least four inlets to which a liquid is supplied are arranged, and an ejection port forming member provided with an ejection port from which the liquid supplied to the inlets is ejected and provided in the substrate. The inlets are each formed along a first direction and are arranged in a second direction which crosses the first direction. A plurality of inter-inlet areas sandwiched between the inlets adjacent to each other has at least two types of areas different in distance between the inlets adjacent to each other, and, among the inter-inlet areas, an area positioned on each of both ends of the substrate is different from an area in which the distance between the inlets is the shortest.

Abstract: A print head has a tile made of a material having a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). The tile carries a chip that forms a number of printing elements and is in thermal contact with the tile. The chip is mainly made of a material having a second CTE different from the first CTE. A stress relief plate is made of a material having a third CTE that is closer to the second CTE than the first CTE and is bonded to the tile with a first adhesive layer having a first thickness d1. The chip is bonded to the stress relief plate with a second adhesive layer having a second thickness d2 smaller than the first thickness d1.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes an ejection orifice configured to eject a liquid, the ejection orifice has at least one protrusion protruding from the peripheral portion of the ejection orifice toward the center of the ejection orifice, and the protrusion includes, on the outer surface including at least the protrusion edge, a highly water-repellent region having a higher water repellency than that of the outer surface of the periphery of the ejection orifice.

Abstract: A recording head is provided with an ink ejection surface and a cleaning liquid supply surface. The ink ejection surface includes a nozzle region in which a plurality of ink ejection nozzles for ejecting ink onto a recording medium are open. The cleaning liquid supply surface is provided, with respect to the nozzle region, on an upstream side in a wiping direction in which a wiper wipes the ink ejection surface, and a plurality of cleaning liquid supply ports for supplying a cleaning liquid are open through the cleaning liquid supply surface. On the cleaning liquid supply surface, at least in a region including the cleaning liquid supply ports, a hydrophilic region having wettability with respect to water higher than that of the ink ejection surface is formed substantially evenly across an entire region in a width direction thereof orthogonal to the wiping direction.

Abstract: A polymerizable inkjet ink, containing: photopolymerizable monomers containing a compound (A) that is negative for skin sensitization, a compound (B) that is negative for skin sensitization, and a photoradical polymerization initiator where the compound (A) is a (meth)acrylate compound, the photoradical polymerization initiator is 2,4-diethyl thioxanthone, and the ink has a viscosity of 2 to 150 mPa·s at a temperature of 25° C. and a viscosity of 2 to 20 mPa·s at 60° C.

Abstract: A supply apparatus includes: a tank in which a liquid supply section is formed, the liquid supply section having a liquid storage chamber, an inlet for supplying liquid to the liquid storage chamber, and a liquid flow path, the liquid storage chamber being demarcated by first surfaces facing in a first direction, a second surface joining the first surfaces, and a third surface separated from the second surface in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a holding member holding a part of the tank from one side in the second direction; a coupling member having a coupling section coupled to the liquid supply section of the tank from another side in the second direction to allow flow of the liquid; and a casing supporting at least one of the holding member and the coupling member.