Abstract: The disclosure provides a multilayer blown film for stretch hood made from or containing a layer made from or containing a first polyolefin composition made from or containing from 20 wt % to 80 wt %, based upon the total weight of the first polyolefin composition, of Component A) and from 20 wt % to 80 wt %, based upon the total weight of the first polyolefin composition, of Component B); wherein Component A) is an ethylene copolymer and Component B) is a polyolefin composition made from or containing: (i) 5-35% by weight, based upon the total weight of Component B, of a propylene homopolymer or a propylene ethylene copolymer (ii) 20-50% by weight, based upon the total weight of Component B, of a copolymer of ethylene and a C3-C8 alpha-olefin; and (iii) 30-60% by weight, based upon the total weight of Component B, of a copolymer of ethylene and propylene.

Abstract: This invention relates to a multilayer biodegradable film which is particularly suitable for the manufacture of packaging and is also characterised by appreciable optical transparency properties in addition to high level mechanical properties.

Abstract: A support film for a tape material is provided that includes a film-shaped support formed of polyurethane, a barrier layer containing an aromatic isocyanate-based polyurethane and a layered inorganic compound and formed on one surface of the support, and an overcoat layer containing a polyvinyl alcohol or an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer and an organometallic chelating agent.

Abstract: A replacing device for a laminated manufacturing platform is provided. The replacing device has a box, a carrying body, and a lifting mechanism. The box includes two slides. The carrying body can slide on the slide and be replaced by another carrying body. Thus, problems that a working platform of a laminated manufacturing equipment is not moved, workpieces are not automatically produced and the workpieces are not synchronously replaced can be effectively solved.

Abstract: Disclosed are a device and a method for manufacturing a vehicle sheet using a moisture-curing polyurethane hot melt. The device includes a first coating unit coating a supplied material with a first adhesive, a first pressing roller pressing a polyurethane foam which is supplied to the material coated with the first adhesive, a second coating unit coating a backing cloth, which is supplied while being spread using a screw roller, with a second adhesive, and a second pressing roller pressing the backing cloth coated with the second adhesive or a non-woven fabric on the pressed polyurethane foam, thus manufacturing the vehicle sheet.

Abstract: A method of manufacture (200) of an inflatable product with an attachable foam finish is described that includes modifying (202) a molecular structure of at least one foam sheet; gluing (206) a flexible, glueable or weldable material onto the modified at least one foam sheet to create a bonded structure; and gluing (220) the bonded structure to the inflatable product.

Abstract: A film-peeling apparatus is adapted to peel a protective film on a surface of a substrate. The surface of the substrate has a bare area which is not covered by the protective film. The film-peeling apparatus includes a punching member, a connector connected to the punching member, and a controller. The controller is configured for driving, through the connector, the punching member to punch at predetermined positions nearby or on a first edge of the protective film adjacent to the bare area.

Abstract: In a heat transfer device, a holder holds a presser such that a portion of the presser protrudes downward. At a position where a holding portion of the holder that is holding the presser is above an inspection surface, a first height at which a foil transfer tool collides against the inspection surface is measured. At a position where the holding portion of the holder is outward of the inspection surface and a portion of a bottom end of the holder other than the holding portion is above the inspection surface, a second height at which the foil transfer tool collides against the inspection surface is measured. If a difference between the first height and the second height is smaller than a predetermined difference, it is determined that the holder is not holding the presser.

Abstract: Methods for reworking structures and reworked cellular core panels, reworked structures comprising the reworked cellular core panels, and guides and cutting apparatuses for reworking cellular acoustic panels and reworking cellular non-acoustic panels are disclosed.

Abstract: A peeling apparatus includes an ingot holding unit holding an ingot in a hanging state where a portion of the ingot to be peeled off as the wafer is directed downwardly, a water container containing water therein, an ultrasonic unit immersed in the water in the water container, a moving unit moving the ingot holding unit vertically into a position where the ingot holding unit faces the ultrasonic unit and at least the portion of the ingot to be peeled off as the wafer is immersed in the water in the water container, and a nozzle ejecting water to the portion of the ingot to be peeled off as the wafer thereby to promote the peeling of the wafer from the ingot.

Abstract: A foil peeling apparatus adapted to a substrate having a foil thereon includes a foil peeling member, a connector and a controller. The foil peeling member has a foil peeling surface. The controller controls the connector to drive the peeling member to move along a path. The foil peeling surface of the peeling member in contact with, with an initial angle, the substrate, feeds toward the substrate for a first displacement, and then moves upwards and toward the substrate when the first feeding angle is decreased.

Abstract: Described is a method for analyzing a build layer (1; 11) in an additive manufacturing machine when forming a three-dimensional article layer by layer by successive fusion of selected areas of powder layers, which selected areas correspond to successive layers of the three-dimensional article. The method comprises the steps of radiating a portion (4; 14) of the build layer (1; 11) by an energy beam and detecting particles emitted, backscattered or reflected from the radiated portion of the build layer, and scanning the portion (4; 14) of the build layer by moving the energy beam along a main path (5; 15) and simultaneously moving the energy beam back-and-forth across the main path in a meandering pattern (6; 16).

Abstract: An apparatus for printing a beer barrel includes a workbench, and a hydraulic pushing device, a barrel outer-sided printing device, and a barrel inner-sided printing device installed on the workbench. The barrel inner-sided printing device has a turntable rotating with respect to the Z-axis and mounted on the barrel, an inner mold installed onto a circumferential surface of the turntable for printing the inner side of the barrel. The barrel outer-sided printing device has a connecting frame moving linearly along the Y-axis direction. The connecting frame has an outer mold for printing an outer side of the barrel, and the hydraulic pushing device controls the outer mold to move linearly along the X-axis direction. The outer and inner molds print a sidewall of the barrel. This invention prevents unnecessary waste of manufacturing cost and time caused by the scrap of semi-finished products whose previous printing process becomes useless.

Abstract: A processing machine has a plurality of processing stations for the processing of articles. A plurality of the processing stations are each configured in the form of a printing unit. The processing stations, which are provided for processing the articles, are each arranged at different positions. At least one handling device is provided for transporting at least one of the articles which is to be processed. The handling device has a drive which is controlled by a control device and, which handling device, by the use of this drive, can be displaced from one processing station, in which the respective article is processed, to at least one next processing station for processing this article. The processing machine has a learning phase and a production phase.

Abstract: A method for detecting and compensating for defective printing nozzles in an ink jet printing machine by using a computer includes printing printing nozzle test charts next to an actual print in a production run, subsequently recording and digitizing the printed printing nozzle test charts by using at least one image sensor, evaluating recorded test charts and, based thereon, defining characteristic values for all printing nozzles contributing to the printed printing nozzle test charts by using the computer, calculating a failure probability for every contributing printing nozzle based on the determined characteristic values by applying a statistical prediction model using the computer, and switching off and compensating for all printing nozzles exceeding a first defined threshold for the calculated failure probability. A printing operation is then carried out on the ink jet printing machine with printing nozzle compensation.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a plurality of nozzles, a plurality of pressure chambers, a plurality of pressure-generation-elements, a plurality of inflow channels, a first-channel-resistance-changing-section, and a control-unit. The control-unit repeats control of switching between a first state in which the control-unit controls the first-channel-resistance-changing-section to collectively increase channel resistance of the inflow channels and a second state in which the control-unit controls the first-channel-resistance-changing-section to collectively decrease the channel resistance of the inflow channels.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a first substrate which includes a drive circuit which generates a drive signal and a first connector, a discharge head which includes greater than or equal to 300 nozzles per inch and a total of greater than or equal to 600 nozzles, which receives the drive signal and which discharges a liquid from the nozzles, and a second substrate which includes a second connector which is connected to the first connector, in which at least one of the first connector and the second connector includes a detection terminal for detecting a connection with the other of the first connector and the second connector.

Abstract: Provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a head that includes a piezoelectric element which is displaced by application of a drive signal; a transistor pair that includes a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor and outputs the drive signal; and a control signal generation circuit which generates a first control signal that controls switching operation of the high-side transistor and a second control signal that controls switching operation of the low-side transistor, in which the high-side transistor is set to be on and thus a voltage of the drive signal rises, and the low-side transistor is set to be on and thus the voltage of the drive signal drops, and in which the control signal generation circuit generates the first control signal and the second control signal in such a manner that the high-side transistor and the low-side transistor are alternately set to be on.

Abstract: A method of acoustophoretic printing comprises generating an acoustic field at a first end of an acoustic chamber fully or partially enclosed by sound-reflecting walls. The acoustic field interacts with the sound-reflecting walls and travels through the acoustic chamber. The acoustic field is enhanced in a chamber outlet at a second end of the acoustic chamber. An ink is delivered into a nozzle positioned within the acoustic chamber. The nozzle has a nozzle opening projecting into the chamber outlet. The ink travels through the nozzle and is exposed to the enhanced acoustic field at the nozzle opening, and a predetermined volume of the ink is ejected from the nozzle opening and out of the acoustic chamber.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a pressure chamber communicating with an ejection port that ejects liquid, a diaphragm that forms part of a wall constituting the pressure chamber, and at least one piezoelectric element configured to generate energy for displacing the diaphragm to eject liquid through the ejection port. The second substrate has a cavity containing the piezoelectric element. The first substrate and the second substrate are joined together with an adhesive. A liquid repellent portion surrounding the piezoelectric element is disposed on a surface of the first substrate where the piezoelectric element is disposed.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a nozzle; a pressure chamber; a flow channel which is connected to the pressure chamber; a flow channel wall portion that changes a flow channel resistance of the flow channel; and an actuator that displaces the flow channel wall portion. An displacement amplifying mechanism is provided between the actuator and the flow channel wall portion. The displacement amplifying mechanism includes an elastic material that is elastically deformed by displacement of the actuator, and an accommodation chamber that is partitioned from the flow channel by the flow channel wall portion and accommodates the elastic material. A first portion of the elastic material receiving a pressure from the actuator, a second portion of the flow channel wall portion being bent and deformed between the flow channel and the accommodation chamber by receiving a pressure from the elastic material, an area of the second portion being less than an area of the first portion.

Abstract: A microfluidic device, having a containment body accommodating a plurality of ejecting elements arranged adjacent to each other. Each ejecting element has a liquid inlet, a containment chamber, a piezoelectric actuator and an ejection nozzle. The piezoelectric actuators of each ejecting element are connected to a control unit configured to generate actuation signals and to be integrated in the containment body.

Abstract: This inkjet head comprises: a nozzle plate including a plurality of nozzles; a vibration plate including a pressure chamber to store ink to be ejected from the nozzle; a spacer plate containing a piezoelectric layer to apply pressure to the pressure chamber; a vibration board provided between the pressure chamber and the piezoelectric layer to transmit deformation of the piezoelectric layer to the pressure chamber; and an intermediate substrate between the pressure chamber plate and the nozzle plate, the intermediate substrate including a communication flow path that communicates with the nozzle and the pressure chamber. The nozzle plate includes: an individual circulation flow path provided for each of the plurality of nozzles to discharge ink; and a common circulation flow path into which a plurality of individual circulation flow paths merge.

Abstract: A process for forming an inkjet chamber over a hole defined in a frontside surface of a wafer substrate. The process includes the steps of: (i) laminating a layer of dry film photoresist onto the frontside surface; (ii) defining wall openings corresponding to chamber walls in the dry film photoresist; (iii) depositing chamber material into the wall openings and over the dry film photoresist so as to form chamber walls and a chamber roof; (iv) defining a nozzle opening in the chamber roof; and (v) removing the dry film photoresist to form the inkjet chamber over the hole.

Abstract: When the metal constituting a metal layer becoming a diffusion prevention layer is defined as a first metal and the metal constituting a connection terminal is defined as a second metal, in a potential-pH diagram for the first metal-H2O system, the first metal is present in a passivation area or an insensitive area at a potential of the difference between the standard electrode potentials of the first metal and the second metal in a pH range of 1 to 14.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an inkjet head substrate is provided. The inkjet head substrate includes an ink supply port having a through portion and a non-through portion, and the non-through portion is disposed at a position closer than the through portion to the energy generating element. The method includes disposing a mask having an opening that has a relatively large opening-width portion and a relatively small opening-width portion. The method also includes forming the through portion in the substrate at a position corresponding to the relatively large opening-width portion and the non-through portion in the substrate at a position corresponding to the relatively small opening-width portion by performing reactive ion etching on the substrate through the opening of the mask in one operation.

Abstract: A cleaning head includes an end face that faces an inkjet print head to be cleaned. A supply opening and a discharge opening are spaced apart on the end face. A supply channel carries cleaning fluid to the supply opening. The discharge opening receives cleaning fluid that is to be conveyed away after having been emitted through the supply opening. The cleaning head emits a cleaning fluid jet through the supply opening with the cleaning fluid jet being emitted in a direction having a component that is directed towards the discharge opening so that the cleaning fluid can be conveyed away by suction through the discharge opening.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting apparatus that can reduce situations where surrounding areas are soiled by spilled liquid. The liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid tank 47, the liquid tank 47 being mounted in a carriage 20 configured to move back and forth in the X axis direction, and the liquid tank 47 including a liquid resupply unit 23 configured to accept resupply of a liquid from the exterior; and a housing 48 configured to cover the liquid tank 47. The housing 48 includes: an upper wall 49 that covers the liquid tank 47 from the upper side; and a first recess part 61 and a second recess part 62, which are provided in the upper wall 49 to receive a spilled liquid that has spilled to the exterior of the liquid resupply unit 23, and which are recessed downward.

Abstract: A printhead device includes firing chambers, nozzles, and shipping fluid. The shipping fluid includes a shipping fluid density and a shipping fluid viscosity greater than a corresponding ink density and ink viscosity of an ink that will be ejected from the firing chambers and through the nozzles.

Abstract: The ink jet head module includes: at least one ink jet head that ejects ink; an ink path that supplies ink to the ink jet head; a joint for connecting the ink path and a fitting portion of a printing apparatus main body; a handle which is operated according to attachment and detachment of the ink jet head module to the printing apparatus main body; and a fitting mechanism that inserts and extracts the fitting portion of the printing apparatus main body into and out from the joint in response to movement of the handle.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a carriage unit which is provided with a liquid ejecting head, a liquid storage container which is storing a liquid, a tube which is connected to the carriage unit and which supplies the liquid which is fed from the liquid storage container to the carriage unit, a first driven roller which is provided on a downstream of the liquid ejecting head and which comes into contact with a surface of the medium which faces the liquid ejecting head, and a tube support surface which is positioned closer to a bottom side than the carriage unit in a vertical direction, and supports the tube, in which the tube support surface is at a position which is deviated from the first driven roller in the transport direction of the medium and falls within a height range of the first driven roller in the vertical direction.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a tank forming an ink chamber and including an injection inlet, a recording head, a cover, a monitor, a cover sensor, an operation panel, and a controller. The controller controls operation of the recording head and the monitor. The controller performs decision processing deciding whether ink injection into the ink chamber after complement of an initial process is completed, and counts an amount of ink discharged from the recording head. The controller controls the monitor to display notification depending on the decision processing and the counted amount of discharged ink.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a pressure chamber configured to communicate with a nozzle hole through which a liquid is discharged; a liquid chamber having a first opening configured to communicate with the pressure chamber; a first slide section arranged in the liquid chamber and having a first through-hole at a position corresponding to the first opening; and a driving device configured to drive the first slide section along a predetermined direction. The first slide section slides, by being driven by the driving device, along the predetermined direction on an inner wall surface having the first opening of the liquid chamber, and changes, by changing an area where the first opening and the first through-hole overlap with each other, an opening degree of the first opening, and the first slide section makes linear contact with the inner wall surface having the first opening along the predetermined direction.

Abstract: A mixer system for use with a non-contact liquid printer comprises: a printing liquid reservoir and an expansion volume; and an aspirator element, configured to reduce the pressure in the expansion volume, thereby to displace printing liquid from the reservoir to the expansion volume, and restore the pressure in the expansion volume, thereby to return the printing liquid to the reservoir so as to mix the printing liquid therein.

Abstract: A control apparatus for generating a control signal for controlling a printer on the basis of an input signal includes: an arithmetic unit configured to generate an error diffusion processing signal by subtracting, from the input signal, an error diffusion output signal output from a diffusion matrix that determines a distribution of a print density error; a multiplier unit configured to generate an intermediate signal by multiplying the error diffusion processing signal by a correction gain for controlling a correction amount of the print density error; and a quantizer unit configured to generate the control signal by quantizing the intermediate signal.

Abstract: A superimposed transfer target film and ink ribbon is moved while being sandwiched by a thermal head and a platen roller, and during execution of a thermal transfer of thermally transferring ink of the ink ribbon to a transfer layer of the transfer target film by heat of the thermal head, the transfer target film is pulled and moved while leaving a sticking portion in which the ink ribbon sticks to the transfer target film by the heat. After the thermal transfer is ended, the transfer target film stops being moved, is enabled to be loosened, and a downstream portion of the ink ribbon is wound up and stretched while leaving the sticking portion sticking to the transfer target film. While leaving the downstream portion of the ink ribbon stretched, a downstream portion of the transfer target film is wound up, and the sticking portion is peeled.

Abstract: Improved Braille printers and Braille printer components for embossing Braille characters onto a paper substrate are disclosed. Methods of making using Braille printers and Braille printer components to form Braille characters on a paper substrate are also disclosed.

Abstract: A printing apparatus for printing onto a surface of a previously made three-dimensional article consists of a printing head which is stationary in at least two dimensions, and a controllably movable holder that grips the article and moves the article around the printing head to present parts of the three dimensional possibly contoured surface in a printing order to a preset printing position under the printing head as the printing head prints onto said surface.

Abstract: An inkjet printer having at least one print head in which an aerodynamic element is placed before (e.g. in a transport direction) a recording medium (e.g. in the form of a sheet or page or plate) to reduce or avoid turbulences that may arise due to the relative motion between print head(s) and recording medium at an edge of the recording medium.

Abstract: Disclosed is a printer that performs inkjet printing, and the printer includes an inkjet head and a medium transport unit. In this printer, the medium transport unit has an electrostatic adsorption belt which is an adsorption member that electrostatically adsorbs a medium and a charging member that charges at least a portion of the electrostatic adsorption belt. The charging member has a unipolar charging section that charges a head facing region of the electrostatic adsorption belt and a bipolar charging section that charges a non-facing region that is at least a portion of a portion other than the head facing region of the electrostatic adsorption belt. The unipolar charging section charges the head facing region such that a region facing the inkjet head on a surface of the medium is charged to either a positive or a negative polarity, and the bipolar charging section bipolarly charges the non-facing region.

Abstract: A recording apparatus include a recording head that performs recording by ejecting ink onto paper from a plurality of nozzles, in which both a length of a first curved path in a first reverse path and a length of a second curved path in a second reverse path are longer than a distance of a head surface having a plurality of nozzles from a nip position in the pair of first feed rollers that transports paper toward the recording head to a position on the most downstream side in the medium transport direction. Further, a curvature of the second curved path is configured to be longer than a curvature of the first curved path.

Abstract: A roll paper holder is provided which rotatably holds belt-like paper to be conveyed towards a printing section when a roll of paper is obtained by winding the paper on an upstream side in a conveyance direction with respect to the printing section. The roll paper holder includes a side wall section in contact with both side ends of the roll of paper in a width direction to prevent the roll of paper from moving in the width direction. The holder further includes at least one protrusion located outside a range where it can contact with the side end of the roll paper to be held having the largest diameter in the side wall section. The at least one protrusion is configured to protrude by a predetermined dimension from a portion contacting with the side end to control a position of the paper in the width direction.

Abstract: A carriage moving mechanism including a driving unit including a driving pulley, a driving motor, and a first support member for supporting both the driving pulley and the driving motor, a driven unit including a driven pulley and a second support member for supporting the driven pulley, and a third support member supporting both the driving unit and the driven unit, an annular belt that is wound around both the driving pulley and the driven pulley, a first outer peripheral surface and a second outer peripheral surface facing to the first outer peripheral surface, and a first carriage that is attached to the first outer peripheral surface, wherein the second support member, the third support member, and the first support member are aligned in this order in a first axis, and the third support member is disposed inside the annular belt.

Abstract: Provided is a photo printer and a method for manufacturing the same that are capable of allowing a gap formed between a head and a platen roller to be kept constantly. The photo printer includes: a frame having both side walls; a paper accommodating part disposed between both side walls of the frame to accommodate the paper therein; a pickup roller located protrudingly from a bottom surface of the paper accommodating part to forward feed the paper accommodated in the paper accommodating part; a platen roller coupled to the frame to discharge the paper fed from the pickup roller forward; a head disposed above the platen roller to apply the heat to the paper; and a pair of brackets each having one side swingably coupled to the head and the other side hinge-coupled to the frame.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a spectrometer that emits light to detect reflected light and outputs a signal corresponding to an intensity of the light, a white board that reflects the light, a carriage that holds the spectrometer, and a second adjustment mechanism that adjusts a posture of the spectrometer with respect to the carriage.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head, an apparatus main body, a document cover, and a front cover. The apparatus main body houses the recording head therein and has outer surfaces including a document placement surface being an upper surface and a front surface which is adjacent to the document placement surface and which intersects the document placement surface. The document cover is able to be opened/closed in the document placement surface being the upper surface of the apparatus main body. The front cover is able to be opened/closed in the front surface of the apparatus main body. A hand-holding recess used to open the document cover and also used to open the front cover is positioned at part of a portion of the apparatus main body where the document placement surface being the upper surface and the front surface intersect each other.

Abstract: The stamp comprises a base and a stamping surface. The stamping surface includes one or more singularities; one or more conjoined singularities; and one or more fused singularity sections all of substantially uniform height. The singularities can be protrusions separated by one or more gaps. The conjoined singularities can include one or more connections between them, wherein the connections are substantially the same height as the stamping surface and can be part of the stamping surface. A method of manufacturing an improved stamp is also disclosed.

Abstract: Printed matter having a continuous color pattern, such as a high-definition fine printed design pattern. The printed matter has a printed portion on a surface of a printing substrate. The printed portion is formed of an ink and visually recognized as a continuous color pattern. Further, the printed portion is constituted of a combination of a plurality of lines each being formed of an ink and having a line width of 100 ?m or less. Of the plurality of lines, two adjacent lines have a spacing there between which is 50 times or less the line width of the line that is the narrower one of the two lines defining the spacing.

Abstract: Provided is a gravure printing apparatus, a gravure printing method, and a printed matter manufacturing method in which the ink transfer characteristics in gravure printing are controlled to be improved. The gravure printing apparatus includes: a gravure plate cylinder; a doctor blade configured to scrape off a superfluous ink from a plate surface of the gravure plate cylinder; an impression cylinder configured to press a base material to be printed against the plate surface to transfer the ink remaining in a cell of the gravure plate cylinder; and a transfer characteristics control mechanism configured to control ink transfer characteristics by supplying a gas selected from the group consisting of air having predetermined humidity, dry air, and an inert gas to at least a part of an ink transfer characteristics control area between an ink scraping-off point of the doctor blade on the plate surface and a pressing point of the impression cylinder on the plate surface.

Abstract: A system and related methods for high-resolution digital printing on textured wood-based substrates, including, but not limited to, plywood, wood planks, oriented-strand board (OSB), laminated strand lumber (LSL), laminated veneer lumber (LVL), paper board, and various forms of engineered wood. A high resolution scan of the board or image to be duplicated is obtained and stored electronically. It may be modified with the addition of custom images. The image is then printed on one or more substrates in a production line. Physical texture and depth may be added by varying the thickness of the ink applied.