Abstract: The present disclosure provides a metal resin composite. The metal resin composite includes a metal substrate. The upper surface of the metal substrate is provided with at least one upper surface slit, the lower surface of the metal substrate is provided with at least one lower surface groove in a position corresponding to the upper surface slit, and the upper surface slit is connected with the lower surface groove. A first injection molding resin is formed in the upper surface slit by injection molding, and a second injection molding resin is formed in the lower surface groove by injection molding. The present disclosure also provides a preparation method of the metal resin composite, a personal electronic device shell including the metal resin composite, a personal electronic device, and a metal resin composite processing component.

Abstract: A roller shaft is inserted into a mold including molding members respectively having a first mold surface that defines an outer circumference of a roller portion and second and third mold surfaces that respectively define first and second flat portions of the roller portion, and the mold is then closed. A molding material is injected around the roller shaft to integrally mold the roller portion. The roller portion includes the outer circumference and the first and second flat portions rising from the roller shaft to the outer circumference. The roller shaft includes flange portions at portions corresponding to the first and second flat portions. The flange portions prevent the molding material from leaking outside the first and second flat portions when the roller portion is integrally molded around the roller shaft by injection molding.

Abstract: A keyboard with I-shaped key caps integrally formed by injection molding includes I-shaped key caps integrally formed, a printed circuit film, and a keyboard base plate for supporting the printed circuit film. A groove is provided on the hard sheet for flow guiding so as to achieve integral injection molding of a soft-rubber convex elastic switch body in the center of the inner side of the hard sheet. Hence, the soft-rubber convex elastic switch body is directly molded in the center of the hard sheet. In this way, during pressing, the soft-rubber convex elastic switch body can directly receive a pressing force transferred from the hard sheet, thereby achieving higher press accuracy. The disclosure solves the technical problem of injection molding/mold stripping of a traditional keyboard structure, so that a key surface, of the entire keyboard has small gaps and is pretty smooth.

Abstract: A method for decorative molding capable of reducing a preparation time at the time of replacing a mold and expecting improvement in positioning accuracy of a decorative pattern in a molded article includes supplying a film on which a decorative pattern is formed between a first mold and a second mold in a mold open state of a mold, imaging a mold-side alignment mark recorded in the mold and a film-side alignment mark recorded in the film by a camera, positioning the film with respect to the mold by moving the film so that the film-side alignment mark comes close to the mold-side alignment mark, injecting resin into the mold in a mold closed state in which the film is sandwiched between the first mold and the second mold and cooling the resin to form a molded article and opening the mold and taking out the molded article in which the decorative pattern of the film is transferred to the surface.

Abstract: A method for replacing one or more components of a lip adjustment assembly mounted to a die body of an extrusion die is disclosed. Initially, a translating unit of the lip adjustment assembly is accessed through an exposed end of the lip adjustment assembly. Then, an adjustment actuator is removed from a translator of the translating unit. The translator is decoupled from a rod of the translating unit so that the translator is removable from the lip adjustment assembly and with respect to the rod. Next, the translator is removed from the lip adjustment assembly and a first component of the translating unit is replaced with a second component of the translating unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring a film quality in the production of a plastic film, comprising the following steps: —determining a first temperature (10) of a film material (1) of the plastic film during a transport of the film material (1), in which the film material (1) is cooled along a conveying direction (2) of the film material (1). The invention further relates to a film machine (50) comprising a device for monitoring a film quality in the production of a plastic film.

Abstract: A liquid blow molding apparatus comprises: a mold (4) in which a preform (2) is to be placed; and a nozzle unit (6) having a supply port (9) capable of supplying a liquid from above into the preform (2) placed in the mold (4), wherein the nozzle unit (6) includes a seal body (13) that is movable among a closed position at which supply of the liquid through the supply port (9) is blocked, a first open position at which supply of the liquid through only part of the supply port (9) in a circumferential direction is allowed, and a second open position at which supply of the liquid through the whole supply port (9) in the circumferential direction is allowed.

Abstract: A container production method by liquid blow molding. The method includes a head space forming step of forming a head space in the upper portion of a container, in which, with the container disposed in a cavity, a bottom panel portion molded into an upward convex shape on a bottom of the container is inverted by pushing it down with a pushing rod and is plastically deformed into a downward convex shape.

Abstract: A shaped tile and its manufacturing method are described. The manufacturing method for fabricating a shaped tile comprises a thermoforming process, which comprises using a thermoforming mold to perform heat-compression on an intermediate tile so as to melt and deform the intermediate tile while heat-compression is applied, and to form a molding edge on at least one periphery of the intermediate tile such that the intermediate tile is turned into a shaped tile. By employing the proposed present invention, it is advantages of maintaining a final configuration of the shaped tile without getting any distortion.

Abstract: A method of making a 3D tube and the 3D tube made thereby. The method comprises: inserting a deflated pre-formed bladder into the 3D tube; and inflating the pre-formed bladder to deform the 3D tube and make the 3D tube have a substantially similar shape as that of the pre-formed bladder inflated.

Abstract: A lining drum which has a tubular body having open ends, an inlet for compressed air and an outlet for liner is disclosed. The lining drum has end pieces removably attached to the tubular body for closing the open ends of the tubular body, a rotatable shaft inside the tubular body and a crank for rotating the shaft. An elastic fastener has a first end in operative engagement with the tubular body and a second end in operative engagement with the end piece. The second end is opposite the first end. The end piece is movable between a closed position and an open position by extending the elastic fastener against an elastic biasing force of the elastic fastener. The end piece and the tubular body has a gap defined therebetween when the end piece is in the open position.

Abstract: A testing apparatus for onsite creation of cured sample liners necessary for confirming proper rehabilitation of pipelines includes a testing box having a base with a plurality of upstanding side walls defining an open upper end of the testing box. The testing box also includes an electrical power control assembly and an ultraviolet light assembly. A liner support manifold is shaped and dimensioned for supporting a sample liner and for attachment to the open upper end of the testing box for exposing the sample liner to pressure and ultraviolet light. In practice, and with the sample liner secured to the liner support manifold and the liner support manifold secured to the testing box, the sample liner is exposed to pressure and UV light in a highly controlled manner allowing for replication of actual in-line curing processing.

Abstract: Various embodiments related to three dimensional printers, and reinforced filaments, and their methods of use are described. In one embodiment, a void free reinforced filament is fed into an extrusion nozzle. The reinforced filament includes a core, which may be continuous or semi-continuous, and a matrix material surrounding the core. The reinforced filament is heated to a temperature greater than a melting temperature of the matrix material and less than a melting temperature of the core prior to extruding the filament from the extrusion nozzle.

Abstract: Multiple colloids or hydrogels may each have a different chemical composition. A printer may extrude the colloids or hydrogels to form a physical object, in such a way that which hydrogel or colloid is deposited—or the amount of each hydrogel or colloid that is deposited—varies as a function of spatial position. Thus, the material composition and material properties of the physical object may vary at different locations. In some cases, physical properties of the structure being fabricated, such as surface roughness and hydrophilicity, are directly related to relative proportions of the materials being deposited and their fabrication processes. In some cases, cells, microorganisms, nutrients or other bioactive materials are embedded in or introduced to the fabricated structure. In some cases, the different materials in different spatial positions in the fabricated object may have different abilities to immobilize, localize, and stabilize specific nutrients and chemical signals.

Abstract: The invention provides a 3D printing method and product which makes use of a base module which comprises an electrical circuit, wherein the electrical circuit is incomplete. A 3D printed structure over the module completes the electrical circuit of the base module.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for additive manufacturing with variable extruder profiles are described herein. An extruder print head with multiple nozzles placed at different angles allows for additional degrees of freedom to additively manufacture parts with complex shapes. In addition with the use of shape memory alloy materials, the diameter of one or more nozzles can be adjusted during the additive manufacturing process. This allows for independent control of the build resolution and of the build rate.

Abstract: A consumable filament for use in an extrusion-based additive manufacturing system made from or containing a heterophasic propylene ethylene copolymer having a xylene soluble content ranging from 15 wt % to 50 wt % and a melt flow rate MFR L (Melt Flow Rate according to ISO 1133, condition L, i.e. 230° C. and 2.16 kg load) ranging from 0.5 to 100 g/10 min.

Abstract: A method for forming three-dimensional periodic lattice structures through the use of additive manufacturing to achieve engineered, application specific, effective material properties that differ from that of the bulk host 3d-printable material for radio frequency (RF) applications including radomes and antenna apertures. Such structures remain mechanically robust while offering access to a range of material properties not available otherwise through the engineering of detailed wave-propagation characteristics through such lattice structures.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a part, comprising a substrate for holding the part during forming; a transport web; a web delivery system; a powder generation system configured to deposit a portion of powder on a portion of the web delivered by the delivery system; a sintering station configured to sinter the portion of powder on the delivered portion of the transport web; and a transfer station configured to transfer the sintered portion of the powder from the transport web to a partially formed portion of the part and join the sintered portion of the powder to the partially formed part. Additionally, a method for making a part comprising depositing a first portion of a powder on a transport web substrate; sintering the first portion of powder on the web substrate; and joining the sintered portion of the powder to the support substrate to form a first layer of the part.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for building colloidal solids by precipitation from a liquid bridge using a needle through which a colloidal particle suspension is dispensed onto a substrate in a temperature-controlled environment. The substrate can rest on a motion-controlled stage, and freeform shapes can be built by coordinating the motion of the stage with the rate of dispense of colloidal particle suspension. Aspects include a scaling law that governs the rate of assembly and a direct-write colloidal assembly process that combines self-assembly with direct-write 3D printing, and can be used to build exemplary freestanding structures using a diverse materials, such as polystyrene, silica and gold particles. Additionally, disclosed are methods for predicting and eliminating cracking by a geometric relationship between particle size and structure dimensions, enabling the production of macroscale, crack-free colloidal crystals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a 3D bioprinter. The 3D bioprinter, according to the present invention, comprises: a case inside of which a work space is provided; a printing plate installed inside of the case so as slide in the forward, backward, left, and right directions; a first nozzle installed inside the case for dispensing a biomaterial in a solid state on the printing plate; a second nozzle installed inside the case for dispensing a biomaterial in a liquid state on the printing plate; and a control unit for controlling the dispensing by the first nozzle and the second nozzle, wherein the first nozzle and the second nozzle are used to print a single structure by stacking the biomaterial in the solid state and the biomaterial in the liquid state.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus that includes a vat configured to receive a radiant-energy-curable resin and a method for using the vat. A floor defines at least a first portion and a sump wherein the first portion is above the sump. The first portion defines a build surface, at least some of which is transparent. A stage is positioned facing the build surface and is configured to hold a stacked arrangement of one or more cured layers of the radiant-energy-curable resin. One or more actuators are operable to change the relative positions of the vat and the stage. A radiant energy apparatus is positioned adjacent to the vat opposite to the stage and is operable to generate and project radiant energy on the radiant-energy-curable resin through the floor of the vat in a predetermined pattern. The additive manufacturing apparatus also includes a cleaning apparatus operable to transfer debris from the build surface to the sump.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a vat with multiple chambers and at least one of the chambers is a resin chamber configured to receive a radiant-energy-curable resin. A build surface is defined by the resin chamber within the vat, wherein at least a portion of the build surface is transparent. The additive manufacturing apparatus includes a stage that is positioned facing the vat and the build surface and the stage is configured to hold a stacked arrangement of one or more cured layers of the radiant-energy-curable resin. A method is provided for operating the additive manufacturing apparatus such that successive chambers of resin are cured. While a chamber of resin is being cured, another chamber can participate in other steps such as unloading or loading of resin. Optionally a stage cleaning step can be conducted while an unloading or loading of resin is conducted in one of the resin chambers.

Abstract: A 3D printer including a machine platform, a container and an injection module is provided. The container and the injection module are disposed on the machine platform, and the injection module injects a liquid forming material into the container. The injection module includes a bottle body, a deformable opening member, a driving assembly and a flow guide member. The bottle body contains the liquid forming material. The driving assembly is adapted to deform the deformable opening member. The driving assembly drives the deformable opening member to an open state, and the liquid forming material in the bottle body flows to the flow guide member through the deformable opening member, and flows to the container through the flow guide member. The driving assembly drives the deformable opening member to a close state, and the liquid forming material stops flowing to the flow guide member from the deformable opening member.

Abstract: Under the inventive process, the customised split insole is made by processing manually collected medical data and arch data along with plantar pressure distribution data and foot type data both of which are collected using a computer enabled Plantar Pressure Measuring Device in a first computer and processing these data in a second computer to generate a Projection Data which is expressed in Shore Hardness Value. Then, ranking of the projection data into a zone wise Ranking Index, determining the elasticity of the material to be used for the said Shore Hardness Value, converting the said shore hardness value into Surface Tessellation Language and transmitting the same to a third computer built into a 3D printing machine which selects a suitable material and its elasticity zone wise as per the Shore Hardness Value and 3D prints the same.

Abstract: 2-manifold structures are structures having continuously curvilinear surfaces, with no kinks or sharp angles. Methods for building strong, lightweight 2-manifold structures include a computer implemented strength optimization process. The computer implemented process includes a structure optimization sub-routine in which a plurality of rod-like members, constituting an irregular scaffold, is constrained into a volume corresponding to the 2-manifold structure. The strength of the irregular scaffold is then optimized by application of an algorithm that maximizes strength as a function of variations in the ratio of the largest macroscopic dimension of the panel to the average length of the members; the aspect ratio of the members (diameter divided by length); the average or maximum number of times a member can contact another member; and the distribution of member lengths. Strength maximization can be simultaneous to minimization of total length of the members.

Abstract: Apparatus (1, 32) for additively manufacturing of three-dimensional objects (2) by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material which can be consolidated by means of an irradiation device (3) comprising at least two irradiation elements (4-8) arranged as an irradiation array (9), in particular on at least one common irradiation element carrier (10), wherein each irradiation element (4-8) is adapted to emit an energy beam (11-15) guidable along an, in particular at least partially curved, energy beam path (17-21) in the build plane (16), wherein the irradiation array (9) is moveable relative to the build plane (16), wherein a control unit (22) is provided that is adapted to control an energy input into at least one energy beam path (17-21) and/or the spot size of at least one energy beam (11-15).

Abstract: Apparatus (1, 32) for additively manufacturing of three-dimensional objects (2) by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material which can be consolidated by means of an irradiation device (3) comprising at least two irradiation elements (4-8) arranged as an irradiation array (9), in particular on at least one common irradiation element carrier (10), wherein each irradiation element (4-8) is adapted to emit an energy beam (11-15) guidable or guided along an, in particular at least partially curved, energy beam path (17-21) in the build plane (16), wherein the irradiation array (9) is moveable relative to the build plane (16), wherein a control unit (22) is provided that is adapted to control a ratio of at least two energy inputs into at least two energy beam paths (17-21) of at least two energy beams.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing system includes an extruder that includes a drive mechanism, a nozzle, and a pressure sensor. The drive mechanism is configured to feed a molten consumable material. The nozzle is attached at a distal end of the extruder and includes a nozzle tip, through which the molten consumable material is discharged as an extrudate. A pressure interface is fluidically coupled to an interior cavity of the nozzle. The pressure sensor is configured to operably measure a pressure within the interior cavity of the nozzle through the pressure interface.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object formation instruction apparatus receives information pertaining to distribution of a predetermined physical quantity in a three-dimensional space, and on the basis of the received information, determines a shape of a representation body representing the physical quantity, and then, on the basis of the received information, determines a position at which the representation body representing the physical quantity is to be arranged. The three-dimensional object formation instruction apparatus generates a three-dimensional object formation instruction including an instruction to form an object having the determined shape at the determined position, and outputs the generated instruction.

Abstract: The adhesive bonding and sealing by application of adhesive material and sealing material at corresponding seams and joints, wherein the adhesive material is arranged to rest directly, at least in part, on the sealing material.

Abstract: A process for room temperature substrate bonding employs a first substrate substantially transparent to a laser wavelength is selected. A second substrate for mating at an interface with the first substrate is then selected. A transmissivity change at the interface is created and the first and second substrates are mated at the interface. The first substrate is then irradiated with a laser of the transparency wavelength substantially focused at the interface and a localized high temperature at the interface from energy supplied by the laser is created. The first and second substrates immediately adjacent the interface are softened with diffusion across the interface to fuse the substrates.

Abstract: System includes a first object having an energy-assisted bonding (EAB) mechanism along a surface of the first object. The EAB mechanism includes a heat-activatable adhesive layer and a carbon-filled (CF) sheet material. The CF sheet material is electrically conductive for resistive heating. A control sub-system is configured to control a coupling actuator to drive an actuator body toward the first object, wherein the actuator body and the first object engage each other. The coupling actuator is configured to apply pressure to the EAB mechanism along the surface of the first object. The control sub-system is also configured to control the power source to apply a current through the CF sheet material of the EAB mechanism to provide thermal energy through resistive heating that activates the adhesive layer along the interface.

Abstract: The disclosure presents a wind turbine blade and a method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade, wherein the wind turbine blade is manufactured as a composite structure comprising a reinforcement material embedded in a polymer matrix, the method comprising: providing a first blade mould with a first blade shell part having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a first leading edge glue surface at the leading edge, the first blade mould comprising a first leading edge flange; providing a second blade mould with a second blade shell part having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a second leading edge glue surface at the leading edge, the second blade mould comprising a second leading edge flange; applying glue to a leading edge glue surface; providing one or more leading edge spacer elements at a leading edge flange; arranging the second blade mould on the first blade mould, such that the one or more leading edge spacer elements are arranged between the first leading edge flange and the second leading edge fla

Abstract: A hollow molded article having a joining site where two or more split objects are welded by plastic welding and comes into contact with pressurized hydrogen, wherein an average spherulite size in a portion which is 500 ?m deep inside from a surface of the hollow molded article is 20 ?m or less, and a tensile strength of a test piece containing the joining site of the hollow molded article is 80% or more based on a tensile strength of a test piece not containing the joining site of the hollow molded article.

Abstract: An implantable medical device includes a first component including a first material, a second component including a second material, and a fiber matrix including a plurality of fibers. The fiber matrix joins the first component to the second component. The fiber matrix includes a first a first portion connected to the first component, and a second portion connected to the second component. The first portion of the fiber matrix is interpenetrated with, and mechanically fixed to, the first material. The first portion of the fiber matrix directly contacts the first material.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing a curved surface shell of an electronic device, which comprises the steps of preparing a translucent base shell having a decorative film; fixed-point hot pressing the decorative film to attach and position the decorative film on an inner surface of the translucent base shell; placing the translucent base shell in a vacuum sealed space to tightly bonding the decorative film to the translucent base shell; and hydraulic pressing the decorative film by high pressure and high temperature so as to be smoothly bonded to the inner surface of the translucent base shell in a liquid solvent.

Abstract: Provided is a system for semi-automatic membrane-assisted compression molding process in combination with an actuator and the method of using the same. The system comprises: a lower mold (2) having a dismountable molding component on which a fiber reinforcement (1) can be placed; an upper mold (3) comprising one or more dismountable actuators (7), the end of each of the actuators being independently provided with a local molding component, the shape of the local molding component being suitable for applying a local pressure to a local region of a composite material to be manufactured; a flexible membrane (4) provided between the molding component and the local molding component and hermetically connected to the upper mold (3), and a pressurizing device being capable of applying an overall pressure to the fiber reinforcement (1) by means of the flexible membrane (4); and an injection unit introducing a curable material into the fiber reinforcement (1).

Abstract: A method for forming a shaped composite structure. The method includes laying a composite laminate stack onto a mold, where the composite laminate stack comprises fabric laminate and resin and wherein the mold presents a predetermined shape, draping a vacuum film comprising polyethylene onto the composite laminate stack, thereby establishing an evacuatable volume between the vacuum film and the mold, applying suction to the evacuatable volume between the mold and the vacuum film to establish at least a partial vacuum within the evacuatable volume, thereby compressing the composite laminate stack via pressure applied to the vacuum film responsive to the at least partial vacuum within the evacuatable volume, and heating the composite laminate stack while applying suction to the evacuatable volume, thereby at least partially consolidating the laminate stack.

Abstract: This fiber-reinforced resin molded article has: a sheet molding compound layer; a continuous fiber reinforcing material layer; and a harrier layer, wherein the barrier layer is interposed between the sheet molding compound layer and the continuous fiber reinforcing material layer.

Abstract: A method for producing a part made of a composite material having an organic matrix and a fibrous reinforcement, the method comprising the following steps: a) automatically draping, either in a planar arrangement or shaped over a three-dimensional cavity, at least one lamination (30, 31) comprising at least a first and second different dry plies, at least partially stacked to form a dry, planar or three-dimensional preform, each ply being fibrous and the plies mutually differing in terms of their structure, their positioning on the preform, the fibres composing them and/or the geometry of the ply, wherein at least one ply is laid in a non-woven form and has a plurality of unidirectional fibre layers laid on top of each other with a different angular orientation of the fibres, and/or at least one ply is woven; b) thermoforming the preform, the thermoforming step taking place, when the preform has been draped in a planar arrangement in step a), in a three-dimensional cavity of a first mould to impart a three-di

Abstract: Composite fibers created by a process including vertically texturizing and impregnating resin into the fibers at controlled viscosity results in stronger fibers in which virtually no microbubbles are trapped resulting in improved tensile strength for use in reinforcing concrete and other materials.

Abstract: Precursors, and methods for manufacturing perforated composite parts, an exemplary precursor including structural fibers embedded in a cured matrix material and interposed between two removable plies, where the precursor may also have a sacrificial fiber extending through the removable plies, the matrix material and between the structural fibers.

Abstract: An apparatus for selectively coating a portion of a wire bundle apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a base member, a vertical member, a horizontal member, a clamp apparatus, and an attachment member. The horizontal member is mounted to the vertical member for translation between at least a first position and a second position. The clamp apparatus includes a lower die element mounted to the horizontal member and a lower die element mounted to the base member including a cavity. The attachment member includes wire cutouts and is mounted to the lower die element such that the wire cutouts are in substantial registration with the cavity. The wire cutouts are arranged with the cavity to separate wires of a wire apparatus disposed therein such that a coating material introduced within the cavity fully coats each of the wires when the horizontal member is in the second position.

Abstract: In an example, a method of forming a composite material includes embedding a plurality of conductive-magnetic particles in a matrix material. The method also includes applying, using a magnetic device, a magnetic field to the plurality of conductive-magnetic particles in the matrix material to move the plurality of conductive-magnetic particles into an alignment in which a longitudinal axis of each conductive-magnetic particle is parallel to a direction of the magnetic field. The method further includes, while applying the magnetic field, curing the matrix material to a hardened state in which the alignment of the plurality of conductive-magnetic particles is fixed in the matrix material.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a method for producing an optical laminate, capable of finely providing asperities in a thin base layer at low cost. The method for producing an optical laminate according to the present invention includes the steps of: laminating a pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer 30 and a protective layer 40 on a base layer 10 in this order; and after the step of laminating, providing asperities 10A on a surface of the base layer 10 opposite to a surface on which the pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer 30 is laminated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a sustained drug-release contact lens. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a sustained drug-release contact lens, the method including: forming a body in which the body provides an outer shape of the lens and has a plurality of cavities configured to be recessed and spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance along a side surface of the contact lens; and filling a drug and forming a closing part in which the cavities of the body formed at the forming the body are filled with the drug and respective closing parts closing the cavities are formed, wherein the closing part is made of a biodegradable material and each closing part is configured to open at a different time during wearing of the contact lens at the forming the body.

Abstract: Methods of making tiled articles and molds used to make retroreflective articles. The methods include forming a prism array on a master substrate and forming a replica of the master. A reference edge is formed on the replica, thereby reducing the size of the prism array, yet maintaining a lateral dimension of the replica to maintain ease of handling of the replica. The replica is copied and the reference edge on the copied tiles are exposed, such that the reference edge can be mated and secured face-to-face with a reference edge on other tiles in order to form a tiled article. The tiled article is used as a mold to produce retroreflective articles or can be further duplicated and mated to form larger tiled articles to be used as molds. Tiled articles used as molds and retroreflective articles produced from the molds are also disclosed.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to methods and materials for optical device fabrication. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating an optical device is provided. The method includes depositing a dielectric film on a substrate, depositing a wetting layer on the dielectric film, and depositing a metal containing film on the wetting layer. In another embodiment, an optical device is provided. The device includes a substrate, a dielectric film deposited on and contacting the substrate, a wetting layer deposited on and contacting the dielectric film, and a metal containing film deposited on and contacting the wetting layer.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method for manufacturing a cogged V-belt having a plurality of cogs, the method containing: an unvulcanized sleeve formation step of forming an unvulcanized sleeve by laminating a plurality of unvulcanized rubber sheets that contain at least an unvulcanized rubber sheet for a compression rubber layer and an unvulcanized rubber sheet for a tension rubber layer; a vulcanized sleeve formation step of forming a vulcanized sleeve by vulcanizing the unvulcanized sleeve; and a cog formation step of forming the plurality of cogs on the compression rubber layer after the vulcanized sleeve forming step.