Abstract: A 3D printer (1) capable of real-time adjusting printing time and real-time printing method of using same are provided. The 3D printer (1) includes a tank (11) for containing liquid material (2), a printing platform (12), an illumination unit (13), a temperature sensor (14), and a processor (10). Before printing, the processor (10) obtains an initial temperature from the temperature sensor (14). When printing, the processor (10) obtains slicing information of one cured layer, and activates both the printing platform (12) and the illumination unit (13) to create a slicing object of the cured layer based on the slicing information. Next, the processor (10) instructs the 3D printer (1) to wait, and senses the current temperature of the liquid material (2). The 3D printer (1) performs steps to create a 3D model after determining that heat of the liquid material (2) is dissipated.

Abstract: A 3D printer (1) capable of dynamically adjusting printing time and dynamical printing method of using same are provided. The 3D printer (1) includes a tank (11) for containing liquid material (2), a printing platform (12), an illumination unit (13), and a processor (10) for storing time tables (101) each recorded with relationships. The relationship is between an illumination density and waiting times at different temperatures. When printing, the processor (10) obtains slicing information of one cured layer, and activates both the printing platform (12) and the illumination unit (13) to create a slicing object corresponding to the cured layer based on the slicing information. Next, the processor (10) calculates an illumination density also based on the slicing information, and searches the time table (101) for obtaining a corresponding waiting time. The 3D printer then waits for the waiting time, and thereafter performs steps for a next cured layer.

Abstract: A fabricating apparatus includes a fabricating device, a sensor, and a control unit. The fabricating device is configured to fabricate a fabrication layer according to fabrication data of a three-dimensional object. The sensor is configured to measure a shape of the fabrication layer. The control unit is configured to control the fabricating device according to the fabrication data and the shape of the fabrication layer measured with the sensor.

Abstract: A three dimensional printing system for manufacturing a three dimensional article includes a movement mechanism, a support tray, a resin vessel, a light engine, a sensor, and a controller. The support tray is mounted to the movement mechanism and has a lower surface for supporting the three dimensional article. The resin vessel includes a transparent sheet defining a lower bound for resin contained therein. The light engine projects pixelated light through the transparent sheet and to a build plane. The controller is configured to (a) receive a start indication for a build process, (b) operate the sensor, (c) determine if polymerized build material is in a flag region from the sensor signal, and (d) if polymerized build material is determined to be in the flag region, halt the build process.

Abstract: A system for detecting corruption in a three-dimensional model for use in additive manufacturing comprises a non-transitory computer-readable medium with instructions stored thereon, that when executed by a processor, perform the steps of obtaining a set of tool-control language instructions that define an additive manufactured part, obtaining a first mechanical specification for the additive manufactured part, constructing a virtual three dimensional model from the set of tool-control language instructions, performing at least one analysis step on the virtual three dimensional model to determine whether the virtual three dimensional model meets the first mechanical, electrical, thermal, and/or magnetic specification, and indicating that the set of tool-control language instructions is corrupt when the virtual three dimensional model fails to meet the first mechanical, electrical, thermal, and/or magnetic specification. A method of producing an additive manufactured part is also described.

Abstract: Methods and systems according to the invention may be used to modify a manufacturing plan for an object manufactured by an additive manufacturing process. A digital representation of a desired object and a manufacturing plan may be compared to manufacturing information generated via an evaluation of such an object. Based on that comparison, the manufacturing plan may be modified so that that object or a subsequent object is highly similar to the desired object.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for systems and methods of three dimensional printing including a precursor build material comprising a hydrogel precursor and a support material, wherein the precursor build material has a gel-like state when a stress applied to the precursor build material is less than a yield stress, wherein the precursor build material has a free-flow state when the stress applied to the precursor build material is above the yield stress, wherein when the stress applied to the precursor build material changes from above the yield stress to below the yield stress, the precursor build material returns to the gel-like state.

Abstract: A system for producing at least one structural thermoplastic part, said structural thermoplastic part being formed from a rough part comprising reinforcing fibres immersed in a thermoplastic matrix, the structural thermoplastic part to be produced comprising an outer face and an inner face, opposite the outer face, the production system comprising at least one inflatable pressure member made of a material having a thermal resistance greater than the heating temperature, the inflatable pressure member being mounted between the first counter-mould and the second mould, the inflatable pressure member being configured to develop between the deflated idle state and an inflated state to flatten the rough part between the imprint of the first mould and the imprint of the first counter-mould so as to consolidate the rough part and to form the structural thermoplastic part.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasonic welding device comprising a sonotrode (1) secured to an amplifier (12), and this in turn being secured to a converter (13), on which the head (2) is secured, characterised by comprising an external casing (3) disposed around the sonotrode (1), together delimiting an annular chamber (4) for the circulation of pressurised air having a crenellated opening in the front end (31) thereof for the output of pressurised air and the cooling of the sonotrode (1), wherein said external casing (3) has a rear portion (32) on the head (2) that can move axially, forming a presser plate which exerts a pressure—owing to the action of compressible means (51)—against the parts (P1, P2) to be welded, in a peripheral zone next to the welding zone, before the tip (11) of the sonotrode (1) comes into contact with said parts to be welded.

Abstract: A method of shaping a preform includes: laminating plural dry tape members each including a binder and fiber while partly heat-sealing the dry tape members with the binder to provisionally fasten each dry tape member to an adjacent dry tape member; bending the dry tape members having been provisionally fastened, along a bending line; and heat-sealing the dry tape members having been bent with the binder to manufacture a shaped dry preform. At the laminating, at least one of the followings is satisfied: (i) an amount of heat-sealing with the binder is changed in an area along the bending line, (ii) an amount of heat-sealing with the binder is different between portions adjacent to and on opposite sides of the area along the bending line, or (iii) an amount of heat-sealing with the binder is different between portions adjacent to each other at the bending line as a border.

Abstract: A method for the manufacturing of three-dimensional (3D) preforms and composite structures having non-planar surfaces and flanges such that the fibrous or composite material used for shaping the final 3D structure has the necessary length and surface area to conform to the desired contours of the molding tool without wrinkling. The manufacturing method begins with the formation of an intermediate preform blank by automated placement of fiber tapes or prepreg tapes, followed by shaping the blank on a molding tool with 3D contours to form the final 3D structure.

Abstract: A method of forming a fracking tool, such as a frac ball or a frac plug mandrel, may include: applying a resin to wet a filament; winding the wetted filament to form a cylinder; placing the cylinder in a cylindrical mold; increasing a pressure in the cylindrical mold to at least 3,000 psi; curing the resin at the pressure and a temperature of at least 250° F.; and extracting the cylinder from the mold. In some instances, the method may further include adding the resin and/or another resin into the cylindrical mold.

Abstract: An automated machine for forming winding structures without the use of a mandrel using a driven headstock and driven tailstock. The winding machine allows for selective orientation and selective layering of the filament as it is wound onto the pin rings. The winding structure can receive forms into a hollow center and the composite placed in a female mold. Alternatively the winding structure may be formed into a laminate which can be orientated and aligned on a form to achieve desired mechanical properties.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a composite structure. A first section for the composite structure is formed in which the first section has a first end with a chevron shape, wherein first composite layers in the first section has a first step pattern at the first end. A second section for the composite structure is formed in which the second section has a second end with a counterpart shape to the chevron shape and in which second composite layers in the second section have a second step pattern at the second end. The first end the second end are positioned such that a first composite layer in the first composite layers in the first step pattern overlap the second composite layers in the second step pattern at a splice location.

Abstract: A preform figuring method includes mounting and stacking sheet-shape fibrous preparations that have been or are yet to be impregnated with a thermosetting resin on a figuring die that has first and second figuring surfaces at least either one of which is a curved surface and making a preform for a composite material which has a curved surface that corresponds to the curved surface of the figuring die as a stack of the fibrous preparations which has layers by bending the fibrous preparations mounted on the first figuring surface onto the second figuring surface. At least a fraction of the layers that constitute the stack are formed by mounting sheet-shape fibrous preparations on the first figuring surface or the fibrous preparation adjacent in a stacking direction so that the fibrous preparations partly overlap and bending portions of the fibrous preparations mounted so as to overlap onto the second figuring surface.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for automating the fiber laying process during the repair of composite structures made of fiber-reinforced plastic material based on the three-dimensional printing technique. Continuous fiber rovings (e.g., carbon fibers) impregnated with liquid epoxy can be directly printed onto the damaged surface of the composite structure (e.g., an aircraft component made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic) without human manipulation in an autonomous manner.

Abstract: A method for sealing and inflating inflatable articles, in particular for sealing and inflating motor vehicle tires, wherein, by means of a compressor which is driven preferably by means of an electric motor, a sealing and pumping pressure is generated, wherein, by means of the sealing and pumping pressure, via a valve and distributor device for sealant and compressed gas and via compressed-air and sealant hoses between valve and distributor device and an entry valve or an inlet nozzle of the inflatable article, a sealant situated in a sealant vessel connected to the valve and distributor device is conveyed into the inflatable article and, at the same time, the inflatable article is inflated to a predefined operating pressure, wherein, by configuration of the corresponding parameters, of the sealant and of the device, in or downstream of the entry valve/the inlet nozzle, the sealant is at least partially atomized to form an aerosol by virtue of the sealant or the sealant-air mixture being converted, in the en

Abstract: A ventilation unit for a vulcanization mold of a vehicle pneumatic tire has a cylindrical housing that can be pressed into a ventilation hole of the mold, and a valve insert that can be positioned in the housing and has a valve shaft which has a base section which, at the one end thereof, has an end section guided through an opening in the housing base and held by the housing, at the other end thereof carries a valve disc and is also surrounded by a helical compression spring, wherein the end section of the valve shaft that is held by the housing is divided in two by a slot and has end section parts formed as projections, wherein each projection has at the widest point thereof has a collar and inclined surfaces tapering from the collar, and wherein inclined surfaces are provided in the opening section of the opening.

Abstract: A baler and methods of operating a baler. For example, the baler includes a housing defining an interior volume, the interior volume comprising a compression portion and a loading portion. The baler also includes a first closure movably coupled with the housing and operative to enclose the compression portion and a second closure movably coupled with the housing and operative to enclose the loading portion. Further, the baler includes a reciprocating compression assembly including a linear actuator and a platen operably coupled with the linear actuator. The platen is movable between a retracted position and an extended position in response to actuation of the linear actuator. Additionally, the first closure defines at least one recess therein and a lip extending about at least a portion of the at least one recess. The lip is operative to engage with compressible material disposed in the compression portion.

Abstract: A metallic lustrous member with electromagnetic wave transmissibility, which is capable of being easily produced even when using not only chromium (Cr) or indium (In) but also any of some other metals such as aluminum (Al), as a material for a metal layer thereof. A metallic lustrous member with electromagnetic wave transmissibility, which is capable of using silver (Ag), zinc (Zn), lead (Pb) or copper (Cu), or an alloy thereof, as a material for a metal layer thereof, in addition to aluminum (Al). The metallic lustrous member with electromagnetic wave transmissibility, comprises an indium oxide-containing layer provided along a surface of a substrate, and a metal layer laminated on the indium oxide-containing layer, wherein the metal layer includes, in at least part thereof, a plurality of portions which are in a discontinuous state.

Abstract: A method of making a wet friction material includes providing an outer layer on a base layer to form the wet friction material. The base layer includes a proportion of first fiber material and a proportion of first filler material and the outer layer includes a proportion of second fiber material and a proportion of second filler material. The proportion of second fiber material is less than the proportion of first fiber material and the proportion of second filler material is greater than the proportion of first filler material. The method also includes forming a plurality of orifices passing through the outer layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-layered sheet suitable as floor or wall covering exhibiting a three-dimensional surface relief and a decorative image, comprising: i. a support layer having an upper surface and a lower surface; ii. a foamed layer having an upper surface and a lower surface, the lower surface of the foamed layer provided adjacent, and adherent to the upper surface of the support layer, the upper surface of the foamed layer comprising a discontinuous chemically embossed relief pattern, wherein the discontinuous chemically embossed relief pattern comprises indentations formed by single or stacked dots of a digitally printed material comprising a foam inhibiting agent; and optionally iii. a decorative layer adhered to the upper surface of the foamed layer; and optionally iv. at least one wear resistant layer provided adjacent and adhered to the decorative layer; and optionally v. a backing layer provided adjacent and adhered to the lower surface of the support layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible composite that can be set to become rigid or semi-rigid, the composite comprising: a first layer; a second layer opposing the first layer and separated from the first layer by a space; a fill material located in the space between the first and second layers, which is capable of setting to a rigid or semi-rigid solid on the addition of a liquid, gas or radiation; a plurality of elements extending substantially into the space from the first layer and/or the second layer and which may pass through the opposing layer or join with other elements present in the space from an opposing layer, thereby forming linking elements for joining the layers together; and wherein the unset fill material is provided in the space at a pressure such that tension is applied one or more of the linking elements and to cause the first and/or second layers to bulge outwards relative to the longitudinal length of said one or more linking elements under tension.

Abstract: A release sheet for semiconductor compression molding includes a release layer that includes particles, and a base layer. The content ratio of the particles in the release layer is from 5% by volume to 65% by volume.

Abstract: The invention relates to: 1) a multilayer film for resealable packaging, wherein said multilayer film includes a layer having a thickness of between 7 and 300 ?m and consisting of a hot-melt pressure-sensitive adhesive composition having an MFI of 0.01 and 100 g/10 minutes, including 40 to 70% of an SIS styrene block copolymer mixture having a styrene content of 10 to 16% and a diblock copolymer content of 60% to 90%; and 30 to 60% of one or more tackifying resins having a softening temperature of between 5 and 140° C.; 2) a method for manufacturing said film by means of coextrusion; and 3) the use of said film for manufacturing resealable cartons.

Abstract: A method for producing laminate composite materials, as well as the laminate composite materials produced by this method and their use are described. The laminate composite materials are sandwich-like in construction and based on halogenated polymers and comprise a first laminar structure formed from halogenated polymer and a second laminar structure formed from halogenated polymer as well as at least one textile mat structure based on inorganic fibres, which is disposed between the first and the second laminar structure. The textile mat structure based on inorganic fibres comprises regions with high air permeability and regions with low air permeability, through which the two laminar structures formed from halogenated polymer are monolithically bonded together.

Abstract: Disclosed is a ferritic stainless steel sheet including: a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.025% or less, Si: 0.01% to 2.0%, Mn: 0.01% to 1.0%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Cr: 10.5% to 20.0%, Al: 0.01% to 0.50%, Ni: 0.01% to 0.60%, Ti: 0.10% to 0.50%, and N: 0.025% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; and a coating layer including at least one coating layer selected from the group consisting of an Al coating layer, an Fe coating layer, and a Si coating layer on one or both sides thereof, in which the coating layer has a total thickness of 30 nm to 150 nm per side.

Abstract: A stack assembly including a glass element having a thickness of less than or equal to 200 microns, and a first layer supporting the glass element. The glass element having a first pen drop height value when directly adjacent on a solid aluminum stage. The first layer having a stiffness of from 9×105 N/m to 2.0×106 N/m. When the glass element is supported by the first layer on the aluminum stage, the glass element comprises a second pen drop height value, wherein the second pen drop height value is greater than the first pen drop height value.

Abstract: A system for constructing a deck using laminated veneer wood products, including, but not limited to, laminated veneer decking (LVD). LVD is comprised of multiple layers of wood and other materials, including, but not limited to, non-wood polymer-based materials, thereby providing specific engineered properties to the product. Each veneer layer can be differentially treated with chemicals, biocides, and other additives, depending on the wood species and position of the veneer in the LVD. Similarly, adhesives used in the formation of each veneer may be differentially treated with chemicals, biocides, and other additives. Adhesives used for secondary bonding of veneer layers to form the LVD also may be similarly differentially treated.

Abstract: A plastic laminate structure including layers laminated together, a functional element being an electrode, a display element, an antenna, or a sensor on a second layer of the layers, conductive lines on the second layer, and a dummy conductor on one of the layers. The layers include a first layer of a plastic material and the second layer fixed to the first layer. The first conductive lines are connected to the functional element. The dummy conductor surrounds the functional element and the conductive lines. Each conductive line includes a parallel portion forming at least part of each conductive line. First and second distances are each 500 ?m or less. The first distance is a distance in the array direction between the parallel portions. The second distance is a distance between the endmost conductive line and the dummy conductor in a plane direction extending along a face of the second layer.

Abstract: Applicant discloses multiple embodiments of a non-adhesive cured two-part polymer sealant for use on aircraft parts. In some embodiments, the sealant comprises only a carrier and a cured polymer gel. In some embodiments, the carrier of the sealant is at least partially open cell foam, which at least partially absorbs a cured polymer gel, and which sealant has beneficial properties, including low smoke density, non-toxicity when burned, and flame retardant properties. In some embodiments, the sealant comprises a skin on an outer surface thereof, which skin may be impermeable or semi-permeable to the passage of liquids and or polymer gels. In some embodiments, the sealant is breathable but moisture-proof.

Abstract: The present application provides compositions, methods of making the compositions, methods of using the compositions, and kits having instructions for using the compositions for providing a bond between synthetic polymers or between a synthetic polymer and another type of substrate.

Abstract: This invention provides a silicone-coated fabric for airbags in which creases can be easily formed by applying heat and pressure, and that can be stored compactly. More specifically, the invention provides a silicone-coated fabric comprising a silicone-based resin coated on one surface of a synthetic fiber woven fabric, and a thermoplastic resin adhering to a non-silicone coated surface, which is not coated with the silicone-based resin, wherein the adhesive strength between the non-silicone coated surfaces is 0.01 to 100 N/cm.

Abstract: To suppress discoloration of a polarizing plate under high-temperature environments, provided is a photocurable resin composition for use in a cured resin layer of an image display device having an image display member, the cured resin layer, and a light transmitting member, in this order, the image display member including a polarizing plate. The photocurable resin composition has a water vapor transmission rate of 400 g/m2/day or more after curing, at a thickness of 0.3 mm, and under a 40° C. and 90% relative humidity environment.

Abstract: A polypropylene-based foam sheet (100) of the present invention is a polypropylene-based foam sheet including a polypropylene-based resin; and an inorganic filler, in which the inorganic filler includes one or more selected from talc, mica, and silica, and a content of the inorganic filler in the polypropylene-based foam sheet is equal to or more than 15 parts by mass and equal to or less than 65 parts by mass when a total amount of the polypropylene-based resin and the inorganic filler is set to 100 parts by mass.

Abstract: A composite can include alternating layers of a first layer including a 2D material and a second layer including a polymer matrix. Fabrication methods can take a thin layer of molecular thickness and construct large composite stacks that scale exponentially with the number of processing steps. An analogous shear scrolling method can create Archimedean scroll fibers from single layers with similar scaling. These methods can produce materials that demonstrate the ??? limit while combining electrical and optical properties minimal volume fraction of the filler.

Abstract: An optical film, etc., including a first layer, and an easy-adhesion layer disposed on at least one surface of the first layer, wherein the first layer is a layer of a crystallized resin including an alicyclic structure-containing polymer, and the easy-adhesion layer is a layer of a urethane resin; and a method for producing the optical film including a step (1) of molding a crystallizable resin including an alicyclic structure-containing polymer to obtain a crystallizable resin film having a crystallization degree of less than 3%; a step (2) of forming an easy-adhesion layer on the surface of the crystallizable resin film to obtain a multilayer product including the crystallizable resin film and the easy-adhesion layer; and a step (4) of crystallizing the crystallizable resin film in the multilayer product.

Abstract: Provided are a decorative film including a base film, and a metal-containing layer which contains tabular metal particles on one surface of the base film; and a decorative molded body.

Abstract: Provided is a production method for a film laminate by which a tough film can be bonded to a brittle film while the breakage of the brittle film is prevented. The production method for a film laminate of the present invention includes bonding a tough film having an elongated shape to a brittle film having an elongated shape while conveying the brittle film, wherein the method includes bonding the brittle film and the tough film to each other by causing the brittle film and the tough film to travel between a first roll and a second roll facing each other, and wherein the first roll has an Asker C hardness of from 1 to 70.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing method of manufacturing a product by laminating metal includes: laminating the metal so as to form a half-finished product of the product and a support; and spraying dry ice pellets having a particle shape to the support, after the laminating.

Abstract: A door pressing system for pressing interior passage doors, exterior entry doors, bi-fold doors, and/or closet doors features a multi-door pressing station including first and second presses, a loading device, and a discharging device. The pressing station is configured to alternatively move the first and second presses into operative alignment with the loading and discharging devices. The press in operative alignment delivers a pressed assembled door to the discharging device and receives an assembled door layup to be pressed from the loading device. The other press that is out of operatively alignment presses an assembled door received therein. Additional methods and systems are also provided.

Abstract: An absorbent pad has: a first, outer layer comprising a permeable or non-permeable film; a second, outer layer comprising a permeable or non-permeable film, placed on a side of the pad opposite the first, outer layer; a third layer disposed between the first layer and the second layer, and comprising a tissue laminate comprising at least a first ply and a second ply, with at least one chemical agent or system fixed in the third layer and being either activated by contact with or soluble in an aqueous liquid, the at least one chemical agent or system being in a predetermined amount distributed substantially uniformly per unit area of the surface area between the at least first ply and second ply: and a fourth layer disposed between the first layer and the second layer and comprising fluff, with or without a chemical agent or system, the third layer being joined to the fourth layer to serve as a substrate for the fourth layer.

Abstract: A method of processing a substrate, with a first major surface of the substrate removably bonded to a first major surface of a first carrier and a second major surface of the substrate removably bonded to a first major surface of a second carrier, includes initiating debonding at a first location of an outer peripheral bonded interface between the substrate and the first carrier to separate a portion of the first carrier from the substrate. The method further includes propagating a first debond front from the first debonded location along a first direction extending away from the first debonded location by sequentially applying a plurality of lifting forces to the first carrier at a corresponding plurality of sequential lifting locations of the first carrier.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a composite object with a computer-controlled apparatus, and the apparatus therefor. The comprises a reservoir containing liquid, curable first material, means to selectively solidify the first material and means to selectively deposit a second material. The method involves the steps of selectively depositing portions of the second material, and selectively solidifying portions of the first material, such that the solidified portions of the first material and the deposited portions of the second material form the composite object.

Abstract: A composition for fused filament fabrication may include polylactic acid resin and talc. The composition may range from 50% by weight to 99% by weight polylactic acid resin, and from 7% by weight to 40% by weight talc. The composition may be configured as filaments or pellets adapted to be used in a fused filament fabrication process. A method for generating a resin-based structure may include providing a resin source that may include polylactic acid resin and talc. The resin source may include from 50% by weight to 99% by weight polylactic acid resin, and from 7% by weight to 40% by weight talc. The method may also include heating the resin source to a temperature greater than the melting temperature for semi-crystalline resins or significantly greater than glass transition temperature for amorphous resins, and depositing the heated resin source in a layered manner to form the resin-based structure.

Abstract: A method of producing a printed substrate includes rotating an anilox roll having first recesses supplied with a coating liquid, rotating a plate cylinder fitted with a printing plate having second recesses, transferring the coating liquid from the first recesses to the second recesses and holding the coating liquid in the second recesses, and rotating the plate cylinder while keeping the outer surface of the printing plate in contact with a printed substrate to transfer the coating liquid held in the second recesses to the printed substrate. A ratio of a maximum volume of the coating liquid held by the second recesses per unit area on the outer surface of the printing plate to a maximum volume of the coating liquid held by the first recesses per unit area on the outer surface of the anilox roll ranges from 0.50 to 2.00.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for coating selected regions of a surface of a substrate with a film are disclosed. A cyclically moveable transfer member has an imaging surface which is coated with individual particles formed of, or coated with a thermoplastic polymer, and substantially all particles that are not in direct contact with the imaging surface are removed so as to leave a uniform monolayer particle coating on the imaging surface. Selected regions of the imaging surface are exposed to radiation to render the particles tacky within the regions, and the coated imaging surface and the substrate are pressed against one another to cause transfer of only the particles rendered tacky in the coating, such that the transferred particles form a film on the substrate. The monolayer on the imaging surface of the transfer member is replenished with fresh thermoplastic particles and the cycle repeats.

Abstract: A screen printing apparatus includes a print head, a moving base, and a mask cleaner. The print head prints a paste onto a board through the mask. The moving base moves under the mask in a horizontal paste scraping direction. The mask cleaner is mounted to the moving base and moves under the mask integrally with the moving base, and scrapes off the paste adhering to a lower surface of the mask. A base body is mounted to the moving base and includes a longitudinal side being horizontal and intersecting the paste scraping direction. Plurality of blades are detachably mounted to the base body and extending in the longitudinal direction and are arranged side by side in parallel to the paste scraping direction and cause a paste scraping edge protruding upward from the base body to come into abutment against the lower surface of the mask.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transfer member that cyclically passes through a formation area of an ink image and a transfer area of the ink image, a print unit that forms the ink image on the transfer member, and a transfer unit that transfers the ink image from the transfer member to a print medium. A liquid absorption unit absorbs a liquid component from the ink image on the transfer member, before the transfer by the transfer unit, and includes a liquid absorbing member that absorbs the liquid component, a support unit that supports the liquid absorbing member to be movable cyclically, an applying unit that applies a moisturizing liquid, and a supply unit that supplies the moisturizing liquid to the applying unit. The printing apparatus also includes control unit that controls a supply amount of the moisturizing liquid supplied to the applying unit by the supply unit.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an inkjet recording device that is capable of minimizing contamination, by floating ink, of the inside and outside of a print head without increasing the volatilization volume of a solvent. In order to attain the purpose, provided is an inkjet recording device having: a nozzle which applies print onto a printing medium by discharging ink; and a print head which houses therein a deflection electrode for deflecting the discharged ink by means of an electrostatic force, the inkjet recording device being provided with an ink suction unit which sucks in floating ink by means of the electrostatic force.