Abstract: A glazing panel repair device (1) has coupling means (27) for coupling a pump arrangement (22) to the device to provide holding suction to secure the device to the glazing panel and presume cycling to a repair zone. In one embodiment the coupling means is for coupling a single pump to provide holding suction to secure the device to the glazing panel and pressure cycling to a repair zone.

Abstract: A method may comprise applying a first adhesive to a cavity of a bond panel, the cavity defined by a raised body portion of the bond panel, inserting an acoustic insert assembly in the cavity, the acoustic insert assembly being secured in the cavity by the first adhesive, and securing edges of the acoustic insert assembly to the raised body portion of the bond panel with a second adhesive to create a seamless interface between the edges and the raised body portion.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light emitting device includes: preparing a baseplate having a plate surface on which a protrusion is disposed; forming a first resin frame having an opening on the plate surface, wherein the opening is located above the protrusion; forming a second resin in the opening; detaching the baseplate; bonding a light emitting element to a surface of the second resin surface that has been exposed as a result of detaching the baseplate; and forming a third resin that surrounds lateral faces of the light emitting element and that covers and contacts a portion of the first resin frame.

Abstract: A mold design having a non-symmetric tread ring parting line is described that forms a tread pattern that extends onto the off-shoulder area of a tire on one side. The mold has a single tread segment that forms the entire tread pattern on the tire. The tread segment of the mold is non-symmetric in that one end, a first end, extends farther downward than the opposite end, a second end. The first end of the tread segment contains a tread pattern design capable of imparting a tread design on the off-shoulder or sidewall of one side of the tire to form a non-symmetric tread pattern.

Abstract: A tire manufacturing method and system is provided for controlling a product profile having one or more elastomeric layers that are produced by continuously extruding an elongated element (200) of an elastomeric material and depositing the elongated element (200) upon a forming surface (100a) of a circumferentially rotating drum (100).

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

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor blade component of a rotor blade includes feeding a flat sheet of material into a thermoforming system, wherein the material comprises at least one of a thermoplastic or thermoset material. The method also includes heating the flat sheet of material via the thermoforming system. Further, the method includes shaping the heated flat sheet of material via at least one roller of the thermoforming system into a desired curved shape. Moreover, the method includes dispensing the shaped sheet of material from the thermoforming system. In addition, the method includes cooling the shaped sheet of material to form the rotor blade component.

Abstract: There is provided an arrangement and method for handling a load for isostatic pressure treatment in a high-pressure arrangement. The arrangement comprises a transportation unit arranged in a first space, wherein the transportation unit is configured for horizontal transportation of a pressure vessel comprising the load into the high-pressure arrangement before pressure treatment of the load, and out of the high-pressure arrangement after pressure treatment of the load, respectively. The arrangement further comprises an elevator unit vertically operable between the first space and a second space provided below the first space, wherein the elevator unit is configured to lift the load from the second space into the pressure vessel before pressure treatment of the load, and to lower the load from the pressure vessel to the second space after pressure treatment of the load, respectively.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for improvingly controlling the production of food products from granular raw materials such as for instance cereal rice formed into crackers. More in particular, the invention relates to an adjustable mechanical stop mechanism for better controlling the distance between the dies where pressure-baking of food occurs, and to provide the possibility of adjustable distance between the dies in case of multiple compressions of the food material, for which different die spacings can then be installed, leading to very repeatable and unchanging food processing conditions and thus an improved and much more constant quality of end product such as a cracker.

Abstract: A servo press machine includes a display unit that displays a strip-shaped region for setting a motion of a slide and an operation unit that receives an input operation. A range extending from an upper end of the strip-shaped region to a lower end thereof corresponds to a movement range of the slide in a linear movement, and the strip-shaped region is formed of a plurality of slide operation regions that are consecutive in a direction in which the strip-shaped region extends. Each of the slide operation regions can set a speed of the slide in response to the input operation received by the operation unit, and a boundary between adjacent two of slide operation regions can move along the direction in which the strip-shaped region extends in response to the input operation received by the operation unit.

Abstract: A portable heated press device is disclosed that has an upper and lower member, each having an electrically heated platen, hingedly attached to one another near the platens. The lever design allows for multiplying the force applied to the member. An insulator ring is used to thermally insulate the heat from the platens from the handles of the device. The device can include a locking mechanism at the end opposite the platens to apply and maintain pressing force at the platens. The device can also be opened to 180 degrees to allow one platen to be used as a hot plate.

Abstract: A sheet folding device and method, and a box-making machine, wherein are provided a molding belt for moving on a center side in the width direction of a cardboard sheet toward a downstream side in a transfer direction of the cardboard sheet and thereby pressing and folding both end parts in the width direction of the cardboard sheet from the outside, and a folding roller group formed by folding rollers for contacting insides of fold parts on both sides in the width direction of the cardboard sheet more toward the center in the width direction of the cardboard sheet than the molding belt, the folding rollers being arranged further upstream in the transfer direction of the cardboard sheet than a 90-degree folding position of the cardboard sheet.

Abstract: A method for producing a laminar blank having a microsuction element, the method comprising: conveying a laminar blank along a first path, the laminar blank having an inner surface and an outer surface; conveying a microsuction tape along a second path, which is different to the first path; contacting a first portion of the microsuction tape with the outer surface of a first portion of the laminar blank, to secure the first portion of the microsuction tape to the first portion of the laminar blank; and cutting the microsuction tape to separate the first portion of the microsuction tape from the remainder of the microsuction tape, to thereby provide a laminar blank having a microsuction element.

Abstract: A device for opening an end region of a bag body, which end region extends between an open tube body end and a bottom central line, having a transporting device, on which the bag body is transportable with adjacent tube walls at a transport rate (V) in a transporting direction, and suction devices arranged on both sides of the bottom central line, which are driven so as to be moveable transversely back and forth to the transporting direction, wherein the suction devices are movable in addition in the transporting direction back and forth. The suction devices are mounted at first articulated joints, wherein at each first articulated joint there are hinged two pivoting arms pivoting relative to one other, wherein each pivoting arm is pivotingly connected to a positioning pivoting arm by means of a second articulated joint and wherein each positioning pivoting arm is movably driven.

Abstract: A stock supply assembly for a dunnage conversion machine includes a stock material support having a support structure, such as a shelf for a stack of fan-folded sheet stock material. The stock supply assembly is rotatable between a relatively lower loading position and a relatively higher operating position vertically displaced relative to the loading position.

Abstract: Improved containment mats and systems of containment mats may include multiple adjoining mats with a top surface and a bottom surface. The multiple mats may provide a modular structural mat system that may be installed at a drill site, with multiple mats placed adjacent to each other with a lap joint connecting adjacent mats. A geotextile may be used to cover the lap joints and a coating applied to the geotextile. Such a system may provide containment of potential spills, a reliable working surface for drilling operations, and relatively fast and less expensive installation.

Abstract: A ground covering comprising: a base panel including a sheet with an array of protrusions extending therefrom; a top panel including an array of receptacles for mating with at least a number of said protrusions; one or more drainage conduits formed through each of the protrusions, each drainage conduit being at least partially occluded by a baffle; and complementary engagement formations on peripheries of the protrusions and of the receptacles for fastening the top panel to the base panel.

Abstract: A wrappable textile sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes a woven wall having opposite inner and outer edges extending in a lengthwise direction along a central longitudinal axis of the sleeve between opposite ends. The opposite inner and outer edges are wrappable into overlapping relation with one another to form an inner tubular cavity. The wall has an innermost woven layer and an outermost woven layer woven in attached relation with one another at one of the opposite inner and outer edges. A reflective layer is sandwiched between the innermost woven layer and the outermost woven layer, such that the outermost woven layer protects the underlying reflective layer against abrasion.

Abstract: An adhesive for polyolefin used for an extrusion-formed multilayered structure that includes, at least, a propylene type resin layer and an ethylene type resin layer, the adhesive for polyolefin comprising an olefin resin that has methyl branches at a ratio of 10 to 200 per 1000 carbon atoms on a main chain thereof.

Abstract: The present application relates to a conductive film and a method for preparing the same. The conductive film comprises a continuous phase; and a plurality of separate phases formed in the continuous phase. The continuous phase comprises a polymer, and the separate phase comprises conductive particles. The separate phase is distinguished from the continuous phase by an amphipathic compound. The present application can simplify the production process and reduce the production cost because drivable particles can be trapped without being subjected to a separate barrier forming process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method comprising as method steps: a) providing a sheetlike composite precursor comprising a carrier layer; b) overlaying the sheetlike composite precursor on an outer face of the sheetlike composite precursor with a liquid first polymer composition; c) hardening the liquid first polymer composition, thereby obtaining a first polymer layer; and d) overlaying the sheetlike composite precursor on the outer face of the sheetlike composite precursor with a liquid second polymer composition; wherein the first polymer layer in method step d) comprises an isocyanate content in a range from 0.1% to 50% by weight, based on the weight of the first polymer layer. The invention further relates to a sheetlike composite obtainable by the method; a container precursor and a closed container, each comprising the sheetlike composite; and to uses of a liquid primer and the sheetlike composite.

Abstract: An insulating glazing unit including a first pane and a second pane bonded to a circumferential spacer is presented. The first/second panes are respectively bonded to a first/second pane contact surfaces of the spacer. The first pane, the second pane, and a glazing interior surface of the spacer enclose an inner interpane space of the insulating glazing unit. According to one aspect, the insulating glazing unit includes a pyrotechnic module that contains a pyrotechnic composition and an igniter. The pyrotechnic composition releases an aerosol in the inner interpane space after activation by the igniter. Methods for production and use of the insulating glazing unit are also presented.

Abstract: A laminated vehicle windshield for head-up display, includes a first glazing, forming an exterior glazing, a lamination interlayer made of polymeric material, the lamination interlayer having a cross section which decreases in wedge shape from the top toward the bottom of the laminated glazing, a second glazing, forming an interior glazing, the second main face and the third main face being the internal faces of the laminated glazing, a set of diodes, each diode emitting in the direction of the interior glass. For each of the diodes, the lamination interlayer includes a blind aperture housing the diode.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an interlayer film for a colored laminated glass which exhibits a visible light transmittance Tv of 5% or lower, small variation in visible light transmittance and an excellent appearance when incorporated in a laminated glass together with two clear glass plates in conformity with JIS R3202 (1996), and a colored laminated glass produced using the interlayer film for a colored laminated glass.

Abstract: A UV stable polymer composition comprising a poly(vinyl acetal) resin, a plasticizer and at least one UV absorber, wherein the ultraviolet absorber comprises structure (1)

Abstract: Provided is a stretchable film that can prevent a delivery failure when delivered from a winding body. Also provided is a stretchable laminate including such stretchable film. Still also provided is an article including such stretchable laminate. The stretchable film of the present invention includes a laminated film of a plurality of elastomer layers, wherein the stretchable film includes an elastomer layer (A1), an elastomer layer (B), and an elastomer layer (A2) in the stated order, wherein the elastomer layer (A1) and the elastomer layer (A2) are provided as outer layers, and wherein each of the elastomer layer (A1) and the elastomer layer (A2) contains a fatty acid amide.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a decorative sheet having a hairline design and including successively, from a front surface side thereof, (A) a layer of a transparent resin film and (B) a layer of an ink paint film containing high brightness pigment. A plurality of linear hairline grooves is provided on a surface of the transparent resin film on a side thereof facing (B) the layer of the ink paint film containing the high brightness pigment. The decorative sheet has a surface resistivity of 1×105? or more on a rear surface side thereof. When the decorative sheet is placed on a dirt comparison chart created by the NPB in an environment of an illuminance of 600 lux, and is illuminated from below the chart at an illuminance of 17000 lux, a figure having a size of 5 mm2 on the chart can be visually discriminated.

Abstract: Fire-retardant composites, methods of making fire-retardant composites, and use thereof are described. A fire-retardant composite can include at least two fire-retardant laminates, and a porous thermoplastic core material disposed between the at least two fire-retardant laminates. Each laminate can have one or more ply, each of the plies can include a plurality of fibers in a thermoplastic polymer matrix that includes a fire-retardant composition. The fire-retardant composite meets European fire-retardant standards for rail transportation.

Abstract: This laminated body comprises an organic resin substrate, and single layer of an active energy ray-curable resin layer (i) and an inorganic deposition layer (ii) that are sequentially laminated on the organic resin substrate, wherein a power spectrum obtained by performing Fourier transformation on the wavenumber of a reflected wave spectrum obtained by reflectivity spectroscopy at the layer (i) and plotting the amplitude thereof with respect to the length dimension has, at L1 and L2 that are equal to or greater than a length dimension threshold L0, a first local maximum value S1 and a second local maximum value S2, respectively, and when L0 is defined as an arbitrary value within a range of 1-3×10?6 m, in a defined range of the power spectrum excluding the range of L0 or less, the first local maximum value S1 has a signal-to-noise ratio SI/N of at least 5 with respect to noise N, and the second local maximum value S2 has a signal-to-noise ratio S2/N of at least 2 with respect to noise N.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a multi-layer film for cling film applications comprising at least three layers, with two outer layers, at least one core layer, preferably exactly one core layer, wherein at least one or both outer layer(s) comprise(s) between 73 wt. % and 99.5 wt. % or between 73 wt. % and <99.5 wt. % of LLDPE based on the total weight of the respective layer and between 0.5 wt. % and 7 wt. % of HDPE based on the total weight of the respective layer.

Abstract: A first multilayer shrink film has an outer polyester layer, an inner O2-barrier layer, and a tie layer between the polyester layer and the barrier layer. A second multilayer film an outer polyester layer, an inner polyamide layer, and a tie layer between the polyester and polyamide layers. The tie layer comprises a styrene-based polymer, and the tie layer in the second film comprises an anhydride functional styrene based copolymer. Included are a packaging article comprising the film, a packaging process utilizing the film, a process for making the film, and a packaged product comprising a packaging article made the film, with a product inside the package.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multilayer structure including a semi-aromatic polyamide layer and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer layer, having a high gas barrier property after heat sterilization treatment and few curls, and easy to laminate, to be subjected to bag making processing and to be filled with contents. The multilayer structure according to the present invention includes the semi-aromatic polyamide layer, the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer layer, and a thermoplastic resin layer between the semi-aromatic polyamide layer and the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer layer.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a laminate which is easily processed and rarely produces unimpregnated parts at the time of molding and a process for producing a fiber-reinforced resin composite from the laminate. The laminate includes a reinforcing fiber sheet (b) and a thermoplastic resin sheet (a), wherein (i) the reinforcing fiber sheet (b) contains reinforcing fibers (B) having a melting temperature of not lower than 350° C.; and (ii) the thermoplastic resin sheet (a) is a nonwoven fabric containing hollow fibers which contain a thermoplastic resin (A) having a melting temperature of lower than 350° C.

Abstract: A housing included in a home appliance and used as a decorative housing is shaped like an inverted tray and includes a figure layer, a non-woven cloth layer bonded to the figure layer via a bonding resin layer, and a substrate resin layer fixed to the figure layer while infiltrating gaps between fibers in the non-woven cloth layer. A predetermined cutout pattern is formed on a colored coating film applied to a front surface of the non-woven cloth layer.

Abstract: Provided are multi-beam meltblowing apparatuses having a ridged collecting surface, methods for making multilayer meltblown composites using such apparatuses, and multilayer meltblown composites made therefrom. Also provided are a multilayer composite comprising an elastic layer and at least one ridged layer and a method for making the multilayer composite.

Abstract: A method for bonding a first component to a second component includes placing the first and second components in a cavity. Each of the first and second components has a bonding portion, and the bonding portion of the first component faces the bonding portion of the second component. A supercritical fluid is then introduced into the cavity with a temperature of 40-400° C. and a pressure of 1,500-100,000 psi, and a pressure of 4-100,000 psi is applied on both the first and second components, assuring the bonding portion of the first component bond to the bonding portion of the second component. Moreover, a method for separating a first component from a second component includes placing a composite in a cavity. The composite includes the first component, the second component and a connecting layer by which the first component joins to the second component. The supercritical is then introduced into the cavity.

Abstract: In certain applications it can be desirable to combine a first material having a first set of properties, for example mechanical and physical properties, with a second material having a second set of properties that are different than the first set properties. The combination of the first material and the second material can result in a third material having a third set of properties that include at least some of the first set of properties and at least some of the second set of properties. Composite materials, machines configured to produce composite materials, and methods of manufacturing composite materials are described in the present disclosure.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for bonding sheet metal parts to a laminated core in which sheet metal parts are punched from an electrical steel strip, the punched sheet metal parts are stacked and bonded at least integrally to form a plurality of laminated cores, and in order to facilitate the separation of the integrally bonded sheet metal parts into laminated cores, a separating agent is provided at least between two stacked sheet metal parts in that with the punching stage for punching the sheet metal part, the separating agent is both punched from a separating agent support and provided to the sheet metal part. In order to embody the application of a geometrically accurate separating agent in a reproducible and simple way, it is proposed that the separating agent be punched from the sheet-like separating agent support that is supplied below the electrical steel strip.

Abstract: The invention provides for the use of pharmaceutical compositions comprising a thiazolide in the stimulation of the immune system in a subject in need thereof, thereby preventing and/or treating viral diseases, cancer and diseases caused by intracellular protozoan infections

Abstract: A processing machine is configured, in particular, as a printing machine and has a plurality of processing stations for the processing of typically hollow bodies. The processing stations for the processing of the bodies are arranged in an operating chamber each at different positions, in a state in which they are lined up in a row in the direction of transport of the bodies which are to be processed. The processing stations are arranged in the same horizontal plane in the operating chamber. A body which is to be processed, or which has been processed, is transported from one processing station to the next processing station beneath that horizontal plane in which the individual processing stations are arranged. A plurality of simultaneously operated, or simultaneously operable, handling devices are provided in the operating chamber. Each handling device is provided for transporting at least one body which is to be processed, or which has been processed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for transmitting rotational motion between a driving element and a driven element. The system comprises a driving element that is coupled to a torque input that causes the driving element to rotate about a drive axis. The driving element comprises a first magnetic element. A driven element is configured to rotate about a driven axis. The driven element comprises a second magnetic element. Both the first magnetic element and second magnetic element are susceptible to a magnetic field, and at least one of the first and second magnetic element produces a magnetic field. A magnetic interaction between the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element couples the rotational motion of the driving element and the rotational motion of the driven element. The driving and driven elements are coupled at a predetermined rotational orientation with respect to each other.

Abstract: A system for printing on containers or vessels, such as plastic cups, may use one or more inkjet printer head to produce an image on the exterior of a vessel. A planar digital image may be transposed to a surface corresponding to the surface of a vessel being printed upon. A dial driven by an indexer may bear a plurality of mandrels through stations within the system to print, cure, and process images and/or the vessel surface. Each mandrel may receive a vessel and then transport the vessel to at least one printing station and at least one curing station before the vessel is removed from the mandrel.

Abstract: A device for imprinting cans comprises a plurality of ink cartridges that supply ink to a plurality of printing plates; the printing plates communicate with transfer blankets fixed to a drum, the transfer blankets move ink from the printing plates and apply it to cans; each transfer blanket includes a different art in low relief which produces an image on cans in addition to the image produced by printing plates; the device is preferably a rotary dry offset printer.

Abstract: A method for image inspection on printed products in a printing material processing machine. Printed products are recorded and digitizing and the recorded images are compared with a digital reference image to find image areas with distorted regions. Suitable rectification factors are calculated and the digital reference image is rectified with suitable rectification factors for the distorted image areas. The modified digital reference image is then compared to images recorded during the production run. If deviations are found, the printed products are found defective and removed. The computer also identifies image areas in the reference image that do not have enough edges for calculating suitable rectification factors and inserts anchors into the image areas. The anchors are printed, recorded and digitized, as they become part of the recorded digital printed image. In that case, the computer calculates the local rectification factors by way of the anchors.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including: a cleaning section including a cleaning member and configured to perform cleaning processing of a screen mask used in printing of a viscous fluid onto a print target; a cleaning member moving section configured to perform at least one of moving the cleaning member to and from a cleaning position and an exchange position, and unloading and loading of the cleaning member; and an exchange control section configured to control the cleaning member moving section to perform cleaning member exchange processing of exchanging the cleaning member.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus is provided with pressure generating units for pressure chambers one of which is provided for each of a plurality of nozzles and drives the pressure generating units corresponding to liquid ejection requests which request liquid ejection from the nozzles while achieving supplying of a liquid to the pressure chambers and collection of the liquid which has passed through the pressure chambers. Accordingly, the liquid is ejected from the nozzles. Meanwhile, an occurrence of a fault in the liquid ejection is determined using a vibration transition of a residual vibration which occurs in the liquid of the pressure chambers according to a pressure change accompanying driving of the pressure generating units, and driving of the pressure generating unit of an ejection fault pressure chamber in which it is determined that a fault occurs in the liquid ejection is stopped spanning at least a fixed stopping period.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus comprises a liquid ejecting head ejecting liquid, an identification information acquisition device configured to acquire identification information from the liquid ejecting head, a storage device in which the identification information is stored, and a control device configured to, in a case in which, when a replacement for the liquid ejecting head is made, the liquid ejecting head being a replacement target has been attached again, notify that the liquid ejecting head being the replacement target is in an attached state again, based on the identification information stored in the storage device.

Abstract: A print head includes a piezoelectric element that includes a first electrode supplied with a drive signal and a second electrode supplied with a reference voltage signal and is displaced by a difference in electric potential between the first electrode and the second electrode, a cavity that is filled with a liquid ejected from a nozzle along with the displacement of the piezoelectric element, a vibration plate that is disposed between the cavity and the piezoelectric element, a gate circuit that is electrically connected to a ground, a first switch circuit that switches between supplying and not supplying the drive signal to the first electrode, and a second switch circuit that switches between electrically connecting and not electrically connecting the gate circuit and the first electrode.

Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a liquid jetting head having individual channels, first and second common channels connected to the individual channels, the individual channels having nozzles respectively; a pump which circulates liquid inside the liquid jetting head; and a controller. The controller is configured to: reduce a unit circulation amount of the liquid in stages as standby time becomes longer, the unit circulation amount being a circulation amount of the liquid per unit time by the pump, the standby time being a length of time during which a standby state is continued, the standby state being a state in which the liquid jetting head is ready without jetting the liquid; and in a case of shifting the liquid jetting head from the standby state to a jetting operation, determine a type of recovery operations in accordance with the standby time.

Abstract: Disclosed is a printing apparatus. In an exemplary embodiment, the printing apparatus includes a nozzle for ejecting ink, a driving device for moving the nozzle, an imaging device for capturing an image displaying an ink printing process, and an automatic positioning controller for automatically setting a position of the nozzle based on the image captured by the imaging device while moving the nozzle by means of the driving device.