With Permanent Bending Or Reshaping Or Surface Deformation Of Self Sustaining Lamina Patents (Class 156/196)
  • Patent number: 8540836
    Abstract: Flexible indicia bearing labels are placed on armored electrical cable at spaced apart intervals while the cable is being moving continuously from an armoring station to a takeup reel or accumulator. A label dispenser places labels in a U shaped recess of a body which is moveable toward engagement with the cable. Opposed rollers fold one edge of the label over into engagement with the surface of the cable and the other edge of the label over onto itself in overlapping relationship. The cable is passed through a heat tunnel to shrink the labels into tight engagement with the cable. A controller monitors movement of the cable and controls actuators for applying and folding labels onto the cable at spaced apart intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Southwire Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Hardin, Richard R. Miller, Henry L. Adams
  • Publication number: 20130240242
    Abstract: A method of making a wire array includes the step of providing a tube of a sealing material and having an interior surface, and positioning a wire in the tube, the wire having an exterior surface. The tube is heated to soften the tube, and the softened tube is drawn and collapsed by a mild vacuum to bring the interior surface of the tube into contact with the wire to create a coated wire. The coated wires are bundled. The bundled coated wires are heated under vacuum to fuse the tube material coating the wires and create a fused rod with a wire array embedded therein. The fused rod is cut to form a wire array. A wire array is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventors: John T. SIMPSON, Joseph P. CUNNINGHAM, Brian R. D'URSO, Troy R. HENDRICKS, Daniel A. SCHAEFFER
  • Publication number: 20130230690
    Abstract: A polymer-based composite sandwich includes a reinforced core bonded between a pair of composite facesheets. The core includes a truss formed by groups of composite pins held in place by a layer of structural foam. The pins in the groups are radially arranged around nodes. The ends of the pins are splayed and sandwiched between the foam layer and the facesheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Buddhadev Chakrabarti
  • Publication number: 20130228269
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a shaped counter top edge includes heating a sheet laminate to an elevated temperature, bending the sheet laminate to a formed laminate, and applying adhesive to at least one of the formed laminate or a substrate comprising a substrate upper face, a substrate lower face, and a substrate shaped edge positioned between the substrate upper face and the substrate lower face. The method also includes positioning the formed laminate proximate to the substrate upper face, the substrate lower face, and the substrate shaped edge, and clamping the formed laminate to the substrate upper face, the substrate lower face, and the substrate shaped edge of the substrate with a clamping press assembly until the adhesive cures to form a substrate/laminate assembly from the formed laminate and the substrate. The method further includes cutting a portion of the substrate/laminate assembly to form the shaped counter top edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: THE DILLER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matt Dufinetz, John Pehr
  • Publication number: 20130230691
    Abstract: An automotive assembly comprises a sheet molding composite (SMC) element comprising an SMC sheet body shaped into a generally smooth functional section and at least one generally planar bonding section. The bonding section comprises a textured surface impressed as a result of molding the SMC sheet body in a compression molding tool having a corresponding textured pattern. The textured surface has a predetermined surface roughness for increasing the effective surface area of the bonding section relative to a non-textured surface. The predetermined surface roughness is in a range from 0.25 Ra (?m) to 8.5 Ra (?m). A second element has a secondary bonding surface adjoining the bonding section of the SMC element. An adhesive joins the secondary bonding surface to the bonding section without requiring any pre-treatment of the bonding section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Richard H. Wykoff, Daniel Q. Houston
  • Publication number: 20130223802
    Abstract: A light conductor having a bundle of optic fibers to transmit light, and a method for bending the light conductor made up of optic fibers. The light conductor with a bundle of optic fibers to transmit light of a light source, which can be coupled onto a first end portion of the light conductor, to a second end portion of the light conductor, includes a first portion and a curved second portion configured as a connecting portion, where the optic fibers in the second portion are fixed in place with respect to one another, free of tension, by means of a hardened cementing agent, while maintaining the curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventor: Jan Dahmen
  • Publication number: 20130221011
    Abstract: A vacuum insulation panel includes a core material having a bending groove at at least one surface thereof, and an envelope material to cover an outer surface of the core material and an inner surface of the bending groove. Also, a refrigerator with the vacuum insulation panel and a manufacturing method for the vacuum insulation panel are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
  • Publication number: 20130220994
    Abstract: A planar heating element has an electrical insulating substrate, at least one pair of electrodes that includes thin metal wires covered with conductive cover layers and that is placed on a surface of the electrical insulating substrate, a polymer resistor that is placed on the electrical insulating substrate and that is supplied with electricity from the electrodes, and electrical insulating cover material 16 that covers the electrodes and the polymer resistor and that is made to adhere to the electrical insulating substrate by hot melt, and sectional shape of the conductive cover layers is of an ellipse in general with long axis parallel to the surface of the electrical insulating substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Hanada, Yukio Abe, Koji Yoshimoto, Takahito Ishii, Kazuyuki Kohara
  • Patent number: 8518200
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing coated profile members (10), wherein a foil (16, 36) is cut to a predetermined width and wrapped around the profile member so as to form a butt seam extending in a longitudinal direction of the profile member, and the foil (16, 36) is cut by a cutting beam (24) in a condition in which an edge strip of the foil projects beyond the profile member (10), while a face of the profile member is used as reference for the position of the cutting beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: düspohl Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Wagner
  • Publication number: 20130218245
    Abstract: The invention concerns the manufacture of personal care articles consisting of compresses having a cooling effect by swelling with water which are presented individually in vacuum packaging. According to the invention, successive doses of powder comprising absorbent particles are placed in grooves formed by elastic deformation in a lower sheet made of water-permeable textile material, which is continuously unwound, and covered with a upper sheet, which is continuously unwound at the same time as the lower sheet. Said lower sheet is then heat-welded in the intervals between adjacent grooves thus isolating the grooves from each other. Successive compartments each containing a dose of said powder are then enclosed in each groove by heat-welding said sheets along transverse weld lines across the width of the moving sheet assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: ALKANTIS SA
    Inventors: Patrick Caceres, Franck Caceres
  • Patent number: 8512498
    Abstract: The waved wood assembly can have a flexible support layer onto the face(s) of which one or more wood sheet layer(s) are adhered by an adhesive. The waved wood product can maintain its waved shape when freestanding. It can exhibit significant elasticity characteristics. It can have very accentuated waves, i.e. waves that span a greater thickness for a given number of waves per unit of dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Corruven Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Alain Belanger, Martin Blais
  • Patent number: 8506743
    Abstract: Producing a local reinforcement in a core structure of a composite sandwich structure involves forming a hole in a cover layer and the core of the sandwich structure, forming a hollow space in the core with a diameter the same as or preferably larger than that of the hole, introducing a spatial bounding device through the hole into the hollow space, seating the spatial bounding device in the hollow space to contact outwardly against parts of the core preferably by outwardly expanding the device, and introducing a filler material into the spatial bounding device. A sandwich structure includes a core between cover layers, and a local reinforcement including a hole in at least one of the cover layers, a space in the core with a larger diameter than the hole, a spiral sleeve in the space, and a filler material inside the spiral sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Christian Endres, Hans-Juergen Weber
  • Patent number: 8500936
    Abstract: A blank for forming a collapsible field director structure comprises nonconductive material sheet having at least three panels thereon, one panel being a master panel and the other two panels being slave panels. Each panel is substantially rectangular in shape and has elongated upper and lower edges and two relatively shorter side edges. Each panel is connected to at least one adjacent panel along an elongated edge. A patch of adhesive is disposed on: the first surface of a first one of the panels; and another patch of adhesive is disposed on: the first surface on one of the other panels; or the second surface of said first one of the panels. The slave panels are each foldable along an elongated edge so that a surface of each slave panel is brought into confronting facial adjacency to and adhered against a surface of the master panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: William R. Corcoran, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8496773
    Abstract: A laminated web from which diaper closure elements may be punched is made by first applying at least two pairs longitudinally extending and transversely spaced bend-resistant strips to a first longitudinally extending nonwoven tape. Then a respective longitudinally extending strip of an elastically stretchable polymer is applied to the first nonwoven tape between each of the pairs of the bend-resistant strips with the polymer strip partially overlapping both of the bend-resistant strips of the respective pair. A second longitudinally extending nonwoven tape that covers and extends transversely to both sides of the polymer strip is applied over the bend-resistant strips and the polymer strips to form a laminate with the polymer strip between the first and second nonwoven tapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Mondi Consumer Packaging Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Bader, Marcus Schoenbeck, Mike Rolefs, Andreas Hagemann, Olga Fezert
  • Patent number: 8491740
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of fabricating a structural part comprising a tubular portion from which there projects a structural element made of composite material, the method comprising the steps of: shaping a plane preform comprising a stack of a plurality of superposed fiber plies such that over at least a fraction of the preform that is to form a structural portion, the plies are secured to one another, and over at least another fraction of the preform that is to form a portion for connecting to the tube, the plies are separable so as to form two facing sheets; inserting a tube between the sheets of the connection portion so that the sheets surround the tube at least in part; and bonding the tube to the preform such that the tube forms the tubular portion and the preform forms the structural element of the structural part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Messier-Bugatti-Dowty
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Serey, Patrick Dunleavy
  • Publication number: 20130184664
    Abstract: An absorbent article having water disintegratability that includes a water disintegratable top sheet, a water disintegratable back sheet, a pressure-sensitive adhesive section for attaching the absorbent article to clothing, disposed on the surface of the back sheet opposite the top sheet, and a release sheet for protection of a contact surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive section which contacts with clothing. One or more protrusions and one or more depressions are formed on the contact surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Azusa Matsushima, Kouichi Yamaki
  • Publication number: 20130177724
    Abstract: An example tooling system for processing a workpiece includes a base, disposed about an axis. A press is axially aligned with the base. The press defines a pressing surface. A mandrel extends along the axis from the base toward the press. The mandrel is disposed at least partially in a first cavity defined by one of the base or the press. The first cavity defines a profile different from the workpiece and is arranged to receive the workpiece. The mandrel is arranged to be inserted into at least one pocket in the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventor: Joseph Wycech
  • Publication number: 20130174970
    Abstract: A forming apparatus includes a base material jig provided on a base, adhesion means for making a sheet having an adhesion layer and covered to a base material retained on the base material jig adhere to the base material, and trimming means for performing trimming on the sheet with respect to the base material with the sheet adhered thereto, in a state in which the base material is not removed from the base material jig.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: ASANO LABORATORIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Mizoguchi, Kazunori Teramoto
  • Publication number: 20130174969
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional preform for a structural component made of a fiber composite material includes simultaneously laying a plurality of dry fibers on a workpiece carrier having a contour that corresponds to an intended three-dimensional shape of the perform and then fixing the fibers on an edge of the workpiece carrier. These steps are repeated in accordance with a predetermined fiber laying pattern until the three-dimensional perform has been completely formed. In addition, between each repetition, the fibers are cut beyond a segment of the fibers fixed on the edge of the workpiece carrier. After the three-dimensional preform has been completely formed, the three-dimensional preform is removed from the workpiece carrier and transferred to a subsequent manufacturing step. An apparatus configured to perform this method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: COMPOSITENCE GMBH
    Inventors: Ingo Karb, Rainer Kehrle, Volker Witzel
  • Patent number: 8480834
    Abstract: The method of labeling of a container including a medication includes, in at least one embodiment, reducing a size of the label using a label apparatus and reducing the label size using the label apparatus, applying a surface securing adhesive to at least one surface securing section of the label using an adhesive application apparatus, and attaching the at least one surface securing section of the label to the container with the securing adhesive. The method also includes applying a label securing adhesive to the label to maintain the label in the reduced orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Wayne Rice, James G. McErlean, E. Christian Hess, Andrew P. Booler, Allen Petten, P. Thomas Shupert, Michael Joseph Szesko, Orlando Vidal, Mark A. Detri
  • Patent number: 8480835
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to manufacture shaped counter top edges for custom counter tops. Sheet laminate is heated, clamped to a post form mold with clamping screws, and then formed around the post form mold into formed laminate. The formed laminate is then bonded to a substrate using adhesive and a bonding fixture having a plurality of bonding presses. Each bonding press has a pair of mutually opposed bonding press molds, each bonding press mold having a bonding press mold groove sized to admit a formed laminate around an edge of the substrate. Clamps hold the bonding press molds together, thereby urging the formed laminate into intimate contact with the substrate until the adhesive cures. A counter top edge is cut from the resulting substrate/laminate assembly at an edge first cut angle and an edge second cut angle to provide a neat and aesthetically pleasing installation on a counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: The Diller Corporation
    Inventor: John W Pehr
  • Publication number: 20130169222
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a multi wireless charging apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same. The multi wireless charging apparatus includes: a control unit wholly controlling a multi wireless charging process; and a plurality of wireless charging units electrically connected with the control and deformed into a roll form by being bonded so as to a plurality of interlayer voids at the time of laminating a plurality of flexible substrates. By this configuration, the multi wireless charging apparatus can be rolled up in a roll form while having a slim thickness and therefore, can be conveniently carried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130167281
    Abstract: This invention relates to a Sole baseball glove/mitt sole and a method of making the same such that a stamped, injection embossed molded glove shell parts may be achieved and recycled. This way the materials we use will go through many cycles of design, manufacture and use. A baseball glove having a foam rubber padding shell with low rebound and energy damping properties is constructed as a shoe sole. A baseball glove method comprising an air, EVA balls, gas or gel bladder disposed insert prior for a sole assembly of a shoe. A further object of the present invention is to provide a consistent flex pattern by the appropriate pre-curved system design while improving traditional glove design details and materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: JAMES EDWARD JENNINGS
  • Publication number: 20130168009
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing pieces of composite material having varied thicknesses is disclosed. The method includes a first stacking stage and a second forming and drying stage. In the second stage, a forming tool, which is adapted to the configuration of the piece, except in the zone affected by the change in thickness, is used. In the first stage, one or more pre-forms of the piece are stacked successively with some cloths having the dimensions needed for producing the change of thickness, some laminates of a peelable material, and some supplementary cloths in such a way that the resulting layers have the thickness needed to be adapted to the forming tool. At the end of the second stage, laminates resulting from the supplementary cloths and laminates of a peelable material are removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Airbus Operations, S.L.
    Inventors: Pablo Cebolla Garrofe, Carlos Romon Banogon, Francisco Javier Honorato Ruiz, Alejandro Fernandez Alonso, Aquilino Garcia Garcia, Jorge Juan Galiana Blanco, Pedro Nogueroles Vines
  • Publication number: 20130164502
    Abstract: Processes for forming a thermoformed labeled article are described. Labels are attached to a sheet to be thermoformed or to a section thereof. Label attachment can optionally use an adhesive. If the label material is completely or partially compatible with the sheet then the use of adhesive may not be necessary. The labels may also receive various graphics or other designs, such as by printing. After appropriate placement of the label relative to the sheet, the assembly of both sheet and label is thermoformed. After thermoforming, a finished and labeled article is produced. Also described are various labels and label assemblies which are uniquely suited for use in the processes described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Farid F. Ghiam, Victor P. Holbert, Michael Zajaczkowski, Kevin O. Henderson
  • Publication number: 20130153128
    Abstract: Structures such as layers of material associated with an electronic device may be assembled using adhesive. The adhesive may be dispensed onto the surface of an electronic device layer in liquid form. The liquid adhesive material may be a liquid pressure sensitive adhesive precursor material. Patterned structures such as touch sensor electrodes, black ink masking layers, and other structures may be formed on the electronic device layer. The use of liquid adhesive material may help the adhesive material flow over the edges of the patterned structures without forming bubbles or voids. Following application of the liquid pressure sensitive adhesive precursor material, the liquid pressure sensitive adhesive precursor material may be cured to form a solid layer of pressure sensitive adhesive. The layer of material on which the solid layer of pressure sensitive adhesive has been formed may then be vacuum laminated to an additional electronic device layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: James R. Krogdahl, James M. Cuseo
  • Patent number: 8465613
    Abstract: Tooling apparatus for forming a composite charge into a contoured composite blade stringer includes an elongate punch and an elongate die flexible along their lengths. The charge is press formed by using the punch to drive the charge into the die. The punch and the die are mounted between a pair of flexible plates. A press coupled with the plates contours the charge by bending the plates into a desired contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel M. Rotter, Michael R. Chapman, Brad A. Coxon, Paul E. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20130146734
    Abstract: A protection stand comprises a planar surface having first and second sides. The first side of the planar surface comprises a plurality of conical stands that converge away from the planar surface. The second side comprises first and second layers, wherein the first layer is positioned between the planar surface and the second layer and comprises an adaptable cushion for conforming to the surface area of the object resting on the protection stand. The second layer comprises an assembly side and an attachment side, both of such sides comprising an adhesive bond for securing the assembly side to the first layer and the attachment side to the cross-sectional surface of the object resting on the protection stand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: WAXMAN CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP INC.
    Inventor: MATTHEW SMITH
  • Publication number: 20130146210
    Abstract: A flexible mandrel 100 has a plurality of flexible elements 130 extending between two spaced flanges 110, 120. A means for adjusting the radial position of each of the flexible elements 130 along the length of the mandrel 100 between the flanges 130 enables the plurality of flexible elements 130 to be configured in a variety of symmetrical and asymmetrical forms. Conventional composite fibre or tape laying techniques may then be used to form one-piece, revolute, composite components. The flexible mandrel 100 can then be collapsed and withdrawn from the interior volume 202 of the formed component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
  • Publication number: 20130144267
    Abstract: An elongate medical device includes an elongate core and a substantially flat sheet formed into a tubular body defining a longitudinal axis and disposed around at least a portion of the elongate core, where the flat sheet has a length, and where a cross-sectional thickness of the sheet varies along the length of the sheet. The tubular body has proximal and distal portions, and a cross-sectional thickness of the sheet forming the distal portion of the tubular body may be less than a cross-sectional thickness of the sheet forming the proximal portion of the tubular body. A cross-sectional thickness of the sheet forming the tubular body preferably tapers from the proximal portion to the distal portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicants: STRYKER NV OPERATIONS LIMITED, STRYKER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stryker Corporation, Stryker NV Operations Limited
  • Publication number: 20130139615
    Abstract: Disclosed is a strain gauge type force-torque sensor and a method for manufacturing the same. More specifically, a first sensor structure having a convex part on a bonding surface thereof and a second sensor structure having a concave part bonded to the convex part of the first sensor structure are formed. The gauge film is formed by installing a strain gauge on a flexible film. The gauge film is compressively interposed between the bonding surface of the first sensor structure having the convex part and a bonding surface of the second sensor structure having the concave part to initially deform the gauge film. The first sensor structure and the second sensor structure are fixed to each other in a state where the gauge film is initially deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Soon-myung Kwom, HyunJin Jung, Hiwon Lee
  • Publication number: 20130133816
    Abstract: Described herein are fiber-reinforced composite members and methods and systems for making the same. The composite members can be any of various types, including load-bearing structural members such as frame rails for a truck chassis. The composite members can be formed directly in a desired shape, such as with a pultrusion process, with irregular features, such as bolt holes, preformed therein without damaging the fibers. The composite members can provide similar or greater overall strength compared to metal members with reduced weight, and can comprise fibers distributed and oriented in such a manner to create additional strength in desired locations and directions and reduced strength in other locations/directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: DAIMLER TRUCKS NORTH AMERICA LLC
    Inventor: Daimler Trucks North America LLC
  • Publication number: 20130126073
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a releasable composite prepreg for compression, sheet, or bulk molding. The method includes mixing together a resin and a curing agent, adding a release agent to the resin and curing agent creating a releasable epoxy, applying a backing to the releasable epoxy; and positioning a plurality of fibers within the releasable epoxy creating a releasable composite prepreg. The releasable composite prepreg created through the method can be molded to create components without requiring application of an external mold release agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Apple Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130126074
    Abstract: A surface of a laminate base body including a projection is caused to penetrate at least a film-shaped laminating body and surely laminated by a simple configuration, and a laminate thereof is formed at a uniform thickness without an occurrence of voids. A laminating device is provided with a heating unit configured to heat at least an insulating resin film; an upper plate and a lower plate configured to be capable of opening and closing, and configured to form a chamber that becomes sealed upon closing; a receiving member having an elasticity and disposed on the upper plate; an elastic membrane body disposed on the lower plate; a vacuuming unit configured to vacuum inside of the chamber; and a compressing unit configured to bloat the elastic membrane body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA MEIKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: KABUSHIKI KAISHA MEIKI SEISAKUSHO
  • Publication number: 20130129526
    Abstract: A method for forming a laminate component, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a tool having a moulding surface; b) arranging a stack of ply layers on the moulding surface of the tool; and c) moulding the stack of ply layers over the moulding surface in a moulding process, wherein the tool has a wrinkle control feature in its moulding surface for managing the development of wrinkle in the ply layers during the moulding process, and wherein the wrinkle control feature cooperates with the stack of ply layers during the moulding process to produce a local surface undulation in a nominal surface of the laminate component nearest the tool to either prevent wrinkling in the ply layers or initiate wrinkling in one or more of the ply layers at a predetermined location. Also, a tool having a wrinkle control feature, and a laminate component so formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventor: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
  • Publication number: 20130128412
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode for an energy storage and a method for manufacturing the same and provides a useful effect of improving resistance characteristics of an electrode for an energy storage and strengthening adhesion by forming trenches of predetermined dimensions on a surface of a current collector, forming a conductive layer, which includes a conductive agent as much as possible, on the surface of the current collector, and forming a bonding layer including an active material, a conductive agent, and a binder and an electrode layer including an active material and a binder on the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Jun Hee Bae, Bae Kyun Kim, Ho Jin Yun, Yeong Su Cho, Chang Ryul Jung, Hak Kwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20130122244
    Abstract: A multifunctional fully integral panel system design, a unique material configuration, and a process for fabricating a net shape (or nearly net shape) panel in one production cycle. The panel may comprise a base facing with an outer perimeter, a decorative film applied to the exterior of the base facing, an aft facing having an outer perimeter fused to the base facing, and a reinforcement core disposed between the unfused portions of the base and aft facings, which reinforcement core also acts as acoustic insulation (i.e., a noise attenuator). Alternatively or additionally, a foam core or blanket having thermal and/or acoustic insulation properties is attached to the external surface of the aft facing. The fabrication process involves the application of different heat treatments to panel components having different forming temperature or rubbery/elastic plateaus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Jayant Dahyabhai Patel, John N. Harris, Sergio H. Sanchez, James A. Fullerton
  • Publication number: 20130118675
    Abstract: Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for manufacturing sheet material. In one representative embodiment, a sheet of fabric material is positioned across a patterning template that has a number of openings; and the sheet of fabric material and the patterning template are fed through an extrusion device in which extrusion material coats the fabric material and forces the fabric material into the openings in the patterning template, thereby producing a composite sheet material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: DYNASTY FOOTWEAR, LTD.
    Inventor: Dynasty Footwear, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8435372
    Abstract: A flexible container cover with an elastic gathering band around its edge is formed from a rectangular sheet of plastic film with recessed cut corners to form four flaps. The sheet is placed atop a mandrel having a rectangular flat top with eaves or undercut surfaces and four corner slots. Four hooks are positioned outside the slots so they underlie the cut-off corners of the sheet. An elastic band is stretched around the hooks and the flaps of the sheet. The hooks are moved inwardly into the slots to allow the segments of the band to pull and fold a middle portion of each flap inward. A set of tucker blades is then moved inward to push the folded portions of the flaps against side surfaces of the mandrel under the eaves. Four heat-sealing bars are moved up against the eaves to seal the flaps around the segments of the band to form hems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Les Industries Touch Inc.
    Inventor: Claus E. Sadlier
  • Publication number: 20130108008
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of the two dimensional arrays of gadolinium oxysulfide. An array has wider width non-silver based spacers (304) that extend between rows or columns of dixels and narrower width non-silver based spacers (306) that extend between the other of the rows or columns of dixels. The method further includes applying a silver coating (312) to at least one of a top or bottom surface of the arrays. The method further includes forming a stack by stacking the silver coated arrays, one on top of another (FIG. 3B), with substantially equal layers of adhesive between adjacent arrays. The method further includes slicing the stack through the wider non- silver based spacers to form two dimensional arrays of scintillator dixels (314) having silver based spacers (312) along at least one direction of the array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventor: Simha Levene
  • Patent number: 8419876
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a composite structure exhibiting reduced flammability includes forming a joint between two composite sections and substantially filling the joint with a structural adhesive. A strip of intumescent material is formed and placed in the joint surrounded by the intumescent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: John N. Harris
  • Patent number: 8419877
    Abstract: Building panels with a thin and embossed surface layer and a sub layer between a surface layer and a core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Ceraloc Innovation Belgium BVBA
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Jan Jacobsson, Kent Lindgren, Göran Ziegler, Niclas Håkansson, Eddy Boucké
  • Patent number: 8419875
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a curved structural element made of composite material has a complex, open cross-section the structural element is formed by the assembly of components made of composite material. A plurality of flat, fresh components are prepared, each component being constituted by a flat layer of curved fibres previously infused with resin, combined with a pre-impregnated layer with straight fibres. Hot-forming of the flat, raw components is then performed. The hot-formed, fresh components are then assembled in accordance with a predetermined sequence on a polymerization tool. The tool includes a shaped, inflatable device astride which a C-shaped raw component is deposited. Finally, the fresh components assembled on the tool are subjected to a polymerization cycle in an autoclave. The inflatable device is inflated by the pressure produced in the autoclave to apply a predetermined pressure from the inside of the C-shaped fresh component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A.
    Inventors: Sabato Inserra Imparato, Vincenzo De Vita, Gianni Iagulli, Luca Di Tommaso
  • Publication number: 20130087259
    Abstract: A tread band of raw elastomeric material is circumferentially applied around a bearing structure incorporating reinforcing cords, for forming a green tyre subsequently submitted to a curing treatment. The tread band is formed by: making an underlayer of raw elastomeric material; making blocks of raw elastomeric material; and applying the blocks mutually spaced apart according to a predetermined tread pattern, onto the underlayer. During introduction of the tyre into a curing mould, the blocks are put in alignment with respective forming recesses before closing the mould, so that each block is engaged in the respective forming recess, following closure of the mould.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventor: Gianni Mancini
  • Publication number: 20130085315
    Abstract: A toroidal brachytherapy balloon is provided that fits over any brachytherapy applicator and reproducibly positions the applicator on every use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: RADIADYNE, LLC
    Inventor: RadiaDyne, LLC
  • Publication number: 20130084036
    Abstract: An optical waveguide device using a thin substrate having an electro-optical effect and having a thickness of 10 ?m or less, in which, even when the thin substrate is adhered to a supporting substrate, breakage of the thin substrate or supporting substrate is suppressed, and performance deterioration such as optical loss due to fine cracks is also suppressed. The optical waveguide device includes a thin substrate, which has an electro-optical effect and a thickness of 10 ?m or less, and in which an optical waveguide is formed, and a supporting substrate that is adhered to the thin substrate through an adhesion layer. A structure is formed in a thin-substrate side surface of the supporting substrate, and the supporting substrate is annealed at a high temperature that is equal to or lower than the Curie temperature after forming the concavo-convex structure and before being adhered to the thin substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130082447
    Abstract: A spiral wound gasket includes a resilient sealing element including spirally wound, alternating layers of metal banding and winding fill material that incorporates a significant quantity of talc with quantities of fiber and binder. Either or both of an outer guide ring and inner guide ring may extend from peripheral outer and inner surfaces of the sealing element. Embodiments of the gasket overlay one or both axial faces of the sealing element with a layer facing material that incorporates a significant quantity of talc with quantities of fiber and binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: GARLOCK SEALING TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wayne Evans, Chad Yoder, Sherwin Damdar, Paul Jude Nichols, Richard Lynn Dibble
  • Publication number: 20130062902
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing an inner cladding part for vehicles by lamination of a first, preferably flexible material layer, having an upper side and an underside, onto a preferably dimensionally stable carrier, having a preferably three-dimensional surface contour of the carrier, with a thermally activatable adhesive applied to the underside of the material layer and/or the surface contour of the carrier. Carbon nanotubes, forming a heating device, are in contact with the adhesive at least in one sub-region. The method includes heating the adhesive in the sub-region by applying a voltage to the carbon nanotubes, as a result of which the adhesive is activated, and compressing the material layer and the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Lisa Draexlmaier GmbH
    Inventor: Josef Aussermeier
  • Publication number: 20130062003
    Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus and a method of forming a material of low ductility including providing a first sheet made from a material of low ductility, providing an integrated forming device comprising a heat source and a forming element, and moving the forming element relative to the first sheet along a forming direction while simultaneously heating a localized portion of the first sheet along the forming direction at a substantially constant predetermined distance in front of the forming element. The predetermined distance is selected so as to yield a predetermined temperature to achieve a predetermined ductility at the localized portion of the first sheet when the forming element reaches the localized portion of the first sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: MAGNA INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Boris Shulkin, Maximilian Amtmann, Hongping Gu
  • Publication number: 20130062002
    Abstract: A device and to a method for the production of essentially two-dimensionally arched large-area structural components from a fiber composite material, including a jig having a convex mounting surface which has longitudinally extending receiving channels for the insertion of construction components and which can be loaded with auxiliary materials, wherein the loaded jig interacts with a laminating bonding device having a corresponding shape for forming the structural component under pressure, wherein the jig includes a mounting shell that at the edge can be elastically deformed inwards, which mounting shell, by way of a plurality of actuators that are articulated to the inside, can be moved between an extended position (A) and at least one retracted position (B) in which the jig can be moved relative to the longitudinally extending receiving channels from the laminating bonding device without undercuts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Adrian Wachendorf, Niels Deschauer, Adam Andrä