Abstract: An Anisotropic Conductive Film (ACF) is stuck to a substrate by: under-receiving the substrate on which a film-shaped component is mounted by a under-receiving section, transporting a tape member in which a base tape is bonded to the ACF by a tape transport section and causing a sticking surface of the ACF to face the substrate, pressing the ACF together with the base tape on the substrate by a pressing tool and sticking the ACF to the substrate, peeling the ACF sticking to the substrate from the base tape by moving a peeling member in a horizontal direction by causing the peeling member to be interposed between the ACF and the base tape, and regulating an upward warpage deformation of the component during peeling the ACF from the base tape by moving the peeling member.

Abstract: A method of scribing a graphic on a material is provided, in which laser output is applied to the material. The laser output is moved relative to the material at a high speed greater than 10 m per second, and at a high power greater than 500 W, to scribe a graphic on a surface of the material. Also provided is a system for scribing a graphic on a material. The method and system of the invention are especially useful in the scribing of building materials.

Abstract: A triboelectrically neutral polymer material which resists charging when contacted with another material is provided. The polymer material comprises at least a first polymer and a second polymer, the first polymer having a first rating on a triboelectric series and the second polymer having a second rating on a triboelectric series that is more negative than the first rating. A method of preparing the polymer material is also provided.

Abstract: A method of producing a contact element for an optoelectronic component includes providing an auxiliary carrier with a sacrificial layer arranged on a top side of the auxiliary carrier; providing a carrier structure having a top side and a rear side situated opposite the top side, wherein an insulation layer is arranged at the rear side of the carrier structure; connecting the sacrificial layer to the insulation layer by an electrically conductive connection layer; creating at least one blind hole extending from the top side of the carrier structure as far as the insulation layer; opening the insulation layer in a region of the at least one blind hole; arranging an electrically conductive material in the at least one blind hole; detaching the auxiliary carrier by separating the sacrificial layer; and patterning the electrically conductive connection layer.

Abstract: Disclosed are a decorative tape including a printing layer, a base film layer on the printing layer, a nickel deposited layer on the base film layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on the nickel deposited layer; a method of manufacturing the decorative tape; and a decorative cover using the decorative tape.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and/or a system for personalizing substrates and/or preparing substrates before gold-plating. In particular, the invention consists of a printing method comprising a step in which the substrate is subjected to inkjet printing followed by a gold-plating step in which the regions of the substrate to be gold-plated are brought into contact with the gold-plating leaf, characterized by an additional step performed prior to the gold-plating step and which consists in the preparation of the substrate.

Abstract: One variation includes a method including using a reversible dry adhesive system to reversibly couple a first substrate to a second substrate. One variation includes a method including using a reversible dry adhesive system to reversibly couple a first substrate to a second substrate during building or reconfiguring a product.

Abstract: A step of scattering electrically conductive particles on a wiring board having wiring that is formed in accordance with an array pattern of the electrically conductive particles and prevented from being charged, and charging the electrically conductive particles; a step of aligning the charged electrically conductive particles in a predetermined array pattern corresponding to the wiring pattern by moving a squeegee on the wiring board; and a step of bonding a transfer film having an adhesive material layer formed thereon to the wiring board and transferring the electrically conductive particles aligned in a predetermined array pattern to the adhesive layer.

Abstract: A method for making a carbon nanotube structure includes providing a substitute substrate, a growing substrate, and a carbon nanotube array, the carbon nanotube array grown on the growing substrate. A carbon nanotube structure can be drawn from the carbon nanotube array. The carbon nanotube structure includes carbon nanotube segments joined end-to-end. The carbon nanotube array is transferred from the growing substrate onto the substitute substrate. During transfer, structural integrity of the carbon nanotube array is maintained. The carbon nanotube structure is drawn from the carbon nanotube array transferred onto the substitute substrate.

Abstract: A transfer film is provided which includes a sacrificial template layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, wherein the second surface comprises a non-planar structured surface and a thermally stable backfill layer applied to the second surface of the sacrificial template layer, wherein the backfill layer has a structured surface corresponding with and applied to the non-planar structured surface of the sacrificial template layer. The sacrificial template layer comprises oriented dimensionally anisotropic inorganic nanomaterials and is capable of being removed from the backfill layer while leaving the structured surface of the backfill layer and the oriented dimensionally anisotropic inorganic nanomaterials substantially intact.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an organic light emitting device may include the following. A panel displaying an image is formed. A buffering member including a dummy buffering member is adhered to the panel. A film is adhered to an upper surface of the buffering member. The film and the dummy buffering member are removed.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for sublimating printed images onto two or more products substantially simultaneously are disclosed. Software components are configured to receive input of a desired number of products to sublimate, and then determine a spatial arrangement of the printed images on transfer media to sublimate the desired number of products substantially simultaneously. The apparatus is configured to print the images onto the media according to the spatial arrangement, then position the media onto a substrate. The products are automatically placed on the media proximate to their corresponding printed images. The apparatus manipulates the media to substantially surround the products and places at least one image onto each side of each product to be sublimated. One or more heating platens engage the media to sublimate the images. The heating platens are configured, using a control, to sublimate multiple products substantially simultaneously in a single thermal cycle.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed by which patterned layers can be formed in a roll-to-roll process using a variable and programmable means for applying liquids and solutions used in the patterning process.

Abstract: A method of transferring materials by using petroleum jelly is provided. An example of the method involves forming a material on a first substrate, forming a transfer support made from petroleum jelly on the material, removing the first substrate, stacking the material and the petroleum jelly transfer support after removing the first substrate on a second substrate, and removing the petroleum jelly transfer support.

Abstract: An adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline comprises a substrate layer with a first surface and a second surface, an adhesive material layer, and a highlighting baseline layer: the adhesive material layer has one plane contacting the first surface or the second surface of the substrate layer and the other plane adhering to an object in which some text contents are included; the highlighting baseline layer designed on the first surface or the second surface of the substrate layer gets close to and highlights the text contents in an object to which the other plane of the adhesive material layer adheres.

Abstract: Adhesive compositions are described which can be selectively detackified or deadened. Articles using such adhesive compositions are also described. Also described are techniques in which select regions of adhesive layers in the articles are detackified. Also described are systems and methods using the various articles and adhesive compositions. And particular label constructions are described.

Abstract: A peeling apparatus including a support body supply unit, a support body hold unit, a transfer mechanism, and a first structure body. The first structure body has a convex surface. The support body supply unit has a function of unwinding a first support body and includes one of a pair of tension applying mechanisms. The support body hold unit includes the other of the pair of tension applying mechanisms. The pair of tension applying mechanisms applies tension to the first support body. The transfer mechanism has a function of transferring a process member. The first structure body has a function of bending back the first support body along the convex surface. The first structure body has a function of dividing the process member into a first member and a second member. An angle at which the first structure body bends back the first support body is an obtuse angle.

Abstract: A method for transferring a carbon nanotube array includes providing a substitute substrate, a growing substrate, and a carbon nanotube array. The carbon nanotube array is grown on the growing substrate. A carbon nanotube structure can be drawn from the carbon nanotube array. The carbon nanotube structure includes carbon nanotube segments joined end-to-end. The carbon nanotube array is transferred from the growing substrate onto the substitute substrate. During transfer, the structural integrity of the carbon nanotube array is maintained.

Abstract: A frame assembly for a donor film includes a main frame, an extension frame, and a clamping unit. The main frame extends in a first direction. The extension frame includes a cavity region configured to receive at least a portion of the main frame, the extension frame being coupled to at least one side of the main frame and moveable in the first direction relative to the main frame. The clamping unit is configured to detachably couple the donor film to the frame assembly, the extension frame being disposed between the at least one side of the main frame and the clamping unit.

Abstract: A placental tissue assembly for treating wounds or surfaces of a patient has one or more layers of placental tissue and a backing material. The one or more layers of placental tissue have a first side and a second side. The backing material is adhered to and covers one of either the first or second sides of the one or more layers of placental tissue to create the assembly. The assembly when applied onto a surface to be treated on the side of the tissue opposite the backing material adheres to the surface with an attachment force greater than an attachment force of the backing material adhered to the first or second side. This allows the backing material to be released leaving the placental tissue affixed to the surface to be treated.

Abstract: A screen protector installation tray can include an alignment tray, a screen protector retained within the alignment tray via a retention adhesive, and a removable cover disposed on an opposing side of the alignment tray. Also, a method for applying a mobile device screen protector to a mobile device, including retaining a screen protector within an alignment tray via a retention adhesive, applying the alignment tray to the mobile device, disengaging the retention adhesive, interfacing the screen protector with a screen of the mobile device, and removing the alignment tray. Additionally, a mobile device screen protector installation kit, including an alignment tray, a screen protector, and instructions for applying a screen protector to a screen of a mobile device.

Abstract: An iterative process of depositing on a solid electrolyte a coating of unconnected particles composed of an ionically conductive material. A liquid solution is also applied. The liquid solution includes an inorganic component. The deposited liquid is heated to a temperature sufficient to evaporate or otherwise remove some or all of the volatile components of the liquid solution. Typically the temperature is below 1000° and often at about 850° C. The effect of heating the solution is to cause ion conducting material in the solution to adhere to the surface of the existing ion conducting particles and form connections between these particles. This is understood to create an ion conducting skeletal support structure. Within the intrestices of this skeletal support structure, the step of heating is also understood to result in the deposition of the inorganic component that will begin to form a electron conducting structure.

Abstract: One embodiment of a substrate laminator comprises a housing that includes a cartridge receiver, a substrate transport, a cartridge and a cartridge position adjustment mechanism. The substrate transport mechanism is configured to feed substrates along the processing path in a lengthwise direction. The cartridge is received in the cartridge receiver and includes a ribbon supply. The cartridge position adjustment mechanism is configured to adjust the position of the cartridge in a widthwise direction relative to the substrate processing path.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a touch panel includes the steps of forming the touch panel from a forming material and a film with a conductive electrode formed with a conductive electrode region constituting a touch surface on a substrate film, and deforming the film with the conductive electrode and integrating with the forming material to fabricate the touch panel with a curved touch surface. The conductive electrode region in the film with the conductive electrode includes a discontinuous part for controlling a breakage of the conductive electrode region so that during a deformation of the film with the conductive electrode, a breakage occurs at one portion of a deformed part of the conductive electrode region and the conductive electrode region retains conductivity at two points sandwiching the deformed part therebetween.

Abstract: A method for equipping a film material with at least one electrically conductive conductor structure, wherein a dispersion containing metallic nanoparticles in the form of a conductor structure is applied to a thermostable transfer material and the metallic nanoparticles are sintered to form an electrically conductive conductor structure. The electrically conductive conductor structure of sintered metallic nanoparticles is then transferred from the thermostable transfer material to the non-thermostable film material. A method for producing a laminate material using the film material using at least one electrically conductive conductor structure, and to the corresponding film material and laminate material are described.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprint method comprises coating a photo-curable organic material on a film to be processed, bringing a concave-convex pattern of a template into contact with the photo-curable organic material, applying a force to the template in such a state that the template is brought into contact with the photo-curable organic material, curing the photo-curable organic material by irradiating light onto the photo-curable organic material, in such a state that the template is brought into contact with the photo-curable organic material, and releasing the template from the photo-curable organic material after the light irradiation. The force applied to the template corresponds to a gap between a surface of the film to be processed and the template.

Abstract: Provided are a system and a method for manufacturing an optical display device and a material roll, which can effectively prevent the production of defective optical display devices even in a process including drawing a long sheet material from a material roll and bonding an optical film to an optical display unit, and which is a roll of a laminate of a first base film, a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, an optical film, a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a second base film, which are wound in the roll in this order from the outside, and has a width corresponding to the length of any one side of a rectangular optical display unit, wherein the adhering strength A of the first base film-side interface of the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the adhering strength B of the optical film-side interface of the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the adhering strength C of the optical film-side interface of the second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and the adhering strength D of

Abstract: An optical element having an antireflection effect includes an incident plane and an emission plane and a conical microstructure formed on at least one plane of the incident plane and the emission plane. The conical microstructure includes a first structure formed of a plurality of conical microprojections with an average height H1 and a second structure formed of a plurality of conical microrecesses with an average height H2. The average height H1 satisfies an inequality H1?1/3*?/n and the average height H2 satisfies an inequality H2?1/3*?/n. An average pitch P between the first structure and the second structure satisfies following conditions: H1/2?P?1/3*?/n, and H2/2?P?1/3*?/n, in which the use wavelength is defined as ? and the refractive index relative to the use wavelength is n.

Abstract: A double-sided adhesive tape useful for adhesively bonding articles composed of thermoplastic polymer, of EPDM, or of another rubberlike material is provided, having a first outer, pressure-sensitive adhesive side and a second outer, thermally-activatable side, and that comprises an at least dual-layered product construction consisting of layers A and B, layer A being a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that is chemically cross-linked by thermal initiation, or being a pressure-sensitively adhesive carrier layer chemically cross-linked by thermal initiation, layer B being a thermoplastic synthetic material-based layer, layers A and B being in direct contact with one another, and the surface of layer A, which is in direct contact with layer B, having been corona or plasma pre-treated. The corona or plasma pre-treatment takes place in an atmosphere of nitrogen, carbon dioxide or a noble gas, or a mixture of at least two of these gases.

Abstract: A device for pasting an optical protection film on a flat screen includes: a holder, a roller holder and a peeling stick, wherein a gate-shaped slot, a rear locating slot and rear locating columns are provided on a rear side of the holder; a device locating chamber, a sliding track, a front locating slot and locating columns are provided on a front side of the holder; wherein the roller holder includes: a roller shell and a roller, wherein the peeling stick is provided inside the front locating slot or the rear locating slot, the roller holder is provided on the sliding track on the front side of the holder for moving. According to the present invention, locating is accurate, pasting costs less time and less effort, and pasting quality is ensured.

Abstract: A system for adhering a length of continuous substrate to a mounting surface is disclosed. The continuous substrate can be attached to a mounting surface by a regular array of spaced apart adhesive segments disposed longitudinally along the continuous substrate and between the mounting surface and the continuous substrate.

Abstract: A resin-rich peel ply that does not leave behind residual fibers after peeling and can work well with different resin-based composite substrates. The resin-rich peel ply is composed of a woven fabric impregnated with a resin matrix different from the resin matrix of the composite substrate. The peel ply is designed such that, upon manual removal of the peel ply from the composite substrate's surface, a thin film of the peel ply resin remains on the composite substrate's surface to create a bondable surface capable of bonding with another composite substrate, but no fibrous material from the woven fabric remains on the same surface.

Abstract: Methods for transferring nanoparticles and nanowires to permanent glass receptors using transfer films. The transfer films include nanoparticles within a sacrificial material having a structured backfill layer on a substrate and a nanowire formulation between sacrificial substrates. To transfer the nanoparticles, the transfer film is laminated to a glass receptor, the substrate is removed, and the sacrificial material is baked-out to leave the nanoparticles aligned within the structured surface of the backfill layer on the glass receptor. To transfer the nanowires, the transfer film is laminated to a glass receptor, and the sacrificial substrates are baked-out to leave the nanowires aligned on the glass receptor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radioactive cesium adsorbent, a method for producing the same, and a method for decontaminating the environment from radioactive cesium with the adsorbent. The radioactive cesium adsorbent of the present invention includes a hydrophilic fiber substrate supporting a Prussian blue analog, in particular, Prussian blue, and the Prussian blue analog is immobilized in the inside of the fibers.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and a related systems and tools for dispensing an adhesive piece having damping qualities onto a component of a hard disk drive suspension. The adhesive piece can be commercially available layered strip sold as an adhesive layer having a first and a second liner adhered to each side. An exemplary method can cut an adhesive piece, separate the adhesive piece from a secondary liner, adhere the adhesive piece onto a component of a hard disk drive suspension, separate a primary liner from the adhesive piece, and dispose of the primary liner using a conventional gantry system. The method can be performed using a two-step operation of the gantry system.

Abstract: A composite having (a) a substrate that has opposing first and second surfaces, the substrate being at least 90% transmissive in visible light and has less than 5% haze, (b) a nanostructured article including a matrix and a nanoscale dispersed phase and having a random nanostructured anisotropic surface; and (c) an optically clear adhesive disposed on the second surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Applying and using a protective film on a portable electronic device includes provision and application of a protective film product to a surface of the portable electronic device. The protective film product includes at least a protective film, an adhesive layer on one surface of the protective film and a removable cap sheet on an opposite surface of the protective film. An adhesive area of the adhesive layer is applied to a surface of the electronic device, and pressure is applied to the cap sheet to remove air bubbles trapped between the adhesive layer and the electronic device. The cap sheet is removed, and remaining air bubbles are permitted to diffuse through the adhesive and protective film.

Abstract: A device for applying a sealing compound into a closure cap for containers comprising: an outer stamp (18) and a concentric inner stamp (14), the stamps being movable with respect to each other, an annular gap (26) between the stamps (14, 18), which is open towards the outside or the inside and of which at least one section is variable between an initial gap width and a gap width zero in the movement direction of the stamps in an axial relative movement of the stamps (14, 18), a feeding system for plasticized sealing compound within a stamp, which is connected to the annular gap (26), a mechanism that prevent any reflux of the melt from the annular gap, and adjustment mechanism for at least one of the stamps for changing the gap width of the annular gap.

Abstract: Disclosed are various features associated with a securing mechanism for a wafer bonder. In certain situations, operation of securing mechanisms can generate undesirable particles and debris, and some them can be introduced to a wafer being bonded. In certain implementations, a securing mechanism can be configured to reduce the likelihood of such particles and debris being introduced to the wafer.

Abstract: A method of transferring an image to an article is provided using a heat-transfer assembly having a support layer and an image transfer layer, wherein the image transfer layer contains a binder, ink receptor and a film-forming, hydrophilic blocking agent. When an aqueous ink composition is used to print an image on the upper surface of the transfer assembly, the blocking agent is disrupted in the imaged areas, but not the unimaged areas, such that when the image is transferred to a substrate by the application of heat and pressure, substantially all of the binder in the unimaged areas remains with the transfer assembly.

Abstract: An applicator, related applicator system, and a method for delivering a self-adhesive material are provided. The applicator includes an outer surface, and an inner surface opposite the outer surface. The inner surface of the applicator defines a void that is operable to receive the self-adhesive material. At least a portion of the inner surface releasably adhere the applicator side of the self-adhesive material where the adhesive force between the portion of the inner surface and the applicator side being less than adhesive force between the substrate and the substrate side. The applicator is used by placing the applicator in contact with a substrate, pressing the applicator against the substrate such that the self-adhesive material adheres to the substrate, and releasing the applicator from the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for forming graphene at a low temperature, to a method for direct transfer of graphene using same, and to a graphene sheet. The method for forming graphene at a low temperature comprises supplying a carbon-source-containing gas to a metal catalyst layer for graphene growth formed on a substrate, and forming graphene at a low temperature of 500° C. or less by means of inductively coupled plasma-chemical vapor deposition (ICP-CVD).

Abstract: Retroreflective articles and methods of making the same, wherein the retroreflective articles (10) include composite cube-corner elements (12) having a first light transmissive polymeric layer (30), a second light transmissive polymeric layer (32), and an interface therebetween, wherein the first light transmissive polymeric layer has a first index of refraction, the second light transmissive polymeric layer has a second index of refraction, and the first and second indices of refraction have an absolute difference of at least 0.0002.

Abstract: Adhesive compositions for styrene polymers are provided. The adhesives are suitable for use as tie-layers in multi-layer films and sheets and comprise a polyolefin base resin, a functionalized polyolefin and a combination of styrene triblock copolymers.

Abstract: Nanorods assemblies that have lengths in excess of 50 microns to meters are formed from contacting rice-shaped colloidal superparticles that are aligned along the long axis of the colloidal superparticles. The rice-shaped colloidal superparticles are formed from a multiplicity of nanorods with a high degree of association that is end to end to form colloidal superparticles that are in excess of three microns in length and have a length to diameter ratio of about three or more. Methods of preparing the rice-shaped colloidal superparticles employ mixing with an additional ligand to the nanorods to bias the self assembly of the nanorods by solvophobic interactions. Methods of preparing the nanorods assemblies include the infusion of the rice-shaped colloidal superparticles into microchannels patterned on a substrate, wherein the rice-shaped colloidal superparticles' long axes align in the microchannels.

Abstract: A method of reusing an existing emblem from a vehicle. The method includes the steps of providing the identification of the existing emblem. From there, the dimensional characteristics of the existing emblem can be determined. The determined dimensional characteristics are then turned into a plurality of perforations through an adhesive sheet so that they correspond to the dimensional characteristics of the existing emblem. The existing emblem can then be applied to the adhesive sheet, and in turn, can be attached to a vehicle by way of the adhesive sheet. An entire library of templates corresponding to the dimensional characteristics of a plurality of existing emblems can be created.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for thermally applying and removing a graphic to and from seat-belt webbing, the apparatus comprising a housing with an engagement slot to receive the seat-belt webbing and a graphic thermal coupon. The apparatus and graphic coupon useable without removing the seat belt webbing from the vehicle. The apparatus further useable while an occupant is seated with the seat belt fully engaged to allow the graphic coupon to be optimally positioned on the seat belt. The thermal graphic coupon comprising three layers including a heat transfer layer, a graphic membrane layer and an adhesive protective layer. The graphic membrane layer includes a graphic image that is actively applied to the seat belt webbing at specified temperatures without compromising the integrity of the seat belt webbing. The graphic is removed by reversing the process using a release sheet that preferentially absorbs the graphic membrane when reheated.

Abstract: A to-be-cut liquid crystal mother panel includes a TFT mother substrate forming at least one voltage-applying area onto which an external voltage is applied, a CF mother substrate arranged corresponding to the TFT mother substrate, and a pressure-reduction member located between the CF mother substrate and the TFT mother substrate; the pressure-reduction member corresponds to the voltage-applying area for reducing an adsorptive force between the voltage-applying area and an end portion of the CF mother substrate corresponding to the voltage-applying area. The pressure-reduction member increases the surface roughness of the end portion, avoids a vacuum state formed between the end portion and the voltage-applying area, reduces the adsorptive force between the end portion and the voltage-applying area, and allows the splitting device to separate the end portion from the TFT mother substrate easily after the liquid crystal mother panel is cut.

Abstract: A structure comprising high aspect ratio molecular structures (HARM-structures), wherein the structure comprises an essentially planar network (2) of HARM-structures, and a support (3) in contact with the network (2). The support (3) has an opening (5) therein, at the peripheral region (4) of which opening (5) the network (2) is in contact with the support (3), such that the middle part of the network (2) is unsupported by the support (3). The network (2) comprises essentially randomly oriented HARM-structures.

Abstract: A method of applying graphics to a set of articles with a graphic transfer assembly is disclosed. The method includes a step of selecting an article from a set of articles comprising different types of articles. After selecting a last that may be associated with the article, the last may be attached to a last assembly of the graphic transfer assembly. With the article attached to the graphic transfer assembly, a deformable membrane may apply graphics to curved portions of the article.