Abstract: A method for manufacturing a tubular body, includes: attaching a first member to an outer or inner peripheral surface of one end in an axial direction of a cylindrical core, along a circumferential direction of the peripheral surface thereof; applying a first resin solution on the peripheral surface, to cover it and the peripheral surface of one end of the first member closer to the center of the core, and to form a coating (first coat film); attaching a second member to the peripheral surface of the end of the first coat film on the side where the first member has been attached; applying a second resin solution on the peripheral surface of the first coat film, to cover it and the peripheral surface of the end of the second member closer to the center, and to form a coating (second coat film); peeling off the first and second members.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a profiled masking article and method of masking a substrate to be treated or painted that provides a feathered or soft edge between painted and unpainted areas. The masking article described herein may be used as a single strip, or as multiple strips, placed side by side, wherein a strip is removed between treatments of different types. This allows successive treatment layers to completely cover previous layers, thus avoiding defects resulting from exposed layers of material. In an embodiment, the present disclosure is directed to a masking article comprising: at least one elongate body (12), said body (12) having a top surface, a bottom surface and at least two lateral surfaces, wherein at least a portion of said body comprises an adhesive material; and a generally planar top portion (14), connected to the body along at least one surface, said top portion (14) having a microstructured surface.

Abstract: A process for preparing a metal nanostructure having metal masses with zero valence aligned on a substrate surface wherein the size and shape of the metal masses are controlled is described. The process can include preparing a micro phase separation membrane of an amphiphilic block copolymer on a substrate and then exposing the membrane to a solution containing metal ions; drying the membrane to form a micro phase separation membrane with the metal ions localized in hydrophilic segments of the membrane; and irradiating vacuum ultraviolet light on the membrane to reduce the metal ions and to remove organic materials.

Abstract: Thermal inkjet print head, comprising a fluid feed channel for delivering fluid, fluid chambers arranged near the fluid feed channel for receiving fluid from the fluid feed channel, resistors for actuating the fluid in the chambers, arranged in a staggered pattern with respect to a fluid feed channel wall, and a cantilever extending over the fluid feed channel wall, having a staggered edge that follows the staggered pattern of the resistors.

Abstract: A polyimide copolymer represented by formula (I) or formula (II) is provided. In formula (I) or formula (II), B is a cycloaliphatic group or aromatic group, A is an aromatic group, R is hydrogen or phenyl, and m and n are 20-50. The invention also provides a method for fabricating a patterned metal oxide layer.

Abstract: Golf balls having an exterior surface with a predetermined area which is smaller than the entire surface area of the exterior surface, includes enhanced micro surface roughness, and is in the form of an asymmetrical pattern on the exterior surface of the golf ball. The enhanced micro surface roughness affects the aerodynamic properties of the ball as compared to golf balls having the same set of construction specifications but without enhanced micro surface roughness.

Abstract: A method for fabricating electronic devices includes the steps of 1) printing a multi-layer electronic device on a silicone-based hard coating on a substrate, and 2) removing the device from the substrate. The silicone-based hard coating is an abrasion resistant coating with hardness ranging from 1 to 10 gigaPascals.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional structure includes forming a first structure having a relief pattern on a substrate, forming a sacrifice layer on the first structure such that the sacrifice layer can be filled in a concave part of the first structure and the sacrifice layer can cover a surface of a convex part of the first structure on a side opposite to the substrate, forming a second structure having a relief pattern on the sacrifice layer, and a fourth step of removing the sacrifice layer from between the first structure and the second structure, and thereby bringing the second structure into contact with the surface of the first structure.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a liquid ejection head having an element which generates energy utilized for ejecting liquid and an electrode layer electrically connecting the element. The method includes the steps of: providing an electrode layer on a substrate, a width of one portion of the electrode layer being smaller than that of another portion near the one portion; providing a resist layer on a part of the electrode layer by a screen printing method or a dispense method in such a manner that an end of the resist layer is positioned at the one portion; providing another layer on another part excluding the part of the electrode layer by utilizing the resist layer as a mask; and removing the resist layer.

Abstract: A coating method for forming a pattern on a workpiece is provided. The method includes the follow steps: providing a workpiece having a surface, forming a coating layer over the surface using a physical vapor deposition method; providing a mask having a shape conforming to a predetermined pattern; attaching the mask to the surface such that a portion of the coating layer is shielded. The coating layer consists of a shielded portion and an unwanted portion surrounding the shielded portion. Finally, removing the unwanted portion of the coating layer using a magnetic abrasive finishing method, and removing the mask to obtain the shielded portion having the predetermined pattern on the workpiece.

Abstract: The use of a photocurable perfluoropolyether (PFPE) material for fabricating a solvent-resistant PFPE-based microfluidic device, methods of flowing a material and performing a chemical reaction in a solvent-resistant PFPE-based microfluidic device, and the solvent-resistant PFPE-based microfluidic devices themselves are described. In an embodiment, a method is described for preparing a patterned layer of a photocured perfluoropolyether, the method comprising: (a) providing a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a patterned surface; (b) contacting a perfluoropolvether precursor with the patterned surface of the substrate; and (c) photocuring the perfluoropolyether precursor to form a patterned layer of a photocured perfluoropolyether.

Abstract: This application relates to a process for the application of thin layers of substantially pure spin transition molecular materials while maintaining the hysteresis properties of the material. The process makes it possible to obtain a dense uniform surface with very low roughness.

Abstract: A method of producing a piezoelectric thin film resonator is provided. A sacrificial layer is formed on a part of the piezoelectric film. The sacrificial layer is patterned, and thereafter an upper electrode is formed on the piezoelectric layer. The method further includes removing the sacrificial layer formed on the piezoelectric layer; and patterning the piezoelectric film. In the step of removing the sacrificial layer, the sacrificial layer is removed such that at least a portion of the periphery of the upper electrode has a reversely tapered shape that reflects the tapered portion of the sacrificial layer, and in the step of patterning the piezoelectric film, the piezoelectric film is removed such that a lower end of the reversely tapered periphery of the upper electrode is placed so as to coincide with or to be in the vicinity of an end portion of the patterned piezoelectric film.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating fine conductive patterns using a surface modified mask template, the method including: depositing a high molecular substance on a substrate; applying a hydrophobic material onto the high molecular substance so that the hydrophobic material can infiltrate into the high molecular substance; forming a mask template by removing a part of the high molecular substance to form a recess where a region of the substrate is exposed to an outside; depositing conductive ink on the mask template; and performing annealing to abstract metal particles from a metallic compound dissolved in the conductive ink so that an insulating pattern can be formed in a region on which the high molecular substance is deposited, but a conductive pattern can be formed as the metal particles are abstracted from the conductive ink in the recess and cohere with each other.

Abstract: A method for coating a part includes applying a ceramic mask to a first surface portion of the part. A coating is applied to a second surface portion of the part and at least partially contacting the mask. The mask is destructively removed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming an organic molecular film structure that can maintain desired functions characteristic to the organic material and that can be realized as a thin film, and the organic molecular film structure. An organic molecular film structure forming method for forming an organic molecular film on a base material comprises the steps of: i) forming a monomolecular film (12) that contains first organic molecules (12a) by chemically bonding a surface of the base material (10) and the first organic molecules (12a); and ii) causing second organic molecules (15) to be present inside the monomolecular film (12) by bringing the second organic molecules (15) into contact with the monomolecular film (12). Accordingly, it is possible to form an organic molecular film that can maintain desired functions characteristic to the organic material and that can be realized as a thin film.

Abstract: Provided is a film formation apparatus capable of causing a substrate and a mask to be in a substantially horizontal state and brought into intimate contact with each other without deforming mask apertures. A region inside a mask frame and outside aperture regions of a mask on a rear surface of a substrate is pressed by a pressing body in lines along two opposing sides of the substrate.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for applying a pattern onto the upper of a shoe or other footwear. The footwear is preferably made by injection molding where raw materials are injected into a mold to form the shape of a footwear.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head, wherein recessed portions are formed in an ejection face such that, where, in the one direction, a distance D1 is a distance between (i) a one-side portion of an opening end of one recessed portion and (ii) an other-side portion of an opening end of another recessed portion adjacent to the one recessed portion on one side thereof and where a distance D2 is a distance between (i) an other-side portion of the opening end of the one recessed portion and (ii) a one-side portion of an opening end of another recessed portion adjacent to the one recessed portion on the other side thereof, a large-and-small relationship of an average value of the distances D1, D2 of a second recessed portion with respect to that of a first recessed portion is the same as a large-and-small relationship of a cross-sectional area of the first recessed portion with respect to that of the second recessed portion.

Abstract: Provided are a microfluidic chip and a method of fabricating the same. The microfluidic chip includes: a lower substrate; an upper substrate formed of a silicone resin, wherein the lower substrate and the upper substrate, bonded together, provide a channel through which a fluid can flow and a chamber to receive the fluid; and an organic thin film formed on the upper surface of the lower substrate except for portions on which the lower substrate and the upper substrate are attached to each other.

Abstract: A production process of a perforated porous resin base, comprising Step 1 of impregnating the porous structure of a porous resin base with a liquid or solution; Step 2 of forming a solid substance from the liquid or solution impregnated; Step 3 of forming a plurality of perforations extending through from the first surface of the porous resin base having the solid substance within the porous structure to the second surface in the porous resin base; and Step 4 of melting or dissolving the solid substance to remove it from the interior of the porous structure, and a production process of a porous resin base with the inner wall surfaces of the perforations made conductive, comprising the step of selectively applying a catalyst only to the inner wall surfaces of the perforations to apply a conductive metal to the inner wall surfaces.

Abstract: A painting apparatus for applying a coating material to a member surface of a member comprises a housing, at least one slide rail, a rack assembly, a cross beam and a spraying device. The slide rail may be mountable within the housing and may have a plurality of rack positions. The rack assembly is mountable within the housing at one of the rack positions. The rack assembly is configured to support the member such that the member surface is exposed. The cross beam may be coupled to the slide rail. The cross beam is movable along the slide rail and is positionable at the rack positions. The spraying device is mountable on the cross beam and is configured to move along the cross beam while spraying the coating material onto the member surface.

Abstract: Embodiments according to the present invention relate to sacrificial polymer compositions that include polycarbonate polymers having repeat units derived from stereospecific polycyclic 2,3-diol monomers. The sacrificial polymer compositions also include an acid generator that is selected from at least one photoacid generator and/or at least one thermal acid generator. In addition, embodiments according to the present invention relate to a method of forming a structure that includes a three-dimensional space interposed between a substrate and an overcoat layer, and a method of temporarily bonding first and second substrates together, which make use of the polycarbonate polymers.

Abstract: A coating for a stent and methods for coating a stent are provided. The coating may be used for the sustained delivery of an active ingredient or a combination of active ingredients.

Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a three(3)-dimensional distribution of structural reinforcement elements in a polymer-matrix composite. One embodiment of the invention provides a method that includes adding and curing a shape memory polymer in a plurality of flexible preforms attached with each other after preforming each of the flexible preforms to form a spatially controlled preform and variable stiffness material composite laminate. Here, in this embodiment, at least one of the preforms includes a flexible support formed from a patterned supporting material on a first surface of a stiff-structural sheet and the stiff-structural sheet that has been patterned on the support.

Abstract: The present invention relates to masking techniques and apparatuses, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for masking a flexible substrate to be coated with one or more material layers. The method involves flexing a substrate to provide a curved surface and providing a flexible sheet on the curved surface to properly apply a coating on the surface of the substrate. The apparatus includes a substrate and a flexible sheet. An elastic material, such as a spring pin, or an off-axis roll-down bar may be used to create the tension used to flex the substrate and or flexible sheet.

Abstract: A first single-wall carbon nanotube can be electrically coupled to a first electrode, and a second single-wall carbon nanotube electrically coupled to a second electrode. In an example, the first and second single-wall carbon nanotubes are laterally separated by a nanoscale gap, such as sized and shaped for insertion of a single molecule.

Abstract: A silicon resin is applied to the outer wall of the transition piece of a gas turbine subjected to the thermal barrier coating by caulking the cooling holes provided in the inner wall by a resin. Then, the transition piece is heated in an atmosphere furnace in order to burn or decompose the resin. A part of the silicon resin applied to the outer wall of the transition piece is decomposed or evaporated by the heating to be discharged to the atmosphere in the furnace, but a part of the silicon resin remains and protects the outer wall.

Abstract: A process for forming a patterned thin film structure on a substrate is disclosed. A pattern is printed with a material, such as a masking coating or an ink, on the substrate, the pattern being such that, in one embodiment, the desired thin film structures will be formed in the areas where the printed material is not present, i.e., a negative image of thin film structure to be formed is printed. In another embodiment, the pattern is printed with a material that is difficult to strip from the substrate, and the desired thin film structures will be formed in the areas where the printed material is present, i.e., a positive image of the thin film structure is printed. The thin film material is deposited on the patterned substrate, and the undesired area is stripped, leaving behind the patterned thin film structures.

Abstract: A method of forming a nano-structure can form a fine pattern easily, and the nano-structure obtained by the method is provided. A method of forming a nano-structure comprising forming a thin film by a liquid phase adsorption on surface of a template formed on a substrate, and removing a portion of the thin film, and removing the template is used.

Abstract: A process for forming a patterned thin film structure on a substrate or in-mold decoration film is disclosed. A pattern is printed with a material, such as a masking coating or ink, on the substrate, the pattern being such that, in one embodiment, the desired structures will be formed in the areas where the printed material is not present, i.e., a negative image of thin film structure to be formed is printed. In another embodiment, the pattern is printed with a material that is difficult to strip from the substrate, and the desired thin film structures will be formed in the areas where the printed material is present, i.e., a positive image of the thin film structure is printed. The thin film material is deposited on the patterned substrate, and the undesired area is stripped, leaving behind the patterned thin film structure.

Abstract: Methods, manufactures, machines and compositions are described for nanotransfer and nanoreplication using deterministically grown sacrificial nanotemplates. A method includes depositing a catalyst particle on a surface of a substrate to define a deterministically located position; growing an aligned elongated nanostructure on the substrate, an end of the aligned elongated nanostructure coupled to the substrate at the deterministically located position; coating the aligned elongated nanostructure with a conduit material; removing a portion of the conduit material to expose the catalyst particle; removing the catalyst particle; and removing the elongated nanostructure to define a nanoconduit.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine is used for power generation or propulsion and includes vanes. Each vane includes a trailing edge having a curvature and cooling slots that cool the vane. A photochemical edge shield includes an edge and projections that project from the edge. Before coating the vane, the photochemical edge shield is positioned on the vane such that each of the projections is received in one of the cooling slots. A ceramic coating is then applied to the vane. The photochemical edge shield prevents the ceramic coating from entering and clogging the cooling slots of the vane during the ceramic coating process.

Abstract: The invention provides a method to form a pattern of functional material on a substrate for use in electronic devices and components. The method uses a stamp having a relief structure to transfer a mask material to a substrate and form a pattern of open area on the substrate. The functional material is applied to the substrate in at least the open area. Contact of an adhesive material to an exterior surface opposite the substrate and separation of the adhesive from the substrate forms the pattern of functional material on the substrate. The method is suitable for the fabrication of microcircuitry for electronic devices and components.

Abstract: A method of correcting for pattern run out in a desired pattern in directional deposition or etching comprising the steps of providing a test substrate; providing a stencil of known thickness on the test substrate; providing a stencil pattern extending through the stencil to the test substrate.

Abstract: Methods for selectively coating substrates are disclosed. The methods generally comprise applying acid to a portion of the substrate; coating the substrate with a coating comprising a component that reacts with the acid; and removing the coating from the portion of the substrate to which the acid has been applied.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing detectable warnings (16) on substrate surfaces (14), which includes providing a mat (30) with a top surface (38) and a bottom surface (36) and a pattern of mat through holes (34) extending through the mat (30). The through holes (34) comprise a lower portion (44) defining a lower mat opening (33) and an upper portion (32) defining an upper mat opening (35), wherein the upper mat opening (35) is larger in transverse dimension than the lower mat opening (33). The method further includes placing the mat (30) on a substrate surface (14), wherein the bottom surface (36) of the mat (30) is adjacent the substrate surface (14), and injecting into the mat through holes (34) a viscous substance (40) having the ability to cure into a solid. The method further includes removing the mat (30) at the appropriate time to form raised detectable warnings (16) on the substrate surface (14).

Abstract: A method of forming a mask, in which a film pattern is formed on a substrate by using a mask, includes sequentially arranging the mask, the substrate and a first member having a flat surface contacting with the substrate in this order from a supply source of film forming material; and attracting the mask and the first member by means of a magnetic force.

Abstract: A method of making a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) having an anode and a cathode and a proton conductive membrane there between. A bundle of longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes with a catalytically active transition metal incorporated in the nanotubes forms at least one portion of the MEA and is in contact with the membrane. A combination selected from one or more of a hydrocarbon and an organometallic compound containing an catalytically active transition metal and a nitrogen containing compound and an inert gas and a reducing gas is introduced into a first reaction zone maintained at a first reaction temperature for a time sufficient to vaporize material therein. The vaporized material is transmitted to a second reaction zone maintained at a second reaction temperature for a time sufficient to grow longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes with a catalytically active transition metal incorporated throughout the nanotubes.

Abstract: A method of forming a periodic array of nano-scale objects using a block copolymer, and nano-scale object arrays formed from the method are provided. The method for forming the arrays generally includes the steps of depositing a block copolymer of at least two blocks on a substrate to form an ordered meso-scale structured array of the polymer materials, forming catalytic metal dots based on the meso-scale structure, and growing nano-scale objects on the catalytic dots to form an ordered array of nano-scale objects.

Abstract: A method for forming a fasteners is disclosed comprising providing a multiplicity of suitable polymer particles, providing a base with a front surface, and dispersing the particles onto at least one discrete area of the contact release surface, forming a predetermined shape. The dispersed particles are provided in a semiliquid state of a suitable viscosity, at least some of the particles in the discrete areas being in contact with the contact release surface for a time sufficient to transform into preform projections. The method further comprises conducting and fixing the front surface of the base with the terminal ends of at least some of the preform projections and removing the base from the contact release surface to separate the preform projections fixed thereto and form engaging projections projecting from the front surface of the base in the form of a predetermined shape.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a structure, which is capable of easily obtaining a structure of the nanometer scale by using an anodic oxidation method. A method of producing a structure with a hole includes: forming first projected structures regularly arranged on a substrate; forming a first anodic oxidating layer on the substrate having the first projected structures, thereby forming first recessed structures at center portions of cells formed by the projected structures on the anodic oxidating layer; removing the first projected structures to form holes; and subjecting the first anodic oxidating layer to anodic oxidation to form holes at positions of the first recessed structures.

Abstract: There are disclosed a stencil printing ink having an ink thread-forming length when a 15 mm diameter chrome steel ball is pulled out of the ink at 150 mm/s of 30 mm or longer at 23° C.; and a stencil printing ink comprising a water-based ink comprising an unsaturated straight-chain carboxylic acid-based water-soluble polymer.

Abstract: A method of forming an alignment layer with a multi-domain is provided. The alignment layer is formed on a substrate. A mask having a transmission part and a shielding part is aligned over the substrate. First and second alignment directions in the alignment layer are formed by irradiating an ion beam onto the substrate at different irradiation angles. Using the aforementioned ion-beam irradiation process eliminates the need for multiple rubbing processes to create the multi-domain alignment layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing carbon nanotubes with a desired length includes the steps of: providing an array of carbon nanotubes; placing a mask having at least an opening defined therein on the array of carbon nanotubes, with at least one portion of the array of carbon nanotubes being at least partially exposed through a corresponding opening of the mask; forming a protective film on at least one exposed portion of the array of carbon nanotubes; removing the mask from the array of the carbon nanotubes, with the carbon nanotubes being compartmentalized into at least a first portion covered by the protective film and at least one uncovered second portion; breaking/separating the first portion from the second portion of the array of the carbon nanotubes using a chemical method, thereby obtaining at least a carbon nanotube segment with a protective film covered thereon; and removing the protective film from the carbon nanotube segment.

Abstract: Impurities can be eluted simultaneously from a plurality of local areas of a surface layer of a semiconductor substrate. A supporting unit supports the substrate, and a sample plate is disposed on the surface of the substrate. The sample plate has a plurality of holes that expose the local areas of the surface of the substrate. Eluant is provided onto the local areas of the surface layer of the substrate through the holes in the sample plate. The impurities are thus dissolved by the eluant to produce a sample. A nozzle transfers the sample from the local areas of the surface of the substrate to a plurality of sample cups. Therefore, samples from the surface layer of the substrate may be produced in a short amount of time.

Abstract: A method of identifying an object comprising providing an vehicle having on a surface thereof at least one layer of paint, such as a urethane-based paint. A unique alphanumeric identification is applied to the paint layer with a fluorescent material at a selected unrevealed location thereon. The fluorescent material is permitted to migrate into the at least one paint layer, while an excess amount of fluorescent material remains on the at least one paint layer. Thereupon, the excess amount of fluorescent material is removed from the at least one paint layer with a solvent. The unique discrete identification created by fluorescent material migrated into the at least one paint layer is visible at an acute angle to the object surface without use of an ultraviolet light, while being substantially invisible at an angle normal to the object surface.

Abstract: The method for making a screen printing mask, provided by this invention is a method for making a resin-formed screen printing mask having a resin layer on one main surface of a screen printing mask having openings, a resin layer having openings nearly in the same locations as those of said openings of the screen printing mask, and comprises the step of coating the one main surface of said screen printing mask with the resin layer by laminating, and the step of removing those parts of said resin layer which are positioned nearly in the same locations as those of the openings of said screen printing mask by self-alignment, to form the openings through the resin layer.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cell culture chamber with which the survival rate of cells to be cultured can be increased, and a method of producing the same. A cell culture chamber according to the present invention includes a mass of projections formed of a plurality of microprojections 1 formed on a surface on which cells are cultured. The width or diameter of each of the microprojections 1 is in a range of 20 nm to 3 ?m, and the aspect ratio of each of the microprojections is in a range of 0.2 to 3.0. Thus, there can be provided a cell culture chamber most suitable for the adhesion and differentiation/proliferation of cells to be cultured.

Abstract: A method of identifying an object comprising providing an vehicle having on a surface thereof at least one layer of paint, such as a urethane-based paint. A unique alphanumeric identification is applied to the paint layer with a fluorescent material at a selected unrevealed location thereon. The fluorescent material is permitted to migrate into the at least one paint layer, while an excess amount of fluorescent material remains on the at least one paint layer. Thereupon, the excess amount of fluorescent material is removed from the at least one paint layer with a solvent. The unique discrete identification created by fluorescent material migrated into the at least one paint layer is visible at an acute angle to the object surface without use of an ultraviolet light, while being substantially invisible at an angle normal to the object surface.