Abstract: The method of manufacturing the insulation member includes manufacturing a 3D printing material using a mixed material in which one or more materials selected from among polycarbonate (PC), polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), polyamide (PA), polyoxymethylene (POM), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET), one or more fillers selected from among TiO2, SiO2, and AlO3, and a curing agent are mixed, and which contains different amounts of the fillers at predetermined intervals in a longitudinal direction, and sequentially stacking the manufactured 3D printing material using a 3D printer to thus manufacture a target insulation member so that the mixed material containing different amounts of the fillers at predetermined intervals in a longitudinal direction of the insulation member is sequentially stacked.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image, and at least one vibration module on a rear surface of the display panel, the at least one vibration module including a piezoelectric composite layer including a plurality of sub-modules configured to vibrate the display panel, each of the plurality of sub-modules including: a plurality of first portions including a piezoelectric characteristic, and a plurality of second portions having flexibility, each of the plurality of second portions being between a respective pair of the plurality first portions, wherein the plurality of first portions in the respective sub-modules are arranged in a same direction or are partially arranged in different directions.

Abstract: A method for patterning a quantum dot layer, a method for manufacturing a display device and a transfer template are provided in embodiments of the disclosure; the method for patterning a quantum dot layer, comprising: preparing a quantum dot layer on a substrate, the quantum dot layer comprising a reserved portion and a portion to be removed; bonding the portion to be removed with a plurality of convex portions provided on a transfer template, by pressing the transfer template against the quantum dot layer; and removing the portion to be removed with a removal of the transfer template, while retaining the reserved portion on the substrate.

Abstract: A binder composition for a secondary battery including a polymer having a structure represented by the following formula (I) at a terminal thereof; and a solvent, [in Formula (I), R1 and R2 each independently represents an organic group or an organic group in which R1 and R2 together form a ring, and * represents a binding site to the terminal of a main chain of the polymer].

Abstract: The thermopaque glass is a semitransparent structure. The thermopaque glass is configured for use as the transparent material used in a window into a building. The thermopaque glass is a composite laminar structure. The thermopaque glass inhibits the passage of electromagnetic through the window into the building by reflecting a portion of the electromagnetic radiation striking the window away from the building. The thermopaque glass comprises a plurality of lamina and a plurality of interlayered resins. The plurality of interlayered resins assemble the plurality of lamina into the composite structure of the thermopaque glass. Each of the plurality of lamina is a plate selected from the group consisting of a transparent plate and a semitransparent plate.

Abstract: A method includes forming an inter-layer dielectric over a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region. The first source/drain region and the second source/drain region are of n-type and p-type, respectively. The inter-layer dielectric is etched to form a first contact opening and a second contact opening, with the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region exposed to the first contact opening and the second contact opening, respectively. A process gas is used to etch back the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region simultaneously, and a first etching rate of the first source/drain region is higher than a second etching rate of the second source/drain region. A first silicide region and a second silicide region are formed on the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region, respectively.

Abstract: Provided is a decorative sheet having an excellent decorative appearance due to surface unevenness, as well as excellent abrasion resistance and moldability. This decorative sheet includes at least a substrate layer and a surface protective layer located on the surface of the substrate layer, wherein: the surface protective layer has a cross section in the direction of thickness; the cross section has an unevenness formed, on such surface side, by a repeating pattern including recesses and projections which are mutually adjacent; and the ratio of the measured average surface protective layer thickness (?m) at the recesses, Tv, and the measured average surface protective layer thickness (?m) at the projections, Tp, (average Tp/average Tv) satisfies the relationship of 0.10?Tp average/Tv average?0.35.

Abstract: A roll of toilet tissue and methods for making same are provided.

Abstract: A method of forming an antireflection optical body (16a) includes: an application step of applying an adhesive (12) other than an epoxy adhesive onto an adherend (11); a fixing step of pressing a substrate film (15) having a fine structure body (16) at one surface side thereof against the adherend (11) from an opposite surface side to the one surface side to fix the adherend (11) and the fine structure body (16) through the adhesive (12); and a peeling separation step of releasing the pressing of the substrate film (15) and peeling fixed fine structure body (16) that is fixed to the adherend (11) through the adhesive (12) from the substrate film (15) while separating the fixed fine structure body (16) from fine structure body (16) on the substrate film (15) at a location where the fine structure body (16) is fixed to the adherend (11) such that the fixed fine structure body (16) is formed on the adherend (11) as an antireflection optical body (16a).

Abstract: Provided is a radiation-sensitive composition with which a pattern having excellent infrared shielding properties and excellent rectangularity can be formed. In addition, provided are an optical filter, a laminate, a pattern forming method, a solid image pickup element, an image display device, and an infrared sensor. This radiation-sensitive composition includes: a near infrared absorber; a resin; a radically polymerizable compound; and a photoradical polymerization initiator, in which the radiation-sensitive composition has an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of 700 to 1000 nm, a ratio absorbance Amax/absorbance A550 of an absorbance Amax at the absorption maximum to an absorbance A550 at a wavelength of 550 nm is 50 to 500, the resin includes a resin having an acid group, and a mass ratio radically polymerizable compound/resin having an acid group of the radically polymerizable compound to the resin having an acid group is 0.3 to 0.7.

Abstract: A photocatalytic filter may include: a plurality of weft threads each of which includes a plurality of fibers extending in a first direction; a plurality of warp threads each of which includes a plurality of fibers extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and photocatalysts which are carried by the plurality of weft threads and the plurality of warp threads. At least two warp threads sandwiches at least one weft thread or at least two weft threads sandwiches at least one warp thread at the intersection portion between the weft thread and the warp thread.

Abstract: A hardmask composition may include graphene nanoparticles having a size in a range of about 5 nm to about 100 nm and a solvent.

Abstract: The present invention is related to decorative surface coverings, in particular floor or wall coverings, exhibiting low volatile organic compounds (VOC) emission, comprising one or more adjacent plasticized polyvinyl chloride layers and a polyurethane top-layer, said top-layer being obtained from radiation curing a 100% solids polyurethane formulation.

Abstract: The present invention is related to decorative surface coverings, in particular floor or wall coverings, exhibiting low VOC emission, comprising one or more adjacent plasticized polyvinyl chloride layers and a polyurethane top-layer, said top-layer being obtained from the actinic irradiation of an aqueous ethylenically unsaturated polyurethane dispersion after evaporation of the water part. The decorative surface coverings comprise a mechanical embossed textured and/or patterned structure.

Abstract: A shingle coating asphalt composition is provided that is produced from a paving grade asphalt. The asphalt composition comprises a paving-grade asphalt that has been modified with one or more polymer additives; and a secondary additive comprising one or more of a viscosity reducing agent, a wax, a salt of a fatty acid ester, and an amide of a fatty acid. The shingle coating asphalt coating composition is used to make a shingle. The shingle includes a substrate, the asphalt, and roofing granules.

Abstract: Improved automotive security has led to an increase in carjacking and smash and grab crimes. Tempered glass offers little resistant to attacks. Laminated glass improves penetration resistance but only by several seconds. By including a stiff frame in the laminate and a plastic interior 5 layer, the present invention significantly increases the amount of time that an occupant has to react and possibly escape an attack by driving off or for the attack to be detected. In the event of an accident, the invention also provides improved occupant retention, especially for movable glass that is not bonded to the vehicle.

Abstract: A shingle coating asphalt composition is provided that is produced from a paving grade asphalt. The asphalt composition comprises a paving-grade asphalt that has been modified with one or more polymer additives; and a secondary additive comprising one or more of a viscosity reducing agent, a wax, a salt of a fatty acid ester, and an amide of a fatty acid. The shingle coating asphalt coating composition is used to make a shingle. The shingle includes a substrate, the asphalt, and roofing granules.

Abstract: A retroreflector has an arrangement of triples, each having three side surfaces that stand essentially perpendicular on one another. The triples are disposed on a curved or domed surface. The geometry of the triple array is adapted to the curved surface, to even out the thresholds, and extend the side surfaces of a triple. The extensions of the side surfaces project into adjacent triples. Due to the extension projecting into adjacent triples, joints are formed there, which even out the uneven area. The joints can assume the form of a protrusion filled with material or a notch in which material is missing. A forming die produces the retroreflector and a method produces the forming die. The retroreflectors have geometries having full cube surfaces, in other words Full Cubes, for curved or domed surfaces or free-form surfaces.

Abstract: A shingle coating asphalt composition is provided that is produced from a paving grade asphalt. The asphalt composition comprises a paving-grade asphalt that has been modified with one or more polymer additives; and a secondary additive comprising one or more of a viscosity reducing agent, a wax, a salt of a fatty acid ester, and an amide of a fatty acid. The shingle coating asphalt coating composition is used to make a shingle. The shingle includes a substrate, the asphalt, and roofing granules.

Abstract: Provided is an optical element including a wavelength selective reflective polarizer and a ?/2 plate in which the ?/2 plate includes an optically anisotropic layer which has an optical axis in a direction parallel to a surface and is formed of a cured layer of a liquid crystal composition and has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which an orientation of the optical axis changes while continuously rotating in at least one direction in a plane of the optically anisotropic layer, and light in the specific wavelength range which is circularly polarized light oriented in a direction opposite to that of the specific circularly polarized light among light incident on a surface of the optical element on the ?/2 plate side is reflected in a direction different from a regular reflection direction of the incident light.

Abstract: A method of creating a selectively plated three-dimensional thermoplastic part. The method includes the steps of: a) providing a film of uncured polycarbonate film having a hardcoated layer on a first surface thereof; b) selectively catalyzing the polycarbonate film by depositing a catalyst in a desired pattern on the first surface of the polycarbonate film; c) thermoforming the polycarbonate film to form a three-dimensional polycarbonate film; d) UV-curing the hardcoated polycarbonate film by irradiating the film with UV rays; e) molding the hardcoated polycarbonate film to produce a three-dimensional molded part comprising the hardcoated polycarbonate film; f) activating the selectively catalyzed hardcoated polycarbonate film; and g) plating a metal layer on the catalyzed portions of the hardcoated polycarbonate film, wherein the plated metal only deposits on the catalyzed portions of the hardcoated polycarbonate film.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate including a doped compound semiconductor layer, a mesa structure located on the doped compound semiconductor layer and containing a first-conductivity-type compound semiconductor layer, an active layer stack configured to emit light at a peak wavelength, a second-conductivity-type compound semiconductor layer, and a transparent conductive oxide layer, and a dielectric material layer laterally surrounding the mesa structure and including an upper portion that overlies a peripheral region of the mesa structure and extending above the transparent conductive oxide layer, wherein an opening in the upper portion of the dielectric material layer is located over a center region of the mesa structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a porous material comprising particles of polymer P assembled by a block copolymer, said block copolymer comprising at least one block consisting of a polymer sequence immiscible with polymer P, and at least two blocks consisting of polymer sequences which are miscible with polymer P. The invention also relates to films produced with this material.

Abstract: A method of forming an antireflection optical body includes: an application step of applying a photocurable resin onto one surface side of an adherend; a pressing step of pressing a substrate film having a fine structure body at one surface side against the photocurable resin from an opposite surface side by a light guide; a curing step of curing the photocurable resin by transmitting light through the light guide; and a peeling separation step of releasing the pressing of the substrate film and peeling fixed fine structure body that is fixed to the adherend through the cured photocurable resin substrate film while separating the fixed fine structure body from fine structure body on the substrate film other than at a location fixed through the photocurable resin such that the fixed fine structure body is formed on the adherend as an antireflection optical body.

Abstract: A dispersible, nonwoven multistrata wipe material is provided that is stable in a wetting liquid and flushable in use. More particularly, multilayered structures including, but not limited to, two, three, or four layers are provided to form the dispersible nonwoven wipe material. The layers contain combinations of cellulosic and noncellulosic fibers, and optionally a binder or additive.

Abstract: Provided are an interconnect structure and an electronic device including the interconnect structure. The interconnect structure includes a dielectric layer including at least one trench, a conductive wiring filling an inside of the at least one trench, and a cap layer on at least one surface of the conductive wiring. The cap layer includes nanocrystalline graphene. The nanocrystalline includes nano-sized crystals.

Abstract: A shingle coating asphalt composition is provided that is produced from a paving grade asphalt. The asphalt composition comprises a paving-grade asphalt that has been modified with one or more polymer additives; and a secondary additive comprising one or more of a viscosity reducing agent, a wax, a salt of a fatty acid ester, and an amide of a fatty acid. The shingle coating asphalt coating composition is used to make a shingle. The shingle includes a substrate, the asphalt, and roofing granules.

Abstract: A flooring apparatus and method of making the same are provided. The apparatus and method, in one embodiment, may include providing an elongated member having a top surface. A first adhesive is deposited about a perimeter of the top surface of the elongated member. A second adhesive is deposited within the perimeter of the top surface of the elongated member, with the second adhesive having a lower viscosity than the first adhesive and being retained within the perimeter by the first adhesive. A friction-increasing member is then heated to a pre-heat temperature. The friction-increasing member is disposed on the first and second adhesive to form the flooring apparatus. The flooring apparatus is then cured at a curing temperature, in one embodiment, that is greater than the pre-heat temperature.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a decorative coating film, which ensures and/or maintains millimeter wave transmission properties even though the decorative coating film is continuously used. The present disclosure relates to a decorative coating film formed on the surface of a resin substrate positioned in the pathway of a radar device, wherein the decorative coating film at least comprises: fine silver particles or fine silver alloy particles, nickel oxide, and a binding resin having light transmission properties, which binds the fine silver particles or the fine silver alloy particles dispersed in the decorative coating film with one another, wherein the shape of the nickel oxide is a wire shape.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a facer used as protective covering for an insulation product. The facer may include a metallic foil layer, a scrim layer, and a paper layer positioned adjacent the scrim layer. The facer may also include a polypropylene material forming a polypropylene layer positioned adjacent the paper layer and heat bonded to an exposed major surface of the paper layer such that a portion of the polypropylene extends into pores of the paper layer to assist in coupling the polypropylene material to the paper layer.

Abstract: A method and a plant (i.e., system or assembly) for manufacturing ceramic products comprising the steps of feeding a mixture of ceramic powders so as to obtain a powder material strip; compacting the powder material strip so as to obtain a compacted powder layer; acquiring a surface image of the compacted powder layer that reproduces the respective surface chromatic effects; processing said surface image so as to obtain a graphic decoration to be applied on the surface of the compacted powder layer that is coordinated with the respective chromatic effects in the thickness; and printing the graphic decoration on the surface of the compacted powder layer.

Abstract: The invention is intended to obtain a composite material suitable for mass production or the like by shortening the molding time while obtaining the advantages of the composite materials described above, and intended to provide a composite material which has a short molding time by the use of a thermoplastic resin as a matrix and is excellent in balance among stiffness, strength, and thermal conductivity. A carbon-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic-resin composite material comprising: a layer (I) containing a carbon fiber (A) aligned in one direction and a thermoplastic resin (C-1); and a layer (II) containing a carbon fiber (B) aligned in one direction and a thermoplastic resin (C-2), wherein the carbon fiber (A) has a higher elastic modulus than the carbon fiber (B).

Abstract: An additively manufactured (AM) hybrid composite structure is disclosed. The AM hybrid composite structure includes a first portion and a second portion. The second portion includes one or more AM elements which are configured to enable integration of the second portion with the first portion to form an integrated component including both the second portion and the first portion. A method of manufacturing a hybrid composite structure is disclosed. The method includes manufacturing a first portion, and additively manufacturing a second portion. The step of additively manufacturing the second portion includes co-printing one or more AM elements. The method further includes using the one or more AM elements as a part of a tool to integrate the first portion with the second portion, and forming an integrated component including both the first portion and the second portion.

Abstract: A wood veneer product (1) comprises one or more layers of wood veneer (2). A backing layer (4), for example a cellulose-based backing layer, has a first outer surface bonded to the one or more layers of wod veneer (2). Electrically conductive tracking (8) is arranged on or against a second outer surface of the backing layer (4) opposite to the first outer surface.

Abstract: A display apparatus including a flexible vibration module and a method of manufacturing the flexible vibration module are provided. A display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image, and a flexible vibration module on a rear surface of the display panel, the flexible vibration module configured to vibrate the display panel, the flexible vibration module including: a plurality of first portions having a piezoelectric characteristic, and a plurality of second portions respectively between pairs of the plurality of first portions, the plurality of second portions having flexibility.

Abstract: Thick and absorbent and/or flexible toilet tissue and methods for making same are provided.

Abstract: Anodized substrates having laser markings and methods for forming the same are described. According to some embodiments, the methods involve forming a feature on a substrate using a laser prior to anodizing. The laser energy and pulse width can be chosen so as to provide a particular topology to a surface of the substrate that, after anodizing, absorbs incoming light and imparts a dark appearance to the feature. In some cases, the methods involve forming a coarse oxide layer, which is removed prior to anodizing. Since the laser marking is performed prior to anodizing, the anodized substrates are free from laser-induced cracks, thereby making the anodized substrates more corrosion resistant than conventional laser-marked anodized substrates. The techniques are well suited for forming features on consumer products that may be exposed to water or other corrosion-inducing agents.

Abstract: Articles prepared by additive manufacturing of preforms that are coated by electrodeposition of nanolaminate materials, and methods of their production are described.

Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide a laminated automotive glazing having an obscuration area produced by printing the obscuration on a film laminated between at least two layers of plastic interlayers rather than printing and firing an enamel frit onto the glass. This results in a laminate having superior optical quality, higher strength and a lower probability of breakage as compared to a laminate with a black enamel frit obscuration.

Abstract: A mouse for communication with a processor-based device. The mouse may include a housing having a base surface. The base surface may be configured to face a tracking surface on which the mouse may be placed on. The mouse may further include a plurality of mouse foot protrusions projecting from the base surface. A distal end of at least one of the plurality of mouse foot protrusions may be configured to contact the tracking surface on which the mouse may be placed on and the distal end may include a first color. An intermediate portion of the at least one of the plurality of mouse foot protrusions between the distal end of the at least one of the plurality of mouse foot protrusions and the base surface may include a second color, which may be different from the first color.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a flexible display device, including at least two non-bending regions and at least one bendable region configured between the two adjacent non-bending regions. A stress buffering layer is configured on the bendable region. The stress buffering layer is configured to buffer a stress generated from the flexible display device when the flexible display device is in a bending state to maintain the flexible display device to be in a stable state, so as to simplified the structure of the flexible display device. The present disclosure further relates to a manufacturing method of the flexible display device.

Abstract: A display device includes a casing (11) an operation plate, a piezoelectric sensor, a controller, and a display. The piezoelectric sensor includes a piezoelectric film, an optically clear adhesive, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of first wiring lines, a plurality of second electrodes, a second wiring line, a pair of substrates and a reception circuit. The piezoelectric sensor is bonded to a surface of the operation plate on a side opposite to an operation surface. The plurality of first wiring lines includes a region, which overlaps one of the piezoelectric film and the plurality of second electrodes but does not overlap either the piezoelectric film or the plurality of second electrodes at the same time when a first surface is viewed from a front. The region is provided between the second electrodes when the first surface is viewed from the front.

Abstract: A label with improved physical properties comprising: a base layer having a microstructured area; a composite microstructure having a first, second and third set of microstructures disposed on the microstructured area; a dry lift force attributable to the composite microstructure greater than 7 pounds according to lift testing; a wet lift force attributable to the composite microstructure greater than 7 pounds according to lift testing; an adhesive layer affixed to the base layer for affixing the label to a container; and, thereby providing a microstructured label having improved gripping physical properties that can be affixed to a container.

Abstract: A method of preparing aerogels/nonwoven composites fireproof and heat-insulating materials with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic surfaces and includes steps as follows. A mixture solution in which alkoxysilane, silicones and silane coupling agents are mixed and stirred is instilled by acidic catalysts for a hydrolysis reaction during which a silane coupling agent solution is added for continuous stirring; a hydrous alkali catalytic (anhydrous alkali catalytic) organic solution is added in the mixture solution for a condensation reaction and development of a “silicones-silica aerogels-silane coupling agents” aerogel mixture solution; a non-woven felt is impregnated with the mixture solution for development of soft hydrophobic (hydrophilic) aerogels/nonwoven composites fireproof and heat-insulating materials after curing and natural drying.

Abstract: An airfoil member can have a root end, a tip end, a leading edge, and a trailing edge. The airfoil member can include an upper skin, a lower skin, and a composite core member having a plurality of cells, an upper surface network of the cells can be bonded to the upper skin, a lower surface network of the cells can be bonded to the lower skin. The composite core can have a septum layer embedded in the cells that form the composite core, the septum layer being configured to provide tailored characteristics of the airfoil member.

Abstract: A method is presented for manufacturing a plate shaped product, comprising the steps of manufacturing a first intermediate product which comprises at least, successively, a carrier, a plastic printing layer, a decorative print layer and a plastic protective layer, by using a multiple coating process, manufacturing a second intermediate product which comprises at least one plastic layer, by using at least a calendering process, and combining the first and second intermediate products by laminating, such that the second intermediate product is attached to the first intermediate product. Further a plate shaped product is provided which is manufactured using said method.

Abstract: Embodiments of anti-glare substrates and articles including the same are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the anti-glares substrate includes a textured surface with a plurality of features having an average cross-sectional dimension of about 30 micrometers or less. The substrate or article exhibits a transmission haze of 10% or less, a PPDr of about 7% or less or 6% or less, and a DOI of about 80 or less. Method for forming the anti-glare substrates are also disclosed and include etching a surface of a substrate with an etchant having low water solubility to provide an etched surface, and removing a portion of the etched surface. The method includes generating a plurality of insoluble crystals (e.g., any one or more of K2SiF6 and K3AlF6) on the surface while etching the surface. The etchant may include a potassium salt, an organic solvent and a fluoride containing acid.

Abstract: A process for making a composite web is disclosed. The composite web can be incorporated into an absorbent article. A volume of ink is applied to the composite web such that when the composite web is incorporated into the absorbent article, a visual signal is produced.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an anti-fatigue mat and methods for making the same. The method for making an anti-fatigue mat includes providing a leather comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, forming a color layer on the first surface, cutting the leather, putting the cut leather into a mold, injecting an elastomeric material into the mold, curing the elastomeric material to form an elastic layer on the second surface and a plurality of concave structures corresponding to the plurality of protruding structures on the first surface, and polishing the first surface to remove the color layer without caving towards the second surface. The anti-fatigue mat can have anti-fatigue performance and vivid stereoscopic impression, where being simple to fabricate with low costs and can be industrialized.

Abstract: Embodiments are related to systems and methods for fluidic assembly, and more particularly to systems and methods for assuring deposition of elements in relation to a substrate.