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Document | Title | Date |
20080197536 | Dry-Forming Three Dimensional Wood Fiber Webs - A method for the dry-formation of a deep drawn, three-dimensional wood fiber structural core is provided. The method comprises providing a preformed, substantially flat, dry-formed mat of wood fibers, providing a three-dimensional mold, introducing the dry-formed mat of wood fibers into the three-dimensional mold, and drawing and molding the mat of wood fibers into said three-dimensional wood fiber structural core. | 08-21-2008 |
20080246185 | COMPOSITION OF LED FRAME BODY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A lamp body is an enclosing structure that encloses a blue light-emitting crystal to form a LED structure. In a method of manufacturing frame body of the LED, resin, titanium, and fluorescent powder are mixed uniformly to constitute a composition of frame body, then the composing materials being placed into a mould for processing a thermally pressing procedure to thus form a frame body. By the blue light emitted from the blue light-emitting crystal, the fluorescent powder of the frame body may be excited to emit uniform yellow light, which may be further mixed with the blue light to become white light. | 10-09-2008 |
20080265463 | Split Mold Insert Positioning Device and a Method of Use - According to the embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a split mold insert positioning device and a method of use thereof. More specifically, a split mold insert positioning device is provided. The split mold insert positioning device comprises a split mold insert positioning interface dimensioned in a complementary arrangement to a reference dimension of a given split mold insert; and a tooling interface for providing access to the given split mold insert when the split mold insert positioning interface is positioned over the given split mold insert. | 10-30-2008 |
20080290560 | GRAVITY INJECTION OF MOLDING MATERIAL FOR COMPRESSION MOLDING AND RELATED METHODS - A molding apparatus includes a bottom platen, a bottom mold portion carried by the bottom platen, and a top platen overlying the bottom platen and the bottom mold portion. The top platen includes slots extending therethrough for receiving a molding material. The molding material is to be gravity deposited into the bottom mold portion. A top mold portion is carried by the top platen and is moveable between a molding material loading position and an article forming position. An actuator is coupled to the top mold portion for moving the top mold portion between the molding material loading position and the article forming position. The molding material loading position corresponds to when the top mold portion is non-overlying the bottom mold portion so that the molding material can be gravity deposited therein. The article forming position corresponds to when the top mold portion is overlying the bottom mold portion for molding an article. | 11-27-2008 |
20090045549 | Equipment and method for producing thermoformed and heat-sealed containers - Equipment for producing thermoformable and heat-sealable containers, each of which comprises an object within it, has one or more thermoforming and heat-sealing work stations and a station for dispensing objects into the containers. At least one of the thermoforming stations is positioned upstream of a station for dispensing objects, which in turn is positioned upstream of a heat-sealing station. | 02-19-2009 |
20090091063 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SHAPING OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL - A method and device for shaping of an article of composite material. The method includes arranging a blank of composite material on a top surface of a forming tool. A portion of the blank is arranged to protrude outside the top surface of the tool. At least one support is arranged in contact with an underside of the protruding portion of the blank. An air-tight foil is arranged over the arrangement. The air-tight foil is forced towards the blank. The support is lowered until the blank is shaped over the tool. The support is stopped and/or removed. The device includes a tool including a top surface and side surface for shaping at least one blank of composite material into an article having a predetermined profile; and a air-tight foil. The device further includes at least one support arranged to be in supporting contact with the underside of the protruding part of the blank. | 04-09-2009 |
20090194907 | Formed felt device and method of making the same - A bumper for protecting a contact point of a surface from engagement with an object and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The bumper includes a shell having first and second ends, an outer surface, and an inner surface defining a passageway through the shell between the first and second ends. A resilient material is positioned in the passageway and extends between the first end and the second end of the shell. | 08-06-2009 |
20090212463 | APPARATUS FOR RECOVERING AND MOULDING STONES AND ORNAMENTAL ROCKS - The present invention concerns an apparatus for recovering and moulding stones and ornamental rocks. It comprises the following components:
| 08-27-2009 |
20100007056 | Clip Integration of Pressure Tube Mold Cores into Hardened Omega-Stringers for the Production of Stiffened Fiber Composite Skin Shells, in particular for Aeronautics and Astronautics - The invention concerns a device for stiffening a flat component, a process for the production of a flat component, in particular a fiber composite component, and a fiber composite component. The device has a portion for producing a space for receiving a mold core for the transmission of a pressure for pressing the flat component and the device. It is characterised by means for positively lockingly and/or frictionally lockingly positioning the mold core in the space of the device. The process according to the invention includes the following steps: introducing the mold core into the portion of the device, positively lockingly and/or frictionally lockingly positioning the mold core in the portion of the device by means of the means, applying the device including the mold core to the non-hardened material layer or layers, pressing the material layers, and hardening the material layer or layers and joining the device to the material layer or layers. | 01-14-2010 |
20100044920 | METHOD FOR THE ONE-STEP PROGRAMMING OF THE THREE-SHAPE PLASTICS - The invention relates to a method for producing a programmed shape memory polymer, which assumes a first temporary shape and at least two additional stored thermally activatable shapes, namely at least one second temporary shape and a permanent shape, with the steps of:
| 02-25-2010 |
20100102482 | Method and Apparatus for Forming Highly Contoured Composite Parts - A method of forming a flat composite charge into a contoured composite part reduces wrinkles in the part as the charge is being formed. Dies are used to form a portion of charge to the steepest contour of the part, while tension is maintained on the charge as the remaining portions of the charge are formed. | 04-29-2010 |
20100123271 | REINFORCED ELASTOMER PRODUCTS - A molding system includes a top mold, a first post mounted to the top mold, a bottom mold, a second post mounted to the bottom mold, and a holding pin mounted to one of the first post or the second post. The first post is configured to contact an outer surface of a reinforcement shell when the molding system is in a closed configuration. The second post is configured to contact the outer surface of the reinforcement shell when the molding system is in the closed configuration. The holding pin is configured to secure the reinforcement shell in place when the molding system is in the closed configuration. | 05-20-2010 |
20100181705 | STAR DISTRIBUTOR - The present invention relates to a device for distributing tablet blanks to the dies of a tablet press. The present invention moreover relates to a system consisting of the device according to the invention and a tablet press and to a method for forming tablets from tablet blanks. | 07-22-2010 |
20100219561 | Method for Producing a Panel or Housing Part of a Vehicle - A panel or housing part of a vehicle is made by heating a semifinished product comprising at least one core layer in the form of a nonwoven fabric made of high melting-point and low melting-point fibers above a melting temperature of the low melting-point fibers and shaping the heated semifinished body under pressure in a mold having a mold gap to produce the panel or housing part. The semifinished product is compacted in the mold in some highly densified regions at the edge of the panel or housing part and/or at a spacing from the edge to produce monolithic regions that are substantially free of gas inclusions such that the material of the semifinished product in these highly densified regions flows along the mold gap, while maintaining in other regions the porosity of the nonwoven fabric of the core layer. | 09-02-2010 |
20100244320 | Apparatus and method for forming a clay slab - An apparatus and method for forming a clay slab includes a frame, a front panel supported on the frame and a rear panel supported on the frame. An outer cable is attached to the rear panel at one end and to the rear panel and to the front panel at another end. A rotatable drive axle is configured to simultaneously wind and unwind the outer cable and thereby move the front panel and the rear panel from an initial position to an intermediate position to draw a block of prepared clay into a gap defined by the front panel and the rear panel. The drive axle is further configured to simultaneously wind and unwind the outer cable in the opposite direction and thereby move the front panel and the rear panel from the intermediate position back to the initial position to remove the clay slab from the slab roller. | 09-30-2010 |
20100283185 | STAMPER MANUFACTURING METHOD, STAMPER, AND MOLDING MANUFACTURING METHOD - A method of manufacturing a stamper includes setting a straight plate member to a die having a cavity, the plate member having a formation surface on which a predetermined pattern structure is formed, and feeding a continuous body into the cavity and pressurizing the plate member with the continuous body, to deform an entire shape of the formation surface of the plate member set to the die into a shape corresponding to the cavity. | 11-11-2010 |
20110156311 | Balloon Folding Device - A balloon folding device comprises a first die having an external contacting surface and a second die having a cavity. A portion of the cavity comprises a contacting surface shaped complimentary to the external contacting surface of the first die. The second die is movable with respect to the first die. A balloon catheter having a primary balloon and a secondary balloon is oriented with the secondary balloon located between the first die and the second die. The secondary balloon is folded by moving the second die toward the first die until the contacting surfaces of the dies contact, fold and deflate the secondary balloon. In some embodiments, the dies are moved until at least a portion of the external contacting surface of the first die is oriented within the cavity of the second die. | 06-30-2011 |
20120007282 | Method for producing composite articles - A method for producing composite articles includes: (a) advancing continuously a lower mold release sheet; (b) disposing prepreg articles in a spaced-apart manner on the lower mold release sheet; (c) advancing continuously an upper mold release sheet above the lower mold release sheet so that each of the prepreg articles is sandwiched between the lower and upper mold release sheets; and (d) thermoforming the prepreg articles that are sandwiched between the lower and upper mold release sheets. | 01-12-2012 |
20120074617 | FLAME-RETARDANT IMPACT-MODIFIED BATTERY BOXES BASED ON POLYCARBONATE I - Battery box comprising compositions containing A) 70.0 to 90.0 parts by weight of linear and/or branched aromatic polycarbonate and/or aromatic polyester carbonate, B) 6.0 to 15.0 parts by weight of at least one graft polymer, C) 2.0 to 15.0 parts by weight of one or more phosphorus compounds, D) 0 to 3.0 parts by weight of antidripping agents, E) 0 to 3.0 parts by weight of thermoplastic vinyl (co)polymer (E.1) and/or polyalkylene terephthalate (E.2), and F) 0 to 20.0 parts by weight of further additives, wherein the compositions are optionally free from rubber-free polyalkyl(alkyl)acrylate. | 03-29-2012 |
20120119418 | DEVICE FOR FORMING DEEP-DRAWN CONTAINERS - The invention relates to a device for forming deep-drawn containers, with a mould, which has a conical shape and interacts with a stamping body, which operatively connects with a material web when the stamping body enters the mould, the stamping body containing a resilient material, at least at its outer periphery, and the stamping body having a shape on the side facing the material web, the conicity of which is less than the conicity of the mould. According to the invention it is provided that the stamping body has a slightly smaller size than the opening region of the mould, and in that when the stamping body is completely located in the mould, said stamping body has a clearance with respect to the material web, at least in the later edge region of the container. | 05-17-2012 |
20120187600 | PRESS FOR PRODUCING A TAMPON - The invention relates to a method and a press ( | 07-26-2012 |
20120306120 | Compression Programming of Shape Memory Polymers Below the Glass Transition Temperature - Compression programming of a shape memory polymer without the requirement of added heat, wherein the programming occurs at a temperature below the glass transition of the shape memory polymer. The shape memory polymer can be either a thermoset or a thermoplastic shape memory polymer. | 12-06-2012 |
20120319329 | Systems and Methods for Self-Assembling Ordered Three-Dimensional Patterns By Buckling Of Thin Films Bonded To Curved Compliant Substrates - Self-assembled buckling patterns of thin films on compliant substrates can be used in micro-fabrication. However, most previous work has been limited to planar substrates, and buckling of films on curved substrates has not been widely explored. With the constraining effect from various types of substrate curvature, numerous new types of buckling morphologies can be derived. The morphologies not only enable true three-dimensional (3D) fabrication of microstructures and microdevices, but also can have important implications for the morphogenesis of quite a few natural and biological systems. | 12-20-2012 |
20130009343 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PRODUCING A PLURALITY OF BILLETS OF A FORMABLE MATERIAL - A method and an apparatus simultaneously produces a plurality of billets of a formable material with a press, which includes a plate-like female die, provided with nozzles in the form of continuous holes, and also a rotating hub provided with radially disposed rollers that are pressed onto the female die. The method provides that the female die is heated to a temperature above the boiling temperature of the moisture contained in the formable material, and in this way the material pressed through the hole-like nozzles of the female die is dried. The apparatus includes the female die having two plates resting closely and tightly against one another, and in at least one of the plates, a conduit for a heating medium or coolant is made in the surface facing toward the other plate. | 01-10-2013 |
20130049261 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STAMPING MARKINGS, IN PARTICULAR MOTOR VEHICLE MARKINGS - A method and apparatus for the use of a handling device, which is preferably configured as a data robot, in order to assemble embossing tools for embossing the desired character sequence into a blank. The handling device preferably also serves to position the respective blank in front of the embossing tools assembled in accordance with the desired character sequence and/or to center or orient the embossing tools with respect to the blank. The method and apparatus can be used in connection with the production of motor vehicle license plates in which an individual character sequence is embossed into a blank. | 02-28-2013 |
20130049262 | Use of Fluoropolymers for Rotomolding - The present invention discloses the use in rotomolding or slush molding applications of a composition comprising a polyolefin, a processing aid and optionally a UV-stabilizer. | 02-28-2013 |
20130062812 | PRESS FOR PRODUCING A TAMPON - The invention relates to a method and a press ( | 03-14-2013 |
20130106021 | Process for Shaping or Forming Articles | 05-02-2013 |
20130134632 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MODELLING TENDINOUS TISSUE INTO A DESIRED SHAPE - The present invention relates to methods and devices for the modelling tendinous tissue into a desired shape. The shaped tissue produced by the methods of the present invention is useful in any field relating to biological tissue, particularly in the field of medicine, most preferred in surgery, for intraoperative use or pre- or peri-operative preparation of the tissue. | 05-30-2013 |
20130256951 | Shaping tool for producing a substantially shell-shaped, fiber-reinforced plastic part - A shaping tool is constructed for producing a substantially shell-shaped, fiber-reinforced plastic part. The shaping toll includes and upper die and a lower die. A material blank made substantially of fibrous material is placed into the lower die the shaping tool brought into shaping engagement with the material blank. At least one of the dies is segmented into shaping segments for being brought into shaping engagement with the material blank in segments or in groups of segments. | 10-03-2013 |
20150008620 | Solid Soap Fragment Melting Apparatus and Method - An apparatus and method for melting soap fragments to create a soap bar from the soap fragments. The apparatus includes various replaceable molds to create soap bars having various shapes. | 01-08-2015 |
20150091210 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING ANISOTROPIC POLYMER PARTICLES - A method for fabricating anisotropic polymer particles comprises steps: providing a first substrate; arranging a plurality of polymer spheres on the first substrate; providing a second substrate to cover the polymer spheres; heating at least one of the first substrate, the second substrate, and the polymer spheres; and applying force to the first substrate and the second substrate to squeeze the polymer spheres into a plurality of anisotropic polymer particles. The present invention uses simple compressing and heating processes to fabricate many types of anisotropic polymer structures and thus saves the cost and time of fabrication. | 04-02-2015 |
20150123316 | ROOF DITCH MOLDING ASSEMBLY AND PROCESS WITH HEATED AIR ASSIST - A method and assembly for reshaping an elongated plasticized article including a pair of first and second spaced apart fixtures adapted to supporting extending ends of an elongated article. The fixtures each exhibit a contoured upper surface upon which the elongated article is adapted to being supported in adhering fashion. A heated airflow is delivered in communication with at least one surface of the article and, upon cooling, the article exhibits an extending profile matching the contoured upper surface. A pre-heat station pre-softens at least an extending subset portion of the article prior to transfer to the fixture. Pluralities of gripping fingers communicate with an underside of the contoured upper surface and are adapted to engage at least underside accessible cross sectional profile locations of the article. | 05-07-2015 |
20150306809 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING PRESSURE ON A THERMOFORMING ASSISTIVE DEVICE - Apparatus and methods of forming sheets of material are disclosed. Profile plates may be placed atop the sheets. Tabs attached to clamp frames may apply uniform pressure on the perimeters of the profile plates during the formation process. | 10-29-2015 |
20150314492 | FORMING APPARATUS - A method of forming a material includes presenting a formable material to a space between opposing forming surfaces of opposed forming tools from whence said material is carried as said opposing forming surfaces advance in a machine direction. The method includes pressurising, as said opposing forming surfaces advance, said material between said opposing forming surfaces in a reduced space between said opposing forming surfaces defining at least in part a pressure forming zone, said reduced space between said opposing forming surfaces being maintained constant until a form of at least one of said opposing forming surfaces is profiled into said material and is retainable thereon. The method also includes releasing the profiled material from between the said opposing forming surfaces, as the space of the pressure forming zone increases between said opposing forming surfaces as the opposing forming surfaces advance. | 11-05-2015 |
20150336323 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FAN BLADE AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME FAN BLADE - A blank sheet including a plurality of main fibers arranged in parallel with each other, auxiliary fibers and a resin that consolidates the fibers is heated to a temperature at which the resin softens, and then pressed against a fan blade mold with the direction of the main fibers aligned with the longitudinal direction of the fan blade mold. The fan blade mold is shaped so that the length thereof in the longitudinal direction along the surface of a center part thereof in the width direction is shorter than the length thereof in the longitudinal direction along the surface of end parts thereof in the width direction. When the blank sheet is pressed against the fan blade mold, a center part in the width direction of the blank sheet at an end part in the longitudinal direction is pulled with a greater force than end parts in the width direction of the blank sheet at the end part in the longitudinal direction, thereby preventing occurrence of wrinkling. | 11-26-2015 |
20150352796 | METHOD FOR HANDLING FLEXIBLE MAT-LIKE WORKPIECES - A method for the handling of flexible and/or mat-like workpieces ( | 12-10-2015 |
20160031166 | Automated Ply Forming and Compaction Using Flexible Roller Contact - A composite ply is compacted around a radius edge of the tool by a rolling former that rolls over the radiused edge and conforms to any contours along the length of the edge. The rolling former includes a compliant tubular member rotatably held in spaced apart roller assemblies. | 02-04-2016 |
20160075450 | Cradle System for Shaping Fuselage Sections - A method and apparatus for shaping fuselage sections. A first fuselage section is held in a holding structure in a cradle in a cradle system. Force are applied to the first fuselage section with an actuator system to a portion of the first fuselage section such that a first current shape of the first fuselage section changes towards a first desired shape for the first fuselage section to join the first the fuselage section to a second fuselage section. | 03-17-2016 |
20160136842 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES AND CLOSING TOOL FOR GREEN HONEYCOMB MOLDED BODIES - An integrated closing tool is inserted into a part of hexagonal cells in a green honeycomb molded body including a plurality of hexagonal cells that open in an upper surface and a lower surface of a columnar body and are mutually partitioned by partition walls to join the partition walls together, thereby closing the hexagonal cells. A part of the integrated closing tool is separated, and tool separated pieces separated from a part of the hexagonal cells into which the closing tool has been inserted are removed. | 05-19-2016 |
20160158965 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE, JIG, AND HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE - In a green honeycomb molded body including a columnar body of the green honeycomb molded body in which a plurality of hexagonal cells mutually partitioned by partition walls are open at an end surface of the columnar body, a center closing jig is inserted into a part of a plurality of cells at the center of the end surface to join partition walls to each other using the center closing jig, thereby closing the cells at the center of the end surface and the outer periphery of the end surface including the plurality of cells is pressed by a cylindrical outer periphery closing jig having an inner peripheral surface with the inner diameter being continuously reduced from one end to the other end, thereby collapsing the cells at the outer periphery of the end surface to close the cells at the outer periphery of the end surface. | 06-09-2016 |
20160376410 | POWDER SLUSH MOLDING COMPOSITION - Provided is a powder slush molding composition including a thermoplastic polyester elastomer (TPEE) having a peak melting point of 130 to 200° C., as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The composition has a Shore A hardness not higher than 95 and a melt index (190° C., 2.16 kg) of 10 to 100 g/10 min. | 12-29-2016 |
20160376517 | LUBRICATION METHOD - A method of lubricating an expandable rubber bladder is described for use during a vulcanization of a green tire within a metal press. The method can include applying compositions in the form of emulsions of silicone oils to the inner surface of the green tires and/or to the outer surface of the vulcanization bladders to facilitate the molding-demolding thereof during the manufacture of the tires. | 12-29-2016 |
20160380179 | PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOSITION, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to piezoelectric compositions of Formula I comprising Lead Zirconate—Lead Titanate solid solution. The disclosure further relates to a method of obtaining said composition, method of preparing/fabricating piezoelectric component(s) and piezoelectric component(s)/article(s) obtained thereof. The piezoelectric composition and articles of the present disclosure show excellent electromechanical characteristics along with very large insulation resistance (IR). | 12-29-2016 |