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The methods of manufacturing molds from shape memory materials and molds made thereby, in accordance with the present invention, provide numerous advantages for molding castable composite parts. The initial mold cost is low enough to accommodate economical production of as few as a single part incorporating high surface definition and intricate three dimensional detail. The preferred methods and molds made thereby are transparent, thereby, curing of the corresponding part by ultra-violet and infra-red light is made possible, as well as, visual inspection during injection and curing of the given resin. Removal of the cured part from within the mold is simplified.

A method for producing at least one patient-specific surgical aid includes providing a physical model of a native patient tissue. The physical model has at least one surface of interest. A constraining wall is placed in contact with at least a portion of the physical model. A moldable substance is placed into contact with at least a portion of the surface of interest. An impression of the surface of interest is maintained upon the moldable substance. The moldable substance is solidified into a patient-specific surgical aid. The patient-specific surgical aid is removed from the physical model. A system for producing at least one patient-specific surgical aid is also disclosed.

Microfluidic assay detectors and microfluidic assay detection methods are disclosed. A microfluidic chip is coupled to a light emitting device, emission filters and excitation filters. Excited fluorescent light is detected by a camera and a lens. The correspondent reading allows parallel detection of features such as antigens and biomarkers. A microfluidic filter and related methods are also disclosed. The filter can be used with on-chip fluid filtration such as whole blood filtration for microfluidic blood analysis. The filter is able to filter the necessary volume of fluid and in particular blood in an acceptable time frame.

Super-hydrophobic and self-cleaning articles produced by imprinting exposed surfaces with suitable fine-grained and/or amorphous metallic embossing dies to transfer a dual surface structure, including ultra-fine features less than or equal to 100 nm embedded in and overlaying a surface topography with macro-surface structures greater than or equal to 1 micron are disclosed.

A holding apparatus includes a first holding unit including at least two supporting rollers rotatable around rotation shafts which extend substantially parallel with each other; a second holding unit including at least one supporting roller rotatable around a rotation shaft; and at least one holding mechanism having the first holding unit and the second holding unit. The rotation shafts of the supporting rollers of the first holding unit and the rotation shaft of the supporting roller of the second holding unit are substantially in parallel with each other. By moving at least one of the first holding unit and the second holding unit, an object to be held is held between the first holding unit and the second holding unit by using the supporting rollers.

A method for manufacturing a honeycomb structure includes producing a pillar-shaped honeycomb molded body in which a plurality of cells are placed in parallel with one another in a longitudinal direction with a cell wall therebetween by molding a ceramic raw material; and producing a honeycomb fired body by carrying out a single or a plurality of treatments including at least a firing treatment on the honeycomb molded body. The method further includes temporarily storing the treated honeycomb molded body on which the single or plurality of treatments have been carried out in a molded body storage container; taking out the treated honeycomb molded body placed in the molded body storage container from the molded body storage container; and conveying the taken-out honeycomb molded body to a subsequent process.

A light guide plate which is made of a transparent resin and has a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to said first main surface, said first main surface having a surface portion provided with convex portions having a height of 5x10-7 m to 6x10-5 m each and a pitch of 5x10-7 m to 4x10-4 m, each convex portion having a tip portion, and the convex portions of at least 80% of the total convex portions having the tip portions having a radius of curvature of 2x10-6 m or less.

Disclosed is a method for producing composite silica particles and hollow silica particles that can improve the utilization efficiency of a hydrophobic organic substance. It is a method for producing composite silica particles each of which is provided with an outer shell part having a mesoporous structure formed from a silica-containing component and which includes a hydrophobic organic substance in the interior of the aforementioned outer shell part, and involves adding an aqueous solvent to the hydrophobic organic substance and emulsifying, and forming the outer shell part having the mesoporous structure formed from the silica-containing component on the surface of an emulsified oil droplet of the aforementioned hydrophobic organic substance.

A method for the layer-by-layer assembly of a free standing thin film includes the steps of preparing a support with a suitable substrate; forming a thin film having a plurality of layers onto the substrate utilizing a layer-by-layer assembly process; removing the substrate and thin film from the support; and separating the substrate from the thin film. Various compounds improving the strength, flexibility, tension and other mechanical properties may be included in the assembly to improve the structural quality of the film. Similar effect may also be achieved by cross-linking the applied layers.

A concrete panel system comprising a plurality of concrete panels arranged in side-by-side fashion on a substantially vertical supporting wall, each of the panels comprising a rectangular body having a front surface and a rear surface and beveled side edges, the side edges each forming an angle of between eighty-five and ninety degrees with the rear surface, and a concave caulking groove lying between and connecting each of the beveled side edges with the front face, the side edges of adjacent panels forming a V-joint between the adjacent panels, a flexible sealant material in a portion of the caulking grooves of adjacent panels and a portion of the V-joint for providing a seal between adjacent panels, and a hanger element embedded in the rear of the panels for securing the panels to the supporting wall.

The invention relates to a mechanically-collapsible core device includes a central pin having a plurality of engaging members, a plurality of first collapsible core members each having an engaging member that engages with a respective engaging member of the central pin, a base member having a plurality of engaging members, and a plurality of second collapsible core members each having an engaging member that engages with a respective engaging member of the base member. The pin is retracted from a home position, thereby causing the first core members to collapse inward. The base member is then retracted, thereby causing the second core members to translate inward and linearly. The result is that the core device collapses inward in size so as to permit the device to be removed from the inside of a molded article.

A method for rapidly heating a mold cavity to a predetermined temperature preferably above the softening or melting temperature of the molding material prior to and during the molding stage thereby increasing moldability and improving quality of molded parts. The mold cavity is formed by two metallic halves on which high-frequency electric current is applied and an electric circuit involving the two halves is formed. Due to the proximity effect, the electrical current flows on the inner surfaces of the two cavity halves, thus rapidly heating the mold cavity. Proper use of insulation behind the cavity surface helps increase heating efficiency. Conformal on-off cooling channels provide both thermal insulation during the heating phase and rapidly cooling of the molded article during the cooling phase.

A multi-function vacuum bag for use in the manufacture of composites, wherein the vacuum bag may be configured to provide all-in-one capabilities, namely to function as the vacuum bag, a caul or caul sheet, release layer and/or a breather, as well as to provide other functions. Specifically, the multi-function vacuum bag allows a separate breather or breather material, a separate caul or caul layer, and a release or release layer all to be eliminated, if desired, as the multi-function vacuum bag is capable of performing the functions of each of these once formed. Furthermore, the multi-function vacuum bag may be used with various composite manufacturing process, such as VARTM or resin infusion processes, various vacuum bagging processes, filament winding processes, and others.

A closure for sealing the opening of a container. The closure may include an angled plug. The container includes an external thread configuration and the closure includes an internal thread configuration which are adapted to pass over each other with one of the external and internal thread configurations having at least one thread lead and the other having at least twice as many thread leads. The closure includes an inwardly turned retaining rim extends at least partially upwardly. The retaining rim has an attachment boss and an upwardly extending line of weakness adjacent the attachment boss such that when the closure is removed from the container, the line of weakness tears allowing the tamper-evidencing band to remain with the closure upon removal from the container. The closure may include a top having a periphery, an annular skirt depending downwardly from the periphery and including a lower edge and a line of weakness extending upwardly from the lower edge, a tear tab extending downwardly from the skirt below the lower edge, and a tamper-evidencing locking member including an inwardly extending locking ring that extends radially inwardly from the skirt intermediate the top and the bottom edge, the retaining rim including a free edge that is adapted to engage the radially extending locking bead of the container when the closure is removed from the container neck. A method of molding a closure including a tamper-evidencing band is also disclosed.

The various embodiments herein provide a method and system for handling wet clay bricks. The wet clay bricks are sectioned on the section table. The sectioned wet clay bricks are erected by an erect maker machine. The erect maker machine is connected to a stock maker machine to store a preset number of wet clay bricks. The wet clay bricks are loaded from the stock maker machine to an automatic loading and unloading tools, which is fixed to a shifting machine. The wet clay bricks are shifted through shifting vehicle to sunshiny locations and the wet clay bricks are unloaded to the ground from the shifting vehicle. Thus the embodiments herein provides a simple way to erect, load and unload wet clay bricks in a cost effective manner and also reduces the number of workers.

The present provides a biomaterial composed in part of a porous material having an internal structure that has been completely controlled so as to optimize living tissue infiltration or cell introduction, a method of manufacturing, and uses thereof, including bio-implant materials for artificial bones, artificial joints and artificial tooth roots, and cell culture supports; the biomaterial undergoes increased infiltration by living tissues and the like owing to the formation of a porous region in at least a portion of the material, wherein the porous region is a porous body having therein a group of oriented pores that has an orientation and is made up of pores whose size, shape and direction have been controlled to optimize living tissue infiltration or cell introduction, and also having formed therein connecting pores that link together the primary pores and enable the passage of bodily fluids and gas bubbles, and formed with a spatial configuration in which the oriented pores are not directly connected to other oriented pores and the connecting pores which link together the oriented pores are not directly connected to other connecting pores.

The invention relates to production technology for a concrete precast element with energy-saving and environment-friendly functions. In the production of the prior concrete precast element, the fixing of a precast element mould, operators, lifting equipment and raw materials of production are in a motion state, and the production has low efficiency, serious noise pollution, large steam loss, and large energy consumption, and cannot isolate vibrating noise. The technology comprises the following steps: demoulding of a precast element; clearing the inner surface of the mould and spraying mould oil; installing an embedded part and lifting a reinforcement cage; casting concrete and vibrating the concrete; touching the surface of the concrete and clearing the outside surface of the mould; standing and curing; polishing the surface of the concrete; and steam curing. The mould does reciprocating running circularly by current production equipment, and workers, materials and equipment are fixed relatively so as to improve the productivity. The working procedures of vibrating and steam curing are carried out in a fixed station so as to isolate the noise effectively and carry out effective heat insulation on the steam loss and heat loss. The production technology has significant energy conservation and environment protection, and is favorable for popularizing.

A process for simultaneously coating and forming a body. The process includes moving two mold halves into contact with one another; introducing an injection-molding material into the mold halves so that a molding is formed; evacuating the molding; admitting a gas into the molding; igniting a plasma in the molding so that a coating is deposited on the inner side of the molding; and moving the mold halves apart so that the molding drops out.

A method for automatically shaping the load-bearing hollow brick includes such steps as preparing concrete, stirring, filling in mould, inserting core mould while vibrating, hydraulic pressing, and demoulding. Its apparatus is composed of electric power control box, control mechanism, motor, concrete preparing system, shaping system, feeding unit, and discharging unit.

The invention discloses a manufacturing method of a small prefabricated box girder. The manufacturing method includes the following steps that firstly, a pedestal is prefabricated; secondly, mold plates are installed, wherein the mold plates are installed in the following sequence of bottom mold installation, side mold installation, inner mold installation, end mold installation and flange plate installation on side molds; thirdly, concrete is poured and cured; fourthly, demolding is conducted, wherein demolding includes detaching of end molds at the two ends of a girder body, inner mold demolding and side mold demolding; and fifthly, the girder body is cured. According to the manufacturing method, fully-hydraulic actions are achieved through the outer mold plates, the use effect is improved greatly, and labor intensity is lowered; and semi-automation is achieved through an inner mold, quick demolding and mold combination of the mold plates are facilitated, the operation intensity of workers in small space in the girder body is lowered, and the potential safety hazards of working under the high temperature are reduced. The mold plates are firm and general in structure, quick and convenient to use and advanced in design manufacturing and construction process idea.

A textured breast implant is provided which generally includes a fluid fillable elastomeric shell having a texture defined by struts, for example, hollow struts, defining interconnected open cells. Methods of making the texture include applying a silicone dispersion to a base material and removing the base material from the coating to form a silicone-based structure comprising struts defining interconnected open cells, said struts including internal surfaces defining cavities within the struts. The method may further include the step of contacting the silicone based structure having cavities with a silicone dispersion to cause the silicone to enter and fill the cavities.

The invention relates to equipment and a method for producing an imitation stone-texture ceramic tile. The equipment comprises a hydraulic machine, a tile pulling rod, a material pushing frame of a secondary material spreader and a composite base material hopper, wherein the tile pulling rod is arranged at the front end of the composite base material hopper on the material pushing frame of a secondary material spreader and consists of two tile pulling arms and a transverse rod. The equipment is characterized by also comprising a tile pulling mechanism driving the tile pulling rod and a powder removing mechanism which is used for removing powder and arranged between the hydraulic machine and the composite material hopper. The invention also provides a secondary material spreading device and a method thereof, which not only can solve the problem of directly producing a ceramic tile with a clear texture effect pattern imitating a natural stone without a polishing working procedure difficult to be realized in a counter steer mode, particularly a rough surface or dull surface micro powder ceramic tile with the texture effect pattern imitating the natural stone, but also can ensure that the texture effect pattern imitating the natural stone in a micro powder material can be kept more complete.

An imprint device transfers a finely patterned structure created on a stamper onto a material to be patterned, by bringing the stamper and the material to be patterned in contact with each other. At least one chamfered edge portion is formed at least one of the stamper and the material to be patterned. The imprint device has a separating unit for holding the chamfered edge portion of at least one of the stamper and the material to be patterned, so as to separate the stamper from the material to be patterned.

Post-mold cooling of injection molded plastic articles such as preforms is achieved by transferring the articles directly from the mold cavities onto cooling cores carried by a take-out plate. The molded articles are supported on the cooling cores until they become sufficiently frozen that they can be stripped from the cores.

A peeling apparatus including a first holding section that holds a first object which is in the form of a flat plate, and a second holding section that holds a second object which is in the form of a flat plate and is affixed to the first object to be integral, the peeling apparatus being configured to be capable of peeling one of the first object and the second object off the other in a state in which the first holding section holds the first object and the second holding section holds the second object. The first holding section holds the first object by being brought into contact with a surface of the first object along a direction of a thickness thereof via at least two points.

The present invention relates to a demolding method and device, being used for detaching a mold and a substrate after completing an imprinting process, in which the mold is forced to detach from the substrate partially and form a gap therebetween by inserting at least a blade module between the two, and thus, as air is sucked into the gap and the adhesion force of vacuum effect exerting between the mold and the substrate is eliminated, the blade module is further applied to detach the mold from the substrate completely.

When a separation layer is formed using a stamper between a substrate and the stamper on a thick substrate, on the surface of which a rewritable recording multilayer film provided with signal guide grooves or pits and the signal guide grooves or pits are transferred from the stamper to the surface, variations in the thickness of the separation layer are produced due to unevenness of the distance between the stamper and the substrate.

The surface of the kth signal recording layer of the kth signal substrate is shaped parallel to the surface with the guide grooves and pits of the (k−1)th signal recording layer on the (k−1)th stamper, a (k−1)th separation layer is formed between the two and then the (k−1)th stamper is peeled off. The distance between the surface with the guide grooves and pits of the (k−1)th signal recording layer and the kth signal recording layer becomes uniform, and therefore the thickness of the (k−1)th separation layer can be kept uniform.

A molding method for resin long body to make a thin long body of resin. Molten resin is supplied to a spaced portion of a mold through a thin film gate after a resin well of enlarged hollow ring is filled with the molten resin through plural pin runners in advance.

A ceramic green body is formed by gelcasting. In release of the formed ceramic green body from a mold, the ceramic green body is heated so that a solvent contained in the ceramic green body is moved therefrom. The moved solvent forms a solvent film between the outer surface of the ceramic green body and the inner surface of the mold. The solvent film facilitates release of the ceramic green body from the mold, thereby preventing occurrence of damage to the ceramic green body during release of the ceramic green body from the mold.

The invention relates to a pressing molding machine for hollow bricks. The pressing molding machine comprises a combined supporting frame. A left supporting support is arranged on the left side of the upper end face of the combined supporting frame. A brick conveyor is arranged on the left supporting support. A motor is further arranged on the left portion of the upper end face of the combined supporting frame. A shaft of the motor is sleeved with a drive gear. A brick supporting hydraulic cylinder is arranged on the upper end face of the combined supporting frame. A brick supporting plate is arranged on the brick supporting hydraulic cylinder. A right supporting support is arranged on the right side of the brick supporting hydraulic cylinder. A vertical rod is arranged in the middle of the combined supporting frame. A bearing plate is arranged in the middle of the vertical rod. A brick outlet is formed in the left portion of the bearing plate. Two sliding rails which are parallel in a front-and-back manner are arranged on the top of the vertical rod. A material removing plate is arranged at the right ends of the sliding rails. A brick pressing device is arranged on the sliding rails. A die pushing device is arranged on the upper right side of the combined supporting frame. According to the pressing molding machine for the hollow bricks, the manner that a hydraulic cylinder is used for directly pressing brick molding raw materials in the prior art is changed, instability of the forming quality and the forming size of the bricks is lowered, and the requirement for operation accuracy of the hydraulic cylinder of the pressing molding machine is lowered.