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The present invention is directed to a 3DP(TM) material system ad method, and an article made therefrom. The method of the present invention includes building cross-sectional portions of a three-dimensional article, and assembling the individual cross-sectional areas in a layer-wise fashion to form a final article. The individual cross-sectional areas are built by using an ink-jet printhead to deliver an aqueous fluid to a particulate material that includes plaster.

The invention provides a super-soft aluminum alloy conductor and a preparation method thereof. The aluminum alloy conductor comprises the following materials in percentage by weight: 0.3 to 1.5 percent of Fe, 0.001 to 0.3 percent of Be, 0.005 to 0.6 percent of Cu, 0.1 to 1.5 percent of rare earth, less than or equal to 0.08 percent of Si, less than or equal to 0.15 percent of total inevitable impurities, and the balance of aluminum. The aluminum alloy is drawn into an aluminum alloy wire by melting, continuous casting and continuous rolling, and the aluminum alloy wire is put into an annealing furnace and annealed for 20 to 40 hours at the temperature of between 380 and 420 DEG C to form the aluminum alloy conductor, wherein the annealing is performed in a sealed heat insulation device under the protection of nitrogen. The aluminum alloy has extremely good toughness and elongation performance, the coefficient of elongation reaches or exceeds 35 percent and even can reach 40 percent, and the electric conductivity can reach 60 percent IACS.

A rotary cutting tool that includes an elongated tool body, rotatable along a longitudinal axis of rotation is disclosed. It has a fluted cutting end on one end and a shank end on the opposite end of the tool body. The fluted cutting end includes a nose, a periphery and an end surface that extends from the nose to the periphery. A plurality of axial flutes extends from the end surface to the fluted cutting end and combines with a plurality of cutting edges. The cutting edges are unequally spaced along the circumference of the end surface lying in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of rotation. In addition, all cutting edges are of a different helix from one another and the cutting edge geometries vary from one another to create a different sound pattern. This reduces resonant harmonic vibrations.

This invention relates to processes and systems of rapid prototyping and production. Its features includes flexible material deposition along tangential directions of surfaces of a part to be made, thereby eliminating stair-shape surface due to uniform horizontal layer deposition, increasing width of material deposition to increase build up rate, applying the principles of traditional forming / joining processes, such as casting, fusion welding, plastic extrusion and injection molding in the fabrication process so that various industrial materials can be processed, applying comparatively low cost heating sources, such as induction heating and arc-heating. Additional features include varying width and size of material deposition in accordance with geometry to be formed and applying a differential molding means for improved shape formation and surface finishing.

The welding apparatus and associated method are provided. The welding apparatus includes a welding tool for forming a weld joint along the surface of at least one workpiece. The welding apparatus also includes a compression tool for selectively inducing a layer of residual compressive stress in at least a portion of the surface of the weld joint and the surface of the at least one workpiece to thereby improve the material properties of the workpiece, including corrosion resistance and fatigue strength.

The present invention relates to an abrasive article having a shaped abrasive coating on a shaped backing and to a method of making and using the flexible abrasive article. The flexible abrasive article includes a backing bearing separated, shaped non-abrasive structures having a distal end spaced from the backing which are coated with a shaped abrasive coating. The method comprises providing the backing, applying to one surface of the backing a plurality of separated, shaped non-abrasive structures with distal ends, coating the distal ends with a curable composition containing abrasive particles, imparting a shaped configuration to the uncured coating and curing the coating.

The present invention provides methods and systems for chip breaking, controlling cutting tool wear, and the like in turning, boring, and other applications, including: engaging a workpiece with a cutting tool in a feed direction along a toolpath, superimposing an oscillation in the feed direction on the toolpath, and dynamically or non-dynamically varying the oscillation superimposed in the feed direction on the toolpath such that interrupted cuts and chips of a predetermined length or less are produced. These systems take full advantage of computer numerical control (CNC) methodologies.

An apparatus and method of uniformly heating, rheologically softening, and thermoplastically forming metallic glasses rapidly into a net shape using a rapid capacitor discharge forming (RCDF) tool are provided. The RCDF method utilizes the discharge of electrical energy stored in a capacitor to uniformly and rapidly heat a sample or charge of metallic glass alloy to a predetermined “process temperature” between the glass transition temperature of the amorphous material and the equilibrium melting point of the alloy in a time scale of several milliseconds or less. Once the sample is uniformly heated such that the entire sample block has a sufficiently low process viscosity it may be shaped into high quality amorphous bulk articles via any number of techniques including, for example, injection molding, dynamic forging, stamp forging, and blow molding in a time frame of less than 1 second.

The invention provides a selective laser melting forming device of a medical magnesium alloy metal part, which comprises a control device, a powder delivering and spreading device, a laser transmission mechanism, an air purification device and a closed forming chamber, wherein the powder delivering and spreading device comprises a hopper and powder spreading brushes arranged on two sides below the hopper, the upper part of the hopper is arranged in a way of corresponding to a feeding opening on the upper part of the forming chamber, and the lower parts of the powder spreading brushes horizontally correspond to the upper surface of a forming cylinder; the laser transmission mechanism is arranged outside and above the forming chamber and is arranged in a way of corresponding to the forming cylinder; the side wall of the forming chamber is provided with an air inlet and an air outlet, and the air purification device is connected with the air inlet and the air outlet respectively; and the control device is connected with the powder delivering and spreading device, the laser transmission mechanism, the forming cylinder and the air purification device respectively. The invention also provides a selective laser melting forming method of the medical magnesium alloy metal part. The device and the method can manufacture parts which have complex shapes required in the medical field directly, and have the advantages of high forming efficiency and the like.

The present invention is drawn to a solid freeform fabrication system for producing a three-dimensional object. The system can include a dispensing system and a curing system. The dispensing system can be adapted to separately dispense build material and support material, wherein the build material and the support material are adapted to contact one another at an interface after being dispensed. The curing system can be adapted to harden the build material after being dispensed but before the support material is dispensed, wherein mixing between the build material and the support material is inhibited at the interface.

An abrasive super-finishing method for workpieces, such as metallic thin-film magnetic discs, employs a polishing / texturing material having a backing, such as synthetic resin film or woven material or non-woven cloth, and a layer which can hold abrasive grains on the backing, such as flocked fibre or a porous polymer foam, on one surface of the backing. An electrolytic solution in which abrasive grains are suspended is supplied to the polishing / texturing material to conduct polishing or texturing of the workpiece surfaces. The workpiece is connected to an anode and a pressure roller or a cathode bar is connected to a cathode. A voltage is applied between the workpiece and the pressure roller or cathode bar to conduct simultaneously electrolytic polishing and abrasive polishing / texturing.

The invention provides a method of making an embossed abrasive article comprising providing a sheet-like foam backing having a first surface and an opposite second surface; providing an abrasive coating comprising abrasive particles and binder over said first surface to provide an abrasive article; and applying under pressure a patterned embossing tool having an embossing surface including at least a pattern of raised areas to the abrasive coating of the abrasive article to provide an embossed pattern at least including depressed areas corresponding to the raised areas of the embossing surface in said abrasive coating and said foam backing to provide an embossed abrasive article.

The invention relates to the field of material preparation, in particular to a method for producing titanium alloy artware by adopting selective laser melting. The method includes the steps: creating two-dimensional slicing data of a part structure to be produced and importing the two-dimensional slicing data into a metal powder laser melting system; setting processing technological parameters of the metal powder laser melting system; taking titanium alloy powder and spreading the titanium alloy powder on the metal powder laser melting system, and sequentially performing laser melting, powder sieving, heat treatment, wire cutting, cleaning, sand blasting, polishing and the like under the protection of inert gas to obtain the titanium alloy artware. According to the method, specific titanium alloy types and specification parameters are selected, and the processing technological parameters of the metal powder laser melting system are optimized for multiple times, so that the produced titanium alloy artware is high in precision, stable in shaping quality, small in distortion, excellent in mechanical property and good in surface smoothness through follow-up processing and has great artistic value.

The invention discloses a low-smoke halogen-free flame-retardant polyolefin cable material and a preparation method thereof. The formula of the cable material comprises the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 20-30% of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, 10-20% of linear low-density polyethylene, 3-6% of compatilizer, 50-60% of inorganic flame retardant, 2-5% of synergistic flame retardant, 0.5-1% of coupling agent, 0.2-0.5% of lubricant and 0.2-0.5% of antioxidant. The preparation method of the cable material comprises surface treatment of the inorganic flame retardant, burdening,mixing, milling, extrusion and granulation and other process steps. Compared with the prior art, the cable material disclosed by the invention has the advantages of superior flame retardancy, low smoke, low toxicity, no droplets, good processing performance, good dispersion of the inorganic flame retardant, and better uniformity and surface finish degree.

A method of producing composites of micro-engineered, coated particulates embedded in a matrix of metal, ceramic powders, or combinations thereof, capable of being tailored to exhibit application-specific desired thermal, physical and mechanical properties to form substitute materials for nickel, titanium, rhenium, magnesium, aluminum, graphite epoxy, and beryllium. The particulates are solid and / or hollow and may be coated with one or more layers of deposited materials before being combined within a substrate of powder metal, ceramic or some combination thereof which also may be coated. The combined micro-engineered nano design powder is consolidated using novel solid-state processes that prevent melting of the matrix and which involve the application of varying pressures to control the formation of the microstructure and resultant mechanical properties.

The invention discloses a wax injection mold for investment casting of hollow turbine blades and a method for rapidly and accurately manufacturing the wax injection mold. The mold consists of a cavity mold, a mold core and an accessory structure, wherein the cavity mold comprises an upper mold and a lower mold of a combined structure; each mold block forming the cavity mold consists of an external aluminum mold frame, an internal cast zinc alloy inlay and a conformal cooling copper pipe embedded into the inlay; a mold core positioning piece which can be decomposed at a high temperature is arranged on a longitudinal rib of the mold core; and water-soluble core blocks used for forming exhaust openings in the rear edges of the turbine blades are arranged on rear edge ribs of the mold core. The matching precision of the mold core positioning piece and the cavity mold is guaranteed by adopting a cavity mold interior running-in method, and the matching precision of the water-soluble core blocks and the cavity mold is guaranteed by adopting a cavity mold interior adhesion method. The wax injection mold disclosed by the invention is low in manufacturing cost and short in period, and the high wax pattern precision and core positioning precision can be obtained.

The invention discloses a manufacturing method of a multilayer shell-core composite structural part, which comprises the following steps of: (1) respectively preparing feed for injection forming of a core layer, a transition layer and a shell layer, wherein powder in the feed of the core layer and the powder in the feed of the shell layer are selected from one or a mixture of some of metal powder, ceramic powder, or toughened ceramic powder and are different from each other, and the powder in the feed of the transition layer is gradient composite powder; (2) respectively manufacturing blanks of the multilayer shell-core composite structural part layer by layer with a powder injection forming method; (3) degreasing the blanks; and (4) sintering the blanks to obtain the multilayer shell-core composite structural part. The multilayer shell-core composite structural part is manufactured with the powder injection forming method, and has the advantages of high surface hardness, abrasion resistance, uniform thickness of the shell layer, stable and persistent performance, strong binding force between the shell layer and the core layer due to the transition layer, good integral bending strength and good impact toughness and is difficult to crack.

By evacuating the resin feed tank to a pressure below atmospheric pressure, employing cyclic compaction, and controlling the net compaction pressure, we are better able to control a resin infusion process, particularly a vacuum assisted resin transfer molding process, and produce aerospace-grade fiber-reinforced resin composite having fiber volume fractions and tool-side surface finishes comparable to or exceeding those made using an autoclave.

A flexible wipe comprising at least one conformable non-woven layer and at least one adhered nanofiber layer can be used to remove a variety of particulate soils from planar, curved or complex surfaces. The nanofiber layer is configured onto the flexible non-woven in a fashion such that particulate of a broad particle size range is trapped by the nanofiber layer and efficiently removed from the contaminated surface. The nanofiber layer comprises a web of spun fibers that can incorporate and trap soil particles for efficient soil removal.

The invention discloses a method for manufacturing dentate special-shaped ceramic components by injection molding, belonging to the technical field of high-performance ceramic preparation. The methodcomprises the following steps: evenly mixing 81wt% to 90wt% of ceramic powder and 10wt% to 19wt% of organic binders by weight percentage to obtain an injection-molding mixture, injection-molding the injection-molding mixture on an injection-molding machine with the injection temperature being 175 to 195 DEG C, to obtain a green body, and de-molding within 2 minutes after the injection, so as to obtain a molded green body; and then, subjecting the molded green body to water-extraction degreasing and thermal degreasing, sintering the degreased green body at 1,350 to 1,550 DEG C, holding for 1 to4 hours and furnace-cooling to obtain the ceramic components. The invention has the advantages of high automation degree, high molding and degreasing efficiencies, even green body, high dimensional accuracy and surface smoothness of sintered products, and environment-friendly and energy-saving manufacture.

A mould (2) for preparing of large structures, such as wind turbine blades, is provided. Furthermore, methods of manufacturing and use of such a mould (2) are provided. The mould (2) comprises a support structure (4), an air-drainage structure (6) and an air-permeable surface member (8). Ile mould is particularly suitable for preparing of moulded items with an in-mould coating.

A nano-class toughened and strengthened butanediol polyterephthalate composition is prepared through proportionally mixing butanediol polyterephthalate, inorganic nanoparticles, reaction compatibilizer, antioxidizing agent, and lubricant, high-speed stirring, loading it along with glass fibres in dual-screw extruder, reactive mixing and granulating. Its advantage is high high-temp resistance, strength, toughness and surface polished.

A method and apparatus for improving the surface finish and / or surface integrity of a workpiece formed or shaped with a tool increase the surface hardness of the workpiece during forming or shaping of the workpiece. A method and apparatus for forming or shaping a workpiece also increase the surface hardness of the workpiece during forming or shaping of the workpiece with a tool, as do a method and apparatus for manufacturing a finished part or product from a workpiece. In some embodiments, an expanding jet of cryogen may be jetted to a surface of a workpiece and a tool from a nozzle, wherein the cryogen is at least partially separated into a condensed phase portion and a vapor portion within a downstream portion of the nozzle.

An apparatus and method of uniformly heating, rheologically softening, and thermoplastically forming magnetic metallic glasses rapidly into a net shape using a rapid capacitor discharge forming (RCDF) tool are provided. The RCDF method utilizes the discharge of electrical energy stored in a capacitor to uniformly and rapidly heat a sample or charge of metallic glass alloy to a predetermined “process temperature” between the glass transition temperature of the amorphous material and the equilibrium melting point of the alloy in a time scale of several milliseconds or less. Once the sample is uniformly heated such that the entire sample block has a sufficiently low process viscosity it may be shaped into high quality amorphous bulk articles via any number of techniques including, for example, injection molding, dynamic forging, stamp forging, sheet forming, and blow molding in a time frame of less than 1 second.

The present invention concerns a new ferromagnetic powder composition comprising soft magnetic iron-based core particles wherein the surface of the core particles are surrounded by an insulating inorganic coating, and a lubricating amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of silanes, titanates, aluminates, zirconates, or mixtures thereof. The invention also concerns a process for the preparation of soft magnetic composite materials using the new powder composition.

The invention provides an alcoholysis resistance nylon composite material and a preparation method thereof; the composite material is applicable to the cooling water chamber of vehicles and comprises nylon, short glass fiber, glass fiber emergence resistance regulating additive, nucleating agent, colorant, heat stabilizer and alcoholysis resistance additive. The physical property of the nylon composite material provided by the invention can meet or exceed the TL52062 technical requirement and the alcoholysis resistance chemical property can meet the TL-VW774 technical requirement so that the surface of the product does not change and crack after being placing in 100% of glycol solution for 48h at 135 DEG C and the product has high shock resistance and dimension stability, thus ensuring that the stress cracking does not appear on joints.