4967 results about "Batch manufacturing" patented technology

The present invention relates to a method of fabricating a transparent gas barrier film by using plasma surface treatment and a transparent gas barrier film fabricated according to such method which has an organic/inorganic gradient interface structure at the interface between an organic/inorganic hybrid layer and an inorganic layer. Since the method of the present invention is capable of fabricating a gas barrier film by plasma surface treatment instead of deposition under high vacuum, it can mass-produce a transparent gas barrier film with excellent gas barrier properties in an economical and simple manner. Further, since the transparent gas barrier film fabricated according to the method of the present invention shows excellent gas barrier properties and is free of crack formation and layer-peeling phenomenon, it can be effectively used in the manufacture of a variety of display panels.

Various techniques for the fabrication of highly accurate master molds with precisely defined microstructures for use in plastic replication using injection molding, hot embossing, or casting techniques are disclosed herein. Three different fabrication processes used for master mold fabrication are disclosed wherein one of the processes is a combination of the other two processes. In an embodiment of the first process, a two-step electroplating approach is used wherein one of the metals forms the microstructures and the second metal is used as a sacrificial support layer. Following electroplating, the exact height of the microstructures is defined using a chemical mechanical polishing process. In an embodiment of the second process, a modified electroforming process is used for master mold fabrication. The specific modifications include the use of Nickel-Iron (80:20) as a structural component of the master mold, and the use of a higher saccharin concentration in the electroplating bath to reduce tensile stress during plating and electroforming on the top as well as sides of the dummy substrate to prevent peel off of the electroform. The electroforming process is also well suited towards the fabrication of microstructures with non-rectangular cross sectional profiles. Also disclosed is an embodiment of a simple fabrication process using direct deposition of a curable liquid molding material combined with the electroforming process. Finally, an embodiment of a third fabrication process combines the meritorious features of the first two approaches and is used to fabricate a master mold using a combination of the two-step electroplating plus chemical mechanical polishing approach and the electroforming approach to fabricate highly accurate master molds with precisely defined microstructures. The microstructures are an integral part of the master mold and hence the master mold is more robust and well suited for high volume production of plastic MEMS devices through replication techniques such as injection molding.

A system for batch forming a sheet of spring elements in three dimensions is described. A spring element sheet containing spring elements defined in two dimensions is arranged between two mating die press plates. A force is applied to the mating die press plates to form the two-dimensional spring contact elements into three dimensions. Alternatively, configurable die press plates are used to selectively form a two-dimensional spring element sheet into three-dimensional spring contacts.

The invention provides a method for forming mould-free gel with metal sizing agents through 3D printing. A 3D printing technology is combined with a gel forming technology, the metal sizing agents are prepared through a gel forming process, the sizing agents are adopted as the raw materials of 3D printing, then layered printing is carried out through 3D printing equipment according to a data model, the metal sizing agents are solidified fast by controlling the additive number of initiating agents and catalysts, the initiating agents and the catalysts are accumulated layer by layer to form a metal blank, and the metal blank is dried and sintered to obtain a metal part product with a large size and in a complex shape. The method can be used for manufacturing a part including a sealed cavity and a complex inner cavity, the part cannot be manufactured through a traditional gel casting forming mode, the blank is directly formed through the 3D printing technology, mould development cost is saved, the method has obvious advantages in single part production and small scale production, requirements for powder materials are low, the process is stable and reliable, the operability is strong, consumed time is short, efficiency is high, cost is low, and the industrialization of manufacturing the metal part with the large size and in the complex shape through the 3D printing technology is facilitated.

In the present circumstances, a film formation method of using spin coating in a manufacturing process is heavily used. As increasing the substrate size in future, the film formation method of using spin coating becomes at a disadvantage in mass production since a mechanism for rotating a large substrate becomes large, and there is many loss of material solution or waste liquid. According to the present invention, in a manufacturing process of a semiconductor device, a microscopic wiring pattern can be realized by delivering selectively photosensitive conductive material solution by droplet discharging, exposing selectively to laser light or the like, and developing. The present invention can reduce drastically costs since a patterning process can be shortened and an amount of material in a process of forming a conductive pattern can be reduced. Accordingly, the present invention can be applied to manufacture a large substrate.

The present invention relates to a method for printing fabric or leather product, and printed matter printed by using the same, the method comprising the steps of: a) forming a digital print layer by performing digital printing on a release transfer paper by using an inkjet printer; b) forming adhesive layer by coating the digital print layer with an adhesive, and drying for a predetermined time; and c) bonding fabric or leather product to the adhesive layer. Thus, the present invention can precisely print fabric or leather product with high resolution and can enable customized printing so as to allow small quantity batch production.

The invention discloses a wood-plastic composite material using sweet sorghum slag as an enhanced phase and a preparation method for the wood-plastic composite material. The wood-plastic composite material comprises 10 to 80 parts of sweet sorghum slag and 20 to 90 parts of recycled plastic, wherein the sweet sorghum slag and the recycled plastic serve as a matrix phase; and the sweet sorghum slag is subjected to combined pretreatment by an alkali-oxygen method and a steam explosion method. Sectional materials such as a sweet sorghum slag wood-plastic four-pore board, a sauna board, garden protective process, walls and the like are manufactured by extruding a fixed die and forming, or sweet sorghum slag wood-plastic products are manufactured by formation such as injection molding, pressing and the like. The sweet sorghum slag wood-plastic products can be suitable for large-scale continuous batch production and has the advantages of high performance, low cost, moth resistance, moisture resistance, no formaldehyde and the like. Compared with the conventional wood powder fillings, the wood-plastic composite material has the advantages of light weight, high performance, low cost, high extrusion speed, low processing temperature and the like, wherein the mechanical performance of the sweet sorghum slag subjected to treatment is superior to that of wood powder. The sweet sorghum slag wood-plastic composite material has good economic benefits, social benefits and ecological benefits of reducing environmental pollution, protecting forest resource and promoting economic development.

The invention discloses a method for producing high-strength fasteners in batch by using a 3D (three dimensional) printing technology. The method specifically comprises the following steps: carrying out computer modeling, segmenting layer by layer, converting a graph into a light beam loaded with graph information; charging a photosensitive drum to obtain a potential, scanning by the light beam to form an electro-static latent image; enabling the electro-static latent image to pass through a magnetic brush, absorbing powder to form an internal member; forming the internal member; and carrying out punching cutting and surface treatment. According to the method for producing the fasteners in batch, the production efficiency is high, the accuracy is high, and the obtained fasteners in batch are excellent in performance.

The invention discloses a polydimethylsiloxane-based (PDMS) flexible implanted neural microelectrode and a manufacturing method. The electrode is characterized in that the PDMS with high biocompatibility and mechanical elasticity is used as a substrate material for the neural microelectrode, wherein the implanted flexible neural microelectrode which comprises an electrode site region, a connecting line region, a welding spot region and a micro-pipeline region is formed by electroplating technology, PDMS injection molding technology and bonding technology; the electrode site, the connecting line and the welding spot are structurally formed of an electroplated metal layer, so that the tensile resistance and the reliability of the metal structure of the PDMS microelectrode are enhanced; and the micro-pipeline integrated on the electrode can be used for pouring a curable liquid material which contains medicament or nerve growth factor, so that the operability of the operation implantation of the PDMS neutral microelectrode and the biocompatibility after the implantation are improved. Meanwhile, the preparation method of the PDMS microelectrode provided by the invention has the characteristics of simple process, low cost and standard batch manufacturing.

An apparatus for metering a urea or a urea-water solution for delivery to a catalytic converter assembly for removing nitrogen oxides from the exhaust gases of a Diesel engine, includes a housing block supporting function components communicating via a line, formed by recesses in the housing block, for transporting the reducing agent, and the walls of the line are formed by the housing block. This apparatus assures a simple line layout for reducing agent with a minimum number of sealing points that is accordingly appropriate for large-scale mass production.

Disclosed are a method for preparing rare-earth permanent magnets by the infiltration process and a graphite box utilized in the method. The method includes: preparing base materials of R (rare earth)-Fe (ferrum)-B (boron) rear earth magnets by prepared raw materials which are subjected to smelting, hydrogen decrepitation, magnetic field forming, sintering and the like; cutting the base material into slices with the thickness ranging from 2mm to 10mm; placing the slices into a specially-made graphite box and placing heavy rare earth type metal fluoride and a few of metal calcium particles into the bottom of the graphite box; sintering the graphite box in a sintering furnace, inflating air into the sintering furnace to cool the temperature to be lower than 60 DEG C, finally ageing magnets, then inflating Ar gas into the sintering furnace to cool the temperature to be lower than 60 DEG C after ageing, and finally obtaining the rare-earth permanent magnets. Elements including Dy (dysprosium), Tb (terbium), Ho (holmium) and the like are infiltrated into the crystal boundary of the R-Fe-B to prepare high-coercivity rare-earth permanent magnets by means of infiltration process, usage of heavy rare earth metal can be greatly reduced, and production cost of magnets can be effectively reduced. Additionally, the method for preparing rare-earth permanent magnets by the infiltration process is simple in operation and suitable for batch production.

The present invention provides a carbon-ceramic brake material preparation method comprising the following steps: 1) preparing a first carbon fiber preform; 2) preparing a phenolic resin solution; 3) preparing phenolic resin and ceramic powder mixed slurry; 4 ) preparing a second carbon fiber preform; 5) drying the second carbon fiber preform; 6) hot pressing and curing of the dried preform; 7) cracking a carbon / phenolic-ceramic composite; and 8) processing a first porous carbon / carbon-ceramic powder composite material at high temperature. The present invention also provides a carbon-ceramic brake disc preparation method including the above eight steps, and further comprising the following steps: 9) pre-processing; 10) silicon infiltration processing of a first brake disc; and 11) final processing. The carbon-ceramic brake material preparation method greatly reduces the manufacturing cycle and cost of a carbon-ceramic brake material, and is simple in process, well reproducible, and suitable for industrial mass production.

A method is provided comprising the online design of an insert by a user and the subsequent packaging of the custom insert with liquids. The insert is designed, approved, and ordered by the user through an internet interface that in turn supplies the insert design to an extremely scalable assemblage process within a high volume manufacturing operation which produces a custom finished product quickly, on demand, at low cost, and in quantities determined by the user. By incorporating the custom insert as a changeable modular component within an assembly line a mass produced product, specifically a packet package of hand sanitizer fluid, can be individually characterized by its insert as fully intended by the user who designed, ordered, and receives the packaged liquid packet insert.

The invention discloses a method and a device thereof for measuring three-dimensional topography of a nano structure, which can simultaneously measure three-dimensional topography parameters such as line width, depth, side corner, line edge roughness, line width roughness and the like of the nano structure. The method comprises the following steps of: performing splitting, polarization and front and back phase compensation on light beams with wavelengths in ultraviolet to near-infrared wave band to obtain elliptical polarized light and projecting the elliptical polarized light for later measurement; acquiring surface reflected zero-level diffraction signals of the to-be-measured structure, and obtaining a measurement Mueller matrix of the nano structure by calculation; and matching the measurement Mueller matrix and a theoretical Mueller matrix, and obtaining a three-dimensional topography parameter value of the to-be-measured nano-scale structure. The device provided by the invention for measuring the three-dimensional topography parameter of the nano structure can provide a non-contact, nondestructive, low-cost and quick measurement means for one-dimensional and two-dimensional sub-wavelength periodic structures in processes of photo-etching, nano impressing and the like of an image transfer-based batch manufacturing method.

Several micro-machined, ultra-profile two-axis and three-axis accelerometers are fabricated by CMOS-compatible process, which makes them suitable for volume production. The x, y axis signal is based on natural thermal convection, and z-axis signal may be based on thermal convention or piezoresistive in nature. The bulk MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems) process is based on Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE). After the front-end fabrication process, the accelerometers are packaged at wafer level by glass frit and/or anodic bonding, which lowers the device cost.

A preparation method of a three-dimensional needling carbon/carborundum composite material bolt adopts a three-dimensional needling fiber prefabrication body to prepare the composite material bolt. Pyrolytic carbon is deposited on the prefabrication body, carborundum substrates are deposited through chemical vapor infiltration (CVI), and a bolt bar blank and a bolt cap blank are obtained. The carborundum substrates of the bolt bar blank and the bolt cap blank which are obtained through machining are deposited through the CVI, a carborundum anti-oxidation coating is deposited through the CVI, and a three-dimensional needling C/SiC composite material bolt end product with the shear strength being 80-100MP is obtained. Compared with the prior art, the preparation method has the advantages that the number of times for getting into a furnace is reduced by 6-10, the densifying period is shorter, and the production cost is reduced. By means of a test of a CK6180-3000 numerically controlled lathe, the preparation method is small in diamond grinding wheel abrasion, hour norm for machining 30 bolt threads is reduced by about 10 hours, and as the abrasion of a grinding wheel is less, the working accuracy is improved, and industrialized batch production is achieved.

Solid free form fabrication techniques such as fused deposition modeling and three-dimensional printing are used to create a shell used in the manufacture of a dental restoration. Three-dimensional printing includes ink-jet printing a binder into selected areas of sequentially deposited layers of powder. Each layer is created by spreading a thin layer of powder over the surface of a powder bed. Instructions for each layer may be derived directly from a CAD representation of the restoration. The area to be printed is obtained by computing the area of intersection between the desired plane and the CAD representation of the object. All the layers required for an aesthetically sound shell can be deposited concurrently slice after slice and sintered/cured simultaneously. While the layers become hardened or at least partially hardened as each of the layers is laid down, once the desired final shaped configuration is achieved and the layering process is complete, in some applications it may be desirable that the form and its contents be heated, cooled or cured at a suitably selected temperature to further promote the integrity of solid free-form structures.

The present invention provides for a method and an apparatus for controlling manufacturing processes using a hierarchical system. A first lot of semiconductor devices is processed using a first set of control input parameters. The first set of control input parameters is stored in one of a plurality of hierarchical levels, the first set of control input parameters being available for processing of a second lot of semiconductor devices. Process data is acquired from the processing of the first lot of semiconductor devices. A second set of control input parameters is determined for a subsequent lot of semiconductor devices based upon the acquired process data. The second set of control input parameters is stored in one of a plurality of hierarchical levels, the first and second sets of control input settings being available for processing of a third lot of semiconductor devices.

A composite technology system RETINA that enables intelligent decision synchronization in real time for continuous, discrete and batch process industries is disclosed. RETINA generates and synchronizes the intelligent decisions that affect the performance and profitability of business operations in real time and helps in analysis that are essential for any successful business operations in any manufacturing industries. RETINA combines the real time integration capability; Predictive analytics capability and adaptive real time process modeling capability to generate intelligent risk-reduced business decisions for continuous, discrete and batch manufacturing processes. RETINA unifies the data from disparate sources or in silos, collates, comprehends and analyses the data, and then convert them into actionable information in real time. Correct decisions are generated, streamlined and shared at the appropriate instant of time with right amount of data to the pertinent personnel to eliminate inefficiencies in operations and performance resulting in tangible profitability.

The invention discloses a polishing film and the preparation method, which adopts the ultrafine micro mist as the grinding material and prepares in flow-casting coating method, namely the powdered or granular resin is dissolved into the organic solvent and then added in functional additive to make the resin adhesive, then the abrasive of surface-modified ultrafine micro mist is added into the resin adhesive and the spread coating liquid can be obtained after fully mixing, finally the paint is painted on the surface of soft base in flow-casting coating method and the polishing film can be obtained after drying and curing. The preparation method of the polishing film has the advantages of small equipment investment, simple operation, high productivity and automation level, steady craft, even film performance and low manufacturing cost. The polishing film can adjust the craft parameters of the flow-casting craft conveniently according to the different quality requirement and standards of the products, and can achieve production in multi-specification and small lot production and overcomes the problems that the rapid transformation of the product specification is difficult due to the limit of the equipment structure in roller coating method.

The invention relates to a sulfur-free nitrogen-free high-temperature-resistant environment-friendly firework propellant and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of fireworks and crackers. The sulfur-free micro-smoke high-temperature-resistant firework propellant is prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 55-75 parts of polytetrafluoroethylene with the particle size of 50-300 microns; 5-25 parts of aluminum powder with the particle size of 5-75 microns; 5-25 parts of zinc powder and 5-15 parts of copper powder with the particle size of 5-75 microns; 2-10 parts of calcium silicate with the particle size of 20-150 microns; 0.5-5 parts of a silane coupling agent; and 1-5 parts of an energetic binder. The preparation method adopts the processes of chemical modification, coating, powder mixing, granulation, drying and the like, and is simple in process, free of special process requirements, low in cost and convenient for batch production. The obtained product has the advantages of no sulfur, slight smoke, no environmental pollution, low impact or friction sensitivity, high temperature resistance, static resistance, high safety and the like, and can be widely applied to the production of propellant powder for fireworks and crackers.

Electrostatically operated micro-optical devices and method of manufacturing such devices is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the micro-optical devices using electrostatic comb drive actuators having new spring designs to overcome side instability and exhibit enlarged displacement, having new designs of comb finger electrode shapes to generate larger force output, and having new clip type latch mechanism to control the corresponding device at certain states in an analog manner without electrical power consumption. Based on the proposed optical path and device configurations, integration and assembly of a plurality of reflective micro-mirrors in conjunction with proposed new comb drive actuators is very promising way to provide micro-optical devices to get good optical performance and suitable for multi-channel applications. We also disclose several process techniques to manufacture the micro-optical devices with said electrostatic comb drive actuator in a mass production manner with higher yield.

A continuous-loop conveyor, towering upon vertical framework, which allows potted perennial plants and other plants to be transported throughout all stages of maturity in a manner which substantially multiplies yield per acre, allows production to proceed in both natural and artificial light, allows production and harvesting to be automated, and allows production to proceed in conditions which are favorable to plants but unfavorable to humans. The entire apparatus can be constructed of lightweight, cost-effective materials, which afford mass-production and mass-array into vast automatic growing operations.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing metal-based composite materials by the aid of 3D (three-dimensional) printing space structures, and belongs to the technical field of metal-based composite materials. The method includes building stereoscopic models of the space structures by the aid of graphics software and printing the stereoscopic models by the aid of 3D printing machines to obtain plastic templates of the space structures; preparing slurry from ceramic particles and adhesion agents, and filling space structure gaps of the plastic templates with the slurry; drying and gradually heating the plastic templates, removing plastics, and sintering the templates to obtain ceramic particle prefabricated blanks with certain strength and complex space structures; manufacturing the metal-based composite materials by the aid of pressure impregnation technologies such as vacuum suction casting and squeezing casting technologies. The method has the advantages that the composite materials which can be accurately controlled, are varied within large ranges and have the complex space structures can be manufactured by the aid of the method, processes are simple, and mechanical and automatic batch production can be facilitated.