The present invention provides a method for trimming a side portion of a pre-manufactured leading-edge protection element for a wind turbine blade. The element comprises a first side portion and a second side portion, the first side portion, when mounted to the wind turbine blade, extending from the leading edge and along a part of a pressure side of the wind turbine blade, and the second side portion, when mounted to the wind turbine blade, extending from the leading edge and along a part of a suction side of the wind turbine blade, or vice versa. The method comprises steps of: providing a support structure and a first cutting tool; arranging element on the support structure and fixating the element to the support structure, and cutting along a predetermined cutting path, whereby the leading-edge protection element is trimmed to a predetermined length. A corresponding system is also provided.

An optical fiber cutting device includes: a pair of grippers that grip an optical fiber having a glass portion exposed from the optical fiber; a gripping force applier disposed in one or both of the pair of grippers and that generates and changes a gripping force; a tension applier that applies tension to the optical fiber by separating the pair of grippers from each other in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber; a tension measuring sensor that measures the tension; a controller that controls the gripping force; and a blade disposed between the pair of grippers in the longitudinal direction and that forms a scratch on the glass portion.

The present invention provides a method of reusing prepreg material. The method comprises providing a remnant prepreg, defining a pattern of cutting the remnant prepreg framework to form a continuous strip of the remnant prepreg framework, and cutting the remnant prepreg framework to form a continuous strip of the remnant prepreg framework. The remnant prepreg framework continuous strip may be extruded into a short fiber molding compound (SMC). The SMC may then be used to make parts with lower structural requirements than the parts cut out of the prepreg broadgood. Such SMC parts may be used in industries such as aerospace; automotive; other transportation such as trucks, buses, and motorcycles; sporting goods; and wind.

There is provided a cutting apparatus with which, even if a plate body to be cut is warped, it is easy to obtain a cut product of the same quality as when a plate body which is not warped is cut. The cutting apparatus is provided on a conveyor for conveying a plate body and cuts the plate body being conveyed by the conveyor. The cutting apparatus includes a cutting blade that cuts the plate body in a direction parallel to a direction of conveying the plate body, and a pressing unit including, at a side position of the cutting blade, a pressing plate provided to be movable between a pressing position where the pressing plate presses the plate body and a retracted position where the pressing plate is retracted from the pressing position. The cutting apparatus cuts the plate body with the cutting blade while pressing the plate body with the pressing plate.

The present invention provides a method of reusing prepreg material. The method comprises providing a remnant prepreg, defining a pattern of cutting the remnant prepreg framework to form a continuous strip of the remnant prepreg framework, and cutting the remnant prepreg framework to form a continuous strip of the remnant prepreg framework. The remnant prepreg framework continuous strip may be extruded into a short fibre molding compound (SMC). The SMC may then be used to make parts with lower structural requirements than the parts cut out of the prepreg broadgood. Such SMC parts may be used in industries such as aerospace; automotive; other transportation such as trucks, buses, and motorcycles; sporting goods; and wind.

A food processing machine includes a slicing device, a slicing conveyor, a classifier device, and an exposed load cell device. The slicing device is adapted to slice a food product. The slicing conveyor is adapted to move the food product sliced by the slicing device. The classifier device is adapted to classify the food product sliced by the slicing device. The exposed load cell device is adapted to weigh the food product sliced by the slicing device. The exposed load cell device is located between the slicing conveyor and the classifier device. The exposed load cell device is permanently exposed providing accessible cleaning.

In an ingot cutting apparatus that cuts an ingot using a plurality of stretched wires, load sensors are provided on the new wire side and the old wire side of the ingot, and loads applied to the new wire side and the old wire side of the ingot are measured using the load sensors on the new wire side and the old wire side. When measuring the loads, for example, the center of moment about the X-axis that is the running direction of the wire is calculated. When the deviation from the center of gravity of the ingot is greater than or equal to a reference value, notification for replacement of the wire, control of the conveying speed of the wire, control of the pressing speed of the ingot, and so forth are performed through a control unit.

Provided are a vehicular interior member manufacturing method and an airbag rupturing groove manufacturing method which can form an airbag rupturing groove excellent in invisibility even in a vehicular interior member having a hard substrate layer, while performing a proper control of the thickness of the remainder of the airbag rupturing groove to be formed. The vehicular interior member manufacturing method is characterized by protruding a metal blade having an edge flattened at least partially against a forming face of the rupturing groove, from a back side of the vehicular interior member and partially into the skin layer wherein a thickness of the skin layer into which the metal blade has not protruded corresponds to a remaining thickness of the skin layer, and confirming whether or not the metal blade is detected at a second detecting position while the metal blade is not detected at a first detecting position.

A trimmer head for a rotary trimmer, includes an upper housing and a lower housing secured to the upper housing, wherein either the upper housing or the lower housing has a passageway. The trimmer head also includes a cutter assembly maintained in the passageway, wherein the cutter assembly has a knife, and wherein trimmer line inserted into the passageway is cut by the knife. A related method of cutting a trimmer line using the cutter assembly incorporated into a trimmer head is also disclosed.

An industrial slicer comprises: a cutting station (1) that includes a plurality of blades (21, 22, 23) for slicing a food product, which blades (21, 22, 23) are spaced apart from each other by a cutting pitch, so as to obtain slices of said product having a thickness corresponding to the cutting pitch. The slicer also comprises adjustment means (5, 7, 3, 31, 41) for adjusting the distance between the blades (21, 22, 23).