An imprinting apparatus for a roll-to-plate process includes a flexible master (105), a plate carrier (101) and a substrate (102). The flexible master is pressable upon the substrate during the imprinting process and the plate carrier holds the substrate. The plate carrier includes a compensating material (114). The compensating material is larger than the area of the substrate and boundaries of the substrate and boundaries of the compensating material do not touch.

Method for producing arrays of free standing, three dimensional structures on material surfaces by establishing contact with a template, moving the template and the surface in contact relative to one another, inducing an increase in viscosity such that the structures are self-supported, and removing the template, leaving a negative of the template geometry at the tip of the object.

A flexible packaging laminate has built-in opening/reclose and tam per-evidence features by forming the laminate from an outer structure joined in face-to-face relation to an inner structure. Score lines are formed in both structures to enable an opening to be formed through the laminate by lifting a flap or the like out of the plane of the laminate. The score line through the outer structure defines a larger opening than the score line through the inner structure, such that a marginal region of the outer structure extends beyond the edge of the opening portion of the inner structure. A pressure-sensitive adhesive is used to re-adhere the marginal region to an underlying surface of the inner structure adjacent the opening through the laminate. The outer score line includes at least one tear portion that is torn through upon initial opening, thus indicating the package has been at least partially opened.

An imprinting apparatus includes an imprinting platform, an imprinting roller, a transfer module and a lifting and pressing mechanism. The imprinting roller is disposed above the imprinting platform. The transfer module includes a transfer film, wherein the transfer film is located between the imprinting roller and the imprinting platform. The lifting and pressing mechanism is linked with the imprinting roller, wherein the lifting and pressing mechanism drives the imprinting roller to move along a normal direction of the imprinting platform and selectively pressurizes the imprinting roller.

A cover panel for a cabin of a vehicle and provided with a weakening for the opening of an underlying airbag. The weakening consists of a sequence of not-through incisions which are separated from each other, are arranged along a weakening line, are obtained from an internal surface of the cover panel, and terminate at a non-zero distance from an external surface of the cover panel. In some sections of the weakening line there are first incisions each having a first width while in other sections of the weakening line there are second incisions each having a second width greater than the first width. The weakening line has a plurality of portions that connect to one another in at least one connection area, wherein the corresponding portions of the weakening line consist of the second incisions only while, next to the connection area, the corresponding portions of the weakening line consist of the first incisions only.

A forming apparatus forms a formable material using a mold including a contact region to be brought into contact with the formable material on a substrate. The apparatus includes a controller configured to perform processing of bringing the contact region and the formable material on the substrate into contact with each other. The controller controls the processing so as to bring the mold and the substrate close to each other at a first relative speed and then bring the mold and the substrate close to each other at a second relative speed lower than the first relative speed, and controls switching from the first relative speed to the second relative speed so as to compensate a manufacturing error of the mold.

A flexible packaging laminate has built-in opening/reclose and tamper-evidence features by forming the laminate from an outer structure joined in face-to-face relation to an inner structure. Score lines are formed in both structures to enable an opening to be formed through the laminate by lifting a flap or the like out of the plane of the laminate. The score line through the outer structure defines a larger opening than the score line through the inner structure, such that a marginal region of the outer structure extends beyond the edge of the opening portion of the inner structure. A pressure-sensitive adhesive is used to re-adhere the marginal region to an underlying surface of the inner structure adjacent the opening through the laminate. The outer score line includes at least one tear portion that is torn through upon initial opening, thus indicating the package has been at least partially opened.

Provided is a resin for nanoimprinting, which is capable of preventing removal of a transfer-receiving resin from a substrate when a mold is separated during nanoimprinting, and which is also capable of transferring a pattern on a mold to a transfer-receiving resin with high accuracy during thermal nanoimprinting, while improving the throughput. A resin for nanoimprinting, which is represented by formula (1). ##STR00001## (In the formula, each of R.sub.1-R.sub.5 independently represents —H or —OH, and at least one of the R.sub.1-R.sub.5 moieties represents —OH; R.sub.6 represents a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group having 1-20 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6-20 carbon atoms or an aralkyl group having 7-20 carbon atoms; X represents an amide or an ester; Y may be absent, or represents an amide or an ester; P represents an integer of 1-10; and each of m and n represents an integer of 1 or more.)

In an emboss fabrication apparatus, an emboss roll includes, on an outer periphery, a molded portion having a concavo-convex shape. A first backup roll sandwiches, together with the emboss roll, a base material. A first heating unit heats the first backup roll. A second backup roll sandwiches, together with the emboss roll, the base material. A contact unit is provided opposite to the emboss roll in a first range. The contact unit contacts a back face of the base material.

Forming features in the surface of a bicycle component involves depositing a substance onto a substrate in a geometric pattern to form a transfer medium. Forming features may also involve positioning the transfer medium relative to an unformed bicycle component, and forming a negative of the geometric pattern in the bicycle component through the application of heat and/or pressure to the transfer medium and the unformed bicycle component. The transfer medium may be configured for use in the molding of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (“CFRP”) bicycle components and may include a substrate formed of a flexible material, and a geometric pattern formed of a hard material, the hard material different than the flexible material.