There is shown and described a shoeing for horses, in particular for racehorses being used in competition, constructed from a core made of fiber-reinforced plastic material which is surrounded by a functional layer made of plastic.

According to the invention it is provided that the core is formed substantially from a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic polymer material (i.e. a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic) and the functional layer is formed substantially from a thermoplastic polycarbonate material or a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic polycarbonate material (i.e. a thermoplastic or a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic).

Furthermore there is shown and described a thermoplastic injection molding method for producing the shoeing.

A method and apparatus for performing an assembly operation. A tool may be macro-positioned relative to an exterior of a fuselage assembly. The tool may be micro-positioned relative to a particular location on the exterior of the fuselage assembly. An end effector is removably associated with an external robotic device associated with an external mobile platform. The tool is removably associated with the end effector. An assembly operation may be performed at the particular location on the panel using the tool.

A leg support includes a support element. A reinforcing element is disposed on the support element. The support element is chemically compatible with the reinforcing element. A homogeneous chemical bond is formed between the support element and the reinforcing element.

Intraocular implants and methods of making intraocular implants are provided. The intraocular implant can include a lens body having a lens material and a mask having a mask material. The lens body can be secured to the mask. The mask material can include a modulus of elasticity that is greater than or equal to a modulus of elasticity of the lens material.

A seal with an integral base material in which a gasket is formed integrally with a film, sheet, or plate-shaped base material, wherein space saving is achieved by making the width of the gasket as small as possible. In order to achieve the foregoing, the following are provided: the film, sheet, or plate-shaped base material; the gasket that is provided integrally with the base material and that is formed of a rubbery elastic material; and a fill layer formed by the rubbery elastic material that is filled into a through hole that is provided in an open state in the base material. A portion of the fill layer is connected to the gasket and another portion extends out from the gasket at substantially the same thickness as the base material.

A three-dimensional object manufacturing method is provided and includes: a cavity portion material layer forming step of discharging a droplet of a material from a discharging head through an inkjet method to form a cavity portion material layer, which is a material layer configuring a periphery of at least one part of a cavity; a sandwiching member installing step of installing a lid member, which is a member arranged with at least one part sandwiched between a plurality of material layers, on a cavity portion material layer; and a material layer-on-sandwiching member forming step of discharging the droplet of the cavity portion material from the discharging head through the inkjet method on at least one part of the lid member to further form the material layer on the lid member.

A screen film applicator includes a seat, a positioning member, and a first mechanism, the latter two of which are disposed on the seat. The seat has a track and a positioning portion arranged beside the track. The positioning member is movable with respect to the positioning portion for clamping a communication device. The first mechanism includes a top fixing member disposed on the seat, a moving carriage movable along the track, a bottom fixing member synchronously movable with the moving carriage, and a roller movable with the moving carriage. The top and the bottom fixing members are configured to respectively fix a top releasing film and a bottom releasing film respectively adhered on two opposite sides of a soft screen film. When the moving carriage is moved away from the top fixing member, the roller can gradually press the soft screen film onto the communication device.

The present subject matter relates to carbon fiber composites. A method to form a polymer carbon fiber composite includes subjecting two sheets of carbon fibers to an insert molding mold, such that one sheet is secured at a cavity side of the insert molding mold and another sheet is secured at a core side of the insert molding mold. The method further includes insert molding a polymer between the two sheets of carbon fibers to form the polymer carbon fiber composite, wherein the polymer sets between the two sheets of carbon fibers to form a sandwich structure of the polymer carbon fiber composite, and wherein the polymer is in contact with the two sheets of carbon fibers.

A 3D thermoplastic pultrusion system, comprises one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines; a CNC control system controlling the one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines to form a heated prepreg thermoplastic composite material into a 3D thermoplastic composite pultrusion, the one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines include a plurality of motion control CNC rotational motors and CNC actuators operatively coupled to the motion control CNC rotational motors, a flexible chilled band shapeable by the CNC actuators to form the heated prepreg thermoplastic composite material into the thermoplastic composite pultrusion, and bearings that the motion control CNC rotational motors pivot the actuators about and hold the actuators in position during a consolidation process.

A method and apparatus for positioning an end effector relative to a fuselage assembly. A configuration of the fuselage assembly may be determined. The end effector may be positioned relative to the fuselage assembly based on the configuration determined. A set of actual reference locations may be identified for a set of reference points on the fuselage assembly. The end effector may be positioned at an operation location based on the set of actual reference locations identified.