Techniques for supporting USB and video communication over an extension medium are provided. In some embodiments, an upstream facing port device (UFP device) is coupled to legacy connectors of a host device, and a downstream facing port device (DFP device) is coupled to a USB Type-C receptacle of the sink device that may provide both USB and DisplayPort information. The UFP device and DFP device communicate to properly configure the USB Type-C connection for use in the extension environment. In some embodiments, a source device is coupled to the UFP device via a USB Type-C connection, and legacy video and USB devices are coupled to the DFP device. The UFP device and DFP device again communicate to cause the source device to properly configure the USB Type-C connection for use in the extension environment.

A method for manufacturing a part made of composite material includes injecting into a fibrous texture a slurry including at least one powder of refractory ceramic particles suspended in a liquid phase, filtering the liquid phase of the slurry and retaining the powder of refractory ceramic particles inside the texture so as to obtain a fibrous preform loaded with refractory ceramic particles, densifying the fibrous texture by treatment of the refractory ceramic particles present in the fibrous texture in order to form a refractory matrix in the texture. The method further includes, before injecting the slurry under pressure, pre-saturating the fibrous texture with a carrier fluid consisting in injecting into said texture a carrier fluid.

A method of pressure forming a brown part from metal and/or ceramic particle feedstocks includes: introducing into a mold cavity or extruder a first feedstock and one or more additional feedstocks or a green or brown state insert made from a feedstock, wherein the different feedstocks correspond to the different portions of the part; pressurizing the mold cavity or extruder to produce a preform having a plurality of portions corresponding to the first and one or more additional feedstocks, and debinding the preform. Micro voids and interstitial paths from the interior of the preform part to the exterior allow the escape of decomposing or subliming backbone component substantially without creating macro voids due to internal pressure. The large brown preform may then be sintered and subsequently thermomechanically processed to produce a net wrought microstructure and properties that are substantially free the interstitial spaces.

A molding composition contains a powder, a wax, an adhesive component, a molding component, and a plasticizer, in which a melt flow rate of the adhesive component at 190° C. is 200 g/10 min or more, and a density of the plasticizer is 1.0 g/cm.sup.3 or less.

An orthodontic bracket for coupling an archwire with a tooth. The orthodontic bracket including a ceramic injection molded (CIM) bracket body including an archwire slot that is configured to receive the archwire therein. The CIM bracket body including a polycrystalline ceramic. A coating of alumina or silicon dioxide is in continuous and direct contact with at least the surfaces of the archwire slot. The orthodontic bracket is characterized by unexpectedly high torque strength. The ceramic injection molded (CIM) bracket body may include a polycrystalline ceramic having a grain size distribution characterized by an average grain size in the range of larger than 3.4 μm to about 6 μm such that the orthodontic bracket is also characterized by unexpectedly high fracture toughness. A method of making the orthodontic bracket includes injection molding a bracket using a ceramic powder, sintering the molded bracket, and coating the ceramic injection molded bracket.

A sinterable paste formulation usable as cast material in a cast-mold process, in combination with a mold material formulation, is provided. The sinterable paste formulation comprises a power of a sinterable material, in an amount of at least 85% by weight of the total weight of the formulation, a binder as described in the specification, and an aqueous solution which comprises water and a water-miscible organic solvent featuring an evaporation rate in a range of from 0.3 to 0.8 on an n-butyl acetate scale. Methods employing the formulation and objects and products obtained therefrom are also provided.

A ceramic tube contains yttrium oxide as a main component, in which the section height difference (Rδc) of the roughness profile of an inner peripheral surface, which represents a difference between a section level at a load length ratio of 25% in the roughness profile and a section level at load length ratio of 75% in the roughness profile, is 2 μm or less and a coefficient of variation of the section height difference (Rδc) is 0.05 to 0.6.

Green bodies are safely, economically and efficiently debound in a dual quartz reactor by subjecting them to a steady laminar upward flow of freshly distilled solvent so that the concentration difference of soluble binder at the green body/solvent interface is at all times maximized for optimum binder extraction as per Fick's laws of diffusion. Binder extraction rate is monitored by inline spectrophotometry of the reactor overflow. Following solvent extraction, the residual insoluble binder is thermally extracted without the need to transfer the green bodies to a different vessel.

A production method for producing a product by joining a first part containing an inorganic powder and a binder to a second part containing an inorganic powder and a binder is provided. The production method includes a first step of forming the first part by a three-dimensional shaping apparatus, a second step of forming the second part, a third step of assembling the first part and the second part, thereby obtaining an assembly, a fourth step of heating the assembly at a first temperature, and a fifth step of heating the assembly at a second temperature higher than the first temperature after the fourth step, wherein the first part has a first region that comes in contact with the second part and a second region that does not come in contact with the second part, and a melting point of the binder contained in the first region is lower than a melting point of the binder contained in the second region.

Sintered product having a chemical analysis such that, in mass percentages: SiO.sub.2 content is greater than 0.2% and less than 2%, and CaO content is greater than 0.1% and less than 1.5%, and MgO content is less than 0.3%, and alumina and other elements being the complement at 100%, the content of other elements being less than 1.5%, having a relative density greater than 90%, comprising, for more than 90% of its volume, a stack of ceramic platelets (10) laid flat, all of said platelets having an average thickness less than 3 μm, more than 95% by number of said platelets each containing more than 95% by mass of alumina, having a width (l) greater than 81 mm.