A method of manufacturing a medical component includes molding a first member of the medical component from an elastomeric material. The first member includes a first end defined by a closed base wall, an opposing second end which is an open end, a sidewall extending between the first and second ends, and an internal recess to receive at least one electronic device. The method further includes positioning the electronic device within the recess of the first member to form an assembly, such that the electronic device is received in an inverted open cavity defined by the sidewall. The method further includes applying a protective film on the second end of the first member, such that the protective film covers an exposed surface of the electronic device. In addition, the method includes overmolding the assembly with the elastomeric material to form the medical component having the electronic device embedded therein.

A method of manufacturing a medical component includes preparing a first sheet of an elastomeric material, arranging at least one electronic device in the first sheet of elastomeric material to obtain an elastomeric preform, and arranging the elastomeric preform in a mold and molding the elastomeric preform therein to cure the elastomeric material and form the medical component having the at least one electronic device embedded therein.

A method of manufacturing a medical component includes preparing a first sheet of an elastomeric material, arranging at least one electronic device in the first sheet of elastomeric material to obtain an elastomeric preform, and arranging the elastomeric preform in a mold and molding the elastomeric preform therein to cure the elastomeric material and form the medical component having the at least one electronic device embedded therein.

A method and apparatus are provided for mitigating if not eliminating voids and improving wetting of fibers in prepreg sheet materials.

A method and apparatus are provided for mitigating if not eliminating voids and improving wetting of fibers in prepreg sheet materials.

A pelletizing apparatus includes a filter device connected with a melt feed, a granulator downstream of the filter device, particularly an underwater granulator, a water treatment device, and a control means for controlling the filter device, underwater granulator, and water treatment device and adapted to provide at least one control parameter. The apparatus includes at least one machine-readable and -writable identification means for storing and providing an item of component-specific information and being associated with a component in the flow path of the melt or the process water, and a reading device communicating with the control means to receive the component-specific information from the identification means, and a writing device to write the identification means with the component-specific information, the control means to adapt the control parameter based on the component-specific information to provide the component-specific information, and, based on the component-specific information, to execute a diagnostic process.

A cooling apparatus includes a conveying means which conveys a resin composition formed into a sheet shape along a direction parallel to a surface of the sheet-shaped resin composition and a cooling means which cools the resin composition being conveyed by the conveying means. A temperature of the resin composition just before being cooled by the cooling means is in the range of 40 to 60° C. and the cooling means has a cooling ability to cool the resin composition such that a cooling rate of the resin composition is in the range of 0.2 to 5° C./min. Further, the cooling means includes a fan section having at least one outlet port which discharges cooling air of which temperature is in the range of −40 to 0° C. to the resin composition.

A cooling apparatus includes a conveying means which conveys a resin composition formed into a sheet shape along a direction parallel to a surface of the sheet-shaped resin composition and a cooling means which cools the resin composition being conveyed by the conveying means. A temperature of the resin composition just before being cooled by the cooling means is in the range of 40 to 60° C. and the cooling means has a cooling ability to cool the resin composition such that a cooling rate of the resin composition is in the range of 0.2 to 5° C./min. Further, the cooling means includes a fan section having at least one outlet port which discharges cooling air of which temperature is in the range of −40 to 0° C. to the resin composition.

Disclosed is a device for cooling particulate materials or particles, in particular granulates of polymeric materials, having an outer container with an, in particular frustoconical, outer shell surface and an inner container, which is arranged at least in sections in the interior of the outer container, with an, in particular frustoconical, inner shell surface, wherein an intermediate space is formed between the outer shell surface and the inner shell surface, wherein an inlet equipment for introducing a gas flow as well as the particles into the intermediate space is provided in an inlet-side initial region of the device, and wherein an outlet opening for the particles is provided in an outlet-side end region of the device opposite the inlet equipment, wherein the inlet equipment is so arranged and/or designed that the gas flow as well as the particles can be introduced substantially tangentially into the intermediate space.

An apparatus and process to maintain control of the temperature of low-melting compounds, high melt flow polymers, and thermally sensitive materials for the pelletization of such materials. The addition of a cooling extruder, and a second melt cooler if desired, in advance of the die plate provides for regulation of the thermal, shear, and rheological characteristics of narrow melting-range materials and polymeric mixtures, formulations, dispersions or solutions. The apparatus and process can then be highly regulated to produce consistent, uniform pellets of low moisture content for these otherwise difficult materials to pelletize.