A method of manufacturing a piezoelectric microactuator having a wrap-around electrode includes forming a piezoelectric element having a large central electrode on a top face, and having a wrap-around electrode that includes the bottom face, two opposing ends of the device, and two opposing end portions of the top face. The device is then cut through the middle, separating the device into two separate piezoelectric microactuators each having a wrap-around electrode.

A fiber-reinforced plastic producing method capable of easily producing a fiber-reinforced plastic in which swelling and warpage are less likely to occur and of which excellent mechanical characteristics and isotropy are ensured, and a fiber-reinforced plastic in which swelling and warpage are suppressed from occurring. The fiber-reinforced plastic producing method has a step for obtaining a material (A) including a prepreg base material in which a region (B), where reinforcing fibers pulled and aligned in one direction are impregnated with a matrix resin and a plurality of cuts (b) are formed, and a region (C), where a plurality of cuts (c) are formed, are alternately formed in a direction orthogonal to a fiber axis of the reinforcing fiber, a step for hot-pressing the material (A) while moving the material (A) under specific conditions, and a step for cooling the pressed material (A) to obtain the fiber-reinforced plastic.

A preform element has a tucked portion in at least a portion of a prepreg composed of a reinforced fiber and a thermosetting resin. The preform element, a preform using the same, and a method of producing the same, provide for the preform element to have excellent mechanical properties or filling characteristics with respect to a cavity and is effective in avoiding problems such as fiber bridging or resin richness or warping, even when a three-dimensional form having thickness variations such as thick parts or projections is obtained through a press molding.

Techniques for producing at least one PLA strip involve: a) providing a strip-shaped extruded PLA film, b) heating the PLA film provided according to step a) to a temperature in the range from 40 to 70? C., c) cutting the PLA film heated according to step b) into the at least one PLA strip, and d) stretching the PLA film cut according to step c).

The invention describes a process for starting up a film production in a film manufacturing machine, in particular a blown film machine, by means of a control device, comprising the following steps: detecting a start-up request setting start-up parameters providing film material commencing the film production setting film production parameters.

A prepreg laminate is provided which includes: a woven fabric prepreg on at least one surface layer; and a discontinuous fiber prepreg; the woven fabric prepreg including reinforcing fibers R.sub.1 having a woven structure, and a thermosetting resin A, the discontinuous fiber prepreg including unidirectionally oriented discontinuous reinforcing fibers R.sub.2 and a thermosetting resin B, the thermosetting resin A and the thermosetting resin B satisfying the following calorific value condition: calorific value condition: when each of the thermosetting resin A and the thermosetting resin B is heated using a differential scanning calorimeter from 50 C. to 130 C. at 700 C./min under a nitrogen atmosphere followed by retention at 130 C. until completion of thermal curing reaction, TbTa>30, wherein Ta (s): time required for the calorific value of the thermosetting resin A to reach 50% of the gross calorific value of the thermosetting resin A; Tb (s): time required for calorific value of the thermosetting resin B to reach 50% of gross calorific value of the thermosetting resin B.

An intermediate base material is provided that is excellent in the conformity to three-dimensional shapes and that, when formed into a fiber reinforced plastic, develops good surface quality and high mechanical properties. According to one aspect, an incised prepreg is provided that has, in at least a partial region in a prepreg that contains unidirectionally oriented reinforcing fibers and a resin, a plurality of incisions that divide reinforcing fibers, wherein, in the case where a population is made up of the numbers of incisions contained in ten small circular regions of 10 mm in diameter randomly selected in the aforementioned region, a mean value for the population is 10 or greater and a coefficient of variation therefor is within 20%.

The embodiments provide a process for preparing a polishing sheet, a polishing pad using the same, and a process for preparing a semiconductor device using the same. The process for preparing a polishing sheet comprises forming a pattern on the surface of a polymer sheet and winding the patterned polymer sheet to form a wound roll in a cylindrical shape. Thus, there are great advantages in that it is possible to control the size and distribution ratio of a fine and uniform pattern at a desired location in an economical and efficient way and to freely design the type, size, structure, physical properties, and the like of the polishing sheet according to the purpose, whereby the application field can be expanded, and a bulk structure can be manufactured.

A method of assembly a dual stage actuated suspension includes either applying an adhesive to a microactuator motor and then B-staging the adhesive, or applying an adhesive that has already been B-staged such as in film adhesive form to the microactuator then assembling the microactuator into a suspension and then finishing the adhesive cure. The adhesive can be applied to bulk piezoelectric material, with the adhesive being B-staged either before or after it is applied to the bulk piezoelectric material, and the piezoelectric material then singulated into a number of individual piezoelectric microactuators. The method allows greater control over how much adhesive is used, and greater control over spread of that adhesive and control over potential contamination, than traditional liquid epoxy dispense methods.

A method for manufacturing a housing is disclosed. The method includes: roughening a first surface of the housing; placing the housing into a mold and performing an injection molding to form a plastic layer on the first surface and closely bonded to the housing; and defining a plurality of slots by cutting through the housing by means of milling without milling a part or all of the plastic layer, wherein the plastic layer is configured to keep a connecting portion between adjacent slots defined in the housing undeformed during the milling. A mobile terminal is also disclosed.