A preform coating device is provided with: a rotational holding part that horizontally holds a preform and rotates the preform about the axis of the preform, and that grasps a spout of the preform; a conveyance part that conveys the preform by moving the rotational holding part; a dispenser that discharges a coating liquid toward the preform; a preform support part that supports the bottom-side end of the cylindrical barrel of the preform while the dispenser is discharging the coating liquid; and a spout support part that supports the outer circumferential surface of the spout of the preform while the dispenser is discharging the coating liquid.

A hair-retaining device is described as having a base material, a layer of epoxy resin, a compliant exterior layer disposed over the base material and joined to the base material of epoxy resin, and a top coat layer disposed over the compliant exterior layer. The method of making a hair-retaining device is described. The method involves extruding a base material to a predetermined shape, cutting the predetermined shape of the base material to a predetermined thickness, abrading a surface of the base material, applying an epoxy resin to the base material, and applying a compliant exterior layer disposed over the base material and joined to the base material by the epoxy resin.

A method for producing a trim part (1) with a visible side (S) for use in vehicles has steps of producing a support substrate (2) from a fiber composite material. The fiber composite material is injected into a mold cavity of an injection mold. A surface is formed on a first side of the support substrate (2) that faces the visible side (S) of the trim part (1). A lacquer layer (3) is formed by directly coating the surface of the support substrate (2). The lacquer layer (3) is coated with a protective layer (4).

A forming tool is used, which has a tool trough arranged in a stationary manner and a pressure bell, which can be lowered onto and lifted away from the tool trough. An arrangement is created in which a single- or multi-layer, initially flat, flexible laminate separates the trough interior from the pressure-bell interior in a pressure tight manner. A table, on which the 3-D substrate to be coated is located, assumes a lowered position within the trough interior; there is a considerable, free intermediate space (between the laminate and the 3-D substrate. A radiant-heater assembly is inserted into said intermediate space. The radiant-heater assembly has a carrier, on the top side of which radiant heaters that can be activated are attached and on the bottom side of which radiant heaters that can be activated are attached.

An encapsulation method of electronic components comprises steps as follows: preparing electronic components with cylindrical bodies wherein a cylindrical body has front and rear ends made of metals and a middle end made of ceramics and the front end or the rear end features an outer diameter greater than the middle end of the cylindrical body; preparing a mould consisting of upper and lower moulds; encasing the cylindrical bodies inside the upper and lower moulds, injecting heated and softened protective materials into the mould in which protective materials as protective layers are coated on the cylindrical bodies; injecting the cylindrical bodies removed from the upper and lower moulds into a roller in which excessive protective layers on the front and rear ends of the cylindrical bodies are de-coated.

Provided are a polyester film and a method of manufacturing the polyester film. A polyester film has a base film and at least one image receiving layer which is disposed on at least one surface of the base film, the base film contains a polyester and titanium oxide particles, the mass-based content of the titanium oxide particles in the base film satisfies Formula 1 on the assumption that the thickness of the base film is T m, a surface roughness standard deviation Rq is 0.01 m to 0.12 m, a cross section in a thickness direction orthogonal to a plane direction of the base film has voids whose average area per void is 0.01 m.sup.2/void to 0.10 m.sup.2/void, and a surface roughness standard deviation Rq of an outermost surface of the image receiving layer is 0.01 m to 0.1 m.

A preform coating device is provided with: a plurality of rotational holding parts that horizontally hold a preform; a conveyance part that conveys the preform by moving the plurality of rotational holding parts, the plurality of rotational holding parts being disposed at a predetermined interval along the conveyance route of the conveyance part; and a dispenser that discharges a coating liquid toward the preform. The dispenser has: a head including a mechanism for feeding the coating liquid; and a plurality of nozzles that are in fluid communication with the head and that each include a slot for discharging the coating liquid. The plurality of nozzles are disposed at a predetermined interval along the conveyance route. The interval between the plurality of nozzles is equal to the interval between the plurality of rotational holding parts.

A pattern imprint template incudes a patterned recesses and a layer formed over the patterned recesses. The pattern recesses form a pattern in a resist when brought in contact with a substrate with a resist thereon. The layer formed over the patterned recesses has a first surface energy. The first surface energy is lower in comparison to a second surface energy of the substrate with the resist thereon. The lower first surface energy in comparison to the second surface energy of the substrate avoids trapping gas in the resist by pushing gas toward the imprint template for venting through the patterned recesses.

A preform coating device is provided with: a conveyance part that conveys a preform; a dispenser that discharges a coating liquid toward the preform; a drier that is disposed along the conveyance route of the conveyance part so as to be separated from the dispenser, and that dries the coating liquid applied to the preform by irradiating, with infrared rays, the coating liquid applied to the preform; and an air sending mechanism that is disposed along the conveyance route of the conveyance part so as to be separated from the drier and that sends air toward the preform irradiated with infrared rays.

The present disclosure generally relates to methods and apparatuses for secondary material deposition and insert deposition during additive manufacturing (AM) processes. Such methods and apparatuses can be used to embed chemical signatures into manufactured objects, and such embedded chemical signatures may find use in anti-counterfeiting operations and in manufacture of objects with multiple materials.