A stabilizer bushing installed on a stabilizer bar is made of two divided parts of rubber or the like to prevent or decrease generation of a gap in a bonding surface. The stabilizer bushing installed on an outer periphery of the stabilizer bar by adhesion includes divided rubber bushings of an upper rubber bushing and a lower rubber bushing. Before adhesion, both end portions of the upper and lower rubber bushings, respectively, in a circumferential direction are tapered so that an overlapping amount between the upper and lower rubber bushings increases toward the outer periphery side of the bushings. After adhesion, a bonding surface is bonded by pressure

Method of manufacturing a three-dimensional object of a building material by an additive layer-wise building method, wherein based on material parameters of the building material and predetermined characteristics of the object to be manufactured, an internal structure of the object having a grid structure calculated, and the three-dimensional object is manufactured with this internal structure by the additive layer-wise building method, so that it comprises the predetermined characteristics.

A stabilizer manufacturing apparatus is adapted to bond a rubber bush, which is a bush made of rubber disposed between a stabilizer and a vehicle body, to a rubber bush bonding location where an adhesive layer of the stabilizer is formed. The stabilizer manufacturing apparatus is provided with: a curing furnace for heating the stabilizer, which is conveyed by a manufacturing line conveying unit and has the rubber bush bonding location with which the rubber bush is press-contacted, and performing the bonding; a heat source device that heats air; a blower device that sends the air heated by the heat source device as hot air; and a plurality of nozzles that are disposed along the manufacturing line conveying unit in the curing furnace and blow the hot air against, at a near position from, a location in the vicinity of the rubber bush bonding location of the stabilizer.

A method for the additive manufacturing of a closed-cell porous matrix is described herein. A powder-bed, additive manufacturing process is used to create a piece with partially-closed cavities filled with unfused powder. Vacuum, negative pressure, positive pressure, or solvent is used to evacuate the powder from the cavities. Finally, a fresh layer of powder is used to cover the opening of the cavity and the powder is fused on top to close the opening.

An impact absorber absorbs impact energy when receiving an impact load. The impact absorber includes a fibrous structure. The fibrous structure includes a tube of which a center axis extends in a direction in which the impact load is applied and a rib that connects opposing inner surfaces of the tube. The fibrous structure is impregnated with a matrix resin. The direction in which the impact load is applied is referred to as an X direction, and a direction in which the rib connects the opposing inner surfaces of the tube is referred to as a Y direction. The tube includes a fiber layer including load direction yarns extending in the X direction and intersecting direction yarns intersecting the load direction yarns. The rib includes yarns extending only in a direction orthogonal to the X direction.

A method and system for increasing damping capacity utilizing dry friction between individual wires of a rope embedded in a component formed from a composite is illustrated. The individual wires allow inter-wire friction to occur during part vibration. The component includes a body that is a molded matrix formed form a composite material. The body may be of any material selected from the group consisting of a polymer, a metal or a ceramic material. One or more vibration-damping ropes are embedded in the body. The vibration-damping ropes may be elongated segments or may be a rope having connected ends that form one or more rings. Each vibration-damping rope includes an outer layer of wires that surrounds a plurality of inner wires. Inflowing composite material is prevented from passing by the outer layer of wires and into the inner wires during the manufacturing process, thereby forming voids between the inner wires.

An apparatus for laminating a fiber tow is provided. The apparatus includes a supply unit that supplies a fiber tow impregnated with resin. A laminating unit is configured to move along a surface of a lamination object and has a shock-absorption element to laminate a fiber tow supplied from the supply unit on a surface of the lamination object.

The invention relates to a radiation-curable silicone composition for additive-manufacturing technology comprising mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s) as Component A, organosiloxane(s) with at least two aliphatic unsaturated carbon-carbon moieties as Component B, photo-initiator(s) as Component C for initiating a curing reaction between Component A and Component B, dye(s) as Component D dissolved in mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s) as Component E, the mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s) having a fraction of (mercaptoalkyl)methylsiloxane units of at least 50 mol %, wherein Component D is dissolved in Component E before Component D is combined with the other components of the radiation-curable silicone composition. The invention also relates to a process of producing a radiation-curable composition wherein the process comprises the steps of providing a solution of dye(s) in a composition comprising mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s) having a fraction of (mercaptoalkyl)methylsiloxane units of at least 50 mol %, combining the solution containing the dye(s) dissolved in the mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s) with mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s), organosiloxane(s) with at least two aliphatic unsaturated carbon-carbon moieties, photo-initiator(s) for initiating a curing reaction between Component A and Component B, optionally filler(s), stabilizer(s) and additive(s).

A method includes a coating step of coating a vulcanizing adhesive at a surface of a vulcanized centrum of a rubber bush; a heating step of heating a portion to be adhered of a stabilizer bar; a fitting step of fitting the centrum of the rubber bush at which the vulcanizing adhesive is coated on the heated portion to be adhered of the stabilizer bar; and an adhering step of clamping the rubber bush in a radial direction by a clamping device to adhere the rubber bush on the portion to be adhered of the stabilizer bar.

Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a final piece including several materials, the final piece being produced at least according to the steps of: inserting an elastomer (5) in at least one insertion cavity (6) of an initial piece (2) so that the elastomer (5) is in contact and fixed with the initial piece (2); then cutting the initial piece (2) in at least two distinct parts (3, 4), so that the at least two distinct parts (3, 4) are fixed together but not in contact with each other, the at least two distinct parts (3, 4) being connected together by the elastomer (5). This may be applied to manufacturing a final piece including several parts, of various natures, connected together.