According to various embodiments, a support table may include: a baseplate including a support structure, the support structure defining a support region over the baseplate to support at least one of a workpiece or a workpiece carrier therein; and one or more light-emitting components disposed between the baseplate and the support region. The one or more light-emitting components are configured to emit light into the support region.

A method and an apparatus for producing a relief-pattern forming, the method and apparatus being suitable for producing a film-like material, such as an embossed film, having a fine relief-structure pattern formed on a surface thereof so as to have a distinctive optical effect with higher quality, good productivity, and fewer defects. A transfer pattern printed layer having an inverted structure of a relief-structure pattern is formed on a second substrate by printing a transfer pattern onto the surface of a first substrate on which the relief-structure pattern is formed at a predetermined position by registration with the relief-structure pattern followed by drying, laminating with the second substrate, curing and peeling.

A display panel manufacturing method for solving the phenomenon of Newton's rings on a display screen is provided, including: conducting a roughening treatment to a bonding surface of a frame of a backlight module in order to improve a securing force of the frame to an adhesive layer and a film thereon; reducing a release force of a protective film from the film above the backlight module in order to reduce a pulling force to the film below the protective film and the adhesive layer below the film when peeling off the protective film from the film; and bonding the film to the frame of the backlight module with an extended bonding time in a bonding process in order to increase adhering strength between the film and the bonding surface of the frame of the backlight module.

A thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer (TLCP) molded body including a thermoplastic polymer capable of forming an optically anisotropic melt phase. The TLCP molded body includes an adherend portion in at least a part of the TLCP molded body. The adherend portion has a surface satisfying: a ratio <C—O>/<COO> of 1.5 or greater in which the <C—O> represents a proportion of a peak area of [C—O bond] to a C(1s) peak area, and the <COO> represents a proportion of a peak area of [COO bond] based on the C(1s) peak area; and a ratio <C═O>/<COO> of 0.10 or higher in which the <C═O> represents a proportion of a peak area of [C═O bond] based on the C(1s) peak area, and the <COO> represents the proportion of the peak area of the [COO bond] based on the C(1s) peak area in a result of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis.

A method for producing a joined body of different materials. In the joined body, a plurality of resin layers may be joined together and a resin layer may be joined with a metal layer. A joined body of different materials.

A card flipper includes a frame, a receptacle, and a motor. The receptacle is supported by the frame for a rotation about a flipping axis. The receptacle is configured to support a card in a support plane and receive and discharge cards along a card feed axis. The motor is configured to drive rotation of the receptacle, the support plane and the card feed axis about the flipping axis. The flipping axis is oblique to the card feed axis and is displaced from the support plane.

A display module includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels and a display driver configured to drive a partial portion of the plurality of pixels that are positioned in an alignment mark area to display an alignment mark in the alignment mark area. A stereoscopic lens including a base is disposed on the display module. A plurality of lenses is disposed on the base and includes at least one flat portion surrounded by the plurality of lenses and overlapping the alignment mark area.

The present disclosure provides a method of enhancing the shelf-life of an activated surface of a thermoplastic material, including: coating at least a portion of a surface of the thermoplastic material with at least one adhesion promoter to provide a coated surface; and treating the coated surface with plasma to provide the activated surface of the thermoplastic material; wherein the activated surface has a contact angle in the range of from about 0 to about 40°; and wherein the presence of the at least one adhesion promoter is effective to maintain the contact angle in the range of from about 0 to about 40° for a time of about 10 days or greater.

A wafer has a layer containing silicon, a layer of polycrystalline diamond deposited on the silicon-containing layer, and a bow-compensation layer on the other side of the silicon-containing layer for reducing wafer-bow. A method of making a bonded structure includes an activation process for creating dangling bonds on the surface of one substrate, followed by contact-bonding the surface to a second substrate at low temperature. A bonded structure may include two substrates contact bonded to each other, one substrate including a layer containing silicon, a layer of polycrystalline diamond, a bow-compensation layer for reducing wafer-bow of the first substrate, and the other substrate including gallium nitride, silicon carbide, lithium niobate, lithium tantalate, gallium arsenide, indium phosphide, or another suitable material other than diamond.

A system and method for producing a heat-sealable composite liquid impervious, moisture-eliminating membrane with a metallic antimicrobial surface treatment including a compatibilized thermoplastic laminate structure, an integral inductive-welding element, and a metallic antimicrobial surface treatment. The method is provided with at least one scrim, a film exudate, a quantity of primary adhesive, at least one susceptor, and a quantity of flocking material, wherein the scrim, film exudate, and flocking material are composed of a compatibilized thermoplastic compound. The method is further provided with an optional metallic slurry, defining a thermoplastic-particulate emulsion configured to coat and embed into a subjected membrane section and fibrous materials when exposed to heat. The method is further expanded to apply to extant installations of similar membrane sections, enabling to post-manufacture surface treatment of a surface with the metallic slurry to confer manifold antimicrobial benefits to said surface.