Methods for manufacturing printed laminates or elastic printed laminates are disclosed. The printed laminates may have a first extensible material and a second extensible material. The first extensible material may have a plurality of repeating graphic sets each having a repeating graphic set length. The first extensible material may have a first strain and the second extensible material may have a second, different strain. The second strain may be constant. The first strain may be variable to correspond to the repeating graphic set lengths to a predetermined laminate pitch. The first and second extensible material may be joined together at a point of joinder. An elastic member, such as a plurality of elastic strands, for example, may be positioned intermediate the first and second extensible materials to form an elastic laminate.

An apparatus and method for leveling a bonding device and anvil in an assembly via a closed-loop control system is provided. The assembly includes an anvil, a bonding device positioned adjacent the anvil and configured to interact with the anvil to form the bonds on the web, and an actuator that enables adjustment of an orientation between the bonding device and the anvil. The assembly also includes a closed-loop control system configured to control operation of the actuator, with the closed-loop control system configured to monitor an operational parameter of the assembly indicative of interaction of the bonding device with the anvil, determine whether the bonding device is parallel or substantially parallel with the anvil based on the operational parameter, and when the bonding device is not parallel or substantially parallel with the anvil, cause the actuator to adjust the orientation between the bonding device and the anvil.

A manufacturing device of a membrane-electrode assembly for a fuel cell bonds each of anode and cathode catalyst electrode layers continuously formed in upper and lower electrode films to upper and lower surfaces of an electrolyte membrane. The device includes: upper and lower bonding rolls respectively installed to upper and lower sides of a transport path of the electrolyte membrane and of the upper and lower electrode films, the bonding rolls pressing the catalyst electrode layers to the upper surface and the lower surface of the electrolyte membrane at a predetermined temperature to be transferred, and upper and lower adsorbents respectively disposed at the upper and lower sides of the transport path in an entry side of the upper and lower bonding rolls, installed to be reciprocally moved along the transport path, and selectively adsorbing the upper and lower electrode films.

A laminating machine has at least one material source, configured as a sheet feeder, for sheets of a material to be laminated. The laminating machine also has at least one imbricating device for arranging un-laminated sheets in an imbricated manner with respect to one another. The laminating machine further has at least one laminating unit for producing a laminated material web from the sheets. At least one thickness control device is arranged in a transport path which is provided for the laminated material web downstream of the at least one laminating unit. A control region of the thickness control device intersects, at least partially, with the transport path which is provided for the laminated material web.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object from a stack of pre-stripped layers of substrate. Each object layer is formed by (i) providing substrate comprising waste portion(s) and substrate-retained portion(s) that are attached to each other and separated from one another by cut(s) within the substrate; (ii) subsequently, subjecting the subject of each layer to a stripping process which selectively strips away substrate-waste portion(s) from the substrate-retained portion(s). After stripping, the object layer is added to a stack of previously-stacked object layers to grow the stack. This process is repeated to further grow the stack. Object layers of the stack are bonded to each other to build the three-dimensional object therefrom. Apparatus and methods for stripping are also describedany teaching or combination of teaching(s) related to stripping substrate may be employed in any additive-manufacturing process described herein.

A laminating machine comprises at least one material source, configured as a sheet feeder, for sheets of a material to be laminated. The laminating machine further comprises at least one laminating unit. The laminating machine also comprises at least two lamination sources, each for at least one web-type laminating material. The laminating machine additionally comprises at least one laminating unit for producing a material web, which is laminated on both sides, from the sheets and the respective at least one laminating material. At least one lamination control device is disposed downstream of a laminating region of the laminating unit, along a transportation path provided for the transporting of the laminated material web. The control device monitors a control region, lying outside a transport region that is occupied by the transportation path provided for the laminated material web.

A film laminating apparatus is provided. The film laminating apparatus includes a roller and a platform arranged oppositely, and a blowing member. A first gap is defined between the roller and the platform. The flexible panel and the laminating film are interposed between the roller and the platform via the first gap. The flexible panel includes a display portion and a bonding portion, and a step difference is existed between the display portion and bonding portion such that a second gap is formed between the bonding portion and the platform. An air outlet of the blowing member is in communication with the second gap. The blowing member is configured to generate a positive pressure at the second gap to support the bonding portion of the flexible panel.

This application relates to an apparatus for attaching a polarized plate with check mark and a checking method therefor. The apparatus includes: a carrying platform, configured to carry a polarized plate, where the polarized plate has the check mark; a drawing unit, disposed at one side of the carrying platform and configured to draw the polarized plate out of the carrying platform; an image sensing and processing unit, disposed above the drawing unit and configured to photograph the mark of the polarized plate and to compare the mark with a mark of a polarized plate standard template to determine whether the marks conform to each other; a cleaning unit, disposed at one side of the drawing unit and configured to clean the polarized plate from the drawing unit; and an alignment unit, disposed at one side of the cleaning unit and configured to align the polarized plate from the cleaning unit with a display panel.

There is provided a bonding apparatus for bonding substrates together, which includes: a first holding part configured to adsorptively hold a first substrate by vacuum-drawing the first substrate on a lower surface of the first substrate; a second holding part provided below the first holding part and configured to adsorptively hold a second substrate by vacuum-drawing the second substrate on an upper surface of the second substrate; a pressing member provided in the first holding part and configured to press a central portion of the first substrate; and a plurality of substrate detection parts provided in the first holding part and configured to detect a detachment of the first substrate from the first holding part.

An infrared camera is directed aft of a compaction roller of a composite laying head. Heat is applied to a substrate by a heater mounted forward of the compaction roller. Infrared images are captured of composite tows laid down on a substrate by the compaction roller. Whether the composite tows have sufficient contact is determined using the infrared images.