Provided area an apparatus and a method for improving the foldability of a separator interposed between polar plates in prismatic secondary battery cell manufacturing equipment. Provided are an assembly and a method for improving the foldability of a separator, the assembly including a wheel knife capable of moving in a horizontal direction with respect to the supply direction of the separator on the prismatic secondary battery cell manufacturing equipment, wherein the wheel knife can rotate with respect to the center thereof, and, when the wheel knife moves on the separator, a recessed part is formed on the separator along the movement path thereof.

Methods, apparatus, and systems for cutting material used in fused deposition modeling systems are provided, which comprise a ribbon including one or more perforations. Material is passed through at least one perforation and movement of the ribbon cuts the material. A further embodiment comprises a disk including one or more blade structures, each forming at least one cavity. Material is passed through at least one cavity and a rotational movement of the disk cuts the material. A further embodiment comprises a slider-crank mechanism including a slider coupled to a set of parallel rails of a guide shaft. The slider moves along a length of the rails to cut the material. Yet another embodiment comprises one or more rotatable blade structures coupled to at least one rod. The rotation of the blade structures causes the blade structures to intersect and cut extruded material during each rotation.

A power tool includes a spindle, a motor, an inner housing and an outer housing elastically connected to the inner housing. The inner housing is formed by a first inner housing portion formed of metal connected to a second inner housing portion formed of synthetic polymer. The first inner housing portion includes a housing part disposed in a front part of the outer housing, and a first extending part extending rearward from the housing part and disposed in a grip part of the outer housing. The second inner housing portion includes a second extending part that has a tubular shape and at least partially surrounds the first extending part, and a rear end part connected to the second extending part and disposed in a rear part of the outer housing. The first extending part extends rearward of a center of the second extending part in the front-rear direction.

A method includes forming one or more plug holes into a tool surface of a body. The one or more plug holes are partially formed around a landing surface portion of a plug in the body. The method also includes engaging a tool with the landing surface portion of the plug in the body, and using the tool to cut away the plug from the body and at least part of the body to form a tooled void into the body.

A synthetic-resin container lid having tamper-evident characteristics, which is not separated in its entirety from a mouth-neck portion of a container even after the mouth-neck portion of the container is unsealed, is manufactured rapidly and inexpensively. A plurality of scores (26, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38) are formed, as post-processing, at predetermined positions in an incomplete container lid formed with no scores.

A printing apparatus includes a case configured to receive roll paper of a rolled recording medium, a cover rotatably attached to the case to be used to open or close the case, a transport section including a transport motor provided to the case and a transport roller provided to the cover, the transport section being configured to pull the recording medium from the roll paper and transport the recording medium along a recording medium path, and a cut section including a first blade and a first blade motor configured to move the first blade provided to the cover and a second blade provided to the case, the cut section being configured to cut the recording medium. The first blade motor includes a first blade motor shaft, and the first blade motor is provided to the cover such that a first extension line extending from the first blade motor shaft and a second extension line extending from at least part of the recording medium path in a width direction of the recording medium intersect each other when the cover is closed.

A battery module having a fire-extinguisher, and more particularly to a battery module having a fire-extinguisher, the battery module including a plurality of battery cells stacked in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction and a fire-extinguisher located adjacent to each of the battery cells, wherein the fire-extinguisher includes a fire-extinguishing pack containing a fire-extinguishing material, a piezoelectric element interposed between the battery cell and the fire-extinguishing pack, and at least one breaking unit interposed between the battery cell and the fire-extinguishing pack.

A vegetable knife includes a pulverizing coring pin for pulverizing a core of a vegetable, where the pulverizing coring pin can be a generally cylindrical tube. The pulverizing coring pin can define one or more pulverizing tubes that extend from a first end of the pulverizing coring pin to a second end of the pulverizing coring pin opposite the first end. The vegetable knife also includes at least one vegetable shaping blade that extends radially outwardly from the pulverizing coring pin, where the at least one vegetable shaping blade supports the pulverizing coring pin at a location generally central with respect to the vegetable knife. The vegetable knife may also include an outer flange for coupling the vegetable knife to a rotatable cutting assembly. The vegetable shaping blade can be connected between the outer flange and the pulverizing coring pin for supporting the pulverizing coring pin.

A processing apparatus includes an articulated robot having an arm distal-end portion to which a processing tool configured with a cutting edge portion and a profiling portion and a shape measurement unit are attached, and a processor. The processor, in a workpiece set state, recognizes, by measuring a shape of the workpiece using the shape measurement unit, a tilt of a profiled surface portion of the workpiece and a position of a process portion of the workpiece to generate processing-target-portion information based on the position of the process portion, generates processing-point information indicating a processing point, moves the arm distal-end portion to the processing point based on the processing-point information, controls an orientation of the processing tool in accordance with the tilt of the profiled surface portion of the workpiece to perform the specified processing on the workpiece using the processing tool.

A cutting unit for providing transversal cuts and/or perforations to a string of packaging containers connected by transversal seals is provided. The cutting unit comprises a knife assembly and an anvil assembly rotatable against each other to form a nip for receiving a transversal seal of the string of packaging containers. The anvil assembly comprises an anvil blade having a first region and a second region such that when the first region is aligned with a knife blade of the knife assembly at the nip a cut is produced, and when the second region is aligned with the knife blade at the nip a perforation is produced. A method, a computer program and a computer-readable medium storing the computer program for providing transversal cuts and/or perforations to a string of packaging containers connected by transversal seals are also described.