A shaping roll for melt extrusion molding used for melt extrusion molding of thermoplastic resin, the shaping roll for melt extrusion molding comprises a metal roll body, a first cylinder, and a second cylinder. The metal roll body has a heat medium passage internally. The first cylinder covers a surface of a middle portion of the roll body part. The second cylinder covers surfaces of both end portions of the roll body part. The first cylinder comprises a first metal material having a thermal conductivity of 40 W/m.Math.K or more. The second cylinder comprises a second metal material having a thermal conductivity of 20 W/m.Math.K or less. The first cylinder and the second cylinder are at least partially joined to each other.

A tooling system may include a cure tool and a biasing element. The cure tool may have a cure tool coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and may be configured for curing a composite article formed of two or more components having dissimilar component CTEs. The biasing element may be fixedly attached to the cure tool and has a biasing element CTE that may be different than the cure tool CTE. The biasing element may be configured such that a combination of the cure tool CTE and the biasing element CTE causes a heat-up displacement in the cure tool when heated and the composite article is cured in a distorted shape. When the cured composite article is cooled, the cured composite article may substantially assume an as-designed shape.

A tire mold capable of imparting appropriate amounts of heat according to regions of an uncured tire is provided. The tire mold includes a base mold and a pattern mold which is fitted to the base mold and has a surface part for molding a tread pattern on the tire. A heat adjusting agent for adjusting amounts of heat to be transmitted to the tire via the surface part of the pattern mold is placed in a hollow cavity formed between the base mold and the pattern mold or inside the base mold.

The invention relates to a device and a method for the thermal reshaping of hose blanks from preferably pre-extruded elastic raw hose material, wherein during the reshaping the hose blank is arranged in a shell-like, single- or multi-piece molding tool with a hollow body, wherein the inner side of the hollow body corresponds as a negative to the shape to be impressed onto the hose blank, wherein the tempering of the molding tool that is necessary for reshaping occurs by means of clamp-like tempering elements which are shaped congruently to the outer surface of the mold and which close form-fittingly over the mold, while the molding tool itself does not comprise any tempering system at all, in particular no ducts or other hollow spaces for circulating a tempering medium, and wherein the temperature of each tempering element is kept constant during the process, while, to modify the temperature of the molding tool, a different tempering element with a correspondingly constant temperature is positioned against the molding tool; in the claimed device, the molding tool is free of internal ducts and other hollow spaces for the circulation of a tempering medium, while half or partial shells, which are separate from the mold and which close form-fittingly over the mold, are provided to temper the molding tool, wherein the inner sides of said shells which face the molding tool are congruent with the outer side of said molding tool and wherein the shells comprise an arrangement for keeping the temperature of each tempering element constant during the process, in particular internal hollow spaces for the perfusion of a tempering medium, and wherein at least one mechanism is provided for selectively closing different tempering elements at different temperatures around the molding tool.

A manufacturing method of a mold includes the steps of: providing an aluminum base in the shape of a hollow cylinder which is made of a AlMgSi based aluminum alloy, the aluminum base being mechanically mirror-finished; performing a frosting treatment on a surface of the aluminum base with an aqueous solution which contains a salt of hydrogen fluoride and ammonium; thereafter, forming an inorganic material layer on the surface of the aluminum base and forming an aluminum film on the inorganic material layer, thereby forming a mold base; and alternately repeating anodization and etching on a surface of the aluminum film of the mold base, thereby forming an inverted moth-eye structure which has a plurality of micro recessed portions.

A mold capable of imparting an appropriate amount of heat depending on a part of an object to be heated, the mold for transferring heat to the object to be heated is provided with a hollow portion inside the mold, and a heat amount adjusting agent, which is accommodated in the hollow portion, for changing heat transfer property of the hollow portion, in which the heat amount adjusting agent is made of a powdery or granular material having a material property different from a material property of the mold.

A tool for a thermoforming process to form a moulded product from wet pulp fibre material includes two or more moulds each having a moulding surface, an actuator assembly, and a fluid extraction system. At least one of the moulds is displaceable by the actuator assembly between first and second positions and has fluid extraction paths extending through the mould to transport fluid away from the moulding surface. One of the moulds has a first layer that is substantially rigid to form a support member and is in communication with a heating subsystem of the fluid extraction system, and a second layer that is, in use of the tool, between the first layer and the wet pulp fibre material. The second layer is formed of a material that has interconnected internal voids forming part of the fluid extraction paths and has a lower heat transfer coefficient than the first layer.

The invention relates to an apparatus for the manufacture of a particle foam component, said apparatus comprising a molding tool limiting a molding space, wherein, adjacent to the molding space, at least two capacitor plates are arranged which are connected to a radiation source for electromagnetic radiation, wherein the radiation source for electromagnetic radiation is designed for emitting electromagnetic radiation, and wherein the molding tool is formed of at least two molding halves, wherein at least one of the molding halves is made from an electrically conducting material and forms one of the capacitor plates.

A calendering apparatus is provided for the mechanical compacting of an electrode, in particular of a flat form. The calendering apparatus includes a compacting device and a guide roller. The guide roller is configured to feed the electrode to the compacting device during the operation of the calendering apparatus. The guide roller has first regions and second regions in certain parts of its rolling surface, and the first and second regions have different thermal conductivities.

The invention relates to an apparatus for the manufacture of a particle foam component, said apparatus comprising

a molding tool limiting a molding space, wherein, adjacent to the molding space, at least two capacitor plates are arranged which are connected to a radiation source for electromagnetic radiation, wherein the radiation source for electromagnetic radiation is designed for emitting electromagnetic radiation, and
wherein the molding tool is formed of at least two molding halves, wherein at least one of the molding halves is made from an electrically conducting material and forms one of the capacitor plates.