Methods of recovering and/or recycling expanded polymer tooling, the methods including collecting expanded polymer tooling, reducing the collected expanded polymer tooling into smaller particles, treating the reduced expanded polymer tooling in order to yield an at least partially purified recovered polymer composition, and then collecting the at least partially purified recovered polymer composition. The at least partially purified recovered polymer composition can then be used to form new expandable polymer tooling.

Provided is a method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced plastic composite containing a fiber-reinforced plastic part having a plate-like portion and a rib protruding from one surface of the plate-like portion, and a metal part, having an average thickness of 0.5-3.0 mm, laminated on part of or all of the plate-like portion of the fiber-reinforced plastic part, comprising: a lamination step for stacking a plurality of incised prepreg layers as a plurality of sheets of base material to form a base laminate, each prepreg layer containing unidirectionally oriented fibers and resin, and a plurality of incisions crossing the fibers, a base material heating step for heating the base laminate, and a molding step for integrating the base laminate and the metal part by pressing them between a rib molding member having a recessed portion for forming a rib and a skin molding member free of such a recessed portion in a pressing device.

In order to allow or improve a laminar air flow in a transition region between aerodynamic profile elements, a pressure plate arrangement is proposed. The pressure plate arrangement comprises a pressure plate body and at least one cover strip, in particular a sealing strip. The pressure plate body has an outlet region from which free-flowing sealant can exit during pressing. The cover strip already contains cured sealant and presses the free-flowing sealant flat in order to be able to form the transition region.

An apparatus for molding a pouch, which includes: a transfer device configured to transfer a pouch film; a molding device configured to press a top surface of the pouch film to mold an accommodation part for accommodating an electrode assembly; and an inspection device configured to calculate a depth value of the accommodation part formed in the pouch film detect defects. The inspection device includes: a distance measuring member configured to measure a first measurement value and a second measurement value, and an inspection member configured to calculate a depth value of the accommodation part by subtracting the first measurement value from the second measurement value, wherein if the calculated depth value is within a set input value range, it is determined as normal, and if the calculated depth value is out of the set input value range, it is determined as defective.

An imprint apparatus including a stage supporting a stamp master on which a master pattern for forming a stamping pattern on a flexible substrate is formed, or a substrate on which a pattern corresponding to the stamping pattern is formed by contact with the stamping pattern; a roll-to-roll mover to move the flexible substrate along a path adjacent to the stage; a clamp including a front clamp that secures a first portion of the flexible substrate, and a rear clamp that secures a second portion of the flexible substrate spaced apart from the first portion; a pressure roller to press the flexible substrate so that the flexible substrate secured by the clamp is brought into contact with the substrate or the stamp master; and a clamp driving controller to drive the clamp to adjust tension between the first portion and the second portion.

The present invention provides an electronic glove device for making three-dimensional structure. The device includes a heating unit, multiple pressure sensors and a microcomputer unit. The heating unit includes a first thermally conductive layer and a thermally insulated layer, and multiple electric heaters and temperature sensors are located between the first thermally conductive layer and the thermally insulated layer. The microcomputer unit is connected to the temperature sensors and the pressure sensors. Once pressure is exerted on thermoplastic plastic through the heating unit by hands, the microcomputer unit is configured to receive the increase of the pressure from the pressure sensors, and to direct the heating unit to increase the temperature of the first thermally conductive layer in accordance with the magnitude of the increase of the pressure. Use of the electronic glove, in combination with thermoplastic plastic, enables users to manually make three-dimensional structures easily and quickly.

The present invention discloses a manufacturing method of a color decorative plate for an integral bathroom. Firstly, a decorative fiber cloth is immersed and a surfacing material is prepared, wherein the steps include: adding various auxiliaries to an unsaturated polyester resin; uniformly mixing to form a resin paste, wherein the auxiliaries contain an initiator, a mold discharging agent, an accelerator, a coupling agent, a crosslinking monomer and cinnamene; uniformly coating the above resin paste on the decorative fiber cloth; precuring and drying at 105 C. to 130 C. to produce the surfacing material; then compression moulding; feeding a sheet molding compound (SMC) into a mould; and laying the surfacing material on the SMC in the mould for integral compression moulding. In the compression moulding process, a mold cavity is at an upper part and a mold core is at a lower part to prevent decorative patterns from deforming because the decorative fiber cloth is stretched due to the flow of the SMC and to avoid wrinkling the decorative fiber cloth. The SMC is used as a structural layer, and the surfacing material is attached to a surface of the structural layer. The patterns on the surface of a finished product have high clarity and brightness.

A resin-molding device capable of preventing a resin-molded product from being non-uniform in thickness. A resin-molding device includes: a first and second platen (outside-loaded platen) which are two plate-shaped members arranged parallel to each other to allow a molding die to be arranged in a die arrangement section which is a central region between the platens; a force applier (toggle link and tie bars) for applying a force to the platens from loading points located outside the die arrangement section; a heating mechanism (lower and upper heater plates) provided between the outside-loaded platen and the molding die; and a heat-insulating member (lower and upper heat-insulating members) formed by a plurality of elastic pillar members arranged between the outside-loaded platen and the heating mechanism, the pillar members configured so that the amount of deformation of each pillar member increases from the center of the die arrangement section toward the loading point.

A mold core for producing a component of fiber composite material with a cavity makes a particularly simple and efficient demolding process possible by the mold core extending along a longitudinal axis and in the form of a hybrid core and which includes, viewed in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, a first core portion and a second core portion, wherein the first core portion has a thickness that is substantially greater than a thickness of the second core portion. The first core portion is formed from a first material with high stiffness and low coefficient of thermal expansion, and the second core portion is formed from a second material that differs from the first material, and is configured such that, under predetermined conditions, its form changes in a predetermined manner such that removal of the mold core from a cavity in the cured component is made easier.

A slide for a semiautomatic pistol includes features that reduce weight while maintaining structural rigidity and performance of the slide. The semiautomatic pistol slide may include one or more weight-reducing recesses and a structurally supportive insert within each weight-reducing recess. Methods and systems for fabricating semiautomatic pistol slides and other articles of manufacture that include weight-reducing recesses with structurally supportive inserts therein are also disclosed. Such a method may include a compression molding technique. Such a system may include a compression molding assembly.