A method of making an article of footwear may include applying an environmental pressure differential across a sheet of upper material to conform the sheet of upper material to a portion of a footwear last, thereby forming at least a portion of an upper of the article of footwear. In addition, the method may include assembling the article of footwear including fixedly attaching the upper of the article of footwear to a sole structure.

The invention relates to a monitoring arrangement for monitoring an electrical line having at least one thermogenerator and/or a device for inductively producing energy, determination means for determining at least one electrical characteristic parameter of an electrical current flowing in the electrical line and/or the temperature of the electrical line and/or the area surrounding the electrical line. An electrical connection exists or can be established between the determination means and the thermogenerator or the device for inductively producing energy, which connection can be used to operate the determination means with electrical energy produced by the thermogenerator or provided by the device for inductively producing energy; and connection means for establishing a mechanical connection to the electrical line.

The invention relates to a monitoring arrangement for monitoring an electrical line having at least one thermogenerator and/or a device for inductively producing energy, determination means for determining at least one electrical characteristic parameter of an electrical current flowing in the electrical line and/or the temperature of the electrical line and/or the area surrounding the electrical line. An electrical connection exists or can be established between the determination means and the thermogenerator or the device for inductively producing energy, which connection can be used to operate the determination means with electrical energy produced by the thermogenerator or provided by the device for inductively producing energy; and connection means for establishing a mechanical connection to the electrical line.

The present disclosure provides a negative mold for luggage molding and an application thereof. The negative mold includes an upper mold holder (11), a convex mold (12), a lower mold holder (21), a concave mold (22), a lifting platform (23), and a material frame (31). The upper mold holder is arranged with a first airflow channel (111); in the adsorbed state, the upper mold holder abuts against the material frame to define an upper air cavity (112); air is blown downward through the first airflow channel to stretch the sheet (41), while each of the convex mold and the concave mold moves in a direction close to the sheet to define a molding space; in the mold detaching state, each of the convex mold and the concave mold moves toward in another direction away from the material frame to detach the molded sheet.

A method of forming a vacuum insulated refrigerator cabinet, the method comprising providing first and second sheets of material. The first sheet of material is thermoformed over a first forming tool forming a first intermediate structure. The first intermediate structure is then thermoformed over a second forming mold to create a second intermediate structure. The second sheet of material is then sealing connected with the second intermediate structure forming an annular space. A vacuum is created in the annular space creating a vacuum insulated cabinet.

A method of forming a vacuum insulated refrigerator cabinet, the method comprising providing first and second sheets of material. The first sheet of material is thermoformed over a first forming tool forming a first intermediate structure. The first intermediate structure is then thermoformed over a second forming mold to create a second intermediate structure. The second sheet of material is then sealing connected with the second intermediate structure forming an annular space. A vacuum is created in the annular space creating a vacuum insulated cabinet.

A shaping method and a shaping device are provided which can easily and inexpensively form a curved face in a film including a micropattern. A shaping method is for forming, in a predetermined shaping-target area of a film including a patterned face with a micropattern, and a rear face opposite to the patterned face, a curved face beyond the thickness of the film, and includes a fixing step for fixing an outer edge of the shaping-target area of the film by fixing means, a first heating step for heating the film 20 by heating means 95, and a pressure adjusting step for producing a predetermined pressure difference between both faces of the film by the pressurizing means in such a way that pressure at a side where the film is fixed in the fixing step becomes small to form a pre-curved face.

There are provided a molding apparatus and a battery tray manufactured thereby. The molding apparatus for molding a sheet that is fed along a first plane and manufacturing a battery tray includes an upper mold configured to press at least a part of the sheet from above the first plane to below the first plane and a lower mold configured to press at least a part of the sheet from below the first plane to above the first plane. It is possible to minimize a thickness of a product in a tray in which depths of battery accommodating grooves are large and to prevent incomplete molding from being generated.

A method of manufacturing an inner case for a refrigerator includes disposing a heated inner case sheet above a mold in a chamber, disposing at least one of screw accommodation member on an external surface of the mold, facing the inner case sheet, curving the inner case sheet to be convex toward an opposite side to the mold, moving the mold toward an internal side of the inner case sheet, and adsorbing the inner case sheet onto the external surface of the mold to form the inner case sheet to correspond to a shape of the mold and insert-molding the screw accommodation member into the inner case sheet.

A thermoforming apparatus includes a frame material having a housing region and a frame edge portion of a base material being a thermoforming target; and a heating plate having a square shaped heating surface in a plan view, and a frame section which protrudes toward the frame material from the outer peripheral edge of the heating surface, the frame section being contactable with the frame edge portion of the frame material, wherein the heating plate is provided with vacuum holes opening to the outer peripheral portion of the heating plate in a plan view at a perimeter of the frame section in the heating surface, and before adsorbing the sheet disposed between the frame edge portion of the frame material and the outer peripheral edge of the heating plate to the heating surface, a gap is included in at least a portion between the sheet and the heating surface.