An apparatus comprising a case, a first fixation sheet having a first side configured to be attached to the case and including a first permanent bonding agent with a first adhesion characteristic as well a second side having a first repositionable material with a second adhesion characteristic, the second adhesion characteristic being less permanent than the first adhesion characteristic. The apparatus also includes a third side configured to be attached to the second side of the first fixation sheet; and a second fixation sheet having fifth and sixth sides, the fifth side configured to be attached to a fourth side of the decorative sheet, the fifth side including a second bonding agent with a third adhesion characteristic; the sixth side having a second repositionable material with a fourth adhesion characteristic, the fourth adhesion characteristic being less permanent than the first and third adhesion characteristics.

A limb for a breathing circuit manufactured from very thin walled polymer materials has an elongate axial reinforcing spine lying freely inside the conduit and fixed to each end connector. The spine is laterally compliant but axially stiff. The spine provides resistance to tensile and compressive loads on the conduit, including that induced by prevailing internal pressures.

A film layer adhered to a ply of prepreg is separated from the ply by clamping the ply between two clamping members and flicking an exposed edge of the ply.

Automated systems and methods of using an end-effector mounted on a robot arm to remove a tape from an object surface are provided. The end-effector includes a gripping mechanism and a force sensor, which is instructed by a controller to automatically detect the peeling state and adjust its peeling parameters to optimize the removal while the end-effector moves along the object surface to remove the tape.

The present disclosure provides a method of applying a protective film on at least one portion of a wind turbine blade, a wind turbine blade, and an apparatus for forming a groove on a surface of at least one portion of a wind turbine blade. The method of applying a protective film on at least one portion of a wind turbine blade comprises providing the at least one portion of the wind turbine blade; forming a groove on a surface of the at least one portion of the wind turbine blade, thereby delimiting a first region of the surface of the at least one portion of the wind turbine blade from a second region of the surface of the at least one portion of the wind turbine blade, wherein the first region of the surface of the at least one portion of the wind turbine blade includes the groove; covering the first region of the surface of the at least one portion of the wind turbine blade with a protective film; and pressing an edge region of the protective film in the groove, thereby inserting the edge region of the protective film in the groove.

An apparatus for manufacturing a display device and a method for manufacturing a display device are provided. An embodiment of an apparatus for manufacturing a display device includes a laser module configured to emit a laser beam and a first optical system disposed on one side of the laser module such that the laser beam is provided to the first optical system, wherein the first optical system controls an energy profile of the laser beam, wherein, on a first irradiation surface positioned at one side in a traveling direction of the laser beam from a focal point of the laser beam, the energy profile of the laser beam includes a first increase and then a first decrease in energy along a line parallel to the first irradiation surface from an outer perimeter of the laser beam toward a center of the laser beam, and wherein the energy profile of the laser beam includes a first peak corresponding to where the energy begins to decrease.

In one aspect, a device for facilitating removal of elastomeric polymer liner material from inside a pipe comprises a knife having an axial blade portion and a radial blade portion joined to form a heel with respective cutting edges of the axial and radial blade portions facing in the same direction. The knife has a working orientation in which the axial and radial blade portions are oriented axially and radially, respectively, relative to the pipe and the axial blade portion is further from the pipe axis than the radial blade portion. Rotation of the knife about the pipe axis in the working orientation with the cutting edges leading and the knife contacting the elastomeric polymer liner material causes the cutting edges of the radial and axial blade portions to cut through the elastomeric polymer liner material in the radial and axial dimensions, respectively, of the pipe.

A film layer adhered to a ply of prepreg is separated from the ply by clamping the ply between two clamping members and flicking an exposed edge of the ply.

A transfer material is stably transferred to a transfer object. A transfer method for transferring to the object the transfer material applied to a film portion fixed to a frame portion includes peeling a film portion from the object. In the peeling, while a first side of the frame portion is elevated, a roller portion is moved in a direction from the first side toward a second side so that the position of a boundary line between a peeled region where the film portion is peeled off from the object and an unpeeled region where the film portion is not peeled off from the object coincides with the position of a rotation shaft in the roller portion pressing the film portion while rotating.

Provided is a coating film removing equipment that is a device including: a cleaning tank; a supply device configured to supply a cleaning liquid to the cleaning tank; a conveyance device configured to convey a coated film in a longitudinal direction of the coated film such that the coated film passes through the cleaning tank; a suction box that is disposed in the cleaning tank and surrounds a part of a conveyance path of the coated film with a gap through which a film can pass; a removing mechanism disposed in the suction box, the removing mechanism being configured to remove a coating film from the coated film; and a discharge device for discharging the cleaning liquid and the removed coating film from the suction box to an outside of the cleaning tank.