A mold for manufacturing a component for a wind turbine, in particular a rotor blade, is provided. The mold includes a flexible mold part configured for driving staples into the same, the staples being used to attach a fiber material to the mold. The mold may include a lower mold half and an upper mold half. The mold may be made of a polymer material, a plastic material, a metal alloy or a combination thereof.

A method and a mold for manufacturing a component for a wind turbine are provided. The method includes the steps of a) laying a fiber material onto a mold, b) attaching the fiber material to the mold and/or to a core of the component using staples, c) infiltrating the fiber material with a resin, and d) curing the resin to form the component. The method may further include wherein the fiber material is attached to a flexible mold part into which the staples are driven. The method may still further include wherein the flexile mold part is made of a polymer material. The method is advantageous in that a lack of consolidation of the component is prevented or reduced.

The present disclosure relates to methods and components for the bonding together of plastic components during a manufacturing and/or assembly process to create molds for lost-wax casting.

In 3-D printing a platen moves toward an intermediate transfer belt (ITB) to have a sheet positioned on the platen contact the ITB to electrostatically transfer a layer of different materials to the sheet, and then the platen moves to a stabilization station to join the layer to the sheet. This processing is repeated to have the sheet repeatedly contact the ITB (with intervening stabilization at the stabilization station) to successively form layers of the materials on the sheet. The freestanding stack is fed to a platform to successively form a 3-D structure of freestanding stacks of the layers. Heat and/or pressure and/or light are applied to the 3-D structure to bond the freestanding stacks to one another through the sheets of collapsible media on the platform.

A hot stamping apparatus and a hot stamping method are for collectively decorating a plurality of decoration objects using a decorative sheet. In a hot stamping apparatus, an upper chamber and a lower chamber are partitioned by a partition sheet and pressing bodies, so that decorative sheet pieces can be used instead of a decorative sheet having a large area. Then, by using the decorative sheet pieces, local thermal deformation can be prevented. A usage amount of the decorative sheet can be reduced, and three-dimensional decoration can be implemented as needed on a portion requiring decoration.

Simulated anatomical components, such as simulated vascular vessels, produced by a method that includes forming an anatomical component mold from a soluble polymer such that the mold defines an interior void of the simulated anatomical component. One or more layers of an elastomeric material is applied around the anatomical component mold and the material is allowed to cure to form a wall of the simulated anatomical component. At least a portion of the mold is dissolved to form a passage for liquid within the simulated anatomical component. Simulated anatomical components are connectable to other components of a surgical simulation system and can be modularized.

This disclosure relates to a hydrogel comprising a crosslinked biomolecule, wherein the hydrogel comprises microscale structures. Also described is a hydrogel comprising an ordered array of semi-spherical microbumps, wherein the hydrogel is bacteria-repellent. Also described is a hierarchically-structured protein hydrogel that inhibits long term attachment of multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureus up to 100 over a flat hydrogel. Methods of making and uses thereof are also disclosed herein.

Simulated anatomical components, such as simulated vascular vessels, and systems including the same. Such a system includes a housing, a simulated anatomical component inside the housing, and a simulated anatomical abnormality within a passage of the simulated anatomical component, the simulated anatomical abnormality formed as a material of an anatomical mold used to form the simulated anatomical component that has been partially removed to form the passage.

An accommodating contact lens comprises a control device, which comprises one or more eyelid engagement structures. The eyelid engagement structures are configured to move with the eyelid relative to the contact lens. The eyelid engagement structure is coupled to the eyelid and to the accommodating contact lens, which may comprise a fluidic module having inner and outer fluid reservoirs. The eyelid engagement structure is configured to respond to the narrowing or widening of the eyelid fissure, moving a fluid in or out of the inner reservoir to accommodate near or far vision.

A method to manufacture an accommodating contacting lens is provided. A soft contact lens material precursor is placed into a container and cured. The cured contact lens material is machined to form an intermediate surface over which an accommodating lens module is placed. Further precursor is placed onto the intermediate surface and surrounding the lens module. This further precursor is cured. Afterwards, the surface of the cured precursor or soft contact lens material is machined to form a first surface of the accommodating contact lens. Then, the opposite surface is machined to form a second surface of the accommodating contact lens, thereby forming the accommodating contact lens with the module disposed in the interior. The first and second surfaces may be a posterior and anterior surface, respectively, of the accommodating contact lens.