Disclosed is a retro-reflective thread 100 including an internal section 10; a plurality of fibers 12, each fiber comprising a respective longitudinal axis and a respective surface and each fiber comprising a first material that is at least partially optically transmissive, and wherein said plurality of fibers are configured with their respective longitudinal axes substantially co-linearly aligned with one another and said plurality of fibers are interconnected in series around said internal section and wherein a first part 12b of said respective surface of each of said plurality of fibers faces into said internal section; and a reflective material 14 provided on said first part of said respective surface of each of said plurality of fibers.

A blow molding tool (1) for a blow molding machine (1). The blow molding tool (1) comprises at least one first blow mold half (2) and one second blow mold half (3). The first blow mold half (2) has a baseplate (4) and a molding body (5). At least one mold cavity (6) with an inner wall (51) is arranged in the molding body (5). At least one region (511) of the inner wall (51) of the mold cavity (6) comprises, in the associated section of the molding body (5), separate temperature control channels (54) for controlling the temperature of the region (54).

The present invention relates to equipment covers. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of making an equipment cover, the method comprising: moulding a cover from a substantially transparent or translucent polymer, optionally a thermoplastic polymer, to form a cover having a textured outer surface and a generally smoother inner surface; and applying a coating having reflective components to the inner surface.

Objects of various designs are built more appropriately. A building apparatus for building a three-dimensional object includes an inkjet head serving as a head for light-reflective material for ejecting black ink that is a light-reflective material and an inkjet head serving as a head for light-absorbent material for ejecting white ink that is a light-absorbent material. The object has a light-shielding region formed of black ink to block visible light and a non-light shielding region different from the light-shielding region and at least partially formed of white ink. The light-shielding region is formed at a position overlapping at least a part of the non-light shielding region. At least a part of the non-light shielding region overlapping the light-shielding region is a region having a thickness that allows visible light to pass through without the light-shielding region.

A curable particulate silicone composition is provided which has hot-melt properties, excellent handling workability and curing characteristics, high light reflectance in the visible wavelength region, and excellent flexibility and toughness at a temperature of from room temperature to a high temperature of about 150 C. The composition comprises: (A) hot-melt silicone fine particles having a softening point of 30 C. or higher and having a hydrosilylation reactive group and/or a radical reactive group; (B) an inorganic filler substantially free of coarse particles having an average particle diameter of 5 m or more (fine particles); and (C) a curing agent. When cured, the composition provides a cured product that has: a storage modulus (G) at 25 C. of 2000 MPa or less; and a storage modulus (G) at 150 C. of 100 MPa or less; and a spectral reflectance of 90% or more at a wavelength of 450 nm at a thickness of 100 m.

The present disclosure relates generally to polymer structures, for example, suitable for construction products. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a thermoplastic construction product including a coextruded layer structure having a base layer including a first thermoplastic material, an outer layer including a second thermoplastic material, and an infrared-reflective intermediate layer that is coextruded with the base layer and the outer layer and is disposed between the base layer and the outer layer. In some embodiments the intermediate layer has a thickness of at least 30 micrometers. In some embodiments the infrared-reflective intermediate layer includes a reflective pigment dispersed in a matrix of one of the first thermoplastic material or the second thermoplastic material.

The present disclosure provides a hose for transporting used fracturing liquid and manufacturing method thereof. The hose may include an outer layer, an enhancement layer and an inner layer. The outer layer may include a first polymer. The enhancement layer may include a synthetic fiber. The inner layer may include a second polymer. The surface of the outer layer may include an alerting object. The alerting object may include at least one of a luminous layer, a light band, a reflective layer, an identification layer or a sound generating object. The luminous layer may include at least one of a strip-shaped luminous layer, a ring-shaped luminous layer or a spiral-shaped luminous layer, arranged on the outer surface of the outer layer.

A purpose is to provide a resin encoder scale a cost of which can be reduced by making processing easy by producing the encoder scale as a resin molded piece including a scale pattern. A resin encoder scale is used in a reflection-type optical encoder and a scale pattern for position measurement is provided thereto. In the scale pattern, a low reflection part a surface of which is molded as a rough surface during resin molding and which has low reflectivity of light and a high reflection part a surface of which is molded as a mirror surface during the resin molding and which has higher reflectivity of light than the low reflection part are arranged alternately.

The present invention provides a film for thermal compression bonding, which contains a cholesteric liquid crystal layer that is formed by curing a liquid crystal composition including a polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compound, a chiral agent, and a polymerizable monomer, in which the polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal includes a monofunctional rod-like liquid crystal compound having one polymerizable group and a bifunctional rod-like liquid crystal compound having two polymerizable groups, or two or more bifunctional rod-like liquid crystal compounds having two polymerizable groups, the polymerizable monomer has three or more polymerizable groups, and the polymerizable monomer is contained in an amount of 0.3% by mass to 6.0% by mass with respect to the total mass of the polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compounds; a method for producing a molded article using the film for thermal compression bonding; and a molded article produced by the production method.

A vehicle interior trim assembly such as an air bag cover assembly having an illuminable emblem is provided. The assembly includes a vehicle interior trim part and an illumination module having a light source configured to generate visible light rays when energized. A lens includes at least one layer molded in a molding process from an optical-grade material. The lens has a pattern of light-extracting deformities to extract light rays from an interior of the lens at a set of surface-defining areas of the lens. The surface-defining areas are sized, shaped and arranged laterally relative to each other in an emblem pattern. A decorative emblem has reflective surfaces overlying and spaced away from the surface-defining areas by an air gap. The extracted light rays traveling across the gap are reflected by the reflective surfaces to generate light in the emblem pattern about peripheral surfaces of the decorative emblem.