A method for printing a three-dimensional part with an additive manufacturing system, which includes providing a part material that compositionally has one or more semi-crystalline polymers and one or more secondary materials that are configured to retard crystallization of the one or more semi-crystalline polymers, where the one or more secondary materials are substantially miscible with the one or more semi-crystalline polymers. The method also includes melting the part material in the additive manufacturing system, forming at least a portion of a layer of the three-dimensional part from the melted part material in a build environment, and maintaining the build environment at an annealing temperature that is between a glass transition temperature of the part material and a cold crystallization temperature of the part material.

A conveyor belt module (1) for a modular conveyor belt having an injection molded body is disclosed that includes recycled PET (rPET) and/or virgin PET. The body (2) comprises a top surface (3) for supporting products to be transported, a bottom surface for sliding over a conveying track, and link elements (7:5) at a front and rear of the body (2) for coupling to a consecutive conveyor belt module. Further, a modular conveyor belt is disclosed, a conveyor system, use of recycled PET (rPET) and/or virgin PET for molding a conveyor belt module for a modular conveyor belt, and a method of manufacturing a conveyor belt module for a modular conveyor belt.

The use of sheets comprising at least one face consisting of a pseudo-amorphous composition based on polyaryl ether ketone(s) for a twin sheet thermoforming process. A twin sheet thermoforming process for manufacturing a hollow body. A hollow body comprising at least one internal surface consisting of a crystallized composition based on polyaryl ether ketone(s), obtainable by the process.

A conveyor belt module (1) for a modular conveyor belt having an injection molded body (2) is disclosed that includes recycled PET (rPET). The body (2) comprises a top surface (3) for supporting products to be transported, a bottom surface for sliding over a conveying track, and link elements (7; 5) at a front and rear of the body for coupling to a consecutive conveyor belt module. Further, a modular conveyor belt is disclosed, a conveyor system, use of recycled PET (rPET) for molding a conveyor belt module for a modular conveyor belt, and a method of manufacturing a conveyor belt module for a modular conveyor belt.

The present invention encompasses, in part, a method and apparatus for lens casting in which two molds, preferably formed of plastic, are interconnected or joined together via a ring to form a mold cavity having substantially the same dimensions of the lens to be formed therein. The invention is further directed to compositions and methods used in lens casting. In a first implementation the invention includes a mold having a ring having an interior periphery; a front mold formed of a plastic and having a lens-forming surface, an edge circumscribing the lens-forming surface that is sized to be complementarily received within a portion of the interior periphery of the ring, and a base having dimensions greater than the interior periphery; and a rear mold formed of a plastic and having a lens-forming surface.

Provided is a method for manufacturing a bumper reinforcement in which bonding process time is short and open time is long. A method for manufacturing a bumper reinforcement of one embodiment includes: a pre-bonding step of preparing a layered body containing, in the following order, a metal member, which is a body section, a solid adhesive mainly comprising an amorphous thermoplastic resin that is at least one of a thermoplastic epoxy resin and a phenoxy resin, and a resin member, which is a resin reinforcement; and a bonding step of heating and pressurizing the layered body to melt the solid adhesive, and bonding the metal member and the resin member. Either the epoxy equivalent of the amorphous thermoplastic resin is 1,600 or more or the amorphous thermoplastic resin does not contain epoxy groups, and the heat of fusion of the amorphous thermoplastic resin is 15 J/g or less.

A method is provided for producing a joined body, including: an injection molding step of injecting a thermoplastic resin composition into a cavity of a mold in a state where a solid joining agent containing a thermoplastic resin having an epoxy equivalent of 1,600 or more or containing no epoxy group is placed on a wall surface in the cavity to obtain a first base material in which a resin molded body made of the thermoplastic resin composition and the solid joining agent are integrated; and a joining step of melting and then solidifying the solid joining agent in a state where the solid joining agent of the first base material is in contact with a second base material to obtain a joined body between the first base material and the second base material.

A fiber-reinforced composite material having at least one reinforcement layer having one or more woven mats, unwoven mats, or bundle of fibers comprising a plurality of reinforcement fibers that has a binder-resin filling at least a portion of the voids of the reinforcement fibers. In some aspects, the binder-resin adheres to the reinforcement fibers and displaces the air voids at the interface between the reinforcement fibers and the binder-resin. The binder-resin has a relatively low viscosity less than at least about 20,000 centipoise at 176 C. and low molecular weight, which allows the reinforcement layer to maintain a low flex modulus while maintaining or increasing tensile modulus. The fiber-reinforced composite material can be utilized in various articles, such as a flexible fiber reinforced hose adapted for conveying fluids under pressure having at least one polymer layer that bonds to the binder-resin of the reinforcement layer, preferably being cross-linkable or cross-linked to the polymer layer.

Methods and systems of fabricating a polymeric stent are disclosed herein.

A material for use in a fused filament fabrication (FFF) printer comprises a polyaryletherketone (PAEK) having an amorphous morphology. In some embodiments, the material also includes a PAEK having a semi-crystalline morphology.