A flexible-die forming apparatus includes a piston, a coil, an upper die, a magnetorheological elastomer, and a lower die having a cavity formed thereon. The upper die is arranged to be overlappedly rested on top of the lower die. The piston is movably received in the receiving cavity of the upper die. The magnetorheological elastomer is mounted at a lower portion of the piston, and is received in the receiving cavity of the upper die. The coil is provided and wounded on an exterior surface of the upper die and the lower die.

An object stage and a hot pressing apparatus are disclosed. The object stage includes a base (1) and a support device (2) fixed on the base (1), wherein the support device (2) includes a plurality of detachable support sub-devices (21); the support device is configured to allow a printed circuit board (3) with at least one protruding structure (4) to be placed thereon, and no support sub-device (21) is disposed at a position on the support device (2) corresponding to the protruding structure (1). The object stage reduces manufacture cost, saves production time and improves production efficiency.

The invention relates to a rotary press having height-staggered ram tips for carrying out at least two pressing operations, which preferably build on one another. Furthermore, the invention relates particularly to rotary presses and methods for producing multi-layer and coating-core tablets and for pressing tablets into cups during a rotation.

Devices, methods, and systems are described for memory destruction device (MDD) for a hard disk drive or a solid state drive. In an embodiment, the MMD includes only mechanical components. In one embodiment, the MMD may destroy one or more HDDs or SSDs at a time.

A method of compacting soil via a base machine, the base machine having ram material provided at at least one cable and having a regulation/control apparatus, includes raising the ram material from the land area to be compacted, with a zero point being stored at which no slackline is present. The method further includes raising the ram material to a lift height, carrying out a compaction procedure by dropping the ram material from a drop height onto the land area to be compacted, again raising the ram material from the land area to be compacted, with a further zero point being stored at which no slackline is present, determining and storing a compaction progress, and repeating the previous steps until the compaction progresses of each of a predefined number of consecutive compaction procedures are smaller than or equal to a predefined minimum progress.

The invention relates to a method for producing a metal or ceramic component, wherein powder or a pre-sintered component is used, and the component is produced via a pressure-supported compacting and sintering step by means of at least one ram. According to the invention, a ram is used, the contact surface of which has an outer flat region and at least one inner region with a concave recess, whereby a component with regions of different porosities is produced during the compacting and sintering step at a maximum temperature (T.sub.1) and a predetermined force. With said method, it is possible to produce a metal or ceramic component in two method steps or preferably in only one method step, in such a way that the component has an outer flat region and at least one inner region with a convex elevation, and wherein the porosity of the outer flat region is significantly lower than the porosity of the inner region. A component of this type can be used preferably as a substrate/carrier for a membrane in a gas separation device or in a fuel or electrolytic cell.

A method for producing a cooling plate may include the steps of: providing a pressing tool including a die and a stamp, wherein the die and the stamp define a negative shaped profile of the cooling plate to be produced; arranging at least one of a fiber woven fabric and a fiber scrim in the die; at least one of applying and introducing a melt of a thermoplastic plastic on the at least one of the fiber woven fabric and the fiber scrim to form an organic sheet; and shaping the organic sheet into a cooling plate shaped part via pressing the stamp onto the organic sheet arranged in the die.

A watch assembly method includes: processing a first bonding surface on a first connecting member, bonding a first laser adhesive layer on the first bonding surface and activating the first laser adhesive layer; processing a second bonding surface on a second connecting member, bonding a second laser adhesive layer on the second bonding surface and activating the second laser adhesive layer; fixing the second connecting member with the first connecting member preliminarily in such a manner that the first laser adhesive layer and the second laser adhesive layer face each other, and pressing the first connecting member and the second connecting member against each other until the first laser adhesive layer and the second laser adhesive layer are completely bonded and infiltrated.

A method for material forming uses a movable tool and a drive unit the method including moving the drive unit to provide kinetic energy to the tool, for the tool to strike a work material, so as to form the work material the method including providing an impact head between the drive unit and the movable tool, and providing the kinetic energy to the tool by the drive unit striking the impact head, the impact head (extending in the direction of the stroke from an impact end to a base region, where the base region is closer to the tool than the impact end. The method includes arranging the impact head so that the impact end has laterally, in relation to the direction of the stroke, a smaller extension than the base region.

A mold of a brake pad friction material, including a mold member fitted into a mold frame into which a powder material of the brake pad friction material is put, in which the mold member is configured such that a pressing surface in a surface of the mold member, which forms a region abutting the powder material put into a mold frame, has a concave shape that is formed by being gradually recessed from both end portion sides to a center portion side of the pressing surface.