A vacuum system for film lamination, including a vacuum chamber module, a film-pressing module, a substrate susceptor module and a hot-plate heating module, is disclosed, wherein the film-pressing module includes a film-pressing platen, and the substrate susceptor module includes a substrate susceptor supported by a spring-loaded mechanism. During a film-lamination process, the film-pressing platen is actuated to move downwards to attach a laminating film onto a substrate, and the substrate susceptor is actuated to move downwards and finally rest on the hot-plate heating module. Therefore an adhesive glue disposed between the laminating film and the substrate can be thermally cured. After completing the film-lamination process, the film-pressing platen is actuated upwards so that the substrate susceptor also is actuated to move upwards to its initial position by a restoring force exerted by the spring-loaded mechanism. In such manner, the laminating film can be properly bonded to the substrate to avoid lamination defects such as air bubbles and to improve adhesion strength.

A substrate laminating apparatus, including a first vacuum chamber including a first opening; a first table provided inside the first opening for holding a first substrate; a second vacuum chamber including a second opening; a second table provided inside the second opening for holding a second substrate, wherein the substrates are laminated by reducing a pressure in a closed space formed by having the first opening faced with the second opening. The apparatus also includes a vacuum evacuation unit connected to the first vacuum chamber or the second vacuum chamber and performs reduced-pressure evacuation of the closed space. When there is a direction along which priority is given on lamination precision when laminating the first and second substrates, and the direction is defined as a lamination precision priority direction, a reduced-pressure evacuation direction done by the vacuum evacuation unit is a direction different from the lamination precision priority direction.

[Problem] To suppress changes in the recess depth and shape of a three-dimensional molded shape, and to form a uniform protective layer or ornamental layer along the surface of the molded shape. Also, to provide uniform application to the entire irregularly-formed surface and to suppress air pockets and partial defects of bonding. [Solution] In an adherend W having a three-dimensional molded portion in which a plurality of concavities and/or convexities are molded in a regular arrangement, a thermoplastic coating film larger than the area of an adhesion region is integrally adhered by a three dimensional decorative molding procedure in a predetermined adhesion region that includes the three-dimensional molded portion. The predetermined adhesion region includes all of the three-dimensional molded portion and covers more than half the perimeter of the adherend W incenter cross-sectional view.

A bonding device and a bonding method for an irregular-shaped curved cover plate and a flexible screen are disclosed. The bonding device includes: a support body supporting the flexible screen; and a bonding body supporting the flexible screen together with the support body and pressing the flexible screen. The bonding body has a cylindrical shape. A cross-sectional shape of the bonding body along an axial direction matches with a cross-sectional shape of the irregular-shaped curved cover plate. The support body is located at a radial end of the bonding body. The bonding body can be expanded along the axial direction, to have opposite sides thereof abutted against the arc hook areas.

The invention relates to a device for laminating a laminating foil element onto a component having a profiled lamination plane using a lamination tool, by means of which tool the laminating foil element is laminated onto the component, the lamination tool comprising a first tool half and a second tool half, and the device comprising a deflection arrangement for deflecting portions of the laminating foil element out of the profiled lamination plane.

A bonding device and a bonding method for an irregular-shaped curved cover plate and a flexible screen are disclosed. The bonding device includes a bonding body pressing the flexible screen, the bonding body includes: an adsorption component configured to adsorb the flexible screen, the adsorption component includes a plurality of sub-adsorption components arranged apart from each other; and an expansion component having a variable size, the expansion component includes a plurality of sub-expansion components arranged apart from each other. The adsorption component and the expansion component are cooperatively provided with a pressing surface having a shape adapted to a shape of an inner surface of the irregular-shaped curved cover plate.

A mandrel for composite fabrication includes an open cell foam carrier and at least one vacuum bag enclosing the open cell foam carrier.

Methods and systems of customized and selective decoration of internal tube-like surfaces using pre-printed films with splinter resistant property are described. The method of adhering a film to an internal surface of a tube-like structure. The structure may have a hollow interior defined by the internal surface. The method may be carried out by providing a pre-printed film comprising first and second sides and an adhesive layer adhered to at least a portion of the first side. The pre-printed film may be positioned at least partially within the hollow interior with the adhesive layer positioned adjacent to the internal surface of the tube-like structure. The adhesive layer may be adhered to the internal surface of the tube-like structure.

A method for manufacturing an optical article including the following steps: a. providing a first substrate with a main surface, b. depositing a second substrate on the main surface with an adhesive layer so that the space between the first substrate and second substrate is filled by the adhesive layer, c. curing the adhesive layer to induce a polymerization of the adhesive layer, wherein a tension step takes place after steps a. and b., and before step c., the tension step including applying symmetrically a tension, preferentially with a central symmetry, preferentially a radial isotropic tension or an ortho-distributed symmetrical tension, on the edges of the second substrate sensibly in a tension plan parallel to a plan representative of the main surface.

A method for hydroforming a spun bonded nonwoven web includes applying a plurality of pressurized liquid jets onto an original unexpanded spun bonded nonwoven web having an original loft while the web passes over a forming structure. A plurality of spun bonded fibers in the original unexpanded spun bonded nonwoven web are reoriented from a closely packed substantially horizontal orientation to a more loosely packed orientation with greater vertical spacing between the fibers to produce a hydroformed expanded spun bonded nonwoven web having a loft of at least about 1.3 times greater than the original loft of the original unexpanded spun bonded nonwoven web, and an air permeability of at least about 1.2 times greater than an original air permeability of the original unexpanded spun bonded nonwoven web. The hydroformed expanded spun bonded nonwoven web has a surface with a plurality of protuberances in a pattern corresponding to the pattern of apertures in the forming structure.