A laminate blank includes at least one rigidifying layer and at least one comfort layer. The rigidifying layer includes a reinforcement preform and a resin. The layers are pressed to form the laminate blank.

A method of bonding a substrate is described comprising providing a fluoropolymer film comprising: i) a first fluoropolymer comprising at least 80, 85, or 90 wt. % of polymerized perfluorinated monomers; ii) optionally a second fluoropolymer having a greater amount of polymerized tetrafluoroethylene than the first fluoropolymer; wherein the first fluoropolymer and/or second fluoropolymer when present comprises halogen cure sites; and iii) one or more compounds comprising an electron donor group and one or more ethylenically unsaturated groups; applying the fluoropolymer film to a substrate; and heating the fluoropolymer film to a temperature of at least 150, 160, 170, 180, 190 or 200? C.

Methods systems and apparatuses for reducing or substantially eliminating distortion in a transparent substrate in situ are disclosed.

A method of manufacturing a timber composite (7) is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of applying adhesive to one or more timber layers (23-226), applying pressure to the one or more timber layers, and heating the timber layers. The adhesive penetrates into the one or more timber layers and cures to form the timber composite (7). One or more spacers (332) may be positioned between the timber layers. The invention also related to timber composite (7) obtainable by such method and to decorative panels (1) comprising such timber composite (7) as a top layer.

Methods of manufacturing a conveyor belt (126) include applying a rubber composition (114) to a first side of fabric reinforcement (112) and scattering productive thermoplastic elastomer pellets (106) onto a second side of the fabric reinforcement to produce an uncured belt structure (120). The uncured belt structure (120) is continuous fed into a double belt press (116) to press the productive thermoplastic elastomer pellets (106) together with the fabric reinforcement (112) to produce an uncured belt (128). Uncured belt (128) is then heated in the double belt press (116) to a temperature of at least 300 F. and maintained in the double belt press (116) under a pressure of at least 12 psi and a temperature of at least 300 C. for a residence time of at least 20 minutes to produce a cured conveyor belt (130), which is continuously withdrawn from the double belt press (116).

A method of manufacturing a composite material may include providing one or more layers of reinforcement material penetrated with viscous matrix material that is doped with electrically conductive particles. The method may further include applying a magnetic field to arrange the particles into one or more electrically conductive pathways, and curing the matrix material to secure the pathways in position relative to the reinforcement material.

Phosphor particles for producing a wavelength conversion member of a projector, including CASN, and/or SCASN. A cured sheet having a film thickness of 50?5 ?m produced by using the particle satisfies the following optical characteristics: when an intensity at a peak wavelength of blue light emitted from a blue LED having a peak wavelength between 450 to 460 nm is defined as Ii [W/nm], and where the blue light is emitted to one surface side of the cured sheet, when an intensity of light emitted from the other surface side of the cured sheet at a peak wavelength between 450 to 460 nm is defined as It [W/nm] and an intensity thereof at a peak wavelength between 600 to 650 nm is defined as Ip [W/nm], It/Ii is equal to or less than 0.2 and Ip/Ii is equal to or more than 0.05.

A method of manufacturing a composite material may include providing one or more layers of reinforcement material penetrated with viscous matrix material that is doped with electrically conductive particles. The method may further include applying a magnetic field to arrange the particles into one or more electrically conductive pathways, and curing the matrix material to secure the pathways in position relative to the reinforcement material.

The invention pertains to a panel comprising a core layer and at least one surface layer bonded to the core layer, wherein the core layer comprises particulate material bonded with a resin and the surface layer comprises fibrous material bonded with a resin, the resins comprising a polymer derived from an aliphatic polyol with 2-15 carbon atoms and an aliphatic polycarboxylic acid with 3 to 15 carbon atoms, wherein the polymer has an extent of polymerization, determined gravimetrically, of at least 0.6, and wherein the ratio of the resin content (in wt. %) of the core layer to the total resin content (in wt. %) of the surface layer(s) is in the range of 1:1.5 to 1:15. The invention also pertains to a method of manufacturing the panel.

A method of attaching a detector onto a substrate that has an array of electrically conducting pads is provided, together with the resulting detector assembly. The method includes pouring a non-conductive adhesive material over a substrate surface, allowing the adhesive to settle between the conducting pads to form dams around the conducting pads, applying a conductive adhesive material onto the conducting pads of the substrate, and placing a surface of the detector on the substrate surface over the conducting and non-conducting adhesives to thereby attach the surface of the detector to the surface of the substrate.