A connector and a method of retaining a contact in a housing. The method includes: inserting the contact into a contact receiving cavity of the housing; applying extruded material in layers into the contact receiving cavity with a precision controlled nozzle; filling voids in the contact receiving cavity layer by layer until the contact receiving cavity is filled; and cooling or curing the extruded material, allowing the extruded material to bond with a wall of the contact receiving cavity. The contact is securely maintained in the contact receiving cavity of the housing by the extruded material. The connector having a contact positioned in a contact receiving cavity of a housing. Extruded material is positioned in the contact receiving cavity. The extruded material is bond to walls of the contact receiving cavity, wherein the extruded material securely maintains the contact in the contact receiving cavity of the housing.

The method of producing a transdermal absorption sheet includes: preparing a mold having needle-like recessed portions and an angle of an inlet portion of 120 to 160, and a liquid feeder including an opening portion and a lip land portion; filling the needle-like recessed portions with a solution by feeding the solution to the mold and moving the liquid feeder while bringing a rear end of a lip land portion on the secondary side of the liquid feeder into contact with the mold; and forming needle portions and a sheet portion using a polymer solution. In the filling of the solution, when the rear end of the lip land portion on the secondary side matches with a secondary side inlet of the needle-like recessed portion, the shortest distance from a primary side inlet of the needle-like recessed portion to a secondary side block is 220 m or less.

A powder dispenser (14) has a vertical channel (55), which, at the top, is adapted to communicate with a tank for receiving the powder and inferiorly ends at an opening (26), which is elongated along a horizontal direction and comprises an outlet portion (51) for letting the powder fall; the dispenser further has a shutter device (50) for varying the length of the outlet portion (51) with respect to the total length of the opening (26) along its horizontal axis (36).

A nozzle lifting assembly for an additive manufacturing system includes a base member and a lift member relatively movable with respect thereto, a first nozzle body arranged for being lifted by the lift member and a second nozzle body disposed on the base member. A wedge member is movably arranged relative to the base member and in wedging engagement with the lift member between a first and second wedge position, wherein the first and second wedge position correspond to a lowered position and a lifted position of the first nozzle body with respect to the second nozzle body, respectively.

To provide a method for manufacturing a double-sided adhesive material suitable for the size and shape of various articles using a simple process without reducing the yield of the adhesive material that is used, and to provide an article with a double-sided adhesive material that uses the double-sided adhesive material obtained by this manufacturing method. [Resolution means] Liquid photo curing adhesive 12 is applied by direct drawing onto a specific region corresponding to the size and shape of an article to be used, on the surface of a first plate 10, using a robot. A sheet shaped second plate 20 is placed on the first plate 10 where the adhesive 12 was applied, such that the adhesive 12 is interposed between both plates. Light for curing the adhesive is then irradiated from both sides of the adhesive 12 so that the light will pass through both the first plate 10 and the second plate 20 and reach the adhesive 12.

A method for fabricating a composite object with a computer-controlled apparatus, and the apparatus therefor. The comprises a reservoir containing liquid, curable first material, means to selectively solidify the first material and means to selectively deposit a second material. The method involves the steps of selectively depositing portions of the second material, and selectively solidifying portions of the first material, such that the solidified portions of the first material and the deposited portions of the second material form the composite object.

A method, a dosing device and a system for manufacturing of a lipstick mine out of at least two pasty substances are described. The method comprises inserting of a first end portion of a dosing device into a form whereby the first end portion of the dosing device comprises at least one outlet nozzle, filling of the first end portion of the dosing device with a first pasty substance, increasing of the gas pressure in the first end portion of the dosing device whereby the first pasty substance through the pressure is pressed out of the at least one outlet nozzle, removing the first end portion of the dosing device out of the form and filling up the form with a second pasty substance.

Described herein is a method for filling seal caps and a corresponding automated device for filling seal caps. The method for filling seal caps includes carrying out the filling of the seal caps using an automated process, where positioning a filling unit and/or positioning the seal caps by means of movement in an XYZ coordinate system as well as filling the seal caps is automated, and where the seal caps are positioned on a support plate.

The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that forms an imprint material pattern on a substrate by using a mold, comprising: a discharge unit on which a plurality of discharge outlets configured to discharge an imprint material are arranged; a measurement unit configured to measure a relative tilt between the discharge unit and the substrate; and a control unit configured to control a process of causing the discharge unit to discharge the imprint material while relatively moving the discharge unit and the substrate to each other, wherein the control unit is configured to change a relative movement direction of the discharge unit and the substrate in the process in accordance with the relative tilt measured by the measurement unit so as to reduce an arrangement error of the imprint material, discharged from the plurality of discharge outlets, on the substrate.