An imprint apparatus includes a mold holder that holds a mold, a substrate holder that holds a substrate by suction, a driving device that brings the mold into contact with an imprint material on the substrate by relatively bringing the mold holder and the substrate holder close to each other, and a controller. The controller controls the driving device so as to bring the mold into contact with the imprint material in a state in which the substrate is deformed into a convex shape with respect to the mold by controlling pressures inside the plurality of suction regions based on surface shape data of the substrate held by the substrate holder.

Thermoplastic packaging trays are provided that are filled with a product and wrapped in film, and methods of producing the tray with a peripheral edge region that avoids tearing of the overwrap film. In various embodiments, the tray has a beaded, a flat, or a combined beaded and flat peripheral edge.

A floatation mattress assembly for sleeping upon or floating in a body of water includes a mat that is comprised of a resiliently compressible material for sleeping upon. The mat is comprised of a buoyant material to float on a body of water. The mat is structured to have the ornamental appearance of a flip flop article of footwear. A first tube is pivotally coupled to the mat, and the first tube is positionable in a deployed position or a stored position. A second tube is coupled to the first tube and slidably extends through the mat. Thus, the first and second tubes have the ornamental appearance of foot straps on the flip flop article of footwear. A net is removably attached to each of the first and second tubes. The net forms a hemispherical dome over the mat when the first tube is positioned in the deployed position.

A food mold includes a food mold body made of a mold body material, having one or more cells with flexible wall, the cells being open on a common access face itself having a peripheral rim extending radially outward from an inner edge, marking the boundary with the cell or cells and to a free outer edge, the peripheral rim being provided with a peripheral stiffening element in the form of a continuous annular reinforcement with, if necessary, one or more intermediate stiffening elements. The peripheral stiffening element is entirely embedded in the mold body material. Around the peripheral stiffening element, the mold body material has no through passages free or blocked between the peripheral stiffening element and the outer surface of the material.

An imprint device according to the present invention is provided with a supply device that supplies a plurality of condensable gases, which have different saturated vapor pressures, at a fixed ratio by a first condensable gas tank (6) and a control valve (6a) and a second condensable gas tank (6) and a control valve (7a) when a concave portion formed in a mold is transferred in an atmosphere of a condensable gas, which condenses at a temperature and a pressure in the concave portion, the concave portion being sealed by a resist layer that enters into the concave portion formed in the mold (3). The imprint device makes it possible to prevent resist filling failure caused by capillary condensation and to adjust pattern line width and shape by using the same mold.

A polishing layer is provided. The polishing layer have a surface pattern, a cross section of the surface pattern along a direction has a plurality of grooves and a plurality of polishing portions, each of the grooves is disposed between every two adjacent polishing portions, and the polishing layer comprises a body layer and a surface layer. The surface layer is disposed on a surface of the body layer, and a top of at least one of the polishing portions has at least one flattened region exposing the body layer.

A carbon fiber-reinforced resin molded body of the present invention derives from kneaded materials of a thermoplastic resin and a carbon fiber and includes at least a three-dimensional complex shaped region and a substantially flat plate-shaped region arranged in a profile direction. Fluidity of the kneaded materials at predetermined temperature is such that fluidity of the kneaded material forming the substantially flat plate-shaped region is lower than fluidity of the kneaded material forming the three-dimensional complex shaped region, which makes it unlikely to cause defects in ribs, posses, and other portions. Thus, a carbon fiber-reinforced resin molded body with low cost and high strength can be provided.

Methods of producing polymer-metal hybrid components that are bonded by CO-M bonds at the interface using at least one of the hot pressing, rolling, and injection molding methods to create chemical bond formation conditions at the polymer and metal interface. When the thermal cycle and compressive pressure specified herein is combinationally created at the polymer and metal interfaced, strong CO-M bonds forms at the interface and strongly bonds the metal and polymer together through the reaction carbonyl groups (CO) in polymer and the metal surface. For polymers lacking enough carbonyl groups, new functional groups can be in-situ generation through introducing distributed air pockets at the polymer-metal interface for forming 3-dimensional distributed CO-M bonds at the interface.

A manufacturing method of a polishing layer is provided. First, a mold for which the mold cavity has a contour pattern is provided, and the cross section of the contour pattern along a direction includes a plurality of recessions and at least one concavity portion, wherein the at least one concavity portion is disposed on the bottom of at least one of the recessions. A polymer material is disposed in the mold cavity. The polymer material is cured to form a semifinished product, wherein the cross section of the semifinished product along the direction includes a plurality of polishing portions corresponding to the recessions and at least one protruding portion corresponding to the at least one concavity portion. A flattening process is performed on the semifinished product to remove the at least one protruding portion.

The invention concerns a mold for forming an element for covering a lining of a seat member for a motor vehicle, comprising: a matrix (62) provided with ribs (624) for defining style extension lines (36); and a punch (64) provided with ribs (642), to either side of a line of the ribs (624) of the matrix (62).