Proposed is an apparatus and method for manufacturing automotive interior materials. The apparatus includes a first mold unit provided with a first molding surface and a gate disposed on the first molding surface, wherein a skin is set on the first molding surface. The apparatus further includes a second mold unit provided with a second molding surface facing the first molding surface, and configured to provide an opening exposing an edge of an edge portion of the set skin along a periphery between the first molding surface and the second molding surface when the second mold unit is combined with the first mold unit, and a sealing block provided with a tip portion disposed along the opening when the first mold unit and the second mold unit are combined.

The invention provides a gasket which improves a handling workability of a rubber only type gasket. The gasket of the invention is constructed by a combination of a rubber only type gasket main body, and a carrier sheet which is made of a resin film retaining the gasket main body in a non-bonded state, and the carrier sheet is provided with an air inflow port for making air flow into a portion between the carrier sheet and the gasket main body when the gasket main body is detached from the carrier sheet. A gasket retention portion having a three-dimensional shape which is deformed along an outer shape of the gasket main body is arranged at a position which laps over the gasket main body in a plane in the carrier sheet, and the gasket main body is partly accommodated within the gasket retention portion in a thickness direction.

The present invention makes full use of the advantages of a resin molded stator while pursuing advantages related to performance, reliability, and workability. Provided is an axial gap-type rotary electric machine comprising: a stator in which a plurality of core units having a magnetic flux surface in the rotational axis direction are arranged annularly around the rotational axis; a rotor facing the magnetic flux surfaces of the stator in the axial direction; a housing comprising an inner cylinder space in which the stator is accommodated; and a molded resin that covers part or all of the stator and integrally connects the stator and the inner circumference of the inner cylinder space. The housing comprises an annular thick wall section that has a predetermined thickness toward the axial center side and that follows the inner circumference in part of the inner circumference of the inner cylinder space. The axial boundary of the molded resin and the inner circumference of the inner cylinder space is included within the area of a radial projection surface of the thick wall section.

Rear quarter glass has a glass plate, a plastic molding, and a metal molding. A retainer is arranged between the plastic molding and the metal molding. The retainer has a first through-hole and a pin portion. The metal molding has a projecting portion that is inserted through the first through-hole. The projecting portion has an end section that projects from the first through-hole in a state inserted through the first through-hole. The plastic molding has a second through-hole through which the pin portion is inserted. The pin portion has an end section that projects from the second through-hole in a state inserted through the second through-hole. The end section of the projecting portion is swaged to the retainer by swaging through thermal deformation. The end section of the pin portion is swaged to the plastic molding by swaging through thermal deformation.

A mould for manufacturing three-dimensional items, comprising a body; a lid configured to close the body; and incorporated closing and openings configured to keep the body and the lid joined during the movement thereof is disclosed. A machine for manufacturing three-dimensional items, comprising a receiving module configured to receive the mould; a conditioning module configured to receive the mould from the receiving module and act on the incorporated closing and openings in order to separate the lid from the body; and a handling module configured to receive the body from the conditioning module and enable the placement of the components of the item to be manufactured. A method for manufacturing three-dimensional items and manufacturing plant associated with the machine.

An optical lens production device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: an upper mold which has one or more upper cavity areas for forming an optical lens; a lower mold which has one or more lower cavity areas for forming the optical lens; and an elastic member which is formed between the upper mold and the lower mold.

A protection tube with latch in which a latch that is formed engageable with an attachment hole of a panel is molded integral with a protection tube that receives an electric wire, and a manufacturing apparatus of the protection tube with latch. The protection tube with latch includes a latch to be engaged with the attachment hole of the panel having the electric wire wired therein disposed on an outer peripheral face of the protection tube that is formed tubular and receives the electric wire.

In a first aspect of the invention there is provided a method of forming a leading edge protection shield on a wind turbine blade shell. The method comprises providing at least a portion of a wind turbine blade shell comprising a windward surface, a leeward surface, and a leading edge, providing a leading edge mould comprising a concave curved mould surface and arranging the mould over the leading edge of the blade shell such that a generally C-shaped cavity is defined between the blade shell and the mould surface. The method further comprises clamping the mould to the windward surface and/or to the leeward surface of the blade shell using a clamping arrangement spaced from the leading edge in a chordwise direction. The method further comprises providing an edge scaling arrangement positioned between the leading edge and the clamping arrangement in the chordwise direction, and forming a seal between the mould surface and the windward and leeward surfaces of the blade shell using the edge sealing arrangement to define windward and leeward edges of the C-shaped cavity. The mould surface is substantially tangential to the windward and leeward surfaces at the windward and leeward edges such that the C-shaped cavity tapers in thickness towards the windward and leeward edges of the C-shaped cavity. The method further comprises supplying polymer to the C-shaped cavity to form a leading edge protection shield on the blade shell.

An injection-molding tool comprising at least two separate mold parts arranged so that they can be moved along a central tool axis between a closed and an open position. At least one of the mold parts comprises an alignment compensator with a first and a second compensator part. The first compensator part has a socket adapted for receiving the second compensator part so that it can slide along the central tool axis in the socket, and for allowing the second compensator part to tilt in the socket. A seal is arranged so that the seal and the first and the second compensator part encloses a space in the socket containing an elastic or fluid material. The seal also comprises a lid made from a plastic material arranged between the second compensator part and the liquid filled space in the socket.

Thermoplastic forming tools and assemblages are provided for forming thermoplastic components. In particular, thermoplastic forming tools and assemblages are provided for forming thermoplastic components having precision micro-scale features and reproducible macro-scale dimensions. The thermoplastic forming assemblages can include at least a bottom tool and a top tool having a rigid tool body and an elastomer layer conformally coating at least a portion of both rigid tool bodies. The bottom and top tool can be so dimensioned that, when in the closed position, they define a cavity forming the thermoplastic component. The rigid tool bodies provide the reproducible macro-scale dimensions in the thermoplastic component, while the elastomer layers form and release the precision micro-scale features in the thermoplastic component when formed. Tool-forming structures are also provided for making thermoplastic forming tools and assemblages, as well as methods of making the thermoplastic forming tools, and methods of use for forming thermoplastic components.