A method of manufacturing a monolithic fiber-reinforced polymer composite component is provided. The method comprises providing a mould comprising a main cavity and at least one additional cavity that extends from the main cavity; introducing a polymer matrix material containing chopped fiber reinforcement into the mould to fill the main cavity and the at least one additional cavity to form a monolithic fiber-reinforced polymer composite component with a main portion formed in the main cavity and at least one raised feature formed in the additional cavity and extending from a surface plane of said main portion. The at least one raised feature is arranged to incur visually perceptible damage when the component is subject to an impact with an energy above a predetermined impact energy threshold and to resist an impact with an energy below the predetermined impact energy threshold.

The invention relates to an injection mold for manufacturing an injection-molded component from plastic material. The injection mold including an outer first half-mold and an outer second half-mold, which, when joined, define an empty space, which determines an outer contour of the injection-molded component, and a core, which is located in the empty space and determines an inner contour of the injection-molded component. A wire passes through the core and the joined outer first half-mold and outer second half-mold, and plural pairs of clamping jaws fix the wire in its position. A method for manufacturing an injection-molded component is also disclosed.

A control valve includes a housing, a valve body arranged in a valve chamber of the housing, and a support member fixed to the housing and supporting the valve body in the valve chamber. The valve body has a tubular shape into which the support member is inserted, and the valve body is slidable on the support member between a first position to close an inlet passage and a second position to close a drain passage. The valve body includes a skin layer forming an outer surface of the valve body, and a core layer under the skin layer. The outer surface of the valve body includes a core exposed portion where the core layer is exposed without being covered with the skin layer.

A molding unit has a first molding station having a first mold having a first mold cavity, a second molding station having a second mold having a second mold cavity, a transfer unit having a support and at least a first core extending from the support. The transfer unit is arranged for moving the first core into a first molding position at the first molding station and into a second molding position at the second molding station. The first core extends into the first mold cavity when the first core is in the first molding position and into the second mold cavity when the first core is in the second molding position. A core actuation unit is arranged so that at least at the first molding station the first core is moved relative to the support from a first core position into a second core position when the first core is moved into the first molding position.

A vaginal ring applicator having a polymeric barrel and at least one friction reducing agent, wherein the barrel is a flattened cylinder having two slightly curved and opposing sides connected by two arcs, wherein the barrel extends between an insertion end and a plunger end; and a plunger extending between distal and proximal ends, wherein the distal end of the plunger engages the plunger end of the barrel and wherein the plunger fits telescopically within the barrel.

An injection-molding tool has a cavity-forming die and a cavity-forming core pin, which form at least a part of a cavity, provision is made for the injection-molding tool to comprise at least one core-centering device for centering and supporting the core pin. The core-centering device comprises at least one retaining pin guided in a bore of the cavity-forming die. The retaining pin is in contact with the core pin by way of an end face in a retracted position and, in an extended position, is drawn back such that the end face does not project beyond an inner surface of the cavity-forming die, in which the bore ends.

Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a cannula unit with a cannula housing and a cannula, in which a cannula is injection molded onto a molding core pin having an outer diameter d1 to produce a cannula having a distal end with a larger outer diameter than the outer diameter of the remaining cannula, a first distal section adjoining the distal end, a second proximal section adjoining the first distal section, and a proximal end. A cannula housing is injection molded onto the distal end and the first distal section of the cannula and the molding core pin is removed from the cannula. A piercing needle with an outer diameter d4 is threaded into the cannula, wherein the diameter d4 of the piercing needle is chosen such that it is smaller than the diameter d1 of the molding core pin.

The invention relates to a method for producing primary packaging having an integrated septum characterised by: a) providing a septum, b) providing an injection-molding die having two die halves, c) positioning the septum in the injection-molding die, d) moving the two die halves of the injection-molding die to form a cavity corresponding to the shape of the primary packaging to be produced, e) injecting a material into the cavity via an injection opening, where the two die halves of the injection-molding die pretensioningly holding the septum, and a rim of the septum is overmolded by the material, f) cooling the injected material while maintaining a holding pressure, g) moving the two die halves of the injection-molding die such that the produced primary packaging means having the integrated septum can be removed from the injection-molding die, and h) removing the produced primary packaging having the integrated septum from the injection-molding die.

According to the present invention, in order to improve the productivity of an injection stretch blow molding machine, when a core mold is lifted during mold opening at an injection molding part of the injection stretch blow molding machine, stress is dispersed so as not to concentrate at an area where the thickness changes between a preform opening and a preform body so that the preform body is inhibited from being lifted at a skin layer formed in the area where the thickness changes between the preform opening and the preform body. In a preform (30) where a skin layer (34) at the surface has a lower temperature than a middle layer (35) so as to allow a preform body (32) and a preform bottom (33) to expand and deform from the inside of the preform toward the outside of the preform, the skin layer (34) bridging between the inner surface of the preform body (32) and the inner surface of the preform opening (31) is formed in a tapered shape that opens upward at an outward slant with respect to an extension line (38) of the inner surface of the preform body (32) extending above the skin layer (34) so that, during the lifting of the core mold, the stress exerted from the preform body (32) is dispersed at a stress dispersing plane section (39) formed with the skin layer (34).

A molding system for applying moldable material to a pipe. An elongate mold has at least one elongate mold member movable relative another elongate mold member between open and closed positions. In the closed position, the mold may define an elongate vent between the mold members that extends along the longitudinal axis of the mold. Air in the mold cavity displaced by moldable material received into the mold cavity vents through the elongate vent along the longitudinal axis of the mold. The mold can include a positioner that positions the mold members in the closed position while the mold is filled with the moldable material. The positioner also allows movement of the first mold member toward the open position to partially open the mold as the moldable material cures to reduce forces imparted upon the mold due to expansion of the moldable material during curing.