A catheter includes: a catheter shaft; and a hub on a proximal side of the catheter shaft. The catheter shaft includes a shaft inner surface inclined portion at a proximal portion, the diameter of which increases proximally such that the shaft inner surface inclined portion forms an angle with the catheter central axis. The hub includes a first hub inner surface inclined portion continuous from the shaft inner surface inclined portion and inclined at the same inclination angle as the shaft inner surface inclined portion, and a second hub inner surface inclined portion proximal of the first hub inner surface inclined portion. The second hub inner surface inclined portion inclination angle differs from the first hub inner surface inclined portion inclination angle. The hub does not cover an inner peripheral surface of the catheter shaft in an interlock portion in which the catheter shaft and the hub are interlocked together.

There is provided a method for manufacturing a molded member having a hollow part. The method comprises a step for molding the hollow part by extracting a first piece, a second piece, a third piece and a fourth piece of a mold in four different directions. The second piece has an elongated shape in its extracting direction, the second piece and the fourth piece have extracting directions substantially opposed to each other, and at the molding, each of the first piece, the second piece, the third piece and the fourth piece abuts on at least one of the first piece, the second piece, the third piece and the fourth piece.

A resin injection molding method uses a mold having a cavity and a hole-forming columnar body. The hole-forming columnar body is movable in an axial direction while extending through the cavity, and includes a first diameter portion having a first diameter, a second diameter portion having a diameter greater than the first diameter, and a tapered portion having a diameter gradually increasing from the first diameter portion toward the second diameter portion. The method includes moving the hole-forming columnar body in the axial direction such that at least one of the first diameter portion or the tapered portion is positioned in the cavity, injecting the molten resin to fill the cavity, maintaining an inside of the cavity under pressure, moving the hole-forming columnar body in the axial direction such that the second diameter portion is positioned in the cavity, and solidifying the injected filling molten resin.

A plastic injection tool for producing a closure cap is divided into first and second mold halves that can be moved relative to one another and an injection nozzle is formed in the first mold half, and sliding jaw tool parts are formed in the second mold half, radially outside a central tool core, which can simultaneously be moved in an ejection direction of the produced closure cap and perpendicular to the ejection direction. A respective partial ejection contour of the cap body is formed in the sliding jaw tool parts. An ejector is also provided for ejecting the produced closure cap. Partial injection contours that are different from one another are formed in sliding jaw tool parts, and a sliding jaw tool part is in contact with the tool core in two regions lying after one another in the ejection direction, before the ejection of the closure cap.

Optical fiber hole forming pins configured to form optical fiber holding holes each have a first portion located adjacent to a first end surface and a second portion located adjacent to a second end surface and larger in diameter than the first portion. At least one of the plurality of optical fiber hole forming pins is different from the other optical fiber hole forming pins in position, in a first direction, of a step portion located at a boundary between the first portion configured to form a small diameter portion of each of the optical fiber holding holes and the second portion configured to form a large diameter portion of each of the optical fiber holding holes.

A disclosed screening apparatus includes a subgrid, and a screen element attached to the subgrid via laser welding at a plurality of attachment positions such that, under vibrational excitation, the screen element has a pre-determined profile of vibrational motion relative to the subgrid. The screen element may be attached at a maximal number of attachment locations to the subgrid to minimize relative motion of the screen element and the subgrid under vibrational excitation, or the screen element may be attached a sub-set of the maximal number of attachment locations to allow vibrational motion of the screen element relative to the subgrid. A disclosed method may include attaching a plurality of screen elements to a respective plurality of subgrids, attaching the plurality of subgrids to one another to form a screening pre-assembly, and cutting edges of the screening pre-assembly to form the screen assembly having a perimeter with a pre-determined shape.

A method and device for producing an optimized neck contour on preforms below the neck which is optimal for subsequent stretch blow molding. The geometry has a significantly thinner wall thickness than the neck itself. The preform can only be produced in the injection molding tool, when axial channels are used on the point or the vanes produce the thin points on the preform during injection molding. The thin-walled geometry on the preform can be produced outside of the mold during post-cooling by embossing. The preform is then removed in a cooled receiving sleeve and is cooled in the body by intensive contact cooling while no cooling contact is made with the preform neck due to the initial position of the embossing element. Due to the reheating of the neck they can be mechanically deformed into a new geometry advantageous for blow molding and thus wall thickness can be influenced.

A connector is disclosed that includes comprising a body having a tubing portion, a luer portion axially opposite the tubing portion and connected thereto, and an inner circumferential surface defining an internal bore of the connector. The inner circumferential surface extends axially between the tubing portion and the luer portion, and the internal bore being is in fluid communication with the tubing portion and the luer portion. The inner circumferential surface includes a plurality of splines extending axially along a length of the inner circumferential surface in the tubing portion of the connector. The inner circumferential surface is configured to engage an external surface of a tubing in a coupled configuration. In the coupled configuration edges of the splines grip and engage the external surface of the tubing to retain the tubing in the body.

A hollow body composite component is produced by a method using an injection mold, wherein a cavity of the injection mold is filled at least partially with a flowable material by injection of the flowable material, and a mandrel is driven through the flowable material to form a hollow body. Using the mandrel, at least one strip-shaped reinforcing element is introduced into a hollow body interior and is arranged on a surface of the hollow body facing the hollow body interior.

A disclosed screening apparatus includes a subgrid, and a screen element attached to the subgrid via laser welding at a plurality of attachment positions such that, under vibrational excitation, the screen element has a pre-determined profile of vibrational motion relative to the subgrid. The screen element may be attached at a maximal number of attachment locations to the subgrid to minimize relative motion of the screen element and the subgrid under vibrational excitation, or the screen element may be attached a sub-set of the maximal number of attachment locations to allow vibrational motion of the screen element relative to the subgrid. A disclosed method may include attaching a plurality of screen elements to a respective plurality of subgrids, attaching the plurality of subgrids to one another to form a screening pre-assembly, and cutting edges of the screening pre-assembly to form the screen assembly having a perimeter with a pre-determined shape.