A joining member configured to join a temperature-controlled member and a temperature control jacket includes a temperature control jacket attachment part attached to the temperature control jacket, and a temperature-controlled member attachment part attached to the temperature-controlled member. The temperature control jacket attachment part includes a temperature control jacket-side opening into which a first bolt is insertable, and the temperature-controlled member attachment part includes a temperature-controlled member-side opening into which a second bolt is insertable. The temperature control jacket-side opening and/or the temperature-controlled member-side opening are configured to allow change in positions where the first and second bolts are inserted.

The present disclosure discloses an anti-fatigue mat and methods for making the same. The method for making an anti-fatigue mat includes providing a leather comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, forming a color layer on the first surface, cutting the leather, putting the cut leather into a mold, injecting an elastomeric material into the mold, curing the elastomeric material to form an elastic layer on the second surface and a plurality of concave structures corresponding to the plurality of protruding structures on the first surface, and polishing the first surface to remove the color layer without caving towards the second surface. The anti-fatigue mat can have anti-fatigue performance and vivid stereoscopic impression, where being simple to fabricate with low costs and can be industrialized.

A diagnosis method for identification or localization of errors in tempering devices for tempering of systems includes providing tempering devices each comprising one or more first sensors and one or more components for securing an operation of the systems with the tempering device, and one or more second sensors for measuring a state of the tempering device or ambient conditions around the tempering device, determining the tempering device to be checked with a diagnosis procedure, decoupling the tempering device from the system, connecting the tempering device to a defined consumer, and conducting the diagnosis procedure for the tempering device by using a diagnosis program, where the diagnosis program checks the components and the first and second sensors of the tempering device in a pre-determined sequence stored in the diagnosis program until the error in the tempering device is identified or localized.

To provide a method whereby it is possible to easily produce a bonded article in which a member containing a fluorinated polymer and another member are firmly bonded. This method is a method for producing a bonded article in which a member A containing a fluorinated polymer having an adhesive functional group and a member B containing a resin material, are bonded, wherein in a state where at least a portion of the member A (a coating layer 24 and a sheath layer 26 of an electric wire 20) is disposed in the cavity 46 of a mold 40 for injection molding, the resin material is injected into the cavity 46 and solidified to form the member B (connector housing).

Provided is a resin composition for VaRTM (vacuum assisted resin transfer molding), which includes a radically curable resin (A), an unsaturated monomer (B) having a boiling point of 200 C. or higher under atmospheric pressure, and a polymerization initiator (C). This resin composition for VaRTM is advantageous not only in that the productivity for a molded article is excellent, but also in that a molded article having excellent appearance and various physical properties, such as a flexural strength and a flexural modulus, can be obtained, and therefore can be advantageously used in a molding material and a molded article.

A remote controller can be provided on any apparatus that employs feedback control from a native controller to add functionality to the apparatus where the native controller is not capable of providing such functionality independently.

An injection molding apparatus (10) comprising a signal converter (1500) interconnected to a machine controller (MC) of an injection molding machine (IMM) that generates standardized signals (VPS), the signal converter (1500) receiving and converting the standardized signals (VS) to a command signal (MOPCS, PDCVS) that is compatible with a signal receptor or interface of an electrically powered actuator (940e, 941e, 942e) or a signal receptor, interface or driver of a proportional directional control valve (V, V1, V2) that drives a fluid driven actuator (940p, 941p, 942p) to respectively operate the electrically powered actuator (940e, 941e, 942e) or the proportional directional control valve (V, V1, V2) to move in a direction that operates to either begin an injection cycle and to end an injection cycle.

The present disclosure provides a method for operating a molding system. The molding system includes a molding machine and a mold disposed on the molding machine, wherein the mold has a mold cavity for being filled with a molding material from the molding machine. The method comprises a step of obtaining a predetermined state waveform expressing a predetermined volumetric variation of the molding material. Next, the method further comprises obtaining a measured pressure and a measured temperature of the molding material in the mold cavity while performing a molding process for filling the molding material into the mold cavity. Next, the method includes obtaining a detected volumetric property of the molding material corresponding to the measured pressure and the measured temperature. Subsequently, the method comprises displaying the detected volumetric property of the molding material with the predetermined state waveform.

A polymer injection-molding mold having a polymer injection-molding mold having a core insert and a cavity insert; at least two rear-wall glass-filled polyimide insulation plates, one of the rear-wall insulation plates being inset into a rear-exterior wall of the core insert and one of the rear-wall insulation plates being inset into a rear-exterior wall of the cavity insert; at least two side-wall glass-filled polyimide insulation plates, one of the side-wall insulation plates being inset into a side-exterior wall of the core insert and one of the side-wall insulation plates being inset into a side-exterior wall of the cavity insert; the at least two rear-wall glass-filled polyimide insulation plates and the at least two side-wall glass-filled polyimide insulation plates being inset into each of their respective walls such that a substantially planer surface of each insulation plate is substantially flush with an exterior planar surface of the respective wall into which it is inset; the rear-wall and side-wall glass-filled polyimide insulation plates having the following physical properties: i) thermal conductivity of about 0.30 W/mk; ii) a coefficient of expansion (in length and width) of about 1110.sup.6 1/K; iii) a compressive strength of about 750 N/mm.sup.2 at 23 C.; iv) a compressive strength of about 500 N/mm.sup.2 at 200 C.; v) a bending strength of about 720 N/mm.sup.2 at 23 C.; and vi) a density of about 2 g/cm.sup.3; the rear-wall and side-wall glass-filled insulation plates having a thickness ranging from 3 to 5 millimeters; the cavity insert and core insert having a plurality of cooling holes, the cooling holes having a diameter ranging from 3 to 6 millimeters; a plurality of substantially cylindrical fluid-cooling channels that are respectively positioned within the cavity insert and core insert at a relative distance from a cavity-insert molding surface or a core-insert molding surface, wherein the relative distance for each fluid-cooling channel is substantially equal to the fluid-cooling channel's cross-sectional diameter, wherein the relative distance is also the shortest distance between a fluid-cooling channel's wall and a cavity-insert molding surface or a core-insert molding surface; and a temperature-sensing thermocouple that is located within the cavity insert or core insert in a position that is substantially adjacent to an estimated last volume of space to be filled by polymer-mold flow.

Methods of monitoring and controlling a molding process using a sensed change in strain provided by a strain gauge are provided. A target strain profile is created for a molding process of a molding apparatus. An upper and lower deviation limit from the target strain profile for the molding process is provided. If a sensed change in strain exceeds a deviation limit, an alarm is activated.