The present invention provides an electrode running roller which causes an electrode sheet in which a current collector is coated with an electrode active material to run, wherein the running roller includes a cylindrical section, and a tapered section extending from one end portion of the cylindrical section, and the tapered section has a shape in which an outer diameter gradually decreases toward a distal end portion of the tapered section.

A paper sheet handling machine (for example, a banknote handling machine (10)) includes: a storage unit (for example, an escrow unit (20), banknote storages (30), a banknote storage cassette (40)) configured to store a paper sheet transported from a transport unit (16); and a shifting unit (19) provided in the transport unit (16) and configured to shift the paper sheet transported by the transport unit (16), in a width direction orthogonal to a direction in which the paper sheet is transported, according to a position, in the width direction, of a specific member (for example, a tape (136) in the escrow unit (20), a pair of feed rollers of a banknote feeding mechanism (32, 42) provided in the banknote storages (30), a banknote storage cassette (40)) in the storage unit.

The present disclosure generally relates to a method for dispensing material from a roll. The method monitors the weight of a first material roll using a load cell attached to a frame holding the first material roll. The method dispenses material from the first material roll. The method determines, based on at least the weight of the first material roll, when to remove a second material roll from a refrigerator or freezer to reduce the amount of time between the thawing of the second roll and replacing the first roll with the second roll. Also disclosed is an apparatus for dispensing the material from the roll.

A flexible display device includes: a flexible substrate; a thin-film transistor on the flexible substrate; a passivation film covering the thin-film transistor; and a display element on the passivation film and electrically connected to the thin-film transistor. The passivation film includes a material exhibiting a shear-thickening phenomenon.

Provided is a flooring tile manufacturing apparatus includes: a lower sheet supply unit configured to form and supply a lower sheet; a middle sheet supply unit configured to supply a middle sheet joined to an upper side of the lower sheet; a raw material supply unit configured to supply materials having different contents of a filler to the lower sheet supply unit and the middle sheet supply unit; a main roller configured to join the lower sheet and the middle sheet that have been received; a first sheet supply unit configured to supply a print sheet having a color or a pattern to the main roller; a second sheet supply unit configured to supply a transparent sheet to the main roller; and an ultraviolet (UV) coating unit configured to form a UV coating layer on a surface of the transparent sheet.

A system to re-configure an input material into an output material includes an input material feeder reconfigurable to accept and feed an input material, an output material spooler, the input material feeder re-configurable relative to the material cutter to cut the input material at a re-configurable cut angle to produce a first intermediate cut section of material, a positioning and alignment system to position and align a leading edge of the first intermediate cut section of material with a trailing edge of a second intermediate cut section of material, a welder having a configurable position to weld the first intermediate cut section of material to the second intermediate cut section of material, and a control system comprising logic to set at least intensity of the welder, a contact pressure of the welder, temperature of the weld-table surface, and a tension applied by the output material spooler.

A CIPP liner feed roller for manipulating and feeding CIPP liner by pulling CIPP liner from a liner source and feeding it to where it is needed. The CIPP liner feed roller generally includes a main roller attached to a frame, a clamping roller attached to the frame and configured to be in parallel with the main roller, wherein the distance between the clamping roller and the main roller can be adjusted using one or more actuators, a drive unit comprising a motor configured to control the rotation of the main roller within the frame, a controller coupled to the drive unit and the one or more actuators, wherein the controller is configured to control the rotation of the main roller and the distance between the clamping roller and the main roller, and a support beam attached the frame and configured to be in parallel with the main roller.

Provided are: an infrared control film in which an infrared light transmittance changes depending on the temperature, a tint in a front direction is excellent, and durability is excellent; and a window including the infrared control film. The infrared control film includes: a liquid crystal layer; and two substrates each of which includes at least one of an ultraviolet absorber or a colorant, in which the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the two substrates, the substrate includes 0.001 mass % or higher of the ultraviolet absorber or the colorant, a transmittance of the infrared control film at 0 C. with respect to an incidence ray at 1000 nm at a polar angle of 0 is higher than 70%, a transmittance of the infrared control film at 40 C. with respect to an incidence ray at 1000 nm at a polar angle of 0 is lower than 60%, and the following expressions are satisfied.

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A tape drive comprises a roll of a tape that can be extended from a rolled state to an extended state. The tape includes a rigid material that supports the tape and a pliable material disposed at least partially on one side of the tape. A compression roller is disposed on a side of the tape and is biased toward the tape. A drive roller is disposed on the other side of the tape. The drive roller comprises an uneven surface that mechanically engages the pliable material of the tape, without protruding through the tape, as a result of the bias of the compression roller forcing the tape toward the drive roller. A motor turns the drive roller to extend the tape from the roll as the protrusions of the uneven surface of the drive roller mechanically engage the pliable material of the tape as the drive roller turns.

A product cutting method performs a cutting step of forming a product cutting line in a sheet material, and forming tongue piece portions, which are adjacent to an outer periphery of a product together with being connected to the sheet material, and are capable of being displaced with respect to the sheet material in a thickness direction of the sheet material by forming auxiliary cutting lines continuous with the product cutting line in end members of the sheet material, and an extracting step of taking out the product from the end members by applying a vacuum suction to an extracting device.