A compression molded vehicle floor panel includes a main body formed by compression molding and having a first side and an opposed second side, and at least one separately formed measurement locating member at least partially encapsulated in the main body during the compression molding. The measurement locating member defines a cavity having an open end at the first side of the main body. The cavity is configured to receive a locator pin of a measurement fixture to locate the compression molded vehicle floor panel in the measurement fixture for measurement of the compression molded vehicle floor panel.

A double belt press has at least one press device having at least one pressing plate and at least one counter-pressure element for the pressing plate spaced from each other. Portions of first and second endless and driven metal belts are guided, opposite one another, through a press gap located between the pressing plate sides facing one another and the plate-shaped counter-pressure element. The press device has at least one pressing stamp having a pressing surface movable toward the counter-pressure element and back again. The first and second endless metal belt portions guided through the press gap are guided between the pressing surface of the at least one pressing stamp and the at least one counter-pressure element, and the pressing surface of the pressing stamp is smaller than a surface of the side of the at least one pressing plate facing the at least one counter-pressure element.

In a fiber reinforced composite member molding apparatus comprising a lower mold having a cavity, an upper mold having a core which, in a mold clamping state, engages with the cavity in the lower mold and thereby clamps layered prepreg, and heat sources for heating the layered prepreg through the lower mold and the upper mold, and adapted to mold a fiber reinforced composite member from the layered prepreg by applying pressure while heating resin in the layered prepreg between the lower mold and the upper mold by the heat sources, the lower mold is equipped with a cavity heat-escape prevention portion and the upper mold is equipped with a core heat-escape prevention portion. During heating for molding, escape of heat from the periphery of the cavity of the upper mold and the periphery of the core of the lower mold can be prevented, which allows a fiber reinforced composite member to be molded with almost no defects such as wrinkles.

A mold for molding a plastic sheet having one or more angled portions, the mold including a mold cavity having at least one corner configured to produce the angled portion of the plastic sheet, and pressure modifying means positioned in proximity to the at least one corner, and configured to modify a pressure exerted on the angled portion during compression molding of the plastic sheet.

The invention relates to a curing mold (10) for manufacturing a turbomachine component made of composite material from a preform (200), comprising: a first and a second body (11, 12) defining an air gap receiving the preform; at least one primary channel (21) arranged in the first and/or the second body; an injection member (22) of a pressurized fluid in the primary channels; at least one secondary channel (23), in which a piston (24) slides, which delimits, on the one hand, a first chamber (26) in communication with the or a primary channel and, on the other hand, a second chamber (27) in communication with the air gap, and which is designed to compress thermosetting resin which has entered the second chamber from the preform in the air gap, so as to put the preform under hydrostatic pressure.

A fiber capsule and a method of compression molding a fiber-based packaging capsule, includes the steps: a raw capsule of a loosely bonded fiber mat is formed, which capsule has an opening; the raw capsule of the loosely bonded fiber mat is positioned on the inside of a substantially rigid mold having inner surfaces defining the molded outer surfaces of the fiber-based packaging capsule; the loosely bonded fiber mat is compression molded by the insertion of a pressurizable compression member through the opening. The pressing device is pressurized at a temperature of 150-250 degrees C.. The compression molding takes place by reshaping the reshaping pressing device and pressing the inside of the capsule against the inner surfaces of the rigid mold so that a cohesive fiber-based packaging capsule is obtained.

The invention relates to a method for producing an acoustic protection panel (1) for a motor vehicle, comprising a decoupling layer based on foam flakes (3) agglomerated by a heat-activatable binding agent (4), said binding agent being formed by binding fibres, said fibres comprising a core meltable at high temperature and a sheath meltable at lower temperature, said flakes being bound together by melting said sheath, so that said layer is in the form of foam flakes agglomerated by said fibres, said flakes occupying between 80% and 90% by weight of said layer, so that said fibres occupy between 20% and 10% by weight of said layer.

A thermally conductive rope includes a plurality of tows of crystalline carbon fiber, a plurality of tows of additional fiber, and at least one of a thermoset and thermoplastic.

An applicator for application onto and embossing microprofiling of a fluidic medium on a substrate, in particular in the aerospace sector, and a corresponding application device having such an applicator. The applicator has a circumferentially moving die that has an embossing profile, a press for the die and a stabilizing device, in particular a hardening device, for the applied medium. In addition, the applicator has a hollow support body, surrounded by the die at a distance forming a gap, the press being arranged in the gap. The application device has, in addition to the applicator, a handling device for a relative movement between the applicator and a workpiece.

A roller-type depressing device, an imprinting device, and a roller-type depressing method which are capable of suppressing an uneven elastic deformation of a main roller, and which are also capable of depressing an object uniformly. A roller-type depressing device depresses an object, and includes a main roller having at least a surface formed of an elastic material, and depressing the object, a roller moving unit moving the main roller relative to the object, a pressure adjusting unit adjusting pressure applied to the object by the main roller, a pressure receiving stage receiving the pressure from the main roller via the object, an intermediate roller having at least a surface formed of a material with a larger elastic modulus than the elastic material, and supporting the main roller, and, a backup roller formed shorter in an axial direction than the main roller and the intermediate roller, and supporting the intermediate roller.