The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a press-molded body, the method having a step for disposing an X material inside a mold, a step for closing the mold and extruding a Y material, which is a kneaded material, into the mold after pressure has begun to be applied to part of the X material, and a step for cold-pressing and integrally molding the X material and the Y material inside the mold, wherein: the X material includes reinforcing fibers FA, having a weight-average fiber length Lw.sub.A, and a thermoplastic resin R.sub.X; the Y material includes reinforcing fibers FB, having a weight-average fiber length Lw.sub.B, and a thermoplastic resin R.sub.Y; Lw.sub.B<Lw.sub.A; Lw.sub.A is 1 mm or greater and 100 mm or less; the X material has a spring-back amount greater than 1.0 and less than 14.0; the press-molded body has an vertical plane part and a top plane part; during the cold pressing, the Y material is caused to move from a region other than a vertical plane portion to the vertical plane portion; and a thickness t1 of the vertical plane portion and a thickness t2 of the top plane portion satisfy t1>t2.

A bulk moulding compound comprising one or more cyanate ester, a catalyst, a filler and reinforcement fibres is provide, whereby the one or more cyanate ester is independently selected from a difunctional cyanate ester compound and/or a polyfunctional cyanate ester and mixtures of these cyanate esters. Furthermore, the catalyst is independently selected from the group consisting of 4,4′ methylene-bis(2,6-diethylaniline) (M-DEA), 4,4′-methylene-bis(3-chloro-2,6-diethyl¬aniline) (M-CDEA), aluminum(III)acetylacetonate, and mixtures thereof.

An inner mandrel for forming a variable taper component includes a master insert and a plurality of interlocking pieces. The master insert includes opposed tapered edge faces, each tapered edge face defining at least one locking feature, a first surface having a variable taper and a plurality of recesses configured to receive a portion of the variable taper component, and a tapered second surface opposite the first surface. Each interlocking piece includes opposed tapered edge faces, one of the opposed tapered edge faces defining a locking feature and another of the opposed tapered edge faces defining a receiving feature to engage the locking feature of an adjacent interlocking piece, a first surface defining a variable taper and a plurality of recesses configured to receive a portion of the variable taper component, and a tapered second surface opposite the first surface.

A molding machine includes: a tie bar connected continuously to any one of a stationary platen and a movable platen, and including an engagement groove; a first engagement member configured to engage with or move away from the engagement groove of the tie bar; a second engagement member configured to engage with or move away from the engagement groove of the tie bar, and configured to be displaceable in an axial direction of the tie bar; a force transmission member located opposite the first engagement member across the second engagement member, and including a pressure surface to press the second engagement member and a through hole in which the tie bar is inserted; and a drive mechanism configured to use the force transmission member to cause the second engagement member to be displaceable in the axial direction of the tie bar with respect to the first engagement member.

The present invention relates to devices and methods for providing a triggering mechanism which lowers the trigger force to activate the trigger mechanism to a comfortable range of while still preserving or increasing the speed at which the triggering mechanism accelerates or imparts velocity to a device attached to the triggering mechanism. The present invention further relates to improved applicators for administering microprojection arrays to skin and methods of administering microprojection arrays. In particular, the present invention relates to compact stable self-contained mechanical energy storage for delivery of a medical device such as a microprojection array.

A resin composition for molding having excellent heat resistance, hardness, cost-effectiveness and biodegradability is provided by using amorphous resin material components extracted from plant-derived wood. The resin composition includes a first resin including a hemicellulose or a hemicellulose derivative and a second resin including polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA, acrylic), polycarbonate (PC), cyclo olefin polymer (COP), cyclo olefin copolymer (COC), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), or polystyrene (PS) and has excellent injection moldability.

An optical lens assembly is produced by an injection-compression molding process. The optical lens assembly includes a lens body and an injection-molded structure. The lens body includes a first lens surface and a second lens surface opposed to the first lens surface. The lens body is divided into an optically effective zone and an optically ineffective zone. The injection-molded structure has at least one gate land in response to the injection-compression molding process. At least a portion of the optically ineffective zone of the lens body is covered by the injection-molded structure, and the injection-molded structure is assembled with and positioned by an external structure. Each of the first lens surface and the second lens surface is one of a multi-aperture lens surface, a lenticular lens surface, an aspheric lens surface, a flat lens surface and a freeform lens surface.

A resin part includes a plate-shaped molded main body that is constituted of an injection-molded product. Of plate surfaces of the molded main body, a surface on an opposite side to a surface requiring surface accuracy constitutes a pressure-application surface to which pressure is applied by a movable insert. A parting line is formed on the pressure-application surface by the movable insert to satisfy the following relationship: (t/4)≤x≤(3t/2), where x is a distance from an end edge part of the molded main body to the parting line and t is a thickness of the molded main body.

A toothbrush comprised at least one unitary brush head having a base and at least one filament and extending therefrom and having a free end terminating with a tip, wherein the filament has a length of from 6.0 mm to 20.0 mm between the base and the free end, and wherein the unitary brush head is made from a plastic material that has a melt flow rate of not greater than about 30 g/10 min measured in accordance with ISO 1133.

In an injection/compression-molding process, an assemblage of fiber-bundle-based preforms are placed in a mold cavity of a mold tool. The mold is then fully closed, but not pressurized. An injection charge, which includes resin and optionally short fibers, is placed in a plunger cavity that is in fluidic communication with the mold cavity. The injection charge is liquefied and injected into the mold cavity, pressurizing it to a pressure suitable for compression molding. If not previously liquefied, the resin in fiber-bundle-based preform is liquefied and, under the applied pressure, the resins and fibers are consolidated and then cooled to form a part.