A process for strengthening a selected area of a raw textile or manufactured textile product to enhance properties and performance. The process comprising the steps of applying a laminate trimmed to match the selected area, then placed on the textile and heated in a hot press. The laminate can be comprised of a polymer film and a nonsolvent adhesive. The polymer film can be tailored from a blend of hard acrylic and tough polyurethane to adjust for rigidity and strength. The adhesive can be a hot melt or pressure sensitive types as well as any type that provides a secure adhesion.

An article includes a substrate including a bonding surface area, a first adhesive disposed on the bonding surface area in a first discrete pattern, the first adhesive comprising a hot melt adhesive, and a second adhesive disposed on the bonding surface area in a second discrete pattern that is complementary to the first discrete pattern, wherein the first discrete pattern comprises about 1% to about 25% of the bonding surface area and the second discrete pattern comprises a balance of the bonding surface area.

A vacuum ring for deaerating a stack sequence includes a vacuum-stable flexible hose, which can be connected to a vacuum pump, has the shape of a closed ring, and has an opening to the interior such that the ring can hold an outer side edge of a stack sequence in order to form a deaeration channel along the side edge, wherein the vacuum ring has at least one electric heating element.

A method, apparatus, and system for reticulating an adhesive on a workpiece. The workpiece may be perforated with a plurality of passages that extend through a first side to a second side. To reticulate an adhesive on the first side of a workpiece, a flow of heated fluid is provided through a nozzle. The nozzle provides the fluid at a first pressure to a first group of the perforations. Once the temperature at the first side of the workpiece reaches a specified range, the fluid pressure may be increased or otherwise set in order to clear the perforations by forcing the adhesive out of or away from each of the perforations. Temperature of the adhesive, pressure within the nozzle, and/or light passage through the perforations may be monitored for logical control or quality assurance.

A method for producing a laminated pane, wherein a first laminating film, a carrier film, and a second laminating film are provided and joined to form a pre-laminate, wherein the first laminating film, the carrier film, and the second laminating film have the same film thickness, a compensating film and the pre-laminate are arranged to form a layer stack between a first pane and a second pane, wherein, parallel to two side edges of the layer stack, in each case a strip-shaped peripheral film is arranged and the compensating film is provided to compensate an offset between the pre-laminate and the peripheral films, and the layer stack including the first pane, the pre-laminate, the compensating film with peripheral films, and the second pane is laminated to form a laminated pane, wherein the first laminating film and the second laminating film have a plasticizer content of less than 15 wt.-%.

An imide resin composition including a terminal-modified imide oligomer of General Formula (1) and a thermoplastic aromatic polyimide of General Formula (2). (In Formula (1), either R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 shows a phenyl group and the other shows a hydrogen atom; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 show a divalent residue of aromatic diamine; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 show a tetravalent residue of aromatic tetracarboxylic acid; m and n satisfy relationships of m1, n0, 1m+n20, and 0.05m/(m+n)1; and an arrangement of repeating units may be either a block or random.) (In Formula (2), R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 show a divalent residue of aromatic diamine; R.sub.3 shows a tetravalent residue of aromatic tetracarboxylic acid; m and n satisfy relationships of m1 and n0, and an arrangement of repeating units may be either a block or random.)

Provided is an image frame includes a polymer film including an image layer on a first main surface of the polymer film; a glass cover layer located over the first main surface of the polymer film with the image layer between the glass cover layer and the polymer film; and an adhesive film between the polymer film and the glass cover layer. The image frame may be displayed in more various forms without distortion and may be preserved long time without quality degradation.

A thermal transfer sheet includes a support film and a transfer layer provided on one surface of the support film. The transfer layer at least includes a decorative layer and an adhesive layer provided on an obverse side of the decorative layer. The adhesive layer includes a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer laminated on the first adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer is positioned on an obverse side of the second adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer is made of a first resin having thermal plasticity and has a lower viscosity than the second adhesive layer. The second adhesive layer is made of a second resin having thermal plasticity and has a higher glass-transition point than the first adhesive layer. Monomer units constituting the first resin and monomer units constituting the second resin are partly or entirely identical.

A method for manufacturing a flexible metal-clad laminated plate includes the steps of: (a) obtaining a laminated body by laminating a polyimide resin film including a non-thermoplastic polyimide layer and an adhesive layer containing thermoplastic polyimide, the adhesive layer being provided on at least one side of the non-thermoplastic polyimide layer, and a metal foil; and (b) subjecting the laminated body obtained in the step (a) to heat treatment under an inert gas atmosphere and a pressure of 0.20 to 0.98 MPa at a temperature of a glass transition temperature Tg of the thermoplastic polyimide20 C. to the glass transition temperature Tg+50 C.

A flexible glass membrane, a method for manufacturing the flexible glass membrane, and an electronic device including the flexible glass membrane are disclosed. The flexible glass membrane includes a hot-melt adhesive layer, a thermoplastic polyurethane film layer, a base coating layer, a drawing-transferring layer, an optical coating layer, and an ink layer. The hot-melt adhesive layer, the thermoplastic polyurethane film layer, the base coating layer, the drawing-transferring layer, the optical coating layer, and the ink layer may be successively stacked on one another.