A tablet form of an epoxy resin composition for encapsulation of semiconductor elements, where the tablet form of the epoxy resin composition: (i) includes 97 wt % or more of tablets having a diameter of 0.1 mm to less than 2.8 mm and a height of 0.1 mm to less than 2.8 mm, as measured using an ASTM standard sieve; (ii) satisfies the following Equation 1, $\frac{\sigma D\times \sigma H}{\sigma D+\sigma H}\le 1.0,$
where σD is a standard deviation of tablet diameters and σH is a standard deviation of tablet heights, as measured with respect to 50 tablets arbitrarily selected from the tablets; and (iii) the tablets have a compression density of 1.2 g/mL to 1.7 g/mL.

A method for producing a hologram on a curved substrate plate includes providing a curved substrate plate having a substrate surface, the actual geometry of which is subject to a tolerance deviation with respect to a predetermined desired geometry; providing an inflatable cushion with a cushion surface that can be deformed under the effect of pressure and is preformed into the predetermined desired geometry or with a predetermined deviation therefrom; applying a holographic master in the form of a flexible thin layer to the deformable cushion surface and applying a hologram-recording layer to the substrate surface; pressing or placing the holographic master onto the hologram-recording layer by way of the cushion surface deformed to the actual geometry, thereby achieving full surface-area contact between them with a substantially constant predetermined layer thickness of the hologram-recording layer, and exposing the hologram-recording layer to form a hologram.

An isostatic press apparatus includes a pressure vessel for pressing a workpiece using the pressure of a pressurized liquid, a heat exchanger for exchanging heat with the pressurized liquid, a heating/cooling supply unit for heating or cooling a heat exchange medium that is to be supplied to the heat exchanger, a pressurized liquid circulation fan for circulating the pressurized liquid, a circulation fan motor for rotating the pressurized liquid circulation fan, a motor accommodation unit for accommodating the circulation fan motor therein, and a pressure equalization adjustment unit for increasing or decreasing the internal pressure in the motor accommodation unit to match the internal pressure in the pressure vessel.

The invention relates to a method of manufacturing components, comprising the steps of: a) manufacturing a component blank in an additive manufacturing process, comprising: a1) determining component regions of the component blank to be cured in an electronic planning process and generating a component blank data set defining the component regions to be cured, a2) arranging a raw material and selectively curing and joining the raw material in the component regions to be cured on the basis of the component blank data set to form the component blank, wherein the curing and joining of the raw material on the basis of the component blank data set is carried out such, that the component blank has a component blank density which is less than 99.5% of the density theoretically achievable with the raw material, b) compacting and solidifying the component blank to form a component in a hot isostatic pressing process, in which the component blank is heated in a furnace chamber to a temperature below the melting temperature of the raw material and is pressed by generating an overpressure in the furnace chamber by means of a furnace chamber pressure of at least 50 bar.

An isostatic press apparatus includes a pressure vessel for pressing a workpiece using the pressure of a pressurized liquid, a heat exchanger for exchanging heat with the pressurized liquid, a heating/cooling supply unit for heating or cooling a heat exchange medium that is to be supplied to the heat exchanger, a pressurized liquid circulation fan for circulating the pressurized liquid, a circulation fan motor for rotating the pressurized liquid circulation fan, a motor accommodation unit for accommodating the circulation fan motor therein, and a pressure equalization adjustment unit for increasing or decreasing the internal pressure in the motor accommodation unit to match the internal pressure in the pressure vessel.

Methods of manufacturing composite workpieces that include adding an expandable element to an internal volume of a constraining container proximate to a uncured composite workpiece supported on a rigid form, where the expandable element is configured to expand when a predetermined change is produced in an attribute of the expandable element; expanding the expandable element by producing the predetermined change in the attribute of the expandable element, so that an expansion of the expandable element applies pressure to the workpiece supported on the rigid form within the internal volume, and curing the composite workpiece while the resulting pressure is applied to the workpiece supported on the rigid form.

Methods of manufacturing composite workpieces that include adding an expandable element to an internal volume of a constraining container proximate to a uncured composite workpiece supported on a rigid form, where the expandable element is configured to expand when a predetermined change is produced in an attribute of the expandable element; expanding the expandable element by producing the predetermined change in the attribute of the expandable element, so that an expansion of the expandable element applies pressure to the workpiece supported on the rigid form within the internal volume, and curing the composite workpiece while the resulting pressure is applied to the workpiece supported on the rigid form.

Methods of manufacturing composite workpieces that include adding an expandable element to an internal volume of a constraining container proximate to a uncured composite workpiece supported on a rigid form, where the expandable element is configured to expand when a predetermined change is produced in an attribute of the expandable element; expanding the expandable element by producing the predetermined change in the attribute of the expandable element, so that an expansion of the expandable element applies pressure to the workpiece supported on the rigid form within the internal volume, and curing the composite workpiece while the resulting pressure is applied to the workpiece supported on the rigid form.

Provided is a fluororesin molded article in which a plurality of sections having respective functions different from each other are integrally formed and which has characteristics suitable for the functions at the respective sections. A fluororesin molded article 50 that is an integrally molded product including a first section 51a, 51b and a second section 52, a function of the first section being different from a function of the second section, wherein the first section 51a, 51b and the second section 52 are a sintered body of a fluororesin powder, an average particle size of the fluororesin powder contained in the first section being different from an average particle size of the fluororesin powder contained in the second section.

Methods of recovering and/or recycling expanded polymer tooling, the methods including collecting expanded polymer tooling, reducing the collected expanded polymer tooling into smaller particles, treating the reduced expanded polymer tooling in order to yield an at least partially purified recovered polymer composition, and then collecting the at least partially purified recovered polymer composition. The at least partially purified recovered polymer composition can then be used to form new expandable polymer tooling.