An apparatus and process for forming material, the apparatus or process comprising at least one forming unit, each said forming unit having at least one forming opening to receive a feed of material to be formed, the at least one of said forming opening(s) comprises opposing or at least one forming surfaces, at least one of said opposing forming surfaces being dynamically controllable into a pre-determined shape or profile to impart a resultant shape or profile of a pre-determined formation upon the feed of material passing through said forming opening of a said forming unit.

A method of controlling a control apparatus for controlling a forming apparatus operable to form a layer of a formable material on a substrate is provided. The method includes acquiring data that specifies a drop amount and a drop position on the substrate of each of droplets, calculating a spread of each of the droplets assuming that a spread shape of each of the droplets is a polygon, and calculating a surface area of an overlapping region in which a region of a droplet that spreads into the polygon and a region of a recessed portion in the mold to be filled with the formable material overlap, and correcting, based on a result of the calculation, the data so that the recessed portion is filled with the formable material.

The present invention provides an imprint method of forming a pattern of an imprint material on a shot region of a substrate using a mold, the method comprising: supplying the imprint material onto the shot region so as to arrange droplets of the imprint material in arrangement patterns different from each other between a first partial region and a second partial region adjacent to each other in the shot region; performing alignment between the mold and the shot region after it is started to bring the mold and the imprint material into contact with each other; performing preliminary curing of irradiating the imprint material on the shot region with light to increase a viscoelasticity of the imprint material before the alignment is completed; and performing main curing of curing the imprint material on the shot region after the alignment is completed.

There is provided a resin-sealing apparatus that supplies an appropriate amount of sheet-shaped resin for each workpiece, thereby improving the molding quality of a molded product without production of resin dust, such that no redundant resin is produced on a molded product. The resin-sealing apparatus includes a resin supply part that supplies a sheet-shaped resin by cutting out an amount of sheet-shaped resin appropriate for one-time compression molding from a long resin sheet formed to have a predetermined width and a predetermined thickness depending on an amount of resin required for each workpiece, and a transport part that transports the appropriate amount of sheet-shaped resin supplied by the resin supply part to a sealing mold.

A resin supply apparatus, a resin sealing apparatus, and a method for manufacturing a resin-sealed product are provided. A resin supply apparatus supplies a resin onto a workpiece on which elements are arranged in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, respectively. The resin supply apparatus includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring arrangement information of the elements on the workpiece; a supply unit for supplying the resin onto the workpiece; a calculation unit for calculating a resin supply pattern based on the arrangement information; and a drive unit for moving at least one of the workpiece and the supply unit relative to the other along the resin supply pattern. The resin supply pattern has linear paths extending along the first direction, and a region between the mutually adjacent linear paths in the plurality of linear paths is opened to the outside of the workpiece.

A method for manufacturing an electrode disclosed herein includes: steps of forming a coating film composed of an electrode material by passing the electrode material through a gap between a rotating first roll and a rotating second roll; adhering the coating film to the second roll and conveying the coating film; and transferring the conveyed coating film onto an electrode current collector conveyed by a conveying device to form an electrode mixture layer composed of the coating film. The speed ratio between a peripheral speed of the second roll and a conveying speed of the electrode current collector is changed by changing the peripheral speed of the second roll on the basis of the thickness of the coating film or the width of the gap. The timing of the change in the speed ratio is allowed to be based on the Equation (1) described in the description.

Continuous compression molding machines (CCMMs) and methods of continuous compression molding a consolidated thermoplastic matrix composite material are disclosed herein. The CCMMs include a mold, a heat zone heating structure, a consolidation zone heating structure, and a stress relaxation zone heating structure. The CCMMs also include a press structure, a demold structure, and a supply structure. The methods include providing a thermoplastic matrix composite material (TMCM) that includes a thermoplastic material to a CCMM. During the providing, the methods also include heating the TMCM within a heat zone of the CCMM, cooling and consolidating the TMCM within a consolidation zone of the CCMM, relaxing stress within the TMCM within a stress relaxation zone of the CCMM, demolding the TMCM within a demold zone of the CCMM at a mold temperature that is greater than a glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic material, and periodically compressing the TMCM.

An expansion ratio detection system for rubber, including a controller, a rubber sampling module, a rubber calender, a temperature control module, and an expansion ratio detection module. The rubber sampling module obtains a rubber to be tested consistent with a weight value. After the temperature control module determines that the rubber to be tested has reached a first temperature value, the rubber calender outputs the rubber to be tested having a thickness value. The expansion ratio detection module obtains an expansion ratio according to twice the thickness value and a roller pitch.

A system for making a nonwoven nonwoven spun-bond or melt-blown fabric has a spinneret for spinning fibers or filaments, a cooler downstream of the spinneret for cooling the spun fibers or filaments, a stretcher downstream of the cooler for stretching the cooled fibers or filaments, and a conveyor downstream of the stretcher. The stretched and cooled fibers or filaments are deposited as a nonwoven web on the conveyor. Sensors measure input parameters at the spinneret, at the cooler, at the stretcher, and/or at at least one diffuser or at the conveyor. An evaluating unit for determining an output parameter from the measured input parameter with respect to a predetermined reference parameter.

An apparatus for automated encapsulation of motor rotor core with magnet steel is introduced. The apparatus includes at least one encapsulation unit, a plastic granule feeding device, a waste removing device, a conveyance device and a control device. Under a coordinated control of the control device, a rotor core feeding mechanism of the encapsulation unit feeds rotor cores to a plastic dispensing mechanism in cycles, the plastic granule feeding device separates, outputs and dispenses plastic granules, so that they are arrayed before being dispensed onto the rotor cores, and the conveyance device conveys plastic granules and moves the waste removing device to carry waste to a waste removal zone. With these arrangements, it is able to realize automated feeding of rotor cores, automated feeding of plastic granules and automated removal of waste to achieve completely automated rotor core encapsulation operation while enables mass production of motor rotor cores.