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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186990 | Device for a layerwise manufacturing of a three-dimensional object A device (1) for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by a layer wise solidification of a building material at positions in the respective layers that correspond to the object is provided. A feed (96) that supplies the building material to a buildi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8172562 | Device and method for producing a three-dimensional object by means of a generative production method There are provided a device and a method for layer-wise generative manufacturing of three-dimensional objects by selective solidification of a solidifiable building material in liquid or powder form. By a rotational movement of the building region (2), in whi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8162648 | Apparatus for making three-dimensional preforms using electroluminescent devices on a mold surface An apparatus for making fiber-reinforced molded articles having a mold surface with a configuration corresponding to at least a portion of a molded article. An electromagnetic energy production element produces electromagnetic energy required to cure the binder. The... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8113813 | Optical shaping apparatus and shaping base An optical shaping apparatus includes a light transmissive member, a shaping base, and a movement mechanism. The light transmissive member includes a regulation surface to regulate a liquid level of a photo-curable resin, and causes light used for curing the photo-c... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8083512 | Furnace and equipment for producing sterile vessels from decontaminated preforms of a thermoplastic material The invention relates to a thermal conditioning furnace (10) including a first infrared (IR1) heating element (32), an ultraviolet (UV) sterilizer (76) and a second infrared (IR2) heating element (34) for successively carryi... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8057209 | Mold for injection molding apparatus A mold for an injection molding apparatus includes a light-transmitting part forming at least a portion of the mold, and configured to transmit light to a cavity to be filled with photo-setting resin. ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8047828 | Imprint apparatus, imprint method, and mold for imprint An imprint apparatus for imprinting a pattern provided to a mold onto a substrate or a member on the substrate includes a light source for irradiating a surface of the mold disposed opposite to the substrate and a surface of the substrate with light; an optical syst... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8047829 | Method for forming polymerized microfluidic devices Methods for making a micofluidic device according to embodiments of the present invention include defining a cavity. Polymer precursor solution is positioned in the cavity, and exposed to light to begin the polymerization process and define a microchannel. In some e... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8038427 | Rapid prototyping apparatus Apparatus for producing an object by sequentially forming thin layers of a construction material one on top of the other responsive to data defining the object, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of printing heads each having a surface formed with a plurality of ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8021138 | Rotating build plate 1. A powder bed additive layer manufacturing system including a linear traversing re-coater and a build plate characterised in that the build plate is mounted for rotation, relative to the re-coater or movement about an axis. ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8021139 | Three-dimensional object forming apparatus and method for forming three dimensional object A three-dimensional object forming apparatus forms a three-dimensional object by binding powder particles with a curable liquid. The apparatus includes a powder layer forming unit that spreads a powder to a uniform thickness to form a powder layer. A curable liquid ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7997886 | Reinforced thin-shell molds A method and a system for forming a polymeric resin mold for molding plastic items, wherein the method includes: (a) using a rapid-prototyping process to create a polymeric resin shell having a configuration in the form of the mold; (b) introducing a reinforcing mat... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7993124 | Heating apparatus for a composite laminator and method To fabricate a composite item, an infrared heat source is energized and a composite material is dispensed. The composite material includes a reinforcement and a resin. In addition, the composite material is applied to a substrate of previously applied composite mate... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7976301 | Device and method for removing an oblong burr from a molded part A device for removing an oblong burr from a molded part including an energy source that introduces energy into the burr for removing the burr by heating. The energy source includes an infrared transmitter that irradiates the oblong burr with infrared radiation, a sl... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7914272 | Device for stretch-forming flexible preimpregnated bands The system for stretch-forming composite material bands (3) includes, in addition to an unrolling head (20), an original assembly composed of a light source (4) for heating the band (3) and hardening the composite and a pair of rollers ( | 03/29/2011 |
| 7909595 | Apparatus and method for exposing a substrate to UV radiation using a reflector having both elliptical and parabolic reflective sections Embodiments of the invention relate generally to an ultraviolet (UV) cure chamber for curing a dielectric material disposed on a substrate and to methods of curing dielectric materials using UV radiation. A substrate processing tool according to one embodiment compr... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7862320 | Three-dimensional object forming apparatus and method for forming three dimensional object A three-dimensional object forming apparatus forms a three-dimensional object by binding powder particles with a curable liquid. The apparatus includes a powder layer forming unit that spreads a powder to a uniform thickness to form a powder layer. A curable liquid ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7841847 | System for manufacturing micro-retarder and method for manufacturing the same A system for manufacturing a micro-retarder and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The system for manufacturing a micro-retarder includes a carrying device, a heating device and a movement control device. The carrying device is used for carrying a pol... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7833000 | Optical modeling apparatus There is provided an optical modeling apparatus that forms a model of a desired shape by sequentially forming hardened layers by irradiating a light-curable resin with light. The apparatus includes a first light source that emits a light beam for plotting on the res... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7824165 | System for resin curing Among other things, there is disclosed a system for curing a resin in a composite structure having one or more interconnected cure volumes, the cure volumes having one or more heatable surface zones. The system comprises a mould comprising a mould base portion adapt... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7815426 | Apparatus for forming ultrafine particles An apparatus for forming ultrafine particles, including: a light source generating a laser beam to be irradiated at an organic substance; at least one microflow channel capable of passing therethrough a suspension containing the organic substance; and a flow device ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7815425 | Processing apparatus A processing apparatus for transferring a relief pattern on a mold to a resist on a substrate through a compression of the mold against the resist, includes a supplier for supplying the resist between the substrate and the mold, and an illumination optical system fo... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7798800 | Method and device for heating thermoplastic preforms A method and device for heating at least one blank which is used to produce a container, such as a bottle, from a thermoplastic material, particularly PET, by means of blow molding or stretch blow molding. The blank is disposed between two opposing lateral walls whi... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7785092 | Systems and methods for producing contact lenses from a polymerizable composition Systems and methods of manufacturing ophthalmic lenses, for example, soft, extended wear silicone hydrogel contact lenses, are provided. The systems generally include a housing having an illuminated chamber, a carrier, for example a tray, movable in the illuminated ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7780429 | Three-dimensional molding device The present invention relates to a three-dimensional molding device for producing a three-dimensional molded object. The three-dimensional molding device comprises a receptacle for retaining a light-curing resin, a light source for irradiating light to cure the ligh... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7758329 | Optical modeling apparatus There is provided an optical modeling apparatus that forms a model of a desired shape by sequentially forming hardened layers by irradiating a light curable resin with light. The apparatus includes a first light source that emits a light beam for plotting on the res... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7677877 | Imprint lithography A lithographic apparatus is disclosed that includes an imprint template and a radiation source configured to cure photosensitive material, the radiation source including a laser or a light emitting diode. An imprint template is also disclosed. ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7674103 | Replication tools and related fabrication methods and apparatus Durable seamless replication tools are disclosed for replication of seamless relief patterns in desired media, for example in optical recording or data storage media. Methods of making such durable replication tools are disclosed, including preparing a recording sub... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7665979 | Device and method for the production of three-dimensional objects by means of generative production method A device and a method for layerwise, generative production of three-dimensional objects are provided. Multiple objects are produced in parallel in distinct process chambers (11, 12, 13, 14) by means of successive application of layers of a building material a... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7648354 | Transfer apparatus having gimbal mechanism and transfer method using the transfer apparatus A transfer apparatus includes a table on which a molding material is placed, a mold holding body that fixes and holds a mold disposed such as to be opposed to a surface of the table, a gimbal member which holds the mold holding body and which forms a convex spherica... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7614866 | Solid imaging apparatus and method A solid imaging apparatus is provided that includes a replaceable cartridge containing a source of build material and an extendable and retractable flexible transport film for transporting the build material layer-by-layer from the cartridge to the surface of a buil... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7572122 | Apparatus for producing a preweakened automotive interior trim piece for covering an air bag installation in an automotive vehicle A process for preweakening the inside of an automotive trim piece cover layer of various constructions by use of a laser beam so as to enable formation of an air bag deployment opening in the trim piece formed at the time the air bag deploys. The laser beam impinges... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7547205 | Microimprint/nanoimprint uniform pressing apparatus A microimprint/nanoimprint uniform pressing apparatus is used to provide uniform imprinting pressure to a molding material layer between a substrate and a mold. The uniform pressing apparatus includes a uniform pressing unit for being directly in contact with the mo... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7540737 | Apparatus for producing bottle-type synthetic resin containers A method for producing bottle-type containers made of a synthetic resin, e.g., polyethylene-terephthalate resin, includes a heat treatment step for heating and crystallizing a neck portion of a perform corresponding to a neck portion of a container. In a first stage... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7510388 | Mold, imprint method, and process for producing chip A mold capable of effecting alignment of the mold and the member to be processed with high accuracy even in such a state that a photocurable resin material is disposed between the mold and the member to be processed is constituted by a substrate 2010 formed o... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7491049 | Apparatus for hot embossing lithography An apparatus for hot embossing lithography includes a press mold (20), a substrate (10), a first heating device (40), a second heating device (40′), and a vacuum chamber (32). The press mold has a main body (21) and a numb... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7473088 | Microimprint/nanoimprint device A microimprint/nanoimprint device includes a mold, a substrate and an energy transferring module. The substrate is disposed oppositely to the mold and at least has a molding material layer. The energy transferring module includes an energy transferring member and at... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7448862 | Transcript apparatus A transcript apparatus having a table 11 having a placement surface on which a forming material 13 is placed; a die holder 205, disposed in opposition to the table, to fixedly hold a transcription die 41; a first gimbal member 201 ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7445441 | Three-dimensional printing apparatus and methods of manufacture including sterilization or disinfection, for example, using ultraviolet light The invention includes a three-dimensional printing (3DP) machine that has at least one ultraviolet (UV) light source directed at powder or slurry being processed by the 3DP machine and/or directed at any of various surfaces or machine components, in a manner suitab... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7438547 | Optical recording medium and master disc for manufacturing optical recording medium An optical recording medium allowing high-density recording, where a groove having a shallow U-shaped cross section wider than certain width, a master for manufacturing optical recording medium, a manufacturing apparatus thereof, and a manufacturing method thereof a... | 10/21/2008 |
