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This invention relates to processes and systems of rapid prototyping and production. Its features includes flexible material deposition along tangential directions of surfaces of a part to be made, thereby eliminating stair-shape surface due to uniform horizontal layer deposition, increasing width of material deposition to increase build up rate, applying the principles of traditional forming/joining processes, such as casting, fusion welding, plastic extrusion and injection molding in the fabrication process so that various industrial materials can be processed, applying comparatively low cost heating sources, such as induction heating and arc-heating. Additional features include varying width and size of material deposition in accordance with geometry to be formed and applying a differential molding means for improved shape formation and surface finishing.

A shielded electrical ribbon cable (2) includes conductor sets (4) each including one or more insulated conductors (6), and a first and second shielding film (8) on opposite sides of the cable. In transverse cross section, cover portions (7) of the shielding films (8) substantially surround each conductor set (4), and pinched portions (9) of the films (8) form pinched portions of the cable on each side of each conductor set (4). Dense packing is achieved while maintaining high frequency electrical isolation between conductor sets (4). When the cable (2) is laid flat, a quantity s/Dmin is in a range from 1.7 to 2, where S is a center-to-center spacing between nearest insulated conductors (6) of two adjacent conductor sets (4), and Dmin is the lesser of the outer dimensions of such nearest insulated conductors (6). Alternatively, a first and second conductor set each having only one pair of insulated conductors can satisfy a condition that Σ/σ1 is in a range from 2.5 to 3. Other shielded cables, systems, and methods, which may or may not utilize the dense packing, are also disclosed.

A method for fabricating a three dimensional model by fabricating a composite model formed of a plurality of successive layers comprised of one or more materials wherein each successive layer is formed by depositing at least first material delineating boundaries of at least one first area of the layer by a drop-by-drop deposition and depositing at least a second material over the layer by a rapid deposition method, and may include the deposition of a third material by a drop-by-drop or rapid deposition method and will include planing the layer to a uniform thickness and selectively removing the first and second materials, and third material if present, by successive removal methods, each of which effects only one of the materials.

A method of forming a three-dimensional object by bottom-up three-dimensional fabrication by irradiating a polymerizable liquid to produce the three-dimensional object, is described. In the method: (i) a Lewis acid or an oxidizable tin salt (e.g., stannous octoate) is included in said polymerizable liquid in an amount effective to accelerate the formation of said three-dimensional object during said fabrication; and/or (i) the three-dimensional object is irradiated after forming to further polymerize unpolymerized material remaining in the three-dimensional object.

A multi-beam volumetric resin curing system and method for whole-volume additive manufacturing of an object includes a bath containing a photosensitive resin, a light source for producing a light beam, and a spatial light modulator which produces a phase- or intensity-modulated light beam by impressing a phase profile or intensity profile of an image onto a light beam received from the light source. The system and method also include projection optics which then produces multiple sub-image beams from the modulated light beam which are projected to intersect each other in the photosensitive resin to cure select volumetric regions of the resin in a whole-volume three-dimensional pattern representing the object.

The invention provides an ultrasonic and micro-forging composite device for improving the microstructure and performance of additively manufactured metal and an additive manufacturing method. The ultrasonic and micro-forging composite device comprises an energy converter, a pneumatic slider, a pneumatic slider connection frame, an amplitude transformer, a tool head and a roller. The energy converter is arranged in an energy converter shell, the energy converter shell is provided with an inserting piece and a pipeline connector, the amplitude transformer is connected to the lower end of the energy converter, the tool head is connected below the energy converter, the roller is located between the tool head and a workpiece, and the pneumatic slider is connected with the energy converter shell and the amplitude transformer through the pneumatic slider connection frame. By means of the ultrasonic and micro-forging composite device, the advantages that ultrasonic impact frequency is high and deformation generated by mechanical rolling is large are combined, the composite effect of ultrasonic impact and continuous rolling micro-forging can be achieved, and the purpose of improving the microstructure of the additively manufactured metal and the mechanical performance of parts is achieved. Through organic combination of the ultrasonic and micro-forging composite device and the additive manufacturing method with an existing additive manufacturing technology, the technical bottleneck that structure control is easy while performance control is difficult in existing metal additive manufacturing is solved, and innovation and development of metal rapid forming and manufacturing technologies are induced.

An additive manufacturing method may involve: Providing a first and a second material, the second material capable of reacting with the first material to form a reaction product; forming at least the first material into a first layer; subjecting at least a portion of the first layer to energy in the presence of the second material, the energy being sufficient to initiate a reaction between at least the first and second materials to form a portion of the article, the portion of the article comprising the reaction product; forming a second layer of at least the first material on the first layer; and subjecting at least a portion of the second layer to energy in the presence of the second material, the energy being sufficient to initiate a reaction between the first and second materials to form an additional portion of the article.

The invention discloses a polysulfonamide nanofiltration or reverse-osmosis composite membrane, and a preparation method thereof. the preparation method for the polysulfonamide nanofiltration or reverse-osmosis composite membrane comprises the following steps: pretreatment of a porous supporting membrane; alternate layer-upon-layer assembling of a sulfonyl chloride organic-phase solution and a polyamine water-phase solution on the surface of the porous supporting membrane via reaction; heat treatment; etc.; wherein heat treatment can be carried out during or after layer-upon-layer assembling. Nanoparticles, a surfactant, a catalytic acid absorbent or catalyst, a pore forming agent and other additives are added into the sulfonyl chloride organic-phase solution and the polyamine water-phase solution. The polysulfonamide nanofiltration or reverse-osmosis composite membrane prepared by using the method has improved desalination performance and acid resistance, smoother surface and lower roughness compared with composite membranes prepared through traditional interfacial polymerization, and has good application prospects in the fields of nanofiltration and reverse osmosis.

An interlocked stack of laminations for rotors wherein each lamination includes a centrally located, circular indentation. The indentation provides corresponding projections and depressions in the laminas which may be interlocked by engagement of a projection in one lamina with an adjacent depression in an adjacent lamina.

A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes: irradiating a laser beam on a single crystal silicon substrate, and scanning the laser beam on the substrate so that a portion of the substrate is poly crystallized, wherein at least a part of a poly crystallized portion of the substrate is exposed on a surface of the substrate; and etching the poly crystallized portion of the substrate with an etchant. In this case, a process time is improved.

It is intended to provide the following resin composition for stereolithography which is superior in storage stability and aging stability during operation, shows no increase in viscosity upon prolonged storage, has a high light-curing sensitivity and, therefore, makes it possible to produce, upon photo irradiation, an object by stereolithography, which is superior in dimensional accuracy, fabricating accuracy, water resistance, moisture resistance and mechanical properties at a high fabricating speed and a high productivity.

A resin composition for stereolithography which is an actinic radiation-curable resin composition containing a cationic-polymerizable organic compound, a radical-polymerizable organic compound, a photo cationic polymerization inhibitor and a photo radical polymerization inhibitor, in which the photo cationic polymerization inhibitor contains a compound represented by the following formula (I) and having a purity of 80% or higher:

wherein M represents an antimony atom or a phosphorus atom; and the broken line between S⁺ and MF₆⁻ represents an ionic bond.

A structure comprising a cured composite part formed from a series of plies of fibre-reinforced composite material; a doubler plate attached to the composite part by an array of pointed prongs which partially penetrate the composite part; and a hole passing through the doubler plate and the composite part. An interface plate carries the array of prongs on a first side and is attached to the doubler plate on a second side.

Systems and methods for fabricating three-dimensional objects are disclosed. The system includes an optical imaging system providing a light source; a photosensitive medium adapted to change states upon exposure to a portion of the light source from the optical imaging system; a control system for controlling movement of the optical imaging system, wherein the optical imaging system moves continuously above the photosensitive medium. The method includes moving a maskless optical imaging system providing the light beam in a continuous sequence; presenting the light beam on a portion of the photosensitive medium; lowering a plate upon which the photosensitive medium resides; and applying a new layer of the photosensitive medium.

It has been discovered that all causes of critical dimension variation, both known and unknown, are compensated by adjusting the time of photoresist etch. Accordingly, a control method employs a control system using photoresist etch time as a manipulated variable in either a feedforward or a feedback control configuration to control critical dimension variation during semiconductor fabrication. By controlling critical dimensions through the adjustment of photoresist etch time, many advantages are achieved including a reduced lot-to-lot variation, an increased yield, and increased speed of the fabricated circuits. In one embodiment these advantages are achieved for polysilicon gate critical dimension control in microprocessor circuits. Polysilicon gate linewidth variability is reduced using a control method using either feedforward and feedback or feedback alone. In some embodiments, feedback control is implemented for controlling critical dimensions using photoresist each time as a manipulated variable. In an alternative embodiment, critical dimensions are controlled using RF power as a manipulated variable. A run-to-run control technique is used to drive the critical dimensions of integrated circuits to a set specification. In a run-to-run control technique a wafer test or measurement is made and a process control recipe is adjusted based on the result of the test or measurement on a run-by-run basis. The run-to-run control technique is applied to drive the critical dimensions of a polysilicon gate structure to a target specification. The run-to-run control technique is applied to drive the critical dimensions in an integrated circuit to a defined specification using photoresist etch time as a manipulated variable.

A method of solid free form fabrication (SFF) is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving SFF data collectively pertaining to a three-dimensional shape of the object and comprising a plurality of slice data each defining a layer of the object. The method also comprises, for each of at least a few of the layers, dispensing a building material on a receiving medium, straightening the building material, and selectively ablating the building material according to respective slice data.

The aerosol-generating article (1) comprises a tobacco element and a mouthpiece element. The tobacco element comprises an aerosol-forming substrate (2), a support element (3) arranged downstream of the aerosol-forming substrate (2) and an aerosol-cooling element (4) arranged downstream of the support element. The mouthpiece element comprises a filter segment (5) and a hollow tube (6). The aerosol-cooling element (4) has a length of at most 15 millimeter. A length of the mouthpiece element is adapted according to the length of the aerosol-cooling element (4) such that a total length of the aerosol-generating article (1) is kept at a predefined total length. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing aerosol-generating articles.

A manufacturing process for a motor stator assembly includes the following steps. A plurality of stator segments is manufactured. The stator segment includes an inner ring portion, a connection rib and an outer ring portion. The connection rib is connected between the inner ring portion and the outer ring portion. The stator segments are disposed at intervals in a mold. By using a plastic injection molding method, an insulating unit is formed on the surface of the stator segments. The adjacent inner ring portions are connected together via the insulating unit to form a full circle. There is a gap between two adjacent outer ring portions. Thereby, it is handy and convenient to perform the wire-winding process for the motor stator assembly.