Abstract:
The invention relates to heat treatment of polymorphic semicrystalline or crystallizable polymers to increase the content of the highest melting crystalline form. Such heat treatment results in a polymer powder that has a consistent, uniform melting range, improved flow and improved durability of the powder particle size for applications that require powder flow at elevated temperatures. In addition to improved powder properties, the articles produced from the powders also exhibit better physical properties in both appearance and in mechanical properties. Thus the invention also includes polymer powders and articles produced by the described processes.
Abstract:
The disclosure provides drug delivery devices and methods of making and using the drug delivery devices. The devices include single and multi-layer polymer films made by a breath figure technique having therapeutic agents associated therewith. For example, the devices may be a dual layer polymer film wherein the first layer includes a therapeutic agent incorporated into it by spin coating the first agent with a polymer solution and the second agent is incorporated into the second layer by loading the agent into pores of the second layer after it is spin coated onto the first layer. In some cases one layer provides a burst release and the second layer provides a slow release drug delivery profile. The devices may take on the form of a surgical mesh with a slow release therapeutic drug.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a composition that can be used to manufacture an impermeable, sealing, tight envelope, to a process for manufacturing an impermeable envelope, and to a tank. The composition of the invention comprises in % by weight relative to the total weight of the composition: from 70 to 90% of a monomer (I); from 0.1 to 1% of an activator (II), in which R is chosen from the group comprising CnH2n+2, n being an integer chosen from 1 to 10; —OH; —OCnH2n+2, n being an integer chosen from 1 to 10; and —NHR′ where R′ is either CnH2n+2, n being an integer chosen from 1 to 10, or an amine functional group; from 2 to 6% of a catalyst (III), in which X is chosen from the group comprising MgBr, MgI, Li and Na; and from 10 to 20% of an additive (IV), with: This composition can be used, for example, to manufacture elements that are impermeable to fluids, for example impermeable envelopes, for example that can be used in the manufacture of type IV tanks or hydraulic accumulators.
Abstract translation:本发明涉及可用于制造不透水,密封,紧密封壳,制造不透水外壳的方法和罐的组合物。 本发明的组合物相对于组合物的总重量为重量%:70-90%的单体(I); 活化剂(II)的0.1至1%,其中R选自C n H 2n + 2,n是选自1至10的整数; -哦; -OC n H 2n + 2,n是选自1至10的整数; 和-NHR',其中R'为C n H 2n + 2,n为选自1至10的整数,或胺官能团; 2至6%的催化剂(III),其中X选自MgBr,MgI,Li和Na; 和10至20%的添加剂(IV),其具有:该组合物可用于例如制造不渗透流体的元件,例如不可渗透的包封,例如可用于制造IV型 坦克或液压蓄能器。
Abstract:
A water-ballasted molded plastic barrier system incorporates barrier segments wherein each segment employs a sawtooth reflective design, designed to prevent the tire of a vehicle, impacting the barrier, from climbing up the side of the barrier segment. Adjacent barrier segments are attached together using an interlocking knuckle design, having a lug pin connection system. Wire rope cable assemblies are internally molded into each barrier segment to create an impenetrable cable fence. The wire rope cable assemblies include steel bushings which are molded into the interlocking knuckles to further strengthen the barrier system.
Abstract:
A method for forming an extracellular matrix material (ECM) material includes providing at least an ECM composition containing ECM particles varying in their capacity for migration through a fluid medium, including at least one population of expanded ECM particles. The ECM composition is combined in a fluid medium to form a flowable ECM composition. The flowable ECM composition is subjected to a centrifugal force in a mold for a period of time sufficient to distribute the ECM particles according to differences in their physical characteristics. The ECM composition is dried to form a dried ECM material having a density gradient extending from a less dense region to a more dense region. The dried ECM material may formed as a porous, substantially acellular ECM material expandable in an aqueous fluid environment by at least 100% in volume.
Abstract:
A water-ballasted molded plastic barrier system incorporates barrier segments wherein each segment employs a sawtooth reflective design, designed to prevent the tire of a vehicle, impacting the barrier, from climbing up the side of the barrier segment. Adjacent barrier segments are attached together using an interlocking knuckle design, having a lug pin connection system. Wire rope cable assemblies are internally molded into each barrier segment to create an impenetrable cable fence. The wire rope cable assemblies include steel bushings which are molded into the interlocking knuckles to further strengthen the barrier system.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for forming a core of plies, belts and beads and for positioning the core in a mold for forming an elastomeric tire. The core is built up on a mandrel of the inner mold formed by hard foam core segments that are positioned on a bottom hub plate and around a hub fitted to the center of the bottom hub plate, and with a top hub plate fitted thereover in alignment with flow passages formed therethrough. Plies are first wound on a porous spacer, across the mandrel and the ply ends are folded around a tire bead and back upon themselves. Woven belt segments that form a belt whose cords form an angle of approximately twenty four degrees to the circumference and slope oppositely, are wound over a spacer wrap that has been applied over the plies outer circumference, and tire cord is wrapped over an outer spacer wrap. The inner mold and core are fitted in an outer mold and the assembly positioned in a casting well to receive a flow of an elastomeric material directed therein as the mold is spun up.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a spin coating process capable of removing a swelling in the vicinity of an outer peripheral edge by a simple process when forming an ultraviolet curing resin layer. Disclosed also is a method of manufacturing a disc-shaped recording medium, capable of eliminating an influence of the swelling, etc. in the vicinity of an outer peripheral edge of a resin layer such as a light transmissive layer, etc. The spin coating process involves spin-coating an energy beam curing resin over a resin-formed surface of a disc-shaped member, irradiating the resin-formed surface spin-coated with the energy beam curing resin with an energy beam except the vicinity of an outer peripheral edge thereof, and removing an uncured portion of the energy beam curing resin by applying a solvent to the vicinity of the outer peripheral edge of the resin-formed surface.
Abstract:
A method for coating hydrogel and silicone hydrogel articles, and articles made by the method, are provided in which the coating is first applied to the molding surface in which an article-forming material will be cured to form the article. The method permits the thickness and uniformity of the coating to be more easily controlled than in known coating methods.
Abstract:
A proximity detector has a casing containing a probe (4) and a printed circuit (3), the upper end of the casing being closed by a plug (35) provided with a filling orifice (14) and with connecting-pins (36). The nozzle of a plastic injector (13) is fitted in position within the filling orifice, said nozzle being provided with two adjacent ducts. A hardenable resin is caused by centrifugation to flow into the casing via a first duct while simultaneously driving-out the air which is present within the casing via the second duct, thus ensuring rapid and efficient filling. When the casing has been filled and the resin has hardened, the injector (13) is cut-off in close proximity to the plug (35). Complete filling can be checked by inspecting the surface appearance of the two leading portions of solidified resin flux which are thus visible at the level of the orifice (14).