Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Doreen S. Gwin
  • Patent number: 6221454
    Abstract: A bonded optical disk comprising first and second transparent substrates bonded with a light-permeable, pressure sensitive adhesive layer and at least one information recording layer wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive layer has been formed from a pressure sensitive adhesive precursor, having a viscosity of 10 to 5000 cps and being applied onto at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate by radiation curing and has a gel fraction of not less than 50% and a storage modulus of 1.0×104 to 1.0×107 dyn/cm2 at 25° C., or in place of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer, an adhesive layer derived from a radiation curable adhesive precursor having a viscosity of 500 to 10000 cps, and the adhesive precursor is subjected to a higher pressure than an atmospheric pressure, prior to being irradiated, as well as a method and an apparatus for producing a bonded optical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kazuta Saito, Katsuya Takamori, Yorinobu Takamatsu
  • Patent number: 5984989
    Abstract: A coated abrasive sheet material comprising (a) a backing substrate having at least one major surface, (b) a plurality of abrasive grains, (c) a binder bonding said plurality of abrasive grains to said at least one major surface of the backing substrate, wherein the backing substrate comprises paper having a basis weight of less than about 200 g/m.sup.2 which is essentially free of latex saturants and has on said at least one major surface with the plurality of abrasive grains, one or more extruded layers of a thermoplastic polymer, and a method of making the coated abrasive sheet material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Nigel Davison, Andrew J. Ball
  • Patent number: D455496
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Nancy P. Brogden, Wayne K. Dunshee, John Rutig, Barry G. Seelig