Patents Examined by Abhishek A Patwardhan
  • Patent number: 11645951
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved by the Invention] To provide an artificial tissue model that can be more advantageously used in surgical technique training compared to previous artificial tissues, as well as a method of fabricating the same. [Solution] An artificial organ model for surgical technique training comprising two or more fibrous layers 2, 3 layered and bonded to each other so as to be peelable by a surgical technique performed by a surgical technique trainee; the layered and bonded two or more fibrous layers 2, 3 as a whole being saturated with an electroconductive liquid or gel; and two adjacent fibrous layers out of the two or more fibrous layers being formed from different materials or substances or in different colors so as to be recognizable as different membranes by the surgical technique trainee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: EBM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Young-Kwang Park, Manabu Shinke, Masaaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11639282
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying elastics to a running web including a crank and arm, the arm arranged to reciprocate from side to side during use and having a laydown carriage carried on the arm, the laydown carriage including at least one eyelet arranged to support an elastic strand, the assembly further including a shoe guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: CURT G. JOA, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Fritz, Christopher J. Nelson, John A. McCabe, Daniel A. Peterson
  • Patent number: 11639051
    Abstract: A method for reducing the resistivity of a carbon nanotube nonwoven sheet includes providing a carbon nanotube nonwoven sheet comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes and applying pressure to the carbon nanotube nonwoven sheet to reduce air voids between carbon nanotubes within the carbon nanotube nonwoven sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Hu, Galdemir Cezar Botura, Casey Slane, Nathaniel Ching
  • Patent number: 11623792
    Abstract: The purpose of the invention is a method for coating a substrate made of an aluminum alloy in the AA3000 or AA5000 series, comprising the following steps: a) coating by (co-)extrusion of a polypropylene modified by maleic anhydride adhesion layer on each face of said substrate, and a surface layer made of polypropylene comprising at least one slip agent, so as to form a metalloplastic strip; b) calendering said metalloplastic strip; c) heat treatment of said metalloplastic strip; d) cooling of the metalloplastic strip, to obtain an H48 metallurgical temper and a coefficient of friction of 0.06 or less. The method being particularly suitable for the fabrication of food packaging and particularly for beverage can lids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: CONSTELLIUM NEUF-BRISACH
    Inventors: Olivier Neel, Alain Vassel, Bernard Grindatto
  • Patent number: 11608453
    Abstract: A bonding tool for bonding a first workpiece to a second workpiece on a bonding machine is provided. The bonding tool includes a body portion for bonding the first workpiece to the second workpiece on the bonding machine. The bonding tool also includes a curing system for curing an adhesive provided between the first workpiece and the second workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Urban Ernst
  • Patent number: 11607873
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a window includes: providing an ink pattern to a printing pad; providing the printing pad and the ink pattern to a target substrate; and removing the printing pad from the target substrate, the ink pattern including: a first bezel line surrounding at least one hole; and a second bezel line surrounding the first bezel line, the printing pad including: a top surface; a bottom surface; and a side surface connecting the top surface and the bottom surface, the side surface including a first pattern portion, in which the first bezel line is formed, and a second pattern portion, in which the second bezel line is formed. The first pattern portion has an inclination angle equal to or greater than about 46 degrees and equal to or smaller than about 90 degrees based on the bottom surface of the printing pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tecksoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11602927
    Abstract: The present application discloses a cutting method for a display panel, a display panel and a display device, the cutting method for a display panel including a cutting stage of a side edge of a binding area and a cutting stage of a side edge of a non-binding area, the cutting stage of a side edge of a non-binding area includes steps of: aligning a cutter according to an alignment mark preset on the side edge of the non-binding area on the display panel, so that a cutter on a second substrate side is closer to a display area of the display panel than a cutter on a first substrate side, and cutting the first substrate and the second substrate by the cutter on the second substrate side and the cutter on the first substrate side respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignees: Chuzhou HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Qianqian Yang, Shishuai Huang, Bing Han, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11598216
    Abstract: Airfoils for gas turbine engines are provided. In one embodiment, an airfoil formed from a ceramic matrix composite material includes opposite pressure and suction sides extending radially along a span and defining an outer surface of the airfoil. The airfoil also includes opposite leading and trailing edges extending radially along the span. The pressure and suction sides extend axially between the leading and trailing edges. The leading edge defines a forward end of the airfoil, and the trailing edge defining an aft end of the airfoil. Further, the airfoil includes a trailing edge portion defined adjacent the trailing edge at the aft end of the airfoil; a plenum defined within the airfoil forward of the trailing edge portion; and a cooling passage defined within the trailing edge portion proximate the suction side. Methods for forming airfoils for gas turbine engines also are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kirk Douglas Gallier, Darrell Glenn Senile, John Calhoun
  • Patent number: 11584606
    Abstract: A sheet processing device separates a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlapped and partially bonded and sandwich a sheet medium between the two sheets. The sheet processing device includes a relay conveyance path, a sheet loader, and control circuitry. The sheet medium is fed from an image forming apparatus connected upstream of the sheet processing device through the relay conveyance path. The sheet loader loads at least one of the two-ply sheet and the sheet medium. The control circuitry performs a mixing mode to feed the two-ply sheet or the sheet medium from the sheet loader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohsuke Haraguchi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Yoshito Suzuki, Shinya Monma, Wataru Takahashi, Joji Akiyama, Sho Asano, Wataru Nozaki
  • Patent number: 11568771
    Abstract: A product for displaying an image or object (e.g., printed photo or a print, etc.) according to at least one implementation includes a first sheet having a front face and a rear face. An image or object is formed along the rear face. The product also includes an adhesive coated substrate, such as a ferrous metal substrate, to which the first sheet is adhesively affixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TRACER IMAGING LLC
    Inventors: Steven M. Spiro, Donald Lubarsky, Ron Glaza, Paul Dowd, Ryan Kelly
  • Patent number: 11560105
    Abstract: Disclosed are an undercover for vehicles with high elasticity and rigidity and a method of manufacturing the same. The undercover for vehicles with high elasticity and rigidity may include a needle-punched nonwoven fabric having a multi-layer structure of felt layers including a first PET fiber and a low-melting-point PET fiber, and each of the felt layers may have improved tensile strength and have optimized fiber alignment, to thereby improve the binding between fibers, mechanical rigidity and elasticity, as well as to reduce the weight of components, improve durability and secure harmlessness and inline workability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Hado FNC Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Je Kim, Keun Young Kim, Tae Yoon Kim, Jung Wook Lee, Young Su Kim, Jong Eun Ha
  • Patent number: 11535021
    Abstract: In a method for producing a lamination stack for rotors and/or stators of electric motors or generators, laminations are punched from electrical steel, a light-activated adhesive is applied to at least one side of the laminations, respectively, and the adhesive is irradiated and activated with a light of a required wavelength immediately before the adhesive exits from an application unit. The laminations are then stacked to a lamination stack. An adhesive application device for carrying out the method has at least one application unit with at least one valve for discharging an adhesive. At least one radiation source is arranged in a region of the valve and emits a radiation and directs the radiation to the adhesive provided in the region of the at least one valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Kienle + Spiess GmbH
    Inventor: Björn Böker
  • Patent number: 11529801
    Abstract: The present application provides a method of fabricating a stretchable electronic device. The method includes forming an elastomer polymer layer on a base substrate; selectively stiffening the elastomer polymer layer in a plurality of defined regions of the elastomer polymer layer, thereby forming a modified elastomer polymer layer having a plurality of stiffened portions respectively in a plurality of stiffened regions spaced apart by one or more elastomeric portions in one or more elastomeric regions, the plurality of stiffened portions having a Young's modulus greater than a Young's modulus of the one or more elastomeric portions; and forming a plurality of electronic devices respectively in the plurality of stiffened regions, each of the plurality of electronic devices formed on a side of one of the plurality of stiffened portions distal to the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yingsong Xu
  • Patent number: 11504957
    Abstract: Proposed are a laminating apparatus and a method for manufacturing a vehicle seat. The laminating apparatus includes a first lamination part (100); a second lamination part (200); and a drying part (300), wherein the first lamination part (100) includes: a polyurethane foam feeding roll (110); a first bonding part (120); a fabric feeding roll (130) mounted on a side of the first lamination part (100); and a first pressing part (140), the second lamination part (200) includes: a second application part (210); a backing cloth feeding roll (220); and a second pressing part (230), and the drying part (300) includes: a feed part (310); and a chamber part (320).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventors: Seong Jee Lee, Jae Keun Sung, Jong Hee Park, Chong Mi Lee, Jae Kwang Lee, Seong Jun Park
  • Patent number: 11504959
    Abstract: A method for transferring an atomically thin layer comprising providing a target substrate and a donor substrate on which a first atomically thin layer has been formed. The method further comprises disposing an adhesion layer at the donor substrate or at the target substrate. The method further comprises bringing the target substrate and the donor substrate together. Further, the method comprises bonding together the donor substrate, the adhesion layer and the target substrate and removing the donor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventors: Arne Quellmalz, Kristinn Gylfason, Niclas Roxhed, Göran Stemme, Frank Niklaus
  • Patent number: 11500323
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus is configured to sandwich one or more sheet media in a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlaid and bonded together at a portion of the two-ply sheet. The sheet processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to control insertion processing to insert the one or more sheet media into the two-ply sheet based on a length of the two-ply sheet in a conveyance direction, a length of one of the one or more sheet media in the conveyance direction, and a number of the one or more sheet media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Takahashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Sho Asano, Yoshito Suzuki, Shinya Monma, Johji Akiyama, Yohsuke Haraguchi, Wataru Nozaki
  • Patent number: 11491772
    Abstract: A substrate bonding method which enables forming a precision fine space using a method that is simpler and easier than conventional methods; and a laminated body production method that uses the substrate bonding method. This substrate bonding method includes disposing a first substrate on a photoresist pattern formed on a support film so as to bring the first substrate into contact with a surface of the photoresist pattern located on the side opposite to the support film, and pressure-bonding the support film, the photoresist pattern, and the first substrate; releasing the bonded support film after the pressure-bonding; and disposing a second substrate on the photoresist pattern so as to bring the second substrate into contact with the surface of the photoresist pattern located on the side opposite to the first substrate, and pressure-bonding the first substrate, the photoresist pattern, and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuma Mizusawa, Tomoyuki Ando
  • Patent number: 11441054
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an adhesive layer includes: providing a preliminary adhesive layer, attaching a mask to a first area portion of the preliminary adhesive layer, and thereby, provide a second area portion of the preliminary adhesive layer that is adjacent to the first area portion and to which the mask is not attached, to provide an adhesive layer that exhibits good folding reliability. In addition, a display device may exhibit good folding reliability characteristics by including the adhesive layer from which an adhesion force of a folding area is reduced between a supporting member and a display panel of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Cheol ho Choi, Hyun-Been Hwang
  • Patent number: 11433655
    Abstract: A display device manufacturing apparatus includes a support portion including a core portion and a conductive portion disposed over the core portion. The core portion includes a first flat surface extending in a first direction; a second flat surface extending in the first direction and being opposite to the first flat surface; and a curved surface extending between the first flat surface and the second flat surface. The conductive portion includes a first flat conductive portion overlapping the first flat surface of the core portion in a second direction; a second flat conductive portion overlapping the second flat surface of the core portion in the second direction; and a curved conductive portion extending between the first flat conductive portion and the second flat conductive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Suk Yoo, Young Su Kim, Sang Won Lee, Kyu Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 11383463
    Abstract: In a method of producing symmetrical carbon fiber reinforced composite parts, a plurality of sheets of fibrous material configured as a single structure are positioned on a tool surface where the single structure is comprised of a first composite part joined to a symmetric, second composite part. The single structure is infused with resin and cured on the tool surface, producing a single cured structure comprised of a first cured composite part joined to a second cured composite part. The single cured structure is then divided along a dividing plane, producing the symmetric first cured composite part and second cured composite part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Max Marley Osborne, David William Reynolds, Paul David Evans