Patents Examined by Alain L. Bashore
  • Patent number: 7476415
    Abstract: A method of applying a coated or uncoated film onto a main surface of a lens substrate. In some cases, the film is a coated film having one surface bearing a coating or a coating stack which is transferred from the film to the lens substrate main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventor: Peiqi Jiang
  • Patent number: 7468196
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring and neutralizing the electrical charge at the interface of a magnetic head and a magnetic storage medium, such as a disk, is disclosed. A surface treatment material is applied to the magnetic head. The surface treatment material matches the medium surface material on the surface of the magnetic storage medium. The surface treatment material on the magnetic read/write head may be a fluorinated carbon, such as a Fomblin Z-derivative, perfluoro alkyl trichlorosilane, a FC-722, or a fluorinated polymer. The surface treatment material can be applied to the magnetic head by a vapor deposition process or by a liquid immersion process. The charge on the head-disk interface can be measured by applying varying external charges to the head while reading a signal previously written to the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhu Feng, Ellis Cha, Xiaofeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 7462377
    Abstract: Methods for operating a material dispensing system. The method includes measuring numerical values of an operating parameter, such as line velocity, material pressure, or material temperature, of the dispensing system to predict a future numerical value of the operating parameter. The predicted numerical value of the operating parameter is used to accurately define a start time, which is measured from the detection of the presence of a workpiece being transported past an applicator of the dispensing system, at which to initiate dispensing of the material from the applicator. A calibration procedure is provided for deriving a mathematical relationship used to determine the predicted numerical value of the operating parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Gaon, Steven Julian
  • Patent number: 7459177
    Abstract: The color filter substrate has a functional region which includes a plurality of colored layers and which functions as a color filter selectively transmitting predetermined color light components and a non-functional region other than the functional region. The method includes discharging, onto a substrate, a liquid material, in which coloring materials constituting the colored layers are dissolved or dispersed into a solvent, with a liquid droplet discharge method. In the discharging of the liquid material, the liquid material is discharged onto the functional region and the liquid material or the solvent is discharged onto the non-functional region. The amount of the solvent discharged onto the non-functional region per unit area is larger than the amount of the solvent discharged onto the functional region per unit area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Shunichi Seki, Naoki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7455880
    Abstract: There is to provide an optical element fabrication method including the steps of forming a thin film onto a substrate, and eliminating a color center produced in the forming step by giving energy to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuji Biro, Minoru Otani
  • Patent number: 7449215
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device includes a step of forming an insulating layer on a substrate, a step of coating a first mask material on an area associated with a first color pixel on the insulating layer, a step of coating a second mask material on an area associated with a second color pixel on the insulating layer, and a step of patterning the insulating layer using the first mask material and the second mask material, and forming a first diffraction grating and a second diffraction grating that have different grating pitches. The first mask material and the second mask material are coated by a selective coating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Muneharu Akiyoshi
  • Patent number: 7445811
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement in a coating line for a fibre-like product or fibre-like products, in which the fibre-like product is directed from output means to a press head, by means of which a tube is formed around the fibre-like product. The fibre-like product is directed from the coating line to a feed unit in a preparatory position at the side. When the coating process of a previous product has terminated, the feed unit is shifted to the coating line and the fibre-like product is fed into the press head and is accelerated to the speed of the tube by means of the feed unit. The feed unit is detached from the fibre-like product, when measurement parameters associated with the fibre-like product and/or the tube reach the predetermined values and is shifted back to the preparatory position at the side of the coating line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Nextrom Oy
    Inventors: Kari Elomäki, Mikko Lahti, Risto Leskinen, Jari Sauranen, Paavo Veijanen
  • Patent number: 7438946
    Abstract: A ferrite film is formed by regularly arranging constituents such as magnetized grains or one analogous to that. In the ferrite film, the constituents have at least one of the uniaxial anisotropy and the multiaxial anisotropy. The ferrite film has the magnetic anisotropy or the magnetic isotropy. The ferrite film is formed by the use of the plating method in the presence of a magnetic field. Furthermore, an electromagnetic noise suppressor includes the ferrite film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: NEC TOKIN Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Kondo, Okikuni Takahata, Tatsuya Chiba, Hiroshi Ono, Shigeyoshi Yoshida, Masanori Abe, Masahiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7435452
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface-treated plastic article including a thin layer composed of a polymer complex on the surface. The surface-treated plastic article can be produced by a treatment with at least one kind of aqueous solutions of polymers having a weight average molecular weight of 200 or more. According to the present invention, the plastic articles, such as contact lenses, having superior transparency, wettability, oxygen permeability, and mechanical properties can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Shimoyama, Mitsuru Yokota, Tadahiro Uemura
  • Patent number: 7431961
    Abstract: In this invention, we replace low resistivity NiFe with high-resistivity FeNi for the FL2 portion of a composite free layer in a CIP GMR sensor in order to minimize current shunting effects while still retaining both magnetic softness and low magnetostriction. A process for manufacturing the device is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Headway Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tong Zhao, Hui-Chuan Wang, Yun-Fei Li, Chyu-Jiuh Torng
  • Patent number: 7422768
    Abstract: The invention provides a film forming method that improves throughput in a preliminary discharge. The film forming method according to the present invention can include a preliminary discharge step of preliminarily discharging liquid droplets from a head and a liquid droplet discharge step of relatively moving the head and the work to discharge the liquid droplets onto the surface of the work from the head. The preliminary discharge of the liquid droplets is carried out while the head and the work are moved relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Koyama
  • Patent number: 7419704
    Abstract: The invention is a coating and a method for applying coatings to fiber reinforced composite materials. A first polymeric layer, free of fibers and particulate, coats a fiber reinforced polymer substrate. The first layer joins the fiber reinforced polymer substrate to a second polymeric layer. The second polymeric layer contains a polymeric matrix and a particulate within the polymeric matrix. Finally, at least one thermally sprayed material coats the second polymeric layer to form an adherent multi-layer coating attached to the fiber reinforced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Praxair S. T. Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Kent Passman, David A. McPherson
  • Patent number: 7418427
    Abstract: A wireless ATM system (30) comprises one or more wireless ATMs (32, 34, 36) that are operative to wirelessly communicate with a wireless ATM server (38). The wireless ATMs each include a wireless network interface (41). The wireless ATM server includes a corresponding wireless access point or wireless hub (40). Wireless transmission between the wireless ATMs and wireless ATM server is secured with a wireless encryption protocol. The wireless ATM server is operative to communicate with at least one host banking system (46) through at least one public or private network (44). The wireless ATM server is operative to route transaction and event messages between the host banking system and each of the wireless ATMs using a message gateway router (43). The wireless ATM server further includes a firewall (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Jay Paul Drummond, Mark D. Smith
  • Patent number: 7413765
    Abstract: A film-forming method is provided for forming a planar periodic structure having a predetermined periodicity by depositing liquid material on an object. A liquid drop supplying means is used which supplies a liquid drop at a predetermined driving period to deposit the liquid material on the object; the presence or absence of the supply of the liquid drop is controlled at each driving period in accordance with the periodicity of the planar periodic structure to be formed; and the liquid drop is supplied by controlling the liquid drop supplying means while the liquid drop supplying means is scanned at a predetermined scanning speed in a predetermined scanning direction relative to the object. A natural number times a value obtained by multiplying the driving period and the scanning speed is set to be the structural period of the planar periodic structure in the scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ito, Takeshi Oyama
  • Patent number: 7413766
    Abstract: An antistatic optical film comprising an antistatic layer laminated on at least one side of an optical film, wherein the antistatic layer comprises a water soluble or a water dispersible conductive polymer, has excellent antistatic effect, optical characteristics and appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Satake, Akiko Ogasawara, Fumiaki Shirafuji, Toshitsugu Hosokawa, Shinichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 7413768
    Abstract: The present invention provides is a method of making an infrared reflective coated article, including the steps of: providing a substrate; depositing a first dielectric layer over at least a portion of the substrate, the layer comprising a first zinc stannate film deposited over the substrate, and an electrical enhancing film deposited over the first zinc stannate film, the electrical enhancing film selected from zinc oxide-tin oxide film and a second zinc stannate film; forming an infrared reflective layer on the first dielectric layer; forming a metal primer layer over the infrared reflective layer; forming a second dielectric layer over the primer layer; and forming a protective layer of at least two films in a position where it can provide durability to the dielectric layer, infrared reflective layer, metal primer layer, and second dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis J. O'Shaughnessy
  • Patent number: 7410674
    Abstract: A method of servicing an electro-dynamic apparatus (10) such as a traction motor of a locomotive wherein a degraded surface (52) of electrical insulation (50) in the interior of the apparatus is spray coated with a layer of a sealing material (56). The service is provide without the necessity for removing or disassembling the apparatus by inserting a nozzle (64) of a spraying device (60) through an access opening (42) in the frame head (20) of the apparatus. The sealing material is delivered to the nozzle through a flexible delivery tube (66) having an inner tube (80) defining a passageway (82) for the sealing material and a concentric outer tube (84) defining an annular passageway (86) for compressed air for propelling the sealing material from the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Lee Rosenquest, Rihong Mo
  • Patent number: 7407685
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnetic recording media includes a magnetic recording layer of a granular magnetic layer that has ferromagnetic crystal grains and an oxide nonmagnetic grain boundary or a nitride nonmagnetic grain boundary surrounding the ferromagnetic crystal grains. It further has an overcoating layer on the granular magnetic recording layer. The overcoating layer contains a nonmagnetic metal or a nonmagnetic alloy that can be diffused into the nonmagnetic grain boundary. The atoms coated on the granular magnetic recording layer diffuse into the nonmagnetic grain boundary even without being annealed, and promote to isolate the ferromagnetic crystal grains from each other. The overcoating can be removed after its formation to reduce the magnetic gap between the magnetic recording layer and the magnetic recording head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Device Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Watanbe, Yasushi Sakai
  • Patent number: 7407686
    Abstract: An optical film is disclosed having minimal curl, minimal coating unevenness and no cracks. The optical film is obtained by casting a dope comprising a cellulose ester and a non-chlorinated solvent on a metal support, the cellulose ester having a total acyl substitution degree of 2.6 to 2.85 and having a ratio of a weight-average molecular weight to a number-average molecular weight of 1:1 to 3:1; drying the cast dope on the metal support so as to obtain a cellulose ester film; peeling the cellulose ester film from the metal support; further drying the cellulose ester film while providing a longitudinal stretch or a lateral stretch to the cellulose ester film; and providing a metal oxide layer on the cellulose ester film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Murakami
  • Patent number: 7404982
    Abstract: A color filter forming method, includes: forming a bank on a substrate; making the substrate and part or all of the bank lyophilic; and coating a liquid repellent on part or all of an upper surface of the bank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Toyoda