Patents Examined by Betelhem Shewareged
  • Patent number: 11325410
    Abstract: A fabric printable medium includes a fabric base substrate, which includes yarn strands and voids among the yarn strands. The fabric printable medium further includes a finishing coating attached to the yarn strands of the fabric base substrate to form coated yarn strands. The finishing coating includes a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network. The fabric printable medium has pore spaces among the coated yarn strands that coincide with at least some of the voids of the fabric base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoqi Zhou, Xulong Fu, Dheya M. Alfekri, Douglas Knight, Ronald J. Selensky
  • Patent number: 11312103
    Abstract: Provided is a composite thermal insulation sheet including an aerogel and a method for manufacturing the same. The methods yield an ultra-thin aerogel composite sheet having characteristics of low dust, high strength and high thermal insulation, thereby having an increased applicability thereof to an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: LG Chem, Ltd., LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoung Shil Oh, Je Kyun Lee, Byoung Wook Han, Yong Seog Jeon, Sang Woo Park, Joong Nyon Kim
  • Patent number: 11285696
    Abstract: A multilayer film for use in packaging organoleptic sensitive products has the structure seal/bulk/tie #1/core/tie #2/tie #3/odor barrier, in which the seal layer contains a homogeneous ethylene/?-olefin copolymer having a density of at least 0.906 g/cc. The odor barrier contains a polyester, amorphous polyamide, polycarbonate, polyvinylalcohol, and/or cyclic olefin copolymer. The 7-layer film above, and variants thereof, can be produced by coextrusion, extrusion coating, lamination (via adhesive, heat, etc). Packaging articles include pouches. Packaged products have the organoleptic sensitive product in the pouch made from the film, or made from a film without the odor barrier layer, with the pouch being sealed inside a separate bag containing the odor barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Cryovac, LLC
    Inventors: Herve Brebion, Paul Satterwhite
  • Patent number: 11279162
    Abstract: A printable sheet assembly and method provide for feeding cardstock sheets through a printer. The printable sheet assembly may include a first fold region. The first fold region comprises a robust perforated line disposed horizontally across the sheet assembly. The printable sheet assembly may include a second fold region. The second fold region may comprise a second robust perforated line disposed horizontally across the sheet assembly. The sheet assembly may include a product such as a name tag, business card, label, or card formed into the sheet assembly and configured to be processed through a printer device to receive indicia thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CCL Label, Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Sato
  • Patent number: 11279161
    Abstract: Provided is a thermal transfer sheet having an excellent high-speed transferability and capable of forming images with high fluorescence intensity and abrasion resistance. The thermal transfer sheet of the present invention includes a substrate, a fluorescent layer, and a thermofusible ink layer in this order, in which the fluorescent layer contains a fluorescent material, and a vinyl resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzu Imakura, Junko Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 11279163
    Abstract: A fabric printable medium includes a fabric base substrate including yarn strands and voids among the yarn strands; a finishing coating attached to the yarn strands of the fabric base substrate to form coated yarn strands; and pore spaces among the coated yarn strands and coinciding with at least some of the voids of the fabric base substrate. The finishing coating includes a crosslinked polymeric network. The fabric printable medium further includes a fire retardant coating applied to aback-side of the coated yarn strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoqi Zhou, Xulong Fu
  • Patent number: 11267223
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fluorescent plate in which a high reflectance of a reflective layer can be maintained over a long period of time, and occurrence of peeling of the reflective layer can be suppressed. The fluorescent plate of the present invention includes a fluorescent material layer containing a fluorescent material, an oxide layer disposed below the fluorescent material layer, and a reflective layer which is disposed below the oxide layer and is formed of silver, and further includes an oxidation-preventive protective layer which is disposed between the oxide layer and the reflective layer and is formed of a translucent material, and a translucent adhesion layer interposed between the oxidation-preventive protective layer and the reflective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiji Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11260620
    Abstract: Provided is a functional laminate including a porous intermediate layer having air permeability laminated between a porous surface layer and a resin foamed layer, the porous intermediate layer having an average void ratio smaller than that of the porous surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daiji Katsura
  • Patent number: 11254112
    Abstract: A cover includes a wear detection component. The wear detection component includes a wear layer and a visual wear indicator. The wear layer is designed and configured to reduce its thickness to a threshold thickness, or to disintegrate, after a preselected number of cleanings have been experience by the cover. The visual wear indicator is configured to indicate to the user that the cover has been through a threshold number of cleanings. When the wear layer has reduced its thickness to the threshold thickness, or has disintegrated, the wear layer reveals the visual wear indicator, indicating to the user that the cover is ready for replacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Ross, Patrick Lafleche, Matthew A. Ward
  • Patent number: 11247435
    Abstract: A glass laminate includes a non-glass substrate with a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. A glass sheet is laminated to the first surface of the non-glass substrate. A barrier film is laminated to the second surface of the non-glass substrate and includes a first surface adjacent to the non-glass substrate, a second surface opposite the first surface. A thickness of the barrier film can be at most about 0.5 mm. The second surface of the barrier film can define an outer surface of the glass laminate. The barrier film can be a multi-layer barrier film with a metal layer and a polymer layer. An absolute value of a flatness of the glass laminate determined according to European Standard EN 438 after exposure to 23° C. and 90% relative humidity for 7 days can be at most about 3 mm/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jhee-mann Kim, Goo-Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 11235556
    Abstract: A finished composite material having a film layer, a fibrous material layer and a discontinuous adhesive region layer situated between the film layer and the fibrous material layer. The discontinuous adhesive region layer adheres the film layer to the fibrous material layer. The discontinuous adhesive layer forms a number of discrete and non-continuous regions including an interface between the film layer and the fibrous material layer such that the film layer touches the fibrous material layer at the interface. The number of discrete and non-continuous regions forms a number of non-adhesive regions therebetween configured to not resist flexing of the film layer and the fibrous material layer. The finished composite material further includes an upholstery or mattress textile fabric substrate having a thickness of 0.5 to 2.0 millimeters. The front surface of the upholstery or mattress textile fabric substrate is configured to contact a user of the fabric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Crypton, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred Hardy Sullivan, Michael Grigat, Jonathan Wesley Brown, Michael Steven Hall
  • Patent number: 11236466
    Abstract: A fabric print medium can include a woven fabric substrate, a first barrier layer on an imaging side of the woven fabric substrate where the first barrier layer includes first barrier layer binder and first barrier layer flame retardant, a primer layer on the first barrier layer wherein the primer layer includes primer layer binder and primer layer pigment filler, an imaging layer on the primer layer where the imaging layer includes imaging layer film-forming binder and where the first barrier layer, the primer layer, and the imaging layer have a combined thickness from 10 ?m to 70 ?m, and a non-woven support layer on a back side of the woven fabric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xulong Fu, Xiaoqi Zhou, Fredrick Muya Makau
  • Patent number: 11220126
    Abstract: A multilayer article including a film layer having a textured first surface and an opposite second surface, wherein the film layer is printable, and a nonwoven material layer bonded to the second surface of the film layer. The film layer may include a semi-crystalline polylactic acid and may be receptive to inkjet printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Denis Terzic, Ning Zhou, Byron E. Trotter
  • Patent number: 11207908
    Abstract: A fabric print medium comprising a fabric base substrate; a primary coating composition with a polymeric binder and filler particles applied to, at least, one side of the fabric base substrate; an image-receiving coating composition with a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network applied over the primary coating composition; and a barrier layer comprising a water-repellent agent and a physical gelling compound. Also disclosed are the method for making such fabric print medium and the method for producing printed images using said material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Xiaoqi Zhou
  • Patent number: 11198769
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plastic films with improved laser engraving capability, chemical resistance and mechanical stress, special embodiments of such films in the form of co-extrusion films, layer structures comprising such films, use of such films, as well as security documents, preferably identification documents, containing such films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Heinz Pudleiner, Georgios Tziovaras, Kira Planken, Stefan Janke, Christoph Köhler
  • Patent number: 11186108
    Abstract: A heat transfer process on to a stainless steel cup with a dark surface involves a stainless steel dark surface treatment layer arranged on a base layer of the outer circular surface of the cup body. The stainless steel dark surface treatment layer is sequentially arranged as at least one wire screen printing layer, a resin layer, and a thermal transfer image layer. The is one or several screen printing layers on the dark rough surface to fill up the rough pits on the dark surface to form a smooth surface and then a thermal transfer resin coating is applied, followed by heat transfer printing. A colorful personalized product can thus be produced from the cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Photo U.S.A. Corporation
    Inventors: James P. Peng, Lei Yang
  • Patent number: 11186064
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer medium having a first transfer layer releasably provided on a support, a thermal transfer sheet in which a first colorant layer, a second transfer layer, and a second colorant layer are provided on one surface of a substrate so as being frame sequentially, and the second transfer layer is releasably provided from the substrate, and a transfer receiving article. The first colorant layer is used to form a first image on the first transfer layer of the intermediate transfer medium. The second transfer layer is transferred onto the first transfer layer on which the first image is formed, and then, the second colorant layer is used to form a second image on the second transfer layer. The first transfer layer is transferred together with the second transfer layer transferred on the first transfer layer onto the transfer receiving article to obtain a print having a stereoscopic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Yoda, Yasushi Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 11173739
    Abstract: Heat transfer sheets for dye sublimation are provided, along with methods of their formation and use. The heat transfer sheet for dye sublimation may include a base sheet and a dye sublimation coating on a surface of the base sheet. The dye sublimation coating generally includes a plurality of microparticles dispersed in a polymeric binder, with the plurality of microparticles including a mixture of tack-inducing microparticles and oxide microparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Neenah, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Ciupak
  • Patent number: 11148397
    Abstract: A deposition mask package according to the present embodiment includes a receiving portion, a lid portion that faces the receiving portion, a deposition mask that is arranged between the receiving portion and the lid portion and has an effective region in which a plurality of through-holes is formed. The receiving portion has a first opposing surface facing the lid portion and a concave portion provided on the first opposing surface. The concave portion is covered by a first flexible film. The effective region of the deposition mask is arranged on the concave portion with the first flexible film interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chikao Ikenaga, Takumi Oike, Tsukasa Mukaida, Takeru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11148396
    Abstract: A digitally printed, water-activated, peel-off and slide-on permanent transfer decal includes a base layer of gum-coated decal paper comprising a cornstarch and dextrose coating having a thickness of between approximately 10 microns to approximately 30 microns, a layer of lacquer over the cornstarch and dextrose coating of the base layer, and a full-color artwork comprising a digital, UV-LED-cured printing ink printed onto the lacquer layer to form a ready-decal sheet having a decal formed by the ink and the lacquer layer. The lacquer layer has a thickness of between approximately 150 microns and approximately 300 microns, is sandwiched between the cornstarch and dextrose coating and the ink, and is bonded to the ink. The decal is permanently bonded to a surface of an object comprising at least one of ceramic, metal, stainless steel, aluminum, plastic, acrylic, wood, and glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Bel USA LLC
    Inventor: Raj Singh