Patents Examined by Daniel McNally
  • Device for thermally welding plastic parts, and assembly containing a device of this kind
    Patent number: 11214016
    Abstract: A device for thermally welding workpieces including a heating element and a shielding gas supply is provided. The device includes a heating plate consisting of a thermal insulating material in which a groove is formed, said groove includes a heating element, relative to which a surface of a workpiece to be welded is positioned in close proximity to the heating element. A feed channel for a shielding gas is formed in the heating plate and communicates with the groove via at least one through-channel, and the feed channel for supplying shielding gas can be connected to a shielding gas source via a feed line and a valve. The device may further include an assembly for welding a first and a second workpiece, said assembly includes a first and second movement device for moving the workpieces towards one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventor: Roland Barkhoff
  • Assembly processes using UV curable pressure sensitive adhesives (PSA) or stageable PSA systems
    Patent number: 11208575
    Abstract: A process for creating an assembly with a pressure sensitive adhesive includes the application of a light curable composition to a first substrate of the assembly. The light curable composition is cured with a single light exposure step to form a fully polymerized pressure sensitive adhesive. The resulting pressure sensitive adhesive is brought into contact with to a second substrate with sufficient force to bond the second substrate to the first substrate to complete the assembly with the pressure sensitive adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Wells Cunningham
  • LED curing during vacuum lamination process
    Patent number: 11198283
    Abstract: A laminating machine includes UV curing elements within the process chamber to cure a UV curable adhesive in a laminating stack while being heated in an autoclave. In an automated process, the laminating machine applies pressure to the stack for pressure sensitive adhesion, then autoclave heating and simultaneous UV curing. The UV curing elements are disposed in the body of the process chamber, the lid of the process chamber, or a separate appliance. The appliance can be releasably attached to the process chamber body or lid. The laminating machine is programmed for specific autoclave and UV exposure profiles specific to the UV curable adhesives being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul R. Nemeth, Cameron T. McCalley, Ryan N. Klaassen, James D. Sampica
  • Heat seal device
    Patent number: 11198254
    Abstract: A head seal device of a bag making apparatus includes a pair of seal units configured to face each other in a facing direction. Each of the seal units includes a heat seal member and a heater. The heat seal device includes an adjustment unit configured to move the first seal unit in a width direction of continuous sheet panels, and to move the second seal unit in the width direction of the sheet panels in accordance with movement of the first seal unit in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Totani Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Ohnishi
  • Waterborne adhesives for reduced basis weight multilayer substrates and use thereof
    Patent number: 11193048
    Abstract: The adhesive composition comprising emulsion polymers and microspheres and articles made therefrom are provided. The adhesive is particularly suitable for packages for consumer products that provide sufficient strength and thermal insulation while reducing the overall basis weight of the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Henkel IP & Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Tianjian Huang, Kristina Thompson, Daniel Waski, John Meccia
  • Laser joining method and laser joining device for fusing workpieces
    Patent number: 11179897
    Abstract: A laser joining method and device includes a pressure-applying clamping device, which presses a first and a second workpiece against one another at least after the workpieces have been locally plasticized, and a mask having mask structures, which allow laser light to pass only in the region of the bonding contact faces, wherein at least the workpiece facing the laser source is formed by a three-dimensional molded part, which is not planar at least on the first contour side facing the clamping element and/or on the second contour side facing the second workpiece, and wherein the clamping element, with the bearing side thereof for the first workpiece, is adapted to the first contour side of the first workpiece. The mask structures are created on the bearing side of the clamping element facing the first workpiece or on the second contour side of the first workpiece facing the second workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Leister Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Didden, Carsten Wenzlau, Pascal Pfleger
  • Methods for manufacturing and assembling dual material tissue interface for negative-pressure therapy
    Patent number: 11179275
    Abstract: A dressing for treating tissue with negative pressure may be a composite of dressing layers, including a release film, perforated gel layer, a perforated polymer film, a manifold, and an adhesive cover. A method of manufacturing the dressing may comprise providing a first layer, such as the gel layer, on a substrate, perforating the first layer on the substrate to create a plurality of apertures in the first layer, and creating an index of the plurality of apertures in the first layer. A laser can be calibrated based on the index. A second layer, such as the polymer film, may be coupled to the first layer, and a plurality of slots can be cut in the second layer with the laser. Each of the slots can be cut through one of the apertures in the first layer based on the index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: KCI Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Locke, John Elwood
  • Method for manufacturing heating element
    Patent number: 11178730
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a heating element and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Eun Myung, Sera Kim, Jooyeon Kim, Chang Yoon Lim, Seung Heon Lee, Mun Seop Song, Kwang Joo Lee, Ji Young Hwang
  • Electromagnetic radiation curable pipe liner and method of making and installing the same
    Patent number: 11173634
    Abstract: A liner for being cured by electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength in a curing range. The liner includes an outer portion. The outer portion includes a tube of impermeable material that is opaque to electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength in the curing range. An inner portion includes a tube of felt internally coated with an impermeable coating that is transparent to electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength in the curing range. The inner portion is inside the outer portion. A middle portion includes a tube of impregnable material between the inner and outer portions. Curable polymer that is curable by electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength in the curing range impregnates the felt and the impregnable material. Methods of manufacturing and installing the liner are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: INA Acquisition Corp
    Inventors: Charles Free, Abu Abraham, Yevgeny Zaltsman, James Rothe
  • Method for bonding using one-component epoxy adhesive mixtures
    Patent number: 11173672
    Abstract: Adhesive bonds are applied by mixing two adhesives with different properties and dispensing them to form bondlines between substrate pairs. The adhesives are then thermally cured and cooled. Varying the mix ratio permits one to vary the properties of the adhesive mixture so formed for use in bonding many different substrate pairs. The process allows potentially infinite variations of adhesive properties between those of the respective starting adhesives, simply by varying the mix ratio. The invention is especially adapted for use in manufacturing settings in which adhesives are to be applied in multiple places, but differing adhesive properties are needed among the various bonding areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: DDP SPECIALTY ELECTRONIC MATERIALS US, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Lutz, Daniel Schneider, Irene Maeder, Marcel Aschwanden, Michael Ras
  • Methods for manufacturing and assembling dual material tissue interface for negative-pressure therapy
    Patent number: 11141316
    Abstract: A dressing for treating tissue with negative pressure may be a composite of dressing layers, including a release film, perforated gel layer, a perforated polymer film, a manifold, and an adhesive cover. A method of manufacturing the dressing may comprise providing a first layer, such as the gel layer, on a substrate, perforating the first layer on the substrate to create a plurality of apertures in the first layer, and creating an index of the plurality of apertures in the first layer. A laser can be calibrated based on the index. A second layer, such as the polymer film, may be coupled to the first layer, and a plurality of slots can be cut in the second layer with the laser. Each of the slots can be cut through one of the apertures in the first layer based on the index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: KCI Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Locke, John Elwood
  • Method for making three dimensional structures using photolithography and an adhesively bondable material
    Patent number: 11143959
    Abstract: A method for making three dimensional structures using photolithography and an adhesively bondable material is disclosed. A thiol-ene-epoxy (OSTE(?)) material undergoes a first reaction upon partial irradiation in a pattern to become a partially cross-linked polymer network. Non-cross-linked parts are dissolved in a solvent and removed. An initiator is added to activate the cross-linked polymer network so that it becomes adhesive and can then be covalently bound to another object to form an article. The method can be utilized to manufacture an article with a complicated three dimensional shape in an easy way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: MERCENE LABS AB
    Inventors: Carl Fredrik Carlborg, Tommy Haraldsson, Henrik Mikaelsson, Noriyuki Masuda
  • Articles and components with UV radiation curable elastomeric materials and methods of making the same
    Patent number: 11136475
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an article that includes providing an element formed of an elastomeric material or composite; placing the surface of the element in contact with a substrate; and affixing the element to the substrate. The element includes an uncured, partially cured, or fully cured UV radiation curable elastomeric material and optionally one or more regions of an adhesive material. The element is affixed to the substrate while the surface of the element is in contact with a surface of the substrate by increasing a temperature of at least a portion of the element, applying pressure to at least a portion of the element, or exposing the uncured or partially cured UV radiation curable material to UV radiation in an amount and for a duration of time that is sufficient to partially cure the uncured material or to fully cure the partially cured material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Constantinou
  • Method for reversible bonding
    Patent number: 11130293
    Abstract: A method of reversible bonding based on deposition of a coating capable of an indefinite number of reversible bonding cycles as enable by bond exchange reactions is provided. This is accomplished by deposition of crosslinkable aromatic polyester oligomers on a substrate. The coated article is heated to produce a fully thermoset network by condensation reactions. The fully thermoset network has access to a type of bond exchange reaction within the resin that permits the dynamic exchange of ester bonds within the resin. To execute the bonding step a source of heat is applied at a pressure. To debond, there is applied force in tension and/or shear that causes the coating to fail. The reversibility of the process is contingent on the cohesive (rather than adhesive) failure of the coating—that is, the coating must not delaminate from the substrate. Failure must occur in the resin of the reversible coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: ATSP Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob L. Meyer, Pixiang Lan
  • Articles and methods for controlled bonding of thin sheets with carriers
    Patent number: 11123954
    Abstract: A method of controllably bonding a thin sheet having a thin sheet bonding surface with a carrier having a carrier bonding surface, by depositing a carbonaceous surface modification layer onto at least one of the thin sheet bonding surface and the carrier bonding surface, incorporating polar groups with the surface modification layer, and then bonding the thin sheet bonding surface to the carrier bonding surface via the surface modification layer. The surface modification layer may include a bulk carbonaceous layer having a first polar group concentration and a surface layer having a second polar group concentration, wherein the second polar group concentration is higher than the first polar group concentration. The surface modification layer deposition and the treatment thereof may be performed by plasma polymerization techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kaveh Adib, Robert Alan Bellman, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Theresa Chang, Shiwen Liu, Robert George Manley, Prantik Mazumder
  • Method for manufacturing optical member
    Patent number: 11124676
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical member which can improve bonding properties between a first member having a light transmitting property and a second member. The method includes a precuring step of forming a photocuring precured resin layer on a surface of the first member or the second member, the photocuring precured resin layer having a thin film on a side to be bonded with the second member or the first member, a bonding step of bonding the first member and the second member via the precured resin layer, and a final curing step of final-curing the precured resin layer to form a light transmitting resin layer. It is thereby possible to reduce the elastic modulus of the precured resin layer, suppress protrusion during bonding, and improve bonding properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Sugawara, Naoki Hayashi, Tsukasa Nakamura
  • Article with UV radiation curable material adhered to textile and method of making the same
    Patent number: 11122847
    Abstract: An article of apparel, sporting equipment, or footwear incorporates a component formed of a UV radiation curable material. In the case of an article of footwear, the UV radiation curable material may be formed into an outsole. The method of manufacturing such articles includes shaping one or more pieces of an ultraviolet (UV) radiation curable material; placing the shaped UV radiation curable material in direct contact with a surface of a textile; using heat or pressure or both to adhere the shaped UV radiation curable material to the surface of the textile, and curing at least a portion of the shaped UV radiation curable material adhered to the surface of the textile by exposing the shaped UV radiation curable material to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, thereby forming an article comprising UV radiation cured material bonded to the surface of the textile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Constantinou
  • Devices, systems and methods for electrostatic force enhanced semiconductor bonding
    Patent number: 11114328
    Abstract: Various embodiments of microelectronic devices and methods of manufacturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for enhancing wafer bonding includes positioning a substrate assembly on a unipolar electrostatic chuck in direct contact with an electrode, electrically coupling a conductor to a second substrate positioned on top of the first substrate, and applying a voltage to the electrode, thereby creating a potential differential between the first substrate and the second substrate that generates an electrostatic force between the first and second substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shu Qin, Ming Zhang
  • Micro-channel device and method for manufacturing micro-channel device
    Patent number: 11110451
    Abstract: To provide a high-quality and high-performance micro-channel device which can be manufactured by a simple method. Provided is a micro-channel device used in analyzing a sample. The micro-channel device includes at least two substrates and an elastic film interposed between the two substrates. The substrates are thermally fused to the elastic film in at least a part thereof. Also provided is a method for manufacturing a micro-channel device used in analyzing a sample. The method includes a surface activation step of activating a joining surface of a substrate and/or an elastic film, a lamination step of laminating the elastic film between at least two of the substrates, and a thermal fusion step of thermally fusing the substrates to the elastic film in at least a part thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Aki, Masaru Fujii, Toshihiro Nakajima, Masanori Okazaki, Tomomi Yukumoto
  • System and method for direct infrared (IR) laser welding
    Patent number: 11110665
    Abstract: A method of welding at least two plastic components together is disclosed. The two plastic components are welded together at respective joining surfaces. The method comprises directing at least one infrared (IR) laser beam along the joining surfaces of the at least two plastic components. The IR laser beam heats the joining surfaces of the at least two plastic components to a welding temperature. The method also includes clamping the at least two plastic components together at the joining surfaces to create a weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SOGEFI ENGINE SYSTEMS USA, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Thompson, Yannis Maudet, Nuno Demetrio Soeiro