Patents Examined by David Sample
  • Patent number: 11673292
    Abstract: A fiber preform for use in a resin transfer molding or liquid composite molding process and process of making the same are provided. The preform includes a substrate, a fiber bundle arranged on the substrate in a predetermined pattern and attached to the substrate by a plurality of stitches of a thread. The fiber preform is capable of being pre-formed into a three-dimensional shape. The fiber preform along with a sheet of preformed thermoset resin that impregnates at least a portion of the fiber preform forms a composite material. The fiber preform reinforces areas of stress concentration of a core to form a vehicle component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: J. & P. Coats Limited
    Inventor: Probir Kumar Guha
  • Patent number: 11673826
    Abstract: A coated glass or glass ceramic substrate includes a substrate with a surface area and a coating on that surface area. The coating includes a glass matrix and IR-reflecting pigments. The IR-reflecting pigments have a TSR value of at least 20%, as determined according to ASTM G 173. The coating, at a wavelength of 1500 nm, exhibits a remission of at least 35%, as measured according to ISO 13468.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Yvonne Menke-Berg, Vera Steigenberger, Adam O'Ryan, Matthew Moose, Michael Schwall, Stephanie Mangold, Matthias Bockmeyer
  • Patent number: 11668800
    Abstract: A detection device includes (a) a LiDAR sensing device and (b) a housing enclosing the LiDAR sensing device, the housing including at least one cover lens. At least a portion of the cover lens is made of at least one glass sheet having an absorption coefficient lower than 5 m?1 in the wavelength range from 750 to 1650 nm. The cover lens helps to protect the LiDAR sensing device from external degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Yannick Sartenaer, Quentin Fraselle, Thomas Lambricht, Jean-Francois Noulet, Sebastien Caliaro
  • Patent number: 11661380
    Abstract: A coated article including an article having a surface; an oxidation resistant bond coat layer deposited on the surface, the oxidation resistant bond coat layer comprising a metal silicide phase, a crystalline ceramic phase and an amorphous ceramic phase, wherein the metal silicide phase has an aspect ratio greater than 1:1 but less than 50:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Wesley Jackson, James T. Beals, Xia Tang, Xuan Liu, David A. Litton, Brian T. Hazel
  • Patent number: 11661649
    Abstract: Disclosed are a component for a fuel injector and a method for coating the same. The component for the fuel injector may include a base material, a bonding layer laminated on the base material, a support layer laminated on the outer surface of the bonding layer, and an NbSiCN functional layer including an NbCN layer and an SiCN layer and alternately laminated on the outer surface of the support layer, thereby reducing friction, high hardness, shock resistance, heat resistance, and durability of the component for the fuel injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Hyundai Kefico Corporation
    Inventors: Han Su Park, Heon Joon Park, Sung Chul Cha
  • Patent number: 11655194
    Abstract: Coated components, along with methods of their formation, are provided. The coated component includes a ceramic substrate having a surface; an intermediate layer on the surface of the ceramic substrate; and an environmental barrier coating on the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer includes a carbon-sink material that inhibits accumulation of free carbon from a carbon-containing species within the intermediate layer, the ceramic substrate, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Krishan Lal Luthra, Glen Harold Kirby, Julin Wan, Larry Steven Rosenzweig
  • Patent number: 11655178
    Abstract: A glass-based article includes a first major surface and a first compressive stress region extending to a first depth of compression from the first major surface. The glass-based article includes a second major surface including a first surface portion and one or more edge surface portions recessed from the first surface portion. The glass-based article includes a second compressive stress region extending to a second depth of compression from the first surface portion. Additionally, methods of manufacturing a glass-based article are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumalee Likitvanichkul Fagan, Jason Thomas Harris, Jean Philippe Michel Peraud, Rohit Rai
  • Patent number: 11639307
    Abstract: A glass sheet having asymmetric chemical strengthening is disclosed and described. The examples described herein are directed to a cover glass for an electronic device and other glass components that may be used as enclosure elements or may form an enclosure. Within the glass component, localized compressive stress regions may be formed on opposite sides of the glass component, which may help arrest or redirect propagating cracks or defects in the glass. The opposing compressive stress regions may also help maintain the overall flatness of the component while increasing strength and/or impact resistance of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: James R. Wilson, Christopher D. Jones, Christopher C. Bartlow, Aidan R. Doan
  • Patent number: 11639310
    Abstract: Glass-based articles are provided that exhibit improved fracture resistance. The relationships between properties attributable to the glass composition and stress profile of the glass-based articles are provided that indicate improved fracture resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Jennifer Lynn Hunt, Peter Joseph Lezzi, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev, Charlene Marie Smith, Ross Johnson Stewart
  • Patent number: 11639308
    Abstract: A plate-like chemically strengthened glass having a compression stress layer on the surface of the glass, wherein the compressive stress value (CS0) at the glass surface of is 500 MPa or more, the plate thickness (t) is 400 ?m or more, the compressive stress depth of layer (DOL) is (t×0.15) ?m or more, the compressive stress values (CS1) and (CS2) when the depth from the glass surface is ¼ and ½, respectively, are 50 MPa or more, m1 expressed by {m1=(CS1?CS2/(DOL/4?DOL/2)} is ?1.5 MPa/?m or more, m2 expressed by {m2=(CS2/(DOL/2?DOL)} is 0 MPa/?m or less, and m2 is less than m1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Imakita, Suguru Murayama
  • Patent number: 11634357
    Abstract: In embodiments, a precursor glass composition comprises from about 55 wt. % to about 80 wt. % SiO2; from about 2 wt. % to about 20 wt. % Al2O3; from about 5 wt. % to about 20 wt. % Li2O; greater than 0 wt % to about 3 wt. % Na2O; a non-zero amount of P2O5 less than or equal to 4 wt. %; and from about 0.2 wt. % to about 15 wt. % ZrO2. In embodiments, ZrO2 (wt. %)+P2O5 (wt. %) is greater than 3. When the precursor glass composition is converted to a glass-ceramic article, the glass-ceramic article may include grains having a longest dimension of less than 100 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: George Halsey Beall, Qiang Fu, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Patent number: 11634360
    Abstract: Ion-exchanged glass ceramic articles described herein have a stress that decreases with increasing distance according to a substantially linear function from a depth of about 0.07t to a depth of about 0.26t from the outer surface of the ion-exchanged glass ceramic article from a compressive stress to a tensile stress. The stress transitions from the compressive stress to the tensile stress at a depth of from about 0.18t to about 0.25t from the outer surface of the ion-exchanged glass ceramic article. An absolute value of a maximum compressive stress at the outer surface of the ion-exchanged glass article is from 1.8 to 2.2 times an absolute value of a maximum central tension (CT) of the ion-exchanged glass article, and the glass ceramic article has a fracture toughness of 1 MPa?m or more as measured according to the double cantilever beam method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Ryan Claude Andrews, Albert Joseph Fahey, Lisa Marie Noni, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev, Charlene Marie Smith, Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Shelby Kerin Wilson
  • Patent number: 11623284
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool including a tool substrate containing WC crystal grains and insulating grains, and a coating layer composed of a multiple nitride of Ti, Al, and V and disposed on the surface of the tool substrate. The multiple nitride is represented by a compositional formula: TiaAlbVcN satisfying the following relations: 0.25?a?0.35, 0.64?b?0.74, 0<c?0.06, and a+b+c=1 wherein each of a, b, and c represents an atomic proportion. The coating layer is characterized by exhibiting a peak attributed to a hexagonal crystal phase and a peak attributed to a cubic crystal phase as observed through X-ray diffractometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shota Nozaki, Ryoji Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11618082
    Abstract: Ground surface comprising a substrate (110) having a Young's modulus of between 100 and 1000 GPa, and in which the ground surface has, on a working surface (120), a Vickers hardness of between 1300 and 10 000 kgf/mm2, and/or a surface coating forming the working surface, in which the surface coating contains amorphous carbon and/or titanium nitride and/or chromium nitride and/or tungsten carbide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Melaine Guillou, Florian Bremond, Andre-Clement Gaucerand
  • Patent number: 11613104
    Abstract: The invention concerns a laminated glazing with an optically transparent area (22) comprising (i) at least one inner (13) and one outer (14) glass sheets, each having an internal and an external faces, and being high level of near infrared radiation transmission glass sheets, (ii) at least one thermoplastic interlayer (20) to laminate the at least the inner and the outer glass sheets, comprising at least a first zone (11) and a second zone (12), the second zone (12) being delimited by the optically transparent area (22), and (iii) at least ne optical sensor device (2) provided on the inner face of the inner pane integrated in the optically transparent area (22). According to the present invention, the thermoplastic interlayer comprises a second zone (12) delimited by the optically transparent area where the laminated glazing has a value of infrared transmission TIR1 higher than the value of infrared transmission TIR2 of the first zone (11) for the working wavelengths of the optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Meijie Li, Yannick Sartenaer, Quentin Fraselle, Marek Novotny
  • Patent number: 11613103
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure pertain to a strengthened glass article including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface defining a thickness (t) of about less than about 1.1 mm, a compressive stress layer extending from the first surface to a depth of compression (DOC) of about 0.1·t or greater, such that when the glass article fracture, it breaks into a plurality of fragments having an aspect ratio of about 5 or less. In some embodiments, the glass article exhibits an equibiaxial flexural strength of about 20 kgf or greater, after being abraded with 90-grit SiC particles at a pressure of 25 psi for 5 seconds. Devices incorporating the glass articles described herein and methods for making the same are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven Edward DeMartino, Michelle Dawn Fabian, Jeffrey Todd Kohli, Jennifer Lynn Lyon, Charlene Marie Smith, Zhongzhi Tang
  • Patent number: 11613100
    Abstract: A noise suppression sheet comprises a pair of metal magnetic layers and a non-magnetic metal layer interposed between the pair of metal magnetic layers, and can achieve high magnetic shield characteristics on both surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yamada, Atsushi Sato, Makoto Orikasa
  • Patent number: 11608289
    Abstract: A glazing includes a glass substrate on which is deposited a coating including at least one layer, the layer being formed from a material including metal nanoparticles dispersed in an inorganic matrix of an oxide, in which the metal nanoparticles are made of a metal chosen from the group formed by silver, gold, platinum, copper and nickel or of an alloy formed from at least two of these metals, in which the matrix including an oxide of at least one element chosen from the group of titanium, silicon and zirconium and in which the atomic ratio M/Me in the material is less than 1.5, M representing all atoms of the elements of the group of titanium, silicon and zirconium present in the layer and Me representing all of the atoms of the metals of the group formed by silver, gold, platinum, copper and nickel present in the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Liubov Magdenko-Savourey
  • Patent number: 11607861
    Abstract: A composite material for fire protection comprises: a) an inorganic fibre core comprising inorganic fibres interlocked or entangled to form a coherent body resistant against separation laminated between b) at least two layers of phyllosilicate insulation the material further comprising a barrier integral to the material to hinder ingress of humidity to edges of the inorganic fibre core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Morgan Korea Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Seob Kyo Jeong, Jeong Mo Shin, Jun Sik Lee, Dean Murray
  • Patent number: 11607958
    Abstract: Embodiments of an article comprising a cold-formed glass substrate in a curved shape, a plurality of separate mechanical retainers, and a frame are disclosed. The cold-formed glass substrate has a first major surface, and a second major surface opposing the first major surface. In one more embodiments, the plurality of separate mechanical retainers are attached to the second major surface of the cold-formed glass substrate. The mechanical retainers may be attached to the frame to define a position for each of the plurality of mechanical retainers, such that the mechanical retainers define the curved shape. Embodiments of processes to form such articles are also provided. Such processes can include attaching a plurality of separate mechanical retainers to a flexible glass substrate such that the glass substrate maintains its flexibility, and attaching the mechanical retainers to a frame, such that the mechanical retainers attached to the frame define a cold-formed curved shape for the flexible glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Atul Kumar, Cheng-Chung Li, William Michael Seiderman, Yawei Sun