Patents Examined by David Sample
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Patent number: 11332403Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle-mounted display device disposed in an interior member of a vehicle. The vehicle-mounted display device of the invention includes: a display panel; a cover glass covering the display panel; a housing accommodating the display panel; and a holding portion holding a position of the housing, in which the cover glass is a tempered glass having a thickness being 0.5 to 2.5 mm, a thickness of a compressive stress layer being 10 ?m or more, and a surface compressive stress of the compressive stress layer being 650 MPa or higher, and when the thickness (unit: mm) of the cover glass is represented by x and an energy absorption rate (unit: %) of the holding portion is represented by y, Expression (1) is satisfied, and impact resistance of the cover glass is excellent: y??37.1×ln(x)+53.7??(1).Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Kyohei Hashimoto, Atsushi Inoue, Yasuhiro Inoue, Yasumasa Kato, Yasuji Fukasawa, Yusuke Kobayashi, Masaaki Konishi
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Patent number: 11332643Abstract: Provided is an adhesive member including: a base material having an uneven shape on at least one surface; and a surface layer covering at least a portion of the surface having the uneven shape on the base material.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Jun Kamada, Tomoya Matayoshi, Michio Eriguchi, Kaichiro Haruta, Kenichi Fujii, Takashi Unezaki, Kazuo Kohmura
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Patent number: 11319240Abstract: The invention concerns a trim element for a motor vehicle comprising at least one glass sheet having an absorption coefficient lower than 5 m?1 in the wavelength range from 1051 nm to 1650 nm and having an external and an internal faces. According to the present invention, an infrared-based remote sensing device in the wavelength range from 1051 nm to 1650 nm, is placed behind the internal face of the glass sheet.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPEInventors: Thomas Lambricht, Yannick Sartenaer, Quentin Fraselle, Nicolas Chorine, Maxime Collignon
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Patent number: 11324149Abstract: Provided are a thin electromagnetic shielding sheet and an electronic device having the same. The thin electromagnetic shielding sheet includes: a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape including a fiber-accumulating type substrate, formed by accumulation of a plurality of fibers and having a plurality of pores, and a metal coating layer on an outer circumferential surface of each of the plurality of fibers, and electrically conductive adhesive layers formed on both surfaces of the fiber-accumulating type substrate, and made of an electrically conductive adhesive material filled in the plurality of pores and electrically connected by an applied pressure; a metal layer which is adhered to the electrically conductive adhesive layer on one surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape to shield electromagnetic waves; and an insulating layer formed on the metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: AMOGREENTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: In Yong Seo, Ui Young Jeong
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Patent number: 11319244Abstract: In embodiments, a glass-ceramic article includes 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; a non-zero amount of P2O5 less than or equal to 6 wt. %; and from about 3 wt. % to less than 8 wt. % ZrO2. The glass-ceramic grains having a longest dimension of less than 100 nm.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: George Halsey Beall, Qiang Fu, Charlene Marie Smith
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Patent number: 11318702Abstract: A method of producing a core for a composite panel along a continuous production line is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a thermoplastic sheet of material onto the production line and vacuum forming the thermoplastic sheet of material into alternating pairs of matching shapes, providing the thermoplastic sheet of material with alternating pairs of matching shapes onto upper and lower conveyor belts that are operating at lower speeds than the production line causing the pairs of matching shapes to bunch up and form a honeycomb structure, and cutting the honeycomb structure into discrete sections with spaces therebetween. A plurality of reinforced plastic bands with gaps therebetween are provided and the honeycomb structure is aligned with the gaps. The plurality of reinforced plastic bands and the honeycomb structure are secured together.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Wabash National, L.P.Inventor: Leonard W. Baker
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Patent number: 11312656Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass satisfying A1 [MPa] of 600 or more, A2 [MPa] of 50 or more, B1 [?m] of 6 or less, B2 [?m] of 10% or more of t [?m], C [MPa] of ?30 or less, and A1/B1 [MPa/?m] of 100 or more when the chemically strengthened glass has a thickness t [?m] and a profile of a stress value [MPa] at a depth x [?m] from a glass surface is approximated by an error least-squares method in a region of 0<x<3t/8 using the following function while defining a compressive stress as positive and a tensile stress as negative: A1erfc(x/B1)+A2erfc(x/B2)+C, in which erfc is a complementary error function, and relations of A1>A2 and B1<B2 are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Kenji Imakita, Suguru Murayama, Izuru Kashima, Kazuki Kanehara
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Patent number: 11312657Abstract: Glass-based articles are manufactured by a unique ion exchange process that results in glass-based articles having improved stress profiles with higher stress values at moderate depths. A medium of the ion exchange process includes ions of two or more alkali metals of two or more alkali metal oxides in a base composition of a glass-based substrate in a ratio such that ions of each alkali metal are in chemical equilibrium with each of the respective alkali metals of the alkali metal oxides in the base glass composition.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventor: Vitor Marino Schneider
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Patent number: 11312533Abstract: A structural element (10) for forming a panel, with an upper plane (12) and lower plane (14) which are parallel and deformed along their plane at intervals by pods (16) which extrude toward the opposing plane with their internal faces mating to one another.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Gridesic Holdings LimitedInventor: Tristan Melland
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Patent number: 11312662Abstract: A honeycomb structure (110) includes intersecting porous walls (106). Inlet channels (108i) and outlet channels (108o) are formed by the intersecting porous walls (106), wherein the inlet channels (108i) comprise inlet hydraulic diameters (HDi) and the outlet channels (108o) comprise outlet hydraulic diameters (HDo). The inlet channels (108i) comprise inlet corners (220i) with inlet corner radii (Ri) and the outlet channels (108o) comprise outlet corners (2200) with outlet corner radii (Ro). A centerpost (124) is defined by adjacent opposing inlet corners (220i) of two of the inlet channels (108i) and adjacent opposing outlet corners (2200) of two of the outlet channels (108o). A first diagonal length (D1) is a shortest distance between the opposing outlet corners (220o) of the two outlet channels (108o) and a second diagonal length (D2) is a shortest distance between the opposing inlet corners (220i) of the two inlet channels (108i).Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Thomas William Brew, Priyank Paras Jain, Konstantin Vladimirovich Khodosevich, John M Larson
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Patent number: 11306019Abstract: Alkali boroaluminosilicate glasses with high resistance to crack initiation and damage due to sharp impact are provided. The glass compositions have melting and forming temperatures that allow forming the glass into sheets via float-based processes while still allowing for the glass to be efficiently ion exchanged. The glass compositions contain MgO, and when ion exchanged, have a Vickers indentation crack initiation load of at least about 10-15 kgf.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Qiang Fu, Xiaoju Guo
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Patent number: 11304476Abstract: Variable stiffness apparatuses using an interconnected dual layer fluid-filled cell array. One example of the present apparatuses comprises: a substrate having a first side and a second side; and a plurality of structures coupled to the substrate, where each structure comprises: a flexible first portion having a first end, a second end, and a sidewall extending between the first end and the second end, the first portion defining a first chamber; and a second portion having a first end, a second end, and a sidewall extending between the first end and the second end, the second portion defining a second chamber in fluid communication with the first chamber; where each of the plurality of structures is coupled to the substrate such that the first portion is disposed on the first side of the substrate, and the second chamber is disposed on the first side or the second side of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas SystemInventors: Muthu B. J. Wijesundara, Wei Carrigan, Mahdi Haghshenas-Jaryani
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Patent number: 11299420Abstract: A glass article including a first main surface, a second main surface, and an end face, in which: the glass article includes an antiglare layer on the first main surface side; the antiglare layer has a glass transition point Tg of equal to or less than a glass transition point Tg0 of the glass article at a center portion in a cross section along a thickness direction; and the first main surface has a protrusion diameter y (?m) that satisfies the relation (1) with respect to a 60° specular gloss (gloss value) x (%) of the first main surface, y>?0.0245x+3.65 (1).Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Takanori Fukushi, Satoshi Kanasugi, Toru Ikeda
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Patent number: 11303103Abstract: A flexible covering for wires, cables, and the like includes a flexible sleeve in a partially rolled natural state and capable of being unrolled, and at least one pliable rod or insert running through an entire length of the flexible sleeve capable of firmly holding the flexible sleeve in a bent shape while allowing the flexible sleeve to remain wrapped around a bundle of wires.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Inventor: Dale Kim
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Patent number: 11292224Abstract: A process for producing a sandwich component. A first covering layer is formed on a molding surface of a molding tool; a core is produced by building up a cell structure having a multiplicity of cells in a thickness direction on the first covering layer via an additive production process; and a second covering layer is formed on a deposition surface of the core, the surface being situated on the opposite side from the first covering layer. A core for a sandwich component is furthermore described, as is a sandwich component.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Volker Robrecht, Gilles Debril
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Patent number: 11287013Abstract: A conductive anti-static drive belt includes a first or drive surface having a plurality of tooth formations therein with a land portion formed between each adjacent pair of teeth. The drive surface is provided by a fabric layer having electrically conductive properties. The fabric layer has an interior surface opposite the drive surface. A second surface is provided opposite the drive surface. The second surface is provided by a polymeric body that conforms to and is mated with the interior surface of the fabric layer. At least one tensile reinforcement member is at least partially encased in the polymeric body and extends along the interior surface of the fabric C layer at each land portion throughout a loop formed by the belt. A conductive strand is at least partially encased in the polymeric body and extends along the interior surface of the fabric layer at each land portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: The Timken CompanyInventor: Daniel W. Virtue
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Patent number: 11284975Abstract: A workpiece unit including a workpiece body having a protruding portion; and a holding member arranged on at least a part of an outer side of the protruding portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Ito, Tetsuo Yamada
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Patent number: 11280238Abstract: Honeycomb bodies, honeycomb structures and extrusion dies, including a transition structural component. A honeycomb structure (100) includes a plurality of interconnected webs (106) defining a plurality of cell channels (108) in a honeycomb matrix (109) having a central axis (110) orthogonal to its transverse cross-section. Radial webs (116) diverge outwardly from the central axis (110). Radial webs (116) include a first radial web (150) and a second radial web (152). Tangential webs (120) are arranged concentrically with respect to the central axis (110), wherein at least one of the tangential webs (120) is a tangential transition web (142). At least one transition structural component (140) is located radially inward from the tangential transition web (124) and includes a first inclined web (144) having a first end (144A) coupled to the first radial web (150) and a second inclined web (146) having a first end (146A) coupled to the second radial web (152).Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Corning, IncorporatedInventor: Amit Halder
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Patent number: 11279661Abstract: A heat treated ceramic article includes a ceramic substrate and a ceramic coating on the ceramic substrate. The ceramic coating is a non-sintered ceramic coating that has a different composition than the ceramic substrate. The heat treated ceramic article further includes a transition layer between the ceramic substrate and the ceramic coating, the transition layer comprising first elements from the ceramic coating that have reacted with second elements from the ceramic substrate, wherein the transition layer has a thickness of about 0.1 microns to about 5 microns.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Ren-Guan Duan, Biraja P. Kanungo, Dmitry Lubomirsky
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Patent number: 11274057Abstract: Embodiments of glass composition including at least about 65 mol % SiO2, Al2O3 in the range from about 7 mol % to about 11 mol %, Na2O in the range from about 13 mol % to about 16 mol %; and a non-zero amount of one or more alkali earth metal oxides selected from MgO, CaO and ZnO, wherein the sum of the alkali earth metal oxides is up to about 6 mol %, are disclosed. The glass compositions can be processed using fusion forming processes and float forming processes and are ion exchangeable. Glass articles including such glass compositions and methods of forming such glass articles are also disclosed. The glass articles of one or more embodiments exhibit a Vickers indentation crack initiation load of at least 8 kgf.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Xiaoju Guo, Charlene Marie Smith