Patents Examined by Ethan A Utt
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Patent number: 10815395Abstract: A decorative sheet according to one aspect of the present disclosure comprises a decorative plate and an adhesive layer disposed on a first side of the decorative plate. The decorative plate comprises (A) a decorative layer disposed on a second side from the first side, (B) a core layer made of a prepreg containing a fiber base material, and (C) a balancing layer including mixed paper containing an endothermic metal hydroxide as a base material.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: AICA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Shido, Kazuki Kouyama, Keisuke Shitan
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Patent number: 10815382Abstract: A stain disappearing laminate of the present invention comprises a sebum absorption and diffusion layer 3 and a sebum attachment inhibition layer 2 laminated on a base material in this order. The sebum attachment inhibition layer 2 repels sebum 5 and reduces attachment of the sebum, as well as allows attached sebum to pass through to the sebum attachment inhibition layer side, and the sebum absorption and diffusion layer 3 absorbs the sebum 5 passed through the sebum attachment inhibition layer 2 and diffuses the sebum within the sebum absorption and diffusion layer itself.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Noguchi, Ryou Murakami, Toshiya Shibukawa
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Patent number: 10807163Abstract: An additively manufactured component includes a heat transfer augmentation feature with a surface finish between about 125-900 micro inches.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Joe Ott, Stanley J Funk, Roger O Coffey, Shawn Stempinski, John J Rup, Jr., Lyutsia Dautova, Dennis M Moura
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Patent number: 10807120Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a foam tape product that does not require a release paper or other release material to prevent sticking on or within itself upon rolling. A method of manufacturing the foam tape product and kit are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Rubberlite, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Dale Goad, Christopher Michael Brown
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Patent number: 10800086Abstract: A structure at least one stripe of material having a length, wherein a first stripe has a varying width along the length.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventor: Scott E. Solberg
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Patent number: 10792886Abstract: A decorative film and an electronic device including the same are provided. A decorative film includes: a base layer; an adhesive layer on a surface of the base layer; a pattern layer on an opposite surface of the base layer; a coating layer on the pattern layer; and a printing layer on the coating layer, and a camera hole penetrates the printing layer, the coating layer, the pattern layer, the base layer, and the adhesive layer continuously.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kyu Hyeong Cheon
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Patent number: 10780675Abstract: This invention provides a gas barrier film, which can suppress blocking and winding deviation, and an optical film using the gas barrier film. The gas barrier film includes a flexible substrate and an inorganic thin film layer formed on at least one surface of the flexible substrate. A static friction coefficient between one surface of the gas barrier film and the other surface is not less than 0.85 and not more than 2.0, and when a 50 mm-square portion cut from the gas barrier film is placed on a horizontal surface such that a central portion of the 50 mm-square portion is in contact with the horizontal surface, an average value of distances from the horizontal surface to four corners of the 50 mm-square portion is not more than 2 mm.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Toshiyuki Ueno, Yasuhiro Yamashita, Mitsunori Nodono, Satoshi Okamoto
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Patent number: 10767032Abstract: An auxetic metamaterial including a plurality of interconnected building blocks that are deformable between a collapsed position and an expanded position upon the application of a load. The building blocks are bistable, and define a stable state in both the collapsed position and the expanded position. In the stable state, the building blocks maintain the collapsed position or the expanded position, even after removal of the load applied on the building block.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITYInventors: Damiano Pasini, Ahmad Rafsanjani Abbasi
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Patent number: 10759372Abstract: Soft touch interior trim for vehicles having a substrate, a soft touch layer and a double layered synthetic skin having a low weight, and comprising a decorative front layer and a supporting back layer with a filler. The synthetic skin has a reduced weight, and a good behavior when the airbag placed under the interior trim is triggered, in order to ensure a reliable release of the airbag and at the same time fulfilling the high quality aesthetic requirements usually demanded for this kind of interior parts, even after years of use.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: GRUPO ANTOLÍN-INGENIERÍA, S.A.Inventors: Walter Deininger, Alfred Peintinger
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Patent number: 10745531Abstract: The present invention provides a film having excellent heat resistance and a small difference between the permittivity at low temperatures and the permittivity at high temperatures. The present invention provides a film having a relative permittivity of 8 or more at a frequency of 1 kHz at 30° C., wherein the rate of change is ?8 to +8% as calculated from a relative permittivity A at a frequency of 1 kHz at 30° C. and a relative permittivity B at a frequency of 1 kHz at 150° C. according to the following formula: Rate of change(%)=(B?A)/A×100.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kanemura, Eri Mukai, Takeshi Hazama, Tetsuhiro Kodani, Nobuyuki Komatsu, Hisako Nakamura, Kouji Yokotani, Mayuko Tatemichi, Akio Higaki
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Patent number: 10723538Abstract: The present disclosure provides vacuum insulated articles having two—or more—insulated volumes at reduced pressure. An article may include a first vent communicating with a first insulating space, a second vent communicating with a second insulating space, a first circular insulation seal sealing the first insulating space at the first vent; and a second circular insulation seal sealing the second insulating space at the second vent. Also provided are methods of fabricating vacuum insulated articles.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Concept Group LLCInventor: Aarne H Reid
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Patent number: 10710348Abstract: Methods and apparatus to increase fire resistance and fracture toughness of a composite structure are described. An example apparatus includes a composite structure formed by an innermost ply and a fire-resistant ply including a first additive to increase a flammability resistance of the structure, where the fire-resistant ply is an inner ply of the composite structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Andrew L. Bauer, Mark E. Rogalski
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Patent number: 10703860Abstract: An insulating coating material including a polyimide film, and an adhesion layer on at least one side of a polyimide film. The polyimide film has a weight of 23.5 g or less per 1 m2 and a loop stiffness value of 0.45 g/cm or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasutaka Kondo, Makoto Tawada, Kazuhiro Ono
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Patent number: 10639655Abstract: A robotic electrostatic painting system includes a barrier formed from an electrical insulating material and disposed between adjacent reservoirs for holding a conductive paint used in an electrostatic painting operation. The barrier is shaped and dimensioned with a central plate and upper and lower flanges to block every straight line path between the reservoirs to electrostatically separate the reservoirs and prevent the formation of a ground path or short circuit when there is a voltage difference between the reservoirs. The electrostatic separation of the reservoirs further prevents deterioration of conductive components of the robotic electrostatic painting system.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Douglas B. Waineo, Ernest M. Otani
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Patent number: 10611118Abstract: In at least some aspects, an auxetic structure includes a first sheet defining therein a plurality of a plurality of structural elements projecting from the first sheet, the plurality of structural elements being arranged to provide a negative Poisson's ratio, and a second sheet disposed adjacent the first sheet to define a first internal cavity between the first sheet and the second sheet. In yet other aspects, one or more additional sheets may be advantageously provided to provide a multi-layered structure having auxetic properties.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignees: President and Fellows of Harvard College, Siemens Canada LimitedInventors: Katia Bertoldi, Matthew Christopher Innes, Farhad Javid, Minh Quan Pham, Megan Schaenzer, Ali Shanian
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Patent number: 10562283Abstract: Provided is an acrylic resin laminate film which has an excellent bonding property, resistance to water blushing, and an excellent external appearance. This acrylic resin laminate film is provided with: an acrylic resin layer (I) comprising an acrylic resin composition (A); and an acrylic resin layer (II) comprising a resin composition (B) that contains a reactive group-containing acrylic resin (B-1). (B) contains 10-100 mass % of (B-1), and 0-90 mass % of (B-2), which is an acrylic resin other than (B-1), with respect to 100 mass % of the total of (B-1), and (B-2), and further contains 0-50 parts by mass of (C), which is an additive other than (B-1), and (B-2), with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total of (B-1), and (B-2). (B-1) contains a monomer unit which has a substituent that reacts with an amino group, or a methylol group. The content of the monomer unit that has the reactive substituent is 3 mass % or more with respect to 100 mass % of (B).Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Fuminori Nakaya, Keiko Shouji, Junichi Abe
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Patent number: 10535628Abstract: Methods for die attachment of multichip and single components may involve printing a sintering paste on a substrate or on the back side of a die. Printing may involve stencil printing, screen printing, or a dispensing process. Paste may be printed on the back side of an entire wafer prior to dicing, or on the back side of an individual die. Sintering films may also be fabricated and transferred to a wafer, die or substrate. A post-sintering step may increase throughput.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Alpha Assembly Solutions Inc.Inventors: Oscar Khaselev, Bin Mo, Michael T. Marczi, Bawa Singh, Monnir Boureghda
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Patent number: 10525661Abstract: In a nonwoven fabric, uniaxially oriented bodies each including a thermoplastic resin layer and first and second adhesive layers respectively stacked on both surfaces of the thermoplastic resin layer and having melting points lower than that of a thermoplastic resin constituting the thermoplastic resin layer are warp-weft laminated with the first or second adhesive layer interposed between the uniaxially oriented bodies in such a manner that orientation axes thereof intersect each other. The nonwoven fabric has a mass per unit area of 5 to 13 g/m2, a layer composition ratio of the first adhesive layer, the thermoplastic resin layer, and the second adhesive layer in each of the uniaxially oriented bodies is 20/60/20 to 30/40/30, and an average value of bending resistances by a cantilever method is less than or equal to 50 mm.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Tokuhito Suzuki, Takashi Onodera, Jun Yamada
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Patent number: 10500795Abstract: In a method for connecting an attachment part to a structural part of a bodywork, a wall of the structural part is formed to at least partly encircle a region of the structural part. A form element is arranged to a main body of the attachment part. The attachment part is placed in the region of the structural part such that the form element touches the wall of the structural part, and the attachment part is pushed into the region, thereby causing the form element to move in relation to the main body of the attachment part until reaching an aperture in the wall of the structural part so that the form element moves into the aperture and is arranged therein to thereby position the attachment part in the region of the structural part.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Carsten Bär, Peter Wurster
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Patent number: 10493732Abstract: A plastic film for use as a temporary vehicle seat cover to be installed by an automotive manufacturer. The seat cover protects the vehicle's seat from dirt before the vehicle is purchased by a consumer. The plastic film also has minimal acoustic properties so that the vehicle seat does not interfere with routine automotive acoustic testing known as the Buzz, Squeak, and Rattle test. The plastic film also has a high degree of visual clarity to allow a potential consumer to view the vehicle's seat. The plastic film further has a differential of the coefficient of friction on the opposed sides of the film to minimize movement and noise of the film when a driver is in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Inventors: David James Blankenhagen, Michael Neff Tramontini