Patents Examined by Holly Rickman
  • Patent number: 11978577
    Abstract: An inductor includes a coil having a winding portion, and a pair of lead-out portions extended from the winding portion; a body containing the coil and including a magnetic portion, the magnetic portion including metallic particles and a first resin; and a pair of outer electrodes on a surface of the body. The body has a metallic-particle exposed region on its surface. Each outer electrode includes a conductive resin layer, and a first plating layer on the conductive resin layer. The conductive resin layer is disposed on at least the metallic-particle exposed region. The first plating layer includes a first covering region covering the conductive resin layer, and a first extending region continuous to the first covering region and extending to at least the metallic-particle exposed region. The first plating layer is connected with at least a portion of the metallic particles on the metallic-particle exposed region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitake Noumi, Kenta Nohara
  • Patent number: 11972784
    Abstract: The magnetic tape cartridge group includes a plurality of magnetic tape cartridges. Regarding 100 reels of magnetic tape cartridges, in a case where a maximum value of an absolute value of a difference between a servo band spacing obtained before predetermined storage and a servo band spacing obtained after the predetermined storage is defined as A, an arithmetic mean of medium lives calculated by a linear function derived from a value of A obtained for different N and a value of the logarithm of total storage time T of the storage of N cycles is 3 years or longer and 3? is 1 year or shorter. Medium life: T in a case where A satisfies A=1.5?B. B: a value calculated by multiplying a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of servo band spacings obtained in each of the five environments by ½.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Kasada, Yusuke Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11972885
    Abstract: A magnetic material includes a grain compact in which metal grains having oxide films are compacted, wherein the metal grains are constituted by Fe—Si-M soft magnetic alloy (where M represents a metal element that oxidizes more easily than iron), the metal grains in the grain compact are mutually bonded with adjacent metal grains by inter-bonding of their oxide films, and at least some of this bonding of oxide films takes the form of bonding of crystalline oxides, or preferably at least some of the bonding of oxides is based on continuous lattice bond. A coil component has a coil on an interior or surface of an element body wherein the element body uses the magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kenji Otake, Hitoshi Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11959196
    Abstract: A fiber is made with a polybenzimidazole (PBI) polymer with a phosphoric acid pick-up (APU) in the range of 1-25% (PBI-p fiber). The PBI-p fiber may have a LOI ?50% and/or an initial thermal decomposition temperature in air of ?555° C. A method of making a phosphonated polybenzimidazole fiber comprises the steps of: spinning an untreated PBI resin into a PBI fiber; treating the PBI fiber with phosphoric acid, and thereby obtaining a PBI fiber with 1-25 wt. % phosphoric acid APU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PBI Performance Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian P. Shiels, Gregory S. Copeland, Feng Qin
  • Patent number: 11955205
    Abstract: A high-temperature bimetal capable of being inhibited from considerably shifting from an original position when the temperature has fallen to an ordinary temperature is provided. This high-temperature bimetal (1) includes a high thermal expansion layer (2) made of austenitic stainless steel and a low thermal expansion layer (3) made of a thermosensitive magnetic metal having a Curie point and bonded to the high thermal expansion layer. The high-temperature bimetal is employed over both a high temperature range of not less than the Curie point and a low temperature range of less than the Curie point, while an upper limit of operating temperatures in the high temperature range of not less than the Curie point is at least 500° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Oda, Masaaki Ishio
  • Patent number: 11948726
    Abstract: An inductor component comprising a main body part including a magnetic layer containing a resin and a metal magnetic powder contained in the resin; an inductor wiring disposed in the main body part; an external terminal exposed from the main body part; and a lead-out wiring electrically connecting the inductor wiring and the external terminal. Also, an outer surface of the external terminal includes a concave part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Yoshioka, Shinji Otani, Hiroki Imaeda
  • Patent number: 11926788
    Abstract: Compositions for foamed treatment fluids are disclosed. The foamed treatment fluid may comprise a cement, a viscosifying agent, a thixotropic additive, a foaming surfactant, a gas, and water. The foaming surfactant may comprise a polyethylene glycol alkyl ether (C5-C10), sulfate ammonium salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendon Chia Han Tan, Samuel Jason Lewis, Thomas Jason Pisklak, Paul Joseph Jones
  • Patent number: 11919875
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the formula (1) is provided. The fluorine-containing ether compound is represented by the following formula (1). R1—R2—CH2—R3—CH2—R4 (1) (R3 is a perfluoropolyether chain; R1 is the formula (2), a in the formula (2) is an integer of 2 or 3, R5 and R6 are the same or different substituents. R5 and R6 may form a ring structure together with a nitrogen atom; R2 is the formula (3), b in the formula (3) is an integer of 1 to 3; R4 is a terminal group having two or three polar groups, in which individual polar groups bond to different carbon atoms and the carbon atoms to which the polar groups bond are bonded to each other through a linking group having a carbon atom to which the polar groups do not bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Resonac Corporation
    Inventor: Natsumi Shibata
  • Patent number: 11913140
    Abstract: A fiber is made with a polybenzimidazole (PBI) polymer with a phosphoric acid pick-up (APU) in the range of 1-25% (PBI-p fiber). The PBI-p fiber may have a LOI?50% and/or an initial thermal decomposition temperature in air of ?555° C. A method of making a phosphonated polybenzimidazole fiber comprises the steps of: spinning an untreated PBI resin into a PBI fiber; treating the PBI fiber with phosphoric acid, and thereby obtaining a PBI fiber with 1-25 wt. % phosphoric acid APU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PBI Performance Products
    Inventors: Brian P. Shiels, Gregory S. Copeland, Feng Qin
  • Patent number: 11905365
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula: R1—R2—CH2—R3—CH2—R4—R5 (in the formula, R3 represents a perfluoropolyether chain; R1 and R5 each independently represent any of an alkyl group which may have a substituent, an organic group having a double bond or a triple bond, and a hydrogen atom; —R2—CH2—R3 is represented by -[A]-[B]—O—CH2—R3; R3—CH2—R4— is represented by R3—CH2—O—[C]-[D]-; [A] is represented by Formula (4), [B] is represented by Formula (5), [C] is represented by Formula (6), and [D] is represented by Formula (7)):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Resonac Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Nanko
  • Patent number: 11908500
    Abstract: A multilayer exchange spring recording media consists of a magnetically hard magnetic storage layer strongly exchange coupled to a softer nucleation host. The strong exchange coupling can be through a coupling layer or direct. The hard magnetic storage layer has a strong perpendicular anisotropy. The nucleation host consists of one or more ferromagnetic coupled layers. For a multilayer nucleation host the anisotropy increases from layer to layer. The anisotropy in the softest layer of the nucleation host can be two times smaller than that of the hard magnetic storage layer. The lateral exchange between the grains is small. The nucleation host decreases the coercive field significantly while keeping the energy barrier of the hard layer almost unchanged. The coercive field of the total structure depends on one over number of layers in the nucleation host. The invention proposes a recording media that overcomes the writeability problem of perpendicular recording media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Dieter Suess
  • Patent number: 11894168
    Abstract: A soft magnetic powder has a composition represented by Fe100-a-b-c-d-e-f-g-hCuaSibBcMdM?eXfAlgTih (at %) (wherein M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb and the like, M? is at least one element selected from the group consisting of V and the like, X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of C and the like, and a, b, c, d, e, f, g, and h satisfy the following formulae: 0.1?a?3, 0<b?30, 0<c?25, 5?b+c?30, 0.1?d?30, 0?e?10, 0?f?10, 0.002?g?0.032, and 0?h?0.038), wherein a crystalline structure having a particle diameter of 1 to 30 nm is contained in an amount of 40 vol % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Yasuko Kudo, Mayu Watanabe, Hiroyoshi Otaka
  • Patent number: 11891340
    Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates dielectric materials, and more particularly to a combination of co-fireable dielectric materials that can be attached to each other without the use of adhesives. In an aspect, a composite article comprises a magnetic portion comprising a nickel zinc ferrite. The composite article additionally comprises a non-magnetic portion contacting the magnetic portion, the non-magnetic portion comprising a spinel-structured oxide comprising Mg2-xAl2xTi1-xO4 and having a dielectric constant between about 7 and 14, wherein 0<x?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael David Hill, David Bowie Cruickshank, David Martin Firor, Iain Alexander Macfarlane, Jeffrey Alan Shunkwiler, John Jianzhong Jiang
  • Patent number: 11879109
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula (1). R1—R2—CH2—R3—CH2—R4??(1) (R1 is an organic group having an alicyclic structure having 3 to 13 carbon atoms; R2 is represented by the following formula (2), and a in the formula (2) is an integer of 1 to 3; R3 is a perfluoropolyether chain; and R4 is a terminal group having two or three polar groups, in which individual polar groups bond to different carbon atoms and the carbon atoms to which the polar groups bond are bonded to each other through a linking group having a carbon atom to which the polar groups do not bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: RESONAC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ayano Asano
  • Patent number: 11869691
    Abstract: A powder magnetic core includes a compact including soft magnetic powder, and an insulating-resin coating that covers a portion of a surface of the compact. A ratio of an area of the insulating-resin coating to a surface area of the compact is lower than or equal to 85%, and a maximum depth of unevenness on a surface of the insulating-resin coating is smaller than or equal to 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Saito, Asako Watanabe, Tomoyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 11866550
    Abstract: Provided are a fluoropolyether compound having high heat resistance and capable of maintaining a surface protection layer even under high temperature, and a lubricant and a magnetic disk that contain the fluoropolyether compound. The fluoropolyether compound includes: three groups whose main chain contains a perfluoropolyether chain; and a trivalent linking group represented by Formula (1) below, the three groups being bound together via the trivalent linking group: where R1 is a saturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, a perfluoroalkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, a hydroxyl group, or an amino group, and A1, A2, and A3 are each independently an aromatic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Moresco Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoko Honda, Ryosuke Sagata
  • Patent number: 11869692
    Abstract: A magnetic material includes a soft magnetic metal grain containing Fe, and a multilayer oxide film covering the surfaces of the soft magnetic metal grain. The multilayer oxide film has a first oxide layer of crystalline nature containing Fe, and a second oxide layer of amorphous nature containing Si. In an embodiment, the silicon oxide film of amorphous nature is formed by dripping, divided into multiple sessions, a treatment solution containing TEOS (tetraethoxy silane), ethanol, and water into a mixed solution containing the soft magnetic metal grain, ethanol, and ammonia water, to mix the solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yoko Orimo, Xinyu Li, Shinsuke Takeoka
  • Patent number: 11854725
    Abstract: A method for producing soft magnetic metal powder includes: a raw material powder preparing step of preparing metal raw material powder having metal raw material particles including iron, silicon, and boron; a mixture step of mixing the metal raw material powder and a carbon source substance and obtaining mixed powder; and a heat treatment step of performing heat treatment on the mixed powder in a non-oxidizing atmosphere containing nitrogen at a heat treatment temperature of 1,250° C. or higher and making the metal raw material particles spherical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomofumi Kuroda, Yu Sakurai, Tomohisa Mitose
  • Patent number: 11842755
    Abstract: A multilayer exchange spring recording media consists of a magnetically hard magnetic storage layer strongly exchange coupled to a softer nucleation host. The strong exchange coupling can be through a coupling layer or direct. The hard magnetic storage layer has a strong perpendicular anisotropy. The nucleation host consists of one or more ferromagnetic coupled layers. For a multilayer nucleation host the anisotropy increases from layer to layer. The anisotropy in the softest layer of the nucleation host can be two times smaller than that of the hard magnetic storage layer. The lateral exchange between the grains is small. The nucleation host decreases the coercive field significantly while keeping the energy barrier of the hard layer almost unchanged. The coercive field of the total structure depends on one over number of layers in the nucleation host. The invention proposes a recording media that overcomes the writeability problem of perpendicular recording media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventor: Dieter Suess
  • Patent number: 11823721
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium including: a non-magnetic substrate; an underlayer; a perpendicular magnetic layer; a diffusion preventing layer; and a protective layer, wherein the underlayer, the perpendicular magnetic layer, the diffusion preventing layer, and the protective layer are layered on the non-magnetic substrate in this order, the perpendicular magnetic layer has a multi-layer structure, the perpendicular magnetic layer includes an uppermost layer and at least one layer other than the uppermost layer, the uppermost layer including Co or Fe in magnetic particles, and the at least one layer other than the uppermost layer including an oxide, the diffusion preventing layer is provided between the perpendicular magnetic layer and the protective layer, and the diffusion preventing layer includes at least one component selected from a group consisting of Si, Ti, Cr, B, and Ru, or either a carbide, an oxide, or both, of the at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: RESONAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Aono, Takahiro Ukai, Takanao Ebisawa, Kazuya Niwa, Takayuki Konno