Patents Examined by Larissa Rowe Emrich
  • Patent number: 11006664
    Abstract: A graphene adsorbing material, a preparation method therefor and application thereof, and a cigarette filter tip and a cigarette are provided. The graphene adsorbing material comprises a fiber carrier, graphene and doped elements wherein the graphene and the doped elements are loaded on the fiber carrier and the doped elements comprise at least one of Al, Si and Fe. The graphene adsorbing material is obtained by contacting the fibers with the graphene material to load the graphene material on the fibers. By introducing the graphene and the doped elements in the fiber carrier, harmful substances with a type of fused aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzopyrene in smoke can be specifically adsorbed, filtered and removed; while nicotine and the other harmless substances are retained, and thus the smoking taste of a cigarette is not affected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: JINAN SHENGQUAN GROUP SHARE HOLDING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yilin Tang, Jinzhu Zhang, An Zhang, Ding Liu
  • Patent number: 11000142
    Abstract: An up-lighting floor mat includes floor matting that defines an upwardly-facing surface and an opposed downwardly-facing surface when supported atop an upwardly-facing support surface, and that is formed from a first flexible material that enables the up-lighting floor mat to be rolled up for transport or storage; and a first elongate up-lighting assembly positioned within a first elongate slot defined through the floor matting to emit light upwardly from the first elongate slot, wherein at least one elongate edge defined by the first up-lighting assembly is bonded to at least one edge of the floor matting that defines the first elongate slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventor: John Joseph Girard
  • Patent number: 10978217
    Abstract: There is provided a fiber that includes a fiber material disposed along a longitudinal-axis fiber length. A porous domain has a porous domain length along at least a portion of the fiber length, within the fiber material. The porous domain includes solid-phase material regions and fluid-phase interstitial regions that are both along the porous domain length and across the porous domain, for multi-dimensional porosity of the porous domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yoel Fink, Benjamin Jean-Baptiste Grena
  • Patent number: 10975219
    Abstract: Provided are an automobile interior/exterior material including a low-melting-point polyester resin fiber layer, and a method of manufacturing the same. More particularly, an automobile interior/exterior material having excellent processability and price competitiveness without deterioration of properties, such as strength and durability, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Huvis Corporation
    Inventors: Boo-Kyeong Jang, Hyun-Wook Shin, Seong-Yoon Park, Yo-Seung Ho
  • Patent number: 10946117
    Abstract: An absorbent article having an outwardly body-facing surface and an outwardly garment-facing surface Is provided. The absorbent article contains a topsheet, backsheet, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. The backsheet contains a nonwoven facing laminated to a film. The nonwoven facing contains a first nonwoven web containing a plurality of fibers formed from a first polyolefin composition and a second nonwoven web containing a plurality of fibers formed from a second polyolefin composition. The first polyolefin composition contains at least one ethylene polymer and the second polyolefin composition contains at least one rigid propylene polymer and at least one ductile propylene polymer. The second nonwoven web defines the garment-facing surface of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Mark G. Kupelian, Prasad Potnis
  • Patent number: 10940508
    Abstract: Wipes for preventing chlorine depletion suitable for commercial applications (e.g., industrial and consumer disinfectant wipes) are provided. The wipe includes at least one nonwoven layer, at least one pulp layer, and a nonionic modified siloxane additive. The at least one nonwoven layer and the at least one pulp layer may be hydroentangled to form a hydroentangled nonwoven fabric having a first surface and a second surface. Additionally, the nonionic modified siloxane additive may be disposed on at least one of the first surface or the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: AVINTIV Specialty Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert P. Hartgrove, Dianne B. Ellis, Dawn Ellen Huston, Teresa Ann Oldham
  • Patent number: 10941276
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyolefin composition comprising (A) a polyolefin, (B) a benzil derivative comprising, preferably consisting of, the structural unit according to the following formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 independently from each other are hydrogen, or a hydrocarbyl group which may contain heteroatoms or at least two of said R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 together with the ring atoms of the ring system of formula (I) they are attached to, form a further aromatic or non-aromatic ring fused to the ring system of formula (I) and at least R1 or R2 is an ester group. The invention also relates to a wire or cable, in particular a medium, high or extra high voltage cable, comprising such a composition, and to the use of such a composition for the production of a wire or cable, in particular a medium, high or extra high voltage cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Markus Jarvid, Anette Johansson, Mats Andersson, Stanislaw Gubanski, Villgot Englund, Christian Muller, Jonas Mattiasson Bjuggren
  • Patent number: 10926520
    Abstract: A decorative laminate including a decorative layered structure defining a first surface and a second surface opposed from the first surface, and a gas permeable layer underlying the decorative layered structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John C. Wilde, Thomas L. Brown, Jr., Jason W. Drexler
  • Patent number: 10920028
    Abstract: A sheet having a plexifilamentary structure with a normalized Frazier air permeability of between 0.002 and 0.2 (m3/m2·minute)@50 gsm, and a normalized hydrohead of between 150 and 250 centimeters@50 gsm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: DUPONT SAFETY & CONSTRUCTION, INC.
    Inventors: Jan Van Meerveld, Corneille Schmitz, Joseph Mathieu, Noel Stephen Brabbs, Orest Skoplyak, Christine Lemoine, Serge Rebouillat
  • Patent number: 10874156
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat-storing and retaining fleece using a polyester yarn containing composite metal oxide particles. The heat-storing and retaining fleece of the present invention exhibits an excellent far-infrared emission property, an excellent heat-storing and retaining property, excellent spinning processability, and excellent dyeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: HYOSUNG TNC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung Jin Oh, Min Suk Lee
  • Patent number: 10874153
    Abstract: An adornment assembly for an article having a base assembly made up of at least one layer, each with a thickness between oppositely facing surfaces. One of the oppositely facing surfaces faces an article surface to which the adornment assembly is secured. The at least one layer defines at least a first receptacle. The adornment assembly further has a plurality of discrete components each with a thickness between oppositely facing surfaces. At least first and second of the discrete components are placed in the at least first receptacle so that one of the oppositely facing surfaces on each of the first and second discrete components is exposed for viewing with the adornment assembly secured to an article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Ronald Kronenberger
  • Patent number: 10870936
    Abstract: A nonwoven composite that contains a first nonwoven web positioned adjacent to a second nonwoven web is provided. The first nonwoven web contains a plurality of fibers that are formed from a first polyolefin composition, and the second nonwoven web contains a plurality of fibers that are formed from a second polyolefin composition. The first polyolefin composition contains an ethylene polymer, which and car; provide a soft feel to a surface of the first nonwoven web. The second polyolefin composition likewise contains a rigid propylene polymer, which can provide good strength and durability to the second nonwoven web. The second polyolefin composition also contains a ductile propylene polymer and a fatty acid derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Mark G. Kupelian, Prasad Potnis
  • Patent number: 10843446
    Abstract: A polymer composite is disclosed and a method of making the same. The polymer composite includes an unbroken loop fabric having first second sides and a polymer film. The polymer film has first and second sides, the first side of the polymer film being bonded to the second side of the unbroken loop fabric. The polymer film is a polymer selected from polyethylene, polypropylene, or any combination thereof. The polymer composite may also include a polymer sheet with first and second sides. The first side of the polymer sheet is bonded to the second side of the polymer film. The polymer sheet may include a polymer selected from polyethylene, polypropylene, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Inventor: Terry L. Endres
  • Patent number: 10837126
    Abstract: Provided are fibers that have excellent mechanical properties such as strength and that do not result in the filament breakage during a manufacturing process. The fibers are vinylidene fluoride resin fibers including a plurality of vinylidene fluoride resin filaments, and having a degree of crystal orientation of 80% or more as determined on the basis of X-ray diffraction from the azimuth angle intensity distribution curve of 2?=20.8±1°, and a crystal size of 12 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kotaku Saigusa
  • Patent number: 10830261
    Abstract: An aerodynamic or hydrodynamic wall surface has an array of fibrillar structures disposed on and extending from the wall surface, wherein each fibrillar structure comprises a stalk and a tip. The stalk has a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is attached to the wall surface, and the stalk is oriented with respect to the wall surface at a stalk angle between approximately 1 degrees and 179 degrees. The tip has a first side and a second side, wherein the first side is attached proximate to the second end of the stalk, the tip has a larger cross-sectional area than the stalk, and the second side comprises a substantially planar surface that is oriented with respect to the stalk at a tip angle between approximately 0 degrees and 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: Texas Tech University System, nanoGriptech, Inc.
    Inventors: Luciano Castillo, Burak Aksak, Metin Sitti
  • Patent number: 10814582
    Abstract: A veneer panel is provided. The panel may comprise a face veneer, a metal mesh proximate the veneer, a backing layer proximate the metal mesh, and a thermoset adhesive bonding the wood veneer to the metal mesh and the backing layer. A method of making a veneer panel is also provided. The method may comprise the steps of forming a veneer assembly by stacking a face veneer, a metal mesh, and a backing layer, applying an adhesive material between a back surface of the face veneer and the metal mesh, and pressing the veneer assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Greer Brown, Christopher L. Chapman
  • Patent number: 10813799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a layered absorbent structure in the form of a laminate including liquid storage layers comprising particulate superabsorbent material and adhesive fibers. Notably, the absorbent structure includes a wicking layer positioned between the liquid storage layers, with the wicking layer desirably acting to improve fluid spreading and rewet performance of the absorbent structure. The wicking layer preferably comprises airlaid cellulosic fibrous material such as wood pulp, and may optionally include superabsorbent polymer. A bonding pattern of the wicking layer is oriented to enhance wicking and rewet performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: EAM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Paul M. Ducker
  • Patent number: 10813801
    Abstract: The invention relates to a strip or lap comprising loops, in the form of a laminate with printed patterns. The laminate for forming a loop strip or lap, in particular the landing zone of nappies, includes at least one nonwoven layer having a lower face and an upper face opposite the lower face; at least one layer of ink applied to the upper face of at least the nonwoven layer; and at least one external textile layer from which loops project externally in order to engage with hooks of a self-fastening hook and loop device, at least one textile layer being secured to the upper face of at least the nonwoven layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: APLIX
    Inventors: Nathalie Christine Moinard, Thierry Jacques Marche
  • Patent number: 10793752
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hot melt adhesive composition comprising at least one particular aldehyde scavenger, and the use of said aldehyde scavenger(s) to remove or reduce the volatile organic compound(s) (VOC), particularly volatile aldehyde(s) of a hot melt adhesive composition. The hot melt adhesive compositions according to the invention emit low odor during and after their manufacture and application, and are thus particularly useful to manufacture low odor disposable nonwoven absorbent articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: BOSTIK SA
    Inventor: Naji Hussein
  • Patent number: 10753022
    Abstract: A melt-spun polymer fiber is provided having a cross-section and a length. A detectable particulate has a size of less than 31 microns and present in an amount of 2.0 to 50.0 weight percent loadings of metal or 10 to 80 weight percent loadings of radiopaque particles to render the polymer fiber detectable by metal (magnetic) or X-ray detection, alone or in combination with a secondary functional particulate distributed in or on the polymer fiber to render the polymer fiber chemically responsive to a chemical reactant, change in pH or temperature. The detectable particulate and the secondary functional particulate are each independently present in a core, a sheath, or both portions of polymer matrix. A process of detecting a fabric made from such a fiber. The fabric article passes through detector. A signal is collected from the detector indicative of the presence of the fabric article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Aldridge, Robert Martin, Karen Mertins