Patents Examined by Laura B Figg
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Patent number: 11427962Abstract: Paper with a grammage of 10-100 g/m2 including at least 20 wt. % of microfilaments and at least 20 wt. % of a non-resinous binder, the microfilaments having an average filament length in the range of 2-25 mm and titer less than 1.3 dtex, the non-resinous binder comprising at least one of fibril or pulp. The paper shows high strength and other attractive properties.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: TEIJIN ARAMID B.V.Inventors: Fresia Alvarado Chacon, Richard Visser, Ernst Michael Winkler
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Patent number: 11407208Abstract: The present disclosure relates to laminate composite panels comprising a first layer of fiberglass reinforced polyester (“FRP”) and a second layer of a polyurethane material. The polyurethane layer can comprise a reaction product between an aromatic polyester polyether polyol and a diisocyanate. The polyurethane is cured-in-place on a surface of the FRP, thus creating a laminate composite material wherein the layers are adhered together without application of a separate adhesive layer. The panels exhibit improved water resistance and strength properties. The laminate composite can be adhered to a second material such as wood, polystyrene, polyurethane, or non-wovens. Such panels are particularly suitable for use in recreational vehicles, motor homes, trailers, and as building materials. Methods of making such laminate composite materials are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TALACO HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Bennett McDonald Pearson, Robert Keith Salsman
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Patent number: 11398607Abstract: A window member may include a first member and a second member on the first member. A recovery rate of the second member may be 40% or more, and an absolute value of difference in recovery rate between the first and second members may be 45% or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeoungsub Lee, Heonjung Shin, Hye-Jin Oh, Min-Hoon Choi, Kyungtae Kim, Boa Kim, Sanghoon Kim, Sang-Il Park, Hyunjoon Oh, Junghoon Han
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Patent number: 11370717Abstract: A protective coating system includes a substrate that has an exterior surface exhibiting a degree of valley/hill surface irregularity including a plurality of hills and a plurality of valleys and a first coating layer formed directly on to the exterior surface of the substrate and that conforms to the exterior surface of the substrate such that the first coating layer has a non-uniform coating thickness over the substrate. The protective coating system further includes a second coating layer formed directly on to the exterior surface of the first coating layer. The second coating layer includes a plurality of pores within the second coating layer. Still further, the protective coating system includes a third coating layer formed within at least some of the plurality of pores within the second coating layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Reza Oboodi, Eric Passman, Bahram Jadidian
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Patent number: 11352525Abstract: The polyolefin resin foam sheet is a polyolefin resin foam sheet having a plurality of cells in an inside thereof, wherein the 50% compressive strength is 120 kPa or less; the MD elongation percentage is 400% or less; and the TD elongation percentage is 200% or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kento Nagai, Koji Yachi, Asami Nagai
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Patent number: 11351757Abstract: A composite pane includes a first pane, a second pane, and a thermoplastic film arranged between the two panes, wherein at least one pane is in the form of a flat glass and at least one pane surface has a plurality of elongated elevations and elongated depressions that extend along a first pane direction and are alternatingly arranged in a second pane direction perpendicular to the first pane direction, the thermoplastic film is produced by extrusion and at least one film surface has a plurality of elongated elevations and elongated depressions that extend along a first film direction and are alternatingly arranged in a second film direction perpendicular to the first film direction, wherein the elongated elevations of the at least one pane are arranged at an angle different from 90° relative to the elongated elevations of the thermoplastic film.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Günther Schall, Stephan Gier, Richard Brocker, Michael Balduin, Nikolai Borchmann
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Patent number: 11312551Abstract: The present invention describes easy-to-tear polymeric flexible packaging substrate i.e. polymeric film/laminate. The easy-to-tear flexible packaging film is obtained by providing a plurality of non-through micro-indentations on one or both surface of the film. The micro-indentations are located over the entire or partial surface area of the film. The easy-to-tear packaging laminate of the present invention is obtained by providing a plurality of non-through micro-indentations on at least one surface of at least one layer of the packaging laminate. The micro-indentations are located over the entire or partial surface area of the corresponding surfaces of the layers of the laminate. The micro-indentations may have a depth between 1˜70% of the thickness of the polymeric layer. The density of the micro-indentations on a particular surface may be from 10/cm2 to 10,000/cm2.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Inventor: Ashok Chaturvedi
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Patent number: 11305511Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible sheet of wood strips for use in the fabrication of engineered floor boards or wood sheets and including the machine and method of manufacture of the flexible sheet of wood strips. The wood strips provide a wood floor which has much more stability than a solid wood plank which is much more affected by the temperature in a room and the moisture under the floor board. Also solid wood planks are much more expensive than engineered wood planks where only a very thin layer of quality wood material is utilized. The transverse wood strips are constructed of inferior wood material. Two or more treads of flexible material may be secured transversely to the wood strips to provide additional retention of the wood strips in the flexible sheet.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: BOA-FRANC, S.E.N.C.Inventors: François Roy, Jonathan Cloutier, Vincent Tanguay
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Patent number: 11305509Abstract: A method of manufacturing a sandwich structure having an open cellular core and a fluid-tight seal surrounding the core includes coupling a mold to a first facesheet to define a reservoir. The method also includes irradiating a volume of photo-monomer in the reservoir with a series of vertical collimated light beams to form a cured, solid polymer border extending around a periphery of the first facesheet. The method also includes irradiating a remaining volume of photo-monomer in the reservoir with a series of collimated light beams to form an ordered three-dimensional polymer microstructure core defined by a plurality of interconnected polymer optical waveguides coupled to the first facesheet and surrounded by the cured, solid polymer border. The method further includes coupling a second facesheet to the ordered three-dimensional microstructure core and the cured, solid polymer border to form the sandwich structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Jacob M. Hundley, Alan J. Jacobsen, Sophia S. Yang, Zak C. Eckel, Christopher S. Roper, William Carter
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Patent number: 11310910Abstract: A resin composition for use in a dielectric layer of a capacitor device or a capacitor-embedded printed circuit board is provided in which the resin composition can improve stability in capacitance and insulation properties of the capacitor device under high temperature and high humidity and ensures high adhesion of the dielectric layer to the device. The resin composition comprises a resin component and a dielectric filler. The resin component comprises an epoxy resin, an active ester resin, and an aromatic polyamide resin.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Yoneda, Toshifumi Matsushima, Toshihiro Hosoi, Kenshiro Fukuda
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Patent number: 11298922Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods related to a packaging laminate comprising: a first polymeric layer comprising a polypropylene copolymer or a high density polyethylene (HDPE) resin; and a second polymeric layer comprising a high density polyethylene (HDPE) resin or linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) resin with a coextruded ethyl vinyl alcohol (EVOH) compatibilizer. Also disclosed herein are packaging containers formed of the packaging laminates.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: BMSI, Inc.Inventor: Lee Phillips Gilbert
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Patent number: 11280090Abstract: Gypsum board having a core, said core having at least one side covered with a non-woven fabric; characterized in that the inner side of the non-woven fabric, which is in contact with the core of the gypsum board, has a surface roughness Ra of from 25 to 60 micrometers, preferably from 25 to 50 micrometers, advantageously from 25 to 40 micrometers.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Ahlstrom-Munksjö OyjInventors: Emmanuel Faynot, Marc Berlioz, Samuel Merlet, Claude Leclercq
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Patent number: 11254108Abstract: Biocompatible flexible laminate structure comprising an alternating stack of layers from polymers A and B or polymer blends AC and BD having the sequence -A-[B-A-]n- or AC-[BD-AC-]n with n from 4 to 36, wherein the layer thickness of layers A or AC and layers B or BD is less than 3 ?m, wherein A and B are thermoplastic polymers and C and D are thermoplastic elastomers, at least part of the monomeric building blocks of polymer A, B or A and B are from renewable sources wherein the thermoplastic polymer B has functional barrier properties, wherein the amount of the thermoplastic elastomers C and D in the polymer blends AC and BD is each from 3 to 45 wt.-%, and polymer B and elastomer D are essentially incompatible.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: RENOLIT SEInventors: Jakob Robert Blok, Hans Paul Henning Von Kirchbach, Petrus Johannes Antonius Karsten
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Patent number: 11254085Abstract: Absorbent microstructure panels are described herein. An example filter device includes a plurality of microstructure panels each having a front surface and a back surface, and a plurality of capillary ridges protruding from the front surface. The plurality of capillary ridges are each spaced apart from one another. The plurality of microstructure panels form an absorbent microstructure array by layering the plurality of microstructure panels together such that the plurality of capillary ridges of one microstructure panel contacts the back surface of an adjacent microstructure panel to create capillary tubes that draw fluid into the absorbent microstructure array.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Imagine TF, LLCInventor: Brian Edward Richardson
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Patent number: 11235561Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods related to a packaging laminate comprising: a first polymeric layer comprising a polypropylene copolymer; and a second polymeric layer comprising a high density polyethylene (HDPE) resin with a coextruded ethyl vinyl alcohol (EVOH) compatibilizer.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: BMSI, Inc.Inventor: Lee Phillips Gilbert
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Patent number: 11214130Abstract: The invention relates to a laminated glass panel for an automobile, having a curved shape resulting from the assembly of a first glass sheet, which is curved before said assembly, with an intermediate thermoplastic sheet and a second glass sheet, the thickness of which does not exceed one third of that of the first sheet, the second glass sheet not being curved, or having a curvature that is substantially smaller than that of the first sheet before the assembly thereof with the latter and the intermediate thermoplastic sheet.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: AGC Glass EuropeInventors: Quentin Gillard, Renaud Hubert, Benoit Lecomte, Rostislav Losot, Nerio Lucca
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Patent number: 11162427Abstract: The thermal blanket can be used for shielding an engine component. The thermal blanket has a window providing visual access to the engine component. The thermal blanket can have a non-transparent portion having an opening extending across the thickness of the non-transparent portion, the opening delimited by an internal edge of the non-transparent portion, and a transparent portion of transparent material in the opening, the transparent portion secured to the internal edge of the non-transparent portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventor: Ram Kulathu
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Patent number: 11104098Abstract: A fibrous vehicle underbody shield and method for manufacturing the same is provided. A binderless core of non-woven fibrous material defines first and second surfaces of the fibrous vehicle underbody shield. The second surface of the fibrous vehicle underbody is opposite the first surface such that the first and second surfaces are separated by a final product thickness. The first and second surfaces include at least one molded contour that gives the first and second surfaces a non-planar shape. The non-woven fibrous material of the binderless core includes a plurality of fibers that are mechanically entangled with each other and have a coating that withstands a heat exposure of 200 degrees Celsius. The fibrous vehicle underbody shield includes a latex impregnation. The latex impregnation is disposed on at least one of the first and second surfaces and penetrates the non-woven fibrous material of the binderless core an impregnation distance.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Cadillac Products Automotive CompanyInventors: Robert J. Zander, Michael Demo, Kenneth Ritzema
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Patent number: 11067721Abstract: A self-cleaning film system includes a substrate and an anti-reflection film disposed on the substrate. The anti-reflection film includes a first sheet formed from titanium dioxide, a second sheet formed from silicon dioxide and disposed on the first sheet, and a third sheet formed from titanium dioxide and disposed on the second sheet. The system includes a self-cleaning film disposed on the anti-reflection film and including a monolayer disposed on the third sheet and formed from a fluorinated material selected from the group consisting of fluorinated organic compounds, fluorinated inorganic compounds, and combinations thereof. The self-cleaning film includes a first plurality of regions disposed within the monolayer such that each of the first plurality of regions abuts and is surrounded by the fluorinated material and includes a photocatalytic material.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Thomas A. Seder, James A. Carpenter, Gayatri V. Dadheech
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Patent number: 11059035Abstract: A self-cleaning film system configured for reducing a visibility of a contaminant includes a substrate and a film. The film includes a monolayer defining a plurality of cavities and formed from a first material having a first surface energy, and a plurality of patches disposed within the plurality of cavities. Each of the patches is formed from a photocatalytic material having a second surface energy that is higher than the first. The film has a touchpoint area having a first use frequency, and a second area having a second use frequency that is less than the first. The patches are present in the touchpoint area in a first concentration and are configured to direct the contaminant towards the second area. The patches are present in the second area in a second concentration that is higher than the first and are configured to reduce the visibility of the contaminant.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Thomas A. Seder, James A. Carpenter, Gayatri V. Dadheech