Patents Examined by Linda N. Chau
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 11749305
    Abstract: To provide a magnetic recording medium that has excellent traveling stability in spite of having a thin total thickness and a thin thickness of an underlayer, and is suitable for use in a recording/reproducing device for adjusting the width of the magnetic recording medium by adjusting a tension of the magnetic recording medium in a longitudinal direction thereof. The present technology provides a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including: a magnetic layer; an underlayer; a base layer; and a back layer, in which the underlayer has a thickness of 0.5 ?m or more and 0.9 ?m or less, the magnetic recording medium has an average thickness tT of 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Kazuya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11746442
    Abstract: Multifilament yarn containing n filaments are provided, wherein the filaments are obtained by spinning an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), said yarn having a tenacity (Ten) as expressed in cN/dtex of Ten(cN/dtex)=f×n?0.05×dpf?0.15, wherein Ten is at least 39 cN/dtex, n is at least 25, f is a factor of at least 58 and dpf is the dtex per filament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: AVIENT PROTECTIVE MATERIALS B.V.
    Inventors: Jacobus Johannes Mencke, Johannes Hendrikus Marie Heijnen, Harm Van Der Werff
  • Patent number: 11746250
    Abstract: A durable coating which reduces ice adhesion and minimizes ice accumulation includes a polymeric binder and a film forming lubricant. The polymeric binder is selected from a fluoropolymer or silicone polymer having one or more reactive groups. The film forming lubricant is a lubricous fluoropolymer or silicone polymer. Methods of applying a durable coating are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL CABLE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Srinivas Siripurapu, Vijay Mhetar, Jeffrey P. Youngblood, John Howarter
  • Patent number: 11741991
    Abstract: A tape-shaped magnetic recording medium is provided with a base, an underlayer provided on the base, and a magnetic layer provided on the underlayer including magnetic powder including hexagonal ferrite. The underlayer and the magnetic layer include lubricant. The magnetic layer includes a surface provided with a large number of holes, and arithmetic average roughness Ra of the surface is 2.5 nm or smaller. A BET specific surface area of a whole of the magnetic recording medium in a state in which the lubricant is removed is 3.5 m2/mg or larger. A square ratio in a vertical direction is 65% or larger, an average thickness of the magnetic layer is 90 nm or smaller, and an average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.6 ?m or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Takanobu Iwama, Jun Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11735216
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic substrate; a soft magnetic layer; a first seed layer; a second seed layer; an underlayer; and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The soft magnetic layer, the first seed layer, the second seed layer, the underlayer and the perpendicular magnetic recording layer are disposed on the non-magnetic substrate in this order. The first seed layer includes MoS2, hexagonal-BN, WS2, WSe2 or graphite. The second seed layer includes AlN having a hexagonal wurtzite type crystal structure. The underlayer includes Ru.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: RESONAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Hasegawa, Yu Azuma
  • Patent number: 11721360
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides where a magnetic recording medium is provided and includes a base; an underlayer that is provided over the base and includes a non-magnetic powder; and a magnetic layer that is provided over the underlayer and includes a magnetic powder and a binder, wherein an average particle volume V of the magnetic powder is 1600 nm3 or less, an average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.3 ?m or less, a thermal stability KuVact/kBT of the magnetic recording medium is 63 or more, and a ratio Hrp/Hc1 of a residual coercive force Hrp of the magnetic recording medium measured using a pulsed magnetic field in a perpendicular direction to a coercive force Hc1 of the magnetic recording medium in the perpendicular direction is 1.98 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kataguchi, Natsuki Ichise, Takeshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11688529
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a semi-conductive polymer composition, the present invention provides a semi-conductive polymer composition comprising an ethylene copolymer comprising polar co-monomer units; an olefin homo- or copolymer; and a conductive filler; wherein the olefin homo- or copolymer has a degree of crystallinity below 20%. The invention also relates to a wire or cable comprising said semi-conductive polymer composition, and to the use of said composition for the production of a layer, preferably a semi-conducting shield layer of a wire or cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Muhammad Ali Malik, Christer Svanberg, Thomas Gkourmpis, Takashi Uematsu, Roger Carlsson, Niklas Thorn, Jenny-Ann Ostlund
  • Patent number: 11670332
    Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on one surface side of the non-magnetic support; and a back coating layer including non-magnetic powder and a binding agent on the other surface side of the non-magnetic support, in which an isoelectric point of a surface zeta potential of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 3.8, and an isoelectric point of a surface zeta potential of the back coating layer is equal to or smaller than 3.0, a magnetic tape cartridge, and a magnetic tape apparatus including this magnetic tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Norihito Kasada
  • Patent number: 11615812
    Abstract: An object is to provide a magnetic recording medium having excellent traveling stability and a thin total thickness. The present technology provides a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including: a magnetic layer; an underlayer; a base layer; and a back layer, in which a surface on a side of the magnetic layer has a kurtosis of 3.0 or more, a surface on a side of the back layer has a kurtosis of 2.0 or more, the surface on the magnetic layer side has arithmetic average roughness Ra of 2.5 nm or less, the base layer includes a polyester as a main component, the magnetic recording medium has an average thickness tT of 5.6 ?m or less, the magnetic recording medium includes a lubricant, the lubricant includes a fatty acid and a fatty acid ester, and a mass ratio between the fatty acid and the fatty acid ester extracted with hexane satisfies fatty acid/fatty acid ester?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Takanobu Iwama, Jun Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11608590
    Abstract: Compositions especially suitable for forming fibers and films having good elasticity and relatively high modulus are disclosed. Surprisingly, compositions including a styrenic block copolymer having a relatively high melt flow rate, and a detackifier, and optionally, but preferably in some embodiments a polyolefin (co)polymer, and/or polystyrene polymer, and/or a softener have good draw down performance and are processable into fibers having low tack, relatively high modulus and tensile strength. The fibers produced from the composition can be processed easily and are useful to manufacture articles such as fabrics, both woven and non-woven, webs, threads, and yarns. In various embodiments, unique fiber structures are produced having low tack and desirable elasticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: TEKNOR APEX COMPANY
    Inventors: Kushal Bahl, Darnell C. Worley, II, Chris LaTulippe
  • Patent number: 11610604
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is a magnetic recording medium in the form of a tape and includes a substrate, a foundation layer provided on the substrate, and a magnetic layer provided on the foundation layer and containing a magnetic powder. The foundation layer and the magnetic layer each contain a lubricant. A squareness ratio of the magnetic layer in a perpendicular direction is equal to or higher than 65%, an average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is equal to or smaller than 5.6 ?m, a plurality of recessed portions each having a depth corresponding to 20% or higher of the average thickness of the magnetic layer is provided on a surface of the magnetic layer, and the number of the recessed portions per unit area of 1,600 ?m2 of the surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or greater than 20 and equal to or smaller than 200, and an amount of exudation of the lubricant per unit region of 12.5 ?m×9.3 ?m on the surface of the magnetic layer in a vacuum is equal to or greater than 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Futoshi Sasaki