Patents Examined by Monique Jackson
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Patent number: 8221892Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a rubber-reinforced resin which, when formed into a molded article, can prevent contamination or soiling of an article contacted with the molded article or a device on the periphery of the molded article and is excellent in impact resistance and transparency, and an anti-static resin composition which is excellent in impact resistance and anti-static properties. The present rubber-reinforced resin comprises a rubber-reinforced copolymeric resin produced by polymerization of 20 to 95 parts by mass of monomer components comprising methyl methacrylate, an aromatic vinyl compound and a cyanidated vinyl compound in the presence of a rubbery polymer having a predetermined volume-average particle diameter, or comprises a mixture of the rubber-reinforced copolymeric resin and a copolymer of the above-mentioned monomer components.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2006Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Techno Polymer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norifumi Sumimoto, Wataru Kakuno
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Patent number: 8216686Abstract: A dendrimer according to example embodiments may include a triphenylamine core, wherein a conjugated dendron having no heteroatoms is coupled to the triphenylamine core. An organic memory device according to example embodiments may include an organic active layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the organic active layer includes the dendrimer according to example embodiments. A barrier layer may be provided between the first and second electrodes. A method of manufacturing the organic memory device according to example embodiments may include forming an organic active layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, the organic active layer including the dendrimer according to example embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Won Jae Joo, Tae Lim Choi, Chulhee Kim, Kwang Hee Lee
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Patent number: 8197730Abstract: A method is provided for forming a feedstock material for use in net shape molded component that includes an integral metallized coating or layer on the exterior surface thereof. The feedstock includes a carefully matched mixture of polymer resin and a metallic alloy that is suitable for use in a molding method that includes melting and injecting the material into a mold cavity under pressure. Due to the differential in material viscosities, the metal tends to migrate to the outer surface of the molded part when placed under pressure, ultimately creating a net shape molded part having a polymer core with a metallic layer at the exterior surfaces thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2007Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Cool Options, Inc.Inventor: Kevin A. McCullough
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Patent number: 8147953Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a laminate which is good in adhesiveness between a substrate and a thin film laminated thereon by a dry film-forming method such as a chemical vapor growth method or a vacuum evaporation method even if the substrate is a polymer substrate made of a nonpolar polymer; and a process for producing the same. In order to attain the above-mentioned object, the invention provides a laminate comprising a polymer substrate, a primer layer comprising a cyclized rubber which is a conjugated diene polymer cyclized product or a derivative thereof, the layer being formed on the surface of the polymer substrate, and a thin film laminated on the surface of the primer layer by a dry film-forming method; and a process for producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Zeon CorporationInventors: Shizuo Kitahara, Tetsuya Toyoshima, Kouichirou Maeda, Junji Kodemura, Yutaka Katoh
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Patent number: 8142902Abstract: Certain embodiments provide an article comprising a substrate, wherein the substrate is extrusion coated with a composition comprising a multi-branched polypropylene having a g? of less than 1.00. In certain embodiments, the substrate is extrusion coated with a composition comprising a polypropylene material. Either the composition and/or the polypropylene material are represented by the equation: Vicat B [° C.]>?3.96·Cx [mol %]+86.85; wherein Vicat B is the heat resistance, according to ISO 306 (50 N), of the composition and/or the polypropylene material; and Cx is the comonomer content the composition and/or the polypropylene material.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Manfred Stadlbauer, Manfred Kirchberger, Eberhard Ernst
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Patent number: 8137755Abstract: The invention is a high-strength, pre-coated, aluminum or aluminum-alloy component comprising an aluminum or aluminum-alloy article having ultra-fine, submicron grain microstructure and an organic coating of phenolic resin applied to the surface of the article. The article is prepared from a coarse grain aluminum or aluminum-alloy material that is cryomilled into an ultra-fine, submicron grain material, degassed, and densified. The densified material is formed into an article, and coated with an organic coating containing phenolic resin prior to installation or assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2005Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Steven G. Keener, Patrick B. Berbon
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Patent number: 8124238Abstract: Disclosed herein is a dendrimer, in which metallocene, which is an oxidation-reduction material, is located at a core, and a conjugated dendron is connected to the metallocene core by a linker compound, an organic active layer having the dendrimer, an organic memory device having the organic active layer and a method of manufacturing the organic active layer and the organic memory device. The organic memory device manufactured using a dendrimer having a metallocene core of example embodiments may have a shorter switching time, decreased operation voltage, decreased manufacturing cost and increased reliability, thereby realizing a highly-integrated large-capacity memory device.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2007Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Won Jae Joo, Chulhee Kim, Kwang Hee Lee, Tae Lim Choi
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Patent number: 8119235Abstract: Decorative ionomeric surfaced film and sheet (e.g., multilayer co-extruded polymer) and articles made therefrom (e.g., automotive panels and parts) exhibiting good weatherability, mar resistance, and surface appearance of a high quality automotive finish (including color, haze, gloss, and DOI) and economical process for making (e.g., co-extrusion) and using (e.g., thermoforming and injection backfilling) the same.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Randall Allen Vogel, I-Hwa Lee, Sumita Sanjeevi Ranganathan, Lori J. Pike
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Patent number: 8101275Abstract: The present invention relates to a device comprising a substrate based essentially on nitinol and, arranged thereon at least partially, a covering or a coating based on at least one polyphosphazene derivative having the general formula (I), a process for its production, and the use of the device as an artificial implant, vascular or nonvascular stent, catheter, thrombolectomy or embolectomy catheter, fragmentation spindle or catheter, filter, vascular connector, hernia patch, oral, dental or throat implant or urether.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Celonova Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Andreas Schüssler, Michael Grunze, Roman Denk
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Patent number: 8097345Abstract: Disclosed is an excellent gas barrier laminate whose gas-barrier property has little dependency on temperature and which hardly causes fracture even when the laminate is stretched. A gas barrier film comprising a polymer (A) of an unsaturated carboxylic acid compound monovalent metal salt (a), wherein the polymer (A) contains a modified vinyl alcohol polymer (B); a gas barrier laminate comprising a base layer and the gas barrier film formed on at least one surface of the base layer; and a method for production of a gas barrier laminate comprising the steps of: coating a solution of an unsaturated carboxylic acid compound monovalent metal salt (a) having a polymerization degree less than 20 on at least one surface of a base layer, wherein the solution contains a modified vinyl alcohol polymer (B); performing the polymerization to form a layer of the polymer (A) of the unsaturated carboxylic acid compound monovalent metal salt (a) containing the modified vinyl alcohol polymer (B).Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2006Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Tohcello Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyoshi Hakamata, Akira Nomoto, Osamu Nakamura, Yoshihisa Inoue, Kou Tsurugi, Nobuhiro Tanabe, Yoshihiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8097321Abstract: This invention relates to the use of vermiculite and layer minerals in general release films.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2002Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Qinetiq LimitedInventors: Andrew Martin Pitt, David Edward Higgins
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Patent number: 8080358Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophotographic recording medium that contains a support and an olefin-maleic anhydride copolymer, wherein the olefin-maleic anhydride copolymer exists at least near the surface of the electrophotographic recording medium on which an image is recorded, and the electrophotographic recording medium is reusable; and a method for producing an electrophotographic recording medium, an image forming method, a method for repeatedly using an electrophotographic recording medium, and a method for repeatedly using an electrophotographic recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2005Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kakuji Murakami
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Patent number: 8048532Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improved, metallized polymer film and method for preparing the same. Such films comprise a) at least one treated polymeric skin layer comprising butylene, and b) a metal layer deposited onto at least one surface of this polymeric skin layer. The polymeric skin layer can comprise a propylene-butylene copolymer or an ethylene-propylene-butylene terpolymer, with this copolymer or terpolymer containing from about 4 wt % to about 12 wt % of butylene. The polymeric skin layer is preferably preconditioned by subjecting an outermost surface thereof to plasma treatment which facilitates the deposition thereon of a strongly adhering metal layer which is preferably aluminum. The resulting multi-layer films exhibit metal adhesion bond strength of at least about 100 grams/25 mm. These films will preferably also exhibit a Water Vapor Transmission Rate of from about 0.05 to about 0.2 g/m2/24 hour, and an Oxygen Transmission Rate of from about 5.0 to about 20 cm3/m2/24 hour.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: ExxonMobil Oil CorporationInventors: Laurence Dominique Urbain, George Forman Cretekos, Christophe J. Maertens
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Patent number: 8043697Abstract: A polyimide film-laminated body is composed of a metal layer and an aromatic polyimide layer formed by casting a polyamic acid solution composition, comprising 3,3?,4,4?-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride as an essential tetracarboxylic dianhydride component and with introduction of a specific diamine component, onto a metal foil. The polyimide film-laminated body has an excellent gas permeation rate and moisture permeation rate, with heat resistance, a high elastic modulus and a low linear expansion coefficient, and with reduced foaming and delamination during the high-temperature steps for formation of the laminated body.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2006Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masato Murakami, Hiroaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8038786Abstract: Disclosed are heat-ray cutoff compounds, films and method using them. The heat-ray compound is produced by dispersing conductive nanoparticles in an amphoteric solvent with acids and dispersion sol, which provides a low cost production for the heat-ray cutoff films because it is able to any resin binder without sorting the kinds of resin binders (hydrolic or alcoholic, or anti-hydrolic).Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2003Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Hae-Wook LEEInventors: Hae-Wook Lee, Jin-Hong Park
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Patent number: 6499256Abstract: A weather strip comprises an extruded part and a molded part which is connected to the extruded part. The molded part is molded from a material containing a solid particle antifriction material and has 1 to 50 &mgr;m of ten points average surface roughness (Rz) on the surface of the molded part. The material is a thermoplastic elastomer or a soft resin.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1999Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Chemical Co., LimitedInventors: Masanori Aritake, Hironobu Shigematsu, Nobuhiro Natsuyama
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Patent number: 6287705Abstract: The invention provides (1) a propylene-ethylene random copolymer having specific properties, (2) a resin composition comprising a propylene-ethylene random copolymer with specific properties, and a nucleating agent, (3) a resin composition comprising a propylene-ethylene random copolymer with specific properties, and a propylene-based polymer; and their films, and multi-layered, propylene-based laminates of which the outermost layer is made of a specific propylene-based polymer. The films and the laminates exhibit excellent heat-sealability, and have good slip characteristics and good anti-blocking characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2000Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Seta, Yutaka Minami
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Patent number: 6203923Abstract: The present invention is directed to Packaging Materials and Packaging Articles having a structure composed of a substantially linear, regio-regular functionalized hydrocarbon polymer having C4-C12 hydrocarbon polymer repeating units wherein each unit has at least one functional group uniformly pendent therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1998Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Cryovac, Inc.Inventors: Donald Albert Bansleben, Truc-Chi Huynh-Tran, Rusty Lew Blanski, Paul Anthony Hughes, William Peyton Roberts, Robert Howard Grubbs, Galen Richard Hatfield
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Patent number: 6190760Abstract: A biaxially oriented polypropylene film to be metallized, including a surface layer made of a polypropylene resin with the endothermic main peak by crystal fusion in a range of 155 to 163° C. and with a heat of crystal fusion of 20 to 90 J/g, being laminated layer at least on one side of the base layer made of isotactic polypropylene; and the wetting tension of the surface layer, being 33 to 55 mN/m. A metallized biaxially oriented polypropylene film, including a thin metallic film, being laminated on the surface layer of said biaxially oriented polypropylene film to be metallized. A laminate obtained by using said metallized biaxially oriented polypropylene film.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1998Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Itsuo Nagai, Shigeru Tanaka