Patents Examined by Patrick Jewik
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Patent number: 5574001Abstract: A superconductive lead assembly for a superconductive device (e.g., magnet) cooled by a cryocooler coldhead having first and second stages. A first ceramic superconductive lead has a first end flexibly, dielectrically, and thermally connected to the first stage and a second end flexibly, dielectrically, and thermally connected to the second stage. A jacket of open cell material (e.g., polystyrene foam) is in general surrounding compressive contact with the first ceramic superconductive lead, and a rigid support tube generally surrounds the jacket. This protects the first ceramic superconductive lead against shock and vibration while in the device. The rigid support tube has a first end and a second end, with the second end thermally connectable to the second stage.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1995Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert A. Ackermann, Kenneth G. Herd, Evangelos T. Laskaris, Richard A. Ranze
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Patent number: 5573845Abstract: There is provided a composite material particularly suited for electrical and electronic applications having a metallic core with a desired surface finish. An acicular superficial coating layer having an apparent thickness of less than 275 angstroms is adjacent to at least a portion of the metallic core. The superficial coating layer is removable from the metallic core without appreciable change to the metallic core surface finish.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1994Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: Olin CorporationInventors: Arvind Parthasarathi, William L. Brenneman
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Patent number: 5571777Abstract: A superconducting thin film formed on a semiconductor substrate, which comprises at least one superconducting region formed of an oxide superconductor on the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate and at least one isolation region formed of an oxide insulator including component atoms of the oxide superconductor, which surrounds the superconducting region, and the superconductor thin film has a planar upper surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: November 5, 1996Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: So Tanaka, Michitomo Iiyama
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Patent number: 5571606Abstract: A superconductive lead assembly for a superconductive device (e.g., magnet) cooled by a cryocooler coldhead having first and second stages. A first ceramic superconductive lead has a first end flexibly, dielectrically, and thermally connected to the first stage and a second end flexibly, dielectrically, and thermally connected to the second stage. A jacket of open cell material (e.g., polystyrene foam) is in general surrounding compressive contact with the first ceramic superconductive lead, and a rigid support tube generally surrounds the jacket. This protects the first ceramic superconductive lead against shock and vibration while in the device. The rigid support tube has a first end and a second end, with the second end thermally connectable to the second stage.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1995Date of Patent: November 5, 1996Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert A. Ackermann, Kenneth G. Herd, Evangelos T. Laskaris, Richard A. Ranze
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Patent number: 5565261Abstract: A selective call receiver (900) includes a ceramic substrate (820) for conveying an electrical signal. The ceramic substrate (820) has at least one solder pad which includes a solder pad area (110) of an electrical conductor (120) on the ceramic substrate and a solder wettable layer (210). The electrical conductor (120) consists essentially of a conductive ceramic material. The solder wettable layer (210) is attached to the solder pad area (110). The solder wettable layer (210) includes at least 50% indium by weight. A circuit device (410) has at least one circuit terminal which is soldered to the at least one solder pad of the ceramic substrate (820) for electrical interconnection to another circuit device (410) in the selective call receiver (900).Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1994Date of Patent: October 15, 1996Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Robert T. Carson, Lisa Reckleben, Arnold W. Hogrefe
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Patent number: 5562994Abstract: An un-coated paper-making sludge substrate for metallizing, the substrate containing: 1) from about 40 to about 94 percent, by weight, low-average fiber length pulp, and 2) from about 6 to about 60 percent, by weight, ash generating materials, such that the paper-making sludge substrate is adapted, upon depositing a metallic coating onto a surface of the substrate, to provide a metallized paper with at least one surface having a gloss of at least about 19. Also disclosed is a metallized paper composed of: 1) a paper-making sludge substrate having a first surface and second surface, the paper-making sludge substrate containing from about 40 to about 94 percent, by weight, low-average fiber length pulp, and from about 6 to about 60 percent, by weight, ash generating materials, the paper-making sludge substrate being free of base coatings; and 2) a metallic coating on at least one surface of the substrate, so that at least one surface of the metallized paper has a gloss of at least about 19.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1994Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Assignee: Kimberly-Clark CorporationInventors: William A. Abba, Laurine A. Charles, Bernard Cohen
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Patent number: 5562970Abstract: A multilayer structure is fabricated by forming a conductive layer on an insulative substrate. A first conductive pattern is formed on the first conductive layer and a resist layer having a via hole therethrough is formed on the first pattern. A via lead is formed in the via hole by electrically plating a metal therein utilizing the first layer as a lead for the plating process. The resist and the exposed part of the first layer are removed and a polyimide layer having a thermal expansion coefficient that is equal to that of the via lead is formed over the substrate. The surface of the polyimide layer is etched until the via lead top segment protrudes to a predetermined height above the surface of the etched polyimide layer. A second pattern is formed on the polyimide layer and the exposed lead segment by a plating process.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Assignee: Fujitsu Ltd.Inventor: Kazuaki Satoh
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Patent number: 5560980Abstract: An input stack of recording sheets and cleaning paper is provided. Each sheet is formed of a coated layer including pigment on a base material, while each cleaning paper has an adhesion strength ranging from 1 to 500 gf defined by JIS-Z-0237 and determined by a 90.degree. peel method and is interspersed in the recording sheets.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1994Date of Patent: October 1, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mamoru Sakaki, Yutaka Kurabayashi
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Patent number: 5560981Abstract: A double molded product is produced by secondary molding a primary molded product with a resin, the primary molded product comprising a connector portion accommodating at least one wire and an inside-outside communication portion communicating the inside of a mold with the outside during a secondary molding. The inside-outside communication portion comprises at east one notch for respectively holding the wires extending from inside of the mold to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1995Date of Patent: October 1, 1996Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Katsuya Ito
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Patent number: 5558915Abstract: This high-voltage installation has a metallic enclosure (1) which is filled with insulating gas and surrounds voltage-carrying active parts. In addition, it has at least one at least partial protective coating (7, 9, 10) either on the internal surface of the enclosure (1) or on the external surface over the active parts, or at least one at least partial protective coating (7, 9, 10) both on the internal surface of the enclosure (1) and on the external surface of the active parts.It is intended to provide a high-voltage installation in which free electrons are also reliably removed from the insulating gaps and in which partial discharges generated by free particles are reduced to noncritical values of intensity. This is achieved in that the at least one protective coating (7, 9, 10) is doped with at least one fullerene which absorbs free electrons. Protective coatings which have a surface of vapor-deposited fullerene are also particularly suitable.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1994Date of Patent: September 24, 1996Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.Inventors: Ingo Herbst, Ralf-Dieter Pietsch
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Patent number: 5558927Abstract: A color filter for a liquid crystal display which comprises an optically transparent supporting member (100), a transparent conductive layer (500) formed upon said supporting member (100), and a color layer (200) in which are disposed in specified patterns red, blue and green picture elements formed upon said transparent conductive layer (500), wherein the color layer (200) employs pigments as coloring agents which form said picture elements, the relative dielectric constant of the color layer (200) is at least 2.0 under measurement conditions of the application thereto of an alternating current of 5 V and a frequency of 1 kHz to 100 kHz, and moreover, the red, blue and green picture elements of which the color layer is composed have relative dielectric constant of within a range of .+-.25% of the mean value for the relative dielectric constant of said color layer. The color layer (200) is 0.4 .mu.m to 1.0 .mu.m thick.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1994Date of Patent: September 24, 1996Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hisashi Aruga, Keiji Takizawa, Ryuji Sawata, Takashi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5554434Abstract: A micro light valve which is corresponding to each of pixels for display and which passes or shuts a light beam by electrostatic force to display images, said light valve comprising a data electrode formed on a substrate and connected with each of data lines through a via; a selection electrode formed on the substrate and connected with each of selection lines; a common electrode formed between the selection and data electrodes; a flat-shaped micro shifting element capable of moving in linear direction and which serves as a resistance body; insulating layers formed respectively between the shifting element and each of the electrodes; a frame for serving as a black matrix, which has a guiding means for guiding the shifting element; and the three electrodes for receiving externally applied driving signals to drive the shifting element and which serve as stationary elements with three phases.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1994Date of Patent: September 10, 1996Assignee: Electronics & Telecommunications Research Inst.Inventors: Gyeong-Lyong Park, Sin-Chong Park, Hyung-Moo Park
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Patent number: 5552222Abstract: Conductors of electric current in turbine generators and the like are insulated with materials resistant to damage by corona discharge. The insulating materials include an inner layer of a thermoplastic such as a polyetherimide, and an outer layer of a polyorganosiloxane material such as a silicone polyimide or the product of curing a room temperature vulcanizable silicone composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1995Date of Patent: September 3, 1996Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Donald A. Bolon, Patricia C. Irwin
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Patent number: 5552372Abstract: A superconductive lead assembly for a superconductive device (e.g., magnet) cooled by a cryocooler coldhead having first and second stages. A first ceramic superconductive lead has a first end flexibly, dielectrically, and thermally connected to the first stage and a second end flexibly, dielectrically, and thermally connected to the second stage. A jacket of open cell material (e.g., polystyrene foam) is in general surrounding compressive contact with the first ceramic superconductive lead, and a rigid support tube generally surrounds the jacket. This protects the first ceramic superconductive lead against shock and vibration while in the device. The rigid support tube has a first end and a second end, with the second end thermally connectable to the second stage.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1995Date of Patent: September 3, 1996Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert A. Ackermann, Kenneth G. Herd, Evangelos T. Laskaris, Richard A. Ranze
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Patent number: 5552211Abstract: A superconductive lead assembly for a superconductive device (e.g., magnet) cooled by a cryocooler coldhead having first and second stages. A first ceramic superconductive lead has a first end flexibly, dielectrically, and thermally connected to the first stage and a second end flexibly, dielectrically, and thermally connected to the second stage. A jacket of open cell material (e.g., polystyrene foam) is in general surrounding compressive contact with the first ceramic superconductive lead, and a rigid support tube generally surrounds the jacket. This protects the first ceramic superconductive lead against shock and vibration while in the device. The rigid support tube has a first end and a second end, with the second end thermally connectable to the second stage.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1995Date of Patent: September 3, 1996Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert A. Ackermann, Kenneth G. Herd, Evangelos T. Laskaris, Richard A. Ranze
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Patent number: 5536559Abstract: An imaging mount and apparatus that reduces or eliminates stress induced in an imaging mask mounted thereto. The mount comprises a support block and a trio of mounting pads connected thereto. At least two of the mounting pads are connected to the support block so that their respective positions are adjustable within a predetermined plane which is preferably substantially parallel to a surface of a substrate to be imaged. Each of the mounting pads including means for securing the imaging mask generally parallel to the predetermined plane. The positions the adjustable mounting pads adjust within the predetermined plane responsive to securing of the lithography mask thereto so that the imaging mask is essentially undeflected due to the securing thereof. The absence of deformation (and, as a result, stress) in the imaging mask due to its being secured to the mount reduces the degree of distortion of radiation passing through the mask and to the imprinted surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1994Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationInventors: Franco Cerrina, John P. Wallace
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Patent number: 5523282Abstract: A lanthanum aluminate (LaAlO.sub.3) substrate on which thin films of layered perovskite copper oxide superconductors are formed. Lanthanum aluminate, with a pseudo-cubic perovskite crystal structure, has a crystal structure and lattice constant that closely match the crystal structures and lattice constants of the layered perovskite superconductors. Therefore, it promotes epitaxial film growth of the superconductors, with the crystals being oriented in the proper direction for good superconductive electrical properties, such as a high critical current density. In addition, LaAlO.sub.3 has good high frequency properties, such as a low loss tangent and low dielectric constant at superconductive temperatures. Finally, lanthanum aluminate does not significantly interact with the superconductors. Lanthanum aluminate can also used to form thin insulating films between the superconductor layers, which allows for the fabrication of a wide variety of superconductor circuit elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1988Date of Patent: June 4, 1996Assignee: TRW Inc.Inventors: Randy W. Simon, Christine E. Platt, Alfred E. Lee, Gregory S. Lee
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Patent number: 5508120Abstract: Prepare boron carbide-aluminum structural composites by infiltrating molten aluminum or aluminum alloy into a porous preform that is either unbaked or baked at a temperature of up to 1800.degree. C. to form a densified cermet and then heat treat the cermet in air or an oxygen-containing atmosphere to form a dense outer surface layer of aluminum oxide. The resulting structural cermets can withstand prolonged exposure to temperatures above the melting point of aluminum without suffering undue degradation of physical properties such as flexure strength.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1994Date of Patent: April 16, 1996Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventors: Aleksander J. Pyzik, Sharon M. Fuller, Donald R. Beaman
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Patent number: 5508087Abstract: An organic-optic recording tape of higher capacity and higher packing density of data. This tape comprises a backcoating layer, a base film coated on the backcoating layer, and a complex functional layer for writing, reading and erasing data. The complex functional layer is coated on the base film and selectively focused by laser beams of different powers outputted from a laser diode in order to write, read or erase data. This complex functional layer is made of a block polymer prepared by blending a thermoplastic elastomer and a viscoelastic transparent thermoplastic high-molecular resin or polymerizing them. Near infrared absorbing organic colorants are dispersed in the complex functional layer. The transparent thermoplastic resin has a glass transition temperature higher than that of the elastomer. The recording is effected by employing a laser beam of lower power capable of inducing thermal expansion of the elastomer and formation of a bump.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1994Date of Patent: April 16, 1996Assignee: Cheil Synthetics Inc.Inventors: Kyung S. Min, Geon Y. Kim, Ok K. Cho
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Patent number: 5508088Abstract: Disclosed are a timing device for controlling machine tools, handling equipment or other servomechanical elements and a method of manufacture. The timing device comprises a timing control element which includes a plurality of transparent windows and opaque windows arranged in a selected pattern and a reflective means disposed behind the transparent and opaque windows for reflecting light. A transmitter emits light toward the timing control element. The device further comprise means for operating the timing control element to controllably select one of the transparent and opaque windows to be in the path of the emitted light. The emitted light propagates through one of the transparent windows, and is reflected by the reflective means only when the selected window is transparent. A receiver, disposed adjacent to the transmitter, generates an electrical signal in response to the reflected light.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1994Date of Patent: April 16, 1996Inventor: Paul-Wilhelm Braun