Patents Examined by Tabassom Tadayyon-Eslami
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Patent number: 11976203Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method for curing multi-layer constructs of energy curable (EC) inks and coatings with actinic radiation. In the method, one or more layers of EC inks and/or coatings comprising materials that can crosslink or polymerize when exposed to actinic radiation, e.g., monomers, oligomers or polymers, are applied to a substrate, which EC inks and coatings contain little or no photoinitiators. This is followed by applying one or more layers of non-EC inks and/or coatings, which comprise one or more organic peroxides but no readily polymerizable components, over the top of the layers of energy curable inks and/or coatings; and exposing the layers to actinic radiation.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Sun Chemical CorporationInventor: John G. Tiessen
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Patent number: 11972940Abstract: Methods of selectively depositing a carbon-containing layer are described. Exemplary processing methods may include flowing a first precursor over a substrate comprising a metal surface and a non-metal surface to form a first portion of an initial carbon-containing film on the metal surface. The methods may include removing a first precursor effluent from the substrate. A second precursor may then be flowed over the substrate to react with the first portion of the initial carbon-containing layer. The methods may include removing a second precursor effluent from the substrate. The methods may include pre-treating the metal surface of the substrate to form a metal oxide surface on the metal surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Xinke Wang, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Zeqing Shen, Susmit Singha Roy, Abhijit Basu Mallick, Jiecong Tang, John Sudijono, Mark Saly
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Patent number: 11961971Abstract: Provided is a production method for an all-solid-state battery having a solid electrolyte layer between a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer, the production method including: coating or impregnating the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer with a solid electrolyte solution in which a boron hydride compound serving as the solid electrolyte has been dissolved in a solvent; and removing the solvent from the coated or impregnated solid electrolyte solution and causing the solid electrolyte to precipitate on the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Genki Nogami, Masahiro Shimada, Tomohiro Ito, Aki Katori, Keita Noguchi, Naoto Yamashita, Takashi Mukai, Masahiro Yanagida
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Patent number: 11951495Abstract: A process for coating a carrier material with an active material for production of an electrode foil of a battery cell with a Laval nozzle, wherein the Laval nozzle has at least one converging first portion, one second portion having a smallest flow cross section, and one diverging third portion arranged one after the other along a flow direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Kartik Jamadar, Bastian Westphal, Sven Schopf, Priyanka Gangurde
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Patent number: 11952308Abstract: The process for transforming an industrial soda-lime-type base glass plate into a glazed material with antimicrobial properties and personalized color consists in an antimicrobial glazed material production process. Copper nanoparticles (NPCu) are added to said glass with the aim of directly altering cell protection against viruses and bacteria in order to destroy their genetic material. The antibacterial glass is specifically applied to the industrial sector of surfaces and covers that are usually used in hospital facilities, and covers for the handling of food and beverages, among other uses.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MATERIALES AVANZADOS SPAInventor: Christian Marcel Aguilar Cartagena
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Patent number: 11949094Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrode disclosed herein includes a step of granulating a moisture powder formed by aggregated particles including at least an electrode active material, carbon nanotubes, and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution, and a step of forming an electrode by supplying an electrode active material layer composed of the moisture powder onto the electrode current collector. The granulation step includes a first mixing treatment of mixing the carbon nanotubes and the non-aqueous electrolytic solution to impregnate the carbon nanotubes with the non-aqueous electrolytic solution, a second mixing treatment of mixing the carbon nanotubes impregnated with the non-aqueous electrolytic solution and the electrode active material, and a treatment of compressing the mixture obtained by the first and second mixing treatments.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventor: Satoshi Moriyama
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Patent number: 11942619Abstract: In various aspects, the present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing an electrode for an electrochemical cell. The method includes contacting a solid electrode material and a substrate at an interface. The method further includes preparing a liquid electrode material at the interface by heating at least a portion of the solid electrode material to a first temperature. The first temperature is greater than or equal to a melting point of the solid electrode material. The method further includes creating a layer of the liquid electrode material on the substrate by moving at least one of the solid electrode material and the substrate with respect to the other of the solid electrode material and the substrate. The method further includes forming the electrode by cooling the liquid electrode material to a second temperature. The second temperature is less than or equal to the melting point.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Erik Damon Huemiller, Shaomao Xu, Ryan Curtis Sekol, Wayne Cai, Michael P. Balogh, Xiaowei Yu
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Patent number: 11929489Abstract: A manufacturing method for an electrode plate and an electrode plate are provided. The method includes deposition-layer forming to form a deposition layer in which active material particles and binder particles are deposited on a surface of a current collecting foil and heat pressing to form an electrode layer on the surface of the current collecting foil by heating and compressing a deposition-layer-formed current collecting foil having the deposition layer on the surface of the current collecting foil. The deposition layer includes a first deposition layer placed on a side of the current collecting foil and a second deposition layer constituting a surface of the deposition layer. The deposition-layer forming includes forming the deposition layer in which a content rate of the binder particles in the second deposition layer is lower than a content rate of the binder particles in the first deposition layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sokichi Okubo, Tomoyuki Uezono, Momoka Miyajima, Nagisa Shimasaki, Masaki Watanabe, Miyuki Matsuyama
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Patent number: 11903139Abstract: The disclosure describes a soft-matter electronic device having micron-scale features, and methods to fabricate the electronic device. In some embodiments, the device comprises an elastomer mold having microchannels, which are filled with an eutectic alloy to create an electrically conductive element. The microchannels are sealed with a polymer to prevent the alloy from escaping the microchannels. In some embodiments, the alloy is drawn into the microchannels using a micro-transfer printing technique. Additionally, the molds can be created using soft-lithography or other fabrication techniques. The method described herein allows creation of micron-scale circuit features with a line width and spacing that is an order-of-magnitude smaller than those previously demonstrated.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITYInventors: Carmel Majidi, Burak Ozdoganlar, Arya Tabatabai, Bulent Arda Gozen
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Patent number: 11891540Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multilayer treadmill walking board assembly includes preparing a plurality of components, mixing and stirring the components to form a composite material, heating the composite material to a temperature of 140-160° C., cooling the composite material to a temperature of 80-85° C. so that the composite material is disposed at a thick state, applying the composite material on a top face of a support board, to form a coating on the support board, solidifying the coating during a time interval of 2-5 minutes, rapidly cooling the coating to a temperature of 20-30° C., with the composite material producing a stepwise multilayer deposit, thereby serially forming the wear-resistant layer, the lubricating layer, and the antistatic layer from bottom to top, and solidifying the coating to form a product.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Inventor: Yu-Lun Tsai
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Patent number: 11821086Abstract: A particle coating method includes placing magnetic particles in a vessel, fixing the magnetic particles by a magnetic force caused by a magnetic field generated in the vessel, and forming a coating film on surfaces of the magnetic particles by an atomic layer deposition method. Further, the method preferably includes forming a coating film on surfaces of the magnetic particles by an atomic layer deposition method in a state where the magnetic particles are fixed by the magnetic force in a first direction, thereby obtaining coated magnetic particles, and forming a coating film on surfaces of the coated magnetic particles in a state where the coated magnetic particles are fixed by the magnetic force in a second direction different from the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Inventors: Kenji Otsuka, Kazuhiro Gomi
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Patent number: 11811046Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an electrode by doping an active material included a layer of an electrode precursor with alkali metal. The electrode precursor and a counter electrode member are brought into contact with a solution containing an alkali metal ion in a dope bath. The counter electrode member includes a conductive base material, an alkali metal-containing plate, and a member having an opening. The member having the opening is located between the conductive base material and the alkali metal-containing plate. The member having the opening is, for example, a resin film having an opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: MUSASHI ENERGY SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunari Aita, Masaya Naoi, Kenji Kojima, Masahiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11811042Abstract: A method of coating an active material for a secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is a method of coating an active material on an electrode current collector of a secondary battery, the method comprising the steps of: disposing a guide member on each of the left and right sides based on a moving direction of the electrode current collector, and coating the active material onto the electrode current collector between the two guide members.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Inventors: Sang Myeon Lee, Hyung Seok Han, Hyungkyun Yu, Ki Hoon Paeng, Jaewon Moon
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Patent number: 11787956Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic multilayer pigment flake and a magnetic coating composition that are relatively safe for human health and the environment. The pigment flake includes one or more magnetic layers of a magnetic alloy and one or more dielectric layers of a dielectric material. The magnetic alloy is an iron-chromium alloy or an iron-chromium-aluminum alloy, having a substantially nickel-free composition. The coating composition includes a plurality of the pigment flakes disposed in a binder medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Vladimir P. Raksha, Paul T. Kohlmann, Cornelis Jan Delst, Paul G. Coombs
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Patent number: 11791459Abstract: Methods of preparing an electrochemically active material can include providing electrochemically active particles, coating the particles with a binder, and exposing the particles to a source of metal. The methods can also include forming metal salt on the surface of the particles from the source of metal and heating the metal salt to form metal oxide coated particles.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Enevate CorporationInventors: Sanjaya Perera, Benjamin Yong Park, Jill Pestana
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Patent number: 11790942Abstract: A method, in one approach, includes forming a magnetic recording layer having: encapsulated nanoparticles each comprising a magnetic nanoparticle encapsulated by an encapsulating layer, and a polymeric binder binding the encapsulated nanoparticles.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Richard Bradshaw
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Patent number: 11772399Abstract: This document describes morphing objects that are created using hydrogels and techniques for creating and controlling the morphing objects. In one aspect, a method for creating a morphing object includes creating one or more heating elements on a substrate by applying one or more conductive traces onto at least one of a first surface of the substrate or a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface and forming a hydrogel pattern on the first surface of the substrate by applying a hydrogel ink to the first surface of the substrate based on a predefined pattern.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Mark Benjamin Greenspan, Lavinia Andreea Danielescu, Jack Forman, Aditi Maheshwari
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Patent number: 11772404Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of and processes and printing apparatuses for producing optical effect layers (OEL) comprising magnetically oriented platelet-shaped magnetic or magnetizable pigment particles on a substrate. In particular, the present invention relates to processes using printing apparatuses comprising a first magnetic-field-generating device mounted on a transferring device (TD) and a static second magnetic-field-generating device for producing said OELs as anti-counterfeit means on security documents or security articles or for decorative purposes.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SAInventors: Mathieu Schmid, Evgeny Loginov, Claude-Alain Despland
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Patent number: 11762295Abstract: A method can be used to generate a fluid droplet pattern for an imprint lithography process using a fluid dispense system having fluid dispense ports. The method can include determining a fluid droplet pattern for dispensing a formable material onto a substrate, during a first pass, dispensing the formable material along a stitch line to form a first part of the fluid droplet pattern for an imprint field, where the stitch line runs from a first corner to a second corner of the imprint field. The method can also include offsetting the substrate and the fluid dispense ports relative to each other after dispensing the formable material during the first pass, and during a second pass, dispensing the formable material along the stitch line onto the substrate to form a second part of the fluid droplet pattern for the imprint field. An apparatus can be configured to carry out the method.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Amir Tavakkoli Kermani Ghariehali, Edward Brian Fletcher, Logan L. Simpson, James W. Irving
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Patent number: 11762284Abstract: A method for fabricating patterns. An inverse optimization scheme is implemented to determine process parameters used to obtain a desired film thickness of a liquid resist formulation, where the liquid resist formulation includes a solvent and one or more non-solvent components. A substrate is covered with a substantially continuous film of the liquid resist formulation using one or more of the following techniques: dispensing discrete drops of a diluted monomer on the substrate using an inkjet and allowing the dispensed drops to spontaneously spread and merge, slot die coating and spin-coating. The liquid resist formulation is diluted in the solvent. The solvent is then substantially evaporated from the liquid resist formulation forming a film. A gap between a template and the substrate is then closed. The film is cured to polymerize the film and the substrate is separated from the template leaving the polymerized film on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2017Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan, Shrawan Singhal, Ovadia Abed, Lawrence Dunn