Patents Examined by Veronica F. Faison
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Patent number: 10301493Abstract: An aqueous ink jet ink composition contains a pigment in which the half width of the maximum peak or a peak comparable thereto in an X-ray diffraction spectrum is 0.7° or less and the average value of major axis/minor axis length ratios is 1.7 or less; and an organic solvent A which is one or more selected from the group consisting of alkanediols (1) containing an alkyl skeleton having a branched structure and alkylene glycol alkyl ethers (2) containing at least any one of alkylene glycol containing an alkyl skeleton having a branched structure and an ether of an alkyl group having a branched structure, and which has a normal boiling point of 225° C. or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yusuke Mizutaki, Tomohito Nakano
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Patent number: 10297375Abstract: A method of manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, includes: a laser processing process of forming a laser processed portion by irradiating a region on one end side of a steel sheet in a width direction after being subjected to a cold rolling process with a laser beam along a rolling direction of the steel sheet; and a finish annealing process of coiling the steel sheet with the laser processed portion formed thereon in a coil shape and performing a finish annealing on the coil-shaped steel sheet. In the laser processing process, a melted-resolidified portion having a depth of greater than 0% and equal to or less than 80% of a sheet thickness of the steel sheet is formed by the irradiation of the laser beam at a position corresponding to the laser processed portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Hirano, Yoshio Nakamura, Shohji Nagano, Seiichiro Cho
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Patent number: 10287649Abstract: A cold-rolled flat steel product may have a yield strength Rp0.2 of not more than 320 MPa, a fracture elongation A80 of at least 20% and a microstructure having by percent area 62%-82% ferrite, 10%-30% martensite, 1.5%-8% residual austenite, and a sum total of not more than 10% other microstructure constituents. The flat steel product may comprise a steel alloy containing in percent by weight 0.06%-0.1% C; 0.15%-0.4% Si; 1.5%-2% Mn; 0.2%-0.5% Cr; not more than 0.1% Al; wherein the sum total of C, Si, Mn, and Cr is at least 2.3% and not more than 2.8%; wherein the sum total of Si and Al is not more than 0.4%; not more than 0.03% P; not more than 0.006% S; not more than 0.008% N; unavoidable impurities including not more than 0.0006% B, not more than 0.02% V, and not more than 0.01% each of Nb and Ti, and not more than 0.1% each of Mo, Ni, and Cu; as well as iron. For production of such a flat steel product, a cold-rolled flat steel product may first be produced and then brought to 760-860° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG, THYSSENKRUPP AGInventors: Andreas Bongards, Sigrun Voβ, Roland Sebald
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Patent number: 10280323Abstract: Provided is an aqueous ink that enables the recording of images having high optical density and excellent toughness and has excellent reliability. An aqueous ink for ink jet includes a pigment, a resin having an anionic group, a salt and a water-soluble organic solvent. The pigment is a self-dispersible pigment in which an anionic group is bonded to the particle surface of carbon black directly or through another atomic group, the resin has a weight-average molecular weight of 20,000 or less, the water-soluble organic solvent includes glycerol and an additional solvent other than glycerol, and the content (% by mass) of the additional solvent relative to the content (% by mass) of glycerol in terms of mass ratio is 0.6 times or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kuniaki Fujimoto, Kenji Moribe, Kenichi Shiiba, Yuki Nishino
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Patent number: 10280327Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for preparing an eco-friendly crayon comprising: a) adding a pigment and food coloring agent while melting beeswax by heating; b) cooling the beeswax to block and then pulverizing the blocked beeswax; c) melting carnauba wax by heating; d) mixing the pulverized beeswax obtained in the step b with the carnauba wax obtained in the step c to prepare a mixture; and e) placing the mixture into a mold and cooling the mixture to prepare crayons, and an eco-friendly crayon including beeswax, the pigment, the food coloring agent, and carnauba wax prepared by the method.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: NOV. & MARCHInventor: Jaejin Go
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Patent number: 10266715Abstract: A liquid composition, including a solvent, for printing with a binary deflected continuous jet printing technique, wherein upon printing the liquid composition form drops that are each: not charged by an electric field, have a zero electric charge, form a dipole under the effect of an electric field, and are then deflected by the electric field. The liquid composition has all the following characteristics: a conductivity at 20° C. from 5 to 500 ?S/cm, still preferably a conductivity at 20° C. from 5 to 500 ?S/cm, the value of 500 ?S/cm being excluded, better a conductivity at 20° C. from 5 to 400 ?S/cm, still better a conductivity at 20° C. from 30 to 400 ?S/cm, for example from 30 to 200 ?S/cm; a dynamic viscosity at 20° C. from 1 to 25 cPs, preferably from 6 to 25 cPs; and a density from 0.8 to 2.5 g/cm3, preferably from 1.2 to 2.5 g/cm3.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: DOVER EUROPE SÀRLInventors: Bruno Barbet, Jean-François Desse, Pierre De Saint Romain, Daniel Esteoulle, Philippe Tenaud
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Patent number: 10259959Abstract: An aqueous coating composition includes a base metal pigment surface-treated with a fluorinated compound, a wax and water. Particles of the base metal pigment are flake-shaped. In the aqueous coating composition, a relationship of 0.65?D/Z is satisfied where D is an average particle diameter of the wax and Z is an average thickness of the base metal pigment.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Takiguchi, Akihiko Takano
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Patent number: 10252377Abstract: An aqueous aluminum brazing composition contains, as a binder resin, a water-soluble/dispersible polyurethane resin that exhibits a residual ratio of 60% by mass or less in a 400° C. heating environment and exhibits a residual ratio of 1.0% by mass or less in a 520° C. heating environment.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: HARIMA CHEMICALS, INCORPORATEDInventors: Yasuo Ota, JinYu Piao
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Patent number: 10227674Abstract: Provided is a ferritic stainless steel foil having an excellent ability to form whiskers is obtained by its composition containing, by mass, C: 0.050% or less, Si: 2.00% or less, Mn: 0.50% or less, S: 0.010% or less, P: 0.050% or less, Cr: 15.0% or more and 30.0% or less, Al: 2.5% or more and 6.5% or less, N: 0.050% or less, one or more elements selected from Ti: 0.01% or more and 0.50% or less, Nb: 0.01% or more and 0.20% or less, V: 0.01% or more and 0.20% or less, Zr: 0.005% or more and 0.200% or less, and Hf: 0.005% or more and 0.200% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, the proportion of a {111} crystal grain (a crystal grain such that the difference between the {111} plane of the crystal grain and a direction perpendicular to the surface of the foil falls within ±15°) on the surface of the foil being 50% by area or more, and the thickness of an oxide layer formed on the surface of the foil being 0.1 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Akito Mizutani, Mitsuyuki Fujisawa
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Patent number: 10214651Abstract: Frits or frit mixtures with pearlescent pigments for materials, such as ceramic glazes, which are stable above 1000° C.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Lukas Hamm, Carsten Handrosch, Nicole Nelischer
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Patent number: 10214790Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing components from an austenitic lightweight steel which is metastable in its initial state, by forming of a sheet, a circuit board or a pipe in one or more steps, exhibiting a temperature-dependent TRIP and/or TWIP effect during forming. To obtain a component with, in particular, high toughness, the forming is carried out at a temperature above room temperature, at 40 to 160° C., which avoids the TRIP/TWIP effect, and to achieve in particular high component strength, the forming is carried out at a temperature below room temperature, at ?65 to 0° C., which enhances the TRIP/TWIP effect.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbHInventors: Thomas Evertz, Manuel Otto, Bianca Springub, Zacharias Georgeou
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Patent number: 10208362Abstract: An HT550 steel plate with ultrahigh toughness and excellent weldability and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. Based on a component system with ultralow-C, high-Mn, Nb-microalloying, ultramicro Ti treatment, Mn/C is controlled in the range of 15˜30, (% Si)×(% Ceq) is less than or equal to 0.050, (% C)×(% Si) is less than or equal to 0.010, (% Mo)×[(% C)+0.13(% Si)] is in the range of 0.003˜0.020, the ratio Ti/N is in the range of 2.0˜4.0, the steel plate is alloyed with (Cu+Ni+Mo), Ni/Cu is greater than or equal to 1.0, Ca treatment is performed, and Ca/S is in the range of 0.80˜3.00; by optimizing TMCP process, the steel plate has microstructures of fine ferrite plus self-tempered bainite with an average grain size being less than or equal to 15 ?m, yield strength being 460 MPa or more, tensile strength being 550˜700 MPa, yield ratio being 0.85 or less, and ?60° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zicheng Liu, Xianju Li
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Patent number: 10196715Abstract: An alloy and an implant having a three-dimensional structure based on such alloy. The alloy comprises a MgZnCa alloy containing nanosized precipitates being less noble than the Mg matrix alloy and having a Zn content ranging 0.1 wt. % Zn to 2 wt. % Zn and a calcium content ranging from 0.2 wt. % to 0.5 wt. %, and having less than 0.04 wt. % of one or more other elements with the remainder being Mg. For these micro-alloys, any second phase generated during the solidification process can be completely dissolved by a solution heat treatment. Finely dispersed nanosized precipitates can then be generated by a subsequent aging heat treatment step. These precipitates are used to “pin” the grain boundaries and to prevent the coarsening of the grain structure during further processing to achieve grain sizes below 5 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Imwinkelried, Stefan Beck, Peter Uggowitzer, Joerg Loeffler
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Patent number: 10190184Abstract: A method for producing a profile includes method steps of: providing a workpiece; shaping the workpiece; joining the workpiece; coating the workpiece; heating the workpiece; and at least partially hardening the workpiece; wherein the coating method step is carried out temporally after the joining method step and temporally before the heating method step.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG, THYSSENKRUPP AGInventors: Sascha Sikora, Jorg Gorschlüter
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Patent number: 10174392Abstract: A method for producing a high-tensile cold-rolled steel sheet includes subjecting a slab having a composition containing C: more than 0.020% and less than 0.30%, Si: more than 0.10% and 3.00% or less, and Mn: more than 1.00% and 3.50% or less to hot rolling wherein the roll draft of the final one pass is higher than 15%, and rolling is finished in the temperature region of Ar3 point or higher, optionally annealing wherein the hot-rolled steel sheet is heated to 300° C. or higher after being cooled to 780° C. or lower, coiling higher than 400° C. or lower than 400° C., cold rolling the hot-rolled steel sheet or the annealed steel sheet, and annealing wherein the cold-rolled steel sheet is soaked in the temperature region of (Ac3 point?40° C.) or higher, cooling to 500° C. or lower and 300° C. or higher, and holding in that temperature region for 30 seconds or longer.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio, Masayuki Wakita, Yasuaki Tanaka, Norio Imai, Toshiro Tomida, Mitsuru Yoshida, Kengo Hata
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Patent number: 10161693Abstract: An aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchangers, containing 0.5 to 1.5 mass % of Si; more than 1.0 mass % but not more than 2.0 mass % of Fe; 0.4 to 1.0 mass % of Mn; and 0.4 to 1.0 mass % of Zn, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein a metallographic microstructure before braze-heating is such that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of less than 0.1 ?m is less than 1×107 particles/mm2, and that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.1 ?m or more is 1×105 particles/mm2 or more, wherein a tensile strength before braze-heating, TSB (N/mm2), a tensile strength after braze-heating, TSA (N/mm2), and a fin sheet thickness, t (?m), satisfy: 0.4?(TSB?TSA)/t?2.1, and wherein the sheet thickness is 150 ?m or less; and a method of producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: UACJ CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Fukumoto, Junichi Mochizuki, Akio Niikura
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Patent number: 10145630Abstract: An aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchangers, containing 0.5 to 1.5 mass % of Si; 0.1 to 1.0 mass % of Fe; 0.8 to 1.8 mass % of Mn; and 0.4 to 2.5 mass % of Zn, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein a metallographic microstructure before braze-heating is such that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of less than 0.1 ?m is less than 1×107 particles/mm2, and that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.1 ?m or more is 5×104 particles/mm2 or more, wherein a tensile strength before braze-heating, TSB (N/mm2), a tensile strength after braze-heating, TSA (N/mm2), and a sheet thickness of the fin material, t (?m), satisfy a relationship: 0.4?(TSB?TSA)/t?2.1, and wherein the sheet thickness is 150 ?m or less; and a method of producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: UACJ CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Fukumoto, Junichi Mochizuki, Akio Niikura
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Patent number: 10121586Abstract: A manufacturing method of an amorphous soft magnetic core using a Fe-based amorphous metallic powder includes size-sorting an amorphous metallic powder obtained by pulverizing an amorphous ribbon prepared by a rapid solidification process (RSP) and then using the amorphous metallic powder having a particle size distribution so as to comprise 10 to 85 wt. % of powder having a particle size of 75 to 100 ?m, 10 to 70 wt. % of powder having a particle size of 50 to 75 ?m, and 5 to 20 wt. % of powder having a particle size of 5 to 50 ?m to manufacture an amorphous soft magnetic core with excellent high-current DC bias characteristic and good core loss characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: AMOGREENTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Byoung Ki Lee, Se Joong Yoon, Mi Rae Kim
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Patent number: 10111753Abstract: Implants are formed from a multiple staged process that combines both additive and subtractive techniques. Additive techniques melt powders and fragments of a desired material, then successively layer the molten material into the desired implant shape, without compressing or remelting for homogenization of the layers, thereby producing an implant that is substantially free of pores and inclusions. Subtractive techniques refine implant surfaces to produce a bioactive roughened surface comprised of macro, micro, and nano structural features that facilitate bone growth and fusion.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Titan Spine, Inc.Inventors: Chad J. Patterson, Jennifer M. Schneider, Mark E. Berg
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Patent number: 10106697Abstract: Disclosed herein is an aqueous base metal pigment dispersion liquid, including: a base metal pigment surface-treated with a fluorine-based compound; and water as a part of a solvent, in which the aqueous base metal pigment dispersion liquid further includes one or more solvents having a specific dielectric constant of greater than or equal to 30 and less than or equal to 50 and one or more solvents having a specific dielectric constant of less than 30, as measured by an alternate current-type dielectric constant measurement device at a temperature of 23° C.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Atsushi Denda