Patents Examined by Z. Jim Yang
  • Patent number: 11332406
    Abstract: A material includes a transparent substrate on the surface of which is deposited a stack of layers which itself includes a plurality of functional layers making it possible to influence the solar and/or infrared radiation capable of striking said surface. The material has high thermal performance qualities and also an attractive shiny surface appearance of neutral color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Tommaso Ongarello
  • Patent number: 11326247
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent structure having improved wear resistance and flexibility, and a structure according to the present invention is a nanolayered structure in which a nitride nanofilm of one or more elements selected from metals and metalloids; and a boron nitride nanofilm are alternately layered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dae-Eun Kim, Oleksiy Penkov, Kuk Jin Seo
  • Patent number: 11318790
    Abstract: A shear band and a non-pneumatic tire is described which includes a ground contacting annular tread portion; a shear band, and a connecting web positioned between a hub and the shear band. The shear band is preferably comprised of a three-dimensional spacer fabric having a first and second layer connected by connecting members. The three-dimensional spacer fabric has a defined depth. The three-dimensional spacer structure further includes a plurality of cells formed between the connecting members, and wherein one or more of the cells are filled with a filler material. The filler material may be foam or a thermoplastic elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Robber Company
    Inventor: Francesco Sportelli
  • Patent number: 11305357
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool of the present invention comprises a substrate and a coating layer formed on a surface of the substrate, wherein the coating layer comprises a lower layer and an upper layer formed on a surface of the lower layer, the lower layer comprises a specified Ti compound layer having a specified average thickness, the upper layer comprises an ?-aluminum oxide layer having a specified average thickness, the Ti compound layer comprises at least one Ti carbonitride layer, the Ti carbonitride is composed of Ti(CxN1-x) (0.65<x?0.90), and a texture coefficient TC(331) of a (331) plane in the Ti carbonitride layer satisfies a specified range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuya Ishii
  • Patent number: 11306023
    Abstract: A material includes a transparent substrate on the surface of which is deposited a stack of layers which itself includes a plurality of functional layers making it possible to influence the solar and/or infrared radiation capable of striking said surface. The material has high thermal performance qualities and also an attractive shiny surface appearance of neutral color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Tommaso Ongarello
  • Patent number: 11306188
    Abstract: An optical film has a base material and a hardcoat layer, in which a pencil hardness is 2H or higher, the number of times of folding endurance measured by an MIT tester is 1000 or more, an incident ray is made incident on the optical film from ?60° with respect to a normal direction of the optical film, an angle width within which 10% of outgoing ray peak intensity is obtained is 6° or less, and an intensity of outgoing ray at 50° from the normal direction is 1% or less of the outgoing ray peak intensity. A method for manufacturing an optical film has a step of applying a hardcoat layer forming composition to a base material to provide a coating film, and a step of curing the coating film while bringing the coating film into contact with one smooth metal roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Matsumoto, Shuntaro Ibuki, Chihiro Masuda
  • Patent number: 11298927
    Abstract: The invention provides a white polyester film formed with a polyester resin whose main constituent is ethylene terephthalate, and (1) the film has at least two or more layers, and has at least one white layer and at least one heat sealing layer, wherein at least one of the film surfaces is the heat sealing layer, and the film satisfies the prescribed requirements of (2) the peeling strength of the heat sealing layers, (3) the difference in reversing heat capacity between at a lower and a higher temperature than a glass transition temperature of the heat sealing layer, (4) the heat shrinkage in both a longitudinal and width direction when treated in hot water at 80° C. for 10 seconds, (5) the total light transmittance, and (6) the apparent specific gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Ishimaru, Masayuki Haruta
  • Patent number: 11280035
    Abstract: Nonwoven fabrics suitable for a wide variety of applications (e.g., healthcare, filtration, industrial, packaging, etc.) are provided. In one aspect, the nonwoven fabric includes a plurality of segmented fibers. Each of the plurality of segmented fibers may comprise a fiber axis and a plurality of alternating larger diameter and smaller diameter segments along the fiber axis. The plurality of segmented fibers may be substantially aligned in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: AVINTIV Specialty Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Rongguo Zhao, Nyle Bishop
  • Patent number: 11279114
    Abstract: A glass article having a first glass layer, a second glass layer disposed adjacent to the first glass layer, and an interface slidably coupling the first glass layer to the second glass layer. The interface has a thickness of from 2 nm to 500 nm. The glass article is characterized by: (a) an absence of failure when the article is held at a parallel plate separation distance of 10 mm for 60 minutes at 25° C. and 50% relative humidity; (b) a puncture resistance of greater than about 6 kgf when the second glass layer is supported by (i) a 50 ?m thick pressure-sensitive adhesive having an elastic modulus of less than 1 GPa and (ii) an approximately 100 ?m thick polyethylene terephthalate layer having an elastic modulus of less than 10 GPa, and the first glass layer is loaded with a tungsten carbide ball having a 1 mm diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Shinu Baby, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Polly Wanda Chu, Timothy Michael Gross, Yousef Kayed Qaroush
  • Patent number: 11267750
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a translucent structure having a surface unevenness shape which has: an area ratio of surface flat regions in which an angle formed with a flat surface is in a range of 0° to 0.5° of in a range of 0% to 5.8%; a projection density of in a range of 0.0001/?m2 to 0.05/?m2; a projection area ratio of in a range of 5.5% to 50%; a skewness Ssk which represents the degree of non-symmetry of in a range of ?0.5 to 1.1; a load area factor Smr1 at a boundary between a projected mountain portion and a core portion of in a range of 0% to 14.5%; and an arithmetic average surface roughness Sa of in a range of 0.06 ?m to 0.143 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Masanobu Isshiki, Toru Ikeda, Takaaki Murakami, Yosuke Takeda, Minoru Tamada
  • Patent number: 11261128
    Abstract: The present invention provides low-reflection coating glass in which a dielectric layer having a higher refractive index and a dielectric layer having a lower refractive index are stacked alternately on a glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: KCC Glass Corporation
    Inventors: Hyounjoo Lee, Hyunmin Kang, Sanglool Kim, Younghoon Oh, Yunhee Yun
  • Patent number: 11247538
    Abstract: Provided is a laminated glass where multiple glass sheets are joined via an interlayer film [J], wherein i) mean density of the laminated glass is 1.2-1.5 g/cm3 at 25° C., ii) the interlayer film [J] has layered structure comprising at least two adhesive layers [G], comprising an adhesive mainly containing a thermoplastic elastomer having an alkoxysilyl group [F]; and at least one rigid resin layer [H] positioned therebetween, iii) storage modulus of the rigid resin layer [H] is higher than that of the adhesive layer [G], iv) storage modulus of the interlayer film [J] calculated from a formula 1 or measured is 2.0×108-1.0×109 Pa at ?20° C. and 1.0×108-8.0×108 Pa at 40° C., G?=(?iti)/(?i(ti/G?i))??(1) where G?: calculated storage modulus of the interlayer film, G?i: storage modulus of an i-th layer of the interlayer film, ti: thickness of the i-th layer, ?i: sum of numerical values of the i-th layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuta Kurihara, Teiji Kohara
  • Patent number: 11235550
    Abstract: An in-mold foamed molded product unit may include an in-mold foamed molded product made of a thermoplastic resin, and an insert material. At least a portion of the insert material may be embedded in the in-mold foamed molded product. The insert material may have a frame-like shape that is substantially rectangular shape and includes a first set of opposite sides and a second set of opposite sides. A portion of the insert material that corresponds to the first set of opposite sides may be a first extending portion, and a portion of the insert material that corresponds to the second set of opposite sides may be a second extending portion. The first extending portion may be substantially entirely embedded in the in-mold foamed molded product, and the second extending portion may include an exposed portion that is exposed to the outside of the in-mold foamed molded product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: KANEKA CORPORATION, KANEKA FOAM PLASTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya Okada, Tsuyoshi Umetani
  • Patent number: 11236419
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is the use, as catalyst support sublayer in a process for growing carbon nanotubes by chemical vapour deposition (CVD), of a multilayer stack formed of alternating layers of silica and of alumina, each of the layers having a thickness of less than or equal to 10 nm and consisting of one or more superposed atomic monolayer(s). It also relates to a multilayer structure comprising a substrate which has, on at least one of its faces, such a multilayer stack, and also to the use thereof for the growth of a mat of carbon nanotubes, which are in particular spinnable, by chemical vapour deposition, preferably hot-filament chemical vapour deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Yoann Dini, Jean Dijon
  • Patent number: 11214707
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide coatings and methods for depositing coatings onto surfaces. In one aspect, a method for forming a coating includes applying a composition to a surface of a component, the composition including a first polymer, a second polymer that is a fluoropolymer, an isocyanate, and a curative. The method includes curing the mixture at a first temperature of about 50° C. or greater and increasing the first temperature to a second temperature of about 80° C. or greater. The method includes obtaining a coating disposed on the surface of the component, the coating having a thickness of from about 10 mils to about 50 mils and a void density of less than 5 voids of size 0.5 mm or greater per cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrew P. Nowak, April R. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11203176
    Abstract: A ply for fabricating composite material includes a first tow of a plurality of fibers, which are spread in a direction along a width of a cross section of the ply, wherein a first sheet of enhanced performance material overlies the first tow. A second tow of a plurality of fibers, which are spread in the direction along the width of the cross section of the ply, overlies the first sheet of the enhanced performance material. Another tow of a plurality of fibers, which are spread in the direction along the width of the cross section of the ply, are positioned against and laterally extend from the first tow, the second tow and the first sheet of enhanced performance material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Samuel James Meure, Kelsi Hurley, Mark Stewart Wilenski
  • Patent number: 11192815
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a bent substrate, which forms a bent part in at least a part of a substrate, in which the substrate includes a second region and a first region, the method for manufacturing including: supporting the first region of the substrate on a substrate support surface of a support member including a mold surface having a same curved surface shape as that of the bent part and the substrate support surface that supports the first region, in a state of facing the second region of the substrate to the mold surface; heating the second region of the substrate to soften the second region of the substrate by the heating; placing the second region along the mold surface of the support member by an own weight of the second region; and transferring the curved surface shape of the mold surface to the second region by an external force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Fujii, Satoshi Kanasugi
  • Patent number: 11175497
    Abstract: A laminated glass includes an interlayer between an exterior glass plate and an interior glass plate; an information acquisition area; and a test area A specified in JIS R3212. The information acquisition area is positioned above the test area A. At least a part of a periphery of the information acquisition area is surrounded by a shielding layer formed of a colored ceramic layer. One of the exterior and interior glass plates is thicker at an upper end than at a lower end. Denoting a degree of thickness difference of the information acquisition area by ? and a degree of thickness difference of the test area A by ?, a ratio ?/? is greater than or equal to 1.01, where ? or ? is the ratio of thicknesses of the exterior and interior glass plates at the center of gravity of the corresponding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Sadakane, Masayuki Takahara, Yoshinobu Morita, Shingo Wakahara
  • Patent number: 11161364
    Abstract: This invention aims to provide a novel laminate in which a first layer is formed with high positional accuracy, and to provide a manufacturing method thereof. In the laminate of this invention, a relief structure forming layer includes a first region having an indented structure extending in a first direction or a direction tilted by an angle within 10 degrees to the left or right from the first direction in a plan view, and a second region including an indented structure extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction or a direction tilted by an angle within 65 degrees to the left or right from the second direction in a plan view. The first layer contains a first material which is different from a material of the relief structure forming layer, and has a surface shape corresponding to that of the relief structure forming layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yashiki
  • Patent number: 11130314
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a curved laminated glass and the curved laminated glass. The method comprises preparing a curved soda lime glass, providing a functional layer on one surface of an alkali-free glass, disposing a lamination film or a bonding agent between the curved soda lime glass and the functional layer, and elastically deforming the alkali-free glass, and laminating the alkali-free glass with the curved soda lime glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Yoon, Jun Hak Oh, Ho Seong Kang, Chang Hee Lee