Patents by Inventor Ming Liang Shiao

Ming Liang Shiao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • MULTI-LAYERED CAP SHINGLE WITH ENHANCED WIND PERFORMANCE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20200325684
    Abstract: A multi-layer cap shingle for installation along a ridge, hip, or rake of a roof includes a forward exposure area and a rear headlap area. The multi-layer cap shingle includes at least two layers of shingle material, a top layer and a bottom layer each having opposed edges. The layers are bonded together with patches of lamination adhesive adjacent their opposed edges. The bottom layer is configured with a deformation-absorbing mechanism such as a pair of slots extending from a forward edge reawardly inboard of the lamination adhesive patches. When the multi-layer cap shingle is bent over a roof ridge, the slots of the bottom layer of shingle material narrow in width to account for the fact that the bottom layer must bend around an arc of slightly smaller radius than the top layer of shingle material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Luis Duque, Ming-Liang Shiao, Sudhir Railkar
  • SOLAR THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM, AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20200321504
    Abstract: A solar thermoelectric power generation system includes roofing products such as shingles with solar heat reflective areas and roofing products with solar heat absorptive areas. Thermoelectric power generating elements are provided in thermal contact with the solar heat reflective areas and the solar heat absorptive areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Ming Liang Shiao, Gregory F. Jacobs, Joseph C. Gombarick
  • Multi-layered cap shingle with enhanced wind performance and method of making same
    Patent number: 10787814
    Abstract: A multi-layer cap shingle for installation along a ridge, hip, or rake of a roof includes a forward exposure area and a rear headlap area. The multi-layer cap shingle includes at least two layers of shingle material, a top layer and a bottom layer each having opposed edges. The layers are bonded together with patches of lamination adhesive adjacent their opposed edges. The bottom layer is configured with a deformation-absorbing mechanism such as a pair of slots extending from a forward edge reawardly inboard of the lamination adhesive patches. When the multi-layer cap shingle is bent over a roof ridge, the slots of the bottom layer of shingle material narrow in width to account for the fact that the bottom layer must bend around an arc of slightly smaller radius than the top layer of shingle material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventors: Luis Duque, Ming-Liang Shiao, Sudhir Railkar
  • Photovoltaic module
    Patent number: 10784813
    Abstract: A photovoltaic module includes an encapsulated photovoltaic element and an infrared-transmissive decorative overlay simulating conventional roofing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: CertainTeed LLC
    Inventors: Husnu M. Kalkanoglu, Gregory F. Jacobs, Ming Liang Shiao
  • Roofing granules with high solar reflectance, roofing products with high solar reflectance, and processes for preparing same
    Publication number: 20200115901
    Abstract: A solar heat-reflective roofing product includes a base sheet, and solar heat-reflective roofing granules on top of the base sheet. The granules have a base particle with a flake-like geometry covered by a uniform coating layer. The coating layer has a thickness of at least one mil and includes a coating binder and at least one solar heat-reflective pigment. The solar heat-reflective pigment provides a solar heat reflectance of greater than 70 percent to the granules and the roofing product. Roofing products including roofing shingles and roofing membranes are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Ming Liang Shiao, Husnu M. Kalkanoglu
  • Roofing Shingle System and Shingles For Use Therein
    Publication number: 20200040582
    Abstract: Roofing shingles are disclosed that are capable of self-adhering to a roof deck or underlayment and/or other roofing shingles and that require few or no mechanical fasteners to remain attached to the roof. By appropriate positioning of sealant lines on the shingle, direct adhesion between the shingle and the roof deck or underlayment and/or other roofing shingles can be achieved. If the shingle is laminated, the layers may be mechanically attached with indentations in the common bond area. The nail zone of the shingle may be visually indicated with fines and/or one or more paint lines. A roofing system comprising a plurality of courses of the shingles is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel E. Boss, Ming-Liang Shiao, James Svec, Christopher Searcy, Nicholas Thurston
  • Solar heat-reflective roofing granules, solar heat-reflective shingles, and process for producing same
    Patent number: 10443241
    Abstract: Solar-reflective roofing granules having improved solar heat-resistance are formed by coating colored mineral particles with a coating composition including titanium dioxide nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CertainTeed Corporation
    Inventors: Ming Liang Shiao, Keith C. Hong, Husnu M. Kalkanoglu, Gregory F. Jacobs
  • Surfacing media with flame retarding effects and high solar reflectance, and method of making same
    Patent number: 10443242
    Abstract: A roofing material includes a fire-retardant particulate material on its upper surface. A solar-reflective surface coating encapsules the fire-retardant particulate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CERTAINTEED CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming Liang Shiao, Barbara A. McDonough, Gregory F. Jacobs
  • Colored Roofing Granules With Increased Solar Heat Reflectance, Solar Heat-Reflective Shingles And Process For Producing Same
    Publication number: 20190292788
    Abstract: Solar-reflective roofing granules having deep-tone colors are formed by coating base mineral particles with a coating composition including an infrared-reflective pigment. Color is provided by a colored infrared pigment, a light-interference platelet pigment, or a metal oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Keith C. Hong, Ming Liang Shiao, Husnu M. Kalkanoglu
  • Roofing granules with high solar reflectance, roofing products with high solar reflectance,and processes for preparing same
    Patent number: 10392806
    Abstract: A solar heat-reflective roofing product includes a base sheet, and solar heat-reflective roofing granules on top of the base sheet. The granules have a base particle with a flake-like geometry covered by a uniform coating layer. The coating layer has a thickness of at least one mil and includes a coating binder and at least one solar heat-reflective pigment. The solar heat-reflective pigment provides a solar heat reflectance of greater than 70 percent to the granules and the roofing product. Roofing products including roofing shingles and roofing membranes are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: CertainTeed Corporation
    Inventors: Ming Liang Shiao, Husnu M. Kalkanoglu
  • Solar Heat-Reflective Roofing Granules, Solar Heat-Reflective Shingles and Process for Producing the Same
    Publication number: 20190249434
    Abstract: A process for preparing roofing granules includes forming kaolin clay into green granules and sintering the green granules at a temperature of at least 900 degrees Celsius to cure the green granules until the crystalline content of the sintered granules is at least ten percent as determined by x-ray diffraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Ming Liang Shiao, Tihana Fuss, Husnu M. Kalkanoglu, Walter T. Stephens
  • Algae Resistant Roofing Granules with Controlled Algaecide Leaching Rates, Algae Resistant Shingles, and Process for Producing Same
    Publication number: 20190249435
    Abstract: Algae-resistant roofing granules are formed by extruding a mixture of mineral particles and a binder to form porous granule bodies, and algaecide is distributed in the pores. Release of the algaecide is controlled by the structure of the granules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Keith C. Hong, Husnu M. Kalkanoglu, Ming Liang Shiao, Anne B. Hardy, James A. Salvatore, Andrew G. Johnson
  • Roofing Granules with High Solar Reflectance, Roofing Products with High Solar Reflectance, and Processes for Preparing Same
    Publication number: 20190211560
    Abstract: Solar reflective roofing granules include a binder and inert mineral particles, with solar reflective particles dispersed in the binder. An agglomeration process preferentially disposes the solar reflective particles at a desired depth within or beneath the surface of the granules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Ming Liang Shiao, Keith C. Hong, Walter T. Stephens
  • System, method and apparatus for increasing surface solar reflectance of roofing
    Patent number: 10315385
    Abstract: A roofing product has a substrate having a binder layer and roofing granules on a majority of the binder layer, such that an exposed portion of the binder layer does not have the roofing granules. In addition, reflective particles may be located on the exposed portion of the binder layer. The reflective particles are smaller in size than the roofing granules, and the reflective particles have a solar reflectance of greater than 40%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: CERTAINTEED CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming Liang Shiao, Husnu M. Kalkanoglu, George Wattman
  • Colored roofing granules with increased solar heat reflectance, solar heat-reflective shingles and process for producing same
    Patent number: 10316520
    Abstract: Solar-reflective roofing granules having deep-tone colors are formed by coating base mineral particles with a coating composition including an infrared-reflective pigment. Color is provided by a colored infrared pigment, a light-interference platelet pigment, or a metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: CertainTeed Corporation
    Inventors: Keith C. Hong, Ming Liang Shiao, Husnu M. Kalkanoglu
  • Roofing granules with improved luster, roofing products including such granules, and process for preparing same
    Patent number: 10309111
    Abstract: A coating composition including an inorganic sol material and an organic colorant is applied to mineral particles and cured at a temperature less than 200 degrees Celsius provides roofing granules with improved luster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: CertainTeed Corporation
    Inventors: Ming Liang Shiao, Van Nhan Nguyen, Emmanuel Garre
  • Roofing granules with high solar reflectance, roofing products with high solar reflectance, and processes for producing same
    Patent number: 10246879
    Abstract: Solar reflective roofing granules include a binder and inert mineral particles, with solar reflective particles dispersed in the binder. An agglomeration process preferentially disposes the solar reflective particles at a desired depth within or beneath the surface of the granules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: CertainTeed Corporation
    Inventors: Ming Liang Shiao, Keith C. Hong, Walter T. Stephens
  • Solar heat reflective roofing membrane and process for making the same
    Patent number: 10245816
    Abstract: A roofing membrane with high solar heat reflectance includes a bituminous base sheet, a tie-layer with a reinforcement material, and a solar heat-reflective upper layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: CertainTeed Corporation
    Inventors: Husnu M. Kalkanoglu, Ming Liang Shiao, Gregory F. Jacobs
  • Shingle
    Patent number: D856538
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventors: Luis Duque, Ming-Liang Shiao, Sudhir Railkar
  • Shingle
    Patent number: D856539
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventors: Luis Duque, Ming-Liang Shiao, Sudhir Railkar, Olan Leitch