Patents by Inventor William R. Berggren

William R. Berggren 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).

  • Patent number: 5753346
    Abstract: The invention provides a radiation curable release coating composition comprising:(a) about 1 to about 50 percent by weight of a cationically reactive polydiorganosiloxane liquid rubber having the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R are monovalent moieties which can be the same or different selected from the group consisting of alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, and substituted aryl wherein at least about 50% of the total number of silicon atoms have two methyl groups bonded thereto;E is an organic monovalent functional group comprising from about 1 to about 20 carbon atoms having at least one cationically co-reactive functional group;a and b both represent integers, wherein the sum of a plus b is an integer of about 10 to about 1200;b has a value ranging from about 0 to about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Charles M. Leir, William R. Berggren, William R. Bronn, David J. Kinning, Olester Benson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5576356
    Abstract: The invention provides a radiation curable release coating composition comprising:(a) about 1 to about 50 percent by weight of a cationically reactive polydiorganosiloxane liquid rubber having the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R are monovalent moieties which can be the same or different selected from the group consisting of alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, and substituted aryl wherein at least about 50% of the total number of silicon atoms have two methyl groups bonded thereto;E is an organic monovalent functional group comprising from about 1 to about 20 carbon atoms having at least one cationically co-reactive functional group;a and b both represent integers, wherein the sum of a plus b is an integer of about 10 to about 1200;b has a value ranging from about 0 to about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Charles M. Leir, William R. Berggren, William R. Bronn, David J. Kinning, Olester Benson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5326598
    Abstract: An electrospray coating head system for applying thin coating to a substrate comprising a slot or blade to meter a liquid onto a shaping structure which forces the liquid to have a single continuous and substantially constant radius of curvature around the shaping structure. A voltage applied to the liquid around the shaping structure causes the liquid to produce a series of filaments which are spatially and temporally fixed, the number of filaments being defined by a simple adjustment in the applied voltage. The filaments break up into a uniform mist of charge droplets and are driven to a substrate by electric fields to produce a coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Albert E. Seaver, William R. Berggren, Daniel R. Danielson, Eugene E. Harkins, Ross M. Kedl
  • Patent number: 4291114
    Abstract: An imageable composite dry-transfer sheet that comprises (a) a cover sheet transmissive to actinic radiation that has at least one oleophilic surface, (b) a photopolymerizable layer on the oleophilic surface of the cover sheet that comprises a cationically polymerizable organic material, a cationic photopolymerization initiator, and, optionally, a thermoplastic hydrocarbon resin that is chemically inert to said organic material and said initiator and (c) a base sheet with an oleophobic surface on the photopolymerizable layer wherein, after image-wise exposure to activating radiation, the interfacial adhesion of the unexposed areas of the photopolymerizable layer is greater for the cover sheet than for the base sheet; the interfacial adhesion of the exposed areas of the photopolymerizable layer is greater for the base sheet than for the cover sheet; and wherein, after separation of the cover and base sheets, the unexposed areas of the photopolymerizable layer are rendered burnishable by subsequent exposure to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1981
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: William R. Berggren, Shelby J. Brownley