With Stretching Patents (Class 156/229)
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Patent number: 7887722Abstract: The present invention includes preparing a carrier web with uniformly spaced images and corresponding registration marks at regular intervals, applying an energy curable resin coating to the carrier web either uniformly or in selected spots, providing a master web carrying uniformly spaced impressing images and corresponding registration marks at regular intervals where accurate alignment of the registration marks of the carrier web and the master web is achieved by stretching the master web to align the registration marks.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2008Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: INX International Ink Co.Inventor: Teh Ming Eric Wu
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Publication number: 20110030883Abstract: An elastomeric laminate for use in an absorbent article can have a first plurality of elastomeric strands and a second plurality of elastomeric strands bonded to a first substrate. The first plurality of elastomeric strands can be bonded to the first substrate in a first orientation while the second plurality of elastomeric strands is joined to the first substrate in a second orientation. The first and second orientations can be different such that the elastomeric laminate can accommodate tension forces which act on the laminate from different axes. Optionally, a second substrate or a third plurality of elastomeric strands may be added to the elastomeric laminate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Donald Carroll Roe
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Patent number: 7879171Abstract: A method for mounting a film, used to fabricate a mask for use in screening an electronic device, to a common carrier frame. The common carrier frame has an outer edge along an outer periphery and an opening in a central portion of the frame. The method includes applying external pressure to the frame outer edge to compress the frame inward and reduce the opening, securing a film to the frame, the film covering the frame opening, and releasing the pressure on the frame to expand the opening and place the film in tension.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert L Baan, Harry D Cox, John P Gauci, John R Lankard, Jr., David C Long, Thong N Nguyen
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Publication number: 20110015605Abstract: A laminate with micro-texture having attachment lines oriented in a primary direction and mechanically activated in the primary direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventors: John Jianbin Zhang, Andrea Marie Breitenbach
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Publication number: 20110005819Abstract: A method for making a conductive plate comprises providing a conductive film exhibiting electric anisotropy, and bonding the conductive film to a substrate through an adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: CHIH-CHIEH CHANG, CHUNG-WEI TSAI, JEAH-SHENG WU, JIA-SHYONG CHENG
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Publication number: 20110005816Abstract: A method for making a conductive film exhibiting electric anisotropy comprises forming a nanomaterial on a substrate, the nanomaterial having a cluster of interconnected nanounits, each of which being substantially transverse to the substrate and having one end bonded to the substrate. The method further includes stretching the nanounits along a first direction to remove the nanomaterial from the substrate so as to form a conductive film having strings of interconnected nanounits, where the nanounits of the strings substantially extend in the first direction. A conductive plate and a method for making the same is also disclosed, where the method further comprises attaching the conductive film to a second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: JEAH-SHENG WU, JIA-SHYONG CHENG, CHIH-HAN CHAO
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Publication number: 20110004180Abstract: An absorbent article may comprise a topsheet; a backsheet joined with the topsheet; an absorbent core between the topsheet and backsheet; and an elastic element comprising a breathable stretch laminate. The breathable stretch laminate may comprise a first substrate; and an elastic member joined to the first substrate, wherein said elastic member comprises a polyurethane. The breathable stretch laminate may exhibit a MVTR greater than about 300 grams per square meter per 24 hours and a force relaxation of less than about 50% after about 10 hours at 100° F. and 50% elongation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Renae Dianna Fossum, Arman Ashraf
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Patent number: 7862675Abstract: A method for manufacturing a reinforced beam having a bonded tensile reinforcement member includes assembling a tensile reinforcement member to a beam, wherein adhesive is disposed between the tensile reinforcement member and the beam. A load is applied to the tensile reinforcement member to define a pre-tensioned tensile reinforcement member. A force is applied to urge the beam and the pre-tensioned tensile reinforcement member together. The load is released on the pre-tensioned tensile reinforcement member prior to the adhesive becoming cured, allowing longitudinal ends of the tensile reinforcement member to slide relative to the beam at longitudinal ends of the beam, and thereby forming a reinforced beam having a bonded tensile reinforcement member.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2010Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: University of Maine System Board of TrusteesInventors: Howard M. Gray, Habib J. Dagher
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Patent number: 7862676Abstract: A rear end portion of a leading TAC film and a front end portion of a following TAC film are connected using a double-sided adhesive tape and a single-sided adhesive tape. A laser welding device emits a welding laser beam along a welding line onto the films. Owing to the welding laser beam, the leading and following TAC films are welded along the welding line. The laser welding device emits a cutout laser beam along a cutout line onto the films. Owing to the cutout laser beam, a part of the leading and following TAC films surrounded by the cutout line is cut out. The cut out part has the single-sided adhesive tape attached. Since the tape cannot be recycled, the cut out part is absorbed by an absorbing device and disposed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinsuke Aoshima
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Publication number: 20100314035Abstract: The method to produce the vertical alignment type liquid crystal display employs treating an optical film comprising of cellulous ester with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide to prepare an alkali-treated optical film; immersing a polyvinyl alcohol film in an aqueous solution containing iodine and boric acid; stretching the polyvinyl alcohol film to prepare a polarizing film; adhering the alkali-treated optical film onto both surfaces of the polarizing film to prepare a polarizing plate; and providing the polarizing plate on both surfaces of a vertical alignment type liquid crystal cell to providing the vertical alignment type liquid crystal display. At least one of the optical film has a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction of from 60 to 300 nm, Rt=[(nx+ny)/2?nz]×d.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: KONICA CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki SHIBUE, Makoto HONDA, Nobuo KUBO, Noriyasu KUZUHARA, Hiroki UMEDA, Sota KAWAKAMI, Takatoshi YAJIMA
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Publication number: 20100314195Abstract: The present invention provides a tunable sound absorption facing which includes a cellulosic web and a nonwoven web entangled together. The facing has a controllable air flow resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Richard James Bliton, Samuel Mark Gillette, Troy Raymond Buechler
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Patent number: 7850810Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of making implantable bioabsorbable non-woven self-cohered web materials having a high degree of porosity. The web materials are very supple and soft, while exhibiting proportionally increased mechanical strength in one or more directions. The web materials often possess a high degree of loft. The web materials can be formed into a variety of shapes and forms suitable for use as implantable medical devices or components thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2005Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Ted R. Farnsworth, Charles Flynn, Charles F. White
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Publication number: 20100298798Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing pant-type absorbent articles each article (21) including a chassis structure having at least one elastic panel and an integrated absorbent core component (32), the method including a continuous pant-forming process comprising forming the chassis structure and incorporating the absorbent core component (32) into the chassis structure. The at least one elastic panel is formed by a) separately producing a two-layer laminate (8) comprising a first non-elastic fibrous nonwoven web (1) and an elastic film (6), b) activating the two-layer laminate (8) by incremental stretching in at least one direction to render the two-layer laminate (8) elastically stretchable, c) stretching the activated two-layer laminate (8) by 10-200% in at least one direction, d) introducing the two-layer laminate (24,25) in the pant-forming process, and e) laminating the elastic film (6) of the stretched two-layer laminate (24,25) to an elastic or nonwoven chassis component (39, 40, 23, 54).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2006Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products ABInventors: Elisabeth Lakso, Margareta Wennerbäck, Jan Wästlund-Karlsson
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Publication number: 20100297401Abstract: A method of manufacturing an oriented film of thermoplastic polymer material comprises extrusion of a film in tubular form from an extrusion die, orienting the film in a main direction of orientation during the haul-off from the die while in molten or semi-molten state, the direction being at an angle between 0 and 45-to the axis of the tube, followed by cutting of the tube at an angle to its main degree of orientation to form a web having an orientation of no less than 20 to its longitudinal direction, which method involves segmental stretching of the film to form an array of linear bosses (1), being of thicker material, integrally connected by thinner webs (2), said bosses and webs extending in a direction which is generally parallel with the direction of orientation, forming an acute angle to the longitudinal direction of the web, the method involving, after segmental stretching and cutting, shearing of the bosses along one another under re-orientation in the connecting webs, to increase the angle at whichType: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2007Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventor: Ole-Bendt Rasmussen
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Publication number: 20100297387Abstract: A film material formed of thermoplastic polymer material is processed so as to have linearly extending regions (A) linked together by linearly extending webs (B), regions (A) and webs (B) each being oriented, the dominant direction of orientation in regions (A) forming an angle (V) to the direction on which (A) extends and webs (B) comprising arrays of linear furrows of thinner material or splits forming angles (U) higher than (V) to the direction in which (A) extends. The method of producing the new film involves passing an orientated film through a pair of intermeshing grooved rollers to cold-stretch the film in a direction at an angle to the predominant original orientation, at least one of the grooved rollers having crests with sharp edges to form the division between regions A and webs B and to stretch the material to form webs B while stretching the material less or not at all to form regions A. Preferably at least one of the grooved rollers has crests with a waved surface shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2009Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventor: Ole-Bendt Rasmussen
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Publication number: 20100293698Abstract: The invention provides a functional stretch laminate composite puckered fabric which is robust, laundry-durable and adaptable for securing about any three dimensional body, and a method for forming such puckered fabric. The functional stretch laminate fabric is provided with at least one functional element which can conduct electricity, conduct light, provide electromagnetic fields or provide shielding from electromagnetic fields. In addition, at least one via is provided in the functional stretch laminate allowing the functional element to extend or loop outwardly from the at least one via when the laminate is in a relaxed or unstretched state. Generally, the functional stretch laminate fabric is sufficiently robust for incorporation into garments and for applications in so-called wearable electronics.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: TEXTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Stacey B. Burr, Qaizar N. Hassonjee, Roger Armitage
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Patent number: 7833369Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to webs, components, composites, and strands comprising re-activatable adhesive compositions, as well as health-and-hygiene products employing such webs, components, composites, and strands. By inputting energy to the web, component, composite, or strand (including, for example, an elastic web, component, composite, or strand) comprising a re-activatable adhesive composition, the adhesive is activated (i.e., rendered tacky) so that it can be used to join or adhere the web, component, composite, or strand to another material (or another location on the same web, component, composite, or strand). Generally, energy will be inputted to the adhesive in the form of infrared heat, heat, or ultrasonic energy, although any energy form may be used, so long as the energy is capable of activating the adhesive. Prior to activation, webs, components, composites, and strands comprising such re-activatable adhesives are convenient to handle because the adhesive is not yet tacky.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2005Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Peiguang Zhou, Gregory K. Hall
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Publication number: 20100282403Abstract: An apparatus for making a carbon nanotube film includes a substrate holder, a bar supplying device, a carrier device, and a stretching device arranged in alignment in that order. A method for making a carbon nanotube film is further provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2007Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicants: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: LIANG LIU, KAI-LI JIANG, SHOU-SHAN FAN
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Publication number: 20100284170Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a light diffuser plate and a process for production thereof, which light diffuser plate can diffuse light selectively in any desired direction even when the number of cold cathode fluorescent lamps as backlights is reduced and the gap between cold cathode fluorescent lamps is increased, so suppressing luminance unevenness and lamp image with good repeatability in stable way and maintaining high luminance. The present invention is also aimed at providing a backlight unit that possesses similar characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Inventors: Toshio Awaji, Yasutaka Nakatani, Kazuyuki Sugihara, Takehisa Kishimoto, Akira Ueda
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Patent number: 7824030Abstract: An inkjet recording element comprising a support extrusion coated with a porous hydrophilic material. The composition comprises a hydrophilic thermoplastic polymer and blends thereof. Also disclosed are methods for making and a method of printing on the inkjet recording element.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Thomas M. Laney, Narasimharao Dontula, Kenneth W. Best, Jr.
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Patent number: 7824514Abstract: A method of producing a stretch laminate exhibiting reduced defects from a mechanical activation process can include providing a nipping member. The nipping member can have a first nip region and a non-nip region adjacent to the first nip region. A first substrate and an elastic element are provided to the nipping member. The first substrate and the elastic element are joined in a face to face relationship with adhesive therebetween, thereby creating an intermediate laminate. The intermediate laminate has a first tack down region and an activation region adjacent the first tack down region. A portion of the first tack down region passes through the first nip region, and a portion of the activation region passes through the non-nip region of the nipping member. The activation region of the intermediate laminate is mechanically activated, thereby creating the stretch laminate.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Anand Rudra Venkitaraman, George Stephen Reising
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Patent number: 7824600Abstract: The invention relates to a method for raising the surface tension of biaxially-stretched films made of thermoplastic polymers. According to the method, a film is first treated on a surface by means of an atmospheric pressure plasma before being stretched transversally or simultaneously across the width thereof, and the film is additional a subjected to a second treatment by means of a corona or flame after being stretched transversally or simultaneously, the second treatment being done on the same surface which has already been plasma-treated.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Joachim Jung, Thomas Gottfreund
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Patent number: 7820004Abstract: A method for producing a worn article, capable of providing a desirable wearability while reducing the cost of production. The method includes the steps of: placing leg elastic members F along a first waveform ? on a web W being carried, the first waveform ? being continuous in a longitudinal direction L of the web W and having a predetermined wavelength ? and predetermined first amplitudes ?1 and ?2, thereby producing a composite sheet Ws; and cutting off the composite sheet Ws being carried, along a cut-off line CL having a second waveform ? being continuous in the longitudinal direction L of the composite sheet Ws, having a wavelength ? equal to the wavelength ? and second amplitudes ?1 and ?2 smaller than the first amplitudes ?1 and ?2, and being in synchronism with the first waveform ?.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2006Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Zuiko CorporationInventor: Takao Wada
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Patent number: 7820001Abstract: A latent elastic laminate material, and methods of making latent elastic laminate materials. The laminate includes a latent polymer, which itself may or may not possess latent elasticity, that is applied to at least one elastic member while the elastic member is in a stretched configuration. The elastic member, at least partially covered with the latent polymer, is attached to at least one substrate. The amount of latent polymer applied to the elastic member may provide enough force to overcome a retractive force of the elastic member when the latent polymer is at a temperature below a softening point of the latent polymer, yet the amount of latent polymer may be small enough to allow the laminate to retract into an elastic, gathered structure when the laminate is heated to a softening point of the latent polymer. The laminate may be incorporated into a variety of articles including personal care garments and cleaning cloths.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2005Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Oomman P. Thomas, James R. Fitts, Jr., Howard M. Welch, Gregory K. Hall
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Publication number: 20100242733Abstract: First, a first porous body is manufactured by stretching, in a uniaxial direction, a sheet made of polytetrafluoroethylene having a standard specific gravity of 2.155 or more, and a second porous body is manufactured by stretching, in biaxial directions, a sheet made of polytetrafluoroethylene. Next, the first porous body is integrated with the second porous body by stretching a laminate of the first porous body and the second porous body in the same direction as the uniaxial direction while heating the laminate at a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point of polytetrafluoroethylene. Thus, a porous polytetrafluoroethylene membrane is produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventor: Shunichi Shimatani
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Patent number: 7803244Abstract: An elastic nonwoven composite that contains an elastic film laminated to one or more nonwoven web materials is provided. The composite is formed by passing the film through a nip to bond the film to the nonwoven web material(s). Concurrent with bond formation, apertures are also formed in the elastic film. The apertures are of a size sufficient to provide a desired level of texture, softness, hand feel, and/or aesthetic appeal to the composite without having a significant adverse effect on its elastic properties. Aperture and bond formation are accomplished in the present invention by selectively controlling certain parameters of the lamination process, such as film content, bonding pattern, degree of film tension, bonding conditions, etc.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Jose Siqueira, Ann L. McCormack, Norman Brown, Wing-Chak Ng, Howard M. Welch, Margaret G. Latimer
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Publication number: 20100236410Abstract: A layered filter membrane with improved anti-clogging characteristics is provided. In one embodiment, a filter membrane includes multiple polymer layers, each with different pore diameters formed by stretching the polymer layers. Furthermore, the multiple filter layers are coupled together before being stretched and the different pore sizes are formed during co-stretching of the filter layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2009Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Nusrat Farzana, David Kazemi
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Publication number: 20100212998Abstract: The invention relates to a cellular-core structure (10) that can be used in an acoustic panel for a turbojet nacelle, comprising at least one cellular unit (12; 14), each cellular unit (12; 14) comprising two end sheets (18; 20), the end sheets (18; 20) being joined together by joining elements (24) that are placed so as to form cellular cells (32). The subject of the invention is also a method of producing such a structure, an acoustic panel comprising such a structure, and a nacelle comprising such an acoustic panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2008Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: AIRCELLEInventors: Laurent Valleroy, Emmanuel Drevon
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Patent number: 7780805Abstract: Belt material is wrapped around a small diameter mandrel. Instead of cutting the belt to length, the material is then continued to be wrapped around the mandrel, forming a belt material overlap, and held under tension. An ultrasonic welding horn is then traversed across the width of the belt overlap. As this horn is traversed across the overlapped joint, the horn not only joins the belt material wrapped around the mandrel but, as the trailing edge is held under tension, the horn also separates or severs the trailing edge of the material from the welded seam.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2005Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: John J. Darcy, III, Michael S. Roetker, David W. Martin
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Publication number: 20100209758Abstract: A multi-layer microporous battery separator which comprises: a high molecular weight polypropylene layer having a melt flow index of ?1.2 measured at layer; a polyethylene layer; and a high molecular weight polypropylene layer having a melt flow index of ?1.2 measured at layer. The resulting microporous battery separator which is formed by a dry stretch process produces the microporous battery separator which has a porosity of ?37% while maintaining a gurley from 13-25 seconds and a thickness of ?25 microns.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2010Publication date: August 19, 2010Inventors: Ronald W. Call, Lie Shi, Zhengming Zhang, Shizuo Ogura, Xiangyun Wei, Premanand Ramadass
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Publication number: 20100209667Abstract: A nonwoven fabric which, even when having a low basis weight, has a wide stretch range at time of use. It is inhibited from breaking or decreasing in strength upon stretching. It feels good to the touch and has excellent cushioning properties and high air permeability. The nonwoven stretch fabric has a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. It has, arranged on each side, strip-form sparse regions extending in the longitudinal direction and strip-form dense regions extending likewise, the two kinds of regions being alternately and successively arranged in the transverse direction. The strip-form dense regions on one side and those on the other side are alternately arranged in the transverse direction. The nonwoven stretch fabric is constituted of a mixture of stretched fibers and stretchable fibers or is composed of stacked layers of these two kinds of fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2008Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Satoshi Mitsuno, Hiroki Goda
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Publication number: 20100206660Abstract: A water-proof sound-transmitting membrane 10 includes a polytetrafluoroethylene porous membrane 1 and has a surface density of 1 to 20 g/m2. The polytetrafluoroethylene porous membrane 1 includes a first porous layer 1a, and a second porous layer 1b stacked on and integrated with the first porous layer 1a by a binding force acting between polytetrafluoroethylene matrices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2008Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Horie, Kouji Furuuchi
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Patent number: 7759611Abstract: The present invention is a portable heat sealing apparatus with a safety circuit design. The portable heat sealing apparatus comprises a body, a heating module, an upper case and a power module. The heating module and the upper case ensure a smooth, continuous bond between facing surfaces of a plastic bag.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2008Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Inventors: James Cheney, Maobang Tsai
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Patent number: 7757739Abstract: An apparatus and method for printing and wrapping adhesive backed labels around elongate articles such as electrical wires, including a rotatable puck assembly having an interrupted circumferential surface defining an opening for receiving an elongate object to be labeled and wing members for applying said label during rotation.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2007Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: HellermannTyton CorporationInventors: Todd Fries, Edward P. Dyer, William K. Lueschen
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Patent number: 7754040Abstract: A method for applying an elastic member on an elastic web of material includes providing an elastic web of material running in a travelling direction; applying adhesive in a predetermined adhesive pattern on the web of material; applying a continuous elastic member in an elastic pattern on the adhesive, wherein the elastic member is applied in a direction of extension which deviates from the travelling direction at least within portions of the elastic member; applying a non-elastic web of material over the elastic web of material, wherein the non-elastic web of material is brought to cover the adhesive pattern, whereby the elastic member is locked between the elastic web of material and the non-elastic web of material in the applied position on the adhesive pattern. The non-elastic web of material is given a band shape with a first non-linear edge and a second non-linear edge, wherein the shape of the non-elastic web of material is brought to generally coincide with the shape of the adhesive pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2006Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products ABInventor: Niclas Norrby
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Patent number: 7754627Abstract: The present invention provides an absorbent article imparting superior comfort during wearing without inhibiting an absorbent property of an absorbent body, and a manufacturing method thereof. In the stretchable non-woven fabrics composed of a stretchable thermoplastic fiber and a heat-adhesive fiber having a lower melting point than that of the thermoplastic fiber which is arranged on a skin non-contacting side of a chassis, a low-stretchability portion is formed, in which the stretchability of the stretchable non-woven fabrics is lowered, at least in a portion thereof which overlaps an absorbent body in a thickness direction. The low-stretchability portion is formed by heating and pressurizing the portion of an elasticized non-woven fabric being extended.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2007Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hirotomo Mukai, Tatsuya Hashimoto, Tomoko Tsuji, Akiyoshi Kinoshita, Hidefumi Goda, Masaharu Tomioka, Shinji Noma
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Patent number: 7753899Abstract: In a rising gathered member 4 of an absorbent main body 3 attached to an external sheet 2, an inward folded base end 4b is joined astride a side end 13a of a top sheet 13 as a top surface of the absorbent main body 3 and a side end 14a of a back sheet 14 so that the rising gathered member 4 rises from a most side edge 3a in a width direction of the absorbent main body 3 and, also, the back sheet 14 of the absorbent main body 3 is attached onto a skin-contacting surface side of a crotch part R of a second external sheet 8 at an inward position at a prescribed width W5 from the most side edge 3a of the absorbent main body 3 as an outermost joint position. With the above constitution, it is possible to effectively prevent any lateral leakage of urine and the like, even if a disposable absorbent article is shifted.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Livedo CorporationInventors: Kazuyo Mori, Kenji Nakaoka, Masaru Fujioka, Taichiro Suzuki, Sayaka Sato
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Publication number: 20100174357Abstract: A vascular prosthesis including a tubular body and a plurality of independent support members disposed on a surface of the tubular body. Spacing between the independent support members is varied to vary the flexibility of the vascular prosthesis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2009Publication date: July 8, 2010Inventors: George W. LeMaitre, Robert L. Cannon, III
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Publication number: 20100163164Abstract: A stretch film sleeve label applicator for separating a stretchable sleeve label from a web of such labels and applying the label to an item, such as a container, is disclosed. The applicator is particularly useful for applying high stretch labels to highly contoured containers. The applicator is configured to receive a series of labels in an elongated, continuous web of flat, 2-ply sleeve labels, open the continuous sleeve of labels, separate an individual label from a next successive label, stretch the label to permit its application to an item to be labeled, such as a container, and apply the label in an accurate and precise location on the container. The applicator comprises three primary components: a label feeding assembly, a label separating assembly and a label stretching assembly. Various embodiments of the label feeding assembly, label separating assembly and label stretching assembly are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: CCL LABEL GMBHInventors: Indarjit Deonarine, Gerard B. Doyle, Alfred Werzi
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Publication number: 20100155199Abstract: A fluororesin-covered roller and a production method thereof. The fluororesin-covered roller has a laminar structure in which a rubber layer and a fluororesin layer are provided in this order on a roller base material. In the fluororesin-covered roller, the fluororesin layer is a covering layer formed of a fluororesin tube having a thickness of 10 ?m or more and less than 20 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Yoshitaka Ikeda, Daisuke Shoji, Kazuhiro Kizawa
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Publication number: 20100145295Abstract: A disposable absorbent article comprising a breathable polymeric film at least partially combined with a fibrous material to a laminated for being used as backsheet material with zones having different breathability.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Inventors: Olaf Erik Alexander Isele, Holger Beruda
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Patent number: 7731815Abstract: A method and apparatus for nonlinear laying of components such as elastics on a continuous web is provided. In an apparatus embodiment, the apparatus comprises a diverter and a combining roll. The apparatus can be configured to vary an elastic profile of the elastic member on a continuous web by oscillating a rotation of the diverter. The method and apparatus can be used for making absorbent articles such as diapers and training pants.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2006Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Joseph A. Eckstein, Bradley E. Walsh
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Publication number: 20100136275Abstract: A present invention relates to a film for manufacturing a semiconductor device in which a cover film is pasted onto a laminated film, wherein the shrinkage in the longitudinal direction and in the lateral direction in the laminated film after peeling the cover film and leaving for 24 hours at a temperature of 23±2° C. is in a range of 0 to 2% compared to the laminated film before pasting of the cover film.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventor: Yasuhiro Amano
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Publication number: 20100132879Abstract: A reinforced multi-lumen catheter and method of manufacturing the same. An assembly for manufacturing the multi-lumen catheter includes a catheter body substrate including a septum, one or more mandrels, a reinforcing element and one or more sleeves. The septum may have a distal region with a cross-sectional thickness greater than that of a proximal region. The septum can be separately formed. The septum can be split along a length of the distal region. The reinforcing element can be positioned over at least a proximal region of the catheter body substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2010Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: C.R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Ryan C. Patterson, Walter Shang
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Publication number: 20100108244Abstract: The present invention provides thickened fabrics and reinforcements for use as a spacer or reinforcement for a matrix system. The fabric includes in a first embodiment a woven fabric comprising weft and warp yarns containing glass fibers. A portion of the weft yarns are undulated into a sinusoidal path forming a generally “C” shaped bridge between adjacent warp yarns which results in an increased thickness for the fabric. The fabric is coated with a polymeric resin or bonding agent, for substantially binding the weft yarns in the undulated condition. This invention also includes methods for making such fabric by increasing the thickness of a woven or non-woven material by such methods as applying tension to warp yarns having opposite twists during weaving operations, or using unbalanced yarns, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2010Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventors: Mark J. Newton, Mark W. Tucker
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Publication number: 20100101709Abstract: The invention provides a process to deliver an elastomeric composition to a substrate. The elastomeric composition is cooled. The cooling also results in substantially complete transfer of the elastomeric composition from the pattern roll to the substrate with a resulting reduction in elastomer degradation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Mary Lee Amirpour, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Fred Naval Desai, Charles Bruce Lambert, David Richard Tucker
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Patent number: 7695583Abstract: An apparatus for producing an elastomeric nonwoven laminate including a plurality of elastomeric strands joined to a nonwoven web in a controlled distribution is provided. The apparatus includes an extruder for extruding a plurality of elastomeric strands onto a cooled surface of a rotating drum, which transports the strands in parallel alignment to a nip formed between two rollers rotating about parallel axis. The drum transfers the plurality of strands to the nip in a controlled distribution where it is bonded with the nonwoven. The apparatus also includes elements which automate the apparatus for creating the elastomeric nonwoven laminate.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2008Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Uwe Schneider, Randall Allen Myers, Christoph Johann Schmitz, Martin Geoffrey Scaife
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Patent number: 7686910Abstract: A method and a device for the automated application of a self-adhesive paint film to a three-dimensionally curved bodywork part, using a robotic application tool, the paint film being held ready in the form of a multi-layered film composite ready for picking up. After picking up has taken place, a protective strip on the adhesive side is removed from the film section, which is held taut, by means of a contact piece attached to the film composite on the end side and the adhesive side of the film section is thereby exposed. The paint film section is subsequently aligned above the body part to be covered, at a small distance from it, and is progressively pressed onto the bodywork part from the spaced-apart, taut position by means of a roller or doctor moving over the paint film.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2004Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Uwe Habisreitinger, Bernhard Nordmann
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Patent number: 7685696Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a sensor element and to a sensor element. In the method, both surfaces of a sensor film are provided with metallic electrodes. The sensor element is produced by cutting it from a larger amount of sensor element material. In the manufacture of the sensor element material, the electrodes are produced as a continuous process from roll to roll and the sensor element material is formed by laminating as a continuous process from roll to roll. At least the signal electrode consists of repeated electrode patterns (41) which are at least partially connected to each other via one or more narrow connecting strips (42), and a sensor element of a desired length and/or shape is produced by cutting the material across the region of the connecting strips.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2004Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Emfitech OyInventor: Heikki Räisänen
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Patent number: 7674733Abstract: In one embodiment, a breathable, incrementally stretched elastic composite material comprises an inner elastomeric film extrusion-laminated to an outer nonwoven web at each film surface. The inner elastomeric film has a random pattern of incremental stretch-formed macroholes therein and is substantially free of pore-forming filler. In another embodiment, a breathable, incrementally stretched elastic composite material comprises an elastomeric film extrusion-laminated to a nonwoven web at one or both of the film surfaces. The elastomeric film has a random pattern of incremental stretch-formed macroholes therein and is substantially free of pore-forming filler. Methods of manufacturing the composite materials comprise extrusion laminating and incremental stretching. Garments and disposable articles are formed at least in part from the composite material.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2002Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc.Inventors: Pai-Chuan Wu, Dale Eugene Robinson, Richard Arnold Bradford