Silver, Gold, Or Platinum Compound Patents (Class 252/520.3)
  • Patent number: 11891553
    Abstract: A preparation process of atomically precise nine-nuclear silver nanoclusters (Ag9-NCs) fluorescent nanotube and its application in the detection of arginine (Arg), the fluorescent nanotube is formed by supramolecular self-assembly of Ag9-NCs and peptide (DD-5); the fluorescent nanotube prepared by the present invention has good luminescence performance due to its highly ordered structure, the quantum yield is 8.11%, and the fluorescence lifetime is 6.10 ?s; after adding Arg, the highly ordered structure is destroyed, resulting in fluorescent quenching; the preparation method of the Ag9-NCs fluorescent nanotube of this invention is simple, the cost is low; at the same time, the detection method is fast and easy to observe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xia Xin, Wenjuan Wang, Di Sun, Zhi Wang
  • Patent number: 11479686
    Abstract: The conductive composition of the present embodiment contains metal nanoparticles having an average particle diameter of 30 nm to 600 nm, metal particles having an average particle diameter larger than that of the metal nanoparticles, a thermosetting resin having an oxirane ring in a molecule, a curing agent, and a cellulose resin. Then, the specific resistance of the conductor formed by applying and calcining the conductive composition on the substrate is preferably 5.0×10?6 ?·cm or less, and the conductor does not peel from the substrate when a tape having an adhesive force of 3.9 N/10 mm to 39 N/10 mm is pressed against the conductor and peeled off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Rie Katsumata, Maki Yamada, Shota Sato, Yukito Aoyama, Kosuke Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20150105261
    Abstract: An oxide superconducting thin film wherein nanoparticles functioning as flux pins are dispersed in the film is provided. The oxide superconducting thin film wherein the nanoparticles in the oxide superconducting thin film have a dispersing density of 1020 particles/m3 to 1024 particles/m3 is provided. The oxide superconducting thin film wherein the nanoparticles have a particle diameter of 5 nm to 100 nm is provided. A method of manufacturing an oxide superconducting thin film wherein a predetermined amount of a solution obtained by dissolving nanoparticles functioning as flux pins in a solvent is added to a solution obtained by dissolving an organometallic compound in a solvent to prepare a source material solution for an oxide superconducting thin film, and the source material solution is used to manufacture the oxide superconducting thin film through a coating-pyrolysis process is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuoki Nagaishi, Genki Honda, Iwao Yamaguchi, Takaaki Manabe, Takeshi Hikata, Hiroaki Matsui, Wakichi Kondo, Hirofumi Yamasaki, Toshiya Kumagai
  • Patent number: 8986819
    Abstract: A non-catalytic palladium precursor composition is disclosed, including a palladium salt and an organoamine, wherein the composition is substantially free of water. The composition permits the use of solution processing methods to form a palladium layer on a wide variety of substrates, including in a pattern to form circuitry or pathways for electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Yiliang Wu, Ping Liu
  • Patent number: 8936707
    Abstract: A sputtering target of nonmagnetic-particle-dispersed ferromagnetic material is provided having a phase (A) such that nonmagnetic particles are dispersed in a ferromagnetic material formed from a Co—Cr alloy containing 5 at % or more and 20 at % or less of Cr and Co as the remainder thereof, and schistose textures (B) with a short side of 30 to 100 ?m and a long side of 50 to 300 ?m formed from a Co—Cr alloy phase in the phase (A); wherein each of the foregoing nonmagnetic particles has such a shape and size that the particle is smaller than all hypothetical circles with a radius of 1 ?m around an arbitrary point within the nonmagnetic particle, or a shape and size with at least two contact points or intersection points between the respective hypothetical circles and the interface of the ferromagnetic material and the nonmagnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Sato
  • Patent number: 8932444
    Abstract: A sputtering target of nonmagnetic-particle-dispersed ferromagnetic material is provided having a phase (A) such that nonmagnetic particles are dispersed in a ferromagnetic material formed from a Co—Cr alloy containing 5 at % or more and 20 at % or less of Cr and Co as the remainder thereof, and schistose textures (B) with a short side of 30 to 100 ?m and a long side of 50 to 300 ?m formed from a Co—Cr alloy phase in the phase (A); wherein each of the foregoing nonmagnetic particles has such a shape and size that the particle is smaller than all hypothetical circles with a radius of 1 ?m around an arbitrary point within the nonmagnetic particle, or a shape and size with at least two contact points or intersection points between the respective hypothetical circles and the interface of the ferromagnetic material and the nonmagnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Sato
  • Patent number: 8932496
    Abstract: A method of preparing an aqueous dispersion comprising silver particles of mean diameter from 0.5 to 25 nm by weight and an aqueous carrier liquid, including the steps of i) providing a mixture comprising at least one silver salt, aqueous carrier liquid and a stabiliser for the particles ii) contacting the mixture with a non-ionic or covalent reducing agent to form a reaction mixture iii) causing the at least one silver salt to react with the reducing agent to form a dispersion comprising silver particles and acid wherein step iii) is partly or completely performed in the presence of anion exchange resin whereby the acid is exchanged for a hydroxide ion from the resin and/or is sorbed by the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.
    Inventors: Richard Buscall, Derek Graham, Rory Anderson, Peter Joseph Scales, Paul Mulvaney, Robert James Eldridge
  • Patent number: 8894890
    Abstract: Disclosed are a titanium dioxide nano ink having such a strong dispersibility as to be applicable by inkjet printing and having adequate viscosity without requiring printing several times, and a titanium dioxide nano particle modified by a surface stabilizer included therein. Inkjet printing of the titanium dioxide nano ink enables printing of a minute electrode. In addition, efficiency of a solar cell may be maximized since occurrence of pattern cracking is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Ki Chun Lee, Yong Jun Jang
  • Patent number: 8840811
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bonding material and a method of bonding for metal bonding at a bonding interface capable of a higher bonding strength at a lower temperature without application of pressure, compared to a bonding material of metal particles having an average particle size of not greater than 100 nm. An electrically conductive bonding material including (A) silver particles, (B) silver oxide, and (C) a dispersant including organic material containing not more than 30 carbon atoms as essential components, wherein a total amount of (A) the silver powder, (B) the silver oxide powder, and (C) the dispersant including an organic material containing not more than 30 carbon atoms is in a range of 99.0% to 100% by weight, is provided. In other words, no resin binder is contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuusuke Yasuda, Toshiaki Morita, Eiichi Ide, Teiichi Inada
  • Publication number: 20140264186
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a natural, non-toxic, environmentally friendly, “green” mineral based composition that produces ions and emits far infrared heat and the composition comprises tourmaline microcrystals and at least one activating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Douglas Spatz, Dan DeLaRosa
  • Patent number: 8834960
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process which comprises: providing a substrate having a surface; applying a dispersion to the surface, wherein the dispersion comprises at least one liquid dispersant, and electrostatically stabilized silver nanoparticles having a zeta potential of from ?20 to ?55 mV in the dispersant at a pH value of from 2 to 10; and heating one or both of the surface and the dispersion applied thereon to a temperature of from 50° C. below the boiling point of the dispersant to 150° C. above the boiling point of the dispersant, to form a conductive coating on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Rudhardt, Stefanie Eiden, Dirk Storch, Elsa Karoline Schädlich, Sven Sommerfeld
  • Patent number: 8821768
    Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a bonding material capable of realizing bonding by metallic bonding at a bonding interface at a lower temperature compared to a bonding material using a metal particle having an average particle diameter of not more than 100 nm and a bonding method. There is provided a bonding material including a metal particle precursor being at least one selected from the group consisting of a particle of a metal oxide, a particle of a metal carbonate, and a particle of a metal carboxylate and having an average particle diameter of 1 nm to 50 ?m and a reducing agent composed of an organic substance, wherein the content of the metal particle precursor is more than 50 parts by mass and not more than 99 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the bonding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Yasuda, Toshiaki Morita, Eiichi Ide, Hiroshi Hozoji, Toshiaki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20140138601
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a composite material are provided. In one embodiment of the present invention a nanometer-scale composite material comprises, by volume, from about 1% to about 99% variable-conductivity material and from about 99% to about 1% conductive material. The composite material exhibits memristive properties when a voltage differential is applied to the nanocomposite. In another embodiment, a variable resistor device includes a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal and a nanocomposite in electrical communication with the electrode terminals. The composite material comprises, by volume, from about 1% to about 99% variable-conductivity material and from about 99% to about 1% conductive material. The memristor is tunable as the minimum instantaneous resistance can be altered several orders of magnitude by varying the composition and ratio of the variable-conductivity material and conductive material constituents of the composites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Vanderbilt Unviersity
    Inventors: Jeremy West Mares, Sharon M. Weiss
  • Patent number: 8721931
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to an electroconductive paste for a solar cell electrode, which includes a first silver powder with a crystallite size of 58 nm, a second silver powder with a different crystallite size from that of the first silver powder, glass frit, and resin binder. The present invention also provides a solar cell having an electrode containing the aforementioned electroconductive paste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Takuya Konno
  • Patent number: 8715532
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reduced graphene oxide doped with a dopant, and a thin layer, a transparent electrode, a display device and a solar cell including the reduced graphene oxide. The reduced graphene oxide doped with a dopant includes an organic dopant and/or an inorganic dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeon-jin Shin, Jae-young Choi, Seon-mi Yoon
  • Publication number: 20140050851
    Abstract: Methods of exchanging ligands to form colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) with chalcogenocyanate (xCN)-based ligands and apparatuses using the same are disclosed. The ligands may be exchanged by assembling NCs into a thin film and immersing the thin film in a solution containing xCN-based ligands. The ligands may also be exchanged by mixing a xCN-based solution with a dispersion of NCs, flocculating the mixture, centrifuging the mixture, discarding the supernatant, adding a solvent to the pellet, and dispersing the solvent and pellet to form dispersed NCs with exchanged xCN-ligands. The NCs with xCN-based ligands may be used to form thin film devices and/or other electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic devices. Devices comprising nanocrystal-based thin films and methods for forming such devices are also disclosed. These devices may be constructed by depositing NCs on to a substrate to form an NC thin film and then doping the thin film by evaporation and thermal diffusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Cherie R. Kagan, Aaron T. Fafarman, Ji-Hyuk Choi, Weon-kyu Koh, David K. Kim, Soong Ju Oh, Yuming Lai, Sung-Hoon Hong, Sangameshwar Rao Saudari, Christopher B. Murray
  • Patent number: 8603366
    Abstract: In an electric contact material of silver matrix capable of resisting arc erosion and containing no cadmium-composite, an Ag—(SnO2+In2O3) composite containing 9˜11% of (SnO2+In2O3) or an Ag—Cu oxide, composite containing 15˜25% of Cu oxide is used. The electrical contact material has a contact resistance of 5˜60 milliohms (mohm) and an arc erosion resistance capability up to 2*103˜10*103 times provided that the Vickers hardness (Hv) of the material is 100˜150, the measured current is 1˜5 amperes, and the measured voltage is 10˜20 volts. Two electrical contacts maintain an arc erosion resisting capability at the condition of a low contact resistance when the electrical contact material is formed on a surface of a metal substrate of an electric connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: C.C.P. Contact Probes Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Hung, Wen-Yuan Chiang, Wei-Chu Chen, Chih-Jung Wang, Wen-Ying Cheng, Bor-Chen Tsai, Wei-Chao Wang
  • Patent number: 8574665
    Abstract: A palladium precursor composition contains a palladium salt and an organoamine. The composition permits the use of solution processing methods to form palladium layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Yiliang Wu, Ping Liu
  • Patent number: 8568824
    Abstract: A non-catalytic palladium precursor composition is disclosed, including a palladium salt and an organoamine, wherein the composition is substantially free of water. The composition permits the use of solution processing methods to form a palladium layer on a wide variety of substrates, including in a pattern to form circuitry or pathways for electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Yiliang Wu, Ping Liu
  • Patent number: 8568576
    Abstract: Provided is a sputtering target of nonmagnetic-particle-dispersed ferromagnetic material comprising a phase (A) such that nonmagnetic particles are dispersed in a ferromagnetic material formed from a Co—Cr alloy containing 5 at % or more and 20 at % or less of Cr and Co as the remainder thereof, and schistose textures (B) with a short side of 30 to 100 ?m and a long side of 50 to 300 ?m formed from a Co—Cr alloy phase in the phase (A); wherein each of the foregoing nonmagnetic particles has such a shape and size that the particle is smaller than all hypothetical circles with a radius of 1 ?m around an arbitrary point within the nonmagnetic particle, or a shape and size with at least two contact points or intersection points between the respective hypothetical circles and the interface of the ferromagnetic material and the nonmagnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Sato
  • Patent number: 8540903
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrically conductive paste which enables to reduce the level of void growth in a conducting pathway formed in a joint part produced after curing the electrically conductive paste in the implementation of an electronic component on a circuit board by using the electrically conductive paste, and which contains a reduced amount of a viscosity-adjusting/thixotropy-imparting additive. Two Sn-containing low-melting-point alloy particles having different melting points and different average particle diameters are selected as electrically conductive filler components to be used in an electrically conductive paste, and the two alloy particles are mixed at a predetermined ratio for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Higuchi, Hidenori Miyakawa, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Arata Kishi, Naomichi Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20130244109
    Abstract: The present technology is able to provide a solid electrolyte cell that uses a positive electrode active material which has a high ionic conductivity in an amorphous state, and a positive electrode active material which has a high ionic conductivity in an amorphous state. The solid electrolyte cell has a stacked body, in which, a positive electrode side current collector film, a positive electrode active material film, a solid electrolyte film, a negative electrode potential formation layer and a negative electrode side current collector film are stacked, in this order, on a substrate. The positive electrode active material film is made up with an amorphous-state lithium phosphate compound that contains Li; P; an element M1 selected from Ni, Co, Mn, Au, Ag, and Pd; and O, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Sabi, Susumu Sato, Saori Tsuda
  • Patent number: 8535574
    Abstract: This invention provides a transition metal complex of formula MXY2Z and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein M is selected from iron, ruthenium, and osmium; X represents a ligand shown in formula (II) wherein R1 and R1? are independently selected from COOH, PO3H2, PO4H2, SO3H2, SO4H2, and derivatives thereof; Y is selected from H2O, Cl, Br, CN, NCO, NCS, and NCSe; Z represents a bidentate ligand having at least two fluorinated chains. In addition, this invention also provides photovoltaic cells and a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: National Taipei University of Technology
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Jia-Sheng Shing, Wen-Han Tu
  • Publication number: 20130216901
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel cathodes having a reduced resistivity and other improved electrical properties. Furthermore, this invention also presents methods of manufacturing novel electrochemical cells and novel cathodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: zPower, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Ortega, Hongxia Zhou, George W. Adanson
  • Patent number: 8486310
    Abstract: A composition containing fine silver particles which have a uniform particle size, can form a fine drawing pattern, and have a small environmental impact, a method for producing that composition, a method for producing fine silver particles, and a paste having fine silver particles are provided. The fine silver particles are produced by carrying out a fluid preparation step of preparing a reduction fluid, a silver reaction step, and a filtration/washing step. The reaction step is carried out by adding an aqueous silver nitrate fluid to a reduction fluid whose temperature has been increased to a range between 40 and 800 ° C. The aqueous silver nitrate fluid is added at a stretch. The composition containing fine silver particles is produced by dispersing the composition containing the fine silver particles in a polar fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Hisaeda, Toshihiko Ueyama
  • Patent number: 8486238
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a surface renewable iridium oxide-glass or ceramic composite hydrogen ion electrode and, more particularly, a surface renewable iridium oxide-glass or ceramic composite hydrogen ion electrode, which has a long life due to its excellent physical strength, pH dependency approximate to a theoretical value (59 mV/pH unit), and high surface renewability, and a method of manufacturing the same. The iridium oxide composite hydrogen ion electrode according to the present invention is effective in that, when the electrode is contaminated or inactivated, the surface of the electrode can be regenerated through a simple grinding process because the electrode has high surface renewability, unlike conventional electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp.
    Inventors: Jong Man Park, Ji Young Kim
  • Patent number: 8398898
    Abstract: The present invention provides conductivity promoters, and in particular soluble conductivity promoters that contain a hydrocarbon moiety or a siloxane moiety and a metal. The present invention also provides methods of making soluble conductivity promoters and adhesive compositions containing the conductivity promoters of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Designer Molecules, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen M Dershem
  • Patent number: 8293144
    Abstract: A composition containing fine silver particles which have a uniform particle size, can form a fine drawing pattern, and have a small environmental impact, a method for producing that composition, a method for producing fine silver particles, and a paste having fine silver particles are provided. The fine silver particles are produced by carrying out a fluid preparation step of preparing a reduction fluid, a silver reaction step, and a filtration/washing step. The reaction step is carried out by adding an aqueous silver nitrate fluid to a reduction fluid whose temperature has been increased to a range between 40 and 800° C. The aqueous silver nitrate fluid is added at a stretch. The composition containing fine silver particles is produced by dispersing the composition containing the fine silver particles in a polar fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Hisaeda, Toshihiko Ueyama
  • Patent number: 8293142
    Abstract: A composition containing fine silver particles which have a uniform particle size, can form a fine drawing pattern, and have a small environmental impact, a method for producing that composition, a method for producing fine silver particles, and a paste having fine silver particles are provided. The fine silver particles are produced by carrying out a fluid preparation step of preparing a reduction fluid, a silver reaction step, and a filtration/washing step. The reaction step is carried out by adding an aqueous silver nitrate fluid to a reduction fluid whose temperature has been increased to a range between 40 and 80° C. The aqueous silver nitrate fluid is added at a stretch. The composition containing fine silver particles is produced by dispersing the composition containing the fine silver particles in a polar fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Hisaeda, Toshihiko Ueyama
  • Patent number: 8241528
    Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive ink for forming a fine conductive pattern on a substrate by letterpress reverse printing. In particular, the conductive ink enables the pattern to be formed stably without the occurrence of transfer failures and is able to impart superior conductivity by low-temperature baking. The conductive ink, which contains substantially no binder component, comprises as essential components thereof conductive particles having a volume average particle diameter (Mv) of 10 to 700 nm, a release agent, a surface energy regulator and a solvent component, the solvent component being a mixture of a solvent having a surface energy at 25° C. of 27 mN/m or more (high surface energy solvent) and a volatile solvent having a boiling point at atmospheric pressure of 120° C. or lower (low boiling point solvent), and the surface energy of the ink at 25° C. is 10 to 21 mN/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kotake, Yasuhiro Sente, Hiroshi Isozumi
  • Publication number: 20120164526
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel cathodes having a reduced resistivity and other improved electrical properties. Furthermore, this invention also presents methods of manufacturing novel electrochemical cells and novel cathodes. These novel cathodes comprise a silver material that is doped with a Irivalent species.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: ZPOWER, LLC
    Inventors: George W. Adamson, Hongxia Zhou
  • Publication number: 20120132869
    Abstract: In an electric contact material of silver matrix capable of resisting arc erosion and containing no cadmium-composite, an Ag—(SnO2+In2O3) composite containing 9˜11% of (SnO2+In2O3) or an Ag—Cu oxide, composite containing 15˜25% of Cu oxide is used. The electrical contact material has a contact resistance of 5˜60 milliohms (mohm) and an arc erosion resistance capability up to 2*103˜10*103 times provided that the Vickers hardness (Hv) of the material is 100˜150, the measured current is 1˜5 amperes, and the measured voltage is 10˜20 volts. Two electrical contacts maintain an arc erosion resisting capability at the condition of a low contact resistance when the electrical contact material is formed on a surface of a metal substrate of an electric connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: C.C.P. CONTACT PROBES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHIN-WEI HUNG, WEN-YUAN CHIANG, WEI-CHU CHEN, CHIH-JUNG WANG, WEN-YING CHENG, BOR-CHEN TSAI, WEI-CHAO WANG
  • Patent number: 8173050
    Abstract: A conductive pattern formation ink which can be stably ejected in the form of liquid droplets and form a conductive pattern having high reliability, a conductive pattern having high reliability, and a wiring substrate provided with the conductive pattern and having high reliability are provided. The conductive pattern formation ink is used for forming a conductive pattern by ejecting the ink in the form of liquid droplets on a surface of a ceramic molded body using a liquid droplet ejecting method, the ceramic molded body being made of a material containing ceramic particles and a binder. The ink contains a water-based dispersion medium, and metal particles dispersed in the water-based dispersion medium, wherein the water-based dispersion medium contains oxygen molecules and nitrogen molecules, and wherein when the water-based dispersion medium is analyzed using a gas chromatography method, a total amount of the oxygen and nitrogen molecules contained in the water-based dispersion medium is 12 ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Toyoda, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Sachiko Endo, Noboru Uehara, Akihiko Tsunoya
  • Publication number: 20110236747
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite material for a negative electrode, including: a plurality of iron oxide particles; and a conductivity improver, which is selected form the group consisting of copper, cobalt, nickel, tin, antimony, bismuth, indium, silver, gold, lead, cadmium, carbon black, graphite, copper salt, cobalt salt, nickel salt, tin salt, antimony salt, bismuth salt, indium salt, silver salt, gold salt, lead salt, cadmium salt, copper hydroxide, cobalt hydroxide, nickel hydroxide, stannic hydroxide, antimony hydroxide, bismuth hydroxide, indium hydroxide, silver hydroxide, gold hydroxide, lead hydroxide, cadmium hydroxide and the combination thereof. In the case of applying the composite material for a negative electrode according to the present invention in an electrochemical device, the improved charge/discharge characteristics and high capacity can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Kan-Sen CHOU, Chen-Yu Kao, Yun-Ru Tsai
  • Publication number: 20110223322
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process which comprises: providing a substrate having a surface; applying a dispersion to the surface, wherein the dispersion comprises at least one liquid dispersant, and electrostatically stabilised silver nanoparticles having a zeta potential of from ?20 to ?55 mV in the dispersant at a pH value of from 2 to 10; and heating one or both of the surface and the dispersion applied thereon to a temperature of from 50° C. below the boiling point of the dispersant to 150° C. above the boiling point of the dispersant, to form a conductive coating on the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Daniel Rudhardt, Stefanie Eiden, Dirk Storch, Elsa Karoline Schädlich, Sven Sommerfeld
  • Patent number: 8007691
    Abstract: A catalyst for electrodes in solid-polymer fuel cells which comprises metal oxide particles themselves. The catalyst contains fine transition-metal oxide particles having, in the main phase, a perovskite structure represented by the general formula ABO3 (wherein A represents one or more elements selected among lanthanum, strontium, cerium, calcium, yttrium, erbium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, silicon, magnesium, barium, niobium, lead, bismuth, and antimony; and B represents one or more elements selected among iron, cobalt, manganese, copper, titanium, chromium, nickel, and molybdenum), the fine oxide particles having lattice constants satisfying the following relationship (1): 1.402<2b/(a+c)<1.422??(1) wherein a and c represent the minor-axis lengths of the perovskite type crystal lattice and b represents the major-axis length thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignees: Hitachi Maxell Energy, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuko Sawaki, Mikio Kishimoto, Haruyuki Nakanishi, Shigeaki Murata, Masahiro Imanishi, Shinichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 7998367
    Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present teachings, there is a metal-carbon nanotubes composite and methods of making it. A method of forming a metal-carbon nanotube composite can include providing a plurality of carbon nanotubes and providing a molten metal. The method can also include mixing the plurality of carbon nanotubes with the molten metal to form a mixture of the carbon nanotubes and the molten metal and solidifying the mixture of the carbon nanotubes and the molten metal to form a metal-carbon nanotube composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: STC.UNM
    Inventors: Tariq A. Khraishi, Marwan S. Al-Haik
  • Patent number: 7998371
    Abstract: Described herein are a silicon semiconductor device and a conductive silver paste for use in the front side of a solar cell device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Richard John Sheffield Young, Michael Rose, Kurt Richard Mikeska, Alan Frederick Carroll, Kenneth Warren Hang, Alistair Graeme Prince
  • Publication number: 20110195542
    Abstract: A method of providing solar cell electrode by electroless plating and an activator used therein are disclosed. The method of the present invention can be performed without silver paste, and comprises steps: (A) providing a silicon substrate; (B) contacting the silicon substrate with an activator, wherein the activator comprises: a noble metal or a noble metal compound, a thickening agent, and water; (C) washing the silicon substrate by a cleaning agent; (D) dipping the silicon substrate in an electroless nickel plating solution to perform electroless plating. The method of providing solar cell electrode by electroless plating of the present invention has high selectivity between silicon nitride and silicon, large working window, and is steady, easily to be controlled, therefore is suitable for being used in the fabrication of the electrodes of the solar cell substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: E-CHEM ENTERPRISE CORP.
    Inventors: Chia Wei Chou, Su-Fei Hsu, Michael Liu
  • Patent number: 7988886
    Abstract: A conductive pattern forming ink for forming a conductive pattern on a substrate by a droplet discharge method includes: metal particles; an aqueous dispersion medium in which the metal particles are dispersed; inositol; and a polyglycerol compound having a polyglycerol skeleton. In the ink, H shown in the following formula (I) is 0.050 to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Toyoda
  • Patent number: 7988888
    Abstract: A conductive pattern forming ink for forming a conductive pattern on a substrate by a droplet discharge method includes: metal particles; an aqueous dispersion medium in which the metal particles are dispersed; galactitol; and a polyglycerol compound having a polyglycerol skeleton. In the ink, H shown in the following formula (I) is 0.10 to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Toyoda
  • Patent number: 7988885
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to electrochromic electrolyte polymer blends. These blends comprise an amorphous polymer and an electrochromophore component. The electrochromophore component comprises a polyalkylene polymer copolymerized with an electrochromic moiety. The blends can be used to make elastomeric films and coatings that can be used in laminates, which can be used to form manufactured articles such as architectural and vehicular glazing, eyewear, displays and signage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Simona Percec, Susan H. Tilford
  • Patent number: 7976737
    Abstract: The present invention relates to solution type silver organo-sol ink for forming electrically conductive patterns. The present invention provides silver organo-sol ink of solution type for forming electrically conductive pattern comprising effective amount of silver aromatic carboxylate and a reactive organic solvents, which can form chelate or complex with silver, are, for example, organic solvents having keton, mercapto, carboxyl, aniline or sulfurous functional group, substituted or unsubstituted. By the present invention, silver organo-sol ink of solution type basically having higher content of silver is obtained. The solution type ink of the present invention can be used for forming conductive patterns in flat panel display such as plasma display panel(PDP) to reduce the numbers of steps for pattern forming drastically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Exax Inc.
    Inventors: Soon Yeong Heo, Dong Sung Seo, Eun Ji Lee, Hyun Myung Jang
  • Patent number: 7972540
    Abstract: A process to fabricate an electronic device comprising: (a) liquid depositing a composition comprising a liquid, silver-containing nanoparticles, a replacement stabilizer comprising a carboxylic acid on the surface of the silver-containing nanoparticles, and a residual amount of an initial stabilizer on the surface of the silver-containing nanoparticles, resulting in a deposited composition; and (b) heating the deposited composition to form an electrically conductive layer comprising silver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Yuning Li, Beng S Ong
  • Patent number: 7972683
    Abstract: A material for bonding a first wafer to a second wafer, which includes an insulating adhesive with conductive particles embedded in the adhesive substance. When the adhesive is applied and melted or fused, and pressure is applied between the first wafer and the second wafer, the first wafer approaches the second wafer until a minimum separation is reached, defined by a dimension of the conductive particles. Each of the first wafer and the second wafer may have circuitry formed thereon, and the conductive particles may form a conductive path between the circuitry on one wafer and the circuitry on the other wafer. Advantageously, the high fusing temperature required by the insulating adhesive may also serve to activate a getter material, formed in the device cavity between the first wafer and the second wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Innovative Micro Technology
    Inventors: Christopher S. Gudeman, Steven H. Hovey, Ian R. Johnston
  • Publication number: 20110101283
    Abstract: An electrically conductive composition and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The electrically conductive structure includes a major conductive material and an electrically conductive filler of an energy delivery character dispersed around the major conductive material. The method includes mixing a major conductive material with an electrically conductive filler of an energy delivery character to form a mixture, coating the mixture on a substrate, applying a second energy source to the mixture while simultaneously applying a first energy source for sintering the major conductive material to form an electrically conductive composition with a resistivity smaller than 10×10?3?·cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chun-An Lu, Hong-Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 7935278
    Abstract: A process including: (a) forming a feature comprising uncoalesced silver-containing nanoparticles; (b) heating the uncoalesced silver-containing nanoparticles to form coalesced silver-containing nanoparticles wherein the feature comprising the coalesced silver-containing nanoparticles exhibits a low electrical conductivity; and (c) subjecting the coalesced silver-containing nanoparticles to an acid-containing composition to increase the electrical conductivity of the feature by at least about 100 times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Yiliang Wu, Mahya Mokhtari
  • Patent number: 7922940
    Abstract: This invention relates to the synthesis and isolation of colloidal silver particles through the use of thermomorphic polymers and the resulting composition. It further relates to the use of the resulting composition in the preparation of inks for printing with silver-containing inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Steven Dale Ittel
  • Publication number: 20110048538
    Abstract: A suspension or solution for an organic optoelectronic device is disclosed. The composition of the suspension or solution includes at least one kind of micro/nano transition metal oxide and a solvent. The composition of the suspension or solution can selectively include at least one kind of transition metal oxide ions or a precursor of transition metal oxide. Moreover, the method of making and applications of the suspension or solution are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: JING-SHUN HUANG, CHING-FUH LIN
  • Publication number: 20110031114
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a surface renewable iridium oxide-glass or ceramic composite hydrogen ion electrode and, more particularly, a surface renewable iridium oxide-glass or ceramic composite hydrogen ion electrode, which has a long life due to its excellent physical strength, pH dependency approximate to a theoretical value (59 mV/pH unit), and high surface renewability, and a method of manufacturing the same. The iridium oxide composite hydrogen ion electrode according to the present invention is effective in that, when the electrode is contaminated or inactivated, the surface of the electrode can be regenerated through a simple grinding process because the electrode has high surface renewability, unlike conventional electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: KONKUK UNIVERSITY INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION CORP.
    Inventors: Jong Man PARK, Ji Young KIM