Metal Coating Patents (Class 427/123)
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Publication number: 20130306356Abstract: Methods are provided for fabricating three-dimensional electrically conductive structures. Three-dimensional electrically conductive microstructures are also provided. The method may include providing a mold having at least one microdepression which defines a three-dimensional structure; filling the microdepression of the mold with at least one substrate material; molding the at least one substrate material to form a substrate; and depositing and patterning of at least one electrically conductive layer either during the molding process or subsequent to the molding process to form an electrically conductive structure. In one embodiment, the three-dimensional electrically conductive microstructure comprises an electrically functional microneedle array comprising two or more microneedles, each including a high aspect ratio, polymeric three dimensional substrate structure which is at least substantially coated by an electrically conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: Mark G. Allen, Seong-O Choi, Jung-Hwan Pauk, Xiaosong Wu, Yanzhu Zhao, Yong-Kyu Yoon, Swaminathan Rajaraman
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Patent number: 8586134Abstract: A method of forming a high resolution feature on a substrate, the method includes, depositing a liquid composition comprising a substance and a solvent onto the substrate to form deposited features, heating the deposited features to a heating temperature during or after the depositing to form an intermediate feature having a central region and an edge region, applying an adhesive substance to at least a portion of a surface of the intermediate feature, and removing the adhesive substance together with at least a portion of the central region of the intermediate feature to form the high resolution feature on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2011Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Yiliang Wu
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Publication number: 20130299859Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate for an optical semiconductor apparatus for mounting optical semiconductor devices, the substrate includes first leads to be electrically connected to first electrodes of the optical semiconductor devices and second leads to be electrically connected to second electrodes of the optical semiconductor devices, wherein the first leads and the second leads are arranged each in parallel, a molded body of a thermosetting resin composition is molded in a penetrating gap between the first leads and the second leads, a reflector of the thermosetting resin composition is molded at a periphery of respective regions on which the optical semiconductor devices are to be mounted, and the resin molded body and the reflector are integrally molded with the first leads and the second leads by injection molding.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi ONAI, Mitsuhiro IWATA, Yoshifumi HARADA, Shinji KIMURA
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Publication number: 20130299450Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of forming low-resistance metal pattern, which can be used to obtain a metal pattern having stable and excellent characteristics by performing sensitization treatment using a copper compound before an activation treatment for forming uniform and dense metal cores, a patterned metal structure, and display devices using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Ki Yong SONG, Sung Hen CHO, Sang Eun PARK
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Patent number: 8574665Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 6, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Yiliang Wu, Ping Liu
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Publication number: 20130284988Abstract: A predoping technique considered as highly practicable is an electrochemical method in which predoping is performed by assembling a battery such that an active material (electrode) and lithium are brought into direct contact with each other or short-circuited therebetween via an electric circuit, and by filling an electrolytic solution in the battery. However, in this case, much time is required, and there are problems such as the handling and the thickness accuracy of an extremely thin lithium metal foil that is not greater than 30 ?m thick. By mixing a lithium-dopable material and lithium metal together in the presence of a solvent, such problems can be solved.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventor: KRI, Inc.
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Patent number: 8568824Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Yiliang Wu, Ping Liu
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Publication number: 20130277621Abstract: A heat-treated polymer particle comprising an addition polymer core particle which has had swollen and polymerised therein a blend of an aromatic alcohol with an aldehyde or a blend of an aromatic amine or urea with an aldehyde and which has been subsequently heat treated, e.g. to a temperature of at least 150° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2011Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: CONPART ASInventors: Keith Redford, Helge Kristiansen, Heidi Johnsen, Ruth Schmid, Justyna Justynska
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Publication number: 20130278542Abstract: A touch sensor may include a digital resistive touch (DRT) sensor architecture that is substantially free of air gaps. The DRT touch sensor may include a layer of force-sensitive resistor (FSR) material on an array of row and column electrodes. The electrodes may be formed on a substantially transparent substrate. Near the intersection of each row and column, one or more thin transparent patterned conductive bridges may be situated above the FSR. The conductive bridges may be configured for electrical connection with row and column electrodes when force is applied to the conductive bridge or surface of the touch sensor. Some touch sensors may include both DRT and projected capacitive touch (PCT) functionality.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: QUALCOMM MEMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Philip Jason Stephanou, Nicholas Ian Buchan, David William Burns, Kristopher Andrew Lavery, Srinivasan Kodaganallur Ganapathi
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Patent number: 8563076Abstract: Provided are a substrate structure and method of forming the same. The method of forming the substrate structure may include etching a substrate to form an etched portion having a vertical surface, forming a diffusion material layer on the whole substrate or in part of the substrate; annealing the diffusion material layer to form a seed layer diffused downward toward the surface of the etched portion, and forming a metal layer on the seed layer. Accordingly, surface characteristics of the etched portion of the substrate may be enhanced by the seed layer, and therefore, a metal layer with improved adhesion and a uniform thickness may be formed on the vertical surface of the etched portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2008Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chan Wook Baik, Jong Seok Kim, Sun Il Kim, Young Mok Son
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Publication number: 20130264713Abstract: Some embodiments include methods of forming conductive structures. An electrically conductive material may be deposited with a first deposition method. The first deposition method has a first deposition rate and forms a first portion of a conductive structure. A second portion of the conductive structure may be formed by depositing the electrically conductive material with a second deposition method having a second deposition rate. The second deposition rate may be different from the first deposition rate by at least about a factor of 3. In some embodiments, a region of the conductive structure is utilized as a transistor gate of a DRAM cell. Some embodiments include semiconductor constructions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Jaydeb Goswami, Hung Ming Tsai, Duane M. Goodner
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Publication number: 20130266725Abstract: A method for producing a ceramic-supported metal-containing composite (66), useful for rechargeable oxide-ion battery cells, contains the steps of: providing a ceramic substrate (60) and metal-containing material (62); then depositing (64) the metal containing material (62) onto the surface of the ceramic substrate (60).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventor: Chun Lu
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Publication number: 20130266795Abstract: This invention pertains to mixtures and methods that can be used to produce materials comprising an electrically and/or thermally conductive coating as well as compositions that are materials that possess an electrically and/or thermally conductive coating. The mixtures and methods can be used to fabricate transparent conductive films and other transparent conductive materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: David Schultz, James Glass, Benjamin W. C. Garcia
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Patent number: 8551369Abstract: A wiring material contains copper, nitrogen, and a dopant which is more readily oxidized than copper in an Ellingham diagram, the dopant being added to the wiring material at a rate of not less than 0.5 at. % and not more than 10 at. %.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Takamichi Fujii
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Patent number: 8551851Abstract: This disclosure provides (a) methods of making an oxide layer (e.g., a dielectric layer) based on titanium oxide, to suppress the formation of anatase-phase titanium oxide and (b) related devices and structures. A metal-insulator-metal (“MIM”) stack is formed using an ozone pretreatment process of a bottom electrode (or other substrate) followed by an ALD process to form a TiO2 dielectric, rooted in the use of an amide-containing precursor. Following the ALD process, an oxidizing anneal process is applied in a manner is hot enough to heal defects in the TiO2 dielectric and reduce interface states between TiO2 and electrode; the anneal temperature is selected so as to not be so hot as to disrupt BEL surface roughness. Further process variants may include doping the titanium oxide, pedestal heating during the ALD process to 275-300 degrees Celsius, use of platinum or ruthenium for the BEL, and plural reagent pulses of ozone for each ALD process cycle.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Hanhong Chen, Pragati Kumar, Sunil Shanker, Edward Haywood, Sandra Malhotra, Imran Hashim, Nobi Fuchigami, Prashant Phatak, Monica Mathur
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Publication number: 20130256606Abstract: A conductive powder improving various performances as compared to conventional conductive powders is described. The conductive power includes conductive particles, each of which have a metal or alloy film formed on the surface of a core particle. The conductive particle has thereon protrusions protruding from the surface of the film. Each protrusion includes a particle chain including particles of the metal or alloy linked in a row. It is preferred that the metal or alloy is nickel or a nickel alloy. It is also preferred that the ratio of the total area of the exposed portions of the film to the projection area of the conductive particle is 60% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2011Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: NIPPON CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Chihiro Matsumoto, Masaaki Oyamada
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Publication number: 20130255358Abstract: A method of the invention includes preparing a mold having a hydrogen detection part pattern, a nanogap pattern and a base to be formed on a hydrogen sensor substrate; preparing a material to which the patterns are transferrable; forming the hydrogen sensor substrate by bringing the mold into contact with the material to thus transfer the patterns to the material and then detaching the mold from the material to which the patterns are transferred, the hydrogen sensor substrate having a base part corresponding to the base, a plurality of hydrogen detection parts erected from the base part and corresponding to the nanogap pattern and a plurality of nanogaps formed between the hydrogen detection parts and corresponding to the hydrogen detection part pattern; and forming, on the hydrogen sensor substrate, a thin film of a transition metal or an alloy thereof to be expanded by hydrogen.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: Woo Young LEE, Heon Lee, Byueng Jin Chang, Seung Hyun Lee, Jun Min Lee
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Publication number: 20130260239Abstract: A silicon electrode is described, formed by combining silicon powder, a conductive binder, and SLMP™ powder from FMC Corporation to make a hybrid electrode system, useful in lithium-ion batteries. In one embodiment the binder is a conductive polymer such as described in PCT Published Application WO 2010/135248 A1.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: Gao Liu, Shidi Xun, Vincent S. Battaglia
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Publication number: 20130256297Abstract: The electrostatic chuck 10 includes a discoidal alumina ceramic substrate 12 and a heater electrode 14 and an electrostatic electrode 16 embedded in the alumina ceramic substrate 12. The top surface of the alumina ceramic substrate 12 is a wafer-mounting face 12a. The heater electrode 14 has a pattern, for example, of a single continuous line so as to realize electric wiring over the entire surface of the alumina ceramic substrate 12. Upon the application of a voltage, the heater electrode 14 generates heat and heats the wafer W. The heater electrode 14 is made of a complex oxide of titanium, aluminum, and magnesium (Ti—Al—Mg—O) dispersed in molybdenum.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro NOBORI, Takuji KIMURA, Reo WATANABE
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Publication number: 20130252068Abstract: Disclosed are a silicon nanostructured material with theoretical storage capacity of energy resulting from electrochemical reaction with lithium improved more than 10 times as compared to the existing graphite material and having superior output characteristics, an electrode including the same, and a secondary battery and an electrochemical capacitor including the electrode as a negative electrode. The physical stability of the electrode active material is improved and an electrode with high performance can be obtained. Since more energy can be stored as compared to the graphite material of the same thickness and high-output performance can be achieved through the nanostructure, energy density can be remarkably improved as compared to the existing lithium-ion battery by about 2 times. An asymmetric lithium-ion secondary battery including the electrode active material is applicable to storage of renewable energy, ubiquitous power source, power supply for machinery and vehicles, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Joong Kee LEE, Won Chang CHOI, Joo Man WOO, Ho Suk CHOI, Jung Sub KIM, Hieu Si NGUYEN, Chairul HUDAYA, A Young KIM, Ji Hun PARK, Sang Ok KIM, Xuyan LIU
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Patent number: 8541048Abstract: An absorber layer of a photovoltaic device may be formed on an aluminum or metallized polymer foil substrate. A nascent absorber layer containing one or more elements of group IB and one or more elements of group IIIA is formed on the substrate. The nascent absorber layer and/or substrate is then rapidly heated from an ambient temperature to an average plateau temperature range of between about 200° C. and about 600° C. and maintained in the average plateau temperature range 1 to 30 minutes after which the temperature is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Nanosolar, Inc.Inventors: Craig Leidholm, Brent Bollman
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Publication number: 20130244086Abstract: Provided are a negative electrode for a secondary battery realizing satisfactory cycle characteristics and a method for manufacturing the same, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having satisfactory cycle characteristics. A negative electrode for a secondary battery formed by bonding a negative electrode active material to a negative electrode collector with a negative electrode binder, in which the negative electrode binder is a polyimide or a polyamide-imide, and the negative electrode collector is a Cu alloy containing at least one metal (a) selected from the group consisting of Sn, In, Mg and Ag and has a conductivity of 50 IACS % or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: NEC ENERGY DEVICES, LTD.Inventors: Jiro Iriyama, Daisuke Kawasaki, Ryuichi Kasahara, Tetsuya Kajita, Tatsuji Numata
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Publication number: 20130243945Abstract: A method of manufacturing a conductive film roll includes a first step of transporting a film base having an elongated shape while laminating a first transparent conductor layer, a first metal layer and a metal oxide membrane layer by sputtering on a first face side of the film base to form a first laminated body, a second step of feeding the film base, to a second film formation roll without being wound up into a roll, transporting the film base while making the metal oxide membrane layer of the first laminated body into contact with the second film formation roll, and sequentially laminating a second transparent conductor layer and a second metal layer by sputtering on a second face side of the film base to form a second laminated body, and a third step of winding up the second laminated body into a roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Nozomi Fujino, Hiroyuki Takao, Kuniaki Ishibashi
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Patent number: 8535832Abstract: Positive electrode active materials are formed with various metal oxide coatings. Excellent results have been obtained with the coatings on lithium rich metal oxide active materials. Surprisingly improved results are obtained with metal oxide coatings with lower amounts of coating material. High specific capacity results are obtained even at higher discharge rates.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Envia Systems, Inc.Inventors: Deepak Kumaar Kandasamy Karthikeyan, Subramanian Venkatachalam, Herman A. Lopez, Sujeet Kumar
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Patent number: 8529987Abstract: A system for in-process orientation of particles used in direct-write inks for fabricating a component may include a device for polarizing direct-write particles in an aerosol. An outlet may direct the aerosol including the polarized direct-write particles on a substrate to form a component. An apparatus may cause the polarized direct-write particles to be aligned in a selected orientation to form the component with predetermined characteristics when deposited on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Jonathan B. Vance, Scott R. Johnston
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Patent number: 8529988Abstract: A method is presented for use in fabrication of metal islands on an oxide substrate. The method comprises: depositing a selected metal on the oxide substrate by evaporation of said selected metal; and annealing a film of the selected metal on said substrate at temperatures including an annealing temperature being less than 50° C. lower than a glass transition temperature, thereby forming the metal islands partially embedded in said substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd.Inventors: Israel Rubinstein, Alexander Vaskevich, Tatyana Karakouz
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Publication number: 20130230772Abstract: As an electrode for a power storage device, an electrode including a current collector, a first active material layer over the current collector, and a second active material layer that is over the first active material layer and includes a particle containing niobium oxide and a granular active material is used, whereby the charge-discharge cycle characteristics and rate characteristics of the power storage device can be improved. Moreover, contact between the granular active material and the particle containing niobium oxide makes the granular active material physically fixed; accordingly, deterioration due to expansion and contraction of the active material which occur along with charge and discharge of the power storage device, such as powdering of the active material or its separation from the current collector, can be suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kosei NODA, Kazutaka KURIKI, Nobuhiro INOUE
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Publication number: 20130229379Abstract: A tactile sensor includes an insulating support including a first face including a first series of parallel conducting tracks and a second face including a second series of parallel conducting tracks, the insulating support being folded and the second face being disposed opposite the first face. The tactile sensor includes an array of conducting tracks extending in an edge zone intended to be folded, along fold lines. The tactile sensor can, for example, be used in a tactile control screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2011Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: STANTUMInventors: Pascal Joguet, Guillaume Largillier, Julien Olivier
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Patent number: 8524808Abstract: The invention is a radiation curable coating composition containing epoxyacrylate formed by ring opening reaction between (meth)acrylic acid and a self-dispersing epoxy resin in an aqueous system.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2005Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: IGM Group B.V.Inventors: Rainer Hoefer, Laurence Druene, Jean-Marc Ballin, Morgan Garinet
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Publication number: 20130224579Abstract: An electrode for a lead-acid voltaic cell comprises a high surface area, high porosity 3-dimensional lattice structure wherein the core elements forming the lattice are substantially contiguous. The core elements are coated with one or more corrosion resistant and conductive materials, and solid active materials are coated on the core elements and retained within the matrix. The lattice structure acts as the current collector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2010Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: EPIC VENTURES INC.Inventor: Peter G. Berrang
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Publication number: 20130224511Abstract: One aspect of the present invention includes a method of fabricating an electronic device. According to one embodiment, the method comprises providing a substrate having dielectric oxide surface areas adjacent to electrically conductive surface areas, chemically bonding an anchor compound with the dielectric oxide surface areas so as to form an anchor layer, initiating the growth of a metal using the electrically conductive surface areas and growing the metal so that the anchor layer also bonds with the metal. The anchor compound has at least one functional group capable of forming a chemical bond with the oxide surface and has at least one functional group capable of forming a chemical bond with the metal. Another aspect of the present invention is an electronic device. A third aspect of the present invention is a solution comprising the anchor compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventor: ARTUR KOLICS
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Publication number: 20130220685Abstract: A copper foil for a printed wiring board, the copper foil being characterized by having, on at least one surface thereof, a roughed layer of the copper foil in which an average diameter at a particle root (D1) corresponding to a distance of 10% of a particle length from the root, is 0.2 ?m to 1.0 ?m, and a ratio of the particle length (L1) to the average diameter at the particle root (D1) is 15 or less when L1/D1. A copper foil for a printed wiring board, wherein a sum of area covered by holes on an uneven and roughened surface of a resin is 20% or more at a surface of the resin formed by laminating the resin and a copper foil for a printed wiring having a roughened layer and then removing the copper layer by etching. An object of the present invention is to develop a copper foil for a semiconductor package board in which the aforementioned phenomenon of circuit erosion is avoided without deteriorating other properties of the copper foil.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATIONInventors: Michiya Kohiki, Terumasa Moriyama
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Publication number: 20130220696Abstract: The electronic component has a resin electrode which constitutes an external electrode on a face of a ceramic base body. At least a tip portion of a resin electrode region extended around another face of the body is bonded to the ceramic base body, and further a relationship between Rz1 and Rz2 satisfies the following requirement: Rz1>Rz2, Rz1>3.3 ?m, and Rz2<3.2 ?m, wherein Rz1 is a ten-point average surface roughness of a first region of a surface of the ceramic base body to which the tip portion is bonded, and Rz2 is a ten-point average surface roughness of a second region of the surface of the ceramic base body where the external electrode is not formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
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Publication number: 20130216844Abstract: Provided are a method for preparing a transparent conductive layer and a transparent conductive layer prepared by the method. The method for preparing a transparent conductive layer includes: 1) forming a cellulose derivative film by coating a transparent substrate with a cellulose derivative coating liquid; 2) hydrolyzing the cellulose derivatives by treating the cellulose derivative film using an alkaline agent; 3) forming a metal film by coating the hydrolyzed cellulose derivative film with an organic metal ink and reducing metals on the cellulose derivative; and 4) forming a conductive metal layer by heat-treating the cellulose derivative film with the metal film formed, and a transparent conductive layer prepared by the method. According to the present invention, a process can be simplified, and also a transparent conductive layer having excellent conductivity, transmittance, bending resistance, and low haze can be prepared.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: INKTEC CO., LTD.Inventors: Kwang Choon Chung, Hyun Nam Cho, Ji Hoon Yoo, Yun Ho Jung, Su Phil Kim
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Publication number: 20130216912Abstract: An electrode for a lithium secondary battery includes a silicon-based alloy, and has a surface roughness of about 1 to about 10 ?m and a surface roughness deviation of 5 ?m or less. A method of manufacturing the electrode includes mixing an electrode composition, milling the composition, coating the milled composition on a current collector, and drying the milled composition. A lithium secondary battery includes the electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2012Publication date: August 22, 2013Inventors: Soon-Sung Suh, Sung-Hwan Moon, Yury Matulevich, Seung-Uk Kwon, Yo-Han Park, Chang-Ui Jeong, Jae-Hyuk Kim, Chun-Gyoo Lee, Jong-Seo Choi
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Publication number: 20130214980Abstract: A dual-polarized antenna array is disclosed. The antenna array includes a plurality of self supporting, electrically conductive members. Tapered elements of neighboring electrically conductive members define tapered slots that form part of radiating structures. The radiating structures additionally include a slot line in communication with the tapered slot. A back cavity can be included as part of a BALUN structure that is integral to an electrically conductive member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP.Inventors: Jeremy R. Lambert, Richard D. Chapman, Michel W. Schnetzer, Paul Freeman
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Publication number: 20130209877Abstract: A paste for producing electrodes for lithium ion batteries includes as electrochemically active material particles of at least one of a metal/semimetal selected from the group consisting of silicon, aluminium, antimony, tin, cobalt and carbon-based particles which intercalate lithium, a binder based on a polysaccharide, water as a solvent, and an aliphatic polyester having a molar mass of 150 to 500 g/mol or an hydroxycarboxylic ester having a molar mass of 150 to 500 g/mol as a plasticizer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2011Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: VARTA Micro Innovation GmbHInventors: Harald Kren, Andrea Droisner, Stefan Koller
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Publication number: 20130209890Abstract: There is provided a lithium-transition metal oxide powder with a coating layer containing lithium niobate formed on a part or the whole part of a surface of a lithium-transition metal oxide particle and having a low powder compact resistance, and a positive electrode active material for a lithium ion battery containing the lithium-transition metal oxide powder. Specifically, there is provided the lithium-transition metal oxide powder composed of a lithium-transition metal oxide particle with a part or the whole part of a surface coated with a coating layer containing lithium niobate, wherein a carbon-content is 0.03 mass % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: DOWA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventor: Akira Nagatomi
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Patent number: 8507133Abstract: The principal object of the present invention is to provide an anode active material suitable for rapid charging. The present invention provides an anode active material comprising a metallic part which comprises Sn or Si and has a film thickness of 0.05 ?m or less, and thereby solving the problem.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2007Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Keiichi Yokouchi
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Publication number: 20130202901Abstract: Technologies are generally described for a structure, and method and system effective to print a metallic conductor on a substrate. In some examples, the method may include providing a substrate. The method may further include attaching a first layer including at least one metal oxide to the substrate. The method may further include attaching a second layer including a first ink to the first layer, where the first ink includes a metal. The method may further include attaching a third layer including a second ink to the second layer. The method may further include sintering the third layer to form the metallic conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLCInventor: David Max Roundhill
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Publication number: 20130199916Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to expandable electrodes and/or components that are expandable and/or flexible during, prior to, and/or after the manufacture of the electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: Empire Technology Development LLCInventor: Takashi Iwamoto
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Patent number: 8501268Abstract: A method of forming a material over a substrate includes performing at least one iteration of the following temporally separated ALD-type sequence. First, an outermost surface of a substrate is contacted with a first precursor to chemisorb a first species onto the outermost surface from the first precursor. Second, the outermost surface is contacted with a second precursor to chemisorb a second species different from the first species onto the outermost surface from the second precursor. The first and second precursors include ligands and different central atoms. At least one of the first and second precursors includes at least two different composition ligands. The two different composition ligands are polyatomic or a lone halogen. Third, the chemisorbed first species and the chemisorbed second species are contacted with a reactant which reacts with the first species and with the second species to form a reaction product new outermost surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Zhe Song, Chris M. Carlson
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Publication number: 20130192982Abstract: An aluminum alloy component has a surface region alloyed with an anodic metal to increase corrosion resistance in aqueous environments with high salinity or sulfur content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2012Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas J. Watson, Thomas J. Garosshen
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Publication number: 20130196171Abstract: Tin-plated copper-alloy material for terminal having: a substrate made of Cu or Cu alloy; an Sn-based surface layer formed on a surface of the substrate; and a Cu—Ni—Sn alloy layer including Ni formed between the Sn-based surface layer and the substrate, in which the Cu—Ni—Sn alloy layer is made of: fine Cu—Ni—Sn alloy particles; and coarse Cu—Ni—Sn alloy particles, an average thickness of the Sn-based surface layer is not less than 0.2 ?m and not more than 0.6 ?m, an area ratio of the Cu—Ni—Sn alloy layer exposed at a surface of the Sn-based surface layer is not less than 10% and not more than 40%, and a coefficient of kinetic friction of the tin-plated copper-alloy material for terminal is not more than 0.3.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2013Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventor: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
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Publication number: 20130194157Abstract: An antenna includes a core and is intended to be integrated into a rubber compound for a tyre. The antenna further includes an electromagnetic-signal conduction layer, which is made of copper and coats the core, and a chemical isolation layer, which coats the conduction layer and is intended to chemically isolate the rubber compound from an object coated by the isolation layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2011Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicants: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A., COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Michel Robert, Jay Clifford Sinnet
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Publication number: 20130196056Abstract: An electrode structure which provides adhesiveness between an aluminum material, as a base material, and a dielectric layer, and adhesiveness between the dielectric layers, and enables a high capacitance, even with a thick dielectric layer. An interposing layer is formed in at least one part of a region of the surface of the aluminum material between the aluminum material and the dielectric layer and includes aluminum and carbon. The dielectric layer includes dielectric particles including valve metal, and an organic substance layer formed on at least one part of a surface of the dielectric particle. A mixture layer of dielectric particles, including the valve metal and a binder, is formed on a surface of the aluminum material, and thereafter, the aluminum material is heated in a state where the aluminum material is placed in a space including a hydrocarbon-containing substance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: TOYO ALUMINIUM KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: TOYO ALUMINIUM KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Publication number: 20130189604Abstract: The invention pertains to heterogenous noble metal nanostructures comprising silver salts and different noble metals, and methods for synthesis and use of various nanocomposite materials having silver salts and different noble metals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Inventors: Jackie Y. Ying, Jun Yang
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Publication number: 20130189573Abstract: A solid type secondary battery manufactured at low cost and which rarely causes an environmental problem by employing a silicon compound in a cathode and an anode, includes silicon carbide having a chemical formula SiC in a positive electrode 3, silicon nitride having a chemical formula of Si3N4 in a negative electrode 5 and a cationic or anionic nonaqueous electrolyte 4 between the positive electrode 3 and the negative electrode 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Inventors: Shoji Ichimura, Fukuyo Ichimura
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Publication number: 20130188296Abstract: In one embodiment, an electrochemical system includes an interconnector busbar including a substrate and a coating contacting the substrate, the coating including a layer of electroplated elemental nickel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: Humi Widhalm
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Publication number: 20130187100Abstract: The invention is directed to a polymer thick film composition comprising solder alloy powder and organic medium comprising organic polymeric binder and solvent. The composition may be processed at a time and temperature necessary to remove all solvent. The invention is further directed to method(s) of electrode formation on circuits using such compositions and to articles formed from such methods and/or compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY