Randomly Noninterengaged Or Randomly Contacting Fibers, Filaments, Particles, Or Flakes Patents (Class 428/36.4)
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Publication number: 20100297372Abstract: A method of forming a reinforced building product from garbage, comprising the steps of sorting garbage, shredding plastics within the garbage, shredding fibers within the garbage, heating the shredded plastics, forming a slurry from the plastics and fibers, disposing the slurry within an extrusion cavity, extruding the fluid through a venturi, and allowing the extruded materials to cool. Garbage is separated into plastics, fibers, and other materials. Plastics are shredded to facilitate melting. Fibers are shredded to macroscopic lengths no greater than a maximum internal diameter of a venturi. The plastics are melted. The melted plastics are mixed with fibers and other material to form a slurry that is extruded from a cavity through a venturi, thereby causing significant alignment of the shredded fibers within the slurry in an outer region of the extruded slurry. Cooled, there is reinforced building material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Al Braun, JR., Daryl D. Reavis, Michael W. Starkweather
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Publication number: 20100297373Abstract: The present invention relates to polyamide moulding compounds which have very low distortion with good mechanical properties. This is achieved by a combination of transparent polyamide with fibrous reinforcing materials and also particulate fillers. The moulding compounds according to the invention are used for the production of any moulded articles, semi-finished products or finished products.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Helmut Thullen, Christian Rytka, Friedrich-Severin Buehler, Ralf Hala
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Publication number: 20100288392Abstract: The invention relates to a hose with a tubular casing formed with a resin, preferably vinyl ester or polyester, as well as a method for using same. Cut-to-length glass fiber tubes are embedded in the resin forming the hose, and the length of the glass fiber tubes on both surfaces of the hose have values which are preset and different from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2009Publication date: November 18, 2010Inventor: JOHANN KÜBEL
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Patent number: 7833597Abstract: High radiopacity is achieved in a polymeric marker by combining a polymeric resin, a powdered radiopaque agent having uniformly shaped particles of a specific particle size distribution and a wetting agent. The method to produce the marker calls for the blending and pelletization of these materials followed by extrusion onto support beading. The resulting supported tubing is subsequently cut to length with the beading still in place. After ejection of the beading remnant the marker is slipped into place on the device to be marked and attached by melt bonding. Marking of a guidewire allows lesions to be measured while the marking of balloon catheters allow the balloon to be properly positioned relative to a lesion.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Vincent Peter Bavaro, John Arthur Simpson, Peter D'Aquanni, Aaron Baldwin
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Patent number: 7807241Abstract: A hydrogenated copolymer-containing laminate comprising a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, and a hydrogenated copolymer composition layer which is laminated on and bonded to the substrate layer through the adhesive layer, the hydrogenated copolymer composition layer comprising a hydrogenated copolymer (I), and a rubbery polymer (II), wherein the hydrogenated copolymer (I) is obtained by hydrogenating a conjugated diene/vinyl aromatic compound copolymer, the hydrogenated copolymer (I) having the following characteristics (1) to (4): (1) a vinyl aromatic monomer unit content of from more than 50% by weight to 90% by weight, (2) a content of a vinyl aromatic polymer block of not more than 40% by weight, (3) a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000, and (4) a hydrogenation ratio of 70% or more, as measured with respect to the double bonds in conjugated diene monomer units.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2004Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals CorporationInventors: Masahiro Sasagawa, Katsumi Suzuki, Toshinori Shiraki, Jae Yeon Lee, Jun Choi Pil, Suk Hun Sur, Dae Shik Kim
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Publication number: 20100247399Abstract: The invention provides a flexible and self-supporting insulating end cone liner comprising resilient and compressible intumescent or non-intumescent material molded into a single, continuous piece having a three dimensional cone shape, with the insulating material comprising inorganic fibers and an organic binder, and a pollution control device that includes such an end cone liner.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Inventors: Ryan C. Shirk, Stephen M. Sanocki, Joseph C. Peisert, Roger L. Langer, Loyd R. Hornback, III, Ian R. Harding
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Publication number: 20100233400Abstract: The present invention provides a tube for transporting a fluid comprising a composition containing 100 parts by mass of (A) a thermoplastic elastomer and 1 to 500 parts by mass of (B) a carbon base filler, and it has a low vapor permeability and is excellent in an air permeation resistance and a flexibility.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2007Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: Bridgestone CorporationInventor: Ryosuke Sano
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Publication number: 20100233399Abstract: Polypropylene compositions, particularly suited for preparation of stretched/oriented articles, especially for injection stretch blow moulded bottles, comprising: A) one or more propylene homopolymers or propylene copolymers or their mixtures; B) from 500 to about 1500 ppm by weight of talc in form of particles having average particle diameter of equal to or less than 1.5 ?m. Said compositions display higher crystallization temperature with respect to the same polyolefin (A) without addition of (B), while keeping good levels of transparency, particularly when (A) is or comprises a random polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2006Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: Basell Poliolefine Italia s.r.l.Inventors: Fiorella Pradella, Pierre-Alain Weiss, Claudio Cavalieri, Gabriella Sartori
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Patent number: 7794804Abstract: Oxygen scavenging materials incorporated into or attached to a package such as a gable-top or rectangular carton, used to package foods, beverages or other oxygen sensitive materials, and thereby increase shelf-life by decreasing oxygen in the headspace of the package, and decreasing oxidation of the packaged product.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Cryovac, Inc.Inventors: Gary D. Jerdee, James P. Leonard, Ta Yen Ching, Joseph L. Goodrich, Brad D. Rodgers, Richard P. Schmidt
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Patent number: 7790254Abstract: A reinforced diverter switch is molded with a flange having a reinforcing material embedded therein. A shaft of a diverter switch is wrapped with a reinforcing material. The shaft of the diverter switch may be wrapped by first removing a portion of the epoxy resin to expose a conductor of the diverter switch, machining a portion of the epoxy resin, and then filament winding the reinforcing material over the portion of the epoxy resin machined.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2007Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Waukesha Electric Systems, Inc.Inventors: Geoff Webb, Douglas Riggins, John Pruente
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Patent number: 7781034Abstract: A composite multi-layer barrier is produced by first vapor depositing a barrier under vacuum over a substrate and then depositing an additional barrier at atmospheric pressure in a preferably thermoplastic layer. The resulting multi-layer barrier is used to coat an article in a lamination process wherein the thermoplastic layer is fused onto itself and the surface of the article. The vacuum-deposited barrier may include of a first leveling polymer layer followed by an inorganic barrier material sputtered over the leveling layer and of an additional polymeric layer flash evaporated, deposited, and cured under vacuum. The thermoplastic polymeric layer is then deposited by extrusion, drawdown or roll coating at atmospheric pressure. The resulting multi-layer barrier may be stacked using the thermoplastic layer as bonding agent. Nano-particles may be included in the thermoplastic layer to improve barrier properties. A desiccant material may also be included or added as a separate layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2004Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Sigma Laboratories of Arizona, LLCInventors: Angelo Yializis, Michael G. Mikhael
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Publication number: 20100207497Abstract: An object of providing an injection-molded polylactic acid resin article composed of a resin composition with a polylactic acid resin content of 50% by weight or more, which has a higher strength than conventional articles and is applicable as a constituent part for larger products with heavier weights such as copying machines and printers, is achieved by providing a molded article obtainable by injection molding of a resin composition containing a polylactic acid resin and super engineering-plastic fibers. For the molded article as provided, the lactic acid component content A (% by weight) and the super engineering-plastic fiber content B (% by weight) of the resin composition, the mean thickness X (mm) and the weight Y (kg) of the molded article, as well as the length L (?m) and the cross-sectional diameter D (?m) of the super engineering-plastic fibers satisfy specified relations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2008Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventor: Hidetoshi Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20100189943Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a fuser member containing an intermediate layer and methods for forming the intermediate layer and the fuser member. In one embodiment, the fuser member can include a substrate, a resilient layer, a surface layer and an intermediate layer disposed between the resilient layer (e.g., a silicone rubber layer) and the surface layer (e.g., a fluoroplastic of PFA or PTEE). The intermediate layer can include a CNT/polymer composite containing a plurality of carbon nanotubes in a polymer matrix. The surface layer and the fuser member can thus be treated at a temperature of about 250° C. or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Yu QI, Nan-Xing Hu, David J. Gervasi, David C. Irving, Patrick J. Finn
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Patent number: 7763336Abstract: A flexible shaft coupling sleeve comprising a sleeve shaped body having a central annular portion and a coupling receiving portion at each of two opposing sleeve ends, and a coupling device incorporating such sleeve. The sleeve's coupling receiving portions include axially extending teeth on their inner surfaces. The flexible shaft coupling sleeve is formed of a polyurethane elastomer composition.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2004Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: The Gates CorporationInventors: Arthur Jack Clarke, Richard Bell, Joseph R. Duke, Jr., William W. L. Wu
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Publication number: 20100176171Abstract: Utility packs having a flexible frame system are disclosed and described herein. A plurality of flexible frame members engage guides in the pack body to provide the pack with a resilient structure, and to further provide content protection and accessibility. Packs in accordance with various embodiments may also include a floating coupling between the shoulder harness and the pack body to enhance freedom of movement of the wearer. Embodiments may also include flexible frame members directly coupled to a waist harness to shift pack loads to the wearer's waist. Finally, a unique structure forming rod is disclosed which includes an outer member and inner member that gives items structure, durability, flexibility and resiliency.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2010Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Christopher R. Araujo, JinHwan Kim, SooYoung Baik
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Patent number: 7754299Abstract: A multilayer polymer composite structure that includes a first layer including a polymer and at least one mineral filler and a second layer including a polymer. A third layer is positioned between the first layer and the second layer, wherein the third layer includes a mixture of material from at least the first and second layers. Preferably, the third layer is formed by recycling and mixing excess material from the multilayer polymer structure. The second layer can further include a colorant. The multilayer polymer structure can also include a fourth and/or fifth layer comprising a high clarity polymer and/or a high gloss polymer that provides a glossy surface or a sealant polymer that provides surface capable of being sealed. In a preferred embodiment, the multilayer polymer structure is thermoformed into a multilayer polymer article such as a container. Preferably, the container is a drinking cup.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Pactiv CorporationInventors: Wen Pao Wu, Alan H. Forbes
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Patent number: 7744974Abstract: A fiberglass laminate used in fabricating a composite pile comprising a plurality of fiberglass type layers and an impervious tube array. A tubular composite pile construction includes the laminate as well as plastic inner and outer skins and a resin injected into the laminate. A method of fabrication includes providing a mandrel, wrapping a plastic inner sleeve about a bladder on the mandrel, wrapping the fiberglass laminate and wrapping a plastic outer skin about the laminate. Lastly, a resin is injected into the laminate to substantially fill between the inner and outer skins.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2005Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Pearson Pilings, LLCInventors: Everett A. Pearson, Philip C. Mosher, Jr., Michael Fyrer, Matthew Dunham
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Publication number: 20100160094Abstract: Provided is a shaped body for production of sports equipment such as tennis, squash, and badminton rackets, golf clubs, hockey and ice hockey sticks and baseball bats. The shaped body includes a core of two tubular resonant bodies, running parallel to and spaced at a distance from each other and surrounded by a common covering. A spacer body with convexly curved opposed ends is arranged between the resonant bodies, whereby the mass of the resonant bodies is greater than that of the spacer body. The vibrations of the two vibrating systems, in the form of the resonance bodies, are overlaid in an advantageous manner, by means of the coupling of the resonance bodies. The invention further relates to a method for the production of the shaped body and the use of the shaped body in sports equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventor: Roland Sommer
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Patent number: 7740925Abstract: The present invention provides a composite material including a substrate layer, a knit porous layer intermixed within the substrate material, and a thermoplastic layer disposed upon the porous layer. The porous layer is at least partially disposed within the thermoplastic layer. The present invention also provides a method for forming the composite material including the steps of: providing a substrate layer, providing a porous layer disposed on the substrate layer, providing a thermoplastic layer disposed on the porous layer, applying pressure and vacuum to mechanically interlock the thermoplastic layer with the porous layer; and bonding the porous layer to the substrate layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2007Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: BLRP, LLCInventor: Bruce F Linker
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Publication number: 20100143629Abstract: The invention relates to a methacrylic composition comprising (100-x-y) parts of at least one methacrylic polymer that is a homopolymer or copolymer of MMA, dispersed in which are: x parts of particles of a thermoplastic polymer A comprising MMA as the main monomer that is either crosslinked or that has a weight-average molecular weight Mw>300 000 g/mol, advantageously >400 000 g/mol (relative to a PMMA standard), with a weight-average diameter (ASTM D1921)>100 ?m, advantageously >250 ?m and <500 ?m, advantageously <400 ?m; y parts of particles of a crosslinked thermoplastic polymer B comprising MMA as the main monomer, with a weight-average diameter (ASTM D1921) ranging from 15 to 70 ?m; such that x varies from 2 to 20 and y varies from 10 to 25. Preferably, x+y<33.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2007Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: Arkema FranceInventors: Patrick Delprat, Jerome Berge
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Publication number: 20100119747Abstract: A penetration resistant composite comprises a substrate material comprising woven, layered or intertwined polarized strands of glass, polyamide, polyphenylene sulfide, carbon or graphite fibers, a salt, oxide, hydroxide or hydride of a metal selected from the group consisting of alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, transition metal, zinc, cadmium, tin, aluminum, double metal salts and/or mixtures of two or more thereof or a metal hydride polar bonded on the surface of said fibers and/or strands of fibers at a concentration of at least about 0.3 grams/cc of open substrate material volume, and a substantially water impermeable coating thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2010Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: ROCKY RESEARCH, INC.Inventors: Uwe Rockenfeller, Kaveh Khalili
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Publication number: 20100112249Abstract: There is provided a tubular support comprising a first composite layer of resin and longitudinal arranged fibers (66, 98) having on each of its opposite major sides a further composite layer (64, 70) comprising resin, transverse fibers at an angle of between 10 and 80° relative to the longitudinal axis of said tubular support and traverse fibers at an angle of between ?10 and ?80° relative to the longitudinal axis of said tubular support. The method for producing this tubular support is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventor: Gerard S. Boyce
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Publication number: 20100104788Abstract: A vehicle deck board 1 is molded in such a manner that a lower die 21 and an upper die 22 are clamped together in a state where foamed resins 13 and reinforcements 20 are interposed between a back surface side sheet material 16 and a front surface side sheet material 15, whereby the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet material 15 are welded to each other to thereby form a laminated member 26 with height-increasing bridge members included therein, compressed air is injected into an inside of the laminated member 26 with the height-increasing bridge members included therein, which is formed by welding the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet 15, while individually vacuum-sucking the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet material 15 to the lower die 21 and the upper die 22, and the laminated member 26 concerned is subjected to blow molding.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Inventors: Sen Kitano, Hiroyuki Kiuchi, Ichiro Yuzawa, Kohsei Nozawa
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Patent number: 7700172Abstract: A biodegradable container includes a body structure made of a foamed hydrocolloid gelling matrix system having a fibrous material and a firming agent embedded therein and a water-resistant coating disposed on a surface of the body structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: The Biodegradable Technologies General PartnershipInventor: Donald W. Renn
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Publication number: 20100092708Abstract: Method for producing a fibre composite component, in particular for aerospace, having the following method steps: forming a moulding core from a core material with a predetermined narrow melting range in a moulding tool to establish an outer geometry of the moulding core at least partly laying at least one semifinished fibre product on the moulding core that is formed, for the shaping of at least one moulded portion of the fibre composite component to be produced; and multistage exposure of at least the moulded portion to heat and/or pressure to produce the fibre composite component; a corresponding moulding core for producing such a fibre composite component and a corresponding fibre composite component with at least one stringer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2007Publication date: April 15, 2010Inventors: Torben Jacob, Joachim Piepenbrock
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Patent number: 7695803Abstract: A sheet material for a radio wave absorber and a radio wave absorber formed from the sheet material, where the sheet material is light weighted and has excellent form-retaining capability and workability for field assembling. A sheet material (1) for a radio wave absorber has a corrugated paperboard structure with an undulated corrugated medium (2) and a planar liner (3) that are layered over each other. The corrugated medium (2) and/or the liner (3) are constructed from a sheet including an electrical-loss material. A radio wave absorber (10) is characterized in that the sheet material (1) for a radio wave absorber is cut, folded, and assembled as a hollow three-dimensional structure body, which has a shape of wedge, polygonal pyramid, or polygonal cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2003Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Miki Kasabo, Kenichi Hatakeyama, Yoichi Fujimura
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Patent number: 7674511Abstract: Closed reinforcement fiber package includes a material disintegratable in concrete, such as fiber concrete. Reinforcing fibers are present in a loose form in the package. The reinforcing fibers may be provided in a substantially mutually parallel position in the package. The reinforcement fiber package may be provided in a chain packing or package including a number of such closed reinforcement fiber packages. The reinforcing fibers may be made of steel.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2005Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: NV Bekaert SAInventor: Ronny Dewinter
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Publication number: 20100040816Abstract: The present invention provides silk fibre reinforced composite materials comprising a thermoplastic polymer matrix, which are relatively light, whilst having a high impact resistance. The silk fibre reinforced composite materials of the present invention allow for an optimal dissipation of the impact energy such that they have a penetration resistance higher than 20 J per mm of plate thickness, more preferably more than 30 J per mm, most preferably more than 40 J per mm. Due to the high impact resistance of the fibrous composite material according to the present invention, panels or shells comprising such composites are particularly useful for the manufacture of objects, which in the course of their life cycle are subject to shocks or at risk of penetration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2007Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: K.U. LEUVEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTInventors: Ignace Verpoest, Aart Willem Van Vuure, Nedda El Asmar, Jan Vanderbeke
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Publication number: 20100040817Abstract: A system and method for primarily erecting curvilinear buildings using a plurality of interconnected structural tubes/sandwich panels is provided. Fabricating a structural tubing comprises: connecting a fibrous and flexible lining to an inner surface of a flexible outer membrane, wherein the lining is saturated in a curable material that forms into a solid foam material when cured; and curing the curable material. Fabricating a sandwich panel comprises: connecting a first fibrous and flexible lining to an inner surface of a first flexible outer membrane, wherein the first lining is saturated in a curable material that forms into a solid foam when cured; connecting a second fibrous and flexible lining to an inner surface of a second flexible outer membrane, wherein the second lining is saturated in a curable material that forms into a solid foam when cured; and curing the curable material of the first lining and second linings.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventor: Jason Elliott Purdy
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Patent number: 7662880Abstract: Polyester compositions are disclosed that include polyester polymers or copolymers having incorporated therein metallic nickel particles that improve the reheat properties of the compositions. Processes for making such compositions are also disclosed. The nickel particles may be incorporated in the polyester by melt compounding, or may be added at any stage of the polymerization, such as during the melt-phase of the polymerization. A range of particle sizes may be used, as well as a range of particle size distributions. The polyester compositions are suitable for use in packaging made from processes in which a reheat step is desirable.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2004Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Zhiyong Xia, Donna Rice Quillen
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Publication number: 20100031815Abstract: A hybrid bearing cylinder is formed to include a composite sleeve and a metallic jacket positioned around the composite sleeve. The outer diameter of the composite sleeve is less the inner diameter of the metallic jacket to form a pre-designed gap between the composite sleeve and the metallic jacket The metallic jacket of the hybrid bearing cylinder is adapted to be secured to metallic cylinder end caps by threading, welding, swaging, or other metal attachment methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2009Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: POLYGON COMPANYInventor: Elson B. Fish
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Patent number: 7655288Abstract: The present invention is directed to 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: February 2, 2010Assignee: Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Ann M. Bauman, Ted R. Farnsworth, Charles Flynn, Daniel S. Gabrys, Charles F. White
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Patent number: 7638475Abstract: A cleaning system having pulverulent foaming cleanser (e.g., acid, alkali metal carbonate and surfactant) is sealed within a water soluble (e.g., PVOH) deformable pouch frictionally retainable within the core of a roll of bath tissue. Upon placement of the pouch in the bowl, water in the bowl penetrates the water soluble wall of the pouch, generating foam which provides cleaning action by activating and carrying cleansing chemicals, not only below the water line of the bowl, but also considerably above it. When used routinely with each change of bath tissue roll, such a cleaning can extend the time between required manual cleanings considerably.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LPInventors: John H. Dwiggins, Lynn M. Daul, David W. White, Joseph R. Pounder, Bruce J. Kokko, Sanjay Wahal, Phuong Van Luu, Gerald J. Van Handel, T. Philips Oriaran
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Patent number: 7638179Abstract: Described is a closure element for a container. The closure elements has a sealing element which contains a thermoplastic polymer, and an effective absorbing amount of an unmodified cyclodextrin material. The unmodified cyclodextrin material may be an ?-cyclodextrin, ?-cyclodextrin, ?-cyclodextrin, and mixtures thereof. The sealing element can act as a barrier with respect to permeants, such as aromatic substances, trichloroanisole, aldehydes or ketones and/or impurities from the polymer.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2002Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Cellresin Technologies, LLCInventors: Will Wood, Neil Beaverson
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Publication number: 20090286023Abstract: A multi-layer polymer composite film comprising at least a first layer of polymer material and a second layer of polymer material, at least one of the first layer and the second layer further including, a treated filler having a median particle size of about O.1 nm-1O ?m, the treated filler dispersed throughout the polymer material of the at least one of the first layer and the second layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2006Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: Pactiv CorporationInventors: David V. Dobreski, When Pao Wu
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Publication number: 20090263178Abstract: An apparatus including a pocket that is at least partially defined by an elastomeric film, and a related method. The elastomeric film comprising a material that includes a styrene block copolymer, a polyolefin, a polyurethane, a polystyrene, an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, a processing oil, or mixtures thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Inventors: Sriram Venkatasanthanam, Ben Vanmarcke, Evgueni Rozenbaoum
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Patent number: 7604668Abstract: The present invention is directed to 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: October 20, 2009Assignee: Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Ted R. Farnsworth, Charles Flynn, Charles F. White
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Publication number: 20090258174Abstract: A method for filling a hollow space in an in an autoclavable medical instrument with an adhesive containing a filler has the steps of providing an adhesive with a low viscosity allowing the adhesive to enter into a hollow space in a medical instrument, providing a filler of solid particles within said low viscosity adhesive, density of said solid particles differ from a density of said low viscosity adhesive, filling that hollow space in said medical instrument with that low viscosity adhesive containing said solid particles, allowing said particles a period of time for crowding together into a minimum of space, and curing said adhesive after said period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Inventors: Matthias Huber, Peter Eisenkolb
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Patent number: 7582343Abstract: A surface-modified article is formed of an elastomeric matrix, such as a glove shape, and a plurality of fine silica particles affixed to at least a portion of the surface of the matrix, the outside surface in the case of the glove. The fine silica particles increase the coefficient of friction of the article surface. The fine silica particles may also be made electrically conductive, so that static charge at the surface of the article is dissipated. The silica particles are applied by mixing them into a coating composition, applying the coating composition to the surface of a mold, and solidifying a flowable elastomeric composition against the coated surface. The coating composition may include a coagulant or a parting agent.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1999Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Inventor: David W. Johnson
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Publication number: 20090208684Abstract: This invention relates to a structure which comprises hollow and solid fibre material embedded in a resin matrix where a repair facility is provided for repairing fractures in the fibres and in the resin matrix by the use of curable two-part adhesive compositions in some of the fibres of the structure. Dedicated hollow fibres carry separate parts of the adhesive compositions under pressure so that in the event of fracture of any fibres, the component parts of the adhesive composition can combine and cure in situ to fill and “heal” the fracture. The invention has particular but not exclusive application to in “flight” repair of aircraft components which are formed by such structures, and can also be used in the manufacture of fabric materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2006Publication date: August 20, 2009Inventors: Michael Dunleavy, Sajad Haq
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Patent number: 7544405Abstract: Packaging/storage shaped articles, for example, opaque bottles suited for storing and shielding such products as milk away from the adverse effects of visible and UV radiation, are manufactured by first providing/formulating precursor compositions which include a polyester or polylactone thermoplastic matrix having at least one mineral filler distributed therethrough, the mineral filler containing a titanium oxide and/or zinc sulfide and also having from 2% to 40% by weight of the composition, and thence converting the composition into such packaging/storage shaped article, notably by injection-blow molding.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2006Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Tergal IndustriesInventor: Jean-Luc Lepage
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Patent number: 7527842Abstract: A reclosable packaging comprising a packaging tray that is made of a multilayer film and a lid which is made of a multilayer film. The tray and the lid are joined together in the edge area of the packaging tray via a sealing seam. The multilayer film of the packaging tray or lid is provided with a contact adhesive layer and a migration barrier layer having a thickness of preferably <2 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2004Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Wipak Walsrode GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Mathy, Annett Kaeding
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Patent number: 7527840Abstract: A multilayered flexible laminate is disclosed that includes a first lamina having a inlet channel; a second lamina having a outlet channel; the first and second laminas joined to one another about an unbonded valve region having open and closed orientations; wherein the inlet channel and the outlet channels are in gaseous communication when the valve region is in the open orientation.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2005Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: The Folgers Coffee CompanyInventor: Douglas Bruce Zeik
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Publication number: 20090098324Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an FRP tubular body. The manufacturing method includes the steps of winding a fiber reinforced resin member containing a fiber and a matrix resin around a mandrel, thereby obtaining an intermediate formed body, winding a wrapping tape around an outer peripheral surface of the intermediate formed body (6) with an application of a tension, curing the matrix resin in the intermediate formed body having the wrapping tape wound therearound, and pulling the mandrel out and removing the wrapping tape after the curing step, thereby obtaining a cured tubular body. It is preferable that a fabric tape should be used as the wrapping tape. It is preferable that a tensile stress to be applied to the fabric tape (8) should be set to be equal to or higher than 5 (Mpa) and is equal to or smaller than 150 (Mpa) at the tape winding step. In the manufacturing method, the matrix resin can be effectively extracted at a subsequent step to the winding step.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Masahide Onuki
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Patent number: 7509980Abstract: The present invention relates to ventilation tubing comprising, from the inside to the outside, a bush (1), an insulating layer (2) and a cover sheet (3). Said ventilation tubing is characterized in that the insulating layer is a quartz fiber wool of which the specific surface weight illustratively is between 65 and 140 g/m2. The bush (1) and/or the cover sheet (3) may be a plastic sheet exhibiting a weave of interlacing filaments. In particular the present invention applies to aircraft ventilation circuit tubings.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2003Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: ESPAInventors: Manuel Nogueira, Patrick Dupont, Etienne Bruet
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Patent number: 7501108Abstract: A method is provided for exfoliation of carbon nanotubes and for the preparation of a stable aqueous suspension thereof containing dispersed, essentially single tubes, using a water-soluble polymeric material. A powder of carbon nanotubes is further provided, that can be re-dispersed to form a stable suspension. The nanotubes can be used in electronics, printing, coatings, thin layers, molecular machines, and for the production of composite materials.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2003Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Research & Development AuthorityInventors: Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen, Oren Regev
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Publication number: 20090061134Abstract: Disclosed are polyarylene sulfide compounds and melt-processed shapes therefrom in the form of extruded profiles, tubings, pipes, fibers, monofilaments and films. Embodiments especially adapted from the invention are elongated spooled tubings exhibiting a smooth surface texture, spoolability and chemical resistance. The compounds contain polyarylene sulfide, a highly saturated, hydrogenated (if applicable) nitrile copolymer; and an organofunctional silane. The compounds exhibit spherical microdomains of the nitrile copolymer in diameters ranging from 0.1 ?m-100 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2006Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Manoj Ajbani, Andrew Bernard Auerbach
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Patent number: 7488520Abstract: A package comprising a paper product, a packaging material that encloses the paper product and defines a headspace therebetween, and metal modified nanoparticles having an effective particle diameter of less than about 500 nanometers is provided. The metal modified nanoparticles are configured to neutralize gaseous or odorous compounds within the headspace.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2003Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: John Jerald Urlaub, John Gavin MacDonald
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Publication number: 20090035502Abstract: A polymeric composition suitable for manufacturing pasteurizable containers comprising, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in the ratio of about 80 to about 95 mass % by mass of the total composition; polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) in the ratio of about 20 to about 5 mass % by mass of the total composition; tungsten trioxide in the range of 10 to 100 ppm by mass of the composition and particle size of 2 to 20 microns; and optionally a nucleating agent and a polycondensation catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Kulkarni Sanjay Tammaji, Palaniandavar Santhana Krishnan, Dillyraj Balasundaram
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Publication number: 20090022921Abstract: A process for manufacturing a composite block of closed geometry, in the form of a continuous ring, based on fibres and on a crosslinkable resin, by continuous winding and superposition of several layers of a tape of reinforcement fibres embedded in a matrix based on a composition comprising a crosslinkable resin. The process comprises from upstream to downstream, the following steps: producing a rectilinear arrangement (12) of reinforcement fibres (11) and conveying this arrangement in a feed direction (F); degassing the arrangement (12) of fibres by the action of a vacuum (13); after degassing, impregnating said arrangement (12) of fibres under vacuum with said resin composition in the liquid state (17); passing the pre-preg thus obtained through a die (20) to make said pre-preg into the form of a tape (21) composed of reinforcement fibres (11) in their liquid resin (17) matrix, the thickness of said tape being less than 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2007Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.Inventors: Jean-Paul Meraldi, Antonio Delfino