Patents Assigned to E
  • Patent number: 7071381
    Abstract: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a vitamin E biosynthetic enzyme. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the vitamin E biosynthetic enzyme, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the vitamin E biosynthetic enzyme in a transformed host cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company
    Inventor: Sean J. Coughlan
  • Patent number: 7072167
    Abstract: A capacitor structure is fabricated by forming a pattern of first dielectrics over a foil, forming first electrodes over the first dielectrics, and co-firing the first dielectrics and the first electrodes. Co-firing of the dielectrics and the electrodes alleviates cracking caused by differences in thermal coefficient of expansion (TCE) between the electrodes and the dielectrics. Co-firing also ensures a strong bond between the dielectrics and the electrodes. In addition, co-firing allows multi-layer capacitor structures to be constructed, and allows the capacitor electrodes to be formed from copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: William J. Borland
  • Patent number: 7070130
    Abstract: An electrode ring suitable for providing electrostatic assistance to the high-speed rotary application of spray coatings and having electrode fingers comprising electrode tips, wherein the electrode ring is constructed so as to be capable of performing rotational movements about the axis directed through the center of the circle thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Peter Minko
  • Patent number: 7071382
    Abstract: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an apoptosis inhibitory protein. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the apoptosis inhibitory protein, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the apoptosis inhibitory protein in a transformed host cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Rebecca E. Cahoon, Perry G. Caimi, Theodore M. Klein, Michele Morgante, Hajime Sakai, Jennie Bih-Jien Shen, Scott V. Tingey
  • Patent number: 7072248
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a barrier coating that shows decreased moisture sensitivity compared to conventional coatings, and provides high barrier properties, as well as a rapid method for producing the coating. These improvements are generated through use of a boric acid chelating agent in the composition and curing the composition with UV/NIR radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Rameshchandra M. Gohil
  • Patent number: 7071371
    Abstract: A gel composition substantially contained within the pores of a solid material is disclosed for use as a catalyst or as a catalyst support in dehydrogenation and dehydrocyclization processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Kostantinos Kourtakis, Leo E. Manzer
  • Publication number: 20060139311
    Abstract: A bistable electro-optic display has a plurality of pixels, each of which is capable of displaying at least three gray levels. The display is driven by a method comprising: storing a look-up table containing data representing the impulses necessary to convert an initial gray level to a final gray level; storing data representing at least an initial state of each pixel of the display; receiving an input signal representing a desired final state of at least one pixel of the display; and generating an output signal representing the impulse necessary to convert the initial state of said one pixel to the desired final state thereof, as determined from said look-up table. The invention also provides a method for reducing the remnant voltage of an electro-optic display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: E INK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Zehner, Holly Gates, Karl Amundson, Joanna Au, Ara Knaian, Jonathan Zalesky, Alexi Arango
  • Publication number: 20060138202
    Abstract: A method of braze bonding a stainless steel part to a titanium part by heating a component assembly comprised of the titanium part, the stainless steel part, and a very thin substantially pure nickel foil filler material placed between the two parts and heated at a temperature that is greater than the temperature of the eutectic formed between the titanium part and the substantially pure nickel filler material, but that is less than the melting point of either the filler material, the stainless steel part, or the titanium part. The component assembly is held in intimate contact at temperature in a non-reactive atmosphere for a sufficient time to develop a hermetic and strong bond between the stainless steel part and the titanium part. The bonded component assembly is optionally treated with acid to remove any residual free nickel and nickel salts, to assure a biocompatible component assembly for implantation in living tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research
    Inventors: Guangqiang Jiang, Attila Antalfy
  • Publication number: 20060139308
    Abstract: An electronic display comprises an electro-optic material (preferably an electrophoretic medium) having a plurality of pixels, and separate first, second and third sets of addressing means for addressing these pixels. Each of the pixels is associated with one addressing means in each of the three sets, such that addressing of any specific pixel requires application of signals within predetermined ranges to each of the three addressing means associated with the specific pixel being addressed. The display may be in the form of a multi-page electronic book.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: E INK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Jacobson, Barrett Comiskey, Russell Wilcox
  • Publication number: 20060139310
    Abstract: A bistable electro-optic display has a plurality of pixels, each of which is capable of displaying at least three gray levels. The display is driven by a method comprising: storing a look-up table containing data representing the impulses necessary to convert an initial gray level to a final gray level; storing data representing at least an initial state of each pixel of the display; receiving an input signal representing a desired final state of at least one pixel of the display; and generating an output signal representing the impulse necessary to convert the initial state of said one pixel to the desired final state thereof, as determined from said look-up table. The invention also provides a method for reducing the remnant voltage of an electro-optic display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: E INK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Zehner, Holly Gates, Karl Amundson, Joanna Au, Ara Knaian, Jonathan Zalesky, Alexi Arango
  • Publication number: 20060139570
    Abstract: An ophthalmic spectacle lens comprises a front surface; a back surface; a peripheral edge; and a vision correcting area having a refractive error correction for correcting refractive error of the eye, wherein the vision correcting area's refractive error correction is determined at least in part by a wave front analysis of the eye being corrected. Additionally, the refractive error correction corrects for non-conventional refractive error, wherein the non-conventional refractive error is a refractive error other than myopia, hyperopia, presbyopia and regular astigmatism, wherein said lens is capable of being edged into the shape of an eyeglass frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: E-Vision, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Blum, Dwight Duston, Dan Katzman
  • Patent number: 7065950
    Abstract: A yarn, fabric and garment suitable for use in arc and flame protection contains modacrylic, p-aramid and m-aramid fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Reiyao Zhu, Debbie Guckert, Susan L. Lovasic
  • Patent number: 7067708
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of para-xylene from trimethylpentane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Leo E. Manzer, Kostantinos Kourtakis, Norman Herron, Eugene M. McCarron, Paul D. VerNooy
  • Patent number: 7066370
    Abstract: A cassette for stapler capable of storing staples with different lengths of needle legs and capable of being manufactured at a low cost, comprising a cassette body formed slender with a channel shaped cross section and having a staple extrusion groove provided at the tip thereof, a staple holder longitudinally fitted to the cassette body to hold the large number of staples, a feeder for moving the staples pressingly toward the tip thereof, a spring for energizing the feeder, and a guide rod for guiding the movement of the feeder, wherein a guide wall capable of storing the staples with different lengths of needles is provided in the staple holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignees: E-Top Corporation, Sato Kensetsu Kogyo Co., LTD
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Ebihara
  • Patent number: 7067940
    Abstract: A branching unit for use in submarine systems that includes a ground termination; first, second, and third cable terminations each coupled to a power feed line of a respective submarine cable; a re-configuration relay in series between the first cable termination and the ground termination, the re-configuration relay being unidirectional and having at least one contact positioned in series between the second and third terminations, the at least one contact being closed when the re-configuration relay is de-energized; and a bypass relay in series between the second and third cable terminations, the bypass relay having a contact positioned in parallel with the reconfiguration relay and being open when the bypass relay is de-energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Bianchi
  • Patent number: 7067677
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for hydrogenating nepetalactone, utilizing a metal catalyst that is optionally supported, to yield dihydronepetalactone. A suite of supported catalytic metals lead to rapid hydrogenation and high selectivity for dihydronepetalactone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Leo Ernest Manzer
  • Patent number: 7067841
    Abstract: Organic electronic devices are fabricated by a process includes forming an organic layer including: placing a first liquid composition over a first portion of a surface of a substrate without a well structure connected to or adjacent the first portion of the surface of the substrate, i) the first portion of the surface of the substrate has a first surface energy, ii) the first liquid composition includes a first liquid medium and iii) the first liquid composition has a second surface energy that is higher than the first surface energy; and evaporating the first liquid medium while the first liquid composition overlies the first portion of the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Ian D. Parker
  • Patent number: 7067300
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method for the biological production of 1,3-propanediol from a fermentable carbon source in a single microorganism. In one aspect of the present invention, an improved process for the conversion of glucose to 1,3-propanediol is achieved by the use of an E. coli transformed with the Klebsiella pneumoniae dha regulon genes dhaR, orfY, dhaT, orfX, orfW, dhaB1, dhaB2, dhaB3, and orfZ, all these genes arranged in the same genetic organization as found in wild type Klebsiella pneumoniae. In another aspect of the present invention, an improved process for the production of 1,3-propanediol from glucose using a recombinant E. coli containing genes encoding a G3PDH, a G3P phosphatase, a dehydratase, and a dehydratase reactivation factor compared to an identical process using a recombinant E. coli containing genes encoding a G3PDH, a G3P phosphatase, a dehydratase, a dehydratase reactivation factor and a 1,3-propanediol oxidoreductase (dhaT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Mark Emptage, Sharon L. Haynie, Lisa A. Laffend, Jeff P. Pucci, Gregory Marshall Whited
  • Patent number: 7067843
    Abstract: Transistors fabricated with transparent oxide semiconductors are provided. The semiconductors are metal oxides deposited without the intentional incorporation of additional doping elements, and enable the fabrication of transparent thin film transistors. The transparent transistors can be used to control pixels in a display, without significantly reducing the active area of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Peter Francis Carcia, Robert Scott McLean
  • Patent number: D524488
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: E-L Management Corp.
    Inventors: Herve F. Bouix, Anne T. Carullo