Patents Assigned to Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.
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Patent number: 11865820Abstract: A reinforcing layer for a cementitious board includes an alkali-resistant fabric and a non-porous membrane. The cementitious board includes (a) a cementitious core; and (b) the reinforcing layer disposed on at least one face of the cementitious core, the reinforcing layer including the alkali-resistant fabric and the non-porous membrane.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.Inventors: Nancy E. Brown, Matthew S. Goldhawk, Zhenpeng Li, Olivier Rosseler
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Patent number: 11753335Abstract: A method of making a glass mat includes providing an assembly of glass fibers, applying a binder composition to the assembly of glass fibers, wherein the binder includes an organic resin, and curing the binder composition while dimensionally constraining the assembly of glass fibers. Dimensional constraining includes directly contacting a first major surface and a second major surface of the assembly of glass fibers between two substantially parallel surfaces. Further provided is a glass mat that includes an assembly of glass fibers, wherein the assembly of glass fibers are substantially randomly oriented with a tensile anisotropy of less than about 6 in any two directions. The glass mat has a decreased surface roughness and a decreased caliper compared to an equivalent glass mat having an assembly of naturally packed glass fibers with an equivalent fiber diameter size.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.Inventors: Jeffrey H. Peet, Nancy E. Brown, Tao Yu, Gary Charles Hildreth
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Patent number: 11422046Abstract: A sensing textile includes at least one assembly of optical fiber filaments, wherein the sensing textile has a main direction and a cross direction, and wherein the at least one assembly of optical fiber filaments is oriented at any angle measured relative to the cross direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignees: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSInventors: Nancy E. Brown, Sahas Rathi, Tzuyang Yu, Xingwei Wang, Pradeep Kurup, Jackson A. Ivey
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Patent number: 11384014Abstract: A glass mat is provided. The glass mat includes an assembly of glass fibers; and a binder composition including a polymer resin and a crosslinker. The polymer resin has a pH of at least about 5.0. The polymer resin includes a styrenic copolymer, an acrylic copolymer, or combination thereof having at least one functional group of a carboxylic acid, a salt of a carboxylic acid, an anhydride, a salt of an anhydride, or combination thereof. The crosslinker includes a polyol, a polyepoxy, a polycarbodiimide, a polyaziridine, a bivalent metal carbonate, or combination thereof. Further provided is a method of making the glass mat.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.Inventors: Camila A. Garces, Tao Yu, Choung-Houng Lai
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Patent number: 10995032Abstract: A method of making a glass mat includes providing an assembly of glass fibers, applying a binder composition to the assembly of glass fibers, wherein the binder includes an organic resin, and curing the binder composition while dimensionally constraining the assembly of glass fibers. Dimensional constraining includes directly contacting a first major surface and a second major surface of the assembly of glass fibers between two substantially parallel surfaces. Further provided is a glass mat that includes an assembly of glass fibers, wherein the assembly of glass fibers are substantially randomly oriented with a tensile anisotropy of less than about 6 in any two directions. The glass mat has a decreased surface roughness and a decreased caliper compared to an equivalent glass mat having an assembly of naturally packed glass fibers with an equivalent fiber diameter size.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.Inventors: Jeffrey H. Peet, Nancy E. Brown, Tao Yu, Gary Charles Hildreth
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Patent number: 10969283Abstract: A sensing textile includes at least one assembly of optical fiber filaments, wherein the sensing textile has a main direction and a cross direction, and wherein the at least one assembly of optical fiber filaments is oriented at any angle measured relative to the cross direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignees: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSInventors: Nancy E. Brown, Sahas Rathi, Tzuyang Yu, Xingwei Wang, Pradeep Kurup, Jackson A. Ivey
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Patent number: 10822749Abstract: A reinforcing fabric includes at least one glass fiber, wherein the at least one glass fiber includes a binder, the binder including a polymer resin and a filler, the filler including a recycled asphalt shingle. A method of reinforcing pavement with the aforementioned reinforcing fabric can be applied to new and existing pavements.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.Inventors: Jie-yi Dong, Ashley Smith, Gabor F. Nagy, Daniel L. Hunt, Tao Yu
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Patent number: 10584059Abstract: A method of making a glass mat includes providing an assembly of glass fibers, applying a binder composition to the assembly of glass fibers, wherein the binder includes an organic resin, and curing the binder composition while dimensionally constraining the assembly of glass fibers. Dimensional constraining includes directly contacting a first major surface and a second major surface of the assembly of glass fibers between two substantially parallel surfaces. Further provided is a glass mat that includes an assembly of glass fibers, wherein the assembly of glass fibers are substantially randomly oriented with a tensile anisotropy of less than about 6 in any two directions. The glass mat has a decreased surface roughness and a decreased caliper compared to an equivalent glass mat having an assembly of naturally packed glass fibers with an equivalent fiber diameter size.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.Inventors: Jeffrey H. Peet, Nancy E. Brown, Tao Yu, Gary Charles Hildreth
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Patent number: 10227477Abstract: A glass mat includes an assembly of glass fibers, a binder composition and an asphaltic coating. The binder composition includes an organic resin and an adhesion promoter. The glass mat has an at least 2% increase in tear strength as measured using the methods specified in ASTM D3462, compared to an asphaltic coated glass mat having a binder composition without the adhesion promoter. Further provided is an asphalt roofing product including the glass mat and a method of increasing tear strength in an asphalt roofing product.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.Inventors: Wayne R. Vliet, Missy R. Miller, Ronald L. Franklin, Jr., Charles G. Herbert, Nancy E. Brown, Fei Wang
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Patent number: 10138592Abstract: A screen includes a mesh substrate having an openness of greater than 30% when viewed at 0° incidence, the mesh substrate having a first major surface and a second major surface, the first major surface including a first coating, the first major surface having a first reflectance value, wherein the first reflectance value has an average value of greater than about 10% as measured by an EN410 standard and a diffuse reflection profile at all viewing angles from ?89° to 89°, excluding an angle of direct illumination as measured by a scattering distribution function technique using a Goniometer, wherein the diffuse reflection profile provides a reduction in view through the mesh substrate when viewed from ?89° to 89°.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.Inventors: Sahas Rathi, Jia-Mei Soon, Jackson A. Ivey, Nancy E. Brown, Pascal Nael
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Patent number: 9617734Abstract: A glass mat includes an assembly of glass fibers, a binder composition and an asphaltic coating. The binder composition includes an organic resin and an adhesion promoter. The glass mat has an at least 2% increase in tear strength as measured using the methods specified in ASTM D3462, compared to an asphaltic coated glass mat having a binder composition without the adhesion promoter. Further provided is an asphalt roofing product including the glass mat and a method of increasing tear strength in an asphalt roofing product.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.Inventors: Wayne R. Vliet, Missy R. Miller, Ronald L. Franklin, Jr., Charles G. Herbert, Nancy E. Brown, Fei Wang
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Patent number: 9334662Abstract: A reinforcing drywall tape and a method of making the same, the tape having a greige combined with a laid scrim constructed in situ on the greige and bonded to the greige by a resin coating, and a pressure sensitive adhesive fully covering an inward facing surface of the greige wherein the greige is adapted for adherence to drywall sections.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.Inventors: David L. Spanton, James Griffin, Kristyn Moreland, Francis P. Dibley
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Patent number: 9297098Abstract: A reinforcing web has multiple fibers joined together with a binder. At least some of the fibers have foldable portions, wherein the foldable portions have substantially less binder thereon to increase flexure to fold the web. A method of making the reinforcing web includes, applying a binder on the web, and removing some or all of the binder from a foldable portion of the web prior to curing the binder that remains on the web.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.Inventors: Glenn A. Stevens, Charles G. Herbert
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Patent number: 9200413Abstract: A composite tack film includes a) a first polymer layer including a thermally conductive polymer having a melting temperature of less than about 100° C.; b) a second polymer layer adjacent the first polymer layer, the second polymer layer including a visco-elastic, thermally conductive polymer having a melting temperature of less than about 110° C.; and c) a third polymer layer adjacent the second polymer layer, the third polymer layer including a thermally insulative polymer having a melting temperature of less than about 100° C. Further included is a method of reinforcing pavement with the aforementioned composite tack film.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.Inventors: Tao Yu, Fei Wang
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Patent number: 9139961Abstract: A composite material comprises: an open grid comprising at least two sets of strands. Each set of strands has openings between adjacent strands. The sets are oriented at a substantial angle to one another. A tack film is laminated to the open grid. The tack film has first and second major surfaces, such that a material of the tack film at its first and second major surfaces is a material including about 50% or more of resinous non-asphaltic component and about 50% or less of asphaltic component.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2011Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.Inventors: Mark J. Newton, Gary R. Fague, Sugjoon Lee, Jon Woolstencroft, Richard Goupil, Kerry Hook
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Patent number: 9140062Abstract: A woven screen can include at least one first fiber oriented in a main direction of the woven screen and having a polymer coating and a first stiffness value, and at least one second fiber oriented in a direction of the woven screen different from the main direction, configured to intersect with the at least one first fiber, and having a modified polymer coating and a second stiffness value about 20% to about 70% greater than the first stiffness value. The modified polymer coating can include a polymer, a crosslinking agent, a catalyst, and a free radical initiator. The at least one first fiber can include the warp and the at least one second fiber can include the weft, respectively, of the woven screen. The second stiffness value can be about 40% greater than the first stiffness value over a temperature range of about ?40° Celsius to about +40° Celsius.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.Inventors: Rubén Cuatepotzo, Victor Manuel Castro
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Patent number: 9017495Abstract: Methods and a reinforcement fabric are disclosed for making a reinforced smooth cementitious board having a cement skin adjacent to an outer face, by depositing a reinforcement fabric and a layer of hydraulic cementitious material, one on the other, wherein the reinforcement fabric comprises an open mesh united with a thin, porous nonwoven web.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.Inventor: John Frederick Porter
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Patent number: 8882385Abstract: A composite tack film is provided. The composite tack film includes a) a first polymer layer including a thermally conductive polymer having a melting temperature of less than about 100° C.; b) a second polymer layer adjacent the first polymer layer, the second polymer layer including a visco-elastic, thermally conductive polymer having a melting temperature of less than about 110° C.; and c) a third polymer layer adjacent the second polymer layer, the third polymer layer including a thermally insulative polymer having a melting temperature of less than about 100° C. Further included is a method of reinforcing pavement with the aforementioned composite tack film.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.Inventors: Tao Yu, Fei Wang
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Patent number: 8852368Abstract: The present invention provides a method making glass fiber fabric reinforcements, cement boards, and glass fiber coatings for such reinforcements. The glass fiber fabric reinforcement includes a glass fabric containing multiple yarns containing glass filaments and a polymeric coating disposed onto the multiple yarns to form a coated glass fabric. The polymeric coating comprises a polyolefin based copolymer composition whereby the glass fabric has a Gurley Stiffness measurement of about 100-3000 mg and an ASTM D 638 (2% Secant) modulus of compression of about 1-100 MPa. The reinforcement is sufficiently drapable and lacking in shape memory so as to be curved around the edge of a cement board during the manufacture of same.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.Inventors: Charles G. Herbert, Pranjal Shah
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Patent number: 8846153Abstract: Methods of making a reinforcement mesh, and an architectural molding reinforced by the mesh. The mesh is adhered by an adhesive to the architectural molding. In the mesh, weft yarns bend relative to warp yarns to conform to and against a curved profile of the architectural molding, and the warp yarns are unbent and adhered against the molding.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.Inventor: Mark Joseph Newton