Patents Examined by Aaron Austin
  • Patent number: 9676169
    Abstract: A multi-layer biaxially oriented high density polyethylene (OHDPE) film with a novel formulation which exhibits superior heat seal properties is disclosed. This improved formulation comprises a blend of a single grade of high density polyethylene (HDPE) or several grades of high density polyethylene (HDPE) with a nucleating agent (NA) used in the core layer to achieve a lower sealing initiation temperature, higher heat seal strength and broader sealing temperature range HDPE-based film that still exhibits typical properties of OHDPE films and a lower haze than conventional OHDPE films. The multi-layer BOPP film has additional layers such as a third polyolefin resin-containing layer, a metal layer, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY PLASTICS (AMERICA), INC.
    Inventor: Claudio M Paulino
  • Patent number: 9676234
    Abstract: The strip is formed of a single layer including a first layer arranged in a tire innermost layer or composite layers of the first layer and a second layer disposed adjacently to a carcass ply and made of a thermoplastic elastomer composition. The first layer is a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing a styrene-isobutylene-styrene block copolymer and a tackifier, a butyl-based rubber and a natural rubber. The strip has a strip main body having a thickness (T1) of 0.02 to 1.0 mm and ear portions formed on opposite sides of the strip main body. The ear portions have a thickness (T2) smaller than the thickness (T1) and a width (W2) of 0.5 mm to 5.0 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Mutsuki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9663984
    Abstract: The invention provides low-emissivity coatings that are highly reflective of infrared radiation. The coating includes three infrared-reflection film regions, which may each comprise silver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Cardinal CG Company
    Inventor: Klaus Hartig
  • Patent number: 9662699
    Abstract: Disclosed is a resin-coated Al sheet with which a drawn and ironed can having a lustrous appearance can be formed. An upper limit of a thickness of an outer surface resin layer which covers an Al surface which becomes an outer surface of the can and has an arithmetical mean roughness (Ra) of 0.5 ?m or less with a thickness which falls within a range of 0.02 ?m to 6 ?m is determined based on an arithmetical mean roughness (Ra) of the Al surface, wherein the upper limit of the thickness of a coating outer-surface resin layer is decreased when the arithmetical mean roughness (Ra) is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Okamura, Hiroaki Togo
  • Patent number: 9663852
    Abstract: An article is coated with a coating having a dark color. In a preferred embodiment, the coating comprises a nickel or polymer basecoat layer, and a first color layer comprised of oxygen-rich refractory metal oxycarbides, a second color layer comprising oxygen-rich refractory metal oxycarbides and a top layer of refractory metal oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Vapor Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas L. Peterson, Bryce R. Anton
  • Patent number: 9663396
    Abstract: A glass sheet has one surface and the other surface facing the one surface in a thickness direction, wherein a fluorine concentration (average fluorine concentration by SIMS at a depth of 1 to 24 ?m) in the one surface is higher than that in the other surface. The following expression is satisfied: 0.07??F/?H2O. ?F (mol %) is a value obtained by subtracting an average fluorine concentration in the surface having the lower fluorine concentration from that in the surface having the higher fluorine concentration, and ?H2O (mol %) is an absolute value of a value obtained by subtracting an average H2O concentration in the surface having the higher fluorine concentration from that in the surface having the lower fluorine concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyasaka, Hideko Nakada, Yasuo Hayashi, Makoto Fukawa, Toshifumi Nihei, Masanobu Shirai, Naoki Okahata, Koji Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Yamanaka, Kunio Watanabe, Shiro Tanii, Nobuaki Ikawa, Daisuke Kobayashi, Junichi Miyashita, Ryosuke Kato
  • Patent number: 9656913
    Abstract: A transparent laminate is provided that includes at least one chemically prestressed pane having a thickness, a compressive stress (CS) of a surface layer, a thickness of the prestressed surface layer and a tensile stress (CT) of an interior portion. The tensile stress (CT) is greater than 0 and is less than the compressive stress divided by 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ina Mitra, Andreas Langsdorf, Christoph Gross, Ulrike Stoehr, Kurt Schaupert
  • Patent number: 9656537
    Abstract: A vehicle glazing is described. The vehicle glazing has at least one windowpane having a height from 900 mm to 1650 mm, a top upper edge, a side edge of a pillar, a body edge, and two rectangular surfaces A and B. The surface A has an extent of 800 mm*800 mm and the surface B has an extent of 1000 mm*700 mm. Surface A and surface B are centrally bounded by the lowest contact point of the at least one windowpane with the body edge horizontally with respect to the ground, and the lowest contact point and the point of the top upper edge at the shortest distance from the contact point form a Y0 axis and the points at the furthest distance with respect to the width of the windowpane form a Z0 axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Benno Dunkmann, Jean-Marie Le Ny, Michael Balduin
  • Patent number: 9658646
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display module, and a varying member for varying a shape of the display module. The varying member includes a variable portion including at least one composite material layer made of a composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeoncheol Song, Ahreum Lee, Jinsu Kim
  • Patent number: 9650500
    Abstract: Prepare an article of manufacture by providing a latex of hollow latex particles with a rigid inner shell and adhesive outer shell, providing nanoporous particles and dispersing them into the latex and drying the latex so as to cause the hollow latex particle to bind to one another and form an article of manufacture containing nanoporous particles and hollow latex particles wherein the hollow latex particles are bound directly to one another to form a continuous matrix and the nanoporous particles are dispersed within the continuous matrix of hollow latex particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Yahong Zhang, Stéphane Costeux, Thomas H. Kalantar
  • Patent number: 9647154
    Abstract: This invention relates to the controlled realization of ordered superstructures of octapod-shaped colloidal nanocrystals, formed either in the liquid phase or on a solid substrate. These structures can be applied in many fields of technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
    Inventors: Karol Miszta, Dirk Dorfs, Giovanni Bertoni, Liberato Manna, Rosaria Brescia, Sergio Marras, Roberto Cingolani, Roman Krahne, Yang Zhang, Fen Qiao
  • Patent number: 9630875
    Abstract: A coated glass pane comprising at least the following layers in sequence: a glass substrate; a lower anti-reflection layer; a silver-based functional layer; a barrier layer, comprising at least the following three partial barrier layers in sequence from the silver-based functional layer, a lower partial barrier layer based on an oxide of Zn, Ti, ZnSn, InSn, Zr, Al, Sn and/or Si, and/or an (oxi)nitride of Si and/or of Al, having a thickness of at most 5 nm, a central partial barrier layer based on an oxide of Zn, Ti, Zn Sn, InSn, Zr, Al, Sn and/or Si, and/or an (oxi)nitride of Si and/or of Al, having a thickness of at most 5 nm, and an upper partial barrier layer based on an oxide of Zn, Ti, Zn Sn, InSn, Zr, Al, Sn and/or Si, and/or an (oxi)nitride of Si and/or of Al, having a thickness of at most 10 nm; and an upper anti-reflection layer; wherein the central partial barrier layer has a different composition to both the lower partial barrier layer and the upper partial barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Pilkington Group Limited
    Inventors: Neil McSporran, Monica Joscelyn Hughes, Gregory Charles Bernard Clarke
  • Patent number: 9631270
    Abstract: The invention relates to a carbon-based coating (2) which as well as carbon as principal ingredient has at least one first element selected from a group consisting of the transition metals from groups 3 to 10 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, the carbon in the coaling (2) being present predominantly in sp2-hybridized form, and the coating (2) comprising at least one further element from a group encompassing silicon, germanium, aluminum, and the transition metals from groups 3 to 10 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, with the proviso that said at least one further element is not the same as the first element, and the cumulative fraction of said at least one further element in the coating (2) is between 0.1 at % and 5 at %, and the cumulative fraction of said at least one first element is between 0.5 at % and 10 at %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: High Tech Coatings GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Draxler, Susan Field, Klaus Preinfalk
  • Patent number: 9630388
    Abstract: A composite flooring and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The composite floor includes, at least, a bamboo-plate surface layer and an organic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Zhejiang Yongyu Bamboo Joint-Stock Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiangang Song, Yongxing Chen, Jun Xu, Weiqiang Fu
  • Patent number: 9623814
    Abstract: A reinforcement includes a carrier having a plurality of exterior walls spaced from one another. The carrier defines a channel extending substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis defined by a cavity. A material layer is disposed on at least one of the exterior walls within the channel such that an electrocoating material is able to flow through the channel before the material layer is expanded and the channel is substantially filled after the material layer is expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventor: Vincent Belpaire
  • Patent number: 9622319
    Abstract: A film formation substrate is arranged such that (i) a base end, in a y-axis direction, of a film-thickness-gradually-diminishing part of a first film overlaps a first film formation region, and (ii) a film-thickness-gradually-diminishing part of a second film is disposed on an outside, in the y-axis direction, of a second film formation region and overlaps the film-thickness-gradually-diminishing part of the first film so as to compensate for a gradually diminished thickness of the film-thickness-gradually-diminishing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Sonoda, Shinichi Kawato, Satoshi Inoue, Satoshi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9617407
    Abstract: This invention is a highly insulating film, which is characterized by including a biaxially stretched film containing a styrene polymer having a syndiotactic structure as a main component, containing a thermoplastic amorphous resin Y having a glass transition temperature Tg by DSC of 130° C. or higher in an amount of 5% by mass or more and 48% by mass or less, and having a plane orientation coefficient (AP) represented by the following equation (1) of ?0.027 or less: ?P=(Nx+Ny)/2?Nz (1). In equation (1), Nx represents the minimum value of the refractive index in the plane direction of the film, Ny represents the refractive index in the direction perpendicular to Nx in the plane direction of the film, and Nz represents the refractive index in the thickness direction of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Nakahiro, Dai Nakagawa, Tetsuo Yoshida, Masanori Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 9610750
    Abstract: There is provided a composite structure including: at least two substrates which are made of thermoplastic resin and which are bonded by thermocompression; and at least one member which is made of a material whose heat distortion temperature is higher than a heat distortion temperature of the thermoplastic resin and which is inserted into a space formed in at least one of the substrates. The member inserted in the space is fixed and held by wall surfaces which form the space of the substrates and which are thermally deformed by thermocompression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomomi Yukumoto, Takeshi Yamasaki, Shoji Akiyama, Yuji Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9604876
    Abstract: A glass sheet, the thickness of which is at most 2 mm, including a surface zone under compression and a central zone under tension, such that the depth at which the transition between compression and tension occurs is at least 100 micrometers, the ratio between the depth and the thickness being at least 0.1, the sheet additionally being such that the flexural stress at break in a “ring-on-tripod” test is at least 70 MPa, after Vickers indentation under a load of 60 N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: René Gy, Julien Sellier, Hugues Obame
  • Patent number: 9604419
    Abstract: A patch for a structure has a rework area with an inconsistency formed therein. The patch comprises a patch body having at least two regions including a fail-safe region and a safe-life region encompassing the fail-safe region. The safe-life region has a mode I interlaminar fracture toughness that is less than the mode I interlaminar fracture toughness of the fail-safe region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Eugene Dan-Jumbo, Russell Lee Keller, Everett A. Westerman