Patents Examined by Abhishek A Patwardhan
  • Patent number: 12157295
    Abstract: A building panel, such as a floor panel, having a core comprising at least one or more of a thermoplastic material, a thermoset material, a mineral based material or a combination thereof. The building panel further including a first arrangement, arranged on said core, having a surface layer and a sublayer, where the sublayer is arranged between the core and the surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: VÄLINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Per Josefsson, Martin Bjeremyr
  • Patent number: 12138875
    Abstract: The disclosure provides post-production methods for functionalization of optical quality films produced by top tier manufactures. The methods disclosed herein allow for the incorporation of different additives into existing films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventor: Zbigniew Tokarski
  • Patent number: 12131666
    Abstract: To provide an artificial tissue model that can be more advantageously used in surgical technique training compared to previous artificial tissues, as well as a method of fabricating the same. An artificial organ model for surgical technique training comprising two or more fibrous layers 2, 3 layered and bonded to each other so as to be peelable by a surgical technique performed by a surgical technique trainee; the layered and bonded two or more fibrous layers 2, 3 as a whole being saturated with an electroconductive liquid or gel; and two adjacent fibrous layers out of the two or more fibrous layers being formed from different materials or substances or in different colors so as to be recognizable as different membranes by the surgical technique trainee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: EBM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Young-Kwang Park, Manabu Shinke, Masaaki Ito
  • Patent number: 12129410
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an adhesive layer includes: providing a preliminary adhesive layer, attaching a mask to a first area portion of the preliminary adhesive layer, and thereby, provide a second area portion of the preliminary adhesive layer that is adjacent to the first area portion and to which the mask is not attached, to provide an adhesive layer that exhibits good folding reliability. In addition, a display device may exhibit good folding reliability characteristics by including the adhesive layer from which an adhesion force of a folding area is reduced between a supporting member and a display panel of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Cheol ho Choi, Hyun-Been Hwang
  • Patent number: 12118903
    Abstract: A method for removably attaching a Monroney sticker to a vehicle windshield includes laminating the sticker along with any related addendum and attaching suitable magnets to the laminated sticker and securing corresponding metal base plates to the windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventor: Hugh Casiano
  • Patent number: 12115583
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adhesive-based part retention features in additively manufactured structures are disclosed. A structure includes a first AM part configured to connect to a second part via a primary connection applied to an interface between the first AM part and the second part. The structure includes at least one retention element including a secondary connection. The secondary connection includes a first adhesive configured to secure the first AM part and the second part. The secondary connection may be located to provide a connection between the first AM part and the second part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Samuel Bowden, Jr., Chukwubuikem Marcel Okoli, Richard Winston Hoyle
  • Patent number: 12105465
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus is configured to sandwich one or more sheet media in a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlaid and bonded together at a portion of the two-ply sheet. The sheet processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to control insertion processing to insert the one or more sheet media into the two-ply sheet based on a length of the two-ply sheet in a conveyance direction, a length of one of the one or more sheet media in the conveyance direction, and a number of the one or more sheet media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Takahashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Sho Asano, Yoshito Suzuki, Shinya Monma, Johji Akiyama, Yohsuke Haraguchi, Wataru Nozaki
  • Patent number: 12097794
    Abstract: A load ramp for a vehicle includes a corrugated layer that has a first surface and a second surface. A first layer is positioned adjacent to the first surface of the corrugated layer. A second layer is positioned adjacent to the second surface of the corrugated layer such that the corrugated layer is positioned between the first and second layers. A thickness of the load ramp can be in the range of about 10 mm to about 30 mm. A load capacity of the load ramp can be at least about 100 kg. A method of manufacturing the load ramp is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, David Brian Glickman, Peter Phung, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Pietro Buttolo, John Robert Van Wiemeersch
  • Patent number: 12090740
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of battery manufacturing, and relates to an alternate film pasting device for hard-case secondary batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UTIMES INTELLIGENT EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junli Li, Jianjun He, Caiwei Yan, Guoping Zhang
  • Patent number: 12090601
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a display device includes a moving part including a belt that circulates, a roller that circulates the belt, and at least one meandering prevention portion that moves in a first direction parallel to a direction of a rotation shaft of the roller and prevents meandering of the belt, and a polishing head disposed corresponding to the moving part, the polishing head polishing a surface of a base material disposed on a first surface of the belt. A part of the at least one meandering prevention portion faces a second surface of the belt, the second surface being a side surface of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junggun Nam, Seungik Kang, Seungbae Kang, Pungseok Kim, Heesung Yang, Keunwoo Lee, Woojin Cho, Byoungkwon Choo
  • Patent number: 12090739
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated structure, or a method for manufacturing a liquid ejection head substrate having an electrode pad, including: preparing a substrate on which a first layer is formed, foreign matter being present on a surface of the first layer; forming a mask layer on an entire area of a surface of the substrate, the surface of the substrate being provided with the first layer; removing at least a part of the foreign matter in a height direction by performing an etching treatment on the entire surface of the mask layer; and forming a second layer on a surface on which the etching treatment is performed, wherein the etching treatment is performed so that the foreign matter is not exposed from the second layer after forming the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouji Hasegawa, Koji Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12077687
    Abstract: A hot-melt adhesive comprising a thermoplastic resin and a first crystalline material, wherein when in differential scanning calorimetric measurement of the hot-melt adhesive, Tc (° C.) is a peak temperature of the highest peak of exothermic peaks observed in a temperature reduction process at 10° C./min following heating to 150° C. and Tm (° C.) is a peak temperature of the highest peak of endothermic peaks observed in a temperature increasing process at 10° C./min following the temperature reduction process, Tm?Tc is 20.0 to 70.0° C., and a tetrahydrofuran-soluble matter of the hot-melt adhesive has a weight-average molecular weight Mw, as measured by gel permeation chromatography, of 100,000 to 400,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentaro Yamawaki, Yuhei Terui, Tsutomu Shimano
  • Patent number: 12080483
    Abstract: A method of producing a multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a lamination step of producing a laminate by laminating green sheets each with an internal electrode layer formed thereon, an isotropic pressing step of subjecting the laminate to isotropic pressing, a flattening step of shaving one or both of main surfaces of the isotropic pressed laminate to flatten the one or both of the main surfaces of the laminate, and a rigid pressing step of pressing the flattened laminate from both of the main surfaces with a rigid body on each of the main surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tanaka, Hiroki Awata
  • Patent number: 12066348
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor mat (4) for an area sensor system (1.2), particularly for monitoring a room (101) of a building (100), comprising a flexible base unit (10) that has a first carrier element (11) with a planar extension and a first main side (11.1) and a second main side (11.2), and at least one detection means (30) for detecting an event (3). In addition, the invention relates to an area sensor system (1.2) for detecting an event (3), and to a method (200) for producing a sensor mat (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ARDEX GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Karl Kollmann, Emanuel Schreiber, Jörg Sieksmeier, Marco Schröder
  • Patent number: 12059879
    Abstract: A system for manufacturing waterproofing membranes, including: a laminating machine; a textile belt moveable through the laminating machine; and a pair of edge strips positioned adjacent to opposite sides of the textile belt. A first polymer is unrolled onto the textile belt and positioned between a pair of edge strips positioned adjacent to opposite sides of the textile belt and then moved through the laminating machine to heat and cure the first polymer into a first waterproofing membrane. The edge strips are preferably endless loops of material that pass continuously through the laminating machine. A second polymer can also be unrolled onto an opposite side of the textile belt such that two different waterproofing membranes can be manufactured simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: CARLISLE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Konrad, Josef Sochor, Bruno Bauer
  • Patent number: 12043186
    Abstract: Disclosed are an undercover for vehicles with high elasticity and rigidity and a method of manufacturing the same. The undercover for vehicles with high elasticity and rigidity may include a needle-punched nonwoven fabric having a multi-layer structure of felt layers including a first PET fiber and a low-melting-point PET fiber, and each of the felt layers may have improved tensile strength and have optimized fiber alignment, to thereby improve the binding between fibers, mechanical rigidity and elasticity, as well as to reduce the weight of components, improve durability and secure harmlessness and inline workability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Hado FNC Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Je Kim, Keun Young Kim, Tae Yoon Kim, Jung Wook Lee, Young Su Kim, Jong Eun Ha
  • Patent number: 12030281
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a glass resin laminated body includes a step of sticking a glass film on a resin film via an adhesive layer while holding the glass film and the resin film between a first roller that presses against the resin film and a second roller that is disposed opposite to the first roller and that presses against the glass film. A ratio of an elastic modulus P1 of a surface layer of the first roller to an elastic modulus P2 of the resin film P1/P2 satisfies a relation of 3×10?3?P1/P2?1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Sato, Takeshi Murashige, Junichi Inagaki, Atsushi Kishi
  • Patent number: 12033535
    Abstract: A product for displaying an image or object (e.g., printed photo or a print, etc.) according to at least one implementation includes a first sheet having a front face and a rear face. An image or object is formed along the rear face. The product also includes an adhesive coated substrate, such as a ferrous metal substrate, to which the first sheet is adhesively affixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Tracer Imaging LLC
    Inventors: Steven M. Spiro, Donald Lubarsky, Ron Glaza, Paul Dowd, Ryan Kelly
  • Patent number: 11999147
    Abstract: An apparatus for attaching a display panel includes a panel mount which receives a panel bottom cover facing corner portions of the display panel which are extended bent from a front surface of the display panel, and a pressing module which provides a pressing force to the panel bottom cover which is received in the panel mount and faces the corner portions of the display panel. The pressing module includes a pressing pad which applies the pressing force to the panel bottom cover at the corner portions of the display panel to attach the panel bottom cover to the display panel at the corner portions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Hyun Hwang, Do Hyung Ryu, Hyun Sang Park, Wu Hyeon Jung
  • Patent number: 11993733
    Abstract: The present application relates to polyurethane polymers produced by polymerizing a reactant mixture comprising triglycerides of Physaria fendleri, one or more polyisocyanates, and one or more polyols, wherein the triglycerides of Physaria fendleri have a hydroxyl value ranging from 90 milligrams of potassium hydroxide per gram of the triglycerides of Physaria fendleri to 250 milligrams of potassium hydroxide per gram of the triglycerides of Physaria fendleri. The present application also relates to polyester polymers produced by polymerizing a reactant mixture comprising triglycerides of Euphorbia Lagascae, and one or more dicarboxylic acids. Also disclosed are the methods of formation of the polyurethane and polyester polymers, and their use as adhesives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Greg Curtzwiler, Keith Vorst, Alexandra Ivey, Sharan Raman