Patents Examined by Adam Krupicka
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Patent number: 11958786Abstract: A barrier coating system may include a super alloy or ceramic matrix composite (CMC) substrate underneath a bond coat. The barrier coating system may also include a calcium-magnesium aluminosilicate (CMAS) resistant coating configured to protect metallic, or oxide-based or silicon based components in a harsh CMAS environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATOR OF NASAInventors: Dongming Zhu, Gustavo Costa
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Patent number: 11951520Abstract: Provided is a blank made of a steel and comprising at least two protruding regions (313) having an outer edge (311) protruding outward in in-plane directions, in which a softened part (320) is formed at least partially in the protruding regions (313) and the softened part (320) is formed in at least a part of the outer edge of the protruding regions (313), a Vickers hardness of the softened part (320) is lower than a Vickers hardness of a main portion region (310), and the blank comprises at least two of the protruding regions (313) having the softened part (320).Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Soma Sonobe, Yasuhiro Ito
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Patent number: 11946121Abstract: Provided are a steel sheet for battery outer tube cans, which is used for an aftergilding method and is suppressed in the occurrence of scratches, and which enables the achievement of a battery outer tube can that has excellent corrosion resistance and buckling resistance; and a battery outer tube can and a battery, each of which uses this steel sheet for battery outer tube cans. This steel sheet for battery outer tube cans has an Fe—Ni diffusion layer on both surface layers of a steel sheet; the Nb content in the steel sheet is from 0.010% by mass to 0.050% by mass (inclusive); and the adhesion amount of the Fe—Ni diffusion layer per one surface of the steel sheet is from 50 mg/m2 to 500 mg/m2 (inclusive) in terms of Ni.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Mikito Suto, Yoichiro Yamanaka, Kiyoshi Tachibana
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Patent number: 11945053Abstract: A tailored blank including a first steel sheet having a carbon content of 0.27 mass % or more, and a second steel sheet that is butt welded to the first steel sheet and that has a carbon content of 0.20 mass % or less, wherein the tailored blank includes an elongated future top plate portion, a future sidewall portion, and a future flange portion, a first steel sheet region that is configured by the first steel sheet is formed spanning part or all of a length direction of the future top plate portion, and a second steel sheet region that is configured by the second steel sheet is formed at the future flange portion to be joined by welding to another member, and wherein part or all of a length direction of the first steel sheet region is positioned within a length direction range of the second steel sheet region.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Fujimoto, Tasuku Zeniya
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Patent number: 11939652Abstract: The iron alloy particle is a particle including an iron alloy, and the particle includes: multiple mixed-phase particles, each including nanocrystals of 10 nm or more and 100 nm or less (i.e., from 10 nm to 100 nm) in crystallite size and an amorphous phase; and a grain boundary layer between the mixed-phase particles.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Manabu Nakano
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Patent number: 11926900Abstract: A laminate includes a base substrate, and a coating layer formed on the base substrate. The coating layer includes a copper alloy portions derived from precipitation-hardening copper alloy particles and hard particle portions which are harder than the copper alloy portions, the hard particle portions are derived from hard particles, and the parts bond with each other via an interface. Each of the hard particle portions has a non-spherical shape. A sliding member includes the laminate in at least one sliding portion. A method for manufacturing a laminate includes a step of spraying a mixture in a non-molten state including precipitation-hardening copper alloy particles and hard particles having a non-spherical shape and being harder than the copper alloy particles onto a base substrate, to form a coating layer on the base substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., FUKUDA METAL FOIL & POWDER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Izawa, Junichi Arai, Yutaka Mabuchi, Katsunori Otobe, Shinichi Nishimura
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Patent number: 11925978Abstract: An aluminum component and a method for manufacturing the aluminum component has a forming step and a cutting step. Projections (f) extend in an axial direction and are continuously arranged in a circumferential direction. End portions of the projections (f) are cut along a processing line having a predetermined processing diameter (D) providing splines (S) of predetermined dimensions. Side surfaces (fa) are inclined to be tapered in a direction from a base end to a projecting end. A portion of each side surface (fa) adjacent to the projecting end is an inclined surface (fb) with an inclination angle less than an inclination angle of a portion of the side surface that is adjacent to the base end.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha F.C.C.Inventors: Yoshiharu Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kondo
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Patent number: 11918132Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for a self-deploying tree are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a self-deploying tree system comprises a top tree assembly, a main tree assembly, and a base. The lower end of the top tree assembly may be coupled to the upper end of the main tree assembly, and the lower end of the main tree assembly may be coupled to the base, providing a vertical orientation of the self-deploying tree system. The self-deploying tree system further comprises a deployment mechanism which may be activated to automatically convert the tree from a collapsed configuration to a deployed configuration or from a deployed configuration to a collapsed configuration. The collapsed configuration comprises a reduced height and a reduced circumference to allow for ease of handling and storage. The deployed configuration provides for the tree to be extended to a desired height and for deployment of the limbs as desired for display.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Polygroup Macau Limited (BVI)Inventors: Victor Hugo Ocegueda Gallaga, Bailin Liang, Jason Loomis
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Patent number: 11919656Abstract: A broad good, comprising a plurality of fibers looped randomly throughout the broad good, a binder material binding the plurality of fibers together, the plurality of bound fibers forming a dimensionally stable nonwoven veil, a first metal coating covering a surface of the plurality of bound fibers of the veil, and a second metal coating covering the surface of the first metal coating, wherein the first and second metal coatings form a highly conductive metal screen that follows the shape of the dimensionally stable nonwoven veil.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: General Nano LLCInventors: Larry Allen Christy, Joseph E. Sprengard, Jr., Jae Hak Kim, Chaminda Jayasinghe
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Patent number: 11920236Abstract: A composite coating layer for coating a NdFeB rare earth magnet includes a first coating layer and a second coating layer formed over a surface of the first coating layer. The first coating layer includes a Nd coating layer, a Pr coating layer, or an alloy coating layer including two or more of Nd, Pr, and Cu. The second coating layer includes a Tb coating layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: SANVAC (BEIJING) MAGNETICS CO., LTD., BEIJING ZHONG KE SAN HUAN HI-TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Guoan Chen, Bin Fang, Haojie Wang, Yugang Zhao
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Patent number: 11913097Abstract: Provided is a Fe—Al-based alloy vibration-damping component including 4.0 to 12.0% by mass of Al with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, having an average crystal grain size in the range of over 700 ?m to 2,000 ?m and a sectional defect rate of lower than 0.1%, and having an irregular sectional shape. Also provided is a method for manufacturing a Fe—Al-based alloy vibration-damping component. The method obtains a vibration-damping component having an irregular sectional shape, and includes a shaping step in which metal powder including 4.0 to 12.0% by mass of Al with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities is melted and solidified using a heat source with a scanning rate set to 700 to 1700 mm/second to obtain a shaped product and an annealing step in which the shaped product is annealed at a temperature of 800 to 1200° C.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Nishida, Kousuke Kuwabara
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Patent number: 11897228Abstract: A cladded article may include a first metallic layer, a clad layer, and a first solid-state welding interface region positioned between the clad layer and the first metallic layer. The clad layer may include a first clad layer region having a first clad layer thickness in a thickness direction of the clad layer and a second clad layer region having a second clad layer thickness in the thickness direction of the clad layer. The second clad layer thickness may be greater than the first clad layer thickness.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: DMC Global Inc.Inventors: Karsten Guenther, Curtis Erwin Prothe, Steven David Sparkowich, Andrew Ruminski
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Patent number: 11878949Abstract: An advanced high temperature environmental barrier coating system is disclosed for protecting Si-based ceramics and SiC/SiC ceramic matrix composites (CMCs). This innovation provides a series of environmental barrier coating composition systems to achieve exceptional temperature capability, erosion and calcium-magnesium-aluminosilicate (CMAS) resistance and durability of the environmental barrier coated ceramic turbine engine hot-section components, in harsh turbine engine environments. The environmental barrier coating systems have been demonstrated for 1650° C. temperature capability and help prime-reliant designs.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventors: Dongming Zhu, Bryan J. Harder, Janet B. Hurst
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Patent number: 11859289Abstract: To provide a Sn-based plated steel sheet excellent in yellowing resistance, coating film adhesiveness, and sulfurization blackening resistance without performing the conventional chromate treatment. A Sn-based plated steel sheet of the present invention includes: a steel sheet; a Sn-based plating layer located on at least one surface of the steel sheet; and a coating layer located on the Sn-based plating layer, wherein: the Sn-based plating layer contains 0.10 to 15.00 g/m2 of Sn per side in terms of metal Sn; the coating layer contains a Zr oxide and a Mn oxide; a content of the Zr oxide is 0.20 to 50.00 mg/m2 per side in terms of metal Zr; a content of the Mn oxide in terms of metal Mn is 0.01 to 0.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Yamanaka, Shigeru Hirano
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Patent number: 11834098Abstract: A vehicle frame structure capable of achieving light weight, improving structural rigidity, and providing a good casting and forming effect is provided. The vehicle frame structure includes a pair of side portions and a connecting portion. The pair of side portions extends in a vehicle front-rear direction and is mounted on a vehicle body. The connecting portion is arranged as an elongated structure having a pair of long sides and is connected between the pair of side portions. The pair of side portions and the connecting portion are integrally formed by casting through injecting of molten metal from one side of the pair of long sides of the connecting portion. The connecting portion has a film surface connecting the pair of side portions and has a plurality of elongated holes extending radially from the center of the film surface towards the other side of the pair of long sides.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kuruto Hiratsuka
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Patent number: 11826857Abstract: This steel sheet is a steel sheet (100) formed by causing end surfaces of a first sheet material (111) and a second sheet material (113) to abut each other in an in-plane direction and welding the first sheet material (111) and the second sheet material (113) via a strip-shaped welded part (115), and in which a softened part (120) that is softened more than other parts in the welded part (115) is formed in at least a part of the welded part (115), and on a first end surface of the steel sheet in which an end part of the welded part (115) in a longitudinal direction is formed, a region in which the softened part (120) is not formed is provided in at least a part of the end part of the welded part (115) in the longitudinal direction, and a maximum value of a depth of the softened part (120) in a sheet thickness direction is, as a ratio to a sheet thickness of the steel sheet (100), 50% or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Yasutomi, Yasuhiro Ito
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Patent number: 11826980Abstract: A metal substrate provided with a surface texture wherein the Maximum Zero Normalised Auto Correlation (MZNAC) of the surface texture is in the range of 0.2-0.8, as well as a method to apply such surface textures on a metal substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: TATA STEEL NEDERLAND TECHNOLOGY B.V.Inventors: Pieter Baart, Derk Jan Wentink
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Patent number: 11820100Abstract: A laminated metallic structure includes preformed metallic sheets of graduated three-dimensional sizes. The preformed metallic sheets have a three-dimensional shape and are nested together to form a preform. The preformed metallic sheets in the preform are bonded together to form a three-dimensional body, having a near-net three-dimensional shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Kenneth H. Griess, Gary E. Georgeson
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Patent number: 11810710Abstract: A method for producing a sintered R-T-B based magnet includes: preparing a sintered R-T-B based magnet work (R is a rare-earth element; and T is at least one selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Al, Mn and Si, and contains Fe with no exception); preparing an RL-RH-B-M based alloy; and a diffusion step of performing heat treatment while at least a portion of the RL-RH-B-M based alloy is attached to at least a portion of a surface of the sintered R-T-B based magnet work. In the RL-RH-B-M based alloy, the content of RL is 50 mass % or higher and 95 mass % or lower, the content of RH is 45 mass % or lower (including 0 mass %), the content of B is 0.1 mass % or higher and 3.0 mass % is lower; and the content of M is 4 mass % or higher and 49.9 mass % or lower.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.Inventor: Noriyuki Nozawa
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Patent number: 11802661Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composite structure, including first and second structure layers which are opposite to each other and adjustment bodies. The first structure layer includes first structure bodies. The second structure layer includes second structure bodies. The first structure bodies and the second structure bodies are staggered. First connecting portions protruding toward the second structure layer are provided at predetermined positions on the first structure bodies where the first structure bodies are staggered relative to the second structure bodies, and second connecting portions protruding toward the first structure layer are provided at predetermined positions on the second structure bodies where the second structure bodies are staggered relative to the first structure bodies, and the first connecting portions and the second connection portions are staggered.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yanxin Wang, Heecheol Kim