Patents Examined by Alex A Rolland
  • Patent number: 10322533
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the continuous production of a PIR/PUIR/PUR foam cored sandwich panel (12) with metal sheets (16, 18) as facings at top and bottom, wherein the upper metal sheet (16) and the lower metal sheet (18) are continuously fed into a double belt (28), wherein a PIR/PUIR/PUR core material is applied between the upper metal sheet (16) and the lower metal sheet (18), wherein an adhesive is applied to the lower metal sheet (18), wherein a portion of the adhesive applied to the lower metal sheet (18) is applied to the upper metal sheet (16) by means of a rotating brush. The present invention further provides an apparatus for the continuous production of a PIR/PUIR/PUR foam cored sandwich panel (12) with metal sheets (16, 18) as facings at top and bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Elangovan Al Ramanathan, Loh Cher Xiong
  • Patent number: 10274645
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of micro-nano structure antireflective coating layer and a display apparatus thereof are described. The method includes providing a substrate, forming a silicon oxide layer on the substrate, forming a graphene layer with a hexagonal honeycomb lattice on the silicon oxide layer, and forming a bottom surface of the antireflective coating layer in the nucleation points by serving the graphene layer as a growing base layer, wherein a diffusion length and an atomic mass of diffusion atoms of the antireflective coating layer are decreased with time by a gradient growing manner to form a upper surface of the antireflective coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guowei Zha
  • Patent number: 10239024
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing a filtration membrane having an average molecular out-off of <1000 g/mol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Mechelhoff, Patrizia Marchetti, Andrew Livingston, Zedda Karina
  • Patent number: 10196302
    Abstract: A dielectric multilayer film is formed on one surface of a lens main body, a film including aluminum is formed on the other surface of the lens main body, the film including aluminum is immersed in hot water without immersing the dielectric multilayer film in the hot water, thereby changing the film including aluminum to a fine uneven structure film including an alumina hydrate as a main component, whereby a lens provided with antireflection functions on both surfaces is manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Sonoda, Tatsuya Yoshihiro
  • Patent number: 10177331
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an organic light-emitting diode (1) comprising the following steps: providing a carrier (3) for the organic light-emitting diode (1), applying a solution (S) comprising a plurality of different emitter materials (E) to the carrier (1), wherein said emitter materials (E) are each formed by a certain type of organic molecule and have electrical charges that differ from each other, applying an electrical field (F), so that the solution is located in the electrical field (F), and drying the solution (S) into a plurality of emitter layers (20) in an organic layer stack (2), while the electrical field is applied, so that the emitter materials (E) are accommodated separately from each other, each in a certain emitter layer (20) of the organic stack (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Silke Scharner, Carola Diez, Dominik Pentlehner, Ulrich Niedermeier
  • Patent number: 10177312
    Abstract: The present application relates to a compound of a formula (I), to the use of this compound in an electronic device, and to an electronic device comprising one or more compounds of the formula (I). The invention furthermore relates to the preparation of the compound of the formula (I) and to a formulation comprising one or more compounds of the formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Amir Hossain Parham, Arne Buesing, Christof Pflumm, Teresa Mujica-Fernaud, Philipp Stoessel, Thomas Eberle
  • Patent number: 10174209
    Abstract: This invention provides a masking material that can be used to protect an underling surface (e.g. an automobile surface) during an overcoating (e.g. painting) operation. The masking material in one embodiment includes a thickener and a pH control agent and water. The masking material can be applied to a surface that is to be protected from paint overspray or other coating processes, allowed to dry, and the surface then coated (e.g. with paint). After drying of the paint, or other coating, the masking material can removed by water washing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: CAL-WEST SPECIALTY COATINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Edward William Woodhall, Robert Louis Mesa
  • Patent number: 10137418
    Abstract: A method for making a composite polyamide membrane comprising a porous support and a thin film polyamide layer, wherein the method includes: i) applying a polar solution comprising a polyfunctional amine monomer, and a non-polar solution comprising a polyfunctional acyl halide monomer to a surface of a porous support and interfacially polymerizing the monomers to form a thin film polyamide layer, wherein the non-polar solution further comprises at least 50 vol % of a C5 to C20 aliphatic hydrocarbon and from 2 to 25 vol % of benzene or benzene substituted with one or more C1 to C6 alkyl groups; and ii) applying an aqueous solution of nitrous acid to the thin film polyamide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Abhishek Roy, Yasushi Maeda, Mou Paul, Steven Rosenberg, Ian A. Tomlinson
  • Patent number: 10131029
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ophthalmic lens, includes the steps of providing, mounting and blocking a substrate (10) on a machining support unit (65), surfacing an upper face (12) of the substrate, edging a peripheral edge (13) of the substrate, wherein the machining support unit includes a surfacing member (40) and an edging member (30) which are separable, the surfacing member having a cavity (51) in which the edging member is located during the step of surfacing, the surfacing and edging members being configured so that the substrate is mounted and blocked on the machining support unit in a first predetermined position for the surfacing and the edging and, between the steps of surfacing and edging, the method further includes the step of withdrawing the surfacing member from the machining support unit by retaining the substrate on the edging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Peiqi Jiang, Gabriel Keita, Leanirith Yean, Gilles Baillet
  • Patent number: 10124366
    Abstract: A method and system for powder coating non electrically conductive elements, preferably brake pads. A pre-treatment station is upstream of an electrostatic powder coating deposition station and a baking station for melting and polymerizing the powder coating in order to form a coating layer on a surface to be coated. The pre-treatment station causes the elements to be coated to conduct electrically by uniformly wetting said elements by means of creating poorly mineralized water covalent bonds on at least one surface to be coated, in an amount aimed at producing a measurable weight increase in the non electrically conductive elements, which then causes them to conduct electrically. The water adsorbed and/or deposited is subsequently eliminated within the baking station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: ITT Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Pier Luigi Tarasco, Francesco Laureri
  • Patent number: 10079343
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device (1) includes: an anode (3); a cathode (4); and an organic thin-film layer (10) interposed between the anode (3) and the cathode (4). The organic thin-film layer (10) includes a phosphorescent-emitting layer (5) containing a host and a phosphorescent dopant. The host contains a first host and a second host. The first host includes a substituted or unsubstituted polycyclic fused aromatic skeleton, the skeleton having 10 to 30 ring-forming atoms not including an atom of a substituent. The second host has an affinity level greater than the affinity level of the first host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 10056549
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the formula (I), to the use of the compound in an electronic device, and to an electronic device comprising a compound of the formula (I). The present invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of a compound of the formula (I) and to a formulation comprising one or more compounds of the formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Elvira Montenegro, Arne Buesing, Frank Voges, Christof Pflumm
  • Patent number: 10056565
    Abstract: Iridium complexes comprising a tetradentate ligand and two monodentate ligands, devices containing the same and formulations containing the same are described. The iriium complexes can have a structure according to Formula (I) or Formula (II) ?or Formula (III) where the iridium complex includes: a tetradentate ligand coordinated to an iridium core by coordinating atoms XI, X2, X3 and X4; a first monodentate ligand coordinated to the iridium core by coordinating atom Y1; and a second monodentate ligand coordinated to the iridium core by coordinating atom Y2, wherein X1, X2, X3 and X4 are independently selected from the group consisting of an anionic coordinating atom and a neutral coordinating atom, wherein Y1 and Y2 are independently selected from the group consisting of an anionic coordinating atom and a neutral coordinating atom, and A is a linker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jui-Yi Tsai, Gregg Kottas
  • Patent number: 10039861
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing an artificial retina in which an organic dye compound that induces a receptor potential responding to photostimulation is fixed on a polymer sheet substrate, comprising a bonding step of immersing the substrate in a solution containing the organic dye compound to chemically bond the organic dye compound to the substrate; a first washing step of washing with water the substrate to which the organic dye compound has been chemically bonded; and a second washing step of, after the first washing step, washing with an organic solvent the substrate to which the organic dye compound has been chemically bonded. Thus, there can be provided an artificial retina which has excellent mechanical properties such as elongation at break and good biocompatibility, and is capable of inducing a receptor potential responding to photostimulation with high sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tetsuya Uchida, Toshihiko Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10025006
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a structure having a transparent fine uneven structural body formed by hot water treatment, in which a finer uneven structure is formed. Provided is a method of manufacturing a structure, the method being for manufacturing a structure including a substrate, and a transparent fine uneven structural body which is formed on a surface of the substrate by hot water treatment, including: a first step of forming a precursor film of the transparent fine uneven structural body on the substrate; a second step of forming a fine uneven structure on a surface of the precursor film; and a third step of subjecting, to hot water treatment, the precursor film on which the fine uneven structure is formed to form the transparent fine uneven structural body in which a peak value ?0 of space frequency of the unevenness of the fine uneven structure formed in the second step satisfies ? <?0 (Expression I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Shinichiro Sonoda, Tatsuya Yoshihiro
  • Patent number: 10020526
    Abstract: A method for forming a membrane includes a step of dissolving a lithium salt in a solution including an ionomer that includes protogenic groups to form a modified solution. A membrane is formed from the solution containing the lithium salt and the ionomer that includes protogenic groups. The membrane is dried and then contacted with water to form a plurality of pores therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Timothy J. Fuller, Lijun Zou, Ion C. Halalay, James Mitchell, Mark W. Verbrugge
  • Patent number: 10014476
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting medium including a pyrene derivative represented by the following formula (1) and a phenyl-substituted anthracene derivative represented by the following formula (2): wherein Ar1 to Ar4 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group having 5 to 20 ring atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumiko Mizuki, Hirokatsu Ito, Takeshi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Saito, Masahiro Kawamura, Yuichiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10008677
    Abstract: Compounds are provided that comprise a ligand having a 5-substituted 2-phenylquinoline. In particular, the 2-phenylquinoline may be substituted with a cycloalkyl containing group at the 5-position. These compounds may be used in organic light emitting devices, in particular as red emitters in the emissive layer of such devices, to provide devices having improved properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chuanjun Xia, Bin Ma, David Zenan Li, Bert Alleyne, Alan DeAngelis, James Fiordeliso, Vadim Adamovich
  • Patent number: 10005077
    Abstract: Oxide materials, thin films, coatings, and methods of preparing the same are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments the oxide material can have an MWW type framework or an MFI type framework. In one embodiment, the method includes: providing a suspension of an exfoliated layered oxide material in a solvent; and filtering the suspension through a porous support to provide a film of the oxide material, optionally directly on the porous support. Secondary grown films of the oxide material and methods of preparing the same are also provided. Thin zeolite films are attractive for a wide range of applications including molecular sieve membranes and catalytic membrane reactors, permeation barriers, low dielectric constant materials for microelectronics and sensor components for selective sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    Inventors: Michael Tsapatsis, Kumar Varoon Agrawal
  • Patent number: 10001585
    Abstract: An illuminating device is configured to include a light guide structure having a first light source configured to emit light of a first wavelength to excite at least one red fluorescent transparent substance; a second light source configured to emit light of a second wavelength to excite at least one green fluorescent transparent substance; and a third light source configured to emit light of a third wavelength to excite at least one blue fluorescent transparent substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Hidekazu Hayama