Patents Examined by Alexander Thomas
  • Flexible metal clad laminate and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 9232660
    Abstract: A flexible metal clad laminate includes a metal foil, and a multilayered polyimide film including a first polyimide layer having a glass transition temperature of 300° C. or less and disposed on the metal foil, a second polyimide layer disposed on the first polyimide layer and a third polyimide layer disposed on the second polyimide layer. According to the flexible metal clad laminate of the present invention, appearance defects such as blistering generated during curing process in a continuous curing machine using an infrared heat source may be solved, interlayer delamination may be prevented due to a good adhesion strength with a metal layer, and an ACF bonding strength and a dimensional stability may be good. The flexible metal clad laminate may be useful for the manufacturing of a flexible printed circuit boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: SK Innovation Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Sub Kim, Yong Seok Lee, Weon Jung Choi, Dae Nyoun Kim, Young Do Kim
  • Vacuum thermal insulation material equipped with a getter material for water-fraction and gas adsorption, and production method therefor
    Patent number: 9228340
    Abstract: The vacuum thermal insulation material of the present invention comprises: a core material part which is hermetically sealed under reduced pressure; a getter part which is provided on one side in the middle of the core part; and an outer skin material part which surrounds the core material part and is hermetically sealed. In the getter part, a getter material, comprising a mixture of a hygroscopic material and a gas-adsorbing material, is packed in the form of a nonwoven fabric. In the vacuum thermal insulation material of the present invention, the hygroscopic material is any one of calcium oxide, calcium chloride, zeolite, silica gel, alumina and activated carbon, while the gas-adsorbing material is an oxygen-adsorbing material comprising a Fe based compound; and the hygroscopic material and the gas-adsorbing material are mixed in a ratio of between 20:1 and 200:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Hoon Min, Sung Seock Hwang, Seung Min Jeon, Jung Pil Han
  • Thermoplastic article for mounting to a support structure
    Patent number: 9227376
    Abstract: A thermoplastic article can be mounted to a support structure by a fastener. The article includes a molded body having a length. The molded body also has an attachment surface configured to face the support structure and a show surface opposite the attachment surface. The molded body defines an interior channel separating the attachment surface and the show surface. The article also includes a attachment boss coupled to and extending from the attachment surface for receiving the fastener to mount the article to the support structure. The attachment boss extends through the attachment surface and into the interior channel of the molded body for reinforcing the attachment boss at the attachment surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: William J. McMaster, Randy E. Fleck, Stephen P. Serna, Edward C. Caughey
  • Honeycomb structure
    Patent number: 9221230
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a ribbon configured for use in forming a honeycomb structure when the ribbon is in a folded state. The ribbon comprises a first edge and a second edge. At least one portion of the first edge is not parallel to at least one portion of the second edge when the ribbon is in an unfolded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Dean, Brenda Catherine Benedetti
  • Surface covering foundation
    Patent number: 9217246
    Abstract: A surface covering foundation includes a first covering element having a thickness and defining a first juxtaposition side; a second covering element having a thickness substantially equal to that of the first element and defining a second juxtaposition side, adapted to be juxtaposed with the first side, the first element having a lip that forms an outward extension of the first juxtaposition side and is adapted to overlap the second juxtaposition side in a juxtaposed configuration of the first and the second covering elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: FLORIM CERAMICHE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Claudio Lucchese
  • Composite structure with a flexible section forming a hinge
    Patent number: 9205629
    Abstract: A composite structure includes a first composite section including a fiber reinforcement and a composite matrix, a second composite section including the fiber reinforcement and the composite matrix, and a flexible section interposed between the first composite section and the second composite section. The flexible section may include the fiber reinforcement and a reduced portion of the composite matrix or no portion of the composite matrix. The composite structure is bendable at the flexible section to permit repeated rotation of the first composite section relative to the second composite section by more than 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Inventors: Ann Livingston-Peters, Gabriel Mountjoy
  • Preform and method for reinforcing woven fiber nodes
    Patent number: 9205494
    Abstract: Preforms including fiber reinforced nodes for use in fiber reinforced composite structures and methods for making fiber reinforced composite structures. Preforms with woven fabric elements extending radially from a common node include at least one reinforcing fiber interwoven between at least two elements and passing through the node. A method of assembling preform structures using the preforms to provide a structure with reinforced nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Goering, Keith Edward Burgess
  • Composite structure and method
    Patent number: 9205634
    Abstract: In one embodiment a method to form a composite part comprises joining a first structural element and a second element to form a fillet at an intersection of the first structural element and the second element, positioning an inflatable radius filler in the fillet, positioning the composite part in a vacuum chamber, venting the inflatable radius filler to an environment external to vacuum chamber, drawing a vacuum in the vacuum chamber, and curing the composite part. Other embodiments may be described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Stanley W. Stawski
  • Tri-angle herringbone tape for composite panels
    Patent number: 9199429
    Abstract: A fiber composite tape has a first two-layer strip having a first top layer with fibers angled at ? and a first bottom layer with fibers angled at 0, a second two-layer strip having a second top (or bottom) layer with fibers angled at ?? and a second bottom (or top) layer with fibers angled at 0, and a paper backing tape affixed to the two two-layer strips and joins them side-by-side at their edges to form a seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventor: Stephen W. Tsai
  • Stack of folded paper products
    Patent number: 9199823
    Abstract: A stack of folded paper products. The stack can include first and second paper products, each having first and second centerlines and first and second fold lines. The first fold line can be substantially parallel to, and offset from, the first centerline. The second centerline can be substantially perpendicular to the first centerline. The second fold line can be substantially parallel to the second centerline. The first and second paper products can each be folded about the first fold line prior to being folded about the second fold line, thereby forming first and second larger panels and first and second smaller panels. At least one of the panels of the second paper product can be at least partially disposed between at least two of the panels of the first paper product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: GEORGIA-PACIFIC CONSUMER PRODUCTS LP
    Inventor: Robert Michael Penfield
  • Stitching to-combined component of textile and plastic
    Patent number: 9199430
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stitched-together textile and plastic component including an upper transparent plastic layer, a lower transparent plastic layer and a textile layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Inventor: Mei-Li Wang
  • Encapsulated structure of light-emitting device, encapsulating process thereof and display device comprising encapsulated structure
    Patent number: 9196864
    Abstract: An encapsulated structure of a light-emitting device, an encapsulating process thereof, and a display device comprising said encapsulated structure. The encapsulated structure of the light-emitting device comprises: a light-emitting device; and a protective layer of a sulfonate salt formed on a top electrode of the light-emitting device, the sulfonate salt having the following structure: wherein the cation X+ is Li+, Na+ or K+; and R is a substituent selected from the group consisting of unsubstituted alkyl groups having more than 5 carbon atoms, substituted alkyl groups having more than 5 carbon atoms, and alkoxyl groups having more than 5 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Na Li, Hyoung Joon Park, Gang Wang
  • Natural-path tearstraps and stiffeners for spherical composite pressure bulkheads
    Patent number: 9187168
    Abstract: A bulkhead employs a substantially spherical dome having a periphery and an apex with an axis perpendicular to the dome at the apex. A first plurality of straps emanate from a periphery of the dome on geodesics defined by a first pair of virtual poles beyond the periphery of the dome. A second plurality of straps emanate from the periphery of the dome on second geodesics defined by a second pair of virtual poles beyond the periphery of the dome, wherein any overlap on an individual strap in the first plurality of straps is singular to only one individual strap in the second plurality of straps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Richard R. Rosman, Joseph H. Campana
  • Component with filament connection and process for the production of a component with filament connection
    Patent number: 9188739
    Abstract: The invention relates to a component with filament connection, in particular for communication, in particular for optical communication comprising: a voluminous material, a substrate, a filament and a connection component applied on the filament, where the filament has been embedded in the substrate and, at a transition point, emerges from the substrate and proceeds into the voluminous material. According to the invention, the voluminous material directly encloses the filament from the transition point and directly encloses the connection component applied on the filament and has full-area inseparable bonding to the substrate, where the voluminous material is a fully crosslinked voluminous material formed from a pliable material and the substrate has been hardened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT
    Inventors: Katrin Wyrwich, Oliver Schwarzhaupt, Dominik Laveuve
  • Repair method and repair structure for honeycomb sandwich structural body
    Patent number: 9186756
    Abstract: A repair method includes the steps of: (A) forming a repair cavity 14 by removing a honeycomb core 11 including a damaged portion with a front-side skin 12; (B) inserting, into the repair cavity 14, a repair honeycomb core 21 whose end surface 30 on a side to which a repair patch 22 is bonded is subjected to flattening treatment; (C) disposing the repair patch on the flattened end surface 30 of the repair honeycomb core 21 via a film-like adhesive 24; and (D) bonding the repair honeycomb core 21 to an existing portion of the honeycomb sandwich structural body 10 and to the repair patch 22, and curing the repair patch 22 under a reduced-pressure atmosphere associated with heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshikazu Shigetomi
  • Stack of interfolded absorbent sheet products
    Patent number: 9179809
    Abstract: A stack of interfolded absorbent sheet products comprises a plurality of absorbent sheets each of which is itself folded at least twice about axes that are perpendicular to one another. The absorbent sheets have an embossed surface relief of a predetermined pattern or design. Each of the absorbent sheets within the stack comprises at least one pair of panels sandwiched between a pair of adjacent panels of another of the absorbent sheets in the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SCA TISSUE NORTH AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Robert C. Hochtritt, Andrew M. Conger
  • Quake-resistant plywood laminate
    Patent number: 9174419
    Abstract: A plywood laminate includes: a plate having lateral wood grains as a core plate material; additional core plate materials that sandwich the core plate material from both sides, wood grains of one of the additional core plate materials being 45° inclined and wood grains of the other one thereof being 45° inclined in an opposite direction; and, a front plate material and a rear plate material having vertical wood grains and superposed on the outside of the additional core plate materials, wherein plates constituting the plywood laminate are formed by assembling cut pieces obtained by cutting along cutting lines obtained by assembling isosceles right triangles without gap or by cutting along cutting lines obtained by assembling a pentagon of which upper portion is an isosceles right triangle and an isosceles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Inventor: Teiji Utsumi
  • Refractory insulating module
    Patent number: 9175909
    Abstract: Refractory modules and other insulating modules, which include a plurality of insulating module layers arranged with their major surfaces in a side-by-side orientation, are provided. Each insulating module layer includes a first section having a slot extending into a joint edge and a second section having a tab extending from a joint edge. The first and second sections each comprise a refractory insulation material, which typically includes a fibrous refractory material. The tab has an outer contour and the slot has an inner contour which substantially corresponds in shape such that when the tab is inserted in interlocking engagement into the slot, the joint edges of the first and second sections are held in juxtaposition along a section juncture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Temtek Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Scott Carter, Jonathan Richard Lee Whaley, Lee Robert Whaley
  • Thermally insulating member
    Patent number: 9169056
    Abstract: A thermally insulating member includes a plane sheet having two ends spaced in a length direction and two sides spaced in a thickness direction perpendicular to the length direction. The plane sheet includes a plurality of rows of slits between the ends of the plane sheet. Each row of slits extends from one of the sides through the other side of the plane sheet. A first spacing between two adjacent rows of slits in the length direction is larger than a spacing between two adjacent slits in the same row of slits in a width direction perpendicular to the length and width directions by a second spacing. A thermally insulating strip is defined between two adjacent rows of slits. A stretchable rib is formed between two adjacent slits in the same row of slits. Each end of the plane sheet is a coupling portion free of the slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Lian Yi Design Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shao-Wen Zhang
  • Composite staple
    Patent number: 9162419
    Abstract: A laminate design is provided and includes a substrate formed to define through-holes, an initially uncured pre-preg laminate disposed proximate to the substrate and an initially uncured pre-preg staple. The staple includes a main member and legs extending from the main member and being disposable with the legs extending through the through-holes to pierce the laminate. The staple is co-curable with the laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Bremmer, Darryl Mark Toni, Jeffrey G. Sauer, William E. Hovan, Christian A. Rogg, Andrew Varga, David M. Lent, Robert A. Lacko, Allan R. Macallister