Patents Examined by Alexander Thomas
  • Insulation for a cryogenic component
    Patent number: 9163773
    Abstract: Insulation for a cryogenic component is described. The insulation includes an inner portion formed of a multi-layer insulating material comprising alternating layers of metalized polymer film and polymer netting. An outer supporting mesh surrounds the inner portion and is formed of stainless steel. The insulation is particularly suitable for insulating cryogenic components that move during operation since the supporting mesh acts to support the inner portion against damage caused by forces resulting from motion of the cryogenic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY, LTD.
    Inventor: Ruben Fair
  • Napkin ring with removable insert
    Patent number: 9155412
    Abstract: A napkin ring can include a first transparent disc, a second transparent, and a decorative disc positioned between the first and second transparent discs. The first and second transparent discs can be retained adjacent to each other by a retention feature, which can be a first and second plurality of magnets disposed within the respective transparent discs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Eventstyle, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Addison Yoham
  • Vacuum insulation material including an inner bag, and method for manufacturing same
    Patent number: 9151435
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum insulation material including an inner bag and to a method for manufacturing same. The method for manufacturing the vacuum insulation material includes: a step of manufacturing a core material; a step of compressing and packing the entire surface of the core material using an inner bag made of a breathable film material; a step of disposing a getter on the upper portion of the inner bag; and a step of vacuum-packing a covering material on the upper portion of the inner bag. The inner bag is made of polypropylene (PP), polyester (PET), and/or polyethylene. Since the inner bag is manufactured using a breathable film having fine holes, the method for manufacturing the vacuum insulation material may have improved efficiency, and the vacuum insulation material may be improved in terms of the long-term durability and vacuum insulation properties thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Myung Lee, Seong-Moon Jung, Suk Jang, Eun-Joo Kim
  • Transparent resin substrate
    Patent number: 9149962
    Abstract: The transparent resin substrate has a light-transmitting thermoplastic resin underlying sheet 1 and a hard coating formed on one surface of the underlying sheet, wherein the hard coating includes a resin component obtained by curing an urethane acrylate that contains a tri-functional or less functional urethane acrylate and a tetra-functional or more functional urethane acrylate; a silane coupling agent or a hydrolyzed product thereof, a silica sol having a grain size of 5 to 500 nm and a refractive index in a range of 1.44 to 1.5; and a metal chelate compound. A low refractive index layer is formed on the hard coating, the low refractive index layer includes a low refractive index hollow silica sol having a grain size of 10 to 150 nm and a refractive index of not more than 1.44, the silane coupling agent or the hydrolyzed product thereof, and a metal chelate compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: FUKUVI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Teppei Itamoto
  • Interchangeable decorative panel system for shoes, apparel, and accessories
    Patent number: 9144295
    Abstract: A system for removably attaching a decorative element to a garment or other accessory, including a panel bearing a graphic design, and a pair of mounting pads to which the panel can be attached. First and second pin members are disposed at opposing edges of the panel, each pin member having a pin extending for a length parallel to that edge. The mounting pads are attachable to a garment or accessory item. Each mounting pad has a longitudinal tunnel suitable to accommodate one of the pins. The mounting pads may be attached on the outside of an article, or on the interior of an article so that only the tunnel is exposed at the exterior of the article, in a recessed manner. The system allows a decorative panel to be interchangeably facilitates their attachment to a wide range of apparel and accessory items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Inventors: Daniel T. Schmoll, Todd A. Miller
  • Vacuum insulation panels comprising nanoporous polymer particles
    Patent number: 9145674
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum insulation panel comprising a barrier film and a core material having a density in the range from 50 to 350 kg/m3, wherein the core material comprises a mixture of A) from 30 to 100 percent by weight of nanoporous polymer particles which have a cell count in the range from 1000 to 100 000 cells/mm, where at least 60 percent by weight of the nanoporous polymer particles have a particle size of less than 100 ?m in the sieve analysis in accordance with DIN 66165, and B) from 0 to 70 percent by weight of pyrogenic or precipitated silica, and also a process for the production thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Klaus Hahn, Elena Khazova, Jan Kurt Walter Sandler, Marc Fricke, Maria-Kristin Sommer, Roland Hingmann
  • Packing tape
    Patent number: 9139344
    Abstract: Provided are a packing tape, and a method of forming the same, the packing tape including a flexible member having a first surface and a second surface defining a body therebetween having a thickness, a width and a length. The packing tape further includes a tear-away member defined by a first row and a second row of a plurality of perforated members which are parallel to each other and centrally located along the width of the flexible member. The packing tape also includes an adhesive on the second surface of the flexible member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Inventor: Alison Beard
  • Mold-in touch fastener systems with wave-shaped wall
    Patent number: 9138032
    Abstract: A touch fastener strip includes a pair of longitudinal barrier walls each extending upward from a base, a plurality of lateral barrier walls each extending upward from the base and between facing surfaces of the barrier walls, thereby defining one or more fastening cells, and a pair of wave walls each extending upward from the base and outboard the barrier walls thereby defining a relief space. Each wave wall has a wave shape having rising and falling edges, at least one of the edges having a slope in the range of 3° to 65°. In some cases, the wave shape has a duty cycle of 40% to 60%, and may include a sine wave, a triangle wave, a ramp wave, and/or a bi-modal wave having two different peak points in a given cycle of the shape. In one example application, the strip may be anchored in a foam cushion product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Velcro Industries B.V.
    Inventors: Michael Cina, Paul Joseph Voigt, Denise Lane
  • Perforated nonslip non-adhesive surface covering
    Patent number: 9132283
    Abstract: A surface covering that is a multilayered composite material. The multilayer composite material includes a top facing layer of polymeric film and a bottom layer of unsupported foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: KITTRICH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mark A Calkins
  • Perform and method for reinforcing woven fiber nodes
    Patent number: 9132603
    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: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Goering, Keith Edward Burgess
  • Beam
    Patent number: 9126674
    Abstract: A beam (20) comprising first and second flanges (23, 24), the beam (20) having a first region (28, 30) extending between the flanges (23, 24) and a second region (26) extending between the flanges. The first region (28, 30) is designed to support an applied concentrated shear load and the second region (26) is designed to support a predominantly bending load. The first region comprises a fan-shaped truss comprising a hub (36) adjacent the first flange and a plurality of struts (37) which extend substantially radially from the hub (36), and the second region (26) comprises either a truss structure which is substantially regular in the longitudinal beam direction or a shear web. The beam may, for example, be used as a floor beam for an aircraft fuselage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations SL, Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Krog, Andrea Marasco, Stéphane Grihon, Manuela Jürgens, Gary Ryan, Stuart Bates
  • Method for producing a textile semi-finished product and textile semi-finished product for a textile fiber composite structure
    Patent number: 9120291
    Abstract: A textile semi-finished product for a textile fiber composite structure is produced by a method wherein roving pieces (2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12) with a defined length and width are deposited at a defined position depending on the end product and overlapping. The roving pieces (2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12) are arranged and fixed with one end at a defined angle to a reference axis adjacent to one another on a plastically deformable flat carrier material (1, 6). After depositing a first row of roving pieces (2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12), the depositing of the roving pieces (2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12) in following rows takes place such that the ends of the roving pieces that are in each case not connected to the carrier material (1, 6) overlap the previously deposited roving pieces (2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12) in the manner of roof tiles or scales, the roving pieces not being connected to one another to ensure a mutual displaceability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: F.A. Kümpers GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Irene Brockmanns
  • Fencing ornament
    Patent number: 9121193
    Abstract: Described is a fencing ornament that is easily installed and removable. A fencing ornament to be secured to a fence structure includes first and second parallel elongate members and a cross member. The fencing ornament comprises a body portion having first, second, third, and fourth side members, and ornamentation within the body portion. Resilient first and second locking members are received in first and second recesses in the third side member adjacent ends thereof. A lug is provided on the fourth side member. Protrusions provided on each of the first and second locking members are moveable by compressing the locking member such that the lug is received in a hole in the cross member and the protrusions are received in a holes in the elongate members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: U-Clik Barriers Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Darren Hayter, Edward Joseph Khoury
  • Manufacture of an article having an edge wrapped decorative covering overlying a substrate
    Patent number: 9120399
    Abstract: A decorative article is provide which comprises a substrate including a front side, a rear side and a perimeter side, with the perimeter side of the substrate including at least one perimeter corner of the substrate. An elongated slot is formed in the rear side of the substrate. The elongated slot includes at least one slot corner and at least one slot corner extension, with the slot corner extension extending from the slot corner to the perimeter corner of the substrate. A decorative covering which covers the front side, the perimeter side and a peripheral region of the rear side of the substrate, with the decorative covering being located in and terminating the slot including the slot corner and the slot corner extension to conceal a perimeter edge of the decorative covering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: International Automotive Components Group North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Romanelli, Neil A. Hull, David VanHorn
  • Skin-stiffener transition assembly, method of manufacture and application of said skin-stiffener transition assembly
    Patent number: 9114588
    Abstract: A skin-stiffener transition assembly (1) with a skin (4) and two L-shaped fiber-reinforced fabric preforms (2, 3) for a flange and a composite gusset filler (5) integrated between said skin (4) and said two L-shaped fiber-reinforced fabric preforms (2, 3). The skin (4) comprises two separate skin layers (7, 8) and the flange comprises a flange layer (6), each of said skin layers (7, 8) and said flange layer (6) being provided with cut outs (9, 10) along one side. Said skin layers (7, 8) and the flange layer (6) are attached to the composite gusset filler (5) with at least one of its cut-outs (9, 10) to one side of the essentially polygonal cross section of the composite gusset filler (5) and with at least one of its adjacent cut-outs (9, 10) to another side of the essentially polygonal cross section of the composite gusset filler (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Oefner
  • Panel assembly with interstitial copper
    Patent number: 9113634
    Abstract: The present invention provides a panel assembly comprising a plurality of panels arranged in edge-to-edge format having joints between each pair of adjacent panels in the assembly. A copper-containing material, such as copper tape with adhesive backing, is provided in or near the joints in the assembly to render the joints less susceptible to bacterial contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Modular Services Company
    Inventor: Taylor C. Culpepper
  • Interfolded napkins and method for interfolding napkins
    Patent number: 9108383
    Abstract: A rectangular stack of interfolded rectangular napkins including a plurality of napkins, each napkin in the stack comprising a first fold in a first direction, and a second fold in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and bisecting the first fold and the napkin in the second direction, the intersecting first and second folds dividing the napkin into four panels with a pair of adjacent panels located on each side of the second fold, wherein each of the napkins within the stack includes at least one pair of panels arranged in the stack at a level between two pairs of adjacent panels of another of the absorbent napkins within the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventor: Paul Carlson
  • Light weight panel and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 9109362
    Abstract: A light weight panel is made from strips of thin wood which are joined side by side in a roughly 45° angle. Sheets of such joined strips are combined in layers with the strips of each layer orthogonal to the strips of the adjacent layer and are bonded into a panel if any desired length and width. A usable structural panel is then cut from the boded sheets so that the strips are diagonal to the edges of the structural panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Inventor: Hector M. Coronado
  • Composite part and method of manufacturing a composite part
    Patent number: 9096183
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composite part having a decor skin with a first and a second section, preferably each including leather, and a holding portion, wherein the first and second sections are connected to one another by a seam and a part region of the decor skin is connected to the holding portion. In accordance with the invention, the part region of the decor skin is preferably connected to the holding portion with material continuity in the region of the seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Schäfer, Jochen Reichhold, Thomas Penisch
  • Insulating material containing aerogel and method for preparing the same
    Patent number: 9097377
    Abstract: Provided herein is aerogel insulating material and a method of producing aerogel insulating material, the aerogel insulating material including an insulating layer containing aerogel particles, a adhesive-coating layer located at both surfaces of the insulating layer, and a lamination film surrounding the adhesive-coating layer, wherein the adhesive-coating layer has thermoplastic elastomer having a low glass transition temperature. The method of producing aerogel insulating material includes preparing (S10), coating (S20), drying (S30), cutting (S40), and laminating (S50). Therefore, according to the present disclosure, it is possible to embody aerogel insulating material for use in clothing and which may reduce migration of aerogel particles, and which may make the most of the advantage of aerogel, such as its light weight and the excellent insulating effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: AEROGEL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyo Yul Kim, Frank Joseph Gojny