Patents Examined by Angela Ortiz
  • Anthracene derivative and organic electronic device using the same
    Patent number: 7965032
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel anthracene derivative and an organic electronic device using the same. The organic electronic device according to the present invention shows excellent characteristics in efficiency, drive voltage, and life time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Soon Bae, Dae-Woong Lee, Dong-Hoon Lee, Jun-Gi Jang, Sang-Young Jeon, Ji-Eun Kim
  • Method for producing geogrid
    Patent number: 7959752
    Abstract: A geogrid using fiber-reinforced polymeric strips and its producing method are disclosed. The geogrid of a lattice shape includes plural longitudinal fiber-reinforced polymeric strips longitudinally arranged in parallel at regular intervals and formed by reinforcing fiber in a thermoplastic polymer resin, and plural lateral fiber-reinforced polymer strip laterally arranged in parallel at regular intervals and formed by reinforcing fiber in a thermoplastic polymer resin. Each longitudinal fiber-reinforced polymer strip has at lease one first contact point crossed with the lateral fiber-reinforced polymer strip on the upper surface and at least one second contact point crossed with the lateral fiber-reinforced polymer strips on the lower surface. The contact points are fixed by welding the longitudinal and lateral fiber-reinforced polymer strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Samyang Corporation
    Inventors: Kwang-Jung Yun, Seong-Ho Cho, Dong-Hwan Cha, Se-Whan Choi
  • Compositions comprising novel compounds and electronic devices made with such compositions
    Patent number: 7960587
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds and compositions comprising novel oligomers and polymers, and electronic device comprising at least one layer containing the compositions. The novel oligomers and polymers can be solubilized, and can be used in solution to form electronic devices. The compounds can function as monomers, and copolymers can be formed from such monomers, such copolymers comprising, as polymerized units, a plurality of units of the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Norman Herron, Gary A. Johansson, Nora Sabina Radu, Eric Maurice Smith, Arthur Dabrowski, Frederick P. Gentry, Gene M. Rossi
  • Electrostatically charged filter media incorporating an active agent
    Patent number: 7955997
    Abstract: There is provided a protective media and a method of manufacturing the same. In one aspect, the protective media includes a porous dielectric carrier, an active agent incorporated in the porous dielectric carrier, and an electrostatic charge across at least a portion of the porous dielectric carrier. This innovative media is capable of eradicating microorganisms and/or toxins more efficiently than prior art solutions and can also self sterilize.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Triosyn Corp.
    Inventor: Pierre Jean Messier
  • Cellulose acylate film and method for producing same, and retardation film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device comprising the film
    Patent number: 7955666
    Abstract: A Cellulose acylate film, in which X-ray diffraction intensity satisfies following formulae and a half-value width of the peak at 2?2 is 3° or less: 0.40?Ic/(Iam+Ic)?0.85; Iam=I1+{(I3?I1)/(2?3?2?1)×(2?2?2?1)}; and Ic=I2?Iam, wherein when it is assumed that ? is the Bragg angle, 2?1 and 2?3 indicate 2? at which the intensity becomes the minimum in the 2? range of 4° to 5° and 14° to 16°, respectively, 2?2 indicates 2? at which the intensity becomes the maximum in the 2? range of 5° to 10°, and I1, I2 and I3 indicate a diffractive intensity at 2?1, 2?2 and 2?3, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Sasada
  • Single-walled carbon nanotube composites
    Patent number: 7947371
    Abstract: Metal oxide composites containing highly dispersed single-walled carbon nanotubes were prepared using sol-gel methods and shown to be electrically conducting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Salah Boussaad, Mark Andrew Harmer
  • Water-decomposable cleaning product and production method thereof
    Patent number: 7943538
    Abstract: A water-decomposable cleaning product dispersible in water, including: a cleaning part, at least a part of the cleaning part having a water-decomposable fiber-interlacing nonwoven fabric; and a holding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Konishi, Kazuya Okada
  • Capacitors comprising organized assemblies of carbon and non-carbon compounds
    Patent number: 7943238
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to capacitors comprising organized assemblies of carbon and non-carbon compounds. This invention further relates to methods of making such organized structures. It also relates to devices containing such structures. In preferred embodiments, the organized structures of the instant invention take the form of nanorods or their aggregate forms. More preferably, a nanorod is made up of a carbon nanotube filled, coated, or both filled and coated by a non-carbon material. In particular, the present invention is directed to a capacitor electrode comprising a carbon nanotube filled with one or more non-carbon materials comprising titanium, a titanium compound, manganese, a manganese compound, cobalt, nickel, palladium, platinum, bromine, iodine, an interhalogen compound, or the combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Leonid Grigorian, Steven G. Colbern, Sean Imtiaz Brahim
  • Functional porous fibres
    Patent number: 7935418
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the preparation of porous polymeric fibres comprising functionalized or active particles. By extruding a mixture of one or more dissolved polymers with particulate material a porous fibre is obtained in which the particulate material is entrapped. Extrusion of the fibre occurs under two-step phase inversion conditions. In particular the porous fibres can be used for the isolation of macromolecules such as peptides, proteins, nucleic acids or other organic compounds from complex reaction mixtures, in particular from fermentation broths. Another application is the immobilization of a catalyst in a reaction mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Mosaic Systems B.V.
    Inventors: Geert-Hendrik Koops, Maria Elena Avramescu, Zandrie Borneman, Ryotaro Kiyono, Matthias Wessling
  • Metallized polymeric film reflective insulation material
    Patent number: 7935410
    Abstract: A method of thermally insulating an object that requires a Class A standard insulation material, said method comprising suitably locating a metallized polymeric reflective insulation material adjacent said object, wherein said polymeric material is selected from a closed cell foam, polyethylene foam, polypropylene foam, expanded polystyrene foam, multi-film layers assembly and a bubble-pack assembly. The object is preferably packaging, a vehicle or a residential, commercial or industrial building or establishment. The polymeric material may contain a fire-retardant and the bright surface of the metallized layer has a clear lacquer coating to provide anti-corrosion properties, and which maintains satisfactory reflectance commercial criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Inventor: Furio Orologio
  • Metallized polymeric film reflective insulation material
    Patent number: 7935411
    Abstract: A method of thermally insulating an object that requires a Class A standard insulation material, said method comprising suitably locating a metallized polymeric reflective insulation material adjacent said object, wherein said polymeric material is selected from a closed cell foam, polyethylene foam, polypropylene foam, expanded polystyrene foam, multi-film layers assembly and a bubble-pack assembly. The object is preferably packaging, a vehicle or a residential, commercial or industrial building or establishment. The polymeric material may contain a fire-retardant and the bright surface of the metallized layer has a clear lacquer coating to provide anti-corrosion properties, and which meets commercial reflectance criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Inventor: Furio Orologio
  • Optical multilayer body
    Patent number: 7931953
    Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-dazzling laminate which has anti-dazzling properties and can realize excellent glare preventive properties and black color reproducibility, such as gradation rendering of black color at low brightness. The optical laminate comprises a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer provided on the light transparent base material. The outermost surface of the anti-dazzling layer has a concavoconvex surface, and the average spacing S determined by calculation based on data obtained by measuring a roughness curve of a concavoconvex shape of the anti-dazzling layer is not less than 0.04 mm and not more than 0.30 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukimitsu Iwata, Koichi Mikami, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
  • Particulate compositions and their manufacture
    Patent number: 7932191
    Abstract: A composition comprising particles which comprise a core material within a polymeric shell, wherein the core material comprises a hydrophobic substance, in which the amount of the polymeric shell forms at least 8% of the total weight of the particles, wherein the polymeric shell comprises a copolymer formed from a monomer blend which comprises, A) 5 to 90% by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated water soluble monomer, B) 5 to 90% by weight of a multifunctional monomer, and C) 0 to 55% by weight other monomer, and wherein the amount of the polymeric shell and the proportions of. A, B and C are such that the particles exhibit a half height of at least 350° C. The invention includes a process for the manufacture of particles and the use of particles in articles, such as fabrics, and coating compositions, especially for textiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Water Treatments Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Roger Dungworth, Rachel Weston, Rebecca Kelly
  • Vapor grown carbon fiber reinforced composite materials and methods of making and using same
    Patent number: 7927701
    Abstract: This invention provides vapor grown carbon fiber (VGCF) reinforced continuous fiber performs for the manufacture of articles with useful mechanical, electrical, and thermal characteristics. Continuous fiber preforms are treated with a catalyst or catalyst precursor and processed to yield VGCF produced in situ resulting in a highly entangled mass of VGCF infused with the continuous fiber preform. The resulting continuous fiber preforms are high in volume fraction of VGCF and exhibit high surface area useful for many applications. Furthermore, this invention provides for a continuous fiber preform infused with VGCF so that the carbon nanofibers are always contained within the fiber preform. This eliminates the processing steps for isolated carbon nanofibers reported in other carbon nanofiber composite approaches and therefore greatly reduces risk of environmental release and exposure to carbon nanofibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Performance Polymer Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: David B. Curliss, Jason E. Lincoln
  • Low loss visible-IR transmitting glass-aluminum oxynitride composites and process
    Patent number: 7927705
    Abstract: This invention pertains to a composite of AlON and a germanate glass, and to a process for bonding AlON to the glass. The composite includes AlON and glass bonded together and having transmission in the visible and mid-infrared wavelength region. The process includes the step of heating them together above the softening temperature of the glass, the composite having excellent, i.e., typically in excess of about 60%, transmission in the 0.4-5 wavelength region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Shyam S. Bayya, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, Guillermo Villalobos, Geoffrey Chin, Ishwar D. Aggarwal
  • Substrate covered with an intermediate coating and a hard carbon coating
    Patent number: 7927700
    Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate covered at least partially with a layered coating. The layered coating comprises an intermediate coating and a hard carbon coating. The intermediate coating comprises a first metal layer deposited on the substrate, the first metal layer comprising at least one element of group IVB, group VB or group VIB; a nitride layer deposited on the first metal layer, the nitride layer comprising at least one nitride of an element of group IVB, group VB or group VIB; a second metal layer deposited on the nitride layer, the second metal layer comprising at least one element of group IVB, group VB or group VIB; a transition layer deposited on the second metal layer, the transition layer comprising at least one carbide of an element of group IVB, group VB or group VIB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: NV Bekaert SA
    Inventors: Jurgen Denul, Erik Dekempeneer, Wilmert De Bosscher
  • Latent heat storage material and process for manufacture of the latent heat storage material
    Patent number: 7923112
    Abstract: The invention relates to a latent heat storage material comprising a first phase change material, at least one second phase change material different from the first phase change material, and an expanded graphite material wherein the first phase change material and the at least one second phase change material are intermixed and the latent heat storage material exhibits a phase transition over a range of temperatures. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of a latent heat storage material comprising combining a mixture of an expanded graphite material and a first phase change material with at least one different second phase change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: SGL Carbon SE
    Inventors: Martin U. Christ, Oswin H. Ottinger, Jurgen J. Bacher
  • Electrical shielding material composed of metalized stainless steel monofilament yarn
    Patent number: 7923390
    Abstract: A yarn or multi-fiber formed of a plurality of micron diameter stainless steel monofilaments which have been rendered more conductive by one or more coatings of electrolytically-deposited metal or metal alloy materials. The metallized yarn provided by the invention has a very low electrical resistance, with consequent benefit in electrical performance, and is particularly useful as an RFI/EMI shielding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Micrometal Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas F. Burke, James E. Haller
  • Flexible, high purity expanded graphite sheet, method of producing same, and carbon crucible lining using said sheet
    Patent number: 7914894
    Abstract: The invention provides a flexible, highly pure expanded graphite sheet characterized by having an impurity content of 10 ppm or less and such a degree of flexibility that a sample thereof, 10×100 mm in size can withstand at least 10 times of bending in flexibility test comprising repeatedly bending the sample, with a 50-g weight suspended from one end thereof, by means of bending bodies with a diameter of 6 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Toyo Tanso Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hirose, Hideki Inomoto
  • Fabric reinforced cement
    Patent number: 7914884
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cementitious articles that are reinforced with a fabric made at least partially of high modulus polyolefin monofilament fibers. Preferably, the polypropylene monofilament yarns have a 3% secant modulus of elasticity of at least 100 g/denier. The high modulus polypropylene fabric has an intrinsic resistance to the alkaline conditions present in a cementitious composite, as well as a low elongation at break. The high modulus polypropylene may contain a nucleating agent to facilitate the process of obtaining desired draw ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Joseph R. Royer, Randolph S. Kohlman, Samuel E. Graham