Patents Examined by Arti Singh-Pandey
  • Coated fabric and method for producing same
    Patent number: 9878684
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a cloth which, when used as an air bag main body cloth, does not undergo the damage caused by a high-temperature gas generated from an inflater, and therefore has high heat resistance and is suitable for an air bag. The means for solving the problem is a coated cloth for an air bag, which is produced by applying an elastomer resin layer on at least one surface of a three-dimensional woven fabric in an amount of 50 to 500 g/m2 per one surface, said coated cloth being characterized by having void spaces formed therein, wherein the void content in the coated cloth is 15 to 60%. Preferably, the coated cloth is used in applications in which the coated cloth is attached onto the periphery of an inflater connection opening in an air bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Satoshi Yamada
  • Ballistic resistant article and process to manufacture said article
    Patent number: 9869534
    Abstract: A ballistic resistant article is provided along with a process to manufacture the article. The ballistic resistant articles includes at least one consolidated composite, wherein the at least one consolidated composite includes at least two layers, each layer includes a network of fibers, the fibers have a strength of at least 800 mN/tex (1100 MPa) according to ASTM D 7269-07, the fibers in each layer are impregnated with a matrix material, and each consolidated composite has a front surface and a rear surface. In the ballistic article, at least the front surface of each consolidated composite is powder coated with partly molten and solidified powder particles to form a powder coated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignees: TEIJIN ARAMID B.V., BARRDAY INC.
    Inventors: Marc-Jan De Haas, Alex Van Norel, Vincent Van Bommel, Nektarios Poulopoulos, Alicia Williams
  • Bicomponent spandex
    Patent number: 9869040
    Abstract: An elastic multiple component fiber comprising a cross-section, wherein at least a first region of said cross-section comprises a polyurethaneurea composition; and comprising a second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: INVISTA North america S.a.r.1.
    Inventors: Steven W. Smith, Hong Liu, David A. Wilson, James B. Elmore
  • Fabric for an air bag that maintains air permeability during high-pressure deployment at high speed
    Patent number: 9868413
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a fabric for an air bag that, during high-pressure deployment at high speed, maintains low air permeability as an air bag and is capable of maintaining the low air permeability even after exposure to heat. This fabric for an air bag comprises a synthetic fiber and is characterized by the contact angle of a circumscribed circle at intersecting sections in which the warp thread and the weft thread come in contact in the cross section of the fabric is at least 80° in both the warp thread direction and the weft thread direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Fumiaki Ise
  • Nonwoven fabric, a laminated fabric, a nonwoven fabric product, a multicomponent fibre, a web, and a method of producing the nonwoven fabric
    Patent number: 9850603
    Abstract: A nonwoven fabric comprising a meltspun fiber of a lignin compound. Also claimed a laminated fabric comprising the nonwoven fabric, a nonwoven fabric product comprising the nonwoven fabric, a structured multicomponent fiber comprising a lignin compound, a web comprising a meltspun fiber of a lignin compound and a method of producing a nonwoven fabric by forming a web of meltspun fiber comprising a lignin compound and bonding at least a portion of the fiber in the web to form the nonwoven fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignees: Fitesa Simpsonville, Inc., Fitesa Germany GmbH
    Inventors: David Dudley Newkirk, Juergen Friedrich Rudolph, Helmut Hartl
  • Personal tactical system
    Patent number: 9851181
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide a personal tactical system configured to be worn by an individual for protection against threats. In one implementation, the personal tactical system includes one or more internal components disposed in an interior formed by an outer layer and an inner layer. The internal components include a flexible body armor, a ballistic plate, a ballistic frame, and/or a ballistic plate cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Tyr Tactical, LLC
    Inventor: Jason Beck
  • Synthetic fiber used for fabric
    Patent number: 9845068
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a synthetic fiber which is for use in fabrics having uniform fiber density, permeability and the like, is appropriate for high-density, high-speed weaving, and exhibits excellent weft insertion stability. This synthetic fiber is characterized by having: a fiber density of 200-720 dtex; an average intermediate loading modulus of more than 75 cN/dtex and less than 150 cN/dtex; and a variation coefficient of the intermediate modulus of 5% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI FIBERS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiaki Ise, Shingo Mizuno
  • Carbon nanofiber including copper particles, nanoparticles, dispersed solution and preparation methods thereof
    Patent number: 9842666
    Abstract: Disclosed are amorphous carbon nanofibers including copper nanoparticles or copper alloy nanoparticles, copper composite nanoparticles prepared by grinding the amorphous carbon nanofibers and implemented as surfaces of Cu-included particles are partially or wholly coated with amorphous carbons, a dispersed solution including the copper composite nanoparticles, and preparation methods thereof and the amorphous carbon nanofibers include nanoparticles including copper, copper nanoparticles or copper alloy nanoparticles, and, the copper composite nanoparticles are implemented as surfaces of Cu-included particles are partially or wholly coated with amorphous carbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Il Doo Kim, Yong-Won Song, Jae-Min Hong
  • Airbag fabric and airbag
    Patent number: 9834167
    Abstract: An airbag fabric is excellent in slippage amount and strength in a sewn portion. The airbag fabric is made of a synthetic fiber, the fabric having a constant (load of 98 N/30 mm) elongation of 1 to 5% and having a residual strain rate of 0.1 to 1.5%, the residual strain rate being obtained when the fabric is allowed to stand still for 10 minutes from the removal of the 98 N/30 mm load after the retention of the fabric for 10 minutes while the 98 N/30 mm load is applied to the fabric. The strength in the sewn portion is preferably 1200 N or more in each of the warp and the weft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Satoshi Yamada
  • Laminated steel plate
    Patent number: 9833972
    Abstract: In a laminated steel plate in which steel plates are joined to both faces of a core layer, the core layer is formed of a meshed wire group formed using wires in a mesh form and a resin sheet, the wires forming the meshed wire group have a tensile strength of 601 MPa or higher, and an opening of the meshed wire group is equal to or less than ten times the thickness of the steel plates. By thus defining the tensile strength of the wires, light-weightness can be achieved compatibly with high rigidity and shock resistance, and by defining the opening of the meshed wire group, workability and shape stability after being processed can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohishi, Atsuo Koga, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Hiroshi Ohashi
  • Seat-belt strap for a seat-belt system
    Patent number: 9827944
    Abstract: A seat-belt strap for a seat-belt system in a motor vehicle has a woven fabric consisting of warp threads and weft threads. The seat-belt strap is woven alternately with a 1/2 twill weave and a 2/1 twill weave across at least part of its width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Stahl GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Brielmann, Jürgen Renner
  • Woven fabric for airbags having superior suppression of air permeability, high tear strength, and excellent reliability
    Patent number: 9822471
    Abstract: A woven fabric for an air bag characterized by the asymmetry (R), in the front and back of the woven fabric and indicated by the following formula, of the radius of curvature (?of an intersecting section in which the warp thread and the weft thread come in contact in the cross section of the woven fabric, being in the range of 1.05-1,50, R=?a/?b (?a indicates the larger radius of curvature out of the radii of curvature (?) in the front and back surfaces of the woven fabric, and ?b indicates the smaller radius of curvature).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Fumiaki Ise
  • Bomb toe cap and method of forming the same
    Patent number: 9823049
    Abstract: An article is provided and includes a first ballistic particle impenetrable material, which is formable into a pack and a second material, which is formable into an enclosure for the pack, the enclosure having an interior facing surface in abutment with a substantial entirety of an exterior of the pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: VIBRAM SP.A.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Favreau, Linda B. McGinley, Zenon Smotrycz
  • Sewn airbag and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 9815430
    Abstract: A sewn airbag includes a plurality of base fabrics sewn together, wherein in a sewn region where reinforcement is required, a reinforcing coating film made of an adhesive coating material that is adhesive to both a sewing yarn and fibers forming the base fabrics is formed on at least one of the upper and lower surfaces of the sewn region, the reinforcing coating film having the smallest possible width along a stitching region in the form of one or more strips forming the sewn region made with the sewing yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koki Tanaka
  • Hot melt adhesive for disposable products
    Patent number: 9816014
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hot melt adhesive suitable for use in disposable products, which can be applied at a high speed and provides excellent in adhesion in a wet state and low-temperature coating, with little odor. The hot melt adhesive for disposable products comprises: (A) a propylene homopolymer having a melting point of 100° C. or lower obtained by polymerizing propylene using a metallocene catalyst; and (B) a wax modified with carboxylic acid and/or carboxylic acid anhydride. The wet adhesion of the hot melt adhesive is improved when the wax is modified with maleic acid and/or maleic anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Masahiro Moriguchi, Shigekazu Saito, Kentarou Inoue, Takanori Okuda, Naohiro Maeda
  • Jacket composition for riser and plenum cables
    Patent number: 9812231
    Abstract: The present invention relates to materials for making cable jackets, particularly for riser and plenum cables. The materials provide low flammability and allow the cable to meet UL 910 or NFPA-262 or UL 1666 specifications. The composition contains polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin, a plasticizer, ammonium octamolybdate, a molybdate compound, a stabilizer, a lubricant, aluminum trihydrate, and either i) metal oxide particles, ii) a polytetrafluoroehtylene (PTFE), iii) an intumescent compound, or iv) combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: General Cable Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Ju Huang, Amjad F. Abu-Ali, James D. Malkemus, Scott M. Brown
  • Non-woven electret fibrous webs and methods of making same
    Patent number: 9802187
    Abstract: A non-woven electret fibrous web for electrostatic adsorption and odor elimination and the preparation process thereof. In certain exemplary embodiments, the non-woven electret fibrous web includes a multiplicity of electret fibers, at least one of a plurality of photo-catalytic fibers or a plurality of multi-component fibers; and optionally, at least one of a plurality of chemically-active particulates, a plurality of carbon-based fibers, or a plurality of mono-component thermoplastic fibers. In other exemplary embodiments, carding and cross-lapping or air-laying processes are disclosed for making nonwoven fibrous webs including electret fibers and one or more of photocatalytic fibers, chemically-active particulates, multi-component fibers, mono-component thermoplastic fibers, or carbon-based fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaoshuan Fu, Rui Chen, Qiang Xu, Jean Le normand, Hendrik Both, Tien T. Wu, Andrew R. Fox
  • Conducting network composite comprising polyaniline and polypyrrole, and method for preparing the same
    Patent number: 9802819
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a conducting network for storing gas such as hydrogen, carbon dioxide, or the like, and a method for preparing the same, and particularly, a conducting network composite including: dopant-doped polyaniline nanofiber supporter; and a polypyrrole layer laminated on the supporter, and a method for preparing the same. According to the present invention, a novel conducting network composite suitable for being used as an energy storage material for various purposes may be provided by a simple and economical method, and since a polyaniline nanofiber having the entangled structure may function as an excellent supporter for forming a network composite material and a thickness of the polypyrrole layer may be easily adjusted, the nanocomposite for being used in various fields may be simply and economically prepared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: GWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kurt E. Geckeler, Nour Fathi Attia
  • Non-fluorinated water-based superhydrophobic surfaces
    Patent number: 9803100
    Abstract: A superhydrophobic surface includes a substrate treated with a non-fluorinated composition, the composition including a hydrophobic component free of fluorine; a filler particle; and water, wherein the composition is at a pH greater than 7, and wherein the hydrophobic component is in an aqueous dispersion. The superhydrophobic surface alternatively includes a substrate treated with a non-fluorinated composition, the composition including a hydrophobic polymer free of fluorine; an exfoliated graphite filler particle including acid functional groups; water; and a stabilizing compound, wherein the composition is at a pH greater than 7, and wherein the hydrophobic polymer is in an aqueous dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Qin, Donald Eugene Waldroup, Constantine M. Megaridis, Thomas M. Schutzius, Ilker S. Bayer
  • Polyester yarn and production method thereof
    Patent number: 9797071
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polyester yarn that can be used in a fabric for an airbag. In particular, a polyester yarn having a diethylene glycol content of 1.1 to 2.5 wt % and initial modulus of 100 g/d or less, a production method thereof, and a fabric for an airbag produced therefrom are disclosed. The polyester yarn has excellent moisture and heat resistance and light resistance, and maintained excellent mechanical properties after long-term aging under high temperature and high humidity conditions. Therefore, when applied to a fabric for an airbag, the polyester yarn provides excellent packing property, shape stability, and gas barrier effect, and the impact applied to a passenger is minimized, thereby safely protecting the passenger at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: KOLON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Young-Jo Kim, Sang-Mok Lee, Young-Soo Lee, Gi-Woong Kim