Patents Examined by Austin Murata
  • Patent number: 12258658
    Abstract: A method for producing a spectral gradient filter on a substrate including: providing the substrate with a first surface to be coated; providing a shadow mask that includes a bordered coating area with an edge, wherein the geometry of the shadow mask is adjusted to the desired gradient profile of the gradient filter; creating a masked substrate by fixing the shadow mask on the first substrate surface to be coated in such a way that parts of the substrate surface are covered, but the substrate surface is essentially exposed in the coating area; and carrying out PVD coating so that parts of the shadow mask lie directly on the surface of the substrate so that no vapour migration occurs in the area of these parts during the coating process and the shadow mask is detachably fixed to the substrate so that the shadow mask can be used for several coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: OPTICS BALZERS AG
    Inventors: Tobias Geldhauser, Petra Greussing
  • Patent number: 12255061
    Abstract: A substrate processing method is provided. The substrate processing method includes: (S7) supplying a water repellent agent (SMT) to a substrate (W); (S11) supplying dilute isopropyl alcohol (dIPA) to the substrate (W) after the supplying a water repellent agent (SMT), the dilute isopropyl alcohol (dIPA) being obtained by diluting isopropyl alcohol; and (S12) drying the substrate (W) after the supplying dilute isopropyl alcohol (dIPA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Emoto, Shigeru Yamamoto, Daiki Fujii, Kenji Edamitsu, Keiji Iwata, Yuya Kawai, Kenichi Ito
  • Patent number: 12255066
    Abstract: A method for producing nanostructures having a metal oxide shell, carried by a top face of a substrate whose greatest dimension is greater than or equal to 100 mm by MOCVD metalorganic chemical vapour deposition, including successive steps carried out in a reactor configured for MOCVD deposition of nucleation and growth. The nucleation step includes forming non-contiguous metal nuclei by depositing a metal by MOCVD using a metalorganic precursor on the top face of the substrate and oxidising the metal of the metal nuclei, to form oxidised nuclei and ensure stabilisation of the nuclei. The growth step includes depositing a metal by MOCVD using the metalorganic precursor, to form non-contiguous nanostructures by growth of the oxidised nanostructures, and oxidising the deposited metal of the nanostructures formed in the nucleation to form oxidised nanostructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON, ECOLE SUPERIEURE CHIMIE PHYSIQUE ELECTRONIQUE LYON
    Inventors: Pierre-Vincent Guenery, Thierry Baron, Jeremy Moeyaert
  • Patent number: 12241189
    Abstract: Method and device for depositing a fiber material layer on a carrier, such as using an electrospinning process. The device includes a deposition unit positioned remote from the carrier during operation, and the deposition unit is arranged for forming the fiber material layer on the carrier in a continuous manner A carrier feed unit is provided for feeding the carrier in a transport direction with a predetermined speed, and the carrier includes a plurality of carrier plates. A cutting unit is present and arranged downstream from the deposition unit, the cutting unit being arranged to cut the deposited fiber material layer in between two adjacent ones of the plurality of carrier plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Vivolta B.V.
    Inventors: Paul Johannes Franciscus Maria Janssen, Ramon Hubertus Mathijs Solberg
  • Patent number: 12240983
    Abstract: A method of forming a protective coating. The method includes providing a substrate including at least one chemical element and a surface; forming a basecoat composition including an aluminium phase including aluminium; applying the basecoat composition on the surface of the substrate to form a basecoat layer; heating the basecoat layer to a first temperature for a predetermined period of time; applying a glow discharge plasma on the basecoat layer; and heating the basecoat layer to a second temperature greater than the first temperature, in order to activate an exothermic reaction between at least the aluminium phase of the basecoat layer and the at least one chemical element of the substrate, wherein the exothermic reaction forms the protective coating on the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventors: John R. Nicholls, Victoria Louise Minns, David S. Rickerby
  • Patent number: 12240789
    Abstract: The present application provides a high-wear-resistance far-infrared ceramic polished glazed tile and preparation method therefor. The preparation method includes application of far-infrared overglaze, ink-jet printing, application of transparent far-infrared polished glaze and application of abrasion-resistant far-infrared polished glaze in sequence on a body, firing, and polishing. By adopting the far-infrared overglaze, the transparent far-infrared polished glaze and the abrasion-resistant far-infrared polished glaze in combination, the polished glaze tile can have a far-infrared function, high transparency, and high abrasion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: MONALISA GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yijun Liu, Yuandong Yang, Kelin Zhang, Xianchao Wang, Lingyan Huang
  • Patent number: 12243999
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a formed body for an electrode including: a step of preparing an electrode material containing an electrode active material; a step of supplying the electrode material onto the support; and a step of pressurizing the electrode material on the support by sandwiching the support and the electrode material between a first roll that is brought into contact with the electrode material and a second roll that is brought into contact with the support, in which a temperature T1 of the first roll and a temperature T2 of the second roll satisfy a relationship T1>T2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihito Fukunaga, Eijiro Iwase, Koji Tonohara
  • Patent number: 12237475
    Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to rechargeable batteries and solid electrolytes therefore which include lithium-stuffed garnet oxides, for example, in a thin film, pellet, or monolith format wherein the density of defects at a surface or surfaces of the solid electrolyte is less than the density of defects in the bulk. In certain disclosed embodiments, the solid-state anolyte, electrolyte, and catholyte thin films, separators, and monoliths consist essentially of an oxide that conducts Li+ ions. In some examples, the disclosure herein presents new and useful solid electrolytes for solid-state or partially solid-state batteries. In some examples, the disclosure presents new lithium-stuffed garnet solid electrolytes and rechargeable batteries which include these electrolytes as separators between a cathode and a lithium metal anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: QuantumScape Battery, Inc.
    Inventors: David Cao, Cheng-Chieh Chao, Zhebo Chen, Lei Cheng, Niall Donnelly, Wes Hermann, Timothy Holme, Tommy Huang, Kian Kerman, Yang Li, Harsh Maheshwari
  • Patent number: 12237491
    Abstract: A method for forming one or more layers of a lithium-ion battery includes a step of sequentially depositing a wet coating and a free-standing material layer onto a moving substrate to form a first bilayer on the substrate. The first bilayer including a wet coating-derived layer and the free-standing material layer. The first bilayer is heat roll pressed to form a second bilayer in which the wet coating-derived layer is at least partially dried and adhered to the free-standing material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gunho Kwak, Patrick Pietrasz, Chi Paik
  • Patent number: 12224160
    Abstract: A method of processing a substrate that includes: flowing a gas including a fluorocarbon to a plasma processing chamber; sustaining a plasma generated from the gas; depositing a carbonaceous layer over the substrate by exposing the substrate to the plasma, the substrate having a recess having an aspect ratio between 10:1 and 100:1, the depositing including a pulsed plasma process including: during a first time duration, setting a source power (SP) at a first SP level and a bias power (BP) at a first BP level, where the plasma includes fluorocarbon ions polymerizing on a bottom surface to form the carbonaceous layer, and during a second time duration, setting the SP at a second SP level higher than the first SP level and the BP at a second BP level lower than the first BP level, where the plasma includes fluorine radicals trimming the carbonaceous layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Shyam Sridhar, Peter Lowell George Ventzek, Alok Ranjan
  • Patent number: 12221698
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of lithium metal and lithium alloy mouldings, wherein solutions of metallic lithium in ammonia having the composition Li(NH3)4+n and n=0-10 are brought into contact with metallic or electronically conductive deposition substrates and the ammonia is removed at temperatures of ?100 to 100° C. by overflowing with inert gas or at pressures of 0.001 to 700 mbar, so that the remaining lithium is deposited on the deposition substrate or/and it is doped with lithium or alloyed by it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: ALBEMARLE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Dirk Dawidowski
  • Patent number: 12224422
    Abstract: A solventless method of making a dry electrode for an electrochemical cell is provided. A solventless electrode material mixture includes 85-99% electrode active material and from 0-10% conductive carbon additive. A polymer binder system is present from 1-15%. The polymer binder system includes one or more polymer binders. The electrode material mixture is mixed at a temperature greater than a softening point or a melting point of at least one polymer binder of the polymer binder system. The electrode material mixture is kneaded into an electrode material dough. The electrode material dough is formed into an electrode material sheet. At least a portion of the electrode material sheet is affixed to a metal current collector to form an electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited
    Inventors: Soon Yee Liew, Yong Zhu, Yam Chong, Yu Tat Tse, Kevin Tan, Shengbo Lu, Li Fu, Chenmin Liu
  • Patent number: 12224424
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a positive electrode which includes forming a solid electrolyte by mixing a lithium salt and a polymer for a solid electrolyte in a dry atmosphere, forming a dry mixture by stirring after adding a conductive agent and a positive electrode active material to the solid electrolyte in a dry atmosphere, and pressing after coating a current collector with the dry mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Wan Koo, Ki Tae Kim, Sang Hoon Choy
  • Patent number: 12209355
    Abstract: Disclosed are a thermally insulating SiC—BN aerogel felt, a preparation method and use thereof. The preparation method includes: heating and mixing a nitrogen source, a boron source, a solvent, and a silica aerogel powder to obtain a hot mixture, wherein the solvent is capable of dissolving the nitrogen source and the boron source; impregnating a graphite felt in the hot mixture, and cooling to obtain a gel felt; removing the solvent from the gel felt to obtain an aerogel felt; and in a protective atmosphere or in vacuum, heating the aerogel felt for a pyrolytic reaction to obtain the thermally insulating SiC—BN aerogel felt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventors: Jiaxuan Liao, Lichun Zhou, Pengkai Tang
  • Patent number: 12209332
    Abstract: Carbon fibre precursors for use in the formation of carbon fibre materials. The carbon fibre precursors comprise fibres of polymeric material which have a coating layer thereon, the coating layer comprising a material susceptible to dielectric heating, for example carbon nanotubes. The carbon fibre precursors may be suitable for forming into carbon fibres using a dielectric heating step, despite the fibres of polymeric material not being susceptible to dielectric heating, without adversely affecting the structure and physical properties of the main body of the carbon fibre so formed. A method of preparing a carbon fibre precursor for a carbon fibre formation process and a method forming a carbon fibre are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
    Inventors: Maurice N. Collins, Mario Culebras Rubio, Patrick Terence McGrail
  • Patent number: 12198867
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrolytic capacitor of the present disclosure includes first to third steps. In the first step, a capacitor element is prepared that includes an anode body on which a dielectric layer is formed. In the second step, the capacitor element is impregnated with a first treatment solution containing at least a conductive polymer and a first solvent. In the third step, the capacitor element is, after the second step, impregnated with a second treatment solution that contains a polyol compound having 3 or more hydroxyl groups per molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tsubaki, Tatsuji Aoyama
  • Patent number: 12199272
    Abstract: Process for making a coated electrode active material wherein said process comprises the following steps: (a) providing a particulate electrode active material according to general formula Li1+xTM1?xO2, wherein TM is a combination of Ni, Co and, optionally, Mn, and, optionally, at least one metal selected from Mg, Al, Ba, Ti and Zr, and x is in the range of from zero to 0.2, wherein at least 15 mole-% of the transition metal of TM is Ni, (b) treating said electrode active material with a compound of M1, wherein M1 is selected from Li, Al, B, Mg, Si, Sn, and from transition metals, or a combination of at least two of the foregoing, with or without a solvent, wherein said compound of M1 does not act as a cathode active material on its own, (c) optionally, removing compound of M1 which is not deposited on said particulate electrode active material, (d) performing a post-treatment by heating the material obtained after the step (b) or (c), if applicable, at a temperature from 250 to 950° C. in a fluidized bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Benedikt Kalo, Dominik Garella
  • Patent number: 12186769
    Abstract: An object is to provide a spray coating device and a coating method, with which a uniform coating film can be formed by spray coating with two liquids having reactivity, and in which precipitation of a reaction product on a periphery can also be prevented. The object is achieved by providing a transporting unit for transporting a substrate downward; a first spray nozzle; a second spray nozzle disposed below the first spray nozzle; a holding plate for holding the first spray nozzle and the second spray nozzle such that an angle formed by center lines of the first spray nozzle and the second spray nozzle is 5° to 150°; and a liquid film forming unit for forming a liquid film which flows from above to below on a surface of the holding plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Eijiro Iwase
  • Patent number: 12180583
    Abstract: A method of forming a conformal layer including TiN in a via includes introducing a precursor into a reaction chamber according to a first exposure schedule. The precursor includes non-halogenated metal-organic titanium. The first exposure schedule indicates precursor exposure periods. Each precursor exposure period is associated with a particular duration of time and a particular duty cycle over which to introduce the precursor during the particular duration of time. The method includes introducing a co-reactant into the reaction chamber according to a second exposure schedule. The co-reactant includes nitrogen. The second exposure schedule indicates co-reactant exposure periods. Each co-reactant exposure period is associated with a particular duration of time and a particular duty cycle over which to introduce the co-reactant during the particular duration of time. The method includes providing the conformal layer including TiN in the via based on said introducing the precursor and the co-reactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Andrew Kummel, Cheng-Hsuan Kuo, SeongUk Yun, Ravindra Kanjolia, Mansour Moinpour, Daniel Moser
  • Patent number: 12174259
    Abstract: A method for testing a battery cell includes directing a laser radiation from a laser at a radiation-receiving location on a can of the battery cell to trigger a thermal runaway event. A power, a wavelength, and a beam size of the laser radiation are selected based on a test stability of the battery cell when triggering the thermal runaway event. The test stability includes a likelihood that the can will breach in response to triggering the thermal runaway event. The method also includes ceasing to contact the radiation-receiving location with the laser radiation in response to the thermal runaway event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Angad Mehrotra, John J. Darst, Eric Darcy, Romil Patil, Safan Abbasi