Patents Examined by Bijan Ahvazi
  • Patent number: 10590066
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to resins and to polymers, copolymers, and blends formed therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: 3D-BIOMATERIALS, LLC
    Inventors: Sajal Das, Patrick Shipman, Scott Shuler
  • Patent number: 10578966
    Abstract: A coloring composition includes colorants and a resin, in which a ratio A/B of a minimum value A of an absorbance in a wavelength range of 400 to 830 nm to a maximum value B of an absorbance in a wavelength range of 1000 to 1300 nm is 4.5 or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Takishita, Tetsuya Kamimura, Takuya Tsuruta, Kyouhei Arayama, Kazuto Shimada, Masahiro Mori
  • Patent number: 10571085
    Abstract: A solar simulator filter that includes a flexible substrate and one or more layers of oxide materials, e.g. fluorine-doped tin oxide and indium-doped tin oxide, wherein a thickness of said layers is no more than 500 nm, and wherein the solar simulator filter generates a spectral output that closely matches a solar irradiance spectrum. Various embodiments of the solar simulator filter and a method of fabricating thereof is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz University
    Inventors: Fahrettin Yakuphanoglu, Ahmed A. Al-Ghamdi
  • Patent number: 10562786
    Abstract: A near-infrared shielding material fine particle dispersion body, a near-infrared shielding body, and a near-infrared shielding laminated structure containing composite tungsten oxide that exhibits more excellent near-infrared shielding function than that of a conventional near-infrared shielding material fine particle dispersion body, near-infrared shielding body, and near-infrared shielding laminated structure, and a method for producing the same. Also, a near-infrared shielding material fine particle dispersion body in which near-infrared shielding material fine particles are dispersed in a solid medium. The near-infrared shielding material fine particles are composite tungsten oxide fine particles containing a hexagonal crystal structure, in which a lattice constant of the composite tungsten oxide fine particles is 7.3850 ? or more and 7.4186 ? or less on the a-axis, and 7.5600 ? or more and 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Hirofumi Tsunematsu, Takeshi Chonan
  • Patent number: 10544360
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures comprising at least one phosphorescent dopant and at least one compound of one of the formulae (1) and (2), and the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Amir Hossain Parham, Christof Pflumm, Anja Jatsch, Thomas Eberle, Jonas Valentin Kroeber, Rouven Linge
  • Patent number: 10538721
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing detergent composition in unit dose form wherein the composition comprises at least about 0.2 mg of active starch degrading enzyme per gram of composition and wherein the weight of the composition is less than about 25 grams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Penny Sue Dirr, Corrine Nichol Case, Kathleen Anne Perry, Pamala Gail Begley
  • Patent number: 10533100
    Abstract: Near-infrared shielding material fine particles that exhibit an effect of maintaining a high transmittance in a visible light region while shielding a light in a near-infrared region more efficiently than tungsten oxide and composite tungsten oxide of a conventional technique, and the method for producing the same, and a dispersion liquid containing the near-infrared shielding material fine particles. The near-infrared shielding material fine particles are composite tungsten oxide containing a hexagonal crystal structure, and a lattice constant of the composite tungsten oxide fine particles is 7.3850 ? or more and 7.4186 ? or less on the a-axis, and 7.5600 ? or more and 7.6240 ? or less on the c-axis, and a particle size of the near-infrared shielding material fine particles is 100 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Hirofumi Tsunematsu, Takeshi Chonan
  • Patent number: 10527758
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for forming a dye-type polarizer, which can be used to provide a dye-type polarizer showing excellent degree of polarization, heat resistance and dichroic ratio, and to a dye-type polarizer. The composition for forming a dye-type polarizer includes a curable anisotropic dye having a particular chemical structure; and an orientation auxiliary agent having a predetermined chemical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Woo Yoo, Sung-Ho Chun, Kyung Chang Seo, Hyeong Bin Jang
  • Patent number: 10501477
    Abstract: The present invention relates to photochromic compounds, such as thienochromene compounds represented by the following Formulas (1a) and/or (1b). The present invention also relates to photochromic compositions and articles containing one or more such photochromic thienochromene compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Transitions Optical, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Deng, Brian R. Stepp, Eric Spitler, Wenjing Xiao, Massimiliano Tomasulo, Robert W. Walters
  • Patent number: 10494488
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical composition from which an optical article having reduced poor appearance such as cloudiness and optical strain during lens base material production can be obtained, and when a photochromic compound is added, a photochromic cured body having excellent photochromism and mechanical strength can also be formed, and a polyrotaxane used therefor. The polyrotaxane has a composite molecular structure formed of an axle molecule and a plurality of cyclic molecules clathrating the axle molecule, satisfying at least one of (X) and (Y). (X): A side chain having a secondary or tertiary hydroxyl group is introduced into at least part of the cyclic molecule of the polyrotaxane. (Y): A side chain having a group represented by -A (A is an organic group, and contains at least one hydroxyl group) is introduced into at least part of the cyclic molecule of the polyrotaxane, and a pKa of the hydroxyl group of the compound represented by H-A is 6 or more and less than 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Tokuyama Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutomo Shimizu, Katsuhiro Mori, Junji Momoda, Hiromasa Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10490711
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element adapted to emit a blue light, a sealing resin covering the light emitting element, and a sulfide phosphor-containing layer disposed at an outer side of a sealing resin. The sealing resin contains at least one of a KSF phosphor adapted to absorb a portion of the blue light emitted from the light emitting element to emit red light and a MGF phosphor adapted to absorb a portion of the blue light emitted from the light emitting element to emit red light. The sulfide phosphor-containing layer includes a sulfide phosphor adapted to absorb a portion of the blue light emitted from the light emitting element to emit red light and a MGF phosphor adapted to absorb a portion of the blue light emitted from the light emitting element to emit green light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamamoto, Kenji Kawano
  • Patent number: 10486982
    Abstract: ATO infrared absorbing fine particles having high coloring property (high light absorption property) which has both excellent dispersibility and solar radiation shielding properties and can reduce a use amount of ATO infrared ray absorbing fine particles can be provided, wherein crystal lattice constant a is 4.736 ? or more and 4.743 or less, crystal lattice constant c is 3.187 ? or more and 3.192 ? or less, and a crystallite size is 5.5 nm or more and 10.0 nm or less, which are analyzed by an X-ray diffraction measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Tsunematsu, Kenji Fukuda, Kenichi Fujita
  • Patent number: 10479577
    Abstract: Printed multilayer polymeric films are provided that include a flexible polymeric film layer, one or more non-photochromic layers each including a solvent-based ink composition having one or more non-photochromic inks that are at least partially transparent to ultraviolet radiation, and one or more photochromic layers each including a water-based ink composition having one or more photochromic inks that undergo a color change upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation. Also provided are methods for making the printed multilayer polymeric films. Packages for containing a product therein that include the printed multilayer polymeric films are also provided. Methods for making the packages and methods for packaging a product that employ the printed multilayer polymeric films are also provided. Rolls of film for forming the packages that include the printed multilayer polymeric films are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Printpack Illinois, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Suryanarayanan, Jeffrey Boekeloo
  • Patent number: 10472585
    Abstract: A water-based lubricant for plastic working of a metallic material is obtained by adding to a water-based medium: (A) a polymer and/or a salt thereof containing a carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof as a constituent monomer; (B) an oxoacid of tungsten, of silicon, or of phosphorus, or a condensate thereof, and/or a salt thereof; (C) a hydroxide of an alkali metal; and (D) a lubricating component (D), and the solid content weight ratio (A)/[(A)+(B)+(C)+(D)] is 0.05 to 0.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: NIHON PARKERIZING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Mochizuki, Manabu Kumagai, Yuta Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10473820
    Abstract: There is provided a compound containing a mesogenic group, which includes a silicon compound at a low concentration, a polymerizable compound containing the mesogenic group, a mixture and a composition using these compounds, a polymerizable mixture having the polymerizable compound, and a polymer, an optically anisotropic body, and a phase difference film using the polymerizable composition. It is possible to obtain the optically anisotropic body and the phase difference film having satisfactory scratch resistance and adhesion, by using the polymerizable composition composed of the compound containing a mesogenic group, which includes a silicon compound at a low concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mika Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Kuwana, Hidetoshi Nakata, Koichi Endou, Kunihiko Kotani, Hiroshi Hasebe, Yoshiyuki Ono
  • Patent number: 10459121
    Abstract: Compositions for increasing the thermal stability of optical absorbers are provided as well as methods of making and using the resulting compositions. The compositions or complexes of the present teachings generally include an optical absorber bound to a metal or a metal oxide through one or more linkers, which contain a metal binding moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, Crysta-Lyn Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: William E. Bernier, Megan Fegley, Bradley Galusha, Francis D. Goroleski, Wayne E. Jones, Kenneth H. Skorenko
  • Patent number: 10450219
    Abstract: A composite powder of the present invention includes a glass powder and a ceramic powder, wherein a content of the glass powder is from 30 vol % to 60 vol %, wherein a content of the ceramic powder is from 40 vol % to 70 vol %, wherein the glass powder includes as a glass composition, in terms of mass %, 10% to 30% of SiO2, more than 20% to 40% of B2O3, 20% to 40% of SrO+BaO, 0% to 10% of Al2O3, and 0% to 15% of ZnO, and wherein the composite powder is used for a light reflective substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshio Umayahara, Kumiko Himei
  • Patent number: 10444489
    Abstract: Electrowetting element including a compound comprising a plurality of colorant moieties and a linker. The plurality of colorant moieties includes a first colorant moiety having a first net dipole and a second colorant moiety having a second net dipole. The plurality of colorant moieties are linked by and disposed around the linker so that the first net dipole and the second net dipole at least partially cancel each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robin Leguijt, Romaric Mathieu Massard, Jurrien Mans, Muhammad Arief Adityaputra
  • Patent number: 10442948
    Abstract: Provided is a near infrared absorbing fine particle dispersion liquid, which can be applied to offset printing, including: a solvent of one or more kinds selected from vegetable oils and vegetable oil-derived compounds; near infrared absorbing fine particles of one or more kinds selected from 10 mass % more and 25 mass % or less of a composite tungsten oxide expressed by MxWyOz, and/or a tungsten oxide having a Magneli phase expressed by a general formula WyOz; and a dispersant soluble in the solvent and having a fatty acid in its structure, wherein a viscosity is 180 mPa/S or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mika Okada, Hideaki Fukuyama
  • Patent number: 10442822
    Abstract: An organosilicon compound represented by general formula (1). The present invention is able to provide an organosilicon compound which has excellent adhesion during processing and high bonding strength, while exhibiting antirust corrosion resistance at high levels, and which is useful as a metal surface treatment agent. (In the formula, R represents a hydrolyzable group; R? represents an alkyl group; A represents an alkylene group; R1 and R2, R2 and R3, or R3 and R4 among the R1, R2, R3 and R4 moieties may combine together to form an aliphatic or aromatic ring skeleton, and in cases where a ring skeleton is not formed, each one of the R1, R2, R3 and R4 moieties independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; and m represents a number of 1-3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Munenao Hirokami