Patents Examined by Brian Handville
  • Composite materials
    Patent number: 10370079
    Abstract: A composite material that includes a layer of reinforcing fibres impregnated with a curable resin matrix and a plurality of electrically conductive composite particles positioned adjacent or in proximity to the reinforcing fibers. Each of the electrically conductive composite particles is composed of a conductive component and a polymeric component, wherein the polymeric component includes one or more polymers that are initially in a solid phase and are substantially insoluble in the curable resin, but is able to undergo at least partial phase transition to a fluid phase during a curing cycle of the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Inventors: Carmelo Luca Restuccia, Emiliano Frulloni, Fiorenzo Lenzi
  • Polyphenylene sulfide resin composition, and moulding and manufacturing process for moulding thereof
    Patent number: 10370522
    Abstract: The invention provides a polyphenylene sulfide resin composition which comprises polyphenylene sulfide resin and a deformed cross-section glass fiber, wherein the chlorine content of the polyphenylene sulfide resin composition is equal to or lower than 1,000 ppm. The obtained polyphenylene sulfide resin composition is excellent in flowability, toughness and rigidity. The invention further provides a molding prepared from the polyphenylene sulfide resin composition and a manufacturing process for the polyphenylene sulfide resin composition. The polyphenylene sulfide resin composition is particularly suitable for products for forming frames of a portable computer, a mobile phone and a portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kai Peng, Xianwen Tang, Qiang Liu, Fen Ouyang, Shunji Kono, Masashi Matsuda, Ping Hu, Ying Wai Julian Chan
  • Profiled section, especially for a motor vehicle, and method for the production thereof
    Patent number: 10369732
    Abstract: A profile section (10) for a motor vehicle comprises a decorating portion (40), which is composed of a fiber composite material. The fiber composite material comprises an elastomer matrix made of a first elastomer and flock fibers (50). The flock fibers (50) each have a fiber length which is comprised of a first length and a second length. In addition, the flock fibers have one matrix portion embedded in the elastomer matrix and one exposed portion protruding from the elastomer matrix. The matrix portion has the first length and the exposed portion has the second length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Cooper Standard GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Schramm, Dirk Reupert, Ronald Fritzsche
  • Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic structure
    Patent number: 10357938
    Abstract: A spar (2) is formed by stacking a signal-line layer (52), which includes a resin layer (521) having a plurality of signal lines (522) embedded therein, on a carbon-fiber prepreg (51).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Waku
  • Load bearing support surface
    Patent number: 10342352
    Abstract: A load bearing surface assembly includes a molded component of oriented elastomeric material and an attachment loop connected to the molded component, the attachment loop configured to receive a frame member supporting the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Timothy P. Coffield
  • Ceramic article with reduced surface defect density
    Patent number: 10336656
    Abstract: A machined ceramic article having an initial surface defect density and an initial surface roughness is provided. The machined ceramic article is heated to a temperature range between about 1000° C. and about 1800° C. at a ramping rate of about 0.1° C. per minute to about 20° C. per minute. The machined ceramic article is heat-treated in air atmosphere. The machined ceramic article is heat treated at one or more temperatures within the temperature range for a duration of up to about 24 hours. The machined ceramic article is then cooled at the ramping rate, wherein after the heat treatment the machined ceramic article has a reduced surface defect density and a reduced surface roughness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ren-Guan Duan, Thorsten Lill, Jennifer Y. Sun, Benjamin Schwarz
  • Continuous, hollow polymer precursors and carbon fibers produced therefrom
    Patent number: 10301750
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous, multicellular, hollow carbon fiber wherein the fiber structure includes a substantially hollow fiber and multiple internal walls defining multiple integral internal hollow fibers such that the fiber structure comprises a honeycomb-like cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Thomas K. Tsotsis, Jeff Haggard
  • Sheet construction and methods of making and using the same
    Patent number: 10286705
    Abstract: A sheet construction including a first material, and methods of making and using the same. The first material can include a leading edge, a trailing edge, a first longitudinal edge, and a second longitudinal edge. The first material can define a first print-receptive medium. The sheet construction can also include a leading margin extending from the first longitudinal edge to the second longitudinal edge and bounded at least by the leading edge, the first longitudinal edge, the second longitudinal edge, and the print-receptive medium. The sheet construction can also include a first side margin bounded at least in part by the leading margin, the first longitudinal edge, and the first print-receptive medium. The first side margin can include at least one compressed region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: CCL LABEL, INC.
    Inventors: Le-Hoa Hong, Laura Rocío Meza Sanchez, Linda Francis, Angie Chiao
  • Multi-layer synthetic graphite conductor with perimeter wall
    Patent number: 10272643
    Abstract: A multi-layer synthetic graphite conductor. The multi-layer synthetic graphite conductor can include: a set of synthetic graphite sheets; and a perimeter wall for protecting the synthetic graphite sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Jones Tech (USA), Inc.
    Inventor: Xiaoning Wu
  • Lightweight gypsum wallboard
    Patent number: 10259196
    Abstract: A lightweight gypsum wallboard having a foamed gypsum core reinforced with pre-gelatinized, e.g., pre-gelled, starch and prepared by mixing an aqueous foam into a gypsum slurry comprising a source of calcined gypsum (commonly known as plaster of Paris), pre-gelled starch and a lignosulfonate dispersant; allowing the so-formed gypsum slurry to set, and then drying the set gypsum core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC
    Inventor: Hubert C. Francis
  • Profile for a cylindrical component
    Patent number: 10253920
    Abstract: A cylindrical component has a groove bottom (4) that extends approximately parallel to the course of the unworked surface of the component, and has a side wall (6, 7) inclined at an angle (?) of less than 90° to the groove bottom (4). To increase the adhesion between a coating to be applied to the surface of the component an upper region of the side wall (6, 7) is adjoined by an oblique surface (8, 9) at an angle (?) of greater than 90° to the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Holger Klumpp, Sammy El Daibani, Mike Roehr
  • Building products composites and methods
    Patent number: 10246378
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing composites are provided, including combining dihydrate calcium sulfate whiskers, hemihydrate calcium sulfate stucco, and water to form a slurry, and setting the slurry to form a composite having a natural porosity of about 60 volume percent or greater. Composites are also provided, including dihydrate calcium sulfate whiskers and dihydrate calcium sulfate crystals, and having a natural porosity of about 60 volume percent or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC
    Inventors: Mianxue Wu, Jeffery T. Fields, Sara E. Endres
  • Composite panel
    Patent number: 10240017
    Abstract: Composite panel, particularly for forming roof panels of cars and/or industrial vehicles, and method of manufacturing the composite panel, which composite panel includes a core of foamed material, at least one skin layer of nonwoven material, and at least one connecting layer between the core of foamed material and the skin layer of nonwoven material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SACO AEI Polymers, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Savonuzzi, Paolo Steinbach
  • High rigidity interlayers and light weight laminated multiple layer panels
    Patent number: 10173396
    Abstract: This disclosure is related to the field of polymer interlayers for multiple layer panels and multiple layer panels having at least one polymer interlayer sheet. Specifically, this disclosure is related to the field of high rigidity interlayers and light weight laminated multiple layer panels incorporating high rigidity interlayers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Solutia Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Lu
  • Magnetism suppressing sheet and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 10149417
    Abstract: A magnetism suppressing sheet is provided with a metallic foil formed by plating and a magnetic film formed by applying magnetic metal powder-containing resin paste to one main surface of the metallic foil. A manufacturing method of a magnetism suppressing sheet includes the steps of preparing a support film on which a metallic foil has been formed, and forming a magnetic film by applying a magnetic metal powder-containing paste to one main surface of the metallic foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio Tomonari, Hirohumi Asou, Toshihiro Kuroshima
  • Dispersible moist wipe
    Patent number: 10113254
    Abstract: A dispersible moist wipe generally comprises a nonwoven tissue web having regenerated fibers in an amount of about 10 to about 30 percent by weight and natural fibers in an amount of about 70 to about 90 percent by weight. The regenerated fibers and the natural fibers are hydroentangled such that the web has a geometric mean tensile strength of at least 250 grams per inch and a slosh-box break-up time of less than 155 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth John Zwick, Nathan John Vogel, Joseph Kenneth Baker
  • Material for ring rolling
    Patent number: 10094238
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high quality material for ring rolling. The material includes radially outer and inner peripheral surfaces. In the material, a center of gravity on a half section is located so as to be closer to the outer peripheral surface in contact with a main roll than a center of the half section in a thickness direction, a shape of the half section includes a height reducing portion having a height from a center line dividing the half section into halves in a height direction, this height is gradually reduced toward the inner peripheral surface in contact with a mandrel roll, and the shape is formed in a substantially linear symmetry such that the center line is a symmetric axis. A height of the inner peripheral surface is from 20% to 50% of a maximum height of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yagami, Toshiya Teramae, Etsuo Fujita, Shinya Nagao, Remi Mukouse, Naoyuki Iwasa, Tsuyoshi Fukui, Chuya Aoki
  • Materials gradient within armor for balancing the ballistic performance
    Patent number: 10081159
    Abstract: Hybrid, multi-panel ballistic resistant articles useful for the fabrication of body armor. The articles include at least three different fabric sections that are arranged into a gradient wherein the outermost, strike-face section of the article is formed from fibers having the highest tenacity of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Ashok Bhatnagar, Danelle Powers, Brian Waring, Terry Chern
  • Device having flattenable cavities and protrusions
    Patent number: 10076186
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a device and method of buffering a surface while still maintaining the surface's visual appearance is disclosed. This invention relates to protecting a surface from deformation from objects placed on the surface while at the same time maintaining the surface's visual clarity and appearance. This invention may include the use of a sheet of silicone, some of the disclosed embodiments of which are uniquely configured with concave cavities and convex protrusions, and a wetting agent to achieve the stated buffering and visual appearance of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Inventor: Tina Marie Pallis
  • Thin safety glass having improved mechanical characteristics
    Patent number: 10077204
    Abstract: A strengthened glass sheet product along with a process and an apparatus for strengthening a glass sheet are provided. The process comprises cooling the glass sheet by non-contact thermal conduction for sufficiently long to fix a surface compression and central tension of the sheet. The process results in thermally strengthened glass sheets having improved breakage properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Richard Orr Maschmeyer, John Christopher Thomas, Kevin Lee Wasson