Patents Examined by Brian K. Talbot
  • Patent number: 12291781
    Abstract: A counter-rotating roller system for coating electrode materials includes a roll-to-roll apparatus including a dispensing roller that selectively dispenses a conductive substrate from a substrate roll along a first direction towards a receiving roller. A counter-rotating roller module including a counter-rotating roller is stationarily positioned at a predetermined height over the conductive substrate. The direction of the tangential velocity of the counter-rotating roller at an interface between the counter-rotating roller and the conductive substrate is 180 degrees opposite the first direction of travel of the conductive substrate. The system further includes a continuous powder application module positioned on a feed side of the counter-rotating roller to continuously deposit a volume of a dry powder mixture on the conductive substrate prior to contact with the counter-rotating roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: PIXION BATTERIES, INC.
    Inventors: Vikram Devaraj, Varun Devaraj
  • Patent number: 12286718
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a nitride semiconductor photoelectrode capable of improving the light energy conversion efficiency. The method for producing a nitride semiconductor photoelectrode includes a first step of forming an n-type gallium nitride layer on an insulating or conductive substrate, a second step of forming an indium gallium nitride layer on the n-type gallium nitride layer, a third step of forming a nickel layer n the indium gallium nitride layer, and a fourth step of heat-treating the nickel layer in an oxygen atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Uzumaki, Sayumi Sato, Yoko Ono, Takeshi Komatsu
  • Patent number: 12280395
    Abstract: A process for forming a coating on a substrate including atomizing a formulation and applying the formulation to a substrate to form a coating on a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Miguel Galvez, Bong June Zhang
  • Patent number: 12265049
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for an electrochemical sensor includes an electrode forming step of forming an electrode, made of a porous material with electroconductivity, on an insulating substrate, and a resist forming step of coating a coating region on the electrode by a resist with non-electroconductivity in a solution state, and permeating communicating pores of the porous material with the resist, thereby adjusting a resistance value of the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Sato
  • Patent number: 12251727
    Abstract: A mask device includes a mesh mask and a metal mask disposed under the mesh mask. The mesh mask includes a mesh pattern and a plurality of first blocking portions disposed in the mesh pattern to block portions of the mesh pattern, the metal mask includes a plurality of second blocking portions overlapping the first blocking portions in a plan view, and the metal mask is provided with an accommodation opening defined through in the metal mask, and not overlapping the first blocking portions in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junyoung Lee, Jeongweon Seo, Hyuk-Hwan Kim, Junwoo You, Jeongho Hwang
  • Patent number: 12234361
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a combined treatment method for surface modification of fumed silica, which comprises the following steps: (1) two sets of modification devices are used to jointly treat fumed silica; the fumed silica is modified with a modifier in the reaction furnace of each set of modification devices to obtain two groups of modified fumed silica and exhaust gas respectively; (2) the exhaust gas obtained in step (1) is separated respectively to obtain unreacted modifier and by-products, and the obtained by-products are input into the reaction furnace of the other set of modification devices as reaction assistants to participate in the modification reaction; and the obtained unreacted modifiers are returned to the reaction furnace of the original modification device for repeated use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: GUANGZHOU HUIFU RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD., HUBEI HUIFU NANOMATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianjian Duan, Chunlei Wu, Yuelin Wang, Shiyu Xu, Chenggang Wang
  • Patent number: 12227849
    Abstract: Described herein is a stator water cooling (SWC) system in an electrical power generator with improved resistance to copper fouling, more specifically, to a component of the SWC system, such as a strainer, having an anti-fouling metallic material on the surface of the component. Also described herein is a method of reducing copper fouling in a SWC system that comprises applying an anti-fouling metallic material to the surface of a SWC system component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Constellation Energy Generation, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Delano Odell
  • Patent number: 12202984
    Abstract: Compositions including a filler, an emissivity agent, a crosslinking facilitator, and a metal silicate binder are disclosed. The compositions can be curable at ambient conditions. Methods of coating overhead conductor and power transmission line accessories with such coating compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: General Cable Technologies Corporation, Novota Industries
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Srinivas Siripurapu, Vitthal Abaso Sawant, Vijay Mhetar, Satish Narayan Patil, Rajendra Yashwant Chaudhari
  • Patent number: 12171148
    Abstract: Various fabrication methods are disclosed. In one such method, at least one structure is formed on a substrate which protrudes outwardly from a plane of the substrate. A beam is used to form a layer of material, at least part of which is in direct contact with a semiconductor structure on the substrate, the semiconductor structure comprising at least one nanowire. The beam has a non-zero angle of incidence relative to the normal of the plane of the substrate such that the beam is incident on one side of the protruding structure, thereby preventing a portion of the nanowire in a shadow region adjacent the other side of the protruding structure in the plane of the substrate from being covered with the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Van Hoogdalem, Leonardus Kouwenhoven, Pavel Aseev, Peter Krogstrup Jeppesen
  • Patent number: 12170199
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to a dielectric material formed in semiconductor devices. The present disclosure provides methods for forming a dielectric material layer by a cyclic spin-on coating process. In an embodiment, a method of forming a dielectric material on a substrate includes spin-coating a first portion of a dielectric material on a substrate, curing the first portion of the dielectric material on the substrate, spin-coating a second portion of the dielectric material on the substrate, and thermal annealing the dielectric material to form an annealed dielectric material on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Je-Ming Kuo, Yen-Chun Huang, Chih-Tang Peng, Tien-I Bao
  • Patent number: 12166193
    Abstract: A method for forming at least one electrode, said method comprising: a) providing an electronically conductive, inert material; b) cutting the substrate material to form at least one current collector; c) placing at least one current collector on a carrier; d) applying one or more protection layers to one or both sides of the current collector to form a coated electrode; and e) removing the electrode from the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: GELION TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD
    Inventors: Adrien Amigues, Jacob Locke, William Richardson
  • Patent number: 12164837
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to graded electrodes for an electric battery cell, and to methods of designing and manufacturing such electrodes. Example embodiments include a method of designing an electrode for an electric battery cell, the electrode comprising a compound mixture of an electrochemically active material, an electrically conductive material and a binding material, the method comprising: applying a model for an electrochemical response of the electric battery cell; and optimising parameters of the model to maximise one or more of an energy density, power density, battery health and thermal response of the electric battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Patrick Grant, Stephen Duncan, Ross Drummond, Chuan Cheng
  • Patent number: 12165784
    Abstract: A method for rejuvenating a strand-blocked cable having a conductor comprised of a plurality of conductor strands with interstitial volume therebetween blocked by a PIB based strand-block mastic, the conductor being surrounded by a polymeric cable insulation. The method including pre-injection of compressed gas into the conductor strands of the cable at a pressure less than the elastic limit of the cable insulation, and injection of a rejuvenation fluid into the conductor strands of the cable at a pressure less than the elastic limit of the cable insulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: NOVINIUM, LLC
    Inventors: Weston Philips Chapin Ford, Norman E. Keitges, James Steele
  • Patent number: 12157283
    Abstract: A method for depositing at least one colored layer on the surface of a vulcanized tire sidewall includes applying by inkjet a colored layer to the whole of the sidewall or to at least a part of the sidewall of the tire and then, after drying, selectively removing the colored layer in such a manner as to create a first pattern. A tire obtained on completion of that method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Helene Jaquet, Walid Djabour
  • Patent number: 12159754
    Abstract: A method for preparing a large-area continuous flexible free-standing electrode is provided. The method includes: mixing a reduced graphene oxide, porous carbon particles and a solvent, and dispersing the resulting mixture to obtain a mixed slurry; coating the mixed slurry onto a hydrophobic substrate, and drying, to prepare the large-area continuous flexible free-standing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing University of Chemical Technology
    Inventors: Bin Xu, Mingzhi Li
  • Patent number: 12150230
    Abstract: A method for forming a protective antioxidative barrier on the furnace electrodes using a chemically altered cooling liquid containing an antioxidant additive. This method can be applied to electrodes used in electric arc furnaces and ladle metallurgy furnaces. The method can involve spraying the cooling liquid onto the electrode, thereby forming the protective antioxidative barrier and reducing the oxidation of the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: CHEMTREAT, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph S. Strasser, Joseph M. Hamnik, James R. Lawson, Alan J. Feller
  • Patent number: 12139785
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming a coating layer having plasma resistance, the method comprising steps of: preparing a substrate by placing the substrate in a substrate fixing device inside a process chamber; evaporating a Y2O3 deposition material provided in a solid form in an electron beam source by irradiating an electron beam on the Y2O3 deposition material; generating radical particles having activation energy by injecting a process gas containing oxygen for forming radicals into a RF energy beam source; irradiating an RF energy beam including the radical particles generated in the RF energy beam source, toward the substrate; depositing a thin film in which the evaporated deposition material is deposited on the substrate by being assisted by the RF energy beam, and densifying the thin film in which the deposition material deposited on the substrate forms a densified film by ion bombardment of the RF energy beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Soon Young Kwon
  • Patent number: 12137692
    Abstract: The present invention also provides two methods of preparing the antimicrobial preparation comprising the steps of submerging the porous material in vacuum vessel containing a solution comprising 1% to 4% of silver-chitosan dissolved in an organic acid; applying a vacuum to the vacuum vessel to displace air from the porous material; removing the vacuum from the vacuum vessel to return it to atmospheric pressure and then either drying the material and coating the material with a crosslinking solution or heating the material to between 120° C. and 140° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hydrodyne Systems Ltd
    Inventors: Alan Taylor, Eric Taylor
  • Patent number: 12131871
    Abstract: An electronic component that includes an electronic component body including a first internal electrode exposed at a first end surface and a second internal electrode exposed at a second end surface; a first external electrode on the first end surface and a bottom surface of the electronic component body; and a second external electrode on the second end surface and the bottom surface of the electronic component body, wherein the first external electrode comprises a first end surface electrode and a first bottom surface electrode that are integrated, and a thickness of the first end surface electrode is smaller than a thickness of the first bottom surface electrode, and the second external electrode comprises a second end surface electrode and a second bottom surface electrode that are integrated, and a thickness of the second end surface electrode is smaller than a thickness of the second bottom surface electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tamatani, Kazuya Kusuda, Takeshi Furukawa
  • Patent number: 12121858
    Abstract: A production method of an exhaust gas purification device includes the steps of supplying a solution containing a catalyst metal from a shower nozzle to an upper part of a honeycomb substrate, coating the honeycomb substrate with the solution, and firing the honeycomb substrate coated with the solution, wherein the shower nozzle has a plurality of discharge openings for discharging the solution and a guard which surrounds the plurality of discharge openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Kido, Suguru Matsui, Etsuko Ohara, Kazuma Nakada