Patents Examined by C. Everhart
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Patent number: 5324445Abstract: A liquid composition is disclosed which comprises a substantially stable dispersion in a liquid phase of particles comprising a detergent enzyme and a protective polymeric material that is impermeable to liquid detergent concentrates but releases the enzyme when agitated in aqueous wash liquor and comprises an outer polymeric shell and/or a polymeric matrix through which the enzyme is distributed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1991Date of Patent: June 28, 1994Assignee: Allied Colloids LimitedInventors: John Langley, Kenneth C. Symes
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Patent number: 5320983Abstract: A method of applying a spin-on glass layer to a substrate is disclosed characterized in that the spin-on glass is applied as a plurality of contiguous thin layers that together form a composite layer. Each thin layer is cured prior to the application of the next layer at a temperature of at least about 300.degree. C., preferably 350.degree. C., for a time sufficient to permit catalyst connection and substantially eliminate volatile residual solvents contained therein. In this way cracking in organic SOGs can be substantially eliminated, and beneficial results can also be achieved with quasi-organic SOGs.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1992Date of Patent: June 14, 1994Assignee: Mitel CorporationInventor: Luc Ouellet
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Patent number: 5320980Abstract: An interconnection structure of a semiconductor device for electrically connecting a thin conductive layer and a metallization and the fabrication method thereof are disclosed. The interconnection structure includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer coated on the substrate, a thick conductive layer formed on a certain portion of the insulating layer, a first interlaid insulating layer covering the thick conductive layer, a first contact hole formed within the first interlaid insulating layer on the thick conductive layer, a thin conductive layer consisting of vertical structure formed in the first contact hole and horizontal structure formed on the first interlaid insulating layer, a second interlaid insulating layer covering the thin conductive layer, a second contact hole formed within said first and second interlaid insulating layers and crossing the first contact hole, and a metallization filling the second contact hole and formed on the second interlaid insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1992Date of Patent: June 14, 1994Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-joo Bae, Sung-nam Chang
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Patent number: 5316982Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising a capacitor having a lower electrode of a Si-containing material, an aluminum oxide film formed on the surface of the lower electrode, a dielectric film of Ta.sub.2 O.sub.5 formed on the aluminum oxide film and an upper electrode provided on the dielectric film.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1992Date of Patent: May 31, 1994Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kouji Taniguchi
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Patent number: 5312561Abstract: A detergent compositions comprising an alkaline protease, having an optimum pH range on the alkaline side, having an activity of hydrolyzing human horny keratin fiber of 40 KFU/APU or more, possessing a superior activity toward insoluble proteins, and exhibiting a sufficient activity in a wide temperature range, exhibit excellent detergency toward protein soils.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1992Date of Patent: May 17, 1994Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Eiichi Hoshino, Kazuo Mori, Akira Suzuki, Jun Hitomi
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Patent number: 5312700Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell including a flat plate-shaped solid oxide fuel cell element. The cell element is composed of an ion-conductive ceramic plate formed with ribs connected with each other in a plane, an air electrode formed on one main surface of the ion-conductive ceramic plate, and a fuel electrode formed on the other main surface of the ion-conductive ceramic plate. In producing the fuel cell, a flat plate-shaped green sheet made of an ion-conductive ceramic molding material is press contacted with a rib-forming green sheet made of a material of the same kind and having a unitary shape formed by connecting elongated portions to each other. The contacted green sheets are sintered together to form an ion-conductive ceramic plate. In an alternative, a flat plate-shaped green sheet and a rib-forming green sheet may be separately sintered and then bonded with each other to form an ion-conductive ceramic plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1992Date of Patent: May 17, 1994Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventor: Yoshihiko Ishida
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Patent number: 5308712Abstract: An air electrode as a component of a solid electrolyte fuel cell. The air electrode is composed of a first layer and a second layer. The first layer has an open porosity of 25% to 57%, pore diameters of 2.5 .mu.m to 12 .mu.m and a resistivity of less than 0.22 .OMEGA.cm. The second layer has an open porosity of 8% to 24%, pore diameters of 0.2 .mu.m to 3 .mu.m, and a ratio of the thickness of the second layer to the thickness of the air electrode is 2% to 28%. The sum of the thicknesses of the first and second layers is 0.7 mm to 3.0 mm. The materials of the first and second layers have perovskite structures selected from the group consisting of lanthanum manganate, calcium manganate, lanthanum nickelate, lanthanum cobalate and lanthanum chromate. A solid electrolyte fuel cell includes the air electrode as described above, a solid electrolyte film formed on the surface of the second layer of the air electrode and a fuel electrode film formed on the surface of the solid electrolyte film.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1992Date of Patent: May 3, 1994Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Seike, Hirotake Yamada
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Patent number: 5308793Abstract: A method of forming an interconnector configuration includes an arrangement for preventing a Ti type barrier metal associated with an silicone oxide type interlayer insulation membrane, from becoming oxidized and therefore facilitating the burial of high aspect ratio connection holes in a Al layer.The connection holes which are opened in the silicon oxide type interlayer insulation membrane are coated inside with a Ti type barrier metal are apt to be oxidized by oxygen which is released from the interlayer insulating membrane. This oxidation produces a reaction which deteriorates the reaction characteristics with a Al material layer during the burial of the connection holes and produces problems.Accordingly, in order to prevent the oxidation of the barrier metal, a SiNx side wall layer is formed on the sides of the connection hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1992Date of Patent: May 3, 1994Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuru Taguchi, Hirofumi Sumi
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Patent number: 5304694Abstract: Catalytic conversion of a C.sub.2 -C.sub.5 alkane, e.g., isobutane and/or isopentane, to isoalkenes, e.g., isobutene and/or isopentene, respectively, is undertaken in the presence of an aromatic recycle stream which provides the heat of reaction for the conversion which is endothermic, in the absence of hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1992Date of Patent: April 19, 1994Assignee: Mobil Oil CorporationInventors: Ralph M. Dessau, Quang N. Le
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Patent number: 5302476Abstract: An electrode suitable for use as a lead-acid battery plate is formed of a paste composition which enhances the performance of the plate. The paste composition includes a basic lead sulfate, a persulfate and water. The paste may also include lead oxide and fibers. An electrode according to the invention is characterized by good strength in combination with high power density, porosity and surface area.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1990Date of Patent: April 12, 1994Assignee: Globe-Union Inc.Inventors: Wen-Hong Kao, Norma K. Bullock, Ralph A. Petersen
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Patent number: 5298349Abstract: A chemical pretreatment method for inserting lithium into cathode active material silver vanadium oxide to provide a reduced form of silver vanadium oxide which, when included into a cathode mixture and incorporated into an electrochemical cell, may result in a cell with a lowered initial open circuit voltage, thereby eliminating the need to lower unstably high initial cell voltages through external loads after cell construction.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1992Date of Patent: March 29, 1994Assignee: Wilson Greatbatch, Ltd.Inventor: Esther S. Takeuchi
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Patent number: 5298458Abstract: A tungsten film is deposited on a substrate by a CVD process using a source gas comprising WF.sub.6, a silane group compound such as SiH.sub.4, Si.sub.2 H.sub.6, Si.sub.3 H.sub.8 or Si.sub.4 H.sub.10, and hydrogen fluoride or fluorine, at a lower temperature than in the prior art. The resultant tungsten film has low sheet resistance and good step coverage. The tungsten film may be selectively deposited.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1992Date of Patent: March 29, 1994Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Fumitake Mieno, Yuji Furumura, Toshihiko Ono
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Patent number: 5298078Abstract: Disclosed is a cleaning composition for use in cleaning the interior of a molding machine having residual molding resin retained therein, comprising (a) a specific graft polymer comprised of a main chain comprising an olefin polymer and having, grafted thereto, a side chain comprising a styrene polymer and (b) a thermoplastic styrene polymer, the graft polymer (a) and the thermoplastic styrene polymer (b) being present in a weight ratio of from 2/100 to 160/100. This cleaning composition exhibits an extremely excellent cleaning effect due to its high capability to scape off a residual resin on a metallic surface. By using this cleaning composition, the cleaning of the interior of a molding machine having a residual molding resin retained therein can be effectively and efficiently performed in a short period of time and at a low cost.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1991Date of Patent: March 29, 1994Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mikihiko Itoh, Narimichi Murahara
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Patent number: 5294567Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for rapidly forming a dense pattern of via holes in multilayer electronic circuits in which via holes in the dielectric layers are formed by drilling with an excimer laser under controlled operating conditions.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1993Date of Patent: March 15, 1994Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Jay R. Dorfman, Richard R. Draudt, Thomas D. Lantzer, Arthur H. Mones, David L. Sutton
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Patent number: 5288563Abstract: A device for measuring hydrogen ion concentration in an aqueous solution includes a sensing means for sensing hydrogen ion concentration and a reference electrode. The sensing means may be an ion-sensitive field-effect transistor or a hydrogen ion electrode. The sensing means has an ion-sensitive layer composed of tantalum nitride, niobium nitride, zirconium nitride or niobium oxide. When the sensing device is built integrally into a lead-acid battery, the state of charge-discharge of the battery can be effectively known.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1992Date of Patent: February 22, 1994Assignee: Japan Storage Battery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Saito, Yuko Fujita
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Patent number: 5284801Abstract: Integrated circuits include a silicon substrate having multiple conductive metallization lines placed thereon and vertically spaced apart from each other by polyimide insulating layers wherein a moisture resistant barrier layer is completely interposed between the polyimide layers and each metallization line. The moisture resistant barrier retards corrosion of the metallization lines by reaction products formed by the release of water from the polyimide layer by reducing the amount of water which can penetrate to the metallization lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1992Date of Patent: February 8, 1994Assignee: VLSI Technology, Inc.Inventors: Allen Page, Anthony Sayka
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Patent number: 5282996Abstract: A single-step process for the continuous preparation of a granular detergent composition or component, whereby 20 to 45% of a liquid acid precursor of an anionic surfactant, and at least an equivalent amount of a solid water-soluble alkaline inorganic material are continuously fed into a high-speed mixer/densifier, the mean residence time being from about 5 to 30 seconds, whereby the moisture content of the powder in the mixer is from 5 to 15%, and a degree of neutralization of at least 80% is attained.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1992Date of Patent: February 1, 1994Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Peter W. Appel, Lucas D. M. Van Den Brekel, Pieter A. Pel, Petrus L. J. Swinkels
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Patent number: 5275755Abstract: Composition for washing keratinous materials, especially the hair and the skin, characterised in that it comprises, in an aqueous medium, at least one silicone, at least one surfactant possessing detergent properties and at least one alcohol having 27 to 44 carbon atoms and containing one or two ether and/or thioether or sulphoxide group(s), corresponding to the formula (I): ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be identical or different, denote linear C.sub.12 to C.sub.20 alkyl groups;X denotes an oxygen atom, a sulphur atom or a sulphoxide group;Y denotes an oxygen atom, a sulphur atom, a sulphoxide group or a methylene group;in the case where Y denotes a methylene group, the sum of the numbers of carbon atoms in R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 varies from 24 to 40, and preferably from 26 to 36, inclusive, and when Y does not denote a methylene group, the sum of carbon atoms in R.sub.1 and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1991Date of Patent: January 4, 1994Assignee: L'OrealInventors: Henri Sebag, Claude Dubief, Bernard Beauquey
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Patent number: 5273843Abstract: The present invention relates to a separator and spacer for use in non-aqueous inorganic electrolyte cells using oxyhalides as both a solvent and cathode active material, and an alkali metal as anode active material. There is provided a non-aqueous inorganic electrolyte cell which has a good discharge performance, preservability, and a safety to resist the charging at 5 V caused due to erroneous operations and accidents, by specifying a content of glass involved in the separator made of mainly glass fibers, specifying the type of synthetic resin of other components than glass fibers, or by specifying an oxyhalide absorbance of materials from which the separator and the spacer are produced.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1990Date of Patent: December 28, 1993Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Fukuda, Shigeo Kobayashi, Kenichi Morigaki, Syuichi Nishino, Tomokazu Mitamura
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Patent number: 5272112Abstract: A chemical vapor deposition process performed at a temperature below 440 degrees C. for blanket tungsten deposition as a step in manufacturing integrated circuits deposits an integrated film suitable for voidless fill of vias as small as 0.5 microns in width and with aspect ratios of more than 2, while providing resistivity well below 100 micro-ohms per square, film stress generally in the mid 7E+09 dynes per square centimeter and below, and reflectivity of more than 40%, measured relative to silicon at 436 nanometer wavelength for 1 micron film thickness, while avoiding the use of nitrogen in the process.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1992Date of Patent: December 21, 1993Assignee: Genus, Inc.Inventors: Johannes J. Schmitz, Sien G. Kang, Edward J. Rode