Patents Examined by Callie Shosho
  • Patent number: 9334335
    Abstract: There is described a surface layer or coating of a fluoropolymer. Dispersed in the fluoropolymer is a compound of the formula: wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 each, independently of the others, are —H, alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl, R is a group of the formula —COOH, —COOM, —R5—COOH, —R5—COOM, —X—R5—COOH, or —X—R5—COOM wherein X and R5 are as defined herein, M is a cationic metal, A represents a saccharide monomer repeating unit having one or more R groups, B represents a saccharide monomer repeating unit having no R groups, m is an integer representing the number of repeating A units, and n is an integer representing the number of repeating B units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Mihaela M. Birau, Salma F. Toosi, Biby E. Abraham, Christopher A. Wagner, C. Geoffrey Allen, Peter G. Odell, Daryl W. Vanbesien, Carolyn P. Moorlag
  • Patent number: 9321936
    Abstract: An addition curable silicone emulsion release composition suitable for forming a releasable film having a high releasability to a pressure sensitive adhesives simultaneously with good adhesion to a plastic film substrate is provided. A release film prepared by coating and curing such composition on a plastic film is also provided. The good adhesion and the high releasability to acryl pressure sensitive adhesives are realized despite the low content of the organopolysiloxane containing a large amount of trifunctional siloxane units and alkenyl groups which had been used for realizing the adhesion. The addition curable silicone emulsion release composition is prepared by blending predetermined proportion of mixtures of high molecular weight organopolysiloxanes each containing an alkenyl group and phenyl group at particular ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Nakajima, Shinji Irifune, Kenji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9315662
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a resin composition for direct plating whose plating performance such as depositibility and appearance after forming a metal film including copper film and the like by electroplating in direct plating method is excellent, a molded article comprising this composition, and a plated article having a metal film or an alloy film, formed by direct plating. The present composition is a thermoplastic resin composition containing a rubber-reinforced vinyl-based resin and the rubber-reinforced vinyl-based resin comprises a diene-based rubbery polymer [a1] and an ethylene•?-olefin-based rubbery polymer [a2], the total amount of the diene-based rubbery polymer [a1] and the ethylene•?-olefin-based rubbery polymer [a2] is from 3 to 30% by mass based on the thermoplastic resin composition, and the ratio of the ethylene•?-olefin-based rubbery polymer [a2] to the total amount is from 0.01 to 0.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Techno Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keigo Higaki
  • Patent number: 9314132
    Abstract: A cooking release material includes a layer comprising fluoropolymer. The cooking release material has a major surface having nucleation structures in a density of at least 10 per square inch. The cooking release material can include a reinforcement material, the layer coated over the reinforcement material. The cooking release material can include a second layer forming the major surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PER.PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Graham A. Woerner, Timothy P. Pollock, Ephraim P. Lin, John M. Russo, Anne B. Hardy, Gerard T. Buss
  • Patent number: 9297079
    Abstract: Disclosed is an iron alloy article having an excellent bonding force between a resin and an iron alloy using an alkoxysilane-containing triazinethiol, and a method for producing the iron alloy article. Also disclosed is an iron alloy article including a base comprised of iron or an iron alloy, and a resin bonded to at least a portion of a surface of the base through a dehydrated silanol-containing triazinethiol derivative coating, the iron alloy article further including a metal compound film containing at least one selected from the group consisting of a hydroxide, a carboxylate, a phosphate, a sulfate, a thiosulfate, a chloride and a perchloride between the base and the dehydrated silanol-containing triazinethiol derivative coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kinji Hirai, Muneya Furukawa, Isamu Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9289540
    Abstract: A modified medical device substrate surface designed to improve adhesion of biomimetic surfactants to the medical device surface, thus reducing the risk of thrombosis is described. The surface modification is accomplished through either an application of a tie layer of a hydrophobic material on the substrate surface intermediate the biomimetic coating or through incorporation of a hydrophobic dopant in the polymeric substrate prior to extrusion or molding. Either method creates a hydrophobically modified surface that enhances the biomimetic surfactant bonding strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Greatbatch Ltd.
    Inventor: Qingshan Ye
  • Patent number: 9249309
    Abstract: A base coat coating composition which is able to suppress cracking of a metal thin film, even when a tough top coat layer capable of satisfactorily protecting the metal thin film is formed on the metal thin film, and even when a heat resistance test is performed, as well as a composite film and a method for producing the composite film. Specifically, a base coat coating composition used for undercoating a metal thin film formed on a metal substrate, and containing a coating film-forming component which contains at least 30% by mass of an epoxy (meth)acrylate having a cyclic structure and has an average molecular weight between crosslinks of 180 to 1,000, as well as a composite film having a base coat layer obtained from the base coat coating composition, and a method for producing the composite film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd., Central Motor Wheel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Isogai, Hirohito Kudou, Keiji Koike
  • Patent number: 9228111
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition for surface treatment of a steel sheet including a binder resin, graphene and a solvent. More particularly, as only a small amount of the graphene is included in the resin composition used for surface treatment of a steel sheet, a user-required electrical conductivity can be provided to the steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Jae Dong Cho, Jae Soon Lee, Jae Ryung Lee, Sang Eun Shim
  • Patent number: 9217969
    Abstract: A xerographic fuser member that contains a composition of a polyimide and a perfluoropolyether phosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Wu, Jonathan H Herko, Lanhui Zhang, Lin Ma
  • Patent number: 9212253
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition for encapsulating a semiconductor device, the epoxy resin composition including an epoxy resin, a curing agent, and one or more inorganic fillers, the one or more inorganic fillers including prismatic cristobalite, the prismatic cristobalite being present in the epoxy resin composition in an amount of about 1 to about 50% by weight, based on the total weight of the epoxy resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: CHEIL INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Young Kyun Lee, Eun Jung Lee, Yoon Kok Park
  • Patent number: 9209333
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polyimide film prepared from an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid component and an aromatic diamine component, which has a dimensional change from 25° C. to 500° C. within a range of from ?0.3% to +0.6% based on the initial dimension at 25° C. The polyimide film may be used as a substrate for a CIS solar cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroto Shimokawa, Takeshi Uekido, Ken Kawagishi, Hiroaki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9205630
    Abstract: A description is given of the use of reactive hotmelt adhesives based on copolyamide and further comprising isocyanate and epoxide and also a functionalized polyolefin in hybrid components. These hybrid components find applications in vehicle construction and in aircraft construction, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Pawlik, Martin Risthaus, Jochen Fritz
  • Patent number: 9193879
    Abstract: A composite includes a substrate, a binder layer disposed on a surface of the substrate; and a nanofiller layer comprising nanographene and disposed on a surface of the binder layer opposite the substrate. In addition, a nano-coating layer for coating a substrate includes multiple alternating layers of the binder layer and the nanofiller layer. Articles coated with the nano-coating layer prepared from alternating layers of nanofiller layer and binder layer have improved barrier properties, and may be used in down-hole applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Soma Chakraborty, Jiang Zhu, Gaurav Agrawal
  • Patent number: 9187634
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and systems having a low coefficient of friction. The low friction system comprises a first surface and a second surface, where the first surface comprises (i) a polycarbonate and a first additive, or (ii) a polybutylene terephthalate and a second additive; and the second surface comprises a polyoxymethylene and a third additive. The low friction compositions and systems are valuable for producing devices, such as medical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventor: Ion Marius Sivebæk
  • Patent number: 9181628
    Abstract: A coating/sealant system that includes a coating and a sealant deposited over at least a portion of the coating, in which the coating includes a reaction product formed from reactants comprising a phosphated epoxy resin and a curing agent, and the sealant includes a sulfur-containing polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: PRC-DeSoto International, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Theodore Valko, Robin M. Peffer, Michael A. Mayo, Lawrence G. Anderson, Thor G. Lingenfelter, Beth Furar
  • Patent number: 9176258
    Abstract: An optical laminate includes a support and an antistatic layer formed from a composition containing the following (A) to (C) and having an average thickness of from 0.03 to 0.40 ?m: (A) a hydrophobilized conductive polymer composition containing a ?-conjugated system conductive polymer and an anion group-containing polymer dopant; (B) an inorganic particle having an average particle size of from 1 to 300 nm; and (C) an ionizing radiation curable compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Nishimura, Hiroyuki Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 9168695
    Abstract: Disclosed is a biaxially stretched polyamide resin film which is a biaxially stretched film having a layer of a polyamide resin with caproamide as a repeating unit thereof and has an amount of the caprolactam monomer extracted from the biaxially stretched polyamide resin film of 0.1% by mass or less, and also disclosed is a packaging material including the biaxially stretched polyamide resin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuko Noda, Kiwamu Yuki, Nobuhiro Tanaka, Chiemi Nishitani, Hiroshi Sakakura
  • Patent number: 9169356
    Abstract: Provided is a cyanate ester polymer having excellent flame retardance, low dielectric constant, low dielectric loss tangent and high heat resistance. Specifically provided is a cyanate ester polymer obtained by polymerizing a cyanate ester compound represented by the following general formula (1). (1) In the formula, X represents OCN or OH, and 10-100% by mol of X is composed of OCN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Sugano, Masayuki Katagiri, Daisuke Ohno, Tomoaki Kubota, Yoshikazu Shima
  • Patent number: 9150763
    Abstract: Laminate structures comprising one or more sheets of material bonded together with an adhesive polymer. The adhesive polymer is a polyester amide, polyester urethane, or polyester urea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Inventors: Leonardo C. Lopez, Alveda J. Williams, William J. Harris
  • Patent number: 9147881
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a graphene paper which reduced graphene oxide layers and coating layers are stacked in sequence. The graphene paper prepared according to a preparation method of the present invention has excellent electrical conductivity and mechanical properties, and can be economically prepared in large-sized graphene paper, therefore may be efficiently applied to various electrical devices such as thin-film electrodes, flexible electrodes, super capacitors, semiconductor insulating layer reinforcements and TFT semiconductor layer-electrodes, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
    Inventors: Wonoh Lee, Jea Uk Lee, Jin-Woo Yi, Sang-Bok Lee, Jun-Hyung Byun, Byung-Sun Kim