Patents Examined by Cameron K Miller
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Patent number: 12024461Abstract: An opaque gahnite-spinel glass ceramic is provided. The glass ceramic includes a first crystal phase including (MgxZn1-x)Al2O4 where x is less than 1 and a second crystal phase includes at least one of tetragonal ZrO2, MgTa2O6, mullite, and cordierite. The glass ceramic has a Young's modulus greater than or equal to 90 GPa, and has a hardness greater than or equal to 7.5 GPa. The glass ceramic may be ion exchanged. Methods for producing the glass ceramic are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: George Halsey Beall, Alexandra Lai Ching Kao Andrews Mitchell, Charlene Marie Smith
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Patent number: 12024469Abstract: Provided are a powder for laser manufacturing which can be stably manufactured and from which a three-dimensional manufactured object ensuring a manufacturing accuracy can be obtained and a using method thereof. A powder for ceramic manufacturing for obtaining a manufactured object by repeatedly sintering or fusing and solidifying in sequence a powder in an irradiation portion with laser light, in which the powder includes a plurality of compositions, at least one composition of the compositions is an absorber that relatively strongly absorbs the laser light compared to other compositions, and at least a part of the absorber changes to a different composition that relatively weakly absorbs the laser light by irradiation with the laser light and a using method of a powder in which the powder is used.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KA HAInventors: Nobuhiro Yasui, Hisato Yabuta, Kanako Oshima, Hiroshi Saito, Yoshihiro Ohashi, Makoto Kubota, Akira Uebayashi
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Patent number: 12012364Abstract: A long-term ablation-resistant nitrogen-containing carbide ultra-high temperature ceramic with an ultra-high melting point is prepared as follows: preparing the HfC powder and the HfN powder according to a mass ratio of HfC:HfN=(1-7):1; uniformly mixing the HfC powder and the HfN powder with the carbon powder and the carbon nitride powder to obtain a mixed powder, wherein the amount of the carbon powder and the amount of the carbon nitride powder do not exceed 8.0 wt. % and 5.0 wt. %, respectively, of the mixed powder mass; and performing spark plasma sintering on the mixed powder to produce the ceramic with the ultra-high melting point, a density ?98%, and a uniform C/N content distribution. The ultra-high temperature ceramic is suitable for ultra-high temperature ablation-resistant protection at ?3000° C. The ceramic maintains a close to zero ablation rate and a continuously stable oxidation-resistant protective structure after ablation for 300 s.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITYInventors: Wei Sun, Zheng Peng, Xiang Xiong
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Patent number: 12015092Abstract: The present invention(s) is directed to novel conductive Mn+1Xn(Ts) compositions exhibiting high volumetric capacitances, and methods of making the same. The present invention(s) is also directed to novel conductive Mn+1Xn(Ts) compositions, methods of preparing transparent conductors using these materials, and products derived from these methods.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Drexel UniversityInventors: Michael J Ghidiu, Michel W Barsoum, Yury Gogotsi, Aaron Thomas Fafarman, Andrew DeVries Dillon
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Patent number: 12006255Abstract: A chemically toughenable or toughened glass has, before chemical toughening, a thickness t of at most 1100 ?m. The glass comprises the following components: 45-75 mol-% SiO2; 10-25 mol-% Al2O3; >1-11 mol-% Li2O; 0-15 mol-% P2O5; 0-8 mol-% B2O3; and 0-5 mol-% TiO2. The average number of bridging oxygen per polyhedron (BO) calculated as 2*4?2*(cmol(O)/(cmol(Si)+cmol(Al)+cmol(B)+cmol(P)+cmol(Ti))) is higher than 3.55. Upon chemical toughening, the linear dimension variation in the unit of percentage (V1) is so low that the overall geometry variation (OGV) calculated as (DoL/t)/V1 is higher than 0.8. DoL is the total depth of all ion-exchange layers on one side of the glass and DoL is more than 1 ?m, when the glass is chemically toughened with NaNO3 only, KNO3 only or with both KNO3 and NaNO3.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: SCHOTT Glass Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.Inventors: Junming Xue, Feng He, Jose Zimmer, Ning Da
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Patent number: 12006247Abstract: Lithium silicate materials are described which can be easily processed by machining to dental products without undue wear of the tools and which subsequently can be converted into lithium silicate products showing high strength.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AGInventors: Elke Signer-Apel, Wolfram Höland, Marcel Schweiger, Christian Ritzberger, Harald Bürke, Volker Rheinberger
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Patent number: 12006248Abstract: A glass-ceramic article comprises: a center-volume composition comprising (on an oxide basis): 55-75 mol % SiO2; 0.2-10 mol % Al2O3; 0-5 mol % B2O3; 15-30 mol % Li2O; 0-2 mol % Na2O; 0-2 mol % K2O; 0-5 mol % MgO; 0-2 mol % ZnO; 0.2-3.0 mol % P2O5; 0.1-10 mol % ZrO2; 0-4 mol % TiO2; and 0-1.0 mol % SnO2. Lithium disilicate and either ?-spodumene or ?-quartz are the two predominant crystalline phases (by weight) of the glass-ceramic article. The glass-ceramic article further comprises tetragonal ZrO2 as a crystalline phase. The composition of the glass-ceramic article from a primary surface into a thickness of the glass-ceramic article can comprise over 10 mol % Na2O (on an oxide basis), with the mole percentage of Na2O decreasing from the primary surface towards the center-volume. The glass-ceramic article exhibits a ring-on-ring load-to-failure of at least 120 kgf, when the thickness of the glass-ceramic article is 0.3 mm to 2.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Carol Ann Click, Qiang Fu, Mathieu Gerard Jacques Hubert, Charlene Marie Smith, Alana Marie Whittier
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Patent number: 11987529Abstract: The light shielding member of the present disclosure includes an aluminum oxide ceramics including an oxide of titanium whose composition formula is shown as TiO2-x (1?x<2), and a total content of Fe, Ni, Co, Mn and Cr is 260 mass ppm or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Satoshi Kiyota, Kazuo Watada, Takehisa Higa, Masamichi Shingu, Kunihide Shikata
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Patent number: 11976000Abstract: The present disclosure concerns expandable silica particles having a coating comprising talc powder and kaolin powder provided on the outer surface of the expandable silica particle and expandable and expanded silica particles comprising silica fume and/or ultrafine quartz silica sand beneath the surface of the particles. Methods for producing expandable and expanded silica particles are disclosed, including a method using a vibration plate and a furnace having a vibration plate for carrying out that method. The expanded silica particles have high compressive strength, substantially uniform cell size and distribution, low water absorption, and low porosity on the outer surface. They are useful as a filler in matrix materials, like concrete or epoxy, as insulation material with various binder materials, and as water filtration medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: VALUNOR AGInventors: Finn Erik Solvang, Norman Blank
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Patent number: 11972903Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes, wherein the dielectric layers and the internal electrodes are stacked alternately; and external electrodes provided on end surfaces of the multilayer body and electrically connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the dielectric layers each include main crystal grains including calcium and/or strontium, and zirconium; and an additive component including lithium, the internal electrodes include copper, and the dielectric layers have lithium concentrations with a standard deviation of about 1.03 atomic percent or less in the thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Izumi, Yuu Mikami
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Patent number: 11964907Abstract: Glass compositions include one or more of silica (SiO2), magnesia (MgO) and alumina (Al2O3) as essential components and may optionally include sodium oxide (Na2O), potassium oxide (K2O), zirconia (ZrO2), titania (TiO2), zinc oxide (ZnO), manganese oxide (MnO2), hafnium oxide (HfO2) and other components. The glasses may be characterized by low density at room temperature.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: George Halsey Beall, John Philip Finkeldey, Charlene Marie Smith
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Patent number: 11964916Abstract: A layered body, which has a change in texture derived from zirconia, particularly a change in translucency and is suitable as a dental prosthetic member, a precursor thereof, or a method for producing these. The layered body has a structure in which two or more layers containing zirconia containing a stabilizer are layered, the layered body including at least: a first layer containing zirconia having a stabilizer content of higher than or equal to 4 mol %; and a second layer containing zirconia having a stabilizer content different from that of the zirconia contained in the first layer. At least one layer contains one or more elements capable of coloring zirconia.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: TOSOH CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Ushio, Akiko Ito, Sho Azechi, Hiroyuki Fujisaki
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Patent number: 11958772Abstract: A glass frit according to this application may include a composition of P2O5, V2O5, TeO2, CuO, ZnO, and BaO configured to replace a conventional lead glass composition and enable a low temperature calcination. A coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the glass frit may be matched with that of a glass substrate. The composition may not include an inorganic filler or at least reduce a content of an inorganic filler to reduce or prevent separation and breakage and to improve durability. The glass frit may be used as a paste for a vacuum glass assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Wongyu Choi, Young Seok Kim
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Patent number: 11958783Abstract: A composition including a binder and a variable thermal conductivity material satisfying a conditional expression 1, wherein a content of the variable thermal conductivity material is from 300 parts by weight to 10,000 parts by weight with respect to a content of 100 parts by weight of the binder: ?max/?25?1.2??[conditional expression 1] (wherein, ?25 represents a thermal conductivity at 25° C., and ?max represents the maximum value of a thermal conductivity at 200° C. or 500° C.).Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Satoshi Shimano, Atsunori Doi, Fumio Tamura
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Patent number: 11955283Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition includes a barium titanate, an oxide of an R element, an oxide of an M element, and an oxide containing Si. The R element is one or more elements selected from Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Y, Ho, and Yb. The M element is one or more elements selected from Mg, Ca, Mn, V, and Cr. A ratio of an amount of the oxide of the R element in terms of R2O3 to an amount of the oxide containing Si in terms of SiO2 is 0.8:1 to 2.2:1. A ratio of an amount of the oxide of the M element in terms of MO to the amount of the oxide containing Si in terms of SiO2 is 0.2:1 to 1.8:1.50% or more of the number of dielectric particles constituting the dielectric ceramic composition is core-shell dielectric particles having a core-shell structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Taku Murakami, Nobuto Morigasaki, Dan Sakurai, Takuma Ariizumi, Toshihiko Kaneko
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Patent number: 11951592Abstract: Shot-peening powder that has ceramic particles. The powder having more than 95% by mass of beads. The beads having a median size D50 greater than 50 ?m and less than 1200 ?m, and having a value (D90?D10)/D50, or “S”, such that S??0.126·ln(D50)+0.980.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Julien Cabrero, Anne-Laure Beaudonnet, Yves Léon Marcel Boussant-Roux, Benjamin Gilbert Robert Levy
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Patent number: 11948752Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode, and an external electrode disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrode. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric grains, and at least one of the plurality of dielectric grains has a core-dual shell structure having a core and a dual shell. The dual shell includes a first shell surrounding at least a portion of the core, and a second shell surrounding at least a portion of the first shell, and a concentration of a rare earth element included in the second shell is more than 1.3 times to less than 3.8 times a concentration of a rare earth element included in the first shell.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung Hyung Kang, Jong Hyun Cho, Ji Hong Jo, Hang Kyu Cho, Jae Shik Shim, Yong In Kim, Sang Roc Lee
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Patent number: 11936088Abstract: A method of forming a composite material for use as an isolator or circulator in a radiofrequency device comprises providing a low temperature fireable outer material, the low fireable outer material having a garnet or scheelite structure, inserting a high dielectric constant inner material having a dielectric constant above 30 within an aperture in the low temperature fireable outer material, and co-firing the lower temperature fireable outer material and the high dielectric constant inner material together at temperature between 650-900° C. to shrink the low temperature fireable outer material around an outer surface of the high dielectric constant inner material to form an integrated magnetic/dielectric assembly without the use of adhesive or glue.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Michael David Hill, David Bowie Cruickshank, Jeffrey Alan Shunkwiler, John Jianzhong Jiang, David Martin Firor, Srinivas Polisetty
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Patent number: 11926563Abstract: Provided is a crystallized glass substrate including a surface with a compressive stress layer, in which a gradient A of a surface compressive stress from an outermost surface to a depth of 6 ?m in the compressive stress layer is 50.0 to 110.0 MPa/?m, a gradient B of a surface compressive stress from a depth of (a stress depth DOLzero—10 ?m) to the stress depth DOLzero is 2.5 to 15.0 MPa/?m, where the stress depth DOLzero is a depth of the compressive stress layer at a surface compressive stress of 0 MPa, and a hardness of the outermost surface at an indentation depth of 20 nm is 7.50 to 9.50 GPa.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: OHARA INC.Inventors: Toshitaka Yagi, Kohei Ogasawara
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Patent number: 11925980Abstract: It is intended to suppress flaming and smoking due to combustion of combustible substances in a certain-shaped joint material, while maintaining hot sealability of the certain-shaped joint material. A certain-shaped joint material for hot installation is obtained by: adding organic additives to a blend in a combined amount of 26 mass % to 50 mass %, with respect to and in addition to 100 mass % of the blend, wherein the blend comprises 50 mass % to 90 mass % of gibbsite type aluminum hydroxide raw material, 1 mass % to 9 mass % of clay, and 9 mass % to 23 mass % of graphite, with the remainder mainly composed of an additional refractory raw material; and subjecting the resulting mixture to kneading, forming and drying.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: KROSAKIHARIMA CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Oouchi, Masaki Yamamoto