Patents Examined by Carlos N. Lopez
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Patent number: RE47839Abstract: An LCD device includes a plurality of gate lines and data lines cross-arranged on a lower substrate to define a plurality of pixels, a pixel electrode disposed in each of the pixels, a plurality of common electrode blocks pattern-formed that generate an electric field with the pixel electrode and sensing a touch of a user, a plurality of sensing lines, a plurality of pad parts arranged to be separated from each other at predetermined intervals along a corresponding sensing line, and having a line width thicker than the sensing line, and a contact part disposed between a corresponding pad part and a corresponding common electrode block, and electrically connecting a corresponding sensing line and the common electrode block. When the sensing lines are electrically connected to one of the common electrode blocks, the sensing lines are electrically insulated from the other common electrode blocks.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sun Jung Lee, In Hyuk Song, Heesun Shin
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Patent number: RE47862Abstract: Disclosed are compositions comprising HFC-245eb and at least one additional compound selected from the group consisting of HFO-1234ze, HFC-245fa, HFC-236cb, HFC-236ea, HFC-236fa, HFC-227ea, HFC-227ca, HFO-1225yc, HFO-1225zc, HFO-1225ye, methane, ethane, propane, HFC-23, HFC-143a, HFC-134, HFC-134a, FC-1216, HFO-1234yf, HFC-254eb, HFO-1243zf, and HFC-254fb. Compositions comprising HFC-245eb are useful in processes to make HFO-1234yf. Also disclosed are compositions comprising HFO-1234yf and at least one additional compound selected from the group consisting of HFO-1234ze, HFC-254eb, HFC-254fb, HFO-1243zf, HFCHFC-245eb, HFC-245fa, HFC-245cb, HFC-236cb, HFC-236ea, HFC-236fa, HFC-227ea, HFC-227ca, HFO-1225yc, HFO-1225zc, HFO-1225ye, methane, ethane, propane, HFC-23, HFC-134, HFC-134a, HFO-1132a and FC-1216. Compositions comprising HFO-1234yf are useful as heat transfer compositions for use in refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump systems.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: THE CHEMOURS COMPANY FC, LLCInventors: Barry Asher Mahler, Mario Joseph Nappa, Jeffrey P Knapp
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Patent number: RE47907Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each pixel having a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode. A first thin film transistor is connected to the first sub-pixel electrode. A second thin film transistor is connected to the second sub-pixel electrode. A third thin film transistor is connected to the second sub-pixel electrode. A fourth thin film transistor is connected to a drain electrode of the third thin film transistor. A first gate line is connected to the first thin film transistor and the second thin film transistor. A data line is connected to the first thin film transistor and the second thin film transistor. A second gate line is connected to the third thin film transistor. A third gate line is connected to the fourth thin film transistor.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chang-Soo Lee, Kee-Bum Park, Yun Jae Park, Jong Jae Lee, Hoi Sik Moon
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Patent number: RE48122Abstract: A filter element for fuel, oil or other engine fluids, with an endplate that is designed to create flow paths for both clean and dirty regions. The filter element is part of a spin-on filter that is attachable to a filter head in an engine and that filters fuel, oil or other engine fluids. A pre-fill cap can be integrally incorporated onto the endplate to permit pre-filling and installation without removing components.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.Inventors: Ismail Bagci, Aaron Wells, Amos Samuel
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Patent number: RE48349Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display device includes a first substrate including a display region, wherein a plurality of pixel regions are defined in the display region; a first electrode over the first substrate and in each of the plurality of pixel regions; a first bank on edges of the first electrode and including an insulating material blocking penetration of light; a second bank on the first bank and including an insulating material having a hydrophobic property; an organic light emitting layer on the first electrode and a portion of the first bank; and a second electrode on the organic light emitting layer and covering an entire surface of the display region.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kang-Hyun Kim, Ki-Soub Yang, Dae-Jung Choi, Seung-Ryul Choi, Han-Hee Kim, Kyoung-Jin Park
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Patent number: RE48584Abstract: A method for reinforcing a part of a building comprises the step of adhesively bonding a textile to the surface of the part of a building by means of an adhesive. The invention relates further to such a reinforced part of a building and to the use of a textile in combination with an adhesive for reinforcing a part of a building, wherein the textile is adhesively bonded to the surface of the part of a building by means of an adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: COVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AGInventors: Harald Kraus, Wolfgang Arndt, Matthias Wintermantel, Heinz-Werner Lucas, Dirk Dijkstra, Lothar Stempniewski, Moritz Urban
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Patent number: RE48827Abstract: A microchip is provided that includes a flow path through which a liquid containing a micro particle flows, an orifice through which the liquid flowing through the flow path is discharged into a space outside the microchip, and a light-irradiated portion provided at a predetermined location of the flow path and configured to be irradiated with light. A width of the flow path and a depth of the flow path at the orifice are set to be smaller than a width of the flow path and a depth of the flow path at the light-irradiated portion, and the flow path is configured to gradually decrease from upstream of the orifice in a cross-section area perpendicular to a liquid-delivering direction between the light-irradiated portion and the orifice. A cartridge including the microchip is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masataka Shinoda
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Patent number: RE48927Abstract: A terminal assembly comprises a conductor and an electrical terminal having a connection area connected to the conductor. A seal of the terminal assembly seals the connection area in a fluid-tight manner. The seal is composed of a foamable sealing material which includes an activatable blowing agent.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Helge Schmidt, Maryam Haghighi, Stefan Thoss
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Patent number: RE48971Abstract: A refractory mold is disclosed. The refractory mold includes a fugitive pattern assembly comprising a hollow sprue that comprises a sprue wall disposed about a longitudinal axis; a pattern disposed outwardly of the sprue wall; and an outwardly extending gate attached to and extending between the sprue wall and the pattern, the hollow sprue, pattern and gate each formed from a fugitive material; and a refractory mold formed on and having a mold cavity defined by an outer surface of the fugitive pattern assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventors: Michael R. Hanrahan, Skip L. Patteuw
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Patent number: RE49063Abstract: A radial pattern assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a hollow sprue comprising a sprue wall disposed about a longitudinal axis, the sprue wall having a thickness, a length and a periphery. The assembly also includes a pattern disposed radially outwardly of the sprue wall. The assembly further includes a radially outwardly extending gate attached to and extending between the sprue wall and the pattern, the hollow sprue, pattern and gate each formed from a fugitive material.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventors: Michael R. Hanrahan, Skip L. Patteuw
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Patent number: RE49213Abstract: A media pack for including in a filter cartridge of an air filter arrangement, is provided. A variety of configurations for the media pack are described and shown, an example shown being trapezoidal. Filter cartridges including such media packs, air cleaner assemblies and equipment systems are described. Also methods of use assembly are described.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventors: Benny K. Nelson, David W. Nelson
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Patent number: RE49292Abstract: A rotating drum screen method for separating solids from thin stillage obtained from ethanol fermentation, the thin stillage comprising one or more of solids and suspended solids. Thin stillage is chemically treated with an anionic polymer to form stable particles of one or more of solids and suspended solids. Introducing the treated thin stillage into a rotating drum screen system. The drum screen includes a filter screen that retains at least a portion of the solids within a hollow portion of the drum screen and which produces a liquid effluent that is discharged from an outer surface of the drum screen. The retained solids are removable from the drum screen via a solid discharge end. A head box is disposed within the hollow portion of the drum screen and has a plurality of fluid flow channel dividers dividing and directing an influent stream outwardly against the drum screen.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: WATER SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventors: Michael B. LoCascio, Stephen D. Allen
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Patent number: RE49307Abstract: Alkali-doped boroaluminosilicate glasses are provided. The glasses include the network formers SiO2, B2O3, and Al2O3. The glass may, in some embodiments, have a Young's modulus of less than about 65 GPa and/or a coefficient of thermal expansion of less than about 40×10?7/° C. The glass may be used as a cover glass for electronic devices, a color filter substrate, a thin film transistor substrate, or an outer clad layer for a glass laminate.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Adam James Ellison, Jason Sanger Frackenpohl, John Christopher Mauro, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Natesan Venkataraman
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Patent number: RE49319Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary battery including positive and negative electrodes, a separator element, an electrical conductor element and a binder, wherein the positive electrode includes a lithium-containing metal phosphate compound coated with a carbon material having at least one phase selected from a graphene phase and an amorphous phase, and further includes carbon black and a fibrous carbon material and wherein the negative-electrode material includes a graphite carbon material having at least one carbon phase selected from a graphene phase and an amorphous phase, and further includes carbon black and a fibrous carbon material, and wherein the binder includes a water-soluble synthetic resin or a water-dispersible synthetic resin. The most preferred positive electrode includes LiFePO4, The most preferred negative electrode includes artificial graphite or graphitazable powder. The most preferred binder is carboxyl methyl cellulose further including a surface active agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: HYDRO-QUEBECInventors: Karim Zaghib, Shinji Saito, Abdelbast Guerfi, Takehiko Sawai, Kazunori Urao, Jun Nakagawa, Francis Barray, Joel Frechette
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Patent number: RE49402Abstract: An LCD device includes a plurality of gate lines and data lines cross-arranged on a lower substrate to define a plurality of pixels, a pixel electrode disposed in each of the pixels, a plurality of common electrode blocks pattern-formed that generate an electric field with the pixel electrode and sensing a touch of a user, a plurality of sensing lines, a plurality of pad parts arranged to be separated from each other at predetermined intervals along a corresponding sensing line, and having a line width thicker than the sensing line, and a contact part disposed between a corresponding pad part and a corresponding common electrode block, and electrically connecting a corresponding sensing line and the common electrode block. When the sensing lines are electrically connected to one of the common electrode blocks, the sensing lines are electrically insulated from the other common electrode blocks.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sun Jung Lee, In Hyuk Song, Heesun Shin
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Patent number: RE49415Abstract: Cement-SCM blends employ particle packing principles to increase particle packing density and reduce interstitial spacing between the cement and SCM particles. Particle packing reduces the amount of water required to obtain a cement paste having a desired flow, lowers the water-cementitious material ratio (w/cm), and increases early and long-term strengths. This may be accomplished by providing a hydraulic cement fraction having a narrow PSD and at least one SCM fraction having a mean particle size that differs from the mean particle size of the narrow PSD cement by a multiple of 3.0 or more to yield a cement-SCM blend having a particle packing density of at least 57.0%.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: ROMAN CEMENT, LLCInventors: John M. Guynn, Andrew S. Hansen
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Patent number: RE49587Abstract: A cylindrical column-shaped honeycomb adsorbent has a plurality of cell passages extending along an axial direction of the honeycomb adsorbent. The plurality of cell passages are configured so that a pitch of adjacent cell passages is within a range of 1.5 mm˜1.8 mm, and so that a thickness of a wall between the cell passages is within a range of 0.45 mm˜0.60 mm. With this configuration, the honeycomb adsorbent exhibits BWC (Butane Working Capacity) of 6.5 g/dL or greater. By mixing fibrous meltable core melting away during baking, the honeycomb adsorbent has macropores configured to have a volume of 0.15 mL/g˜0.35 mL/g with respect to an overall weight of the honeycomb adsorbent and metal oxide particles having a proportion of weight of 150˜250% with respect to the activated carbon.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Inventors: Takashi Hasumi, Junpei Omichi, Koji Yamasaki
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Patent number: RE49589Abstract: The present invention relates to a pump unit applied to a high-pressure cleaning machine, including: a water inlet chamber, a water outlet chamber, and a central chamber connected to the water inlet chamber and the water outlet chamber. The pump unit further includes a plunger disposed in the central chamber and an eccentric mechanism connected to the plunger. The eccentric mechanism drives the plunger to perform reciprocating motion in the central chamber.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., LtdInventors: Pinghua Wu, Yong Qiao, Haijun Zhang
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Patent number: RE49895Abstract: A thermally tempered glass element is provided made of glass with two opposite faces that are under compressive stress of at least 40 MPa. The glass has a working point at which the glass has a viscosity of 104 dPa·s of at most 1350° C. The glass has a viscosity versus temperature profile and a coefficient of thermal expansion versus temperature profile of the glass are such that a variable (750° C.-T13)/(CTELiq-CTEsSol) has a value of at most 5*106 K2. The CTELiq is a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the glass above a glass transition temperature Tg, the CTESol is a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the glass in a temperature range from 20° C. to 300° C., and the T13 is a temperature at which the glass has a viscosity of 1013 dPa·s.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Michael Schwall, Christian Mix, Jochen Alkemper, Peter Thomas
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Patent number: RE49917Abstract: The present disclosure provides a slipsheet and/or divider sheet and method for making the same, and method for moving and storing containers with use of the slipsheets or divider sheets. The sheets have an imprint or an embossing that provides a raised planar surface. The raised planar surface preferably comprises a plurality of ridges, crowns or crests, which are preferably arranged in a pattern throughout an upper surface of the sheet. To make the sheet, a die can be etched to have protuberances or bumps, and the die is preferably pressed into a sheet of pliable thermoplastic material. The sheet thus made has a plurality of indentations formed by the protuberances or bumps on the die, and the sheet has a planar outer surface comprising a plurality of ridges, crowns and crests between the indentations.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Fresh-Pak LLCInventor: John Bazbaz