Patents Examined by Carol Chaney
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Patent number: 7431958Abstract: The present invention relates to a use of brown color natural anti-oxidant fraction from fruit of the plant Cinnamomun zeylanicum for preserving the food articles, and a simple and efficient process for the preparation of a brown color natural antioxidant fraction from fruits of the plant Cinnamomun zeylanicum, wherein the solvents can be regenerated, and lastly, the fraction per se.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2004Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial ResearchInventor: Guddadarangavvanahally Krishnareddy Jayaprakasha
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Patent number: 7427421Abstract: Saturated and unsaturated compounds having sweet, salt or umami taste enhancement qualities. The compounds have the structure: where R1?H or methyl; R2 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C4 alkyl, alkenyl and methylene; R3 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C8 straight or branched chain alkyl, alkenyl, dienalkyl or phenyl; or if R1?H, R2 and R3 taken together can represent cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl, cyclopentyl, cyclopentenyl, cyclohexyl, or cyclohexenyl; R4 is selected from the group consisting of H, methyl and ethyl; R5 is selected from the group consisting of H, methyl and ethyl; R6 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C9 straight or branched chain alkyl, alkenyl, alkyldienyl, acyclic or containing no more than one ring; with the proviso that in structure 1 when R4 is H or Me; and R5?H or methyl, R6 may be selected from the group described above or phenyl.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2004Date of Patent: September 23, 2008Assignee: International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.Inventors: Mark L. Dewis, Garry Conklin, Tao Pei
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Patent number: 7425369Abstract: A base sheet of transparent polycarbonate material has a formed shape including a center portion and a peripheral portion. The center portion is formed by a non-contact forming operation occurring at a temperature above the glass transition temperature and below the melt temperature of the transparent polycarbonate material, thereby resulting in the center portion of the base sheet being free of visual distortion. A top coat layer is disposed over the base sheet. The top coat layer has a greater resistance to abrasion than the polycarbonate material and provides UV protection to the base sheet. A primer coating is disposed between the base sheet and the top coat layer to facilitate bonding therebetween. The peripheral portion can have a shape created by a contact forming operation occurring at a temperature above the glass transition temperature and below the melt temperature of the polycarbonate material.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2002Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Inventors: Edwin J Oakey, Rodney M Tinney
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Patent number: 7390580Abstract: A method of preventing particles of elastomeric material employed as seals or spacers in a sanitary piping system from entering the product stream, comprising applying an effective amount of comminuted iron powder to the elastomeric base material prior to forming said material into said seals or spacers, magnetically sensing said particles in said piping system; and responsive to said magnetic sensing diverting a portion of said product stream containing said particles.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2005Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Rubber Fab Gasket & Molding, Inc.Inventor: Robert Dupont
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Patent number: 7384700Abstract: A leader tape comprising a support and a coating layer containing powder and a binder, wherein at least one surface of the leader tape has a center line average surface roughness (Ra) of from 10 to 60 nm, and depression hardness (DH) defined by the following equation (1) of from 60 to 140 kg/mm2 (0.588 to 1.372 GPa): DH=3.7926×10?2[Pmax/(Hmax)2](kg/mm2) ??(1) wherein Pmax is a maximum load and Hmax is a maximum displacement amount of an indenter.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2005Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Satoru Hayakawa
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Patent number: 7381485Abstract: A magnetic recording tape comprising a nonmagnetic support and a magnetic layer containing ferromagnetic powder and a binder, wherein the nonmagnetic support has an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.40 to 0.60 dl/g and a number average molecular weight of from 12,000 to 24,000, and a distance between an apex of a maximum convexity and a valley of a maximum concavity of the nonmagnetic support on a cross section of an edge of the tape made by cutting the tape in a transverse direction is 2 ?m or less in the transverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2005Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Ishikawa, Mikio Ohno, Tomohiro Ichikawa
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Patent number: 7381484Abstract: A magnetic recording tape comprising a magnetic layer, a flexible support and a back coat layer in this order, wherein the support is a polyester film having an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.40 to 0.60 dl/g and a number average molecular weight of from 12,000 to 24,000, a surface of the back coat layer has protrusions having a height of 100 nm or more measured with an atomic force microscope in a density of from 10 to 500 in 90 ?m square, and a ratio of a total number of protrusions having a height of 50 nm or more on the surface of the back coat layer to a total number of protrusions having a height of 100 nm or more on the surface of the back coat layer is from 10 to 100.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2005Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kiyomi Ejiri
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Patent number: 7381480Abstract: A magnetic recording element includes a fixed layer having first and second surfacesm, a recording layer having third and fourth surfaces and being essentially made of a ferromagnetic material having first and second atomic potentials for the majority-spin band electrons and the minority-spin band electrons, a spacer layer being arranged between the fixed and recording layers and being in contact with the second and third surfaces, a cap layer having fifth and sixth surfaces, being essentially made of a nonmagnetic material having a third atomic potential less than an intermediate value between the first and second atomic potentials, and having a thickness of not more than 3 nm, the fifth surface being in contact with the fourth surface, and a reflecting layer being in contact with the sixth surface and being essentially made of a nonmagnetic material having a forth atomic potential different from the third atomic potential.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shiho Nakamura, Shigeru Haneda, Hirofumi Morise
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Patent number: 7368189Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprising: a magnetic layer containing ferromagnetic powder and a binder; a nonmagnetic support; and a back coat layer, in this order, wherein the nonmagnetic support contains polyester having an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.40 to 0.60 dl/g and a number average molecular weight of from 12,000 to 24,000, a surface of the magnetic layer on a side not having the nonmagnetic support has a surface roughness Ra of from 1 to 5 nm, and a surface of the back coat layer on a side not having the nonmagnetic support has a surface roughness Ra of from 6 to 20 nm.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2005Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Mikio Ohno, Tatsuo Ishikawa, Tomohiro Ichikawa
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Patent number: 7368186Abstract: The master carrier for magnetic transfer of the invention comprises a support and a magnetic layer formed on the surface of the support, wherein an uneven transfer pattern that corresponds to the information to be transferred to a magnetic recording medium is formed in the surface of the magnetic layer, and a relief is formed in the site where the transfer pattern is not formed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2004Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoto Fujiwara, Seiji Kasahara, Kazuhiro Niitsuma
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Patent number: 7368184Abstract: A magnetic recording medium which has a high areal density and reduced power consumption for recording operations, and a magnetic recording device incorporating the magnetic recording medium. The magnetic recording medium has an upper soft magnetic layer formed uniformly along a plane including the upper surface of a recording layer over the convex and concave portions of a concavo-convex pattern in the recording layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2004Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Akimasa Kaizu, Yoshikazu Soeno
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Patent number: 7368188Abstract: A magnetic recording medium including a polymer support having thereon at least one magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic metal powder having an average major axis length of from 20 to 100 nm or a ferromagnetic hexagonal ferrite powder having an average tabular diameter of from 5 to 40 nm and a binder, the polymer support having an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.47 to 0.51 dL/g, a Young's modulus in the machine direction of from 7.0 to 8.6 GPa, a Young's modulus in the transverse direction of from 5.4 to 8.0 GPa, and a breaking strength in the transverse direction of from 370 to 450 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2005Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Katsuhiko Meguro, Masatoshi Takahashi
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Patent number: 7357998Abstract: A disk substrate for a perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprises a disk base member, a soft magnetic layer formed on the disk base member, and a protection layer formed on the soft magnetic layer. The soft magnetic layer and the protection layer are deposited by sputtering. A perpendicular magnetic recording disk comprises the above-mentioned disk substrate and at least a perpendicular magnetic recording layer formed thereon. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer is deposited on the disk substrate by sputtering after the disk substrate is heated.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2004Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Kong Kim, Junichi Horikawa
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Patent number: 7354629Abstract: A method of forming a protective film that restrains gas adsorption while preserving durability and corrosion resistance of a plasma CVD carbon film is disclosed. A protective film of a slide-resistant member is deposited by means of a plasma CVD method using a raw material of hydrocarbon gas, wherein a bias voltage higher than ?500 V is applied to the slide-resistant member in an initial stage of depositing the protective film, and a bias voltage of ?500 V or lower is applied in a final stage of deposition. A proportion of time duration of the final stage is preferably at most 25% of the total time for depositing the protective film. A magnetic recording medium comprising a magnetic recording layer and a protective film formed by the method also is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Fuji Electric Device Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Naruhisa Nagata
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Patent number: 7351445Abstract: The present invention is directed to carrying out a high density magnetic recording to a material having a large coercive force by perpendicular magnetic recording head. By giving a patterning onto a soft magnetic under layer of a perpendicular two-layer recording media in sync with a period of a recording bit, a magnetic field from a write head can be allowed to converge to a soft magnetic column. Therefore, a magnetization reversal of the magnetic recording media material having a large anisotropic constant becomes possible, and then a high density magnetic recording can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2006Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Chiseki Haginoya, Kaori Suzuki, Hisashi Kimura, Masaaki Futamoto, Hideo Matsuyama
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Patent number: 7341778Abstract: The present invention relates to a radio wave-transmitting, wavelength-selective plate, which is characterized in that a layer composed of Ag fine particles is formed and that the central portions of the Ag fine particles contain an alloy (Ag alloy) formed of Ag and a metal which forms a homogeneous solid solution with Ag (hereinafter referred to as a homogeneous solid solution metal).Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2004Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Central Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Hiroshi Nakashima, Masaaki Yonekura, Hideo Omoto, Motoh Asakura
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Patent number: 7323258Abstract: A magnetic recording medium which allows high density recording and has excellent durability can be obtained. A magnetic recording medium includes: a plurality of ferromagnetic material dots arranged on a soft magnetic layer formed on a non-magnetic substrate so as to be separated from one another; and carbon films which are formed on the respective ferromagnetic material dots, each carbon film having a smooth film face shape in a section passing through the center of each ferromagnetic material dot and a film thickness gradually decreasing from the center of the ferromagnetic material dot toward an outer edge thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshiyuki Kamata, Yuichi Ohsawa, Hiroyuki Hieda, Akira Kikitsu
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Patent number: 7318982Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for coating electroactive particles. Coating materials include a conductive component and a low refractive index component. Coatings are provided in which the conductive and low refractive index components are linked and/or do not form phases having lengthscales greater than about 0.25 ?m. Coatings are provided in which the components are contained in sequential layers.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: A123 Systems, Inc.Inventors: Antoni S. Gozdz, Andrew L. Loxley, Anthony E. Pullen
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Patent number: 7316847Abstract: A vehicle floor tray is molded from a multiple extrusion polymer sheet such that it has high shear and tensile strength, an acceptable degree of stiffness and a high coefficient of friction on its upper surface. The floor tray design is digitally fitted to a foot well of a particular vehicle such that large areas of at least two upstanding walls of the tray depart from respective surfaces of the foot well by no more than an eighth of an inch.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2004Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Inventor: David F. MacNeil
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Patent number: 7297399Abstract: A thermal transport structure having a thermal transport layer and a resin layer is provided. The thermal transport layer may include a first surface and a second surface, and having a thermally conductive material disposed in the thermal transport layer, where the thermally conductive material is oriented in a predetermined direction in order to facilitate heat conduction relative to the predetermined direction. Further, the resin layer is secured to the thermal transport layer second surface, where the resin layer is relatively less thermally conductive than the thermal transport layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2005Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jian Zhang, Sandeep Shrikant Tonapi, Ryan Christopher Mills, Arun Virupaksha Gowda