Patents Examined by Christopher M Polley
  • Patent number: 11692359
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system, method, and apparatus for producing a dimensionally stable extruded board product for use in surface coverings. The board product may be a basalt casting powder-based product for use as a substrate for wall or other surface coverings or may be used as a core layer in a modular floor covering unit. The modular floor covering unit comprises multiple layers. The layers are a thin cut stone veneer layer, a core layer with a density similar to that of the thin cut stone veneer layer, and an optional magnetically receptive underlayment layer. Other layers or combinations of layers may also be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Golconda Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Shane S. LeBlanc
  • Patent number: 11685142
    Abstract: A cover window according to an embodiment includes a first layer having a first Young's modulus, and a second modulus layer disposed on the first modulus layer and having a second Young's modulus greater than the first Young's modulus. Each of the first modulus layer and the second modulus layer includes a polymer resin and glass fibers, and a volume ratio of the glass fibers in the first modulus layer is greater than a volume ratio of the glass fibers in the second modulus layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su Jin Sung, Young-Min Park
  • Patent number: 11680175
    Abstract: A composition including a first color shifting pigment having a first color shift that extends from a starting color at normal through a plurality of colors as a viewing angle is increased to a final color, wherein the first color shift rotates counterclockwise relative to, and about, an origin of the L*a*b* color space; and a color filter that transmits a portion of the first color shift of the first color shifting pigment and absorbs a remainder of the first color shift of the first color shifting pigment; wherein the composition has a second color shift different from the first color shift; and wherein the second color shift has a first portion that rotates counterclockwise relative to the origin and a second portion that rotates clockwise relative to the origin is disclosed. A security device including the composition is included. A method of making the composition and a method of authenticating the security device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Cornelis Jan Delst, Paul Thomas Kohlmann
  • Patent number: 11679580
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a ceramic shell, a mobile terminal and a method for manufacturing the ceramic shell. The ceramic shell includes a multi-layer ceramic blank sheet including a plurality of alternately overlapped ceramic blank sheets having at least one white ceramic blank sheet overlapped with at least one color ceramic blank sheet, wherein two of the plurality of alternately overlapped ceramic blank sheets on an outermost side of the multi-layer ceramic blank sheet are both white ceramic blank sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jihong Liu, Jinlong Wang
  • Patent number: 11681195
    Abstract: A laminated structure including: an electrically conductive layer; an underlying layer including a first resin and inorganic particles; a support including a second resin; and a resin layer including a third resin that is at least one selected from the group consisting of a resin of same kind as the second resin and a resin having a softening temperature equal to or lower than a softening temperature of the second resin, the electrically conductive layer, the underlying layer, the support, and the resin layer being disposed in this order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tohru Yashiro, Kohji Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11673368
    Abstract: A decoration member including: a color developing layer including a light reflective layer and a light absorbing layer provided on the light reflective layer; and a substrate provided on one surface of the color developing layer. The substrate includes a pattern layer, and the light absorbing layer includes silicon (Si).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD
    Inventors: Yong Chan Kim, Ki Hwan Kim, Nansra Heo, Jeong Woo Shon, Jin Suk Song, Pilsung Jo
  • Patent number: 11668106
    Abstract: A floor board comprising a substrate having side edges and a decorative surface layer applied to said substrate, said substrate comprising MDF or HDF material at at least one of said side edges, wherein said at least one side edge is treated with an impregnation agent; said at least one side edge together with a side edge opposite thereto forming a first pair of opposite side edges of said substrate; wherein said floor board further comprises a second pair of opposite side edges; wherein at least second pair of opposite side edges comprises mechanical coupling parts allowing to couple said floor board at the respective side edges with a similar floor board by means of a downward motion such that, in a coupled condition, said floor board and said similar floor board become locked both in a direction perpendicular to the plane formed by the coupled floor boards, as well as in a direction perpendicular to the coupled side edges and in the plane of the coupled floor boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ALADDIN MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dieter D'Hondt, Aaron Shaw
  • Patent number: 11660896
    Abstract: A digitally printed security document includes: a security document substrate; a first digitally printed print working on a first surface of the substrate in a first region, the first print working including a first array of printed elements arranged according to a first grid of lattice points having a first pitch; and a second digitally printed print working on the first surface of the substrate in a second region, the second print working including a second array of printed elements arranged across a second grid of lattice points having a second pitch different from the first pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Nikhil Parab, Andrew Francis Wallis, Martin Bannon, Miguel Augusto Da Silva Moura
  • Patent number: 11661495
    Abstract: An organic board of the present disclosure has a resin component comprising at least one resin selected from the group consisting of an epoxy resin, a polyimide resin, a phenolic resin, an amino resin, a polyester resin, a polyphenylene resin, a cyclic olefin resin, and a Teflon (registered trademark) resin as the main component, and a non-resin component including at least one of an inorganic filler and a flame retardant, in which the non-resin component is dispersed in the resin component, at least a part of the non-resin component is agglomerated to form an aggregate, a part of the resin component forms a resin material part having a particle shape, the resin material part exists within the aggregate, or the resin component forms a matrix phase surrounding the aggregate, and there are voids at some interfaces between the resin component and the aggregate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Chie Chikara
  • Patent number: 11656552
    Abstract: A device having color resists pattern and method for manufacturing are disclosed. The device includes a substrate, at least two color resist layers. The at least color resist layers are formed on the curved and construct a visible pattern, wherein at a boundary of the color resist pattern, the at least two color resist layers form a ramp structure and each of the at least two color resist layers contacts the substrate; and the ramp structure is formed in sequential order by one exposure process, one removal process and one baking process of the at least two color resist layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Ming-An Hsu, Wen-Fu Lin
  • Patent number: 11646297
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a glass member having a flat portion and a side portion extending from an edge of the flat portion in at least a partially slanted or curved manner. The side portion includes a first curved portion extending from the flat portion, a second curved portion extending from the first curved portion and connected to the flat portion through the first curved portion, and at least one processing portion formed by at least a part of a border region between the first curved portion and the second curved portion. The at least one processing portion has a different refractive index from at least another portion of the side portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: Jeongwon Lee, Kyungmin Kwak, Heongap Kim
  • Patent number: 11643823
    Abstract: A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate has MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, where the side edge is treated both with an impregnation agent and/or a sealing agent based on a super absorbing material. Also, a method for manufacturing such floor boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: ALADDIN MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dieter D'Hondt, Aaron Shaw
  • Patent number: 11642739
    Abstract: A method of securing a first component part and a second component part together, the method comprising providing an electrically conductive member between a first surface of the first component part and a facing first surface of the second component part and securing the first and second components together by passing a current through the electrically conductive member. The electrically conductive member is distributed across at least 50% of the surface area of the first surface of the first component part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11639448
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a white ink comprising an aqueous ink vehicle, a white colorant, and latex particles. The colorant can consist essentially of metal oxide particles present at from 2 wt % to 50 wt %, can have an average particle size from 100 nm to 1000 nm, and can have a high refractive index from 1.8 to 2.8. The latex can be present in the ink at from 2 wt % to 20 wt %, can have a glass transition temperature from 0° C. to 130° C., and can have a low refractive index from 1.3 to 1.6. The metal oxide particles and latex particles can be present in the white ink at weight ratio is from 6:1 to 1:3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Vladek Kasperchik, Phillip C. Cagle, David Michael Ingle, Paul Joseph Bruinsma
  • Patent number: 11629258
    Abstract: Described is an energy curable ink for use in the production of layered composites the ink comprising 3 to 50% by weight of aminoacrylate as defined herein, 5 to 60% by weight of hydroxyl functional acrylate monomer and wherein the non-volatile content of the ink is not less than 45% by weight. Also described is a layered composite having a layer of the energy curable ink on a substrate and a process for producing a layered composite in which the energy curable ink according to the present invention is printed onto a substrate and then cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Anthony Hall, Thomas Michael Budden
  • Patent number: 11623994
    Abstract: A surface covering is provided. The surface covering includes a laminated panel having top layer and an ultra-violet (UV) curable surface coating applied to the laminated panel. The ultra-violet (UV) curable surface coating has a composition with an oligomer, a monomer, a photoinitiator, abrasive resistant particles, and an antimicrobial additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Decoria Materials (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Allen Chen, Kun He, Shangfei Sun
  • Patent number: 11624156
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to fibrous structures including active agents and having a graphic printed thereon. In some embodiments, a nonwoven web may include a fibrous structure comprising filaments. In turn, the filaments may include filament forming material, and an active agent releasable from the filaments when exposed to conditions of intended use. In addition, a graphic may be printed directly onto the fibrous structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Hui Yang, Alrick Vincent Warner, Andreas Josef Dreher, Mark Robert Sivik
  • Patent number: 11618054
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-, oil- and grease-resistant multilayer coating for a paper-based substrate comprising a water-based inner primer coating, an intermediate polymeric extrusion coating, and a water-based top barrier coating, wherein a surface of the paper-based substrate coated therewith has water, oil and grease barrier properties, and wherein the paper-based substrate coated therewith is repulpable and recyclable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: CASCADES GROUPE PRODUITS SPÉCIALISÉS
    Inventor: Yvon Mongrain
  • Patent number: 11618241
    Abstract: A glass roll (1) includes a laminate film (5) taken up into a roll shape, the laminate film including a glass film (2), a protective film (3), and an adhesive layer (4), which is arranged between the glass film (2) and the protective film (3), and is configured to bond the glass film (2) to the protective film (3). A width (A) of the protective film (3) is larger than a width (B) of the glass film (2), and both end portions (3x) of the protective film (3) in a width direction each protrude with respect to the glass film (2). The width (B) of the glass film (2) is larger than a width (C) of the adhesive layer (4), and both end portions (2x) of the glass film (2) in the width direction each protrude with respect to the adhesive layer (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Mori
  • Patent number: 11607863
    Abstract: A deformable assembly may include a first structural layer, a first bonding layer bonded to the structural layer, and a pattern of functional material entrapped between the first structural layer and first the bonding layer. The functional material has a viscous characteristic, an elastic characteristic and/or a viscoelastic characteristic. The assembly may further include a second structural layer bonded to the first bonding layer. The first structural layer may include a first piece of fabric, the second structural layer may include a second piece of fabric, and the functional material may be electrically conductive. The functional material may include a conductive gel. The assembly may further include a second bonding layer bonded to the first bonding layer and the first structural layer, and the pattern of functional material may be entrapped between the first and second bonding layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Liquid Wire Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ronay