Patents Examined by Colleen P Dunn
  • Patent number: 10865120
    Abstract: An inorganic green pigment includes a material with spinel structure of the general formula selected from the following formulas a) (A1?xB1+x)(C3?x?yD2xB1?x?2yNi3y)O8, wherein 0.05?x?0.9 and 0.05?y?0.5, and wherein x+2y?1; b) (A1?xB1+x)(C3?x?yD2x?yB1?x?yNi2y)O8, wherein 0.05?x?0.5 and 0.05?y?0.5; c) (A1?xB1+x)(C3?x?4yD2xB1?x+yNby)O8, wherein 0.05?x?0.5 and 0.05?y?0.2; d) (A1?xB1+x)(C3?xD2x?2yB1?x+yNby)O8, wherein 0.05?x?0.9 and 0.05?y?0.2, and wherein x?y; and e) (A1?xB1+x)(C3?x?3yD2xB1?xNb2yNiy)O8, wherein 0.05?x?0.9 and 0.05?y?0.2, wherein A is at least one element selected from Co, Zn, Ca, Mg and Cu, wherein B is at least one element selected from Li and Na, wherein C is at least one element selected from Ti, Mn, Sn and Ge, and wherein D is at least one element selected from Cr, B, Fe, Mn and Al.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Helvetia Pigmente AG
    Inventor: Sascha Broll
  • Patent number: 10857652
    Abstract: Provided are: an electroplated tool; a screw-shaped grindstone for grinding a gear; a method for manufacturing the electroplated tool; and a method for manufacturing the crew-shaped grindstone for grinding a gear. Said tool having a parent material, a plating layer that has a high-level portion and a low-level portion formed as strips on the parent material at different heights along the direction intersecting the processing direction, and electrodeposited abrasive grains exposed from the surface of the plating layer. The difference in height of the plating layer is preferably 50-100% of the average particle diameter of the abrasive grains, the width of the high-level portion of the plating layer is preferably 150-200% of the average particle diameter of the abrasive grains, and the width of the low-level portion of the plating layer is preferably 100-800% of the average particle diameter of the abrasive grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Tomizawa, Yu Kubodera, Daisuke Koshino, Shogo Nagayoshi, Takahiro Otsuka
  • Patent number: 10858720
    Abstract: In a method of treating a nitrided/nitrocarburized workpiece, at least a portion of the workpiece is subjected to a first step in which at least one laser beam is moved in at least one pass over the portion, until the surface layer of the portion is transformed in part or in full, and until the distribution of the nitrogen concentration in the diffusion zone is modified. In a second step at least one laser beam is moved in at least one pass over said portion so as to enable the nitrogen concentration in the underlying diffusion layer to be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: H.E.F.
    Inventors: Stéphan Grandjean, Fabrice Prost
  • Patent number: 10857594
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a metal sintered body. The method for producing a metal sintered body in accordance with an embodiment includes (a) disposing a metal powder in a chamber of a spark plasma sintering apparatus, (b) applying a electric current to the metal powder to raise a temperature inside the chamber from a standby temperature to a first sintering temperature, (c) lowering the temperature inside the chamber to a second sintering temperature lower than the first sintering temperature and performing sintering, and (d) lowering the temperature inside the chamber from the second sintering temperature to the standby temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jong Hyun Choi, Hyun Min Sung, Seong Hyeon Hong, Heung Nam Han
  • Patent number: 10851430
    Abstract: A flash ironmaking system and a flash ironmaking method are provided. The flash ironmaking system includes a pulverized coal gasifier; a drying pre-reduction kiln; and a flash furnace having a horizontal bottom in which a molten iron layer region, a slag layer region and a carburizing bed layer region are sequentially formed, a reduction tower, a concentrate nozzle, and a flue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING SHANTIE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhua Deng, Shushan Gong
  • Patent number: 10851434
    Abstract: A steel sheet for a can having sufficient hardness and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.0005% or more and 0.0030% or less, Si: 0.05% or less, Mn: 0.50% or more and 1.00% or less, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 0.04% or less, N: 0.0010% or more and 0.0050% or less, B: 0.0005% or more and 0.0050% or less, and Fe and inevitable impurities. Additionally, the steel sheet has a hardness (HR30T) of 56 or more, and an average Young's modulus of 215 GPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Saito, Mikito Suto, Katsumi Kojima, Hiroki Nakamaru
  • Patent number: 10850984
    Abstract: Methods and processes for synthesizing high quality carbon single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) are provided. A carbon precursor gas at reduced concentration (pressure) is contacted with a catalyst deposited on a support and at temperature about 10° C. above the SWNT synthesis onset temperature, but below the thermal decomposition temperature of the carbon precursor gas for given growth conditions. The concentration (pressure) of the carbon precursor gas can be controlled by reducing the total pressure of the gas, or by diluting with an inert carrier gas, or both. The methods produce SWNTs with the ratio of G-band to D-band in Raman spectra (IG:ID) of about 5 to about 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Avetik R. Harutyunyan, Oleg Kuznetsov
  • Patent number: 10851444
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of non-magnetic, strong carbide forming alloys. In particular, the alloys can be advantageously used for powder manufacturing. Embodiments of the disclosure can have low FCC-BCC transition temperatures in combination with hard particles having a hardness of 1000 Vickers or greater. The alloys can be used in conjunction with, for example, drill pipe tool joints, drill collars, down hole stabilizers, or oilfield components, particularly as a hardbanding component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc.
    Inventors: James Vecchio, Justin Lee Cheney
  • Patent number: 10850326
    Abstract: This invention concerns a laser solidification apparatus for building objects by layerwise solidification of powder material. The apparatus including a build chamber containing a build platform, a device for depositing layers of powder material on to the build platform, an optical unit for directing a laser beam to selectively solidify areas of each powder layer and a spectrometer for detecting characteristic radiation emitted by plasma formed during solidification of the powder by the laser beam. The invention also relates to a spectrometer for detecting characteristic radiation generated by interaction of the metal with the or a further laser beam. The spectra recorded using the spectrometer may be used for feedback control during the solidification process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: RENISHAW PLC
    Inventors: Ian Robert Thomas Ashton, Stephan Kloss, Christopher Sutcliffe, Ben Ian Ferrar
  • Patent number: 10844454
    Abstract: A high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: more than 0.40% and 0.63% or less, Si: 0.10% or less, Mn: 0.50% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.010% or less, sol.Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.0050% or less, B: 0.0005% or more and 0.0050% or less, and at least one of Sb, Sn, Bi, Ge, Te, and Se in an amount of 0.002% or more and 0.030% or less in total. The steel sheet has a microstructure including ferrite and cementite, in which the density of cementite in ferrite grains is 0.13 pieces/?m2 or less. Additionally, the steel sheet has a hardness of 81 or less in terms of HRB and a total elongation of 33% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuka Miyamoto, Takashi Kobayashi, Kaneharu Okuda
  • Patent number: 10844468
    Abstract: A copper alloy sheet material contains, in mass %, Fe: 0.05 to 2.50%, Mg: 0.03 to 1.00%, and P: 0.01 to 0.20%, and the contents of these elements satisfy the relation Mg-1.18(P—Fe/3.6)3 0.03. The Mg solid-solution ratio determined by the amount of dissolved Mg (mass %)/the Mg content of the alloy (mass %) ’ 100 is 50% or more. The density of an Fe—P-based compound having a particle size of 50 nm or more is 10.00 particles/10 mm2 or less, and the density of an Mg—P-based compound having a particle size of 100 nm or more is 10.00 particles/10 mm2 or less. The Cu—Fe—P—Mg-based copper alloy sheet material is excellent in terms of electrical conductivity, strength, bending workability, and stress relaxation resistance in the case where load stress is applied in a direction perpendicular to both a rolling direction and a sheet thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: DOWA METALTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Miyagi, Takashi Suga, Tomotsugu Aoyama, Hiroto Narieda, Hideki Endo, Akira Sugawara
  • Patent number: 10843309
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing a non-woven abrasive article, and non-woven fibers are made of a certain starting material and are subjected to method steps of forming a non-woven web, then consolidating the non-woven web. In order to improve the homogeneity, as well as the reproducibility of the non-woven abrasive article manufactured, the non-woven fibers, prior to the method step of forming a non-woven web and/or prior to the method step of consolidating the non-woven web, are coated with abrasive grains in such a way that the abrasive grains adhere to the certain starting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: VSM Vereinigte Schmirgel-und Maschinen-Fabriken AG
    Inventors: Martin Joppich, Achim Jäger, Jörn-Oliver Nolte, Markus Flory, Andreas Lange
  • Patent number: 10844452
    Abstract: The disclosure contains, in mass % or mass ppm: C: 0.005% or less, Si: 2.0% to 5.0%, Mn: 0.01% to 0.5%, sol.Al: 10 ppm or less, N: 15 ppm or less, S and Se: each 10 ppm or less, and three or more selected from Sn, Sb, Cr, P, Mo and B whose contents satisfy a relational expression of 0.16?[% Sn]+[% Sb]+[% Cr]+2×[% P]+[% Mo]+[% B]?0.50, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, where a number of times of repeated bending in a bend test is 10 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiro Shingaki, Yasuyuki Hayakawa, Masanori Takenaka
  • Patent number: 10836016
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to abrasive articles that include abrasive aggregates of silicon carbide with a vitrified bond, and methods of making and using such abrasive articles and abrasive aggregates. In particular, the abrasive aggregates can possess a combination of beneficial properties and comprise a vitreous binder composition having a specific composition, sintering temperature, glass transition temperature, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignees: SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIVES, INC., SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIFS
    Inventors: Jianna Wang, Shih-Chieh Kung, Timothy E. Scoville, Shyiguei Hsu, Fernando J. Ramirez, Zhong Xu
  • Patent number: 10836912
    Abstract: Disclosed are a glossy pigment having a hollow structure and a method for producing the same. The glossy pigment having a hollow structure according to the present invention comprises: a hollow which penetrates through the center of the inside thereof; and a metal oxide coating layer which covers a part or all of the hollow, wherein the metal oxide coating layer has a hollow structure having a thickness of 0.1-3 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: CQV CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yong-Ho Son, Kwang-Choong Kang, Byung-Ki Choi, Kwang-Soo Lim, Kil-Wan Chang
  • Patent number: 10835942
    Abstract: A method for warm forming an aluminum beam, such as an aluminum component for a vehicle, includes providing an extruded aluminum beam with a hollow cross-sectional shape. A portion of a forming die is heated to a desired temperature, so as to heat a portion of the aluminum beam in the die to a temperature below the artificial aging temperature of the aluminum beam. The heated aluminum beam is deformed to a desired shape with the die in a direction transverse to a length of the aluminum beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Shape Corp.
    Inventors: Helen Weykamp, Kenneth E. McKellar, David DeVries
  • Patent number: 10837080
    Abstract: In a rolled steel bar or rolled wire rod for a cold-forged component having a predetermined chemical composition, Y1 represented by Y1=[Mn]×[Cr] and Y2 represented by Y2=0.134×(D/25.4?(0.50×?[C]))/(0.50×?[C]) satisfy Y1>Y2, the tensile strength is 750 MPa or less, an internal structure is a ferrite-pearlite structure, and the ferrite fraction in the internal structure is 40% or greater. AMOUNT IS 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Matsui, Yutaka Neishi, Tetsushi Chida, Akihisa Obata, Shoji Hori, Keisuke Chiba
  • Patent number: 10836911
    Abstract: In order to provide a filler composition for fabricating a high-performance filler achieving good productivity while preventing worsening of a working environment and production of a VOC and to provide a filler and a method for producing the filler, a filler composition of the present invention contains wet silica, a polyoxyethylene unsaturated fatty acid ester, and a sulfur-containing silane coupling agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignees: Dai-Ichi Kogyo Seiyaku Co., Ltd., Osaka Soda Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Kagimasa, Nahoko Izaki, Shoukichi Nakamura, Tomoyuki Ichino, Ryota Fukitani
  • Patent number: 10840429
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of processes for the production of high temperature super-conductor wires. In particular, the present invention relates to a process for the production of high temperature superconductor wires comprising heating a film comprising yttrium or a rare earth metal, an alkaline earth metal, and a transition metal to a temperature of at least 700° C. and cooling the film to a temperature below 300° C., wherein the heating and cooling is per-formed at least twice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ron Feenstra, Mario Sadewasser, Michael Baecker
  • Patent number: 10837078
    Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet having sufficient formability and strength even after sheet metal thinning, the steel sheet including: a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: more than 0.0060% and not more than 0.012%, Si: 0.02% or less, Mn: 0.10% or more and 0.60% or less, P: 0.020% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 0.07% or less, and N: 0.0080% or more and 0.0200% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which a dislocation density at a depth position of ½ of a sheet thickness from a surface of the steel sheet is 2.0×1014/m2 or more and 1.0×1015/m2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ueno, Nobusuke Kariya, Katsumi Kojima, Yoshihide Yamamoto, Akihiro Katagiri