Patents Examined by Daniel Lee
  • Patent number: 8702898
    Abstract: A method for connecting a first joining partner to a second joining partner. After provision of the first joining partner and the second joining partner, a lacquer layer is applied to the first joining partner. Then the first joining partner and the second joining partner are saturated together with an impregnating resin. The lacquer layer is produced from a lacquer composition based on an epoxy resin mixture, a curing accelerator, a silane-based, epoxy-functional bonding agent, and a solvent. The epoxy resin mixture has 10 wt.-% to 94 wt.-% of at least one solid epoxy resin with a maximum epoxy count of 2 Eq/kg, 1 wt.-% to 50 wt.-% of at least one solid, multifunctional epoxy resin with an epoxy count >4 Eq/kg, and 5 wt.-% to 40 wt.-% of a phenol and/or kresol novolak with a melting point >30° C. After impregnation, the viscosity of the impregnating resin is reduced such that the first joining partner and the second joining partner are connected to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Vacuumschmeize GmgH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Lothar Zapf
  • Patent number: 8702897
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include structures including a layer of carbon nanotubes, methods of making structures including a layer of carbon nanotubes, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Lin, Ching Ping Wong
  • Patent number: 8696861
    Abstract: Temporary adhesive compositions used to adhesively bond a substrate to be abraded or polished onto a substrate are themselves abradable or polishable, and contain a non-reinforcing filler or particulate silicone resin in a curable organopolysiloxane composition, and have defined physical characteristics in addition to being thermally stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Wacker Chemie AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Keller, Werner Brennenstuhl, Andreas Köllnberger
  • Patent number: 8696848
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a device for inflating and sealing an inflatable structure, such as inflatable cushions. The device includes an assembly configured for inflating a cushion cavity disposed between first and second layers of a film, and a sealing mechanism that preferably includes a rotary sealing drum, which can include a heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Pregis Innovative Packaging Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas D. Wetsch, Paul A. Selle, Mitchell J. Hein
  • Patent number: 8691046
    Abstract: Energy-activated room temperature-pumpable polymer compositions, devices for activating and processing the same into solid cellular or non-cellular polymeric materials that can be used as adhesives, sealants, coatings or gasket materials, and methods of making and using the same. The compositions according to the invention include solid particles that include one or more polymers, which are emulsified, dispersed or suspended in a liquid carrier together with at least one processing aid, such as a reactive blowing agent, a low molecular weight surfactant, a high molecular weight surfactant, one or more compounds found in latex paint, starch, cellulosic derived products and combinations of two or more thereof. The processing aids provide various benefits including, for example, reduced density, improved process hygiene, improved foam stability, faster bonding times and/or lower processing temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: H.B. Fuller Company
    Inventors: Michael W. Jorgenson, David J. Alessio, Samuel Dipre, Kenneth E. Heyde, Jeffrey C. Krotine, Anthony A. Parker, William C. Stumphauzer, Joseph J. Wolf
  • Patent number: 8673109
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making a grooved reinforced layered bituminous membrane (1) comprising the steps of: providing a web (A) of a reinforcing material, applying a layer (3) of a hot liquid adhesive, and applying a roller (10) having a surface pattern of grooves onto said layer (3) of an adhesive, to form a pattern of grooves (4) in the surface of said layer an adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Icopal Danmark A/S
    Inventor: Bruno Fabvier
  • Patent number: 8668792
    Abstract: A method for producing a magnetic sheet wherein a magnetic sheet composition is applied onto a substrate. The magnetic sheet composition contains: a binder; magnetic powder; and a curing agent, wherein the binder contains a thermosetting organic resin, and the curing agent contains a sulfonium borate complex expressed by General Formula 1: where R1 is an aralkyl group, R2 is a lower alkyl group, X is a halogen atom, and n is an integer of 0 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Aramaki, Yoshihisa Shinya, Katsuhiko Komuro
  • Patent number: 8668793
    Abstract: Systems and methods for in-process vision inspection for automated machines are disclosed. In one embodiment, a head assembly includes a tool moveable over a workpiece and adapted to perform a manufacturing operation on the workpiece, and an inspection unit operatively positioned proximate the tool and moveable with the tool relative to the workpiece. The inspection unit is adapted to perform a vision inspection of a portion of the workpiece simultaneously with the performance of the manufacturing operation on the workpiece. In a particular embodiment, the inspection unit includes a camera adapted to monitor an area including the portion of the workpiece upon which the tool has performed the manufacturing operation, and a processor operatively coupled to the camera and adapted to receive an image from the camera and to analyze the image to determine a presence of a defect within the portion of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Roger W. Engelbart, Reed E. Hannebaum, Timothy Pollock
  • Patent number: 8652294
    Abstract: A composition for the protection of sheer hosiery comprising: a styrene polymer; an octylacrylamide/acrylates/butylaminoethyl methacrylate copolymer; a polyurethane-14 AMP-acrylates copolymer; and an AMP-100™ (amino methyl propanol) or triethanolamine emulsifier and surfactant; dissolved in a denatured alcohol/ethanol solvent and contained in a pump spray bottle. The composition to be sprayed on a detected imperfection and the surrounding area, and being allowed to dry, binding in a flexible, natural manner the elongated and broken fibers of the material to the surrounding weave thus preventing further damage to the hosiery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Inventor: Yla M. Daly
  • Patent number: 8652292
    Abstract: The invention allows the realization of parts, longitudinally or transversely curved, of large dimensions, by assembling boards of solid wood side by side, with glue, and to afterward arch the resulting part. The loss of solid wood is then decreased a lot since it is thus possible to assemble several wood boards of various widths together. It allows the realization of final curved parts of almost unlimited dimension, dimension whereas dimensions are usually limited by the width of the sawing, or, in other words, by the thickness of the trees. Here, the limit is situated at the level of the capacity of equipments used to bend solid wood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Inventor: Yvan Baillargeon
  • Patent number: 8647457
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for making a rubber liner of a composite pressure vessel. At first, rubber is located in a mold. The rubber and the mold are located in a vacuum bag, heated and pressed so that the rubber is vulcanized and molded into a semi-product of the rubber liner. Sand is filled in the semi-product. The sand is tamped and heated so that it is hardened and molded. A reinforcement element in the form of a wire or tape is wound around the semi-product. Two semi-products are brought into contact with each other. An un-vulcanized rubber band is provided around and attached to the semi-products. The rubber liners and the reinforcement elements are heated and vulcanized with composite resin. Finally, the water soluble sand mold is dissolved and removed so that the final product of the rubber liner is made, and so is the composite pressure vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Armaments, Bureau, Ministry of National Defense
    Inventors: Jui-Hua Wan, Sheng-Hsiung Yeh, Cheng-Huan Wang, Chung-yi Chu, Dar-ping Juang, Hsien-Jung Chiu
  • Patent number: 8617345
    Abstract: Provided are a method of bonding resin materials for bonding a resin material (X) containing an oxymethylene-based polymer (A) and a resin material (Y), and a structure obtained by the bonding method. The method includes preparing as the resin material (Y) a low-melting-point oxymethylene-based polymer (B) having a melting point lower than that of the oxymethylene-based polymer (A) by 5 to 50° C., or preparing as the resin material (Y) the resin material (X) or another resin material, and providing the low-melting-point oxymethylene-based polymer (B) between the resin material (Y) and the resin material (X) and heating resin materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Okamura, Satoshi Nagai
  • Patent number: 8603291
    Abstract: Acrylic resin is used as a protection film of a polyvinyl alcohol polarizer film to compose a polarizer plate, wherein the glass transition temperature of the acrylic resin is higher than 50° C. A preparation method of the polarizer plate is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: BenQ Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsin Tsai, Shu-Yi Chang, Tsung-Han Lee
  • Patent number: 8585860
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a laminate, comprising the steps of laminating two or more layers of polycarbonate resin film and/or sheet using a (meth)acrylate-based adhesive composition containing a (A) (meth)acrylate monomer, a (B) meth(acrylate) olygomer, an (C) acrylamide derivative, and a (D) silane compound and/or an (E) organophosphorus compound to form a laminate having a thickness of 0.1 mm to 30 mm; heating the laminate at 130° C. to 185° C. so that a temperature difference between a top surface and a bottom surface of the laminate is within 20° C.; and bending the post-heating laminate into a curved shape having a radius of curvature of 10 mm or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc., MGC Filsheet Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Matsumura, Yoshiya Kimura
  • Patent number: 8562775
    Abstract: A coating composition is based on a polyester mixed with an alkyl-etherified melamine formaldehyde. The coating composition is partially cured in a first stage to provide a thermoformable partially cured, tack-free, non-blocking, coating layer, followed by application to generally a contoured substrate and thermoforming to conform thereto. The contoured partially cured coating layer is then heat cured to form a cured coating. A hydroxyl-terminated polyoxetane containing repeat units derived from oxetane monomers having one or two pendent —CH2—O—(CH2)n—Rf groups, wherein Rf is partially or fully fluorinated, can be esterified with polyester-forming reactants to form a fluorinated polyoxetane-modified polyester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: OMNOVA Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond J. Weinert, Guillermina C. Garcia, James E. Robbins, Martin J Fay
  • Patent number: 8557084
    Abstract: The present invention relates to as method of encapsulating an electronic arrangement with respect to permeants, in which a pressure-sensitive adhesive based on acid-modified or acid-anhydride-modified vinylaromatic block copolymers is provided and in which the pressure-sensitive adhesive is applied to and/or around the regions of the electronic arrangement that are to be encapsulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Tesa SE
    Inventors: Klaus Keite-Telgenbüscher, Jan Ellinger, Thortsten Krawinkel, Alexander Steen
  • Patent number: 8524034
    Abstract: Provided is a complex of hydrogen peroxide and at least one compound represented by Formula I: wherein X is: —C(R3)3, —C?C(R3), —O(R3), —N(R3)2, or —S(R3); and R1, R2, and R3 are each independently selected from H, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aryl, heteroaryl heteroarylalkyl, heterocyclyl, and cycloalkyl, or R2 and an R3 are optionally taken together to form an alicyclic ring. Also provided are anaerobic cure systems and curable compositions employing the complexes described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignees: Henkel Corporation, Henkel Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Philip T. Klemarczyk, David Birkett, David Farrell, Peter Wrobel, Ciaran McArdle, Greg Clarke
  • Patent number: 8524033
    Abstract: To provide: a coated wood composite having surface properties such as transparency, smoothness, gloss, uniformity, and depth, and excellent in various physical properties such as durability and strength; and a method for producing such a coated wood composite efficiently and easily. A coated wood composite produced by placing an unsaturated polyester resin composition on a decorative veneer and heat-pressing the decorative veneer and the composition placed thereon to mold the composite, wherein the unsaturated polyester resin composition comprises: an unsaturated polyester; a polymerizable monomer; and an isocyanate component essentially including an aliphatic diisocyanate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Fine Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Endo, Hideki Tsuboi, Kiichiro Tominaga
  • Patent number: 8512507
    Abstract: A composite structure includes at least one resin matrix layer having a resin material and a plurality of fiber elements and a plurality of titanium particles provided in the resin material. A method of toughening a resin matrix layer is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Luther M. Gammon, Steven G. Lemery
  • Patent number: 8506751
    Abstract: An adhesion bond between a metallic surface layer and a second surface is formed by treating the layers with a material comprising sulphur-containing molecules. The sulphur-containing molecules are applied as a surface treatment of the surfaces, so that the sulphur-containing molecules act as a coupling agent to bond chemically to both substrates form nanometer-sized structures on the surfaces. The nanometer-sized structures are incorporated into a self-assembly interlayer in between the surfaces, with the interlayer forming a bond to both surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Kit Ying Wong, Matthew Ming Fai Yuen, Bing Xu