Patents Examined by Elizabeth A. Robinson
  • Patent number: 9142800
    Abstract: A composite material for LED's is provided. The composite material has a coating comprising scattering particles with an index of refraction greater than 1.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Matthias Bockmeyer, Eveline Rudigier-Voigt
  • Patent number: 9101062
    Abstract: A highly heat conductive metal-clad laminate, which may be included in a highly heat conductive polyimide film, has a metal layer on one or both sides of an insulating layer which has a heat conductive filler-filled polyimide layer. The insulating layer of the highly heat conductive metal-clad laminate or the highly heat conductive polyimide film having the filler-filled polyimide layer is characterized in that the content of the heat conductive filler in the filler-filled polyimide layer is 20-80 wt %, the heat conductive filler contains a plate-like filler with an average length DL of 0.1-15 ?m and a spherical filler with an average particle diameter DR of 0.05-10 ?m, DL and DR satisfy the relationship DL>DR/2, no heat conductive filler of 30 ?m or more is contained, and the coefficient of thermal expansion is in the range of 10-30 ppm/K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eijiro Aoyagi, Hongyuan Wang, Noriyuki Kirikae, Katsufumi Hiraishi
  • Patent number: 9040165
    Abstract: A solar cell sealing film contains an ethylene-unsaturated ester copolymer, a crosslinker, and crosslinking auxiliary agents, wherein the solar cell sealing film contains a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate having 5 or more (meth)acryloyl groups in the molecule and triallyl isocyanurate as the crosslinking auxiliary agents, and a mass ratio of the polyfunctional (meth)acrylate to the triallyl isocyanurate is 0.06 to 0.3 parts of polyfunctional (meth)acrylate per 1 part of triallyl isocyanurate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisataka Kataoka, Makiko Tomiyama
  • Patent number: 9023464
    Abstract: A connecting film which electrically connects a first circuit member with a second circuit member having a nitrogen atom-containing film on a surface thereof facing the first circuit member, the connecting film including a first layer which is to be located at the first circuit member side, and a second layer which is to be located at the second circuit member side, wherein the first layer contains a cationic curing agent and an epoxy resin, and the second layer contains a radical curing agent, an acrylic resin and an epoxy compound, wherein one of the first layer and the second layer is a conductive particle-containing organic resin layer, and the other layer is an insulating organic resin layer containing no conductive particles, and wherein the minimum melt viscosity of the conductive particle-containing organic resin layer is ten times or more greater than that of the insulating organic resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Akutsu, Tomoyuki Ishimatsu, Koichi Miyauchi
  • Patent number: 9023465
    Abstract: Provided is an electroconductive member that can demonstrate stable performance for a long period of time with an electric resistance value being hardly changed even by electrical conduction for a long period of time. An electroconductive member has a conductive mandrel, and a conductive layer provided on the outer periphery of the conductive mandrel. The conductive layer includes an organic polymeric compound as a binder, and a conductive particle dispersed in the organic polymeric compound, and the particle includes an organic-inorganic hybrid polymer having a specific structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Yamada, Seiji Tsuru, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Norifumi Muranaka, Yuka Hirakoso
  • Patent number: 9005749
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer member that includes a mixture of superhydrophobic dimpled polyimide particles, an optional conductive component, and an optional polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer A Coggan, Jin Wu
  • Patent number: 8999513
    Abstract: Airtight and puncture-resistant multilayer elastomer laminate that can be used in particular in an inflatable article, such as a pneumatic tire for a vehicle, comprising at least the following three layers (phr signifying parts by weight per hundred parts of rubber (elastomer) in each composition considered): as an airtight first layer, a first elastomer composition comprising at least 50 phr of a diene elastomer; as a puncture-resistant second layer, a self-sealing second elastomer composition comprising at least 50 phr of a saturated thermoplastic styrene elastomer and more than 200 phr of an extender oil; as an adhesive third layer or interphase between the above two layers, a third composition comprising at least 30 phr of an unsaturated thermoplastic styrene elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A., Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventors: Emmanuel Custodero, Pierre Lesage, Vincent Abad
  • Patent number: 8986827
    Abstract: A moisture vapor and oxygen transmission resistant flexible film has a polymeric base layer and a barrier layer of discrete particles of a first organic polymer dispersed throughout a matrix of a second organic polymer. Preferably, the first and second polymers are water insoluble and water soluble, respectively. The barrier layer is formed by depositing onto the base layer a coating composition of finely divided insoluble organic polymer particles suspended in an aqueous solution of the water soluble organic polymer, a crosslinking agent and surfactant. The coating composition is heated to crosslink the barrier layer polymers and evaporate solvent to provide a barrier film suitable for packaging applications. Optionally, the film can be metalized to increase barrier properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Toray Plastics (America), Inc.
    Inventors: Tracy Paolilli, John Fitch
  • Patent number: 8986826
    Abstract: A coating 8 made of polyvinylidene chloride contains particles 12 made of HDPE. Other particles can also be embedded in the coating, such as polymers from the group LDPE, LLDPE, PP, PVDC, PVC, polyamides, polyurethanes, polyacrylates, polystyrenes, acrylonitrile-butadiene styrene polymerizates (ABS), PTFE, hard waxes, synthetic resins, as well as mixtures and copolymerizates thereof. The coating 8 is applied to a film 9 of a composite which features a carrier film 11, to which the film 9 is laminated by means of an adhesion promoter 10 (FIG. 2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Kloeckner Pentaplast GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jochen Münster, Hans-Jörg Jenni
  • Patent number: 8980423
    Abstract: Concerned with a charging member in the conductive surface layer of which the conductive particles are so kept from agglomerating as to make charging performance not easily change even where the surface layer expands and contracts repeatedly in various environments. The charging member is a charging member having a conductive substrate and formed on the substrate a conductive elastic layer and a conductive surface layer. The elastic layer contains a polymer having a unit coming from ethylene oxide, and the surface layer contains a binder resin and graphitized particles. The binder resin contains a resin having in the molecule a urethane linkage or a siloxane linkage, or a urethane linkage and a siloxane linkage, and the graphitized particles have a graphite (002) plane lattice spacing of from 0.3362 nm or more to 0.3449 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Taniguchi, Takumi Furukawa, Hidekazu Matsuda, Yusuke Yagisawa
  • Patent number: 8822025
    Abstract: A layered coating composition for use in producing a cool dark coating composition. The coating system includes an IR reflecting layer, having IR-reflective pigments in a resinous binder. A radiation absorbing layer is coated onto the IR reflecting layer. The radiation absorbing layer includes nano-sized pigments dispersed in a resinous binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: Eldon L. Decker, Robert E. Jennings, Calum H. Munro, Noel R. Vanier
  • Patent number: 8778489
    Abstract: An optical layered product has a translucent substrate having at least an optically functional layer, containing translucent microparticles, provided directly or via another layer onto one or both sides of the substrate. The standard deviation of area dispersion variability of the translucent microparticles in the optically functional layer is in the range of 0.04 to 0.20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Tomoegawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaomi Kuwabara, Chikara Murata, Kazuya Ohishi, Hideki Moriuchi
  • Patent number: 8778498
    Abstract: The disclosure provides for a system and method for dense barrier coatings for oxidation protection. In an embodiment of the disclosure, there is provided a dense barrier-coating system for use with a dry polymer-matrix composite (PMC) substrate having a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The system comprises a flexible sublayer free of water, wherein a first surface of the flexible sublayer is bonded to a first surface of the PMC. The system further comprises an oxygen-impervious, dense barrier-coating layer, wherein a first surface of the oxygen-impervious, dense barrier-coating layer is bonded to a second surface of the flexible sublayer, and further wherein the oxygen-impervious, dense barrier-coating layer is selected from the group consisting of metallic materials and ceramic materials each having a respective second coefficient of thermal expansion. The flexibility of the flexible sublayer protects the respective bonds when the first and second coefficients of thermal expansion are unequal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Thomas K. Tsotsis
  • Patent number: 8685533
    Abstract: Provided is a fluororesin film comprising a fluororesin film body which contains hydrophobized silicon oxide-coated metal oxide particles and a fluororesin. The fluororesin film also contains a coating film in direct contact with the fluororesin film body and made of a coating film-forming composition containing at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a polyester, acryl polyol, acryl resin, acryl urethane resin, acryl silicone resin, vinyl acetate resin and a fluororesin, formed on one side of the fluororesin film body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hajime Katayama, Hiroshi Aruga
  • Patent number: 8679637
    Abstract: The optical lens according to the invention comprises a temporary protective coating comprising at least one outer layer, which is mechanically alterable through friction or contact, said layer being coated with a peelable film which electrostatically adheres to the outer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Essilor International Compagnie Generale d'Optique
    Inventors: Pascale Lacan, Dominique Conte
  • Patent number: 8663793
    Abstract: A heat-dissipating black resin composition having excellent physical properties such as heat-dissipation, workability, corrosion resistance, solvent resistance, coating adherence and gloss, and being free from chromium and used for surface treatment of a zinc coated steel sheet and a zinc coated steel sheet treated thereby. The composition includes, based on 100 parts by weight: 10 to 60 parts by weight of a resin composition which at least one main resin and a melamine-based curing agent are mixed in a weight ratio of 10:2-7, the main resin being selected from the group consisting of polyester, epoxy, polyolefin, polyurethane, fluorine, phenol, acryl and polycarbonate resins; 1 to 10 parts by weight of at least one pigment selected from the group consisting of carbon black and carbon nano tube; 1 to 10 parts by weight of a matting agent; and a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Du Hwan Jo, Jae Ryung Lee, Sang Geol No, Jin Tae Kim, Hee Gwan Lee
  • Patent number: 8642171
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a substrate coated with a multi-layer non-stick coating which resists abrasion force and corrosion. The coating comprises a pre-primer base coat layer and at least two further coating layers, wherein at least two of said further coating layers comprise one or more fluoropolymer. The pre-primer base coat layer is substantially free of fluoropolymer, and comprises a heat resistant non-fluoropolymer polymer binder composition and inorganic filler particles, wherein greater than 50% of the inorganic filler particles are titanium dioxide, and wherein at least 10 weight % of said inorganic filler particles are large ceramic particles having an average particle size of at least 14 micrometers, and wherein some or all of the large ceramic particles extend from the pre-primer base coat layer at least into the next adjacent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Yuqing Liu
  • Patent number: 8642170
    Abstract: A coating system that includes a plurality of portions, each portion comprising one or more layers. The coating system includes an outer portion, which is an infrared radiation (IR) interaction portion, that dissipates incident (IR). Underlying this outer portion is a performance portion. The performance portion comprises at least one layer that includes microspheres. Between the substrate and performance portion is a compliance portion. The compliance portion comprises at least one layer of high temperature material that has a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) intermediate the performance layer and the substrate. The compliance portion thus reduces any high temperature thermal mismatch between the substrate and the performance portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel P. Ivkovich, William Randolph Stowell, Darrell Senile, Thomas W. Rentz, John F. Ackerman
  • Patent number: 8632888
    Abstract: A coating solution comprising: a first solvent; 0.1 to 30 parts by weight of a polycarboxylic acid-based polymer relative to 100 parts by weight of the solvent; 0.01 to 0.35 chemical equivalent of an alkali metal compound relative to an amount of carboxyl group in the polycarboxylic acid-based polymer; and 0.05 to 0.75 chemical equivalent of a multivalent metal compound relative to the amount of the carboxyl group, wherein a number average molecular weight of the polycarboxylic acid-based polymer is in a range of 40,000 to 10,000,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Okura, Yuko Sekimori, Masahiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8628845
    Abstract: A heat ray shielding laminated glass is provided, with an intermediate layer having a heat ray shielding performance interposed between opposed two plate glasses. Wherein an intermediate layer having the heat ray shielding performance is obtained by being cured by irradiation of ultraviolet ray, after a dispersion of composite tungsten oxide particles is dissolved into an ultraviolet ray curing resin precursor (E) and thereafter is filled in a gap between the opposed two plate glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kobayashi, Kenichi Fujita