Patents Examined by Elizabeth Collister
  • Patent number: 11975460
    Abstract: A preform configured to form a container by stretch blow molding. The preform includes a finish portion and a tip portion. The finish portion is at a first end of the preform and is a container finish of the container. The tip portion is at a second end of the preform opposite to the first end. The tip portion is configured to form a container base and a container heel of the container. An outer surface of the tip portion includes a flat surface, a first radius on a first side of the flat surface, a second radius between the first radius and the flat surface, a third radius extending from the flat surface on a second side of the flat surface, and a fourth radius extending from the third radius towards the second end of the preform through which a longitudinal axis of the preform extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: AMCOR RIGID PACKAGING USA, LLC
    Inventors: Pankaj Kumar, Mark Woloszyk
  • Patent number: 11970961
    Abstract: A pillar shaped honeycomb structure, including: a porous partition wall that define a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells forming flow paths for a fluid, the plurality of cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face; and an outer peripheral wall located at the outermost circumference. The plurality of cells include: a plurality of first cells; and a plurality of second cells having a lower cross-sectional area than that of the plurality of first cells. An interior of each of the second cells is filled with a material comprising a magnetic substance. Each of the second cells are arranged adjacent to at least one of the first cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Masaaki Masuda, Kyohei Kato, Norihiro Wakida
  • Patent number: 11920228
    Abstract: Providing a copper alloy plate, in which center Mg concentration at a center part in a plate thickness direction 0.1 mass % or more and less than 0.3 mass %, center P concentration is 0.001 mass % or more and 0.2 mass % or less, and the balance is composed of Cu and inevitable impurities; in which surface Mg concentration at a surface is 70% or less of the center Mg concentration; in which a surface layer part defined by a prescribed thickness from the surface has a concentration gradient of Mg of 0.05 mass %/?m or more and 5 mass %/?m or less increasing from surface toward center part of the plate thickness direction; and in which restraint of color change of the surface and increase of electrical contact resistance, and adhesiveness of a plating film are excellent due to maximum Mg concentration in the surface layer part is 90% of the center Mg concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Akisaka, Naoki Miyashima, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki
  • Patent number: 11911723
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure body, which includes a honeycomb body and a skin layer, the honeycomb body including axially extending channels defined by a porous wall, wherein a radial path of a radial section of the honeycomb body from a central axis to the skin layer consists of a porous wall inner section and a porous wall outer section in sequence, an average wall thickness of inner porous walls provided in the porous wall inner section is smaller than an average wall thickness of outer porous walls provided in the porous wall outer section, and a length of the porous wall inner section in the radial path accounts for 71%-95%. The specific structure of the honeycomb structure body not only increases the strength of the honeycomb structure body, but also ensures good thermal shock resistance and small back pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHANDONG SINOCERA FUNCTIONAL MATERIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xibin Song, Bing Zhang, Xi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11910931
    Abstract: It is a feature of a porous body (10, 20) comprising a three-dimensional network of node points (200) joined to one another by struts (100), and a void volume (300) present between the struts (100), that the struts (100) have an average length of ?200 to ?50 mm, the struts (100) have an average thickness of ?100 ?m to ?5 mm, and that the porous body has a compression hardness (40% compression, DIN EN ISO 3386-1: 2010-09) in at least one spatial direction of ?10 to ?100 kPa. The porous body according to the invention combines the advantages of a conventional mattress or cushion with ventilatability which results from its porous structure and is not achievable in conventional foams. The invention further relates to a method of producing such a porous body (10, 20) and to an apparatus comprising said body (10, 20) for supporting and/or bearing a person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Stratasys, Inc.
    Inventors: Dirk Achten, Thomas Büsgen, Dirk Dijkstra, Nicolas Degiorgio, Roland Wagner, Levent Akbas, Peter Reichert, Jürgen Hättig
  • Patent number: 11905647
    Abstract: Used is a method for producing a thermal insulation sheet, including: composite-forming including impregnating a nonwoven fabric with a basic sol prepared by adding a carbonate ester to a water glass composition to form a hydrogel-nonwoven fabric composite; surface-modifying including mixing the composite with a silylating agent for surface modification; and drying including removing liquid contained in the composite through drying at a temperature lower than the critical temperature of the liquid under a pressure lower than the critical pressure of the liquid. Used is a thermal insulation sheet including an aerogel and a nonwoven fabric, where the thermal insulation sheet exhibits a compressibility of 40% or lower at 0.30 to 5.0 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuma Oikawa, Tooru Wada, Shinji Okada, Shigeaki Sakatani, Rikako Shono
  • Patent number: 11884598
    Abstract: A ceramic honeycomb body comprising a peripheral skin layer and a fiber extending around the outer periphery of a honeycomb core, the fiber embedded in the peripheral skin layer is described. A method of making a honeycomb body having a fiber extending around the outer periphery of a honeycomb core and embedded in the peripheral skin layer is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Corning, Incorporated
    Inventors: Gregory Albert Merkel, Barbara Anna Oyer, Patrick David Tepesch, James William Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11878346
    Abstract: According to examples, an object may include a shell including a polymer binder and build material powder; and a core at least partially encompassed by the shell, the core including build material powder and a metal nanoparticle binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Kristopher J. Erickson, Thomas C. Anthony, Lihua Zhao
  • Patent number: 11872626
    Abstract: Techniques for joining nodes and subcomponents are presented herein. An apparatus in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure comprises a 3-D printed first part having an interconnect co-printed with the first part such that the interconnect of the first part can float within the first part, and a 3-D printed second part having an interconnect co-printed with the second part such that the interconnect of the second part can float within the second part, wherein the interconnects of the first and second parts are configured to form a connection between the first and second parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel Noah Miller, Matthew Cooper Keller, Eric Paul Monteith, Thomas Samuel Bowden, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11865742
    Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a preform suitable for subsequent blow molding, and a mold stock for producing the preform. The preform comprises a base having an elliptical inner face with a first flat circular bottom portion, and an elliptical outer face with a second flat circular bottom portion. The first and second flat circular bottom portions each have a center on a vertical center axis of the preform and a radius of equal size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HUSKY INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Christophe Simon Pierre Beck, Sebastian Rasche
  • Patent number: 11867248
    Abstract: An additively manufactured lattice structure includes (a) a first three-dimensional lattice including a repeating interconnected array of a first lattice unit cell, (b) a second three-dimensional lattice including a repeating interconnected array of a second lattice unit cell, wherein said second lattice unit cell is different from said first lattice unit cell, and (c) a first transition segment interconnecting said first three-dimensional lattice and said second three-dimensional lattice. The first transition segment includes (i) a first three-dimensional transitional lattice including a repeating array of said first lattice unit cell and (ii) interleaved with and interconnected to said first three-dimensional transitional lattice, a second three-dimensional transitional lattice including a repeating array of said second lattice unit cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Carbon, Inc.
    Inventors: Hardik Kabaria, Aidan Kurtz
  • Patent number: 11866809
    Abstract: An austenitic Ni-base alloy, consisting essentially of, in weight percent: 2.5 to 4.75 Al; 21 to 26 Cr; 20 to 40 Fe; 0.75 to 2.5 total of at least one element elected from the group consisting of Nb and Ta; 0 to 0.25 Ti; 0.09 to 1.5 Si; 0 to 0.5 V; 0 to 2 Mn; 0 to 3 Cu; 0 to 2 of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mo and W; 0 to 1 of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zr and Hf; 0 to 0.15 Y; 0.3 to 0.55 C; 0.005 to 0.1 B; 0 to 0.05 P; less than 0.06 N and balance Ni (30 to 46 Ni), wherein the weight percent Ni is greater than the weight percent Fe, and wherein the ratio Ni/(Fe+2*C) is between 1.02 and 1.067.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventors: Govindarajan Muralidharan, Michael P. Brady, Yukinori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11858857
    Abstract: A silicon carbide ceramic honeycomb structure having large numbers of axially penetrating flow paths partitioned by porous silicon carbide cell walls, the cell walls comprising silicon carbide particles as aggregate and binder layers for binding the silicon carbide particles, the binder layers having at least a cordierite phase and a spinel phase, and the molar ratio M1 of the cordierite phase [=cordierite phase/(cordierite phase+spinel phase)] being 0.4-0.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11845146
    Abstract: A brazing wire includes a brazing tube having an inner cavity and a flux filled in the inner cavity. A trench is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the brazing tube, and the trench extends along an axis of the brazing tube or spirally extends around the axis. A forming mold of the brazing wire includes a mold body having a molding cavity therein. An inner wall of the molding cavity is provided with a protrusion. When the brazing wire passes through the forming mold, the protrusion is used to form the trench. The forming method of the brazing wire includes the following steps. The brazing tube passes through the forming mold, and the trench is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the brazing tube by the protrusion. The trench extends along the axis of the brazing tube or spirally extends around the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: ZHENGZHOU RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sujuan Zhong, Weimin Long, Yinyin Pei, Lei Zhang, Xiupeng Li, Yuanxun Shen, Yunyue Li, Luyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11839995
    Abstract: A honeycomb body having a honeycomb structure and a peripheral skin, the honeycomb structure having walls defining a plurality of cells including peripheral cells disposed directly adjacent to the peripheral skin. One or more of the peripheral cells is at least partially defined by a first wall surface, a second wall surface, and a skin surface portion extending between the first wall surface and the second wall surface. A continuously-varying radius extends from a first tangent to the first wall surface along the skin surface portion and to a second tangent to the second wall surface. Other honeycomb bodies, structures, and extrusion dies for forming honeycomb structures are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kenneth Richard Miller, Seth Thomas Nickerson, Danhong Zhong
  • Patent number: 11840479
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a bond produced with an at least partially crystallized glass, such as a metal-to-glass bond, in particular a metal-to-glass bond in a feed-through element or connecting element, and to a method for producing such a bond, in particular in a feed-through element or connecting element. The at least partially crystallized glass includes at least one crystal phase and pores which are distributed in the at least partially crystallized glass in a structured manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Christian Mix, Ina Mitra, Ulf Dahlmann, Jens Suffner, Martun Hovhannisyan, Björn Ramdohr
  • Patent number: 11833002
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a block (1) for the CAD/CAM machining of a dental prosthetic element: an insert (2) wherein the dental prosthetic element is intended to be machined, a polymeric layer (5) covering at least one surface of the insert, a mandrel (6) fixed to the insert (2), characterised in that the insert (2) comprises two parts (3, 4) connected to one another, of which: a first part (3) intended to be machined to form an inlay-core, said first part comprising a composite material comprising one-directional reinforcing fibres, a second part (4) intended to be machined to form a crown, said second part having no reinforcing fibres and comprising a material comprising one or more mineral fillers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SOCIETE DE RECHERCHES TECHNIQUES DENTAIRES
    Inventor: Manh-Quynh Chu
  • Patent number: 11826952
    Abstract: Multi-body interpenetrating lattices comprise two or more lattices that interlace or interpenetrate through the same volume without any direct physical connection to each other, wherein energy transfer is controlled by surface interactions. As a result, multifunctional or composite-like responses can be achieved by additive manufacturing of the interpenetrating lattices, even with only a single print material, with programmable interface-dominated properties. As a result, the interpenetrating lattices can have unique mechanical properties, including improved toughness, multi-stable/negative stiffness, and electromechanical coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Brad Boyce, Benjamin C. White, Anthony Garland, Ryan Alberdi
  • Patent number: 11826822
    Abstract: In various embodiments, three-dimensional layered metallic parts are substantially free of gaps between successive layers, are substantially free of cracks, and have densities no less than 97% of the theoretical density of the metallic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: H.C. Starck Solutions Coldwater LLC
    Inventor: Michael Thomas Stawovy
  • Patent number: 11827986
    Abstract: In some examples, an article may include a substrate and a coating system on the substrate. The coating system may include a layer comprising a plurality of voids, wherein respective voids of the plurality of voids define respective void volumes; and a nucleating agent within at least some of the respective void volumes of the layer, wherein the nucleating agent is configured to induce crystallization of the molten CMAS. The coating system may include an environmental barrier coating, thermal barrier coating, and/or abradable coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc., Rolls-Royce plc
    Inventors: Sean E. Landwehr, Ngunjoh Lawrence Ndamka, Matthew R. Gold, Michael Cybulsky, Li Li, Robert Golden