Patents Examined by Elizabeth Collister
  • Patent number: 11414733
    Abstract: Provided herein is a low-alloy high-strength seamless steel pipe. The steel pipe of the present invention has a composition that contains, in mass %, C: 0.25 to 0.50%, Si: 0.01 to 0.40%, Mn: 0.45 to 0.90%, P: 0.010% or less, S: 0.001% or less, O: 0.0015% or less, Al: 0.015 to 0.080%, Cu: 0.02 to 0.09%, Cr: 0.9 to 1.5%, Mo: 1.4 to 2.0%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.05%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0040%, Ca: 0.0010 to 0.0020%, Mg: 0.001% or less, and N: 0.005% or less, and in which the balance is Fe and incidental impurities. The steel pipe has a microstructure in which the number of oxide-base nonmetallic inclusions satisfying the composition ratios represented by predefined formulae is 5 or less per 100 mm2, and in which the number of oxide-base nonmetallic inclusions satisfying the composition ratios represented by other predefined formulae is 20 or less per 100 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okatsu, Masao Yuga, Yoichi Ito
  • Patent number: 11401589
    Abstract: Provided is a multilayer electrical steel sheet having both low high-frequency iron loss and high magnetic flux density. The multilayer electrical steel sheet has an inner layer and surface layers provided on both sides of the inner layer, in which the surface layers and the inner layer have a predetermined chemical composition, the multilayer electrical steel sheet having: ?Si of 0.5 mass % to 4.0 mass %; ?Al of 0.05 mass % or less; a ratio of t1 to t represented by t1/t of from 0.10 to 0.70; a magnetic flux density B10 of 1.3 T or more; and a ratio of B1 to B10 represented by B1/B10 of 0.45 or more; and an iron loss W10/1k in W/kg and the sheet thickness t in mm satisfy the following formula (1): W10/1k?15+140×t??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Zaizen, Yoshihiko Oda, Tatsuhiko Hiratani
  • Patent number: 11318702
    Abstract: A method of producing a core for a composite panel along a continuous production line is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a thermoplastic sheet of material onto the production line and vacuum forming the thermoplastic sheet of material into alternating pairs of matching shapes, providing the thermoplastic sheet of material with alternating pairs of matching shapes onto upper and lower conveyor belts that are operating at lower speeds than the production line causing the pairs of matching shapes to bunch up and form a honeycomb structure, and cutting the honeycomb structure into discrete sections with spaces therebetween. A plurality of reinforced plastic bands with gaps therebetween are provided and the honeycomb structure is aligned with the gaps. The plurality of reinforced plastic bands and the honeycomb structure are secured together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Wabash National, L.P.
    Inventor: Leonard W. Baker
  • Patent number: 11312533
    Abstract: A structural element (10) for forming a panel, with an upper plane (12) and lower plane (14) which are parallel and deformed along their plane at intervals by pods (16) which extrude toward the opposing plane with their internal faces mating to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Gridesic Holdings Limited
    Inventor: Tristan Melland
  • Patent number: 11312662
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure (110) includes intersecting porous walls (106). Inlet channels (108i) and outlet channels (108o) are formed by the intersecting porous walls (106), wherein the inlet channels (108i) comprise inlet hydraulic diameters (HDi) and the outlet channels (108o) comprise outlet hydraulic diameters (HDo). The inlet channels (108i) comprise inlet corners (220i) with inlet corner radii (Ri) and the outlet channels (108o) comprise outlet corners (2200) with outlet corner radii (Ro). A centerpost (124) is defined by adjacent opposing inlet corners (220i) of two of the inlet channels (108i) and adjacent opposing outlet corners (2200) of two of the outlet channels (108o). A first diagonal length (D1) is a shortest distance between the opposing outlet corners (220o) of the two outlet channels (108o) and a second diagonal length (D2) is a shortest distance between the opposing inlet corners (220i) of the two inlet channels (108i).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas William Brew, Priyank Paras Jain, Konstantin Vladimirovich Khodosevich, John M Larson
  • Patent number: 11292224
    Abstract: A process for producing a sandwich component. A first covering layer is formed on a molding surface of a molding tool; a core is produced by building up a cell structure having a multiplicity of cells in a thickness direction on the first covering layer via an additive production process; and a second covering layer is formed on a deposition surface of the core, the surface being situated on the opposite side from the first covering layer. A core for a sandwich component is furthermore described, as is a sandwich component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Volker Robrecht, Gilles Debril
  • Patent number: 11284975
    Abstract: A workpiece unit including a workpiece body having a protruding portion; and a holding member arranged on at least a part of an outer side of the protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ito, Tetsuo Yamada
  • Patent number: 11280238
    Abstract: Honeycomb bodies, honeycomb structures and extrusion dies, including a transition structural component. A honeycomb structure (100) includes a plurality of interconnected webs (106) defining a plurality of cell channels (108) in a honeycomb matrix (109) having a central axis (110) orthogonal to its transverse cross-section. Radial webs (116) diverge outwardly from the central axis (110). Radial webs (116) include a first radial web (150) and a second radial web (152). Tangential webs (120) are arranged concentrically with respect to the central axis (110), wherein at least one of the tangential webs (120) is a tangential transition web (142). At least one transition structural component (140) is located radially inward from the tangential transition web (124) and includes a first inclined web (144) having a first end (144A) coupled to the first radial web (150) and a second inclined web (146) having a first end (146A) coupled to the second radial web (152).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Corning, Incorporated
    Inventor: Amit Halder
  • Patent number: 11274356
    Abstract: A steel sheet having a chemical composition of the base metal including, in mass %, C: 0.17 to 0.40%, Si: 0.10 to 2.50%, Mn: 1.00 to 10.00%, P: 0.001 to 0.03%, S: 0.0001 to 0.02%, Al: 0.001 to 2.50%, N: 0.0001 to 0.010%, O: 0.0001 to 0.010%, Ti: 0 to 0.10%, Nb: 0 to 0.10%, V: 0 to 0.10%, B: 0 to 0.010%, Cr: 0 to 2.00%, Ni: 0 to 2.00%, Cu: 0 to 2.00%, Mo: 0 to 2.00%, Ca: 0 to 0.50%, Mg: 0 to 0.50%, REM: 0 to 0.50%, the balance: Fe and impurities, wherein the steel sheet has an internal oxidized layer in which at least one part of a crystal grain boundary is covered by oxides, and in which a grain boundary coverage ratio of oxides is 60% or more in a region from the surface of the base metal to a depth of 5.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Takeda, Kunio Hayashi, Akihiro Uenishi, Hiroyuki Kawata, Chisato Yoshinaga, Yasunobu Miyazaki, Toyomitsu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11230082
    Abstract: A vehicle floor panel is provided in which a honeycomb core made of metal sandwiched and adhered between two CFRP plates is one in which a large number of core units formed into a polygon shape are continuous within one plane so as to share a side of the polygon. Since closed-section parts formed by a hat-shaped cross section part formed along the side and one CFRP plate are continuous with each other at a vertex of the polygon of the adjacent core units, not only is it possible to lighten the weight by opening the interior of the polygon (P) shape core unit, but it is also possible to enhance the energy-absorbing performance by dispersing and transmitting a collision load inputted into one direction of the floor panel toward a plurality of other directions because the high strength load transmission path is continuous with other load transmission paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shotaro Ayuzawa
  • Patent number: 11229902
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to porous ceramic articles and a method of making the same. The porous ceramic articles have a porosity (P) as a fraction in a range of about 0.3 to about 0.7; a permeability factor PQ>0.025, wherein PQ is (Kbulk)/(P·d502), Kbulk being bulk permeability in Darcy, and d50 being the mean pore size in micrometers (?m); a tortuosity in a range of about 1.8 to 3; and a median pore size diameter d50 in a range of about 10 ?m to about 35 ?m. The porous ceramic articles can have an interconnected bead microstructure comprising beads and bead connections, PQ is directly proportional to bead size, and wherein in a random cross section through the body, the beads appear as globular portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Monika Backhaus-Ricoult, Boris Nikolayevich Tsvetkov
  • Patent number: 11220024
    Abstract: A preform for a container has a hollow cylindrical main body having a first thickness, a hollow cylindrical thick portion having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, and a curved end portion. Inner surfaces of the main body, the thick portion, and the end portion form a cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: DT Inventions
    Inventor: James Alfred Thibodeau
  • Patent number: 11220726
    Abstract: Provided are a silver article formed using pure silver, which has high Vickers hardness and prohibits the occurrence of metal corrosion and the occurrence of discoloration; and its method. Disclosed are a silver article and its method, wherein the Vickers hardness is adjusted to 60 HV or higher, and when the height of the peak of 2?=38°±0.2° by an XRD is designated as h1, and that of 2?=44°±0.4° is designated as h2, h2/h1 is adjusted to 0.2 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Masami Munakata, Kohtaro Munakata
  • Patent number: 11214035
    Abstract: A marine deck member and the process for forming the same. The marine deck member comprises a sandwich-type composite panel made by a compression molding process. In such a process, the panel is made by subjecting a heated stack of layers of material to cold-pressing in a mold. The cellular core has a 2-D array of cells, with end faces open to the respective layers or skins. The surface traction of this type of composite panel can be enhanced for marine deck applications by controlled debossing, or embossing, of the first skin while it cools in the compression mold. The debossing effect can be affected by applying pressurized gas, e.g., pressurized air, onto the outer surface of the first skin while in the compression mold. The embossing can be affected by applying vacuum pressure on the outer surface of the first skin while in the compression mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Global IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Darius J. Preisler
  • Patent number: 11214524
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a plurality of prismatic columnar shaped honeycomb segments; a bonding layer bonding side faces of the honeycomb segments; and a circumferential wall disposed to surround a honeycomb segment bonded body having the honeycomb segments arranged in a grid pattern and bonded with the bonding layer, wherein the honeycomb segments has a porous partition wall disposed to surround a plurality of cells, the cells in other than outermost circumference have a hexagonal shape in a section orthogonal to the cell extending direction, the honeycomb segments include first and second honeycomb segment, the second honeycomb segment is different from the first in at least one of: a shape in the section; a size; and an arrangement direction of the cells and an extended line of one diagonal line imaginarily depicted in the cells in the first honeycomb segment and that in the second are configured to be orthogonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Yamamoto, Yudai Kurimoto
  • Patent number: 11187130
    Abstract: A honeycomb structured body includes a honeycomb fired body in which multiple through-holes are arranged longitudinally in parallel with one another with a partition wall therebetween. The honeycomb fired body contains ceria-zirconia composite oxide particles and inorganic fibers. 60 to 80% of inorganic fibers observed in a cross-sectional image of the honeycomb structured body cut in a cross-sectional direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction have a ratio of the length of a long axis to the length of a short axis (long axis/short axis) of 1.00 to 1.30. The length of the long axis is the length of a long axis of a cross section of an inorganic fiber shown in the cross-sectional image. The length of the short axis is the length of a perpendicular bisector of the long axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignees: IBIDEN CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroya Yamamoto, Takeru Yoshida, Hiromasa Suzuki, Masaru Kakinohana, Takumi Tojo
  • Patent number: 11185397
    Abstract: A workpiece unit containing a workpiece body is provided. A method for producing the workpiece unit is also provided. The workpiece body contains a plurality of sections. The sections divide the processing surface of the workpiece body. The size of each section of the workpiece body can be adjusted or selected according to the demand so that it is possible to increase utilization efficiency of the workpiece body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ito, Yoshihisa Yamada, Naofumi Murata
  • Patent number: 11186059
    Abstract: A honeycomb sandwich structure in which moisture absorption deformation can be sufficiently suppressed and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The honeycomb sandwich structure includes: a honeycomb core having a recess in a mesh of a carbon fiber fabric; a pair of face plates; a resin layer which fills a part of the recesses; and a water-impermeable film which covers an exposed area including surfaces of the resin layer and the honeycomb core, wherein the recess includes an unfilled part, the unfilled part is a part of the recess that is closer to the opening of the recess, and the unfilled part is not filled with the resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushi Sekine, Masahiro Miyashita, Hiroki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11172659
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wire material consisting of metallic material having an oxide surface, wherein the oxide surface of the wire material has a first oxide layer, which covers the metallic material at least in part and has a thickness of at least 200 nm to 2 ?m, and the oxide surface of the wire material has a second oxide layer which covers metallic material in the regions which are not covered by the first oxide layer. According to the invention, the second oxide layer has a maximum thickness of 0.01 to 10% of the thickness of the first oxide layer. The invention furthermore relates to a mesh and a breeding cage for aquaculture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Figelius, Timo Allmendinger, Daniel Steitz, Susanne Böhme
  • Patent number: 11149331
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a high temperature component comprises an aluminum iron alloy. The aluminum iron alloy comprises 52 to 61 atomic percent of aluminum based on the total atoms of aluminum and iron and comprises a first, B2 phase comprising FeAl and a second, triclinic phase comprising FeAl2. The aluminum iron alloy can comprise an additional element, for example, at least one of silicon or zirconium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Zhongyi Liu, Bin Hu, James R. Salavador, Daad B. Haddad