Patents Examined by Elizabeth Mulvaney
  • Patent number: 9434850
    Abstract: A printed material having excellent smoothness is provided even when a resin ink is used. An ink jet printing method uses an ink jet printing apparatus 1 including a head 5, and a printing platen 2 for heating a medium 100 from a back side of a surface of the medium 100, wherein the ink contains a solvent, a colorant and a resin, in which the resin is emulsionized or suspended. The ink jet printing method includes a drying step in which the ink is dried by the printing platen 2 after the ink is landed onto the medium 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Takeuchi, Akihiro Tsukada, Takashi Namiki
  • Patent number: 9436030
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a mother substrate for display substrates, a display panel and a display device. The mother substrate for display substrates includes a plurality of display substrates and is divided into a display substrate area and a non display substrate area, and at least one film layer of the mother substrate for display substrates has an identical film layer structure in the display substrate area and the non display substrate area. With such arrangement, the arrangement of the at least one film layer is more uniform inside the mother substrate for display substrates, thereby the difference between the stresses applied to the display substrate area and the non display substrate area of the mother substrate for the display substrates by the at least one film layer is reduced significantly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lianjie Qu
  • Patent number: 9422442
    Abstract: A material includes a print layer produced by an ultraviolet-curable composition for inkjet that includes a polymerized compound and a glittering powder. A content rate of the glittering powder in the print layer is more than 0.1 percent by volume and less than 5.0 percent by volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Toyoda, Masaya Shibatani, Minoru Yamada, Tomohiro Ogawa, Hidekazu Moriyama
  • Patent number: 9422439
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides ink sets and related methods. An ink set can comprise an ink including an ink colorant and an ink vehicle, the ink devoid of metal salt; a treatment fluid including a latex, the treatment fluid devoid of thickener and colorant; and a fixer fluid including a precipitating agent, the fixer fluid devoid of colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Joshua A. Mann, Ali Emamjomeh, Ronald A. Askeland, Zeying Ma, George Sarkisian
  • Patent number: 9415638
    Abstract: Provided is a decorative tire in which an ink composition including a colorant is directly applied onto the tire surface in order to improve the degree of flexibility in design. This decorative tire has a decorative printed layer formed on the tire surface, the decorative printed layer being a cured film of an active-energy-ray-curable ink composition including a colorant. The ink composition includes a monofunctional monomer having a glass transition point of ?30° C. or lower, and a polyfunctional monomer having a glass transition point of 0° C. or lower. Preferably, the ink composition further includes a monofunctional monomer having an alicyclic structure with a glass transition point between 0-110° C. inclusive. Preferably, a surface protection layer that protects the surface of the decorative printed layer is formed on the surface of the decorative printed layer. Also, preferably, a primer layer is formed between the tire surface and the decorative printed layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuma Saito, Toshio Furutaka, Yukio Sugita, Yuki Nakamura, Kojiro Torisu, Akihiko Hajikano
  • Patent number: 9415571
    Abstract: A decorative laminate includes a decorative layer composed of a resin impregnated decorative sheet and a core layer composed of plural resin impregnated core sheets of core paper, wherein an exposed sheet at a bottom of the decorative laminate is subjected to a parchment treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: WILSONART LLC
    Inventors: Charles M Griffin, Jr., Robert R Krebs
  • Patent number: 9415626
    Abstract: A deco glass panel including a mother substrate formed of glass, a glass powder layer welded on the mother substrate and a rear surface pattern disposed on a rear surface of the mother substrate, wherein the rear surface pattern is located within an outline of the glass powder layer when viewed from the front surface of the mother substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinsoo Lee, Seungphil Lee, Changmin Cho
  • Patent number: 9406332
    Abstract: An optical information recording medium includes at least one recording layer. The recording layer includes a recording material comprising a polymer compound to which a one-photon absorption dye is bonded, and a coupling strength ?2 between the one-photon absorption dye and the polymer compound in the recording material is higher than a coupling strength estimated to be exerted between the same one-photon absorption dye and the same polymer compound if the one-photon absorption dye is dispersed in the polymer compound in the recording material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiro Mochizuki, Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshio Sasaki, Tatsuo Mikami, Takumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9402299
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transparent electrode which is configured of: a first conductive layer that is composed of a metal or metal oxide fine wire that is formed in a pattern on a substrate; and a second conductive layer that covers the first conductive layer and contains a conductive polymer. The transparent electrode is characterized in that the fine wire of the first conductive layer satisfies the conditions mentioned below. Also disclosed is an organic electronic element. Line width (W): 20-200 ?m Height (H): 0.2-2.0 ?m Aspect ratio: 0.001<H/W?0.1 Coefficient of cross-sectional shape: 0.6<S/(W·H)<0.9 (In this connection, S represents the cross-sectional area of the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiko Takeda, Hirokazu Koyama
  • Patent number: 9396957
    Abstract: A metal layer is deposited over an underlying material layer. The metal layer includes an elemental metal that can be converted into a dielectric metal-containing compound by plasma oxidation and/or nitridation. A hard mask portion is formed over the metal layer. Plasma oxidation or nitridation is performed to convert physically exposed surfaces of the metal layer into the dielectric metal-containing compound. The sequence of a surface pull back of the hard mask portion, trench etching, another surface pull back, and conversion of top surfaces into the dielectric metal-containing compound are repeated to form a line pattern having a spacing that is not limited by lithographic minimum dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chiahsun Tseng, David V. Horak, Chun-chen Yeh, Yunpeng Yin
  • Patent number: 9393756
    Abstract: A household textile product has an anti-slip effect in which a household textile product body is provided with anti-slip material. The anti-slip material is distributed in one or combination of an array of dots at equal or unequal distances from each other, the anti-slip material can be provided in the form of multiple wavy lines, in the form of multiple diamond-shaped anti-slip dots distributed equidistantly in an array, or in the form of a grid structure formed by criss-crossing sloping lines. A side of the textile product can be provided with anti-slip material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Standard Fiber LLC
    Inventor: Russ Holbrook
  • Patent number: 9388070
    Abstract: A method for producing a glass or glass ceramic composite material with a metallic decorative appearance is provided. The method includes: applying a layer onto a glass or glass ceramic substrate, the layer comprising a sol-gel and/or a polysiloxane; patterning the layer; and applying a metallic-looking layer onto the patterned layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Inka Henze, Stefan Spengler, Matthias Bockmeyer, Eveline Rudigier-Voigt, Tamara Sweeck, Oliver Gros
  • Patent number: 9375051
    Abstract: An article, such as an article of footwear or an article of apparel, includes an upper having a gradient-like coloring pattern. The article further includes protruding elements configured in a pattern that corresponds to the coloring pattern. The article may have a layered structure including a base layer, a coloring ink layer and a layer of protruding elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Harleigh Doremus, David P. Jones, Ryan R. Larson, Todd W. Miller
  • Patent number: 9373348
    Abstract: An apparatus that includes a storage layer and a heating assistance element. The heating assistance element is adjacent to the storage layer or doped into the storage layer. The heating assistance element is configured to enhance spatial confinement of energy from a field to an area of the storage layer to which the field is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael Seigler, Weibin Chen, Werner Scholz, Jan Ulrich Thiele, Lihong Zhang, Xiong Liu, Shashwat Shukla
  • Patent number: 9368144
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide an optical information recording medium which excels in stability e.g., for preserving the properties during a long-term storage and which enables recording using a laser having a small peak power, and a method for manufacturing such an optical information recording medium. An optical information recording medium 10 includes a recording layer 14, and intermediate layers (adhesive agent layer 15A and recording layer support layer 15B) adjacent to the recording layer 14, and the recording layer 14 includes a recording material comprising a one-photon absorption dye bound to a polymer binder (polymer compound).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiro Mochizuki, Toshio Sasaki, Tetsuya Watanabe, Tatsuo Mikami
  • Patent number: 9368248
    Abstract: A method for making a nanowire-based electrode having homogenous optical property and heterogeneous electrical property is disclosed. The method comprises forming a pattern on the electrode using a photolytically process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: NUOVO FILM, INC.
    Inventor: Hakfei Poon
  • Patent number: 9349915
    Abstract: A ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal substrate includes a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal. The ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal includes a full width at half maximum of an x-ray rocking curve of less than 75 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignees: TAMURA CORPORATION, KOHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimiyoshi Koshi, Shinya Watanabe, Masaru Takizawa, Yu Yamaoka, Daiki Wakimoto, Makoto Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9346213
    Abstract: A method for production control in stretch blow molding of plastic containers in a blow molding machine, and a test preform for the use therewith, and a blow molding machine for performing the method. At least one test preform with a regular and/or in particular equidistant, printed test pattern is fed into a stream of product preforms entering the blowing molding machine. Furthermore, the product preforms and the test preform are in the continuous operation of the blow molding machine blown to form product containers and to form a test container and the test container is imaged with at least one camera. The product quality during the ongoing test operation can thereby with imaged test container be performed flexibly and selectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Arno Haner, Gerald Huettner
  • Patent number: 9341941
    Abstract: A reflective photomask blank, a reflective photomask and an integrated circuit device manufactured by using a reflective photomask, include a multi-layered reflection layer; a capping layer on the multi-layered reflection layer and including a first transition metal; a passivation film contacting at least a portion of the capping layer on a side opposite to the multi-layered reflection layer and including a second transition metal and a nitrogen (N) atom; and a light absorption pattern covering a portion of the capping layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han-Shin Lee, Jae-Hyuck Choi, Soo-Wan Koh, Jin-Su Kim, Hyung-Ho Ko
  • Patent number: 9333597
    Abstract: A method for repairing a nitrided surface having a damaged area is disclosed. The method includes introducing the nitrided surface into a bath containing electroless material for a predetermined period of time. The method also includes coating the damaged area with a layer of the electroless material. Further the method subjects the layer to an autofrettage process. The electroless material is heat treated at a predetermined temperature for a predefined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Huijun Wang, Marion B. Grant