Patents Examined by Francisco W Tschen
  • Anthracene derivatives, luminescent materials and organic electroluminescent devices
    Patent number: 11456421
    Abstract: Anthracene derivatives each having a structure including an anthracene skeleton, a phenanthrene skeleton selected from among various phenanthrene skeletons different in bonding site which is bonded to the 9-position of the anthracene skeleton and a group selected from among various aryl groups and so on which is bonded to the 10-position of the anthracene skeleton. Organic EL devices made by using the derivatives exhibit high light emission efficiency and a long life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kawamura, Mitsunori Ito
  • System and method for controlling the placement of fluid resist droplets
    Patent number: 11448958
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing system, an imprint lithography system with a fluid dispensing system, a method of manufacturing an article with the fluid dispensing system. The fluid dispensing system comprising: a fluid dispenser and a heater. The fluid dispenser configured to dispense droplets of a fluid onto a substrate. The heater configured to maintain droplet temperature at greater than 23° C. Each of the droplets has a fluid volume that is less than 1.2 pL. The fluid dispenser is configured to have a drop placement accuracy for the imprint resist fluid that is less than a first threshold when the droplet fluid temperature is greater than 23° C. The drop placement accuracy is greater than the first threshold when the droplet fluid temperature is less than or equal to 23° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Colleen Lyons, Whitney Longsine, Matthew C. Traub, Van Nguyen Truskett
  • System and method for fabricating perovskite film for solar cell applications
    Patent number: 11447858
    Abstract: A system and method for fabricating perovskite films for solar cell applications are provided, the system including a housing for use as a vacuum chamber, a substrate stage coupled to the top section of the housing; a first evaporator unit coupled to the bottom section of the housing and configured to generate BX2 (metal halide material) vapor; a second evaporator unit coupled to the housing and configured to generate AX (organic material) vapor; and a flow control unit coupled to the housing for controlling circulation of the AX vapor. The dimensions of the horizontal cross-sectional shape of the first evaporator unit, the dimensions of the horizontal cross-sectional shape of the substrate stage, and the relative position in the horizontal direction between the two horizontal cross-sectional shapes are configured to maximize the overlap between the two horizontal cross-sectional shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yabing Qi, Luis Katsuya Ono, Shenghao Wang
  • Imprint apparatus, imprint method, and article manufacturing method
    Patent number: 11450533
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus cures an imprint material supplied onto a substrate held by a substrate holder by bringing a mold held by a mold holder into contact with the imprint material. The imprint apparatus includes an adjuster to adjust a distance between the substrate holder and the mold holder for contact and separation between the imprint material and the mold, an energy supply tool to supply, to the imprint material, energy for curing the imprint material supplied onto the substrate held by the substrate holder, and a controller to control the adjuster and the energy supply tool. The controller controls the adjuster so as to start separation between the imprint material and the mold in a period during which the energy supply tool supplies the energy to the imprint material that is in contact with the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Fumiaki Kitayama
  • Composite fan blade and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 11441429
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite fan blade with an outer part and a core includes laying up a plurality of continuous plies to achieve a stack, placing the core on a central portion of the stack of continuous plies to achieve an unfolded preform; folding the contin-uous plies about the core, such that the central portion of the stack folds about the core and the first portion is superimposed to the second portion, to achieve a folded preform; apply-ing pressure to the folded preform to achieve a consolidated curved folded preform; curing the consolidated curved folded preform to achieve the composite fan blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Vincent Gill
  • Method for manufacturing three-dimensional items with flexible walls
    Patent number: 11440279
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing three-dimensional items with flexible walls is provided, by method of a mold and counter-mold between which a volume corresponding to that of the item to be obtained is delimited. The item is made up of laminar parts which are mounted on a template that is fixed to the inner surface of the mold. The laminar parts are joined to one another by means of a material which is injected in molten state through a network of conduits delimited between the counter-mold, template and the facing edges of adjacent laminar parts. The template is made of an elastically deformable material and has a three-dimensional configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SIMPLICITY WORKS EUROPE, S.L.
    Inventors: Adrian Hernandez Hernandez, David Cremades Anton
  • Apparatus and method for preparing a building structure with 3D printing
    Patent number: 11440217
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for preparing a building structure with 3D printing, comprising: a 3D printing device (1), having a storage chamber (11) and a printing head (12) connected to the storage chamber (11) and being movable relative to a base frame; and a reinforcing device, movably disposed relative to the base frame, and having a driving mechanism (3) for driving short rebars or short ribs to perform an insertion movement in a direction intersected with a stacking direction of a cement-based slurry layer; the driving mechanism inserts the short rebars or the short ribs into an interlayer interface spanning at least two adjacent cement-based slurry layers printed by the 3D printing device (1). Also provided a method for preparing a building structure with 3D printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CHINA BUILDING MATERIALS ACADEMY
    Inventors: Zhendi Wang, Ling Wang, Xia Zhao
  • Method for the additive production of a three-dimensional object
    Patent number: 11440265
    Abstract: Method for the additive production of a three-dimensional object (2) by selective exposure in successive layers and associated selective consolidation in successive layers of construction material layers composed of a construction material (3) that can be consolidated by means of an energy beam (4), wherein, as part of the additive production of the three-dimensional object (2) to be produced additively, a supporting structure (11) directly surrounding the three-dimensional object (2) produced or to be produced additively is formed by selective exposure in successive layers and associated selective pre-consolidation in successive layers of construction material layers composed of the construction material (3) that can be consolidated by means of the energy beam (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CONCEPT LASER GMBH
    Inventor: Matthias Hofmann
  • Methods and system for mass production, volume manufacturing of re-entrant structures
    Patent number: 11440240
    Abstract: Methods and systems for manufacturing re-entrant structures, such as the structures exhibiting superomniphobic characteristic, in a continuous, well-controlled, high-rate (mass production, volume) manner are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    Inventors: Joey L. Mead, Carol M. F. Barry, John Shearer, Artee Panwar, Jinde Zhang, Nischay Kodihalli Shivaprakash
  • Manufacturing method of adhesive layer and display device comprising the adhesive layer manufactured thereby
    Patent number: 11441054
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an adhesive layer includes: providing a preliminary adhesive layer, attaching a mask to a first area portion of the preliminary adhesive layer, and thereby, provide a second area portion of the preliminary adhesive layer that is adjacent to the first area portion and to which the mask is not attached, to provide an adhesive layer that exhibits good folding reliability. In addition, a display device may exhibit good folding reliability characteristics by including the adhesive layer from which an adhesion force of a folding area is reduced between a supporting member and a display panel of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Cheol ho Choi, Hyun-Been Hwang
  • Display device manufacturing apparatus and display device manufacturing method using the same
    Patent number: 11433655
    Abstract: A display device manufacturing apparatus includes a support portion including a core portion and a conductive portion disposed over the core portion. The core portion includes a first flat surface extending in a first direction; a second flat surface extending in the first direction and being opposite to the first flat surface; and a curved surface extending between the first flat surface and the second flat surface. The conductive portion includes a first flat conductive portion overlapping the first flat surface of the core portion in a second direction; a second flat conductive portion overlapping the second flat surface of the core portion in the second direction; and a curved conductive portion extending between the first flat conductive portion and the second flat conductive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Suk Yoo, Young Su Kim, Sang Won Lee, Kyu Ho Jung
  • Molding system and method
    Patent number: 11433579
    Abstract: A molding system and a method for operation of the molding system are provided. The method includes flowing a molten polymeric material from an upstream device into an in-mold tuning chamber in a filling position where the in-mold tuning chamber is positioned at least partially within a mold cavity. The method also includes adjusting at least one of a temperature of and a pressure applied to the molten polymeric material in the in-mold tuning chamber to create a first tuned molten polymeric material and releasing the tuned molten polymeric material into the mold cavity from the in-mold tuning chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Hossein A. Baghdadi, Joseph Thomas Muth, Bradley C. Tutmark, H. Kenneth Hanson, III, Danny David Lumpkin, Robert L. Ritchie, Shawn J. Schnee
  • Method for forming multilayer coating film
    Patent number: 11420226
    Abstract: An object achieved by the present invention is to provide a coated article having excellent appearance, corrosion resistance, weatherability, and chipping resistance obtained by a wet-on-wet coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirohisa Tsuda, Toshiki Takenaka, Michihiro Fujita, Hideaki Katsuta
  • Method for hot-forming a thermoplastic material and implementation facility
    Patent number: 11420379
    Abstract: A method for shaping a preform made from thermoplastic material, and a facility for implementing the method, comprising the following steps: a) providing a preform made from thermoplastic material having a surface; b) supplying thermal energy to the preform by radiation in such a way as to make it ductile; and c) shaping the ductile preform inside a forming mould. Step b) further involves simultaneously spraying a gaseous fluid onto the surface of the preform in order to preserve the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventors: Clément Callens, Alain Lagoutte, Philippe Capon, Elise Dreano, Karim Curtheley
  • Device and method for labeling individual products
    Patent number: 11414232
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for labeling individual products (2), comprising an advancing device (3) for transporting each product (2) in a transport direction (X), a label dispensing device (4) for dispensing a label, which can be removed from a material strip (5), from a discharge point (6) in a dispensing direction (S), and a label transporting device (7) with a movable label transporting means (8) for transporting the dispensed label (5) from a transfer region (9), where the dispensed label (5) is transferred to the label transporting mean (8), to a delivery point (10), where the label (5) is applied onto the respective product (2). The label transport means (8) has a surface (11) which is brought into contact with the label (5). The aim of the invention is to simplify the labeling of individual products (2) and apply the labels (5) as precisely as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Espera-Werke GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried Vicktorius, Peter Wolff, Ralf Thomas Treder, Andreas Matheus Adrianus Van Roozendaal
  • Method of making composite from green material
    Patent number: 11413795
    Abstract: A method of making a composite laminate includes dequilling chicken feathers to form chicken feather fibers (CFFs). The CFFs and Ceiba Pentandra bark fibers (CPFs) are milled to form milled CFFs and milled CPFs so that the milled CFFs have a length of smaller than 200 microns and the milled CPFs have a length of smaller than 600 microns. The CFFs are treated with an amine compatibilizer to esterify carboxy groups present on keratin in the CFFs. A mixture of an epoxy resin, the milled CFFs, and the milled CPFs is solution cast to form an epoxy composite. A first carbon fabric layer and a second carbon fabric layer are placed on a front side and a backside, respectively, of the epoxy composite to form an epoxy laminate precursor. The epoxy laminate precursor is compression molded to cure the epoxy laminate precursor to form the composite laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz University
    Inventors: Anish Khan, Abdullah Mohamed Asiri, Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa
  • Method for manufacturing a cellulose product by a pressure moulding apparatus
    Patent number: 11407149
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a cellulose product having a flat or non-flat product shape by a pressure moulding apparatus comprising a forming mould. The forming mould has a forming surface defining said product shape, The method comprises the steps of: arranging a cellulose blank containing less than 45 weight percent water in said forming mould; heating said cellulose blank to a forming temperature in the range of 100° C. to 200° C.; and pressing said cellulose blank by means of said forming mould with a forming pressure acting on the cellulose blank across said forming surface, said forming pressure being in the range of 1 MPa to 100 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: PulPac AB
    Inventors: Ove Larsson, Linus Larsson
  • Apparatus and method for forming a three-dimensional object
    Patent number: 11400641
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for forming a dimensionally stable, three-dimensional object (12) by consecutively or continuously applying and hardening a shapeable printing material (89).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: XIONEER SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Andrei Neboian, Robert Hein
  • Inkjet ink receptive coating comprising esterified or etherified starch and laponite
    Patent number: 11396199
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a paper or paperboard with improved printing properties, which method comprises the steps of, providing a paper or paperboard substrate, comprising cellulosic fibres, providing a coating composition comprising a mixture of an esterified or etherified starch and a inorganic mineral; and coating at least one surface of said substrate with at least one layer of said coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Stora Enso OYJ
    Inventors: Kaj Backfolk, Katriina Mielonen, Sami Ovaska
  • Powder slush molding system
    Patent number: 11396116
    Abstract: Disclosed is a powder slush molding system that molds a slush skin by melting and adhering a powder resin material to an inner surface of a mold that is heated. The powder slush molding system includes a heating device, a rocking device, a cooling device, a demolding device, and a transfer device configured to transfer the mold between these devices. The cooling device includes a cooling bath and a table configured to turn upside down vertically above the cooling bath. The mold fixedly placed on an upper surface of the table faces the cooling bath side when the table is turned upside down. The table is configured to allow the mold to be placed also on a back surface of the table. The back surface faces upward when the table is turned upside down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Iida