Patents Examined by Frank J Vineis
  • Patent number: 11352525
    Abstract: The polyolefin resin foam sheet is a polyolefin resin foam sheet having a plurality of cells in an inside thereof, wherein the 50% compressive strength is 120 kPa or less; the MD elongation percentage is 400% or less; and the TD elongation percentage is 200% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kento Nagai, Koji Yachi, Asami Nagai
  • Patent number: 11351757
    Abstract: A composite pane includes a first pane, a second pane, and a thermoplastic film arranged between the two panes, wherein at least one pane is in the form of a flat glass and at least one pane surface has a plurality of elongated elevations and elongated depressions that extend along a first pane direction and are alternatingly arranged in a second pane direction perpendicular to the first pane direction, the thermoplastic film is produced by extrusion and at least one film surface has a plurality of elongated elevations and elongated depressions that extend along a first film direction and are alternatingly arranged in a second film direction perpendicular to the first film direction, wherein the elongated elevations of the at least one pane are arranged at an angle different from 90° relative to the elongated elevations of the thermoplastic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Günther Schall, Stephan Gier, Richard Brocker, Michael Balduin, Nikolai Borchmann
  • Patent number: 11346101
    Abstract: A structure includes: a first portion including a first front surface and a first rear surface that faces opposite to the first front surface; a second portion including a second front surface that faces opposite to the first front surface, and a second rear surface that faces opposite to the second front surface; a support portion that supports the first portion and the second portion; a first film formed on the first front surface; a second film formed on the first rear surface; and a third film (an eighth film, a ninth film and a tenth film) formed on at least a part of a surface of the support portion. A thermal emissivity of the first film is higher than thermal emissivities of the second film, the eighth film, the ninth film, and the tenth film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Kibayashi, Atsushi Kato, Keisho Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11331889
    Abstract: A plastic label is provided having a substrate film, an ink layer, and a coating layer interposed between the substrate film and the ink layer. The coating layer contains a first resin and a second resin, the first resin being an acrylic-acid copolymer resin having a first glass transition temperature and the second resin being an acrylic-acid copolymer resin having a second glass transition temperature that is lower than the first glass transition temperature. An apparent acid value of the coating layer is 40 to 150 mg KOH/g or less, and a total content percentage of the first resin and the second resin in the coating layer is 50 to 95 parts by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.
    Inventor: Akira Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11312551
    Abstract: The present invention describes easy-to-tear polymeric flexible packaging substrate i.e. polymeric film/laminate. The easy-to-tear flexible packaging film is obtained by providing a plurality of non-through micro-indentations on one or both surface of the film. The micro-indentations are located over the entire or partial surface area of the film. The easy-to-tear packaging laminate of the present invention is obtained by providing a plurality of non-through micro-indentations on at least one surface of at least one layer of the packaging laminate. The micro-indentations are located over the entire or partial surface area of the corresponding surfaces of the layers of the laminate. The micro-indentations may have a depth between 1˜70% of the thickness of the polymeric layer. The density of the micro-indentations on a particular surface may be from 10/cm2 to 10,000/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventor: Ashok Chaturvedi
  • Patent number: 11305511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible sheet of wood strips for use in the fabrication of engineered floor boards or wood sheets and including the machine and method of manufacture of the flexible sheet of wood strips. The wood strips provide a wood floor which has much more stability than a solid wood plank which is much more affected by the temperature in a room and the moisture under the floor board. Also solid wood planks are much more expensive than engineered wood planks where only a very thin layer of quality wood material is utilized. The transverse wood strips are constructed of inferior wood material. Two or more treads of flexible material may be secured transversely to the wood strips to provide additional retention of the wood strips in the flexible sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: BOA-FRANC, S.E.N.C.
    Inventors: François Roy, Jonathan Cloutier, Vincent Tanguay
  • Patent number: 11310910
    Abstract: A resin composition for use in a dielectric layer of a capacitor device or a capacitor-embedded printed circuit board is provided in which the resin composition can improve stability in capacitance and insulation properties of the capacitor device under high temperature and high humidity and ensures high adhesion of the dielectric layer to the device. The resin composition comprises a resin component and a dielectric filler. The resin component comprises an epoxy resin, an active ester resin, and an aromatic polyamide resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Yoneda, Toshifumi Matsushima, Toshihiro Hosoi, Kenshiro Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11305518
    Abstract: A laminated body formed by laminating a fiber substrate composed of a plurality of fibers and a polymer layer formed from a polymer latex. The polymer layer covers the fiber substrate in a state in which a portion of the polymer layer has permeated among the fibers. A ratio (t1/d) of a thickness t1 of the portion of the polymer layer that has permeated among the fibers (from a top surface of the fiber substrate) to a substrate layer average thickness d is 0.1 to 0.95. A thickness t2 of the portion of the polymer layer covering the top surface of the fiber substrate (from the top surface of the fiber substrate) is 80 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Taniyama, Kentaro Hayasaka, Shinji Kato
  • Patent number: 11306024
    Abstract: A glass article is provided that includes: a glass substrate comprising a thickness and a primary surface; and a textured region defined by the primary surface. The textured region comprises a plurality of sub-surface hillocks, each hillock having a top surface and a base, the base located below the primary surface of the substrate. The plurality of hillocks comprises an average lateral feature size from 0.1 ?m to 3 ?m and an average height from 5 nm to 200 nm. Further, the primary surface of the substrate is substantially planar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Yuhui Jin, Aize Li, Qiao Li, Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 11305509
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a sandwich structure having an open cellular core and a fluid-tight seal surrounding the core includes coupling a mold to a first facesheet to define a reservoir. The method also includes irradiating a volume of photo-monomer in the reservoir with a series of vertical collimated light beams to form a cured, solid polymer border extending around a periphery of the first facesheet. The method also includes irradiating a remaining volume of photo-monomer in the reservoir with a series of collimated light beams to form an ordered three-dimensional polymer microstructure core defined by a plurality of interconnected polymer optical waveguides coupled to the first facesheet and surrounded by the cured, solid polymer border. The method further includes coupling a second facesheet to the ordered three-dimensional microstructure core and the cured, solid polymer border to form the sandwich structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob M. Hundley, Alan J. Jacobsen, Sophia S. Yang, Zak C. Eckel, Christopher S. Roper, William Carter
  • Patent number: 11298922
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods related to a packaging laminate comprising: a first polymeric layer comprising a polypropylene copolymer or a high density polyethylene (HDPE) resin; and a second polymeric layer comprising a high density polyethylene (HDPE) resin or linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) resin with a coextruded ethyl vinyl alcohol (EVOH) compatibilizer. Also disclosed herein are packaging containers formed of the packaging laminates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: BMSI, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee Phillips Gilbert
  • Patent number: 11286570
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating. The coating has an inner layer of 4-14 ?m thick Ti1-xAlxN, an intermediate layer of 0.05-1 ?m TiCN and at least one outer layer of 1-9 ?m ?-Al2O3. The ?-Al2O3 layer exhibits an X-ray diffraction pattern, as measured using CuK? radiation and theta-2theta scan. A texture coefficient TC(hkl) is defined according to Harris formula, wherein the (hkl) reflections used are (0 2 4), (1 1 6), (3 0 0) and (0 0 12), I(hkl)=measured intensity (peak intensity) of the (hkl) reflection, I0(hkl)=standard intensity according to ICDD's PDF-card No. 00-042-1468, n=number of reflections used in the calculation, and 3<TC(0 0 12)<4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: WALTER AG
    Inventors: Dirk Stiens, Thorsten Manns
  • Patent number: 11280090
    Abstract: Gypsum board having a core, said core having at least one side covered with a non-woven fabric; characterized in that the inner side of the non-woven fabric, which is in contact with the core of the gypsum board, has a surface roughness Ra of from 25 to 60 micrometers, preferably from 25 to 50 micrometers, advantageously from 25 to 40 micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj
    Inventors: Emmanuel Faynot, Marc Berlioz, Samuel Merlet, Claude Leclercq
  • Patent number: 11254108
    Abstract: Biocompatible flexible laminate structure comprising an alternating stack of layers from polymers A and B or polymer blends AC and BD having the sequence -A-[B-A-]n- or AC-[BD-AC-]n with n from 4 to 36, wherein the layer thickness of layers A or AC and layers B or BD is less than 3 ?m, wherein A and B are thermoplastic polymers and C and D are thermoplastic elastomers, at least part of the monomeric building blocks of polymer A, B or A and B are from renewable sources wherein the thermoplastic polymer B has functional barrier properties, wherein the amount of the thermoplastic elastomers C and D in the polymer blends AC and BD is each from 3 to 45 wt.-%, and polymer B and elastomer D are essentially incompatible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: RENOLIT SE
    Inventors: Jakob Robert Blok, Hans Paul Henning Von Kirchbach, Petrus Johannes Antonius Karsten
  • Patent number: 11254085
    Abstract: Absorbent microstructure panels are described herein. An example filter device includes a plurality of microstructure panels each having a front surface and a back surface, and a plurality of capillary ridges protruding from the front surface. The plurality of capillary ridges are each spaced apart from one another. The plurality of microstructure panels form an absorbent microstructure array by layering the plurality of microstructure panels together such that the plurality of capillary ridges of one microstructure panel contacts the back surface of an adjacent microstructure panel to create capillary tubes that draw fluid into the absorbent microstructure array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Imagine TF, LLC
    Inventor: Brian Edward Richardson
  • Patent number: 11254843
    Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive film. The adhesive film has a silicone adhesive layer on one surface or both surfaces of a substrate film. A silicone adhesive material is used to form the silicone adhesive layer. The silicone adhesive material has 120 to 380% of an elongation at break (tensile speed of 300 mm/min, temperature of 25° C.) specified in JIS K 6251, and 1.8×105 to 4.5×105 Pa of a shear storage modulus (frequency of 10 Hz, temperature of 25° C.). The adhesive film generally has good wettability to the surface of an adherend and in general can be easily attached without creating air bubbles, to the extent that, even if air bubbles are created, the air bubbles can be easily dissipated. Further, even though the adhesive film is generally not easily peeled, peeling is generally possible with a small adhesive force during high speed peeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: DOW TORAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Hino, Akihiro Nakamura, Michitaka Suto, Hidefumi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11236253
    Abstract: Provided is a PSA sheet highly durable against repeated deformation and suited for use in a flexible device as well. The PSA sheet provided by this invention comprises a PSA layer. The PSA sheet shows a recovery rate at 100% elongation of 70% or higher. The PSA layer shows a displacement of 0.5 mm or greater according to the following holding power test: <Holding Power Test> At 23° C., the PSA layer is applied over a 10 mm wide by 20 mm long bonding area to a Bakelite plate as an adherend; a 1 kg load is applied in the length direction; after one hour, the displacement from the initial position where first applied is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Yamanari, Makoto Saito, Naoaki Higuchi, Kenta Jozuka
  • Patent number: 11235561
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods related to a packaging laminate comprising: a first polymeric layer comprising a polypropylene copolymer; and a second polymeric layer comprising a high density polyethylene (HDPE) resin with a coextruded ethyl vinyl alcohol (EVOH) compatibilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BMSI, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee Phillips Gilbert
  • Patent number: 11220827
    Abstract: The invention relates to a floor underlayment comprising a first layer, a second layer, and an inner layer between the first layer and the second layer, wherein the inner layer has one layer of foam beads, and the floor underlayment has a thickness from 0.8 mm to 1.5 mm. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing a floor underlayment, a flooring system and a use of a floor underlayment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Jackon Finland Oy
    Inventors: Mikko Järvinen, Hannu Kainulainen, Seppo Laikko, Jukka Mälkönen
  • Patent number: 11214130
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laminated glass panel for an automobile, having a curved shape resulting from the assembly of a first glass sheet, which is curved before said assembly, with an intermediate thermoplastic sheet and a second glass sheet, the thickness of which does not exceed one third of that of the first sheet, the second glass sheet not being curved, or having a curvature that is substantially smaller than that of the first sheet before the assembly thereof with the latter and the intermediate thermoplastic sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AGC Glass Europe
    Inventors: Quentin Gillard, Renaud Hubert, Benoit Lecomte, Rostislav Losot, Nerio Lucca