Patents Examined by Gerard Higgins
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Patent number: 11786441Abstract: Coated pharmaceutical packages are disclosed. The coated pharmaceutical packages may Include a glass body formed from borosilicate glass that meets Type 1 criteria according to USP <660> or alkali aluminosilicate glass having a Class HGA 1 hydrolytic resistance when tested according to the ISO 720-1985 testing standard. A low-friction coating comprising a polymer may be positioned on a portion of the exterior surface. A coefficient of friction of an abraded area of the portion of the exterior surface with the low-friction coating may be less than 0.7 after exposure to a temperature of 260° C. for 30 minutes and abrasion under a load of at least 10 N and does not have observable damage. A retained strength of the coated glass article in horizontal compression does not decrease by more than 20% after the temperature exposure and the abrasion.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Andrei Gennadyevich Fadeev, Theresa Chang, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Santona Pal, Chandan Kumar Saha, Steven Edward DeMartino, Christopher Lee Timmons, John Stephen Peanasky
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Patent number: 11786007Abstract: The present disclosure, in general, provides for a layered material that can be incorporated in to textiles (e.g., footwear, apparel, sporting equipment, or components of each). In an aspect, the layered material includes an externally facing layer and a thermoplastic hot melt adhesive layer and optionally one or more inner layers between the externally facing layer and the thermoplastic hot melt adhesive layer. The present disclosure provides for articles including the layered material such as footwear, apparel, sporting equipment, a component of an article of sporting equipment, apparel or footwear, including a outsole structure for footwear.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: NIKE, INC.Inventors: Jay Constantinou, Caleb W. Dyer, Jeremy D. Walker, Zachary C. Wright
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Patent number: 11772403Abstract: In a seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, the total thickness thereof is 250 ?m or less, a seal portion has a layered structure in which a pressure-adhesive layer, a seal portion substrate, and a receiving layer are layered in this order from a release portion side. A release portion has a layered structure in which a surface resin layer, a release portion paper substrate, and a back face resin layer are layered in this order from a seal portion side. One or both of the seal portion substrate and the surface resin layer includes a layer made of polyethylene terephthalate is 50 ?m or more. The sum of the thickness of the seal portion substrate and the thickness of the surface resin layer is four times or more the thickness of the back face resin layer, and the thickness of the back face resin layer is 20 ?m or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Ito, Masayuki Tani
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Patent number: 11752793Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material including a substrate, a heat-sensitive recording layer which includes N-(4-methylphenylsulfonyl)-/V-(3-(4-methylphenylsulfonyloxy)pheny-purea and/or N42-(3-phenylureido)phenyl]benzol sulfonamide, and an intermediate layer which is arranged between the substrate and the heat-sensitive recording layer and which includes calcined aluminum silicate, and a method for producing a heat-sensitive recording material and to the use of calcined aluminum silicate in an intermediate layer of a heat-sensitive recording material.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITEC PAPER EUROPE GMBHInventors: Nadia El-Karzazi, Claas Boxhammer
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Patent number: 11753330Abstract: A glass substrate contains, as a glass matrix composition as represented by mole percentage based on oxides, SiO2: 58-75%, Al2O3: 4.5-16%, B2O3: 0-6%, MgO: 0-6%, CaO: 0-6%, SrO: 5-20%, BaO: 5-20%, and MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO:15-40%. The glass substrate has an alkali metal oxide content of 0-0.1% as represented by mole percentage based on oxides. The glass substrate has an average coefficient of thermal expansion ? of 56-90 (×10?7/° C.) at 50° C.-350° C.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: AGC INC.Inventors: Yu Hanawa, Kazutaka Ono, Shigeki Sawamura
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Patent number: 11737951Abstract: Coated pharmaceutical packages may comprise a glass body formed from a borosilicate glass composition having a Type 1 chemical durability according to USP 660, the glass body having an interior surface and an exterior surface and a wall extending therebetween. A low-friction thermally stable coating having a thickness of ?1 ?m may be positioned on at least a portion of the exterior surface. The low-friction coating may comprise a silane. The portion of the exterior surface of the coated pharmaceutical package may have a coefficient of friction that is at least 20% less than an uncoated pharmaceutical package formed from the same borosilicate glass composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Andrei Gennadyevich Fadeev, Theresa Chang, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Santona Pal, Chandan Kumar Saha, Steven Edward DeMartino, Christopher Lee Timmons, John Stephen Peanasky
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Patent number: 11718118Abstract: A recording medium according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a recording layer and an optical thin film. The recording layer includes a heat-sensitive color-developing composition and a photothermal conversion material. The photothermal conversion material absorbs a wavelength in an infrared region and generates heat. The optical thin film is provided on one surface of the recording layer. The optical thin film reflects the wavelength in the infrared region and transmits a wavelength in a visible region.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Mitsunari Hoshi
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Patent number: 11702504Abstract: A resin composition for a printed wiring board, including: a phenolic compound (A); a maleimide compound (B); an epoxy compound (C); a cyclic carbodiimide compound (D); an inorganic filler (E); and a curing accelerator (F), wherein a content of the inorganic filler (E) is 100 to 250 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of a resin solid content.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Shohei Yamaguchi, Katsuya Tomizawa, Norihiro Shida, Hidetoshi Kawai
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Patent number: 11697299Abstract: Provided are a combination of a thermal transfer sheet and an intermediate transfer medium which is capable of accurately transferring only a transfer layer of the intermediate transfer medium desired to be transferred onto a transfer receiving article in the production of a print, and a thermal transfer sheet which is used in combination with an intermediate transfer medium. Also provided are a method for producing a print, comprising accurately transferring only a transfer layer of an intermediate transfer medium desired to be transferred onto a transfer receiving article, and a thermal transfer printer which is used in this method for producing a print. In the thermal transfer sheet which is used in combination with an intermediate transfer medium, inhibit layer 2 is disposed on substrate 1, and the inhibit layer 2 contains a carnauba wax.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Imakura, Koichiro Kuroda
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Patent number: 11667434Abstract: A glass container including a body having a delamination factor less than or equal to 10 and at least one marking is described. The body has an inner surface, an outer surface, and a wall thickness extending between the outer surface and the inner surface. The marking is located within the wall thickness. In particular, the marking is a portion of the body having a refractive index that differs from a refractive index of an unmarked portion of the body. Methods of forming the marking within the body are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Steven Edward DeMartino, Daniel Warren Hawtof, Ming-Jun Li, Anping Liu, John Stephen Peanasky, Christopher Lee Timmons, Qi Wu
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Patent number: 11667142Abstract: A reversible recording medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first recording layer to be colored in a first color, a second recording layer to be colored in a second color, the second color being different from the first color, and a first intermediate layer provided between the first recording layer and the second recording layer, the first intermediate layer including a plurality of layers respectively containing materials different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Hirai, Yuriko Kaino, Kenji Takagi
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Patent number: 11648714Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet according to the present invention includes a stress buffer layer provided on one surface of a base material and having an elastic property, a thermal expansion layer provided on the stress buffer layer and containing a first thermally expandable material that expands according to heat and a first binder, and a cover layer provided on the thermal expansion layer and having an elastic property.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshimune Motoyanagi, Yuji Horiuchi, Hideki Takahashi, Satoshi Mitsui
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Patent number: 11642908Abstract: A visual security feature is provided that is disposed on a target. The visual security feature includes two substantially transparent layers. At least one of the two substantially transparent layers is present in an image-wise pattern.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Robert Phillip Renz, Morven McAlpine
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Patent number: 11590787Abstract: A reversible recording medium of an embodiment of the disclosure includes a support base, and a recording layer provided on the support base and reversibly changing between a recorded state and a deleted state. The recording layer includes a photothermal conversion material including one or more of a compound having a phthalocyanine skeleton, a compound having a squarylium skeleton, a compound having a cyanine skeleton including, in a molecule, one or both of a counter ion of SbF6, PF6, BF4, ClO4, CF3SO3 and (CF3SO3)2N and a methine chain containing a five-membered ring or a six-membered ring, and an inorganic compound; a coloring compound having an electron-donating property; and a color developing/quenching agent having an electron-accepting property and including at least one salicylic acid compound represented by the general formula (1) and including a linear hydrocarbon group having 25 to 34 carbon atoms via a linking group containing an amide moiety.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Aya Shuto, Kenichi Kurihara, Yuriko Kaino
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Patent number: 11590786Abstract: An object is to provide a thermal transfer sheet that can prevent the occurrence of layer detachment and has high transferability for preventing the occurrence of transfer defects such as delamination trace and tailing. The thermal transfer sheet of the invention is characterized in that it includes a substrate, a release layer, and a transfer layer in that order, and the release layer contains at least one of alumina and alumina hydrate, and a binder resin.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junko Hirokawa, Tadahiro Ishida
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Light to heat conversion layer and method for manufacturing the same, and donor sheet using the same
Patent number: 11577537Abstract: A light to heat conversion layer which has visible light permeability, excellent near infrared absorption characteristics, and which can improve the transfer accuracy of an organic electroluminescent element using laser irradiation; and a donor sheet using the light to heat conversion layer. The light to heat conversion layer contains near infrared absorption particles and a binder component. The near infrared absorption particles are composite tungsten oxide microparticles wherein if the value for the XRD peak intensity of the face of a silicon powder standard sample (manufactured by NIST, 640c) is defined as 1, the value for the ratio of XRD peak top intensity is at least 0.13, and the light transmissivity is at least 45%.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Chonan, Hirofumi Tsunematsu -
Patent number: 11560007Abstract: The present invention relates to: an ink-receiving layer composition for a decorative member, the composition comprising an acrylic emulsion, a metal salt, and organic particles or inorganic particles; a decorative member comprising a base layer, a printing layer formed on the base layer, and an ink-receiving layer disposed between the base layer and the printing layer and formed of a composition comprising an acrylic emulsion, a metal salt, and inorganic particles; and a method for manufacturing a decorative member, the method comprising a step for preparing a base layer in a flat state, a step for coating a composition comprising an acrylic emulsion, a metal salt, and organic particles or inorganic particles on the base layer, a step for drying or UV curing the coated composition to form an ink-receiving layer, and a step for forming a printing layer on the ink-receiving layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.Inventors: Ji-Yeon Seo, Heon-Jo Kim, Sam-Hun Yun
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Patent number: 11560006Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet is provided, which allows for forming an image favorable to any transfer objects having a poor smoothness or a high smoothness. The thermal transfer sheet according to the present invention includes a substrate, and a transfer layer. The transfer layer includes a release layer, a colorant layer and an adhesive layer. The release layer includes a polyethylene glycol having a number average molecular weight Mn in a range of 8000 or more to 23000 or less, and the colorant layer includes a colorant and a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadahiro Ishida, Megumi Ikeda, Yusuke Narumi
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Patent number: 11541678Abstract: A stratified support item for printing on a surface with sublimation inks is disclosed. The surface may include, for example, clothing items, such as T-shirts, sweatshirts or the like. The stratified support item includes a thermo-adhesive layer configured to adhere to the surface and at least one finish layer configured to receive said sublimation inks. The finish layer includes a powder, which is comprised of at least one from the group of (i) a polyester powder, and (ii) a polyamide powder, incorporated in a matrix of polymeric material.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Siser S.R.L.Inventors: Alessandro Canacci, Marco Cazzola
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Patent number: 11540591Abstract: The disclosure relates to articles and components thereof, including outsoles, which can be used in conditions normally conducive to the accumulation of soil. In particular, the articles have substrate body, a tie layer secured to the substrate body, and a material including a hydrogel secured to the tie layer. The material can prevent or reduce the accumulation of soil during use. The presence of the tie layer can minimize or prevent delamination of the hydrogel containing material during normal use.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NIKE, INC.Inventors: Hossein A. Baghdadi, Jay Constantinou, Caleb W. Dyer, Myron Maurer, Denis Schiller, Jeremy D. Walker, Richard L. Watkins, Zachary C. Wright