Patents Examined by Helene Klemanski
  • Inks
    Patent number: 10544318
    Abstract: A black ink-jet printing ink comprising: a) from 9 to 11.5 parts of C.I. Reactive Black 39; b) from 5 to 7.5 parts of C.I. Reactive Brown 11 and/or C.I. Reactive Yellow 95; c) from 2.5 to 4 parts of C.I. Reactive Orange 12 and/or C.I. Reactive Orange 13; d) from 0.1 to 10 parts of a buffer; e) from 15 to 30 parts of ethylene glycol; f) from 0 to 10 parts of a water miscible solvent; g) from 0.01 to 2.5 parts of a non-ionic surfactant; h) from 4 to 14 parts of urea; i) from 0 to 5 parts of biocide; and j) the balance to 100 parts water. Also an ink-jet printing process, a multicolour ink-set and printed substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masao Ikoshi
  • Pigment dispersion liquid and inkjet ink
    Patent number: 10538670
    Abstract: Provided are a pigment dispersion liquid including a pigment, a polymer dispersant, and water; and an inkjet ink containing the pigment dispersion liquid. The pigment contains a compound represented by General Formula (1) described in the specification, a tautomer thereof, or a salt of the compound or the tautomer. The polymer dispersant contains a polymer compound which has a repeating unit represented General Formula (2-1) and a repeating unit represented General Formula (2-2) described in the specification, and having a structure represented by General Formula (3) introduced into at least one terminal of a main chain: in General Formula (3), L represents a linking group; R4 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; and the symbol * represents a linking bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Hayashi, Yoshiaki Nagata, Kazufumi Omura, Kazushi Furukawa, Keiichi Tateishi
  • Electronically pure single chirality semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube for large scale electronic devices
    Patent number: 10541374
    Abstract: An electronically pure carbon nanotube ink, includes a population of semiconducting carbon nanotubes suspended in a liquid, the ink being essentially free of metallic impurities and organic material, and characterized in that when incorporated as a carbon nanotube network in a metal/carbon nanotube network/metal double diode, a nonlinear current-bias curve is obtained on application of a potential from 0.01 V to 100 V. The ink can be used to prepare air-stable n-type thin film transistors having performances similar to current thin film transistors used in flat panel displays amorphous silicon devices and high performance p-type thin film transistors with high-? dielectrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Carbon Nanotube Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Huaping Li
  • Non-Newtonian white inks
    Patent number: 10533106
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an example where a non-Newtonian white ink can include an aqueous ink vehicle, from 5 wt % to 60 wt % of white colorant, and from 0.1 wt % to 5 wt % of amphoteric alumina particles dispersed in the aqueous ink vehicle. The white colorant can include white metal oxide pigment having an average particulate size from 100 nm to 2,000 nm, an alumina coating on the white metal oxide pigment forming an alumina-coated pigment, and a polymeric dispersant associated with a surface of the alumina-coated pigment. The amphoteric alumina particles can have an average particles size from 2 nm to less than 100 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Vladek Kasperchik, Paul Joseph Bruinsma, Thomas W. Butler
  • Preparation of matt paints and printing inks
    Patent number: 10533102
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pigment composition for preparing pigmented matt coatings, such as matt paints and printing inks. Further, the invention relates to a process for preparing such pigment composition, and to a coating formulation containing such composition. Finally, the invention is directed to a pigmented matt surface of a substrate, and to the use of the pigment compositions disclosed herein for matting substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Kronos International, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Mersch, Volker Juergens
  • Composition comprising silver nanowires in an alcohol/water mixture and dispersed styrene/(meth)acrylic copolymers for the preparation of electroconductive transparent layers
    Patent number: 10526501
    Abstract: Described is a composition suitable for the preparation of an electroconductive transparent layer, said composition comprising a mixture of water and one or more alcohols, electroconductive nanoobjects and one or more dissolved styrene/(meth)acrylic copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Herve Dietsch, Thomas Sturm, Danny Seyfried, Rui Zhang
  • Film-forming ink, film formation method, device with film, and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 10526500
    Abstract: A film-forming ink includes a film-forming material and a liquid medium in which the film-forming material is dissolved or dispersed. The liquid medium contains a first component which has a viscosity of less than 20 cp and a second component which has a boiling point at an atmospheric pressure within a range of ±30° C. relative to the boiling point at an atmospheric pressure of the first component and has a viscosity of 20 cp or more, and the second component is contained in an amount of 20 parts by weight or more and 500 parts by weight or less with respect to 100 parts by weight of the first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Watanabe, Takuya Sonoyama
  • Ink, ink accommodating unit, recording method, recording device, and recorded matter
    Patent number: 10519330
    Abstract: An ink contains a volatile solvent, a pigment including an inorganic hollow particle having a spherical form, and a resin particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Hirade, Hisashi Habashi
  • Ink and method of conducting an examination
    Patent number: 10513621
    Abstract: An ink and method of conducting an examination suitable for reducing the likelihood that the students' answers on paper-based examinations may be changed at a later time prior to being graded. The ink includes a solution of marking particles, a suspension material, and a preserving material. A mark made with the ink is initially erasable for a predetermined period of time after the mark is formed and after the expiration of the predetermined period of time the mark is not erasable. The method of conducting an examination includes providing an ink to an individual, and then providing questions to an individual wherein the individual indicates answers to the questions by producing marks with the ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Bryan William Boudouris, Robert Randell Dodd, Jessica L. Sargent, Emily Alcorace
  • Plating bath composition and method for electroless plating of palladium
    Patent number: 10513780
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous plating bath composition and a method for depositing a palladium layer by electroless plating onto a substrate. The aqueous plating bath composition according to the invention comprises a source for palladium ions, a reducing agent for palladium ions and an unsaturated compound. The aqueous plating bath composition according to the invention has an improved stability against undesired decomposition due to the unsaturated compounds while keeping the deposition rate for palladium at the desired satisfying value. The aqueous plating bath composition has also a prolonged life time. The unsaturated compounds of the invention allow for adjusting the deposition rate to a satisfying range over the bath life time and for electrolessly depositing palladium layers at lower temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Atotech Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Walter, Christof Suchentrunk, Thomas Beck, Gerhard Steinberger, Holger Bera, Heiko Brunner, Bernd Froese
  • Hot-rolled steel sheet and production method of therefor
    Patent number: 10513749
    Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet has predetermined chemical composition, a sum of a Si content and an Al content is higher than 0.20% and lower than 0.81%, a microstructure includes, by area fraction, 90% to 99% of a ferrite, 1% to 10% of a martensite, and a bainite limited to 5% or less, the grain size of the martensite is 1 to 10 ?m, the X-ray random intensity ratio of a {211}<011> orientation which is parallel to a rolled surface of the steel sheet and is parallel to a rolling direction is 3.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Toyoda, Riki Okamoto, Ryohta Niiya, Hiroshi Sakai, Hidetoshi Shindo
  • Radio-opaque 3D printing ink
    Patent number: 10501651
    Abstract: A 3D printing ink comprising a radio-opaque additive and a polymer ink and a method for 3D printing of anatomic replicas using the 3D printing ink are described. The radio-opaque additive is bismuth neodecanoate, and the amount of bismuth neodecanoate in the printing ink may range from about 6% to about 20% by weight. The polymer ink may be transparent or opaque. X-rays of anatomic replicas created with the 3D printing ink appear very similar to x-rays of organic hard tissues, thereby enhancing procedural training for health care professionals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Inventor: L. Stephen Buchanan
  • Aqueous ink composition for writing instruments
    Patent number: 10501649
    Abstract: Provided is an aqueous ink composition for a writing instrument which is excellent in a drying property of drawn lines and a low temperature stability of the ink while inhibiting the pen tip from drying and which prevents the drawn lines from causing feathering and strike-through. The aqueous ink composition for a writing instrument described above contains at least a colorant, trimethylglycine, pentaerythritol, 10% by mass or less of a water-soluble organic solvent and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Hisato Haga
  • Ink for marking a tissue specimen
    Patent number: 10492886
    Abstract: An ink composition for marking a tissue specimen is provided. The ink composition has a general formula of 30.0 wt. % to 54.0 wt. % of an alkali soluble styrene; 0.3 wt. % to 1.7 wt. % ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose; 8.0 wt. % to 35.0 wt. % colorant; 0.0 wt. % to 13.0 wt. % pigment; 23.0 wt. % to 47.0 wt. % deionized water; 0.35 wt. % to 1.65% defoamer and 0.1 wt. % to 1.1 wt. % preservative. The inks in accordance with the invention may have a peak transmission in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of from 322 nm to 716 nm or having a lineal UV-Vis spectrum with no visible peak transmission between 250 nm and 950 nm. When applied to a tissue specimen the ink compositions do not bleed onto adjacent tissue margins. When view under a microscope the color of the ink compositions can be distinguished from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: VECTOR SURGICAL, LLC
    Inventors: Janet L. F. Phillips, Scott E. Moore
  • Ink composition
    Patent number: 10472531
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ink composition containing a colorant; a hydroxylated co-solvent; a non-hydroxylated co-solvent, a polyurethane binder and water. The weight percent ratio of the hydroxylated co-solvent to the non-hydroxylated co-solvent in the ink composition ranges from 55:45 to 65:35; and the total amount of hydroxylated co-solvent and non-hydroxylated co-solvent in the ink composition is at least 18 wt %. The amount of polyurethane binder in the ink composition is 0.1 to less than 1 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Linda Sherry, Niamh Kelly, Richard J. McManus, Kevin Rattigan, John Breen
  • High-entropy superalloy
    Patent number: 10472702
    Abstract: Differing from traditional alloys often containing one primary elemental composition, the present invention reforms a conventional superalloy to a high-entropy superalloy by redesigning the elemental compositions of the conventional superalloy based on a mixing entropy formula. Particularly, this high-entropy superalloy shows advantages of light weight and low cost under the premise of containing a low amount of expensive metal composition. The proposed high-entropy superalloy of the present invention comprises a primary elemental composition and at least one principal strengthening elemental composition, wherein the primary elemental composition has a first element content of at least 35 at % and each of the principal strengthening elemental compositions have a second element content of over 5 at %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: An-Chou Yeh, Te-Kang Tsao
  • Cold work tool steel
    Patent number: 10472704
    Abstract: The invention relates cold work tool steel. The steel includes the following main components (in wt. %): C 2.2-2.4, Si 0.1-0.55, Mn 0.2-0.8, Cr 4.1-5.1, Mo 3.1-4.5, V 7.2-8.5, balance optional elements, iron and impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: UDDEHOLMS AB
    Inventors: Thomas Hillskog, Kjell Bengtsson, Petter Damm, Annika Engström Svensson, Rikard Robertsson, Kristoffer Steiner, Amanda Forsberg, Magnus Tidesten, Pär Emanuelsson
  • Steel material for highly deformable line pipes having superior strain aging resistance and superior HIC resistance, method for manufacturing same, and welded steel pipe
    Patent number: 10465261
    Abstract: A steel material for highly deformable line pipes that has superior strain aging resistance, superior HIC resistance, and a metallographic structure including ferrite, bainite, and martensite-austenite constituent. The area fraction of the martensite-austenite constituent is 0.5 to 5.0%, and the difference in hardness between the ferrite and the bainite is 60 or more in terms of Vickers hardness. Additionally, the steel material has a uniform elongation of 9% or more and a yield ratio of 90% or less both before a strain aging treatment at a temperature of 300° C. or lower and after the strain aging treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyono Yasuda, Daisuke Mizuno, Haruo Nakamichi, Nobuyuki Ishikawa
  • Short-chain fluorosurfactants with iodide additives for forming silver nanowire-based transparent conductive films
    Patent number: 10465081
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are purified surfactant formulations including purified short-chain fluorosurfactant and iodide additive and a two-part coating kit having the same and a silver nanowire formulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Cambrios Film Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Teresa Ramos, Lin Zhang, Lily Pay
  • Treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating, method for forming chromium-free tension coating, and grain oriented electrical steel sheet with chromium-free tension coating
    Patent number: 10458021
    Abstract: Provided is a treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating that can simultaneously achieve excellent moisture absorption resistance and a high iron loss reduction effect obtained by imparting sufficient tension, by using an inexpensive Ti source instead of expensive Ti chelate. The treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating contains: one or more of phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn; colloidal silica in an amount of 50 parts by mass to 120 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of SiO2; Ti source in an amount of 30 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of TiO2; and H3PO4, and the number of moles of metallic elements in the phosphate and of phosphorus in the treatment solution satisfy: 0.20?([Mg]+[Ca]+[Ba]+[Sr]+[Zn]+[Mn]+1.5[Al])/[P]?0.45??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Terashima, Makoto Watanabe, Masanori Uesaka, Ryuichi Suehiro, Toshito Takamiya