Patents Examined by Holly C Rickman
  • Patent number: 6156433
    Abstract: An electrode, for a plasma display panel, adapted for provision on a front or back plate of a plasma display panel, the electrode comprising a conductive paste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sakurako Hatori, Yasunori Kurima, Nobuaki Kimura, Yozo Kosaka, Satoru Kuramochi
  • Patent number: 6143369
    Abstract: Process of impregnating a layer substrate having openings which is substantially defined by opposing two main surfaces with a resin composition in the form of liquid, and the process is characterized in that one of the main surfaces and the resin composition are kept in such a contact condition that the substrate is located on the resin composition. A prepreg and a laminate are also provided which are produced by the use of the substrate which has been prepared by the above process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Sugawa, Yasuo Tohrin, Yoshinobu Marumoto, Joji Sakakibara, Ken-ichi Shinotani, Kohei Kotera, Kenji Ogasawara, Keiko Kashihara, Tomoaki Iwami
  • Patent number: 6140456
    Abstract: New starting materials and chemical processes will be used to make fluorinated poly(para-xylylenes) (F-PPX) and fluorinated poly(para-fluoroxylylenes) (F-PPFX). The processes will use some very low cost and readily available starting materials, catalysts, chemical reactors, transport polymerization (TP) systems, and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) systems commonly used for making F-PPX. New TP and CVD deposition systems will also be used to make F-PPX and F-PPFX. These polymers are used for the manufacture of low dielectric films with high thermal stability and are sufficiently strong to withstand planarization and polishing for the manufacture of integrated circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Quester Techology, Inc.
    Inventors: Chung J. Lee, Hui Wang, Giovanni Antonio Foggiato
  • Patent number: 6136403
    Abstract: A recording medium on a hard disk is provided that includes a magnetic data recording layer on the disk, a hydrogenated carbon buffer layer over the data recording layer, and a nitrogenated carbon overcoat layer over the hydrogenated carbon buffer layer. The composition ratios and thickness of the recording and nitrogenated carbon overcoat layers are suitably controlled to optimum ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Western Digital Corporation
    Inventors: Chanapatna Krishnamorthy Prabhakara, Amrik Singh Lehil, Stella Zofia Gornicki, Keith Samuel Goodson, Wing Tsang Tang
  • Patent number: 6127012
    Abstract: A recyclable article and a sheet-like member included in the article are disclosed. In a copier, for example, a front door has a door body and a decal fitted on the door body by an adhesive. The door body and decal are formed of thermoplastic resins soluble in each other, so that the adhesive does not remain on the door body when the decal is peeled off the door body. When the front door is melted for recycling, a molding having desirable characteristic is achievable. When the decal is peeled off the door body in order to reuse the front door, the adhesive can be easily removed from the door body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Nagatsuna, Tatsuo Tani, Shunichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 6110606
    Abstract: A high performance superconducting ceramic article for use in a liquid cryogen bath is provided. It includes a superconducting ceramic tape having at least one surface vulnerable to cryogenic infiltration is sealed on each vulnerable surface to a non-porous metallic laminate, which also provides the desired support structure, in substantially impervious relation by a non-porous metallic bonding agent. This results in greater protection of the superconducting ceramic tape from cryogen infiltration, and permits greater thermal cycling of the superconductor during use without causing degradation of the tape's critical current carrying capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: American Superconductor Corporation
    Inventors: John D. Scudiere, David M. Buczek
  • Patent number: 6102656
    Abstract: A segmented abradable ceramic coating system having superior abradability and erosion resistance is disclosed. The system includes a duct segment having a metallic substrate, a MCrAlY bond coat on the substrate and a segmented abradable ceramic coating on the bond coat. The segmented abradable ceramic coating includes a base coat foundation layer, a graded interlayer and an abradable top layer for an overall thickness of preferably about 50 mils (1.270 mm). The coating is characterized by a plurality of vertical microcracks. By precisely controlling the deposition parameters, composition of the layers and layer particle morphology, segmentation is achieved, as well as superior abradability and erosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Nissley, Harold D. Harter, Daniel R. Godin, George E. Foster
  • Patent number: 6103382
    Abstract: A catalyzed mica tape used in insulating electrical conducting devices is made from a mica paper bonded to a backing with a bonding resin. The bonding resin is cross-linkable by an addition reaction. The catalyzed mica tape has distributed therein at least a catalyst at a concentration of greater than 0.01 g/m.sup.2 for every 100 g/m.sup.2 of the bonding resin. The catalyst is an organo-transition metal compound, organo-tin compound, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: James D. B. Smith, Karl F. Schoch, Jr., Franklin T. Emery
  • Patent number: 6099974
    Abstract: A composite coating provides a solderable surface on materials that cannot otherwise be soldered. The solderable coating is comprised of a composite layer of two components made of metals or metal alloys that function as a solderable material and as a material that enhances solder flow. A thin layer of at least one of the two components can also be incorporated along with the composite layer. A solderable coating can be deposited on a non-solderable surface by any of a variety of thermal spray techniques, including plasma spraying or wire arc spraying. These solderable coatings are particularly useful in the manufacturing of high power electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Thermal Spray Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: William J. Lenling
  • Patent number: 6098829
    Abstract: The invention concerns components of food cans (1), can bodies (6), and ends fabricated starting from a stratified construction constituted by a foil of plastic material on each of the faces of which adheres a metal foil and their fabrication process. The components are characterized by the nature of the material, metal-polymer-metal construction and by the fact that ratio of the plastic thickness to the sum of the metal thicknesses is greater than 0.5. The fabrication process is drawing in one or several passes characterized preferably by the particular shape of the punch and of the die plates. The invention applies equally to the fabrication of food cans as to ends for food cans or for beverage cans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Inventors: Robert J. McHenry, Dominique Petit
  • Patent number: 6096441
    Abstract: An austenoferritic stainless steel with high tensile elongation includes iron and the following elements in the indicated weight amounts based on total weight:carbon<0.04%0.4%<silicon<1.2%2%<manganese<4%0.1%<nickel<1%18%<chromium<22%0.05%<copper<4%sulfur<0.03%phosphorus<0.1%0.1%<nitrogen<0.3%molybdenum<3%the steel having a two-phase structure of austenite and ferrite and comprising between 30% and 70% of austenite, whereinCreq=Cr %+Mo %+1.5 Si %Nieq=Ni %+0.33 Cu %+0.5 Mn %+30 C %+30 N %and Creq/Nieq is from 2.3 to 2.75, and whereinIM=551-805(C+N)%--8.52 Si %--8.57 Mn %--12.51 Cr %--36 Ni %--34.5 Cu %--14 Mo %,IM being from 40 to 115.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: USINOR
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Hauser, Herve Sassoulas
  • Patent number: 6090232
    Abstract: A component, particularly for land vehicles, preferably a car body component for motor vehicles, consists of a metallic foam material with a foamed porous layer comprising a metal powder and a blowing agent and possibly at least one solid metal sheet, there being metallic bonds between the solid metal sheet and the foamed porous layer. The component has at least one stamped contour which is raised from its surface, the angles, occurring in the region of the transitions between the three-dimensionally molded contour and the surface region being of the order of 100.degree. to 180.degree.. To produce the component, an essentially flat, metallic foam material, which is provided with solid metal sheets as covering layers, is initially shaped into a semi-finished molded product, which is end-contoured on one side, and the semi-finished molded product, so formed, is placed into a foaming mold, one wall of which is adapted to the end-contoured side of the semi-finished molded product, and foamed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Wilhelm Karmann GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Wolfgang Seeliger, Winfried Bunsmann
  • Patent number: 6090471
    Abstract: A multi-layered foil laminate having at least one layer, preferably an exterior layer which is constituted of a plastic film material, and which is provided with printing on both surfaces of the layer. In essence, the method of double-sided printing includes initially printing on a first side of an outer layer of a plastic film material, preferably such as polyester, wherein the printing is imparted to the side or surface of the plastic film material facing towards an underlying metallic foil to which it is to be adhered, and wherein the printing is applied to the plastic film material through the intermediary of reverse halftone color printing, whereby subsequent this particular printing on the one side of the outer plastic film layer having been completed, the plastic film material is adhesively fastened at the printed surface thereof to the underlying metallic foil, such as through the interposition of a suitable adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard W. Abrams
  • Patent number: 6087022
    Abstract: A component subjected to one or more of rolling, sliding, abrasion and bending contacts is disclosed. The component has a surface and functionally graded material (FGM) thermally sprayed on the surface to form an FGM coating. The FGM coating has a thickness and a plurality of material compositions. The FGM coating also has a plurality of elastic modulus profiles. Each elastic modulus profile consists of a plurality of elastic modulii at a plurality of corresponding points within that thickness. The elastic modulii are in the range from about 28 Mpsi to about 60 Mpsi. Optionally, there is also a plurality of carbon content profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Burris, M. Brad Beardsley, Leonid Chuzhoy
  • Patent number: 6080492
    Abstract: To provide a gold alloy thin wire advantageously applicable to high density packaging of semiconductor devices, in which the wire deformation upon resin molding is reduced to successfully achieve reduction in the bonding pitch and the wire diameter, a gold alloy thin wire according to the present invention consists of 0.015 to 1.0 wt % Cu, 0.0002 to 0.02 wt % Ca, and the balance consisting of Au and unavoidable impurities. Preferably, the Cu content is 0.1 to 1.0 wt % and the Ca content is 0.001 to 0.02 wt %, and more preferably, Cu and Ca are present in a weight content ratio Cu/Ca of from 40 to 800. The gold alloy thin wire further preferably contains one or more of Pt, Pd and In in a total amount of from 0.01 to 3.0 wt % and/or one or more of Y, La, and Ce in a total amount of from 0.0003 to 0.03 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Uno, Kohei Tatsumi
  • Patent number: 6074766
    Abstract: The hard carbon coating-clad base material of the present invention comprises a base material, a substratal metal coating formed on the base material by a wet plating process, an intermediate metal coating comprising a titanium or chromium coating formed on the substratal metal coating by a dry plating process and a silicon coating formed on the titanium or chromium coating by a dry plating process, and a hard carbon coating formed on the silicon coating by a dry plating process. According to the present invention, a highly reliable hard carbon coating which is excellent in corrosion resistance, adhesion and abrasion resistance can be formed even on brass or an iron base material having poor corrosion resistance, such as SK steel and martensitic and ferritic stainless steels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koichi Naoi
  • Patent number: 6071617
    Abstract: A coated packaging material for packaging foodstuffs is prepared with a component mixture of egg white powder, a plasticizer, an emulsifier and water which, by coating mixture weight, are in amounts, respectively, of from about 25% to 30%, 10% to 15%, 2% to 5% and 50% to 63%, the mixture being applied on a packaging material to coat the material and then being heated to coagulate and dry the coating. Upon drying, the coating is made up of from about 60% to 70% heat-coagulated egg white, 25% to 30% plasticizer, 5% to 10% emulsifier and 3% to 8% water. The coated packaging material is employed for packaging a foodstuff so that the coating is positioned between the foodstuff and packaging material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Ulrich Wissgott
  • Patent number: 6071629
    Abstract: An organic rust-roof treated copper foil characterized in that it has a metallic rust-proof layer formed on the non-adhesive side of the original copper foil and has an organic rust-proof layer formed on said metallic rust-proof layer, the organic rust-proof layer comprising a mixture of at least two kinds of chemicals selected from the group consisting of benzotriazole, its derivatives, aminotriazole and its isomers and derivatives is provided with on said metallic rust-proof layer, or it further has a chromate-treated layer formed between said metallic rust-proof layer and said organic rust-proof layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiko Yokota, Makoto Dobashi, Hiroshi Hata, Hisao Sakai, Susumu Takahashi, Junshi Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 6071630
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck comprises a metallic plate, a first insulating layer formed on the metallic plate and composed of a ceramic material, an electrically conductive electrode pattern formed on the first insulating layer, and a second insulating layer formed on the conductive electrode pattern and made of an elastomer. Alternatively, the first and second insulating layers may be each made of a thermally conductive silicone rubber provided that the thermally conductive silicone rubber for the second insulating layer should have a hardness of 85 or below a surface roughness of 5 .mu.m or below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Tomaru, Ryuichi Handa, Tsutomu Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 6071627
    Abstract: A ceramic coating layer which is not less than 70 .mu.m in the maximum height Rmax of its profile curves and not less than 45 .mu.m in the 10-point average roughness, or which is less than 650 HV in Vickers hardness is provided on a metallic substrate. A heat-resistant member of such composition is excellent in thermal fatigue resistance and keeps an excellent heat resistance for a long period of time. Quality of a heat-resistant member is evaluated by, measuring at least one of roughness and hardness of a ceramic coating layer on a metallic substrate. According to this method, it is possible to easily and accurately evaluate a thermal resistant life of a heat-resistant member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yasuda, Seiichi Suenaga, Kunihiko Wada, Hiroki Inagaki, Masako Nakahashi