Patents Examined by Humera Sheikh
  • Patent number: 9558983
    Abstract: A base film for a dicing sheet is provided which can suppress dicing debris from generating during the dicing of a cut object without imparting physical energy, such as electron beam or ? ray. The base film for a dicing sheet comprises a resin layer. The resin layer comprises: a norbornene-based resin that is a thermoplastic resin having a norbornene-based compound as at least one type of monomer; and an olefin-based thermoplastic resin other than the norbornene-based resin. The norbornene-based resin in the resin layer has a content of more than 3.0 mass %. A dicing sheet is also provided which comprises: the base film for a dicing sheet; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer placed on a surface of the film at the resin layer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: LINTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Taya, Masashi Ueda, Yosuke Sato, Masaharu Ito
  • Patent number: 9551057
    Abstract: Provided are: a galvannealed steel sheet, improved in the adhesiveness of a plated layer with a base steel sheet, as a galvannealed steel sheet, prepared by using a high-strength steel sheet as a base material; and a method for producing the galvannealed steel sheet. A galvannealed layer is formed on the base steel sheet including a high-strength steel having a predetermined composition. The average amount of Fe in the galvannealed layer is 8.0 to 12.0%. The absolute value of a difference (?Fe) between the amount of Fe in the vicinity of an interface with the base steel sheet and the amount of Fe in the vicinity of the external surface of the plated layer in the plated layer is 0.0 to 3.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Naoki Maruyama, Akinobu Murasato, Akinobu Minami, Takeshi Yasui
  • Patent number: 9550341
    Abstract: A metal matrix composite article that includes at least first and second regions, first and second reinforcement materials, a metal matrix composite material occupying the second region of the body and comprising a metal matrix material and the second reinforcement component, a preform positioned in the first region of the body and infiltrated by at least the metal matrix material of the metal matrix composite material. The article further includes a transition region located proximate an outer surface of the preform that includes a distribution of the second reinforcement component comprising a density increasing according to a second gradient in a direction toward the outer surface of the preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: REL, INC.
    Inventors: Adam R. Loukus, Josh E. Loukus
  • Patent number: 9546302
    Abstract: A base film for a dicing sheet is provided which can suppress dicing debris from generating during the dicing of a cut object without imparting physical energy, such as electron beam or ? ray. The base film for a dicing sheet comprises a resin layer. The resin layer comprises: a ring-containing resin that is a thermoplastic resin having a monomer, as a constitutional unit, having at least one type of an aromatic ring and an aliphatic ring; and an acyclic olefin-based resin that is an olefin-based thermoplastic resin other than the ring-containing resin. The ring-containing resin in the resin layer has a content of more than 3.0 mass %. A dicing sheet is also provided which comprises: the base film for a dicing sheet; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer placed on the base film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: LINTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Taya, Masashi Ueda, Yosuke Sato, Masaharu Ito
  • Patent number: 9546414
    Abstract: A wire-form spray material, in particular for arc wire spraying, essentially comprising iron. The spray material is formed at least with carbon as a microalloy such that upon solidification of the spray material a fine pearlitic, bainitic, martensitic structure arises in which finely dispersed nitrides are present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Patrick Izquierdo, Eyuep Akin Oezdeniz
  • Patent number: 9546115
    Abstract: A monolithic honeycomb element includes a collection of adjacent ducts of mutually parallel axes separated by walls made of a porous material, the element having, in transverse cross section, a polygonal, notably quadratic cross section delimited by exterior wall elements, wherein at least one corner of the polygon, has, along the bisector of the angle at the corner, an additional thickness, such that the total thickness of the external wall, likewise measured along the bisector of the angle at the corner, is greater than the mean thickness of the exterior walls by a factor of at least 1.43, the additional thickness being obtained at least in part by an additional quantity of porous material on the external face of the corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN
    Inventor: Bernard Bouteiller
  • Patent number: 9543265
    Abstract: Disclosed is a jointed body wherein multiple base members are jointed to each other through a jointing layer, and at least one of the base members is a base member of a ceramic material, semiconductor or glass. The joint material layer contains a metal and an oxide. The oxide contains V and Te, and is present between the metal and the base members. Disclosed is also a joint material in the form of a paste containing an oxide glass containing V and Te, metal particles, and a solvent; in the form of a foil piece or plate in which particles of an oxide glass containing V and Te are embedded; or in the form of a foil piece or plate containing a layer of an oxide glass containing V and Te, and a layer of a metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motomune Kodama, Takashi Naito, Tadashi Fujieda, Yuichi Sawai, Takuya Aoyagi, Masanori Miyagi
  • Patent number: 9527261
    Abstract: An ordered, 3-dimensional, micro-scale, open-cellular truss structure including interconnected hollow polymer tubes. The hollow micro-truss structure separates two fluid volumes which can be independently pressurized or depressurized to control flow, or materials properties, or both. Applications for this invention include deployable structures, inflatable structures, flow control, and vented padding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher S. Roper, William B. Carter, Alan J. Jacobsen, Kevin J. Maloney, Robert E. Doty, Tobias A. Schaedler, Adam E. Sorensen, Andrew P. Nowak
  • Patent number: 9527944
    Abstract: Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for a transparent conductive film having a patterned transparent conductive thin film, which has transparent as the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for transparent conductive film and can prevent the patterned transparent conductive thin film from degrading the appearance of the conductive film. A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for a transparent conductive film having a patterned transparent conductive thin film, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is made from an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing: 100 parts by weight of an acryl-based polymer obtained by polymerization of a monomer component including an alkyl(meth)acrylate; and 30 to 150 parts by weight of a styrene-based oligomer, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a refractive index of 1.50 or more, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a haze of 2% or less as measured at a thickness of 30 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiko Tanaka, Aimi Matsuura, Katsuhiko Kamiya, Masatsugu Higashi, Mizue Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 9528550
    Abstract: A sliding bearing including: a lining; a back metal; and an intermediate layer formed between the back metal and the lining by an Al alloy containing 0.01 wt % or more of at least one solid solution component selected from Zn, Cu, Mg, Li, Mn, V, Zr, Fe, Mo, Co, Ni, Hf, Sc, Ti and W wherein the whole amount of the solid solution component forms a solid solution with Al, in such a manner that the intermediate layer has a thickness of 20 ?m or more and Vickers hardness of 30 or more and 80 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsumi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9527777
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component and an interface coating on the CMC component, wherein the interface coating includes a layer of at least one of the following compositions: 100 wt % Ir; 90-95 wt % Ir, 5-10 wt % Co, 1-2 wt % Al, 1-2 wt % Si; 40-50 wt % Nb, 28-42 wt % Al, 4-15 wt % Cr, 1-2 wt % Si; 90-92 wt % Mo, 4-5 wt % Si, 4-5 wt % B; or 60-80 wt % V, 20-30 wt % Cr, 2-15 wt % Ti.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam Lee Chamberlain, Kang N. Lee, Andrew Joseph Lazur
  • Patent number: 9523023
    Abstract: An adhesive sheet 10 wound into a roll includes: a long release film 11; an adhesive layer 12 provided in a label form on the release film 11; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive film 13 having a label part 13a covering the adhesive layer 12 and provided so as to be in contact with the release film 11 around the adhesive layer 12 and a peripheral part 13b surrounding an outside of the label part 13a, wherein a through hole 14 penetrating the release film 11 is provided in a place including a portion corresponding to an outside of a part 15 of the adhesive layer 12 intended to be attached to an adherend and an inside of the label part 13a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masami Aoyama, Hiromitsu Maruyama
  • Patent number: 9504149
    Abstract: A surface treated copper foil which is well bonded to a resin and achieves excellent visibility when observed through the resin, and a laminate using the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Hideta Arai, Atsushi Miki, Kohsuke Arai, Kaichiro Nakamuro
  • Patent number: 9500228
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a sliding member, comprised of a base layer including soft particles made of a soft material softer than a matrix and deposited in the matrix, and a soft layer made of the soft material formed on a surface of the base layer, wherein: the soft layer includes an epitaxial growth portion that is epitaxially grown from the soft particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Wada
  • Patent number: 9494193
    Abstract: A sliding member includes a base layer including soft particles made of a soft material softer than a matrix and deposited in the matrix, and a soft layer made of the soft material formed on a surface of the base layer. A boundary portion is formed between crystal grains that have a unique crystal grain structure of the soft particles and crystal grains that have a unique crystal grain structure of the soft layer. An anodic oxidation film of the soft material is formed on the boundary portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Wada
  • Patent number: 9493876
    Abstract: The described embodiments relate generally to cosmetic surfaces and associated treatments to alter a color of cosmetic surfaces. According to one embodiment, cosmetic ink configured to be applied to a cosmetic surface can include a suspension matrix configured to suspend a number of small particles in the suspension matrix. Each of the small particles of the is within a desired overall diameter to cause a user to perceive a desired color due to plasmon resonance of the small particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lucy E. Browning, Christopher D. Prest
  • Patent number: 9497856
    Abstract: A laminated structure including a base material and resin insulating layers formed on the base material. The resin insulating layers include a resin insulating layer (A) containing a curing accelerator composed of an N atom-containing basic compound such that the resin insulating layer (A) is in contact with the base material. The laminated structure includes a resin insulating layer (B) which contains a P atom-containing curing accelerator in addition to the resin insulating layer (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: TAIYO INK MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Okamoto, Shoji Minegishi, Masao Arima
  • Patent number: 9497857
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an insulating sheet superior in heat dissipation efficiency, heat resistance, insulation efficiency and moldability. Provided is a sheet-shaped insulating sheet of a resin composition containing an epoxy resin, a curing agent and an inorganic filler, wherein one or both of the epoxy resin and the curing agent have a naphthalene structure, the inorganic filler contains hexagonal boron nitride, and the inorganic filler is contained in an amount of 70 to 85 vol % in the entire resin composition. It is possible to increase the filling efficiency of an inorganic filler in the insulating sheet by using an epoxy resin and/or a curing agent having a naphthalene structure, which are favorably compatible with the hexagonal boron nitride contained in the inorganic filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Miyata, Toshitaka Yamagata
  • Patent number: 9487404
    Abstract: A copper foil for producing graphene, including oxides and sulfides each having a diameter of 0.5 ?m or more having a total number of 15/mm2 or less measured by using a scanning electronic microscope before heating at 1000° C. for 1 hour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Chiba, Tatsuya Yamaji
  • Patent number: 9488241
    Abstract: An energy absorber is disclosed herein. The energy absorber includes a structure defining a hollow interior portion. The energy absorber also includes a working volume defined in at least a portion of the hollow interior portion. The energy absorber further includes shape memory alloy (SMA) particles positioned within the working volume. The SMA particles have an Austenite finish temperature (Af) that is lower than a temperature encountered in an application in which the energy absorber is used so that the SMA particles exhibit stress-induced superelasticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Alan L. Browne, Nancy L. Johnson