Patents Examined by Humera Sheikh
  • Patent number: 9392685
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent conductive film in which occurrence of scratches during sliding is suppressed even when transparent conductive layer forming surfaces are so arranged as to face each other. Provided is a transparent conductive film comprising a transparent film base; at least one dielectric layer formed on a first main surface of the transparent film base; and a transparent conductive layer formed on the dielectric layer, wherein the transparent conductive layer is patterned; and the surface on the first main surface of the transparent conductive film has an arithmetical mean roughness Ra of 22 nm or more, and has 140/mm2 or more of protrusions having heights of 250 nm or higher at a pattern-opening part in which the transparent conductive layer is not formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nakajima, Tomotake Nashiki, Hideo Sugawara
  • Patent number: 9392689
    Abstract: A metal-clad laminate, including metal foil, and a first resin layer arranged on the metal foil, the first resin layer including an epoxy resin and a fluoropolymer with a curable functional group. Also disclosed is a method of producing the metal-clad laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Yoshimoto, Hideto Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9390999
    Abstract: Provided are a heat releasing material for an electronic device being manufactured by the junction of a metal impregnated carbon composite material on a copper or aluminum substrate with reduced warpage; and a method for manufacturing the heat releasing material. A metal substrate/metal impregnated carbon composite material structure, characterized in that it comprises a metal substrate comprising a metal sheet, plate or block and, being joined on the metal substrate via a brazing material, a metal impregnated carbon composite material having a thickness of 0.1 mm to 2 mm; and a method for manufacturing the metal substrate/metal impregnated carbon composite material structure, characterized in that it comprises a step wherein a brazing material is caused to be present between the metal substrate and the metal impregnated carbon composite material, and they are kept at a temperature of 500° C. or higher and under a pressure of 0.2 MPa or more and then cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Inventor: Noriaki Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9373425
    Abstract: Provided is a copper alloy plate that is for an FPC substrate and that has superior heat dissipation, repeated bending workability, shape retaining properties, and heat resistance. The copper alloy plate contains at least 0.01 mass % of the total of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Cr, Fe, In, Ni, P, Si, Sn, Ti, Zn, and Zr, contains no more than 1.0 mass % of Ag, no more than 0.08 mass % of Ti, no more than 2.0 mass % of Ni, no more than 3.5 mass % of Zn, and no more than 0.5 mass % of Cr, Fe, In, P, Si, Sn, and Zr by the total of the at least one element selected from the group, the remainder comprising Cu and impurities, has a conductivity of at least 60% IACS, has a tensile strength of at least 350 MPa, and has I(311)/IO(311) determined by X-ray diffraction in the thickness direction of the plate surface that satisfies the formula I(311)/IO(311)?0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventor: Ikuya Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 9364936
    Abstract: Composite materials for use with a drill bit for drilling a borehole in earthen formations. The composite material comprises a first pre-infiltrated hardphase constituent and a second pre-infiltrated hardphase constituent. The second pre-infiltrated hardphase constituent is a carbide which comprises at least 0.5 weight % of a binder and at least about 1% porosity. The composite material further comprises an infiltrant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL DHT, L.P.
    Inventor: Harold A. Sreshta
  • Patent number: 9358613
    Abstract: A composite includes a porous matrix that includes a molybdenum-silicon-boron (Mo—Si—B) alloy that has a plurality of pores with a lubricant in contact with the Mo—Si—B alloy, a hydrophobic compound in contact with the Mo—Si—B alloy, or a combination thereof. A method for preparing a porous composite includes disposing a porous matrix comprising a Mo—Si—B alloy on a substrate, the Mo—Si—B alloy comprising a plurality of pores; disposing a lubricant on a surface of the porous matrix; and disposing a hydrophobic compound on a surface of the porous matrix to form the porous composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Somesh Kumar Mukherjee, Vivekanand Sista, John H. Stevens
  • Patent number: 9357713
    Abstract: A reusable wreath frame assembly is configured to receive and hold wreath material. The frame assembly includes a frame that is configured to form the back of a wreath and there is provided a multi-link fastening assembly secured to the frame and operative to assume a fastened mode where the multi-link fastening assembly extends from the frame and wraps around the wreath material to secure the wreath material to the frame. Wreath material supported on the frame assembly can be removed at the end of a season, for example, and the frame assembly can be stored and in the future can be reused to hold and support new wreath material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Inventor: Ricky Sharpe
  • Patent number: 9358710
    Abstract: Disclosed is a preform (300) suitable for subsequent blow-molding into a final-shaped container. The preform comprises a neck portion (302); a gate portion (306); and a body portion (304) extending between said neck portion and said gate portion; the gate portion including an upwardly-bound region (324) defined between the inner and outer walls thereof, substantially whole of the upwardly-bound region extending in a direction towards the neck portion (302).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: HUSKY INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Witz, Ralf Walter Fisch
  • Patent number: 9363896
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic element assembly and external electrodes. The external electrodes are disposed on the ceramic element assembly. The external electrodes include an underlying electrode layer and a first Cu plating film. The underlying electrode layer is disposed on the ceramic element assembly. The first Cu plating film is disposed on the underlying electrode layer. The underlying electrode layer includes a metal that is diffusible in Cu and a ceramic bonding material. The metal that is diffusible in Cu is diffused in at least a surface layer in the underlying electrode layer side of the first Cu plating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nishisaka, Yukio Sanada, Koji Sato, Seiichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9347138
    Abstract: A coating steel component with a pattern of an iron based matrix with crystalline particles metallurgically bound to the surface of a steel substrate for use as disc cutters or other components with one or more abrading surfaces that can experience significant abrasive wear, high point loads, and large shear stresses during use. The coated component contains a pattern of features in the shape of freckles or stripes that are laser formed and fused to the steel substrate. The features can display an inner core that is harder than the steel substrate but generally softer than the matrix surrounding the core, providing toughness and wear resistance to the features. The features result from processing an amorphous alloy where the resulting matrix can be amorphous, partially devitrified or fully devitrified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventors: Craig A. Blue, Frank Wong, Louis F. Aprigliano, Peter G. Engleman, William H. Peter, Tibor G. Rozgonyi, Levent Ozdemir
  • Patent number: 9339585
    Abstract: A surgical implant component comprising an implant component body manufactured from a Co-based substrate alloy comprising Co, Cr, Mo, Si, and C, and a coating on a bone-ingrowth surface of the component body manufactured from a Co-based coating alloy comprising Co, Cr, Mo, Si, C and B. The coating is a network of fused particles of the Co-based coating alloy with spherical particles, irregular aspherical particles, and between about 35 and about 70 volume % porosity. A method of manufacturing the foregoing surgical implant component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Yao, Rachel Collier, Abdelhakim Belhadjhamida, Danie DeWet
  • Patent number: 9337002
    Abstract: Components of semiconductor material processing chambers are disclosed, which may include a substrate and at least one corrosion-resistant coating formed on a surface thereof. The at least one corrosion-resistant coating is a high purity metal coating formed by a cold-spray technique. An anodized layer can be formed on the high purity metal coating. The anodized layer comprises a process-exposed surface of the component. Semiconductor material processing apparatuses including one or more of the components are also disclosed, the components being selected from the group consisting of a chamber liner, an electrostatic chuck, a focus ring, a chamber wall, an edge ring, a plasma confinement ring, a substrate support, a baffle, a gas distribution plate, a gas distribution ring, a gas nozzle, a heating element, a plasma screen, a transport mechanism, a gas supply system, a lift mechanism, a load lock, a door mechanism, a robotic arm and a fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Daugherty, Hong Shih, Lin Xu, Anthony Amadio, Robert G. O'Neill, Peter Holland, Sivakami Ramanathan, Tae Won Kim, Duane Outka, John Michael Kerns, Sonia Castillo
  • Patent number: 9322113
    Abstract: On the surface of a carbon substrate 41, a tantalum carbide coating film 42 is formed to coat the carbon substrate 41. The tantalum carbide coating film 42 has a maximum peak value of at least 80 degrees in an orientation angle of a (311) plane corresponding to a diffraction peak of tantalum carbide as determined by X-ray diffraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: TOYO TANSO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mika Kondo
  • Patent number: 9314996
    Abstract: Syntactic foam composite comprising hollow metallic shells and a solid metal matrix. The foam composite shows high strength and a favorable strength to density ratio. The composite metal foams can be prepared by various techniques, such as powder metallurgy and casting including aspiration casting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Inventors: Carol Ann Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III, Todd Osborn
  • Patent number: 9314727
    Abstract: Disclosed are cordierite bodies having relatively high porosity and controlled pore size. The porous cordierite bodies generally include a primary cordierite ceramic phase as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods for making and using the cordierite bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Yanxia Lu, Jianguo Wang, Yuming Xie
  • Patent number: 9314039
    Abstract: A batch processing control system for a shell egg pasteurizer controls the time and temperature in which batches of shell eggs are held in a pasteurization bath in accordance with a predetermined pasteurization protocol for designated egg size and start temperature. The predetermined pasteurization protocol is preferably statistically verified to optimize batches of eggs having the designated size and start temperature. The system also includes reporting software that generates daily reports to track each respective batch and verify that the batch has been pasteurized according to the statistically verified protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: National Pasteurized Eggs, Inc.
    Inventor: Hector Gregorio Lara
  • Patent number: 9309113
    Abstract: A rhenium (Re) nanostructure is described. The rhenium nanostructure is an elongated nanostructure, such as, nanowire, nanorod, nanotube, branched nanostructure, and hollow nanostructure. The Re nanostructure may be a binary Re-metal nanotube, a binary Re-metal nanowire, and a binary Re-metal nanorod. The binary Re-metal nanostructure is a nanostructure composed of Re and at least one metal or non-metal. The metal may be In, Sn, Sb, Pb, and/or Bi. The nanostructure is in powder or in liquid form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: RAMOT AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY LTD
    Inventors: Noam Eliaz, Eliezer Gileadi, Adi Naor
  • Patent number: 9302319
    Abstract: Described herein is a feedstock including a core comprising BMG and a sheath attached the core. The sheath has a different physical property, a different chemical property or both from the core. Alternatively, the feedstock can include a sheath that encloses one or more core comprising BMG. The feedstock can be manufactured by attaching the sheath to the core, shot peening the core, etching the core, ion implanting the core, or applying a coating to the core, etc. The feedstock can be used to make a part by injection molding. The sheath can be used to adjust the composition of the core to reach the composition of the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Prest, Joseph C. Poole, Joseph Stevick, Theodore Andrew Waniuk, Quoc Tran Pham
  • Patent number: 9299636
    Abstract: A heat sink for an electronic device includes a Cr—Cu alloy layer including a Cu matrix and more than 30 mass % and not more than 80 mass % of Cr; and Cu layers provided on top and rear surfaces of the Cr—Cu alloy layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: JFE Precision Corporation
    Inventors: Hoshiaki Terao, Hidoaki Kobiki
  • Patent number: 9296903
    Abstract: Provided is a film formation composition for improving the blackening of the surface of a steel sheet, particularly, the surface of a steel sheet containing Mg on the surface thereof, such as a Mg sheet, a plated steel sheet having a plated layer comprising Mg, and the like, a steel sheet comprising a film formed by the composition, and a method for forming the film. Provided are a film formation composition for preventing the blackening of the surface of the steel sheet, comprising: 2.5-7.5 parts by weight of a water-soluble phenoxy resin; 0.1-0.5 parts by weight of a fluorometal acid; 0.1-0.5 parts by weight of a metal compound; and 1-5 parts by weight of a cross-linking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignees: POSCO, NOROO COIL COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Jin Kwak, Dong-Yun Kim, Woo-Sung Jung, Kyung-Hoon Nam, Dong-Yoeul Lee, Seok-Jun Hong, Tae-Yeob Kim, Yong-Hwa Jung, Mun-Jong Eom, Myoung-Hee Choi, Gab-Yong Kim, Sang-Hoon Park, Sang-Cheol Lee, Yang-Woo Nam