Patents Examined by Humera Sheikh
  • Touch panel and method for fabricating the same
    Patent number: 9298322
    Abstract: A touch panel and a method for fabricating the same are presented. The method includes the following steps. A glass substrate is strengthened through a chemical method. The glass substrate includes alkali oxide. An indium tin oxide (ITO) layer is formed below the glass substrate. A sensing circuit, a driving circuit, and an interconnection circuit therebetween are formed in the ITO layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Winsky Technology Limited
    Inventor: Winston Chan
  • Friction-enhancing lacquer and machine part coated therewith
    Patent number: 9291202
    Abstract: A friction-enhancing lacquer contains a binder and hard material particles. The hard material particles include a titanium-boron compound or consist of a titanium-boron compound, such as titanium diboride. The friction-enhancing lacquer is applied to the surface of a machine part, such as a bearing component, in order to increase its coefficient of friction and minimize or prevent slippage relative to another machine part clamped thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Thilo von Schleinitz
  • Sheet metal piece having weld notch and method of forming the same
    Patent number: 9289855
    Abstract: A sheet metal piece includes a base material layer and one or more intermediate and coating material layers, along with a weld notch formed along an edge region of the piece. At least a portion of the coating and intermediate material layers is removed at the weld notch so that certain constituents from such layers do not affect the integrity of a nearby weld joint when it is subsequently formed along the edge region. Various methods of ablation, including laser ablation, can be used to form the weld notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Shiloh Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: James J. Evangelista, Michael Telenko, Jr., Jason E. Harfoot, Jack A. Atkinson, James W. Walther, Anthony M. Parente
  • Shell egg pasteurization method
    Patent number: 9289002
    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: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: National Pasteurized Eggs, Inc.
    Inventor: Hector Gregorio Lara
  • Method of patterning a stack
    Patent number: 9284649
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method of fabricating a stack, including replacing a metal layer of a stack imprint structure with an oxide layer, patterning the oxide layer stack using chemical etch processes to transfer the pattern image and cleaning etch residue from the stack imprint structure to substantially prevent contamination of the metal layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Feldbaum, Justin Jia-Jen Hwu, David S. Kuo, Gennady Gauzner, Kim Yang Lee, Li-Ping Wang
  • Pt-Al-Hf/Zr coating and method
    Patent number: 9284846
    Abstract: A Pt—Al—Hf/Zr aluminide coating that can be used as a bond coat for TBC and improve TBC spallation life in service at elevated temperatures is provided. The aluminide coating can include a metastable ternary or higher X—Pt/Pd—Ni phase where the phase and other elements in the alloy system are present in a NiAl ? phase of the coating. The metastable phase can be present and observable in the as-deposited condition of the bond coating; e.g. in an as-CVD deposited condition of the bond coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Howmet Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth S. Murphy
  • Metal member manufacturing method and metal member
    Patent number: 9279186
    Abstract: A metallic material containing both a second constituent and a third constituent having positive and negative heats of mixing relative to a first constituent, respectively, and including a compound, an alloy or a nonequilibrium alloy having a melting point that is higher than the solidifying point of a metal bath made of the first constituent is placed in the metal bath. The metal bath is controlled to a temperature lower than a minimum value of a liquidus temperature within a range of compositional variations in which the amount of the third constituent in the metallic material decreases down to a point where the metallic material becomes substantially the second constituent so that the third constituent is selectively dissolved into the metal bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hidemi Kato, Takeshi Wada, Kunio Yubuta, Akihisa Inoue
  • Decorating article set
    Patent number: 9278574
    Abstract: A decorating article set includes a decorating article and a decorating article holder. The decorating article holder includes a holding element and a connecting member. The holding element has a securing cavity and is arranged to be securely attached on a decorating surface. The connecting member is configured from a material which is the same as that of the decorating article, and is secured in the securing cavity, and arranged to be connected to the decorating article. The decorating article is secured on the decorating surface through the holding element and the connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Inventor: Jimmy Jian Zhang
  • Non-evaporable getter compositions which can be reactivated at low temperature after exposure to reactive gases at a higher temperature
    Patent number: 9278334
    Abstract: Compositions containing a mixture of non-evaporable getter alloys are described. The compositions, after having lost their functionality in consequence of the exposure to reactive gases at a first temperature, can then be reactivated through a thermal treatment at a second temperature that is lower than the first one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SAES GETTERS S.P.A.
    Inventors: Alessio Corazza, Alessandro Gallitognotta, Vincenzo Massaro
  • Heat-resistant bearing formed of Ta or a1-added Ni(Si, Ti)-based intermetallic compound alloy and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 9273374
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-resistant bearing characterized in that it is formed of an Ni3(Si,Ti)-based intermetallic compound alloy, the Ni3(Si,Ti)-based intermetallic compound alloy containing 25 to 500 ppm by weight of B with respect to a weight of an intermetallic compound having a composition of 100% by atom in total consisting of 10.0 to 12.0% by atom of Si, 1.5% by atom or more but less than 7.5% by atom of Ti, more than 2.0% by atom but 8.0% by atom or less of Ta and a balance made up of Ni excepting impurities, the Ni3(Si,Ti)-based intermetallic compound alloy having a microstructure composed of an L12 phase and of one or both of an Ni solid solution phase and a second phase dispersion containing Ni and Ta, or a microstructure composed of an L12 phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Takasugi, Yasuyuki Kaneno, Hidekazu Fujii
  • High purity nickel molds for optical quality glass forming
    Patent number: 9266768
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to high purity nickel molds for use in forming three dimensional glass substrates, along with methods of making three dimensional glass substrates. The mold compositions minimize imperfections in the formed glass substrates providing optical quality shaped glass articles for use in electronics applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kristen Marie Horn, David Myron Lineman, Kevin Thomas Morris, Wenchao Wang
  • Bonded object of tungsten carbide-based superhard alloy and process for producing same
    Patent number: 9254626
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bonded tungsten carbide-based super hard alloy assembly equipped with a first metal member comprised of a steel material having a martensite structure, and defining a first bonding surface and a second metal member comprised of a tungsten carbide-based super hard alloy and defining a second bonding surface directly bonded to the first bonding surface of the first metal member. The martensite structure-containing steel material constituting the first metal member is a stainless steel having an average carbon concentration of 0.10 to 0.40 mass %. The first metal member has a high carbon concentration region at a depth ranging from 0.70 to 3.00 mm from the first bonding surface. The high carbon concentration region has a maximum carbon concentration of 0.3 to 1.2 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Takahashi, Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Metallurgical composition of particulate materials, self-lubricating sintered products and process for obtaining self-lubricating sintered products
    Patent number: 9243313
    Abstract: The metallurgical composition includes a main particulate metallic material, for example iron or nickel, and at least one alloy element for hardening the main metallic material, which form a structural matrix; a particulate solid lubricant, such as graphite, hexagonal boron nitride or mixture thereof; and a particulate alloy element which is capable of forming, during the sintering of the composition conformed by compaction or by injection molding, a liquid phase, agglomerating the solid lubricant in discrete particles. The composition may include an alloy component to stabilize the alpha-iron matrix phase, during the sintering, in order to prevent the graphite solid lubricant from being solubilized in the iron. The invention further refers to a self-lubricating sintered product, obtained from the composition, and to the process for obtaining said product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: Whirlpool S.A., Universidade Federal De Santa Catarina (UFSC), Lupatech S.A.
    Inventors: Roberto Binder, Aloisio Nelmo Klein, Cristiano Binder, Gisele Hammes, Moises Luiz Parucker, Waldyr Ristow Junior
  • Tin whisker mitigation material using thin film metallic glass underlayer
    Patent number: 9233521
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tin whisker mitigation material using thin film metallic glass underlayer, which is a thin film metallic glass (TFMG) formed between a metal substrate and a tin layer. Particularly, the TFMG can be a Zr46Ti26Ni28 underlayer or a Zr51.7Cu32.3Al9Ni underlayer, capable of blocking off the interaction occurring in the interface of a copper layer (the metal substrate) and the tin layer, so as to carry out the inhibition of tin whisker growth. Moreover, a variety of experiment data are proposed for proving that the TFMG of the Zr46Ti26Ni28 or the Zr51.7Cu32.3Al9Ni can indeed be used to replace the conventionally used thick tin layer for being the underlayer between the copper layer (the metal substrate) and the tin layer, and then effectively inhibit the interaction occurring in the Cu/Sn interface and the growth of tin whisker by low manufacturing cost way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: National Taiwan University Of Science And Technology
    Inventors: Jinn Chu, I Made Wahyu Diyatmika, Yee-Wen Yen, Wen-Zhi Chang
  • High-strength galvanized steel sheet excellent in bendability and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 9234268
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength galvanized steel sheet with maximum tensile strength of 900 MPa or more. The high-strength galvanized steel sheet has an alloyed galvanized layer formed on a surface of a base steel sheet containing predetermined amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, Al, N, O with a balance being constituted of iron and inevitable impurities, in which in a structure of the base steel sheet, retained austenite is limited to 8% or less in volume fraction, kurtosis K* of the hardness distribution between 2% hardness and 98% hardness is ?0.30 or less, a ratio between Vickers hardness of surface layer of the base steel sheet and Vickers hardness of ¼ thickness of the base steel sheet is 0.35 to 0.70, and a content of iron in the alloyed galvanized layer is 8 to 12% in mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Naoki Maruyama, Akinobu Murasato, Akinobu Minami, Takeshi Yasui, Takuya Kuwayama, Shigeru Yonemura
  • Flexible printed wiring board and laminate for production of flexible printed wiring board
    Patent number: 9232636
    Abstract: The flexible printed wiring board according to the present invention includes a first flexible insulating layer, a first conductor wiring laminated on the first insulating layer, a second single-layered insulating layer laminated on the first insulating layer, as it covers the first conductor wiring, and a second conductor wiring laminated on the second insulating layer. The first conductor wiring has a thickness in the range of 10 to 30 ?m, a line width in the range of 50 ?m to 1 mm, and a line gap in the range of 50 ?m to 1 mm. The thickness from the surface of the first conductor wiring to the surface of the second insulating layer is in the range of 5 to 30 ?m. The surface waviness of the part of the second insulating layer covering the first conductor wiring is 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Ozeki, Yohsuke Ishikawa, Yoshiaki Esaki, Hiroyuki Fukusumi
  • Method for improving storage stability of protein drink
    Patent number: 9226522
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for obtaining an improved drink, in particular a method for suppressing turbidity and sediment of an acidic drink that contains a peptide when the acidic drink is stored for a long period of time. In a basic method for suppressing turbidity and sediment, pectin and a fatty acid ester emulsifier are added to an acidic drink that contains a peptide. In this connection, it is appropriate that the stabilizers are respectively added in an amount of 1-10% by weight relative to the amount of the peptide. In addition, the pH of the acidic peptide drink is preferably 2.5-5.0; a peptide to be used preferably has a degradation rate of 10% or more and a free amino acid content of 50% or less; and the protein concentration in the drink is preferably 0.1-5.0% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI OIL HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventor: Motohiro Maebuchi
  • Layered coating system with a MCrAlX layer and a chromium rich layer and a method to produce it
    Patent number: 9222163
    Abstract: A layer system and a method for producing a component having such a layer system are provided. The layer system includes a substrate a substrate, at least one MCrX layer on the substrate, and a chromium-rich layer on or in the at least one MCrX layer. X includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of yttrium (Y), silicon (Si), aluminum (Al) and boron (B). M includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignees: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, PRAXAIR S.T. TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Paul Box, Hugh Evans, Thomas Kircher, Thomas Lewis, Bruce McMordie, John Nicholls, Paul Padley, Nigel Simms, Jonathan Venezia, Paul Mathew Walker, Adrian Weatherill, Mick Whitehurst
  • Steel sheet for container and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 9212428
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel sheet for a container including a cold-rolled steel sheet and a composite film formed on the cold-rolled steel sheet through an electrolysis process in a solution containing: at least one metal ion of an Sn ion, an Fe ion, and an Ni ion; Zr ion; a nitric acid ion: and an ammonium ion, in which the composite film contains at least one element of: Zr of 0.1 to 100 mg/m2 in equivalent units of metal Zr; Sn of 0.3 to 20 g/m2 in equivalent units of metal Sn; Fe of 5 to 2000 mg/m2 in equivalent units of metal Fe; and Ni of 5 to 2000 mg/m2 in equivalent units of metal Ni.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Hirano, Akira Tachiki, Hirokazu Yokoya, Morio Yanagihara, Makoto Kawabata
  • High-toughness cobalt-based alloy and engine valve coated with same
    Patent number: 9206715
    Abstract: A surface hardening material being excellent in impact resistance and having abrasion resistance is provided. Provided are: a high-toughness cobalt-based alloy containing 25.0 to 40.0 mass % of Cr, 0.5 to 12.0 mass % of a sum of W and/or Mo, 0.8 to 5.5 mass % of Si, and 0.5 to 2.5 mass % of B, 8.0 mass % or less of each of Fe, Ni, Mn, and Cu, and 0.3 mass % or less of C, the sum amount of Fe, Ni, Mn, and C being 10.0 mass % or less, and the remainder comprising 48.0 to 68.0 mass % of Co and unavoidable impurities; and an engine valve coated with the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignees: Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd., Nittan Valve Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsunori Otobe, Shinichi Nishimura, Kazunori Kurahashi