Patents Examined by Ian A Rummel
  • Low dielectric resin composition, film and circuit board using the same
    Patent number: 10894882
    Abstract: A low dielectric resin composition comprises a low dielectric resin containing acid anhydride, an epoxy resin, a rigid cross-linking agent, a soft cross-linking agent, and an accelerator. Such low dielectric resin can be dissolved in organic solvent more easily than a low dielectric resin without acid anhydride, and the low dielectric resin containing acid anhydride has a better compatibility with other organic components than a low dielectric resin without acid anhydride. A low dielectric resin composition with lower dielectric constant and better properties can thus be obtained. A film and a circuit board using such resin composition are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Zhen Ding Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Szu-Hsiang Su, Shou-Jui Hsiang, Mao-Feng Hsu, Ming-Jaan Ho
  • Flexible sensor and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 10889088
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a flexible sensor and a method for manufacturing the same. The flexible sensor comprises: a substrate layer formed of flexible and plastic rubber; a conductive layer located on the substrate layer; a conductive contact and a passivation layer located on the conductive layer; and a wire which is connected to the conductive layer via the conductive contact and is used for conducting induced current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youting Zhang, Haifeng Hu, Ming Zhang, Ting Zeng, Weijie Ma, Zhanqi Xu, Shuncheng Zhu
  • Curable composition, cured object, overcoat film, coated flexible wiring board, and process for producing same
    Patent number: 10889729
    Abstract: A curable composition for forming an overcoat film for flexible wiring boards, the curable composition being effective in improving adhesion to substrates, low warpage, flexibility, the property of inhibiting wire breakage, and long-term reliability. The curable composition according to the present invention comprises a polyurethane (component a) having carboxyl groups and an aromatic-ring concentration of 0.1-6.5 mmol/g and containing an organic residue derived from a polyisocyanate, a solvent (component b), and a compound (component c) having two or more epoxy groups in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON POLYTECH CORP.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Ooga, Naoki Murata, Kai Suzuki
  • Adhesive tape cartridge, adhesive tape roll, and method of manufacturing an adhesive tape roll
    Patent number: 10870259
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an adhesive tape cartridge including an adhesive tape roll. The adhesive tape roll winds an adhesive tape around a predetermined axis in a housing. The adhesive tape includes a base layer, a first particle-containing adhesive layer, and a first particle-free adhesive layer. The first particle-containing adhesive layer is disposed on first side of the base layer in a thickness direction and comprises an adhesive to which particles are added. The first particle-free adhesive layer is disposed in contact with the first side of the particle-containing adhesive layer in the thickness direction and comprises an adhesive to which no glittering pigment is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshikatsu Suito
  • Circuit substrate processing laminate and method for processing circuit substrate
    Patent number: 10854496
    Abstract: A circuit substrate processing laminate has, sequentially in the order of a support, a temporary adhesive material layer releasably laminated on the support, and a circuit substrate. The circuit substrate has a front surface on which a circuit is formed and a back surface to be processed. The temporary adhesive material layer is releasably laminated to the front surface, and is composed of a thermosetting siloxane polymer layer laminated on the support, after cured, has a first peeling force of 10 to 500 mN/25 mm as measured by a 180° peel test. The first peeling force is required for peeling the polymer layer from an interface with the support. The polymer layer, after cured, has a second peeling force of 50 to 1000 mN/25 mm as measured by the 180° peel test. The second peeling force is required for peeling the polymer layer from an interface with the circuit substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shohei Tagami, Michihiro Sugo
  • Coated membrane composite
    Patent number: 10843442
    Abstract: A membrane composite comprising an olefinic membrane core having first and second planar surfaces, a first silicone coating layer disposed on the first planar surface, and a second silicone coating layer disposed on the second planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Firestone Building Products Company, LLC
    Inventors: Hao Wang, Michael J. Hubbard, Brian Alexander
  • Wear-resistant component and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 10835958
    Abstract: A tooth, which is a wear-resistant component, includes a core, and a body made of a first metal and disposed to enclose the core. The core includes a matrix made of a second metal, first hard particles dispersed in the matrix, and a hard structure extending from the corresponding first hard particle in a direction along the grain flow in the body, the hard structure being higher in hardness than the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ohishi, Masaharu Amano, Yoshikiyo Tanaka
  • Machine component and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 10814437
    Abstract: A sprocket wheel, which is an example of the machine component, includes a base made of a first metal, and an overlay disposed in contact with the base to cover at least a part of a surface of the base. The overlay includes a matrix made of a second metal, and hard particles dispersed in the matrix. The overlay includes a protrusion that protrudes toward the base in a region including the interface between the overlay and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ohishi, Masaharu Amano
  • Flexible screen protection structure and method for manufacturing the same, and flexible display screen using the same
    Patent number: 10810910
    Abstract: A flexible screen protection structure includes a first flexible plate, a second flexible plate opposite to the first flexible plate, a side plate, a number of first trapezoidal bosses, and a number of second trapezoidal bosses. A gap is formed between the first flexible plate and the second flexible plate. The side plate surrounds peripheral sides of the first flexible plate and the second flexible plate, and closes the gap. The first trapezoidal bosses are densely distributed on the first flexible plate and located in the gap. Each first trapezoidal boss includes a large end attached to the first flexible plate and a small end facing the second flexible plate. The second trapezoidal bosses are densely distributed on the second flexible plate and located in the gap. Each second trapezoidal boss includes a large end attached to the second flexible plate and a small end facing the first flexible plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ROYOLE TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Songling Yang
  • Light-emitting sheet, interlayer for laminated glass, and laminated glass
    Patent number: 10800144
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a luminescent sheet capable of displaying high-luminance images under irradiation with light and capable of controlling the adhesion to glass, and an interlayer film for a laminated glass and a laminated glass each including the luminescent sheet. Provided is a luminescent sheet including: a thermoplastic resin; a luminescent material; and a cyclic coordination metal compound having a five- or more-membered ring structure formed by coordinating an organic compound having in a molecule two or more atoms of at least one kind selected from oxygen, phosphor, nitrogen, and sulfur, to at least one metal selected from an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, and magnesium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuusuke Oota, Yasuyuki Izu, Daisuke Nakajima, Atsushi Nohara
  • Magnetically-responsive surface and method of manipulating properties of a surface
    Patent number: 10796831
    Abstract: A magnetically-responsive surface structure comprises an array of hybrid microstructures on a substrate, where each hybrid microstructure comprises an elastomeric micropillar attached to the substrate and a rigid tile attached to the elastomeric micropillar. The rigid tiles collectively define a discontinuous, changeable surface. The hybrid microstructures further comprise a ferromagnetic material. The elastomeric micropillars are deflectable under a magnetic field so as to alter an orientation of the rigid tiles, thereby allowing a characteristic of the discontinuous, changeable surface to be manipulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Seok Kim, Zining Yang, Jun Kyu Park
  • Apparatus and methods for securing elastic to a carrier web
    Patent number: 10792194
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided to allow for creation an elastic laminate. Non-stretched elastic can be laid at peaks over a nonwoven layer contained in valleys and atop peaks. Stretched elastic can be laid over tented nonwoven to create nonwoven tunnels when a second nonwoven is laid atop the first nonwoven and elastic, and the tunnels resist un-stretching of stretched elastic strands by frictional or obstruction forces. A laminated material comprising a first and second layer of material bonded at spaced apart bond sites is disclosed, with a plurality of elastic strands disposed in a non-linear manner between said first and second layer of material, so that said strands meander in a cross-machine direction and traverse a machine direction line, restraining movement of the strands by frictional forces between the strands and the non-woven layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Curt G. Joa, Inc.
    Inventors: Gottfried Jason Hohm, Wei Wei, Debra Heus Bowe, Jeff Middlesworth
  • Obscuration having superior strength and optical quality for an automotive laminate
    Patent number: 10780674
    Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide a laminated automotive glazing having an obscuration area produced by printing the obscuration on a film laminated between at least two layers of plastic interlayers rather than printing and firing an enamel frit onto the glass. This results in a laminate having superior optical quality, higher strength and a lower probability of breakage as compared to a laminate with a black enamel frit obscuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: AGP America S.A.
    Inventors: Arturo Mannheim Astete, Vincenzo Mannino, Charles S. Voeltzel, Laura Granados Caro, Philip Denton Gordon, Elena K. Mendoza Carranza
  • Surface-modified adhesives
    Patent number: 10773490
    Abstract: Surface-modified adhesives may be prepared by contacting an adhesive layer to an at least partially discontinuous layer on a releasing substrate and removing the adhesive layer such that at least a portion of the at least partially discontinuous layer adheres to the adhesive surface. The modified adhesive surface remains an adhesive surface. The modified adhesive layer can be used to prepare adhesive articles, including articles containing multiple surface-modified adhesive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Encai Hao, Audrey A. Sherman, Kevin R. Schaffer, Daniel W. Hennen, John P. Baetzold, Mark J. Pellerite, Mikhail L. Pekurovsky, Kanta Kumar, Michael L. Steiner, John J. Stradinger
  • Magnetic graphene
    Patent number: 10762925
    Abstract: A patterned magnetic graphene made from the steps of transferring or growing a graphene film on a substrate, functionalizing the graphene film, hydrogenating the graphene film and forming fully hydrogenated graphene, manipulating the extent of the hydrogen content by using an electron beam from a scanning electron microscope to selectively remove hydrogen, wherein the step of selectively removing hydrogen occurs under a vacuum, and forming areas of magnetic graphene and non-magnetic graphene. A ferromagnetic graphene film comprising film that has a thickness of less than two atom layers thick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Woo K. Lee, Keith E. Whitener, Paul E. Sheehan
  • CVD coated cutting tool with {0 0 1} textured ?-AlOlayer
    Patent number: 10745810
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a coated cutting tool having a substrate and a coating, wherein the coating includes at least one layer of ?-Al2O3 with a thickness of 1-20 ?m deposited by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). A ?-scan from ?80° to 80° over the (0 0 6) reflection of the ?-Al2O3 layer shows the strongest peak centered around 0° and the full width half maximum (FWHM) of the peak is <25°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Erik Lindahl, Jan Engqvist
  • Security strip and security paper
    Patent number: 10745861
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security strip and security paper for obtaining security documents such as legal tender notes, checks or identification documents, comprising a cellulose support web that is completely embedded in a pulp substrate. As both the substrate and the support web are formed by plant fibers, a series of physical and chemical bonds are established between the fibers of both elements, the support web thus being perfectly integrated in the pulp. The cellulose support web will sometimes have a series of security elements, such as pigments, synthetic elements and/or security fibers of the type normally used in this type of application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: FABRICA NACIONAL DE MONEDA Y TIMBRE REAL CASA DE LA MONEDA
    Inventors: Maria Jesus Gomez Estella, Javier Baraja Carracedo, Juan Antonio Rubio Sanz, Antonio Olmos Ruiz
  • Preparing patterned neutral layers and structures prepared using the same
    Patent number: 10739673
    Abstract: Embodiments provided herein provide methods for preparing patterned neutral layers using photolithography, and structures prepared using the same. A method of preparing a structure may include disposing a film over a surface of a substrate, and removing plurality of elongated trenches from the film so as to define a plurality of spaced lines. A neutral layer may be disposed over the outer surface of each line, and may include a neutral group attached to the outer surface of that line via a covalent bond or a hydrogen bond. The surface of the substrate between the lines may be substantially free of the neutral layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: Kuan-Hsin Lo, Ching-Yu Chang
  • Coated article
    Patent number: 10731247
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coated article. The coated article includes a first layer, a second layer, and a diffusion region between the first layer and the second layer. The first layer has a first atomic concentration of C, a first atomic concentration of Si, and a first atomic concentration of O. The second layer has a first atomic concentration of Fe, a first atomic concentration of Cr, and a first atomic concentration of Ni. The diffusion region has a second atomic concentration of the C, a second atomic concentration of the Si, a second atomic concentration of the O, a second atomic concentration of the Fe, a second atomic concentration of the Cr, and a second atomic concentration of the Ni. All of the atomic concentrations are based upon Auger Electron Spectroscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SILCOTEK CORP.
    Inventors: David A. Smith, James B. Mattzela, Paul H. Silvis, Gary A. Barone
  • Protective cover and display device including the same
    Patent number: 10725501
    Abstract: A protective cover and a display device including a protective cover are provided. According to one or more embodiments, a protective cover includes a cover substrate; a first anti-scattering coating layer on the cover substrate; an intermediate layer on the first anti-scattering coating layer; a second anti-scattering coating layer on the intermediate layer; and an adhesive layer on the second anti-scattering coating layer, and the first anti-scattering coating layer and the second anti-scattering coating layer cover an upper surface, a lower surface, and at least one side surface of the intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Jin Hwang, Myung Hwan Kim, Ji Yeon Kim, Ik Hyung Park, Dae Ho Yoon, Kyu Young Kim