Patents Examined by James Lin
  • Patent number: 8399046
    Abstract: Provided is a preparation method of a metal oxide doped monolith carbon aerogel for a high capacitance capacitor, the including: preparing a monolith carbon aerogel by performing a thermal decomposition of a moist gel dried in condition of a atmospheric pressure and a room temperature in a nitrogen atmosphere; impregnating the monolith carbon aerogel into alcohol where a metal precursor is dissolved; and calcinating the monolith carbon aerogel where the metal precursor is impregnated in an atmospheric atmosphere. By impregnating the metal oxide into the monolith carbon aerogel, a limit of capacitance may be enhanced using a pseudo capacitance effect by an interfacial oxidation reduction reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Samhwa Capacitor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Joo Oh, Jung Rag Yoon, In Kyu Song, Jong Heop Yi, Yoon Jae Lee, Ji Chul Jung
  • Patent number: 8394449
    Abstract: An improved differential coat weight technique employs a novel algorithm for measuring the weight of a coating material that has been deposited onto a sheet of substrate. The invention employs dual x-ray or nuclear gauges such that, even though the downstream sensor is never exposed to uncoated sheet substrate, imparting the downstream sensor with the ability to predict results that it would have yielded when measuring the uncoated sheet substrate, leads to the development of a coat weight calibration protocol from which the basis weight of the coating can be ascertained directly from measurements from the upstream and downstream sensors. No subtraction of results is required. Moreover, the two sensors do not need to be re-calibrated whenever the relative proportions of the coating and base substrate change. The technique is particularly suited for applications where the coating material and substrate are made of substances that have very different atomic numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell ASCa Inc.
    Inventors: Reena Meijer Drees, Gertjan Hofman
  • Patent number: 8389046
    Abstract: A liquid material arrangement method includes a first patter generating step, a dot deleting step and a liquid material arranging step. In the first pattern generating step, a first dot pattern is generated in which a first prescribed number of dots is set. In the dot deleting step, a second prescribed number of dots is deleted to generate a second dot pattern. In the liquid material arranging step, a liquid material is arranged in the prescribed region on the substrate by causing a nozzle and the substrate to scan in relative manner and discharging the liquid material based on the second dot pattern. In the dot deleting step, a dot indicator for each the first prescribed number of dots is determined based on discharge information of the nozzle, and the second prescribed number of dots is deleted based on the dot indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ushiyama, Tsuyoshi Kitahara, Yoichi Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 8389047
    Abstract: A method for depositing a hydrophilic coating on flow field plates or bipolar plates and manifolds in a fuel cell stack after the stack is assembled. The method includes preparing a solution that contains hydrophilic nano-particles suspended in a suitable solvent. The cathode and anode inlet and outlet manifolds and the cathode and anode flow channels are filled with the solution. The solution is then pumped out of the stack using, for example, a stream of nitrogen. The stack is allowed to dry, using heat if desirable, to provide a film of the nano-particles formed on the anode and cathode flow channels and manifolds within the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jon P. Owejan, Thomas A. Trabold, Thomas W. Tighe
  • Patent number: 8383193
    Abstract: There is a problem in a method for forming an EL layer by heating with light and transferring an organic material in that the organic material is not uniformly transferred. The present invention relates to a film formation method including the steps of forming a metal film over a first surface of an elastic substrate; forming an organic material layer onto a second surface of the elastic substrate which is opposite to the first surface; placing the second surface of the elastic substrate and a substrate on which a film is to be formed, with a space between the second surface of the elastic substrate and the substrate on which a film is to be formed; heating locally and rapidly the metal film from a first surface side of the elastic substrate to deform the elastic substrate by expansion of the metal film; and transferring the organic material layer from the elastic substrate onto the substrate on which a film is to be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koichiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8383192
    Abstract: There is provided a process for forming a contained second layer over a first layer, including the steps: forming the first layer having a first surface energy; treating the first layer with a reactive surface-active composition to form a treated first layer having a second surface energy which is lower than the first surface energy; exposing the treated first layer with radiation; and forming the second layer. There is also provided an organic electronic device made by the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Charles D. Lang, Stephen Sorich, Charles Kenneth Taylor, Douglas Robert Anton, Alberto Goenaga, Paul Anthony Sant
  • Patent number: 8372226
    Abstract: The present invention is for a system and method of creating a continuous, seamless, waterproof, weatherproof, electrically generating surface that can be applied over a great variety of structural components. The method comprises coating the selected surface with a base elastomeric coating thus sealing holes, cracks and other surface imperfections. In one embodiment, the base elastomeric coating is allowed to dry and at least one photovoltaic module is placed on the base elastomeric coating by using another coat of elastomeric material applied to the underside surface of the photovoltaic module or on the surface of the base elastomeric coating where the photovoltaic module will be applied. Another layer of an elastomeric coating is applied covering the perimeter edges of the photovoltaic module creating a continuous, seamless, waterproof, weatherproof surface capable of generating electricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Inventor: Michael L Gumm
  • Patent number: 8372472
    Abstract: Photovoltaic conductive features and processes for forming photovoltaic conductive features are described. The process comprises (a) providing a substrate comprising a passivation layer disposed on a silicon layer; (b) depositing a surface modifying material onto at least a portion of the passivation layer; (c) depositing a composition comprising at least one of metallic nanoparticles comprising a metal or a metal precursor to the metal onto at least a portion of the substrate; and (d) heating the composition such that it forms at least a portion of a photovoltaic conductive feature in electrical contact with the silicon layer, wherein at least one of the composition or the surface modifying material etches a region of the passivation layer. When the surface modifying material is a UV-curable material, the process comprises the additional step of curing the UV-curable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Mark J. Hampden-Smith, Mark H. Kowalski
  • Patent number: 8357427
    Abstract: Processes are provided for making partially coated monolith catalysts that are useful, for example, as pre-combustor catalysts for diesel exhaust aftertreatment. Monolith substrates are provided with interconnectivity and/or temporary barriers that allow from about 10 to about 90% of the monolith channels to be coated after the monolith substrate is assembled without having to carefully pick out among a large number of openings which ones to inject into or which ones to plug. The invention includes options of injecting into a multipath monolith substrate and of emplacing blocking material during monolith construction. Either catalyst coating material or coat-blocking material can be injected. Blocking materials allow the use of machinery for ordinarily non-selective processes, such as machinery for dip coating. Both multipath injections and pre-placed barriers can be used in a single partial coating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Allen Magno, Ralph Albert Dalla Betta, Bret Robert Armanini, David R. Sheridan
  • Patent number: 8349392
    Abstract: A printed material as an embodiment of the invention comprising; a substrate; partition walls for partitioning the surface of the substrate into a plurality of regions; and an ink film formed by printing method using a printing apparatus in the plurality of regions, in which the partition wall comprises an ink repellent material containing a resin binder and an ink repellent agent, and the ink repellent agent is a compound having a site showing a compatibility with the resin binder and a site having an ink repellency, the critical surface tension of the partition wall is from 24 to 30 mN/m, and the number average molecular weight of the ink repellent agent is from 40,000 to 100,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miura, Daisuke Koiso
  • Patent number: 8337940
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device of the present invention comprises the steps of forming insulating barriers which surround electrode and project upward from the surface of the electrode, and bringing the whole substrate into contact with water after applying the solution including an acceptor in wet process. According to the present invention, an organic conductive layer can be uniformly formed over a substrate in wet process even if the substrate does not have a smooth surface and has distribution in wettability of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Tokuda
  • Patent number: 8329059
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing an organic electroluminescent device having luminescent characteristics of high efficiency and prolonged lifetime and in which the occurrence of defects is suppressed, the organic electroluminescent device, and an electronic apparatus. A method for producing an organic electroluminescent device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a functional layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the functional layer including at least a luminescent layer, the method includes the steps of mixing a solvent and a functional material to produce a functional solution; and applying the functional solution to form the functional layer by a wet film formation process, wherein, before the functional solution is produced, the solvent is subjected to dehydration and deoxygenation in order to remove water and oxygen in the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Mitsuya, Shunichi Seki
  • Patent number: 8323744
    Abstract: A variety of methods, devices, systems and arrangements are implemented involving nanowire meshes. One such method is implemented to include synthesizing metal nanowires in a solution containing a structure-directing agent. The metal nanowires are deposited on a substrate to form a sheet of nanowires. The deposited metal nanowires are heated to a temperature less than about 200 degrees Celsius and for a period of time of about 10 minutes to 60 minutes, thereby removing the structure-directing agent and modifying the electrical conductivity and optical transmittance of the sheet of nanowires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Steve T. Connor, Jung-Yong Lee, Yi Cui, Peter Peumans
  • Patent number: 8318240
    Abstract: The present inventions relate to methods and apparatus for detecting and mechanically removing defects and a surrounding portion of the photovoltaic layer and the substrate in a thin film solar cell such as a Group IBIIIAVIA compound thin film solar cell to improve its efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: SoloPower, Inc.
    Inventors: Geordie Zapalac, David Soltz, Bulent M. Basol
  • Patent number: 8310148
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same, the organic light emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic layer that has at least a multi-coated emissive layer and which is interposed between the first and second electrodes. The multi-coated emissive layer is a single layer composed of a neutral emissive material and an no?ne parameter of the emissive layer is greater than an no?ne parameter of a single-coated layer. The organic light emitting device has a longer lifetime and high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Woo Lee, Sang-Yeol Kim, Mu-Gyeom Kim, Yu-Jin Kim, Lyong-Sun Pu, Jong-Jin Park, Sang-Hoon Park, In-Nam Kang
  • Patent number: 8309003
    Abstract: An IPP resin material capable of improving the adhesive strength between a transparent electrode and an IPP resin layer is disclosed. The IPP resin material includes: a liquid pre-polymer including a mono-functional monomer, a di-functional monomer including a monomer containing an ether group, and a tri-functional monomer including pentaerythritol triacrylate; a photo initiator; and a adhesion promoter, wherein the monomer containing the ether group includes any one of poly(propylene glycol)diacrylate, poly(propylene glycol)dimethacrylate, propylene glycol diacrylate), and tri(ethylene glycol)dimethacrylate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Wuk Kim, Yeon Heui Nam
  • Patent number: 8304014
    Abstract: A method of aligning an OLED substrate with a shadow mask includes forming a shadow mask with at least three spaced alignment openings, providing a precision alignment element into each of the alignment openings, and positioning the OLED substrate so that the edges of the OLED substrate engage the precision alignment elements and thereby align the shadow mask with the OLED substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Todd R. Griffin, Thomas W. Palone
  • Patent number: 8288941
    Abstract: An electronic device having an electrode with enhanced injection properties comprising a first electrode and a first layer of cross-linked molecular charge transfer material on the first electrode. The cross-linked molecular charge transfer material may be an acceptor, which may consist of at least one of: TNF, TN9(CN)2F, TeNF, TeCIBQ, TCNB, DCNQ, and TCAQ. The cross-linked molecular charge transfer material may also be a donor, which may consist of at least one of: Terpy, Ru(terpy)2 TTN, and crystal violet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Brunschwiler, Siegfried F Karg, Walter Riess
  • Patent number: 8287941
    Abstract: A simple and efficient method for transforming conformation of parts of chains in the amorphous phase in a conjugated polymer to extended conjugation length (termed as ? phase) is disclosed. The ? phase acts as a dopant and can be termed self-dopant. The generated self-dopant in the amorphous host allows an efficient energy transfer and charge trapping to occur and leads to more balanced charge fluxes and more efficient charge recombination. For example, a polyfluorene film was dipped into a mixed solvent/non-solvent, tetrahydrofuran/methanol in volume ratio of 1:1, to generate a ?-phase content up to 1.32%. A polymer light emitting diode with the dipped polyfluorene film as a light emitting layer therein provides a more pure and stable blue-emission (solely from the self-dopant) with CIE color coordinates x+y<0.3 and a performance of 3.85 cd A?1 (external quantum efficiency 3.33%) and 34326 cd m?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Show-An Chen, Hsin-Hung Lu, Ching-Yang Liu, Chih-Hao Chang
  • Patent number: 8282986
    Abstract: A method of applying a phosphor coating is described. The method comprises forming a suspension of a phosphor and a polymer binder dissolved in a solvent, the phosphor comprising at least one of a nitridosilicate or an oxonitridosilicate phosphor, the polymer binder being capable of decomposing thermally; applying the suspension to a substrate to form a coating; drying the coating; and baking the coating in an inert atmosphere to thermally decompose the polymer binder to form the phosphor coating, preferably at a temperature less than about 400° C. in a nitrogen atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard S. Speer, Madis Raukas