Patents Examined by Jeff Vonch
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Patent number: 9902483Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a window panel for a body structure of a vehicle, especially an airframe of an aircraft or spacecraft, including a first skin which extends over a first side of the panel to form an outer skin of the vehicle body structure; a second skin which extends over a second side of the panel to form an inner skin of the vehicle body structure; and a core, especially a foam core, located between and covered by the first and second skins in a sandwich structure. The window panel includes at least one window aperture formed through the first layer, the core, and the second layer. The core may be confined to or extends over a limited extent, region or part of the panel. Thus, the first skin and/or the second skin may extend over or cover a greater area of the panel than the core.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Pierre C. Zahlen, Johannes Born, Lars Meyer, Gregor Baumbach, Claus Hanske, Jens Prowe, Johan Oentoro, M. Ichwan Zuardy, Wouter Brok, Martin Metten
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Patent number: 9892816Abstract: An electroconductive hole plug paste comprising about 60-80 wt % of platinum particles, about 10-20 wt % of Al2O3, and about 10-20 wt % of organic vehicle, based upon 100% total weight of the paste, wherein the organic vehicle includes at least one viscosity-modifying component in an amount sufficient to provide the electroconductive hole plug paste with a viscosity of about 800-1,500 kcPs, is provided. A ceramic substrate assembly for an implantable medical device having the electroconductive hole plug paste of the invention, and a method of forming the same, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Heraeus Precious Metals North America Conshohocken LLCInventors: Samson Shahbazi, Steven Grabey, Mark Challingsworth
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Patent number: 9873105Abstract: A method for enhancing sorption performance of a sorbent material includes the step of increasing a surface area of the sorbent material for adsorption of a fluid at an interface between the fluid and the sorbent material by arranging one or more apertures to be disposed on the sorbent material, wherein each of the one or more apertures is further arranged to define an interior space for absorption of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONGInventors: Chun Sing Lee, Yong Bin Tang, Fu Lung Wong, Chiu Yee Chan
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Patent number: 9864413Abstract: An accessory suitable for an electronic device is provided. The electronic device has a display area. The accessory includes a coupling portion and a cover portion. The coupling portion is suitable to be coupled to the electronic device. The cover portion is connected to the coupling portion and is suitable for covering the display area of the electronic device. The cover portion has a plurality of light-transmitting areas, and the light-transmitting areas are arranged on the display area in an array. An image generated by the display area is projected out of the cover portion through the light-transmitting areas. Moreover, an electronic assembly containing the electronic device and the accessory is also provided. Furthermore, a control method is also provided for controlling the electronic assembly. A method is also provided for forming an accessory.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Yen-Hung Lin, Chien-Wei Hsieh, Chun-Ta Huang, Hung-Chuan Wen, Michael Ross Massucco
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Patent number: 9864111Abstract: An optical element of an embodiment includes an optical element made of a material transparent to light, the optical element including: a back surface facing the front surface; and a connection surface. The front surface includes a recessed surface in a region facing the connection surface. The recessed surface has a point closest to the connection surface as a closest point, and has a first singular point other than the closest point.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroshi Ohno, Kazushige Yamamoto, Soichiro Shibasaki
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Patent number: 9827741Abstract: A display device comprising a first receiving layer and a second receiving layer located onto and in direct planar contact with the first receiving layer; a first support later and a second support layer located onto and in direct planar contact with the first support layer; and a sleeve for receiving the first and second receiving layers and first and second support layers.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: MULTI PACKAGING SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Kenneth Glinert, Philip Miller
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Patent number: 9828770Abstract: A corrugated sheet metal wall sheathing for resisting external excitations such as wind or earthquake of light-framed wall structures. The sheathing has sheet profile proportioned to insure the top flutes deform laterally and yield at the end of the flute before the onset of any failure mode. A transverse slot in included in each top flute and adjacent web of the sheathing and spaced at intervals along the length of the sheathing.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Inventor: Steven B. Tipping
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Patent number: 9827736Abstract: A cover panel, for at least partially transparently covering at least one display instrument in a vehicle, has a microstructure applied on at least one surface. The microstructure is suitable for scattering visible light which is incident on the cover panel. The at least one window region of the cover panel is cutout from the microstructure. A method for manufacturing such a cover panel uses a molding tool with an applied microstructure matrix for forming a microstructure on a part of the molding tool which is assigned to a surface of a molded cover panel. The parts of the molding tool which are assigned to window regions are cut out from the microstructure matrix.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Inventors: Manfred Suess, Martin Mayer, Michael Hertweck, Eckard Unseld, Philip Rudnick, Wolfgang Tausch
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Patent number: 9820574Abstract: A molded panel resembling a natural wickerwork panel, a furniture article comprising such a panel and a method for its manufacture, the panel comprising a plurality of warp strands and a plurality of weft strands interlacing the warp strands, such that at locations where warp and weft strands intersect they form together an integrated, solid molded material location.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2009Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: KETER PLASTIC LTD.Inventor: Efraim Haimoff
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Patent number: 9824797Abstract: A resistor grid system includes a resistor strip including multiple pins. The resistor grid system also includes an insulation board coupled to the resistor strip through the multiple pins and configured to provide a structural support. The insulation board is made of a composite material. The composite material includes a nitrogen-containing aromatic thermosetting polymeric resin and a filler.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gary William Yeager, Uday Prakash Karmarkar, John Raymond Krahn, Laura Susanne Cooper
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Patent number: 9818682Abstract: A laminate substrate for receiving a semiconductor chip. Included are laminate layers stacked to form the laminate substrate, each laminate layer includes a core that includes particle-filled epoxy and a metallic layer on the core. At least one laminate layer has a radial cut through the metallic layer, the radial cut extending from a periphery of the at least one laminate layer towards a center of the at least one laminate layer. The radial cut cuts only through the metallic layer and does not cut through the core.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Edmund Blackshear, Shidong Li
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Patent number: 9802358Abstract: Curable prepregs possessing enhanced ability for the removal of gases from within prepregs and between prepreg plies in a prepreg layup prior to and/or during consolidation and curing. Each curable prepreg is a resin-impregnated, woven fabric that has been subjected to a treatment to create an array of openings in at least one major surface. Furthermore, the location of the openings is specific to the weave pattern of the fabric.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Cytec Industries Inc.Inventors: Mark Roman, Stephen J. Howard, Jack D. Boyd
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Patent number: 9802394Abstract: Machine direction oriented multilayer film suitable for preparing labels, comprising a core layer of a bimodal terpolymer and two outer layers comprising HDPE.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: BOREALIS AGInventors: Paulo Cavacas, Gerhard Schuster
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Patent number: 9788701Abstract: According to a nonwoven fabric substrate (1) for wiping sheet of the invention, ridges (2) and grooves (3) are alternately formed at positions corresponding to each other on both surfaces (1a, 1b), and apertures (4) are formed in the grooves (3). Each of the ridges (2) and the grooves (3) extend parallel to one side of the nonwoven fabric substrate (1). Each of the grooves (3) alternately includes an aperture portion (3h) which has a plurality of the apertures (4), and a non-aperture portion (3n) which has no aperture (4) and is longer than a distance between the nearest end portions of the adjacent apertures (4) in the aperture portion (3h). An arrangement pattern of the aperture portion (3h) and the non-aperture portion (3n) provided in the groove (3a) is different from an arrangement pattern of the aperture portion (3h) and the non-aperture portion (3n) provided in an adjacent groove (3b).Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Taeko Hayase, Emiko Shirasaki, Minoru Wada
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Patent number: 9782051Abstract: Provided is a nonwoven fabric substrate (1) in which ridges (2) and grooves (3) are alternately formed at positions corresponding to each other on each of both surfaces (1a, 1b), and apertures (4) penetrating the grooves (3) of both surfaces are formed. The ridges (2) and the grooves (3) extend parallel to each other. The ridges (2) and the grooves (3) extend in a direction intersecting with each of a pair of both sides (1c, 1d) extending in parallel of the nonwoven fabric substrate (1). In planar view, each of the grooves (3) alternately includes an aperture portion (3h) which has a plurality of the apertures (4), and a non-aperture portion which has no aperture (4) and is longer than a distance between the nearest end portions of the adjacent apertures (4) in the aperture portion (3h), and arrangement patterns of the aperture portion (3h) and the non-aperture portion (3n) provided in the adjacent grooves (3) are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Taeko Hayase, Emiko Shirasaki, Minoru Wada
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Patent number: 9783999Abstract: A trim piece for sealing a work surface including a body having a first side, a second side, and a span disposed between the first side and the second side, wherein the first side and the second side are joined at a junction defining an angle between the first side and the second side of between 80 degrees and 100 degrees, a topcap is affixed to the span of the body, wherein the topcap includes a left side having a first wing and a right side having a second wing, an adhesive is bonded to the first side of the body and an aperture is disposed within the body.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Inventor: Gregory A Amundson
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Patent number: 9787345Abstract: Welding of transparent material in electronic devices. An electronic device may include an enclosure having at least one aperture formed through a portion of the enclosure. The electronic device may also include a component positioned within the aperture formed through the portion of the enclosure. The component may be laser welded to the aperture formed through the enclosure. Additionally, the component may include transparent material. A method for securing a component within an electronic device may include providing an electronic device enclosure including at least one aperture, and positioning a component within the aperture formed through the enclosure. The component positioned within the aperture may include a transparent material. The method may also include welding the component to the electronic device enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Logan M. Ames, Michael M. Li
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Patent number: 9767714Abstract: A label assembly including one or more dissolvable thermal direct adhesive labels and methods of assembly and use. According to one embodiment, each label includes a base layer, a thermal direct layer, an adhesive layer, and a barrier layer. The base layer, which has an upper surface and a lower surface, is water-dissolvable and may be made of a water-dissolvable paper. The thermal direct layer is positioned directly over the upper surface of the base layer and functions in the conventional manner to produce markings therein in response to heat. The adhesive layer is water-dissolvable and is positioned below the lower surface of the base layer. The barrier layer, which is positioned directly below the lower surface of the base layer and directly over the adhesive layer, serves to prevent migration of the adhesive layer through the base layer and into contact with the thermal direct layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: AVERY DENNISON CORPORATIONInventor: Priscilla Franklin
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Patent number: 9764532Abstract: Prepregs having a UV curable resin layer located adjacent to a thermally curable resin layer wherein the UV curable resin layer includes at least one UV cured resin portion and at least one UV uncured resin as well as methods for preparing flexible printed circuit boards using the prepregs.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Isola USA Corp.Inventor: Roland Schönholz
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Patent number: 9765960Abstract: A flexible inside corner trim piece is formed with concave depressions at hinge portions where wings attach to the body. The trim piece can be formed such that wings and a top cap lay flat in plane perpendicular to body or wings and top cap curve at an angle. Hinge portions can be narrow or wide and symmetrical or asymmetrical. The trim piece can be dyed, paintable, or present another decorative surface. The trim piece can include embedded lighting.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Inventor: Gregory A. Amundson