Patents Examined by Jeremy R. Pierce
  • Patent number: 12128665
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, comprising fibrous structures, and more particularly articles comprising fibrous structures comprising a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the articles exhibit improved consumer relevant properties, for example improved bulk and absorbent properties, compared to known articles and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Patent number: 12122863
    Abstract: The invention provides novel pellets having high fluidity in a hopper of an extruder and capable of forming a coating layer having good wire diameter stability and capacitance stability even when used for rapid molding of electric wire coating. The pellets contain a fluororesin. Each of the pellets, placed on a horizontal surface, has a substantially circular outline or a substantially elliptic outline and has a major axis D1 of 3.1 mm or shorter and a minor axis D2 of 3.1 mm or shorter when observed in the direction normal to the horizontal surface. Each pellet satisfies the following formula (1): (D1+D2)/2L=1.8 to 2.6, wherein D1 represents the major axis, D2 represents the minor axis, and L represents the height from the horizontal surface to the highest point of the pellet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Sakakibara, Jihong Liu, Yoshiyuki Takase, Ryouichi Fukagawa, Yosuke Shojima, Yukari Karasawa, Takeshi Shimono
  • Patent number: 12122137
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan, James Roy Denbow
  • Patent number: 12115768
    Abstract: Prepregs, cores and composite articles are described that comprise lighter weight materials and/or lower amounts of adhesive than commonly used. In some instances, one or more components of the articles may comprise a repellent material or repellent treatment to reduce the overall absorption rate of adhesive into the components of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Hanwha Azdel, Inc.
    Inventors: Yankai Yang, Yu-Tsan Tseng, Erich Vorenkamp, Mark O Mason
  • Patent number: 12091791
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-woven fabric with improved mechanical strength, and more particularly, to a non-woven fabric exhibiting excellent spinnability, excellent softness, and excellent tensile strength while enabling a weight reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc.
    Inventors: Do Kyung Yoon, Seo Jin Park
  • Patent number: 12084700
    Abstract: A yarn reinforced bacterial cellulose hybrid composition includes a two-dimensional yarn mesh stretched and embedded within a BC sheet. Such materials are fabricated by providing a bacterial cellulose-producing bacterium; providing a suitable bacteria nutritional medium; culturing the bacterium in the nutritional medium under conditions to produce bacterial cellulose; and providing a two-dimensional yarn mesh having a defined pattern such that the yarn mesh is embedded within the bacterial cellulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Modern Synthesis Ltd.
    Inventor: Jennifer K. Keane
  • Patent number: 12060658
    Abstract: Methods of treating fibers comprising a polymer including at least one of a vinyl acetate moiety or a vinyl alcohol moiety, and resulting fibers or the products comprising the resulting fibers are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a fiber having a surface region and an interior region, includes a polymer comprising at least one of a vinyl acetate moiety or a vinyl alcohol moiety chemically modified with a modification agent. The fiber has a transverse cross-section including the interior region comprising the polymer having a first degree of modification and the surface region comprising the polymer having a second degree of modification greater than the first degree of modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: MONOSOL, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Zeese, Jonathon Knight, Richard Goetz, Victoria Bridewell, Alyssa Shuey
  • Patent number: 12054861
    Abstract: A layered thermal insulation system generally conformable to three-dimensioned surfaces of heat-producing elements in need of insulation is described. The system comprises: i) an inner high temperature resistant insulation layer; ii) an outer high temperature resistant insulation layer adjacent the inner high temperature resistant insulation layer; and, iii) a first reflection layer and a second reflection layer. Each of said reflection layers is formed of a material selected from a group consisting of metal foils and are provided with a plurality of dimples and/or protrusions. The first reflection layer is adjacent the inner high temperature insulation layer such that, in use, an opposing surface thereof is in close proximity to said surfaces of said element to be insulated. The second reflection layer is adjacent to the outer high temperature insulation layer such that, in use, an opposing surface thereof comprises an exposed surface having a lower temperature than said surfaces of said element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: MEI Group Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Jeremy Draffin
  • Patent number: 12037717
    Abstract: A reinforcing fiber bundle is a continuous reinforcing fiber bundle having a length of at least 1 m and is characterized by the number of monofilaments per unit width being at most 1,600/mm and the average number of fibers in the bundle being at most 1,000 in a region (I), and the drape level found in a region (II) being 120-240 mm. The continuous reinforcing fiber bundle has a length of at least 1 m and is characterized by the adhesion amount of a sizing agent (I) in the region (I) being 0.5-10% by weight and the drape level found in the region (II) being 120-240 mm. The continuous reinforcing fiber bundle has superior mechanical properties, formability into complex shapes, and continuous producibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaru Tateyama, Satoshi Seike, Mitsuki Fuse, Hiroshi Hirano, Akihiko Matsui, Kazuma Ura
  • Patent number: 12030218
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin molding material [C] includes a chopped fiber bundle [A] and a matrix resin [B], the material being characterized in that, when divided into n layers along the thickness direction of the fiber-reinforced resin molding material [C], the number-average fiber length [Lk] of the chopped fiber bundle [Ak] constituting each layer Fk (1?k?n) gradually increases from one outermost layer F1 of the fiber-reinforced resin molding material [C] toward the other outermost layer Fn. Also provided is a molded article obtained by molding the fiber-reinforced resin molding material. This fiber-reinforced resin molding material exhibits excellent flowability, and can exhibit excellent mechanical properties when made into a molded article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu Ono, Takafumi Hashimoto, Tetsuya Motohashi, Tadashi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12016240
    Abstract: A display device includes a reinforced substrate; and a display layer disposed on the reinforced substrate and configured to display an image, wherein the reinforced substrate includes a first reinforced layer including a flexible region including a plurality of patterns spaced apart from one another; and a first substrate disposed on the first reinforced layer and has flexibility. A modulus of elasticity of the first reinforced layer is greater than a modulus of elasticity of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunhee Lee, Pilsuk Lee, Juchan Park, Younggug Seol
  • Patent number: 12006605
    Abstract: A non-woven fabric is provided which includes a three-dimensional array of fibers. The three-dimensional array of fibers includes an array of standing fibers extending perpendicular to a plane of the non-woven fabric and attached to a base substrate, where the base substrate is one or more of an expendable film substrate, a metal base substrate, or a mandrel substrate. Further, the three-dimensional array of fibers includes multiple layers of non-woven parallel fibers running parallel to the plane of the non-woven fiber in between the array of standing fibers in a defined pattern of fiber layer orientations. In implementation, the array of standing fibers are grown to extend from the base substrate using laser-assisted chemical vapor deposition (LCVD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Free Form Fibers, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Pegna, Shay L. Harrison, Erik G. Vaaler, John L. Schneiter
  • Patent number: 12005667
    Abstract: A press pad for a hydraulic single- or multi-stage heating press, the press pad comprising: a support fabric advantageously including metal threads; and an elastomeric material application made from a crosslinked rubber material, characterized in that the elastomeric material application is applied by a 3-D printing method to the support fabric by a printing arrangement, wherein the application is performed as a function of predetermined digitized data of a 3-D topography of the desired elastomeric material application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: HUECK Rheinische GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Espe
  • Patent number: 11998073
    Abstract: A non-woven protective clothing against blood and viruses is composed from a non-woven fabric layer, which has two surfaces; and a moisture-permeable layer, which is a porous film that is laminated to one of the surfaces of the non-woven fabric layer; and an elastic pore filling layer, which is a hydrophilic polyurethane. The elastic pore filling layer is coated or printed onto the surface of the moisture-permeable layer, and the thickness of the elastic pore filling layer is thinner than that of the moisture-permeable layer. The synthetic blood permeability of the non-woven protective clothing against blood and viruses can resist a pressure of 2.0 psi for one minute, and the Phi-X174 bacteriophage penetrability thereof can resist a pressure of 2.0 psi for one minute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: WEB-PRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fu-Chun Lin, Ping-Sen Liao, Ya-Tong Cai, Tsung-Chia Wang, Chiu-Ti Wang
  • Patent number: 11993877
    Abstract: A nonwoven fabric comprising a fiber web in an amount of 85-99.99 wt. %, and a cured natural binder in an amount of 0.01-15 wt. %; wherein the fiber web comprises natural fibers and synthetic fibers; wherein natural fibers are present in the nonwoven fabric in an amount of 70-90 wt. %; wherein synthetic fibers are present in the nonwoven fabric in an amount of from 10-30 wt. %; wherein the cured natural binder comprises modified cellulose and a strengthening agent in a weight ratio of strengthening agent to modified cellulose of 1:2 to 1:1,000, wherein modified cellulose comprises CMC and/or sodium CMC, wherein the strengthening agent comprises a crosslinking agent and/or a wet strength agent, wherein the crosslinking agent comprises a carboxylic acid having two or more carboxyl groups, and wherein the wet strength agent comprises a reactive functional group selected from the group consisting of halide, chloride, fluoride, hydroxyl, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Glatfelter Corporation
    Inventors: Abdus Salam, Timothy Kistemaker
  • Patent number: 11987011
    Abstract: A process is provided for thermal molding an article with at least one layer of thermoplastic fibers that are non-woven and uni-directionally oriented in combination with at least one layer of reinforcing fibers. The reinforcing fibers including glass, carbon, nature based, and combinations thereof; alone or mixed with chopped thermoplastic fibers. Upon subjecting the layers to sufficient heat to thermally bond in the presence of non-oriented filler fibers, thermoplastic fiber fusion encapsulates the filler fibers. The filler fibers impart physical properties to the resulting article and the residual unidirectional orientation of the thermoplastic melt imparts physical properties in the fiber direction to the article. By combining layers with varying orientations of uni-directional fibers relative to one another, the physical properties of the resulting article may be controlled and extended relative to conventional thermoplastic moldings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Teijin Automotive Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Probir Kumar Guha, Philippe Bonte, Marc-Philippe Toitgans, Dominique Boyer
  • Patent number: 11976394
    Abstract: Provided is a non-woven fabric which is suitable for cleaning wipers, diapers, food packaging materials, etc., and has excellent water absorption and handling performance. The non-woven fabric according to the present invention contains a thermoplastic biodegradable resin, and is characterized in that fibers constituting the non-woven fabric have crimps, the flexural rigidity index in the mechanical direction (MD) of the non-woven fabric is 7.77-37.4 as defined by the following equation: flexural rigidity index in the mechanical direction (MD)=flexural rigidity (gf·cm) in the mechanical direction (MD)/{basis weight(g/m2)}2.5×106, and the bulk density of the non-woven fabric is 0.098 g/cm3 to 0.251 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals Asahi Life Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya Fujimoto, Rumina Obi, Takashi Komatsu, Eiji Shiota
  • Patent number: 11970635
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to adhesive compositions comprising a semi-crystalline olefin polymer or copolymer and a functionalized wax, functionalized olefin polymer, or mixture thereof. These compositions are useful as, for example, adhesives in disposable articles such as diapers, adult incontinence articles, underpads, personal care garments, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO. KGaA
    Inventors: Maria Cristina Barbosa DeJesus, Charles W. Paul, Valerie Alexis, Geetanjaliben Shah
  • Patent number: 11959225
    Abstract: Fibrous structures comprising spunbond filaments and solid additives and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer
  • Patent number: 11952711
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sewing thread treatment agent, and a sewing thread, each achieving low friction properties across a wide range of sewing speeds. As a solution, a sewing thread treatment agent is provided, which is characterized in that it contains a hydroxy-terminated polydimethylsiloxane (A), a nonionic surfactant (B), and at least one type of wax (C) selected from paraffin wax, oxidized paraffin wax, polyethylene wax, oxidized polyethylene wax, and carnauba wax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAKEMOTO YUSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Ito, Hisanori Murata, Shuya Hayakawa