Patents Examined by John D. Freeman
  • Patent number: 12247108
    Abstract: A stretched film, which has excellent impact resistance and oxygen barrier properties and which suppresses the number of pinholes after being bent, a packaging material using the same, and a method for producing the stretched film are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaki Yamanaka, Takafumi Oda
  • Patent number: 12241007
    Abstract: Articles including a substrate, a cover glass layer disposed over a top surface of the substrate, and an adhesive layer having a dynamic elastic modulus disposed between a bottom surface of the cover glass layer and the top surface of the substrate. The cover glass layer may have a thickness in the range of 1 micron to 200 microns. The dynamic elastic modulus of the adhesive layer may include a first elastic modulus in the range of 10 kPa to 1000 kPa measured at a stress frequency in the range of 0 Hertz to 5 Hertz and a temperature of 23 degrees C., and a second elastic modulus of 500 MPa or more measured at a stress frequency in the range of 10 Hertz to 1000 Hertz and a temperature of 23 degrees C. The adhesive layer may be optically transparent. The articles may be bendable electronic display devices or bendable electronic display device modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shinu Baby, Naigeng Chen, Edward John Fewkes, Dhananjay Joshi, Andrew Peter Kittleson, Yousef Kayed Qaroush, Ying Zhang
  • Patent number: 12233637
    Abstract: Provided are a glass substrate protective film including an optically transparent adhesive layer; a polyimide-based shatter-proof layer formed on the optically transparent adhesive layer; and a hard coating layer formed on the polyimide-based shatter-proof layer. The hard coating layer and the optically transparent adhesive layer have a thickness of 5 to 20 ?m, the polyimide-based shatter-proof layer has a thickness of 20 to 50 ?m, the glass substrate protective film has an absolute value of a retardation in a thickness direction (Rth) of 2000 nm or less, and an adhesive strength when the optically transparent adhesive layer adheres to the glass substrate is 200 gf/in or more. A method for manufacturing the glass substrate laminate and a display panel including the glass substrate laminate are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: SK Innovation Co., Ltd., SK ie technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Joo Song, Cheol Min Yun
  • Patent number: 12234323
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transparent polyimide film containing a polyimide and a phosphate ester. The content of the phosphate ester based on 100 parts by mass of the polyimide is 3 parts by mass or more, preferably 5 to 100 parts by mass. It is preferable to use a phosphate ester that has a high birefringence reduction effect and with which a decrease in the tensile modulus of the film is small. In production of the polyimide film, it is preferable to employ a method in which: a solvent-soluble polyimide resin and a phosphate ester are dissolved in an organic solvent exhibiting solubility with respect to the polyimide resin to prepare a polyimide solution; the polyimide solution is applied onto a substrate; and the organic solvent is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Ando, Kohei Ogawa, Masahiro Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 12234374
    Abstract: In a first aspect, a polymer composition includes a first polymer derived from a soluble polymer composition having an imide group and a Tg reducing compound having an amine group. The first polymer has a glass transition temperature that is lower than a second polymer derived from the same soluble polymer composition, but without a Tg reducing compound having an amine group. In a second aspect, a coating solution includes a soluble polymer having an imide group and a Tg reducing compound having an amine moiety that can be an amine or a first masked amine that can be converted to an amine, wherein the first masked amine can be chemically converted, thermally converted, photo-converted or dissociated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: DUPONT ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kostantinos Kourtakis, Michael Mulzer, Benjamin Samson, Michael Thomas Kwasny
  • Patent number: 12227644
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyamide resin composition that is excellent in mechanical characteristics, bonding properties and calcium chloride resistance and is suitably bonded to an acid-modified polyolefin, wherein the polyamide resin composition includes 70 to 99 mass % of an aliphatic polyamide resin (A) having an amino group concentration of 46 to 110 ?mol/g, 0 to 18 mass % of an aromatic polyamide resin (B), 0.01 to 0.50 mass % of a polyalkylene glycol alkyl ether (C), 0.01 to 0.50 mass % of a polyolefin wax (D) and 0 to 22.98 mass % of a component (E) other than (A) to (D), and the total of (A) to (E) is 100 mass %, and wherein the acid-modified polyolefin having an amount of acid modification of 8 to 100 ?mol/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: UBE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yasui, Akane Sakamoto, Yuki Suedomi, Hitoshi Kodama, Kosuke Oishi, Takashi Kumagai, Mikako Fujita
  • Patent number: 12221565
    Abstract: A bonded structure includes a first bonded member having a first bonding surface, a second bonded member having a second bonding surface, and a bonding layer that bonds the first bonding surface and the second bonding surface. The bonding layer includes a stress relaxation layer containing a chain polymer, a first bonded molecular layer containing a first bonded molecule bonded to the first bonding surface, and a second bonded molecular layer containing a second bonded molecule bonded to the second bonding surface. A first end of the chain polymer is bonded to the first bonded molecule via a first binding molecule or without bonding via the first binding molecule. A second end of the chain polymer is bonded to the second bonded molecule via a second binding molecule or without bonding via the second binding molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Miyano, Masami Saito, Kazuhiro Morita, Taiga Handa, Katsuhito Mori, Kunio Mori
  • Patent number: 12195653
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a scintillator includes a first layer. The first layer includes a first organic substance capable of emitting light, and a second organic substance. The second organic substance includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a carbonyl group, phosphine oxide, and a sulfinyl group. The first layer emits light based on beta rays incident on the first layer. A period from a time of a maximum value of an intensity of the light until the intensity of the light drops to 1/2.72 of the maximum value is not less than 10 ns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Atsushi Wada, Isao Takasu, Fumihiko Aiga, Kohei Nakayama, Yuko Nomura
  • Patent number: 12186962
    Abstract: The invention provides a process of obtaining a bi-oriented co-extruded film of 7 layers by triple bubble process for autoclave sterilization processes, which unlike the current existing materials for food sterilization, the invention does not require an individual manufacturing process of each sheet and subsequent lamination, but it is manufactured in a single step, in addition no metal compound is included in its composition, and provides a shelf life of more than a year in food products that are packaged in the process of sterilization (retort) inside the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: ZUBEX INDUSTRIAL SA DE CV
    Inventors: Miguel Jorge Zubiria Elizondo, Gabriel Santos Ruiz, Juan Jose Valadez Lopez
  • Patent number: 12179396
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a process. In an embodiment, the process includes providing pellets of a regrind material. The regrind material is a post-consumer recycle multilayer film (PCR multilayer film) having at least three layers. The PCR multilayer film is composed of (i) a polyethylene layer, (ii) a polyamide layer, and (iii) a tie layer. The tie layer is composed of maleic anhydride grafted substantially linear ethylene polymer (MAH-g-SLEP) having a Mw/Mn from 1.5 to less than 3.5 and a melt index from 0.5 g/10 min to less than 25 g/10 min. The process includes extruding the pellets to form an extrudate, molding the extrudate, and forming, with the extrudate, a molded article having a surface. The surface of the molded article has a surface roughness value, Sa, less than 1000 nm and a root mean square roughness value, Sq, less than 1400 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Brian W. Walther, Sachin Laddha
  • Patent number: 12163059
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of forming a polymer coated sulphur cured rubber composition wherein the bond strength between the polymer coating and the sulphur cured rubber is surprisingly great. The method includes providing a sulphur curable rubber composition comprising a compound including at least one thiol group, and/or contacting a sulphur curable rubber composition with a compound including at least one thiol group, and contacting the sulphur curable composition with a second polymeric precursor including a diallylamide group. The compound including at least one thiol group and the second polymeric precursors are reacted together to form a polymeric layer; and the sulphur curable rubber composition is cured to form a polymer coated sulphur cured rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Sublino Limited
    Inventors: Philip Roberts, Adam Donley, Paul Cannon
  • Patent number: 12117592
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cover window for a flexible display device comprising a laminate including a light-transmitting substrate or polymer substrate; and a first hard coating layer and a second hard coating layer each formed on both surfaces of the light-transmitting substrate or the polymer substrate, wherein a ratio of a modulus of the first hard coating layer to the total modulus of the laminate is 1.5 to 2.0, and wherein a surface pencil hardness measured from the first hard coating layer side is 5H or more based on 750 g, and a flexible display device comprising the cover window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Young Park, Yongjoon Heo, Yeongrae Chang
  • Patent number: 12109788
    Abstract: A laminate includes a polycarbonate substrate and an ultraviolet hard coat film disposed on the polycarbonate substrate. The ultraviolet hard coat film may include a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) layer, an adhesive interposed between the PET layer and the polycarbonate substrate, and an exterior hard coat disposed on the PET layer opposite the polycarbonate substrate. The exterior hard coat may include UV stabilizers. The laminate may include additional ultraviolet hard coat films stacked on the ultraviolet hard coat film. The laminate may be thermoformed into the shape of a curved vehicle windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: RO Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen S. Wilson, Bart E. Wilson
  • Patent number: 12104101
    Abstract: A composite material is disclosed including: a first material including a plurality of crosslinked first polymer chains including a plurality of first polymer monomeric units; a coating layer on the surface of the first material, wherein the coating layer includes a plurality of adhesion polymer chains, wherein the plurality of adhesion polymer chains includes a plurality of the first polymer monomeric units and a plurality of first bond-forming units, wherein the adhesion polymer chains are interwoven with the first polymer chains; and a second material including a plurality of second polymer chains, wherein the coating layer is disposed in-between the first and the second material and contacting the surface of the first and the second material, and a portion of the second polymer chains includes a plurality of second polymer monomeric units and second bond-forming units; wherein the first and the second bond-forming units form one or more bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Sibo Cheng, Yashraj S. Narang, Canhui Yang, Zhigang Suo, Robert D. Howe
  • Patent number: 12098303
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fixing member in which adhesion of foreign substances to its surface is suppressed, and which hardly causes lateral displacement when such fixing members are attached together to form a joined state. The fixing member disclosed herein includes a surface having a coefficient of kinetic friction of 1.50 or less, an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 5.00 ?m or less, and a shear stress at the time of self-attachment of 100.00 N or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tanaka, Atsushi Sone
  • Patent number: 12084575
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to a polyamide-imide film excellent in optical properties and mechanical properties, to a process for preparing the same, and to a cover window and a display device comprising the same. There are provided a polyamide-imide film, which comprises a polyamide-imide polymer and has a reduced modulus of a top surface measured by the nanoindentation method according to the ISO 14577-2 standard of 5.6 GPa or more and a haze of 1% or less, a process for preparing the same, and a cover window and a display device comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SK MICROWORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Hun Choi, Jin Woo Lee, Jung Hee Ki, Dae Seong Oh, Han Jun Kim, Sun Hwan Kim, Heung Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 12077644
    Abstract: An amide acid oligomer (AAO) solution, methods of making the same, powder, AAO solution prepregs, AAO dry prepreg, imide prepregs, and fiber reinforced polyimide composites with high temperature resistance and excellent mechanical properties are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method of making an AAO solution includes dissolving an aromatic diamine and an aromatic tetracarboxylic compound in a solvent to form a mixture, wherein the solvent has a boiling point of less than 150° C.; stirring the mixture at a temperature ranging from about 5° C. to about 60° C. for about I hour to about 24 hours to form a reaction solution; adding unsaturated acid anhydride to the reaction solution; and stirring the reaction solution at a temperature ranging from about 5° C. to about 60° C. for about 1 minute to about 180 minutes to form an amide acid oligomer solution, the amide acid oligomer solution having amide acid oligomer in the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Kaneka Americas Holding, Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiko Miyauchi
  • Patent number: 12072468
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cover window for a flexible display device comprising: a light-transmitting substrate; and a first hard coating layer and a second hard coating layer which are formed on both sides of the light-transmitting substrate, respectively, wherein each of the first hard coating layer and the second hard coating layer has IR spectra in which a ratio of the amide C?O peak to the ester C?O peak is in a predetermined range, and a flexible display device including the cover window for a flexible display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Young Park, Hanna Lee, Kyung Moon Ko, Yongjoon Heo, Yeongrae Chang, Jong Soo Do
  • Patent number: 12072653
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic belt having an endless shape including a base layer, wherein the base layer includes a polyimide film containing polyimide serving as a binder resin and a carbon nanotube, wherein the polyimide has an imidization ratio of 80% or more, wherein the carbon nanotube has at least one resin selected from the group consisting of: polyphenylsulfone; polysulfone; and polyethersulfone present on at least part of a surface thereof. The base layer has a tensile strength of 200 MPa or more in each of a peripheral direction thereof and a direction perpendicular to the peripheral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akeshi Asaka, Yuma Kobayashi, Taiki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12065551
    Abstract: In a first aspect, a consolidated polymer film includes a first polymer layer having a first elastic modulus, wherein the first polymer layer comprises a non-melt-processible polymer comprising a polyimide, a poly(amide-imide), a block copolymer of a polyimide or a poly(amide-imide) or a mixture thereof, and a second polymer layer having a second elastic modulus, wherein the second polymer layer comprises a polyimide, a poly(amide-imide), a block copolymer of a polyimide or a poly(amide-imide) or a mixture thereof. A minor surface of the first polymer layer is in contact with a minor surface of the second polymer layer. The first elastic modulus is different from the second elastic modulus. The first and second polymer layers are bonded by consolidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: DUPONT ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Leopoldo Alejandro Carbajal, Mark Allan Lamontia, Ross S Johnson, Kostantinos Kourtakis, Aref Samadidooki, Mobin Yahyazadehfar, Heidi Elizabeth Burch