Patents Examined by John E. Kittle
  • Patent number: 4774126
    Abstract: A low cost thermoplastic material having a low heat distortion (HDT) thermoplastic material forms the main structural component of a structural member. A relatively high cost high HDT thermoplastic material is attached to the low cost main structural component and is plated with a solderable metallic coating. The coating can be attached to other structures with relatively higher temperature molten solder with negligible distortion. The structural member may be, for example, an electrical shield to be soldered to a printed circuit board or a printed circuit board whose core is low HDT material and exterior is high HDT material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Denis P. Dorsey, Stephen Rizkowski
  • Patent number: 4774143
    Abstract: A transparent laminated window structure having high impact resistance is disclosed, wherein the window comprises a continuous inner layer of thermoplastic material, and an outer layer substantially parallel to the inner layer including at least a first course of discrete, mutually spaced glass segments, the spaces between adjacent segments containing an adhesive material. The window structure may further comprise a strip of elastomeric material compressed between the inner and outer layers so as to define a gas gap between the layers. A projectile contacting a particular glass segment in the outer layer will fracture that segment, but will not cause cracking in the adjacent, mutually spaced segments in the same course, and therefore, a high degree of visibility through the window structure will be retained after impact by the projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Douglas P. Gondela, Charles W. Lotz
  • Patent number: 4773955
    Abstract: A printed wiring board comprising a plastic material is formed with a through opening for mounting electronic parts therein, and the end of the opening on the rear side of the board is closed by a metal sheet bonded to the area around the opening end on the rear of the board through an adhesive layer. The inside wall and bottom face of the opening in the board are coated with an integral plating film as are the rear surfaces of the board an metal sheet. According to this board structure, the heat generated from electronic parts mounted on the bottom of the opening is dispersed by the metal sheet, and also penetration of moisture into the opening through the plastic material and the adhesive layer, as occurs with conventional boards, is prevented by the plating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Ibiden Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Mabuchi, Toshimi Komura
  • Patent number: 4772472
    Abstract: A formed or molded body, a manufacturing method and a manufacturing apparatus therefor, wherein several equal or different active ingredients in suitable, equal or different carrier substances are filled at the same time side-by-side without a partition into a uniform enclosure or envelope to provide a formed or molded body with uniform outer appearance and with separate inner regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: R. P. Scherer GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Schonmann, Hans P. Eck
  • Patent number: 4772462
    Abstract: This invention relates to improved hair products which contain dialkyl diallyl ammonium chloride/acrylic acid-type polymers. These polymers provide exceptional conditioning properties to hair products such as shampoos, conditioners, rinses, bleaches, hair dyes and hair sprays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Calgon Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry E. Boothe, Lewis D. Morse, William L. Klein
  • Patent number: 4772511
    Abstract: Solid, transparent, non-vitreous, zirconia and zirconia-silica ceramic microspheres, useful as lens elements in retroreflective pavement markings. The microspheres are characterized by:(a) containing at least one additive metal oxide selected from alumina, magnesia, yttria and mixtures thereof;(b) an index of refraction greater than 1.6; and(c) being virtually free of cracks.These microspheres are formed by a sol-gel technique of extractive gelation (extracting carboxylic acid away from zirconyl carboxylate) of a sol in liquid medium such as hot peanut oil. The microspheres of this ceramic composition have been made with relatively large diameters, (e.g. 200-1000 micrometers) making them quite useful as lens elements in pavement marking sheet materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Thomas E. Wood, Roger W. Lange
  • Patent number: 4772514
    Abstract: A protective layer for carbonaceous materials, especially graphite electrodes, applied by plasma-coating method comprised of 65-98 .sup.w /o of metal aluminum, 1-20 .sup.w /o of combined metal silicon with silica (SiO.sub.l) and up to 15 .sup.w /o of oxygenous compounds of aluminum. The resistivity of the layer is 0.07.10.sup.-6 ohm.m up to 0.3.10.sup.-6 ohm.m at 20.degree. C. and 0.12.10.sup.-6 ohm.m up to 0.7.10.sup.-6 ohm.m at 400.degree. C.The method of producing the protective layer comprises the following steps of directing a plasma flame of a water stabilized plasma burner toward the carbonaceous material, and feeding into a plasma flame a particulate composition comprising between about 85 .sup.w /o to about 99 .sup.w /o of metallic aluminum having a particle size of between about 0.09 to about 0.180 mm and between about 1 to about 15 .sup.w /o of silicon having a particle size of between about 0.07 to about 0.165 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Ceskoslovenska akademie ved
    Inventors: Karel Neufuss, Ales Macku, Antonin Forejt, Pavel Kasik
  • Patent number: 4772540
    Abstract: An ordinarily delicate microsieve is provided with greater resistance to mechanical distortion by being formed integrally with a rigid frame or by having its thickness built up to an extent where it is significantly more capable of withstanding flex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Bar Ilan University
    Inventors: Mordechai Deutsch, Tamar Landau, Richard E. Gordon
  • Patent number: 4772656
    Abstract: A molded polyolefin container for hydrocarbons having improved barrier to permeation of fluid hydrocarbons through the walls of the container is disclosed. The container walls comprise from 0.1% to 2% by weight of aluminum powder in the polyolefin container walls. The aluminum powder is substantially uniformly distributed throughout the polyolefin container walls. The polyolefin may be polyprolylene or polyethylene. This type of container provides an economical packaging system for hydrocarbons compared to existing packages of metal or polyvinylchloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Linwo Industries Limited
    Inventor: David J. Tanner
  • Patent number: 4770921
    Abstract: Self-shielding multi-layer circuit boards are produced utilizing augmentative replacement techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Insulating Materials Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas P. Wacker, Charles W. Eichelberger, Robert J. Wojnarowski
  • Patent number: 4770940
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming a hard, carbonaceous film on a substrate and the hard carbonaceous film formed thereby. The hard carbonaceous film is formed by decomposing a gaseous hydrocarbon having carbon atoms tetrahedrally coordinated to its nearest neighbors through carbon-carbon single bonds. The gaseous hydrocarbon is decomposed in a radio frequency maintained plasma and the plasma decomposition products are deposited on a cathodic substrate. Optionally, fluorocarbons may be present in a decomposition gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Ovonic Synthetic Materials Company
    Inventors: Stanford R. Ovshinsky, James Flasck
  • Patent number: 4770934
    Abstract: An ink jet recording medium having at least one ink receptive layer containing synthetic silica of fine particle form as a main pigment, having a recording surface dried by pressing said recording surface against a heated mirror surface, and having ink receptive layer having an absorption capacity of at least 10 g/m.sup.2 is disclosed.That is, the present invention provides an ink jet recording medium which has a gloss without requiring any post-treatment for imparting the gloss, has a high ink absorbability and gives a high color reproducibility and a high color density in printing with a water-base ink, particularly a recording medium for full color ink jet recording having a gloss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamasaki, Masao Suginaga
  • Patent number: 4770913
    Abstract: Improved binders or binding seals are proposed which have a substrate of a flexible material. At one end of the substrate is provided an ordinary adhesive layer and at the other end is provided a peelable adhesive layer covered with an ordinary adhesive layer. The peelable adhesive layer allows the user to stick the end of the binder and peel it whenever desired. The binder may be formed with a hole or holes at one end to secure it to a file, and with a peelable adhesive layer at the other end so that a document can be stuck and peeled on and from it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Inventor: Takao Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4770953
    Abstract: For higher thermal conductivity, stronger adhesion strength, excellent insulating characteristics, and multilayer interconnection, an aluminium sintered body for circuit substrates comprises a novel conductive metallized layer on the surface of the sintered body. The metallized layer comprises at least one element selected from the first group of Mo, W and Ta and at least one element selected from the second group of IIa, III, IVa group elements, lanthanide elements, and actinide elements in the periodic table, as the conductive phase element. The first group element serves to improve the heat conductivity and resistance, while the second group serves to increase the wetness and adhesion strength between the insulating body and the metallized layer. Further, the plural insulating ceramic bodies and the plural metallized conductive layers can be sintered simultaneously being stacked one above the other to permit a multilayer interconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akihiro Horiguchi, Mituo Kasori, Fumio Ueno, Hideki Sato, Nobuyuki Mizunoya, Mitsuyoshi Endo, Shun-ichiro Tanaka, Kazuo Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 4770911
    Abstract: An operation table cover formed of a hose closed at one end and open at the other end. The open end has two bent-over portions. The closed end of the cover is insertable into the pocket formed by the bent-over portion on the upper face of the cover. The cover has in the region of the bent-over portion an expanded part. A device for making the expanding part by elastically deforming the hose portion by means of two counter rollers is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Inventor: Karl H. Sengewald
  • Patent number: 4769289
    Abstract: Free-flowing plural extrudates of a polar ethylene interpolymer, and method of preparing the same. The extrudates are essentially coated with about 0.001-2 percent, by weight of the composition, fumed silica, preferably about 0.025-0.05 weight percent. The fumed silica has an average primary particle size of about 5-25 millimicrons, a surface area of about 200-250 m.sup.2 /g, and is substantially amorphous and non-porous. The interpolymer has interpolymerized therein polar monomer, such as acrylic acid, n-butyl acrylate, vinyl acetate, or the like, in an amount so that the untreated extrudates have high block. The extrudates are treated by admixture with the silica or by contact with an aqueous dispersion of about 0.01-10 wt. % silica. When the interpolymer contains .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, the extrudates are optionally surface neutralized with a base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Laura A. Kelly, Kenneth L. Bryce
  • Patent number: 4769270
    Abstract: A substrate for a printed circuit board, comprising a metal core plate having apertures and an inorganic fiber cloth impregnated with a heat resistant thermoplastic resin, coated thereon, wherein said apertures are filled with a mixture of said resin and an inorganic filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics Industries Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagamatsu, Kaname Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 4769231
    Abstract: A hair tonic composition comprising an effective amount of an extract extracted by a solvent from dong chong xia cao and a conventional base medum for a hair tonic composition, a process for production thereof, and the use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignees: Suntory Limited, Hideoki Ogawa
    Inventors: Kyoichi Ogura, Takaharu Tanaka, Teruo Amachi, Hajime Yoshizumi, Hideoki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4769309
    Abstract: A printed circuit board is described in which an electrically insulating laminate material has first and second sides. An electrically conducting first circuit pattern is embedded in the first side of the laminate material, and an electrically conducting second circuit pattern is embedded in the second side of the laminate material electrically insulated from the first circuit pattern by the laminate material. A solid interconnection member extends through the laminate material and electrically contacts both the first and second circuit patterns at selected locations thereof.The method for fabricating the board includes as a first step the fabrication of a first board panel having a raised electrically conducting first circuit pattern extending from a base layer of conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: David R. King, Mark S. Lee, Richard W. Decker
  • Patent number: 4769290
    Abstract: An article of manufacture includes a substrate carrying at least two coating layers, one layer being of approximately quarter wave optical thickness, the other layer of approximately two quarter wave optical thickness, with the layers alternating between a material such as a dielectric having a first index of refraction and a second material such as a dielectric having a second index of refraction lower than the first index of refraction. These layers form a filtering system which removes narrow bands of light such as laser wavelengths by efficient reflection while permitting the remainder of the light spectrum to pass through the article. The coating layers have optical thicknesses and indices of refraction appropriate to reflect more than 99% of incident light at one or more predetermined wavelengths of light in the range of about 300 to about 1,200 nanometers and to transmit a substantial amount of all other incident light in the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Santa Barbara Research Center
    Inventors: Herbert L. Hettich, Samuel F. Pellicori