Patents Examined by K. Miller
  • Patent number: 11784079
    Abstract: A composite sintered body, wherein the composite sintered body consists of ceramic composite sintered body, the ceramic composite sintered body comprises aluminum oxide as a main phase, and silicon carbide as a sub-phase, in which the composite sintered body has mullite in crystal grains of the aluminum oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Hidaka, Hironori Kugimoto
  • Patent number: 11767266
    Abstract: A method for producing a solid composition according to the present disclosure is a method for producing a solid composition that is used for forming a functional ceramic having a first crystal phase. The method for producing a solid composition includes: producing an oxide composed of a second crystal phase different from the first crystal phase; and mixing the oxide and an oxo acid compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomofumi Yokoyama, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Naoyuki Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11753329
    Abstract: A glass sheet of the present invention has a content of Li2O+Na2O+K2O of from 0 mol % to less than 1.0 mol % and a content of B2O3 of from 0 mol % to less than 2.0 mol % in a glass composition, has a ?-OH value of less than 0.20/mm, and has a thermal shrinkage ratio of 20 ppm or less when increased in temperature from normal temperature at a rate of 5° C./min, kept at a temperature of 500° C. for 1 hour, and decreased in temperature at a rate of 5° C./min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsuki Saito
  • Patent number: 11746044
    Abstract: A glass composition, a macrocomposite, and methods of forming the macrocomposite including dispersing or immersing a metal in a glass. Preferably, the macrocomposite does not include an organic resin, an adhesive, or a polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: UPTERIOR, LLC
    Inventors: Agnieszka Zielinska, Anna Zielinska, Marian Klisch
  • Patent number: 11746056
    Abstract: The invention belongs to the field of electronic ceramics and its manufacturing, in particular to the modified NiTa2O6-based microwave dielectric ceramic material co-sintered at low temperature and its preparation method. Based on the low melting point characteristics of CuO and B2O3, and the radius of Cu2+ ions is similar to that of Ni2+ and Ta5+ ions, the chemical general formula of the invention is designed as xCuO-(1-x)NiO-[7.42y+(xy/14.33)]B2O3—Ta2O5, and the molar content of each component is adjusted from raw materials. The main crystalline phase of NiTa2O6 is synthesized at a lower pre-sintering temperature, and NiTa2O6-based ceramic material with low-temperature sintering characteristics and excellent microwave dielectric properties are directly synthesized at one time, which broadened the application range in LTCC field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Yangtze Delta Region Institute of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Huzhou
    Inventors: MengJiang Xing, XiaoZhen Li, HongYu Yang, MingShan Qu
  • Patent number: 11735360
    Abstract: A sandwich-structured dielectric material for pulse energy storage is provided as well as a preparation method thereof. Employing a sandwich structure and combining the properties of ceramic-glass materials prepares a high performance dielectric material for pulse energy storage, in which the ceramic dielectric is core-shell structured powder of BaxSr1-xTiO3 coated with SiO2, and the glass material is alkali-free glass AF45, of which the chemical composition is 63% SiO2-12% BaO-16% B2O3-9% Al2O3. AF45 alkali-free glass paste is spin-coated on both sides of the ceramic and calcined to get a layer-structured material of glass-ceramic-glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: South China University of Techology
    Inventors: Ming Lv, Ruqiang Li, Yani Wei, Qiutan Lai
  • Patent number: 11731883
    Abstract: A powder of melted particles, more than 95% by number of the particles exhibiting a circularity of greater than or equal to 0.85. The powder including more than 99.8% of a rare earth metal oxide and/or of hafnium oxide and/or of an aluminum oxide, as percentage by mass based on the oxides. The powder has a median particle size D50 of less than 15 ?m, a 90 percentile of the particle sizes, D90, of less than 30 ?m, and a size dispersion index (D90?D10)/D10 of less than 2, and a relative density of greater than 90%. The Dn percentiles of the powder are the particle sizes corresponding to the percentages, by number, of n %, on the cumulative distribution curve of the size of the particles in the powder and the particle sizes are classified by increasing order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN
    Inventors: Alain Allimant, Howard Wallar
  • Patent number: 11724956
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a glass composition as well as a glass powder. The disclosure also relates to the use in the dental field, e.g. as dental material such as dental filling or dental restauration material, in particular as or for the production of a glass ionomer cement, for example for the treatment and/or for the filling of cavities in human and/or animal teeth and/or for tooth restoration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SCHOT T AG
    Inventors: Sabine Pichler-Wilhelm, Jens Suffner, Simone Monika Ritter
  • Patent number: 11724961
    Abstract: A glass-ceramic article comprises: a center-volume composition comprising (on an oxide basis): 55-75 mol % SiO2; 0.2-10 mol % Al2O3; 0-5 mol % B2O3; 15-30 mol % Li2O; 0-2 mol % Na2O; 0-2 mol % K2O; 0-5 mol % MgO; 0-2 mol % ZnO; 0.2-3.0 mol % P2O5; 0.1-10 mol % ZrO2; 0-4 mol % TiO2; and 0-1.0 mol % SnO2. Lithium disilicate and either ?-spodumene or ?-quartz are the two predominant crystalline phases (by weight) of the glass-ceramic article. The glass-ceramic article further comprises tetragonal ZrO2 as a crystalline phase. The composition of the glass-ceramic article from a primary surface into a thickness of the glass-ceramic article can comprise over 10 mol % Na2O (on an oxide basis), with the mole percentage of Na2O decreasing from the primary surface towards the center-volume. The glass-ceramic article exhibits a ring-on-ring load-to-failure of at least 120 kgf, when the thickness of the glass-ceramic article is 0.3 mm to 2.0 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Carol Ann Click, Qiang Fu, Mathieu Gerard Jacques Hubert, Charlene Marie Smith, Alana Marie Whittier
  • Patent number: 11718567
    Abstract: Provided are a powder for laser manufacturing which can be stably manufactured and from which a three-dimensional manufactured object ensuring a manufacturing accuracy can be obtained and a using method thereof. A powder for ceramic manufacturing for obtaining a manufactured object by repeatedly sintering or fusing and solidifying in sequence a powder in an irradiation portion with laser light, in which the powder includes a plurality of compositions, at least one composition of the compositions is an absorber that relatively strongly absorbs the laser light compared to other compositions, and at least a part of the absorber changes to a different composition that relatively weakly absorbs the laser light by irradiation with the laser light and a using method of a powder in which the powder is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Yasui, Hisato Yabuta, Kanako Oshima, Hiroshi Saito, Yoshihiro Ohashi, Makoto Kubota, Akira Uebayashi
  • Patent number: 11713273
    Abstract: A glass material with a low dielectric constant and a low fiberizing temperature includes silicon dioxide, boron trioxide, aluminum oxide, calcium oxide, phosphorus pentoxide and zinc oxide. The silicon dioxide makes up 45%-52% by weight of the glass material. The boron trioxide makes up 25%-30% by weight of the glass material. The aluminum oxide makes up 10%-14% by weight of the glass material. The calcium oxide makes up 1%-4% by weight of the glass material. The phosphorus pentoxide makes up 0-3% by weight of the glass material. The zinc oxide makes up 1%-5% by weight of the glass material. The reduced silicon dioxide content and calcium oxide content and addition of phosphorus pentoxide and zinc oxide in the glass material lower the dielectric constant and fiberizing temperature of the glass material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN GLASS INDUSTRY CORP.
    Inventor: Chia-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 11708307
    Abstract: A composition comprises at least one form of attapulgite present in a solid weight fraction amount ranging from 0.25% to 5%; kaolin present in a solid weight fraction amount ranging from 17% to 50%; and optionally Ball Clay in a solid weight fraction amount ranging from 0% to 25%. Although makeable by other processes, in some embodiments, the composition is makeable by mixing component ingredients. Although usable for other purposes, in some embodiments, the composition is used to make ceramic pieces, e.g., via casting, pressing, jiggering or jollying, especially when the slip has solids, chemistry and viscosity suitable for shaping before drying, sintering, and optionally finishing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Active Minerals International, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Clay Parker, Robert J. Purcell, Jr., Matthew J. Lyman, Donald Keith Mills, John W. Kitchens, Charles Pettit, James Cutright
  • Patent number: 11708299
    Abstract: A transparent ?-quartz glass ceramic is provided. The glass ceramic includes a primary crystal phase including a ?-quartz solid solution, a secondary crystal phase including tetragonal ZrO2, and a lithium aluminosilicate amorphous phase. The glass ceramic may be ion exchanged utilizing molten nitrate salt baths. Methods for producing the glass ceramic are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: George Halsey Beall, Qiang Fu
  • Patent number: 11708296
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to glass compositions with high coefficients of thermal expansion and low fracture toughness designed for thermal tempering. These glasses are ideally suited to produce a “dicing” pattern when thermally tempered, even when thin (<3 mm). Disclosed glasses have high thermal expansions at low and high temperatures to produce increased temper stresses once quenched, coupled with low fracture toughness which promotes crack bifurcation and enhanced frangibility. Methods of making such glasses are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Gross, Peter Joseph Lezzi
  • Patent number: 11708297
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a particle mixture comprising particles of glass frit and particles of a crystalline oxide material, wherein the glass frit comprises silicon oxide (SiO2), zinc oxide (ZnO) and sulfur (S) and wherein the D90 particle size of the particle mixture is less than 5 microns. The particle mixture may be used to apply an enamel to a substrate. The present invention further relates to the use of the particle mixture to form an enamel on a substrate, to a glass sheet and to an automotive window pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Fenzi AGT Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Miria Medeiros Pacheco De Andrade, Edwin Peter Kennedy Currie, Syarif Riyadi, Patricia Ann Sutton
  • Patent number: 11697620
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a SiC—Si3N4 composite material and a SiC—Si3N4 composite material prepared according to same and comprises the steps of: preparing a mold; and forming a SiC—Si3N4 composite material by introducing, to the mold, a source gas comprising Si, N and C, at 1100 to 1600° C. More particularly, the present invention provides the SiC—Si3N4 composite material of high purity that is applicable to a semiconductor process, and increases the thermal shock strength of a SiC material by causing Si3N4, which is a material with a high thermal shock strength, to grow together via a CVD method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOKAI CARBON KOREA CO., LTD
    Inventor: Sang Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 11699836
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of low temperature co-fireable dielectric materials which can be used in conjunction with high dielectric materials to form composite structures, in particular for isolators and circulators for radiofrequency components. Embodiments of the low temperature co-fireable dielectric materials can be scheelite or garnet structures, for example, bismuth vanadate. Adhesives and/or glue is not necessary for the formation of the isolators and circulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael David Hill, David Bowie Cruickshank, Jeffrey Alan Shunkwiler, John Jianzhong Jiang, David Martin Firor, Srinivas Polisetty
  • Patent number: 11691922
    Abstract: A ceramic composite and a method of preparing the same are provided. The method of preparing the ceramic composite includes mixing an aluminum slag and a carbon accelerator to obtain a mixture and reacting the mixture at a temperature equal to or greater than 1600° C. in a nitrogen atmosphere to obtain a ceramic composite. The aluminum slag includes aluminum, oxygen, nitrogen, and magnesium. The weight ratio of the oxygen to the aluminum is 0.6 to 2. The weight ratio of the nitrogen to the aluminum is 0.1 to 1.2. The weight ratio of the magnesium to the aluminum is 0.04 to 0.2. The ceramic composite includes aluminum nitride accounting for at least 90 wt % of the ceramic composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ming-Hui Chang, Hsueh-Ping Weng, Sheng-Min Yu, Kai-Hsiang Chuang
  • Patent number: 11691923
    Abstract: Provided are novel high entropy nitrides (HENs) exhibiting excellent physical and chemical properties. Also provided are systems and methods to synthesize bulk HENs by reaction flash sintering. Commercial metal nitride powders can be consolidated into near fully dense single-phase bulk ceramic with a proprietary flash sintering apparatus. A constant DC electrical field of ˜80 V/cm and pressure of ˜15 MPa at room temperature can trigger reaction flash sintering without pre-heating, and the entire process can finish in ˜250 seconds to ˜400 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    Inventors: Suprabha Das, Zhe Cheng, Andriy Durygin
  • Patent number: 11685687
    Abstract: Mineral wool fibers having a mineral wool fiber composition are manufactured by introducing batch materials into a melter, melting the mineral batch materials in the melter to provide a melt and fiberizing the melt to form the mineral wool fibers. The batch materials comprise i) fibers having a first batch material composition which is different from the mineral wool fiber composition and consisting of scrap fibers which have broken at a bushing producing continuous fibers; and ii) one of more additional mineral batch materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Knauf Insulation SPRL
    Inventors: Gerard Demott, Mitja Oresnik