Patents Examined by Kenneth J Stachel
  • Patent number: 12195606
    Abstract: There are provided stretchable solid-state electroactive polymer actuators (SSEPA) using electroactive polymers that convert between electrical energy and mechanical energy and having solid-state polymer electrolytes. More particularly, there are provided electroactive polymer (EAP) compositions comprising: 15-60 wt. % of a film-forming polymer; 5-40 wt. % of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) and 10-40 wt. % of a plasticizer, solid-state polymer electrolyte (SPE) compositions comprising: 20-60 wt. % of a plasticizer, 10-60 wt. % of a film-forming polymer and 5-25 wt. % of an ionizable salt. The use of these EAP and SPE compositions in electromechanical devices, such as solid-state actuators, generators, sensors, and other energy transducers in various applications are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: BIOASTRA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Sumitra Rajagopalan, Prajwal Kumar, Oscar Suarez, Sajjad Saeidlou, Maksym Kryuchkov, Mathieu Ramananarivo, Alexey Tokarev, Nicolas Cottenye, Julien Plathier
  • Patent number: 12173130
    Abstract: A plastic substrate includes: a transparent plastic support member; a first inorganic layer on a surface of the plastic support member; and a first organic-inorganic hybrid layer on the first inorganic layer. A display device includes a display panel and a window on the display panel, the window including the plastic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinnyoung Heo, Sanggu Kim, Hyemin Seo, Sungguk An, Dongjin Jeong
  • Patent number: 12134821
    Abstract: A multilayer encapsulation thin-film and a method and apparatus for preparing a multilayer encapsulation thin-film are provided. The multilayer encapsulation thin-film includes an inorganic thin film that includes a metal oxide, and an organic thin film that includes a polymer and is formed on the inorganic thin film, where the inorganic thin film and the organic thin film are alternately stacked in multiple layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choelmin Jang, Sungmin Cho, Ho Kyoon Chung, Heeyeop Chae, Sang Joon Seo, Seung Woo Seo
  • Patent number: 12122705
    Abstract: A textured glass article includes: a body comprising an aluminosilicate glass comprising greater than or equal to 16 wt % Al2O3, the body having at least a first surface; a plurality of dendritic surface features extending from the first surface, each of the plurality of dendritic surface features comprising a base on the first surface and a surface feature size at the base greater than or equal to 10 ?m and less than or equal to 350 ?m; and a transmittance haze greater than or equal to 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Robert Randall Hancock, Jr., Yuhui Jin, Aize Li
  • Patent number: 12107198
    Abstract: A barrier film comprising a gas barrier film, and a primer layer disposed on one of outermost surfaces thereof and made of a cured product of a primer composition comprising at least one organometallic compound selected from the group consisting of a metal chelating compound, a metal alkoxide compound and a metal acylate compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Satoshi Iwata
  • Patent number: 12104082
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide ice mitigating surface coatings and methods for applying ice mitigating surface coatings. Various embodiment ice mitigating surface coatings may be formed by hydrolysis of one or more substituted n-alkyldimethylalkoxysilanes terminated with functionalities having the following characteristics with respect to water: 1) non-polar interactions; 2) hydrogen bonding through donor and acceptor interactions; or 3) hydrogen bonding through acceptor interactions only. The substituted n-alkyldimethylalkoxysilanes of the various embodiments may include methyl terminated species, hydroxyl terminated species, ethylene glycol terminated species, and methoxyethylene glycol terminated species. Various embodiment ice mitigating surface coatings may be applied to metal surfaces, such as aluminum surfaces. Various embodiment substituted n-alkyldimethylalkoxysilanes may have an aliphatic chain that is saturated and liner or branched or that is partially unsaturated and liner or branched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Joseph G. Smith, Jr., Christopher J. Wohl, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12105360
    Abstract: A contact lens constructed to limit the water transmissibility of at least one area of the lens while maintaining at least a minimum oxygen transmissibility. The water transmissibility maximum and oxygen permeability minimum are achieved by a predetermined lens thickness of a single lens material or by the use of two or more material layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Innovega, Inc.
    Inventors: William E. Meyers, Jerome A. Legerton, Jay P. Marsh
  • Patent number: 12096104
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent member having formed thereon a film having high reliability, the film being capable of suppressing an increase in its haze and maintaining its hydrophilicity for a long time period even when exposed to an outdoor environment. The transparent member is a transparent member including a resin base material and a porous layer arranged thereon, wherein the porous layer has a network structure in which silica particles are joined to each other with a binder, wherein the resin base material has a mixed layer that the network structure has entered, wherein the mixed layer has a thickness of 20 nm or more and 160 nm or less, and wherein a thickness variation in a range having a length of 1 ?m of a section of the mixed layer in its thickness direction along the surface of the resin base material is 15% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yo Watanabe, Tomonari Nakayama, Junji Kawasaki, Miwa Takachi
  • Patent number: 12054567
    Abstract: This invention provided an aqueous coating composition for metal surface pre-treatment comprising: (i) at least one organosilane with at least one hydrolyzable substituent; (ii) at least one water soluble and/or water dispersible silane-functional oligomer; (iii) at least one water-soluble compound of the elements Zr and/or Ti; The resultant sol-gel coating composition reveals an extended shelf life and after surface pre-treatment using the invented coating compositions the metal substrates have higher resistance to corrosion, humidity and solvent and at the same time have better surface conductivity and paintability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Xueting Qiu
  • Patent number: 12054637
    Abstract: This fluorine-containing coating agent composition contains: (A) an organic silicon compound containing a hydrolyzable group or a hydroxy group modified by a fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer residue, and/or a partial (hydrolyzed) condensate thereof; and (B) an organic silicon compound containing a polyether group and a hydrolyzable group or a hydroxy group modified by a fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer residue, and/or a partial (hydrolyzed) condensate thereof, wherein the mixture mass ratio of component (A) and component (B) is 15:85-85:15. When the composition is applied as a surface treatment agent, the surface treatment agent containing the fluorine-containing coating agent composition can form a cured coating film which has excellent water repellency and oil repellency, and which has both excellent steel wool abrasion resistance and eraser rubber abrasion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lisa Katayama, Takashi Matsuda, Yuji Yamane, Ryusuke Sakoh
  • Patent number: 12030276
    Abstract: A glass article including an ultra-thin glass layer and an optically transparent polymeric hard-coat layer having a pencil hardness of 8H or more bonded to the ultra-thin glass layer. The optically transparent polymer hard-coat layer may include an organic polymer material or an aliphatic or aromatic hexafunctional urethane acrylate. In some embodiments, the glass article may have an impact resistance defined by the capability of the glass article to avoid failure at a pen drop height that is 2 times or more than that of a control pen drop height of the ultra-thin glass layer without the optically transparent polymeric hard-coat layer, where the pen drop height and the control pen drop height are measured according to the Pen Drop Test. In some embodiments, the glass article may survive a bend radius of 5 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuan-Ting Kuo, Robert Lee Smith, III
  • Patent number: 11993725
    Abstract: A barrier film comprising: a substrate; a first layer disposed on the substrate and comprising an oxidation product of polysilazane; and a second layer disposed directly on the first layer and comprising a thiol-ene polymer, wherein the polysilazane comprises a repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 1, wherein R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen, an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group, an alkylsilyl group, an alkylamino group, an alkoxy group, or an aromatic hydrocarbon group, and wherein the thiol-ene polymer is a polymerization product of a monomer combination including a first monomer having at least two thiol groups at its terminal end and a second monomer having at least two carbon-carbon unsaturated bond-containing groups at its terminal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kikuchi, EunJoo Jang, Hyun A Kang, Nayoun Won, Oul Cho
  • Patent number: 11987725
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides sol-gels, sol-gel films and substrates, such as vehicle components, having a sol-gel film disposed thereon. At least one sol-gel is the reaction product of an organosilane, a metal alkoxide, an acid stabilizer, and an organic solvent, the sol-gel having about 10 wt % or less water content based on the total weight of the sol-gel. At least one vehicle component comprises a sol-gel coating system, comprising a metal substrate and a sol-gel disposed on the metal substrate, and the sol-gel is the reaction product of an organosilane, a metal alkoxide, an acid stabilizer, and an organic solvent, the sol-gel having about 10 wt % or less water content based on the total weight of the sol-gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: James A. Moore, Daniel W. Huff, Dennis K. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11978803
    Abstract: A substrate for a flexible display is disclosed. The substrate has a film stress range that does not affect an electronic device such as a thin film transistor, and includes a barrier layer having excellent oxygen and moisture blocking characteristics, and a method of manufacturing the substrate. The substrate includes; a plastic substrate having a glass transition temperature from about 350° C. to about 500° C.; and a barrier layer disposed on the plastic substrate, having a inti layer structure, wherein at least one silicon oxide layer and at least one silicon nitride layer are alternately stacked on each other, and having a film stress from about ?200 MPa to about 200 MPa due to the at least one silicon oxide layer and the at least one silicon nitride layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Joon Seo, Hoon-Kee Min, Dong-Un Jin, Sung-Guk An
  • Patent number: 11868088
    Abstract: An escape wheel (an example of a timepiece component) has a silicon-made substrate having an insertion portion into which an axle is inserted, and a coating film formed in a contact portion which comes into contact with at least the axle, at a surface of the substrate. The coating film contains metal alkoxide having a fluorine atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Munehiro Shibuya, Takeo Funakawa
  • Patent number: 11781038
    Abstract: A color conversion panel includes a substrate, a low refractive layer disposed on one surface of the substrate and including a carbosilane-siloxane copolymer, a color conversion layer disposed on the low refractive layer and including a color conversion member and a planarization layer covering the low refractive layer and the color conversion layer, wherein the low refractive layer has a refractive index of less than or equal to 1.30 in a wavelength of 500 nm to 550 nm, and the color conversion member includes a quantum dot, and a manufacturing method thereof is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongju Shin, Seungeun Lee, Woojin Lee
  • Patent number: 11767447
    Abstract: Provided herein is a topcoat composition comprising at least one fluorosilicone, a hydride-functional crosslinking agent, an infrared-absorbing filler, and at least one dispersant that is non-reactive with the hydride-functional crosslinking agent, by weight based on a total weight of the topcoat composition, wherein the topcoat composition has a degree of crosslinking between about 10 micrograms/hour/milligrams to about 20 micrograms/hour/milligrams. Further provided herein are methods of making the topcoat composition, as well as an imaging blanket and methods of reducing coating defects on a media coated using the imaging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenny-Tuan T. Dinh, Alexander N. Klymachyov, Lin Ma, Kyle B. Tallman, Eric Robert Dudek, Michael L. Mehan, Harry F. Freitas, Jr., Angela Schnuerch, Michael S. Roetker, Ngoc-Tram Le, Varun Sambhy, Santokh S. Badesha
  • Patent number: 11760062
    Abstract: An article including a base material of zirconium oxide, an intermediate layer located on the base material, and a surface treating layer formed from a surface treating agent containing a fluorine-containing silane compound located on the intermediate layer, wherein the intermediate layer includes one or more metal oxides. Also disclosed is a process for forming the surface treating layer and a process for producing the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Honda, Takeshi Maehira
  • Patent number: 11739237
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides sol-gel films and substrates, such as vehicle components, having a sol-gel film disposed thereon. At least one sol-gel formulation has about 10 wt % or less water content based on the total weight of the sol-gel formulation and comprises an organosilane, a metal alkoxide, an acid stabilizer, and an organic solvent. At least one vehicle component comprises a sol-gel coating system comprising a metal substrate and a sol-gel formulation disposed on the metal substrate. The sol-gel formulation has about 10 wt % or less water content based on the total weight of the sol-gel formulation and comprises an organosilane, a metal alkoxide, an acid stabilizer, and an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: James A. Moore, Daniel W. Huff, Dennis K. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11680010
    Abstract: Methods for evaluating a chemically strengthened housing component for an electronic device are disclosed. These methods may allow non-destructive determination of whether the chemical strengthening of the component meets specifications. Systems suitable for use with the methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tyler A. Marshall, Christopher C. Bartlow