Patents Examined by Khanh T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11935673
    Abstract: Provided are a varistor forming paste, a cured product thereof, and a varistor, that can increase the degree of freedom in designing an electronic device, and can exhibit appropriate varistor characteristics. The varistor forming paste contains an epoxy resin (A), a curing agent (B), and a carbon aerogel (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NAMICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pawel Czubarow, Daisuke Hashimoto, Yoshitaka Kamata, Toshiyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 11931938
    Abstract: An apparatus (10) for improving the flow properties of injection moulding material has a flow chamber (18) that is formed in an injection moulding assembly. The flow chamber includes an ultrasonic vibration device (22), and an outlet (20) through which injection moulding material can pass from the flow chamber towards a mould tool (14, 16). The ultrasonic vibration device is arranged in the flow chamber such that injection moulding material flows along an outer wall (41) of the ultrasonic vibration device, in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Matrix Moulding Systems Limited
    Inventor: Andrew Miles
  • Patent number: 11937495
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device containing both a compound represented by the following general formula (1) and a compound represented by the following general formula (2) has a high light emission efficiency. The rings a to c each are a benzene ring that can be optionally condensed, R1 and R2 each represent a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, etc., four of R31 to R35 each are a substituted or unsubstituted carbazol-9-yl group, but all of these four are not the same, and the remaining one is a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, KWANSEI GAKUIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, KYULUX, INC.
    Inventors: Hajime Nakanotani, Takuji Hatakeyama, Yasuhiro Kondo, Yasuyuki Sasada, Motoki Yanai, Chin-Yiu Chan, Masaki Tanaka, Hiroki Noda, Chihaya Adachi, Yoshitake Suzuki, Naoto Notsuka
  • Patent number: 11926104
    Abstract: A build plate may include one or more thermocouples placed on an underside of the build plate. The one or more thermocouples output temperature fluctuation to assist in monitoring for build plate separation of a product located on top of the build plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shant Kenderian, Joseph T. Case
  • Patent number: 11918443
    Abstract: A doming tool for manufacturing absorbent tampon includes a plurality of stations made of devices for shaping a tampon pledget tip, and a hollow mandrel engaging with the stations. The stations are supported by at least one mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson GmbH
    Inventors: Nick Brooks, Peter Morgan, James Stembridge, Trevor Whales
  • Patent number: 11911943
    Abstract: There are provided an apparatus for taking out a molded product that allows a physical amount such as the mass of the taking portion to be easily acquired with a relatively simple configuration. A posture reversing mechanism is provided between the elevating arm and the taking portion to change the direction of the taking portion between an unreversed state in which the taking portion is directed to be able to take hold of the molded product molded in the die, and a reversed state in which the length of the taking portion in the vertical direction is shorter than that in the unreversed state. A sensor detects vibration of the elevating arm. A mass estimating section estimates the mass of the taking portion on the basis of vibration of the elevating arm detected by the sensor when the taking portion is in the reversed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: YUSHIN PRECISION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Minami
  • Patent number: 11917903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to binuclear, trinuclear and tetranuclear metal complexes and to electronic devices, especially organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Christian Ehrenreich, Armin Auch
  • Patent number: 11917911
    Abstract: Disclosed are a small-molecule electron donor material with an electron-deficient heterocyclic core, preparation and application thereof, belonging to technical field of solar cells. According to the present application, a brand-new electron-deficient heterocyclic unit which has never been applied to an organic solar cell is used as a core unit to prepare a small-molecule electron donor material with an A-D-A?-D-A skeleton structure, and the molecular structure of the small-molecule electron donor material is shown in formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: TAIZHOU UNIVERSITY, TAIZHOU HUIMO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shirong Lu, Liu Zhu
  • Patent number: 11905465
    Abstract: Disclosed are new zwitterionic compounds having a bridge moiety, an electron accepter moiety, and an electron donor moiety. The bridge moiety is covalently bonded to both the electron accepter moiety and to the electron donor moiety. The bridge moiety includes one selected from xanthene and thioxanthene, and the accepter moiety includes a pyridinium moiety, and the donor moiety includes a malononitrile moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Kaitlyn E. Crawford, Gavin S. Mohammad-Pour
  • Patent number: 11904565
    Abstract: A filling unit for filling cavities in a tablet press with a feedstock to be pressed, particularly a powder, having a filling assembly including a fill chamber. The fill chamber is arranged in the installed condition between a die table containing the cavities and a punch support including at least one punch. The fill chamber has at least one inlet opening for filling the fill chamber with raw material and at least one outlet opening for filling the cavities of the tablet press with feedstock to be pressed. The filling chamber has at least one mixer for mixing the raw materials of the feedstock to be pressed arranged at least partially in the fill chamber and at least one delivery unit for filling the cavities of the tablet press with feedstock to be pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Glatt Maschinen—und Apparatebau AG
    Inventors: Reinhard Nowak, Jochen Thies
  • Patent number: 11901559
    Abstract: Carbon nanostructures are used to prepare electrode compositions for lithium ion batteries. In one example, carbon nanostructures, fragments of carbon nanostructures and/or fractured carbon nanotubes are provided in an aqueous dispersion that can be used in the manufacture of silicon-containing anodes. The aqueous dispersion can further include another conductive carbon additive such as carbon black.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Andriy Korchev, Yilun Tang
  • Patent number: 11897221
    Abstract: A multi-chamber pellet die system to improve and increase analysis pellet manufacturing capabilities by allowing for multiple pellets or biomaterial scaffolds to be fabricated simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: University of South Carolina
    Inventors: Robert Michael Gower, Felicia Canipe, Mary Margavio, Juline Deppen, Christopher P. Haycook
  • Patent number: 11891820
    Abstract: The present claims a decorating tool, comprising a working portion, a grip portion and a connecting portion. The working portion and the grip portion are connected to two ends of the connecting portion, respectively. The connecting portion is configured for controlling the grip portion to rotate towards or away from the working portion. The grip portion can be rotated to adjacent to a sidewall of the working portion, and not protrude from two ends of the working portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU GREAT STAR INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yueming Li
  • Patent number: 11890794
    Abstract: A mold for manufacturing an artificial shuttlecock from a semi-finished shuttlecock includes a male mold and a female mold. The male mold includes a cone frustum and a plurality of first annular grooves. The semi-finished shuttlecock is placed on an outside of the cone frustum. The first annular grooves are disposed apart on the outside of the cone frustum. The female mold includes a tapered slot, a plurality of second annular grooves and an injection channel. The second annular grooves are disposed apart on an inner surface of the tapered slot. When the semi-finished shuttlecock and the male mold are placed into the female mold, each of the first annular grooves corresponds to each of the second annular grooves to form a plurality of molded grooves. The injection channel communicates with the second annular grooves, and the molded grooves communicate with the injection channel through the second annular grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Victor Rackets Industrial Corp.
    Inventors: Shu-Jung Chen, Chao-Ming Chen, Tzu-Wei Wang, Hsin-Chen Wang, Yi-Ling Hou
  • Patent number: 11884830
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an inventive concept, an ink includes a base catalyst, a sol gel precursor composition, and a block copolymer. According to another aspect of an inventive concept, an aerogel includes a three-dimensional printed structure having printed ligaments geometrically arranged, where an average diameter of the printed ligaments is in a range of greater than 0 microns and less than 50 microns. In addition, an average distance between a center of a first of the printed ligaments and a center of a second of the printed ligaments is at least equal to the average diameter of the printed ligaments, where the first and the second of the printed ligaments are adjacent. Each printed ligament includes of a plurality of random pores, where an average diameter of the random pores is less than 50 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Cheng Zhu, Eric Duoss, Christopher Spadaccini, Marcus A. Worsley, Jianchao Ye, Swetha Chandrasekaran
  • Patent number: 11884827
    Abstract: An electrically conductive filler comprises particles having a base substrate and a conductive coating. In some embodiments, the base substrate is a metal, plastic, glass, natural or synthetic graphite, carbon, ceramics, fiber or fabric. In some embodiments, the coating provides improved electrical conductivity, and the coated particle has lower electrical resistance than the uncoated base particle. Other embodiments and methods of making and using the electrically conductive filler are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TRITON SYSTEMS, INC
    Inventors: Anant K. Singh, Peter S. Schuler
  • Patent number: 11884002
    Abstract: Disclosed here is a method for making a three-dimensional micro-architected aerogel, comprising: (a) curing a reaction mixture comprising a co-sol-gel material (e.g., graphene oxide (GO)) and at least one catalyst to obtain a crosslinked co-sol-gel (e.g., GO hydrogel); (b) providing a photoresin comprising a solvent, a photoinitiator, a crosslinkable polymer precursor, and a dispersion of the crosslinked co-sol-gel (e.g., GO hydrogel); (c) curing the photoresin using projection microstereolithography layer-by-layer to produce a wet gel having a pre-designed three-dimensional structure; (d) drying the wet gel to produce a dry gel; and (e) pyrolyzing the dry gel to produce a three-dimensional micro-architected aerogel (e.g., graphene aerogel). Also disclosed is a photoresin for projection microstereolithography, comprising a solvent, a photoinitiator, a crosslinkable polymer precursor, and a dispersion of a crosslinked co-sol-gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Inventors: Marcus A. Worsley, Xiaoyu Zheng, Patrick G. Campbell, Eric Duoss, James Oakdale, Christopher Spadaccini, Ryan Hensleigh
  • Patent number: 11881559
    Abstract: An energy storage device comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises a self-supporting composite material film, a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electrolyte in contact with the first electrode, the second electrode, and the separator, wherein the electrolyte comprises at least one of a fluorine-containing cyclic carbonate, a fluorine-containing linear carbonate, and a fluoroether. The composite material film having greater than 0% and less than about 90% by weight of silicon particles, and greater than 0% and less than about 90% by weight of one or more types of carbon phases. At least one of the one or more types of carbon phases can be a substantially continuous phase that holds the composite material film together such that the silicon particles are distributed throughout the composite material film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Enevate Corporation
    Inventors: Heidi Leighette Anderson, Benjamin Yong Park, Hong Gan, Sung Won Choi
  • Patent number: 11866337
    Abstract: Provided are methods for synthesizing a graphene gel. In embodiments, such a method comprises flowing a graphene oxide composition comprising graphene oxide and a solvent, the solvent having a boiling point higher than pure water, through a reaction chamber under conditions to deoxygenate the graphene oxide and induce gelation to form a graphene gel suspended in the solvent and flowing through the reaction chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Jiaxing Huang, Luke Clyde Oak Prestowitz
  • Patent number: 11866371
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating element, wherein at least one part of the heating element is manufactured from a molybdenum disilicide composition and wherein in the molybdenum disilicide composition, molybdenum is substituted by chromium according to (Mo1-xCrx)Si2 and x is in the range of 0.16?x?0.19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Erik Ström, Petter Lindblom