Patents Examined by Kim S. Horger
  • Patent number: 12098457
    Abstract: Coated substrate comprising a surface coated with a coating comprising at least one coating layer of (TM1?xAlx)OyNz with (0.75?y)?z?(1.2?y) and 0.6>y>0, exhibiting a solid solution with B1 cubic structure, wherein x is the content of aluminum in atomic fraction if only aluminum and TM are being considered for the determination of the element composition in atomic percentage, and y is the content of oxygen in atomic fraction if only 0 and N are being considered for the determination of the element composition in atomic percentage, wherein TM is one or more transition metals and 0.05<x<0.95, wherein y correspond to a value of oxygen concentration in the TM1?xAlxOyNz coating layer that produces an increment of the thermal stability in such a manner that no precipitation of w-AlN phase is produced when the coated substrate or at least the coated surface of the coated substrate is exposed to temperatures higher than 1100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventors: Anders Olof Eriksson, Siva Phani Kumar Yalamanchili, Mirjam Arndt, Damian Mauritius Holzapfel, Jochen Michael Schneider
  • Patent number: 12098093
    Abstract: Embodiments of a composite structure are provided, the composite structure including: a substrate layer, a conductive layer and an overlayer. The conductive layer is disposed between the overlayer and the substrate layer. The substrate layer may comprise a material that is optically transparent over at least a part of the electromagnetic spectrum from 180 nm to 20 ?m. The conductive layer includes a thickness of 10 nm or greater, a resistivity of 10 ?-cm or less, and is an optically translucent or opaque over at least a part of the electromagnetic spectrum from 180 nm to 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: CORNING INCORPORATED, VIEW, INC.
    Inventors: James Gregory Couillard, Ming-Huang Huang, Xinghua Li
  • Patent number: 12078931
    Abstract: A metal mask according to some embodiments of the present disclosure may include a metal thin film having a first thickness and having a first region including a transmission region defining first openings penetrating the metal thin film, and a non-transmission region including an etching portion having a second thickness that is smaller than the first thickness, and a second region adjacent the first region, and defining second openings penetrating the metal thin film, wherein an opening density of the first region is less than an opening density of the second region, the opening density of the first region being defined as a number of the first openings per an area of the first region, and the opening density of the second region being defined as a number of the second openings per an area of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seil Kim, Jongbum Kim, Junghyun Ahn, Sang Min Yi
  • Patent number: 12065712
    Abstract: This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a base steel sheet in which a final-annealed film is substantially not present on a surface, an intermediate layer that is disposed on a surface of the base steel sheet and mainly contains silicon oxide, and an insulation coating disposed on a surface of the intermediate layer. In the intermediate layer, a value obtained by dividing a standard deviation ? of a thickness of the intermediate layer by an average value T of the thickness of the intermediate layer is 0.500 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shinsuke Takatani
  • Patent number: 12065713
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprises a base steel sheet and a glass coating that is formed on the surface of the base steel sheet, and is characterized in that: the base steel sheet contains as chemical components, in mass %, 0.010% or less of C, from 2.00% to 4.00% of Si, from 0.05% to 1.00% of Mn, from 0.010% to 0.065% of Al, 0.004% or less of N and 0.010% or less of S, with the balance of Fe and impurities, wherein the oxygen concentration in the glass coating and the base steel sheet is 2,500 ppm or less; and if IAl_1 is the first peak intensity of Al and IAl_2 is the second peak intensity of Al in the concentration profile of Al, the relationship of mathematical formula (1) IAl_1<IAl_2 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Yasuda, Takeo Aramaki, Shinya Yano, Yoshihiro Arita, Takashi Kataoka, Kenichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 12043550
    Abstract: An article may include a substrate and a coating system on the substrate. The coating system may include a thermal barrier coating (TBC) layer and a CMAS resistant layer on the TBC layer. The CMAS layer includes a rare-earth (RE) monosilicate composition including a plurality of RE metal cations, wherein RE monosilicate composition is configured to react with CMAS to form a reaction product including a RE apatite phase with a RE2O3·SiO2 composition, wherein the RE of the RE2O3·SiO2 composition includes at least one of the plurality of RE metal cations of the RE monosilicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Alexander Sean Golden, Adam Lee Chamberlain, Matthew R. Gold
  • Patent number: 12037689
    Abstract: The galvanized member includes a member formed of a metal and a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on the surface of the member. The hot-dip galvanized layer contains a sulfate salt having a higher water solubility than calcium sulfate. A sulfate salt content of the hot-dip galvanized layer is preferably 0.008 to 0.133 mol based on 100 g of zinc. The sulfate salt contained in the hot-dip galvanized layer is preferably at least one of potassium sulfate, sodium sulfate, magnesium sulfate, calcium sulfate, ferric sulfate, ferrous sulfate, lithium sulfate, calcium sulfate, and aluminum sulfate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Miwa, Azusa Ishii
  • Patent number: 12037675
    Abstract: A method for producing a coated cutting tool includes depositing a 0.5-10 ?m nitride layer, which is a nitride of one or more of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Ta, Nb, Si, Cr and Al, onto a substrate followed by depositing Al or Al+Me, further followed by depositing a 0.1-5 ?m oxide layer being an (AlaMe1-a)2O3 layer, 0.05?a?1, wherein Me is one or more of Ti, Mg, Ag, Zr, Si, V, Fe, Hf, B and Cr, said layers being deposited by magnetron sputtering. Also, a coated cutting tool including a substrate with a coating having the nitride layer and oxide layer. The coating has inclusions of (Al,Me,O) in the oxide layer at the interface between the nitride layer and the oxide layer, and/or a layer of (Al,Me,O) situated in between the nitride layer and the oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventors: Veit Schier, Dominic Diechle
  • Patent number: 12037718
    Abstract: An artificial turf constructed on a floor of a sports stadium and used as a substitute for natural turf, specifically, an antibacterial artificial turf pile yarn includes 80 to 90% by weight of polyolefin resin, 3 to 10% by weight of a silicon-based compound, and 3 to 10% by weight of an antibacterial powder, wherein the antibacterial powder is copper sulfide powder, and the antibacterial artificial turf pile yarn is coated to have a cooling function, and wherein a PCM (phase change material) powder is mixed with one or more powers of titanium, aluminum, and graphene powders as a cooling material powder and coated on an artificial turf pile yarn with viscosity to have a cooling effect together with an antibacterial effect for inhibiting bacterial growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Inventor: Bong Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 12031191
    Abstract: This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, a forsterite-based primary film disposed on a surface of the base steel sheet, and a phosphate-based tension-imparting film containing no chromium, which is disposed on a surface of the primary film. In a case where a Ti content and a S content are respectively expressed as XTi and XS, by mass %, the forsterite-based primary film satisfies Expression (1) and Expression (2). A strain-introduced magnetic domain control is performed on the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet 0.10?XTi/XS?10.00??Expression (1) XTi+XS?0.10 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Arai, Hideyuki Hamamura, Kazutoshi Takeda, Takeo Aramaki, Hirotoshi Tada
  • Patent number: 12035468
    Abstract: A bonded body includes an aluminum member made of an aluminum alloy and a copper member made of copper or a copper alloy, in which the aluminum member is made of an Al—Mn-based alloy containing Mn, an Mn concentration C0 of the entire aluminum member is in a range of 0.4 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less, and, when an Mn concentration in a region excluding a precipitate in the aluminum member is defined as an Mn solid solution concentration C1 and a value obtained by subtracting the Mn solid solution concentration C1 from the Mn concentration C0 of the entire aluminum member is defined as an Mn precipitate concentration C2, a ratio C1/C2 of the Mn solid solution concentration C1 to the Mn precipitate concentration C2 is in a range of 0.1 or more and 2.7 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Terasaki
  • Patent number: 12031312
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sanitary ware compatibly satisfying both low water absorption and weight reduction. The sanitary ware has a pottery substrate of a vitreous body and a glaze layer, in which part of the substrate is exposed to outside thereof without the glaze layer; the substrate has (A) an anorthite and (B) an alkali metal component; and an amount of the alkali metal component is in the range of 5 to 10% by weight in terms of an oxide conversion (A2O) relative to the substrate. This sanitary ware has the properties of low water absorption and light weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Koga, Satoru Kitazaki, Hiroyuki Kameshige, Yuki Okayasu, Tomofumi Ano
  • Patent number: 12024752
    Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which the area ratio of plate martensite is 10% or more, the average grain size of prior austenite grains is 2.0 ?m to 10.0 ?m, the maximum diameter thereof is 20.0 ?m or less, the amount of solid solution C in martensite is 0.20 mass % or less, the average carbide size is 0.25 ?m or less, the crystal orientation difference between plate martensite and another martensite adjacent thereto in the same prior austenite grain is 10.0° or less, and the P concentration at grain boundaries of the prior austenite grains is 4.0 at % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohichi Sano, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kengo Takeda
  • Patent number: 12024432
    Abstract: The application provides a porous carbon block material having high elasticity and high sealing, and provides a method for preparing the same. Particularly, the present application provides a porous carbon block material, wherein the porous carbon block material has a pore size in the range of from 3 nm to 100 nm, a porosity of from 50% to 87%, and the pores in the material are closed pores. In addition, the application provides a method for preparing the porous carbon block material according to the present application. The porous carbon block material according to the present application has small pore size, high porosity, and closed pores, and thus has high strength combined with high elasticity, high sealing property, and low density. Hence, the porous carbon block material according to the present application may be used as a sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: YANSHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhisheng Zhao, Yingju Wu, Zitai Liang, Yang Zhang, Xiaoyu Wang, Zewen Zhuge, Julong He, Dongli Yu, Bo Xu, Yongjun Tian
  • Patent number: 12020930
    Abstract: Provided is a nitride semiconductor element that does not cause element breakdown even when driven at high current density. A nitride semiconductor element includes an active layer, an electron block layer formed above the active layer, an AlGaN layer formed on the electron block layer, and a cover layer covering an upper surface of the AlGaN layer and formed of AlGaN or GaN having a lower Al composition ratio than in the AlGaN layer, in which the AlGaN layer includes protrusions provided on a surface opposite to the active layer, and the cover layer covers the protrusions. The AlGaN layer is preferably formed of AlGaN having an Al composition ratio decreasing in a direction away from the active layer, and the protrusions preferably have a frustum shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Sato, Motoaki Iwaya
  • Patent number: 12018343
    Abstract: A pre-alloyed powder includes, in weight percent, carbon from about 0.75 to about 2 percent; manganese from about 0.1 to about 1 percent; silicon from about 0.1 to about 1 percent; chromium from about 3 to about 6 percent; nickel up to about 4 percent; vanadium from about 1 to about 3 percent; molybdenum from about 4 to about 7 percent; tungsten from about 4 to about 7 percent; cobalt from about 4 to about 7 percent; boron up to about 0.1 percent; nitrogen from about 0.001 to about 0.15 percent, aluminum from about 0.001 to about 0.6 percent, copper from about 0.1 to about 1 percent, sulfur up to about 0.3 percent, phosphorus up to about 0.3 percent, up to about 5 percent total of tantalum, titanium, hafnium and zirconium; iron from about 65 to about 80 percent; and incidental impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: L.E. Jones Company
    Inventors: Cong Yue Qiao, David M Doll
  • Patent number: 12017843
    Abstract: An artificial tree; it has a hollow receptacle for presentation as a decorative tree container; a core support; and branches connected or connectable to the core support, wherein the core support is connectable to the hollow receptacle and the branches are connected to the core support when the tree artificial tree is assembled for displaying the branches over the hollow receptacle, and wherein a hollow interior of the hollow receptacle is dimensioned to receive and store the branches and the core support therein when the artificial tree is disassembled, for at least one of storage and transportation of the disassembled artificial tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Alexis Bouchard-Amyotte
  • Patent number: 12018357
    Abstract: Disclosed is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet having low iron loss in a frequency range of about 400 Hz. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet comprises an inner layer and surface layers, wherein the inner layer and surface layers have specific chemical compositions, each of the surface layers has an in-plane tensile stress of 5 MPa to 50 MPa, the non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a sheet thickness t of 0.01 mm to 0.35 mm, the surface layers have a total thickness t1 with a ratio t1/t of the total thickness t1 to the sheet thickness t being 0.10 to 0.70, the non-oriented electrical steel sheet has an average N content [N] in the total sheet thickness of 40 ppm or less, and an iron loss W10/400 and the sheet thickness t satisfy the following formula (1): W10/400?8+30t??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukino Miyamoto, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Patent number: 12018572
    Abstract: An article may include a substrate and a coating system on the substrate. The coating system may include an environmental barrier coating (EBC) layer and a CMAS resistant layer on the EBC layer (e.g., as the top coat of the system). The CMAS layer includes a rare-earth (RE) monosilicate composition including a plurality of RE metal cations, wherein RE monosilicate composition is configured to react with CMAS to form a reaction product including a RE apatite phase with a RE2O3·SiO2 composition, wherein the RE of the RE2O3·SiO2 composition includes at least one of the plurality of RE metal cations of the RE monosilicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Alexander Sean Golden, Adam Lee Chamberlain
  • Patent number: 12018359
    Abstract: Purpose of the present invention is to provide a composite tungsten oxide film having a transmissivity of light with a wavelength of 700 to 1200 nm, in addition to a function to shield light by absorbing light, a function to generate heat by absorbing light and a function to release electrons by absorbing light, and also having a substantial radio wave transmissivity, and having both of an infrared light absorbing property in an infrared light region and a transparency in a visible light region, and a method for manufacturing the composite tungsten oxide film, and further, to provide a film-deposited base material or an article using any of or a plurality of the above functions. A composite tungsten oxide film comprising a composition represented by a general formula MxWyOz (wherein, an element M is one or more elements selected from alkaline metal, alkaline earth metal, Fe, In, Tl, and Sn, an element W is tungsten, and an element O is oxygen) as main components, wherein 0.001?x/y?1, 2.2?z/y?3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Sato, Isao Ando