Patents Examined by Laura C Powers
  • Patent number: 12366890
    Abstract: A display device having a cover glass according to an example of the present disclosure includes a display panel, and a cover glass located on the display panel and including a folding area and a non-folding area, wherein the cover glass can include a glass layer including a glass having one or more slits disposed in the folding area in a width direction of the glass and formed in a shape passing through the glass in a height direction thereof, and a filler filled in each slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ikhyun Kuon, Chan Park, Yongsoo Kim, Eungchul Park, Moongoo Kim
  • Patent number: 12366006
    Abstract: A plumbing fixture having a multi-color appearance includes a first portion including a first finish having a first appearance and a second portion including a second portion having a second appearance that differs from the first appearance. The plumbing fixture further includes a transition region between the first portion and the second portion, wherein the appearance of the third region is graduated from the first appearance to the second appearance between a first end of the transition region adjacent the first portion and a second end of the transition region adjacent the second portion. The plumbing fixture has an ombre appearance as a result of the graduated transition between the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventors: Sarfaraz Moh, Gary N. Clarke
  • Patent number: 12359059
    Abstract: Disclosed is a biaxially stretched film containing two or more kinds of polyesters, in which at least one of the polyesters is a polybutylene naphthalate resin (A), and a dielectric tangent at 28 GHz is 0.0040 or less. There can be provided a biaxially stretched film having excellent low-dielectric properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Tsuruoka, Shunsuke Koido, Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12359085
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a printed film including a base film, a removable printed layer containing an alkali-removable ink, and a finishing varnish layer, the layers being formed on the base film. The finishing varnish layer contains at least a curable resin and a curing agent, and the curing agent is blended in an amount of less than 40 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the curable resin. Thus, the printed layer is prevented from being scratched or peeled off and can be reliably removed by alkali treatment at the time of disposal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Maeda, Atsushi Fukahori, Takahiro Yasuumi
  • Patent number: 12350911
    Abstract: A stainable decorative sheet having good adhesion between a paper base material and a nonwoven fabric with a surface excellent in tactile sensation and stainability, excellent transparency, and a method for coloring the stainable decorative sheet. The stainable decorative sheet includes a paper base material, an adhesive layer, a nonwoven fabric layer, and a transparency improving layer in a predetermined structure, wherein the nonwoven fabric layer partially has a filling part A and a filling part B in a part of voids among fibers of the nonwoven fabric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Natsuo Sugita, Takaho Saito, Kouki Fujii, Kosuke Nakai
  • Patent number: 12343967
    Abstract: Provided is a decorative laminate having excellent distinctness of design of a design layer and excellent surface smoothness of a clear layer after removal of a cover film. The decorative laminate includes a cover film, a clear layer, a design layer, a substrate film, and an adhesive layer adjacently to one another in order. The cover film is thermally laminated to the clear layer. The design layer is a coating film of a design layer coating material. The clear layer is a coating film of a clear layer coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Takakazu Hase
  • Patent number: 12343953
    Abstract: Nanostructured articles, materials for the nanostructured articles, and intermediate articles for use in making the nanostructured articles. The nanostructured articles can be formed on a flexible film and are useful for optical metasurface applications and possibly other applications. The articles can include nanoreplicated layers or pattern transfer layers of engineered nanostructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Martin B. Wolk, James M. Nelson, Karl K. Stensvad, Henrik B. van Lengerich, Christopher S. Lyons, Moses M. David, Jeffrey L. Solomon, Nicholas C. Erickson, Caleb T. Nelson
  • Patent number: 12331181
    Abstract: Provided is a display device that makes a desired pattern or the like visible in the non-display state and is capable of displaying a display image without allowing perception of the complementary color of the color of the pattern or the like. The display device includes: a dot matrix display panel; and a design layer disposed in front of a front surface side of the display panel. The design layer includes a design part that includes a binder resin and light-reflective colored particles dispersed in the binder resin. The light-reflective colored particles reflect light having a specific wavelength while absorbing light having a wavelength other than the specific wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Hirotoshi Yasunaga
  • Patent number: 12330410
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing decorative surfaces including the steps of inkjet printing an image on a first thermoplastic foil by jetting and curing one or more pigmented free radical curable inkjet inks on the first thermoplastic foil: applying and curing a free radical curable liquid as an adhesive layer on the inkjet printed image: and heat pressing the first thermoplastic foil with a second thermoplastic foil into a decorative laminate: wherein at least one of the first and second thermoplastic foils is a transparent thermoplastic foil: wherein the one or more pigmented free radical curable inkjet inks include a colour pigment and a polymerizable composition containing 10 to 90 wt % of one or more monofunctional polymerizable compounds: and wherein the free radical curable liquid includes a polymerizable composition contains 15 wt % or more of polyfunctional polymerizable compounds and 15 wt % or more of a specific monofunctional polymerizable compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Agfa NV
    Inventors: Jens Lenaerts, Johan Loccufier, Aleix Costa
  • Patent number: 12296758
    Abstract: Interior material for vehicle including a foamed sheet layer having a foam surface opposing a first rear surface of the first sheet layer, a first sheet layer joined along the foam surface, and a second sheet layer joined to a part of a first surface of the first sheet layer, bonded together while a surface boundary of the first sheet layer and the second sheet layer is kept linear, in which a first surface of the first sheet layer has a joined portion having a width dimension substantially the same as that of the second sheet layer and formed linearly, and a surface treated layer formed excluding the joined portion, and the second sheet layer joined along the joined portion and bonded together by a pressing force with a second surface of the second sheet layer and a foam rear surface of the foamed sheet layer as pressure receiving surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Okamoto Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hajime Miyamoto, Masahiko Nakayama, Shoichiro Negishi, Yasuki Kamo, Fumihiko Inoue
  • Patent number: 12298535
    Abstract: An ornamental sequin system including a selected visual adaptation provided in a visual plane of at least one sequin to form an ornamental sequin system surface of interlaced colors or images is set forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Inventor: Martin F Friedberg
  • Patent number: 12296655
    Abstract: A vehicle windshield includes a glass sheet and an overlay extending around a periphery of the glass sheet. The overlay includes a plurality of optical windows defined therein. A seal extends along a path delineated by the plurality of optical windows. The optical windows are sized to allow light to pass through the overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Steven Angus, Tom F. Boettger, Jeffrey R. Rowland, Stephanie Ross, Roger Jones
  • Patent number: 12291005
    Abstract: A vehicle glazing includes a first pane and a second pane which are connected to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer which is sectionally colored, a metal-based functional layer which is deposited on an inner surface of the first pane facing the thermoplastic intermediate layer, on the inner surface of the first pane, a coating-free edge region which is free of metal-based functional layer and extends from a side edge of the first pane over at least 5 mm to at most 25 mm on the inner surface, wherein the thermoplastic intermediate layer includes a transparent region and a colored region, the colored region being arranged at least in the entire coating-free edge region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Anna Neft, Stephan Gillessen, Stefanie Pengel, Jefferson Do Rosario
  • Patent number: 12286259
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for reducing the tack of adhesive ooze around components and other materials associated with articles and labeling and packaging of articles. In some embodiments, the packaging includes a substrate, an adhesive, a component, a de-tackifying agent, and an ooze zone. The substrate may be a shrink sleeve label. The adhesive may be a pressure sensitive adhesive used to attach the component to the substrate. The component may be a smart component or a promotional material. The de-tackifying agent may reduce the tackiness of the adhesive that oozes (i.e., progresses) beyond the interface of the component and the substrate into an adjacent ooze zone when heat, pressure, or heavy coat weight is applied to the packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Multi-Color Corporation
    Inventors: Dimitri Stamatiou, Mark A. Shadle
  • Patent number: 12275267
    Abstract: An article including a substrate; and a composition on the substrate, the composition including a liquid medium, and a semi-transparent magnetic pigment including a semi-transparent, metallic, magnetic material and a dielectric material used as a light interference cavity is disclosed, A method of making the article is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Kohlmann, Vladimir P. Raksha, Cornelis Jan Delst
  • Patent number: 12251960
    Abstract: A method may be provided for manufacturing a panel that may include a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate. The top layer may have a printed motif and a translucent or transparent synthetic material layer provided above the printed motif. The panel may have a structure or relief at the surface. The method may involve milling profiles into the substrate to obtain mechanical coupling means for coupling together two of the panels. The structure or relief and/or the printed motif may be realized after milling the profiles into the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Unilin, BV
    Inventors: Benny Schacht, Filip Tack
  • Patent number: 12254791
    Abstract: A system includes a container and a security label. The container is divisible into a plurality of parts and has a container body and a removable container closure. The security label has a first label section and a second label section forming respective parts of a common material web and a severing element which is arranged between the first and second label section with respect to a longitudinal axis of the security label. The security label is applied to the container such that the first label section is attached to the container body and the second label section surrounds the container closure. The second label section is formed such that the security label is closed along an edge line above the container closure by gluing and/or welding such that the second label section encloses the removable container closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Hofenauer, Nadine Lampka, Stefan Krauss, Ursula Schroepf, Peter Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 12228964
    Abstract: A display device, a support film for the display device, and an electronic apparatus are provided. The display device includes: a display panel including: a bendable area including at least a display area of the display panel; a binding area which comprises a part of a non-display area of the display panel; and a folding area, wherein the shielding area is located between the bendable area and the binding area; and a support film coupled to a back surface of the display panel, the support film including a first film portion and a second film portion, an orthographic projection of the first film portion on the display panel falling into the bendable area, and an orthographic projection of the second film portion on the display panel falling into the binding area. The material of the first film portion is different from the material of the second film portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Penghao Gu
  • Patent number: 12194775
    Abstract: A sparkling fabric includes: a fabric substrate; and a tri-layer adhered to the fabric substrate. The tri-layer includes: an adhesive layer that adheres the tri-layer to the fabric substrate; an exposed design layer; and a metal plating layer between the exposed design layer and the adhesive layer. The tri-layer is distributed as a plurality of separable and identifiable tri-layer pieces across the fabric substrate such that the distribution of tri-layer pieces has a density on the order of 15-25 pieces per centimeter squared (pcs/cm2) and a size of a piece is less than 1 millimeter (mm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Hasbro, Inc.
    Inventors: Man Kuen Cheung, Nga Man Chang, Sze Wing Ling
  • Patent number: 12177971
    Abstract: A wiring board includes an insulating layer comprising organic resin with inorganic particles, a first metal layer on a first surface, and a second metal layer disposed on a second surface. The insulating layer has a thickness of 75-1000 ?m and a storage modulus of 4 GPa-7 GPa. The first metal layer has a thickness of 1.5-10 ?m and a coverage of 5%-25%. The second metal layer has a thickness of 3-10 ?m or 25-100 ?m and a coverage of 85% or more. A surface part of the insulating layer on the first metal layer side has a higher ratio of organic resin than a surface part of the insulating layer on the second metal layer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Nagasawa, Satoshi Yoshiura