Patents Examined by M. Kopec
  • Patent number: 5376309
    Abstract: Disclosed is a boride material for electronic elements, which is represented by a chemical formula of A.sub.1-x E.sub.x B.sub.12 (where A is Zr of Hf, E is Sc or Y, and 0.1.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.9) and the crystal system of which is a cubic one at a temperature not lower than its phase transition temperature and is a hexagonal one at a temperature not higher than its phase transition temperature. The boride material is prepared by mixing oxide powders or sulfate powders of the constitutive elements A and E and a boron powder followed by shaping the powder mixture and then sintering the shaped body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignees: International Superconductivity Technology Center, Hokkaido Electric Power Co.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Hamada, Nobuyuki Sugii, Mitsunobu Wakata, Kohichi Kubo, Kiyotaka Matsuura, Hisao Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 5376307
    Abstract: A coating composition of a perfluorocarbon resin and an electroconductive double shell pigment comprising inner shells of amorphous silica or a silica-containing material and outer shells of antimony-containing tin oxide is useful on a copy roller or belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Minori Hagiwara, Kenji Kiwa, Laurence W. McKeen
  • Patent number: 5374611
    Abstract: A high temperature superconducting material with the general formula GaSr.sub.2 Ln.sub.1-x MxCu.sub.2 O.sub.7.+-.w wherein Ln is selected from the group consisting of La, Ce, Pt, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Y and M is selected from the group consisting of Ca and Sr, 0.2.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.4 and w is a small fraction of one. A method of preparing this high temperature superconducting material is provided which includes heating and cooling a mixture to produce a crystalline material which is subsequently fired, ground and annealed at high pressure and temperature in oxygen to establish superconductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignees: The University of Chicago, Northwestern University
    Inventors: Bogdan Dabrowski, J. T. Vaughey, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier
  • Patent number: 5372731
    Abstract: Textiles can be finished in a wash- and cleaning-resistant manner by impregnation if aqueous dispersions are employed for this purpose which contain reactive copolymers and/or cocondensates having perfluoroalkyl groups and water-dispersible polyisocyanate mixtures whose NCO groups are not blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gisbert Michels, Hans-Albert Ehlert, Hans-Josef Laas, Joachim Probst, Helmut Reiff, Rolf-Volker Meyer
  • Patent number: 5372990
    Abstract: Provided is an oxide superconductor in which superconducting layer is sandwiched between two blocking layers having different compositions. Available superconducting layers include a one-layer system having one Cu-O.sub.2 sheet, a two-layer system having a mediating layer sandwiched between two Cu-O.sub.2 sheets, and a three-layer system having mediating layers sandwiched individually between three Cu-O.sub.2 sheets.Since the blocking layers are of different compositions, seventy-seven kinds of oxide superconductors can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Nobumasa, Kazuharu Shimizu
  • Patent number: 5371067
    Abstract: The disclosed oxide has a general chemical formula of Ba-Pb.sub.1-x -Bi.sub.x -O.sub.z, x being 0.35 to 1 and z being 2.7 to 3, and the oxide shows a potential superconductivity at a temperature below 14K and a photoconductivity at a temperatures below 160K at least in an exciting wavelength range of 500 to 700 nm depending on the value of the above x.The oxide is made by heating a mixture of starting materials for the desired composition at 750-850.degree. C. for 2-10 hours so as to cause solid phase reaction in the mixture, cooling the heated materials gradually, shaping the cooled mixture under pressure, reheating the shaped materials at 500-850.degree. C. for 2-10 hours so as to effect secondary sintering thereon, keeping the reheated materials at 600-500.degree. C. for 2-3 hours and cooling the same either extremely quickly at a rate of 1500-900.degree. C./sec or slowly at a rate of 150-200.degree. C./hour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: The University of Tokyo
    Inventor: Taizo Masumi
  • Patent number: 5370825
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel composition of matter comprising a polyacid and a polymer containing repeating units which contain one or more basic atoms. The complex is water-soluble and electrically conductive. The complex is useful in providing organic discharge layers for use in electronic applications and fabrications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marie Angelopoulos, Jeffrey D. Gelorme, Thomas H. Newman, Niranjan M. Patel, David E. Seeger
  • Patent number: 5366664
    Abstract: The present invention provides for conductive electromagnetic shielding (EMS) compositions which can be formulated to provide effective shielding over a broad range of frequencies, e.g. 30 MHz. to 110 GHz. which is based on a mixture of a polymeric or liquid matrix material and a synergestic combination of conductive powders, fibers and optional flake components. The invention also provides for formulations containing the above composition which are adapted for EMS applications such as pliable caulking, thermoformable shaped articles such as housings and cabinetry, flexible gasket material, shielding curtains, coatings and paints which may be applied to substrates such as glass, plastic or metal, structural composites, conformal coatings for printed circuit boards and like applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Vijay K. Varadan, Vasundara V. Varadan, Neil R. Williams, Joseph W. Cresko
  • Patent number: 5364566
    Abstract: A method for preparing a substantially white electroconductive powders by applying a surface coating comprising a two-dimensional network of antimony-containing tin oxide to amorphous silica or silica coated particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Howard W. Jacobson
  • Patent number: 5360786
    Abstract: The disclosed superconductive material has a characteristic in accordance with which electrical resistance disappears at a temperature of at least more than the boiling point of 20.3.degree. K. (-252.7.degree. C.) of liquid hydrogen and relates to La-Ba-Cu-O series superconductive material.Said superconductive material consists essentially of a composition having the formula(La.sub.1-x M.sub.x).sub.2 CuO.sub.4-x/2wherein, M=Ba or Ba(Sr, Ca) and x=0.04.about.0.20 as a main body, wherein the material has a K.sub.2 NiF.sub.4 crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Shoji Tanaka, Koichi Kitazawa, Shin-ichi Uchida, Hidenoir Takagi
  • Patent number: 5358665
    Abstract: Diethanolamine and monocarboxylic acid ester represented by the formula:RC(O)OR'are reacted to produce a reaction mixture comprising diethanol amide of monocarboxylic acid represented by the formula:RC(O)N(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH).sub.2and hydroxy-functional amide ester represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein each R is independently a hydrophobic hydrocarbon group and R' is an alkyl group containing from 1 to about 18 carbon atoms. The reaction mixture is useful as an antistatic composition for formulating with polymers, especially polyolefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Sienkowski, Paritosh M. Chakrabarti
  • Patent number: 5358666
    Abstract: An ohmic electrode material for semiconductor ceramics comprises 48-96 weight % of aluminum and 4-52 weight % of silicon. A semiconductor ceramics element includes a semiconductor ceramics such as that of barium titanate system semiconductor ceramics and on the surface of the semiconductor ceramics is formed an ohmic electrode from the ohmic electrode material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyomi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5354921
    Abstract: There is disclosed a single crystalline fibrous superconductive composition represented by the atomic compositional formula: Bi.sub.2 Sr.sub.2 CaCu.sub.2 M.sub.X O.sub.Y wherein 0<X<0.5; 7.8<Y<8.5; and M is at least one member selected from the group consisting of Pb, Sn, Sb, In, Cd, Ga, Ge, K, Li, and Na. This composition is prepared by a process comprising the step of mixing source material with one another to prepare a mixture having an atomic compositional ratio: Bi=1.00, Sr=0.5.about.2.0, Ca=0.5.about.5.0, Cu=1.0.about.7.0, and M=0.1.about.1.0, wherein M is at least one member selected from the group consisting of Pb, Sn, Sb, In, Cd, Ga, Ge, K, Li, and Na, the step of melting the mixture to prepare a molten material having an atomic compositional ratio: Bi=1.00, Sr=0.5.about.2.0, Ca=0.5.about.5.0, Cu=1.0.about.7.0, M=0.1.about.1.0, and O=3.5.about.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science & Technology
    Inventors: Ichiro Matsubara, Hideo Tanigawa, Toru Ogura, Hiroshi Yamashita, Makoto Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 5352657
    Abstract: A bismuth system oxide superconductor comprising the 110 K phase is effectively prepared by a process comprising the steps of mixing a bismuth compound, a strontium compound, a calcium compound, a copper compound and optionally a lead compound, optionally provisionally sintering the mixture, and sintering the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Utako Endo, Satoshi Koyama, Kazuo Okamura, Tomoji Kawai, Koichi Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 5352385
    Abstract: Described in a joining agent for joining electrically ceramic bodies by heating the joining agent inserted at the parts to be jointed between the ceramic bodies with an electric current flowing predominantly through the joining agent at high temperature. The joining agent is superior in the wetability and reactivity with the ceramics to ensure the joint part strength. The joining agent includes, as an electric conductor, an electric conductive component made of an ion conductor consisting of fluoride, chloride, and/or oxide, which forms carrier ions by the pre-heating and has an electric conductivity higher than that of the ceramic body at the electric current supplying time. During the supplying electric current to time, the joining agent has the electric resistance increased gradually at the molten state of the joining agent by decreasing the density or the mobility of the carrier ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Daihen Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yanagida, Akio Matsui, Tokumitsu Nishi, Kouji Okuda, Hiroshi Takai, Hisakiyo Hoshino, Masahi Numano, Natsumi Miyake
  • Patent number: 5348686
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrically conductive silicone gel having a combination of conductive particles comprising silver coated mica and oxide free silver flakes uniformly dispersed therethrough, where said gel is characterized as non-flowing, self-healing, and thermally stable, with a volume resistivity of less than about 2.0 milliohm-cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventor: Navin N. Vyas
  • Patent number: 5348936
    Abstract: Superconducting, metal-doped fullerenes are provided, along with processes for their preparation in relatively high stoichiometric purity. In one embodiment, the processes provide fullerenes of the formula M.sub.x C.sub.q, where M is a metal, x is greater than 0 but less than about 10, and q is at least 60. The processes comprise contacting C.sub.q with metal in an amount and under reaction conditions effective to produce a compound having the formula M.sub.y C.sub.q, and contacting said M.sub.y C.sub.q with a portion of C.sub.q in an amount and under reaction conditions effective to produce said M.sub.x C.sub.q, wherein y is greater than x.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: John P. McCauley, Jr., Qing Zhu, Gavin Vaughan, Nicole Coustel
  • Patent number: 5348935
    Abstract: Novel superconducting materials in the form of compounds, structures or phases are formed by performing otherwise known syntheses in a highly oxidizing atmosphere rather than that created by molecular oxygen at atmospheric pressure or below. This leads to the successful synthesis of novel superconducting compounds which are thermodynamically stable at the conditions under which they are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Donald E. Morris
  • Patent number: 5346649
    Abstract: An electrically conducting plastic material is produced by blending a polyaniline or a derivative thereof with an organic sulfonic acid or a derivative thereof. A reaction product or blend of a polyaniline or a derivative thereof with an organic sulfonic acid or a derivative thereof can be brought to an easy-to-handle or directly melt-processable form through a heat-treatment process carried out at approx. +40.degree. to +250.degree. C. The obtained plastic material is advantageously further improved by blending the heat-treated reaction product or blend with a thermoplastic polymer and then melt-processing the mixed blend. The properties of the resulting compound material exhibit complete compatibility of the heat-treated reaction product or blend with the thermoplastic polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Neste Oy
    Inventors: Toivo Karna, Jukka Laakso, Kalle Levon, Esko Savolainen
  • Patent number: 5344593
    Abstract: An electroconductive elastomer-forming composition comprising (a) 100 parts by weight of a vinyl group-containing polydimethylsiloxane having a standard polystyrene-reduced molecular weight of 10,000-40,000, (b) 5-50 parts by weight of a hydrosilyl group-containing polydimethylsiloxane having a standard polystyrene-reduced molecular weight of 10,000-40,000 and (c) 30-1,000 parts by weight of electroconductive particles. Said composition can form a conductor of small thickness having good conductivity, excellent heat resistance and excellent durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Chiba, Hisao Igarashi, Naoshi Yasuda, Yasuo Matsuki