Patents Examined by Mark Ruthkosky
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Patent number: 12042071Abstract: A collapsible cone tree includes a mast (12), abase plate (14) mounted to an end of the mast and a plurality of legs (18), each having a first end pivotally mounted to the base plate and a free end, a plurality of struts (20), each having a first end pivotally mounted to a respective one of the legs intermediate the first end and the free end. A support member (12,24) is slidably positioned on the mast, and the second end of each strut is pivotally mounted to the support member. The support member is moved away from the base plate to collapse the legs toward the mast to a closed state, and is moved toward the base plate to open the legs away from the mast to an open state. Flexible stringers, such as LED light strings extend between the legs' free ends and a top of the mast.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Holiday Designs, LLCInventor: Chunwa Nguy
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Patent number: 12037295Abstract: A sintered ceramic foam that has a total porosity of greater than 60% by volume and the following phase composition, in mass percent based on the crystallized phases: 25 to 55% mullite, 20 to 65% corundum, 10 to 40% zirconia, mullite, corundum and zirconia together representing more than 80% of the mass of the crystallized phases. Also, a furnace that has a thermal insulator such ceramic foam.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Laurie San-Miguel, Yannick Millot
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Patent number: 11986116Abstract: An improved ornament-hanging hook and system includes an ornament-hanging apparatus and one or more ornament-hanging hooks, wherein each of the one or more ornament-hanging hooks includes an ornament-engaging loop, a first engagement-element for engaging a tree branch or other hanging structure, and a second engagement element disposed between the ornament-engaging loop and the first engagement-element for contact with the ornament-hanging apparatus during hanging. The second engagement-element has a second bend having a plurality of flections, wherein a portion of the second bend forms a fulcrum. Upon engagement with the ornament-hanging apparatus at the fulcrum, an ornament attached at the ornament-engaging loop is balanced gravitationally such that the first-engagement element is positioned upright and in an unobstructed manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Inventors: Donna Ercolano, Debra Bevelaqua
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Patent number: 11958283Abstract: Described herein is a panel with a layered structure having: a first outer layer; an intermediate layer; a second outer layer; and an interface layer between the intermediate layer and the second outer layer, the interface layer being configured for enabling adhesion of the layers between which it is set, wherein the second outer layer is obtained as a fabric with continuous fibres that have a tensile modulus of elasticity higher than or equal to 40 GPa measured according to the ASTM C1557 standard.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Composite Research S.r.l.Inventors: Eugenio Fossat, Nicola Giulietti
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Patent number: 11952317Abstract: An example article includes a substrate and a barrier coating on the substrate. The barrier coating includes a matrix including a rare-earth disilicate extending from an inner interface facing the substrate to an outer surface opposite the inner interface. The barrier coating includes a graded volumetric distribution of rare-earth oxide rich (REO-rich) phase regions in the matrix along a direction from the inner interface to the outer surface. The graded volumetric distribution defines a first volumetric density of the REO-rich phase regions at a first region of the matrix adjacent the outer surface. The graded volumetric distribution defines a second volumetric density of the REO-rich phase regions at a second region of the matrix adjacent the inner surface. The second volumetric density is different from the first volumetric density. An example technique includes forming the barrier coating on the substrate of a component.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce plcInventors: Ngunjoh Lawrence Ndamka, Li Li, Stephanie Gong, Ann Bolcavage, Taylor K. Blair, Robert Golden
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Patent number: 11945756Abstract: A material contains open pores in which the channels and pores that are internally coated with at least one layer of phosphorus-containing alumina. Such material is formed by infiltrating a porous material one or more times with a non-colloidal, low-viscosity liquid coating precursor, drying, and curing the coating precursor to form a phosphorus-containing alumina layer within pores of the material.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: APPLIED THIN FILMS, INC.Inventors: Sankar Sambasivan, Vikram S. Kaul, Francis R. Chapman
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Patent number: 11946147Abstract: A thermal barrier coating includes a bond coat layer deposited on a substrate, and a ceramic layer deposited on the bond coat layer. The ceramic layer includes a first layer having a porosity of 10% or more and 15% or less, and a second layer having a porosity of 0.5% or more and 9.0% or less and deposited on the first layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Taiji Torigoe, Yoshifumi Okajima, Daisuke Kudo, Masahiko Mega, Shuji Tanigawa
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Patent number: 11937722Abstract: A trophy apparatus, comprising a plurality of columns; a base piece comprising a plurality of grooves, each configured to attach to a bottom end of each of the plurality of columns, and further comprising an interface configured to couple to a plaque mount; and a lid piece comprising a plurality of grooves, each configured to attach to a top end of each of the plurality of columns.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TrophySmack, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Walsh, Dax Holt, Eugene Yesin
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Patent number: 11932744Abstract: A foamed, opacifying element has a substrate with opposing planar surfaces and a foamed opacifying layer disposed on one opposing surface. The foamed opacifying layer contains (a) 0.1-80 weight % of nonporous polymeric particles; (b?) 10-80 weight % of a matrix material derived from a (b) binder material having a glass transition temperature of less than 40° C.; (c) 0.0001-50 weight % of certain additives; (d) less than 5 weight % of water; and (e) at least 0.002 weight % of an opacifying colorant different from all of the (c) additives. Foamable and foamed aqueous compositions can be used to provide these foamed, opacifying elements for use as light-blocking window shades, curtains, or other materials. These light-blocking articles can also have a printable outer surface that accepts ink for making printed images that are not observable from the opposite surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Mridula Nair
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Patent number: 11916262Abstract: An alloy member includes a base member that includes a recess in a surface of the base member and is constituted by an alloy material containing chromium, an anchor portion is disposed in the recess and contains an oxide containing manganese and a covering layer is connected to the anchor portion and contains a low-equilibrium oxygen pressure element whose equilibrium oxygen pressure is lower than that of chromium.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Yuta Matsuno, Yuki Tanaka, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Makoto Ohmori
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Patent number: 11891701Abstract: A spraying material comprising a rare earth (R), aluminum and oxygen, the spraying material being a powder and comprising a crystalline phase of a rare earth (R) aluminum monoclinic (R4Al2O9) and a crystalline phase of a rare earth oxide (R2O3), with respect to diffraction peaks detected within a diffraction angle 2? range from 10° to 70° by a X-ray diffraction method using the characteristic X-ray of Cu-K?, the spraying material having diffraction peaks attributed to the rare earth oxide (R2O3) and diffraction peaks attributed to the rare earth (R) aluminum monoclinic (R4Al2O9), and an intensity ratio I(R)/I(RAL) of an integral intensity I(R) of the maximum diffraction peak attributed to the rare earth oxide (R2O3) to an integral intensity I(RAL) of the maximum diffraction peak attributed to the rare earth aluminum monoclinic (R4Al2O9) being at least 1.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryo Iwasaki, Noriaki Hamaya, Toshihiko Tsukatani, Yugo Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11883802Abstract: A silicon carbide porous body includes: (A) silicon carbide particles as an aggregate; and (B) at least one selected from the group consisting of metallic silicon, alumina, silica, mullite and cordierite. The silicon carbide porous body has amorphous and/or crystalline SiO2 or SiO on a surface(s) of the component (A) and/or the component (B). The silicon carbide porous body contains 6% by mass or less of ?-cristobalite in the amorphous and/or crystalline SiO2 or SiO.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Suguru Kodama, Makoto Hamazaki
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Patent number: 11887762Abstract: A soft magnetic metal powder comprising soft magnetic metal particles including Fe, wherein a surface of the soft magnetic metal particle is covered by a coating part having an insulation property, and the coating part includes a soft magnetic metal fine particle.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Satoko Mori, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Kenji Horino, Kazuhiro Yoshidome, Takuma Nakano, Seigo Tokoro, Shota Otsuka, Toru Ujiie, Kentaro Mori
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Patent number: 11869471Abstract: The invention relates generally to a panel structure that incorporates one or more panels and a material for providing reinforcement, baffling, sealing, sound absorption, damping or attenuation, thermal insulation, combinations thereof or the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Zephyros, Inc.Inventors: Christophe Chaut, Jerome Matrat, Laura Sivec
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Patent number: 11850833Abstract: A flexible display panel can be bent around an axis, and includes a flexible substrate and an accommodating structure. The accommodating structure is disposed on the flexible substrate and includes a plurality of polygonal microcups connected to each other, where the polygonal microcups are arranged regularly, and the axis is not substantially parallel to any sidewall of each polygonal microcup.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Yi-Sheng Lin, Chen-Chu Tsai, Chia-Chun Yeh
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Patent number: 11808039Abstract: A bridging element is positioned between a pair of insulating outer layers and a pair of rigid supporting inner layers. The bridging element includes a plurality of spaced-apart ribs supporting the rigid inner layers in a spaced-apart overlying relationship with a flexible sealing layer surrounding the plurality of spaced-apart ribs to form a first sleeve and another flexible sealing layer surrounding the supporting inner layers to form a second sleeve. The pair of insulating outer layers includes a composite assembly formed from non-metallic fibers and a thermal insulating material matrix.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Inventor: William W. Warwick, IV
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Patent number: 11798719Abstract: A soft magnetic metal powder having soft magnetic metal particles, wherein a surface of the soft magnetic metal particle is covered by a coating part, the coating part has a first coating part, a second coating part, and a third coating part in this order from the surface of the soft magnetic metal particle towards outside, the first coating part includes oxides of Si as a main component, the second coating part includes oxides of Fe as a main component, and the third coating part includes a compound of at least one element selected from the group consisting of P, Si, Bi, and Zn.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Yoshidome, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Kenji Horino, Satoko Mori, Takuma Nakano, Seigo Tokoro, Shota Otsuka, Toru Ujiie, Kentaro Mori
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Patent number: 11794670Abstract: There is provided an automobile component capable of improving sound absorption performance by damping due to vibration of a thin film as well as reducing weight of the automobile component. An automobile component of the present invention includes a core layer 10 in which tubular cells 20 are arranged in a plurality of rows, and a nonwoven fabric layer 30 on one or both surfaces of the core layer. The cells have closed surfaces 21 and open ends 22 in every other row as cell ends on one surface of the core layer. As cell ends on the other surface of the core layer, the cells have open ends 22 in the rows where the cells have the closed surfaces as cell ends on the one surface, and have closed surfaces 21 in the rows where the cells have the open ends as cell ends on the one surface. The open ends 22 allow the internal space of the cells 20 to be in communication with the outside. A thin resin film layer 40 having a plurality of apertures is provided between the core layer and the nonwoven fabric layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: KOTOBUKIYA FRONTE CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Masumura, Yuki Miyata
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Patent number: 11787147Abstract: An insulating element for thermally insulating spaces, including closed cells, in which a first and a second group of closed cells are formed by first or second recesses in a first or second flat element and the first and the second flat elements form first or second connection regions between recesses adjacent to the edges of the openings, to which respectively a flat covering element closing the openings of a plurality of first recesses is bonded on a front side of the flat element. The second recesses are arranged between the first recesses on a rear side of the first flat element and the first recesses are arranged between the second recesses on a rear side of the second flat element such that the space remaining of the first and second recesses between the first and the second flat elements amounts to less than 50% of the space enclosed by the first and second recesses.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: REP IP AGInventor: Nico Ros
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Patent number: 11779145Abstract: The present invention provides a modular Christmas tree (10) comprising three or more sides (12) that rise from a floor to give the tree a tapering shape, and central support structures (14b) that extend outwardly to support the sides. Each side (12) comprises elongate pieces (16a-c) joined together with connectors that allow the series of elongate pieces to be separated for storage of the disassembled Christmas tree. Each central support structures includes a hub that supports each side, and may also comprise spokes that extend from the hub to each side. The hubs, spokes and sides are joined by connectors that allow the tree to be disassembled for storage.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Inventor: Michael James Marchant