Patents Examined by Mark Ruthkosky
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Patent number: 9209044Abstract: Provided are a metal-resin composite having excellent adhesive strength, a method for producing the same, a busbar, a module case, and a resinous connector part. The metal-resin composite comprises a metallic member 1 including a metal with a high melting point of 500° C. or more, a resin member 2 being integrated with the metallic member 1; and an alloy layer 3 including a metal with a low melting point lower than 500° C. The alloy layer 3 is arranged between the metallic member 1 and the resin member 2, and has average surface roughness thereof in the range from 5 nm or more to less than 1 ?m at the interface between the alloy layer 3 and the resin member 2. Herein, a period of the unevenness formed on the interface of the alloy layer 3 is in the range from 5 nm or more to less than 1 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Ryoichi Kajiwara, Shigehisa Motowaki, Yusuke Asaumi
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Patent number: 9200410Abstract: An electrophotographic recording sheet having, on a water-resistant support, a toner-receiving layer containing a liphophilic polymer antistatic agent with a specific surface resistivity of from 1×107 to 9×1012?. This electrophotographic recording sheet is excellent in recording quality, fixability, water resistance, durability, color printability and continuous printability.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2008Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: YUPO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Koike, Seiichiro Iida, Koichi Ishida
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Patent number: 9200012Abstract: A patterned fine particle film structure includes a fine particle layer including fine particles arranged and bound to a surface of a substrate coated with a patterned film including a first film compound having a first functional group. The fine particles are coated with films including a first coupling agent having a first coupling reactive group that undergoes a coupling reaction with the first functional group to form a bond. The fine particle layer is bound by a bond formed through a coupling reaction. In an embodiment, fine particles coated with films of a film compound that reacts with the first coupling reactive group and the fine particles are alternately bound to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLCInventor: Kazufumi Ogawa
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Patent number: 9200359Abstract: The invention provides a vacuum enclosure which is defined by a wall having inner and outer surfaces, where the inner surface is in contact with the vacuum and the outer surface is in contact with ambient air. The vacuum enclosure is characterized by the presence therein of a getter for undesired gaseous contaminants. The getter includes a substrate (either integral with the inner surface or not) and, deposited thereon by vacuum deposition, a thin-layer laminate including at least one layer (?) of substance(s) such as platinum group metals and oxides thereof, and at least one porous hydrophilic layer (?). A corresponding layered structure having utility as a getter is also part of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2009Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: ACKTAR LTD.Inventors: Dina Katsir, Daniel Feinman, Yuri Zarnitsky
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Patent number: 9193134Abstract: The present invention relates to an automotive clad sheet product comprising a core layer and at least one clad layer wherein the core comprises an alloy of the following composition in weight %: Mg 0.45-0.8, Si 0.45-0.7, Cu 0.05-0.25, Mn 0.05-0.2, Fe up to 0.35, other elements (or impurities) <0.05 each and <0.15 in total, balance aluminum; and the at least one clad layer comprises an alloy of the following composition in weight %: Mg 0.3-0.7, Si 0.3-0.7, Mn up to 0.15, Fe up to 0.35, other elements (impurities) <0.05 each and <0.15 in total, balance aluminum. The clad automotive sheet product provides excellent hemmability which does not substantially change over time and yet also provides a good age-hardening response after bake hardening.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Novelis Inc.Inventors: Juergen Timm, Corrado Bassi
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Patent number: 9186693Abstract: A nozzle assembly includes an upstream block, an upstream shim, an intermediate shim, a downstream shim and a downstream block arranged in this order in a machine direction MD from the upstream side to the downstream side. A lower end of the nozzle is formed with grooves as guide grooves to support elastics. A first pipe, a dispersion slit for a web and convergence slits for a web define first flow channels wherein the slits are respectively formed with outlets for a web. A second pipe, a dispersion slit for elastics and convergence slits for elastics define a second flow channels wherein the slits are respectively formed with outlets for elastics. The outlets for elastics are formed in the respective guide grooves and each of the outlets for a web lies between each pair of the adjacent outlets for elastics as viewed in the cross direction CD.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuo Ukegawa
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Patent number: 9186013Abstract: A multi-piece ceremonial sculpture that when assembled creates a symbol for unity during a wedding, anniversary, or union ceremony. The method of assembling the sculpture is to insert a first bent-shaped heart piece onto a base and then insert a second bent heart-shaped piece onto the base each by means of pegs and peg holes. The first bent heart-shaped piece and the second bent heart-shaped piece may be fastened together through a hinge connection. Finally, a pin may be inserted through the hinge connection of the first bent heart-shaped piece and the second bent heart-shaped piece to secure the two pieces together. The completed assembly resembles one three-dimensional heart, yet maintaining the identities of each individual heart symbolizing two hearts coming together into a union.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Michael James LetneyInventor: Michael James Letney
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Patent number: 9190189Abstract: Disclosed is an aluminum nitride substrate for a circuit board, the substrate having aluminum nitride crystal grains with an average grain size of 2 to 5 ?m and a thermal conductivity of at least 170 W/m·K. The aluminum nitride substrate does not include a dendritic grain boundary phase and has a breakdown voltage of at least 30 kV/mm at 400° C. Also provided is a method for producing the aluminum nitride substrate, including the steps of heating a raw material containing an aluminum nitride powder to 1500° C. at a pressure of at most 150 Pa, then increasing and holding the temperature at 1700 to 1900° C. in a pressurized atmosphere of at least 0.4 MPa using a non-oxidizing gas, then cooling to 1600° C. at a cooling rate of at most 10° C./min.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: DENKI KAGAKU KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusaku Harada, Katsunori Terano, Takeshi Gotoh
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Patent number: 9181464Abstract: Provided are an adhesive resin composition that is halogen-free, has good adhesiveness, solder heat resistance, and flame retardancy, and has good flow characteristics, and a laminate and a flexible printed wiring board using the same. The adhesive resin composition contains a phosphorus-containing epoxy resin and/or a phosphorus-containing phenoxy resin, a phosphorus-containing polyester resin having a weight-average molecular weight of more than 20,000 and 150,000 or less, another thermoplastic resin, and a curing agent. The adhesive resin composition preferably further contains a benzoxazine compound. Preferably, substantially no inorganic filler is mixed in the adhesive resin composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Shingo Kaimori, Jun Sugawara, Akira Mizoguchi, Syougo Asai, Takuma Yoshisaka, Naota Uenishi
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Patent number: 9181613Abstract: A high tensile strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet having excellent coated-layer adhesiveness in which the hot-dip galvannealed layer does not peel off from a base steel sheet even in being subjected to working accompanied by sliding and a method for producing the same are provided. In the high tensile strength hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet, a hot-dip galvannealed layer is formed on the surface of the base steel sheet, the base steel sheet contains Si by 0.04-2.5%, and, when the surface roughness of the base steel sheet after the hot-dip galvannealed layer is removed by dissolution with an acid is measured for a plurality of locations by a laser microscope, the arithmetic mean inclination angle (R?a) is 23.0° or more and the root mean square inclination angle (R?q) is 29.0° or more in 60% or more of all of the locations measured.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Chida, Hiroshi Irie
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Patent number: 9180727Abstract: Provided is a decoration sheet with high weather resistance and hair line, and a manufacturing method thereof. The decoration sheet with weather resistance and hair line, which is attached to a surface of an object so as to protect the object from external environment, includes a PVC layer of which a lower surface is attached to the object; a hair line printing layer formed with a lower surface contacted with an upper surface of the PVC and an upper surface on which the hair line is formed, and formed of a mixture of aluminum and acryl; and an acrylic layer formed with a lower surface contacted with an upper surface of the hair line printing layer and an upper surface exposed to the external environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: LG Hausys, Ltd.Inventors: Jiyong Park, Donggon Kim, Jungeun Ha
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Patent number: 9181088Abstract: An assembly of two objects integral with each other through at least one linking element provided between both objects, said linking element including at least a first material portion comprising intermetallic compounds of a phase formed with a first brazing metal and a second metal the melting point of which is higher than that of the first brazing metal, said linking element further including at least a second material portion composed of at least a third metal, said second material portion contacting both objects.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternativesInventors: Henri Sibuet, Xavier Baillin, Nicolas Sillon
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Patent number: 9175575Abstract: In one aspect, the present subject matter discloses a seal including a substrate material. The substrate material has a first portion having a first abradability and a second portion having a second abradability, the first abradability being different from the second abradability.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Stanley Frank Simpson, Gary Charles Liotta, Jeffrey Todd Knapp
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Patent number: 9174298Abstract: [Object] To provide a joining method for dissimilar metals which are magnesium alloy and steel and difficult to be metallurgically directly joined to each other while oxide film is present at a joining surface. [Solving Means] In order to join magnesium alloy material 1 and steel plate 2 to each other, a galvanized steel plate to which Zn—Al—Mg alloy plating (a third material) is applied is used as the steel plate 2. When joining is made, ternary eutectic melting of Al—Mg—Zn is caused, so that it is discharged together with oxide film 1f and impurities from the joining interface while Al—Mg intermetallic compound such as Al3Mg2 and Fe—Al intermetallic compound such as FeAl3 are formed, thereby joining the newly generated surfaces of the magnesium alloy material 1 and the steel plate 2 to each other through a compound layer 3 containing these intermetallic compounds.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2009Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Minoru Kasukawa, Shigeyuki Nakagawa, Kenji Miyamoto
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Patent number: 9169567Abstract: A components comprising a plurality of tab members formed thereon are provided. The plurality of tab members include at least one dissimilar metallic layer applied to the component. The plurality of tab members are configured to extend away from or retract toward a surface of the component in response to a temperature change.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Rebecca Evelyn Hefner, Paul Stephen Dimascio
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Patent number: 9162251Abstract: A lamination includes a substrate formed of a metal or alloy, an intermediate layer formed on a surface of the substrate and is formed of a metal or alloy that is softer than the substrate, and a metal film deposited by accelerating a powder material of a metal or alloy together with a gas heated to a temperature lower than the melting point of the powder material and spraying it onto the intermediate layer while keeping it in a solid phase.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Hirano, Yuichiro Yamauchi, Masaru Akabayashi, Toshihiko Hanamachi
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Patent number: 9162423Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayered bearing shell (2) comprising a back metal layer (3) as a carrier element for the layer structure and at least one further bearing layer joined to the back metal layer (3), wherein the back metal layer (3) is made from a bronze. The back metal layer (3) contains in addition to copper, which forms the matrix of the bronze, tin in a proportion selected from a range with a lower limit of 1.25 wt. % and an upper limit of 12 wt. %, zinc in a proportion selected from a range with a lower limit of 0.25 wt. % and an upper limit of 6 wt. % and phosphorus in a proportion selected from a range with a lower limit of 0.01 wt. % and an upper limit of 0.5 wt. %.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignees: Miba Gleitlager GmbH, MTU Friedrichshafen GmbHInventors: Reiner Boeschen, Robert Mergen, Falko Langbein, Ulrich Schmid
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Patent number: 9164644Abstract: A touch panel is formed by firstly forming a film layer on a first plate, and next, sequentially forming a buffer layer on the film layer, forming a sensing layer on the buffer layer, forming a second plate on the sensing layer. After the foregoing formation procedures, the first plate is removed from the film layer. Next, a cover is attached to the film layer. In this way, the film layer is located between the cover and the buffer layer. Finally, the second plate is removed from the sensing layer, so as to form a touch panel with the features of light weight, thin thickness and low costs.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.Inventors: Ching-Shan Lin, Chunyan Wu, Lianjie Ji, Fang Fang
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Patent number: 9155598Abstract: A blank for manufacturing molded dental components includes a blank body that includes tooth repairing material. A molded dental component is manufactured by removing portions of the tooth repairing material using a tool. The blank is encoded with at least one structure as a carrier of information regarding properties of the blank body. The at least one structure is arranged such that at least one of a position, dimensions, or a type of structure can be determined by sensing or measuring the blank. In this context, the position, the dimensions, or the type of the structure are embodied such that a value acquired during a determination of the above corresponds to information about a property of the blank body.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Sirona Dental Systems GmbHInventor: Klaus Niewiadomski
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Patent number: 9147505Abstract: A method of preparing a network comprises disposing a solution comprising particulate materials in a solvent onto a superhydrophobic surface comprising a plurality of superhydrophobic features and interfacial areas between the superhydrophobic features. The plurality of superhydrophobic features has a water contact angle of at least about 150°. The method of preparing the network also comprises removing the solvent from the solution of the particulate materials, and forming a network of the particulate materials in the interfacial areas, the particulate materials receding to the interfacial areas as the solvent is removed.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLCInventors: Ilia N. Ivanov, John T. Simpson
