Patents Examined by Mary I Omori
  • Patent number: 11975285
    Abstract: A honeycomb body having a repeating channel structure formed of intersecting porous walls. The repeating channel structure comprises a first channel type defined by at least four first surfaces, at least two of the at least four first surfaces are parallel to one another; and a second channel type having at least four second surfaces, wherein four or more of the at least four second surfaces are non-parallel with one another. Repeating channel structure is repeated in the honeycomb body. Honeycomb extrusion dies and methods of manufacturing the honeycomb body are provided, as are other embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Natarajan Gunasekaran, David Robert Heine, Weidong Li, Craig Louis Stratton, Neng Wang
  • Patent number: 11926077
    Abstract: A composite sandwich panel comprises a first composite skin, a second composite skin, a hollow cell core between the first composite skin and the second composite skin, and a first over-crush edge region with a first edge. The first edge has a first thickness at least 40% less than a nominal thickness of the composite sandwich panel. The first over-crush edge region has a length of at least 0.25 inches over which a thickness of the composite sandwich panel decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jason Turner, Mitchell Zachary Kotlik, Christopher Robert Schwartz, Michael B. Black
  • Patent number: 11926131
    Abstract: A composite material is capable of suppressing decrease in the strength, which is caused by bending of fibers of a skin material during the time when the composite material is cured. A composite material is provided with a honeycomb core, a first skin material, a second skin material, a thunder-resistant mesh and a resin material; and the resin material is not arranged in a neighborhood portion which is the region corresponding to the region at the front end of the honeycomb core. A first film adhesive is arranged between the first skin material and the honeycomb core; a second film adhesive is arranged between the second skin material and the honeycomb core; and a fourth film adhesive is arranged in the neighborhood portion of the resin material in a weight per square meter, which is lower than those of the first film adhesive and the second film adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Noma, Hiromichi Akiyama, Toshio Kozasa, Masayuki Kanemasu, Shunichi Morishima
  • Patent number: 11904583
    Abstract: A vehicle constituent member and a manufacturing method for manufacturing the vehicle constituent member are provided. The vehicle constituent member includes: a body portion made of metal and having a vertical wall; a reinforcing member made of fiber reinforced resin and having a sheet shape, the reinforcing member being disposed on a surface of the vertical wall; and an adhesive layer provided between the surface of the vertical wall and the reinforcing member and connecting the vertical wall and the reinforcing member, the adhesive layer being configured such that a thickness of a part of the adhesive layer becomes thinner as the part of the adhesive layer is distanced outwardly from a surface end of the reinforcing member, the part of the adhesive layer being disposed outwardly from the surface end of the reinforcing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaya Miura, Tsuyoshi Izuhara
  • Patent number: 11879166
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wrought 7xxx-series aluminium alloy product having a composition comprising, in wt. %., Zn 6.20 to 7.50, Mg 2.15 to 2.75, Cu 1.20 to 2.00, and wherein Cu+Mg<4.50, and wherein Mg<2.5+5/3(Cu-1.2), Fe up to 0.25, Si up to 0.25, and optionally one or more elements selected from the group consisting of: (Zrup to 0.3,Crup to 0.3,Mnup to 0.45,Tiup to 0.25, Scup to 0.5, Agup to 0.5), the balance being aluminium and impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Novelis Koblenz GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Bürger, Philippe Meyer, Sunil Khosla, Sabine Maria Spangel, Christian Gerhard Krechel
  • Patent number: 11873551
    Abstract: An ultraflat and ultralow-friction metallic glass thin film is fabricated. The metallic glass thin film is a binary alloy, wherein a content of one metal element of the binary alloy is between 45 atomic % and 64 atomic %. The metallic glass thin film has an atomically smooth surface with a surface roughness Ra less than 0.1 nm and a total height of profile Rt less than 0.15 nm; the friction coefficient is below 1×10?2. Due to the metallic glass thin film being treated by ion bombardment, the metallic glass thin film is thermally ultrastable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Jian Lu, Jialun Gu, Yan Bao
  • Patent number: 11840045
    Abstract: This invention provides a relatively thick roll-bonded laminate that exhibits a high Erichsen value and excellent molding workability. Such roll-bonded laminate is composed of a stainless steel layer and a non-stainless steel metal layer, and it is characterized in that thickness T is 0.2 mm to 3 mm and a correlation between a proportion PSUS of thickness TSUS of the stainless steel layer relative to thickness T and a half width FWHM200 of a peak exhibiting a crystal plane orientation (200) determined by X-ray diffraction analysis of the stainless steel layer side satisfies the correlation represented by the formula: FWHM200?0.0057PSUS+0.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hashimoto, Kota Sadaki, Teppei Kurokawa, Takashi Koshiro, Takafumi Hatakeda
  • Patent number: 11813597
    Abstract: A honeycomb body (300) including a plurality of radially-extending walls (322) intersecting with a plurality of circumferentially-extending walls (324), the plurality of radially-extending walls (322) and the plurality of circumferentially-extending walls (324) form a plurality of circumferential zones (334A, 334B, 334C) of cells (308). The plurality of circumferential zones (334A, 334B, 334C) of cells (308) includes a first zone of cells (334A) including two or more first rings of cells (330) and having a first cell density, and a second zone of cells (334B) including two or more rings of cells (330) having varying cell densities across the two or more rings of cells. Other structures and extrusion dies are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Douglas Munroe Beall, Priyank Paras Jain, Kenneth Richard Miller, Artemii Alexandrovitch Shamkin
  • Patent number: 11795529
    Abstract: A low-melting-point alloy composite material and a composite material structure are provided. The low-melting-point alloy composite material includes 48 to 54 wt. % In, 30 to 36 wt. % Bi, 14 to 21 wt. % Sn, and at least one selected from 0.1 to 0.3 wt. % carbon material and 0.05 to 0.1 wt. % boron nitride (BN). The composite material structure includes a metal layer, a low-melting-point alloy composite material layer, and an interface material layer, wherein the material of the low-melting-point alloy composite material layer is the above low-melting-point alloy composite material, and the interface material layer is formed between the metal layer and the low-melting-point alloy composite material layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chia-Cheng Hsu, Hsu-Shen Chu
  • Patent number: 11767270
    Abstract: A joining material used for joining side surfaces of a plurality of silicon carbide-based honeycomb segments to each other to produce a silicon carbide-based honeycomb structure. The joining material contains from 0.1 to 50% by mass of processed powder generated in the production of the silicon carbide-based honeycomb segments and/or the silicon carbide-based honeycomb structure. The joining material has an average particle diameter D50 of from 0.5 to 60 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventor: Keisuke Kimura
  • Patent number: 11753735
    Abstract: A nickel-coated copper foil suitable for mass production, to which YAG laser welding can be applied while reducing the electrical resistivity by forming a nickel plating layer with a thickness of 0.5 ?m or less on a surface of a copper foil by Ni plating, is provided. The nickel-coated copper foil has an overall thickness of 200 ?m or less, and includes a copper layer made of Cu or a Cu alloy, and a nickel plating layer made of Ni or a Ni alloy, covering a surface of the copper foil, having a thickness of 0.01 ?m or more and 0.5 ?m or less, and including a surface having an a* value of 0 or more and 10 or less and a b* value of 0 or more and 14 or less in an L*a*b* color system obtained by an SCI measurement method in accordance with JIS Z 8722.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventor: Ken Asada
  • Patent number: 11717990
    Abstract: A preform for a stretch-blow-molded plastic container includes an elongated, tube-like preform body. An outer wall and an inner wall delimit a bottom thickness (b). An outer wall and an inner wall delimit a wall thickness (w). An inner surface and an outer surface (E1) curved in three-dimensionally convex manners are spaced apart such that a distance from their respective apex (S, S?) to the preform body continuously increases. Extensions of the outer wall of the preform bottom along the outer three-dimensionally curved surface (E1), and of the inner wall of the preform bottom along the inner three-dimensionally curved surface (E2) are configured to be interrupted by set-backs area outside of their respective apex (S, S?) thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Christian Dornbach
  • Patent number: 11712870
    Abstract: A lattice structure includes multiple identical unit cells formed from joined plates. In the lattice structure, some of the plates are rectangular plates, some of the plates are triangular plates, and some of the plates are trapezoidal plates. Further, any two of the joined rectangular plates have corresponding surface normals perpendicular to each other and at least two edges of each one of the triangular plates are joined to one of a surface or an edge of one of the plurality of joined plates. Further, at least three edges of each one of the trapezoidal plates are joined to one of a surface or an edge of one of the plurality of joined plates, and any one of a plurality of surface normals for the triangular plates and the trapezoidal plates are nonparallel to any one of a plurality of surface normals of rectangular plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Andrew Neils, Haydn N. G. Wadley
  • Patent number: 11666897
    Abstract: A honeycomb body with a honeycomb structure having an inner zone of a first plurality of walls and an outer zone of a second plurality of walls at least partially surrounding the inner zone. The honeycomb structure has Pi that is greater than Po and MPSi that is greater than MPSo, wherein Pi is an average bulk porosity of the first plurality of walls, Po is an average bulk porosity of the second plurality of walls, MPSi is a median pore size of pores in the first plurality of walls, and MPSo is a median pore size of pores in the second plurality of walls. Various honeycomb structures, honeycomb extrusion apparatus, and co-extrusion methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Douglas Munroe Beall, David John Thompson
  • Patent number: 11639039
    Abstract: Matching pieces for broken structures, kits comprising matching pieces for broken structures, methods for generating 3-D models for matching pieces, methods for fabricating matching pieces, systems for generating 3-D models for matching pieces, and systems for fabricating matching pieces are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Inventor: Maurice Paperi
  • Patent number: 11638957
    Abstract: An additive manufactured object according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first base portion made of a metal, and a plurality of wall portions each having a thickness thinner than the first base portion and provided upright on the first base portion so as to be aligned in a wall thickness direction. A first end portion of each of the wall portions is connected to the first base portion via a first connection portion having a width greater than the thickness of each of the wall portions in the wall thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Hatanaka, Masashi Kitamura, Hiroyuki Nakaharai, Koichi Tanimoto, Nobuhide Hara, Takuo Oda, Yoichi Uefuji, Shunsaku Eguchi
  • Patent number: 11628633
    Abstract: In one aspect, there is a composite skin for a tiltrotor aircraft including a first skin having a periphery defined by a forward edge, an aft edge, and outboard ends; a second skin; and a honeycomb core disposed between the first skin and the second skin, the honeycomb core comprised of a plurality of honeycomb panels positioned along the longitudinal axis of the first skin, the plurality of honeycomb panels having an array of large cells, each cell having a width of at least 1 cm; wherein the second skin and the honeycomb core have an outer perimeter within the periphery of the first skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: David G. Carlson, John R. McCullough, Douglas K. Wolfe, Andrew G. Baines, George R. Decker
  • Patent number: 11624288
    Abstract: A coated component including a slotted ceramic coating with a reactive phase coating disposed thereon for improved resistance to environmental contaminant compositions, along with methods of its formation, is provided. The coated component may include a substrate defining a surface, a ceramic coating disposed on the surface of the substrate, and a reactive phase coating disposed on the layer of environmental contaminant compositions. The ceramic coating includes a plurality of slots disposed in the ceramic coating forming segments of ceramic coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hrishikesh Keshavan, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Cathleen Ann Hoel, Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni, Michael Solomon Idelchik, Bernard Patrick Bewlay
  • Patent number: 11618108
    Abstract: Molded solder includes first metal powder and second metal powder. The first metal powder has a first solidus temperature and a first liquidus temperature and includes an alloy containing metal elements. The second metal powder has a melting temperature or a second solidus temperature and a second liquidus temperature and includes single metal element or an alloy containing metal elements. The melting temperature and the second liquidus temperature are higher than the first liquidus temperature. The molded solder is so constructed that a mixture of the first metal powder and the second metal powder are press-molded. The molded solder is so constructed that a first solidus temperature of a solder becomes higher when the molded solder becomes the solder after the first metal powder has been melted by heating the molded solder at a temperature equal to or higher than the first liquidus temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TAMURA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Sakamoto, Akira Kitamura, Hiroaki Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11590727
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to custom additively manufactured core structures and the manufacture thereof. In one aspect, a panel for use in a transport structure includes first and second face sheets, and an additively manufactured (AM) core affixed between the first and second face sheets. The AM core is foldable such that at least one portion of the AM core is movable between a folded position and an unfolded position. In another aspect of the disclosure, a method for producing a panel for use in a transport structure includes additively manufacturing a core is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Steven Blair Massey, Jr.