Patents Examined by Michael C. Miggins
  • Preform extended finish for processing light weight ecologically beneficial bottles
    Patent number: 11591129
    Abstract: Disclosed are preforms which incorporate improvements in the region of the neck and upper segment of the body to allow the production of lightweight containers, such as bottles suitable for containing water or other beverages. In accordance with certain embodiments, the improvements include a thinner neck finish area than conventional bottles, where the thinner area is extended into the upper segment of the body portion below the support ring. Reducing the thickness in these areas of the bottle allows for less resin to be used in forming the preform and bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Niagara Bottling, LLC
    Inventors: Jay Clarke Hanan, Abhishek Shukla
  • Multilayer thermoplastic articles with improved recyclability
    Patent number: 11590741
    Abstract: A multilayer thermoplastic article blended with hydrolytically unstable polymers and a material component for improved recyclability. The multilayer thermoplastic article having an inner layer being made of a thermoplastic material, an outer layer being made of a thermoplastic material, and an intermediate layer disposed between the inner layer and the outer layer. The intermediate layer is made of a blended material comprising 50 to 99 wt. % of a hydrolytically unstable polymer and 1 to 50 wt. % of the material component selected from the group consisting of an oxygen scavenger, an oxidizable organic polymer, a passive barrier material, Iron, Ascorbic Acid, and potassium sulfite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: AMCOR RIGID PACKAGING USA, LLC
    Inventors: Frederick C. Beuerle, Dan Witham, John Brace
  • Odor-adsorbing molded article resin composition, odor-adsorbing molded article, and packaging material
    Patent number: 11578195
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a resin composition for an odor-adsorbing molded article that is excellent in manufacturability, eliminates odor by exerting a high adsorbing effect on odorous organic matter originally contained in packaging materials and odor generated by the decomposition, etc. of resins constituting packages during disinfection/sterilization treatment such as UV irradiation, hot packing, boiling, ? ray irradiation, or EB irradiation, is less likely to desorb the odor once adsorbed and capable of efficiently adsorbing odor and therefore exerts a high adsorbing effect over a long period without reducing the ability to adsorb odor, and is excellent in resistance to change in taste and odor of contents, and an odor-adsorbing molded article prepared from the resin composition for an odor-adsorbing molded article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Takeuchi, Yoshihiko Suzuki, Tomohiro Yonemoto
  • Thermal insulation liners
    Patent number: 11572973
    Abstract: Provided herein are products, methods, and kits, for use in regulating the temperature of an object. The present invention relates to thermal insulating liners for regulating the temperature of perishable goods or temperature sensitive products. The thermal insulating liners generally may be dimensioned to fit within a container. The thermal insulating liners may be quickly collapsed and reconstructed to improve stackability and diminish the amount of space required to store the thermal insulating liners prior to use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: TEMPERPACK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: James McGoff, Charles Vincent, Brian Powers
  • Recyclable, high barrier sheet and tray
    Patent number: 11565512
    Abstract: An improved sheet for making a three-dimensional article for holding food, such as a food tray, and a method of making a three-dimensional article. The sheet comprises a substrate and a laminate film. The laminate film may comprise a ceramic film and a copolymer layer. The copolymer layer can repair any cracks that occur in the ceramic film when the sheet is thermoformed. The food tray is considered a single material that is recyclable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard A. Schwarz
  • Lightweight plastic container and preform
    Patent number: 11560250
    Abstract: A plastic container is provided that includes a hollow body portion including a lower supporting base portion; a sidewall portion extending upwardly from the base portion; and a neck portion extending upwardly from the sidewall portion. The neck portion includes a support flange having an upper and lower surface, at least one thread, and a dispensing opening at the top of the neck portion. In embodiments, a closure may be provided to form an assembly. In embodiments, the container may be comprised of PET, the weight of the neck portion from the lower surface of the support flange to a top of the dispensing opening may be 3.0 grams or less, and/or the vertical distance from the top of the dispensing opening to the lower surface of the support flange may be 0.580 inches or less. A preform and method for making a container are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Plastipak Packaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Darr, Edward V. Morgan
  • Low adsorption sealant film, laminated body, and packaging bag
    Patent number: 11548271
    Abstract: The invention provides a sealant film that is less likely to adsorb components formed of various types of organic compounds, has excellent heat sealing characteristics at 140° C., while having low heat sealing strength at 100° C. and being less likely for heat sealing layers to adhere to each other even when the film is used as a packaging bag and the content thereof is warmed in boiling water. The sealant film has at least one heat sealing layer consisting of a polyester component, wherein a heat sealing strength of the heat sealing layer being heat sealed to another heat sealing layer at 100° C. and 0.2 MPa for 2 seconds is 0-5 N/15 mm and at 140° C. and 0.2 MPa for 2 seconds is 8-30 N/15 mm, and a film density including all layers is 1.20 or more and less than 1.39.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroko Maruyama, Masayuki Haruta, Shintaro Ishimaru
  • Flexible recyclable package
    Patent number: 11548709
    Abstract: An improved nylon-free recyclable multilayer package and a method for manufacturing the same is provided that addresses the shortcomings of currently available recyclable materials for flexible packaging and containers. One object of embodiments of the present invention will be to provide a flexible plastic package suitable for curbside recycling, for example, a package that may be in compliance with recyclability as defined by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR). One such embodiment comprises a package manufactured from a material that is substantially free of nylon. Another or a second embodiment comprises a package manufactured from a material using a certain optimized ratio of compatibilizers in order to achieve suitable packaging performance and standards for recyclability. The flexible recyclable multilayer packaging material comprises a first laminate film and a second laminate film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Aeroflexx, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Meyer, Cedric D'Souza, Lianna Dini
  • Multilayer polyethylene laminates and films for use in flexible packaging materials
    Patent number: 11548270
    Abstract: Embodiments of multilayer films and laminate structures for flexible packaging comprise a multilayer polyolefin film comprising at least 3 layers. The multilayer polyolefin film comprises a first surface layer comprising: a first composition comprising at least one ethylene based polymer, wherein the first composition comprises a Molecular Weighted Comonomer Distribution Index (MWCDI) value greater than 0.9, and a melt index ratio (I10/I2) that meets the following equation: I10/I2?7.0?1.2×log (I2). The first surface layer also comprises a second composition comprising an ethylene based polymer having a density from 0.890 to 0.925 g/cc and a melt index (I2) from 0.2 to 2.0 g/10 min. The multilayer polyolefin film also comprises a first intermediate layer comprising the first composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Claudia Hernandez, Suzanne Guerra
  • Scalable, printable, patterned sheet of high mobility graphene on flexible substrates
    Patent number: 11546987
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for fabricating graphene workpieces. The present invention also provides for products produced by the methods of the present invention and for apparatuses used to perform the methods of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Alan T Johnson, Jr., Rajatesh R Gudibande, Zhengqing John Qi
  • Tube container
    Patent number: 11542066
    Abstract: Proposed is a tube container in which generation of scratches on a surface of the container can be prevented. The present tube container (100) includes a tube body (30) that defines a container space (S) for contents and that has a laminated structure. The tube body (30) includes: a cylindrical laminated sheet (31) in which both edges (31a, 31b) of the sheet are butted together; and a reinforcing tape portion (reinforcing tape 35) provided on an inner surface of the laminated sheet (31) along a butted portion (32). The laminate sheet (31) includes a high hardness protective layer (18) constituting an outermost layer, an outer polyethylene-based resin layer (21) formed on an inner side of the high hardness protective layer (18), and an inner polyethylene-based resin layer (11) constituting an innermost layer, and the high hardness protective layer (18) has a pencil hardness of 3B or greater than 3B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Takashi Miya
  • Recyclable laminated polyolefin-based film structures
    Patent number: 11535013
    Abstract: A recyclable, laminated polyolefin-based film structure comprises two or more film plies laminated to each other. Each of the laminated film plies comprises one or more polyolefin-based films. The film structure has an energy-cured coating layer disposed on the outermost outward facing surface of the film structure and a printed ink layer on an interior surface of one of the polyolefin-based polyolefin layers. In certain embodiments, the outermost surface of the laminated polyolefin-based film structure has a melting temperature which is at least 100 degrees Celsius, and more preferably 180 degrees Celsius, higher than a melting temperature of the innermost surface of the laminated polyolefin-based film structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ProAmpac Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander David Jones, Amir Saffar, Patrick Allen Batten, Louann Susan Mueller, Louis Vance Fortenberry, Kylie Noel Diges, Seyed Hesamoddin Tabatabaei
  • Multilayer tube
    Patent number: 11518155
    Abstract: This is to provide a multilayer tube excellent in interlayer adhesiveness and durability thereof while maintaining various characteristics such as low temperature impact resistance, bursting pressure strength and flexibility. In a multilayer tube having at least two kinds of layers and the both layers are adjacent to each other, an aliphatic polyamide composition constituting one of the layers contains an aliphatic polyamide having a ratio of a number of methylene groups to a number of amide groups of a specific value or more and a copolymerized polyamide having a specific unit, and an elastomeric polymer which may contain a constitutional unit derived from an unsaturated compound having a carboxyl group(s) and/or an acid anhydride group(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Tsuboi, Yukiko Nakao, Ryousuke Sasaki, Ryu Fukuda
  • Barrier film and implementations thereof
    Patent number: 11518151
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses multilayer barrier (F) comprising: (a) at least one polyolefin core layer (A); (b) at least one barrier layer (B) on both the sides of the core layer; and (c) at least one polyolefin layer (C) adjacent to the at least one barrier layer, wherein the at least one barrier layer individually has thickness in the range of 1 ?m-25 ?m. It also discloses a process of preparing the multilayer barrier film. Additionally, a laminate comprising the multilayer barrier film of the present disclosure and a process of preparing the laminate is discussed. Furthermore, an article comprising the multilayer barrier film or the laminate of the present disclosure is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Hariharan Krishnan Nair
  • Cover windows for displays
    Patent number: 11504944
    Abstract: A cover window for a display includes a multilayer polymer film. The multilayer polymer film includes a first transparent, colorless polymer layer having a first elastic modulus and a second transparent, colorless polymer layer having a second elastic modulus. Each of the first and second transparent, colorless polymer layers include a polyimide, a polyamide imide, or a block copolymer of a polyimide. The polymers of both the first and second transparent, colorless polymer layers are cross-linked. The first elastic modulus is different from the second elastic modulus. The first and second transparent, colorless polymer layers are bonded by consolidation and cross-linking. The first transparent, colorless layer of the multilayer polymer film is the layer farthest from the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: DUPONT ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kostantinos Kourtakis, Gene M Rossi, Leopoldo Alejandro Carbajal, Mark Allan Lamontia, Mobin Yahyazadehfar
  • Ovenable package
    Patent number: 11503948
    Abstract: An ovenable tray composite comprises a polymeric based liner and a fiber based component. The polymeric based liner incorporates polyolefin materials for performance in both adhesion (during use) and separation (for disposal) from the fiber based component, as well as high temperature resistant polymers that allow for the entire tray composite to be ovenable. Packages made from the lined trays described herein can be used for packaging food items intended to be heated for cooking or reheating the contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BEMIS COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Hanna-Mari Lahti, Kaisa P. Putkisto, Andrew J. Lischefski, Kalle Ilmari Nättinen
  • Resealable packaging device and method for packaging food product
    Patent number: 11498736
    Abstract: A packaging device incorporating a breathable peel/reseal film and enabling a preservation process for allowing for the distribution, storage and multiple servings of a food product, particularly perishable food product(s), and initiating and controlling the transmission rates, respiration rates or deterioration of the perishable food product(s) and thereby, maintaining good internal and external food quality and normal development of flavor and aroma characteristics. The packaging device includes a plurality of atmospheric control attributes that modulates or controls the atmosphere within the packaging device as the food product(s) respire in order to promote the extended shelf-life of the food product and the maintenance of the quality and desirable marketable characteristics of the food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventor: Nazir Mir
  • Apparatus and methods employing liquid-impregnated surfaces
    Patent number: 11492500
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to apparatus comprising a liquid-impregnated surface, said surface comprising an impregnating liquid and a matrix of solid features spaced sufficiently close to stably contain the impregnating liquid therebetween or therewithin, and methods thereof. In some embodiments, one or both of the following holds: (i) 0<??0.25, where ? is a representative fraction of the projected surface area of the liquid-impregnated surface corresponding to non-submerged solid at equilibrium; and (ii) Sow(a)<0, where Sow(a) is spreading coefficient, defined as ?wa??wo??oa, where ? is the interfacial tension between the two phases designated by subscripts w, a, and o, where w is water, a is air, and o is the impregnating liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: J. David Smith, Rajeev Dhiman, Kripa K. Varanasi
  • Outer case for secondary battery, and secondary battery including same
    Patent number: 11495852
    Abstract: Disclosed are an outer case for a secondary battery, and a secondary battery including the same, the outer case comprising: a first polymer resin layer; a second polymer resin layer positioned on a first surface of the first polymer resin layer, and having a first adhesive layer interposed therebetween so as to be attached thereto; and an inner resin layer positioned on a second surface of the first polymer resin layer, and having a second adhesive layer interposed therebetween so as to be attached thereto, wherein the first polymer resin layer and the second polymer resin layer respectively comprise a fluorine-containing resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunil Park, Donghyun Shin, Jungyup Yang, Jeongdoo Yi
  • Thermally insulated medium pipes having HFO-containing cell gas
    Patent number: 11493163
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermally insulated conduit pipe, comprising at least one medium pipe, at least one thermal insulation arranged around the medium pipe, and at least one outer jacket arranged around the thermal insulation, wherein the outer jacket possibly comprises a barrier made of plastic, and wherein the thermal insulation comprises a foam, the cell gas of which contains at least 10 vol % HFOs. Such conduit pipe has good insulating behavior, good environmental balance, and is easily producible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: BRUGG ROHR AG HOLDING
    Inventors: Jürgen Kress, Christian Dambowy