Patents Examined by Michael C Romanowski
  • Patent number: 11248147
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wash-off label structure and an adhesive layer comprising a pressure sensitive hot melt adhesive layer sensitive to the washing conditions. According to an embodiment the adhesive layer comprises an acrylate composition curable with ultraviolet radiation and at least one modifier selected from a tackifier, a plasticizer and a filler, and wherein the peel adhesion from the labelled surface at 50-80° C. in alkaline aqueous solution of at least 30% less than the peel adhesion at room temperature of 23° C.±2° C. and relative humidity of 50%±5%. The invention further relates to a use of the label for recyclable or reusable packages, and a combination of a package and a wash-off label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: UPM RAFLATAC OY
    Inventors: Tom Saxberg, Sami Kivinen
  • Patent number: 11208348
    Abstract: As described herein, a polyimide chemical composition may be used for coating glass articles. According to embodiments, a coated glass article may include a glass container which may include a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, and a low-friction coating bonded to at least a portion of the first surface of the glass container. The low-friction coating may include a polyimide chemical composition. The polyimide chemical composition may be halogenated and the polyimide chemical composition may include a siloxane moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David Henry, Valerie Claudine Lacarriere
  • Patent number: 11174187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass container having multiple concavities at the bottom plane of a mouth provided with a rim, and a one-press method for producing a glass container, by which such a glass container can be produced with high yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: KOA Glass Co., LTD
    Inventor: Masahiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11168399
    Abstract: A composite structural component is disclosed. The composite structural component can include a lattice structure, a casing disposed about at least a portion of the lattice structure, and a skin adhered to a surface of the casing. The lattice structure and the casing can be formed of a polymeric material and the skin can be formed of a metallic material. A method of manufacturing a composite structural component is disclosed. The method can include creating a casing of a polymeric material and creating a lattice structure of a polymeric material disposed about at least a portion of the casing. The method can include sealing the porosity of the casing and lattice structure. The method can include adhering a skin of a metallic material to at least a portion of the casing. At least one of creating a lattice structure and creating a casing comprises utilizing an additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Curtis B. Carlsten, Jonathan Murrow, Erik F. Item
  • Patent number: 11148390
    Abstract: A multiple layer hollow cylinder is provided. An inner air-tight material is wrapped about at least a portion of a mandrel to form a plurality of first material loops. Each first material loop subsequent to an initial first material loop at least partially overlaps a previous first material loop. A resin-infused fabric material is wrapped over the inner air-tight material to form a plurality of second material loops. Each second material loop subsequent to an initial second material loop at least partially overlaps a previous second material loop. An outer air-tight transparent material is wrapped over the resin-infused fabric material to form a plurality of third material loops. Each third material loop subsequent to an initial third material loop at least partially overlaps a previous third material loop. Energy is directed about the outer air-tight transparent material to cure the resin-infused fabric material to form a hollow cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Randy L. Gaigler, Matthew B. Ascari, David C. Briggs, Anthony J. Pellegrino, James A. Waicukauski
  • Patent number: 11136164
    Abstract: A barrier paper includes a paper base material and a barrier layer containing cellulose fibers formed on the paper base material, in which an integrated value from 10.0 ?m to 500.0 ?m, obtained from a volume-based particle size distribution diagram when a dispersion containing the cellulose fibers is measured by laser diffraction, is 30% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Shimizu, Akiko Saiki, Kaori Yamabe
  • Patent number: 11133215
    Abstract: A glass substrate is laminated with a substrate containing silicon to thereby form a laminated substrate. The glass substrate has a concave surface and a convex surface and has one or more marks that distinguish between the concave surface and the convex surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Hanawa, Shuhei Nomura, Kazutaka Ono, Nobuhiko Takeshita, Keisuke Hanashima
  • Patent number: 11118042
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container, preferably a cooling fluid expansion reservoir prepared from a thermoplastic composition comprising from 95-70 wt. % based on the weight of the thermoplastic composition of a polypropylene composition having a total amount of comonomer of at most 3 wt. % based on the weight of the polypropylene composition and comprising a random propylene copolymer having a comonomer content from 0.2 to 5 wt. % based on the weight of the random propylene copolymer and the random propylene copolymer having a melt flow index of at most 0.7 g/10 min determined in accordance with ISO 1133 (2.16 kg, 230° C.), from 5-30 wt. % based on the weight of the thermoplastic composition of reinforcing fibres, from 0-5 wt. % based on the weight of the thermoplastic composition of additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Dimphna Johanna Maria van Beek, Gerard Jan Eduard Biemond, Ginger de la Croix
  • Patent number: 11104038
    Abstract: The invention relates to a new PET preform design that enables a more precise distribution of material in the bottle bottom and avoids the waste of material around the injection point. The thickness BWTmin of the wall at the center of the gate or tip (3) (injection point) is reduced to a minimum in order to avoid the waste of material around the injection point when the preform is blown. This is particular important for carbonated soft drink application since the reduced amount of amorphous material at the center of the gate (3) helps to reduce the risk of stress cracking on the bottle base. Furthermore a step (4) having thickness WTmax in the body wall thickness, in the region of the periphery of the base with WTmax>WT, allows enough material to be available for the proper blowing of the bottle bottom making the bottle more stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventors: David Gaiotti, Laurent Sigler, Dino Enrico Zanette, Matteo Zoppas
  • Patent number: 11088718
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a housing of an electronic device includes applying a mask to a portion of a ceramic green body to define a masked portion and an unmasked portion, applying a pigment to the ceramic green body to color the unmasked portion, and sintering the ceramic green body to remove the mask and form a ceramic housing. The ceramic housing may comprise a first portion corresponding to the masked portion and having a first color, and a second portion corresponding to the unmasked portion and having a second color different from the first color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Colin M. Ely, Dale N. Memering, Kazuya Takagi, Naoto Matsuyuki, Theodore A. Waniuk
  • Patent number: 11078375
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin-coated metal sheet obtained by coating at least one surface of a metal sheet with a thermoplastic resin via a polyester type primer, wherein the polyester type primer, if it is in the form of a 10 ?m-thick dry primer sheet, has a breaking elongation in a range of 9 to 200% at a tension speed of 1000 mm/min. and an MEK extractability in a range of 3 to 40%. Without using a special thermoplastic resin-coated film or surface-treated metal sheet, therefore, the cans and can lids can be formed using the thermoplastic resin-coated metal sheet of the invention maintaining excellent and close adhesion during the working, preventing the can body from breaking and the thermoplastic resin coating from peeling at the flange-forming portion during the working, the cans and can lids excelling in dent resistance and economy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Nagai, Shuhei Hiromori
  • Patent number: 11052594
    Abstract: The present invention relates to molded foam having no hollow space caused in a plate-shaped portion. The molded foam comprises a tube body and a plate-shaped portion joined to the outer side of the tube body. The expansion ratio of the molded foam is lower than two, and a value of a thickness B/a thickness A as a relationship between the thickness A of the tube body at the periphery of a point joined to the plate-shaped portion and the thickness B of the plate-shaped portion is less than 2.82.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Kyoraku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Watanabe, Masaaki Onodera
  • Patent number: 11046864
    Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a polyester resin excellent in various properties wherein the film formability is good, film fracture (hairs) and scraping (galling) are not easily generated in the drawing/ironing process when applied to a metal-sheet-coating polyester film, the film surface is not damaged when used as the inner-surface film for a metallic can, and the metallic can is hardly corroded (dent resistance), by dropping or external impact (denting), after a product is made by enclosing contents into the can.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: DAIWA CAN COMPANY, Bell Polyester Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Kimiduka, Yuji Takeuchi, Junji Matsumura, Masaya Okimoto, Keita Katsuma, Hideaki Tomura, Sadamu Nakatsuka
  • Patent number: 11041091
    Abstract: A cable includes a sheath, and a coating film covering a circumference of the sheath, the coating film adhering to the sheath. The coating film is formed from a rubber composition including a rubber component and fine particles. A static friction coefficient on a surface of the coating film is 0.5 or less. When the coating film is subjected to a testing such that a long fiber non-woven fabric including cotton linters including an alcohol for disinfection with a length of 50 mm along a wiping direction is brought contiguous to the surface of the coating film at a shearing stress of 2×10?3 MPa to 4×10?3 MPa, followed by wiping off the surface of the coating film at a speed of 80 times/min to 120 times/min and 20,000 repetitions thereof for a wiping direction length of 150 mm, a difference (an absolute value of a difference) between the static friction coefficients of the coating film before and after the testing is not greater than 0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Kashimura, Masamichi Kishi, Naoto Teraki, Takanobu Watanabe, Yuriko Kiyokane
  • Patent number: 11041058
    Abstract: A resin structure comprising a resin formed body (1) and a liquid layer (3) formed on a surface of the resin formed body (1), the liquid layer (3) having liquid protrusions (3a) that are locally protruded on the surface thereof. The structure exhibits improved properties on the surface of the resin formed body (1), such as improved sliding property and non-adhesiveness to various substances maintaining stability as a result of forming the liquid layer (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Akutsu, Shinya Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 11032930
    Abstract: This application relates to a method for forming an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes a metal substrate having a first b* value. The method includes forming an anodized layer that overlays and is formed from the metal substrate, wherein the anodized layer has a second b* value that is no greater than 0.3 of the first b* value and no less than 0.3 less than the first *b value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: James A. Curran, Todd S. Mintz, Daniel T. McDonald
  • Patent number: 11021388
    Abstract: A perforated quartz glass tube includes a jacket tube containing a quartz glass material, a plurality of cylindrical glass tubes which are inserted into a pore region of the jacket tube along an axial direction of the jacket tube, and contain a quartz glass material having a softening point higher than a softening point of the jacket tube, and a gap member which is inserted into a gap between the cylindrical glass tubes and a gap between the jacket tube and the cylindrical glass tube, and contains a quartz glass material having a softening point lower than a softening point of the cylindrical glass tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: NAKAHARA OPTO-ELECTRONICS LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventor: Motohiro Nakahara
  • Patent number: 10968547
    Abstract: Bulk metallic glass sheets and parts fabricated from individual bulk metallic glass fibers and tows are provided. Bulk metallic glass fibers and tows are used to prepare complex weave designs having desired thickness and fiber orientation for a particular use of a BMG feedstock. Appropriately designed bulk metallic glass weaves can be thermoplastically heated to form sheets and feedstock for parts having desired wall thickness and area coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph W. Stevick
  • Patent number: 10933561
    Abstract: The part under the neck ring (9) of a preform for blowing a PET bottle of predetermined capacity not larger than 75 cl and with a max. material weight of 15 g, is inclined by an angle ? less accentuated than normal, max. 17°, which allows to make a preform with a thickness t2 of the wall thinner than 1.9 mm and a thinner inner diameter of the preform body in order to allow a lower stretch ratio starting from a larger preform to obtain the final bottle of predetermined capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: S.I.P.A. SOCIETA' INDUSTRIALIZZAZIONE PROGETTAZION E AUTOMAZIONE S.P.A.
    Inventors: David Gaiotti, Laurent Sigler, Dino Enrico Zanette, Matteo Zoppas
  • Patent number: 10927473
    Abstract: Oxide coatings that reduce or eliminate the appearance of thin film interference coloring are described. In some embodiments, the oxide coatings are configured to reduce the appearance of fingerprints. In some cases, the oxide coatings are sufficiently thick to increase the optical path difference of incident light, thereby reducing any inference coloring by the fingerprint to a non-visible level. In some embodiments, the oxide coatings have a non-uniform thickness that changes the way light reflects off of interfaces of the oxide coating, thereby reducing or eliminating any thin film interference coloring caused by the oxide coatings themselves or by a fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: James A. Curran, Zechariah D. Feinberg, Christopher D. Prest, Joseph C. Poole