Patents Examined by Michael E. Lavilla
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Patent number: 7214282Abstract: An electromagnetic-wave shielding and light transmitting plate 1 having an antireflection film 3, an electromagnetic-wave shielding film 10, a transparent substrate 2, and a near-infrared ray blocking film 5, laminated and united by using intermediate adhesive layers 4A, 4B and a pressure-sensitive adhesive 4C, the peripheries thereof covered by a conductive sticky tape 7. The film 10 has a conductive foil 11 formed by pattern etching on a substrate film 13, is processed for antireflection by forming a light absorbing layer 12 on the conductive foil 11, and is subjected to matting to form small irregularities by roughening the surface of the light absorbing layer 12. A display panel is manufactured by bonding this film 10 to the front surface of a plasma display panel body.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2002Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Bridgeston CorporationInventors: Masato Yoshikawa, Tetsuo Kitano, Taichi Kobayashi, Hidefumi Kotsubo
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Patent number: 7214409Abstract: A turbine engine component has a substrate formed from a nickel based superalloy and a Ni—Pt—Al—Hf bondcoat applied to a surface of the substrate. Two methods for forming the platinum modified Ni—Pt—Al—Hf bondcoat are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Asumini Kasule
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Patent number: 7211332Abstract: A laminate having a metal foil layer, and a polyimide resin layer provided on the metal foil layer, wherein the polyimide resin layer is obtained by curing a coating of a polyimide resin precursor solution directly applied onto a surface of the metal foil layer, wherein the polyimide resin layer has a linear expansion coefficient in the range from 10 to 30 ppm/K, wherein the metal foil layer and the polyimide resin layer have a bonding strength therebetween of at least 0.5 kN/m in terms of 180° peel strength, and wherein the polyimide resin obtained from the polyimide resin precursor solution contains at least 50% by weight of a moiety having a structure represented by the following formula (1) shown in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2006Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: AMT Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Hiroshi Ito
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Patent number: 7211333Abstract: The present invention is to provide a resin-forming mold having high releasability and permitting a production without increasing production costs. The resin-forming mold can be used to produce a resin-molded product having minute uneven portions on a front face thereof, such as a surface light source device-use light guide for a liquid crystal display, an aspherical micro-lens, micro-Fresnel lens and an optical disk. In the stamper (resin-forming mold) 10 provided with an electroformed layer 11 and a conductive film 12 formed on the electroformed layer 11, the front face layer 12c of the conductive film 12 is formed of aluminum and a back face 12d is formed of nickel as an electroconductive metal. In addition, the constituent composition of the aluminum and the nickel continuously changes from the front face 12c toward the back face 12d. The front face 12c may be formed of aluminum and oxygen. The aluminum may combine with the oxygen to form an oxide of aluminum.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukihiro Yanagawa, Takumi Yagi, Masaru Karai
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Patent number: 7208055Abstract: An article of titanium or a titanium-based alloy, or of zirconium or a zirconium-based alloy is case hardened by heat treatment for at least 12 hours at one or more temperatures in the range of 850° C. to 900° C. and at a pressure in the order of atmospheric pressure in an oxygen diffusion atmosphere. The oxygen diffusion atmosphere comprises a carrier gas such as argon which does not react chemically with the article the said temperature range and molecular oxygen. The concentration of oxygen as the oxygen diffusion atmosphere is in the range of 10 volumes per million to 400 volumes per million.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2003Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: The BOC Group, plcInventors: Paul Francis Stratton, John B. Boodey
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Patent number: 7208232Abstract: A coating suitable for use as an environmentally-protective coating on surfaces of components used in hostile thermal environments, including the turbine, combustor and augmentor sections of a gas turbine engine. The coating is used in a coating system deposited on a substrate formed of a superalloy material. The coating contacts a surface of the superalloy substrate and is formed of a coating material having a tensile strength of more than 50% of the superalloy material. The coating material is predominantly at least one metal chosen from the group consisting of platinum, rhodium, palladium, and iridium, and has sufficient strength to significantly contribute to the strength of the component on which the coating is deposited.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2005Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Daniel Gorman, Ramgopal Darolia
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Patent number: 7195800Abstract: In a metal part in which a rubber is adhered to a portion or the whole of a surface thereof, and a surface treating method of the metal part to improve adhesive property between the metal and the rubber, to make it easy to form a surface roughness in a portion of a metal part, and to achieve an improvement in the surface roughness and mold maintenance property, a reduction of working cost, and a reduction of man hour. A surface roughness for increasing adhesive property between the metal and the rubber is formed in a portion of the metal part to which the rubber is adhered, and the surface roughness is transcribed from a mold to the metal part by providing with a surface roughness in the mold. A magnitude of the surface roughness is preferably set to be 10 ?m or more and less than 60 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2001Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Norio Sugano, Tsutomu Watanabe, Mitsuo Kakimoto
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Patent number: 7189435Abstract: Pathways to rapid and reliable fabrication of three-dimensional nanostructures are provided. Simple methods are described for the production of well-ordered, multilevel nanostructures. This is accomplished by patterning block copolymer templates with selective exposure to a radiation source. The resulting multi-scale lithographic template can be treated with post-fabrication steps to produce multilevel, three-dimensional, integrated nanoscale media, devices, and systems.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2002Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: University of MassachusettsInventors: Mark Tuominen, Mustafa Bal, Thomas P. Russell, Andrei Ursache
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Patent number: 7186467Abstract: A black galvanized steel sheet including a composite coating layer formed on a surface of a blackened galvanized steel sheet by applying a treatment solution containing a phosphate ion, a vanadate ion, a metal ion, an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid and a glycoluril resin; and an organic resin layer formed on the composite coating layer, is provided. The black galvanized steel sheet is excellent in heat absorption and heat dissipation, electrical conductance, and corrosion resistance in a worked portion. Furthermore, the black galvanized steel sheet does not include hexavalent chromium.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2004Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hiroki Nakamaru, Yuuzo Ootuka, Takeshi Sakuma, Hiroyuki Ogata, Shigeru Umino, Chiyoko Tada
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Patent number: 7179507Abstract: A thermal spray composition and method of deposition for abradable seals for use in gas turbine engines, turbochargers and steam turbines. The thermal spray composition includes a solid lubricant and a ceramic preferably comprising 5 to 60 wt % total of the composition in a ratio of 1:7 to 20:1 of solid lubricant to ceramic, the balance a matrix-forming metal alloy selected from Ni, Co, Cu, Fe and Al and combinations and alloys thereof. The solid lubricant is at least one of hexagonal boron nitride, graphite, calcium fluoride, lithium fluoride, magnesium fluoride, barium fluoride, tungsten disulfide and molybdenum disulfide particles. The ceramic includes at least one of albite, illite, quartz and alumina-silica.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2005Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: Sulzer Metco (Canada) Inc.Inventors: Petr Fiala, Anthony Peter Chilkowich, Karel Hajmrle
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Patent number: 7169480Abstract: A clad pipe includes an external layer and a coating layer made of Ni base anticorrosion alloy. Both end portion areas of the coating layer are formed by a build-up welded layer (Ni base alloy of composition 1) on the inner surface of the external layer. Other areas are formed by a Ni base alloy layer (Ni base alloy of composition 2) fusion-bonded to the build-up welded layers and the inner surface of the pipe, a solidus-curve temperature of the Ni base alloy layer being 1300° C. or below and lower than a solidus-curve temperature of the Ni base alloy formed by build-up welding by 150° C. or more. Composition 1 and composition 2 are adjusted so that, in the same environment, corrosion resistance of the Ni base alloy of composition 1 is equivalent to or superior to that of the Ni base alloy of composition 2.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2005Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Dai-Ichi High Frequency Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoichi Matsubara, Akihiro Takeya, Seiichiro Miyata
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Patent number: 7169479Abstract: The invention relates to a grain-oriented magnetic steel sheet including an electrically insulating coating made of an amorphous carbon-hydrogen network, which is applied after final annealing in order to ensure electrical insulation of the individual layers of the sheet. The grain-oriented magnetic steel sheet including the electrically insulating coating made of an amorphous carbon-hydrogen network can be used in transformers.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2002Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel EBG GmbHInventors: Bernd Schuhmacher, Klaus Guenther, Hermann Hingmann, Klaus Bewilogua, Claus-Peter Klages, Heinz Dimigen, Thomas Jung
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Patent number: 7166366Abstract: A composite comprises a chemical, mechanical and/or optical protective and/or diffusion barrier layer disposed on a metal or plastic substrate. The layer consists of an organic layer matrix with metal-containing particles dispersed therein, the metal-containing organic layer being plasma-polymerized starting from at least one hydrocarbon which can be substituted and one metal-containing component. The protective and/or diffusion barrier layer is used in a thickness (d) in the submicron range and contains metal particles finely dispersed therein, that have a grain size that lies below 50% of the layer thickness (d). The organic layer matrix is deposited by plasma polymerization from a process gas that comprises at least one hydrocarbon that can also be substituted and one metal-containing component and/or an inorganic gas in a reactor that can be evacuated.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2001Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Incoat GmbHInventor: Eva Maria Moser
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Patent number: 7166364Abstract: I provide an aqueous coating composition to provide an outer protective coating for a metal selected from the group consisting of an aluminum, aluminum alloy, iron, iron alloy, zinc, zinc alloy, zinc coated iron, zinc coated iron alloy, and these metals and magnesium and magnesium alloys having a conversion coating thereon. The aqueous coating composition consists essentially of 60 to 90 parts by weight water, 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a polyvinyl alcohol having a weight average molecular weight of at least 100,000 and being at least 95% hydrolyzed, 0.5 to 20 parts by weight of a polybasic acid or anhydride, and 0.0 to 3 parts by weight of a cross-linking agent or plasticizer to form a in-situ polyester conversion coating on the metal. The composition is applied directly to the metal or to the metal article which has a non-chromium conversion coating thereon and forms a thin film thereon. Then the metal with the film thereon is heated to between 300° to 550° F.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2005Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Sanchem, Inc.Inventor: John W. Bibber
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Patent number: 7166240Abstract: An electroluminescent element in which at least one layer containing at least one of novel hydrocarbon compounds with an anthracene ring and a fluorene ring directly bound is held between a pair of electrodes. The compounds can advantageously be used in a luminescent element and provide an organic electroluminescent element having an excellent luminescent efficiency and a long luminescent life.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2004Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Tsutomu Ishida, Takehiko Shimamura, Yoshiyuki Totani, Masakatsu Nakatsuka
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Patent number: 7160630Abstract: The disclosure relates to a corrosion resistant article comprising a metal body and a protective coating applied on at least one surface of said metal body, said protective coating comprising: (a) a zinc layer comprising metallic zinc; (b) a silicate layer comprising at least one silicate; and (c) a lubricant layer comprising at least one lubricant such as, for example, polyethylene wax. In particular, the disclosure relates to a corrosion resistant bolt and/or nut having a protective coating for use in motor vehicles. The protective coating is substantially free of chromates and phosphates and, hence, environmentally acceptable. The article has an excellent coefficient of friction, temperature resistance and anti-corrosion properties.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2005Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Elisha Holding LLCInventor: Klaus-Peter Klos
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Patent number: 7160583Abstract: A method of selectively and electrolessly depositing a metal onto a substrate having a metallic microstructured surface is disclosed. The method includes forming a self-assembled monolayer on the metallic microstructured surface, exposing the self-assembled monolayer to an electroless plating solution including a soluble form of a deposit metal, and depositing electrolessly the deposit metal selectively on the metallic microstructured surface. Articles formed from this method are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Matthew H. Frey, Khanh P. Nguyen
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Patent number: 7160632Abstract: The invention provides a material for sliding contacts that is suitable for a small-sized DC motor used in recent downsized CD players and is excellent in durability. A material for sliding contacts used in a commutator of a small-sized DC motor that consists essentially of 0.01 to 3.0% Ni by weight, 0.01 to 6.0% ZnO by weight and/or 0.01 to 3.0% MgO by weight, furthermore, in some cases, 0.01 to 5.0% Cu by weight, and the balance Ag, in which Ni metal particles, ZnO particles or MgO particles are dispersed in the matrix of Ag.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2004Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignees: Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd., Tanaka Kikinzoku kogyo K.K.Inventors: Keiji Nakamura, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Masahiro Takahashi, Shuichi Kubota, Takao Asada, Toshiya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7156904Abstract: An aqueous copper-to-resin bonding layer solution comprising: (a) at least one acid type; (b) tin salt or tin oxide; (c) salt or oxide of at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of: silver, zinc, aluminum, titanium, bismuth, chromium, iron, cobalt, nickel, palladium, gold, and platinum; (d) a reaction accelerator; and (e) a diffusive retaining solvent, so that an alloy layer of tin and the at least one type of metal selected in (c) is formed on the surface of the copper. Subsequently, a portion of the alloy layer is removed, so that a bonding layer containing an alloy of diffused copper, tin, and the at least one type of metal selected in (c) is formed on a surface of copper which enhances the adhesion between copper and resin. The present invention provides the solution, a method of producing the bonding layer, and a product obtained thereby.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Mec Company Ltd.Inventors: Mutsuyuki Kawaguchi, Satoshi Saito, Jun Hisada, Naomi Kanda, Toshiko Nakagawa
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Patent number: 7156743Abstract: An inexpensive mechanical fuse having a high fatigue limit ratio and high rupture reliability, and superior in forming performance, and a method of manufacturing the same are presented. The mechanical fuse is composed of Fe-based sintered alloy, and comprises an inner rim 2 fixed to one power transmission shaft, an outer rim 3 fixed to the other power transmission shaft, and plural arms 4 for linking the inner rim 2 and outer rim 3, which are formed integrally. The arms 4 include rupture portions 6 which are ruptured when exposed to an overload torque. By treating in steam, an iron oxide phase is formed in the surface layer and pore inner wall. The iron oxide phase is effective to form round pores and lower the notch sensitivity. As a result, the fatigue strength and fatigue limit ratio are enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2001Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignees: Hitachi Powdered Metals Co., Ltd., Denso CorporationInventors: Tadayuki Tsutsui, Kei Ishii, Yoshihiro Tanimura, Kouji Yamada, Yuuichi Aoki