Patents Examined by Michael Orlando
  • Patent number: 9017512
    Abstract: A method for improving the optical clarity of a coated adhesive layer is described that comprises applying a curable composition onto the substrate surface, the curable composition comprising (a) a curable organopolysiloxane; and (b) a plurality of silica particles having an average particle size within the range of about 1 to about 7 micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventor: James T. Hayes
  • Patent number: 8986475
    Abstract: A transfer label machine has a post treatment station for exposing newly applied labels to heat in order to finish and gloss out the label. The heat is applied through a nozzle coupled to a hot air supply system that includes a blower, ductwork, and a heating element disposed in the airflow. A temperature probe measures temperature of the air flow and an IR sensor measures the resulting temperature of containers on which the labels have been applied. A programmable logic controller (PLC) is programmed with proportional integral derivative (PID) algorithms to control the blower speed and the heating element to provide the appropriate amount of heat for the labeling or processing speed at which the labeling machine is operating. A vision system can confirm the quality of label after the post treatment heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: MCC-Norwood, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce A. Ense, John T. Martin
  • Patent number: 8986476
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for fulfillment of patient prescription orders by adapting a standard or stock container pre-filled with medication or the like for use as a patient-specific container through precise application of patient-specific information to the pre-filled container. Precise placement of the patient-specific information to the pre-filled container enables pharmacy management to fully utilize valuable information provided with the pre-filled container, thereby improving the quality of service to the patient while making the process of prescription order fulfillment more efficient. In general, preferred embodiments comprise control apparatus and information-application apparatus. In embodiments, the information-application apparatus is adapted to place a patient-specific label on the container. Preferred forms of the information-application apparatus include a label printer and a positioner. The preferred printer applies patient-specific information on a label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: AutoMed Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob A. Dent, Brian Gorman, Mark Bidus
  • Patent number: 8974627
    Abstract: This invention relates to curable compositions containing hydroxyl compounds that carry silyl groups as well as to the use of said compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Schubert, Wilfried Knott
  • Patent number: 8956497
    Abstract: A method for producing biodisintegratable composite foils with an aqueous polyurethane dispersion adhesive. The method involves adhesive-bonding a first substrate to a second substrate with use of the aqueous polyurethane dispersion adhesive. At least one of the first substrate and the second substrate is made of a biodisintegratable polymer foil, and at least 60% by weight of the polyurethane contains diisocyanates, polyesterdiols, and bifunctional carboxylic acids. The bifunctional carboxylic acids are dihydroxycarboxylic acids or diaminocarboxylic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Cornelis Petrus Beyers, Heiko Diehl, Stefan Dahmen, Volker Kriegisch, Ulrike Licht, Axel Meyer, Motonori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8951382
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing liquid for sealing mailpieces containing water and a penetration agent, to the uses thereof and to letter-closing devices and franking machines containing such a sealing liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Gebhardt, Wolfgang Muhl
  • Patent number: 8940124
    Abstract: In the production of decorated plates coated on both sides, the supporting material has to be provided with the coatings for the top side and the bottom side in a plurality of passes. This is simplified significantly by firstly coating both sides with a liquid glue, applying webs of the decorative paper or, if appropriate, of a backing paper or of a nonwoven to these layers, applying, after the glue has dried, a pulverulent composition comprising a resin which can be melted and cured by heating to the top side of the first web on the top side of the plate, partially melting or melting this composition and finally curing the glue and resin composition under pressure and heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Surface Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ulrich Zierold
  • Patent number: 8940127
    Abstract: A high gloss laminated panel is manufactured by applying a layer of a resin composition on a substrate layer and applying elevated pressure at elevated temperature for a time sufficient to at least partially cure the resin preferably without back-cooling. The resin composition includes a melamine formaldehyde resin in water and further includes one or more additives chosen from the group of thiourea, 1-amino-2-thiourea, stabilized guanidine, thio-acetamide, or an additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Metadynea Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Alexander Wagner, Adisa Cokovic, Harald Trachsler, Karin Lepedat
  • Patent number: 8940118
    Abstract: A method and device for assembling diapers of intentionally varied size. The method may comprise providing a series of waist belts having a fixed longitudinal length, and a series of chassis having a fixed longitudinal length. The waist belts may be aligned with the chassis with varying degrees of overlap, such that diapers having different lengths are manufactured by varying only the relative placement of the waist belts and chassis. The method may be used to vary diapers within a production run (e.g., to produce packs of diapers in a range of sizes) or between production runs (e.g., to produce different size diapers on the same line with reduced equipment changes or adjustments). A diaper produced according to the method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Uwe Schneider
  • Patent number: 8926783
    Abstract: A composition for a removable top coating for protecting the exposed face of a temporary removable graphic is provided. A remover for the transferred graphic image is provided that completely dissolves the temporary removable graphic, but does not affect the commonly encountered substrates such as concrete, brick, wooden floors, asphalt surfaces, terrazzo and motor vehicle body surfaces, marine and aeronautical craft surfaces. A method for making, applying and removing the temporary removable graphic is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: CSD LLC
    Inventors: Parvez Akhtar, John Fitzwater, Norman J. Greenberg
  • Patent number: 8926787
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a surface-modified film which has adhesive properties improved by surface modification and a process for producing the same. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a laminated film in which at least the surface-modified film has been laminated and a process for producing the laminated film. The surface-modified film according to the present invention is characterized by being obtained by bringing a halide complex of an element in Group 13 of the periodic table into contact with at least a part of a region in the surfaces of a resin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Stella Chemifa Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Hashiguchi, Kazutaka Hirano, Tomotsugu Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 8920595
    Abstract: Compositions for binding organic or inorganic fibers is described. The compositions may include an aqueous solution having a pH of about 4.5 or more. The aqueous solution may include a polycarboxy polymer that is about 10%, by wt., to 100%, by wt., of a butenedioic acid or butenedioic anhydride; and a polyol. The compositions can maintain a pH of about 5 or more after being cured into a thermoset plastic with the fibers. Processes for preparing a binder composition for organic or inorganic fibers are also described. The processes may include providing an aqueous solution of polycarboxylic acid polymers, where the polymers comprise about 10%, by wt., to 100%, by wt., of a butenedioic acid or butenedioic anhydride; adding a polyol to the aqueous solution; and maintaining the pH of the aqueous solution at about 5 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Kiarash Alavi Shooshtari, Jawed Asrar
  • Patent number: 8916021
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide chamber components with enhanced thermal properties and methods of enhancing thermal properties of chamber components including bonding materials. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for fabricating a composite structure. The method includes applying a bonding material to a first component, and converting the bonding material applied to the first component to an enhanced bonding layer by heating the bonding material to outgas volatile species from the bonding material. The outgassed volatile species accumulates to at least 0.05% in mass of the bonding material. The method further includes contacting a second component and the enhanced bonding layer to join the first and second components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Sun, Sumanth Banda, Ren-Guan Duan
  • Patent number: 8906183
    Abstract: A photochromic polyurethane laminate that is constructed to solve certain manufacturing difficulties involved in the production of plastic photochromic lenses is disclosed. The photochromic laminate includes at least two layers of a resinous material and a photochromic polyurethane layer that is interspersed between the two resinous layers and which contains photochromic compounds. The polyurethane layer is formed by curing a mixture of a solid thermoplastic polyurethane, at least one isocyanate prepolymer, at least one photochromic compound, and a stabilizing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Insight Equity A.P.X, LP
    Inventors: Xuzhi Qin, Hideyo Sugimura, Michael S. Boulineau
  • Patent number: 8894802
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of composite elements comprising at least one outer layer a) and a layer b) firmly bonded to it, an adhesion promoter c) being applied between the outer layer a) and the layer b) firmly bonded to it, the outer layer a) being continuously moved and the adhesion promoter c) and the layer b) firmly bonded to it or the starting materials thereof being applied in succession to the outer layer, the application of the adhesion promoter c) being effected by means of a rotating disk which is mounted horizontally or with a slight deviation from the horizontal of up to 15°, wherein the rotating disk is provided with teeth on the edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ansgar Schmit, Rainer Hensiek, Onno Graalmann, Simon Gramlich
  • Patent number: 8882959
    Abstract: A tape-dispensing apparatus may include a removable part and a base part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: First Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard S. Malik, Jr., Thomas Truman
  • Patent number: 8882943
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for the production of gypsum board using starch pellets. In accordance with the present disclosure, the starch necessary for board formation is provided in the form of starch pellets. These pellets are mixed with a gypsum slurry in a mixer. The pellets are initially insoluble and do not dissolve. However, during subsequent drying stages, the pellets become soluble and dissolve into the gypsum phase. This both provides the desired starch component and also results in the formation of voids within the set gypsum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: CertainTeed Gypsum, Inc.
    Inventors: John W. College, Shane Libunao, Mark Harris
  • Patent number: 8852382
    Abstract: A thermosetting composition comprising (a) 97 to 40 percent by weight of at least one bis(dihydrobenzoxazine) prepared by the reaction of an unsubstituted or substituted bisphenol with at least one unsubstituted position ortho to each hydroxyl group, formaldehyde and a primary amine; and (b) 3 to 60 percent by weight of at least one bisphenol, wherein the percent by weight refer to the total amount of components (a) and (b), with the proviso that (a) and (b) add up to 100 percent by weight; and (c) optionally other components. Cured products made from these compositions have valuable chemical, physical and mechanical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Huntsman International LLC
    Inventor: Frans Setiabudi
  • Patent number: 8852374
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical film laminate including subjecting a laminate including the non-crystallizable ester type thermoplastic resin substrate and the polyvinyl alcohol type resin layer formed on the non-crystallizable ester type thermoplastic resin substrate to an elevated temperature in-air stretching to form a stretched laminate comprising a stretched intermediate consisting of a molecularly oriented polyvinyl alcohol type resin, impregnating the dichroic material in the stretched laminate to form a dyed laminate including a dyed intermediate comprising a polyvinyl alcohol type resin layer having the dichroic material impregnated therein in an oriented state, and stretching the dyed laminate in boric acid solution to form an optical film laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Shusaku Goto, Takeharu Kitagawa, Minoru Miyatake, Tomohiro Mori, Takashi Kamijo
  • Patent number: 8845851
    Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive composition comprising a protein component, an AE adduct component and an isocyanate component. Also disclosed is a composite and a method of making a composite comprising a substrate and the adhesive composition of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Solenis Technologies, L.P.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Allen, James M. Wescott, Daniel F. Varnell, Michael A. Evans