Patents Examined by Michael P Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 10239089
    Abstract: An apparatus for enrobing a product portion can include a polymer spray head arranged to direct a plurality of polymeric fibers in an upward direction and levitate product portions in a polymer enrobing zone above the polymer spray head. Polymeric fibers produced by the polymer spray head can wrap around the product portions levitated in the polymer enrobing zone to create an enrobed product. Side guide structure(s) and/or air knife(s) can be provided adjacent to the polymer enrobing zone to inhibit levitated product portions from falling out of the polymer enrobing zone and/or to guide levitated product portions along a desired path. Exemplary enrobed products include smokeless tobacco products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: James David Evans, Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black
  • Patent number: 10208531
    Abstract: A strand of sealing compound is expelled from a nozzle into an edge joint of an insulating glass element to form around it a contiguous sealing compound bead. The sealing compound bead is formed discontinuously from several segments. At least one first segment is formed by the relative movement in a first circumferential direction of the insulating glass element, and at least one second segment is formed by the relative movement in a second, opposite circumferential direction. Each connection of segments of the sealing compound bead which is situated on a longitudinal side section of the circumference of the insulating glass element is formed such that the strand of the sealing compound is applied in the region of the end of a sealing compound bead already situated in the edge joint and is formed by the relative movement away from the end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: LISEC AUSTRIA GMBH
    Inventor: Leopold Mader
  • Patent number: 10208412
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for forming a composite structure comprising rotating a base layer of an apparatus for forming the composite structure about an axis of rotation, transferring carbon short fibers from a first vibratory feed ramp onto the base layer in order to form a plurality of fibrous layers in the composite structure, and vibrating the first vibratory feed ramp during the transferring the carbon short fibers. The base layer may comprise an annular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Le Costaouec, Paul Perea
  • Patent number: 10203598
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of inking a polymer pen lithography tip array (“PPL tip array”), including applying an ink composition to a PPL tip array using at least two spray applicators to deposit the ink as a non-uniform ink layer. The disclosure further provides a method of depositing at least two ink compositions on PPL tip array, including applying a first ink to a first defined area using a first spray applicator, and applying a second ink to a second defined area using a second spray applicator. The disclosure further provides a method of scaling a linear ink composition gradient provided by at least two spray applicators to a PPL tip array having a length, L, including positioning the spray applicators at a distance of about 5.0 L to about 8.0 L relative to the surface of the PPL tip array, positioning the spray applicators at a distance of about 0.5 L to about 3.0 L relative to each other, and applying an ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Keith A. Brown, James L. Hedrick, III
  • Patent number: 10201909
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a treated cellulosic material comprising: a cellulosic material having a porous structure defining a plurality of pores, at least a portion of the pores containing a treating agent comprising: a polymer comprising an olefin-carboxylic acid copolymer; and a modifying agent comprising a quat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Stephen W. King, Xue Chen
  • Patent number: 10195642
    Abstract: A tire has a coating with a quadlayer or multiple quadlayers, and a method produces the same. In an embodiment, the method for coating a rubber substrate includes exposing the rubber substrate to a first cationic solution to produce a first cationic layer on the rubber substrate. The method also includes exposing the first cationic layer to a first anionic solution to produce a first anionic layer on the first cationic layer. In addition, the method includes exposing the first anionic layer to a second cationic solution to produce a second cationic layer on the first anionic layer. The method further includes exposing the second cationic layer to a second anionic solution to produce a second anionic layer on the second cationic layer. A quadlayer includes the first cationic layer, the first anionic layer, the second cationic layer, and the second anionic layer. The coating includes the quadlayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: Jaime C. Grunlan, Morgan A. Priolo, Brian R. Bergman, John J. McHugh
  • Patent number: 10195643
    Abstract: A method for printing ink on a substrate comprising the steps of coating a glass substrate with an adhesion promoter, depositing one or more layers of ink on the coated substrate, and laminating the imaged substrate. The substrate can be a glass substrate, and the adhesion promoter can include a silane material, powder coating, organophosphate primer suspended in isopropanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Domey, Matthew Wade Fenton, Govindarajan Natarajan, Paul John Shustack, Jian-Zhi Jay Zhang
  • Patent number: 10195641
    Abstract: An electrostatic powder coating method includes spraying a charged powder coating material including powder particles that contain a thermosetting resin and a thermosetting agent, and an external additive that includes oxide particles containing at least one of titania and alumina to electrostatically attach the powder coating material to an object to be coated, and heating the powder coating material that is electrostatically attached to the object to be coated to thereby form a coating film, wherein a content Ac of the oxide particles in the powder coating material that is electrostatically attached to the object to be coated and a content Ao of the oxide particles in the powder coating material before being sprayed satisfy a relationship of Expression: Ao×0.80?Ac?Ao×1.20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ishizuka, Takeshi Agata, Susumu Yoshino, Shigeru Seitoku
  • Patent number: 10179951
    Abstract: A method of applying a coating system to a substrate includes applying a first layer of a high hardness and high modulus of elasticity with an added metal to the substrate, applying a second layer of the high hardness and high modulus of elasticity in combination with the added metal to the first layer. A percent by volume of the added metal in the second layer is lower than the percent by volume of the added metal in the first layer. The method also includes applying two or more intermediate layers formed from an applied mixture of the high hardness, high modulus of elasticity material and a metal material between the first layer and the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aaron T. Nardi, Tahany Ibrahim El-Wardany, Jun Shi, Patrick Louis Clavette, Xuemei Wang
  • Patent number: 10180623
    Abstract: The disclosed nanoimprinting method suppresses fluctuations in thickness of residual film and defects due to residual gas in a resist film, onto which a pattern of protrusions and recesses is transferred, in a nanoimprinting method that employs the ink jet method to coat a substrate with droplets of resist material. Droplets are coated onto a substrate such that the spaces between the droplets along an A direction which is substantially parallel to the direction of the lines of a linear pattern of protrusions and recesses are longer than the spaces between the droplets in a B direction which is substantially perpendicular to the A direction, in a nanoimprinting method that coats a substrate with the droplets of a resist material using the ink jet method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Wakamatsu, Tadashi Omatsu
  • Patent number: 10173241
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a coating method, comprising determining a coating state of a current substrate being an uncoated state in which none of a predetermined coating is coated thereon, a coating underway state in which a part of the predetermined coating is coated thereon or a coating completion state in which all of the predetermined coating is coated thereon, when a coating suspension is detected during coating the current substrate; in a case that the current substrate is in the uncoated state, further coating the current substrate or starting coating a next substrate; and in a case that the current substrate is in the coating underway state or the coating completion state, starting coating a next substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Li, Dongdong Yin, Xuepei Cheng, Zhi Liu, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10166693
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a treated cellulosic material comprising: a cellulosic material having a porous structure defining a plurality of pores, at least a portion of the pores containing a treating agent comprising: a polymer comprising an olefin-carboxylic acid copolymer; a modifying agent comprising a bivalent, trivalent, or tetravalent metal ion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Xue Chen, Stephen W. King, David L. Malotky
  • Patent number: 10167594
    Abstract: A biodegradable packaging material, a method of manufacturing the same, as well as products made of the material wherein the manufacture comprises extrusion onto a fibrous substrate one or mote polymer coating layers including at least one layer of a polymer blend consisting of (i) 20-95 wt-% of polylactide having a high melt index of more than 35 g/10 min (210° C.; 2.16 kg), (ii) 5-80 wt-% of polybutylene succinate (PBS) or a biodegradable derivate thereof, and (iii) 0-5 wt-% of one or more polymeric additives. The components of the blend are melted and blended in connection with the extrusion step. The goal is to improve extrudability, increase machine speed in extrusion and maintaining good adhesiveness to the substrate and wood heat-sealability of the coating. The products include disposable drinking cups and board trays, as well as sealed carton packages for solids and liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: STORA ENSO OYJ
    Inventors: Kimmo Nevalainen, Ville Ribu
  • Patent number: 10155248
    Abstract: Described herein are improved dewetting methods and improved patterned articles produced using such methods. The improved methods and articles generally implement continuous ultra-thin metal-containing films or film stacks as the materials to be dewetted. For example, a method can involve the steps of providing a substrate that has a continuous ultra-thin metal-containing film or film stack disposed on a surface thereof, and dewetting at least a portion of the continuous ultra-thin metal-containing film or film stack to produce a plurality of discrete metal-containing dewetted islands on the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David Eugene Baker, Carme Gomez Carbonell, David Francis Dawson-Elli, Prantik Mazumder, Valerio Pruneri, Lili Tian
  • Patent number: 10155235
    Abstract: A method for filling a tank with a coating material on a vehicle. The method includes providing containers of coating material to a location of the vehicle and inserting a draw tube into one of the containers. The method also includes pumping coating material using a draw pump and into the tank on the vehicle. The method also includes removing residual coating material from the containers and adding the residual coating material to the tank. If the coating material level is not at a desired level, the inserting, pumping, removing, and adding steps are repeated with another container of coating material. If the coating material level is at the desired level, a layer of water may be formed over coating material in the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Inventor: Michael Matlack
  • Patent number: 10138566
    Abstract: The inventive two-step process operates at low temperature, without any toxic heavy metals, to provide excellent sealing on anodized aluminum substrates, especially those aluminum substrates comprising silicon. The first step of the process seals the anodized surface and the second step passivates the anodized surface. The process allows for corrosion resistance in anodized aluminum and anodized aluminum alloys to be achieved that is comparable to traditional nickel based sealants, without the toxicity of nickel. The process additionally does not require any excessive temperatures, as required by hot water sealing processes. The composition used for the sealing step comprises soluble lithium ions, fluoride ions, and preferably, a complexing agent comprising phosphines, phosphonates and/or polymers of acrylic acid. The composition used for the passivation step comprises metal ions and preferably a complexing agent comprising phosphines, phosphonates and/or polymers of acrylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: MacDermid Acumen, Inc.
    Inventors: Sara Salsa, Patrizia Angeli
  • Patent number: 10137474
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for depositing a fluid over an interface. A nozzle may comprise a body having a first end and a second end, an input located at the first end of the body, an output located at the second end of the body, and a plurality of channels located within the body. The input may be configured to receive a fluid. The plurality of channels may have a configuration that causes the fluid received through the input to flow through the plurality of channels and exit the output to form a deposition having a desired shape over an interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Chin H. Toh, Trent Rob Logan, John Walter Pringle, IV, Rodney Stephen Wright
  • Patent number: 10132027
    Abstract: The invention aims to improve the manufacture of flexible goods, such as garments, through the temporary modification of the physical properties of the components to be assembled, facilitating their handling and manipulation later on in the manufacturing process. Attributes that can be affected by this process are the stiffness of the material, the presence of mechanical or physical markings, the density of the material, the air or fluid permeability of the material, the responsiveness of the material to magnetic fields, or the adhesive nature of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Sewbo, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathon Zornow
  • Patent number: 10130973
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing a waterproofing membrane comprising: a preparation of a composition dispersed in a solvent; coating a reinforcement layer by application of said composition on one side of the reinforcement layer; an evaporation of said solvent; having the coated reinforcement layer dried; and an application of a bituminous mass on another side of said reinforcement layer, characterized in that, during the preparation of the composition, the composition is dispersed in a solvent chosen in the group consisting of a solvent other than water or water. The present invention relates also to a composition for a waterproofing membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: S.A. Imperbel N.V.
    Inventors: Michel Getlichermann, Xavier Godeaux, Hans Aerts, Eric Bertrand
  • Patent number: 10117974
    Abstract: A method for preparing and resulting articles of manufacture comprising a substrate having a surface, a bulk beneath the surface, and a grafted polymer layer on the substrate surface, the substrate surface and the grafted polymer layer, in combination, constituting a modified surface having a fibrinogen adsorption of less than about 125 ng/cm2 in a fibrinogen binding assay in which the modified surface is incubated for 60 minutes at 37° C. in 70 ?g/mL fibrinogen derived from human plasma containing 1.4 ?g/mL I-125 radiolabeled fibrinogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: ARROW INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Li, Zheng Zhang, Chad C. Huval, Michael A. Bouchard, Christopher R. Loose, Arthur J. Coury