Patents Examined by Michael P Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 9962735
    Abstract: Disclosed are a multilayer coating film made from a natural material and a method of producing the same. The multilayer coating film may be produced by forming a multilayer coating film through formation of a color coating film for providing adhesion and color to a cork on the cork material and a clear coating film for realizing texture and supplementing properties on the color coating film. As such, the multilayer coating film may be made from a natural material to diversify the color and gloss of cork as a natural material, to additionally increase marketability of an interior material and provide various appearance, to prevent discoloration due to light (e.g. UV light.) and water permeation, and to enhance durability against abrasion, scratches and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Noroobee Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Tak Jeon, Hyo Jin Lee, Young Seok Kim, Yong Chul Lee, Jae Beom Ahn
  • Patent number: 9962721
    Abstract: A device for coating of a surface of a substrate with a coating material which has at least one coating component and at least one solvent, with the following features: a chamber which can be pressurized, a holding apparatus for holding the substrate on a holding surface and a spray nozzle for coating of the substrate, characterized in that the device has cooling means for cooling of at least the surface of the substrate which is held on the holding surface of the holding apparatus. Furthermore the invention relates to a corresponding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: EV GROUP E. THALLNER GMBH
    Inventor: Christoph Mayr
  • Patent number: 9956588
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a film in which a protective layer (100), a base material sheet (200), a UV-curable resin layer (300) having a concave-convex surface, a metallic layer (400), a primer layer (500), and an adhesion layer (600) are laminated in sequential order. Also, the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing said film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Beom Shin, Min Ho Lee, Jae Bong Hwang
  • Patent number: 9950454
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a PUR/PIR foam body, comprising the steps of providing a mold adapted for applying an underpressure to the interior of the mold; introducing a reaction mixture comprising an isocyanate-reactive component A and an isocyanate B into the mold, and applying an underpressure to the interior of the mold, so the underpressure acts on the introduced reaction mixture. The underpressure is applied to the interior of the mold no later than the reaction mixture has started to set in the mold, and the isocyanate index of the reaction mixture is ?300.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: COVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AG
    Inventors: Reinhard Albers, Patrick Klasen, Stephanie Vogel
  • Patent number: 9943878
    Abstract: A coating method for forming a laminated coating film including a lower layer formed on a base material and an upper layer formed on the lower layer including: preparing a thermosetting coating material as a lower layer-coating material and preparing a thermosetting coating material as an upper layer-coating material; forming an uncured laminated coating film by applying the lower layer-coating material and the upper layer-coating material on the base material using a wet-on-wet technique; and simultaneously curing the lower layer-coating material and the upper layer-coating material by baking the uncured laminated coating film. In the preparation step, the lower layer-coating material and the upper layer-coating material are selected so that an absolute value of a difference in shrinkage ratio between the lower layer and the upper layer coating materials is 2.0% or smaller at a late stage of the baking step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuji Yomo, Kazuyuki Tachi, Hisao Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9937521
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a method for spraying a chemical solution that makes it possible to uniformly apply a chemical solution onto a moving body and that exhibits excellent spraying efficiency. [Solution] The present invention is directed to a method for spraying a chemical solution in which, in a dry part D of a paper-making machine, a chemical solution is continuously sprayed onto a moving body that guides wet paper X, while a nozzle device S is reciprocating in directions orthogonal to a moving direction of the moving body with the moving body in motion, wherein: the moving body is a cylindrical dryer roller D1 or an endless canvas K1; and a travel distance H that the nozzle device S moves during a single rotation of the moving body and a width W of a sprayed area that is formed on the moving body by the nozzle device S satisfy the relationship represented by the following expression: 0.5?H/W?20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: MAINTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sekiya, Daisuke Kobayashi, Hideaki Mori, Hiraku Sawada, Tomohiko Nagatsuka
  • Patent number: 9937520
    Abstract: A nozzle starts discharging a processing liquid while a spin chuck holds and rotates a substrate having a water-repellent film being formed on a surface thereof. The processing liquid is discharged to a position spaced away from the center of the substrate by a preset distance, and flows so as to converge into one stream on the substrate immediately after discharge of the processing liquid starts. This achieves suppression of the minute water droplets. Moreover, the nozzle is moved toward outside of the substrate while discharging the processing liquid successively. This allows entire flow of the processing liquid to move toward outside of the substrate while the processing liquid converging into one stream on the substrate is maintained. Here, inside the flow of the processing liquid is a dried region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Kanaoka, Takehiro Wajiki, Shinichi Takada
  • Patent number: 9931669
    Abstract: A coating method for forming a laminated coating film including: preparing a thermosetting coating material as a lower layer-coating material, an intermediate layer-coating material, and as an upper layer-coating material; forming an uncured laminated coating film by applying the lower layer-coating, the intermediate layer-coating, and the upper layer-coating materials on the base material using a wet-on-wet technique; and simultaneously curing the lower layer-coating, the intermediate layer-coating, and upper layer-coating materials by baking the uncured laminated coating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuji Yomo, Kazuyuki Tachi, Hisao Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9925640
    Abstract: The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a memorial process in the memorial industry utilizing a novel photo resist process and novel state of the art design ordering software. The software allows the customer to create and order a design online with the family present. The software solves problems including that the conventional process requires an approval of a layout or requires a professional draftsman on site to draw the customer's design. The software also allows for barcode label tracking throughout the process. Finely detailed engravings are achieved using the photo resist engraving process in the memorial industry, where the photo resist is repositionable prior to being applied to the memorial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Inventors: Randy Willis, Roderick Geis, Josh Willis
  • Patent number: 9896379
    Abstract: A system and method for applying a construction material is provided. The method may include mixing blast furnace slag material, geopolymer material, alkali-based powder, and sand at a batching and mixing device to generate a non-Portland cement-based material. The method may also include transporting the non-Portland cement-based material from the mixing device, through a conduit to a nozzle and combining the transported non-Portland cement-based material with liquid at the nozzle to generate a partially liquefied non-Portland cement-based material. The method may further include pneumatically applying the partially liquefied non-Portland cement-based material to a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: En-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene James Camali, Andreas Schrell, Robert George Benz
  • Patent number: 9895837
    Abstract: A textured film, a process for manufacture of the textured film, and a light management stack, a backlight, and a display using the textured film are described. The textured film and process for manufacture thereof, include processes in which the surface texture of the optical film is controlled by incorporation of a patterned coating. The surface texture of a polymeric film, such as a polymeric optical film, is controlled by incorporation of the coating, that can fracture or deform upon stretching the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kristopher J. Derks, James E. Lockridge, Adam D. Haag, Jeffrey A. Peterson, Michael J. Schiesl, Jeffrey W. Hagen
  • Patent number: 9896228
    Abstract: Methods for encasing bodies including smokeless tobacco or a tobacco substitute with a polymeric casing can include coating a compressed body with microfibers, applying tubular casings to compressed bodies, printing netting and webs on compressed bodies, injection molding around compressed bodies, applying a webbing to compressed bodies, placing compressed bodies into a skin forming bath, and including thermoplastic polymers in a compressed body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Christopher Joseph DiNovi, David Phillips, Jason Andrew Macko, Robert Smith
  • Patent number: 9873135
    Abstract: A method for painting with a plurality of colors at least an article of manufacture, preferably a thermoplastic article of manufacture for the perfumery and cosmetic field, each color of said plurality of colors being that of a respective paint of a corresponding plurality of paints, said method comprising at least the operating steps of: a) providing said at least an article of manufacture in a condition suitable for painting; b) providing a plurality of painting guns arranged in a succession in a painting tunnel and each being adapted to apply a paint of a said respective color of said plurality of colors; c) orienting said at least an article of manufacture with respect to said plurality of painting guns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: MATIC PLAST MILANO S.R.L.
    Inventor: Giovanni Patti
  • Patent number: 9875829
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for recoating an RTV anti-pollution flashover coating on an insulator coated with the RTV anti-pollution flashover coating. The insulator includes an insulator body, a steel cap connected to an upper surface of the insulator body, and a steel pin connected to a lower surface of the insulator body. The method includes: (1) wiping off dirt on a surface of the insulator; (2) determining whether the insulator can be recoated; (3) performing coating by using an RTV anti-pollution flashover coating with the content of solid being 55%-65%. After coating is performed, a newly coated anti-pollution flashover coating can be closely adhered to a surface of the insulator, swelling does not occur, adhesion of the coating with respect to the insulator is not reduced, the hydrophobicity of the surface is recovered, and non-reduction of a pollution flashover voltage of the insulator is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignees: STATE GRID SHANXI PROVINCE ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY JINZHONG SUPPLY COMPANY, GRADUATE SCHOOL AT SHENZHEN, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xuedong Zhang, Ling Liu, Hongwei Wang, Liang'an Yao, Qiang Xie, Kai Sun, Jingzhao Lu, Zhidong Jia, Can Chen
  • Patent number: 9855584
    Abstract: A method to prepare a self-decontaminating surface, where that method includes disposing a first coating on a surface, where that first coating comprises an organosilane, and disposing a second coating over the first coating, where the second coating comprises TiO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: ALLIED BIOSCIENCE, INC.
    Inventors: Craig Grossman, Mai Ngo, Ronald Wysocki
  • Patent number: 9845574
    Abstract: A paper web and a method of marking a paper web. The paper web includes a surface having a plurality of sections. At least one section of the plurality of sections has a plurality of positions. The plurality of positions each have an equal length and are obtained by subdividing the at least one section. The paper web also includes ink applied to the surface of the paper web at some of the plurality of positions. The method includes applying a first mark and a second mark to a paper web. The first mark has a start position and is coded to convey an identifier for the paper web. The second mark includes a start position and is coded to indicate a position on the paper web. The start position of the second mark is a predetermined distance after the start position of the first mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Andrew G. Bomstad, Thomas J. Petersen, Joseph A. Schulz, Gregory T. Johnson, Mark F. Gerrits
  • Patent number: 9843246
    Abstract: A method and device for forming corona shielding on a winding bar for high-voltage machines has end corona shielding in a first section and outer corona shielding in a second section that adjoins the first section. The method includes providing a first composition, including a carrier material and a first filler therein and a first electrical resistance; providing a second composition, including the same carrier material and a second filler therein and a second electrical resistance, wherein the first and second fillers contain an identical dopable semiconductor material, doping of which determines electrical resistance of the first and second fillers, and wherein the second resistance differs from the first resistance; applying the first composition in the first section to form the end corona shielding; and applying the second composition in the second section to form the outer corona shielding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Harald Griem, Steffen Lang, Friedhelm Pohlmann, Christian Staubach
  • Patent number: 9839937
    Abstract: A prong style file fastener, and method of manufacturer, is disclosed which has a protective element to prevent damage to paper documents and personal injury. In one embodiment, the prongs of the fastener are covered with a powder coating which is melted thereon. In the case of the powdercoat covering, the production line uses a cam drive sprocket retractor system to release the line onto a takeup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Smead Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Harold Peter Lindelof, Marvin J. Halfen, David J. Gilbertson
  • Patent number: 9835199
    Abstract: A metal matrix self-lubricating composite and a manufacturing method therefor. The metal matrix self-lubricating composite comprises a metal matrix and a mixture layer compounded on a surface of the metal matrix, the mixed layer comprising a copper alloy and a self-lubricating material. The method for manufacturing the metal matrix self-lubricating composite comprises the following steps: a) sintering copper alloy powder on a surface of a metal matrix to form a copper alloy layer on the surface of the metal matrix; b) blade-coating or dip-coating a lubricating material on a surface of the copper alloy layer, and performing vacuumization to obtain a metal plate, and drying the metal plate; c) repeating step b) for multiple times; and d) sintering the metal plate obtained in step c) to obtain the metal matrix self-lubricating composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG CHANGSHENG SLIDING BEARINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Sun, Zhongquan Lu
  • Patent number: 9815084
    Abstract: A clear coating method comprising: applying a clear paint on a topcoat base coating film (21) under a first coating condition, and thereby forming a first wet clear coating film in a first stage (14A); successively applying a clear paint on the first wet clear coating film under a second coating condition different from the first coating condition without baking the first wet clear coating film, and thereby forming a second wet clear coating film in a second stage (14B); and baking the first wet clear coating film and the second wet clear coating film and thereby forming a clear coating film, wherein a painted non-volatility value of the clear paint in the second stage is larger than a painted non-volatility value of the clear paint in the first stage, an average atomized paint particle size of the clear paint in the second stage is smaller than an average atomized paint particle size of the clear paint in the first stage, and a thickness of the second wet clear coating film is thinner than a thickness of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Inhye Hwang