Patents Examined by Michele Jacobson
  • Patent number: 7754302
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plastic container or bottle having an inner wall surface coated with a DLC film which has the same level of oxygen barrier property as prior art DLC coated containers while at the same time preventing the coloration of the neck portion found in the containers of the prior art. The DLC film formed on the neck portion of the inventive bottle has a lower graphite mixing proportion than the DLC film formed on body portion, and the oxygen permeability of the container is less than or equal to 0.0050 ml/container (500 ml PET container)/day. The apparatus and the method of producing such a bottle are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Kirin Brewery Company, Limted
    Inventors: Teruyuki Yamasaki, Akira Shirakura, Hideyasu Ando
  • Patent number: 7736710
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a package comprising a first portion and a second portion (or a first package member and a second package member) adapted to be connected to each other and thereby keep the package closed, wherein the first and second portions (or package members) are connected to each other by at least one adhesion area, wherein the adhesion area is adapted to comprise an electrically weakable adhesive. The disclosure further relates to a method of closing and opening a package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Stora Enso AB
    Inventor: Lars Sandberg
  • Patent number: 7687122
    Abstract: A tubular encasing netting for sausage and similar articles. The encasing netting contains a longitudinally running tear-open thread, the length of which is greater than that of the encasing netting in the state of use of the latter. This results in loops of the tear-open thread which are accessible from outside and which can be grasped for tearing open. The encasing netting is expediently a double-rib or warp-knit fabric. The tear-open thread is received in stitches of this fabric. The invention relates, furthermore, to a method for producing such an encasing netting, to a sausage casing connected to the encasing netting and to an article encased by this encasing netting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Huckfeldt & Thorlichen GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Gebhard Rudolf Huckfeldt, Christian Ludwig Hanisch
  • Patent number: 7641837
    Abstract: A method for producing a roll film provided with a coat layer comprising the steps of: (i) producing a roll film; (ii) applying a first embossing treatment along a longitudinal direction of the roll film on a part of a lateral direction of the roll film; (iii) applying a coat layer on the roll film; (iv) applying a second embossing treatment along a longitudinal direction of the roll film on a part of a lateral direction of the roll film; (v) heat treating the roll film at a temperature of 50 to 150° C. for a duration of 1 to 30 days while the roll film is rolled in a roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Takiyama, Kazuyuki Shimizu, Kousei Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 7575789
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil pipe having a lining imparting substantially reduced adhesion of asphaltenes, paraffin wax, and inorganic scale, so as to reduce plugging of said oil pipe, and impermeability to salt water so as to protect the oil pipe from corrosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Laurence Waino McKeen
  • Patent number: 7452579
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a roll coating onto a roll frame (1), which coating comprises a base layer (2) on the roll frame (1) and a surface layer (3) on the base layer (2). The base layer (2) is brought to its final form after the surface layer (3) has been formed and cured or solidified. The surface layer (3) is formed on the base layer (2) and cured or solidified after the base layer (2) has been formed on the roll frame (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Paasonen
  • Patent number: 7445821
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cellulose ester film containing cellulose ester and microparticles having an average primary particle diameter of from 0.1 to 1.0 ?m, wherein a relative standard deviation of a primary particle diameter of the microparticles is from 1 to 20%, and wherein the cellulose ester film has a surface with a peak density of from 1,000 to 8,000 (1/mm2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventor: Isamu Michihata
  • Patent number: 7387826
    Abstract: A medical device in which a melt processed part has different crystallized properties at different locations. The part is formed of a polymer composition by inclusion a of polymer crystallization modifier in the composition making up at least a portion of such part, the amount of the polymer crystallization modifier is varied at different locations on the part in accordance with the desired difference in crystallization behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Boston Scienitific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Burgmeier, Richard L. Goodin, Joseph Delaney, Jr., Larry Peterson
  • Patent number: 7347910
    Abstract: A method for producing a lightweight end wall of a containers characterized by the following stages: manufacturing a large size lightweight thermoplastics tube by spirally winding and joining together a hollow profile of thermoplastics, cutting a piece from such a tube to form a pre-form of an end wall, heating the pre-form into a mouldable state, pressing the pre-form into a dome shaped piece between a male and a female mould-half, cooling the dome shaped piece while pressed between the mould-halves, maching-tooling the edges of the cooled piece to match the cross-sectional surface of the tube mantle, and joining the mantle and the end wall together by welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Oy KWH Pipe Ab
    Inventor: Seppo Takala