Patents Examined by Nancy R Johnson
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Patent number: 11844409Abstract: The present application relates to a decoration member including a substrate layer having a convex structure or a concave structure arranged two-dimensionally, and a method for preparing the decoration member.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Pilsung Jo, Jin Suk Song, Song Ho Jang, Ki Hwan Kim, Yong Chan Kim, Nansra Heo, Jeong Woo Shon
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Vacuum insulated glass (VIG) window unit with metal alloy spacers, and/or methods of making the same
Patent number: 11802436Abstract: A vacuum insulated glass (VIG) window unit includes an array of spacers provided between at least a pair of substrates, such as glass substrate. Certain example embodiments relate to a VIG window unit including spacers (e.g., pillars) of or including a metal alloy. The metal alloy of the spacer may be an amorphous metal alloy (e.g., Zr and/or Cu based amorphous alloy). Such metal alloy spacers advantageously reduce the thermal conductivity of the spacer array and can increase the center of glass R-value of the VIG window unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: GUARDIAN GLASS, LLCInventors: Jason Blush, Jason Theios, Timothy Hodapp -
Patent number: 11782262Abstract: A light converter and method of manufacture is provided. A light conversion layer (301), comprising light conversion particles (301a) in a binding material (301b) is provided for generating emission light from excitation light incident on the light conversion layer (301). A planarization layer (304) is on a surface of the light conversion layer (301) and at least one optical coating (305) is part of or on a surface of the planarization layer (304) that is relatively smooth in comparison with the surface of the light conversion layer (301).Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: MATERION CORPORATIONInventors: David Zhang, Ying Cao, Lennon Li, Shengyuan Bai
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Patent number: 11693157Abstract: Provided is a fine concave-convex laminate that is reduced in thickness, has excellent antireflection performance, and can suppress scattering and absorption of short-wavelength light. A fine concave-convex laminate comprises a substrate, a first transparent organic layer, and a second transparent organic layer laminated in the stated order, wherein the first transparent organic layer has a fine concave-convex structure at a surface facing the second transparent organic layer, the second transparent organic layer has fine concave-convex structures at both surfaces, and a thickness of a composite layer composed of the first transparent organic layer and the second transparent organic layer is 15 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Dexerials CorporationInventors: Shunichi Kajiya, Kazuya Hayashibe, Naoki Hanashima, Hiroshi Sugata
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Patent number: 11639047Abstract: A window pane includes at least one structural substrate referred to as interior substrate, intended to face toward a host structure within which the window pane is intended to be fixed, and having a face, referred to as interior face, wherein the interior face of the substrate includes, projecting therefrom and at the edge or near the edge and along at least one of the sides of the window pane, at least one male or female retaining element intended to collaborate with at least one respectively female or male retaining shape arranged in the host structure of the window pane.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Thomas Tondu, Jérôme Barbier
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Patent number: 11634605Abstract: Polymeric coating compositions and articles coated with the polymeric coating compositions are provided. The polymeric coating composition can include an ethylene-based polymer that exhibits desirable melting properties and molecular weight distribution. The polymeric coating composition can provide a thin coating layer on an article while still providing advantageous properties, such as seal strength.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Linda M. Van den Bossche, Joe J. Thoppil, Catherine A. V. Quintin
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Patent number: 11614568Abstract: Provided is a laminate and an anti-reflection structure that can be thinned, are excellent in anti-reflection performance and can keep reflection chromaticity neutral. In the laminate according to the present disclosure, a part of a light shielding film has a non-light shielding portion without a light shielding film; an anti-reflection structure is formed in the non-light shielding portion through an adhesion layer, and a fine uneven structure has an uneven period that is equal to or less than a wavelength of visible light; and a color difference (?E) between a reflected light by the light shielding film and a reflected light by the anti-reflection structure expressed in the formula shown below is equal to or less than 1.5.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Dexerials CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Sugata, Shunichi Kajiya
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Patent number: 11584111Abstract: Methods for stretch-forming a thermoplastic film comprises: stretching the thermoplastic film between a first roller and a second roller, wherein the first the roller rotates at a first peripheral velocity and the second roller rotates at a second peripheral velocity that is higher than the first peripheral velocity; and advancing the thermoplastic film from the second roller to a third roller, wherein the third roller rotates at a third peripheral velocity that is lower than the second peripheral velocity, wherein a ratio of the third peripheral velocity to the second peripheral velocity is no larger than 0.95. The resulting breathable thermoplastic films may have a basis weight of no larger than 15 g/m2 and a shrinkage of no larger than 5%.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KGInventors: Martin Backmann, Karsten Golubski
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Patent number: 11567238Abstract: A laminate includes a substrate; and a layer (a) containing particles forming a specific uneven shape, the number of particles present on the surface of the layer (a) is 6.3 to 20 per 1 ?m2, and a heat shrinkage rate of the laminate in a case of being heated for one hour at a glass transition temperature of the substrate+10° C. is 20% or more and less than 70%. An antireflection product has a three-dimensional curved surface having a curvature radius of 1 to 1,000 mm, and has a specific uneven shape formed of particles on the three-dimensional curved surface, the number of metal oxide particles present on the three-dimensional curved surface is 9 to 40 per 1 ?m2, and a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of reflectivities is less than 1.2%.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Ryuji Saneto, Shuntaro Ibuki, Shusuke Arita, Yuta Fukushima
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Patent number: 11542747Abstract: A spacer for an insulating glazing, includes a main body, which is a main body A including a first pane contact surface, a second pane contact surface, a glazing interior surface, and an outer surface, or which is a main body B including a first pane contact surface, a second pane contact surface, a first glazing interior surface, a second glazing interior surface, a first inner lateral surface, a second inner lateral surface, and an outer surface, wherein the two inner lateral surfaces, together with the two glazing interior surfaces and the outer surface, form a groove for receiving a pane. The spacer has a screen panel made of an opaque material arranged on the glazing interior surface of the main body A or a screen panel arranged on one of the two glazing interior surfaces of the main body B and extending parallel to the two pane contact surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Marcus Neander, Christopher Marjan
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Patent number: 11520083Abstract: Provided are a transparent member having excellent transparency and maintaining anti-fogging properties for a long period of time and a method for producing a transparent member. A transparent member includes a substrate and a stacked body having an organic layer and an inorganic porous layer stacked on the substrate in the mentioned order such that the both layers are in contact with each other, in which the organic layer includes an organic molecular chain network including an organic polymer chain and an organic crosslinking chain having 3 or more to 30 or less carbon atoms, and an acidic group aggregate, and in which the inorganic porous layer has hydrophilicity and includes silicon oxide.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomonari Nakayama
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Patent number: 11493674Abstract: A retroreflective article including a binder layer and a plurality of retroreflective elements. Each retroreflective element includes a transparent microsphere partially embedded in the binder layer. At least some of the retroreflective elements include a reflective layer that is embedded between the transparent microsphere and the binder layer. At least some of the embedded reflective layers are localized reflective layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Kui Chen-Ho, Ann M. Gilman, Kevin W. Gotrik, Scott J. Jones, Daniel M. Lentz, Michael A. McCoy, Shri Niwas, Matthew S. Stay, Ramasubramani Kuduva Raman Thanumoorthy, Ying Xia
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Patent number: 11491758Abstract: An agricultural fluorine-resin film and a greenhouse that can increase yield of crops even in high-eave houses are provided. In the agricultural fluorine-resin film containing fluorine-resin, one surface has an uneven surface 1a, a transmittance at a wavelength of from 300 to 800 nm is from 20% to 70%, and a transmittance T2 below is 75% or more. Transmittance T2: Transmittance of a laminate at a wavelength of from 300 to 800 nm, obtained by laminating the resin film and a test film, in which the uneven surface 1a of the resin film is completely filled with water, and the test film which has a thickness of 50 ?m, is formed of only an ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, and has a transmittance at a wavelength of from 300 to 800 nm of 94% and an arithmetic average roughness Ra of both surfaces of 0.04 ?m is laminated on the resin film.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Koichi Oda, Junetsu Nakamura
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Patent number: 11466835Abstract: An optical element, which is transparent, for a motor vehicle, including at least one transparent first layer containing a polymer material and at least one second layer including at least silicon, titanium and oxygen. The optical element has a surface roughness defined by a mean square deviation Rq greater than or equal to 20 nm.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: VALEO VISIONInventors: Damien Revol, Marc Brassier
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Patent number: 11454741Abstract: Provided are an optical display device protecting film and an optical display device comprising the same, the optical display device protecting film comprising: a first substrate layer; and a hard coating layer formed on the first substrate layer, wherein the substrate layer is made of a thermoplastic polyurethane film, and the first substrate layer has a thickness of 100 ?m to 200 ?m and has a Shore hardness of 95 A to 98 A.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Do Young Kim, Young Hoon Kim, Tae Ji Kim, Dong Myeong Shin, Oh Hyun Hwang
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Patent number: 11415731Abstract: A retroreflective article including a reflective-particle-containing binder layer and a plurality of retroreflective elements. Each retroreflective element includes a transparent microsphere partially embedded in the binder layer. At least some of the retroreflective elements comprise a primary reflective layer that covers a portion of the embedded surface area of the transparent microsphere, and a secondary reflective layer provided by portions of the reflective-particle-containing binder layer that are adjacent to portions of the embedded surface area of the transparent microsphere that are not covered by the primary reflective layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Michael A. McCoy, Ying Xia, Lok-Man Ng, Shri Niwas, Scott J. Jones, Kevin W. Gotrik, Kui Chen-Ho
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Patent number: 11366252Abstract: A retroreflective article including a binder layer and a plurality of retroreflective elements. Each retroreflective element includes a transparent microsphere partially embedded in the binder layer. At least some of the retroreflective elements include a reflective layer that is a locally-laminated reflective layer that is embedded between the transparent microsphere and the binder layer. At least some of the locally-laminated reflective layers may be localized reflective layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Kevin W. Gotrik, Kui Chen-Ho, Scott J. Jones, Michael A. McCoy, Christopher A. Merton, Shri Niwas, Ramasubramani Kuduva Raman Thanumoorthy, Ying Xia
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Patent number: 11353920Abstract: An overlay surface for a user interface of a device comprises a lower light-diffusing semitransparent layer affixed to an upper transparent layer. Graphics printed on the bottom surface of the transparent layer are protected from wear by the overlying transparent layer, while light sources back-illuminating the graphics from below are diffused by the semitransparent layer before they reach the graphics. The graphics of the surface may be provided by an opaque mask having transparent or translucent cutouts. The multilayer surface enables the graphics to be evenly back-illuminated while at the same time being protected from external wear without the need for additional light-diffusing elements such as light pipes.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: William J. Lurie, Charles G. Schmidt
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Patent number: 11352469Abstract: A fluororesin film containing a fluororesin. The fluororesin film has on at least one surface thereof a ten-point average roughness of 0.100 to 1.200 ?m and an arithmetic average roughness of 0.010 to 0.050 ?m. Further, the fluororesin film has a breakdown strength of 400 V/?m or higher.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES. LTD.Inventors: Kouji Yokotani, Nobuyuki Komatsu, Takeshi Hazama, Mayuko Tatemichi, Akio Higaki, Tatsuya Higuchi, Keiko Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11339087Abstract: An antiglare glass substrate includes a glass substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface that is opposite to the first main surface. The first main surface has undergone an antiglare treatment and a fluorine-containing organosilicon compound coating film as an antifouling film is laminated thereon. The first main surface partly includes a non-antiglare-treated portion that has not undergone the antiglare treatment. The non-antiglare-treated portion has a surface roughness Ra of less than 10 nm. A difference in height along a plate thickness direction of the glass substrate between the antiglare-treated portion that has undergone the antiglare treatment and the non-antiglare-treated portion is 10 ?m or larger and 200 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: AGC INC.Inventors: Hitoshi Mishiro, Keiko Koyama, Minoru Tamada