Patents Examined by Noah S Wiese
  • Refractory molded body, compounds, binders, and method for producing same
    Patent number: 10870605
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound for making high-temperature-resistant or refractory molded bodies, made up of a mixture of: a refractory or high-temperature-resistant inorganic powder, granules and/or granulate, including a free-flowing compound or a powder made of carbon or also without carbon, a binder, the binder being made of a combination of tannin, lactose, fine-grained silica and aluminum powder, as well as the binder itself, and molded bodies produced from the compound including the binder, and a method of making same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: REFRACTORY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Erwan Gueguen, Christos G. Aneziris, Christiane Biermann, Antoine Ducastel
  • Ceramic dielectric, method of manufacturing the same, ceramic electronic component, and electronic device
    Patent number: 10872725
    Abstract: A ceramic dielectric includes a plurality of semi-conductive grains including a semiconductor oxide including barium (Ba), titanium (Ti), and a rare earth element. A ceramic dielectric also includes an insulative oxide located between adjacent semiconductor grains and an acceptor element including manganese (Mn), magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), iron (Fe), scandium (Sc), gallium (Ga), or a combination thereof, a method of manufacturing the ceramic dielectric, and a ceramic electronic component, and an electronic device including the ceramic dielectric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Seok Moon, Hyeon Cheol Park, Chan Kwak, Hyun Sik Kim, Daejin Yang, Youngjin Cho
  • Ceramic powder and method for producing same
    Patent number: 10865135
    Abstract: The present invention provides a ceramic powder, in which ?-eucryptite or a ?-quartz solid solution is precipitated as a main crystal phase, and which includes TiO2 and/or ZrO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Hirose
  • Method for recycling solar cell module glass
    Patent number: 10865137
    Abstract: To provide a method for recycling a solar cell module glass, which enables development of other novel applications of a waste glass of a solar cell module while controlling an elution amount of Sb from the waste glass into water. Disclosed is a method for recycling a solar cell module glass, the method comprising: grinding a solar cell module glass into a glass powder; adding at least one foaming agent selected from SiC, CaCO3 and a seashell, and a particular inhibitor to the glass powder to produce a mixture; and heating the mixture to 700 to 1,100° C. to produce a foam glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Tottori Resource Recycling Inc.
    Inventors: Shigenori Nakano, Hiroki Tanaka
  • Open vessels and their use
    Patent number: 10865150
    Abstract: Vessels such as crucibles, pans, open cups and saggars, containing a monolithic ceramic material, and a ceramic matrix composite, wherein the monolithic ceramic material is an inner part. A method for making oxide materials that can be utilized in the contact with corrosive materials and that allows for higher conversions in a given heating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventor: Benedikt Kalo
  • Method for making a three dimensional object
    Patent number: 10858254
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making a three dimensional carbon structure and also to a sintered article comprising pyrolysed carbon particles. The method comprises sintering a powdered organic material, preferably using selective laser sintering, to form a sintered three dimensional structure having a desired shape. The sintered structure is then pyrolysed to form the final carbon structure. The method is particularly useful in the production of biomedical implants such as bone scaffolds and joint replacements. In some embodiments, the powdered organic material is lignin which provides a renewable and highly cost effective starting material for the method of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: London Forest Products Limited
    Inventor: Patrick John Morris
  • Method for making an AlO—cBN composite
    Patent number: 10858292
    Abstract: Conventional sintering processes convert a portion of cBN to hBN which is softer than cBN which negatively affects functional properties of an alumina composite. The invention is directed to method for making an alumina-cubic boron nitride (Al2O3-cBN) composite that contains substantially no hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) by non-conventional spark plasma sintering of cBN with nano-sized alumina particles. The invention is also directed to Al2O3-cBN/Ni composites, which contain substantially no hBN, and which exhibit superior physical and mechanical properties compared to alumina composites containing higher amounts of hBN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: Abbas Saeed Hakeem, Tahar Laoui, Hafiz Muzammil Irshad, Bilal Anjum Ahmed, Muhammad Ali Ehsan
  • Thermally insulating materials including spherical, hollow inorganic particles
    Patent number: 10843970
    Abstract: The invention concerns thermally insulating materials comprising the aforementioned particles, a process for the preparation of these particles and materials obtained by incorporation of these particles into matrices. The present invention also concerns inorganic spherical and hollow inorganic particles with low apparent density imparting thermal properties to various types of matrices in which they are dispersed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: PYLOTE
    Inventors: Loïc Marchin, Marie-Laure Desse
  • Metal doped cerium oxide compositions
    Patent number: 10844258
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for the production of metal doped cerium compositions comprising a cerium oxide and a metal oxide by precipitation. The invention also concerns metal doped cerium compositions providing high crystallites size and exhibiting high thermal stabilities, which may be used as a catalytic support or for polishing applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: RHODIA OPERATIONS
    Inventors: Naotaka Ohtake, Manabu Yuasa, Toshihiro Sasaki, Eisaku Suda, Lauriane Dalencon
  • CBN composite formation method including consolidation
    Patent number: 10843971
    Abstract: Conventional sintering processes convert a portion of cBN to hBN which is softer than cBN which negatively affects functional properties of an alumina composite. The invention is directed to method for making an alumina-cubic boron nitride (Al2O3-cBN) composite that contains substantially no hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) by non-conventional spark plasma sintering of cBN with nano-sized alumina particles. The invention is also directed to Al2O3-cBN/Ni composites, which contain substantially no hBN, and which exhibit superior physical and mechanical properties compared to alumina composites containing higher amounts of hBN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: Abbas Saeed Hakeem, Tahar Laoui, Hafiz Muzammil Irshad, Bilal Anjum Ahmed, Muhammad Ali Ehsan
  • Ceramic particles for use in a solar power tower
    Patent number: 10830497
    Abstract: Ceramic particles for use in a solar power tower and methods for making and using the ceramic particles are disclosed. The ceramic particle can include a sintered ceramic material formed from a mixture of a ceramic raw material and a darkening component comprising MnO as Mn2+. The ceramic particle can have a size from about 8 mesh to about 170 mesh and a density of less than 4 g/cc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: CARBO CERAMICS INC.
    Inventors: Claude Krause, Benjamin Eldred, Steve Canova
  • Method of fabricating a ceramic composite
    Patent number: 10822282
    Abstract: A method of making a ceramic composite component includes providing a fibrous preform or a plurality of fibers, providing a first plurality of particles, coating the first plurality of particles with a coating to produce a first plurality of coated particles, delivering the first plurality of coated particles to the fibrous preform or to an outer surface of the plurality of fibers, and converting the first plurality of coated particles into refractory compounds. The first plurality of particles or the coating comprises a refractory metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Wayde R. Schmidt, Paul Sheedy
  • High-zirconia electrocast refractory and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 10815155
    Abstract: To provide a high-zirconia electrocast refractory in which occurrence of cracks in manufacture and occurrence of cracks in use as a furnace material is further reduced while maintaining extremely high corrosion resistance to molten glass. The high-zirconia electrocast refractory contains 96.7 to 98.5 mass % of ZrO2, 0.8 to 2.7 mass % of SiO2, 0 to 0.2 mass % of Na2O, 0.21 to 1 mass % of K2O, 0.1 to 0.4 mass % of Al2O3, and does not substantially contain B2O3, in terms of oxide, as a chemical composition, wherein contents of the Na2O and the K2O satisfy a relation of following Formula (1) 0.15 mass %?CK2O/2+CNa2O?0.6 mass %??(1) where CK2O is the content of K2O and CNa2O is the content of Na2O, and each of the contents is expressed by mass % in the refractory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: AGC CERAMICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Matano, Nobuo Tomura
  • Ceramic powder, composite powder material, and sealing material
    Patent number: 10807905
    Abstract: Provided is a ceramic powder having precipitated therein ?-eucryptite or a ?-quartz solid solution as a main crystal phase, having an average particle diameter D50 of 20 ?m or less, and having a negative thermal expansion coefficient in a range of from 30° C. to 300° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Hirose
  • Silver-containing calcium phosphate sintered body and method for producing same
    Patent number: 10800708
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an antibacterial material capable of sustaining antibacterial properties for a long time. The object can be solved by a silver-containing calcium phosphate sintered body having silver particles therein, wherein an average particle diameter of the silver particles is 0.01 to 0.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ikoma, Tomoaki Sugiyama, Hiroaki Igashira, Yugo Fukuyama, Michimasa Kamo, Masayuki Kyomoto, Takashi Sasaki
  • Dielectric ceramic composition and multilayer ceramic capacitor
    Patent number: 10804033
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a dielectric ceramic composition having good properties, particularly good IR property and high temperature accelerated lifetime. The dielectric ceramic composition of the present invention has a main component made of a perovskite type compound expressed by a compositional formula of (Ba1-x-ySrxCay)m(Ti1-zZrz)O3 (note that, m, x, y, and z of the above compositional formula all represent molar ratios, and each satisfies 0.9?m?1.1, 0?x?0.5, 0?y?0.3, 0?(x+y)?0.6, and 0.03?z?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dan Sakurai, Toshihiko Kaneko, Nobuto Morigasaki, Toshinari Takahashi, Yasuhiro Ito
  • Multi-phase ceramic composite
    Patent number: 10800709
    Abstract: A ceramic composite can include a first ceramic phase and a second ceramic phase. The first ceramic phase can include a silicon carbide. The second phase can include a boron carbide. In an embodiment, the silicon carbide in the first ceramic phase can have a grain size in a range of 0.8 to 200 microns. The first phase, the second phase, or both can further include a carbon. In another embodiment, at least one of the first ceramic phase and the second ceramic phase can have a median minimum width of at least 5 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CERAMICS AND PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Diana R. Tierney, Matthew Creedon, Tom J. Trunzo, Kenneth R. Delahunty
  • Single phase fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composites
    Patent number: 10793478
    Abstract: Ceramic composite materials that are reinforced with carbide fibers can exhibit ultra-high temperature resistance. For example, such materials may exhibit very low creep at temperatures of up to 2700° F. (1480° C.). The present composites are specifically engineered to exhibit matched thermodynamically stable crystalline phases between the materials included within the composite. In other words, the reinforcing fibers, a debonding interface layer disposed over the reinforcing fibers, and the matrix material of the composite may all be of the same crystalline structural phase (all hexagonal), for increased compatibility and improved properties. Such composite materials may be used in numerous applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ADVANCED CERAMIC FIBERS, LLC.
    Inventor: John E. Garnier
  • Glass plate
    Patent number: 10788172
    Abstract: A glass plate, with a thickness ? of 1.0 mm or more, having first and second main surfaces and end surfaces, includes 1 to 80 weight ppm of iron in terms of Fe2O3 with 0.1 to 10.0 weight ppm of Fe2+; and 0.1 to 10.0 weight ppm of Ni, Mn, Cr, Co and V in total. In a sample with a size of 50 mm×50 mm×? obtained from the glass plate, and an arithmetic average roughness of the main surfaces and first and second cut surfaces being 0.1 ?m or less, a first average absorbance coefficient for a wavelength of 400 to 700 nm measured on the first main surface in a normal direction is 0.009 or less, and a ratio of a second average absorbance coefficient measured on the first cut surface, to the first absorbance coefficient is 1.3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Arai, Naoya Wada, Hiroyuki Hijiya, Tetsuya Nakashima
  • Method of forming graphene/metal-oxide hybrid reinforced composites and product thereof
    Patent number: 10781142
    Abstract: A graphene/metal-oxide hybrid reinforced composite and a method for a graphene/metal-oxide hybrid reinforced composite. The method includes freeze drying a slurry comprising graphene oxide and flakes to form a flake-graphene oxide foam. The graphene/metal-oxide hybrid reinforced composite comprises graphene, metal, and metal oxide nanoparticles. The metal is arranged in parallel lamellar structure to form metal layers in the composite. The metal oxide nanoparticles are present at the interfaces between the metal layers and the graphene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Xiaodong Li, Yunya Zhang