Patents Examined by P. J. Ryan
  • Patent number: 4876133
    Abstract: A transparent substrate and a method of producing the same suitable especially for an optical system for an optical data recording medium using a linearly polarized light as a data reading light such as a magneto-optical recording medium drive unit and an optical data recording medium for reading data using a linearly polarized light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinori Sugiyama, Tetsurou Ikegaki, Mitsuru Shimizu, Yoshitane Tuburaya
  • Patent number: 4874646
    Abstract: An ultrafine tube is produced by a method comprising the steps of applying a highly polymerized material on a substrate to form a resist layer on a surface of said substrate, applying a laser beam to the resist layer under such a condition that said resist layer is melted to form an ultrafine tube between the substrate and resist layer in the predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1989
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tsujino, Yuuji Hamada, Masakazu Sakata, Takanori Fujii, Yukinori Kuwano
  • Patent number: 4873131
    Abstract: An optical recording medium having a thin film layer consisting mainly of an organic dye and formed on a substrate and characterized in that said thin film layer consists mainly of a dye mixture comprising a polymethine dye (A) and an aza-annulene dye (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kashima, Minoru Fukuda
  • Patent number: 4871601
    Abstract: An optical information recording carrier comprises an optical recording layer provided on a transparent substrate, a film coating layer laminated with out adhesion on said optical recording layer, and further a fixing layer laminated thereon to fix said film coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kyo Miura, Hiroyuki Sugata, Yoshihiro Oguchi, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 4871596
    Abstract: Artificial marble is produced by laminating a plurality of prepreg sheets formed by impregnating a porous substrate with a melamine resin composition which is composed of melamine resin and a modifier. The melamine resin is an unmodified melamine resin or an alcohol-etherified melamine resin in which formaldehyde-to-melamine molar ratio is between 1.2 to 3.0. The modifier is selected from alcohol, glycol, acrylic monomer, acrylic oligomer and vinyl acetate monomer. The artificial marble has a good stability in dimensions and it is suitable to apply the artificial marble to a composite panel or a decorative laminate panel which is free from tearing even after long time use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Aica Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kamiya, Masaya Suzuki, Yoshinori Obata, Masaaki Watanabe, Isao Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 4871608
    Abstract: A high-density wiring multi-layered substrate comprising a plurality of sequentially laminated green sheets containing crystallizable glass, each of the green sheets having a conductor paste on the surface thereof, the conductive component of the conductor paste comprising at least about 80 wt % of one copper component selected from copper and copper oxide and at least one member selected from up to about 15 parts by weight of MnO.sub.2 and up to about 10 parts by weight of Ag.sub.2 O based on 100 parts by weight of said copper component in terms of metallic copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Kondo, Asao Morikawa, Hiroshi Iwata, Yoshimasa Shibata
  • Patent number: 4869946
    Abstract: There is disclosed a unique tamperproof security card comprised of a transparent upper layer having narrow parallel lenses on the outer surface, and an image containing substrate, said two layers forming a lenticular system by which images on the substrate are selectively visible depending upon the angle from which the card is viewed. By incorporating into a selectively visible image the information necessary to verify the identify of the cardholder, e.g. the cardholder's photograph or signature, the card may be rendered substantially tamperproof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: Nimslo Corporation
    Inventor: Stanton T. Clay
  • Patent number: 4869939
    Abstract: Air encapsulating cellular material in which failure due to the rupture of individual ones of the cells thereof is substantially prevented. The material comprises a sheet defining a plurality of air encapsulating cells in a substantially uniform pattern. At least a pair of adjacent cells are in flow communication so that upon direct pressure to one of such cells, the air may be displaced and can flow to the adjacent cell. In this manner, air pressure build up in one cell which may otherwise have resulted in its rupture, is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Inventor: Philip J. Santo
  • Patent number: 4869767
    Abstract: The invention consists of an improved method for placing single or multiple patterned layers of conductive material on a substrate. The method provided includes the step of placing or depositing a thin patterned layer of electrically conductive material on a substrate. The procedures used to deposit this layer include mechanically adhering the layer to the substrate then removing portions of it to form a pattern. They also include printing adhesive on the substrate and using it to peel a conductive pattern off of the surface of a transfer agent. After depositing the first conductive pattern, the process prints an insulating layer on top of it. The insulating layer has openings through which the next conductive pattern makes electrical contact with the first. Similarly, the process places other conductive layers and prints other insulating layers between them to produce multiple layers of conductive patterns. The multilayer circuit board provided includes a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard A. Robinson, William E. Brown
  • Patent number: 4868034
    Abstract: A non-oxidizing cooper thick film conductor comprising copper, said copper comprising metallic copper powder and copper oxide powder and applied to said copper are a manganese boron compound, an inorganic phosphate-containing acid and an organic vehicle, wherein the manganese boron compound ranges from 0.5 to 1.5 weight %, based on the total conductor weight and wherein the amount of phosphate is 50 to 300 ppm based on the weight of the metallic copper powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: Heraeus Incorporated Cermalloy Division
    Inventor: Jerry I. Steinberg
  • Patent number: 4865897
    Abstract: This invention relates to rigid molded tong inserts for take-out tong members for handling hot glass articles and the like immediately following their molding. The inserts are utilized in pairs being heat and wear-resistant with exposed metallic working surfaces substantially surrounded by molded thermoset-hardened heat-cured insulating plastic material. The inserts have essentially flat parallel surfaces with a metallic reinforcing member integrally molded therewithin, the metallic reinforcing member having a semi-circular shaped exposed working surface adapted to directly contacting the finish area of the hot glass articles and a diametrically-disposed exposed flanged working surface adapted to non-wearing support within a retaining metallic take-out tong member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Dura Temp Corporation
    Inventors: Wolfgang W. Bode, Burton W. Spear
  • Patent number: 4865875
    Abstract: A low dielectric constant material for use in the formation of thick film circuits such as VLSI devices. The material comprises a thick film insulation matrix of standard viscosity; a thick film organic vehicle; and a plurality of dry, hollow, glass microspheres. The insulation matrix, vehicle, and microspheres are thoroughly combined into a homogeneous material of standard viscosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventor: David Kellerman
  • Patent number: 4863718
    Abstract: An insecticide composition preferably composed of approximately 79% petroleum jelly, 20% aluminium phosphide in powder form and 1% additive catalyst and method of application, is disclosed. The composition is applied to orifices made by insects which attack fruit bearing trees, particularly orange-tree borers. The composition is characterized by the release of phosphine gas upon its exposure to air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Casa Bernardo Ltd.
    Inventor: Orlando Bernardo
  • Patent number: 4861656
    Abstract: An optical recording medium comprising a recording layer on a substrate is more durable when an intermediate layer of a composition comprising a rare earth element oxide, silicon oxide, and silicon nitride is formed between the substrate and the recording layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Uchiyama, Hideki Ishizaki, Suguru Takayama
  • Patent number: 4861640
    Abstract: A molded circuit board is formed with a nonconductive molded polymer substrate base having at least one channel in a surface thereof. A sputtered conductive film is disposed in the channel on a virgin polymer surface thereof to establish a circuit line in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Ismail M. Gurol
  • Patent number: 4861586
    Abstract: A prefabricated animal bait containing a carrier substance and a pharmaceutically active substance, for example, a vaccine against rabies. The carrier substance contains a fat component and an additive to stabilize the shape retention of the bait, with both components being selected in such a manner that the mixture is pasty for processing and does not break in the temperature range in which it will be used. The bait is produced in such a manner that, in a deep-drawn mold, the carrier substance completely surrounds, and envelopes a pre-assembled unit of the active substance so that the bait merely needs to be pressed out of this carrier foil when it is to be used. Economical industrial production of prefabricated bait in a simple manner, easily and optimally adaptable to the respective animal species and its habitat with respect to temperature and moisture is provided. A particular simlification results from the use of fish meal as the additive since it simultaneously acts as a lure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Hartmut Klocke
    Inventors: Lothar Schneider, Irma Schneider
  • Patent number: 4861648
    Abstract: The invention provides a stratiform press sheet useful in laminating three-dimensional flexible printed circuits on a flat bed press, the sheet having a median conformable layer comprising a polymeric thermoplastic film; a polymeric release layer; a stabilizing layer made of a sheet of metal foil; and adhesive means to bond the above components in a single, stratiform sheet. The metal foil is functional at both the conventional lower laminating temperatures and the higher temperatures approaching 600 degrees F., and accordingly by careful selection of the other components it is possible to provide unified stratiform press pad sheets accommodating a wide range of laminating temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Gila River Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric W. Kleinschmidt, Thomas M. Kloss, Jr., William R. Bell
  • Patent number: 4859536
    Abstract: Optical components (16), particularly germanium components, are provided with a coating on exposed surface (15) within a vacuum chamber (17) by production of a glow discharge plasma containing carbon and another depositable element from feedstock gases which are fed to the chamber (17) via mass-glow rate controllers (9, 10, 11). The mass flow rate of the feedstock gases is maintained substantially constant at predetermined levels during respective time intervals to provide a multilayer coating of predetermined characteristics. Typically the coating has at least one first layer which is amorphous hydrogenated germanium carbide, at least one second layer which is amorphous hydrogenated germanium and at least one third layer which is amorphous hydrogenated carbon, these layers being ordered such that each second layer is bounded on each side by a first layer and the third layer is bounded on one side by a first layer, the other side of the third layer forming the exposed surface of the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Barr & Stroud Limited
    Inventors: Ewan M. Waddell, James S. Orr, Brian C. Monachan
  • Patent number: 4857387
    Abstract: A printed circuit comprising an electrically insulating substrate and an electrically conductive layer on the substrate, this layer being a pseudo-elastic or elastically deformable alloy that undergoes significant deformations in a reversible manner and is a copper alloy containing at least 50% by weight copper in the form of large-grained polycrystals that undergo martensitic transformation. Preferably, the layer contains 60-80% by weight of copper, the large-grained polycrystals having a grain size of at least about 3 mm. The martensitic transformation takes place within the temperature range -55.degree. C. to +125.degree. C., and the layer has a thickness between 30.mu. and 200.mu., preferably about 100.mu..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: Cimulec, S.A.
    Inventors: Eberhardt, Andre, Serge Dominiak, Marcel Berveiller, Jean P. Lucas, Robert P. Y. Guyon
  • Patent number: 4857383
    Abstract: A method of improving the adhesion between a synthetic substrate and metallized layers deposited thereon. A glass resin layer is spin-coated onto an epoxide substrate. The glass layer is covered by a photoresist layer which is roughened by reactive ion etching. The roughened contour of the photoresist layer is transferred via reactive ion etching to form a perforation pattern in the glass layer. The substrate is then etched vertically and horizontally to produce recesses in the substrate having overhanging walls. A thin copper layer is sputtered onto the substrate and copper conductors are sputtered onto the thin copper layer, the copper layers filling the recesses. The recesses and overhangs form mortices in the substrate, and the copper layers within the recess form tenons which fittingly engage with the mortices to produce adhesion between the substrate and the metallized layers in the order of 1000 n/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Johann Greschner, Friedrich W. Schwerdt, Hans J. Trumpp