Patents Examined by Prashant J Khatri
  • Patent number: 12044823
    Abstract: Provided is a laminated film that can be molded into a complicated shape. A laminated film comprising a transparent support substrate; an uncured hard coat layer formed on at least one surface of the transparent support substrate; and an uncured optical interference layer formed on the uncured hard coat layer, wherein the uncured hard coat layer comprises an active energy ray-curable composition for forming a hard coat layer, the uncured optical interference layer comprises an active energy ray-curable composition for forming a optical interference layer, a thickness of the transparent support substrate is 50 ?m or more and 600 ?m or less, a luminous reflectance including regular reflected light measured from an uncured optical interference layer side is 0.1% or more and 4.0% or less, and a stretch ratio at 160° C. is 50% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma Okada, Takamitsu Watanabe, Takeki Hosokawa, Kei Takigawa, Kazuhito Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12037524
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an adhesive tape that has high conformability and high adhesion to an adherend, particularly, to a hard adherend and that has high removability such that the adhesive tape, when peeled off, can be easily peeled off if it is stretched not only in the horizontal direction of the adhesive tape but also at an angle, without the need to embrittle the adhesive tape, for example, by heating or by using an organic solvent and without leaving an adhesive on the adherend. The present invention relates to an adhesive tape including an adhesive layer containing a filler. The adhesive tape has a thickness of more than 150 ?m and less than 1,500 ?m, an elongation at break of 600% to 3,000%, and a tensile strength at break of 2.5 to 80.0 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Watanabe, Takamine Sugiura
  • Patent number: 12037481
    Abstract: Provided is a curable organopolysiloxane composition for forming a film, which has low viscosity before curing, has excellent mechanical strength and dielectric breakdown strength after curing, and can provide a uniform and thin organopolysiloxane cured film. The curable organopolysiloxane composition comprises: a curing reactive organopolysiloxane, a curing agent, (D1) reinforcing fine particles having a BET specific surface area exceeding 100 m2/g, which have been surface treated with an organic silicon compound, and (D2) reinforcing fine particles having a BET specific surface area within a range of 10 to 100 m2/g, which have been surface treated with an organic silicon compound. The mass ratio of components (D1) and (D2) is within a range of 50:50 to 99:1, and the sum of components (D1) and (D2) is within a range of 10 to 40 mass %. A method of manufacturing an organopolysiloxane cured film using the curable organopolysiloxane composition is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: DOW TORAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukui, Kyoko Toyama, Norihisa Kishimoto, Hiroshi Ueki
  • Patent number: 12032119
    Abstract: An optical stack structure includes a metal nanowire layer and an organic polymer layer. A crosslinking degree of the organic polymer layer is greater than or equal to 80% and less than or equal to 100%, and a content of volatile organic compounds in the organic polymer layer is less than or equal to 1%. The content of the volatile organic compounds in the organic polymer layer is defined as a difference between a thermal weight loss of the organic polymer layer measured at a measuring temperature and a water content of the organic polymer layer measured at the measuring temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TPK Advanced Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Huang Chen, Ching Mao Huang, Wei Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 12023895
    Abstract: A composite pane includes an outer pane, an inner pane, and a thermoplastic intermediate layer. The composite pane has, between the outer and inner panes, a solar protection coating that substantially reflects or absorbs rays outside the visible spectrum of solar radiation. The solar protection coating includes starting from the outer pane, a layer sequence of first dielectric module (M1), first silver layer (Ag1), second dielectric module (M2), second silver layer (Ag2), third dielectric module (M3), third dielectric module (M3), third silver layer (Ag3), fourth dielectric module (M4), wherein the silver layers (Ag1, Ag2, Ag3) have a layer thickness relative to one another of Ag1/Ag2>1 and Ag1/Ag3>1, and the dielectric modules (M1, M2, M3, M4) have a relative layer thickness of M2/M1>1, M2/M3>1, and M2/M4>1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Stefanie Pengel, Yael Bronstein, Norbert Huhn, Xavier Caillet
  • Patent number: 12012355
    Abstract: Provided herein are glass substrate multilayer structure, a manufacturing method thereof, and a flexible display panel including the same. Also provided is a glass substrate multilayer structure that has remarkably good surface hardness, has remarkably good impact resistance, can provide for safety of a user by resisting scattering when the glass substrate is broken, and has excellent optical properties. The disclosure also relates to a manufacturing method the glass substrate multilayer structure, and a flexible display panel including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: SK Innovation Co., Ltd., SK ie technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheol Min Yun
  • Patent number: 11999134
    Abstract: A laminated glass according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first glass plate, a second glass plate, and an interlayer film held between the first glass plate and the second glass plate. When a relative dielectric constant of the first glass plate is represented by ?g1; a relative dielectric constant of the second glass plate is represented by ?g2; a relative dielectric constant of a first interlayer film provided in a first region of the interlayer film is represented by ?m1; a reflection coefficient at an interface between the first glass plate and the first interlayer film is represented by ?1; and a reflection coefficient at an interface between the second glass plate and the first interlayer film is represented by ?2, the reflection coefficients ?1 and ?2 satisfy relations 0.0??1?0.2 and 0.0??2?0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Kidera, Kazuhiko Niwano, Shoichi Takeuchi, Tetsuo Abe, Yutaka Kuroiwa
  • Patent number: 11997916
    Abstract: Provided is a polyester film for foldable displays that is unlikely to have cracks in the folding portion with the aim of providing a foldable display that is excellent in mass production applicability, and that does not have image distortion that may appear in the folding portion after the display is repeatedly folded. The polyester film has a thickness of 10 to 80 ?m, a refractive index in the bending direction of 1.590 to 1.620, a refractive index in the direction of a folding portion of 1.670 to 1.700, a refractive index in the thickness direction of 1.520 or less, and a density of 1.380 g/cm3 or more, wherein the bending direction refers to a direction orthogonal to the folding portion of the polyester film to be folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Nishio, Kiwamu Kawai, Akira Shimizu, Katsuya Ito
  • Patent number: 11993938
    Abstract: An organic fiber toughened inorganic composite artificial stone panel and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The panel includes a surface layer, an intermediate organic fiber toughened layer and a toughened base layer. The surface layer includes the following components: 40-70 parts of quartz sand, 20-30 parts of quartz powder, 20-45 parts of inorganic active powder, 0.5-4 parts of pigment, 0.1-3 part of water reducing agent and 3-10 parts of water. The intermediate organic fiber toughened layer includes the following components: 40-60 parts of inorganic active powder, 45-65 parts of sand, 0.8-1.5 parts of water reducing agent, 6-14 parts of water and 4-8 parts of organic fiber. The toughened base layer includes the following components: 30-50 parts of inorganic active powder, 30-55 parts of quartz sand, 15-20 parts of quartz powder, 0.5-1.2 parts of water reducing agent, 4-8 parts of water and 0.8-2.5 parts of toughener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG TOPNICE NEW MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heming Huang, Fucai Liu
  • Patent number: 11977422
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a display device, and an electronic device. The display panel comprises a panel main body. The panel main body comprises a first portion, a second portion and a bendable third portion, and the third portion is located between the first portion and the second portion. A reinforcement layer is provided on a first face of the first portion to make a stiffness of the first portion higher than a stiffness of the third portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiaxiang Wang, Binfeng Feng, Yangyang Cai, Yanli Wang, Xinqi Lin, Chao Zhang, Wei Gong
  • Patent number: 11975124
    Abstract: Provided are multilayer synthetic rubber compositions formed from a layer of a styrene block copolymer composition and a layer of one or more synthetic elastomers, such as polychloroprene, polyisoprene, nitrile rubber, styrene butadiene rubber, butyl rubber and polyurethane. The multilayer compositions find use in the manufacture of thin walled articles, for example gloves, particularly medical or industrial gloves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Ineo Tech Sdn Bhd
    Inventors: Sebastien Treilhes, Pierre Hoerner
  • Patent number: 11969976
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to multilayer films. Embodiments of the multilayer films may include a first layer comprising a first polyolefin, a second layer comprising a second polyolefin, a third layer comprising a third polyolefin, fourth layer comprising a fourth polyolefin, and a fifth layer comprising a fifth polyolefin. The second layer may be positioned between the first layer and the third layer; the third layer may be positioned between the second layer and the fourth layer; and the fourth layer may be positioned between the third layer and the fifth layer. Two or more of the first polyolefin, second polyolefin, third polyolefin, and fourth polyolefin may be the same or different. The third polyolefin may be a polyethylene composition having a density of 0.924 g/cm3 to 0.936 g/cm3 and a melt index (I2) of 0.25 g/10 minutes to 2.0 g/10 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Dow Quimica De Colombia S.A.
    Inventors: Jorge Mario Rodriguez Camelo, Marlos Guintini de Oliveira, Nicolas Cardoso Mazzola, Sanjib Biswas, Joshua B. Gaubert, Douglas S. Ginger, Mridula Kapur, Didem Oner-Deliormanli, Mehmet Demirors
  • Patent number: 11971560
    Abstract: Optical films are described. In particular, optical films including a broadband polymeric multilayer optical reflector and a discontinuous transparent coating disposed on the broadband multilayer optical reflector, where the discontinuous transparent coating includes an array of dots are described. Such films may provide reduced coefficients of friction while still having high specular reflectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Jeremy O. Swanson, Matthew S. Stay, Matthew R. D. Smith
  • Patent number: 11969984
    Abstract: A laminate includes a core obtained by impregnating a mat of fibers with a thermoplastic resin (B); and a skin obtained by impregnating continuous fiber(s) with a thermoplastic resin (A), wherein sheet-form intermediate substrates in the laminate have a thermal expansibility, the usable temperature region of said thermoplastic resin (A) and that of said thermoplastic resin (B) overlap over a temperature range of at least 5° C., said thermoplastic resin (A) has a temperature region that does not melt at a lower limit of said usable temperature region, said fibers contained in said mat penetrate through interface layers formed by said thermoplastic resin (A) and said thermoplastic resin (B), and said thermoplastic resin (A) and said thermoplastic resin (B) form interface layers each with a concave-convex shape having a maximum height Ry of not less than 50 ?m and an average roughness Rz of not less than 30 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Takebe, Hiroki Kihara, Noriyuki Hirano
  • Patent number: 11960057
    Abstract: An ophthalmic article having a coating system which provides antireflective and easy clean properties to the ophthalmic article. The coating system includes alternating layers of low refractive index metal oxide and high refractive index metal oxynitrides and corresponding high refractive index metal oxides. The coating system provides favorable surface energy to the ophthalmic article when at least one layer of the high refractive index metal oxynitride is encapsulated between two layers of low refractive index metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HOYA Optical Labs of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Marshall, Jeffrey Brown
  • Patent number: 11958236
    Abstract: Methods of layerwise fabrication of a three-dimensional object, and objected obtained thereby are provided. The methods are effected by dispensing at least a first modeling formulation and a second modeling formulation to form a core region using both said first and said second modeling formulations, an inner envelope region at least partially surrounding said core region using said first modeling formulation but not said second modeling formulation, and an outer envelope region at least partially surrounding said inner envelope region using said second modeling formulations but not said first modeling formulation; and exposing said layer to curing energy, thereby fabricating the object, The first and second modeling formulations are selected such they differ from one another, when hardened, by at least one of Heat Deflection Temperature (HDT), Izod Impact resistance, Tg and elastic modulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Stratasys Ltd.
    Inventor: Avraham Levy
  • Patent number: 11947073
    Abstract: An eye-mountable device is provided that includes a plurality of rigid polymer layers separated by liquid crystal layers. Certain eye-mountable devices includes a first rigid polymer layer, a second rigid polymer layer, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second rigid polymer layers. The liquid crystal layer has a refractive index that is electrically controllable between an ordinary refractive index and an extraordinary refractive index, and the first rigid polymer layer and second rigid polymer layer include materials having a refractive index similar to the ordinary refractive index of the liquid crystal layer. The first rigid polymer layer and second rigid polymer layer may also include a combination of monomer-derived units that provide cast-moldable materials with high oxygen permeability. Methods for fabricating the eye-mountable device and for changing the focal length of the eye-mountable device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Twenty Twenty Therapeutics LLC
    Inventors: Scott Kennedy, Jeffrey George Linhardt, Angela DiCiccio
  • Patent number: 11945195
    Abstract: A water barrier laminate including inorganic barrier and water-trapping layers alternately arranged in order from the side facing the device to the outer side: a first inorganic barrier layer, a first water-trapping layer, a second inorganic barrier layer, a second water-trapping layer and a third inorganic barrier layer. A water-permeable underlying plastic layer is provided on one side of these inorganic barrier layers; a distance L1a between the first water-trapping layer and the first inorganic barrier layer and a distance L2a between the second water-trapping layer and the second barrier satisfy formulas (1) and (2): L1a<3 ?m??(1) L2a<3 ?m??(2) and a distance L1b between the second inorganic barrier layer and the first water-trapping layer satisfies formula (3): L1b?3 ?m??(3) by interposing a water-permeable organic layer therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shunya Nangou, Shinpei Okuyama, Misato Kawanishi, Keisuke Takayama
  • Patent number: 11939499
    Abstract: Provided is a laminated film for a foldable display, the laminated film being free of occurrence of a fold mark or a crack at a folding portion thereof, in order to provide, for example, a foldable display excellent in mass productivity, and free of a risk of causing distortion in an image displayed at a folding portion thereof after being repeatedly folded. The laminated film for a foldable display includes: a polyester film having a thickness of from 10 ?m to 100 ?m; and an adhesive layer formed on at least one surface of the polyester film, wherein the polyester film satisfies the following conditions: (1) a refractive index in a bending direction is from 1.590 to 1.620; (2) a refractive index in a folding portion direction is from 1.670 to 1.700; (3) a refractive index in a thickness direction is 1.520 or less; and (4) a density is 1.380 g/cm3 or more, wherein the bending direction refers to a direction orthogonal to a folding portion of the polyester film at a time when the polyester film is folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Nishio, Kiwamu Kawai, Akira Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11934226
    Abstract: Provided is a foldable display that is excellent in mass production applicability and unlikely to have image distortion at the folding portion of the display after repeated folding, as well as a mobile device equipped therewith. The foldable display contains a surface protection film and a polarizer. The surface protection film is composed of a polyester film, and the angle made by the slow axis of the polyester film with the absorption axis of the polarizer is 10 to 80°. The polyester film has a refractive index in the bending direction of 1.590 to 1.620, a refractive index in the direction of a folding portion of 1.670 to 1.700, a refractive index in the thickness direction of 1.520 or less, and a density of 1.380 g/cm3 or more, wherein the bending direction refers to a direction orthogonal to the folding portion of the polyester film to be folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Nishio, Kiwamu Kawai, Akira Shimizu, Katsuya Ito