Patents Examined by Prashant J Khatri
  • Patent number: 9771494
    Abstract: A coating includes an organosiloxane polymer and a mesoporous silica material bonded with the organosiloxane polymer. A monomer of the organosiloxane polymer is and the surface of the mesoporous silica material includes a hydrophilic group. A method for manufacturing the coating includes the following steps. Provide an organosiloxane polymer polymerized from a plurality of organosiloxanes including a terminal functional group. Provide a mesoporous silica precursor including a surface functional group. The organosiloxane polymer and the mesoporous silica precursor are blended in a solution, so that the surface functional group reacts with the terminal functional group to form a bond, and a mesoporous silica material is formed, as well as the surface of the mesoporous silica material includes a hydrophilic group. A film including a thickness of 0.1-500 ?m is formed by the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yu-Yang Su, Chun-Hsiang Wen, Kuo-Tung Huang, Chyi-Ming Leu, Chih-Jen Yang
  • Patent number: 9745455
    Abstract: A multi-layer biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film with a novel formulation which exhibits matte appearance is disclosed. This improved formulation comprises a blend of high density polyethylene (HDPE), medium density polyethylene (MDPE), low density polyethylene (LDPE) or linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) with polypropylene (PP) used in the core layer to achieve a matte appearance low gloss PP-based film that still exhibits typical properties of BOPP films with significantly lower haze than conventional matte films. The multi-layer BOPP film has additional layers such as a second polyolefin resin-containing layer, a metal layer, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY PLASTICS (AMERICA), INC.
    Inventors: Claudio M. Paulino, Keunsuk P. Chang, Christopher D. Roy
  • Patent number: 9738809
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating layer for an anti-glare film that can prevent glaring by reflection of external light on a surface of a display and an anti-glare film comprising the same. The coating layer for an anti-glare film according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises a binder resin, organic particulates, and inorganic particulates, and differences differences between refractive indexes of the binder resin and the organic particulates and between refractive indexes of the binder resin and inorganic particulates are each 0.3 or less. The coating layer for an anti-glare film according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention can provide an anti-glare film having excellent anti-glare property, distinctness-of-image, and contrast, such that the coating layer can be applied to a display having high resolution, and has excellent scratch resistance in terms of a coating thickness of a thin film, such that it is easy to enlarge a polarizing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Hoon Shim, Joon-Koo Kang, Jae-Pil Koo, Yeong-Rae Chang
  • Patent number: 9738784
    Abstract: The present invention provides, among other things, extruded blends of aliphatic polycarbonates and polyolefins. In one aspect, provided blends comprise aliphatic polycarbonates such as poly(propylene carbonate) and a lesser amount of a crystalline or semicrystalline polymer. In certain embodiments, provided blends are characterized in that they exhibit unexpected improvements in their elongation properties. In another aspect, the invention provides methods of making such materials and applications of the materials in applications such as the manufacture of consumer packaging materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Novomer, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Sanjeev Naik
  • Patent number: 9709701
    Abstract: A polycarbonate resin film of the present invention is formed from a polycarbonate resin which contains at least a constitutional unit derived from a dihydroxy compound having a bonded structure represented by the following structural formula (1) and satisfies the following expression (2) when subjected to a tensile test at a standard stretching temperature for the polycarbonate resin and at a pulling speed (strain rate) of 1,000%/min. [Chem. 1] CH2—O??(1) (No hydrogen atom is bonded to the oxygen atom contained in the structural formula (1).) 0.9?[(lower yield stress in tension)/(upper yield stress in tension)]?1??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Tanaka, Michiaki Fuji, Nao Murakami, Takashi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9708215
    Abstract: A transparent glass substrate including on a main face a thin-film multilayer coating including a metallic functional layer having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in solar radiation, for example based on silver or a metal alloy containing silver, and two antireflection films. The films each include at least two dielectric layers, the functional layer being placed between the two antireflection films. Each antireflection film includes at least one high-refractive-index dielectric layer located in contact with or close to the functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Hadia Gerardin, Vincent Reymond
  • Patent number: 9701098
    Abstract: A polyethylene-based resin foam sheet with density of 15 to 150 kg/m3, including a foam layer containing, as a base resin, polyethylene-based resin, and antistatic layer which is lamination bonded to at least one side of the foam layer containing a polymeric antistatic agent and, as base resin, polyethylene-based resin, wherein polymeric antistatic agent melting point of 125 to 140° C. and ratio of its partial heat of fusion in a region above melting point to its total heat of fusion of 40% or lower, wherein antistatic layer contains the polymeric antistatic agent of 45 to 300 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the polyethylene-based resin constituting the antistatic layer, wherein antistatic layer has a weight of 1 to 50 g/m2, and antistatic layer shows initial electrostatic potential of 50 V or lower when a voltage of 10 kV is applied to a surface for 30 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: JSP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Morita, Hirotoshi Kakuta, Ryuichi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 9698379
    Abstract: Provided are an encapsulating film, an electronic device and a method of manufacturing the same. An encapsulating film having excellent moisture blocking property, handleability, workability and durability and a structure including a diode encapsulated with the encapsulating film may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Jee Yoo, Yoon Gyung Cho, Suk Ky Chang, Jung Sup Shim, Seung Min Lee
  • Patent number: 9694559
    Abstract: A cover plate, to cover part of a space between a door and a door surround, comprising at least one pressure element secured to at least part of the external face of the cover plate. The pressure element comprises two sheets, an external sheet and an internal sheet, these two sheets being superposed and fixed together. The internal and external sheets are respectively made from materials that have different thermal expansion properties causing at least a contraction of the internal sheet with respect to the external sheet, at least for a range of temperatures comprised between ?20° C. and ?50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Didier Reynes, Christophe Casse
  • Patent number: 9688057
    Abstract: A multilayered biodegradable film comprising at least one first resin layer and at least one second resin layer, wherein the first and second resin layers are alternately layered; the first resin layer comprises a polylactic acid-based polymer; the second resin layer comprises an aliphatic polyester-based resin or an aliphatic-aromatic copolymerized polyester-based resin; and the film has a coloring peak value of 0.3 or less, a haze of 10% or less, and an elastic modulus of 300 kgf/mm2 or less, exhibits improved flexibility and transparency, which is useful for environmentally friendly packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: SKC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Deuk-Young Lee, Sang Il Kim
  • Patent number: 9678245
    Abstract: A polycarbonate resin film of the present invention is formed from a polycarbonate resin which contains at least a constitutional unit derived from a dihydroxy compound having a bonded structure represented by the following structural formula (1) and satisfies the following expression (2) when subjected to a tensile test at a standard stretching temperature for the polycarbonate resin and at a pulling speed (strain rate) of 1,000%/min. [Chem. 1] CH2—O??(1) (No hydrogen atom is bonded to the oxygen atom contained in the structural formula (1).) 0.9?[(lower yield stress in tension)/(upper yield stress in tension)]?1??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Tanaka, Michiaki Fuji, Nao Murakami, Takashi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9645457
    Abstract: An array substrate has regions in which an intermediate resist film thickness is formed and processed by an intermediate exposure amount which does not completely expose a resist, respectively on a drain electrode, source terminal, and a common connection wiring which are made of a second conductive film. Thin film patterns or a common wiring made of a first conductive film is formed in substantially entire regions on the bottom layers of the regions so that the heights from a substrate are substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Masutani, Shigeaki Noumi, Takeshi Shimamura, Masaru Aoki
  • Patent number: 9637066
    Abstract: Provided is a high-quality and high-functionality glass chopped strand mat which is applicable to recent automotive molded ceiling materials which have excellent design and reduced weights. The glass chopped strand mat is a glass chopped strand mat (M) produced by forming glass chopped strands (S) into a sheet, in which the ratio of a tensile strength in a width direction to a tensile strength in a longitudinal direction (the width direction/the longitudinal direction) of the glass chopped strand mat (M) is at least 0.73 and less than 1.00, and the tensile strength in the width direction is not less than 80 N as measured in a tensile rupture test conducted according to the Japanese Industrial Standards (Section 7.25 of JIS R3420 (2006)), where the width of a test specimen is 150 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiro Abe, Satoshi Nishie, Kiyomasa Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9616520
    Abstract: A friction stir welding member is formed by welding a second member to a first member in such a manner that a second member is stacked on a first member, a material property of the second member being different from a material property of the first member, a pin of a welding tool using a Friction Stir Welding technique is inserted into the second member, welding is started at one end of the second member, and the pin is pulled out at a welding terminal portion before the pin reaches the other end of the second member. A projection projecting toward the welding tool is provided integrally with the second member, the projection is formed so as to have a height that is higher than a length of the pin, and the projection is provided with the welding terminal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Sayama, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Tetsuya Miyahara, Shosuke Ohhama
  • Patent number: 9611647
    Abstract: A thermoplastic single ply protective roof covering may have two pressure sensitive rubber-based adhesive backings. These dual-adhesive backings may be used to provide for a non-heat welded seam having a combination of good seam strength and fire performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Li-Ying Yang
  • Patent number: 9611551
    Abstract: Heat insulating layered systems should have a long service life in addition to excellent heat-insulating properties. Disclosed in an inventive layered system consisting of an external ceramic layer that has a mixed crystal consisting of gadolinium zirconate and gadolinium hafnate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Axel Kaiser, Eckart Schumann, Ramesh Subramanian
  • Patent number: 9604434
    Abstract: A window for a display device, the window including a polymeric substrate, a polymeric layer disposed on a side of the polymeric substrate, and a binder layer interposed between the polymeric substrate and the polymer layer, wherein the binder layer includes a binder and a blue colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju-Suk Oh, Yuki Hongo
  • Patent number: 9607736
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an insulated wire is disclosed. The wire includes a conductor and an insulating film formed on the conductor, the insulating film including a first layer of a first polyamideimide containing an adhesion improver; a second layer of a second polyamideimide obtained by reacting an isocyanate component containing 10 to 70 mol % in total of 2,4?-diphenylmethane diisocyanate and dimer acid diisocyanate with an acid component; and a third layer of a polyimide obtained by reacting an acid component containing 50 to 80 mol % of 3,3?,4,4?-biphenyl tetracarboxylic dianhydride and 20 to 50 mol % of pyromellitic anhydride with a diamine component containing 4,4?-diaminodiphenyl ether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignees: DENSO Corporation, Unimac LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Amano, Shinsuke Sugiura, Kazuomi Hirai, Yumi Nakane, Masatoshi Narita, Tatsumi Hirano, Futoshi Kanemitsu, Yasunari Ashida
  • Patent number: 9601238
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an insulated wire is disclosed. The wire includes a conductor and an insulating film formed on the conductor, the insulating film including a first layer of a first polyamideimide containing an adhesion improver; a second layer of a second polyamideimide obtained by reacting an isocyanate component containing 10 to 70 mol % in total of 2,4?-diphenylmethane diisocyanate and dimer acid diisocyanate with an acid component; and a third layer of a polyimide obtained by reacting an acid component containing 50 to 90 mol % of 3,3?,4,4?-biphenyl tetracarboxylic dianhydride, 5 to 20 mol % of 3,3?,4,4?-benzophenonetetracarboxylic dianhydride and 5 to 40 mol % of pyromellitic anhydride with a diamine component containing 4,4?-diaminodiphenyl ether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignees: DENSO Corporation, Unimac Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Amano, Shinsuke Sugiura, Kazuomi Hirai, Yumi Nakane, Masatoshi Narita, Tatsumi Hirano, Futoshi Kanemitsu, Yasunari Ashida
  • Patent number: 9566770
    Abstract: The polyolefin composite film is excellent in low-temperature heat sealability, heat-sealing strength and transparency, and at least has surface layer [i]//intermediate layer [iii]//core layer[i], wherein the surface layer[i]includes a propylene resin composition including 0-50 wt % of a specific propylene?-olefin random copolymer (A) and/or a specific 1-butene?-olefin copolymer (E), and 50-100 wt % of a propylene polymer (B) having a melting point of 120-170° C. ((A), (E) and (B) in the surface layer totals 100 wt %); the core layer [ii]includes a propylene resin composition including 70-100 wt % of a crystalline polypropylene (C) having a melting point of 150-170° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ikuo Akai, Tomohiro Abe, Takayuki Kuroki