Patents Examined by Prashant J Khatri
  • Patent number: 11453025
    Abstract: The invention relates to a biaxially oriented polypropylene film (BOPP) comprising layers (A) to (D), wherein layers (B) to (D) contain biaxially oriented polypropylene and layer (A) contains polyurethane and nanoparticles and has a layer thickness of 25 to 300 nm, layer (B) contains polymers with functional groups that are capable of forming covalent bonds with polyurethane and is directly connected to layer (A), layer (C) has at least a layer thickness of 50% of the total thickness of the film, and layer (D) represents an outer layer of the film containing an anti-blocking agent. The invention also relates to a method for producing films of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Brückner Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Willi Lindemann, Martin Wolf
  • Patent number: 11447165
    Abstract: A train window structure and a train with the train window structure, the train window structure comprises a train window frame; train window glass arranged on the train window frame and internally provided with a hollow structure; and a display arranged in the hollow structure to display information on the train window glass, and information is displayed on the display in the hollow structure and is provided for passengers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: CRRC QINGDAO SIFANG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sansan Ding, Yali Jia, Kainan Mao, Peng Gao, Shanshan Wang, Yu Zeng, Zhong Li, Yuwen Liu, Zhenzhong Wang
  • Patent number: 11442200
    Abstract: A low-reflection coated glass sheet of the present invention includes a glass sheet and a low-reflection coating. The low-reflection coating is formed on at least a portion of one principal surface of the glass sheet and contains a binder containing silica as a main component, fine silica particles bound by the binder, and fine titania particles bound by the binder. The low-reflection coating satisfies the following relationships: 30 mass %<CSP<68 mass %; 12 mass %?CTP<50 mass %; 20 mass %<CBinder<43.75 mass %; CTP/CBinder?0.6; CBinder<25 mass % in the case of CSP?55 mass %; and CTP>20 mass % in the case of CSP<55 mass %. The low-reflection coated glass sheet has a transmittance gain of 2.0% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Mizuho Koyo, Tatsuhiro Nakazawa, Mitsuhiro Kawazu
  • Patent number: 11442209
    Abstract: The invention provides a multilayer laminated film containing a multilayer laminated structure of alternately laminated first and second layers, and a thick film layer in contact therewith. The multilayer laminated structure has a layer thickness profile in terms of the physical thickness of repeating first and second layers. The layer thickness profile has a monotonously increasing thickness region and a thin layer region, which has at least three repeating units, a L2/L1 ratio of 0.85 or less, and a A2/L1 ratio of 0.70 or less, where L1 is the maximum repeating unit thickness in the monotonously increasing thickness region, L2 is the maximum repeating unit thickness in the thin layer region, and A2 is the average repeating unit thickness in the thin layer region. The thin layer region is on the thicker side of the monotonously increasing thickness region and in contact with the thick film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Amane Hirose, Mitsuo Tojo
  • Patent number: 11434397
    Abstract: Disclosed are a double-sided adhesive film for bonding heterogeneous substrates, a laminated film, and a display device. The double-sided adhesive film for bonding heterogeneous substrates comprises: a first adhesive layer; and second adhesive layer which is disposed on the first adhesive layer and has a different adhesive force from that of the first adhesive layer to the same substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Kim, Ji Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11428848
    Abstract: An anti-reflective film including: a hard coating layer; and a low refractive index layer containing a binder resin, and two or more kind of hollow inorganic particles having different particle diameters measured by dynamic light scattering (DLS), wherein the two or more kind of hollow inorganic particles having different particle diameters include one kind of hollow inorganic particles having a particle diameter of 40 nm to 60 nm and one kind of hollow inorganic particles having a particle diameter of 65 nm to 100 nm, and a display apparatus comprising the anti-reflective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jinseok Byun, Jung Hyun Seo, Kwangseok Seo, Yeongrae Chang
  • Patent number: 11428849
    Abstract: A composite film may include a first transparent substrate and a first anti-reflective coating overlying a first surface of the first transparent substrate. The first anti-reflective coating may include fluorothermoplastic material and an acrylated polydimethylsiloxane. The composite film may further have a VLT of at least about 93.0% and a haze value of not greater than about 2.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yongzhong Wang
  • Patent number: 11413851
    Abstract: A viscoelastic plastic interlayer intended to be arranged between two glass sheets of a glazing in order to provide it with vibroacoustic damping properties, includes two outer layers of thermoplastic adhesive, an inner layer arranged between the two outer layers, the inner layer having a loss factor tan ? greater than or equal to 1.6 at 20° C. and for a frequency range of between 2 kHz and 8 kHz, and first and second barrier layers arranged respectively between the outer layers and the inner layer 3, and composed of a viscoelastic plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Fabien Bouillet, David Shackleford, Jocelyn Rebufa
  • Patent number: 11407870
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a hard coat laminated film having a first hard coat, a second hard coat, and a transparent resin film layer, where: the first hard coat is formed from paint which contains predetermined amounts of (A) a multifunctional (meth)acrylate, (B) a water repellent, and (C) a silane coupling agent, and which does not contain inorganic particles; and the second hard coat is formed from paint containing predetermined amounts of (D) a polymerizable compound and (E) inorganic fine particles having an average particle size of 1-300 nm. The (D) polymerizable compound contains: (d1) a multifunctional (meth)acrylate having three or more (meth)acryloyl groups in one molecule; (d2) a compound having two or more secondary thiol groups in one molecule; and optionally, (d3) at least one (meth)acrylate selected from the group consisting of a (meth)acrylate having two (meth)acryloyl groups in one molecule, a (meth)acrylate having one (meth)acryloyl group in one molecule, and a urethane(meth)acrylate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventors: Masataka Mori, Yasuhiro Itagaki
  • Patent number: 11401092
    Abstract: A resin-coated metal sheet for a container, the metal sheet including: a first resin coat layer provided on a first surface of the metal sheet; a second resin coat layer provided on a second surface of the metal sheet, wherein each of the first and the second resin coat layers is composed mainly of a polyester resin having a melting point of 230° C. to 254° C., and the first resin coat layer, in a state that the resin coat layers coat the metal sheet, is formed of a resin material having: an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of 0.10 ?m to 1.0 ?m; a crystallization temperature of 110° C. to 160° C.; and a water contact angle of 55 degrees to 80 degrees in a state that the resin coat layers have been heated at 240° C. for 90 seconds after the resin coat layers coat the metal sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Kitagawa, Tomonari Hiraguchi, Norihiko Nakamura, Hayato Saito, Yasuhide Oshima, Katsumi Kojima
  • Patent number: 11401199
    Abstract: A glass sheet of the present invention is a glass sheet for producing a glass-resin composite through integral combination with a resin sheet, the glass sheet including as a glass composition, in terms of mol %, 40% to 80% of SiO2, 5% to 30% of Al2O3, 0% to 20% of Li2O+Na2O+K2O, 3% to 35% of MgO, and 0% to 15% of CaO+SrO+BaO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Hosoda, Shingo Nakane
  • Patent number: 11396162
    Abstract: Provided is an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of effectively enhancing the sound insulating property at 6300 Hz while effectively preventing deterioration in sound insulating property at 3150 Hz in laminated glass. An interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention has a one-layer structure or a two or more-layer structure and includes a resin layer containing a resin and a plasticizer. The interlayer film has a resonance frequency X of 550 Hz or more and 740 Hz or less, a loss factor Y in a secondary mode of 0.35 or more, and satisfies a formula: Y>0.0008X?0.142 in a measurement of resonance frequency in a secondary mode in a damping test for laminated glass according to a central exciting method of laminated glass, when the laminated glass is obtained by arranging the interlayer film between two glass plates of 25 mm wide, 300 mm long and 2 mm thick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Iwamoto, Yuki Ishikawa, Shinji Kawada, Yuu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11397286
    Abstract: A light directing article comprises an acrylic polyvinyl acetal film to protect the optical elements of the light directing article. The acrylic polyvinyl acetal film has a Tg of at least 30° C. and comprises a (meth)acrylic polymer and polyvinyl acetal polymer. The acrylic polyvinyl acetal film is flexible and durable to mechanical deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Todd D. Jones, Bimal V. Thakkar, Duane D. Fansler, Anthony F. Schultz, Jonathan E. Janoski, David C. Lueneburg, Carla S. Thomas, Tien Yi T. H. Whiting, Robert F. Watkins
  • Patent number: 11390706
    Abstract: A layered film includes first, second, and third layers formed of first, second, and third resins, respectively, and provided in this order. The second resin contains an alkoxysilyl group-modified product of a hydrogenated product of a block copolymer; has 0.020% by weight or less of a moisture content as measured by the Karl-Fischer method after immersed in water at 37° C. for 24 hours and then allowed to stand at 23° C. and a humidity of 70% for 24 hours; and has a flexural modulus lower than flexural moduli of the first and third resins. One or both of the first and third resins contain a polymer containing an alicyclic structure. The first resin has a specific water vapor transmission rate. A ratio of a sum of thicknesses of the first and third layers relative to a thickness of the second layer is in a specific range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Miura
  • Patent number: 11376826
    Abstract: A multilayer film including alternately-laminated fluororesin layers and polyimide resin layers, wherein a total number of the fluororesin layers and the polyimide resin layers is five or more, a ratio of the total thickness of the fluororesin layers to the thickness of the whole multilayer film is 50% or more, and at least one of the outermost layers of the multilayer film is a fluororesin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Arisawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsuyama, Makoto Tai, Akira Fujita, Takayuki Mayama
  • Patent number: 11372138
    Abstract: An anti-reflection film (X) of the present invention includes a laminated structure including a substrate (11), a hard coat layer (12), and an anti-reflection layer (13), and a luminous reflectance of the anti-reflection layer (13) side is 2% or less. The anti-reflection layer (13) includes a surface (13a) having a coefficient of kinetic friction of 0.3 or less and a coefficient of static friction of 0.3 or less. In addition, in the anti-reflection film (X), after a rubbing test performed on the surface (13a) using steel wool #0000 as a rubbing material under conditions of a load of 200 g/cm2, a rubbing stroke length of 10 cm, and reciprocations of 1000 times, a difference of the haze value (%) after the rubbing test from the haze value (%) before the rubbing test is 0.1 or less. Such an anti-reflection film is suitable for achieving high scratch resistance together with high anti-reflective properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Sakakibara, Kouichi Umemoto, Ryouta Kojima, Hiroki Kageyama
  • Patent number: 11353629
    Abstract: An anti-glare film is disclosed. The anti-glare film comprises a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) base film and an anti-glare layer comprising an acrylic binder resin and organic microparticles, wherein the anti-glare layer comprises an miscible sub-layer adjacent to the interface between the anti-glare layer and the base film for urging the organic microparticles toward the upper portion of the anti-glare layer to form an anti-glare sub-layer with an uneven surface and wherein the average thickness of the miscible layer is at least 40 percent of the total thickness of the anti-glare layer and a ratio of the average thickness of the anti-glare sub-layer to the diameter of the microparticle is between 0.45 to 1.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: BenQ Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Gang-Lun Fan, Wei-Hsien Chen, Kuo-Hsuan Yu
  • Patent number: 11346987
    Abstract: Infrared reflectors are described. In particular, infrared reflectors with reduced off-axis color are described. Such infrared reflectors may be useful in laminated glass constructions, particularly for applications where the glass may be exposed to water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Christopher A. Haak, Timothy J. Nevitt, Kevin M. Hamer, Raghunath Padiyath, Neeraj Sharma, Gregory F. King, William C. Pettit, III, Ronald K. Thery, Richard Yufeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11338552
    Abstract: The teachings herein relate to improved composite materials offering weight reduction which are capable of withstanding automotive paint bake ovens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: PRODUCTIVE RESEARCH LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Joseph Tullis, Peter Isaac Bortell
  • Patent number: 11338554
    Abstract: A decorative laminated glass includes a first glass sheet, a second glass sheet, and a colored lamination interlayer between the first glass sheet and the second glass sheet. A coating is positioned between the first glass sheet and the lamination interlayer, and in direct contact with the first glass sheet. The coating is formed by the series of the following layers, starting from the surface of the first glass sheet: optionally, a first stack of dielectric layers; a layer based on titanium oxide having a thickness of from 5 to 70 nm; and optionally, a second stack of dielectric layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Carole Braley