Patents Examined by Robert Vetere
  • Patent number: 11641774
    Abstract: A method for fabricating an OLED using a mixture that is an evaporation source for a vacuum deposition process includes providing a container that contains the mixture, providing a substrate having a first electrode disposed thereon, depositing an organic layer over the first electrode by evaporating the mixture in the container in a high vacuum deposition tool, and depositing a second electrode over the organic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vadim Adamovich, Lichang Zeng, Ting-Chih Wang, Chuanjun Xia, Michael S. Weaver
  • Patent number: 11634593
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a hydrophobic coating on a surface of a solid substrate which includes a layer-integrable material includes the steps of depositing a deformable layer of the layer-integrable material onto the surface of the solid substrate, forcibly embedding a plurality of particles within the deformable layer, and solidifying the deformable layer including the plurality of particles so as to be integral with the surface of the solid substrate. At least a portion of the plurality of particles is embedded at a threshold depth within the deformable layer prior to solidification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Enrico Bovero, Gasan Selman Alabedi, Aziz Fihri
  • Patent number: 11629410
    Abstract: Preparation containing: (A) 30 to 90% by weight of at least one organic solvent; (B) 10 to 70% by weight of at least one platinum complex of the type [L1L2Pt[O(CO)R1]X]n, wherein L1 and L2 represent the same or different monoolefin ligands, or together represent a compound L1L2 acting as a diolefin ligand, wherein X is selected from bromide, chloride, iodide, and —O(CO)R2, wherein —O(CO)R1 and —O(CO)R2 represent the same or different C6-C18 non-aromatic monocarboxylic acid groups, or together represent a C8-C18 non-aromatic dicarboxylic acid group —O(CO)R1 R2(CO)O—, wherein they are mononuclear platinum complexes with n=1, or wherein, if L1L2 and/or —O(CO)R1 R2(CO)O— are present, they may be polynuclear platinum complexes with a whole number n>1, and (C) 0 to 10% by weight of at least one additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HERAEUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Robert Sievi, Michael Gock, Richard Walter, Holger Ulland
  • Patent number: 11618719
    Abstract: Methods of forming a carbon fiber reinforced carbon foam are provided. Such a method may comprise heating a porous body composed of a solid material comprising covalently bound carbon atoms and heteroatoms and having a surface defining pores distributed throughout the solid material, in the presence of an added source of gaseous hydrocarbons. The heating generates free radicals in the porous body from the heteroatoms and induces reactions between the free radicals and the gaseous hydrocarbons to form covalently bound carbon nanofibers extending from the surface of the solid material and a network of entangled carbon microfibers within the pores the porous body, thereby forming a carbon fiber reinforced carbon foam. Carbon fiber reinforced carbon foams and ballistic barriers incorporating the foams are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventors: Zhiyong Cai, Qiangu Yan
  • Patent number: 11612214
    Abstract: Systems and methods of manufacturing a shoe outsole are provided wherein at least a portion of the resulting shoe outsole includes embedded particles. An example method includes applying adhesive to at least one region of the shoe outsole, depositing selected particles onto the adhesive to provide the shoe outsole with a first coat of particles, and at least partially curing the adhesive. The method continues by applying additional adhesive over the first coat of particles, depositing additional particles onto the adhesive to provide the shoe outsole with a second coat of particles, and at least partially curing the subsequent application of adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Topline Corporation
    Inventor: Paul William Daniels
  • Patent number: 11608299
    Abstract: A method for producing a hollow part made of a ceramic matrix composite material. The method includes shaping a hollow fibrous preform. A core of oxidizable material is housed or inserted into the preform. The method also includes consolidating the preform and extracting the core by oxidising the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Ceramics
    Inventors: Matthieu Arnaud Gimat, Rémy Dupont, Maxime François Roger Carlin, Eric Philippe, Benjamin Lacombe
  • Patent number: 11611071
    Abstract: Composites of silicon and various porous scaffold materials, such as carbon material comprising micro-, meso- and/or macropores, and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. The compositions find utility in various applications, including electrical energy storage electrodes and devices comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Group14 Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry R. Costantino, Aaron M. Feaver, Avery J. Sakshaug, Christopher Timmons
  • Patent number: 11597682
    Abstract: Roofing granules comprising agglomerated inorganic material, and building materials, such as shingles, that include such roofing granules. By fabricating roofing granules from agglomerating inorganic material it is possible to tailor the particle size distribution so as to provide optimal shingle surface coverage, thus reducing shingle weight and usage of raw materials. Additionally, the use of agglomeration permits the utilization of by-products from conventional granule production processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Specialty Granules Investments LLC
    Inventors: Justin P. Dunlap, John Allen Horton, Olan Leitch, Daniel E. Rardon
  • Patent number: 11597995
    Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing a mask that has a high precision configured to minimize a shadow effect, and a method of manufacturing a display device. The method of manufacturing a mask includes: tensioning a mask sheet; bonding the mask sheet that is tensioned to a mask frame; and forming an opening in the mask sheet by irradiating laser light on the mask sheet such that an inner wall of the opening has a slope with respect to a surface of the mask sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeunghoon Kim, Seungmin Jin, Jaemin Hong
  • Patent number: 11600454
    Abstract: A contact assembly for an electrical device and a method for making such an assembly are presented. The contact assembly comprises a substrate and a contact material disposed on the substrate. The contact material comprises a composite material comprising a refractory material and a matrix material. The matrix material has a higher ductility than the refractory material. The composite material further comprises a core region and an outer region bounding the core region, the core region having a higher concentration of the refractory material than the outer region. The method applies cold spraying a blended feedstock to produce a layer that includes the composite material described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Katherine Marjorie Coughlin, Leonardo Ajdelsztajn, Jeffrey Jon Schoonover, Samuel Stephen Kim, Linda Yvonne Jacobs, Maxime Michel Pean
  • Patent number: 11591270
    Abstract: A method for forming ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component includes forming a fiber preform, positioning the fiber preform into a chemical vapor infiltration reactor chamber, and densifying the fiber preform. Densification includes infiltrating the fiber preform with a first gas comprising precursors of silicon carbide and infiltrating the fiber preform with a second gas comprising a first rare earth element, wherein the steps of infiltrating the fiber preform with the first gas and infiltrating the fiber preform with the second gas are conducted simultaneously to produce a first rare earth-doped silicon carbide matrix in a first region of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Ying She, Andrew J. Lazur, Kathryn S. Read
  • Patent number: 11594697
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) architecture in which efficient operation is achieved without requiring a blocking layer by locating the recombination zone close to the hole transport side of the emissive layer. Aryl-based hosts and Ir-based dopants with suitable concentrations result in an efficient phosphorescent OLED structure. Previously, blocking layer utilization in phosphorescent OLED architectures was considered essential to avoid exciton and hole leakage from the emissive layer, and thus keep the recombination zone inside the emissive layer to provide high device efficiency and a pure emission spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Vadim Adamovich, Michael Stuart Weaver, Raymond Kwong
  • Patent number: 11578003
    Abstract: A process for depositing a coating on short fibres of carbon or silicon carbide from a coating precursor, the short fibres having a length of between 50 ?m and 5 mm, the process including at least heating the short fibres by placing a mixture including the fibres and a liquid phase of the coating precursor in a microwave field so as to bring the surface of the fibres to a temperature allowing the coating on the fibres from the coating precursor to be formed by calefaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN CERAMICS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
    Inventors: Arnaud Delehouze, Fanny Petibon
  • Patent number: 11535756
    Abstract: A method for producing a silica composite particle including a silica particle and at least one compound in which an aluminum atom bonds to an organic group through oxygen. The method includes: (i) providing a silica particle dispersion liquid having a silica particle content of about 20 mass % or more; (ii) mixing and reacting a compound represented by formula (S1) and the silica particle dispersion liquid to obtain a slurry; (iii) providing the at least one compound; and (iv) then mixing and reacting the slurry with the at least one compound to form the silica composite particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Koji Sasaki, Hiroyoshi Okuno, Yoshifumi Iida, Yuka Zenitani, Masahiro Takayama, Masashi Ikeda, Shunsuke Nozaki
  • Patent number: 11535958
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of coating a high temperature fiber including depositing a base material on the high temperature fiber using atomic layer deposition, depositing an intermediate material precursor on the base material using molecular layer deposition, depositing a top material on the intermediate material precursor or the intermediate layer using atomic layer deposition, and heat treating the intermediate precursor. The intermediate material in the final coating includes a structural defect, has lower density than the top material or a combination thereof. Also disclosed are the coated high temperature fiber and a composite including the high temperature fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Sheedy, Neal Magdefrau, Wayde R. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11534790
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a display apparatus includes a deposition source, a nozzle head, a substrate fixer, and a deposition preventer. The deposition source is outside the chamber and vaporizes or sublimates a deposition material. The nozzle head is in the chamber, is connected to the at least one deposition source, and simultaneously sprays the deposition material onto an entire surface of a display substrate. The substrate fixer is connected to the chamber and moves linearly, with the display apparatus is mounted on the substrate fixer. The deposition preventer is in the chamber surrounding an edge portion of the nozzle head and an edge portion of the substrate fixer. The deposition preventer is heated during a deposition process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangjin Han, Eugene Kang, Junha Park, Mingyu Seo, Youjong Lee, Jongbun Han, Euna Ko, Sungjong Park
  • Patent number: 11535639
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is a method that includes combining a first organic salt (A1X1), a first metal salt (M1(X2)2), a second organic salt (A2X3), a second metal salt (M2Cl2), and a solvent to form a primary solution, where A1X1 and M1(X2)2 are present in the primary solution at a first ratio between about 0.5 to 1.0 and about 1.5 to 1.0, and A2X3 to M2Cl2 are present in the primary solution at a second ratio between about 2.0 to 1.0 and about 4.0 to 1.0. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, at least one of A1 or A2 may include at least one of an alkyl ammonium, an alkyl diamine, cesium, and/or rubidium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Kai Zhu, Donghoe Kim, Joseph Jonathan Berry, Jaehong Park
  • Patent number: 11525178
    Abstract: The invention is a method for treating a solid substrate, made from a first material, of metal or ceramic type, the method comprising placing the substrate in contact with a liquid metal, while the substrate is exposed to an ultrasonic wave called a power wave. At the level of a surface of the substrate, the power density is greater than a cavitation threshold of the liquid metal. Such exposure improves the wettability of the substrate surface by the liquid metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: CONSTELLIUM ISSOIRE
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Achard, Fabio Taina
  • Patent number: 11498877
    Abstract: A method of treating at least one silicon carbide fibre, the method including a) formation of a silica layer at the surface of a silicon carbide fibre having an oxygen content less than or equal to 1% in atomic percentage, the silica layer being formed by contacting this fibre with an oxidizing medium having a temperature greater than or equal to 50° C. and pressure greater than or equal to 1 MPa, and b) removal of the silica layer formed by hydrothermal treatment of the fibre obtained after implementation of step a) in which the fibre is treated with water at a pressure between saturating vapour pressure and 30 MPa and at a temperature less than or equal to 400° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: SAFRAN CERAMICS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Sylvie Loison, Lucile Henry, Cyril Aymonier, Chrystel Huguet
  • Patent number: 11485826
    Abstract: A method for producing silica-coated spherical silicone elastomer particles which includes a step in which a tetraalkoxysilane (E) is added to a liquid comprising spherical silicone elastomer particles (A), an alkaline substance (B), one or more ingredients (C) selected from among cationic surfactants and cationic water-soluble polymers, and water (D), and the tetraalkoxysilane is hydrolyzed and condensed to thereby coat the surfaces of the spherical silicone elastomer particles with silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Inokuchi