Patents Examined by Scott R Walshon
  • Patent number: 12377688
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tyre (100) for vehicle wheels comprising at least one carcass structure (101), a tread band (109) applied in a position radially external to said carcass structure, and a pair of sidewalls (108) applied laterally on the opposite sides with respect to said carcass structure, where on at least one sidewall of said pair of sidewalls (108), a label (120) is applied comprising a protective layer (121), an adhesive layer (123), and possibly one or more ink layers (122) interposed between said protective layer (121) and said adhesive layer (123), where said adhesive layer (123) adheres the label (120) to the surface of said sidewall, where said protective layer (121) comprises polyester-based and/or polyether-based cross-linked aliphatic polyurethanes exhibiting dynamic elastic modulus values E?, measured at 25° C., static tensile deformation 1%, dynamic deformation ±0.1%, and frequency 1 Hz, equal to or higher than about 5 MPa, and a residual deformation measured at 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: PIRELLI TYRE S.p.A.
    Inventors: Alfredo Balini, Guido Carlo Carosio, Thomas Hanel, Cristiano Puppi, Luigia Rossiello, Marco Pozzoli
  • Patent number: 12370786
    Abstract: A transparent double-sided self-adhesive sheet is provided which, when bonding to an adherend, not only excels in the ability to conform to steps or surface irregularities caused by a printing site, but also excels in workability such as cutting processability. A transparent double-sided self-adhesive sheet is proposed, having an intermediate resin layer (A) and pressure-sensitive adhesive layers (B) as front and reverse side layers, each of the layers being a layer having one or more species of (meth)acrylic acid ester series (co)polymer as the base resin, in which transparent double-sided self-adhesive sheet, the shear storage elastic modulus (G?(A)) at a frequency of 1 Hz of the intermediate resin layer (A) is higher than the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers (B) in a temperature range of 0° C. to 100° C., and, the indentation hardness (ASKER C2 hardness) of the entire sheet is 10 to 80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Hidejirou Yoshikawa, Tetsuya Yamaoka, Makoto Inenaga
  • Patent number: 12365816
    Abstract: An adhesive gripper for pick-and-place maneuvers comprises one or more legs, where each leg terminates in a foot rotatably connected to the respective leg. Each foot includes a SMP dry adhesive comprising a shape memory polymer, and a rigid backing layer attached to a back side of the SMP dry adhesive, such that a front side of the SMP dry adhesive is available for attachment and release of objects. The adhesive gripper further includes a handle portion connected to the one or more legs, a release mechanism comprising a release ring within the handle portion, and one or more releasing rods integrated with the one or more legs for release of an object onto a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Seok Kim, ChangHee Son
  • Patent number: 12359103
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive particle includes a styrene resin; and a (meth)acrylate resin, wherein the (meth)acrylate resin contains two kinds of (meth)acrylates as a polymerization component in which the weight proportion of the (meth)acrylate to the total polymerization components is 90% by weight or more, and has two glass transition points in which a difference between the lowest glass transition temperature and the highest glass transition temperature is 30° C. or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ishizuka, Satoshi Kamiwaki, Sumiaki Yamasaki, Yoshifumi Iida, Sakae Takeuchi, Satomi Kashiwagi, Susumu Yoshino
  • Patent number: 12351748
    Abstract: Laminates designed and equipped to be separated after long-term bonding are provided. The laminates comprise a first pressure sensitive adhesive layer, a separation layer, and a second pressure sensitive adhesive layer. The separation layer comprises a laser-sensitive pigment which at the same time is coloring, and so preferably a black coloration is produced, and consists of a cured coating material, preferably an electron beam-cured or UV-cured coating material, which is at least partly removable by laser irradiation, wherein the first pressure sensitive adhesive layer and/or the second pressure sensitive adhesive layer are laser beam-translucent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: TESA SE
    Inventors: Philipp Preuss, Arne Koops
  • Patent number: 12343917
    Abstract: A closure for a product-retaining container is constructed for being inserted and securely retained in a portal-forming neck of said container. The closure comprises: a plastic material comprising at least one thermoplastic polymer; a plurality of particles comprising cork; and at least one processing aid. Optionally, one or more additives and/or blowing agents may be included. A method for manufacturing a closure comprises intimately combining multiple components, heating the resulting composition to form a melt, forming a closure precursor from the melt, and optionally cutting and/or finishing the closure precursor to form the closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: VINVENTIONS USA, LLC
    Inventors: Floriane Marie Gabrielle Morel, Olav Marcus Aagaard, Marc Anton Charles Thometschek
  • Patent number: 12344720
    Abstract: A display film includes a transparent cross-linked polyurethane acrylate layer. The transparent cross-linked polyurethane acrylate layer having a glass transition temperature of 10 degrees Celsius or less and a Tan Delta peak value of 0.5 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: David Scott Thompson, Steven D. Solomonson, Karissa Lynn Eckert, John James Stradinger, Catherine A. Leatherdale, Peter D. Condo, Richard J. Pokorny, Ryan M. Braun, Michael A. Johnson, Joseph D. Rule, Kevin R. Schaffer, Derek W. Patzman
  • Patent number: 12343961
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-layer screen protector for a display of an electronic device. The screen protector may include a glass exterior surface for tactile response, an optically clear anti-explosion adhesive to contain broken glass from the protector or the display, and a TPU layer to provide impact resistance. The screen protector may be flat or curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: FELLOWES INC.
    Inventors: Keith Navoa, Eugene Lee, Harsh Gandhi, Jeffrey Lienemann, Michael Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12337576
    Abstract: A decorative panel including a substrate material and decorative top layer, wherein the decorative top layer includes at least one timber layer, wherein the timber layer is a compressed timber layer with a permanent increased density as compared to an original timber layer, wherein the decorative panel is a square or rectangular floor panel which, at, at least one pair of opposite edges, or at both pairs, includes mechanical coupling allowing to couple two of such floor panels to each other such that a locking is created in a vertical direction perpendicular to a plane of the coupled panels, as well as in a horizontal direction perpendicular to a coupled edge and in the plane of the coupled panels, the mechanical coupling being in the substrate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: UNILIN, BV
    Inventor: Peter Chan
  • Patent number: 12338373
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, an optical laminate, a polarizing plate and a display device are provided. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition includes a block copolymer containing a first block having a glass transition temperature of 50° C. or more and having a cross-linkable functional group, a second block having a glass transition temperature of ?10° C. or less, and an epoxysilane compound. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition according to the present application can provide excellent durability and excellent optical characteristics with respect to the pressure-sensitive adhesive polarizing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Na Chi, Su Jeong Kim, Sang Ha Son, Chang Hwan Ju, Geun Ho Park, Seong In Jo, Sung Soo Yoon
  • Patent number: 12312517
    Abstract: Adhesive compositions are disclosed that include an octenidine salt, a resin system, a plasticizer, and a cidatrope. The dried adhesive compositions are substantially free of water and C2-C5 alcohols. The adhesive compositions disclosed are formulations that provide rapid and persistent antimicrobial activity and may be useful, for example, in wound dressings, surgical drapes, and medical tapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties Company
    Inventors: Ying Zhang, Robert A. Asmus, Zhicheng Tian, Kheng Vang, James Dizio, Patrick J. Parks, Brian E. Spiewak
  • Patent number: 12297382
    Abstract: An adhesive film has an average slope of about ?9.9 to about 0, as measured over a temperature range of about ?20° C. to about 80° C. in a graph depicting a temperature-dependent storage modulus distribution of the adhesive film where the x-axis represents temperature (° C.) and the y-axis represents storage modulus (kPa). The adhesive film also has a storage modulus at about 80° C. of about 10 kPa to about 1,000 kPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Ho Kim, Hyung Rang Moon, Il Jin Kim, Byeong Do Kwak, Jee Hee Kim, Sung Hyun Mun, Seon Hee Shin, Gwang Hwan Lee, Woo Jin Lee, Eun Hwa Lee, Ik Hwan Cho, Jae Hyun Han
  • Patent number: 12286563
    Abstract: Provided herein are butyl rubber based pressure sensitive adhesive compositions comprising low molecular weight polyisobutylene oligomers and a multifunctional crosslinker. These adhesive compositions can exhibit high adhesion and shear resistance without requiring curing at high temperature to provide the compositions with these advantageous performance properties. Also provided are adhesive tapes and methods using the disclosed adhesive compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Henry W. Milliman, Marcela Castano, Dong-Tsai Hseih
  • Patent number: 12279615
    Abstract: A synergistic aqueous wood preservative composition comprising a copper compound and penflufen. The copper compounds of the compositions of the invention may be soluble, partially solubilized or micronized particles. The penflufen of the compositions of the invention may be solubilized, emulsified or particulate. The wood preservative compositions of the present invention are surprisingly provided as stable dispersions and confer surprising and unexpected resistance to treated wood and wood products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Koppers Performance Chemicals Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Peter Tham, John Horton
  • Patent number: 12275875
    Abstract: Disclosed relates to a surface protective film including: a base layer; and an adhesive layer provided on one surface of the base layer, where the adhesive layer comprises a cured product of an adhesive composition, comprising: a urethane polymer; an acrylic polymer; and a curing agent, where the acrylic polymer comprises a monomer unit derived from an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer having 10 or more carbon atoms, where a peel strength of the adhesive layer is 2 gf/in or more and 30 gf/in or less when a surface of the adhesive layer, opposite to a surface on which the base layer is provided, is peeled off from glass at a peel speed of 30 m/min and a peel angle of 180°, and where, in the adhesive composition, the acrylic polymer is comprised in an amount of 1 part by weight to 15 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the urethane polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong Min Choi, Hyun Cheol Kim, Sojin Kim, Hyungoo Kang, Jae Seung Lim
  • Patent number: 12269976
    Abstract: A hotmelt adhesive composition comprising 15 to 45% by weight of at least one tackifying resin, and 20 to 60% by weight of a mixture of at least one single-site catalyzed propylene homopolymer (A) and at least one propylene copolymer (B), wherein the propylene homopolymer (A) has a weight average molecular weight of 20,000 to 145,000, the propylene copolymer (B) has an ethylene comonomer content of 5 to 25% by weight, and the weight ratio of propylene homopolymer (A) to propylene copolymer (B) is from 1:3 to 3:1, wherein the hotmelt adhesive further comprises at least one of the following two components (a) and (b): (a) a particulate phosphorous based compound in an amount of 15 to 40% by weight, or (b) a room temperature liquid phosphorous based compound in an amount of 4 to 15% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: H.B. Fuller Company
    Inventor: Joaquim Serra
  • Patent number: 12252637
    Abstract: A two-component curable urethane adhesive that is easy to handle while it is substantially solvent-free, having weak to strong adhesive properties, and being capable of forming a cured film having excellent physical properties. The two-component curable urethane adhesive contains: a main agent; and a curing agent, the main agent containing at least one of a hydroxy group-containing urethane prepolymer (P1) or a polyol component (A), the hydroxy group-containing urethane prepolymer (P1) being a reaction product between the polyol component (A) and an organic polyisocyanate component (B), the curing agent containing at least one of an isocyanate group-containing urethane prepolymer (P2) or an organic polyisocyanate component (B), the isocyanate group-containing urethane prepolymer (P2) being a reaction product between the polyol component (A) and the organic polyisocyanate component (B), and the two-component curable urethane adhesive satisfies properties (1) to (5) disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko Narutaki, Tetsuya Shimada, Yuuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12247146
    Abstract: A double-sided adhesive tape is provided for bonding two or more adherends. The double-sided adhesive tape has satisfactory rollability, excellent reworkability after cleavage, and excellent shear holding characteristics at high temperatures. The double-sided adhesive tape includes a foam base, a resin layer (A1) disposed in direct contact with one surface of the foam base, an adhesive layer (B1) disposed on A1 on a side opposite to the foam base, a resin layer (A2) disposed in direct contact with another surface of the foam base, and an adhesive layer (B2) disposed on A2 on a side opposite to the foam base. A1 and A2 are each formed of a crosslinked product of a composition containing a resin having a hydroxy group and a compound reacting with the hydroxy group, and the tensile modulus of each of A1 and A2 is 50 MPa or more and 1000 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa Kikuchi, Hideaki Takei, Takeshi Iwasaki, Yusuke Takahasi
  • Patent number: 12221569
    Abstract: Provided is an adhesive tape for a semiconductor package manufacturing process. The adhesive type includes: a first adhesive layer formed on a first base film; a second base film formed on the first adhesive layer, in which the second base film changes its shape to conform to the topology of the semiconductor package bottom surface when the adhesive tape is attached to the semiconductor package bottom surface, and containing a metal element so as to independently maintain the changed shape during the process; and a second adhesive layer formed on the second base film, the second adhesive layer having a smaller thickness than the first adhesive layer and having a lower adhesive strength than the first adhesive layer, wherein each of the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer has a spiral network molecular structure and includes a first adhesive composition containing silicone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MODU TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeong Yeon Choi, Seung Yol Lee, Suk Hee Kang, Gyung Ju Yoon
  • Patent number: 12195912
    Abstract: A thermally fusible textile fabric usable as a fusible interlining material in the textile industry includes: a backing layer having a textile material on top of which has been applied an adhesive compound structure including a polyurethane coating containing a polyurethane mixture including at least one polyester urethane, at least one polyether urethane, and at least one polycarbonate urethane. The polyurethane mixture has been at least partially crosslinked with a crosslinker including at least one isocyanate blocked with a blocking agent at at least one isocyanate group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CARL FREUDENBERG KG
    Inventors: Steffen Traser, Steffen Kremser