Patents Examined by Shawn Mckinnon
  • Patent number: 11686017
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal polyether fiber with high tensile strength has an ash content of 0.3 percent by weight or less, a degree of fusion (f) of 3 or less, and a tensile strength of 18 cN/dtex or more. The liquid-crystal polyether fiber has few residues of an anti-fusion agent and causes no fusion between filaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tonosaki, Takashi Katayama, Junya Ide, Keiichi Ikehata
  • Patent number: 11686022
    Abstract: A wrappable, corrugated woven sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes a wall having opposite edges wrapped about a central axis into overlapping relation with one another. The wall has a plurality of layers overlying one another. Each layer includes warp yarns extending generally parallel to the central axis woven with fill yarns extending generally transversely to the warp yarns. Each layer includes a plurality of annular first bands and a plurality of annular second bands alternating with one another along the length of the wall. The first bands of each layer include monofilament weft yarn and multifilament weft yarn and the second bands of each layer include only one of monofilament weft yarn or multifilament weft yarn. The first bands overlie one another to form peaks and the second bands B overlie one another to form valleys, such that the wall has a corrugated contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLC
    Inventors: Yuki Yoneshige, Tianqi Gao, Xiaodan Qiu, Danny Winters, Emma Adamski, Ritesh Mehbubani, Leigh Krauser
  • Patent number: 11668088
    Abstract: Embodiments of a leno weave mesh of the present invention generally include a plurality of high-temperature weft yarns, high-temperature warp yarns, and low melting point warp yarns; wherein each low melting point warp yarn is intertwined with a high-temperature warp yarn, each intertwined pair of warp yarns is positioned such that the low melting point warp yarn and high-temperature warp yarn are disposed alternatingly on either side of the woven mesh at intersections of the weft and warp yarns, and the woven mesh is heated whereby the surfaces of the low melting point warp yarns adhere to the surface of the high-temperature warp yarns and said high-temperature weft yarns at contact points there between. An intumescent coating system employing embodiments of the mesh, and a method of providing thermal protection to a substrate utilizing the intumescent coating system, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Intumescents Associates Group (IAG), LLC
    Inventors: Paul Craig Scott, Aaron Feinberg
  • Patent number: 11661682
    Abstract: A woven fabric comprising: a) A first layer of first uncrimped weft filaments; b) a second layer of second uncrimped weft filaments; wherein for each of the first uncrimped weft filaments there is one corresponding second uncrimped weft filament, and vice versa, to form successive filament pairs of first and second uncrimped weft filaments, c) crimped warp filaments having four different weave types c1-c4, but each weave type consisting of entwining around first uncrimped weft filaments; passing between first and second uncrimped weft filaments; entwining around second uncrimped weft filaments; and passing again between first and second uncrimped weft filaments; and d) uncrimped warp filaments passing between the first uncrimped weft filaments and the second uncrimped weft filaments of all filament pairs; wherein the fabric does not comprise crimped warp filaments which entwine around the first uncrimped weft filaments and the second uncrimped weft filaments in alternating manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Habasit AG
    Inventors: Bodo Wixmerten, Bernd Roser, Roland Troesch, Brent Whitehead, Michael Tyler
  • Patent number: 11655044
    Abstract: An rear fairing for a pylon supporting an aircraft turbojet engine forms an aerodynamic surface covering the base of the pylon. The rear fairing is elongated in a longitudinal direction and includes a floor arranged opposite the hot gases exiting the turbojet engine and side walls constituting aerodynamic surfaces. The floor and the side walls include ceramic matrix composite materials made from preforms formed by layers of superimposed warp and weft yarns, the preforms have interlayer weaving yarns connecting the layers to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Bertrand Desjoyeaux, Sylvain Sentis, Arnaud Delehouze, François Taillard
  • Patent number: 11643758
    Abstract: The application relates to the technical field of wiring accessories, in particular to a protective tube. The protective tube includes a tube wall and fluffy warp yarns, wherein the tube wall forms a pipeline for a cable to be threaded therein and includes cross-woven first warp yarns and first weft yarns; the fluffy warp yarns are on an inner surface of the tube wall and are fluffier than the first warp yarns, the fluffy warp yarns are cross-woven with the first weft yarns and form a plurality of intersections with the first weft yarns, and each of the fluffy warp yarns spans a plurality of the first weft yarns between two adjacent intersections. When the protective tube is subjected to external impact, the tube wall with stronger hardness can protect the cable; moreover, the fluffy warp yarn reduce the friction between the protective tube and the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN JDD TECH NEW MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaojun Gao, Baohui Zhang, Fengkai Yang, Qiaoyun Yang, Junjie Peng, Wei Zhou, Bosen Long
  • Patent number: 11629517
    Abstract: A sliding seismic isolation device includes a structure fixation plate having a first sliding surface and a metallic slider having a second sliding surface contacting the first sliding surface. A friction member composed of a single-layer fabric is attached to the first sliding surface, the second sliding surface, or both of the first sliding surface and the second sliding surface. One of a warp and a weft is formed of multiple plied yarns into which high-strength fibers and PTFE fibers are twisted together and the other of the warp and the weft is formed of multiple high-strength fibers in the single-layer fabric. The single-layer fabric has a twill weave and is woven such that the plied yarns of the one forming the single-layer fabric are exposed at a surface opposite from the attachment side of the friction member more than the high-strength fibers of the other forming the single-layer fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL ENGINEERING CO., LTD., TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yamazaki, Tadayuki Noro, Yoshinao Konishi, Atsushi Watanabe, Koji Nishimoto, Masato Sekiyama, Yuki Ninomiya, Masaru Harada
  • Patent number: 11628642
    Abstract: A thread made from extruded silicone rubber that is cross-linked after the extrusion and woven into a fabric having warp threads and/or weft threads and a coating including cross-linked silicone rubber, the thread or the coating including a fluorinated rubber portion. The invention also relates to a method for producing such threads and woven fabrics. The object of the invention is to improve thermal and chemical resistance. To this end the fluorinated rubber part is produced only by surface fluorination of the cross-linked thread or the coating by means of a fluorinated gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HUECK Rheinische GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Espe
  • Patent number: 11617268
    Abstract: Electrical components may have plastic packages. Contacts may be formed on exterior surfaces of the plastic packages. A plastic package for an electrical component may have an elongated shape that extends along a longitudinal axis. A first groove may run parallel to the longitudinal axis on a lower surface of the plastic package. A second groove may run perpendicular to the first groove on an opposing upper surface of the plastic package. The electrical components may be coupled to fibers in a fabric such as a woven fabric. A first solder connection may be formed between the first groove and a first fiber such as a weft fiber. A second solder connection may be formed between the second groove and a second fiber such as a warp fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sunshine, Daniel A. Podhajny, Kathryn P. Crews, Yohji Hamada
  • Patent number: 11613830
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide a woven element having a first plurality of warp threads extending in a first direction and integrated into a first surface on a front side of the woven element. The woven element may have a second plurality of warp threads extending in the first direction, where the second plurality of warp threads is integrated into a second surface on a back side of the woven element. A first weft thread may extend in a second direction, where a first portion of the first weft thread is positioned in front of at least one warp thread of the first plurality of warp threads to form at least a portion of a graphic image on the front surface. A second portion of the first weft thread may extend between the first plurality of warp threads and the second plurality of warp threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, INC.
    Inventors: Meggin B. Alex, Martin Wragg
  • Patent number: 11578430
    Abstract: Melt-blown fiber comprising two polypropylenes which differ in their molecular weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Joachim Fiebig, Henk Van Paridon, Markus Gahleitner, Petar Doshev, Georg Grestenberger, Antti Tynys
  • Patent number: 11572641
    Abstract: Woven fabric, particularly a warp faced fabric, such as a denim fabric, comprising a front and a back, a plurality of picks extending in weft direction and a plurality of warp yarns extending in warp direction and bypassing picks at their front side to define over portions and bypassing picks at their back side to define under portions, wherein said plurality of warp yarns comprise frontside warp yarns and backside warp yarns, and the under portions of the backside warp yarns bypass more picks than the under portions of the frontside warp yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: CALIK DENIM TEKSTIL SAN. VE TIC. A.S.
    Inventors: Hamit Yenici, Ahmet Serhat Karaduman, Hulusi Bulus, Kemal Kaya, Münevver Ertek Avci
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    Patent number: 11572643
    Abstract: A wind lift mitigation net for mitigating or preventing wind lift of at least one membrane covering an outdoor aggregation of matter is provided. The wind lift mitigation net comprises a plurality of monofilaments. At least some of the monofilaments may each have a cross-sectional shape that comprises at least one vertex. The cross-sectional shape may, for example, be a non-circular shape such as a tear drop, triangular, square or stellate shape. At least some of the monofilaments may each have at least one substantially planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ARK AGRICULTURE LIMITED
    Inventors: Gerard Thomas, Dianne Godwin-Thomas
  • Patent number: 11572659
    Abstract: Fibres and nonwoven materials comprising microfibrillated cellulose, and optionally inorganic particulate material and/or additional additives, and optionally a water soluble or dispersible polymer. Nonwoven materials made from fibres comprising microfibrillated cellulose, and optionally inorganic particulate material and/or a water soluble or dispersible polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: FiberLean Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Stuart Phipps, Sean Ireland, David Skuse
  • Patent number: 11565366
    Abstract: A polishing pad comprising a knitted fabric constituted by warp knitting or weft knitting, and a resin with which the knitted fabric is impregnated, and having a cross section cut in a surface direction of the knitted fabric, as a polishing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIBO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Shin Tokushige, Keisuke Nakase, Hiroshi Kashiwada, Tatsuya Yamada, Yousuke Narada, Kenichi Koike
  • Patent number: 11549203
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cut resistant fabric includes: supplying a polyethene yarn with a thickness of 50-225 dtex as a protective yarn through a first yarn carrier of a circular knitting machine to a feeder needle at a first selected tension; supplying simultaneously an uncoated elastane yarn with a thickness of 20-80 dtex as a first additional yarn through a second yarn carrier of the circular knitting machine to the same feeder needle at a second selected tension that is higher than the first selected tension of the protective yarn; forming a fabric from the protective yarn and the first additional yarn as single-jersey knits; and interlocking the protective yarn and the first additional yarn in each single-jersey knit of the fabric using a heat treatment step on a stenter frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: SLASHTER OY, ORNEULE OY
    Inventors: Toni Nieminen, Jyrki Uotila, Timo Uotila
  • Patent number: 11542636
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide structures for sensing, activation, and signal networking in a composite textile. According to one embodiment, a composite textile can comprise an activation layer of a reactive yarn knit into a fabric. The reactive yarn can have at least one physical property that changes in response to a stimulus. A signaling layer of a first conductive yarn can be knit into the fabric with the activation layer. The first conductive yarn provides the stimulus to the reactive yarn. A sensing layer comprising second conductive yarn can be knit into the fabric with the activation layer and signaling layer. The second conductive yarn can provide a feedback signal corresponding to the stimulus provided by the first conductive yarn of the signaling layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Flex Ltd.
    Inventors: Allison E. Bowles, Brendan Joseph Nagle, Anthony Joseph Piazza, Biren Salunke, Adam M. Whiton
  • Patent number: 11542637
    Abstract: A garment may include a first woven component, a second woven component, a space between the first and second woven components defining a channel filled with a fill material, and a third woven component extending such that the first and second woven components are woven together where there is no channel. The channel may be filled with a filler material. Multiple channels may be provided such that they form a zoned pattern in the garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: REEBOK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: David Steel, Patrick O'Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11524479
    Abstract: There is described a nonwoven material comprising a multilayered stack, the multilayered stack comprising discrete interconnected layers, each of the layers, which may be the same or different, comprising a composite fibre of from about 80 to 100% w/w leaf or stem fibre and from about 1 to 20% w/w of a polymer, wherein the polymer is fusible at a temperature of about 180° C. or less. There is also described a novel method of enzyme degumming leaf and/or stem fibres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventors: Carmen Hijosa, Anna Ribé Gallart, Javier Jiménez Romero, Roshan Paul, Marolda Brouta-Agnésa
  • Patent number: 11519108
    Abstract: A fabric with wefts that include hard yarns and elastomeric yarns in a predetermined arrangement such that at least one hard yarn is alternately arranged with at least one elastomeric yarn, the elastomeric yarns having a greater shrinkage ratio than that of the hard yarns; the hard yarns form under portions and over portions with respect to warps, said under portions being formed when said hard yarns pass along the back side of the warps and defining loop portions, and said over portions being formed when the hard yarns pass along the front side of the warps and define connection portions, wherein for each hard yarn, the number of warps passed by the loop portion is at least 6, and the elastomeric yarns form under portions and over portions with respect to said warps in a weave that is tighter than the weave of the hard yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SANKO TEKSTIL ISLETMELERI SAN. VE TIC. A.S.
    Inventors: Hamit Yenici, Fatima Korkmaz, Ertug Erkus, Ahmet Udul