Patents Examined by Stewart Fraser
  • Patent number: 12210279
    Abstract: An electroconductive-film-coated substrate includes a glass substrate and an electroconductive film disposed on one main surface of the glass substrate. The electroconductive film has an inclined portion in a peripheral edge. A distance from a position in the inclined portion where a thickness of the electroconductive film is 10% of a film thickness of a center of the electroconductive film to an edge end of the glass substrate is 3.00 mm or less. A distance from an end of the inclined portion to the edge end of the glass substrate is longer than 0.00 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Sotaro Nakamura, Masayoshi Mizoguchi, Takeshi Tomizawa, Takahira Miyagi, Ryusuke Morita
  • Patent number: 12212027
    Abstract: A system includes a reversible proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack configured to receive oxygen and to controllably receive water and hydrogen, an electrical bus for coupling to a vehicle engine to receive electricity, the electrical bus coupled to the reversible fuel cell stack to controllably receive electricity from the fuel cell stack and provide electricity to the reversible fuel cell stack, and a hydrogen storage unit coupled to controllably receive hydrogen from the fuel cell stack, provide hydrogen to the fuel cell stack, and to provide hydrogen to a hydrogen gas powered electricity generator unit to couple to the electrical bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Dacong Weng, Siamak Nikbin
  • Patent number: 12204278
    Abstract: A toner contains a crystalline polyester resin, a non-crystalline polyester resin A having a melting temperature ranging between 99° C. to 108° C., a non-crystalline polyester resin B having a melting temperature ranging between 140° C. to 150° C., an ester wax, and a colorant. A ratio of the crystalline polyester resin is 5% mass to 15% mass to a total T of the crystalline polyester resin, the non-crystalline polyester resin A, the non-crystalline polyester resin B, the ester wax, and the colorant. A ratio of the non-crystalline polyester resin A to the total T is between 50% mass to 60% mass. A ratio of the non-crystalline polyester resin B to the total T is between 20% mass to 30% mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi Hatano
  • Patent number: 12206113
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for manufacturing an electrode for use in a device such as a secondary battery. Electrodes may include a first layer having first active particles adhered together by a binder, a second layer having second active particles adhered together by a binder, and an interphase layer interposed between the first and second layers. In some examples, the interphase layer may include an interpenetration of the first and second particles, such that substantially discrete fingers of the first layer interlock with substantially discrete fingers of the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: EnPower, Inc.
    Inventors: Kjell William Schroder, Adrian Yao, Neelam Singh
  • Patent number: 12206084
    Abstract: A metal-oxygen battery including: a battery core, gas container and a movable member. The battery core including a metal anode; a non-aqueous electrolyte; a porous cathode; and terminals for providing electrical power from the battery core. The gas container being configured to hold a pressurized gas at least partially comprising oxygen. The movable member being configured to be movable from a non-activated position in which the pressurized gas in the container is sealed from entering the porous cathode and an activated position in which the pressurized gas flows into the porous cathode to activate the battery core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: OMNITEK PARTNERS LLC
    Inventors: Jahangir S Rastegar, Javier Alvare
  • Patent number: 12204259
    Abstract: There is provided a fixing solution capable of improving fixing property while suppressing odor. The fixing solution includes: an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid ester; a polyethylene glycol alkyl ether; and water. The water is dispersed in the aliphatic dicarboxylic acid ester. The polyethylene glycol alkyl ether has not less than 4 pieces and not more than 12 pieces of an oxyethylene unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideji Fukaya, Takayuki Higuchi, Tatsuya Ezaka
  • Patent number: 12206142
    Abstract: An electrochemical cell is disclosed. The electrochemical cell comprises an anode side, a cathode side, a separator, and an alkaline aqueous ferric iron salt solution. The alkaline aqueous ferric iron salt solution may be either the catholyte or the anolyte, depending on the electrochemical half-reactions that define the electrochemical cell. The alkaline aqueous ferric iron salt solution comprises one or more anionic ferric iron-carbonate complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventors: Charles Deane Little, Yasmina Yeager
  • Patent number: 12204277
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including toner base particles and resin particles. Each toner base particle includes a binder resin, a colorant, and wax. Each resin particle e has a core-shell structure including a core and a shell, where a glass transition temperature TgA of the shell is higher than a glass transition temperature TgB of the core. A surface of each toner base particle is covered with the resin particles. A storage elastic modulus G?1 of the toner at 70° C. during heating is 1.0×105 Pa or greater but 1.0×103 Pa or less, and a storage elastic modulus G?2 of the toner at 100° C. during heating is 1.0×104 Pa or greater but 5.0×104 Pa or less, as the toner is measured by a rheometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kamada, Hiroshi Yamada, Toma Takebayashi, Akio Takei
  • Patent number: 12197123
    Abstract: A method for making a IC is provided, including: identifying, in a schematic, first and second edge elements, which edge elements including devices whose layout patterns are configured to conform to a first layout grid; identifying all the elements between the first and second edge elements, at least one of the identified elements including a device whose layout pattern is configured to conform to a second layout grid that is finer than the first layout grid; and calculating a spatial quantity of a combined layout pattern of the identified elements between the first and second edge elements to determine whether the combined layout pattern conforms to the first layout grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Hao Chen, Hui-Yu Lee, Jui-Feng Kuan, Chien-Te Wu
  • Patent number: 12199284
    Abstract: A prelithiated anode may include a current collector may include a metal oxide layer. Prelithiated anodes may in addition include a lithiated storage layer overlaying the metal oxide layer. The lithiated storage layer may be formed by incorporating lithium into a continuous porous lithium storage layer may include at least 80 atomic % silicon. The lithiated storage layer may include less than 1% by weight of carbon-based binders. The lithiated storage layer may further include lithium in a range of 1% to 90% of a theoretical lithium storage capacity of the continuous porous lithium storage layer. Batteries may include the prelithiated anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Graphenix Development, Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Brewer, Kevin Tanzil, Paul D. Garman, Robert G. Anstey, Isaac N. Lund
  • Patent number: 12189259
    Abstract: An electrophoretic medium comprises a plurality of core-shell particles and a non-polar fluid. The core-shell particles comprise an organic pigment particles core and a shell comprising a metal oxide layer and a silane layer. The metal oxide layer may have a thickness of 0.4 to 2 nm. It may be formed using a fluidized bed reactor by inserting the organic pigment into the reactor as a powder bed, contacting the powder bed with a gaseous stream comprising a metal oxide precursor and an inert gas, and contacting the powder bed with a gaseous stream of a reagent and an inert gas. The silane layer is formed from a silane compound comprising a first functional group, wherein the first functional group reacts with the metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Jay William Anseth, Brandon MacDonald, Craig Alan Breen
  • Patent number: 12189335
    Abstract: A white toner includes a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a release agent, and titanium oxide, at least a part of the titanium oxide being present in a release agent domain, in which in observation of a cross section of the toner particle, an average major axis length Dt of the toner particle, an average major axis length Dw of the release agent domain, and an average major axis length Dp of the titanium oxide in the release agent domain satisfy Expressions (1) and (2). 2×Dp?Dw?10×Dp??Expression (1): 0.1×Dt?Dw?0.5×Dt??Expression (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Teppei Yawada, Asafumi Fujita, Kotaro Yoshihara, Tsuyoshi Murakami
  • Patent number: 12183879
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte that contains lithium, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine and bromine, wherein in powder X-ray diffraction analysis using CuK? rays, it has a diffraction peak A at 2?=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 2?=29.7±0.5 deg, the diffraction peak A and the diffraction peak B satisfy the following formula (A), and a molar ratio of the chlorine to the phosphorus “c (Cl/P)” and a molar ratio of the bromine to the phosphorus “d (Br/P)” satisfies the following formula (1): 1.2<c+d<1.9??(1) 0.845<SA/SB<1.200??(A) where SA is an area of the diffraction peak A and SB is an area of the diffraction peak B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Kota Terai, Takashi Umeki, Masaru Nakagawa, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12181832
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member having: a support with a cylindrical shape; and a photosensitive layer, in which the support has a surface formed of Al and/or an Al alloy, and the surface of the support includes Al crystal grains having (?) plane having {001} orientation of ?15° or more and less than +15°, (?) plane having {101} orientation of ?15° or more and less than +15°, and (?) plane having {111} orientation of ?15° or more and less than +15°, a ratio of an area occupied by Al crystal grains having (?) to the total area of the surface of the support is 10% or less, and a ratio of an area occupied by any one of Al crystal grains having (?) and Al crystal grains having (?) is 60% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Takahashi, Masayuki Shinozuka, Motoya Yamada
  • Patent number: 12183932
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides an electrochemical device comprising a tube having an outer surface defining an interior volume of the tube; a first hollow fiber positioned in the interior volume of the tube, the first hollow fiber comprising: a first membrane defining an interior volume of the first hollow fiber; one or more first electrodes positioned in the interior volume of the first hollow fiber; and at least a first portion of a first electrolyte fluid positioned in the interior volume of the first hollow fiber; one or more second electrodes positioned in the interior volume of the tube and outside of the interior volume of the first hollow fiber; and a second electrolyte fluid positioned in the interior volume of the tube and outside of the interior volume of the first hollow fiber. Also disclosed herein are methods of making an electrochemical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Nian Liu, Yutong Wu, Fengyi Zhang, Ryan P. Lively
  • Patent number: 12181811
    Abstract: There is described an intermediate transfer member for digital offset printing, comprising: a cured silicone release layer formed by curing a curable silicone release formulation comprising: a polyalkylsiloxane containing at least two vinyl groups having a weight average molecular weight of 60,000 g/mol or less; a polyalkylsiloxane containing two vinyl groups having a weight average molecular weight of at least 65,000 g/mol; a polyalkylsiloxane cross-linker containing at least two Si—H bonds; and a catalyst or a photoinitiator. There is also described a method of producing an intermediate transfer member, and a curable silicone release formulation for an intermediate transfer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Dima Libster, Jacob Ben-Yakar, Danny Feldman, Sergey Inotaev, Gabi Habibi, Dafna Shunary
  • Patent number: 12174527
    Abstract: A pellicle for an EUV photo mask includes a first capping layer, a matrix layer disposed over the first capping layer, a second capping layer disposed over the matrix layer; and a metallic layer disposed over the second capping layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yun-Yue Lin
  • Patent number: 12169389
    Abstract: A photoluminescent toner includes a photoluminescent toner particle that contains a binder resin, a release agent, and a photoluminescent pigment and has a release agent domain, and a silicone oil-treated silica particle that is externally added to the photoluminescent toner particle, in which in observation of a cross section of the photoluminescent toner particle, an average major axis length Dw of the release agent domain and an average major axis length Dp of the photoluminescent pigment satisfy Expression (1). 0.3?Dw/Dp?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kotaro Yoshihara, Tsuyoshi Murakami, Asafumi Fujita, Teppei Yawada
  • Patent number: 12170387
    Abstract: A lithium primary battery including a current collecting wire that electrically connects an electrode body and a sealing body or a battery can, in which the electrode body includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator, the negative electrode includes at least one selected from the group consisting of metal lithium and a lithium alloy, the current collecting wire includes a first lead connected to one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, a second lead connected to the sealing body or the battery can, and an overdischarge suppressing element interposed between the first lead and the second lead, the overdischarge suppressing element includes a first metal layer connected to the first lead, with the first metal layer being thinner than the first lead, a second metal layer connected to the second lead, with the second metal layer being thinner than the second lead, and a conductive layer interposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer disposed to face ea
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyosuke Okazaki, Tadayoshi Takahashi, Futoshi Tanigawa, Naoaki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 12164264
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic charge image development has toner particles containing a binder resin including 90 mass % or more of an amorphous resin. In a differential molecular weight distribution curve of tetrahydrofuran soluble matter as measured by gel permeation chromatography, the toner has a maximum peak Ma in a molecular weight range of 2,500 or more and 8,000 or less, a minimum value Mm in a molecular weight range of more than 8,000 and less than 280,000, and a maximum peak Mb in a molecular weight range of 280,000 or more and 900,000 or less. When the area of the differential molecular weight distribution curve in a range of a molecular weight of 100 or more and less than the minimum value Mm is defined as A, and the area of the differential molecular weight distribution curve in a range of the minimum value Mm or more and a molecular weight of 10,000,000 or less is defined as B, the area ratio A/B is 5.5 or more and 10 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Koji Funaba, Yuka Ishihara