Patents Examined by Tabatha L Penny
  • Patent number: 12129553
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing an abradable layer, includes compressing a powder composition including at least micrometric ceramic particles having a number-average form factor greater than or equal to 3, a mass content of said micrometric ceramic particles in the powder composition being greater than or equal to 85%, the form factor of a particle being defined as the ratio [largest dimension of the particle]/[largest cross-sectional dimension of the particle], and sintering the powder composition thus compressed to obtain the abradable layer, wherein a temperature imposed during sintering, the sintering time and the compression pressure applied are selected so as to obtain a volume porosity rate of the abradable layer greater than or equal to 20%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER—TOULOUSE III
    Inventors: Serge Georges Vladimir Selezneff, Philippe Charles Alain Le Biez, Arnaud Louis Gabriel Fregeac, Florence Ansart, Claude Gilbert Jean-Pierre Estournes
  • Patent number: 12110592
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a method for generating a metal-oxide film. The method includes providing a metal ligand complex having a metal and a reactive moiety. The metal ligand complex is dissolved in a solvent that coats at least part of a substrate. Additionally, the method includes inducing a combustion process involving the metal ligand complex, in the absence of any additional fuel, to generate a film that is formed over at least part of the substrate. The film includes an oxide of the metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wyatt Thornley, Linda Karin Sundberg, Krystelle Lionti, Daniel Paul Sanders
  • Patent number: 12098456
    Abstract: Methods for controlled microstructure creation utilize seeding of amorphous layers prior to annealing. Seed crystals are formed on an amorphous layer or layers. The material, size, and spacing of the seed crystals may be varied, and multiple seed layers and/or amorphous layers may be utilized. Thereafter, the resulting assembly is annealed to generate a crystalline microstructure. Via use of these methods, devices having desirable microstructural properties are enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jagannathan Rajagopalan, Paul Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 12084775
    Abstract: According to exemplary practice of the present invention, a passivation solution is circulated in a closed loop so as to laminarly flow on a continual basis through the channels of copper-nickel alloy piping or tubing. The passivation solution consists essentially of seawater (natural and/or artificial) plus 0.5 mM nickel hydroxide additive. The cyclical flow of the passivation solution is administered to the piping/tubing for a selected period of time (e.g., seven days), resulting in growth of a corrosion-resistant film on the inside (channel) surfaces of the piping/tubing. The film thus formed consists essentially of nickel hydroxide, nickel oxide, and copper oxide, and represents a durable and effective anti-corrosive barrier when exposed to seawater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Elissa M. Trueman, Jacob R. Steiner, Peter K. Todoroff
  • Patent number: 12071382
    Abstract: In one example, a method for forming a coating system including an environmental barrier coating (EBC) and abradable coating on a substrate. The method may include depositing the EBC on a ceramic or ceramic matrix composite (CMC) substrate to form an as-deposited EBC; heat treating the as-deposited EBC following the deposition of the as-deposited EBC on the substrate to form a heat treated EBC; and subsequently depositing an abradable coating on the heat treated EBC to form an as-deposited abradable coating. The as-deposited abradable coating may be heat treated to form a heat treated abradable coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Shi, Li Li, Gregory John Kenneth Harrington
  • Patent number: 12071697
    Abstract: Methods for forming a metal oxide electrolyte include applying a metal compound to a first material in powder form thereby forming a slurry, applying the slurry to an electrode, and converting at least some of the metal compound to form a metal oxide, thereby forming the metal oxide electrolyte on the electrode. Unexpectedly, the metal oxide electrolyte may have an ionic conductivity greater than the bulk ionic conductivity of the first material and of the metal oxide, possibly because of the nature of the interface between the first material and the metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: FCET, INC., UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: Leonid V. Budaragin, Mark A. Deininger, Michael M. Pozvonkov, D. Morgan Spears, II, Paul D. Fisher, Gerard M. Ludtka, Arvid E. Pasto
  • Patent number: 12006843
    Abstract: Methods for forming high temperature coating systems are provided. In embodiments, the coating formation method includes forming a fracture-resistant Thermal Barrier Coating (TBC) layer over a workpiece surface. The fracture-resistant TBC layer is produced from a first coating precursor material containing an amount of zirconia in mole percent (ZrOmol%1) and an amount of tantala in mole percent (TaOmol%1). A Calcium-Magnesium Aluminosilicate (CMAS) resistant TBC layer is formed over the fracture-resistant TBC layer from a second coating precursor material, which contains an amount of zirconia in mole percent (ZrOmol%2), an amount of tantala in mole percent (TaOmol%2), and an amount of one or more rare earth oxides in mole percent (REOmol%2). The first and second coating precursor materials are formulated such that ZrOmol%1 is greater than ZrOmol%2, TaOmol%1 is less than TaOmol%2, and TaOmol%2 is substantially equivalent to REOmol%2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Jason S. Van Sluytman
  • Patent number: 11987927
    Abstract: An activated cotton material and a method for processing cotton to form the activated cotton material are provided. The activated cotton material includes a layer of natural wax that is locked to the surface of cotton fibers by a wax lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Energy Ogre LLC
    Inventor: Graham Ralph Stewart
  • Patent number: 11987926
    Abstract: An activated cotton material and a method for processing cotton to form the activated cotton material are provided. The activated cotton material includes a layer of natural wax that is locked to the surface of cotton fibers by a wax lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Energy Ogre LLC
    Inventor: Graham Ralph Stewart
  • Patent number: 11976011
    Abstract: Provided is a wear resistant, sintered body made of a binderless carbide, cermet or cemented carbide, e.g., WC, W2C and/or eta-phase, with a grain size less than 6.0 ?m, and less than 6% binder phase (e.g., Co—Ni—Fe). At least some working surfaces of the sintered body are surface treated with a boron yielding method including applying a low viscosity liquid medium having boron or aluminum content and heating at 1200° C. to 1450° C. under a pressure less than atmospheric pressure or a hydrogen containing atmosphere to from a hardness gradient with an increased hardness of the treated working surfaces of at least 50 to 200 HV5 and favorable compressive stresses in a surface zone that gives a tougher working surfaces of the boronized sintered bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HYPERION MATERIALS & TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Stefan Sven-Olov Ederyd
  • Patent number: 11965248
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing a metallic surface with a coating by applying one or more layers of one or more metal-containing slips to the surface. At least one of the slips comprises a coloring and/or color-imparting substance which has no influence on the properties of the completed coating and/or can be decomposed by thermal treatment, and the local thickness of the applied slip layer is determined on the basis of the local color intensity of the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Horst Pillhoefer, Max Morant, Philipp Lautenbacher, Ludwig Hilser
  • Patent number: 11932945
    Abstract: Method to manufacture a component suitable to be installed inside a protected chamber with a controlled atmosphere of a machine for the production and/or packaging of pharmaceutical products, configured to receive one or more pieces of equipment, or devices, or elements, each formed by one or more of the components, wherein the interior of the chamber, that is to say, the components that form the equipment, or the devices, or the elements, is/are intended to be subjected to suitable decontamination and sterilization treatments, for example CIP (Clean-In-Place) treatments and/or SIP (Sterilizing-In-Place) treatments; There are also described components that are manufactured with the manufacturing method as above, and a method to prepare a protected chamber, isolated from the external environment, of a machine for the production and/or packaging of pharmaceutical products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gabriele Rustici Venturini, Claudio Trebbi, Gabriele Gabusi
  • Patent number: 11931770
    Abstract: A process for coating an aircraft turbomachine component with an erosion-resistant coating, includes depositing the erosion-resistant coating by hot powder-coating on an aircraft turbomachine component made of an organic-matrix composite material or of a metallic material, the erosion-resistant coating including a polyurethane or silicone polymer, the polymer having a glass transition temperature of less than or equal to ?30° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Mathieu Julien Charlas
  • Patent number: 11898303
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface-modified aramid fiber and a method for preparing the same. The method includes the following steps: modifying an aramid fiber having amino groups and carboxyl groups on the surface with siloxane ?-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane to obtain a silicon methoxylated aramid fiber; reacting same with a cerium oxide coated with polydopamine modified chaotic boron nitride to obtain a surface-modified aramid fiber. The cerium oxide coated with polydopamine modified chaotic boron nitride has high ultraviolet absorption, and has extremely low catalytic activity, avoiding the damage to a fiber structure by photocatalysis during radiation, being an effective, safe and highly-efficient ultraviolet absorber. The surface-modified aramid fiber provided in the present invention has an ultraviolet-resistant function, high surface activity, good thermal performance, and better mechanical performance, providing excellent overall performance, and having higher utilization value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aijuan Gu, Hua Cai, Guozheng Liang, Li Yuan
  • Patent number: 11851770
    Abstract: An article that includes a substrate; a first layer including yttria and zirconia or hafnia, where the first layer has a columnar microstructure and includes predominately the zirconia or hafnia; a second layer on the first layer, the second layer including zirconia or hafnia, ytterbia, samaria, and at least one of lutetia, scandia, ceria, neodymia, europia, and gadolinia, where the second layer includes predominately zirconia or hafnia, and where the second layer has a columnar microstructure; and a third layer on the second layer, the third layer including zirconia or hafnia, ytterbia, samaria, and a rare earth oxide including at least one of lutetia, scandia, ceria, neodymia, europia, and gadolinia, where the third layer has a dense microstructure and has a lower porosity than the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew R. Gold, Michael Cybulsky, Stephanie Gong, Li Li
  • Patent number: 11840585
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for derivatizing cellulose pulp at high solids content or even at a fully dry state without pretreating the cellulose, the method comprising preparing a reaction medium comprising urea and at least one derivatization reagent; carrying out a chemical derivatization reaction between the at least one derivatization reagent and the cellulose pulp in a reaction system comprising the cellulose pulp in contact with the reaction medium; and optionally purifying and/or recovering the derivatized cellulose product. The present description also relates to products obtainable using said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Betulium Oy
    Inventor: Nikolaos Pahimanolis
  • Patent number: 11827574
    Abstract: A method of pressure sintering an environmental barrier coating on a surface of a ceramic substrate to form an article is provided. The method includes the steps of etching the surface of the ceramic substrate to texture the surface, disposing an environmental barrier coating on the etched surface of the ceramic substrate. The environmental barrier coating includes a rare earth silicate, and pressure sintering the environmental barrier coating on the etched surface of the ceramic substrate in an inert or nitrogen atmosphere such that at least a portion of the environmental barrier coating is disposed in the texture of the surface of the ceramic substrate thereby forming the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Donald Martin Olson, Reza Oboodi, James Piascik, Terence Whalen, Bahram Jadidian
  • Patent number: 11796476
    Abstract: A double frame nanoparticle synthesis method includes: forming a first platinum layer of a closed loop structure on an edge region of a 2-dimensional gold nanoparticle; removing a portion of the gold nanoparticle in an exposed inner region thereof free of the first platinum layer, thereby forming a single frame structure; growing a first gold thin film on the single frame structure; forming a second platinum layer on inner and outer edge regions of the first gold thin film; removing a portion of the first gold thin film in an exposed region thereof free of the second platinum layer, thereby forming a double frame structure having an inner frame of a closed loop structure, and an outer frame having a closed loop structure surrounding the inner frame and partially connected to the inner frame; and forming a second gold thin film on a surface of the double frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Sung Ho Park, Sung Jae Yoo
  • Patent number: 11766649
    Abstract: A process for coating carrier particles with inhalable drug guest particles, the process including providing an apparatus including a processing vessel having solid walls defining a chamber for receiving the particles and adding the particles to the chamber. Next, the cylindrical processing vessel is rotated about an axis to impart a centrifugal force of between 10 and 2100 g on the particles. Further a process coats carrier particles with guest particles, wherein the carrier particles include a material or a drug and wherein the guest particles include a solubility/dissolution controlling agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ASTON PARTICLE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Professor Afzal Ur Rahman Mohammed, Jasdip Singh Koner, David Wyatt, Eman Dahmash
  • Patent number: 11761341
    Abstract: A method of applying a protective coating to a substrate includes the steps of: providing a turbine engine component substrate formed of a ceramic matrix composite material, forming an environmental barrier coating layer including a rare earth disilicate material directly on the substrate, treating an outer surface of the environmental barrier coating layer to form a thermal barrier coating layer including a porous rare earth monociliate material directly on the environmental barrier coating layer. The step of treating the outer surface is performed using a thermal process consisting of the application of heat or a chemical-thermal process consisting of the application of heat and a chemical. The method further includes infiltrating at least a portion of the pores with a metal solution or suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Mehrad Mehr, John Downs, Bahram Jadidian