Abstract: Methods of forming carbon from cotton cloth and the product thereof are provided. The carbon described herein can be used as a structural component and/or as a conductive additive in various battery applications. The method of manufacturing a carbon comprises providing a cotton cloth and pyrolyzing the cotton cloth to form a carbon.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 22, 2012
Date of Patent:
March 31, 2020
Assignee:
Enevate Corporation
Inventors:
Benjamin Park, Genis Turon Teixidor, William Schank, Lothar Steffens
Abstract: A long-length film formed of a resin containing a polymer having crystailizability, wherein the long-length film has an orientation axis perpendicular to a long side direction of the long-length film, the long-length film has an Nz factor Nz1 satisfying (formula 1), the long-length film has a birefringence ?n satisfying (formula 2), and the polymer has a crystallization degree X satisfying (formula 3): 1.0?Nz1?1.15??(formula 1) 0.01??n?0.1??(formula 2) 15%?X??(formula 3).
Abstract: A laminated glazing comprises two plies of glass having an interlayer structure laminated therebetween. The interlayer structure comprises a first sheet of an interlayer material framing a suspended particle device film incorporated therein. The interlayer material is chosen to minimize the migration of the components of the interlayer material into the suspended particle device film. Preferably, the interlayer material does not contain plasticizers, or contains a plasticizer which does not diffuse into the suspended particle device film structure.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 20, 2007
Date of Patent:
March 24, 2020
Assignees:
PILKINGTON GROUP LIMITED, PILKINGTON AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED
Inventors:
Michael Robert Greenall, Ashley Carl Torr, Jonathan Peter Voss
Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which a low yellow index value, low excitation purity and high heat shielding properties can be achieved in spite of the thickness varying with places. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention has a two or more-layer structure, has a thickness of one end thinner than a thickness of the other end at the opposite side of the one end and includes a first layer containing a thermoplastic resin and a second layer containing a thermoplastic resin, the difference between the maximum thickness and the minimum thickness in the first layer is smaller than the difference between the maximum thickness and the minimum thickness in the second layer, and the first layer contains a heat shielding compound.
Abstract: Provided are a curable compound, a photoinitiator, and a curable resin composition comprising at least two types of thermal initiators, each having different initiation reaction temperature. Since the curable resin composition can improve a curing rate while having a high conversion rate, the curable resin composition is suitable for manufacturing thick films.
Abstract: The present invention provides an insulation film (100), comprising a film upper layer (101) and a film lower layer (103), wherein both of the film upper layer (101) and film lower layer (103) are made of a PC or PET material, the PC or PET material contains a flame retardant to meet the flame retardance and puncture resistance property thereof; a film intermediate layer (102) located between the film upper layer (101) and the film lower layer (103), the film intermediate layer (102) is made of the blends of PP and/or PE and PC and/or PET; an upper surface of the film intermediate layer (102) is bound together with a lower surface of the film upper layer (101), a lower surface of the film intermediate layer (102) is bound together with an upper surface of the film lower layer (103).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 21, 2013
Date of Patent:
March 3, 2020
Assignee:
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
Inventors:
Hong Chuan Liao, Chris Benson, Yong Liang, Tom Carlson
Abstract: Disclosed herein are an optical resin composition whose orientation birefringence and photoelastic birefringence are both very low and which has high transparency and which provides a film having few surface defects and excellent mechanical strength, and a film comprising the optical resin composition. Also disclosed herein is a film that has optical isotropy and excellent transparency even after stretching. The optical resin composition contains a thermoplastic resin and a multistep-polymerized graft copolymer obtained by polymerizing, in the presence of crosslinked polymer-containing particles formed by polymerizing a monomer mixture containing a monomer represented by the following formula (4) and a polyfunctional monomer, a monomer mixture containing a monomer represented by the following formula (4) and another monofunctional monomer copolymerizable therewith.
Abstract: The present invention provides a stacked body including a germanium layer, an organic material layer, a zinc compound layer, and the like, thereby exhibiting a specific color and glossiness, transmitting electromagnetic waves, and having excellent water resistance, and more particularly, a stacked body including a substrate and a deposition layer formed on the substrate, wherein the deposition layer includes the organic material layer made of an organic material, the zinc compound layer made of zinc sulfide (ZnS) or zinc selenium (ZnSe), and the germanium layer made of germanium (Ge) or a germanium alloy.
Abstract: This invention discloses apparatus for generating an ophthalmic lens with at least a portion of one surface free-formed from a Reactive Mixture. In some embodiments, an ophthalmic lens is formed on a substrate with an arcuate optical quality surface via a source of actinic radiation controllable to cure a definable portion of a volume of Reactive Mixture.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 10, 2018
Date of Patent:
February 25, 2020
Assignee:
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc
Inventors:
Michael F Widman, John B Enns, P. Mark Powell, Peter W Sites
Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an interlayer film for laminated glass which prevents a double image phenomenon in a specific area of laminated glass and enables display of high contrast images at a luminance within a certain range. The present invention also aims to provide a laminated glass including the interlayer film for laminated glass. The present invention relates to an interlayer film for laminated glass, having a multilayer structure including a luminescent layer and a resin layer on at least one surface of the luminescent layer. The luminescent layer contains a thermoplastic resin, a plasticizer, and a luminescent material. The resin layer contains a thermoplastic resin and a plasticizer. The interlayer film for laminated glass has a wedge-shaped cross-sectional shape. The luminescent layer has a difference between the maximum thickness and the minimum thickness of 100 ?m or less.
Abstract: A thin film encapsulation unit including an inorganic layer, a first organic layer on the inorganic layer and including a light-blocking unit and a light-transmitting unit, and a reflection-preventing layer on the first organic layer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 15, 2018
Date of Patent:
February 11, 2020
Assignee:
Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Byoung-Duk Lee, Yun-Ah Chung, Yoon-Hyeung Cho
Abstract: A composite gas barrier layered body for an organic electroluminescent light-emitting element, including: a gas barrier layered body (A) having a film (a) of an alicyclic polyolefin resin and one or more inorganic barrier layers (a) directly provided on at least one surface of the film (a); a film (b) formed of an alicyclic polyolefin resin having a thickness that is equal to or less than a thickness of the film (a); and a heat-melting layer that is interposed between the inorganic barrier layer (a) and the film (b) to bond the inorganic barrier layer (a) to the film (b), wherein a glass transition temperature of the heat-melting layer is lower than a glass transition temperature of the alicyclic polyolefin resin constituting the film (a) and the film (b) by 25° C. or more; and production method therefor.
Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an acrylic resin composition that is a raw material for an acrylic resin film which has an excellent appearance and in which occurrence of blocking is suppressed. The present invention is an acrylic resin composition that comprising an acrylic polymer (A), an anti-blocking agent (B), and a non-crosslinked acrylic polymer (C). The non-crosslinked acrylic polymer (C) is a polymer of a monomer component including 50% to 100% by mass of methyl methacrylate (c1), the polymer having a reduced viscosity of 0.2 to 2 L/g.
Abstract: Embodiments of a glass-based article including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface defining a thickness (t) of about 3 millimeters or less (e.g., about 1 millimeter or less), and a stress profile, wherein all points of the stress profile between a thickness range from about 0·t up to 0.3·t and from greater than 0.7·t, comprise a tangent that is less than about ?0.1 MPa/micrometers or greater than about 0.1 MPa/micrometers, are disclosed. In some embodiments, the glass-based article includes a non-zero metal oxide concentration that varies along at least a portion of the thickness (e.g., 0·t to about 0.3·t). In some embodiments, the concentration of metal oxide or alkali metal oxide decreases from the first surface to a point between the first surface and the second surface and increases from the point to the second surface. The concentration of the metal oxide may be about 0.05 mol % or greater or about 0.5 mol % or greater throughout the thickness.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 12, 2019
Date of Patent:
January 14, 2020
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated
Inventors:
Guangli Hu, Charlene Marie Smith, Zhongzhi Tang, Steven Alvin Tietje
Abstract: An optical laminate structure includes a light control laminate having at least one light reflection layer, a first quarter wave plate laminated on one of surfaces of the light reflection layer, and a second quarter wave plate laminated on another surface of the light reflection layer. The light reflection layer includes a right-handed circularly polarized light reflection layer or a left-handed circularly polarized light reflection layer, and an angle formed by a polarization axis of the S-polarized light or P-polarized light incident from a position inclined from an axis perpendicular to a surface of the light control laminate by 45° or more and 65° or less and a slow axis of the first quarter wave plate on a side to which the S-polarized light or P-polarized light is incident is 5° or more and less than 45°.
Abstract: The invention relates to boron nitride agglomerates, comprising lamellar, hexagonal boron nitride primary particles, which are agglomerated with one another with a preferred orientation, the agglomerates formed being flake-shaped. The invention also relates to a method for producing said boron nitride agglomerates, characterized in that lamellar, hexagonal boron nitride primary particles are agglomerated in such a way that they line up with one another with a preferred orientation. The flake-shaped agglomerates according to the invention are suitable as filler for polymers for making polymer-boron nitride composites and for hot pressing of boron nitride sintered compacts.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 27, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 7, 2020
Assignee:
3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Inventors:
Martin Engler, Krishna Uibel, Jens Eichler
Abstract: To suppress a phenomenon where an optical axis of the optically anisotropic layer is tilted when the optically anisotropic layer is produced by using a liquid crystalline compound showing smectic phase as a materials showing a higher level of orderliness. An optically anisotropic layer wherein a polymerizable composition, containing one or more polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compound showing a smectic phase, is fixed in a state of smectic phase, and a direction of maximum refractive index of the optically anisotropic layer is inclined at 10° or smaller to the surface of the optically anisotropic layer, a method for manufacturing the same, a laminate and a method for manufacturing the same, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic EL display device.
Abstract: A dip-formed article obtained by dip forming a dip-forming composition containing a latex of a carboxyl group-containing nitrile rubber, wherein at least one surface is surface treated, a thickness is 0.02 to 0.2 mm, a coefficient of dynamic friction of the surface treated surface is 0.5 or less, and a tensile strength after surface treatment is 30 MPa or more is provided.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a device and method for a nanofiber wrap to minimize inflation and scarring of nerve tissue and maximize the nutrient transport. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a novel semi-permeable nanofiber construct prepared from biocompatible materials. The nanofiber construct is applied around a nerve repair site following end-to-end anastomosis. The nanofiber construct is porous and composed of randomly oriented nanofibers prepare using an electrospinning method. The nanofiber construct has a wall that is approximately 50-100 ?m thick with pores smaller than 25 ?m. The nanofiber construct prevents inflammatory cells from migrating into the nerve coaption site, while still permitting the diffusion of growth factors and essential nutrients. The nanofiber construct allows for enhanced neuroregeneration and optimal function outcomes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 9, 2015
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2019
Inventors:
Ibrahim Zuhaib, Hai-Quan Mao, Kellin Krick, Russell Martin, Gerald Brandacher, Karim A. Sarhane
Abstract: The present invention provides a cover window including a first region having a first stiffness; a second region having a second stiffness being greater than the first stiffness; and a nano-particle in a boundary between the first and second regions.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 14, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 19, 2019
Assignee:
LG Display Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Kelly Soo Yeun Song, Jae-Hyoung Park, Yu-Lim Won