Patents Examined by Thomas J. Herbert
  • Patent number: 4828920
    Abstract: A heat adherable resin composition which comprises (a) a carboxyl-modified resin obtained by the reaction of a partially saponified product of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer having a vinyl acetate content of 10 to 55 weight percent with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or dicarboxylic acid anhydride and (b) a monoolefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer or metal salt thereof is valuable as an adhesive layer for the heat sealable sheet made of aluminum foil which is used in the food industry in sealing and packaging the mouths of glass containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Assignee: Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Nakabayashi, Yuzo Furukawa, Teruo Hori
  • Patent number: 4826732
    Abstract: A recording and readout information system having atomic scale densities comprises a recording medium having a carrier and means to form a pattern of atomic particles on the surface of the carrier. The atomic particles having an affinity for the carrier and can adhere to the surface to form a relatively adhesive and stable bond. The pattern of atomic particles produced on the carrier are representative of recorded information, e.g. binary represented information, of ultra high density based upon the size and spacing of such particles, which is in the range, for example, of 5 .ANG.(0.5 nm) to 10 .ANG.(1 nm). A preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a recording medium with an adsorbent carrier, means to form a pattern of adsorbate atomic particles on the surface of the adsorbent carrier, the adsorbate atomic particles having an adsorptive affinity for the adsorbent carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Kazan, Stig B. M. Hagstrom
  • Patent number: 4826731
    Abstract: Fluoroelastomer laminates having one layer of perfluoroelastomer with an ethylenically unsaturated hydrogen or perfluorophenyl and bromo- or iodo- cure site components and compounded with a K.sub.2 AF curing system and a second layer of peroxide-curable polymer compounded with a peroxide curing agent. The laminates exhibit excellent high temperature adhesion and oxidative and fluid resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Martin G. Wagner, Anestis L. Logothetis
  • Patent number: 4824728
    Abstract: Substrates, and especially aluminum substrates, are durably coated to include, as a basecoat, a heavily pigmented opaque coating composition consisting essentially of from about 45% to about 85% of a fluorocarbon resin and from 15% to about 55% of an acrylic resin, and having a pigment volume concentration sufficient to visually obliterate anything beneath it, said heavily pigmented coating composition being overcoated with a fluorocarbon topcoat containing from about 45% to about 85% of a fluorocarbon resin, and from about 15% to about 55% of an acrylic resin, on a resin solids basis, and having a pigment volume concentration of at least about 1%, on a film solids basis, the pigment content of said topcoat being insufficient to prevent the color of the basecoat from being easily seen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1989
    Assignee: DeSoto, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerry A. Parsons, Pat P. Li
  • Patent number: 4822662
    Abstract: Machine parts to be brought into contact with an elongated fibrous member each consists of a substrate of an iron series metal and a surface layer which has high wear-resistance and a good sliding property, and which contains chromium oxide as a major constituent. The chromium oxide is converted from a chromium compound upon heating. An intermediate layer containing a reaction product between the chromium oxide in the surface layer and the substrate is formed at an interface between the surface layer and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Yano Kousakujo Corporation, Notoshiti Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Ishii, Hajime Kohama, Hisao Yabe, Akira Yano, Shinsuke Noto
  • Patent number: 4822682
    Abstract: Articles having a substrate coated with a oriented polymer having polar monomer units wherein the monomer units and main polymer chains originate from cyclic monomers polymerized by ring opening polymerization through impinging light on the coated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit Beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Dieter Dorsch, Rudolf Eidenschink, Claus P. Herz
  • Patent number: 4820570
    Abstract: A laminated insulation paper of the type having two cellulose layers separated by a plastic layer is formed with through holes in the plastic layer such that the respective cellulose layers may contact one another through the through holes. The insulation paper is formed by pressing heated, rounded pins into one of the cellulose layers while backing the other layer until the two cellulose layers are contacted through the hole thus formed in the plastic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Hasegawa, Michio Takaoka, Syotaroh Yoshida, Kazuya Akashi
  • Patent number: 4820588
    Abstract: Normally liquid peroxidic poly(perfluorooxyalkylene) compositions comprising a mixture of peroxidic poly(perfluorooxyalkylene) compounds, derivatives of the poly(perfluorooxyalkylene) compositions comprising a mixture of non-peroxidic polyfluoropolyether compounds, and derivatives of the polyfluoropolyether compositions comprising functional and non-functional derivatives of the polyfluoropolyether compositions are provided. Each peroxidic poly(perfluorooxyalkylene) compound comprises a backbone of randomly distributed perfluorooxyalkylene units, represented by the formulas ##STR1## which when bonded to an --O-- of any of the perfluorooxyalkylene units, forms a peroxy group, --O--O--, which imparts the peroxidic characteristics to the material, and backbone-pendant perfluoroalkoxy groups or perfluoroalkoxy groups substituted with one or more ether oxygen atoms, the terminal ether oxygen atoms of which are bonded to carbon atoms of the ##STR2## backbone units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Steven P. Brinduse, Anthony B. Clinch, Daniel K. McIntyre, Allen L. Noreen, Mark J. Pellerite
  • Patent number: 4820589
    Abstract: A stretch wrap film having one-sided cling of a thermoplastic A/B layer film structure wherein layer A in its stretched condition has a comparatively high cling force to layer B and layer B has at least substantially no cling force to a layer of itself and has a slide property when layer B is in contact with a layer of itself with relative motion therebetween and the surface of layer B presents sufficient area of an organic polymer which of its very nature causes the no cling force and the slide property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: David V. Dobreski, Robert J. Metz, James Morris
  • Patent number: 4818607
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrically conductive material (10) comprising a substantially spherical refractory particle (12) having an exterior surface (14) and having a diameter of no more than about 5 millimeters. An electrically conducting coating (22) substantially equally covers the entire exterior surface (14), the coating (22) having at least about 70 atomic percent carbon and being from about 10 Angstroms to about 500 Angstroms thick. A plurality of such particles (12) are useful as filler materials. Also, such particles (12) are useful as flowing electrodes. Objects containing the particles (12) have desirable electrical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Northrop Corporation
    Inventors: Steven F. Rickborn, Donald Z. Rogers
  • Patent number: 4818620
    Abstract: A lip seal having enhanced shock loading capabilities includes a rigid case member coated with an elastomeric material. A composite annular sealing lip having a bonding portion formed of an elastomeric material and a contact portion formed of polytetrafluoroethylene is bonded to the case member such that a shock absorbing elastomer to adhesive to elastomer interface is formed between the sealing lip and the case coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Mather Seal Company
    Inventor: Andy C. Pilkington
  • Patent number: 4818588
    Abstract: A packaging material comprising an outer layer of a heat shrinkable plastic film and a metallic glossy laminate which is disposed on the inner side of said outer layer and which maintains metallic gloss even after heat shrinkage. A heat shrunk package having beautiful metallic gloss can be obtained by the use of this packaging material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okabe, Hirohito Tomita, Shoichi Kubo
  • Patent number: 4818619
    Abstract: Fluorinated polymers having improved mechanical properties and an improved surface appearance, characterized in that they comprise a reinforcing material based on glass, asbestos and silicates in general or carbon, in the form of fibres or granules, or polyamidic fibres, such material being superficially treated with fluoropolyethers having an average molecular weight from 1,000 to 10,000 and containing functional end groups capable of forming bonds of various nature with the reinforcing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Ausimont S.p.A.
    Inventors: Ezio Strepparola, Tiziano Terenghi, Enrico Monza, Fabio Felippone
  • Patent number: 4818618
    Abstract: A fluorine resin coated aluminum material which is prepared by a process comprising the steps of coating a fluorine resin on an aluminum material having a magnesium content of from 0.01 to 10.0 wt %, and sintering the coated resin at a temperature not lower than the decomposition point of said fluorine resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okazaki, Fumio Matsuyama, Seiji Watabe
  • Patent number: 4818589
    Abstract: A paint transfer article useful in forming a protective or colored coating on a compound structural component. The paint transfer article comprises an optional carrier liner sequentially covered with continuous layers of a colored layer having a colored base layer and an optional clear coating, a reinforcing layer, and an optional heat-activatable adhesive. The reinforcing layer has a sufficiently low glass transition temperature and a sufficiently high tensile modulus to resist damage to itself and the colored layer upon impact or under moderate pressure. Also a method of paint transfer using the article, a method of preparing the composite, a cold-formable painted metal bank, and a method for cold-forming painted parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Bruce E. Johnson, Max Naglosky, III
  • Patent number: 4818625
    Abstract: Hydrogenated boron-silicon alloy films having unexpected properties permitting in one embodiment the bonding together of metal and ceramic substrates by coating the surfaces to be bonded with the film mating the surfaces and heat treating the mated surfaces to expell hydrogen therefrom and to react to resulting boron-silicon alloy film with the substrates to form a liquid reaction product which forms a surface bond with the substrates or is at least partially absorbed in the substrates. In another embodiment, at least one surface of an intermetallic compound formed from elements selected from groups III and V of the periodic table is sealed against structural degradation by forming on the surface a solid boron-silicon-hydrogen alloy film. In still another embodiment, metal and organic resin substrates are protected against attack by water vapor, dissociated oxygen and molecular oxygen by forming a solid boron-silicon-hydrogen alloy film on the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry W. Lavendel, John C. Robinson
  • Patent number: 4816343
    Abstract: In a multilayer flexible film sutable for medical solution packaging, film-derived extractables are controlled by the use of a small amount of a high molecular weight stabilizer in the outer layer of the film. Solution pH can be controlled by the addition of a carbonate of an alkali metal to at least one intermediate adhesive layer and/or the core layer of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.
    Inventors: Walter B. Mueller, Henry G. Schirmer
  • Patent number: 4814221
    Abstract: A polyethylene-2,6-naphthalate film for capacitors and, in particular, a polyethylene-2,6-naphthalate film which is excellent in heat resistance and mechanical strength and is useful for the dielectric of a chip type plastic film capacitor which requires a very thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Diafoil Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shigeo Utsumi
  • Patent number: 4812355
    Abstract: A finish laminate for high-frequency circuits, which consists of a metal-covered multilayer structure composed of (I) at least one fundamental laminate in which a glass cloth layer (C) is laminated on at least one side of an ultrahigh molecular-weight polyethylene layer (A) with an adhesive layer (B) interposed between the layers (C) and (A), one fundamental laminate being able to be laminated on another with an adhesive layer (B) interposed therebetween, and (II) a metal foil laminated on at least one outermost layer of the multilayer structure with an adhesive layer interposed therebetween. In one embodiment, the glass cloth layer may be impregnated with a curable thermosetting resin or with this resin and a thermoplastic resin to form a resin-containing glass cloth layer (C.sub.1) or (C.sub.2), thereby dispensing with an adhesive layer (B) when laminating a metal foil on the outermost layer of the multilayer structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignees: Nippon Petrochemicals Co., Ltd., Chukoh Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Yokoyama, Takeshi Kamiya, Takeo Niikawa, Masakatsu Nagase, Tetujiro Kuroishi
  • Patent number: 4810569
    Abstract: An exterior finishing system for a building. including particularly an exterior insulation system, which includes a fibrous mat-faced gypsum board, preferably a board in which the set gypsum core thereof is water resistant, and preferably one in which the set gypsum core is sandwiched between two sheets of porous glass mat, with the outer surface of at least one of said mats being substantially free of set gypsum, and means for preparing the board, including control of the viscosity of the aqueous gypsum slurry from which the set gypsum core of the board is formed. Also, the use of fibrous mat-faced gypsum board as the shaft liner panel in a shaft wall assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Corporation
    Inventors: Charles W. Lehnert, Brian G. Randall