Patents Examined by Tong Guo
  • Patent number: 11951727
    Abstract: A carbon decorative panel includes a carbon-toned irregular surface. The carbon-toned irregular surface has a plurality of unit patterns that constitute a weave of pseudo carbon fiber bundles presenting carbon fiber bundles in a pseudo manner, as the protrusions and depressions that form the carbon-toned pattern. A plurality of unit patterns each have a top portion positioned at the center in the extending direction of the pseudo carbon fiber bundle and a pair of curved portions positioned on both sides of the top portion in the extending direction and formed in a curved shape. The curvature of a pair of curved portions in the section along the extending direction of a pair of curved portions is greater on the center portion side than on the end portion side in the crossing direction that crosses the extending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hattori, Teruomi Sano
  • Patent number: 11890174
    Abstract: A stretchable sheet 10 includes: a plurality of attached portions 3 spaced apart from each other in the direction of stretch Df, wherein the first surfaces 1f and 2f of a pair of sheets 1 and 2 are attached to each other by being welded without using an adhesive, at the attached portions 3, the attached portions 3 hold elastic members F, and the attached portions 3 extend in a direction Dp crossing the direction of stretch Df of the elastic members F; and a plurality of folds P that appear between the attached portions 3 while the elastic members F are shrunk, wherein the attached portions 3 include: a plurality of strongly-attached portions 3s arranged on opposite sides of each elastic member F in the crossing direction Dp; and a plurality of weakly-attached portions 3w arranged between adjacent elastic members F and between adjacent strongly-attached portions 3s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ZUIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nakamura, Miwa Koshijima
  • Patent number: 11866242
    Abstract: A pull-tab sealing member for a container is provided having a pressure sensitive adhesive for sealing to the container. The sealing members herein include a foam layer and a non-foam polymer layer between the foam layer and a tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Selig Sealing Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert William Thorstensen-Woll
  • Patent number: 11752664
    Abstract: A solid aesthetic wall skin sheet having a backer guide with tabs and recesses which is manufactured using thermoform molding. The thermoformed wall skin sheet with a backer guide offers improved printability on the top display surface and facilitates the easy application of multiple wall skins sheets that can be joined together onto a wall surface to form a wall covering that has accurate and tight-fitting seams and conceals from view the fasteners used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Pulp Art Surfaces LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Maltese, Scott Pitters
  • Patent number: 11639737
    Abstract: A bearing component, such as a bearing roller or a bearing ring, has an exterior surface and includes at least one interior region made of a recycled material which region is spaced from and does not form any part of the exterior surface. The recycled material and the unrecycled material may each include silicon nitride and/or sialon and/or silicon carbide and/or a ceramic material. Also a method of forming the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Franz Rigler, Oskar Schoeppl
  • Patent number: 11518140
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a body and hair towel comprising a microfiber interior layer and a silk exterior layer. The novel towel is comprised of a plurality of double layered capsules, wherein each capsule has an interior layer of microfiber material and an exterior layer of silk material. The exterior silk layer on the capsules provides an extremely smooth texture to the towel, thereby making the towel comfortable and convenient to use by people having dry skin, skin conditions or the like, and may also be comfortably used on hair without affecting the health of hair and skin of the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Sherry Anderson
  • Patent number: 11460143
    Abstract: An insulating structure for an appliance including a first panel, a second panel coupled to the first panel, wherein the first and second panels define a cavity, an insulation material disposed within the cavity, at least one central flattening portion of the first and second panels, the at least one central flattening portion defining an enlarged area of the cavity in a rest state and having deflection control features, and structural reinforcements defined by the deflection control features of the at least one central flattening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Arunkumar Harikrishnasamy, Sai B. Krishna
  • Patent number: 11459487
    Abstract: A gummed paper comprises a first substrate having an uncovered region on an upper surface thereof; and a second substrate, in which in a thickness direction, a projection of the second substrate partially covers a projection of the first substrate, a dyne value of an upper surface of the second substrate is greater than or equal to 40 dyn/cm, and a dyne value of the uncovered region is less than the dyne value of the upper surface of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhifang Dai, Luran Zhang, Hai Long, Xinghua Tao
  • Patent number: 11432969
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of forming a laminate absorbent structure, and a resulting package containing a single continuous running web of the laminate material. Notably, formation of the material is effected by blending a curtain of adhesive fibers with a curtain of particulate material, and depositing the mixture on a moving substrate, preferably provided in the form of a tissue layer. A second substrate, also preferably comprising a tissue layer, is applied on top of the deposited mixture, and pressure applied to form the laminated structure. Notably, attendant to packaging of the laminated material, adjacent layers of the material tend to nest into one another, to form a sandwich in which the density of the material in the package is more than 1.5 times the density of the material after its removal from the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: EAM Corporation
    Inventors: Paul M. Ducker, Steven S. Harlen
  • Patent number: 11402544
    Abstract: One or more aspects of the present disclosure provide components for an article of manufacture, having a film with an optical element that imparts a structural color to the component. The present disclosure also provide methods for making components with the films and optical element, and articles of manufacture including the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Bee, Jeremy Gantz, Kim Kovel
  • Patent number: 11400688
    Abstract: A thermal protection barrier including a base layer having a high melting temperature granular media having free standing granules disposed within the base layer and a distributor grid layer having a plurality of spaced-apart distributors composed of a high melting temperature material disposed adjacent to the base layer. The spaced-apart distributors are dimensioned and configured to provide load bearing support to the thermal protection barrier prior to a breach of the thermal protection barrier and to divide and disperse a superheated flowing mass to the free standing granules of the base layer upon occurrence of a breach. In certain embodiments, the thermal protection barrier is positioned adjacent to a nuclear system such that, upon occurrence of a loss of containment accident, the distributor grid layer is positioned and configured to divide and disperse a superheated flowing nuclear mass to the free standing granules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC
    Inventors: Edward B. Ripley, Jacob L. Miller, Michael J. Renner, Walter Duerksen, Jonathan S. Morrell
  • Patent number: 11376818
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept provides a pad including: a flat portion; and corner portions, wherein the corner portions may be positioned at four corners of the pad, and hardness of the corner portions may be greater than that of the flat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventor: Byoung Yul Shim
  • Patent number: 11372494
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to gripping surfaces and devices comprising the same, wherein the gripping surface comprises a shape tunable surface microstructure, wherein the height, width and spatial periodicity of the microstructures corresponds to an integer multiple of Schallamach wave amplitudes and wavelengths of a target surface, wherein the device microstructures and induced Schallamach waves are entrained by applying strain to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: BVW HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Lukas Bluecher, Michael Milbocker
  • Patent number: 11365481
    Abstract: Homogeneous and transparent protective coatings for precious metals and copper alloys and techniques for forming the coatings on precious metals and copper alloys are provided. In an embodiment, ionic oxide film is deposited onto a surface of a substrate including a metal, such as a precious metal and/or a copper alloy, using pulsed chemical vapor deposition (PCVD). A homogenous and transparent solid film based on ionic oxide is formed on the surface of the substrate in response to the depositing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
    Inventors: Kwok Yan Li, Zhifeng Zhou, Po Wan Shum
  • Patent number: 11302976
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for a battery outer packaging including: a base material; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged on one surface of the base material, where a value calculated from an expression “a loss modulus of elasticity (G?) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for a battery outer packaging at 70° C.×a thickness (mm) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer/a thickness (mm) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for a battery outer packaging” is 8×103 Pa or more; a value calculated from an expression “a storage modulus of elasticity (G?) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for a battery outer packaging at 23° C. ×the thickness (mm) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer/the thickness (mm) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for a battery outer packaging” is 3×105 Pa or less; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive strength of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for a battery outer packaging to a stainless-steel plate at 23° C. is 2 N/10 mm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Shimokawa, Shigeki Kawabe
  • Patent number: 11292288
    Abstract: An article having a nanostructured surface and a method of making the same are described. The article can include a substrate and a nanostructured layer bonded to the substrate. The nanostructured layer can include a plurality of spaced apart nanostructured features comprising a contiguous, protrusive material and the nanostructured features can be sufficiently small that the nanostructured layer is optically transparent. A surface of the nanostructured features can be coated with a continuous hydrophobic coating. The method can include providing a substrate; depositing a film on the substrate; decomposing the film to form a decomposed film; and etching the decomposed film to form the nanostructured layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventors: Tolga Aytug, David Christen, John T. Simpson
  • Patent number: 11292647
    Abstract: An ultraviolet (UV)-resistant roofing shingles plastic film, package, packaging roll, and methods are disclosed. The UV-resistant plastic film includes an inner surface to face roofing shingles and an outer surface. The plastic film has a UV inhibitor to obstruct UV light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HOOD PACKAGING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manuel Chiu, Robert Wayne Towery
  • Patent number: 11292291
    Abstract: A method for the production of grounded panels and to a panel having a core made from a wood material board. The method includes provision of a wood material board, application of a grounding in the form of a synthetic resin layer to at least one topside of the wood material board, application of a coating to an underside, lying opposite the topside of the wood material board, of the wood material board, pressing of the layer build-up consisting of the wood material board, grounding and coating under the influence of pressure and, if appropriate, temperature, division of the grounded and coated wood material board into individual panels, cutting machining of side faces of the panels for the incorporation of connection and locking means, and transport-safe packaging of the grounded panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: FLOORING TECHNOLOGIES LTD
    Inventors: Roger Braun, Norbert Kalwa
  • Patent number: 11295934
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a member for a semiconductor manufacturing device includes an alumite base material including a concavity, and a first layer formed on the alumite base material and including an yttrium compound. The first layer includes a first region, and a second region provided in the concavity and located between the first region and the alumite base material. An average particle diameter in the first region is shorter than an average particle diameter in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasutaka Nitta
  • Patent number: 11292287
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a decal for producing a decoration, comprising a non-leafing pigment layer and a first protective layer, characterized in that the decal is designed so that the non-leafing pigment layer can be applied closer to a substrate that the first protective layer. Furthermore, the present invention describes a method for producing the decal as well as its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Ferro GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Schulz, Marya Khan, Lutz Poth, Silke Schäfer, Francesca Torsiello, Florian Wentz