Patents Examined by Travis Figg
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Patent number: 9920220Abstract: Embodiments of films and material layers comprising PEDOT. These embodiments are the result of methods that utilize polymerization processes including vapor phase polymerization (VPP) to form the conductive film comprising PEDOT. In one embodiment, the film can result from a method that includes steps for depositing a coating solution onto a substrate, exposing the substrate to a monomer source, and cleaning the substrate after polymerization. The coating solution can comprise an initiating oxidant, which facilitates growth of PEDOT from 3,4 ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT), as well as a quenching agent that neutralizes acid that results from polymerization.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: The Research Foundation of State University of New YorkInventors: William E. Bernier, Nicholas A. Ravvin, Wayne E. Jones, Jr., Kenneth H. Skorenko
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Patent number: 9889603Abstract: A laminated composite structural panel with fiber reinforcement comprising a skin with a thickness e1 and a localized reinforcement or patch. The skin is made up of a stack of fibrous plies in a matrix made of a thermoplastic polymer. The localized reinforcement or patch is joined to the surface of the skin and rises to a thickness of e2 in a direction that is locally normal to the skin, which is made up of a stack of fibrous plies in a matrix made of thermoplastic polymer. The surface of the plies that make up the patch is decreasing from the ply of the patch in contact with the skin so that the edges of the patch have a slope p greater than 0.5. The patch and the skin is joined by a weld.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2012Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Daher AerospaceInventors: Michael Hugon, Alexandre Pelard, Dominique Soubelet
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Patent number: 9890345Abstract: A system and method for forming at least one of graphene and graphene oxide on a substrate and an opposed wear member. The system includes graphene and graphene oxide formed by an exfoliation process or solution processing method to dispose graphene and/or graphene oxide onto a substrate. The system further includes an opposing wear member disposed on another substrate and a gas atmosphere of an inert gas like N2, ambient, a humid atmosphere and a water solution.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLCInventors: Anirudha V. Sumant, Ali Erdemir, Junho Choi, Diana Berman
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Patent number: 9873821Abstract: An adhesive film including a compound including a urethane functional group, the adhesive film having a ratio (B/A) of 180° peel strength (B) after leaving the adhesive film at 70° C. for 2 minutes to 180° peel strength (A) at 25° C. of about 5 or more, is disclosed. A display apparatus including the adhesive film is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung Hyun Mun, Lee June Kim, Ik Hwan Cho, Chan Woo Kim, In Cheon Han
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Patent number: 9873767Abstract: A polyimide resin containing a repeating structural unit represented by the following formula (1) and a repeating structural unit represented by the following formula (2), a content ratio of the repeating structural unit of formula (1) with respect to the total of the repeating structural unit of formula (1) and the repeating structural unit of formula (2) being 20 mol % or more and less than 40 mol %, and the polyimide resin satisfying predetermined conditions: wherein R1 represents a divalent group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms containing at least one alicyclic hydrocarbon structure; R2 represents a divalent chain aliphatic group having from 5 to 16 carbon atoms; and X1 and X2 each independently represent a tetravalent group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms containing at least one aromatic ring.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.Inventor: Yuuki Sato
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Patent number: 9868267Abstract: To provide a multilayer structure having high gas barrier property and crack resistance as well as excellent fatigue resistance, an inner liner for a pneumatic tire using such a multilayer structure, and a pneumatic tire comprising the inner liner. According to the present invention, in a multilayer structure 1 including a barrier layer 2 and an elastomer layer 3, a proportion of a thickness of the elastomer layer 3 in the multilayer structure ((U1+U2+ . . . +Un)/T) is 60% or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignees: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Kitano, Tetsuo Amamoto, Takatsugu Tanaka, Nahoto Hayashi, Masao Hikasa, Yusuke Tanaka
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Patent number: 9849636Abstract: A vehicle structural element made of plastic has at least one carbon filler reinforced region and at least one fiberglass reinforced region. In a method for producing the vehicle structural element, a pre-heated carbon fiber reinforced region and a pre-heated fiberglass reinforced region are placed in a press and shaped.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS GMBHInventors: Bernd Gross, Hans-Georg Werner, Sreenivas Paruchuri
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Patent number: 9840207Abstract: The present invention relates to a profile section molded by the multi-injection molding of thermoplastic materials having different hardnesses, and forming a seal or a molding for the body of a motor vehicle, as well as to a method for manufacturing said profile section.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2012Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: HutchinsonInventor: Olivier Blottiau
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Patent number: 9827351Abstract: This invention relates to medical, health care and non-medical devices comprising a rubbery or elastomeric polymer material taking up more than 5% by weight of water and at most 500% by weight of water after immersion in demineralized water at room temperature for a sufficient time to reach saturation. The material may be in the form of a foam, or in the form of a coating adapted for adhesion to a substrate, or in the form of a sheet, or in the form of a fiber, and may comprise: —repeating units from one or more hydrophobic organic monomers, and —repeating units from one or more monomers (a) being modified with one or more hydrophilic side groups.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Dirk Burdinski, Joyce Van Zanten, Lucas Johannes Anna Maria Beckers, Cornelis Petrus Hendriks, Willem Franke Pasveer, Nicolaas Petrus Willard, Mareike Klee, Biju Kumar Sreedharan Nair, David Smith
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Patent number: 9815975Abstract: The present invention relates to a monolayer film comprising a mixture of a first linear polyethylene having a density in the range of from 0.926 to 0.970 g/cm3; a second LLDPE having a density in the range of from 0.868 to 0.920 g/cm3; and a nucleating agent to get to a better balance of low WVTR and dart while still allowing film production from it on standard monolayer equipment without need for co-extrusion capability. The LLDPE with the higher density is further characterized by having at least 57 percent (by weight of that component) of molecules having a weight average molecular weight in the range of 31,000 g/mole to 1,000,000 g/mole. These components are blended in various ratios ranging from 50 to 90% of the higher density LLDPE, 10 to 50% of the lower density LLDPE and at least 50 ppm of the nucleating agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Swapnil Chandak, Ayush A. Bafna
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Patent number: 9776374Abstract: A smoothly bendable board including a middle layer, a first outer layer attached to the middle layer and a second outer layer attached to the middle layer is disclosed. The second outer layer has a lower bending stiffness according to ISO 5628 than the first outer layer such that the smoothly bendable board is outwardly bendable only in a direction towards which the second layer faces. A method for producing a smoothly bendable board is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: SCA FOREST PRODUCTS ABInventors: Magnus Vistrom, Rickard Hagglund
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Patent number: 9777137Abstract: Objects of the present invention are: to obtain a polyimide that is excellent in heat resistance, transparency, and optical isotropy and is soluble in an organic solvent; to provide, by using either a polyimide or a polyamic acid which is a precursor or the polyimide, a product or a member that is highly required to have heat resistance and transparency; and particularly to provide a product and a member both of which are obtained by applying a polyamic acid solution and a polyimide solution of the present invention to the surface of an inorganic substance such as glass, metal, metal oxide, or a single crystal silicon. These objects can be attained by a polyimide acid and a polyimide which are each prepared from an alicyclic tetracarboxylic dianhydride and a monomer having a fluorene structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Mari Fujii, Shinji Ozawa
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Patent number: 9777404Abstract: A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide epitaxial substrate includes: a step of placing a silicon carbide single crystal substrate within a chamber and reducing a pressure within the chamber; a step of increasing a temperature within the chamber to a first temperature; a step of introducing hydrogen gas into the chamber and adjusting the pressure within the chamber; a step of introducing hydrocarbon gas into the chamber; a substrate reforming step of increasing the temperature within the chamber to a second temperature and holding the temperature at the second temperature for a predetermined time, with the adjusted pressure within the chamber and a flow rate of the hydrogen gas being maintained and the hydrocarbon gas being introduced; and a step of growing an epitaxial layer on the silicon carbide single crystal substrate by introducing silane gas into the chamber with the second temperature being maintained.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Wada, Taro Nishiguchi, Jun Genba
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Patent number: 9765244Abstract: An adhesive film for polarizing plates includes a (meth)acrylic copolymer obtained by polymerizing about 15 wt % to about 30 wt % of a (meth)acrylic monomer having a hetero-alicyclic ring. The adhesive film has a storage modulus (G?) of about 30 kPa or greater as determined from Frequency sweep testing at 85° C. by oscillation at an angular speed of 10?3 rad/s to 102 rad/s. An adhesive composition for the same, a polarizing plate including the same, and an optical display device including the same are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Won Kim, Ri Ra Jung, Irina Nam, Ha Yun Cho, In Cheon Han
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Patent number: 9752021Abstract: The instant invention provides an ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer composition suitable for blown film applications, and blown films made therefrom. The ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer composition suitable for blown film applications according to the present invention comprises greater than 80 percent by weight of units derived from ethylene and 20 percent or less by weight of units derived from one or more alpha olefin co-monomers, wherein said ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer has a density in the range of from 0.910 to 0.918 g/cm3, a melt index I2 in the range of from 0.5 to 1.1 g/10 minutes, a melt flow ratio I10/I2 in the range of from 8 to 10, a melt strength in the range of from 3 to 6 cN, a highest temperature fraction in the range of from 11 to 14 percent determined by CEF, a highest peak temperature fraction by CEF in range of from 96 to 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Mehmet Demirors, Teresa P. Karjala, Julie W. Mckenna, Douglas S. Ginger
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Patent number: 9751799Abstract: A scratch-resistant glass substrate is prepared by forming a hard, scratch-resistant layer over a major surface of the substrate. The layer is formed from an inorganic material such as a metal oxide, metal nitride, metal carbide, or metal boride using, for example, physical vapor deposition such as reactive or non-reactive sputtering at a process temperature of less than 500° C. The inorganic layer is resistant to micro-ductile scratching, which can safeguard the visible appearance of the glass substrate in use. The glass substrate can include chemically-strengthened glass.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventor: Charles Andrew Paulson
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Patent number: 9731483Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provide a coated film that can be highly prevented from suffering from deposition of oligomers from a surface of the film when exposed to a high temperature condition, and is excellent in adhesion property to various functional layers. The present invention relates to a coated film comprising a single-layer polyester film having an ester cyclic trimer content of not more than 0.7% by weight or a multilayer polyester film comprising a polyester surface layer having an ester cyclic trimer content of not more than 0.7% by weight, and a coating layer formed on at least one surface of the single-layer polyester film or multilayer polyester film, the coating layer being prepared from a coating solution comprising a crosslinking agent in an amount of not less than 70% by weight based on the weight of nonvolatile components in the coating solution.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Kawasaki, Taishi Kawasaki
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Patent number: 9725601Abstract: An aerogel fabricated by forming an aqueous suspension including carbon nanotubes and a surfactant, agitating the aqueous suspension, and centrifuging the agitated suspension to form a supernatant including the carbon nanotubes. The supernatant is concentrated to form a concentrated suspension including the carbon nanotubes, and a hydrogel is formed from the concentrated suspension. The hydrogen is contacted with a strong acid to form an acidic hydrogel and to remove surfactant from the hydrogel, and then neutralized. An aerogel is formed from the hydrogel. The aerogel may consist essentially of carbon nanotubes. A composite may be formed from the hydrogel or the aerogel by infiltrating the hydrogel or the aerogel with a polymeric material and curing or pyrolyzing the polymeric material. The composite may be electrically conductive, transparent, flexible, superelastic, or any combination thereof. A device, such as a flexible conductor, sensor, or electrode may include the aerogel or the composite.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventor: Mohammad F. Islam
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Patent number: 9688051Abstract: A window member includes flexible base films and a protective film. The flexible base films are stacked upon one another. Each flexible base film is substantially transparent. The protective film is disposed on the flexible base films and is substantially transparent. Each of the flexible base films includes protrusions and grooves disposed between adjacent protrusions. Corresponding protrusions of the flexible base films at least partially overlap one another.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gui Nam Min, Kyu taek Lee, Kyung Woo Han, Soyeon Han, Kyu-young Kim
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Patent number: 9652059Abstract: Disclosed is a transparent electroconductive laminate which achieves the required transparency or haze characteristic while having a desirable slipperiness in terms of handleability. Further disclosed is a transparent touch panel having said transparent electroconductive laminate. The transparent laminate (10) has a transparent organic polymer substrate (1), a transparent electroconductive layer (2) on one face of the transparent organic polymer substrate, and a cured resin layer (3) with a concavo-convex surface on the other face of the transparent organic polymer substrate, and the transparent touch panel has said transparent electroconductive laminate. The cured resin layer (3) has a concavo-convex surface by being formed from a coating composition which contains two types of polymerizable components which mutually phase-separate on the basis of the physical difference therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignees: TEIJIN LIMITED, TEIJIN CHEMICALS LTD.Inventors: Haruhiko Itoh, Koichi Imamura