Patents Examined by William P. Fletcher, III
  • Patent number: 12109663
    Abstract: A method in dry shake coating of a concrete floor is provided. On top of the concrete floor two or more superimposed dry shake material layers are applied. The surface of an underlying dry shake layer is troweled prior to application of a next dry shake layer, whereafter the lastly processed dry shake layer of a concrete floor is troweled. The application of an underlying dry shake layer is followed by spreading over its surface a water soluble silica-based medium prior to and/or during the course of troweling this particular dry shake layer and prior to the application of an overlying dry shake layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: CONCRIA OY
    Inventor: Mika Ahonen
  • Patent number: 12090510
    Abstract: Provided is a method for preparing a silica layer, comprising bringing to gelation a precursor layer formed from a precursor composition comprising a silica precursor, an acid catalyst and a surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Taek Oh, Chang Hoon Sin, Kwang Seung Park, Moon Soo Park
  • Patent number: 12091750
    Abstract: Wave-absorbing material powder of the present invention has oxidation resistance and salt fog resistance, which includes an iron-containing wave-absorbing material powder, and a metal oxide ceramic layer and a metal phosphate layer sequentially coated on an outside of the iron-containing wave-absorbing material powder from the inside to the outside. A method for preparing the wave-absorbing material powder includes using atomic layer deposition to coat the iron-containing wave absorbing material powder with a metal oxide ceramic coating, and then adopting the atomic layer deposition to coat the metal oxide ceramic coating with a metal phosphate layer; repeating the above steps to form an alternating nano-stack of the metal oxide ceramic coating and the metal phosphate layer outside the iron-containing absorbing material powder; and finally performing a high-temperature annealing treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: BattFlex (Wuhan) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Xie, Zhide Wang, Yuyu Li, Youwei Zhang, Pinggui Liu, Fan Qian
  • Patent number: 12090514
    Abstract: A system for buoyant particle processing includes: a reaction vessel, a stirring mechanism, a set of one or more pumps, and a filter. The system can additionally or alternatively include a set of pathways and/or any other suitable component(s). A method for buoyant particle processing includes: stirring the contents of a reaction vessel; washing a set of buoyant particles; and filtering the contents of the reaction vessel. Additionally or alternatively, the method can include any or all of: preprocessing the set of buoyant particles; adding a set of inputs to the reaction vessel; washing the set of buoyant particles; repeating one or more; and/or any other suitable process(es).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Akadeum Life Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon H. McNaughton, Nadia Petlakh, John G. Younger, Greg Hermanson, Bill Hyun, Vanessa Kelchner
  • Patent number: 12090800
    Abstract: A method of applying an air barrier to an inner surface of a tire includes placing the tire in a tire trimming machine, rotating the tire in the tire trimming machine as a part of a tire trimming operation, and while performing the tire trimming operation spraying the air barrier material onto the inner surface of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph D. Deering
  • Patent number: 12084590
    Abstract: A water-based dual-cure coating comprising the following raw material components: 15-25 parts by weight of a water-based polycarbonate dispersion, 30-60 parts by weight of a water-based aliphatic polyurethane acrylate dispersion, 5-15 parts by weight of a UV reactive diluent, 1-4 parts by weight of a photoinitiator, 0.2-1 part by weight of an auxiliary agent, 3-8 parts by weight of a film coalescing aid, and 5-15 parts by weight of water. The coating is sprayed onto an automotive interior part and subsequently cured by baking at a temperature of 50-65° C. to form a film, proceeding UV curing; and proceeding thermal curing at temperature of 70-80° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UVCHEM SPECIAL COATINGS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Fuliang Peng, Tianyu Chen, Ligang Yu, Guanqun Fu
  • Patent number: 12076744
    Abstract: An assembly is used for an applying device having a first pressurizing member that can pressurize a viscous material stored in a first container, and a second container having the viscous material stored, the second container being relatively approachable and separatable with respect to the first pressurizing member. The first pressurizing member includes a first contact unit contactable with the second container and a first passage through which the viscous material stored in the first container is circulatable to the second container. The second container includes a second contact unit contactable with the first contact unit, and a second passage provided on the second contact unit, the second passage being interrupted from the first passage when the first contact unit is brought into contact with the second contact unit, the second passage communicating with the first passage when the first contact unit is separated from the second contact unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: THREEBOND CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Sakai
  • Patent number: 12071383
    Abstract: A method for forming a high temperature coating includes forming a pre-sintered ceramic coating on a ceramic composite substrate. The pre-sintered ceramic coating includes a plurality of ceramic particles. The method further includes sintering at least a portion of the pre-sintered ceramic coating by heating the portion of the pre-sintered ceramic coating to a sintering temperature of the plurality of ceramic particles using joule heating. The sintering temperature is greater than about 1000 degrees Celsius (° C.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Mehrad Mehr, Bahram Jadidian
  • Patent number: 12064566
    Abstract: A method for coating the lumen of a tube comprises the steps of inserting the distal opening of a tube into a first coating solution, drawing the first coating solution into the lumen of the tube, draining the first coating solution from the lumen leaving a film of the first coating solution on the lumen of the tube, and curing the first coating solution. This leaves a first coating on the lumen of the tube. A coating apparatus comprises a pallet, and one or more dip funnels. The pallet comprises a manifold and is configured to fluidically connect the manifold to one or more tubes. The one or more dip funnels are configured to hold a coating solution and are located below the pallet so that when the pallet is moved vertically, the one or more tubes are inserted into the dip funnels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BIOCOAT, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Spencer Thomas Bass, Zichun Jacqueline Lu-Wright
  • Patent number: 12053914
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite member including an aluminum member and a resin member that are bonded to each other, the method including: performing blasting on a surface of the aluminum member; modifying the surface of the aluminum member into aluminum hydroxide, the modifying including causing the surface of the aluminum member having undergone blasting to react with water vapor by applying a pressure exceeding an atmospheric pressure; and directly bonding the resin member to the surface of the aluminum member modified to aluminum hydroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., Shibaura Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Eiji Yamaguchi, Nayuta Horie, Yuuka Ito, Ai Serizawa, Takahiro Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 12053995
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for printing a silver nanowire harness network structure by using a glue dispenser, including the following: 1) constructing an induced PET substrate: modifying a PET substrate by a surface hydrophobic treatment method to enhance the binding force between nanowires and the PET substrate and enhance the conductivity of a nanowire network structure; 2) constructing a glue dispensing printing system and printing the nanowire harness network structure: fixing the glue dispenser to a worktable, fixing a printed PET substrate to a ufab three-dimensional moving platform for controlling the movement of the PET substrate, adjusting the moving speed of the ufab three-dimensional moving platform and the distance between a needle head and the PET substrate, controlling the glue dispensing air pressure and the glue dispensing amount of silver nanowire glue by the glue dispenser, and obtaining the nanowire harness network structure on the PET substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jianlei Cui, Chenchen Huang, Xuesong Mei, Zhengjie Fan, Wenjun Wang, Bin Liu, Wenqiang Duan, Jun Yang
  • Patent number: 12048946
    Abstract: A process of coating an open-cell foam substrate includes the steps of arranging two rollers separated by a gap; positioning the substrate above the gap; providing a coating material onto the substrate, feeding the substrate through the gap so as to achieve a layer of the coating material on the substrate, wherein the coating material is selected from the group consisting of a polysiloxane derivative, acrylic polymer, butyl rubber, natural rubber, nitriles, styrene block copolymers with ethylene, styrene block copolymers with propylene, styrene block copolymers with isoprene and polyvinyl ether and modifying the coating with tackifiers; plasticizers; crosslinking agents; chain transfer agents; chain extenders; adhesion promoters; aryl or alky copolymers; fluorinated copolymers; hexamethyldisilazane; and silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignees: CIDRA CORPORATE SERVICES LLC, BYK-CHEMIE GMBH
    Inventors: Paul J. Rothman, Mark R. Fernald, Paul Dolan, Michael Stephen Ryan, Timothy J. Bailey, Kirk Johnson, Patrick Tuxbury, Kevin Rodney Lassila, Michael D. Coppola, Allison K. Greene
  • Patent number: 12043726
    Abstract: Aqueous roof coating compositions contain an aqueous dispersion of a vinyl acetate ethylene copolymer obtained by polymerizing by aqueous emulsion polymerization, in the presence of one or more emulsifiers, of a) 50 to 90% by weight of vinyl acetate, b) 2 to 45% by weight of ethylene, and c) 0.1 to 10% by weight of at least one functional comonomer which is an ethylenically unsaturated acid or salt thereof, an ethylenically unsaturated carboxamide, or an ethylenically unsaturated silane monomers, and optionally d) 0 to 35% by weight of copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated non-functional comonomers, based on the total weight of the monomers and fillers and optionally pigments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: WACKER CHEMIE AG
    Inventors: Carol Quinn, Christian Daniels
  • Patent number: 12024641
    Abstract: A kit of parts is provided, comprising: in one part a) a water-borne stain; and, in another part b) a water-immiscible organic solvent-borne stain, wherein said water-borne stain is essentially free of resin and further contains at least one water-miscible organic solvent. Additionally, a method of coloring a wooden substrate is described, comprising the steps of: a) applying a water-borne stain to a surface of the wooden substrate, wherein the water-borne stain is essentially free of resin and comprises at least one water-miscible organic solvent; and thereafter b) applying a water-immiscible organic solvent-borne stain to said surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.
    Inventors: Stephen Edward Johnson, Heath G. Saunders, F. Brent Neal
  • Patent number: 12017249
    Abstract: A coating film having excellent adhesion, even without the presence of a chemical conversion film treatment as an undercoat, and a metal automotive part having the coating film. A powder is deposited by powder-coating onto the surface of a metal automotive part that has been quenched after simultaneously forging, and tempering the metal automotive part and bake-hardening the deposited powder to form a skin film on the surface of the metal automotive part. The surface of the metal automotive part before the powder is powder-coated thereon is a work-hardened material surface that has not been subjected to a chemical conversion filming treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Iwamoto, Kazuhiko Yoshida, Masato Chokyu, Shintaro Suzuki, Hiromi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12000085
    Abstract: A method for live area printing for textiles including manufacturing a textile blank with a white or uncolored live area that is assembled into a textile article. A design or image printed on the live area in a subsequent, single print run without the addition of a previously applied overlay required to set-off the ink such that customizable imagery or designs having a background color matched to the textile blank are reproduced upon the textile blank live area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventor: Daniel Greene
  • Patent number: 11958305
    Abstract: A method of producing a spectacle lens includes providing a substrate having a front surface and a back surface and coating or covering at least one of the front surface or the back surface of the substrate, in full or in part, with a layer. The surface topography of the substrate surface is changed by bringing the surface into contact with a medium and the medium is removed. A product made according to the method and including (i) a spectacle lens or (ii) a representation of the spectacle lens in the form of computer-readable data present on a data medium or (iii) a data medium including a virtual representation of the spectacle lens in the form of computer-readable data or (iv) a representation of the spectacle lens in the form of a computer-readable data signal, is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Michel-Rene Christmann, Christian Lischer, Andreu Llobera Adan, Yujing Liu
  • Patent number: 11954544
    Abstract: An electronic core for a metal card, such as a transaction card, having a metal core and a cured polymer top surface, is manufactured by a process in which a two-part polymer mixture is introduced to a reservoir holding the metal core in a process chamber, and then a partial vacuum followed by pressurization with inert gas are used to reduce the volume of voids in the partially-cured polymer mixture, followed by curing outside of the process chamber, and then the top surface is removed by a treatment operation, such as milling or etching, to form a reduced upper surface with less surface irregularities which is more substantially plan the original top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: InterActive Cards, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Scruggs, Lee Shaye Kirkland, Jerry Michael West
  • Patent number: 11952512
    Abstract: A method of chemically stripping a surface is described. The method comprises applying a sealant to at least a portion of a surface of an object, the surface comprising a coating and one or more ingression points, the sealant filling the one or more ingression points to form a sealed surface. The method further comprises applying a stripping agent to the sealed surface to remove at least a portion of the coating to form a stripped surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Michael C. Beatty
  • Patent number: 11919191
    Abstract: Methods for treating cellulosic materials comprising introducing a liquid treating composition into the cellulosic material, the treating composition comprising a solution prepared from at least: (i) one or more of a copper amine complex or copper ammine complex, such as copper tetraamine carbonate, (ii) one or more of ammonia or a water-soluble amine and (iii) water; and exposing the cellulosic material provided thereby to carbon dioxide and/or carbonic acid to provide treated cellulosic material, and treated cellulosic materials prepared thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: American Chemet Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel Brimhall