Patents Examined by William P. Fletcher, III
  • Patent number: 10925366
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a case for a mobile device with a screen, includes using a band having a layer of flexible polymer as an insert mold or in a dual injection process, for applying discrete discontinuous and unconnected damping material on the layer of the flexible polymer of the band. The damping material is softer than the flexible polymer and has a plurality of integrally formed protrusions projecting inwardly from a substantial portion of the inner periphery of the band to engage with the mobile device. The protrusions are arranged such that, in use there is substantially no contact between the band and the device other than through the protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: TECH 21 LICENSING LIMITED
    Inventors: Jason Roberts, Wilhelm Marschall, Benjamin Thorpe
  • Patent number: 10927035
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a solar heat collection pipe includes an inner circumferential film forming step of forming an antireflection film on an inner surface of a glass pipe and an outer circumferential film forming step of forming an antireflection film on an outer surface of the glass pipe. These film forming steps are performed so that a part of a coating film through which a coating material is flowed when the coating material is discharged from the glass pipe in a coating material discharging step of the inner circumferential film forming step and a part of a coating film with which the coating material is in contact when the glass pipe is lifted from the coating material in a lifting step of the outer circumferential film forming step are positioned within a half circumference of the glass pipe in a circumferential direction of the glass pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Takayuki Homma
  • Patent number: 10930967
    Abstract: A method for preparing an electrode for a lithium secondary battery including forming a primer layer including a conductor on a current collector; forming a patterned primer layer by forming a concave pattern through irradiating an ion beam over the whole primer layer surface; and forming an electrode layer including an electrode active material on the patterned primer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventor: Hyunwoong Yun
  • Patent number: 10926286
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying a viscous material, comprising a bell having a circumferential mounting rim, and a feed line, wherein the material is conveyable via a conveying element through the feed line into the bell, wherein the bell can be transported with the mounting rim, in a direction of mounting, over a protruding element, in particular a rivet head, of a component, in order to encase the element with the material, wherein in the region of the bell or the feed line a metering member is provided, wherein in the course of an application process a flow of the material can be influenced by the metering member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Broetje-Automation GmbH
    Inventors: Sergej Pidan, Kay Rupp, Christoph Schneider
  • Patent number: 10927230
    Abstract: A method of preparing a composite includes providing a porous material including a polymeric network and a polar particle; depositing an ink onto the porous material via a printing process; and delivering a lubricating fluid to the porous material to form a coating. A composite is obtained from the method, and an anti-fouling product including the composite is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Xi Yao, Wenqing He
  • Patent number: 10920089
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an aqueous paint composition for vehicle primer coating and a method for coating a vehicle by using the same, where the composition includes, on the basis of the weight of the entire paint composition, 20 to 50 wt % polyester resin, 1 to 20 wt % acrylic resin, 1 to 15 wt % water-dispersed urethane resin, 1 to 15 wt % urethane resin; and 10 to 30 wt % melamine curing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KCC Corporation
    Inventors: Bong Ki Jung, Myoung Gi Choi
  • Patent number: 10920423
    Abstract: A bar element as a construction element includes strips preferably produced from bamboo and is hollow at least in certain regions. The hollow interior is formed at least in certain sections as a hollow fillet achieved by a plastic and/or resin introduced into the bar elements, using a shaped body movable through the interior. Producing bar elements from interconnected strips ensures that although produced from a natural raw material, the bar elements have a reproducible outer cross section. Using a shaped body movable through the interior to produce the inner cross section also ensures a defined inner cross section of the bar elements, with the result that in turn connections between a plurality of bar elements that are defined by suitable connection elements can be formed. In this way, the bar elements make it possible to produce lattice works, grid constructions, frameworks or other desired structures and/or three-dimensional bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventors: Joern Niederlaender, Robert Klanten
  • Patent number: 10914427
    Abstract: A method of automated pipeline chemical batch treatment includes receiving treatment information at a control system of a pipeline. If the treatment information includes an instruction to activate a pump system, the method includes transmitting an activation signal from the control system to the pump system in accordance with the treatment information. The activation signal causes the pump system to pump one or more chemicals from a chemical feed system into the pipeline. If the treatment information includes an instruction to deactivate the pump system, the method includes transmitting a deactivation signal from the control system to the pump system in accordance with the treatment information, wherein the deactivation signal causes the pump system to stop pumping one or more chemicals from the chemical feed system into the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: OIL AND GAS SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Robert J. Long, III
  • Patent number: 10899673
    Abstract: A method of protecting a carbon-containing composite material part against oxidation, includes applying a first coating composition in the form of an aqueous suspension on an outside surface of the part, the first coating composition including a metallic phosphate; a powder of an ingredient comprising titanium; and a powder of B4C; subjecting the applied first coating composition to heat treatment in order to obtain a first coating on the outside surface of the part; applying a second coating composition on the first coating composition, the second coating composition including an aqueous suspension of colloidal silica; a powder of borosilicate glass; and a powder of TiB2; and subjecting the applied second coating composition to second heat treatment in order to obtain a second coating on the first coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Julien Sniezewski, Vincent Caro, Nathalie Nicolaus
  • Patent number: 10882263
    Abstract: Systems and methods for fabricating composite parts. One embodiment is a method that includes selecting a caul plate having a body and a trough disposed at a side of the body which defines a channel that hangs beneath the body, the caul plate further having an opening disposed between the trough and the lower surface to form a fluid pathway for resin within the channel to exit into a preform. The method also includes placing the caul plate atop a preform of dry fiber and aligning the channel with a periphery of the preform, placing resin into the trough, and impregnating the preform with resin from the trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Max Osborne, Jason McBain
  • Patent number: 10882158
    Abstract: A method of treating a substrate of a turbomachine component includes applying a coating to a surface of the substrate of the turbomachine component and peening the substrate after applying the coating to the surface by directing a peening force onto the coating whereby the peening force on the coating is transferred through the coating to the substrate. A method of treating an internal surface of a turbomachine component includes directing a peening force at the internal surface within a cooling passage of the turbomachine component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Arthur S. Peck, Gabriel DellaFera, Paul Stephen Dimascio, Jon Conrad Schaeffer
  • Patent number: 10876009
    Abstract: An aqueous binder system is described for a coating composition, the aqueous binder system comprising A) at least 10 wt % water, based on the total weight of the aqueous binder system; B) at least one hydroxyl-functional binder polymer; and C) from 0.1 to 20 wt %, based on the total weight of the aqueous binder system, of at least one quaternary ammonium compound, wherein the quaternary ammonium compound comprises a core quaternary ammonium group which has pendant groups as described. A coating composition, a coating, methods and uses are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: Croda, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Adrianus Jacobus Honcoop, Barend van de Velde, Johannes Hendrik Lexmond, Mei-Ly Chua
  • Patent number: 10865319
    Abstract: A method for producing an acrylic resin-coated silica particle dispersion by (1), mixing and heating silica particles (A), an organic solvent (B) and a monomer having a polymerizable unsaturated group and a hydrolyzable silyl group (C) to obtain a polymerizable unsaturated group-containing silica particle dispersion (i), (2) adding a tertiary amine (D) with a molecular weight of 120 to 380 and having a terminal alkyl and/or aryl group, to the component (i) dispersion, to obtain a polymerizable unsaturated group-containing silica particle dispersion (ii), and (3) reacting the component (ii) dispersion with a polymerizable unsaturated monomer (E), in a solid mass ratio of (ii):(E)=20:80 to 90:10, to obtain an acrylic resin-coated silica particle dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Akinori Nagai
  • Patent number: 10851451
    Abstract: A method of deposition of a wear resistant DLC layer onto substrates in a vacuum chamber from a graphite cathode by means of a low-voltage pulsed arc. Current pulses alternate with a holding current and a cathode spot moves on a surface of a graphite cathode. The motion of the cathode spot on the surface of the graphite cathode being steered by a magnetic field generated by a magnetic field source arranged under the surface of the graphite cathode. The value of the current pulses is 250 to 1000 A, the value of the holding current is 40 to 200 A, the frequency of the pulses is 100 to 5000 Hz and the pulse duty cycle is 1 to 90%, the intensity of the magnetic field in the place of the cathode spot being 5 to 40 mT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: PLATIT A.S.
    Inventors: Mojmir Jilek, Mojmir Jilek
  • Patent number: 10844919
    Abstract: A method of producing a friction material. The method includes mixing silica containing filler particles and a liquid binder to form a binder-filler liquid mixture. The method also includes saturating a fibrous base material with the binder-filler liquid mixture to form a saturated fibrous base material. The method further includes curing the saturated fibrous base material at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time to cure the saturated fibrous base material to form the friction material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Murat Bakan, Rashid Farahati
  • Patent number: 10828661
    Abstract: The coating device has a rotatable spindle which has fastening mechanisms for fastening a rotation axle to the spindle. Protrusions are radially protruding from the spindle for spreading the coating substance on the inner surface of a pipe. The protrusions have limiters that limit the coating substance to be spread to the desired layer thickness. The method comprises the steps of bringing, to the pipe to be treated, the coating device fastened to a rotation axle with the pipe, a feeding hose of the coating substance and a camera. The coating substance is fed along the feeding hose to a vicinity of the coating device. The coating substance is spread to an inner surface of the pipe by rotating the coating device and by moving the coating device in a longitudinal direction of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: PICOTE SOLUTIONS OY LTD.
    Inventor: Mika Lokkinen
  • Patent number: 10822500
    Abstract: Preparations of a polyurethane and/or polyurea and a copolymer which are hydrophobic contain at least one conversion product (S), at least one copolymer (C), optionally at least one (blocked) polyisocyanate, optionally a solvent, and optionally at least one surface-active substance. The conversion product (S) may be the reaction product of at least one compound (A) with at least one unblocked or at least partially blocked di-, tri- or polyisocyanate (IC). The compound A may be the reaction product of a polyhydric alcohol with a carboxylic acid or with an alkylisocyanate, or a reaction product of an alkanolamine and/or alkylamine (a3) with a carboxylic acid and/or alkylisocyanate. The highly hydrophobic preparations may be applied to textiles without negatively influencing a subsequent adhesion of the textile substrate or the membrane permeability of the substrate even after thermal treatment, and exhibit very good wash permanence on the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: RUDOLF GMBH
    Inventors: Helmut Glas, Christine Albert, Gunther Duschek, Dirk Sielemann
  • Patent number: 10822755
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ground surface marker and method for surface marking. It is known to apply surface markings, for example road markings, using paint. Many current road marking paints have a touch dry time from about five minutes to one hour, with full drying taking 24 hours or more, depending on the air temperature. The dry time of current paints can delay the opening of a road which may be costly because it increases the need for traffic control and can expose contractors to motoring hazards. If roads are opened prior to full drying of the paint, then the road markings may be compromised by contact with vehicle wheels. The invention aims to go at least some way toward addressing these problems by providing a ground surface marker comprising a paint applicator, a dispenser associated with reflectors, and a UV light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Inventors: Graham Allan Ross, Jason Lynch
  • Patent number: 10816221
    Abstract: A method for treating a domestic supply water circuit, that comprises injecting a treatment product comprising silicates into the water flowing in said circuit in order to form a film on the inner surfaces of said circuit, characterised in that the injection of the treatment product comprises at least one step of injecting silicates at a concentration of between 100 and 200,000 milligrams per litre (mg/L) into the water flowing in said circuit for a period of between 10 minutes (min) and 24 hours (h), the flow rate of water flowing in the circuit being controlled within a range of between 0.05 and 100 litres per minute (L/min) and the temperature of water flowing in the circuit being controlled within a range of between 40 and 65° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: DIPAN S.A.
    Inventor: Pierre Descloux
  • Patent number: 10815796
    Abstract: A method of coating a component having a multiple of cooling holes including removing at least a portion of a prior coating from a component; mapping a location of each of the multiple of cooling holes to generate a map of cooling holes; applying a coat to the component; adjusting the map of cooling holes to account for said coat to generate a adjusted map of cooling holes; and re-drilling the multiple of cooling holes in response to the adjusted map of cooling holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Steven W. Burd, Rickey P. Mercer