Patents Examined by Z. Jim Yang
  • Patent number: 12227464
    Abstract: An article may include a substrate, such as a silicon-containing ceramic matrix composite, an environmental barrier coating (EBC) layer on the substrate, and a CMAS-resistant EBC layer on the EBC layer. The EBC layer may include at least one rare-earth disilicate (REDS). The CMAS-resistant EBC layer may include at least one rare-earth monosilicate (REMS) configured to react with CMAS to form crystalline reaction products. The CMAS-resistant EBC layer may include a plurality of vertical cracks extending from a surface of the CMAS-resistant EBC layer at least partially into the CMAS-resistant EBC layer. Additionally, or alternatively, the EBC layer may include a plurality of vertical cracks extending from a surface of the EBC layer into at least a portion of the EBC layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Li Li, Matthew T. Kush, Robert Alexander Sean Golden, Jun Shi
  • Patent number: 12221377
    Abstract: A coated glass sheet including a glass substrate and a UV reflecting coating on at least one major surface of the glass substrate. The UV reflecting coating consists of first, second, and third layers in this order moving away from the glass substrate, where the first and third layers include a dielectric material selected from the group consisting of a mixed oxide of titanium and zirconium, and a mixed nitride of zirconium and silicon, and the second layer includes silicon oxide SiOx.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventor: Stijn Mahieu
  • Patent number: 12209454
    Abstract: A glass panel unit includes: a first substrate including a first glass panel; a second substrate including a second glass panel; and a frame-shaped sealing portion that is hermetically bonded to the first substrate and the second substrate. The sealing portion creates an evacuated space between the first substrate and the second substrate. When viewed from a region where the second substrate is positioned with respect to the first substrate, the first substrate includes a part arranged to stick out of an edge of the second substrate. The part includes a mounting portion used to mount the glass panel unit onto a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Hasegawa, Eiichi Uriu, Kazuya Hasegawa, Tasuku Ishibashi, Hiroyuki Abe, Masataka Nonaka, Takeshi Shimizu, Haruhiko Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 12202764
    Abstract: A glass-based assembly includes a glass substrate and a coating layer coupled to the glass substrate. Ultimate strength of the glass substrate with the coating layer overlaying and coupled thereto is greater than that of the glass substrate alone, without the coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Erin Katherine Congdon, Ronald William Davis, Jr., Jason Thomas Harris, Shandon Dee Hart, John Tyler Keech, Naveen Prakash, James Joseph Price
  • Patent number: 12202007
    Abstract: Provided herein is a film and methods of producing the same. The film includes a substrate and a layer adjacent to the substrate, wherein a surface of the layer comprises spaced apart protrusions. The methods include providing a substrate, depositing a layer on at least a portion of the substrate, decomposing the layer to form at least a first phase of material and a second phase of material, and removing at least a portion of the second phase from the decomposed layer to form a structured layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: UNITED PROTECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Craig Venema, Brent William Barbee, Michael Raymond Greenwald
  • Patent number: 12162801
    Abstract: Glass-based articles comprise stress profiles providing improved drop performance. A glass-based substrate comprises: a glass transition temperature (Tg), a liquid fragility index (m), and fictive temperature (Tf), wherein Tg is less than or equal to 650° C., a value of Tf minus Tg is greater than or equal to ?30° C., and m is greater than or equal to 25. A stress relaxation rate is greater than or equal to 10%, or 20% or more. The articles can comprise a lithium-based aluminosilicate composition and a fracture toughness that is greater than or equal to 0.75 MPa*m0.5. The stress profiles comprise: a spike region extending from the first surface to a knee; and a tail region extending from the knee to a center of the glass-based article, the tail region comprising: a negative curvature region wherein a second derivative of stress as a function of depth is negative; a depth of compression (DOC) that is greater than or equal to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Jason Thomas Harris, Kevin Barry Reiman
  • Patent number: 12145346
    Abstract: A microlattice structure may be used for a variety of different applications with a protective helmet assembly. The three-dimensional microlattice layer comprising a plurality of interconnected filaments extending along at least three different directions from a plurality of nodes. The microlattice layer may further comprise at least one material layer extending laterally between and interconnecting at least two or more nodes. The at least one material layer may be configured to transversely and rotationally constrain the nodes to increase the overall compressive strength and stiffness of the microlattice structure. The at least one material layer may comprise a single, continuous layer and/or a plurality of material layer segments. The microlattice layer may comprise a single, continuous layer or a plurality of microlattice layer segments. The microlattice layer may be stacked, the stacked microlattice layers may further comprise one or more material layers and/or one or more impact mitigation layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: VICIS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Per Reinhall, John Cagle, Derek Wallin, Jason Neubauer, Valerie Carricaburu, Colin Johnson, Bertrand Didier, Andre H P Stone, Amish Patel
  • Patent number: 12145891
    Abstract: A ceramic structural body includes a substrate that is composed of a ceramic(s), a hole that is opened on a surface of the substrate, and a seal material that is positioned at an opening portion of the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Fujio
  • Patent number: 12138692
    Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of Ti1-a-bAlaCebN, a is 0.350 or more and 0.650 or less, b is 0.001 or more and 0.100 or less, the second unit layer is composed of AlcV1-cN, c is 0.40 or more and 0.75 or less, and a and c satisfy a relationship of c>a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruyo Fukui, Nozomi Tsukihara, Anongsack Paseuth, Toshihiro Tabata
  • Patent number: 12133777
    Abstract: A zirconia pre-sintered body suitable for dental milling, grinding and/or cutting can provide a sintered body in which the strength between layers of powders is improved. A flexural strength of a test sample of the zirconia sintered body, measured pursuant to JISR1601, is preferably not less than 1000 or 1100 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Yamada, Atsushi Matsumoto, Yoshihisa Ito
  • Patent number: 12133776
    Abstract: A zirconia sintered body is provided in which the strength between layers of powders is improved. A flexural strength of a test sample of the zirconia sintered body, measured pursuant to JISR1601, is not less than 1000 MPa. The test sample is formed by preparing a plurality of zirconia powders, each containing zirconia and preferably yttria as a stabilizer that suppresses phase transition of zirconia, the zirconia powders differing in a composition, layering the zirconia powders to form a zirconia composition, and sintering the zirconia composition to form a zirconia sintered body. The flexural strength is measured such that a load point is positioned at a boundary of the zirconia powders, the boundary traversing the test sample of the sintered body along a direction of load application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Yamada, Atsushi Matsumoto, Yoshihisa Ito
  • Patent number: 12122703
    Abstract: Glass-based articles comprise stress profiles providing improved drop performance. A glass-based substrate comprises: a glass transition temperature (Tg), a liquid fragility index (m), and fictive temperature (Tf), wherein Tg is less than or equal to 650° C., a value of Tf minus Tg is greater than or equal to ?30° C., and m is greater than or equal to 25. A stress relaxation rate is greater than or equal to 10%, or 20% or more. The articles can comprise a lithium-based aluminosilicate composition and a fracture toughness that is greater than or equal to 0.75 MPa*m0.5. The stress profiles comprise: a spike region extending from the first surface to a knee; and a tail region extending from the knee to a center of the glass-based article, the tail region comprising: a negative curvature region wherein a second derivative of stress as a function of depth is negative; a depth of compression (DOC) that is greater than or equal to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Jason Thomas Harris, Kevin Barry Reiman
  • Patent number: 12122707
    Abstract: A coated glass article provides a visible light reflecting, solar control glazing with a low emittance, a low solar heat gain coefficient, and a low shading coefficient that can significantly improve energy costs in buildings and homes while providing a desirable neutral color for, at least, film side reflection. The low emittance characteristic of the 5 glazing would minimize any indirect heat gain from absorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Pilkington Group Limited
    Inventors: Lila Raj Dahal, Vikash Ranjan, Srikanth Varanasi
  • Patent number: 12103282
    Abstract: A decorative film for insert molding includes a gravure-printed graphic layer and a light-transmissive patterned layer and has high dimensional accuracy and delicate and rich tone expression. A multilayer film includes first and second layers containing an acrylic-based resin, and a polycarbonate resin layer located between the first and second layers and containing a polycarbonate-based resin. The multilayer film is transmissive to visible light. A first gravure print layer is located on a first main surface of the multilayer film, includes a first graphic layer, and is transmissive. A backer film contains a polycarbonate-based resin and is transmissive. The first graphic layer includes a first image at a predetermined position in a three-dimensional shape of a decorative film formed in the three-dimensional shape. A patterned layer includes a pattern patterned to allow visible light to pass through the first image at the predetermined position in the three-dimensional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NISSHA CO., LTD
    Inventors: Michiyasu Okuda, Yusuke Ueno, Shintaro Kuwasaka
  • Patent number: 12105253
    Abstract: Durable and scratch resistant articles including low-reflectance optical coating with gradient portion. In some embodiments, an article comprises: a substrate comprising a first major surface; and an optical coating disposed over the first major surface. The optical coating comprises: a second major surface; a thickness; and a first gradient portion. A refractive index of the optical coating varies along a thickness of the optical coating. The difference between the maximum refractive index of the first gradient portion and the minimum refractive index of the first gradient portion is 0.05 or greater. The absolute value of the slope of the refractive index of the first gradient portion is 0.1/nm or less everywhere along the thickness of the first gradient portion. The article exhibits a single side photopic average light reflectance of 3% or less, and a maximum hardness from 10 GPa to 30 GPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Alan Bellman, Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • Patent number: 12098258
    Abstract: Provided is a barrier film, comprising: a base layer; and an inorganic layer including a first region and a second region, which have different elemental contents (atomic %) of Si, N, and O from each other as measured by XPS, and having a compactness expressed through an etching rate of 0.17 nm/s or less in the thickness direction for an Ar ion etching condition to etch Ta2O5 at a rate of 0.09 nm/s, wherein the second region has a higher elemental content of N than that of the first region, the first region has a thickness of 50 nm or more, and the ratio (d1/d2) of the thickness (d1) of the first region to the thickness (d2) of the second region is 2 or less, the barrier film having excellent barrier properties and optical properties. The barrier film can be used for electronic products sensitive to moisture or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Shin, Jang Yeon Hwang, Hee Joon Jeong, Bo Ra Park, Hee Wang Yang
  • Patent number: 12098071
    Abstract: Provided is a barrier film, comprising: a base layer; and an inorganic layer including Si, N, and O, wherein the inorganic layer has a thickness of 600 nm or less, and the film has a water vapor transmission rate of 0.5×10?3 g/m2·day as measured under conditions of a temperature of 38° C. and 100% relative humidity. The barrier film has excellent barrier properties and optical properties and can be used for electronic products sensitive to moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Shin, Jang Yeon Hwang, Hee Joon Jeong, Bo Ra Park, Hee Wang Yang
  • Patent number: 12091519
    Abstract: Provided is a barrier film, comprising a base layer and an inorganic layer including a first region and a second region, which have different elemental contents (atomic %) of Si, N, and O from each other as measured by XPS, and having a compactness expressed through an etching rate of 0.17 nm/s in the thickness direction for an Ar ion etching condition to etch Ta2O5 at a rate of 0.09 nm/s, wherein the second region has a higher elemental content of N than that of the first region, and the second region has a thickness of 10% or more relative to the total thickness of the inorganic layer. The barrier film has excellent barrier properties and optical properties and can be used for electronic products which are sensitive to moisture and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Shin, Jang Yeon Hwang, Hee Joon Jeong, Bo Ra Park, Hee Wang Yang
  • Patent number: 12091738
    Abstract: A low-resistance conductive thin film is disclosed. The present invention provides a low-resistance conductive thin film including: a substrate; a first capping layer disposed on the substrate; a second capping layer disposed on the first capping layer; a metal layer disposed on the second capping layer; a third capping layer disposed on the metal layer; and a fourth capping layer disposed on the third capping layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: MSWAY Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Soo Lee, Jong Chun Park
  • Patent number: 12085557
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a microelectrode platform that may be used for multiple biosystem applications including cell culturing techniques and biosensing. Also disclosed are microfabrication techniques for inexpensively producing microelectrode platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Swaminathan Rajaraman, Lei Zhai, Avra Kundu, Nilab Azim