Patents by Inventor Charles L. Bauer
Charles L. Bauer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8336673Abstract: A fiberglass-binder insert is made by fabricating a shape-constant, cured fiberglass-binder mixture, into a shape-constant insert core, and shrink-wrapping the core while leaving exposed any bore which extends into the core. The core is fabricated by mixing fiberglass and uncured binder in a mixer, dropping the mixture into a conforming guide such as a funnel, and moving the mixture through the conforming guide and into a mold. A tamper can tamp the mixture to move the mixture from the conforming guide into the mold, and to distribute portions of the mixture vertically in the mold. Rotation of the mold effects circumferential distribution of the mixture in the mold. The mixture in the mold is heated to cure the binder, thus to establish a fixed shape of the resultant core product. A shrink film is shrunk about the core, providing apertures in the shrunk film at bore openings in the core.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Bay Industries Inc.Inventors: Daniel Zanzie, Charles L. Bauer
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Publication number: 20120006617Abstract: A fiberglass-binder insert is made by fabricating a shape-constant, cured fiberglass-binder mixture, into a shape-constant insert core, and shrink-wrapping the core while leaving exposed any bore which extends into the core. The core is fabricated by mixing fiberglass and uncured binder in a mixer, dropping the mixture into a conforming guide such as a funnel, and moving the mixture through the conforming guide and into a mold. A tamper can tamp the mixture to move the mixture from the conforming guide into the mold, and to distribute portions of the mixture vertically in the mold. Rotation of the mold effects circumferential distribution of the mixture in the mold. The mixture in the mold is heated to cure the binder, thus to establish a fixed shape of the resultant core product. A shrink film is shrunk about the core, providing apertures in the shrunk film at bore openings in the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2010Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Daniel Zanzie, Charles L. Bauer
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Patent number: 7867603Abstract: The invention relates to a toner receiver member comprising a base, at least one tie layer adjacent to said base, and at least one toner receiver layer adjacent said at least one tie layer on the side opposite to the base, wherein said at least one toner receiver layer comprises a layer of branched polyester or a mixture of styrene acrylate copolymer with an ethylene methacrylate copolymer or with a low density polyethylene.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2004Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Narasimharao Dontula, Terry A. Heath, Charles L. Bauer, Michael R. Brickey, Jeffrey R. Gillmor, Teh-Ming Kung
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Patent number: 7858161Abstract: The present invention is an inkjet recording element including a support having thereon an image-receiving layer having porous fusible polymeric particles including a continuous phase binder polymer and a second phase including hydrocolloid, wherein the particles have a porosity of from 10 to 80 volume percent and a film forming binder.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Mridula Nair, Charles L. Bauer
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Patent number: 7687136Abstract: The invention relates to an image receiving element comprising in order a support, at least one polyolefin resin coating and at least one toner receiver layer, wherein said toner receiver layer comprises a fuser-oil sorbent additive and a thermoplastic polymer and said additive is present in an amount of greater than 10% by weight of said layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2004Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Mridula Nair, Tamara K. Jones, Charles L. Bauer, Joseph W. Hoff, Scott C. Moose, Joseph S. Sedita, James L. Johnston
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Patent number: 7630029Abstract: The present invention relates to a bistable reflective display and a method for making the display comprising a substrate, an electrically modulated imaging layer, and a coatable color contrast conductive layer comprising an electronically conductive polymer and colorant.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2005Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Debasis Majumdar, Charles L. Bauer, Gary S. Freedman, Delaina A. Allen
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Publication number: 20090087596Abstract: The present invention is an inkjet recording element including a support having thereon an image-receiving layer having porous fusible polymeric particles including a continuous phase binder polymer and a second phase including hydrocolloid, wherein the particles have a porosity of from 10 to 80 volume percent and a film forming binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Inventors: Mridula Nair, Charles L. Bauer
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Patent number: 7084945Abstract: Disclosed is an optical compensator for a liquid crystal display comprising a transparent polymeric support, an orientation layer, and an optically anisotropic layer, in order, and located between the support and the orientation layer, a barrier layer comprising a crosslinked polymer impermeable to the components of the support. Embodiments exhibit improved optical properties.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2002Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Mridula Nair, Charles L. Bauer, Bradley M. Houghtaling, Jeffrey A. Trest
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Patent number: 6894751Abstract: A process for making an optical compensator, comprising the steps of coating a orientable resin in a solvent onto a support; drying the resin-containing coating; orienting the resin-containing layer in a predetermined direction; coating a nematic liquid-crystal compound in a solvent carrier onto the orientation layer; drying the nematic liquid-crystal-containing coating; thermally treating the nematic liquid-crystal compound layer, cooling the nematic liquid-crystal compound layer, polymerizing or curing the anisotropic nematic liquid-crystalline layer to form an integral component; and optionally repeating the above steps on top of the integral component so that the optical axis of the first anisotropic nematic liquid-crystal layer is positioned orthogonally relative to the respective optical axis of the second anisotropic nematic liquid-crystal layer about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the support.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2002Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Jason A. Payne, Joseph W. Hoff, Richard A. Castle, Charles L. Bauer, James F. Elman
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Publication number: 20040202799Abstract: Disclosed is an optical compensator and process for a liquid crystal display comprising a transparent polymeric support, an orientation layer, and an optically anisotropic layer, in order, and optionally, other layers, wherein a chemically bound surfactant is contained in at least one layer. The uniformity and quality of the film is enhanced by the use of a chemically bound surfactant in a layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2003Publication date: October 14, 2004Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Charles L. Bauer, Joseph W. Hoff, Jason A. Payne, Mridula Nair
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Patent number: 6713241Abstract: Aqueous-based thermally sensitive emulsions and imaging materials include a mixture of binders in at least one imaging layer. These binder mixtures include from 70 to about 99 weight % of hydrophilic binders such as gelatin and gelatin derivatives, and the remainder of the total binder weight is composed of one or more hydrophobic binders or water-dispersible polymer latexes. These binder mixtures are particularly useful in imaging layers of thermographic and photothermographic materials and provide long term keeping and reduced crystallization of fatty acids.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2002Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Kathleen M. Vaeth, Charles L. Bauer, Jon A. Hammerschmidt, David M. Teegarden
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Publication number: 20040029054Abstract: Aqueous-based thermally sensitive emulsions and imaging materials include a mixture of binders in at least one imaging layer. These binder mixtures include from 70 to about 99 weight % of hydrophilic binders such as gelatin and gelatin derivatives, and the remainder of the total binder weight is composed of one or more hydrophobic binders or water-dispersible polymer latexes. These binder mixtures are particularly useful in imaging layers of thermographic and photothermographic materials and provide long term keeping and reduced crystallization of fatty acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Kathleen M. Vaeth, Charles L. Bauer, Jon A. Hammerschmidt, David M. Teegarden
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Publication number: 20040008305Abstract: A process for making an optical compensator, comprising the steps of coating a orientable resin in a solvent onto a support; drying the resin-containing coating; orienting the resin-containing layer in a predetermined direction; coating a nematic liquid-crystal compound in a solvent carrier onto the orientation layer; drying the nematic liquid-crystal-containing coating; thermally treating the nematic liquid-crystal compound layer, cooling the nematic liquid-crystal compound layer, polymerizing or curing the anisotropic nematic liquid-crystalline layer to form an integral component; and optionally repeating the above steps on top of the integral component so that the optical axis of the first anisotropic nematic liquid-crystal layer is positioned orthogonally relative to the respective optical axis of the second anisotropic nematic liquid-crystal layer about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the support.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2002Publication date: January 15, 2004Inventors: Jason A. Payne, Joseph W. Hoff, Richard A. Castle, Charles L. Bauer, James F. Elman
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Publication number: 20040009311Abstract: Disclosed optical compensator for a liquid crystal display comprising a transparent polymeric support, an orientation layer, and an optically anisotropic layer comprising a nematic liquid crystal, in order, wherein the anisotropic layer contains a colorless polymer having a weight average molecular weight that is greater that the entanglement molecular weight of the polymer. The uniformity and quality of this film is enhanced by the addition of a high molecular weight polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2002Publication date: January 15, 2004Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Deepak Shukla, James F. Elman, Ann L. Carroll-Lee, David M. Teegarden, Mridula Nair, Charles L. Bauer, Joseph W. Hoff, Jason A. Payne
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Publication number: 20040008303Abstract: Disclosed is an optical compensator for a liquid crystal display comprising a transparent polymer support, a photo-alignment layer, an anisotropic layer comprising a nematic liquid crystal, and located between the support and the photo-alignment layer, an impermeable barrier layer. The invention also provides a process for making such compensators.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2002Publication date: January 15, 2004Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Charles L. Bauer, Ann L. Carroll-Lee, Richard A. Castle, James F. Elman, Joseph W. Hoff, Bradley M. Houghtaling, Mridula Nair, Jason A. Payne, Deepak Shukla, David M. Teegarden, Jeffrey A. Trest
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Publication number: 20040008304Abstract: Disclosed is an optical compensator for a liquid crystal display comprising a transparent polymeric support, an orientation layer, and an optically anisotropic layer, in order, and located between the support and the orientation layer, a barrier layer comprising a crosslinked polymer impermeable to the components of the support. Embodiments exhibit improved optical properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2002Publication date: January 15, 2004Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Mridula Nair, Charles L. Bauer, Bradley M. Houghtaling, Jeffrey A. Trest
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Patent number: 6667148Abstract: Thermally developable materials include an imaging layer containing a non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions. Disposed over the imaging layer is a barrier layer that comprises inorganic filler particles that are intercalated or exfoliated with a hydrophilic or water-dispersible polymer. The particles have a length to thickness ratio of from about 10 to about 1000. The barrier layer can prevent migration of diffusible imaging components and by-products resulting from high temperature imaging and/or development. These thermally developable materials include both thermographic and photothermographic materials.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2003Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: YuanQiao Rao, Jon A. Hammerschmidt, Charles L. Bauer, Robert J. Kress, Anne M. Miller
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Patent number: 6623819Abstract: An ink jet recording element having a substrate having thereon: a) a subbing layer of a polymeric binder and a borate or a borate derivative, the borate or borate derivative being present in an amount of from about 3 to about 50 g/m2, and the weight ratio of the polymeric binder to the borate or borate derivative is from about 0.2:1 to about 2:1, and b) an image-receiving layer having particles and a cross-linkable polymer containing hydroxyl groups, the cross-linkable polymer being present in an amount of from about 20 to about 150 g/m2, and the weight ratio of the cross-linkable polymer to the particles is from about 10:90 to about 30:70.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2001Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Gregory E. Missell, Charles L. Bauer
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Patent number: 6623831Abstract: An ink jet printing method having the steps of: A) providing an ink jet printer that is responsive to digital data signals, B) loading the printer with an ink jet recording element of a substrate having thereon: a) a subbing layer having a polymeric binder and a borate or a borate derivative, the borate or borate derivative being present in an amount of from about 3 to about 50 g/m2, and the weight ratio of the polymeric binder to the borate or borate derivative is from about 0.2:1 to about 2:1, and b) an image-receiving layer having particles and a cross-linkable polymer containing hydroxyl groups, the cross-linkable polymer being present in an amount of from about 20 to about 150 g/m2, and the weight ratio of the cross-linkable polymer to the particles is from about 10:90 to about 30:70; C) loading the printer with an ink jet ink composition; and D) printing on the ink jet recording element using the ink jet ink composition in response to the digital data signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2001Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Charles L. Bauer, Gregory E. Missell
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Publication number: 20030103122Abstract: An ink jet recording element having a substrate having thereon: a) a subbing layer of a polymeric binder and a borate or a borate derivative, the borate or borate derivative being present in an amount of from about 3 to about 50 g/m2, and the weight ratio of the polymeric binder to the borate or borate derivative is from about 0.2:1 to about 2:1; and b) an image-receiving layer having particles and a cross-linkable polymer containing hydroxyl groups, the cross-linkable polymer being present in an amount of from about 20 to about 150 g/m2, and the weight ratio of the cross-linkable polymer to the particles is from about 10:90 to about 30:70.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2001Publication date: June 5, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Gregory E. Missell, Charles L. Bauer