Patents by Inventor Glen C. Irvin, Jr.
Glen C. Irvin, Jr. 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: 7850814Abstract: The present invention relates to a donor laminate for transfer of a conductive layer comprising at least one electronically conductive polymer on to a receiver, wherein the receiver is a component of a device. The present invention also relates to methods pertinent to such transfers.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2008Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Debasis Majumdar, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Charles C. Anderson, Lee W. Tutt, Gary S. Freedman, Leonard S. Gates
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Patent number: 7796123Abstract: The present invention is directed to a touchscreen comprising touch side electrode and device side electrode wherein each electrode comprises an insulating substrate and an exposed electrically conductive layer, wherein said exposed electrically conductive layers are adjacent and separated by dielectric spacers, and wherein only one of the exposed electrically conductive layers comprises carbon nanotubes.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2006Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Todd M. Spath, Charles C. Anderson, Lawrence A. Rowley, Debasis Majumdar
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Publication number: 20100220074Abstract: The present invention is directed to a touchscreen comprising touch side electrode and device side electrode wherein each electrode comprises an insulating substrate and an exposed electrically conductive layer, wherein said exposed electrically conductive layers are adjacent and separated by dielectric spacers, and wherein only one of the exposed electrically conductive layers comprises carbon nanotubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2006Publication date: September 2, 2010Inventors: Glen C. Irvin, JR., Todd M. Spath, Charles C. Anderson, Lawrence A. Rowley, Debasis Majumdar
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Patent number: 7781047Abstract: The present invention relates to a donor laminate for transfer of a conductive layer comprising at least one electronically conductive polymer on to a receiver, wherein the receiver is a component of a device. The present invention also relates to methods pertinent to such transfers.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Debasis Majumdar, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Charles C. Anderson, Lee W. Tutt, Gary S. Freedman, Leonard S. Gates
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Publication number: 20100118243Abstract: A donor laminate for transfer of a conductive layer has a transparent substrate and a conductive layer comprising at least one electronically conductive polymer that is present in an amount of at least 40 weight %, a polyanion, and inorganic particles having an average particle size of less than 100 nanometers (nanoparticles). This donor laminate can be used to transfer the conductive layer to a suitable receiver element to prepare various electronic devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Inventors: Debasis Majumdar, Glen C. Irvin, JR., Lee W. Tutt, Gary S. Freedman
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Patent number: 7645497Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electronically conductive article comprising at least one conductive carbon nanotube layer in contact with at least one conductive layer comprising electronically conductive polymer.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2005Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Todd M. Spath, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Debasis Majumdar, Ronald S. Cok, Charles C. Anderson
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Patent number: 7593004Abstract: The present invention is directed to a touchscreen comprising touch side and device side electrodes wherein each electrode comprises in order an insulating substrate, a first electrically conductive layer in contact with said substrate, an exposed electrically conductive layer, wherein said exposed electrically conductive layers are adjacent and separated by dielectric spacers, and wherein at least the first electrically conductive layers or the exposed electrically conductive layers comprise carbon nanotubes.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2005Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Todd M. Spath, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Debasis Majumdar, Ronald S. Cok, Charles C. Anderson
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Patent number: 7535462Abstract: The present invention is directed to a touchscreen comprising touch side electrode and device side electrode wherein each electrode comprises an insulating substrate and an exposed electrically conductive layer, wherein said exposed electrically conductive layers are adjacent and separated by dielectric spacers, and wherein only one of the exposed electrically conductive layers comprises carbon nanotubes.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2005Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Todd M. Spath, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Debasis Majumdar, Charles C. Anderson
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Patent number: 7532290Abstract: The present invention relates to a bistable reflective display comprising a water-swellable, electrically modulated imaging layer, a conductive layer comprising an electronically conductive polymer and a barrier layer therebetween and a method for making the same.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2005Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Debasis Majumdar, Gary S. Freedman, Glen C. Irvin, Jr.
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Patent number: 7507449Abstract: The present invention relates to a high contrast reflective display comprising a substrate, at least one electronically modulated imaging layer, wherein the electronically modulated imaging layer comprises a uniformly thick, close-packed, ordered monolayer of domains of electrically modulated material in a fixed polymer matrix, at least one barrier layer, wherein the barrier layer is conductive in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, and at least one electrically conductive layer. The invention also relates to a method of making the display with a barrier layer comprising anisotropic particles and orienting the anisotropic conductor to produce a barrier layer conductive in a direction perpendicular to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2006Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Krishnan Chari, David M. Johnson, Charles M. Rankin, Jr., Glen C. Irvin, Jr.
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Publication number: 20090050855Abstract: The present invention relates to a donor laminate for transfer of a conductive layer comprising at least one electronically conductive polymer on to a receiver, wherein the receiver is a component of a device. The present invention also relates to methods pertinent to such transfers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventors: Debasis Majumdar, Glen C. Irvin, JR., Charles C. Anderson, Lee W. Tutt, Gary S. Freedman, Leonard S. Gates
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Patent number: 7438832Abstract: The invention relates to a mixture comprising an ionic liquid and an electronically conductive polymer in its cationic form and a polyanion associated with the conductive polymer.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2005Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Debasis Majumdar, Lee W. Tutt, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Gary S. Freedman
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Patent number: 7427441Abstract: A member comprising a substrate and a transparent conductive layer comprising a composition including an electronically conductive polymer of a polythiophene present in a cationic form with a polyanion, wherein the composition of the conductive layer has an FOM less than or equal to 50 wherein FOM is defined as the slope of a best fit straight line passing through the origin of the plot of ln (1/T) versus [1/SER] for said composition: and wherein T=visual light transmission: SER=surface electrical resistance in ohm per square; FOM=figure of merit, and wherein the SER of the conductive layer has a value of less than or equal to 1000 ohm per square.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2004Date of Patent: September 23, 2008Inventors: Debasis Majumdar, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Charles C. Anderson, Gary S. Freedman
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Patent number: 7414313Abstract: The present invention relates to a donor laminate for transfer of a conductive layer comprising at least one electronically conductive polymer on to a receiver, wherein the receiver is a component of a device. The present invention also relates to methods pertinent to such transfers.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Debasis Majumdar, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Charles C. Anderson, Gary S. Freedman, Robert J. Kress
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Patent number: 7413286Abstract: A method and apparatus for delivering solvent free marking material to a receiver is provided. A printhead includes a discharge device having an inlet and an outlet with a portion of the discharge device defining a delivery path. An actuating mechanism is moveably positioned along the delivery path. A material selection device has an inlet and an outlet with the outlet of the material selection device being connected in fluid communication to the inlet of the discharge device. The inlet of the material selection device is adapted to be connected to a pressurized source of a thermodynamically stable mixture of a fluid and a marking material, wherein the fluid is in a gaseous state at a location beyond the outlet of the discharge device.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2005Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Sridhar Sadasivan, Seshadri Jagannathan, Suresh Sunderrajan, Gary E. Merz, John E. Rueping, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Ramesh Jagannathan, Rajesh V. Mehta, David J. Nelson
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Patent number: 7410825Abstract: The invention relates to a donor laminate comprising in order, a substrate, an electronically conductive polymer layer in contact with said substrate, and a metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Debasis Majumdar, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Joseph K. Madathil, Lee W. Tutt, Gary S. Freedman, Robert J. Kress
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Patent number: 7273643Abstract: An article having multiple spectral deposits is provided. The article can include a support and a single nanomorphic marking material adapted to reflect light having a first spectral content and adapted to reflect light having a second spectral content. The article can include a support and a nanomorphic marking material held by the support that luminesces at a plurality of wavelengths. The article can include a support and marking material having a first particle size and a second particle size. The first particle size reflects a first spectrum and the second particle size reflects a second spectrum. The article can include a support and a marking material held by said support with the marking material including a nanocrystalline particulate having a measurable property non-characteristic of the same marking material in a bulk state.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2003Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: David J. Nelson, Sridhar Sadasivan, Ramesh Jagannathan, Seshadri Jagannathan, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Rajesh V. Mehta
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Patent number: 7230198Abstract: A resistive touch screen, comprising: a) a substrate; b) a first conductive layer located on the substrate; c) a flexible cover sheet having integral compressible spacer dots; and d) a second conductive layer located on the flexible cover sheet between and over the integral spacer dots, and having localized areas of lower conductivity over the integral compressible spacer dots relative to the conductivity of the conductive layer located on the flexible cover sheet between the integral spacer dots.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Ronald S. Cok, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Debasis Majumdar, Gary S. Freedman
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Patent number: 7196281Abstract: A touch screen comprising: a) a substrate; b) a first conductive layer located on the substrate; c) a flexible sheet comprising a substantially planar surface and integral compressible spacer dots formed thereon, each integral compressible spacer dot having a base closest to the planar surface and a peak furthest from the planar surface; and d) a second conductive layer located on the surface of the flexible sheet, wherein the second conductive layer comprises a conductive mesh pattern and the peaks of the integral compressible spacer dots are located in non-conductive openings in the conductive mesh pattern; wherein when a minimum required activation force is applied to the touch screen at the location of one of the compressible spacer dots, the compressible spacer dot is compressed to allow electrical contact between the first and second conductive layers.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Ronald S. Cok, Debasis Majumdar, Glen C. Irvin, Jr.
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Patent number: 7160573Abstract: A method of forming a color filter is provided. The method includes providing a mixture of a color filter material and a compressed fluid; providing at least a partially controlled environment for retaining a substrate, the at least partially controlled environment being in fluid communication with the mixture of the color filter material and the compressed fluid; providing a shadow mask in close proximity to the substrate retained in the at least partially controlled environment; and chargably releasing the mixture of the color filter material and the compressed fluid into the at least partially controlled environment, wherein the color filter material becomes free of the compressed fluid prior to contacting the substrate at locations defined by the shadow mask thereby forming a patterned deposition on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2003Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Sridhar Sadasivan, Ramesh Jagannathan, Seshadri Jagannathan, Rajesh Mehta, David J. Nelson, Glen C. Irvin, Jr.