Patents by Inventor Harold T. Munson

Harold T. Munson 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).

  • Patent number: 10815404
    Abstract: Polyester pressure-sensitive adhesives are described. The polyester includes at least two different diacid residues and at least two different diol residues. The polyester includes at least one pendant group containing an alkenyl group. A ratio of a total number of the at least one pendant group to the total number of ester groups in the polyester is in a range of 0.001 to 0.1. The polyester has a glass transition temperature in a range of ?50° C. to ?10° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard Y. Liu, Jingjing Ma, Zhong Chen, Victor Ho, Nathaniel I. Lehn, Harold T. Munson
  • Patent number: 10550224
    Abstract: Polyester pressure-sensitive adhesives are described. The polyester includes at least two different diacid residues and at least two different diol residues. The at least two different diacid residues include, based on the total moles of the at least two diacid residues, 20 to 80 mole percent of a residue of at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid, and 20 to 80 mole percent of at least one of a residue of adipic acid or sebacic acid. The polyesters may include at least one pendant group containing an alkenyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard Y. Liu, Jingjing Ma, Zhong Chen, Victor Ho, Nathaniel I. Lehn, Harold T. Munson
  • Publication number: 20180237585
    Abstract: Polyester pressure-sensitive adhesives are described. The polyester includes at least two different diacid residues and at least two different diol residues. The at least two different diacid residues include, based on the total moles of the at least two diacid residues, 20 to 80 mole percent of a residue of at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid, and 20 to 80 mole percent of at least one of a residue of adipic acid or sebacic acid. The polyesters may include at least one pendant group containing an alkenyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Richard Y. Liu, Jingjing Ma, Zhong Chen, Victor Ho, Nathaniel I. Lehn, Harold T. Munson
  • Publication number: 20180215970
    Abstract: Polyester pressure-sensitive adhesives are described. The polyester includes at least two different diacid residues and at least two different diol residues. The polyester includes at least one pendant group containing an alkenyl group. A ratio of a total number of the at least one pendant group to the total number of ester groups in the polyester is in a range of 0.001 to 0.1. The polyester has a glass transition temperature in a range of ?50° C. to ?10° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Richard Y. Liu, Jingjing Ma, Zhong Chen, Victor Ho, Nathaniel I. Lehn, Harold T. Munson
  • Patent number: 10017670
    Abstract: Adhesive tape for bonding that can be detached without leaving residue and without damaging the surface of a substrate when stretched in a direction of a bond plane. An adhesive tape includes an elastomeric backing having opposing first and second surfaces an acrylate pressure sensitive adhesive disposed on at least one of the first and second surfaces of the backing. The backing includes a copolymer selected from the group consisting of polyether-polyester, polyether-polyamide, and a combination thereof and from about 20 to 60 wt % of a tackifier, based on the total weight of the backing. The backing has an elongation at break greater than 500%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Roger A. Grisle, Harold T. Munson
  • Publication number: 20150020961
    Abstract: Adhesive tape for bonding that can be detached without leaving residue and without damaging the surface of a substrate when stretched in a direction of a bond plane. An adhesive tape includes an elastomeric backing having opposing first and second surfaces an acrylate pressure sensitive adhesive disposed on at least one of the first and second surfaces of the backing. The backing includes a copolymer selected from the group consisting of polyether-polyester, polyether-polyamide, and a combination thereof and from about about 20 to 60 wt % of a tackifier, based on the total weight of the backing. The backing has an elongation at break greater than 500%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Roger A. Grisle, Harold T. Munson
  • Patent number: 6465951
    Abstract: A method for forming an electroluminescent lamp unit. A multi-layer sheet form electroluminescent lamp, the multi-layer sheet form lamp includes a pair of sheet-form conductive layers, one of which is transparent for transmitting light emitted from the particles, an electroluminescent sheet-form layer disposed between the pair of sheet-form conductive layers and having electroluminescent particles, and a carrier substrate for supporting the pair of sheet-form conductive layers and electroluminescent sheet-form layer. The multi-layer sheet form lamp is heated at a temperature sufficient for maintaining the operational integrity of said carrier substrate and said thermoplastic layers. The multi-layer sheet form lamp is them formed into a desired three-dimensional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Durel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Krafcik, Douglas T. Wheeler, Walter J. Paciorek, Ralph McGuigan, Rodney T. Eckersley, Dee Lynn Johnson, Harold T. Munson
  • Patent number: 6069444
    Abstract: An electroluminescent lamp assembly includes electroluminescent lamps of selected limited size placed and secured upon a larger printed circuit substrate employing surface mount techniques. The electroluminescent lamp assembly includes a substrate having a relatively large lamp receiving surface and relatively smaller lamps. At least one of these smaller lamps is a multi-layer sheet-form electroluminescent lamp having a sheet-form layer containing electroluminescent particles, the layer disposed between a pair of sheet-form conductive layers, one of which is transparent for transmitting light emitted from the particles. The electroluminescent lamps each have conductors exposed for engagement and connection with conductive traces on the lamp receiving surface of the substrate in a surface mounted face-to-face arrangement and are distributed in spaced-apart relationship according to a preselected illumination pattern and connected to the conductive traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Durel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Krafcik, Douglas T. Wheeler, Walter J. Paciorek, Ralph McGuigan, Rodney T. Eckersley, Dee Lynn Johnson, Harold T. Munson
  • Patent number: 5811930
    Abstract: An electroluminescent lamp unit includes a flat deformable substrate of preselected size having smaller sheet-form flexible electroluminescent lamps secured face-to-face at preselected positions on a surface of the substrate, the lamps connected with conductive traces on the substrate. The flat substrate with secured lamps can be deformed into a desired shape to provide a relatively inexpensive and reliable electroluminescent lamp unit applicable for a wide variety of applications. The flexible electroluminescent lamps of the unit can be individually addressable and may have different colors or intensities. A method of manufacture of such units employs surface mount technology in an automated version, pick and place robots select and place the lamps as instructed, followed by ultrasonic welding or mechanical or adhesive fastening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Durel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Krafcik, Douglas T. Wheeler, Walter J. Paciorek, Ralph McGuigan, Rodney T. Eckersley, Dee Lynn Johnson, Harold T. Munson
  • Patent number: 5565733
    Abstract: An electroluminescent lamp unit includes a flat deformable substrate of preselected size having smaller sheet-form flexible electroluminescent lamps secured face-to-face at preselected positions on a surface of the substrate, the lamps connected with conductive traces on the substrate. The flat substrate with secured lamps can be deformed into a desired shape to provide a relatively inexpensive and reliable electroluminescent lamp unit applicable for a wide variety of applications. The flexible electroluminescent lamps of the unit can be individually addressable and may have different colors or intensities. A method of manufacture of such units employs surface mount technology in an automated version, pick and place robots select and place the lamps as instructed, followed by ultrasonic welding or mechanical or adhesive fastening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Assignee: Durel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Krafcik, Douglas T. Wheeler, Walter J. Paciorek, Ralph McGuigan, Rodney T. Eckersley, Dee L. Johnson, Harold T. Munson