Patents by Inventor James A. Thielen
James A. Thielen 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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Publication number: 20230270589Abstract: A clinical garment for patient warming including a front body panel having a first edge, an opposite second edge, an insulated sheet comprising an insulated layer positioned between an outer layer a film layer, a permeable layer adjacent to the film layer of the insulated sheet, a blanket section defined by a lower portion of the insulated sheet sealed to a lower portion of the permeable along a top edge, a bottom edge, and opposite first and second side edges of the blanket section, and at least one inlet port extending into the blanket section. The garment further includes a first back panel secured to at least a portion of the first edge of the front body panel and a second back panel secured to at least a portion of the second edge of the front body panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Andrew J. McGregor, James A. Thielen, Michael R. Berrigan, Daniel P. Doran, Jenna L. Lindsay, Amanda M. Rue, Benjamin C. Stanaway, John R. Stark
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Patent number: 11618796Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a composition includes about 5 to about 40 parts by weight of a solute copolymer component. The solute component optionally has one Tg or Tm of at least 25° C. The composition further includes about 60 to about 95 parts by weight of a solvent monomer. The solvent monomer component includes (meth)acrylate monomers and a multifunctional acrylate. The sum of the solute copolymer component and the solvent monomer component is 100 parts by weight. The composition further includes about 5 to about 100 parts of a plasticizer, relative to the 100 parts. The plasticizer component comprises at least one plasticizer comprising an acid group.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Ann R. Fornof, Carla S. Thomas, Tien Yi T. H. Whiting, Payam Khodaparast, Nathaniel K. Naismith, Brett J. Sitter, James A. Thielen
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Patent number: 11560496Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a composition includes about 5 to about 40 parts by weight of a solute copolymer component. The solute component optionally has one Tg or Tm of at least 25° C. The composition further includes about 60 to about 95 parts by weight of a solvent monomer. The solvent monomer component includes (meth)acrylate monomers and a multifunctional acrylate. The sum of the solute copolymer component and the solvent monomer component is 100 parts by weight. The composition further includes about 5 to about 100 parts of a plasticizer, relative to the 100 parts.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Ann R. Fornof, Carla S. Thomas, Tien Yi T. H. Whiting, Payam Khodaparast, Nathaniel K. Naismith, Brett J. Sitter, James A. Thielen
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Publication number: 20220354688Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a warming system including a warming device. The warming device includes a clinical garment comprising a body portion adapted to cover a portion of a patient, an inner surface for facing the patient, and an outer surface for facing away from the patient. The body portion includes sleeves sized and positioned for receiving the patient's arms and a torso portion adapted to cover an anterior torso of a patient. A first pneumatic convective device can be disposed adjacent to the inner surface of the clinical garment. The pneumatic convective device can include an opening formed in the clinical garment for admitting a stream of pressurized, warmed air into the first pneumatic convective device. The warming system can also have a second pneumatic convective device in a fully-folded configuration or partially-folded configuration and disposed on a portion of the clinical garment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Andrew J. McGregor, John R. Stark, James A. Thielen, Jenna L. Lindsay, Daniel P. Doran, Amanda M. Rue, Benjamin C. Stanaway
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Publication number: 20220354690Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure can be related to a warming device, systems, and methods of using. The warming device can include a clinical garment comprising a body portion adapted to cover a portion of a patient, an inner surface configured to face the patient, and an outer surface opposite the inner surface. The body portion can include sleeves sized and positioned for receiving the patients arms. In addition, the clinical garment can include an insulative layer comprising an insulative edge portion disposed on the clinical garment. The insulative edge portion is configured to make the warming device non-linting.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Andrew J. McGregor, John R. Stark, James A. Thielen, Jenna L. Lindsay, Daniel P. Doran, Amanda M. Rue, Benjamin C. Stanaway
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Publication number: 20220338566Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a warming device that includes a clinical garment and a first pneumatic convective device. The clinical garment includes an inner surface for facing the patient and having an inner surface area. The clinical garment has a hemline and forms a longitudinal axis. The first pneumatic convective device can have an air-permeable layer having a pneumatic surface area, the pneumatic surface area is at least 25% of the inner surface area in a deployed state. The warming device can include a first inlet for admitting a stream of pressurized, warmed air into the first pneumatic convective device. The second end of the first pneumatic convective device extends past the hemline when in the deployed state, and, when the first pneumatic convective device is in a folded state, the second end extends no greater than 3 inches past the hemline.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Andrew J. McGregor, John R. Stark, James A. Thielen, Jenna L. Lindsay, Daniel P. Doran, Amanda M. Rue, Benjamin C. Stanaway
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Patent number: 11402637Abstract: Headsets and head-mounted displays including first and second diffractive elements are described. In some cases, the first and second diffractive elements include first and second grating surfaces, and for at least one wavelength, the first and second grating surfaces have at least one different corresponding diffractive property. The head-mounted display may include two-dimensionally pixelated adjacent first and second display surfaces for displaying images, and first and second diffractive elements disposed adjacent the respective first and second display surfaces. In some cases, the first diffractive element is configured to diffract a first wavelength ?1, but not a different second wavelength ?2, into zero and first diffraction orders having intensities within 5% of each other, and the second diffractive element is configured to diffract the second wavelength ?2, but not the first wavelength ?1, into zero and first diffraction orders having intensities within 5% of each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Brett J. Sitter, Zhaohui Yang, James A. Thielen, Byoung Kyu Kim
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Patent number: 11378723Abstract: A multilayer optical film including a first layer having an index of refraction n1 at a wavelength ? in a range from about 580 nm to about 650 nm, and a second layer having an index of refraction n2 at ? is described. The first and second layers define an interface therebetween comprising a two-dimensional grating. The grating may have an average height H such that |n1?n2|*H is in a range from 0.24 micrometers to 0.3 micrometers. Optical systems including the multilayer optical film are described. A subpixel in a display surface of the optical system may be diffracted into a zero diffraction order and a plurality of first diffraction orders where the intensities of the zero and first diffraction orders are with 10% of each other at ?. The optical system may have a modulation transfer function greater than 0.4 at 10 line pairs per millimeter.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Zhaohui Yang, Brett J. Sitter, James A. Thielen, Nathaniel K. Naismith
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Publication number: 20210286113Abstract: A multilayer optical film including a first layer having an index of refraction n1 at a wavelength ? in a range from about 580 nm to about 650 nm, and a second layer having an index of refraction n2 at ? is described. The first and second layers define an interface therebetween comprising a two-dimensional grating. The grating may have an average height H such that |n1?n2|*H is in a range from 0.24 micrometers to 0.3 micrometers. Optical systems including the multilayer optical film are described. A subpixel in a display surface of the optical system may be diffracted into a zero diffraction order and a plurality of first diffraction orders where the intensities of the zero and first diffraction orders are with 10% of each other at ?. The optical system may have a modulation transfer function greater than 0.4 at 10 line pairs per millimeter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Zhaohui Yang, Brett J. Sitter, James A. Thielen, Nathaniel K. Naismith
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Publication number: 20210130521Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a composition includes about 5 to about 40 parts by weight of a solute copolymer component. The solute component optionally has one Tg or Tm of at least 25° C. The composition further includes about 60 to about 95 parts by weight of a solvent monomer. The solvent monomer component includes (meth)acrylate monomers and a multifunctional acrylate. The sum of the solute copolymer component and the solvent monomer component is 100 parts by weight. The composition further includes about 5 to about 100 parts of a plasticizer, relative to the 100 parts. The plasticizer component comprises at least one plasticizer comprising an acid group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Ann R. Fornof, Carla S. Thomas, Tien Yi T. H. Whiting, Payam Khodaparast, Nathaniel K. Naismith, Brett J. Sitter, James A. Thielen
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Publication number: 20210026143Abstract: Headsets and head-mounted displays including first and second diffractive elements are described. In some cases, the first and second diffractive elements include first and second grating surfaces, and for at least one wavelength, the first and second grating surfaces have at least one different corresponding diffractive property. The head-mounted display may include two-dimensionally pixelated adjacent first and second display surfaces for displaying images, and first and second diffractive elements disposed adjacent the respective first and second display surfaces. In some cases, the first diffractive element is configured to diffract a first wavelength ?1, but not a different second wavelength into zero and first diffraction orders having intensities within 5% of each other, and the second diffractive element is configured to diffract the second wavelength but not the first wavelength 1, into zero and first diffraction orders having intensities within 5% of each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Brett J. Sitter, Zhaohui Yang, James A. Thielen, Byoung Kyu Kim
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Publication number: 20200010729Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a composition includes about 5 to about 40 parts by weight of a solute copolymer component. The solute component optionally has one Tg or Tm of at least 25° C. The composition further includes about 60 to about 95 parts by weight of a solvent monomer. The solvent monomer component includes (meth)acrylate monomers and a multifunctional acrylate. The sum of the solute copolymer component and the solvent monomer component is 100 parts by weight. The composition further includes about 5 to about 100 parts of a plasticizer, relative to the 100 parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Ann R. Fornof, Carla S. Thomas, Tien Yi T. H. Whiting, Payam Khodaparast, Nathaniel K. Naismith, Brett J. Sitter, James A. Thielen
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Publication number: 20190382658Abstract: Quantum dot compositions comprise quantum dots dispersed in a curable resin composition comprising hindered phenolic antioxidant, wherein the antioxidant comprises about 0.2 wt % to about 5 wt %, based on the total weight of the quantum dot composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2017Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Eric W. NELSON, Joseph M. PIEPER, Zai-Ming QIU, James A. THIELEN
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Patent number: 10168460Abstract: An optical construction includes a quantum dot film element including a plurality of quantum dots, a first optical recycling element, and a first low refractive index element separating the quantum dot film element from the first optical recycling element. The first low refractive index element has a refractive index of 1.3 or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Gilles J. Benoit, John A. Wheatley, James A. Thielen, David Scott Thompson
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Patent number: 9494817Abstract: The present disclosure describes a display system including a liquid crystal display panel and a light source emitting light capable of emitting light. A nonwoven diffuser element is disposed between the light source and the liquid crystal display panel. The polymeric nonwoven diffuser is non-orientated and has a fiber diameter of less than 50 micrometers, a fiber aspect ratio of length/diameter of greater than 5 and a basis weight in a range from 10 to 80 grams/meter2.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Kazuhiko Toyooka, Hiroki Matsuda, Masaki Yamamuro, James A. Thielen, Jayant Chakravarty, Eric W. Nelson, John A. Wheatley
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Publication number: 20160003998Abstract: An optical construction includes a quantum dot film element including a plurality of quantum dots, a first optical recycling element, and a first low refractive index element separating the quantum dot film element from the first optical recycling element. The first low refractive index element has a refractive index of 1.3 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Gilles J. BENOIT, John A. WHEATLEY, James A. THIELEN, David Scott THOMPSON
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Publication number: 20160004124Abstract: An optical construction is described that includes a blue light source, a liquid crystal display panel, and a quantum dot film element optically between the blue light source and the liquid crystal display panel. In some embodiments, the blue light source can emit blue light that has a wavelength in a range from 440 to 460 nm and an FWHM of less than 25 nm. Also, in some embodiments, the quantum dot film element includes a plurality of quantum dots emitting a peak red wavelength in a range from 600 to 640 nm, an FWHM of less than 50 nm, a peak green wavelength in a range from 515 to 555 nm, and an FWHM of less than 40 nm. The quantum dot film element can be optically between the blue light source and the LCD panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Gilles J. BENOIT, John A. WHEATLEY, James A. THIELEN
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Publication number: 20150022757Abstract: The present disclosure describes a display system including a liquid crystal display panel and a light source emitting light capable of emitting light. A nonwoven diffuser element is disposed between the light source and the liquid crystal display panel. The polymeric nonwoven diffuser is non-orientated and has a fiber diameter of less than 50 micrometers, a fiber aspect ratio of length/diameter of greater than 5 and a basis weight in a range from 10 to 80 grams/meter2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2013Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Kazuhiko Toyooka, Hiroki Matsuda, Masaki Yamamuro, James A. Thielen, Jayant Chakravarty, Eric W. Nelson, John A. Wheatley
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Patent number: 8748911Abstract: Light emitting systems are disclosed. The light emitting system emits an output light that has a first color. The light emitting system includes a first electroluminescent device that emits light at a first wavelength in response to a first signal. The first wavelength is substantially independent of the first signal. The intensity of the emitted first wavelength light is substantially proportional to the first signal. The light emitting system further includes a first luminescent element that includes a second electroluminescent device and a first light converting layer. The second electroluminescent device emits light at a second wavelength in response to a second signal. The first light converting layer includes a semiconductor potential well and converts at least a portion of light at the second wavelength to light at a third wavelength that is longer than the second wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Michael A. Haase, James A. Thielen, Catherine A. Leatherdale, Billy L. Weaver, Terry L. Smith
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Publication number: 20110108858Abstract: Light emitting systems are disclosed. The light emitting system emits an output light that has a first color. The light emitting system includes a first electroluminescent device that emits light at a first wavelength in response to a first signal. The first wavelength is substantially independent of the first signal. The intensity of the emitted first wavelength light is substantially proportional to the first signal. The light emitting system further includes a first luminescent element that includes a second electroluminescent device and a first light converting layer. The second electroluminescent device emits light at a second wavelength in response to a second signal. The first light converting layer includes a semiconductor potential well and converts at least a portion of light at the second wavelength to light at a third wavelength that is longer than the second wavelength.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Michael A. Haase, James A. Thielen, Catherine A. Leatherdale, Billy L. Weaver, Terry L. Smith