Patents by Inventor Joel Brostin
Joel Brostin 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: 11383480Abstract: A substrate has an elastomeric film having surfaces and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film. In addition, a substrate has an elastomeric film and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film, and wherein the substrate is essentially free of adhesives and film-based microfibers. A method for making a film/nonwoven composite includes providing an elastomeric film traveling in a machine direction; providing a nonwoven web traveling in the machine direction in face-to-face contact with the film, wherein the nonwoven web includes fibers; and impinging the elastomeric film with hydro jets such that at least some of the fibers become embedded in the film.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Kaiyuan Yang, Carl Gerard Rippl, Peiguang Zhou, Yiming Weng, Michael Andrew Zawadzki, Stephen Michael Lindsay, James Benjamin Harvey, Joel Brostin
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Patent number: 10433700Abstract: A nonwoven material includes a backing substrate and a functional layer affixed to the backing substrate, the functional layer including thermal-setting fibers. The functional layer can be a nonwoven web including thermal-setting fibers, where the nonwoven web is affixed to the backing substrate. The functional layer can also include thermal-setting fibers and a thermal-setting polymer disposed on the backing substrate. The thermal-setting fibers can be melamine. Thermal-setting fibers can be rigidly fixed within the functional layer. The functional layer can further include a polymer resin.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Kaiyuan Yang, Carl Gerard Rippl, Gregory Daniel Samek, Joel Brostin, Joseph Kenneth Baker
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Publication number: 20180056624Abstract: A substrate has an elastomeric film having surfaces and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film. In addition, a substrate has an elastomeric film and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film, and wherein the substrate is essentially free of adhesives and film-based microfibers. A method for making a film/nonwoven composite includes providing an elastomeric film traveling in a machine direction; providing a nonwoven web traveling in the machine direction in face-to-face contact with the film, wherein the nonwoven web includes fibers; and impinging the elastomeric film with hydro jets such that at least some of the fibers become embedded in the film.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Kaiyuan Yang, Carl Gerard Rippl, Peiguang Zhou, Yiming Weng, Michael Andrew Zawadzki, Stephen Michael Lindsay, James Benjamin Harvey, Joel Brostin
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Publication number: 20150143647Abstract: A nonwoven material includes a backing substrate and a functional layer affixed to the backing substrate, the functional layer including thermal-setting fibers. The functional layer can be a nonwoven web including thermal-setting fibers, where the nonwoven web is affixed to the backing substrate. The functional layer can also include thermal-setting fibers and a thermal-setting polymer disposed on the backing substrate. The thermal-setting fibers can be melamine. Thermal-setting fibers can be rigidly fixed within the functional layer. The functional layer can further include a polymer resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Kaiyuan Yang, Carl Gerard Rippl, Gregory Daniel Samek, Joel Brostin, Joseph Kenneth Baker
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Publication number: 20100144228Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to, in one embodiment, a composite electrospun nanofiber being formed of a nanofiber and a particle at least partially embedded within the nanofiber, the particle having a width that is greater than the diameter of the fiber so that at least a portion of the particle is not covered by the nanofiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2008Publication date: June 10, 2010Inventors: Kelly D. Branham, Joel Brostin, Jennifer A. Kaminski
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Patent number: 7703456Abstract: A coating composition that is incorporated into a facemask to reduce fogging and glare is provided. For example, in one embodiment, the facemask contains a shield or visor formed from a transparent substrate having at least one surface applied with the coating composition of the present invention. The present inventors have unexpectedly discovered that one or more water-soluble organic polymers, such as ethyl hydroxyethylcellulose, may be utilized as a principal component of the coating composition to reduce fogging and glare in a simple, yet effective manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2003Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Ali Yahiaoui, Roger Bradshaw Quincy, III, John Gavin MacDonald, Eric Clayton Steindorf, Joel Brostin
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Patent number: 7174257Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for measuring the relative difficulty in donning of a glove. The apparatus contains a glove mount for holding a glove to be tested in an open donnable position and a device for measuring the effort associated with donning the glove. The invention also relates to a method for measuring the effort associated with donning a glove by providing a testing apparatus having a glove mount and a device for measuring effort associated with donning of a glove, mounting a glove for testing on the glove mount so the glove is open and donnable, initializing the testing apparatus, and acquiring data from the device relating to the effort associated with donning of the glove.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2003Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Audra S. Wright, Nancy H. Puckett, Timothy Wilson Reader, Wade R. Thompson, Thomas Gregory Triebes, Joel Brostin, Mark T. Pamperin
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Patent number: 6925874Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for measuring the relative difficulty in donning of a glove. The apparatus contains a glove mount for holding a glove to be tested in an open donnable position and a device for measuring the effort associated with donning the glove. The invention also relates to a method for measuring the effort associated with donning a glove by providing a testing apparatus having a glove mount and a device for measuring effort associated with donning of a glove, mounting a glove for testing on the glove mount so the glove is open and donnable, initializing the testing apparatus, and acquiring data from the device relating to the effort associated with donning of the glove.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Nancy H. Puckett, Timothy Wilson Reader, Wade R. Thompson, Thomas Gregory Triebes, Audra S. Wright, Mark T. Pamperin, Joel Brostin
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Publication number: 20050133035Abstract: A coating composition that is incorporated into a facemask to reduce fogging and glare is provided. For example, in one embodiment, the facemask contains a shield or visor formed from a transparent substrate having at least one surface applied with the coating composition of the present invention. The present inventors have unexpectedly discovered that one or more water-soluble organic polymers, such as ethyl hydroxyethylcellulose, may be utilized as a principal component of the coating composition to reduce fogging and glare in a simple, yet effective manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2003Publication date: June 23, 2005Inventors: Ali Yahiaoui, Roger Quincy, John MacDonald, Eric Steindorf, Joel Brostin
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Publication number: 20040267461Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for measuring the relative difficulty in donning of a glove. The apparatus contains a glove mount for holding a glove to be tested in an open donnable position and a device for measuring the effort associated with donning the glove. The invention also relates to a method for measuring the effort associated with donning a glove by providing a testing apparatus having a glove mount and a device for measuring effort associated with donning of a glove, mounting a glove for testing on the glove mount so the glove is open and donnable, initializing the testing apparatus, and acquiring data from the device relating to the effort associated with donning of the glove.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2003Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Audra S. Wright, Nancy H. Puckett, Timothy Wilson Reader, Wade R. Thompson, Thomas Gregory Triebes, Joel Brostin, Mark T. Pamperin
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Publication number: 20040261527Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for measuring the relative difficulty in donning of a glove. The apparatus contains a glove mount for holding a glove to be tested in an open donnable position and a device for measuring the effort associated with donning the glove. The invention also relates to a method for measuring the effort associated with donning a glove by providing a testing apparatus having a glove mount and a device for measuring effort associated with donning of a glove, mounting a glove for testing on the glove mount so the glove is open and donnable, initializing the testing apparatus, and acquiring data from the device relating to the effort associated with donning of the glove.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2003Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Nancy H. Puckett, Timothy Wilson Reader, Wade R. Thompson, Thomas Gregory Triebes, Audra S. Wright, Mark T. Pamperin, Joel Brostin
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Patent number: 6727196Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite material including a substrate with a first and a second layer, and a surfactant. The surfactant is applied to the first layer of the substrate. The surfactant acts to lower the surface tension of a fluid which contacts the first layer of the substrate such that the fluid is allowed or more readily enabled to pass through the first layer of the substrate, but such that the surfactant does not substantially adversely effect the absorption capacity or wicking height of the second layer of the substrate, as the second layer of the substrate substantially inactivates the surfactant upon contact or interaction therewith.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2001Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Ali Yahiaoui, Bernard Cohen, Joel Brostin, Michael Tod Morman
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Publication number: 20020069988Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite material including a substrate with a first and a second layer, and a surfactant. The surfactant is applied to the first layer of the substrate. The surfactant acts to lower the surface tension of a fluid which contacts the first layer of the substrate such that the fluid is allowed or more readily enabled to pass through the first layer of the substrate, but such that the surfactant does not substantially adversely effect the absorption capacity or wicking height of the second layer of the substrate, as the second layer of the substrate substantially inactivates the surfactant upon contact or interaction therewith.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2001Publication date: June 13, 2002Inventors: Ali Yahiaoui, Bernard Cohen, Joel Brostin, Michael Tod Morman
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Patent number: 5834384Abstract: A nonwoven web having improved particulate barrier properties is provided. A surface treatment having a breakdown voltage no greater than 13 KV direct current is present on the nonwoven web. The particulate barrier properties are improved by subjecting said surface treatment treated nonwoven web to corona discharge.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1995Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Bernard Cohen, Lamar Heath Gipson, Joel Brostin
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Patent number: 5772646Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent structure comprising a microbial polysaccharide having improved porosity and a process of making the same. The absorbent structure may be adapted for use in an absorbent product such as a diaper or incontinence product. The process involves the supercritical drying of a microbial polysaccharide to remove at least a portion of the aqueous medium in which the microbial polysaccharide is produced without unacceptably reducing the porosity of the microbial polysaccharide.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1995Date of Patent: June 30, 1998Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Carol Ann Blaney, Joel Brostin, Theresa Marie McIntire, Bernard Joseph Minerath, III
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Patent number: 5580348Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent structure comprising a microbial polysaccharide having improved porosity and a process of making the same. The absorbent structure may be adapted for use in an absorbent product such as a diaper or incontinence product. The process involves the supercritical drying of a microbial polysaccharide to remove at least a portion of the aqueous medium in which the microbial polysaccharide is produced without unacceptably reducing the porosity of the microbial polysaccharide.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1994Date of Patent: December 3, 1996Assignee: Kimberly-Clark CorporationInventors: Carol A. Blaney, Joel Brostin, Theresa M. McIntire, Bernard J. Minerath, III