Patents by Inventor Konstantin Nikolaev
Konstantin Nikolaev 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: 20240031705Abstract: A breakdown-avalanche photon sensors array (10) is shown, which is implemented in CMOS technology, wherein the breakdown-avalanche photon sensors array (10) has single photon sensitivity, comprising: a semiconductor substrate (11); and an epitaxial layer (12), which is located above the semiconductor substrate (11); and a breakdown-avalanche photon sensor (13), which is located within the epitaxial layer (12), wherein the breakdown avalanche photon sensor (13) comprises: a guard ring (3) and a quenching element (5), which is electrically connected to the breakdown-avalanche photon sensor (13), wherein the quenching element (5) is configured for quenching the breakdown-avalanche photon sensor (13) after detection of a photon. Furthermore, a digital breakdown-avalanche photon sensor (11), a digital breakdown-avalanche photon sensors array (20)and an digital photomultiplier imager (40) are shown.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Konstantin Nikolaev, Andrey Saveliev, Valeriy Savelyev, Andrey Kunatbaev
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Publication number: 20220403293Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel polymer dispersion and the application in conditioning fabrics. The present invention is further a fabric conditioning composition comprising the same. The fabric conditioning composition provided in the present invention has favorable fabric conditioning performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: RHODIA OPERATIONSInventors: David James Wilson, Pierre-Emmanuel Dufils, Jean-Christophe Castaing, Konstantin Nikolaev Golemanov, Ritu Ahuja, Zahrah Mohamed Ikhbar, Shu Quan Chua, Siu Yu Chan, Boh Yi Lian
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Publication number: 20220396749Abstract: A fabric softener composition comprising: a. 1 to 20 wt. % ionic compound of general formula I: (I) wherein b. 0.1 to 20 wt. % fatty co-softener; and c. Water.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Conopco, lnc., d/b/a UNILEVERInventors: Ritu AHUJA, Olivier BACK, Christopher BOARDMAN, Jean-Christophe CASTAING, Konstantin Nikolaev GOLEMANOV, David Stephen GRAINGER, Sergio MASTROIANNI, Hugh RIELEY
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Publication number: 20220290075Abstract: A fabric softener composition comprising: a. 1 to 20 wt. % ionic compound of general formula I: (I) b. 0.1 to 30 wt. % perfume; and c. Water.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVERInventors: Ritu AHUJA, Olivier BACK, Christopher BOARDMAN, Jean-Christophe CASTAING, Konstantin Nikolaev GOLEMANOV, David Stephen GRAINGER, Sergio MASTROIANNI, Hugh RIELEY
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Publication number: 20220098514Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising: (a) a quaternary ammonium compound; (b) a cationic polysaccharide; (c) a non-ionic polysaccharide; and (d) an amino silicone compound having a degree of polymerization of 300 to 10,000.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2018Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Galder CRISTOBAL, Da Wei JIN, Siu Yu CHAN, Konstantin Nikolaev GOLEMANOV, Ritu AHUJA, Yi Ling LOW
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Patent number: 10119775Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat-insulating material, in particular in the form of a solid foam, based on silica particles of submicron porosity, this material incorporating two different ranges of porosities, advantageously including a first range consisting of (macro)pores with diameters of between 10 microns and 3 mm, and a second range consisting of submicron pores with diameters greater than 4 nm and less than 300 nm, the pore volume of said submicron pores being at least 1 cm3/g and the mass per unit volume of said insulating material being less than 300 kg/m3, and also relates to the process for obtaining the same.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVERInventors: Alexandra Dekoninck, Nikolai Denkov Denkov, Ivan Igorov Lesov, Slavka Stoyanova Tcholakova, Konstantin Nikolaev Golemanov
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Patent number: 9720053Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide a system comprising an external magnetic field generator, wherein the external field magnetic field generator is configured to rock an effective annealing magnetic field between a first positive angle and a second negative angle compared to a desired pinning field orientation in an AFM/PL structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Konstantin Nikolaev, Victor Sapozhnikov, Taras Pokhil, Jae-Young Yi, Mohammed Patwari, Eric W. Singleton
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Patent number: 9646635Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein allow a signal detected by a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor to be improved by providing for one or more alloyed layers that each includes a ferromagnetic material and a refractory material. The alloyed layers are provided adjacent to a shield element or between soft magnetic layers of the sensor stack.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Eric W. Singleton, Liwen Tan, Jae-Young Yi, Konstantin Nikolaev
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Patent number: 9633679Abstract: A reader stack, such as for a magnetic storage device, the stack having a top synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) layer, a magnetic capping layer adjacent to the top SAF layer, an RKKY coupling layer adjacent to the magnetic capping layer opposite the top SAF layer, and a free layer adjacent to the RKKY coupling layer opposite the magnetic capping layer. Also included is a method for biasing a free layer in a reader stack by providing an exchange coupling between the free layer and a top synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) layer using a layer having RKKY coupling property positioned between the free layer and the top SAF layer and a magnetic capping layer between the SAF layer and the layer having RKKY coupling property.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Eric W. Singleton, Liwen Tan, Jae-Young Yi, Konstantin Nikolaev, Zhiguo Ge
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Patent number: 9454978Abstract: A reader sensor having a dusting layer having a thickness less than 5 Angstroms between and in contact with the AFM layer and with the pinned layer. The dusting layer comprises a non-magnetic, electrically conducting material, such as ruthenium or iridium. The reader sensor has a free layer composed of a material free of nickel (Ni).Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Konstantin Nikolaev, Taras Pokhil, Andrzej Stankiewicz, Mohammed Patwari, Eric Singleton
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Patent number: 9437224Abstract: A stack having a seed layer structure with a first part having a first cross-track width and a free layer deposited over the seed layer structure and with a second cross-track width, wherein the first cross-track width is greater than the second cross-track width. In one implementation, the seed layer structure further comprises an antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer and a synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) layer. In one alternate implementation, the cross-track width of the seed layer structure is substantially equal to the combined cross-track width of the free layer and cross-track width of two permanent magnets.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Eric Walter Singleton, Jae-Young Yi, Konstantin Nikolaev, Victor Boris Sapozhnikov, Stacey Christine Wakeham, Shaun Eric McKinlay
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Publication number: 20160118066Abstract: A reader sensor having a dusting layer having a thickness less than 5 Angstroms between and in contact with the AFM layer and with the pinned layer. The dusting layer comprises a non-magnetic, electrically conducting material, such as ruthenium or iridium. The reader sensor has a free layer composed of a material free of nickel (Ni).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Konstantin Nikolaev, Taras Pokhil, Andrzej Stankiewicz, Mohammed Patwari, Eric Singleton
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Patent number: 9251815Abstract: An apparatus disclosed herein includes a sensor stack including a first layer and an AFM stabilized bottom shield in proximity to the first layer, wherein the AFM stabilized bottom shield is magnetically coupled to the first layer. The apparatus reduces shield-to-shield spacing. The pinned layer of the bottom shield and a pinned layer of the sensor stack are stabilized using the AFM layer in the bottom shield. In one implementation, the bottom shield is made of the SAF structure, with the top layer of the structure adjacent to a pinned layer in the sensor stack.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Eric W. Singleton, Konstantin Nikolaev, Liwen Tan, Jae-Young Yi, Victor Boris Sapozhnikov, Mohammed Sharia Ullah Patwari
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Publication number: 20150369879Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide a system comprising an external magnetic field generator, wherein the external field magnetic field generator is configured to rock an effective annealing magnetic field between a first positive angle and a second negative angle compared to a desired pinning field orientation in an AFM/PL structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Konstantin Nikolaev, Victor Sapozhnikov, Taras Pokhil, Jae-Young Yi, Mohammed Patwari, Eric W. Singleton
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Patent number: 9196272Abstract: A reader sensor having a dusting layer having a thickness less than 5 Angstroms between and in contact with the AFM layer and with the pinned layer. The dusting layer comprises a non-magnetic, electrically conducting material, such as ruthenium or iridium. The reader sensor has a free layer composed of a material free of nickel (Ni).Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Konstantin Nikolaev, Taras Pokhil, Andrzej Stankiewicz, Mohammed Patwari, Eric Singleton
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Publication number: 20150332714Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein allow a signal detected by a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor to be improved by providing for one or more alloyed layers that each includes a ferromagnetic material and a refractory material. The alloyed layers are provided adjacent to a shield element or between soft magnetic layers of the sensor stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Eric W. Singleton, Liwen Tan, Jae-Young Yi, Konstantin Nikolaev
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Publication number: 20150325260Abstract: A reader stack, such as for a magnetic storage device, the stack having a top synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) layer, a magnetic capping layer adjacent to the top SAF layer, an RKKY coupling layer adjacent to the magnetic capping layer opposite the top SAF layer, and a free layer adjacent to the RKKY coupling layer opposite the magnetic capping layer. Also included is a method for biasing a free layer in a reader stack by providing an exchange coupling between the free layer and a top synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) layer using a layer having RKKY coupling property positioned between the free layer and the top SAF layer and a magnetic capping layer between the SAF layer and the layer having RKKY coupling property.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2014Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Eric W. Singleton, Liwen Tan, Jae-Young Yi, Konstantin Nikolaev, Zhiguo Ge
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Publication number: 20150311430Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein provide a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor including a free layer comprising a first layer of CoFeB or CoFe/CoFeB and a second layer made of an alloyed layer including a ferromagnetic material and a refractory material. An implementation of the MR sensor further includes a cap layer adjacent to the second layer wherein the cap layer does not include any tantalum.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Eric W. Singleton, Liwen Tan, Jae-Young Yi, Konstantin Nikolaev
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Patent number: 9171559Abstract: A reader sensor that has a sensor stack with an AFM layer, a pinned stabilization layer, and a pinned layer, with the pinned stabilization layer closer to the AFM layer than to the pinned layer. The stack also includes a non-magnetic spacer layer between and in contact with the pinned stabilization layer and with the pinned layer. A magnetic coupling between the pinned stabilization layer and the pinned layer is no more than 50% of a magnetic coupling between the pinned stabilization layer and the AFM layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Konstantin Nikolaev, Taras Pokhil, Andrzej Stankiewicz, Mohammed Patwari, Eric Singleton
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Patent number: 9147409Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein provide a method comprising rocking an effective annealing magnetic field between a first positive angle and a second negative angle compared to a desired pinning field orientation in an AFM/PL structure, wherein an angular amplitude of rocking the effective annealing magnetic field between a first positive angle and a second negative angle gradually decreases towards the desired orientation of pinning in the AFM/PL structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Konstantin Nikolaev, Victor Sapozhnikov, Taras Pokhil, Jae-Young Yi, Mohammed Patwari, Eric W. Singleton