Patents by Inventor Robert F. Cournoyer

Robert F. Cournoyer 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).

  • Continuous manufacture of flat panel light emitting devices
    Patent number: 7153180
    Abstract: A method of applying patterned materials for manufacture of a flat panel light source includes providing a flexible continuous substrate; providing one or more application stations, each application station having, one or more stationary sources of material, a supply of discrete patterned masks for defining a pattern of material to be applied to the substrate, means for attaching the discrete patterned masks to the substrate; means for transporting the substrate and the patterned mask in registration past the one or more stationary sources of material, and means for delivering the masks one at a time to the transporting means; and transporting the substrate and the masks past the one or more application stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, David R. Strip, Robert F. Cournoyer
  • Porous optical switch films
    Patent number: 7085444
    Abstract: A porous optical switching film is situated between at least two plates that have an electrical bias between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Marcus S. Bermel, Robert F. Cournoyer
  • Electromechanical display panel incorporating a porous movable film
    Patent number: 7061661
    Abstract: An electromechanical display panel that includes at least two spatially separated plates. Between the at least two spatially separated plates is a suspended porous movable film having a pore area, wherein the pore area comprises less than 50% of surface area of the porous movable film. The electromechanical display panel also includes a means for moving the porous movable film between the at least two spatially separated plates to cause selective light modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Marek W. Kowarz, Marcus S. Bermel, Robert F. Cournoyer
  • Porous optical switch films
    Publication number: 20040165814
    Abstract: A porous optical switching film is situated between at least two plates that have an electrical bias between them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Marcus S. Bermel, Robert F. Cournoyer
  • Strippable repositionable back sheet for photographic element
    Patent number: 6130024
    Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging element comprising support having adhered to the backside a strippable polymer layer that when removed has an adhesive layer thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Peter T. Aylward, Robert P. Bourdelais, Thaddeus S. Gula, Robert F. Cournoyer
  • Photographic member with peelable and repositioning adhesive layer
    Patent number: 6045965
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising at least one silver halide imaging layer, at least one biaxially oriented polyolefin sheet, and at least one layer comprising a peelable adhesive wherein said peelable adhesive will allow peelable separation of said photographic element at said adhesive layer and the repositioning of at least one of the separated parts of said photographic element by use of said at least one layer comprising a peelable adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert F. Cournoyer, Robert P. Bourdelais, Peter T. Aylward