Patents Issued in December 22, 1998
  • Patent number: 5851631
    Abstract: Low-cost composite infrared windows that are transparent to long wave infrared radiation (8-12 microns) that provide sufficient strength and impact resistance for automotive-type environments, and the like. The windows may be used with night vision systems for automobiles, surveillance imaging systems, and other applications requiring low cost, long wave infrared windows. In one embodiment, the composite infrared window is a sandwich comprised of a polyethylene plastic film bonded with an acrylic adhesive to a relatively thin (0.015-0.040 inch) silicon substrate. The thin silicon substrate is mechanically stiff and low cost, and transmits in the 8-12 micron bandpass. The thin (0.001-0.007 inch) plastic film provides an exterior particle impact absorbing layer sufficient to enable the use of the window in automotive applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Michael R. Borden, Herbert C. Bitting, Christopher D. Taylor, Jeanette Lurier
  • Patent number: 5851632
    Abstract: A grip tape 11 for applying to a handle 94 generally comprises an elongate tape having a top portion 60 comprised of shock absorbing and compressible material, such as polyurethane, bonded to a shock absorbing bottom portion 90, such as of open-pored textile material, such as of felt. The top includes a central portion 62, a right densified portion 70 adjacent the right side 50 and a left densified portion 80 adjacent the left side 40. Preferably, the tops 75, 85 of densified portions 70, 80 are below the top 65 of the central portion 62 by at least 10% of the thickness of the tape. Preferably, bottom bevels 77, 87 underlie densified portions 70, 80. Tape 11 is spiral wrapped around handle 94 such that right side 50 overlies top 85 of left densified portion 80 of the previous turn, preferably such that top 75 of right densified portion 70 is disposed below top 65 of central portion 62 of the succeeding wrap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Inventors: Sam Hsin-Shun Chen, C. F. Chang
  • Patent number: 5851633
    Abstract: Packing is fixed to and adheres to a molded damper on the outer periphery of the both sides of the damper body like a frame. To prevent defective molded products, a portion of the damper body having the packing disposed thereon is made thicker than a portion without the packing so that resin can flow into the portion where the packing is disposed before it goes into the portion without the packing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignees: Nippondenso Co., Ltd, Shimizu Industry Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chiharu Kamiya, Yoshihide Kanai
  • Patent number: 5851634
    Abstract: A hinge for use in inorganically filled composite materials is provided. The hinge has an inorganically filled structural matrix comprising a water-dispersable organic polymer binder, an aggregate material, and a fibrous material. The hinge allows inorganically filled materials to be bent along a line without breakage of the material. The hinge is preferably formed by scoring a formed sheet of inorganically filled material. The hinge is particularly useful in containers that require bending of various container parts, such as in food containers and boxes made from inorganically filled materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: E. Khashoggi Industries
    Inventors: Per Just Andersen, Simon K. Hodson
  • Patent number: 5851635
    Abstract: A device for transmitting motion comprises a flexible elastomeric element and at least one rigid element in surface contact with one another, wherein the surface of said flexible elastomeric element that comes into surface contact with said rigid element has been surface treated with a halogenated polyether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Dayco PTI, S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tommaso Di Giacomo, Mauro Piccirilli, Massimo Matricardi
  • Patent number: 5851636
    Abstract: A ceramic packing element is formed from a stack of ceramic plates having parallel ribs forming parallel grooves therebetween. The grooves are closed into channels by the surf ace of an opposed plate. The ribs may engage the end surfaces of ribs on an adjacent space or may be interleaved with the ribs of an opposed plate to form smaller channels. The plates are adhered to each other by firing a stack of plates in the green state or wrapping film or bands around a stack of pre-fired plates. The elements may be preassembled into larger units before placement in a column by wrapping metal bands around an assembly of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Lantec Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Ko C. Lang, Jun Huang
  • Patent number: 5851637
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for adhering a flexible sheet (such as a fibrous or resinous sheet) to a semi-rigid thermoplastic resinous sheet (such as a polycarbonate or acrylic sheet). In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of contacting an edge surface of a flexible fibrous sheet with a thermosetting resin and allowing the resin to cure to yield a unified surface, applying an adhesive along of an edge surface of the semi-rigid sheet to yield an adhesive surface and contacting the unified surface of the flexible fibrous sheet with the adhesive surface of the semi-rigid sheet to adhere the flexible fibrous sheet to the semi-rigid sheet. The products made by this method are suitable for a variety of applications, including use as boat and dwelling enclosures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Barrett Enclosures, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. Sofie, John A. Barrett
  • Patent number: 5851638
    Abstract: A fabric for strengthening flat-shaped articles consisting of warp threads and woof threads which form a basic fabric having a connected edge area which is strengthened relative to the basic fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Synteen Gewebe Technik GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Lagemann, Friedrich Mathias
  • Patent number: 5851639
    Abstract: The invention provides a light-transmitting cover foil intended to be arranged adheringly to a surface, for instance the surface of a carrier plate, optionally bearing information such as letters, numbers, images or the like, which foil consists of a laminate comprising: a first layer plastically deformable only at a relatively high first temperature, for instance in the range of 120.degree. C.-200.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Sallmetall B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Antonius Maria Reinders
  • Patent number: 5851640
    Abstract: A sealable, transparent, biaxially oriented multilayer polypropylene film comprising a core layer, optionally one or more intermediate layers located on one or both sides of the core layer, and at least one top layer on the one or more intermediate layers or on one or both sides of the core layer, wherein the core layer contains a polypropylene polymer or a polypropylene mixture; the optional intermediate layers consist essentially of a polypropylene polymer or a polypropylene mixture; and wherein at least one top layer is sealable, comprises a polyolefin copolymer or terpolymer, has a thickness of .ltoreq.0.4 .mu.m, and does not contain silicon dioxide or polydimethylsiloxane. The film is suitable as a packaging or wrapping film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Detlef Erich Schuhmann, Herbert Peiffer, Gunter Schloegl
  • Patent number: 5851641
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an electrostatic chucking device having improved heat conductivity and at the same time increased adsorption area and improved adsorptity as well as having no uneveness on the wafer-provided face. The electrostatic chucking device of the present invention comprises a metal base, an adhesive layer, an electrode layer comprising a metal-deposited or metal-plated layer, and an electrically insulating layer possessing a face for providing a substance to be adhered by suction, laminated thereon in this order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignees: Tomoegawa Paper Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadao Matsunaga, Takaya Matsushita, Kei Hattori
  • Patent number: 5851642
    Abstract: A method for coating a substrate, preferably of glass, with a pyrolyzed transparent, electroconductive layer. The coating is comprised of indium formate, optionally mixed with a powdered or gaseous tin compound or a gaseous organotin compound. The coating layer is deposited upon a hot substrate whereupon it pyrolytically decomposes, forming a layer which is subsequently heat treated in a reducing or an oxidizing atmosphere to optionally enhance the low emissivity and low resistivity of the coating or reduce said low emissivity and low resistivity properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Vitrage
    Inventors: Vincent Sauvinet, Jean Bletry, Micheline Bonnaud, Maurice Trouve
  • Patent number: 5851643
    Abstract: A magnetic recording media with a magnetic film made from at least two layers stacked via a non-magnetic intermediate layer, wherein the magnetic film is formed on a structure control underlayer situated on a non-magnetic substrate. A magnetic recording system is also disclosed which includes this magnetic recording media and a magnetic recording head for recording on and reading back from the magnetic recording media. The system further includes a disk drive system, which generates relative motion between the magnetic recording media and the magnetic recording head, and an actuator which determines an appropriate location, on the magnetic recording media, over which the head should be located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Honda, Nobuyuki Inaba, Mikio Suzuki, Masaaki Futamoto, Hiroyuki Awano, Yoshibumi Matsuda, Yoshihiro Shiroishi
  • Patent number: 5851644
    Abstract: An anisotropically-conductive film or a substrate having a surface coated with an anisotropically-conductive coating, said film or coating being formed by solidifying a composition comprising(i) a solidifiable ferrofluid composition, the ferrofluid comprising a colloidal suspension of ferromagnetic particles in a non-magnetic carrier, and(ii) a plurality of electrically-conductive particles, dispersed in the ferrofluid,the electrically-conductive particles having been arrayed in a non-random pattern by application of a substantially uniform magnetic field to the composition in a liquid state and having been locked in position by solidification of the composition. The composition is solidified in an A-stage, usually involving a primary cure. In end-use application of the film or coating, the composition usually undergoes a B-stage or secondary cure. The film or coated substrate is an article of manufacture for bonding conductors in the electronics industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Loctite (Ireland) Limited
    Inventors: Ciaran B. McArdle, Joseph Burke
  • Patent number: 5851645
    Abstract: A composite structure having an externally accessible electrical device embedded therein includes at least one tube disposed within the composite structure and extending from a first end which is electrically connected to an electrical lead of the electrical device to a second end which opens through the edge surface of the composite structure to thereby define an externally accessible electrical port. By plugging a corresponding connector into the electrical port, electrical contact can be established via the electrical lead with the electrical device embedded within the composite structure. By extending through the edge surface of the composite structure, the electrical ports can be accessed during the fabrication of the composite structure such that the operations of the embedded electrical device can be monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: McDonnell Douglas Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Glowasky, Jack H. Jacobs, Bruce E. McIlroy, Matthew M. Thomas
  • Patent number: 5851646
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lightweight prepreg having uniform formation, low linear thermal expansion coefficient and good mechanical strength, comprising a porous para-oriented aromatic polyamide film and a thermoplastic resin and/or a thermosetting resin, the porous para-oriented aromatic polyamide film being impregnated with the thermoplastic resin and/or the thermosetting resin, a process for producing the same, and a printed circuit substrate/board using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tsutomu Takahashi, Yoshifumi Tsujimoto, Hiroaki Kumada, Hiroyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 5851647
    Abstract: A glass and metal fiber material includes a web of nonwoven metal fibers and glass. The metal fibers of the web are joined by bubbles of glass to other metal fibers of the web. The nonwoven metal fibers can be the same or different lengths and do not need to be sintered. The material is flexible and capable of withstanding very high temperatures. Spaces or voids between metal fibers allow embodiments of the material to be porous. However, the voids can be completely or partially filled to alter the porosity of the material. An exemplary method of making the glass and metal fiber material in accordance with the invention includes the steps of juxtaposing metal fibers with glass fibers and heating at least the glass fibers to cause them to melt. The melting glass envelops part or all of the metal fibers. When the glass cools, at least some of the of metal fibers are bound to other metal fibers by the glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Hollingsworth & Vose Company
    Inventor: Richard P. Foster
  • Patent number: 5851648
    Abstract: Absorbent foams materials that are capable of acquiring and distributing aqueous fluids, especially discharged body fluids such as urine. These absorbent foams combine relatively high capillary absorption pressures and capacity-per-weight properties that allow them to acquire fluid, with or without the aid of gravity. These absorbent foams also give up this fluid efficiently to higher absorption pressure storage materials, including foam-based absorbent fluid storage components, without collapsing. These absorbent foams are made by polymerizing high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Keith Joseph Stone, Thomas Allen DesMarais, Gary Dean La Von, Stephen Allen Goldman, Paul Seiden
  • Patent number: 5851649
    Abstract: An inorganic porous sintered body comprising inorganic particles of polyhedral crystals, said inorganic porous sintered body having pores formed by the inorganic particles, wherein said pores have a pore size distribution that a ratio of D10 to D90 is not more than 3 and D50 is 0.01-5 .mu.m when D10, D50 and D90 are pore sizes at 10%, 50% and 90% cumulation from the largest pore size of a cumulative pore volume distribution, respectively, and a porosity is 10-50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
    Inventors: Masahide Mohri, Tetsu Umeda
  • Patent number: 5851650
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium of this invention comprises a magnetic layer formed on one of the opposite surfaces of a nonmagnetic support and a backcoat layer using a nonmagnetic powder and a binder as main components thereof and formed on the other surface thereof and uses as the binder in the backcoat layer a vinyl chloride-based copolymer having an amine-modified vinyl unit and an acidic functional group-containing vinyl unit. Owing to this construction, a paint to be used therein realizes perfect dispersibility and perfect stability. As a result, the backcoat layer to be formed therein is enabled to acquire excellent surface properties and the magnetic recording medium to be finally produced is allowed to exhibit an excellent electromagnetic conversion property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Somiya, Shigeo Kurose
  • Patent number: 5851651
    Abstract: The inkjet recording sheet of the present invention comprises a cellulosic sheet support, e.g., paper, bearing on at least one surface thereof an inkjet coating comprising a co-binder system of water soluble and water insoluble binders which are cross-linked during the coating drying process for fixing the images printed with inkjet inks, and a combination of pigment components having a high absorption capacity for absorbing the vehicle of the inkjet inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Hung-Tai Chao
  • Patent number: 5851652
    Abstract: Rutile TiO.sub.2 pigment particles bearing coatings comprising:(a) an inner layer comprising about 0.05-1 percent by weight, based on the weight of the TiO.sub.2, of cerium radicals and about a stoichiometric amount of phosphate radicals, based on the amount of cesium radicals,(b) a second layer of about 0.1-4 percent by weight, based on the weight of the TiO.sub.2, of amorphous silica, and optionally(c) an outer layer of (1) about 0.5 to 8 percent by weight, based on the weight of the TiO.sub.2, of hydrous alumina or (2) hydrous alumina in the amount of about 0.5-8 percent, based on the weight of the TiO.sub.2, and associated therewith up to about a stoichiometric amount of phosphate radicals needed to form aluminum phosphate,the combined total weight of said coatings being about 2 to 12 percent by weight, based on the weight of the TiO.sub.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Howard W. Jacobson, Andrew A. Feng
  • Patent number: 5851653
    Abstract: A transparent brittle film prepared from a resin composition comprising (A) 100 parts by weight of a vinyl chloride resin, (B) 20 to 200 parts by weight of an acrylic resin, (C) 20 to 250 parts by weight of fused silica comprising aggregates of particles having an average particle diameter in the range of 5 to 20 .mu.m and individual particle diameters in the range of 0.5 to 100 .mu.m or aluminum hydroxide or barium sulfate comprising aggregates of particles having an average particle diameter in the range of 1 to 20 .mu.m and individual particle diameters in the range of 0.2 to 50 .mu.m, (D) 0 to 40 parts by weight of a plasticizer, and (E) 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a stabilizer. The film is brittle, easily torn, and transparent, has a suitable degree of flexibility and hardness, and can be produced inexpensively and easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignees: Lintec Corporation, Asahi Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Nakamura, Etsuo Matsui
  • Patent number: 5851654
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a recording medium comprising an alumina hydrate having an average pore radius of 20 to 200 .ANG. and a half breadth of pore radius distribution of 20 to 150 .ANG..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yoshino, Kyo Miura, Yuji Kondo
  • Patent number: 5851655
    Abstract: The present invention provides a receiving paper for melt-type heat transfer recording suitable for use in, for example, a copying machine, a printer and a fascimile machine employing heat transfer recording system using heat meltable ink, which paper is excellent in ink receptivity and dot reproducibility and high in performance and quality in recorded image. The receiving paper of the present invention for melt-type heat transfer recording comprises a base paper and an image receiving layer thereon, the receiving layer containing a binder and a pigment and receiving a heat-meltable ink, wherein the receiving layer contains spherical precipitated calcium carbonate having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 10 .mu.m as a pigment, and wherein the surface of the receiving layer has a surface roughness (Rmax) of 0 to 15 .mu.m as measured according to JIS K 0601, a pore open area ratio of 30 to 85% and an average pore open area of 0.5 to 20.0 .mu.m.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: OJI Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Tokiyoshi, Hitoshi Ishizawa, Masaru Kato
  • Patent number: 5851656
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is provide which includes at least a base layer and a multiple-film magnetic layer formed on a substrate. The multiple-film magnetic layer includes two to six magnetic films formed of a material selected from CoNiCrTa alloy, CoCrPt alloy and CoCrTaPt alloy. The magnetic films are laminated on each other with a non-magnetic intermediate layer interposed between each pair of the magnetic films. The non-magnetic intermediate film is formed of a Cr alloy containing an element selected from Mo, Ta, Ti and W.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keiji Ohkubo
  • Patent number: 5851657
    Abstract: A charging member is disclosed, which charges an electrifiable member, e.g., a photoreceptor, when a voltage is applied thereto while the charging member is kept being pressed against the electrifiable member. This charging member 1 comprises an electroconductive substrate 1a and, fixed thereto, an electroconductive elastomer layer 1b comprising at least a crosslinked silicone rubber, in which the content of uncrosslinked silicone polymer components having a number-average molecular weight of 10,000 or higher is not higher than 1% by weight. The crosslinked silicone rubber is preferably a reaction product obtained by reacting a liquid polymethylsiloxane containing at least two vinyl group substituents and having a viscosity of 3,000 cP or lower with a polyorganohydrogensiloxane as a crosslinking agent in the presence of a platinum catalyst. The charging member need not have an antifouling layer for inhibiting the migration of low-polymerization-degree components to an electrifiable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Yasuno, Minoru Rokutan
  • Patent number: 5851658
    Abstract: A diamond coated article is disclosed which consists essentially of a substrate and a plurality of polycrystalline diamond film layers accumulatively coated thereon in a total thickness of at least 20 .mu.m, wherein each of the polycrystalline diamond film layers (i) has a thickness of 6 to 13 .mu.m, (ii) has an average crystallite size in the surface direction thereof of 3 to 7 .mu.m, (iii) has (111) oriented diamond crystallites exposed on the surface thereof, and (iv) satisfies the relationship: I(N)I(D)<0.2, wherein I(D) represents an intensity of diamond Raman peak in counts/sec appearing around 1333 cm.sup.-1 and I(N) represents a maximum intensity among non-diamond Raman peaks appearing between 1200 cm.sup.-1 and 1600 cm.sup.-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Takashi Okamura, Satoshi Iio
  • Patent number: 5851659
    Abstract: A sliding member, in which the surface of a substrate is coated with a compound containing at least chromium nitride, wherein a columnar crystal structure is present in a tension fracture surface of the coating, the columns being aligned toward the coating surface from the substrate surface. The coating is formed on the substrate by contacting the substrate with a gas phase mixture containing chromium and nitrogen in a PVD process. In a preferred embodiment the PVD process is an ion plating process. The coating has superior resistance to peeling, abrasion and baking. The sliding member can be used as an engine part or a compressor part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Riken
    Inventors: Toshiro Komuro, Masaki Ooya, Teruo Imai
  • Patent number: 5851660
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a method of fabricating a thin film magnetic recording medium where excellent read/write characteristics and high productivity are obtained and also to provide the thin film magnetic recording medium. The present invention is a method of fabricating a thin film magnetic recording medium where vapor evaporation is given by a vacuum evaporation device onto a traveling substrate to form a magnetic layer. The temperature of a reevaporation member, disposed so as to be opposed to the substrate on the downstream side of a magnetic layer formation start portion where the magnetic layer begins to form, is raised to higher than the melting point of an evaporation material. Atoms, which are evaporated from an evaporation source and reach said reevaporation member for forming said magnetic layer, are reevaporated by the raised temperature of the reevaporation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Tohma, Kazunari Yoshimoto, Ryuji Sugita
  • Patent number: 5851661
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyurethane hot melt adhesives that are hardened by the action of moisture and which contain at least one reaction product from a component that contains NCO groups and an essentially linear hydroxypolyester, hydroxypolyether, and/or hydroxypolyetherester component. In addition, the present invention relates to a procedure for manufacturing a material that is permeable to water only in vapor form, this being in the form of a fiber material, in particular in the form of a web, which is joined to a polyurethane film, in which the fiber material is coated with a polyurethane material and subsequently the polyurethane material is hardened to form a water-vapor permeable film. The present invention also relates to a material that is permeable to water only in vapor form and which is in the form of a fiber material, in particular in the form of a web, that is bonded to a polyurethane film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: H.B. Fuller Licensing & Financing, Inc.
    Inventors: Harald Werenicz, Franz Maitz, Walter Nussbaumer, Ludwig Stingl, Franz Peter Schmitz
  • Patent number: 5851662
    Abstract: The invention provides an adhesive sheet comprising a surface stock and an adhesive layer, the adhesive layer containing a copolymer, the copolymer comprising, based on the copolymer;(a) 5 to 40% by weight of at least one member selected from a carboxylic acid-modified rosin ester monomer and a rosin ester monomer, and if desired,(b) 5 to 40% by weight of a (poly)ethylene glycol (meth)acrylate monomer,(c) 30 to 60% by weight of a (meth)acrylic acid C.sub.4-18 alkyl ester monomer, and if desired,(d) 20% by weight or less of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid-containing monomer, and(e) 20% by weight or less of another monomer which is copolymerizable with components (a), (b) and (c) and component (d) to be used when required. When the adhesive containing the copolymer comprising component (d) and a crosslinking agent, the adhesive sheet has removability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: New Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Akira Kunihiro, Hiroyuki Ohhashi
  • Patent number: 5851663
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprises an adhesive selected from the group consisting of rubber resin adhesives and acrylic adhesives containing from about 10 to about 60% by weight of the adhesive of a non-halogen intumescent flame retardant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Keith P. Parsons, Mark R. Buckingham, James H. Diamond, Steven J. Ilkka, Petra Nowak
  • Patent number: 5851664
    Abstract: A semiconductor wafer processing tape comprises a permanent backing and a layer of a non-pressure sensitive adhesive comprising a thermoplastic elastomer block copolymer on the permanent backing. Optionally, the adhesive may include an adhesion modifier such as a tackifying resin, a liquid rubber or a photocrosslinking agent. The tapes are useful for both wafer grinding and wafer dicing applications. A method of processing semiconductor wafers is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Richard E. Bennett, Gerald C. Bird, Mark K. Nestegard, Eleanor Rudin
  • Patent number: 5851665
    Abstract: A process of preparing new down-like clusters employs a method of point-bonding thermoplastic cut fibers in a stack of webs of carded fibers or continuous filaments in a tow, and then cutting and separating the resulting clusters which have an entirely different structure that is refluffable. Ultrasonic bonding has worked well as the bonding method, but other methods may prove useful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Ilan Marcus
  • Patent number: 5851666
    Abstract: A process for producing a preform for elastic optical fiber having a refractive index distribution in which the refractive index is gradually decreased from the center of the preform toward the outer periphery thereof, by depositing a deposition layer comprising a polymer A (refractive index: N.sub.a) and a refractive index modifier having a refractive index different from that of the polymer A onto an inner surface of a hollow cylindrical member rotating about an axis thereof, by use of vapor-phase deposition based on a CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) process, or a coating process. A plastic optical fiber preform comprising deposition layers having a gradually increasing refractive index distribution is formed by changing the mixing ratio between the polymer A and the refractive index modifier constituting the deposition layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nonaka, Toshifumi Hosoya, Yuji Kobayashi, Yasuo Matsuda
  • Patent number: 5851667
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for production of a composite product which involves molding several materials of different natures, including an oriented-reinforcement material that is preimpregnated with resin, without the resin being injected separately after the other materials in the mold are assembled,in which the resin is a modified polyester-polyurethane that is formed by reacting:a first component that comprises (A) at least one polyisocyanatewith a second component that comprises:(a) at least one polyol polyester,(b) at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Cray Valley S.A.
    Inventors: Yeong-Show Yang, Francette Porato, Serge Lequeux
  • Patent number: 5851668
    Abstract: A fiber having increased cut resistance is made from a fiber-forming polymer and a hard filler having a Mohs Hardness Value greater than about 3. The filler is included in an amount of about 0.05% to about 20% by weight. In preferred embodiments, the fiber-forming polymer is poly(ethylene terephthalate) or a liquid crystalline polyester comprising monomer units derived from 6-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid and 4-hydroxybenzoic acid. Preferred fillers include tungsten and alumina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Hoechst Celanese Corp
    Inventors: Robert Bruce Sandor, Michele C. Carter, Gunilla E. Gillberg-LaForce, William F. Clear, John A. Flint, Herman Leslie Lanieve, Scott W. Thompson, Etheridge Odell Oakley, Jr., Edward Ronald Kafchinski, Mohammed Ishaq Haider
  • Patent number: 5851669
    Abstract: A field-emission structure suitable for large-area flat-panel televisions centers around an insulating porous layer that overlies a lower conductive region situated over insulating material of a supporting substrate. Electron-emissive filaments occupy pores extending through the porous layer. A conductive gate layer through which openings extend at locations centered on the filaments typically overlies the porous layer. Cavities are usually provided in the porous layer along its upper surface at locations likewise centered on the filaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Candescent Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Macaulay, Peter C. Searson, Robert M. Duboc, Jr., Christopher J. Spindt
  • Patent number: 5851670
    Abstract: In vivo-soluble composite particles involving a particle of a polymeric substance such as polylactic acid and the like soluble in a living body, having coated on a surface thereof, a calcium phosphate compound having a Ca/P ratio of about 1.0 to 2.0. The in vivo-soluble composite particles have a highly increased adsorptivity with regard to medicaments, antigens and others and also the in vivo-soluble composite particles can be dissolved or decomposed in the living body without producing a remainder in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ayumi Mitoh, Tetsuro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 5851672
    Abstract: An absorbent material that comprises a water-insoluble, water-swellable absorbent polymer. The absorbent material comprises a reactive polyether chemically bonded to the absorbent polymer whereby the contact angle of blood on a surface of the absorbent material attains from about 0 degree to about 40 degree. Because of the improved wettability with liquids, the absorbent material can provide higher absorbent characteristics with liquids, in particular with blood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Lin Wang, Yumiko Hayashi, Ebrahim Rezai
  • Patent number: 5851673
    Abstract: A toner fuser member having improved toner release properties comprises a substrate and an outermost layer comprising a cured fluoroelastomer that includes at least about 21 mole percent of hexafluoropropylene (HFP) and at least 10 parts per weight of a metal oxide selected from the group consisting of cupric oxide, plumbous oxide, and mixtures thereof. Applying to the outermost layer of the fuser member an effective amount of a polymethyldisiloxane (PDMS) release agent that, optionally, includes at least one functional group reactive with the fluoroelastomer, followed by incubation at an elevated temperature, produces a surface having enhanced toner release characteristics on the outermost layer. A process for forming a toner fuser member having improved toner release properties comprises forming on a substrate an outermost layer having the above-described composition of cured fluoroelastomer and metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jiann H. Chen, Tonya D. Binga, William J. Staudenmayer
  • Patent number: 5851674
    Abstract: An antisoiling coating for an antireflective surface, particularly the outer surface of an antireflective film stack, wherein the antisoiling coating includes a fluorinated siloxane, preferably prepared by applying a coating composition of a fluorinated silane of the following formula:R.sub.f --R.sup.1 --SiX.sub.3-x R.sup.2.sub.xwherein:R.sub.f is a perfluorinated group optionally containing one or more heteroatoms;R.sup.1 is a divalent alkylene group, arylene group, or mixture thereof, substituted with one or more heteroatoms or functional groups, containing about 2 to about 16 carbon atoms;R.sup.2 is a lower alkyl group;X is a halide, a lower alkoxy group, or an acyloxy group; andx is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Mark J. Pellerite, Judith M. Invie, Dong-Wei Zhu
  • Patent number: 5851675
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a plurality of sliding members, at least one of the sliding members being a self-lubricating-function sliding member characterized by containing a precursor compound which produces a solid-lubricating compound during sliding by reacting with an atmosphere in which the sliding member is used or a component of a material with which the sliding member is in sliding contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohito Oyagi, Mitsuo Nakagawa, Junji Sakai, Yoshiyuki Yasutomi, Takahiko Okouchi
  • Patent number: 5851677
    Abstract: Composition for a coating protecting the surfaces of carbon-containing products exposed to a hot, oxidizing environment such as the parts of anodes not immersed in the molten salt bath and the liners of the aluminum electrolysis cells and more generally the non-immersed parts of carbon-containing refractory elements used in electrolysis conducted below 950.degree. C. in a molten salt bath, comprising a geopolymer, preferably in the fluoropoly(sialate-disiloxo) family, the other components possibly being water as well as alumina and/or a refractory other than silica. Coating protecting the surfaces of carbon-containing products exposed to a hot, oxidizing environment such as the non-immersed parts of carbon-containing refractory elements used in electrolysis conducted below 950.degree. C. in a molten salt bath, including polysilicates and at least one inorganic polymer in the poly(sialate) family, preferably fluoropoly(sialate-disiloxo), also possibly with alumina or another refractory other than silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignees: Carbone Savoie, Aluminum Pechiney
    Inventors: Veronique Laurent, Denis Paillet
  • Patent number: 5851678
    Abstract: A composite that protects thermal barrier coatings on parts from the deleterious effects of environmental contaminants at operating temperatures with an impermeable barrier coating is divulged. The thermal barrier coating composite decreases infiltration of molten contaminant compositions into openings in the thermal barrier coating to increase the life of the composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wayne Charles Hasz, Marcus Preston Borom, Curtis Alan Johnson
  • Patent number: 5851679
    Abstract: A metal or ceramic matrix composite part and corresponding method are provided exhibiting desired heat transfer characteristics. The part has a metal or ceramic matrix composite substrate and a multilayer dielectric coating. The coating has high reflectivity at wave lengths corresponding to radiation wavelengths of various combustion gases and has low reflectance at radiation wavelengths corresponding to the substrate. The multilayer coating allows the heat generated external of the part at wavelengths corresponding to combustion gases to be reflected from the part while permitting radiation wavelengths associated with the substrate to pass through the coating. The parts are useful for use in combustive gas atmospheres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William R. Stowell, John F. Ackerman, Andrew J. Skoog, George E. Cook, Glenn E. Varney
  • Patent number: 5851680
    Abstract: There is disclosed a titanium nitride doped with boron crystallizing with the same structure as titanium nitride TiN and having a Vickers microhardness greater than approximately 50 GPa. There is also disclosed an anti-wear coating comprising this titanium nitride doped with boron. There are also disclosed parts such as metal parts, tungsten carbide parts and cermet parts, for example, including a coating of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Tecmachine
    Inventor: Christophe Heau
  • Patent number: 5851681
    Abstract: This invention relates to a wiring structure having metal wiring layers and polyimide layers. An object of this invention is to overcome problems caused by oxidation of a metal surface, such as an increase in the resistance of wiring and a reduction in insulation, by preventing a reaction between a metal of the wiring layers, such as copper, and carboxyl groups of polyamic acid which make up the polyimide layers. In the wiring structure according to the present invention, the polyimide layers have been formed by heating and curing a resin composition which comprises a polyimide precursor, an amine compound and an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Matsuyama, Eiji Matsuzaki, Shozi Ikeda, Fumio Kataoka, Fusaji Shoji
  • Patent number: 5851682
    Abstract: A polyolefin resin composition containing (a) 100 wt. parts of a polyolefin resin, (b) 0.03 to 60 wt. parts of an inorganic compound of the formula: ?Li+Al.sup.3 +.sub.2 (OH-).sub.6 !.A.sup.n-.sub.1/n.mH.sub.2 O (I) in which A.sup.n- represents a n-valent anion, n is an integer of 1 to 4, and m is a number satisfying 0.ltoreq.m.ltoreq.3 and (c) 0.02 to 5 wt. parts of a hindered amine compound, and a resin film made of a polyolefin resin composition containing (a) 100 wt. parts of a polyolefin resin, (b) 0.03 to 25 wt. parts of an inorganic compound of the above formula (I) and (c) 0.02 to 5 wt. parts of a hindered amine compound are disclosed. The resin composition and resin film are excellent in weather resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kozo Kotani, Hideo Negawa, Taiichi Sakaya, Makoto Nakagahara, Aki Kudo