Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is directed to aperture mask deposition techniques using aperture mask patterns formed in one or more elongated webs of flexible film. The techniques involve sequentially depositing material through mask patterns formed in the film to define layers, or portions of layers, of the circuit. A deposition substrate can also be formed from an elongated web, and the deposition substrate web can be fed through a series of deposition stations. Each deposition station may have an elongated web formed with aperture mask patterns. The elongated web of mask patterns feeds in a direction perpendicular to the deposition substrate web. In this manner, the circuit creation process can be performed in-line. Moreover, the process can be automated to reduce human error and increase throughput.

Abstract: A preparing method of a radiation image conversion panel comprising: forming a stimulable phosphor layer on a support while the stimulable phosphor layer being unformed on a peripheral portion around the stimulable phosphor layer on the support; and sealing the stimulable phosphor layer by superimposing a protective layer on the support formed thereon the stimulable phosphor layer while providing an adhesive agent on the peripheral portion, wherein the sealing step is conducted under a condition controlling humidity so that a moisture content of the stimulable phosphor layer is lower than the moisture content maintaining equilibrium with an atmosphere having a water partial pressure of 2.66×103 Pa.

Abstract: A method for applying a coating to an optical surface of an optical device. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of placing a coating solution in a cliche of a cliche plate, transferring the coating solution from the cliche to deformable body of a transfer pad, and pressing the transfer pad to the optical surface so as to transfer the coating solution from the deformable body of the transfer pad to the optical surface. The method further includes a step of irradiating the coating solution associated with the optical surface at a wavelength of microwave so as to form a coating layer on the optical surface. The coating layer can be further cured to form a desired coating on a proper optical surface. The optical device can be an optical lens having at least one optical surface, or a mold that can be used to produce an optical lens. In other words, the present invention allows a coating to be applied directly to an optical surface of an optical lens.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an optical element (10) and an optical element, preferably a refractive element, comprising a carrier (11) and an clement part (12). Said element part comprises at one layer (15a, 15b, 15c) selectively deposited on said substrate trough a printing operation.

Abstract: A method for coating includes applying an adhesive to a surface, wherein the surface comprises an arrangement of structures thereon, wherein the structures extend upward from a plane of the surface and have at least one sidewall that makes an angle with respect to the plane of the surface of greater than 0° and less than 90° selected to reduce air bubble formation for a coating solution of a selected rheology.

Abstract: A method and an assembly is disclosed for coating a web (1) of paper or board by a dry treatment agent, the method comprising the step of applying the treatment agent to at least one side of the moving web (1). In the method is used a treatment agent contains a binder capable of undergoing a change of state at least under the effect of elevated temperature. The web (1) after being treated with the treatment agent is subjected to at least an elevated temperature at which the binder becomes deformable, and the web is subjected to a lower temperature serving to set the binder so that the same bonds the treatment agent to the web surface. The solids content of the treatment agent is not less than 75%, preferably not less than 90%, whereby a drying step after the treatment is not required.

Abstract: An apparatus, to be used when an open end of a hollow substrate contacts a coating solution to define a solution free interior portion of the substrate, for controlling the level of the coating solution relative to the substrate interior, the apparatus including: a gas container capable of changing in volume; a channel connecting the gas container to the solution free interior portion of the substrate to allow gas flow in either direction between the gas container and the solution free interior portion; and pressure means for exerting a changeable, continuous pressure on the gas container that automatically exerts an increasingly greater pressure on the gas container as the gas container expands in volume and that automatically exerts a decreasingly lesser pressure on the gas container as the gas container decreases in

Abstract: The cylinder walls of light metal engine blocks are thermally spray coated with a ferrous-based coating including aluminum using an HVOF device. A ferrous-based wire is fed to the HVOF device to locate a tip end of the wire in a high temperature zone of the device. Jet flows of oxygen and gaseous fuel are fed to the high temperature zone and are combusted to generate heat to melt the tip end. The oxygen is oversupplied in relation to the gaseous fuel. The excess oxygen reacts with and burns a fraction of the ferrous-based feed wire in an exothermic reaction to generate substantial supplemental heat to the HVOF device. The molten/combusted metal is sprayed by the device onto the walls of the cylinder by the jet flow of gases.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a product having a sprayed coating film prepares a component having a cylindrical inner surface, prepares a gas spray type spraying gun with a central axis in opposed relationship with the cylindrical inner surface of the component to be aligned with a central axis of the cylindrical inner surface, supplies spraying material to the spraying gun, melts the spraying material with a combustion flame, and travels the spraying gun for translational movement in a traveling direction, corresponding to one of directions of the central axis of the cylindrical inner surface, for forming a sprayed coating film over the cylindrical inner surface while spraying the spraying material, molten with the combustion flame, onto the cylindrical inner surface in a spraying direction oriented in a rearward area of the traveling direction for thereby forming the sprayed coating film over the cylindrical inner surface.

Abstract: A CVD process for producing nanocrystalline films using a plasma (56, 312) created by an argon atmosphere (at least about 90 percent by volume) containing methane (preferably about at least about 1% by volume) and optionally hydrogen (preferably 0.001 to 2% by volume) is described. Strictly controlled gas purity and an apparatus which excludes oxygen and nitrogen from being introduced from outside of the chamber (40, 305) are used. The films are coated on various substrates to provide seals, optical applications such as on lenses and as a substrate material for surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices.

Abstract: A method of on-line coating a coat film on the inner wall of a reaction tube in a hydrocarbon pyrolysis reactor for preventing the formation and the deposit of coke on the inner walls. This method comprises the steps of vapor depositing a mixed solution of a metal alkoxide and a chromic compound on the inner walls concurrently with introducing a carrier at a flow rate of 1-5000 kg/hr/coil at a temperature of 600-900° C. under a pressure of 0-3 kg/cm2 to form a buffer layer on the inner walls; and vapor depositing a metal alkoxide as a barrier on the buffer layer; and vapor depositing an alkali metal/alkaline earth metal compound alone or mixed with metal alkoxide as a decoking layer on the barrier. A decoking layer may further be provided on the diffusion barrier.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming a silica layer for an optical waveguide. The present invention includes the steps of preparing a chamber having a magnetic coil, a gas supply unit, and a support and injecting a reactant gas in the chamber to deposit the silica layer on a substrate mounted on the support by high density plasma chemical vapor deposition. The present invention provides the high deposition ratio of the silica layer since the ionization of the reactant gas proceeds fast due to the high density plasma induced by the magnetic coil. Moreover, the sputtering process by the inert gas and the silica layer depositing process are simultaneously carried out to provide the silica layer with a high deposition ratio and high density, whereby additional annealing is unnecessary as well as the process can be carried out at a low temperature to fabricate various silica-polymer mixed waveguide.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of creating patterned composite structures on a surface via layer-by-layer deposition of thin films. In certain embodiments, the surface is chemically patterned by the direct stamping of functional polymers on the surface film. A pattern may then be used as a template for the further depositions of materials on the surface. This concept may be applied to various functional polymer and substrate systems as well as various thin film deposition techniques.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a coating composition for forming a titanium oxide film, comprising (A) a titanium-containing aqueous liquid obtained by mixing at least one titanium compound selected from the group consisting of hydrolyzable titanium compounds, low condensates of hydrolyzable titanium compounds, titanium hydroxide and low condensates of titanium hydroxide with aqueous hydrogen peroxide, and (B) at least one halide selected from the group consisting of titanium halides, titanium halide salts, zirconium halides, zirconium halide salts, silicon halides and silicon halide salts; a process for forming a titanium oxide film, comprising applying the coating composition to a metal substrate and drying the resulting coat; and an undercoating material for metal substrates and a post-treating agent for phosphate undercoats on metal substrates, the material and agent being the above coating composition.

Abstract: A method for coating an article includes preparing a coating precursor paint including aluminum-containing pigment particles, a temporary organic binder comprising an acrylic, and a solvent for the temporary organic binder. The coating precursor paint is applied to a surface of the article and thereafter heated to a temperature of from about 1200° F. to about 2100° F. in a non-oxidizing environment.

Abstract: Defect-free dielectric coatings comprised of porous polymeric matrices are prepared using nitrogen-containing polymers as pore-generating agents. The dielectric coatings are useful in a number of contexts, including the manufacture of electronic devices such as integrated circuit devices and integrated circuit packaging devices. The dielectric coatings are prepared by admixing, in a solvent, a polymeric nitrogenous porogen with a high temperature, thermosetting host polymer miscible therewith, coating a substrate surface with the admixture, heating the uncured coating to cure the host polymer and provide a vitrified, two-phase matrix, and then decomposing the porogen. The dielectric coatings so prepared have few if any defects, and depending on the amount and molecular weight of porogen used, can be prepared so as to have an exceptionally low dielectric constant on the order of 2.5 or less, preferably less than about 2.0.

Abstract: Waxes prepared from hydrogenated plant oils, such as palm and soybean, are used to render cellulosic materials resistant to water. Unlike cellulosic materials rendered water resistant with waxes obtained using petroleum-derived or synthetic waxes, the water resistant cellulosic materials prepared using this composition are recyclable using conventional paper recycling methods; the composition is dispersible in warm water solutions. Such water resistant materials are characterized by enhanced moisture barrier properties. The compositions have a low iodine value (between 2-5), and melting points between approximately 120-165 degrees F. (Mettler Drop Point). The wax comprises a triglyceride whose fatty acids are predominantly stearic acid (C18).. The composition is used as an additive in the manufacture of wax coated boxes and adhesive compounds used in boxboard packaging and manufacturing operations.

Abstract: A process for coating surfaces by hybrid polymer materials and the coating solutions and compositions used in this process are described.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for improving the smoothness of a film formed from a thermosetting liquid coating composition, comprising making adjustments in the application and heat curing of the coating composition onto a substrate, in such a manner that, at a temperature at which the thermal fluidity of the film reaches a maximum before the start of the curing reaction, the film has a storage modulus G′ of about 0.5 to about 20 Pa at a stress of 0.5 Pa and a frequency of 0.1 Hz, a loss modulus G″ of about 1.0 to about 20 Pa at a stress of 0.5 Pa and a frequency of 0.1 Hz, and a ratio of the storage modulus G′ to the loss modulus G″ (G′/G″) of about 0.3 to about 1.0.

Abstract: A method and composition of material for coating the surface of a structure to prevent animals from chewing on the structure. The composition includes Isophorone, organo-clay absorber, Bisphenol A Diglycidal Ether Polymer and a polyamide resin hardener. It may also have glass flakes or mica therein as well as a microencapsulated acrylic resin-based sealant and a flocculated silica thickener. The method includes preparing the composition having the Isophorone in a polymer resin, mixing the polymer hardener to the prepared composition to form a coating composition, and coating the surface, such as a piece of wood, with the coating composition to prevent animals from chewing on it. Coating may be by painting or troweling the composition onto the structure.

Abstract: A niobium doped tin oxide coating is applied onto a glass substrate to produce a low emissivity (low E) glass. The coating can optionally be doped with both niobium and other dopant(s), such as fluorine. The low emissivity glass has properties comparable or superior to conventional low E glass with fluorine doped tin oxide coatings.

Abstract: A liquid crystal orientation film, which is formed of a liquid crystal polymer, having a satisfactory orientation property is obtained by a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal orientation film, comprising the steps; coating a polymerizable liquid crystal monomer on an orientation substrate; orienting said polymerizable liquid crystal monomer in a state of liquid crystal; polymerizing said polymerizable liquid crystal monomer to form a liquid crystal orientation layer (1); coating a liquid crystal polymer on said liquid crystal orientation layer (1); and orienting said liquid crystal polymer in a state of liquid crystal to form a liquid crystal orientation layer (2).

Abstract: A method of stripping coating from a portion of a coated surface of a component. The method includes fastening a mask sheet to the component over a region adjacent the portion of the coated surface. The mask sheet has a contour generally corresponding to a contour of the surface of the component. A high pressure fluid jet is sprayed from a spray head toward the portion of the coated surface after the mask sheet is fastened to the component to strip the coating from the portion of the surface. After the coating is stripped from the portion of the surface, the mask sheet is removed from the component.

Abstract: In a case where a CF film is used as an interlayer dielectric film for a semiconductor device, when a wiring of W (tungsten) is formed, the CF film is heated to a temperature of, e.g., about 400 to 450° C. At this time, F gases are desorbed from the CF film, so that there are various disadvantages due to the corrosion of the wiring and the decrease of film thickness.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of coating substrates, including the following steps:

Abstract: The invention concerns a method of providing a coating having a predetermined hardness on a substrate comprising the steps of

Abstract: An optical film is disclosed that includes a polarizing plate having a protective layer on at least one side of a polarizer and a brightness-enhanced film laminated to the polarizing plate, such that when the optical film is cut into a 25 mm×150 mm strip-shape and the strip-shaped film is bent at the center of the film so that the both ends in the longitudinal direction of the optical film are allowed to approach each other from above and below and when the distance between the both ends becomes 50 mm, the force applied to the lower part of the film is 0.20 N or less. Advantageously, embodiments of the invention provide an optical film in which less foams enter when the optical film is attached to a liquid crystal cell. As a result, the working operability and yield may be improved. A liquid crystal display using such an optical film is also disclosed.

Abstract: A durable polarizing plate having a transparent protective film that is difficult to peel off under an influence of humidity and heat is disclosed. Such a polarizing plate is provided by bonding a transparent protective film through an adhesive layer on at least one surface of a polyvinyl alcohol-based polarizing film containing a dichroic substance, and the adhesive layer includes a water-soluble crosslinking agent that can crosslink a vinyl alcohol-based polymer. The adhesive layer can further include a vinyl alcohol-based polymer.

Abstract: Decorative grass having an optical effect constructed of a first sheet of material aligned with and bonded to a substantially iridescent second sheet of material to form an optical effect material. The optical effect material is shredded to produce a plurality of strips of decorative grass having an optical effect. A third sheet of material can be aligned with and bonded to the iridescent second sheet, wherein the first or third sheet of material is light transmitting. The first sheet of material can be constructed from paper, polymeric film, metallized film, foil, fabric, burlap or combinations thereof.

Abstract: An ink jet recording sheet includes a substrate, an ink receiving layer, and a clay-containing layer between the paper substrate and the ink receiving layer. The clay-containing layer contains platelet clay particles having an average aspect ratio of at least 10:1, and an orientation such that at least 50% of the platelet clay particles have a major axis within 30° of parallel to the substrate. The sheet exhibits little or no cockle formation, even at high ink laydowns. A method of preparing the ink jet recording sheet and a method of printing using the ink jet recording sheet are also described.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording material comprising a support material and at least a lower and an upper pigment-containing layer wherein the pigment of the upper layer is present in two particle size distributions (A, B) and one particle size distribution (A) is in the range of 10 to 100 nm and the other particle size distribution (B) is in the range of 1,000 to 3,000 nm, and wherein the pigment of the upper layer is different from the pigment of the lower layer and wherein the average particle size of the pigment of the upper layer is different from the average particle size of the pigment of the lower layer.

Abstract: An adhesive coated thin film label and a method for applying a thin film label to a substrate. The thin film label has a thickness less than 1.0 mil and is die cut to define a label shape. The label includes visible indicia and adhesive is applied to one side of the label film for bonding to the substrate. The label may further be provided in roll form mounted on a release liner.

Abstract: A moisture sorbing device (20, 20′) to be used in the screens of the type with organic light emitting diodes (30) is described. Further, a process for manufacturing moisture sorbing devices according to the invention is described.

Abstract: A method of making a texture-coated and/or insulation coated container from a flat paperboard blank in which a heat-hardenable liquid polymeric binder texturizing and/or insulating agent coating mixture is applied to one surface of the blank in a pattern of covered and open areas. This coating mixture is subjected to heat to cure the polymeric binder and expand the texturizing and/or insulating agent, optionally treated with moisture, and optionally heated to form the blank into the shape of a container, and the container produced by this method. The containers such as cups, plates, etc., are useful in food service. These containers have a coefficient of static friction which is about 0.2 to 2.0 and over and a kinetic coefficient of friction which is about 0.22 to 1.5.

Abstract: The invention concerns a biaxially stretched and thermofixed tubular seamless single- or multi-layered foodstuff skin wherein the layer, or, in the case of multi-layered skins at least one of the layers, contains a block copolymer with “hard” aliphatic polyamide blocks and “soft” aliphatic polyether blocks, the block copolymer corresponding to one of formulae (I) to (III), Ea-(NH-[CH2]x-CO)m-Xa-(A-O)n-A Xa-(CO-[CH2]x -NH)m-Ea (I), (II), -[X-(CO—[CH2]x-NH)o-Y-X-(A-O)p-A]-(III). The invention is particularly suitable as a skin for sausages which are to be boiled or heated in water, and does not form folds when the filling is introduced manually, that is with no or only slight pressure, i.e.

Abstract: Polyester containers having a reduced coefficient of friction (“COF”) are produced by increasing the surface roughness of the polyester using either thermal crystallization or solvent crystallization. Because the low COF reduces or eliminates friction between polyester containers, the containers do not become entangled and disrupt the manufacturing process. As a result, the containers move easily through typical conveying and filling lines in manufacturing processes that use the containers.

Abstract: Oxygen scavenging materials incorporated into or attached to a package such as a gable-top or rectangular carton, used to package foods, beverages or other oxygen sensitive materials, and thereby increase shelf-life by decreasing oxygen in the headspace of the package, and decreasing oxidation of the packaged product.

Abstract: Medical devices such as catheters and balloons are formed from a thermoplastic polymer composition comprising a melt mixture product of at least one terminally reactive polymer and a chain extender.

Abstract: There are provided a printing paper and a printer for eliminating margins of photographs and the like by using a simple structure.

Abstract: A multilayer pressure sensitive correction tape useful for masking handwritten and/or printed characters comprising a release liner, a masking layer and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer, wherein at least one of the layers is cured by radiation. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the masking layer and pressure sensitive adhesive layer comprise formulations of reactive monomers or oligomers which are radiation-cured after the formulations are applied to the correction tape assembly. In a more preferred embodiment of the invention the masking layer and pressure sensitive adhesive layer formulations contain no volatile solvents when these formulations are applied to the correction tape assembly. The radiation-cured layers are essentially insoluble in organic solvents and water, and the radiation-cured layers exhibit improved film toughness and improved resistance to ink “bleed through”.

Abstract: A magnet receptive surface covering comprises a nonferrous layer and a layer of ferromagnetic particles applied to the nonferrous layer. An adhesive layer is applied to the nonferrous layer. A cover sheet may cover the adhesive until the magnet receptive surface is to be applied to a surface, such as a wall.

Abstract: A multi-layer sheet has individual staggered edge posting sheetlets in a side-by-side relationship. The multi-layer sheet comprises a base release sheet, the posting sheetlets in a flat sheet form, and a removable cover sheet. The posting sheetlets are loosely held together in a manner whereby an individual posting sheetlet is easily removed and used as a base. Each posting sheetlet in the multi-layer sheet has a paper substrate with an adhesive partially covering each face thereof in approximate aligned areas of the respective faces. A front face or a back face of the individual posting sheetlet is adhered to a surface while an opposed face holds an item for posting. In use, an individual posting sheetlet is readily removed from the multi-layer sheet and a cover panel removed from the posting sheetlet to fully expose the front face and the back face of the individual posting sheetlet.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a decal wherein the user can print the decal image onto the decal using a computer printer. The decal is preferably supplied to the end user as a kit, wherein the kit comprises a base section onto which the decal image may be printed, and an adhesive section, which provides the adhesive to affix the base section to the substrate after the design has been printed onto the base section. The decal of the present invention does not require a paper layer in the finished decal product, which allows the decal of the present invention to be very thin. In one preferred embodiment, the decal has a thickness of less than about 1.5×10−3 inches.

Abstract: This invention provides a thin unsupported indicia containing layer for modifying the appearance of a surface. The indicia containing layer may be contained in a laminate structure that includes an adhesive coating applied to the lower surface of the indicia containing layer, at least one removable protective layer, and a release coating for facilitating the transfer of the indicia containing layer from the removable protective coating onto the surface to be modified. The invention also provides methods and systems for modifying the appearance of a surface using the indicia containing layer.

Abstract: An easily peelable laminated film includes a laminate of a peelable surface layer (B) having a peeling strength of 5 to 100 g/cm with a base layer (A) containing a thermoplastic resin. The laminated film of the invention provides an easily peelable laminated film excellent in water resistance as a base materialfor, for example, concealing seals and labels for preventing re-pasting. The easily peelable laminated film of the invention requires no specific process to start peeling.

Abstract: A plate mat (10) for use in serving food to prevent spillage of the food includes a mat having a substantially flat underside (U) for the mat to lay flat when placed upon a generally flat surface (T). An adhesive backing (12) is formed on the underside of the mat to securely affix the mat to a surface upon which it is placed so the mat cannot be moved about the surface. A raised area (20) extending about an upper surface of the mat and defining at least one space (22) on the upper surface of the mat in which food is placed, so to contain the food within the space and prevent it from being scattered outside the space over the surface on which the mat is placed.

Abstract: A universal abrasive sheet is provided for a sanding or polishing machine and includes segments defined by weakened regions that allow portions of the universal abrasive sheet to be removed in order to adapt the abrasive sheet to alternative platent configurations. Each of the different configurations of the universal abrasive sheet can be provided with an individualized tip portion which can be separated from a body portion and either repositioned or replaced in order to change the working point of the tip portion when it becomes worn out.

Abstract: A band-shaped semi-finished product is made out of a ductile material and is configured to be separated into at least two sections. At least one pair of wedge-shaped, non-cuttingly formed longitudinal notches are formed, between the tips of which there remains a thin web of material, which can be torn easily with little force. The semi-finished product is distinguished by burr-free separated edges, defined geometry of the separating surfaces, and extremely reduced breaking-surface portions. It shows improved resistance during static and dynamic stress, in particular for alternating bending loads, in comparison to conventional, for example via the rolling-cutting technique, separated semi-finished products.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium uses a nonlinear optical thin film formed on a substrate either directly or through other layer and comprising an amorphous alloy or a mixture of the amorphous alloy and an oxide glass component, and a refractive index of this thin film reversibly changes in accordance with a change of intensity of a laser beam incident thereto.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for splicing successive rolls of webmatetial to one endless web, in such way that during subsequent coating of the web, coating defects near the splices are reduced, preferably prevented. To that end at least part of the trailing edge of the splicing tape used to splice the succeeding webs, is left free of adhesive. Because of this, air, which during said coating process gets entrapped behind the splice, between the coating layer and the web, can dissipate between the adhesive-free tape edge and the underlying web surface, thus reducing or preventing the formation of air bubbles and subsequent coating defects.