Patents Issued in August 14, 2003
  • Publication number: 20030152741
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the production of patterned polyurethane foam as a backing for tufted goods. This process comprises applying a puddle of a reactive polyurethane mixture to the back side of a greige good, passing the greige good coated with the reactive polyurethane mixture under a doctoring device and curing the polyurethane backed greige good. In one embodiment of the present invention, the doctoring device is patterned or an attachment to the doctoring device is patterned, and forms a corresponding pattern in the polyurethane coating as it passes under the doctoring device. In another embodiment, a woven secondary backing is laminated to the reactive polyurethane mixture after passing under the doctoring device, and pressure is applied against the face of the tufted good such that the urethane is pushed through the windows of the secondary backing. This pressure forms beads of polyurethane on the underside of the woven secondary backing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Robbins, Ulrich B. Holeschovsky
  • Publication number: 20030152742
    Abstract: An upper surface layer 2 and a nonwoven fabric sound absorption layer 3 are integrally secured via an air permeable adhesive resin layer 4 formed by melting thermoplastic resin powder, and the air permeability of the thickness direction of the entire carpet 1 falls within the range of 1 to 50 cm3/cm2·second. This effectively absorbs noise from the upper side entering via a roof, doors and windows as well as noise from the lower side. The carpet can be manufactured by scattering thermoplastic resin powder on an upper surface member, heating the thermoplastic resin powder into melted thermoplastic resin, placing a nonwoven fabric on the upper surface member via the melted thermoplastic resin, and pressing the nonwoven fabric and the upper surface member in a laminated state. It is preferable that powder of particle size of 90 to 10,000 &mgr;m is scattered in the amount of 5 to 500 g/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Kazufumi Shimizu, Shinsuke Sugie
  • Publication number: 20030152743
    Abstract: Base cloth for tufted carpet and tufted carpet using the same. The base cloth is constituted by nonwoven fabric made of filament formed of poly lactic acid based polymer. The filament has round cross-section and birefringence of 12×10−3 to 30×10−3 and crystallization degree of 15 to 25 percent by weight. The nonwoven fabric made of filament has heat shrinkage of 1 percent or less at 120° C. in 3 minutes both in a machine direction (MD) and a cross direction thereto (CD). If the cross-section of the filament is not round, the filament has crystallization degree of 15 to 25 percent by weight and heat shrinkage of 1 percent or less at 120° C. in 3 minutes both in MD and CD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsunaga, Tomoko Watanabe, Mamiko Matsunaga, Yukitoku Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20030152744
    Abstract: An advertising mat including a floor mat having a bottom surface for engaging a floor and an upper surface over which pedestrian traffic will pass. The mat upper surface includes a traffic section adapted for placement in a pedestrian path, and at least one side section having a plurality of hold down tabs. The side section is adjacent the traffic section. A panel including a top surface bearing advertising indicia is configured for placement in the side section. The plurality of hold down tabs releasably secures the panel in the side section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: Richard J. Arena
  • Publication number: 20030152745
    Abstract: A composite structural part consisting of two or more sections (1) and (2) and a process for producing same, in which at least one section (1) with a free end is abutted with or inserted into the second section (2), characterised in that reinforcement elements (3, 3′; 6, 6′; 23; 25; 21) which form a positive fit with sections (1) and (2) are fixed in the region of the connection point (10) for sections (1) and (2) and that sections (1) and (2) are connected by injecting or shrinking a thermoplastic plastics material in the region of the connection point (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: Joachim Wagenblast
  • Publication number: 20030152746
    Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for the deposition of an improved diamond-like carbon material, particularly for the production of magnetic recording media. The diamond-like carbon material of the present invention is highly tetrahedral, that is, it features a large number of the sp3 carbon-carbon bonds which are found within a diamond crystal lattice. The material is also amorphous, providing a combination of short-range order with long-range disorder, and can be deposited as films which are ultrasmooth and continuous at thicknesses substantially lower than known amorphous carbon coating materials. The carbon protective coatings of the present invention will often be hydrogenated. In a preferred method for depositing of these materials, capacitive coupling forms a highly uniform, selectively energized stream of ions from a dense, inductively ionized plasma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: United Modular Corporation
    Inventors: Veerasamy Vijayen, Manfred Weiler, Eric Li
  • Publication number: 20030152747
    Abstract: A roofing or siding system having an improved average resulting reflectivity. The roofing and/or siding system is at least partially coated with a plurality of granules. The granules have an average reflectivity of at least about 55% and an average hardness of over about 3 Moh's.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: The Garland Company, Inc., an Ohio corporation
    Inventors: Fred A. Fensel, John Palladino, Melissa A. Rus
  • Publication number: 20030152748
    Abstract: The roof module is formed from outer and inner polyurethane layers. The inner polyurethane layer has a first thickness, which is larger than a second thickness of the outer polyurethane layer. The inner layer is injection molded, and the outer layer is then molded to the inner layer. The inner polyurethane layer is molded with an embedded reinforcement material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: Horst Schonebeck
  • Publication number: 20030152749
    Abstract: In a retaining piece interposed between the adjacent rolling balls, a concave surface of each of both side surfaces of the retaining piece where it contacts with the spherical surfaces of the balls is configured to partly contact with the spherical surface of the ball. The concave surface includes a linear contact portion to be in contact with the ball and an approximate curved surface having the radius of curvature approximate to that of the ball, which is located on the inner side of the linear contact portion. In addition, recesses which are joined to the gate portion and the ejector pin in a molding process are formed in the concave surfaces. A recess is formed at the joining portion or near a parting line. Fins formed in the molding process are capable to be put into the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Kasuga, Ryoichi Sato, Hiroki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20030152750
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a winding tape (10) of unsintered polytetrafluoroethylene wherein polytetrafluoroethylene powder is mixed with a lubricating or slip agent, the material is molded into a cylindrical blank (1) and the blank (1) is first extruded as a strand with small outer dimensions and subsequently calendered into the tape (10) in the forming gap (13) of a pair of rolls (8,9). The surface of at least one roll is deformed under compression during calendering of the round rope (6) into the tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Klaus Schwamborn, Walter Steffes
  • Publication number: 20030152751
    Abstract: An ink jet recording element having a support having thereon the following layers in order:
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Kristine B. Lawrence, Paul B. Merkel
  • Publication number: 20030152752
    Abstract: A recording sheet having a recording layer formed on a substrate sheet (for example, a paper sheet, synthetic resin film or synthetic paper sheet), and including a pigment and a binder which contains a cross-linking reaction product of styrene-acrylic copolymer which preferably has carboxyl groups and is soluble or dispersible in water, with a cross-linking agent, for example, a polyamidepolyamine compound, has excellent resistance to both water and organic solvents and is useful for both dot matrix printers and thermal transfer printers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: OJI PAPER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Tokiyoshi, Nobuyasu Sasaguri, Tetsuya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20030152753
    Abstract: An imageable media is disclosed. An imageable media in accordance with the present invention comprises a substrate having a first surface and a porous layer overlaying the first surface of the substrate. In a preferred embodiment, for pigmented inks, a plurality of ink retaining silica particles are disposed within the porous layer. After inkjet imaging with pigmented ink, the porous layer may be fused to create a durable, tamper and scuff resistant, waterproof graphic without a laminate. In another preferred embodiment for dye based inks, a plurality of zeolite particles and a plurality of cross-linked polyvinylpyrrolidone particles are disposed within the porous layer. The porous layer may be imbibed with an ink retention coating for dye based inks. Imageable media made with this invention has utility for commercial graphics, labels and ID cards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Clinton P. Waller
  • Publication number: 20030152754
    Abstract: A protective agent for protecting a print formed on a printing object comprises a high-volatile organic solvent as a dispersion medium and non-water family high polymer emulsion liquid including synthetic resin particles as a dispersoid. This protective agent is sprayed onto a print formed on a printing object by a spray method and then dried. For example, an oil-based first print layer 2 is formed on a surface of an information record member 1, an oil-based second print layer 3 is formed on at least a part of the upper surface of the first print layer 2, and the aforementioned protective agent is applied on the upper surface of the second print layer 3 and dried to form a protective layer 4. Thus, the print will not disappeared even if a hands touches or water is adhered, and no bad influence will be given to the substrate material since the protective agent is excellent in quick-drying property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Tomoaki Ito, Norio Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20030152755
    Abstract: A low-reflective thin-film substrate comprising a transparent glass substrate having formed by sputtering a thin film in multilayer containing no chromium series component and made up of at least one kind of Ni, Fe, Co, Mo, W, Ta, Cu, and Nb as a main constituent form or as an alloy thereof, the thin film having a minimum reflectivity of 0.5% or lower and the optical density of at least 4 or having a minimum reflectivity of 0.1% or lower, a maximum reflectivity of 2.0% or lower, an average reflectivity of 0.3% or lower, and an optical density of at least 4.0, in the visible light region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: Tadakatsu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20030152756
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing a three-dimensional structure having a fine three-dimensional shape and a smooth surface is disclosed in which the three-dimensional structure is usable for an optical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Yasufumi Yamada, Katsumi Midorikawa, Hiroshi Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20030152757
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a transmission belt comprising a cord, a rubber or thermoplastic matrix, and an adhesion material which is able to adhere the cord to the rubber or thermoplastic matrix, characterized in that the cord is made of at least two yarns, the first being a yarn with a melting or decomposition point T1 and the second being a yam with a melting point T2, wherein T1>T2 and the ratio of the linear density of the first yarn to the linear density of the second yam is between 1,000:1 and 1:1, wherein the second yarn is fused to the first yarn. The invention also pertains to a method in which the first and the second yarn are intertwined and then heated at a temperature between T1 and T2, with the heating step being integrated with or followed by a step wherein the cord is subjected to a dipping treatment with a rubber adhesion material and to a method of making transmission belts using said cords.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: Jan Van Campen
  • Publication number: 20030152758
    Abstract: An adhesion promoter comprises a polymeric strand with an epoxy-reactive group other than a phenolic hydroxyl group, and a crosslinking group that crosslinks the polymeric strand with a rubber in a crosslinking reaction, wherein the polymeric strand is water soluble in an amount of at least 10 g/l, and more preferably at least 100 g/l. Particularly contemplated adhesion promoters may further comprise styrene-butadiene-vinylpyridine copolymer, and may advantageously be employed as a replacement for resorcinol-formaldehyde latex in the fabrication of a rubber containing tire. Especially contemplated rubber compositions may additionally comprise maleinized polybutadiene to synergistically improve adhesion of the rubber to a polymeric fiber coupled via contemplated adhesion promoters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Truc-Chi Huynh-Tran, Huy X. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20030152759
    Abstract: A method of confined synthesis of nanostructured material inside a mesoporous material. The method includes the step of providing mesoporous material having uniform and ordered mesopores. Next, a monolayer of charged functional group is attached on the pore surface of mesoporous host material by reacting with functional molecule. A oppositely-charged molecule is incorporated into the confined space of mesoporous material by either ion exchange or incipient wetness impregnation. Finally, the incorporated molecule is reduced or oxidized or further reacted with secondarily-incorporated molecule to form nanostructured material in mesoporous material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Kuei-Jung Chao, Chia-Min Yang
  • Publication number: 20030152760
    Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging member comprising an imaging layer and a base wherein said base comprises a closed cell foam core sheet and adhered thereto an upper and lower flange sheet, wherein said foam core sheet has a modulus of between 100 and 2758 MPa and a tensile toughness between 0.344 and 35 MPa, and wherein said upper and lower flange sheet has a modulus of between and 1380 and 20000 MPa and a toughness between 1.4 and 210 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Yeh-Hung Lai, Suresh Sunderrajan, Thaddeus S. Gula, William A. Mruk, Narasimharao Dontula, Gary D. Smith, YuanQiao Rao
  • Publication number: 20030152761
    Abstract: A sheet material is provided having a smooth continuous top sheet material to which a non-slip foam is directly adhered. The material is created by casting a styrene butadiene material directly on the sheet material without the use of an intermediate layer and curing the material on the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: Manco, Inc., an Ohio Corporation
    Inventor: Patrice J. McCune
  • Publication number: 20030152762
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition for a slide fastener. In one embodiment, upon setting, the resin composition does not melt even upon contact with a hot surface. In addition, the fastener provides low sliding resistance or friction, as well as durability and structural strength to withstand repeated opening and closing operations. Finally, the fastener can be dyed with cloth in the same bath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Nori Yoshihara, Akira Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20030152763
    Abstract: An anti-fogging coating material is disclosed which comprises a phosphoric acid compound binder; and oxide particles having an average particle diameter of 1 to 300 nm mixed with the phosphoric acid compound binder and provides an anti-fogging coating with a high hydrophilic property and a high water absorption property, capable of retaining the high hydrophilic property for a long period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zuyi Zhang, Teigo Sakakibara, Masayuki Yamada, Yoshinori Kotani
  • Publication number: 20030152764
    Abstract: A thermally-conductive interface interposable intermediate a first heat transfer surface and an opposing second heat transfer surface to provide a thermal pathway therebetween. The interface includes a thermally-conductive compound formed into a layer which is conformable between the first and second heat transfer surface. The compound is an admixture of: (a) a polymeric constituent forming a continuous matrix in the layer; and (b) a dispersed constituent forming discrete domains within the matrix, the domains being form-stable at normal room temperature in a first domain phase and conformable between the first and second heat transfer surface in a second domain phase, and the domains having a domain transition temperature above normal room temperature from the first domain phase to the second domain phase. The dispersed constituent may be a fusible, i.e., low temperature melting, metal or metal alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Michael H. Bunyan, Kent M. Young
  • Publication number: 20030152765
    Abstract: A refrigerator shelf liner system for protecting the upper surfaces of refrigerator shelves. The refrigerator shelf liner system includes a rear member having a rear surface, a plurality of adhesive strips attached to the rear surface, a first arm and a second arm extending from the distal ends of the rear member, a cover attached to the rear member, and a roll of protective material rotatably retained between the arms. The adhesive strips secure the rear member to the interior wall of a refrigerator above a shelf to be protected by a sheet dispensed from the roll. The roll preferably contains a plurality of protective sheets separated by a line of perforations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: Cynthia L. Lewis
  • Publication number: 20030152766
    Abstract: Novel appliqués comprising oxyhalopolymer-adhesive composites wherein the adhesive layer of the composite is chemically bonded to reactive sites on at least one side of the oxyhalopolymer layer, possess superior peel strengths, resistance to delamination and protective properties, including protection of surfaces from lightning strike to seamless protective liners for tanks. The appliques are suitable for printing architectural designs thereon. Multilayered specialty appliqués can be fabricated from the above fundamental oxyhalopolymer-adhesive composite structure, including layered adhesives for encapsulating tridimensional mechanical and electrical devices, such as RF, or microwave sensitive antennae for transmitting and receiving communications, providing protection from environmental electromagnetic effects (E3), shock and impact resistance, multidimensional deformable structures; housing for temperature control systems, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Terrence G. Vargo, Timothy S. Koloski, John M. Brupbacher, Andrew W. Dalgleish, Garner S. Holdsworth
  • Publication number: 20030152767
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a primer composition. The primer composition comprises a maleated thermoplastic elastomer, a non-halogenated polyolefin, and a resin. In some embodiments, the primer comprises a crosslinking agent, for example 2,4-bis(trichloromethyl)-6-4′-methoxyphenyl-sym-triazine. In other embodiments, the primer comprises an epoxy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Stephen J. Hawkins, Alphonsus V. Pocius, James R. Peterson, Zhiming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20030152768
    Abstract: Pressure sensitive adhesives and methods wherein the pressure sensitive adhesives include a silicone tackifying resin having no greater than about 1.5 wt- % Si—OH functional groups and a polydiorganosiloxane polyurea copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Kurt C. Melancon, Anthony M. Kremer, Audrey A. Sherman, Zhiming Zhou, Michael L. Tumey, Duane A. Lunsford
  • Publication number: 20030152769
    Abstract: Polybenzazole fibers wherein the mean square roughness of the fiber surface is 20 nm or less, or polybenzazole fibers wherein the X-ray meridian diffraction half-height width factor is 0.3°/GPa or less, and their utilization such as shock-resistant members and heat-resistant felt, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Tooru Kitagawa, Hideki Sugihara, Yoshimitsu Sakaguchi, Atsushi Kaji, Yukihiro Nomura
  • Publication number: 20030152770
    Abstract: Dyed sheath/core polyamide-containing fibers are disclosed. Further, methods of making dyed sheath/core polyamide-containing fibers are disclosed. Articles containing dyed sheath/core polyamide-containing fibers are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: Ronald O. Skidds
  • Publication number: 20030152771
    Abstract: Very high structure, hybrid amorphous silica products (geltates) having very high absorptivity, in which the hybrid silica product has a % carrying capacity DBP value greater than 76.0 and a linseed oil absorption value exceeding 250 cc/100 g, and a production methodology therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Barry W. Preston, William C. Fultz
  • Publication number: 20030152772
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing ultrafine particulate complex oxide containing titanium oxide, including vapor-phase producing a complex oxide containing titanium oxide having a BET specific surface area of about 5 to about 200 m2/g, where a starting material gas containing titanium tetrachloride and an oxidizing gas are preheated to about 700° C. or more, and are reacted with a solution or a slurry of a salt containing a metallic element. The present invention also provides an ultrafine particulate complex oxide containing titanium oxide obtained by the process, and use of the oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Jun Tanaka, Shinichiro Tomikawa
  • Publication number: 20030152773
    Abstract: A method of preparing a diamond body, and a diamond body thus prepared. A covering layer is provided on at least one surface of the diamond body such that the covering layer adheres to the at least one surface. The covering layer is in turn provided with a predetermined configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Gregory M. Chrysler, Abhay A. Watwe, Ravi V. Mahajan
  • Publication number: 20030152774
    Abstract: One method for producing a data storage media, comprises: molding a material comprising plastic and a fluorescent material to form a substrate, and disposing a data layer on the substrate. The substrate has a transmissivity of about 85% or less at a readback laser wavelength when traversing a 1.2 mm thick colored substrate, and the has a fluorescent color emission wavelength which is not equal to the readback laser wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Curtis Cradic, Steven R. Peak, Connie J. Bland, Steven F. Hubbard
  • Publication number: 20030152775
    Abstract: A multilayered article of manufacture is disclosed. The article comprising a layer containing polycarbonate and a layer containing a copolyester. The repeating units of the copolyester are derived from dicarboxylic acids and from diols, where the repeating units derived from dicarboxylic acids contain 50 to 100% of units derived from terephthalic acid, 0 to 50% of units derived from isophthalic acid and 0 to 10% of units derived from other dicarboxylic acids, the sum of the proportions of the repeating units derived from terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid and other dicarboxylic acids is 100%, the percents being relative to the molar amount of the dicarboxylic acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Rudiger Gorny, Siegfried Anders, Wolfgang Nising, Jurgen Rohner, Marco Roelofs
  • Publication number: 20030152776
    Abstract: A flame-retardant epoxy resin composition comprising an epoxy resin, a curing agent, and a metal hydroxide, wherein the curing agent is a phenolic resin (C) containing, in the molecular chain, structural units derived from a phenol (A) and structural units derived from an aromatic compound (B) other than the phenol (A), or the epoxy resin is a novolac epoxy resin (D) obtained by subjecting the phenolic hydroxyl groups of the phenolic resin (C) to etherification with glycidyl. The composition has a high degree of flame retardancy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kiuchi, Masatoshi Iji
  • Publication number: 20030152777
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition comprising an epoxy resin, a phenolic resin curing agent, an inorganic filler, zinc molybdate on an inorganic support, and a complementary combination of two phosphazene compounds is effectively moldable, flame retardant and suitable for semiconductor encapsulation. A semiconductor device encapsulated with the cured epoxy resin composition is improved in flame retardance and moisture-proof reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Shoichi Osada, Shingo Ando, Hiroyuki Takenaka, Kazutoshi Tomiyoshi, Toshio Shiobara
  • Publication number: 20030152778
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of coating a packaging container with a coating composition having crosslinkable polyester-polyurethane polymer with at least two carbamate sites, and a crosslinker. The method includes coating a generally planar substrate with the coating composition, curing and forming a container or a portion of a container. The present invention also provides a coating composition and coated substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Girish G. Parekh, Gregory M. Paulson, Ronald L. Goodwin
  • Publication number: 20030152779
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a functional urethane resin film formed from a water based urethane resin dispersion (A), showing practically no stickiness per se, and having a tensile elongation at breakage of 50 to 1000%; and a laminated film by use of the resin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Toshio Kondo, Takeshi Tomiyama, Naoya Haruta, Yu Akaki, Osamu Isozaki
  • Publication number: 20030152780
    Abstract: The invention relates to glass, ceramic and metal substrates with at least one self-cleaning surface, comprising a layer with a micro-rough surface structure which is arranged on the substrate and made at least partly hydrophobic. The layer contains a glass flux and structure-forming particles with a mean particle diameter within the 0.1 to 50 &mgr;m range; the glass flux and structure-forming particles are present in a volume ratio within the 0.1 to 5 range, and the micro-rough surface structure has a ratio of mean profile height to mean distance between adjacent profile tips within the 0.3 to 10 range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Martin Baumann, Klaus-Dieter Fritsche, Dagmar Korbelarz, Stephan Ludwig, Lutz Poth
  • Publication number: 20030152781
    Abstract: A solar-control glass that has acceptable visible light transmission, absorbs near infrared wavelength light (NIR) and reflects midrange infrared light (low emissivity mid IR) along with a preselected color within the visible light spectrum for reflected light is provided. Also provided is a method of producing the improved, coated, solar-controlled glass. The improved glass has a solar energy (IR) absorbing layer comprising tin oxide having a dopant such as antimony and a low emissivity control layer (low emissivity) capable of reflecting midrange infrared light and comprising tin oxide having fluorine and/or phosphorus dopant. A separate iridescence color suppressing layer as described in the prior-art is generally not needed to achieve a neutral (colorless) appearance for the coated glass, however an iridescence suppressing layer or other layers may be combined with the two layer assemblage provided by the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: ATOFINA Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Russo, Clem S. McKown, Christophe Roger, Jeffrey L. Stricker
  • Publication number: 20030152782
    Abstract: Within a chamber in a vacuum atmosphere, SiO is deposited on a glass substrate so as to form a first layer as a protective film, Al is deposited on the first layer so as to form a second layer as an aluminum reflective film, MgF2 is deposited on the second layer so as to form a third layer as a transparent protective film, and CeO2 is deposited on the third layer so as to form a fourth layer as a transparent protective film. Then, while O2 gas is introduced into the chamber, SiO2 is deposited on the fourth layer so as to form a fifth layer as a transparent protective film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Kurobe, Susumu Aihara
  • Publication number: 20030152783
    Abstract: A porous silica coating having a dielectric constant of less than 2.5, a semiconductor device comprising the porous silica coating formed therein, and a coating composition for forming the porous silica coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: TONENGENERAL SEKIU K.K.
    Inventors: Tomoko Aoki, Yasuo Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20030152784
    Abstract: Herein disclosed is a method for preparing a siloxane resin comprising HSiO3/2 siloxane units and containing silicon-bonded hydroxy groups in a range from 1 to 40 mole percent, which comprises: (A) combining an alkoxysilane of the formula HSi(OR)3 wherein R is selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, water, an effective amount of an acid catalyst, and a first solvent, to form a reaction solution; and (B) reacting the reaction solution for a time and temperature sufficient to form the siloxane resin containing an alcohol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas A. Deis, Stelian Grigoras, Michael J. Spaulding
  • Publication number: 20030152785
    Abstract: Erosion resistant coating compositions comprising a poly(Bisphenol A-co-epichlorohydrin) glycidyl end-capped component, an active hydrogen compound, a linear siloxane and a silsesquioxane. Protective coatings formed from such a composition impart particle-erosion resistance to parts having such a coating disposed on some portion of their surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Bridget Marion Sanders, Karl Erik Wiedemann
  • Publication number: 20030152786
    Abstract: A silicon containing adduct having the formula (I) wherein X is an electron withdrawing group selected from the group consisting of carbonyl and sulphone groups, sulphonium and phosphonium salts; R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, linear and branched alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, cycloalkynyl, aryl, alkaryl, aralkyl, alkoxyaryl, alkoxyalkyl, oligoalkoxyalkyl, di-alkylaminoalkyl, N-aryl-N-alky-laminoalkyl, hydroxyalkoxy, alkoxy, alkenyloxy, alkynyloxy, cycloalkoxy, cycloalkenyloxy, cycloalkynyloxy, aralkoxy, alkoxyaryloxy, alkoxyalkoxy, oligoalkoxyalkoxy, di-alkylaminoalkoxy, N-aryl-N-alkylamino-alkoxy, acyloxy, acyloxyalkyl, N-diacyl-iminoalkyl groups, organosilane, organosiloxane, hydroxyaryl, hydroxyalkenyl, hydroxyalkynyl and hydroxy groups and any of the above groups substituted with one or more hydroxyl or zwitterionic group Z, or R—X— is a nitrile group; R3 and R4 are individually selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, linear and branched alkyl
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Andrew Lennard Lewis, Anthony Claude Marie Collias, Richard Paul Redman, Jane Louise Court, Sean Leo Willis
  • Publication number: 20030152787
    Abstract: There is provided an electromagnetic wave shielding member comprising: a transparent film substrate; and a mesh formed of a thin metal film stacked on the surface of the transparent film substrate through an adhesive and/or a pressure-sensitive adhesive, the adhesive and/or the pressure-sensitive adhesive comprising an absorber which can absorb specific wavelengths, i.e., the wavelengths of visible light and/or near-infrared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Fumihiro Arakawa, Hiroshi Kojima, Eiji Ohishi
  • Publication number: 20030152788
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a polymer metallic strip and an improved rapid process for the continuous extrusion coating layer of the surface of a metal strip. The present invention provides for moving a metal strip by a multiplicity of rolls, pre-treating at least one and perhaps both sides of the metal strip using an oxidizing flame, coating layer the pre-treated strip surface(s) with a liquid primer, drying the primer, and activating the primer with an oxidizing flame, and or an oven and/or a corona discharge. The primed, activated, metal strip is then extrusion coated with a polymeric extrudate, passed over a temperature-controlled, chilled roll of a specific surface roughness to achieve the desired surface properties wherein such steps are performed with an edge containment system. The activation and extrusion coating layer steps may be repeated to coat the second side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: James E. Velliky
  • Publication number: 20030152789
    Abstract: Engineered composite coated flat-rolled steel strip is produced in continuous line operations, in which flat-rolled steel strip, free of surface iron oxide, having a metallic corrosion-protective coating, is polymer coated in continuous-line operations in which a plurality of adherent thin-film layers of polymeric material are deposited on a strip surface. In a dual-surface polymeric coating embodiment, each surface is separately-pretreated for surface adhesion, solidified, and polymeric overhang is removed. Finish processing re-melts the polymer coating and rapidly cools that coating through glass-transition temperature to establish amorphous characteristics in the polymeric coating materials. An anhydride-modified polypropylene, first contacts the strip, an intermediate layer can include about fifteen to twenty five percent, by weight, polybutylene with the balance polypropylene; an outer surface polymeric layer includes about five to ten percent, by weight, polybutylene with the balance polypropylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: John A. Sinsel, Mark V. Loen, Michael S. Bailey
  • Publication number: 20030152790
    Abstract: The coating for substrates or materials, preferably elastomers or elastomers bonded to metal. The coating composition comprises (a) a functionalized hydrogenated copolymer comprising at least one repeat unit derived from a conjugated diene monomer; preferably including an unsaturated nitrile monomer; and a functional group containing monomer or graft linked compound or combinations thereof; (b) a curing component comprising at least one isocyanate group, or a carbodiimide compound, or an amino resin, or combinations thereof, and (c) a solvent. The coating compounds can be applied to an substrate either before or after the substrate has been vulcanized. The coatings can be cured at ambient temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: Lord Corporation
    Inventors: James R. Halladay, Frank J. Krakowski, Ernest Barritt Troughton