Patents Issued in August 17, 2004
  • Patent number: 6776994
    Abstract: There are described new active compound combinations of a compound of the formula (I) with known fungicidal active compounds, and their use for the control of phytopathogenic fungi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wilhelm Brandes, Heinz-Wilhelm Dehne, Stefan Dutzmann, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Bernd-Wieland Krüger
  • Patent number: 6776995
    Abstract: The present invention is a souffle facial and body scrub which has enhanced properties to deep clean skin, exfoliate dead skin cells in an efficient manner, and at the same time not damage sensitive skin, especially oh a woman's face. It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved facial and body scrub which will provide deep cleaning action to cleanse skin pores in an efficient manner and also to exfoliate skin in an efficient manner. It is a further object of the present invention to provide an improved exfoliating facial and body scrub which although effective for cleaning and exfoliating skin, is not so abrasive as to create any damage to sensitive skin areas, especially on a woman's face. It is a further object of the present invention to provide a cost efficient combination of elements and process for creating an improved facial and body scrub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventor: Rina Revivo
  • Patent number: 6776996
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved coated pesticidal matrices and a process for their preparation. The present invention also provides a wettable powder pesticidal composition containing the improved coated pesticidal matrices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guanglin Sun, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Bruce Christian Black
  • Patent number: 6776997
    Abstract: A combination of a low flexural modulus and low crystallinity polyolefin and a functionalized polyolefin were found to result in an olefin composition with excellent adhesion to metals and polar polymers (e.g. polyesters, polyamides, etc) especially fibers therefrom. When these two polyolefins were added to a thermoplastic vulcanizate (e.g. used to partially or fully replace the semicrystalline polyolefin of a thermoplastic vulcanizate), the thermoplastic vulcanizate was found to have the necessary adhesion to form fiber reinforced thermoplastic vulcanizate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Advanced Elastomer Systems, L.P.
    Inventors: Jim Johnson, Marvin Hill
  • Patent number: 6776998
    Abstract: A film of a polymer blend containing at least one polymer having a substantially different water transmission rate to at least one other polymer in the blend. There is dispered through the polymer blend an antifungal agent activated by the presence of moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventor: Penny Corrigan
  • Patent number: 6776999
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for delaying the pylorus passage of orally administered medicament forms. Said device comprises a component which expands upon contact with the gastric juice and a polymer coat which is permeable to liquids but not to gases. The device can contain an active substance whose release into the gastric juice is mainly controlled by the medicament form into which it is incorporated. Unlike conventional medicament forms with delayed pylorus passage, the release of the active substance does not so much depend on the kind and structure of the polymer coat but is mainly determined by the incorporated medicament form. The inventive device can be easily rolled or folded and can be filled into capsules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG
    Inventor: Markus Krumme
  • Patent number: 6777000
    Abstract: In-situ gelation of a pectic substance. Composition, method of preparation, and method of use of a pectin in-situ gelling formulation for the delivery and sustained release of a physiologically active agent to the body of an animal. The pectin can be isolated from Aloe vera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Carrington Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Yawei Ni, Kenneth M. Yates
  • Patent number: 6777001
    Abstract: Spherical-shape ceramics obtained by dropping starting ceramics into a low temperature medium or composite spherical-shape ceramics having a composite layer obtained by applying a hydrothermal treatment thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisya Advance
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Umezu, Takehiko Arai
  • Patent number: 6777002
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of microparticles, with an extremely high encapsulation rate, comprising a water-soluble substance in a biodegradable polymer, said water-soluble substance and said biodegradable polymer being first incorporated in an organic liquid phase comprising at least one organic non-water miscible solvent. The organic phase is poured into an aqueous liquid phase having a volume which is sufficient to dissolve said organic solvent, said aqueous phase containing a surfactant, the resulting organic-aqueous phase being homogenised in order to perform in one single step the microparticle formation and the organic solvent removal. The thus obtained microparticles show surprisingly good agent retention qualities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Debio Recherche Pharmaceutique S.A.
    Inventors: Evelyne Vuaridel, Piero Orsolini
  • Patent number: 6777003
    Abstract: An iodine complex concentrate containing (a) from about 0.5 to about 30% by weight of iodine; (b) from about 0.2 to about 14% by weight of an iodide component selected from the group consisting of iodide salt, iodide acid and mixtures thereof; and (c) from about 2% to about 85% by weight of a nonionic sugar surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkyl glucose esters, aldobionamides, gluconamides, glyceramides, glyceroglycolipids, polygydroxy fatty acid amides, alkyl polyglycosides having the general formula I: R1O(R2O)b(Z)a  I wherein R1 is a monovalent organic radical having from about 6 to about 30 carbon atoms; R2 is divalent alkylene radical having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms; Z is a saccharide residue having 5 or 6 carbon atoms; b is a number having a value from 0 to about 12; a is a number having a value from 1 to about 6, and mixtures thereof, all weights being based on the weight of the concentrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Cognis Corporation
    Inventors: Suresh Desai, John Frederick Hessel
  • Patent number: 6777004
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel compound oleanane triterpenoid oligoglycoside of formula 1 of the accompanying drawing (trivially called corniculatonin), the invention also relates to a process for the isolation of the novel compound from a mangrove plant Aegiceras corniculatum (Blanco) belonging to the family Myrsinaceae, it also discloses the antifungal properties of the said compound, the invention further relates to the use of the said compound as a food preservative, it further discloses a composition containing effective amount of the said compound for the treatment of fungi infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
    Inventors: Solimabi Wahidullah, Siddharth Hariba Bhosak, Maria Lisette De Lumen D'Souza
  • Patent number: 6777005
    Abstract: Disclosed and claimed are cocoa extracts such as polyphenols or procyanidins, methods for preparing such extracts, as well as uses for them, especially as antineoplastic agents and antioxidants. Disclosed and claimed are antineoplastic compositions containing cocoa polyphenols or procyanidins and methods for treating patients employing the compositions. Additionally disclosed and claimed is a kit for treating a patient in need of treatment with an antineoplastic agent containing cocoa polyphenols or procyanidins as well as a lyophilized antineoplastic composition containing cocoa polyphenols or procyanidins. Further, disclosed and claimed is the use of the invention in antioxidant, preservative and topiosomerase-inhibiting compositions and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Leo J. Romanczyk, Jr., John F. Hammerstone, Jr., Margaret M. Buck
  • Patent number: 6777006
    Abstract: Water used for extracting coffee ingredient from roasted coffee beans in the form of electrolyzed alkaline water of pH 8 to pH 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Aki Watanuki, Koichi Takinami
  • Patent number: 6777007
    Abstract: A pod for making coffee, espresso, hot chocolate, mocha, latte or the like comprises a first sheet of filtering paper having an open top end, a bottom and a substantially vertical side wall adapted to form a seal with the vertical side wall of a pod holder, a second sheet adapted to fit into the open top end of the first sheet to form a closed chamber between the sheets, a supply of flavor-containing materials in the closed chamber, and a sealing seam between the side walls of the first sheet and the second sheet. The sealing seam is adapted to prevent formation of bypass channels between the pod and the side wall of a pod holder, thereby causing all or nearly all the hot water introduced to the pod holder to pass through the flavor-containing materials between the first and second sheets. Method for using the pod to make coffee, espresso, hot chocolate, mocha, latte or the like is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventor: Edward Z. Cai
  • Patent number: 6777008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the ingredients for nontoxic bubble liquid that mainly contains pure water, blowing agent, thickener, sweetener, seasoning and enhancer. Besides blowing bubbles with the stick soaked with the edible bubble liquid, users can also blow bubbles from their mouth. Such unique bubble liquid not only draws people's attention, but eliminates harm to human bodies. Moreover, the sweetness and fragrance of the bubble liquid makes it more tasty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventor: Mon-Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 6777009
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an improved cooking appliance, method of use and the product cooked in accordance with the invention. The invention includes a computerized controller for use with a cooking appliance, such as a deep-fat fryer. The invention employs a series of diagnostics in order to implement cooking compensations that insure consistent, well-cooked food in an industrial setting. The invention thus addresses various factors that can significantly affect the preparation of foods in a fryer, oven or the like. The invention accounts for variations in: cook time initiation; oil temperature stratification; batch size and unit size; cooking oil life; and cooking appliance performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: CFA Properties, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger H. Shealy
  • Patent number: 6777010
    Abstract: A food cooking apparatus is provided. It includes a first container, and a second container connected to the first container with a passage defined therebetween and communicating with the first container. An ultrasonically tuned basket is rotatably mounted in the first chamber. The first and second containers are pivotally mounted together, and pivot between a first, vertical position and a second, tilted position, causing a heated cooking liquid to flow from the second container to the first container. The basket is rotated in the first container for a predefined period of time. The first and second container are returned to the vertical position, while the basket is provided with an ultrasonic vibrating motion, in order to reduce the amount of fat in the food. Further, a method of ultrasonically removing cooking liquid from food is provided. An ultrasonically tuned flexible membrane, onto which food may be placed, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventors: Reno R. Rolle, Christopher M. Goggin, Mark M. Laisure
  • Patent number: 6777011
    Abstract: A system produces a multi-layer product by forming as many different ingredients as is required for the final product in steps that can be separate from each other and then combining these ingredients in an extrusion die that is formed to flow the separate ingredients in side-by-side flow paths and then combine them where necessary for the final product to be formed. Specifically, two of the flow paths are sandwiched by a third flow path whereby the final product is in the form of a sandwich with two ingredients in layers between two separate layers of a third ingredient. A specific example of the food product is an animal food treat in the form of a cheeseburger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Crosswind Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Matson, Rick A. Bontrager
  • Patent number: 6777012
    Abstract: The preservation of meat products is accomplished utilizing a combination of smoke, ozone and freezing preservation techniques. Particularly, fish products are sized into portions that are first treated with smoke, followed by treatment with ozone and then optionally frozen. The preservation system extends the shelf life of the fish products and permits the fish to maintain its freshness and freedom from bacterial decomposition for a longer period of time following catch. The preservation process further maintains the characteristics of day caught fish, such as taste, texture and color, making the refreshed fish products produced by the present system more appealing to consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventors: Blane E. Olson, Douglas B. Brinsmade
  • Patent number: 6777013
    Abstract: The present invention of a method and device of making dough mixed with cooking oil, fruit and vegetable filling, more especially, a forward operation of making a dough chunk of a green onion crepe, is mainly characterized that it continuously provides a thin dough skin of a constant breadth and evenly spreads a layer of oil on the surface thereof; it evenly sprinkles a layer of fruit and vegetable filling on the surface of the layer of oil; it rolls the dough skin with layers of oil and filling into a continuous dough bar to be conveyed outwardly; it cuts the dough bar into a circular cylinder with ring-shaped oil and filling layers spread evenly therein; by virtue of the prevent invention, chunks of dough with evenly mixed shortening layers and the filling layers of fruit and vegetable are manufactured in mass production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventor: Lien-Fu Huang
  • Patent number: 6777014
    Abstract: A process for preparing a consumable beverage containing a natural dairy beverage additive in the form of agglomerated natural milk powder. The powder is combined with other ingredients, either prior to being placed in the vending machine or upon demand within the vending machine, for the subsequent creation of a consumable beverage which includes the natural dairy beverage additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventor: Harjit Singh
  • Patent number: 6777015
    Abstract: This invention relates to a thickening composition comprising a “co-processed” combination of modified starch and flour. In addition, the invention relates to the process for providing such “ready-for-use” compositions and the improved food products prepared from the co-processed compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Janet M. Carver, Norman Edward Collins, Aaron K. Edwards, Joseph P. Eisley, Robert C. Kendall
  • Patent number: 6777016
    Abstract: The present invention relates to food products containing modified pea or lentil flour and to processes for preparing same. The applicant has determined that pea and lentil flours have good gelatinizing and coagulating properties not exhibited by other legume flours, concentrates and isolates. These properties make pea and lentil flours suitable for use in a wide variety of structured food applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Canterbury Agriculture & Science Centre
    Inventor: Wayne Carl Thresher
  • Patent number: 6777017
    Abstract: A protein supplemented food product formed from a premix which includes modified oilseed material is described. The premix can be utilized in a variety of nutritional applications, including the preparation of protein supplemented food products such as ready-to-eat cereals and other cereal grain products, wherein the modified oilseed material typically includes at least 85 wt. % protein (dry solids basis), and at least about 40 wt. % of the protein has an apparent molecular weight of greater than 300 kDa, and/or the protein has a MW50 of at least about 200 kDa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Cargill, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Porter, Harapanahalli S. Muralidhara, Ian Purtle, Jagannadh V. Satyavolu, William H. Sperber, Daniele Karleskind, Ann M. Stark, Jane E. Friedrich, Scott D. Johnson
  • Patent number: 6777018
    Abstract: Edible W/O-emulsion spread of which the fat phase comprises a vegetable hardstock fat, which hardstock fat contains at least 5 wt. % of Allanblackia fat and/or Pentadesma fat and which preferably contains at least 45 wt. % of SOS triglycerides (S denotes a fatty acid residue with a saturated C18-C24 carbon chain and O denotes an oleic acid residue).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Eckhard Floeter, Henricus Arnoldus Hendrickx, Cornelis Willem van Oosten, Cornelis Sjouke Stellema
  • Patent number: 6777019
    Abstract: A livestock feed supplement block including a molded base and a livestock feed supplement composition compressed into and extending upwardly from the base. The molded base includes a generally cylindrical wall having a radially inwardly extending annular shelf, and a generally circular floor that is integrally formed with the wall to define an upwardly open interior cavity. The floor of the base is configured and arranged to define a downwardly open channel, the opposite ends of the channel being defined by a pair of downwardly open notches in the wall, the channel having a center line disposed away from the center of the generally circular floor. A plurality of upwardly extending pins are located at intervals along the annular shelf of the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Harvest Fuel, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Thornberg
  • Patent number: 6777020
    Abstract: Disclosed are a potato flakes and the method for making the same. The potato flakes can be used to produce food products such as mashed potatoes, potato patties, potato pancakes, and potato snacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.
    Inventors: Maria Dolores Martinez-Serna Villagran, Eileen Marie Boyle, Jianjun Li, Marko Stojanovic, David Kee Yang, Donald Ray Patton, Helena Aino Soini
  • Patent number: 6777021
    Abstract: A method of providing a denatured wheat gluten fiber product with flavoring applied at a critical period of time of its cooling and shrinking after hot moisture-denaturing, that is uniformly flavored throughout and, on consumption, is absent characteristic wheat gluten after taste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Knox Mountain Licensors, Inc.
    Inventors: Cynthia Huber, Robert H. Rines
  • Patent number: 6777022
    Abstract: In a lubricant application system, a prescribed volume of lubricant is transferred from a lubricant discharge port 8 of a prescribed liquid volume discharge device to a rolling element 703 of a rolling bearing 700 in a state in which the lubricant discharge port 8 is positioned directly above and sufficiently close to the rolling element 703, whereby the lubricant is applied to the interior of the rolling bearing 700. Further, the application system inspects whether or not a prescribed volume of lubricant is injected from the discharge device for injecting a lubricant into the interior of a rolling bearing 700.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sekine, Katsuyoshi Yamashita, Michiharu Naka
  • Patent number: 6777023
    Abstract: A method of producing asphalt strip shingles includes continuously coating a substrate with asphalt to form an asphalt coated sheet, moving the asphalt coated sheet in a machine direction, depositing blend drops of blend drop granules onto the asphalt coated sheet from a blender, providing a signal indicative of the presence of the blend drops at a location downstream from the blender, sensing the color of the blend drops at the downstream location with a sensor, comparing the sensed color of the blend drops with a reference color, and providing a signal indicative of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Owens Corning Fiberglas Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Rodenbaugh, John D. Phillips
  • Patent number: 6777024
    Abstract: A gas sensor characterized in that the gas sensor has at least: an insulating substrate; a pair of thin film electrodes which are spaced apart at a given interval and provided on the insulating substrate; a thin film gas sensitive layer which is provided on both the substrate and the thin film electrodes, the gas sensitive layer containing a given material as main ingredient; and a pair of thick film electrodes which is correspondingly positioned over the pair of thin film electrodes and provided on the thin film gas sensitive layer, wherein the thin film electrodes and the thick film electrodes are formed so as to sandwich portions of the thin film gas sensitive layer between the two types of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Hattori, Nobuyuki Yoshiike, Yoshikatsu Inoue
  • Patent number: 6777025
    Abstract: A method for tensioning unrolled donor substrate to facilitate transfer of organic material to form a layer on the unrolled donor substrate, comprising the steps of: delivering of a portion of the unrolled donor substrate from a roll to a frame disposed in an organic coating chamber, such frame defining an aperture; engaging the unrolled donor substrate and tensioning such material using a first clamp assembly associated with the frame; coating the tensioned donor substrate with an organic layer in the organic coating chamber; and cutting the unrolled tensioned portion of donor substrate into a sheet before or after it has been coated with organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Mark D. Bedzyk
  • Patent number: 6777026
    Abstract: Emissive coatings for flexible substrates, preferably elastomers or elastomers bonded to metal are disclosed The coating composition is formed by combining parts (a) and (b) where part (a) comprises an organic solution or aqueous dispersion of a functional group containing polymer or copolymer and thermal conductive filler; and part (b) comprises a liquid curing component, for example a poly isocyanate, a carbodiimide, or an amino resin. 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 and provide heat dissipation over long term service at elevated temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Lord Corporation
    Inventors: James R. Halladay, Frank J. Krakowski, Kenneth C. Caster, Ernest Barritt Troughton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6777027
    Abstract: The present invention provides UV curable coating powders comprising a blend of one or more than one free radical curable resin and one or more than one cationic curable resin, at least one free radical photoinitiator and at least one cationic photoinitiator, including suitable cross-linking agents and additives to enhance the chemical and physical properties of the coating appearance. The coating powder, preferably finely ground to between 5 and 30 microns in average particle size, is applied to a substrate, heat fused, and cured for an amount of time sufficient to form a powder coating having a low gloss finish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Andrew T. Daly, Eugene P. Reinheimer, Richard P. Haley, Navin B. Shah, Richard A. Kraski, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6777028
    Abstract: A cleaned, sterile ceramic, metallic or polymeric substrate surface is vapor-deposited under sterile conditions with silica, is wetted on top of this with a saline coupling agent under sterile conditions, and is provided on top of the latter with a preserving protective layer which is sterile and/or can be sterilized after polymerization and constitutes the activatable first component of a multi-component adhesive which at the time of use is formed by addition of at least one further adhesive component. A workpiece which has been partially or completely coated in this way can be connected with good adhesion to a polymer, even after several months of sterile storage and transportation, by means of the activation of the protective layer with a monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventors: Rudolf Marx, Horst Fischer
  • Patent number: 6777029
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to a method of controlling a pyrolytic carbon deposition coating process performed in a fluidized bed. In one illustrative embodiment, the method comprises positioning a product to be coated in the fluidized bed, determining a coating rate of carbon material formed on the product in the fluidized bed, and determining a desired duration of the coating process by dividing a desired coating thickness for the product by the determined coating rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Carbomedics Inc.
    Inventors: Walter John Carnagey, Sr., Bradley George Borgard, Kenneth Wayne Cox
  • Patent number: 6777030
    Abstract: A glass substrate is ion beam milled in order to smoothen the same and/or reduce or remove nano-cracks in the substrate surface before a coating system (e.g., diamond-like carbon (DLC) inclusive coating system) is deposited thereon. It has been found that such ion beam milling of the substrate prior to deposition of the coating system improves adherence of the coating system to the underlying milled substrate. Moreover, it has surprisingly been found that such ion beam milling of the substrate results in a more scratch resistant coated article when a DLC inclusive coating system is thereafter ion beam deposited on the milled substrate. Amounts sodium (Na) may also be reduced at the surface of the substrate by such milling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Guardian Industries Corp.
    Inventors: Vijayen S. Veerasamy, Rudolph Hugo Petrmichl
  • Patent number: 6777031
    Abstract: Addition-crosslinking silicone rubber mixtures and a process for coating substrate surfaces and shaped composites with this mixture are disclosed. The addition-crosslinking silicone rubber mixture comprises at least the following constituents: (a) a cyclic, linear or branched organopolysiloxane which contains on average at least two alkenyl groups per molecule and has a viscosity of from 0.01 to 30,000 Pas; (b) a cyclic, linear or branched organohydrogenpolysiloxane which may contain dimethylsilyloxy groups and preferably has on average at least two SiH groups per molecule; and (c) a catalytically effective amount of the compound cis-dichlorobis(styrene) platinum(II), which may have been dissolved in a suitable organic solvent, where the molar ratio of the SiH groups present in the mixture to the Si-bonded alkenyl groups present in the mixture is at least 1.5, preferably from about 1.5 to 4.5 and more preferably from about 1.8 to about 2.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: ABB Research LTD
    Inventor: Jens Rocks
  • Patent number: 6777032
    Abstract: Painting a vehicle body comprising an exterior body portion, engine and cargo compartments and an interior door portion all of which are applied with an undercoat is completed by applying a gray intermediate coat to the exterior body portion, an intermediate coat to the engine and/or cargo compartments, a base coat comprising a single color base coat or a color base coat and a bright base coat to the interior door portion, a base coat comprising either a single color base coat or a color base coat and a bright base coat to the exterior body portion, a clear coat to the interior door portion and a clear coat to the exterior body portion in this order, each of the applications of coat being performed while coat layers formed preceding the each application of coat remain wet, and then baking and drying the coat layers all together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Ogasahara, Teruo Kanda, Yusuke Kamesako, Toshiyuki Sakoda
  • Patent number: 6777033
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spot repair finish process for refinishing substrates, in particular vehicle bodies or parts thereof, wherein a very good quality finish is produced with virtually no differences, such as in color shade or overspray margins and edge marks, visually perceptible between the old finish and the repair finish. The spot repair process of the present invention works especially well with pigmented coatings of critical color shade, in particular with specific light color shades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Harald Kloeckner, Guenter Berschel, Andrew Duda
  • Patent number: 6777034
    Abstract: The present invention provides a weldable, coated metal substrate having a pretreatment coating including a reaction product of at least one epoxy-functional material and at least one phosphorus-containing material or amine-containing material and a weldable coating having an electroconductive pigment and a binder deposited thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: Valentin Berger, Ralph C. Gray, Richard M. Nugent, Jr., Michael J. Pawlik
  • Patent number: 6777035
    Abstract: One method of the present invention relates to a method for spray forming metal deposits. The method is comprised of providing a ceramic substrate having a spraying pattern for receiving sprayed metal particles, spraying metal particles onto the spraying pattern to form a metal deposit on the spraying pattern for at least a first spray period, controlling the spraying step during the first spray period so that the temperature of the deposited metal particles increases at an average rate of less than or equal to about 15° per minute. The first spray period can be defined as lasting until the temperature of the deposited metal particles is at or about a steady state temperature. The steady state temperature is preferably in the range of about 330° C. to about 370° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Grigoriy Grinberg, Allen Dennis Roche, David Robert Collins, Richard L Allor
  • Patent number: 6777036
    Abstract: A photoresist-free method for making patterned films of metal oxides, metals, or other metal containing compounds is described. The method involves applying a thin film coating of a metal complex, resulting in the formation of a liquid crystal film. This film can be photolyzed resulting in a chemical reaction which deposits a metal or metal oxide film. The metal complex used is photoreactive and undergoes a chemical reaction in the presence of light of a suitable wavelength. The end product of the reactions depends upon the atmosphere in which the reactions take place. Metal oxide films may be made in air. Patterned films may be made by exposing only selected portions of the film to light. Patterns of two or more materials may be laid down from the same film by exposing different parts of the film to light in different atmospheres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Simon Fraser University
    Inventors: Juan Pablo Bravo Vasquez, Ross H. Hill
  • Patent number: 6777037
    Abstract: A plasma processing method and apparatus are provided for processing the surface of a semiconductor device or the like through the effect of plasma. A pulsed plasma discharge is performed by switching on and off the high frequency electric power for generating the plasma with a specified off period of the plasma generation, to control an inflow amount of positive and negative charges to sparse and dense portions of device patterns and suppress an electric potential on a gate oxide film. Thereby, a highly accurate etching process with no charging damage can be carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Sumiya, Hitoshi Tamura, Seiichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6777038
    Abstract: A recording material for back printing has a transparent substrate; an ink absorbing layer that is provided on the transparent substrate; and a porous ink transmitting layer that is provided on the ink absorbing layer and comprises a filler dispersed in a binder resin, where ink transmitting layer is crosslinked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Yukiko Murasawa, Hideaki Takahashi, Jun Takahashi, Akio Ito
  • Patent number: 6777039
    Abstract: An inkjet recording sheet comprising a support and, on a surface of the support, a colorant-receiving layer formed by applying a first coating liquid, adding a second coating liquid, after application of the first coating liquid and before the same shows a decreasing rate of drying, and thereafter hardening and drying the coat layer to form a porous structure. The first coating liquid has a pH value of 5 or lower, and is obtained by adding a solution which includes polyvinyl alcohol, a nonionic surfactant and/or amphoteric surfactant and a high boiling point organic solvent, to a dispersion including a cationic resin and vapor-phase-process silica having a specific surface area of at least 200 m2/g as measured by the BET method. The second coating liquid has a pH value of 8.5 or higher and includes a cross-linking agent capable of cross-linking the polyvinyl alcohol, an organic mordant and a nonionic surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Koike, Takashi Kobayashi, Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Ryoichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 6777040
    Abstract: A recording sheet for an ink jet printer can improve both recording properties such as vividness of images, printing density, etc., and shelf life such as light resistance of images, ozone resistance, etc. The recording sheet for an ink jet printer comprises a base material and an ink receiving layer provided on at least one surface of the base material, in which the recording sheet contains oligosaccharide and divalent metallic salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Tomoegawa Paper Co., LTD
    Inventors: Fumikazu Tatsuhashi, Nobuhiro Kubota, Shigeki Asai, Senichi Yoshizawa, Kazushige Katagiri, Minoru Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 6777041
    Abstract: An ink jet recording element having a support having thereon a fusible, porous, image-receiving layer having non-porous polymeric particles having a core/shell structure having a polymeric, hydrophobic core covered with a polymeric, hydrophobic shell, the Tg of the polymeric, hydrophobic core being at least about 25° C. higher than the Tg of the polymeric, hydrophobic shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Hwei-Ling Yau, Xiaoru Wang, Wendy S. Krzemien
  • Patent number: 6777042
    Abstract: There is provided a deodorizing and absorbing material comprising RB ceramics and/or CRB ceramics as an odor absorbing material, which has excellent deodorizing properties and long term persistency thereof and is easily fabricated into a complicated shape when the material is used as a molded product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hokkirigawa, Motoharu Akiyama, Noriyuki Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 6777043
    Abstract: An arc-quenching composition is provided including a filler, a fiber and a binder. Preferably, the filler includes an arc-quenching compound such as melamine. The binder includes a thermosetting resin to facilitate forming of the arc-quenching composition into an arc-quenching fuse tube. In a preferred arrangement, an outer tube is formed over the arc-quenching fuse tube to provide an overall high-strength fuse tube. Also in a preferred arrangement, in order to provide a fuse tube that is capable of operation over an extremely wide current range, the inner arc-quenching tube includes a tapered bore. According to one fabrication technique, the outer tube is formed over the arc-quenching inner tube before the curing of the inner tube such that a single structure results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: S & C Electric Co.
    Inventors: Mark W. Stavnes, Jeffrey A. Moore, Thomas J. Tobin