Patents Issued in October 16, 2007
  • Patent number: 7282210
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for carrying out in vitro the complete developmental sequence culture of tissular parasites, which includes culturing the parasites in a totally defined culture medium which is an axenic . . . monophasic liquid culture medium, free of serum and free of serum-derived or cell-derived macromolecules, proteins and peptides. For obtaining amastigote forms, this medium is buffered at a pH of 5.5 to 6.5 and has an osmolarity of at least 400 milliosmoles/kg of liquid. For obtaining promastigote forms, the medium is buffered at a pH of 7 to 7.5 and has an osmolarity of at least 300 milliosmoles/kg liquid. Application to the in vitro culture of different stages of tissular parasites such as Leishmania, T. cruzi, and hamatoprotozoa is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Institut de Recherche pour de Developpement (IRD)
    Inventor: Jean-Loup Lemesre
  • Patent number: 7282211
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pediculicidal and ovicidal composition with an extraordinarily lethal effectiveness that can also be used to remove parasites, such as lice. The pediculicidal and ovicidal composition contains a purified terpene agent such as citronellal, citronellol, citronellyl or a mixture thereof, a short chain alcohol, and a non-aqueous co-solvent and/or surfactant component. The composition more preferably utilizes citronellyl acetate as the active agent. The compositions can be administered topically to humans, animals or any infested areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: BTG International Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey H. Ping
  • Patent number: 7282212
    Abstract: There are described a method for the control of wood pests which comprises applying to the pests or to their habitat a pesticidally active amount of a pesticidal composition comprising, as active ingredient, at least a compound of formula in free form or in the form of an agrochemically acceptable salt, and at least one adjuvant; the corresponding use of those compounds, pesticidal compositions whose active ingredient is selected from those compounds, a process for the preparation of such compositions, the use of such compositions, and plant propagation material accordingly protected against pest attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Senn
  • Patent number: 7282213
    Abstract: A method for coating a medical device with a drug is provided. Energy, preferably thermal energy, is applied to a crystalline deposit of a drug on the surface of a medical device to increase the molecular mobility and form a conformable drug coating with a low density of micro-cracks and other mechanical defects that can degrade the coating toughness and effective adhesion to the device surface. In a preferred embodiment, solution evaporation methods are used to deposit a crystalline coating of an anti-inflammatory steroid on a medical electrode. Heat applied at a controlled temperature, for a predetermined amount of time, induces a solid-state phase change of the drug coating providing a smooth, uniform, well-attached, conformable coating to form a layer that will elute from the electrode over time when implanted in a patient's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter T. Schroeder, Kimberly A. Chaffin
  • Patent number: 7282214
    Abstract: Biomedical devices with antimicrobial coatings are provided. One or more surfaces of the device are coated with a cationic peptide, cationic proteins, or mixtures thereof to impart antimicrobial properties to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Willcox, Emma Hume, Nerida Cole, Yulina Aliwarga, Zanini Diana
  • Patent number: 7282215
    Abstract: The invention is generally related to the field of formulating medicaments in association with a solid support. Such formulations comprising photosensitizers, and their use in photodynamic therapy, are also provided. Methods for the production of the medicament formulations are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Rubinah K. Chowdhary, David Dolphin
  • Patent number: 7282216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel series of polymers which have been prepared by blending hydrophobic biocompatible, biodegradable polymers or copolymers, such as poly(lactide-co-glycolide), and a biocompatible, amphipathic copolymer having a water absorption ratio of about 2 or less. A process for the preparation of the novel polymer blends and sustained release compositions comprising the novel polymer blends are also part of the invention described herein. Further the sustained release compositions can be used to deliver a biologically active with a desirable release profile and in a sustained fashion to a patient in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Alkermes Controlled Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry R. Costantino, Mark A. Tracy, Kevin L. Ward, Wendy W. Nelson
  • Patent number: 7282217
    Abstract: The invention provides a rapidly disintegrating tablet comprising an active ingredient, a water soluble, directly compressible carbohydrate, and a water soluble, directly compressible filler. Also provided is a method of producing a rapidly disintegrating tablet, which method comprises wet granulating a mixture comprising a directly compressible, water soluble carbohydrate, a directly compressible, water insoluble filler, a beneficial ingredient, and a solvent, and compressing the granulate to produce the tablet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: KV Pharmaceutical Company
    Inventors: Michael N. Grimshaw, Donald J. Barbieri, Louise M. Vizzini, Steve F. Marsh
  • Patent number: 7282218
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a substantially amorphous pharmaceutical composition comprising a drug that can exist in a variety of polymorphic forms and a pH sensitive polymer, which inhibits the crystallization of the drug during formulation and reconstitution. Polymers of higher molecular weight are more effective at lower loading, especially when the drug polymer matrix is prepared by the solvent evaporation or solvent extraction technique. The compositions used as dry syrups maintain bioavailability of the drug and effectively mask the taste of the drug when the composition is reconstituted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
    Inventors: Mohan Gopalkrishna Kulkarni, Anupa Ramesh Menjoge
  • Patent number: 7282219
    Abstract: A powdery preparation for transmucosal administration comprising a medicine of high molecular weight, a cationic polymer and, as needed, a viscous polymer, further comprising an effective amount of a basic amino acid. The powdery preparation for transmucosal administration has an improved storage stability for the medicine of high molecular weight while maintaining an improved mucosal absorption of the medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Nomura, Yosuke Ueki
  • Patent number: 7282220
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical microsphere comprises a bioactive agent and a biological carrier that encapsulates the bioactive agent, wherein the biological carrier is crosslinked with a crosslinking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Inventors: Hsing-Wen Sung, Huang-Chien Liang, Wen-Hsiang Chang, Hosheng Tu
  • Patent number: 7282221
    Abstract: An antiviral product is comprised of at least three dosages forms, each of which has a different release profile, with the Cmax for the antiviral product being reached in less than about twelve hours. In one embodiment, there is an immediate release dosage form, as well as two or more delayed release dosage forms, with each of the dosage forms having a different release profile, wherein each reaches a Cmax at different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Middlebrook Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward M. Rudnic, James D. Isbister, Donald J. Treacy, Jr., Sandra E. Wassink
  • Patent number: 7282222
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for delivering cells to a target tissue in a mammal using glycoconjugate to traffic the cell to a desired organ in the mammal. The methods according to the present invention are especially applicable to administering stem cells such as those derived from the bone marrow or from umbilical cord tissue. The methods are also useful for targeting a gene of interest to a tissue in a mammal by introducing a cell containing the gene of interest and administering a glycoconjugate to the mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventor: Catherine Phillips
  • Patent number: 7282223
    Abstract: This invention relates to a nutritional kit for use in preparing an individual for a predetermined activity which requires a clean digestive tract, particularly the colon. Such predetermined activities include, but are not limited to, gastrointestinal surgery and colon screenings. Specifically, the present invention provides an individual low amounts of fat, dietary fiber and solid food content to minimize stool formation and/or facilitate removal of stool from the digestive tract prior to the predetermined activity. The present invention also provides the individual with sufficient calories and nutrition to enable the individual to conduct daily, routine activities while utilizing the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: E-Z-EM, Inc.
    Inventor: Howard S. Stern
  • Patent number: 7282224
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pain relief composition comprising an effective amount of a nerve inhibiting component, including capsaicin, a capsaicinoid or a capsaicin analogue, which numbs or inhibits the nerve endings that signal pain, in combination with at least one of the following: an effective amount of an inflammation control component which is designed to reduce immediate pain and discourage future pain in the joints and muscles; an effective amount of a cooling component; an effective amount of a heat minimizing or blocking component; an effective amount of a circulation increasing component which effectuates better penetration of the actives to the skin and nerves; and an effective amount of a soothing and anti-inflammatory complex for the joints and/or muscles comprising Glucosamine sulfate or HCl, Zingiber officiniale (Ginger Root) extract, Methyl sulfonylmethane (MSM), Polygonum cuspidatum (Mexican Bamboo) extract, Aloe barbadensis leaf, and Salix alba (white willow) bark extract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Guthy-Renker Corporation
    Inventor: Joy E. Roederer
  • Patent number: 7282225
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nutritional dietary supplement composition comprising a combination of effective amounts of vitamins, minerals, carotenoids, antioxidants, natural herbal extracts in an inert stabilizing carrier, which stabilizes and or enhances visual function and acuity. The present invention also relates to methods for treating or preventing macular degeneration comprising administering an effective amount of the dietary supplement composition of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Occular Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Davis, Howard L. Howell
  • Patent number: 7282226
    Abstract: The present invention mainly relates to a vapor fraction from seeds of Glycine max (L.) Merr. prepared by vaporizing a rude extract, and pharmaceutical composition thereof. The present invention also provides the use of the vapor fraction in treating skin injuries, dermatological disorders, stimulating cell regeneration, and stimulating hair growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Inventor: I-Hung Chu
  • Patent number: 7282227
    Abstract: An herbal-based treatment for Hepatitis C includes boiling a filtered residue from the Ecballium Elaterium plant to form a condensate. This condensate is mixed with water and administered in the form of drops. The drops were given to human patients, along with a single herb, Camelthorn, in a powder form. The combined herbal-based treatment was administered to human beings who were chronically infected with Hepatitis C. These patients, in terms of reduction of viral loads, normalization of enzymes, and general well being, were treated successfully in most instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Kentara Research LLC
    Inventors: Essam M. A. Hob Allah, Said I. A. Shalaby
  • Patent number: 7282229
    Abstract: An article that indirectly browns and/or flavors foodstuff, a method of indirectly browning and/or flavoring foodstuff, and a browned and/or flavored foodstuff, provided by the article are disclosed. More specifically, the articles and processes to brown and/or flavor foodstuffs utilize a heated susceptor, such as plastic film, metal foil, cardboard, or paper, treated with a browning and/or flavoring composition, such as a composition containing hydroxyacetaldehyde.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Red Arrow Products Co. LLC
    Inventors: Gary L. Underwood, Jeffrey J. Rozum
  • Patent number: 7282230
    Abstract: The invention relates to starch used in the baking-industry. Creams, (fruit-) fillings, toppings, glazes and other bakery products are often thickened by the inclusion of a certain amount of starch as binder, filling or thickening agent, for example providing gel-strength, viscosity, glaze, texture or creaminess to the cream or filling. Commonly used starches have insufficient stability to for example heat applied during baking. The invention provides a starch-containing filling or topping for a bakery product wherein said starch comprises a tuber or root starch containing less than about 5% amylose and use of such a filling or topping for improving a bakery product. Furthermore, the invention provides a heat-stable starch and bakery products comprising a heat-stable starch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Cooperatieve Verkoop-en Productievereniging van Aardappelmeel Derivaten AVEBE B.A.
    Inventors: Pieter Lykle Buwalda, Roelfina Willemina A. Thürkow
  • Patent number: 7282231
    Abstract: A doughnut like a dumpling covered with sesame seeds is prepared using a powdery raw material, which comprises 50 to 80 parts by weight of ungelatinized starch, 6 to 25 parts by weight of pregelatinized starch, 7 to 30 parts by weight of wheat flour and 7 to 25 parts by weight of a saccharide. Dough used for the preparation of a doughnut like a dumpling covered with sesame seeds is obtained by adding water and, if needed, a seasoning component to the foregoing powdery raw material to thus form dough, dividing the resulting dough into small pieces and forming each small piece into a desired shape and, if needed, stuffing the shaped dough with fillings. The foregoing doughnut can be prepared by frying the foregoing dough. The doughnut like a dumpling covered with sesame seeds is excellent in the storage stability and has excellent sticky and resilient feeling upon eating like a rice cake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Marsutani Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Yamamoto, Kimihito Wada
  • Patent number: 7282232
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method of producing a porous bonded fibrous sheet material comprising: (i) treating a porous fibrous substrate which is comprised of cellulosic fibers and which has a moisture content of less than 10% by weight with a gum and a cross-linkable wet strength resin both dissolved in water; (ii) removing excess water; and (iii) effecting cross-linking of the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Inventors: John Edward Rose, Glynn Arthur Wardle
  • Patent number: 7282233
    Abstract: Lipolytic enzymes are chemically modified by covalently linking one or more (particularly 1-3) hydrophobic groups to the enzyme molecule. The chemical modification improves the performance of the lipolytic enzyme, e.g., in baking or in detergents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Honger Callisen, Shamkant Anant Patkar, Allan Svendsen, Jesper Vind
  • Patent number: 7282234
    Abstract: A method for producing a jerked meat rawhide chew toys has acts of providing rawhide chew toys, preparing meat, processing the meat, coating the rawhide chew toys with meat and drying the rawhide chew toys coated with meat. According to the method, the rawhide chew toys are coated with meat and jerked to improve dogs' desire to chew rawhide chew toys a long time to achieve the objective of cleaning dogs' teeth better.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Inventor: Chia-Lung Shu
  • Patent number: 7282235
    Abstract: A flexible, strip-shaped food product is made by comminuting substantially frozen meat and heating the comminuted meat to at least partially denature the meat proteins and cooling the cooked meat. About 4% by weight to about 45% by weight of wheat flour is admixed with the cooked meat, along with other ingredients, to form a dough. Use of the wheat flour unexpectedly increases tensile strength of the dough and products baked from the dough, and maintains flexibility of the strip-shaped food products over an extended period of time. Cooking of the meat in the presence of salt unexpectedly increases water activity of the pieces, resulting in a product that has a skin and a moist middle, while maintaining tensile strength. The dough is rotary-molded into strip-shaped pieces. The rotary mold may have angled die cups. The strip-shaped dough pieces are then baked and dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Del Monte Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Lombard, Kenchu Tham, Haitao Ni, Paul Ziemba, Harry Levine
  • Patent number: 7282236
    Abstract: Methods of making hydrophobic, pyrogenically produced silica having a tamped density, of 55 to 200 g/l. Said silica is produced by hydrophobizing pyrogenically produced silica by reaction with a halogen free silane and then compacting it with means consisting of a roller compactor or a belt filter press. The silica may be used for the production of dispersions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Günther Michael, Volker Kasack, Rüdiger Nowak
  • Patent number: 7282237
    Abstract: A method for hydrophilization and/or surface area enlargement of a porous base matrix comprising on its inner and/or outer surfaces a polymer (P?) carrying nucleophilic groups X?. The method is characterized in (a) ethoxylating a plurality of said X? thereby transforming them to groups comprising —(CH2CH2O)nH, or (b) (i) ethoxylating a polymer (P?) carrying nucleophilic groups X? thereby transforming P? to a polyhydroxy polymer (P??) carrying a plurality of —(CH2CH2O)nH groups, whereafter (ii) P?? is attached to the base matrix. n is an integer ?1. A support matrix which is obtainable by the method. The support matrix has a sufficient rigidity and swellability to permit liquid flow of a velocity >5 cm/h through the matrix when in form of particles packed to a bed or in form of a porous monolithic plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences AB
    Inventors: Helene Derand, Rose Nasman, legal representative, Harry Nasman, legal representative, Jan Nasman, deceased
  • Patent number: 7282238
    Abstract: A coherent material is formed on a substrate (10) by providing a precursor suspension (14) in which particulates are suspended in a carrier fluid, and directing the precursor suspension (14) at the substrate (10) from a first source (12). Generally contemporaneously with application of the deposited precursor suspension (14) to the surface, hot gases, e.g. hot gases produced by a flame (16), are directed at the substrate (10) from a remote second source (18) to fuse the particulates into the coherent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: nGimat Co.
    Inventors: Subramaniam Shanmugham, Andrew Tye Hunt, Girish Deshpande, Tzyy-Jiuan Jan Hwang, Erika Moore, Yongdong Jiang
  • Patent number: 7282239
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the system includes a gas supply assembly having a first gas source, a first gas conduit coupled to the first gas source, a first valve assembly, a reaction chamber, and a gas distributor carried by the reaction chamber. The first valve assembly includes first and second valves that are in fluid communication with the first gas conduit. The first and second valves are configured in a parallel arrangement so that the first gas flows through the first valve and/or the second valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Demetrius Sarigiannis, Shuang Meng, Garo J. Derderian
  • Patent number: 7282240
    Abstract: An elastomeric mask is provided that allows deposition of a variety of materials through mask openings. The mask seals effectively against substrate surfaces, allowing simple deposition from fluid phase, gas phase, and the like or removal of material using gaseous or liquid etchants. The mask then can be simply peeled from the surface of the substrate leaving the patterned material behind. Multi-layered mask techniques are described in which openings in an upper mask allow selected openings of a lower mask to remain un-shielded, while other openings of the lower mask are shielded. A first deposition step, following by re-orientation of the upper mask to expose a different set of lower mask openings, allows selective deposition of different materials in different openings of the lower mask. Pixelated organic electroluminescent devices are provided via the described technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Rebecca J. Jackman, David C. Duffy, George M. Whitesides, Kathleen Vaeth, Klavs F. Jensen
  • Patent number: 7282241
    Abstract: Nanoporous structures are constructed that have hydrophilic regions separated by hydrophobic regions. The porous, hydrophilic regions have reaction sites suitable for use in a bioassay application and have a higher density of reaction sites than that of a non-porous (2-D) surface. The structure may be made by depositing a layer of a matrix material (e.g., an organosilicate) and a porogen, and then crosslinking the matrix material to form a nanohybrid composite structure. The porogen is decomposed to form pores within the matrix material, and a reactive gas phase species (e.g., ozone) is patternwise directed onto a surface of the matrix material. Ultraviolet light (directed through a mask) activates the gas phase species to form a reactive species that then reacts with the matrix material to make it hydrophilic. The porogen may be decomposed thermally or by exposing it to an oxidizing atmosphere in the presence of ultraviolet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ho-Cheol Kim, Robert Dennis Miller
  • Patent number: 7282242
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multilayer polymer structure including an inner structural layer (A) of a rigid polymer composition, an intermediate or tie layer (B) of a polymer composition including a thermoplastic polyurethane, and an exposed or surface layer (C) of a polymer composition including a thermoplastic elastomer, which is preferably a partially cross-linked chlorinated olefin interpolymer alloy. Layer (B) is disposed between and bonded to layers (A) and (C). Preferably, layer (C) and layer (B) are bonded to layer (A) under pressure, at a temperature at which both the layer (C) and layer (B) are at or near their respective melting or softening points, but layer (A) is maintained at a temperature at which it remains dimensionally stable. Multilayer polymer structures according to the invention can be formed into decking material, conveyor belting and a variety of other products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Ferro Corporation
    Inventors: W. Robert Abell, III, E. David Santoleri, Jeffrey S. Armour
  • Patent number: 7282243
    Abstract: The present invention has as its object to provide a pattern forming method which, even if a pattern is formed by photolithography, can keep the edge of the opening portion of the pattern in a sharp state and yet, can make the wall surface of the recess of the pattern into a tapered shape, and a method of manufacturing an ink jet recording head to which the aforedescribed method is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Ohkuma, Hikaru Ueda, Maki Hatta, Masaki Ohsumi, Takayuki Ono
  • Patent number: 7282244
    Abstract: The present invention provides a deposition process for plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of a coating on a substrate. The process comprises detennining a target process condition within a chamber of an expanding thermal plasma generator; the generator comprising a cathode, a replaceable cascade plate and an anode comprising a concentric orifice; and thereafter replacing the cascade plate with another plate having a configured orifice to effect the identified target process condition. The plasma is then generated at the target process condition by providing a plasma gas to the plasma generator and ionizing the plasma gas in an arc between cathode and anode within the generator and expanding the gas as a plasma onto a substrate in a deposition chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mark Schaepkens, Charles Dominic Iacovangelo, Thomas Miebach
  • Patent number: 7282245
    Abstract: A device composed of: (a) a first liquid crystal composition including a first liquid crystal and a first liquid crystal domain stabilizing compound, wherein the first liquid crystal composition switches between a strongly scattering state of a first plurality of smaller liquid crystal domains that strongly scatters a predetermined light and a weakly scattering state of a second plurality of larger liquid crystal domains that weakly scatters the predetermined light; and (b) a second liquid crystal composition including a second liquid crystal and a second liquid crystal domain stabilizing compound, wherein the second liquid crystal composition switches between a strongly scattering state of a first plurality of smaller liquid crystal domains that strongly scatters the predetermined light and a weakly scattering state of a second plurality of larger liquid crystal domains that weakly scatters the predetermined light, wherein the second liquid crystal composition and the first liquid crystal composition are in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel Iftime, Hadi K. Mahabadi, Peter M. Kazmaier
  • Patent number: 7282246
    Abstract: Concerning the compound of the formula (I) R1, R3 are each independently, for example, H R2, R4 are each independently, for example, H X1, X2 are each independently H or F M1 is —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CH2—O—, —O—CH2—, —CF2—O—, —O—CF2—, —CH?CH—, —CF?CF—, —C?C—, —CH2—CH2—CO—O—, —O—CO—CH2—CH2—, —CH2—CH2—, —CF2—CF2—, —(CH2)4—, —OC(?O)CF?CF— or a single bond A1 is, for example, 1,4-phenylene, and R5 has the same possible definitions as specified for R2 and R4, with the exception of —M1-A1-R5, but independently of the particular definitions of R2 and R4 with the following provisos: 1) at least one of X1, X2 has to be F 2) R1, R2, R3 and R4 must not at the same time be H 3) at most two of R1, R2, R3 and R4 may be c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schmidt, Barbara Hornung, Rainer Wingen
  • Patent number: 7282247
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermal transfer medium which transfers images to a receiving substrate. The thermal transfer medium includes a laminate, having a substrate, a coating and a functional layer positioned substantially on the coating. This coating may include an oil. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to a method of making the thermal transfer medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Edward Keeton, Thomas J. Obringer
  • Patent number: 7282248
    Abstract: A heat insulating and shielding glass panel that is capable of maintaining heat shielding performance even if heat treatment is carried out during manufacture. The heat insulating and shielding glass panel 1 is comprised of a pair of glass plates 11 and 12 that are hermetically joined together at their outer peripheral edges via a sealing frame 13 that fluidizes at low temperature, such that respective one surfaces of the glass plates 11, 12 face each other and a hollow layer 14 is formed between the glass plates; and pillars 15 that are substantially cylindrical spacers that are inserted into the hollow layer 14 as atmospheric pressure supporting members and determine the gap between the glass plates 11 and 12. A low-emission transparent multilayer 17 having an emittance of not more than 0.1 is coated by sputtering on each of surfaces 11a and 12a of the respective glass plates 11 and 12 facing the hollow layer 14 so as to realize high heat insulation performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Osamu Asano, Terufusa Kunisada, Tetsuo Minaai
  • Patent number: 7282249
    Abstract: Pads of cigarette papers for making self-rolled cigarettes are provided comprising a stack (1) of cigarette paper sheets (3) adhered to a base sheet (2). Each sheet (3) is adhered by means of an adhesive (7) applied on the bottom side (4) of the sheet, to the top side (6) of the sheet (5) immediately below it in the stack (1). The top side of the sheet (3) may be provided with a further layer of adhesive (10). The invention enables self-rolled cigarette papers, that traditionally have been sold in packets manufactured on customised paper folding and interleaving machines, to be manufactured in pads on machines that may be readily adapted to manufacture other paper products, such as pads of repositionable notes and party hats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Sustainable Trading Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Harrison, Mark Andrew Rowden
  • Patent number: 7282250
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wrap assembly for wrapping longitudinally extended articles, such as cable assemblies. The wrapping uses a textile sheath and self-adhering adhesive tape. The sheath provides edged on each narrow side. The self-adhesive tape is narrow compared to the width of the covering. The adhesive tape is adhered to the sheath in such a manner that the adhesive tape extends over one of the longitudinal edges of the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Tesa AG
    Inventors: Esther Musahl, Matthias Von Samson-Himmelstjerna, Klaus Külper
  • Patent number: 7282251
    Abstract: Loop materials are provided for touch fastening. The loop materials include a web of nonwoven fibrous material defining a plane, the web including: (a) raised areas, elevated above the plane of the web, defining loops constructed for engagement with male touch fastener elements; (b) rib areas surrounding the raised areas to anchor the loops; and (c) between the rib areas, either open areas, or planar areas that are substantially in the plane of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Vekro Industries B.V.
    Inventors: George A. Provost, William H. Shepard
  • Patent number: 7282252
    Abstract: The facing of a faced building insulation assembly includes a central field portion with a selected water vapor permeance rating that is bonded to an insulation layer to provide the faced building insulation assembly with a selected water vapor permeance rating. The facing may have lateral tabs and may be separable longitudinally along separable locations in the insulation layer of the assembly. The field portion of the facing may include a fungi growth inhibiting agent, a pesticide, a coating to stiffen the facing and/or decrease the flame spread and smoke formation characteristics of the facing, and/or a heat activated bonding agent that bonds the facing to the insulation layer of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Ralph Michael Fay, Blake Boyd Bogrett
  • Patent number: 7282253
    Abstract: A non-woven fabric with melange-type visual appearance and endowed with high-durability comprising a fiber part and a matrix binder characterized by the binder matrix being a polyurethane characterized by the presence of soft segments and rigid segments, the former constituted from mixtures of polycarbonate-polyols and polyester-polyols, and the latter, from urethane groups deriving from the reaction of isocyanates with ureic polyols, and groups deriving from the reaction between the free isocyanate groups and water, and the fiber part comprises a fiber of melange appearance that is a mixture of two or more fibers with different dyeability characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Inventors: Silvia Marini, Omar Teofrasti
  • Patent number: 7282254
    Abstract: A bi- or multi-layer coating is deposited upon a substrate using a low temperature process. The bi-layer is a lower layer of a SAM coating, which is overlaid with a hard coating. The hard coating can be made of materials such as: polymer, Si3N4, BN, TiN, SiO2, Al2O3, ZrO2, YSZ, and other ceramic materials, and the underlying, compliant, SAM coating can comprise substances containing long chain molecules that chemically bond to the substrate. This bi-layer provides both environmental and hermetical protection to electronic hardware and MEMS systems, without employing expensive packaging materials and processes. Multiple bi-layers may be combined to form multi-layer coatings. A protective polymer or other material may optionally be formed as an outside layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: The Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: Junghyun Cho, Scott Oliver, Wayne Jones, Bahgat Sammakia
  • Patent number: 7282255
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible printed circuit board which has extremely high adhesion performance and on which very fine circuit patterns can be formed by etching, and to a method for producing the same. In the present invention, in the flexible printed circuit board wherein a copper thin film made of copper or an alloy containing primarily copper is directly formed on at least one side of a plastic film substrate, and copper is formed further on the copper thin film by the electrolytic plating method, the above-mentioned copper thin film has a two-layer structure in which a layer including at least a crystalline structure is formed on the surface side thereof, and the X-ray relative intensity ratio between crystal lattice plane indices (200)/(111) in the above-mentioned crystalline structure is 0.1 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Hiranaka, Ryuichi Nakagami, Mitsuhiro Fukuoka, Motohiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7282256
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin laminate for a sign board is provided, which laminate has a support and a photosensitive resin layer having a thickness of not less than 500 ?m formed at least on the support via an adhesive layer, wherein the photosensitive resin layer has an absorbance at 400 nm of not more than 0.4 and the support is a modified polyethylene terephthalate layer on which a UV quality change preventive layer is formed. A sign board obtained using a photosensitive resin laminate of the present invention has a transparent and colorless support having superior design and superior light resistance with a smaller coloring level due to UV. In other words, the photosensitive resin laminate of the present invention can provide a suitable sign board and greatly contributes to the industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignees: Anderson & Vreelan, Nova Polymer, Inc., Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Howard B. Vreeland, Jr., James Chapman, Yuji Taguchi
  • Patent number: 7282257
    Abstract: The present invention relates to resin compositions that are useful for preparing adhesive films, which are, in turn, useful for forming interlayer insulation layers for multi-layered printed wiring boards having an excellent mechanical strength and capable of being roughened by an oxidizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Orikabe, Kenji Kawai
  • Patent number: 7282258
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multilayer sealable film having a sealable outer layer, a first heat resistant layer, a core layer, and a second heat resistant layer. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the core layer is positioned between the two heat resistant layers. The sealable layer is positioned such that one of the heat resistant layers is located between the seal layer and the core layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Pliant Corporation
    Inventors: Robert E Chambliss, Paul Z. Wolak
  • Patent number: 7282259
    Abstract: A ceramic structure having a scaffold with at least one opening and at least one porous filler material at least partially filling the at least one opening is described. The porous ceramic filler includes a plurality of pores. The pores have an average size in a range from about 2 nm to about 100 nm. The plurality of pores includes at least one pore architecture. For each pore architecture, the average pore size does not vary by more than about 100% when the average pore size is in a range from about 2 nm to about 50 nm, and the average pore size does not vary by more than about 50% when the average pore size is greater than about 50 nm. The plurality of pores includes at least two pore architectures when the porous filler material is silica. Also described is a method of making the ceramic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Anthony Yu-Chung Ku, Sergio Paulo Martins Loureiro, Seth Thomas Taylor
  • Patent number: 7282260
    Abstract: A coating composition having outstanding electrically conductive and electromagnetic radiation absorptive properties is disclosed with a water emulsion polymer binder. The binder is a blend of a first emulsion containing a conjugated diene as monomer or comonomer, and a second emulsion containing an acrylic, aliphatic or aromatic polyurethane, polyester urethane, polyester, epoxy, polyamide, polyimide, vinyl, fluoropolymer, or silicone polymer. An effective amount of electrically conductive and electromagnetic radiation absorptive particles is dispersed in the binder. The particles include a combination of graphite particles, carbon nanotubes and metal containing particles. An effective amount of water is also present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Unitech, LLC
    Inventors: Wayne B. LeGrande, Robert C. Boyd