Patents Issued in February 18, 2014
  • Patent number: 8652353
    Abstract: A novel liquid crystalline carbonate and the mixture containing the same: wherein R3 is an alkyl (H2n+1Cn) or an alkenyl (H2n?1Cn) group, each of 1 to 12 carbon atoms, the ring A is laterally unsubstituted benzene or pyridine or pyrimidine or trans-substituted cyclohexane ring, symbol r is 0 to 2; the lateral substituents: X2, X3, X4 and X5 in the benzene rings represent independently hydrogen or fluorine or chlorine atoms, X1 is hydrogen or fluorine atom and simultaneously at least one of the substituents: X2, X3 and X4 is fluorine or chlorine atoms, Y is an alkyl or an alkyloxy or an alkenyl or an alkenyloxy group, each of 1 to 12 carbon atoms or hydrogen or fluorine or chlorine atom or NCS group are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna
    Inventors: Roman Slawomir Dabrowski, Przemyslaw Kula, Artur Choluj, Jerzy Dziaduszek, Katarzyna Garbat
  • Patent number: 8652354
    Abstract: Organic additives are used to improve the lifetimes of organic electronic devices, such as electroluminescent devices fabricated from polymer luminescent ink. These additives include moisture getters, thermally-activated organic/inorganic hybrids, radical scavengers, antioxidants, UV stabilizers, and photoretarders. For water and oxygen scavengers, activation at elevated temperatures or through another activation method is preferred. This allows for the handling of the device materials containing the scavenger under a lower temperature condition in air where higher levels of ambiently-supplied water or oxygen may also be present. The invention also improves operational lifetimes as getters, scavengers and similar acting additives serve to reduce detrimental reactive species that transport into the device, are generated during operation, or become reactive during operation due to the presence of excited states or external stimulation by electrical, optical or other means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Ping Chen, John Devin MacKenzie, Xuanqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 8652355
    Abstract: Self-adhesive polymer having a relative permittivity of more than 4.5 useful as a matrix of a self-adhesive electroluminescence mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Daniel Klier, Berit Guse
  • Patent number: 8652356
    Abstract: The blue phosphor of the present invention is represented by the general formula aBaO.bSrO.(1?a?b)EuO.cMgO.dAlO3/2.eWO3, where 0.70?a?0.95, 0?b?0.15, 0.95?c?1.15, 9.00?d?11.00, 0.001?e?0.200, and a+b?0.97 are satisfied. In the blue phosphor of the present invention, two peaks whose tops are located in a range of diffraction angle 2?=13.0 to 13.6 degrees and one peak whose top is located in a range of diffraction angle 2?=14.6 to 14.8 degrees are present in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by measurement on the blue phosphor using an X-ray with a wavelength of 0.774 ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kojiro Okuyama, Yayoi Okui, Seigo Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 8652357
    Abstract: Disclosed are a phosphor, a method for preparing and using the same, a light emitting device package, a surface light source apparatus, a lighting apparatus using the phosphor, and a display apparatus. The phosphor includes an inorganic compound represented by an empirical formula (Sr, M)2SiO4-xNy:Eu, where M is a metallic element, 0<x<4, and y=2x/3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Ho Ryu, Chul Soo Yoon, Hyong Sik Won
  • Patent number: 8652358
    Abstract: The present invention provides an Al—C—O based phosphor using neither heavy metal nor rare metal and composed of elements with high environmental compatibility and excellent economic efficiency, wherein the wavelength of the peak intensity of the emission spectrum can be changed without changing the basic composition. An aluminum oxide phosphor which comprises aluminum (Al), carbon (C), and oxygen (O) respectively in an amount of 30 mol %<Al<60 mol %, 0 mol %<C<10 mol %, 30 mol %<O<70 mol % is provided. The above problem is solved in the production of an Al—C—O phosphor comprising aluminum (Al), carbon (C), and oxygen (O) by heating and firing a mixture comprising an aluminum-containing compound and a coordinatable oxygen-containing compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignees: Hiroshima University, Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Okuyama, Ferry Iskandar, Yutaka Kaihatsu, Jun Takai, Hideharu Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 8652359
    Abstract: The embodiment provides a red light-emitting fluorescent substance represented by the following formula (1): (M1-xECx)aM1bAlOcNd??(1). In the formula (1), M is an element selected from the group consisting of IA group elements, IIA group elements, IIIA group elements, IIIB group elements, rare earth elements and IVA group elements; EC is an element selected from the group consisting of Eu, Ce, Mn, Tb, Yb, Dy, Sm, Tm, Pr, Nd, Pm, Ho, Er, Cr, Sn, Cu, Zn, As, Ag, Cd, Sb, Au, Hg, Tl, Pb, Bi and Fe; M1 is different from M and is selected from the group consisting of tetravalent elements; and x, a, b, c and d are numbers satisfying the conditions of 0<x<0.2, 0.63<a<0.80, 2.1<b<2.63, 0<c?0.24 and 4<d<5, respectively. This substance emits luminescence having a peak in the wavelength range of 620 to 670 nm when excited by light of 250 to 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Aoi Okada, Yumi Fukuda, Naotoshi Matsuda, Iwao Mitsuishi, Shinya Nunoue
  • Patent number: 8652360
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method of use for surface-modifying a semiconductor nanocrystal comprising at least the steps consisting in having a semiconductor nanocrystal, the organic coating layer of which is provided, at the outer surface of the nanocrystal, with at least one reactive group G1 that reacts according to a cycloaddition reaction of click chemistry type; and bringing said nanocrystal together with an adjoining material provided at the surface with at least one G2 group complementary to the G1 group with respect to said click chemistry reaction, under conditions favorable to the interaction of said G1 and G2 groups, characterized in that said G1 and G2 groups are respectively an azide and a strained cycloalkynyl radical, or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Isabelle Texier-Nogues, Aude Bernardin
  • Patent number: 8652361
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composite electrode material consisting of a carbon coated complex oxide, fibrous carbon and a binder. Said material is prepared by a method which comprises co-grinding an active electrode material and fibrous carbon, and adding a binder to the co-grinded mixture to lower the viscosity of the mixture. The fibrous carbon is preferably vapor grown carbon fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignees: Hydro-Quebec, Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Karim Zaghib, Chiaki Sotowa, Patrick Charest, Masataka Takeuchi, Abdelbast Guerfi
  • Patent number: 8652362
    Abstract: The present invention provides a modified curing agent for a thermosetting resin, such as epoxy resin. As one example, the epoxy curing agent comprises: (a) multiple nano graphene platelets; (b) a chemical functional group having multiple ends with a first end being bonded to a nano graphene platelet and at least a second end reactive with the epoxy resin; and (c) reactive molecules acting as a primary cross-linking agent for the epoxy resin; wherein the nano graphene platelet content is no less than 0.01% by weight based on the total weight of the modified curing agent. A modified curing agent containing reactive molecule-functionalized NGPs enable excellent dispersion of NGP in a resin matrix and the resulting nanocomposites exhibit much better properties than those of corresponding nanocomposites prepared by directly mixing dried NGPs with the thermosetting resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nanotek Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Aruna Zhamu, Bor Z. Jang
  • Patent number: 8652363
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel boron compound that has a maximum absorption wavelength in the near-infrared light range and has low absorption in the visible ray range, and thus is excellent as a near-infrared absorber, and a near-infrared absorber and a near-infrared absorbing synthetic resin composition using the compound. The present invention specifically provides a boron compound represented by the following general formula (1), preferably a boron compound wherein R1 to R16 in the general formula (1) each represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and a near-infrared absorbing synthetic resin composition containing the boron compound as a near-infrared absorber In the above-mentioned general formula (1), R1 to R16 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, an amino group, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms optionally having substituents, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Adeka Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Ueda, Kazukiyo Nomura
  • Patent number: 8652364
    Abstract: A polymer film comprising at least one compound represented by formula (I) is disclosed. A1 and A2 each independently represent a group having a Hammett's ?p value of 0.2 or more, or bond each other to form a cyclic active methylene structure; and X1 and X2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, aryl group, hetero-cyclic group, cyano, N-alkyl- or N-aryl-carbamoyl, or alkyl- or aryl-oxycarbonyl, or bond each other to form a saturated ring in which nitrogen and carbon atoms are embedded, and the group and ring may have at least one substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunya Katoh, Hiroko Kamee
  • Patent number: 8652365
    Abstract: A mold set includes: a first mold and a second mold placed so that they sandwich an optical material and face each other; and a first spacer and a second spacer provided between the first and second molds, wherein: the first spacer secures an interval between the first and second molds at a first temperature achieved in a process of pressurizing the optical material; the first spacer shrinks in a mold opening-closing direction more greatly than the second spacer while the first temperature is changing to a second temperature achieved in a process of cooling the optical material; and the second spacer secures the interval between the first and second molds at the second temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Norimitsu Nagayama
  • Patent number: 8652366
    Abstract: Disclosed are aerosol-mediated methods for synthesizing particles for biomedical and drug delivery applications. The method is based on the production of particles from sprayed polymeric micro or nano-droplets obtained by, for example, an air-jet nebulization process that is followed by gelation and/or hardening in a crosslinking fluid, non-solvent, precipitating solvent, or supercritical fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Hugh D. C. Smyth, Ibrahim M. El-Sherbiny
  • Patent number: 8652367
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for prilling are provided which include dynamically controlling the pressure at the prill head for increased control over prill quality and size distribution. In one embodiment, the pressure of a headspace above a volume of liquid or slurry is regulated to maintain a more precise control of the pressure of the liquid or slurry at the prill head. In another embodiment, an axial upflow device is used to maintain a more precise control of the pressure of the liquid or slurry at the prill head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: David W. Donnick, Stephanie C. Barthe, Gregory A. Cleotelis, Andrew J. Howes, James A. Kweeder, Raymond G. Wissinger
  • Patent number: 8652368
    Abstract: A resorbable tissue scaffold fabricated from bioactive glass fiber forms a rigid three-dimensional porous matrix having a bioactive composition. Porosity in the form of interconnected pore space is provided by the space between the bioactive glass fiber in the porous matrix. Strength of the bioresorbable matrix is provided by bioactive glass that fuses and bonds the bioactive glass fiber into the rigid three-dimensional matrix. The resorbable tissue scaffold supports tissue in-growth to provide osteoconductivity as a resorbable tissue scaffold, used for the repair of damaged and/or diseased bone tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Bio2 Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: James Jenq Liu
  • Patent number: 8652369
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a molded silicone rubber sponge by filling a sponge-forming silicone rubber composition into a cavity of a mold, wherein after the aforementioned sponge-forming silicone rubber composition is cured, and before mold opening of the aforementioned mold, gas present in the aforementioned cavity is discharged. Thereby, a molded silicone rubber sponge without damage such as chips or the like can be effectively produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Dow Corning Toray Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsugio Nozoe, Atsushi Sakuma, Hiroaki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8652370
    Abstract: A hot isostatic pressing method is disclosed wherein workpieces are accommodated within a high pressure vessel and the interior of the high pressure vessel is filled with an inert gas of a high temperature and a high pressure to treat the workpieces. The method includes a cooling step which is performed after maintaining the interior of the high pressure vessel at a high temperature and a high pressure for a predetermined time and in which a liquid inert gas is fed into the high pressure vessel. According to this method it is possible to shorten the cycle time of an HIP apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Fujikawa, Tomomitsu Nakai, Makoto Yoneda, Shigeo Kofune, Yoshihiko Sakashita, Masahiko Mitsuda
  • Patent number: 8652371
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for making PMC's and composites include an infusing step wherein the resin reservoir and the preform are maintained under substantially the same vacuum pressure during the infusing step. Substantially the same vacuum pressure may be accomplished using a collapsible resin reservoir that is enclosed within or external to the vacuum bagging assembly of the fiber preform. This method results in a maximum achievable vacuum compaction pressure and simplified resin infusion process. This process may be used to manufacture prepregs and aerospace grade fiber reinforced resin composites, also disclosed herein, that have fiber volume, void content and laminate quality that meets or exceeds those made using an autoclave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Cytec Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Mitchell David Smith, Marc Doyle
  • Patent number: 8652372
    Abstract: Coal compacts which are suitable for coking in coke oven chambers are prepared by pressing and compacting coal in a pressing device having a design which shapes the surface of the coal compacts to provide higher surface area. Already compacted coal blocks can be pressed to generate the surface shape. The resulting coal compacts exhibit significantly improved properties during the coking process, resulting in improved gas and heat exchange. A device for compacting coal preferably contains a plate provided with shaping elements on the pressing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH
    Inventor: Ronald Kim
  • Patent number: 8652373
    Abstract: Hydroxyapatite-polymer nanocomposites, which are nanoparticles/microparticles, methods for making them, and articles made from them are disclosed. These methods are capable of preparing nanocomposites exhibiting more homogeneous dispersion of nanoparticles than is seen using previous methods. Such nanocomposites and articles are useful for a wide variety of applications, such as biological, medical, biochemical, biosensor, fuel cell, and aerospace applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    Inventors: Kamal Krishna Kar, Sumit Pramanik
  • Patent number: 8652374
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing an in-mold decorated molded article, which can eliminate the need for deburring after molding and the need for an extra allowance of the molded article. The process includes: clamping a first mold (1) and a second mold (2) to hold a decorative film (207) between the molds; cutting a transfer layer (302) of the decorative film (207) in the molds; injecting resin (5) into the cavity of the mold; cooling the resin (5); and opening the molds to remove the in-mold decorated molded article on which the transfer layer (302) is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kaneuchi, Gakuei Shibata, Shinji Kadoriku, Mitsuhiro Iseri
  • Patent number: 8652375
    Abstract: A method of making scrolls is provided that includes providing a tape having a first side and second side wherein the first side of the tape is has an adhesive disposed thereon and the second side of the tape has a release coating disposed thereon, affixing the adhesive to a solid surface, buff-coating exfoliatable particles on the release side of the tape to form a coating; and peeling the tape from the solid surface at an angle. The coating separates from the release side of the tape and curls inwards to form scrolls. The scrolls can include graphite. Also provided is a continuous method of making scrolls and an apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Ranjith Divigalpitiya, Tyler J. E. Clark
  • Patent number: 8652376
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing nanostructured and/or microstructured surfaces in an adhesive layer, more particularly in a self-adhesive layer, in which an adhesive polymer mixture, more particularly a self-adhesive polymer mixture, is guided into a nip formed by a relief roll, whose surface has been provided with a relief which represents the negative of the surface structure to be produced on the adhesive layer, and by a nip roll, and where the relief roll and the nip roll rotate in opposite directions, wrapped partly around the relief roll is a web-form carrier material which is guided through the nip and whose speed corresponds more particularly to the peripheral speed of the relief roll, the adhesive polymer mixture, more particularly the self-adhesive polymer mixture, is pressed through the nip, so that the near-roll surface of the polymer mixture is shaped in accordance with the relief, lies in layer form on the carrier material after passage through the nip, and is guided away with t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventor: Axel Burmeister
  • Patent number: 8652377
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing of tubular free-shaped articles having an inner polymer layer and an outer polymer layer by co-extruding at least two different polymers in an extruder apparatus comprising an extrusion die and at least two extruder barrels/heads. The invention furthermore relates to a tubular free-shaped article comprising at least two layers of different polymers and which article is obtained by the process according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Andre Van Meerbeek, Antonius van Meesche, Andre Goossens
  • Patent number: 8652378
    Abstract: The present invention relates to rapid dissolve thin film drug delivery compositions for the oral administration of active components. The active components are provided as taste-masked or controlled-release coated particles uniformly distributed throughout the film composition. The compositions may be formed by wet casting methods, where the film is cast and controllably dried, or alternatively by an extrusion method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: MonoSol Rx LLC
    Inventors: Robert K. Yang, Richard C. Fuisz, Garry L. Myers, Joseph M. Fuisz
  • Patent number: 8652379
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing modular, hollow, prismatic, monolithic reinforced-concrete elements of rectangular section, which includes the stages of concreting their side walls in two horizontally arranged formwork structures, carrying out a rotation of said formwork structures so as to leave them arranged vertically on either side of a third formwork, with said third formwork horizontal, then concreting the floor slab, placing formwork between the side walls for concreting of the ceiling slab and withdrawing the modular element, so that a high degree of monolithism is achieved, a method in which all the concretings are carried out in the horizontal, and precise control is achieved over the measurements of the element obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Compact-Habit, S.L.
    Inventors: Jose Tragant Ruano, Miguel Morte Morales
  • Patent number: 8652380
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rim for a bicycle wheel includes wrapping plys of fibers in a resin matrix around a mandrel; curing the plys to form the rim; and reducing a size of the mandrel to allow the mandrel to be removed from the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Reynolds Cycling LLC
    Inventors: Paul Lew, Richard A. Steinke
  • Patent number: 8652381
    Abstract: A resin transfer molding (RTM) molding device is designed to mold a fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) molded body by injecting a resin composition into a mold and by impregnating the molded body therewith. The resin composition is a chain curing polymer (CCP). A CCP accommodating layer is disposed adjacent to an outer side of the molded body. The layer contains the CCP. The layer is provided with a Vf limit value, the value defined by the curing characteristics of the CCP and the characteristics of dissipation of heat from the CCP to the exterior. An element for separating the molded body is disposed between the body and the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriya Hayashi, Hiroshi Mizuno, Koichi Hasegawa, Kazuo Ota
  • Patent number: 8652382
    Abstract: Methods of joining members, forming molded portions with members, securing inserts with members, and joined members, such as for a frame or a frame for a fenestration unit, formed thereby, are disclosed. One embodiment of the method includes placing a first member with a first cavity in a joining position, placing a second member proximate the first cavity of the first member in the joining position, injecting a resin into the first cavity, allowing the resin to solidify at least partially to join the first member and second member to form a joined member, and removing the joined member from the joining position. Optionally, the joined member can be formed in a fixture, can include molded portions formed by the resin, and/or can include inserts held in place by the resin. Further, members without cavities can form a cavity that can receive the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Andersen Corporation
    Inventors: Jim Eggert, Dale Thompson, Paul Machacek, James T. Weglewski, Bryan Kendall, Troy Rubenzer
  • Patent number: 8652383
    Abstract: To provide an insert part weld molding method for reliably welding an insert part to a blow molded object while preventing an unwelded portion from being created at a circumferential edge of the insert part in a thickness direction thereof. An insert part weld molding method welds a blow molded object to an insert part 3 set in a mold 7, wherein a molding surface 7a of the mold 7 is set higher than a front surface 6d of a portion to be welded of the insert part 3, and an entire surface of a circumferential edge 6b of the insert part 3 in the thickness direction thereof and a parison 11 of the blow molded object are brought into a gapless welded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidesaburo Gotsu
  • Patent number: 8652384
    Abstract: An apparatus for molding a semiconductor device includes an upper mold chase and a lower mold chase. The mold chases are capable of being aligned with each other, forming spaced cavities for receiving a lead frame array that includes semiconductor dies for encapsulation. The cavities are aligned in spaced, vertical columns and gates are provided at the opening of each column of cavities. A molding compound is passed through the gates and flows uninterrupted through each cavity and encapsulates the semiconductor dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Quan Chen, Wei Gai, Yanbo Xu
  • Patent number: 8652385
    Abstract: An eyeglass frame including a thermoplastic sheet laminate incorporating transfer printing eyeglass decorative patterns and a one or more covering layers bonded thereto. A process for manufacturing an eyeglass frame including: preparing a thermoplastic sheet laminate incorporating eyeglass decorative patterns; bending said thermoplastic sheet laminate under heat and pressure forming a one or more intermediate products in a first mold; and bonding a one or more covering layers to the intermediate products from the bending step in a second mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Okia Optical Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Yin Sang Lam, Yan Hui Zou, Yan Zhang
  • Patent number: 8652386
    Abstract: The present invention is a nanoparticle mixture or suspension or nanofluid comprising nonmagnetically sensitive nanoparticles, magnetically sensitive nanoparticles, and surfactant(s). The present invention also relates to methods of preparing and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignees: Georgia Tech Research Corporation, South Dakota Board of Regents
    Inventors: Haiping Hong, G. P. “Bud” Peterson
  • Patent number: 8652387
    Abstract: Method of producing an administering device for infusing or injecting a product, whereby in order to mold a housing shell serving as a case for components of the administering device in a multi-component injection molding process at least one pre-molded, transparent insert part made from a first plastic material is inserted in an injection mold molded to a shape matching the shape of the housing shell, a dimensionally stable, curable second plastic material is injected into the injection mold around the insert part to render it watertight and an opening left free in the second plastic material is closed to render it watertight by injecting on an elastomeric third plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics International AG
    Inventors: Philip Etter, Marco De Polo
  • Patent number: 8652388
    Abstract: Thickness gradients in large, cobonded composite structures resulting from gravity-induced resin migration during curing is substantially reduced by rotating the structure during the resin infusion and curing stages. The layup for the structure is placed on a rotatable tool fixture and vacuum bagged. The tool fixture is mounted on a central support tube provided with motors for rotating the tool fixture about the axis of the tube. The tube has internal passageways that deliver resin to the bagged layup and carry away excess resin from the layup using vacuum pressure. The resulting composite structures exhibit thickness gradients less than 10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Richard L. Kulesha
  • Patent number: 8652389
    Abstract: A method for realising thermoplastic products, comprising: use of a granular material comprising granules of thermoplastic polymers; inserting a dose (M) of the granular material internally of the chamber (11) of a mold (10); compression of the dose (M) of granular material contained in a chamber (11) of the mold (10); heating an internal surface of the chamber (11) of the mold (10) during the compression up to producing a softening of the thermoplastic granules at least of a most external layer of the dose (M) of granular material compressed in the chamber (11); before the stage of compression and heating, the method includes covering at least a portion of an external surface of the dose (M) of granular material with an opaque film, which film comprises at least an opaque portion such as visually to hide the material covered thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: C.G.M. S.p.A.
    Inventor: Corrado Saverio Parmigiani
  • Patent number: 8652390
    Abstract: In supplying a predetermined amount of a molten resin D between an upper mold 10 and a lower mold 20 for compression molding, after the upper mold 10 is moved downward for a predetermined stroke length so that it approaches the lower mold 20 in which the molten resin D has been supplied, a compression load is applied while moving the lower mold 20 upward and supporting the upper mold 10 such that clamping is conducted against the compression load which has been applied to the lower mold 20. As a result, when molding a molded article in a predetermined shape by compression molding, if molds are allowed to open with a sufficient stroke length for taking a molded article out, prolongation of molding cycle can be effectively prevented, whereby a molded product in a predetermined shape can be mass-produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Yoneda
  • Patent number: 8652391
    Abstract: Substrate containers formed from improved compositions comprise a polymer and carbon nanotubes to provide enhanced characteristics. In some embodiments, the carbon fibers, e.g., nanotubes, can be mechanically blended or incorporated into the polymer, while in some embodiments carbon nanotubes also may be covalently bonded to the polymer to form corresponding covalent materials. In particular, the polymer can be covalently bonded to the side walls of the carbon nanotubes to form a composite with particularly desirable mechanical properties. The processing of the nanotubes can be facilitated by the dispersion of the nanotubes in an aqueous solution comprising a hydrophylic polymer, such as ethyl vinyl acetate. A dispersion of nanotubes can be combined with a polymer in an extrusion process to blend the materials under high shear, such as in an extruder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Entegris, Inc.
    Inventor: Sanjiv M. Bhatt
  • Patent number: 8652392
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for forming concrete. In some embodiments the method includes conveying water vapor through cement powder. The cement powder can be hydrated such that a crystalline structure is formed. The concrete formed by the methods disclosed herein can possess advantageous physical properties such as increased strength, hardness, lower cost, lower processing times, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Inventor: Paulette Locke
  • Patent number: 8652393
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving robust layer separation during the separation process of an imprint lithography process are described. Included are methods of matching strains between a substrate to be imprinted and the template, varying or modifying the forces applied to the template and/or the substrate during separation, or varying or modifying the kinetics of the separation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Molecular Imprints, Inc.
    Inventors: Niyaz Khusnatdinov, Frank Y. Xu, Mario Johannes Meissl, Michael N. Miller, Ecron D. Thompson, Gerard M. Schmid, Pawan Kumar Nimmakayala, Xiaoming Lu, Byung-Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 8652394
    Abstract: A cylindrical-shaped body is formed by mounting a carcass to the outer peripheral side of a film formed of a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic resin elastomer composition, a primary molded body is formed by fitting bead rings on opposite width direction ends of the cylindrical-shaped body, and the primary molded body is sucked on the inner peripheral surface of a transfer and holding mold. After a rigid inner mold is inserted into the body, suction is stopped and the body is transferred to the outer peripheral surface of the inner mold. Then, another tire member is stacked on the outer peripheral surface to mold a green tire. The tire, from which the inner mold was removed, is mounted inside a curing mold which is heated. The film is inflated and heated to vulcanize the tire, and bonded to the inner peripheral tire surface to form an inner layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuzou Sano, Noboru Takada
  • Patent number: 8652395
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a method for feeding pulverised coal into a blast furnace, wherein the method comprises the following steps: providing a tuyere stock (14) for blowing hot blast air from a bustle pipe (12) into a furnace hearth of a blast furnace through a tuyere (15) in an opening in the furnace wall (16); providing a pulverised coal injection lance (18) for feeding pulverised coal into the tuyere (15), the pulverised coal injection lance (18) comprising an inner pipe (20) for conveying pulverised coal and an outer pipe (22), coaxially arranged around the inner pipe (20), for conveying combustive gas, the inner pipe (20) forming a separation wall for separating the pulverised coal from the combustive gas, the pulverised coal injection lance (18) having a lance tip (24) arranged in the tuyere (15); allowing the pulverised coal and the combustive gas to form a mixture of pulverised coal and combustive gas at the lance tip (24); burning the mixture of pulverised coal and combustive gas in the tuye
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Paul Wurth S.A.
    Inventors: Paul Goedert, Christian Lunkes, Pol Lemmer
  • Patent number: 8652396
    Abstract: A method continuously creates a bainite structure in a carbon steel, especially a strip steel by austenitizing the carbon steel; introducing the austenitized carbon steel into a bath containing a quenching agent; adjusting the carbon steel to the transformation temperature for bainite and maintaining the transformation temperature for a certain period of time; and then cooling the carbon steel. The carbon steel stays in the bath until a defined percentage of the bainite structure relative to the total structure of the carbon steel has formed. Residues of the quenching agent are removed from the surface of the carbon steel by blowing the same off when the carbon steel is discharged from the bath, and the remaining structure components of the carbon steel are then transformed into bainite in an isothermal tempering station without deflecting the carbon steel at all.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignees: C.D. Wälzholz GmbH, Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Kaiser, Heinz Hoefinghoff, Hans-Toni Junius, Michael Hellmann, Peter Ebner, Heribert Lochner
  • Patent number: 8652397
    Abstract: Ultrasonic devices having an integrated gas delivery system are described, and these devices can be used to remove dissolved gasses and impurities from molten metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Southwire Company
    Inventors: Victor F. Rundquist, Kevin S. Gill
  • Patent number: 8652398
    Abstract: A burner assembly comprising a burner with a body and a burner throat extending downwardly from the burner body, a carriage located below the burner and provided with a cradle, a media box configured to pivotally mate with the cradle along a horizontal axis of the media box such that the media box is supported on the carriage at the axis and can rotate on the carriage about the axis, the media box having a port that connects with the burner throat but that separates from the burner throat when the media box is tilted about its axis, and media in the media box to serve as a heat sink, where the axis is horizontally offset from the media box's center of gravity, and the media box may be rotated about the horizontal axis to allow for ready engagement and disengagement between the media box and the burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Gillespie + Powers, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Peterman, Mark A. Roberts
  • Patent number: 8652399
    Abstract: A sputtering target for producing a metallic glass membrane characterized in comprising a structure obtained by sintering atomized powder having a composition of a ternary compound system or greater with at least one or more metal elements selected from Pd, Zr, Fe, Co, Cu and Ni as its main component (component of greatest atomic %), and being an average grain size of 50 ?m or less. The prepared metallic glass membrane can be used as a substitute for conventional high-cost bulk metallic glass obtained by quenching of molten metal. This sputtering target for producing the metallic glass membrane is also free from problems such as defects in the metallic glass membrane and unevenness of composition, has a uniform structure, can be produced efficiently and at low cost, and does not generate many nodules or particles. Further provided is a method for manufacturing such a sputtering target for forming the metallic glass membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignees: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Masataka Yahagi, Akihisa Inoue, Hisamichi Kimura, Shin-ichi Yamaura
  • Patent number: 8652400
    Abstract: A thermo-mechanical treatment process is disclosed. A nickel-base alloy workpiece is heated in a first heating step to a temperature greater than the M23C6 carbide solvus temperature of the nickel-base alloy. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is worked in a first working step to a reduction in area of 20% to 70%. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is at a temperature greater than the M23C6 carbide solvus temperature when the first working step begins. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is heated in a second working step to a temperature greater than 1700° F. (926° C.) and less than the M23C6 carbide solvus temperature of the nickel-base alloy. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is not permitted to cool to ambient temperature between completion of the first working step and the beginning of the second heating step. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is worked to a second reduction in area of 20% to 70%. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is at a temperature greater than 1700° F. (926° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: ATI Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Robin M. Forbes Jones, Christopher D. Rock
  • Patent number: 8652401
    Abstract: A display table for supporting produce includes an enclosure, a table top defining an upper surface of the enclosure, a blower, an ethylene scrubber and an outlet. The table top is open to the atmosphere and configured to support the produce, and includes perforations. The blower is positioned in communication with the enclosure to create an underpressure that draws a gas into the enclosure through the perforations. The ethylene scrubber is positioned in communication with the enclosure and in a flow path of the gas, the ethylene scrubber being configured to remove at least a portion of ethylene from at least a portion of the gas. The outlet is located downstream of the ethylene scrubber for returning the gas from the enclosure to the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hussmann Corporation
    Inventors: Antonin Ryska, Marketa Kopecka, Lubos Forejt, John M. Roche, Daniel Zmola, Michal Kolda
  • Patent number: 8652402
    Abstract: Methods and devices for generating gas from nitrous oxide are provided as well as downstream uses for the product gas. Reactor devices of the invention are compact and incorporate a novel heat-exchange/regenerative cooling system to optimize N2O decomposition and reactor durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Pioneer Astronautics
    Inventors: Robert M. Zubrin, David Kenneth Strott, Anthony Muscatello, Nicholas F. Jameson, Emily Bostwick-White