Patents Issued in October 4, 2016
  • Patent number: 9457520
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a polishing layer of a polishing pad includes successively depositing a plurality of layers with a 3D printer, each layer of the plurality of polishing layers deposited by ejecting a pad material precursor from a nozzle and solidifying the pad material precursor to form a solidified pad material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajeev Bajaj, Barry Lee Chin, Terrance Y. Lee
  • Patent number: 9457521
    Abstract: A part is manufactured by introducing magnetic particles into a matrix material, and orienting the particles by coupling them with an electromagnetic field. The matrix material is solidified in patterned layers while the particles remain oriented by the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Scott Robert Johnston, Jonathan Blake Vance, James William Fonda, Brett Ian Lyons
  • Patent number: 9457522
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing a contact lens are provided. Such methods include using an adjustable mandrel to fixedly retain a single mold section carrying a polymerized contact lens product and delensing the contact lens product from the single mold section. Adjustable mandrels are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL HOLDING COMPANY, LP
    Inventors: John G. Followill, Ryszard Radwanski, David Chiang
  • Patent number: 9457523
    Abstract: Curved polarization filters and methods of manufacturing such filters are described in the present disclosure. An exemplary method includes laminating a planar polarization layer to a planar retarder layer at a predetermined orientation and bending the laminate to create a curved filter. The strain on the retarder layer results in stress-induced birefringence, and the predetermined orientation of the retarder substantially compensates for the stress-induced birefringence. In some embodiments, the predetermination is based on mathematical models. In some other embodiment, the predetermination is based on experimental data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: RealD Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Coleman, Gary D. Sharp
  • Patent number: 9457524
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming plastic pre-forms into containers with a blow mold which has at least two movable blow mold parts which, when closed form a container-forming cavity. The first blow mold part is removably arranged on a first blow mold carrier shell part, and the second blow mold part is removably arranged on a second blow mold carrier shell part. The first blow mold carrier shell part is movable with respect to the second blow mold carrier shell part for opening the mold. A holding device holds at least one blow mold part on the respective blow mold carrier shell part. The holding device has an actuating member extending through an opening in a wall of the blow mold carrier shell part. The actuating member is movable relative to the wall, and a first holding element for holding the blow mold part is arranged on the actuating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Erik Blochmann, Florian Geltinger, Thomas Philipp
  • Patent number: 9457525
    Abstract: A sport ball may include a casing and a bladder. The casing includes a plurality of panels having edge areas joined to each other with bonds, and the edge areas project toward an exterior of the ball. The bladder is located within the casing. In another aspect, the casing includes a first panel and a second panel that each have an exterior surface facing outward and an opposite interior surface facing inward. The interior surface of the first panel is bonded to the interior surface of the second panel to form a seam that joins the first panel and the second panel together. A method of manufacturing the casing may include forming thermal bonds between the panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Nike, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott R. Berggren, Eleazar C. Chavez, Vincent F. White, Scott W. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9457526
    Abstract: A calibration device for calibrating an extruded film tube, above the frost line, forms an annular gap between the calibration device and the film tube. The calibration device includes a plurality of calibration segments and at least one blowing nozzle. The plurality of calibration segments are distributed around a longitudinal axis and form a central feed through opening for feeding through the film tube along the longitudinal axis. The calibration segments are adjustable for adjusting the diameter of the feed through opening. The at least one blowing nozzle for each calibration segment, feeds a calibration gas to the feed through opening. The at least one blowing nozzle is formed such, that the calibration gas is guided to the annular gap substantially parallel to a surface of the film tube and that the calibration gas flows through the annular gap in a single flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Kdesign GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Zimmermann, Gerd Fahling
  • Patent number: 9457527
    Abstract: A power source control device (401) supplies electrical power for performing vulcanizing processing of a green tire in at least one vulcanizing unit provided in the vulcanizing machine (300), from a first power source (100) capable of supplying continuous power and a second power source (200) capable of supplying charged power that is charged in advance. The power source control device (401) includes an information acquisition unit (412) and a power supply control unit (413). The information acquisition unit (412) acquires process information showing the kind of processes included in the vulcanizing processing in the vulcanizing unit (301). The power supply control unit (413) makes the charged power supplied from the second power source (200) to the vulcanizing unit (300) during a predetermined process, on the basis of the process information acquired by the information acquisition unit (412).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunari Tanaka, Kazutoshi Yokoo, Koji Shintani
  • Patent number: 9457528
    Abstract: Disclosed are a preparation method for drawn fibers that enables the preparation of drawn poly(ethyleneterephthalate) fibers exhibiting with high fineness of at least 2,000 denier while having high tenacity and excellent dimensional stability and causes almost no deterioration of tenacity during the manufacturing process of tires such as vulcanization, and a drawn poly(ethyleneterephthalate) fiber and a tire cord that are obtained by the preparation method. The preparation method for drawn poly(ethyleneterephthalate) fiber includes: melt-spinning a polymer comprising at least 90 mol % of poly(ethyleneterephthalate) having a content of terminal carboxyl group (—COOH) in the range of 20 to 30 eq/106g at a spinning speed of 2,500 to 4,000 m/min to form a undrawn fiber having a fineness of at least 2,000 denier; and drawing the undrawn fiber at a draw ratio of 1.4 to 2.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: KOLON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Sung-Ho Park, Il Chung, Gi-Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 9457529
    Abstract: The invention can surely accomplish lamination without the generation of voids in building a tire constructed to comprise a plurality of rubber members for a tire when a ribbon-shaped rubber strip (R) is spirally wound and laminated, and uses holding rolls (30) and two sets of stitching rolls (40a), (40b) arranged in parallel with a center of a rubber strip width (W) therebetween to enable performing of an independent pressing motion, such that the rubber strip (R) is pressed and bonded by the holding rolls (30) in a position, in which the rubber strip (R) is wound, and the stitching roll (40a) or (40b) positioned fore in an advancing direction of traverse movement, out of the two sets, is caused to perform a pressing motion in a regional part just after the press whereby a fore part of the rubber strip in the advancing direction is pressed and bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tatara, Yu Hatayama, Masami Tanabe, Taizo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9457530
    Abstract: Two auxiliary support members are operatively engaged with a building drum, in axially approached relationship with respective halves of the drum itself, each auxiliary member having a circumferential rest surface extending in the continuation of an outer circumferential surface of the building drum itself. Applied around the outer circumferential surface of the building drum is at least one carcass ply having axially opposite end flaps each lying on the circumferential rest surface of the respective auxiliary support member. A pair of auxiliary shaping members engaged with the building drum in place of the auxiliary support members, each act against a circumferential abutment edge carried by the building drum, to enable the carcass ply to be shaped into a toroidal configuration concurrently with mutual approaching of the halves of the building drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Pirelli Tyre S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gianni Mancini, Gaetano Lo Presti, Maurizio Marchini
  • Patent number: 9457531
    Abstract: A bi-cast turbine rotor disk and method of forming the same are provided. The disk includes a ring and a blade. The ring comprises a superalloy that includes a plurality of elements, and the blade extends from the ring. The blade comprises a non-metallic ceramic matrix composite, and at least one element from the superalloy of the ring is diffused into the non-metallic ceramic matrix composite of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Milton Ortiz
  • Patent number: 9457532
    Abstract: The invention provides a mold for injection-molding a golf ball, which mold has a cavity inner wall with a vertical diameter connecting both poles in a vertical direction thereof that is longer than a horizontal diameter connecting both poles in a horizontal direction thereof. A method of manufacturing golf balls using such a mold is also provided. The use of this mold eliminates molding problems that arise when molding the outermost cover layer of a golf ball, enabling the cover to be stably molded and also making it possible to easily and reliably obtain golf balls of high symmetry in which a cover of uniform thickness has been formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuki Kasashima, Yoshio Motegi
  • Patent number: 9457533
    Abstract: A container assembly for use in a high-pressure press having a central pressure cell and a method of sealing a central pressure cell. The container assembly includes a container that receives a sample to be pressed, and a gasket distinct from the container, the gasket meeting the container at an interface. The container and the gasket are dimensioned to locate the interface within the central pressure cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Smith International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stewart N. Middlemiss
  • Patent number: 9457534
    Abstract: Bags and methods of manufacturing bags including a combination of repurposed material and virgin material in significant visible portions are described. The repurposed material can advantageously comprise a billboard material that may otherwise be thought of as waste or trash, which can be used to manufacture unique bags in combination with any suitable virgin materials having properties or qualities that are optimal for a given use or purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Rareform LLC
    Inventor: Alec Avedissian
  • Patent number: 9457535
    Abstract: The invention provides structural elements comprising an elongated internal member and an elongated external member enclosing said internal member, in which a mid-portion enveloping the internal member and being in tight association with the external surface of the internal member, defines, jointly with said internal member, a first, core-envelope sub-structure, while two flanking portions extending from and integral with the mid-portion and facing and contacting one another to jointly define a second, layered sub-structure. The invention further provides methods for manufacturing such structural elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: I.G. CARDBOARD TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventor: Izhar Gafni
  • Patent number: 9457536
    Abstract: An assembly of a member, made of a first material in an aperture of a part, made of a second material having no plastic domain, using an intermediate part made of a third material, mounted between the member and the part. The intermediate part includes a hole for receiving the member. The part includes pierced holes forming a deformation mechanism distributed around the aperture thereof. The elastically and plastically deformed intermediate part radially grips the member and stresses the elastic deformation mechanism of the part so as to secure the assembly in a manner that is not destructive for the part. Such an assembly can for example be used in the field of timepieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGERE SUISSE
    Inventors: Thierry Conus, Marco Verardo, Igor Saglini, Frederic Kohler
  • Patent number: 9457537
    Abstract: Methods of embedding at least one fastener in a sandwich structure having an ordered three-dimensional microstructure core provided between a pair of facesheets. The method includes attaching the at least one fastener to a first facesheet. The method also includes irradiating a volume of photo-monomer in a reservoir with light beams to form an ordered three-dimensional microstructure core around the at least one fastener. The method also includes attaching a second facesheet to the ordered three-dimensional microstructure core to form the sandwich structure. The fasteners embedded in the sandwich structure are configured to facilitate attachment of the sandwich structure to another structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob M. Hundley, Eric C. Clough, Alan J. Jacobsen
  • Patent number: 9457538
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid entrapping devices (e.g., absorbent non-woven fibrous mats) and to a process for preparing such devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to mechanically strong absorbent materials made from such liquid entrapping devices (e.g., non-woven fibrous mats) and to a method for preparing same. In one embodiment, a liquid entrapping device of the present invention comprises at least one hydrophilic elastomeric fibrous component (HEFC) and at least one wetting agent component. In another embodiment, a liquid entrapping device of the present invention comprise at least one hydrophilic elastomeric fibrous component (HEFC), at least one absorbent component, and at least one wetting agent component. In one instance, the wetting agent component of the present invention is contained on and/or within the fibers and/or nanofibers that form the liquid entrapping device (e.g., a non-woven fibrous mat) of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: The University of Akron, SNS Nano Fiber Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Smith, Horst Ring
  • Patent number: 9457539
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a seaming element for attachment to an industrial textile. The industrial textile has opposed first and second seamable edge regions, while the seaming element has: i) a first lateral edge; ii) a second lateral edge; iii) a trailing edge; iv) a forward portion comprising a plurality of protruding seaming with successive loops spaced apart by an aperture, and v) a rearward portion continuous with the forward portion, with the rearward portion comprising an upper member and a lower member. The upper and lower members are substantially planar and have mutually opposed inner surfaces, with a portion of each inner surface bonded to the industrial textile at a selected one of the first and second seamable edge regions. At least one of the upper and lower member comprises one or more slits between the first lateral edge and the second lateral edge, with the one or more slits extending from the respective trailing edge in a direction towards the forward portion of the seaming element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: AstenJohnson, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan R. Manninen, Hongjian Zhou
  • Patent number: 9457540
    Abstract: A panel-insert assembly including a panel having a core and a skin layer positioned over the core, wherein the skin layer defines an opening therein, and an insert positioned below the skin layer, wherein the insert is aligned with the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael S. Lewis, Jessica Sakurai, Brad J. Reeves
  • Patent number: 9457541
    Abstract: A copper foil for a current collector of a lithium secondary battery has a crystalline structure, in which a ratio of the sum of texture coefficients of a (111) surface and a (200) surface to the total sum of texture coefficients of the (111), (200) and (220) surfaces is 60 to 85%, a ratio of the texture coefficient of the (111) surface to the total sum of texture coefficients of the (111), (200) and (220) is 18 to 38%, a ratio of the texture coefficient of the (200) surface thereto is 28 to 62%, and a ratio of the texture coefficient of the (220) surface thereto is 15 to 40%. The copper foil has surface roughness (Rz-JIS) of 2 ?m or less, weight deviation of 3% or less, tensile strength of 30 to 40 kgf/mm2, elongation of 3 to 20%, and thickness of 1 to 35 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: LS MTRON LTD.
    Inventors: Dae-Young Kim, Byoung-Kwang Lee, Seung-Jun Choi
  • Patent number: 9457542
    Abstract: A joined body of dissimilar aluminum alloy materials includes a first Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material, a second Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material, and a single Al—Mg aluminum alloy material. The joined body of dissimilar aluminum alloy materials is formed by welding the first Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material and the second Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material to the single Al—Mg aluminum alloy material. The Al—Mg aluminum alloy material and the first Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material are joined by arc welding. The Al—Mg aluminum alloy material and the second Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material are joined by friction-stir welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Shigenobu Ohsawa, Jiro Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 9457543
    Abstract: An elastomer laminate has an elastomer carrier layer composed of a thermoplastic elastomer, and at least one microtextured cover layer composed of a polymer that has a lower elasticity than the material of the carrier layer. The microtexture is produced by stretching the laminate beyond the elasticity limit of the cover layer and elastic recovery of the stretched laminate. The microtextured cover layer contains a plurality of pores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Mondi Consumer Packaging Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Henner Sollmann
  • Patent number: 9457544
    Abstract: In some implementations, a process includes forming a layer of a liquid optically clear adhesive (LOCA) on a surface of a first substrate. Additionally, the LOCA can be contacted with a surface of a second substrate. The LOCA can then be exposed to Ultraviolet (UV) radiation. After exposing the LOCA to UV radiation, additional substrates can be coupled to the first substrate, the second substrate, or both to form a display stack. In an implementation, the total energy/unit area for the UV radiation applied to the LOCA can be no greater than 25,000 kJ/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anoop Menon, Weihsin Hou, Chin Siong Khor, Yean Chan Woon
  • Patent number: 9457545
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a multilayered structure, comprising the steps of: obtaining a regrind (C) by grinding a multilayered structure (B) having a layer of a resin composition (A), followed by sieving; and obtaining a multilayered structure (F) having a layer of a resin composition (E) made by melt kneading the regrind (C) and a polyolefin (D), wherein the resin composition (A) contains a polyolefin (G), a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (H) having an ethylene content of from 20 to 65 mol % and having a degree of saponification of vinyl acetate units of 96% or more, a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (I) having an ethylene content of from 68 to 98 mol % and having a degree of saponification of vinyl acetate units of 20% or more, and an antistatic agent (J), and a mass ratio (H/I) is from 0.1 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeyuki Igarashi, Yasuhiko Haneda, Masahiro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 9457546
    Abstract: In an arrangement for transmitting power or data through a solid rigid substrate without penetrating the substrate, acoustic transducer components are mounted on the substrate by means of strain isolator elements which are welded or otherwise bonded to the substrate and providing an attachment surface to which the attachment interface of the acoustic transducer may be attached. The strain isolator element is of the same or similar acoustic impedance as the rigid substrate and may indeed be formed of the same material. Various geometries of strain isolator are disclosed, including one comprising a stalk attached to the solid rigid substrate and topped by a disc in a ‘mushroom’ configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: John Martin Bagshaw, Nicholas John Archer, Lionel William John Kent, Duncan Peter Rowe
  • Patent number: 9457547
    Abstract: Manufacturing methods and systems providing continuous rolls of polyvinyl materials printable on one side and “sticky”-adherable on the other side. Such continuous rolls may be thereafter cut into sizes appropriate for signs, bumper stickers, and other information and/or design objects which are affixable to appropriate surfaces for a variety of advertising and/or design uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Magnum Magnetics Corporation
    Inventor: Orval D. Ogden, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9457548
    Abstract: A manual and an automatic fastening device for fastening a bonding element to a surface by means of a light-curing adhesive is disclosed. The fastening devices apply the bonding element to the surface with a specific contact pressure, before the light is irradiated onto the bonding element for curing the adhesive. As the bonding element consists of transparent material, the adhesive is cured between the fastening element and the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Druke
  • Patent number: 9457549
    Abstract: A method for forming an optical fiber array. A substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface is provided. The substrate is provided with a plurality of apertures extending through the substrate from the first surface to the second surface. In addition, a plurality of fibers are provided. The fibers have fiber ends with a diameter smaller than the smallest diameter of the apertures. A first fiber is inserted in a first corresponding aperture, from the first surface side of the substrate, such that the fiber end is positioned in close proximity of the second surface. The inserted first fiber is bent in a predetermined direction such that the fiber abuts a side wall of the first aperture at a predetermined position. After the first fiber is bent, a second fiber is inserted in a second corresponding aperture, from the first surface side of the substrate, such that the fiber end is positioned in close proximity of the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: MAPPER LITHOGRAPHY IP B.V.
    Inventors: Guido De Boer, Ralph Van Melle, Teunis Van De Peut, Henk Derks, Frederik Matthias Spiegelhalder, Roy Josephus Stephanus Derks, Edwin Johannes Theodorus Smulders
  • Patent number: 9457550
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metal encapsulation member is disclosed. The method comprises: preparing a substrate on one side of which an adhesive material is applied; adhering a metal member onto the one side of the substrate; attaching an adhesive member onto the metal member; and removing predetermined portions of the metal member and the adhesive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: TGO TECH. CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dong Jin Lee, Yoo Jin Lee, Jae Hak Lee
  • Patent number: 9457551
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display is provided. A display including a supporting layer, a flexible layer and a display structure is provided. The display structure has a top side and a bottom side which are opposite to each other. One of the supporting layer and the flexible layer is disposed at the bottom side of the display structure, and the other one of the supporting layer and the flexible layer is disposed at the top side or the bottom side of the display structure. When the supporting layer and the flexible layer are both disposed at the bottom side of the display structure, the flexible layer is located between the supporting layer and the display structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chi-Che Tsai, Po-Ching Lin, Cheng-Ta Chen, Cheng-Chung Chiang, Wei-Yen Wu, Yen-Hui Wu
  • Patent number: 9457552
    Abstract: Device for stripping a product substrate off a carrier substrate connected to the product substrate by an bonding layer by means of a film frame, a flexible film which is connected to the film frame and which has an adhesive layer for holding the product substrate in a contacting surface section of the film, the film being connected to the film frame in an attachment section of the film which surrounds the contacting surface section, as well as a solvent reservoir formed by the film frame and the film, especially of variable volume, for holding the solvent for detaching the bonding layer, and the product substrate and the bonding layer can be accommodated in the solvent reservoir, and by delivery means for delivering the solvent into the solvent reservoir and by stripping means for stripping the product substrate off the carrier substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: EV Group GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Paul Lindner, Jurgen Burggraf
  • Patent number: 9457553
    Abstract: A system for repairing a structural component, in particular an aircraft structural component, includes a repair patch which is connected to the structural component in such a manner that it covers an opening in the structural component resulting from removing a damaged region of the structural component. A sensor is fastened to the repair patch in a region of the repair patch covering the opening in the structural component and is designed to detect strains and/or stresses occurring in the repair patch. An evaluating device is adapted to evaluate the strain values and/or stress values detected by the sensor and, in dependence on the result of this evaluation, output a signal which is characteristic of the quality state of the connection between the structural component and the repair patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Heiner Stehmeiner, Clemens Bockenheimer
  • Patent number: 9457554
    Abstract: A pressuring module includes a stage having a mounting surface on which an object to be pressured is mounted; a plurality of pressure detecting sections that detect a pressure applied on the mounting surface; and a pressure varying section that varies a pressure distribution across a plane of the mounting surface, by differing a pressing force against the object to be pressured between a periphery and a central portion of the mounting surface in a plane direction of the mounting surface based on the pressure detected by the plurality of pressure detecting sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventor: Shigeto Izumi
  • Patent number: 9457555
    Abstract: A film peeling apparatus includes: a pair of rollers configured to peel films from a target object having the films adhered on surfaces thereof; a transporter configured to transport the target object toward the rollers; a sensor configured to obtain peeling target information; a calculator configured to calculate roller distance information or peeling condition information based on the peeling target information; and a controller configured to control a movement of the pair of rollers based on the roller distance information or the peeling condition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung Hyun Ahn
  • Patent number: 9457556
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a shaped object is provided, in which a surface of the shaped object can be decorated, while the shaped object being in a forming process. In the manufacturing method of a shaped object, according to the present invention; by way of laminating ink discharged from different ink-jet nozzles, forming operation and decorating operation on a surface of a formed structure can also be put into practice at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 9457557
    Abstract: A method for generating a relief print on a substantially flat substrate, wherein palpable differences exist between a height of various parts of the relief print, by a printer configured to print a relief print in a number of passes includes defining a rasterized relief image, comprising customary color channels for indicating a color of each pixel and a height channel for indicating a height of each pixel of the rasterized relief image, determining a low spatial frequency height component in the height value of a pixel of the rasterized relief image, subtracting the determined low spatial frequency height component from the relative height value of a pixel of the rasterized relief image, resulting in a relative reduced height value, and printing the rasterized relief image by using the relative reduced height value. A printing system is configured to execute the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventor: Koen J. Klein Koerkamp
  • Patent number: 9457558
    Abstract: Provided are a gravure offset printing method, a gravure offset printing apparatus, and a gravure plate that allow a fine wiring pattern to be accurately printed on the material to be printed. A gravure offset printing method executed by a gravure offset printing apparatus includes a step of filling a groove on a gravure plate with a printing paste, a step of offsetting the printing paste from the groove on the gravure plate to the blanket, and a step of transferring the printing paste from the blanket to a substrate. The groove on the gravure plate includes a region having a width of 100 to 700 ?m in a direction perpendicular to a print direction. The region has a leading end tapered forward in the print direction and a trailing end split into a pair of branches by a notch tapered forward in the print direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sente, Tomoko Okamoto, Yoshinori Katayama
  • Patent number: 9457559
    Abstract: A method of making a semiconductor substrate having a through-hole includes a step of forming an etching mask on a semiconductor substrate in accordance with a pattern corresponding to the through-hole, and a step of forming the through-hole by etching the semiconductor substrate, on which the etching mask has been formed, by reactive ion etching. At least a part of the pattern corresponding to the through-hole is formed so that the semiconductor substrate is exposed in a frame-like shape along the inner edge of the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Higuchi, Takayuki Kamimura
  • Patent number: 9457560
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sensing degradation of a piezoelectric actuator in a print head. One or more electrical pulses may be transmitted to the piezoelectric actuator that cause the piezoelectric actuator to bend, thereby creating a pressure wave. The pressure wave may be sensed and converted into an electrical signal. The electrical signal may be compared to a reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: XEROX CORPORATION, PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven E. Ready, Terrance L. Stephens, David L. Knierim, David Alan Tence
  • Patent number: 9457561
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a threshold comparator, a first image compensator, and a second image compensator. The first compensator executes a processing of, for at least a pixel value less than a threshold, setting a value of stopping discharge of a droplet from a defective nozzle in converting multi-valued data of an input image into n-value data, and spreading a quantization error due to setting the value, to neighboring pixels of a pixel corresponding to a defective nozzle. The second compensator executes a processing of replacing a smaller dot among dots around the defective nozzle with a larger dot by pattern matching using a mask pattern in accordance with a dot size and placement around the defective nozzle, on condition that as a result of comparison of the comparator, the pixel value corresponding to the defective nozzle is equal to or more than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Shigetoshi Hosaka
  • Patent number: 9457562
    Abstract: A liquid ejection device includes an ink jet head in which a plurality of nozzle portions are arranged in a matrix; a plurality of pressurizing elements that generate an ejection force; and a driving voltage supply unit that supplies a driving voltage to the pressurizing elements. In the device, the ink jet head is provided with supply flow paths, the nozzle portions which are supplied with the liquid from the same the supply flow path are divided into two or more groups, the driving voltage supply unit supplies an ejection driving voltage for ejecting the liquid to each of the groups when a dummy jet is performed, and during a period of time when the dummy jet is performed for one group, the driving voltage supply unit supplies a non-ejection driving voltage for preventing the liquid from being ejected to the other groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Katsumura, Tsuyoshi Mita
  • Patent number: 9457563
    Abstract: An ink jet printer is provided with a driving signal generating section which generates a driving signal for driving a piezoelectric element, a residual vibration detecting section, a control IC which includes the residual vibration detecting section, and a connection terminal which connects the piezoelectric element, an input terminal to which the driving signal is supplied and an output terminal from which an output signal of the residual vibration detecting section is supplied, a first external wiring which is connected to the input terminal and through which the driving signal is supplied, and a second external wiring which is connected to the output terminal and through which the output signal of the residual vibration detecting section is supplied. A resistance value per unit length of the second external wiring is larger than a resistance value per unit length of the first external wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Nakazawa, Masahiko Yoshida, Kazuhito Fujisawa, Atsushi Akiyama, Osamu Shinkawa
  • Patent number: 9457564
    Abstract: A drive signal applied to a thin-film piezoelectric element includes the following: at least one discharge pulse that causes a drop of ink to be discharged from a pressure chamber; and a cancellation pulse. Said cancellation pulse has the same polarity as the discharge pulse(s) and serves to suppress reverberations of a pressure wave applied to the pressure chamber when the thin-film piezoelectric element is driven by the application of the discharge pulse(s). Letting Tc represent half of the natural vibration period of the pressure chamber, within the period within which a single pixel is placed, the cancellation pulse is applied once an amount of time equal to Tc times an even integer greater than or equal to 4 has passed since the end of the application of the first discharge pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kenji Mawatari
  • Patent number: 9457565
    Abstract: In a liquid ejection control device, an operation unit includes an energy dial for inputting an energy instructing value related to kinetic energy of a pulsed liquid jet ejected from a liquid ejection device, and a repetitive frequency dial for inputting a repetitive frequency instructing value related to the number of times ejection of the pulsed liquid occurs per unit time. In addition, a controller includes a rising frequency setting section that sets rising frequency as a rising index value related to rising of a drive voltage waveform such that the kinetic energy becomes the energy instructing value, based on voltage magnitude of the drive voltage waveform and the repetitive frequency instructing value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Karasawa
  • Patent number: 9457566
    Abstract: There are provided a liquid ejecting head and a support member that can achieve both of breakage avoidance of a print element substrate and deformation suppression of the support member. Therefore a plate thickness of an adhesion part in the support member is thinner that a plate thickness of a main surface other than the adhesion part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomotsugu Kuroda, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Kiyomitsu Kudo, Satoshi Kimura, Naoko Tsujiuchi
  • Patent number: 9457567
    Abstract: Piezoelectric elements constituted by lower electrodes, piezoelectric layers, and an upper electrode are extended from positions corresponding to openings of pressure chambers to outer positions beyond opening edges of the pressure chambers. The piezoelectric layers have exposure portions on the extended portions and the exposure portions of the piezoelectric layers are covered by an adhesive between an actuator unit and a sealing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro Torimoto, Takahiro Kamijo, Motoki Takabe, Shiro Yazaki
  • Patent number: 9457568
    Abstract: An inkjet head includes a plurality of nozzles, a plurality of pressure chambers arranged along a first direction, each of which extends in a second direction crossing the first direction, communicates with one of the nozzles, and has a first end through which ink is supplied and a second end through which ink is recycled, a plurality of ink inlets configured on a side of the first ends of the pressure chambers through which ink is supplied to the pressure chambers, and a plurality of ink outlets configured on a side of the second ends of the pressure chambers through which ink is recycled from the pressure chambers. A flow rate of the ink flowing from a ink inlet to an ink outlet through pressure chambers that are at the ends along the arrangement positions of the pressure chambers is higher than a flow rate of the ink flowing from an ink inlet to an ink outlet through pressure chambers that are at the center along the arrangement positions of the pressure chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahisa Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9457569
    Abstract: An image formation device may include a recording head which has a plurality of nozzles inlet; a flow channel member which is connected to the inlet and forms a flow channel for supplying the discharge liquid to the recording head; and a heating section which heats the flow channel member. The flow channel member may include a first flow channel section one end of which is inserted into the inlet; and a second flow channel section that is a cylindrical member inside of which the first flow channel section passes through and that externally covers a connection part between the one end of the first flow channel section and the inlet. The second flow channel section may be connected with the first flow channel section and the inlet via an elastic member, and the one end of the first flow channel section and the inlet may be connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Matsui