Patents Issued in November 1, 2016
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Patent number: 9481916Abstract: A method of thermomechanical shaping a final product with very high strength including the steps of: providing a coated hot-rolled and/or cold-rolled steel strip or sheet including (all percentages in wt. %): 0.04%<carbon<0.5%, 0.5%<manganese<3.5%, silicon<1.0%, 0.01%<chromium<1%, titanium<0.2%, aluminum<0.2%, phosphorus<0.1%, nitrogen<0.015% N, sulphur<0.05%, boron<0.015%, unavoidable impurities, balance iron, the steel being coated with a zinc alloy coating layer, wherein the zinc alloy includes 0.3-4.0% Mg and 0.05-6.0% Al; optionally at most 0.2% of one or more additional elements; unavoidable impurities; the remainder being zinc; cutting the steel sheet to obtain a steel sheet blank; thermomechanical shaping of the steel sheet blank to a final product with its final properties.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: TATA STEEL IJMUIDEN B.V.Inventors: Margot Julia Vlot, Ronald Theodoor Van Tol
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Patent number: 9481917Abstract: A method for desulfurizing a metal alloy comprises heating the metal alloy to a molten state. A gaseous desulfurizing compound is bubbled through the molten alloy to form a solid sulfur-containing waste phase and a molten reduced-sulfur alloy phase. The solid waste phase and the molten reduced-sulfur alloy phase are separated. The gaseous desulfurizing compound includes a constituent element selected from the group: alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, and rare earth metals.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Mario P. Bochiechio, John Joseph Marcin, Kirk C. Newton, Michael A. Kmetz
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Patent number: 9481918Abstract: A metal scrap submergence device having an open top chamber including side and base walls of a heat resistant material. An inlet is included in a side or base wall of the chamber for receiving molten metal. An outlet is included in the base of the chamber. A ramp extends from the side wall of the chamber to an inner column defining the outlet. The ramp includes a first edge adjacent the side wall and second interior edge adjacent the inner column. The working surface of the ramp between the first and second edges is concave. The inner column includes an end wall disposed opposite the chamber base, the end wall includes rounded inner and outer edges.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: PYROTEK, INC.Inventors: Chris T. Vild, Robert L. Grodeck
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Patent number: 9481919Abstract: A process for the production of a high grade nickel product including the steps of: a) providing at least one heap of a nickeliferous lateritic ore and leaching that heap with a suitable lixiviant, preferably sulfuric acid solution, to produce a nickel rich pregnant leach solution (PLS); b) subjecting the PLS to an impurity removal step to precipitate ferric iron, and preferably partially precipitate aluminum and chromium as hydroxides; and c) recovering a high grade nickel product from the PLS preferably by either nickel ion exchange, solvent extraction, electrowinning, conventional multi-stage neutralization, pyrohydrolysis or sulfidation.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: CERRO MATOSO SAInventors: Houyuan Liu, Omar Yesid Caceres Hernandez, Renato Antonio Loaiza Aguilar, Carolina Isabel Meneses Rodriguez, Ruben Rangel De Hoyos, Illich Alvarez Mercado
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Patent number: 9481920Abstract: Disclosed is an aluminum alloy forging for use in automotive suspension parts and the like, and a method of manufacture for same. The aluminum alloy forging contains Si 0.4-1.5 wt %, Fe greater than 0.4 wt % and equal to or less than 1.0 wt %, Cu equal to or less than 0.40 wt %, Mg 0.8-1.3 wt % and Ti 0.01-0.1 wt %; Zn is restricted to equal to or less than 0.05 wt %; and the aluminum alloy forging contains at least one selected from among the following group comprising: Mn 0.01-1.0 wt % and Cr 0.1-0.4%; and Zr 0.05-0.2 wt %. Hydrogen content is restricted to 0.25 ml or less per 100 g of Al, and the remainder is composed of unavoidable impurities and Al. The average grain size is 50 ?m or less, the crystallized area ratio is 3% or less, and the average crystallized grain size is 8 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Hori, Yoshiya Inagaki
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Patent number: 9481921Abstract: Disclosed herein are zirconium alloy compositions having a low hydrogen pick-up rate and high hydrogen embrittlement resistance. This zirconium alloy composition can be usefully used as a nuclear fuel components in a nuclear power plant because it has a very low hydrogen pick-up rate and high hydrogen embrittlement resistance under operation environments of nuclear power plant.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: KEPCO NUCLEAR FUEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yeon Soo Na, Yong Kyoon Mok, Yoon Ho Kim, Chung Yong Lee, Min Young Choi, Tae Sik Jeong, Jung Ho Shin, Seung Jae Lee, Jung Min Suh
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Patent number: 9481922Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a thermal spray method of forming a protective and porous coating over desired surfaces. Further, embodiments provide a thermal arc spray method, such as twin wire arc spray, to coat the surfaces. The invention may refer to using Aluminum and Silicon alloy in a twin wire arc spray method, to create sacrificial and protective coatings on the surfaces, such as substrates and machine parts. Machine parts may be, for example, of sputtering system. The method may utilize a predefined range of Silicon to be alloyed with Aluminum to improve the physical properties of the Aluminum, and further avoid damages to the coated surface, such as de-lamination and flaking of the coatings and coated surfaces. Additionally, generation of defects during a sputtering process may be efficiently reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Inventors: Yitzhak Vanek, Leonardo Mendelovici
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Patent number: 9481923Abstract: Methods of aluminizing the surface of a metal substrate. The methods of the present invention do not require establishment of a vacuum or a reducing atmosphere, as is typically necessary. Accordingly, aluminization can occur in the presence of oxygen, which greatly simplifies and reduces processing costs by allowing deposition of the aluminum coating to be performed, for example, in air. Embodiments of the present invention can be characterized by applying a slurry that includes a binder and powder granules containing aluminum to the metal substrate surface. Then, in a combined step, a portion of the aluminum is diffused into the substrate and a portion of the aluminum is oxidized by heating the slurry to a temperature greater than the melting point of the aluminum in an oxygen-containing atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Jung-Pyung Choi, Kenneth Scott Weil
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Patent number: 9481924Abstract: Methods, and coated panels fabricated from the methods, are disclosed to form multiple coatings, (e.g., one or more infrared reflective layers), with minimal color change before and after heat treatments. For example, by adding appropriate seed layers between the IR reflective layers and the base oxide layers, the color performance can be maintained regardless of high temperature processes. The optical filler layers can include a metal oxide layer. In some embodiments, the seed layer can include nickel, titanium, and niobium, forming a nickel titanium niobium alloy such as NiTiNb.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Guowen Ding, Tong Ju, Minh Huu Le, Daniel Schweigert, Guizhen Zhang
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Patent number: 9481925Abstract: A titanium diboride target contains fractions of one or more metals from the group including iron, nickel, cobalt and chromium as well as carbon. The mean grain size of TiB2 grains is between 1 ?m and 20 ?m, the carbon content is in a range of 0.1 to 5% by weight and the total content of Fe, Ni, Co and/or Cr is in a range of 500 to 3,000 ?g/g. The carbon is distributed in free form at the grain boundaries of the TiB2 grains in such a way that mean distances between individual carbon particles are less than 20 ?m. The porosity is less than 5% by volume.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Plansee SEInventor: Michael O'Sullivan
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Patent number: 9481926Abstract: A vanadium oxide thermo-sensitive film material with a high temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) contains a rare earth element of Yttrium serving as a dopant in a preparation process. The vanadium oxide thermo-sensitive film material includes a substrate and a yttrium-doped vanadium oxide film layer. The yttrium-doped vanadium oxide film layer includes three elements of vanadium, oxygen and yttrium, wherein the atomic concentration of yttrium is at a range of 1%-8%, the atomic concentration of vanadium is at a range of 20-40% and the residue is oxygen. The method for preparing the vanadium oxide thermo-sensitive film material with high TCR includes a reactive magnetron sputtering method using a low-concentration yttrium-vanadium alloy target as a sputtering source or a reactive magnetron co-sputtering method using dual targets including a high-concentration yttrium-vanadium alloy target and a pure vanadium target as a co-sputtering source.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaInventors: Deen Gu, Tao Wang, Yadong Jiang
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Patent number: 9481927Abstract: A method for forming an inorganic or hybrid organic/inorganic barrier layer on a substrate, comprising condensing a vaporized metal alkoxide to form a layer atop the substrate, and contacting the condensed metal alkoxide layer with water to cure the layer is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Clark I. Bright, Christopher S. Lyons
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Patent number: 9481928Abstract: A sputtering head comprises a receiving area for a sputtering target (target receptacle). The sputtering head comprises one or more magnetic field sources so as to generate a stray magnetic field. The magnetic north and the magnetic south of at least one magnetic field source, between which the stray field forms, are located 10 mm or less, preferably 5 mm or less, and particularly preferably approximately 1 mm apart. It was found that, notably when sputtering at a high sputtering gas pressure of 0.5 mbar or more, the degree of ionization of the sputtering plasma, and consequently also the ablation rate of the sputtering target, can be locally adjusted by such a locally effective magnetic field. This allows the thicknesses of the layers that are obtained to be more homogeneous over the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbHInventors: Mikhail Faley, Ulrich Poppe
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Patent number: 9481929Abstract: A vapor deposition apparatus for depositing thin films on a substrate includes a supply unit including a plurality of linear supply members configured to supply at least one gas; and a nozzle unit including a plurality of nozzle members connected to the plurality of supply members and configured to supply the at least one gas toward the substrate, wherein two adjacent nozzle members of the plurality of nozzle members are connected to at least one common supply member of the plurality of supply members.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Choel-Min Jang, Sung-Hun Key, In-Kyo Kim, Suk-Won Jung, Myung-Soo Huh
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Patent number: 9481930Abstract: A novel method for fabricating diamond shells is introduced. The fabrication of such shells is a multi-step process, which involves diamond chemical vapor deposition on predetermined mandrels followed by polishing, microfabrication of holes, and removal of the mandrel by an etch process. The resultant shells of the present invention can be configured with a surface roughness at the nanometer level (e.g., on the order of down to about 10 nm RMS) on a mm length scale, and exhibit excellent hardness/strength, and good transparency in the both the infra-red and visible. Specifically, a novel process is disclosed herein, which allows coating of spherical substrates with optical-quality diamond films or nanocrystalline diamond films.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2006Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Alex V. Hamza, Juergen Biener, Christoph Wild, Eckhard Woerner
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Patent number: 9481931Abstract: A method and arrangement for manufacturing objects by solid freeform fabrication, especially titanium and titanium alloy objects, wherein the deposition rate is increased by supplying the metallic feed material in the form of a wire and employing two gas transferred arcs, one plasma transferred arc for heating the deposition area on the base material and one plasma transferred arc for heating and melting the feed wire.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: NORSK TITANIUM ASInventor: Ferdinand Stempfer
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Patent number: 9481932Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a hard disk drive base plate with a sequence of progressive forging operations is described. The method may include advancing an initial hard disk drive base plate cut from an extruded sheet through a plurality of stations of a transfer die assembly. The method may also include performing a sequence of forgings on the initial hard disk drive base plate to progressively form parts on a hard disk drive base plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Cheung Woh Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Kung Ying Law
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Patent number: 9481933Abstract: A cold spray nozzle assembly for applying a coating of particles to a substrate includes a nozzle defining an inner passage with a nozzle exit. The nozzle assembly also includes a particle supply member in communication with the inner passage. The particle supply member supplies the particles to flow and accelerate through the inner passage and out of the nozzle via the nozzle exit toward the substrate to be coated thereon. Furthermore, the nozzle assembly includes a laser that emits a laser beam that is transmitted through the inner passage. The laser heats at least one of the particles and the substrate to promote coating of the substrate with the particles.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: The Regents Of The University Of MichiganInventor: Pravansu S. Mohanty
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Patent number: 9481934Abstract: A method of removing a work-affected layer formed on the worked surface of a TiAl-based alloy (base material) by machining work, without exerting any adverse effect on the base material. The method of removing the work-affected layer includes a step of dipping a TiAl-based alloy, having a work-affected layer formed on the surface thereof by machining, in an etchant containing predetermined concentrations of hydrofluoric acid and nitric acid. Within the etchant, the concentration of the hydrofluoric acid is not less than 5 g/L and not more than 56 g/L, and the concentration of the nitric acid is selected from within a range from not less than 50 g/L to not more than 260 g/L in accordance with a combination of the concentration of the hydrofluoric acid within the etchant and the etching treatment temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.Inventor: Taisuke Kamioka
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Patent number: 9481935Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous composition for pretreating a metallic surface before further coating or for treating said surface. The aqueous composition is obtained by adding a) at least [one] sodium, potassium, and/or ammonium water glass and b) at least one silane to water. The quantity ratio of a) to b), in each case including the resulting reaction products, is preferably in the range of 0.1:1 to 2:1.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Chemetall GmbHInventors: Saule Bukeikhanova, Mathias Komander
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Patent number: 9481936Abstract: A platelet-type zirconium phosphate, which has a P—OH group contained in a structure thereof, and has a crystalline peak at a 2? value of 11.6±2 degrees and no crystalline peak at a 2? value of less than 11.6±2 degrees in X-ray diffraction analysis, is provided. The platelet-type zirconium phosphate has a platelet-type structure and can be uniformly dispersed at a nanoscale level in a coating film to exhibit excellent surface gloss and barrier capability. Also, the platelet-type zirconium phosphate can exhibit excellent corrosion resistance due to the presence of the P—OH group on a surface thereof, and can be dispersed not only in an aqueous solution but also in an organic solvent.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: POSCOInventors: Bongwoo Ha, Jin Tae Kim, Jong Sang Kim, Yang-Ho Choi
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Patent number: 9481937Abstract: Compositions, methods, and systems permit selectively etching metal oxide from reactor metal parts (e.g., titanium and/or titanium alloys). The etching composition comprises an alkali metal hydroxide and gallic acid. The method is useful for cleaning reaction chambers used in the deposition of metal oxide films such as aluminum oxide.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: ASM America, Inc.Inventors: Srini Raghavan, Eric Shero, Mohith Verghese
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Patent number: 9481938Abstract: The embodiments described herein pertain generally to an electrochemical reduction method of carbon dioxide under a solution condition containing potassium sulfate.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignees: Sogang University Research Foundation, Korea Southern Power Co., Ltd.Inventors: Woonsup Shin, Sae Young Oh, Suk Kyu Kim, Mi Jung Park
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Patent number: 9481939Abstract: An electrochemical device converts carbon dioxide to a reaction product. The device includes an anode and a cathode, each comprising a quantity of catalyst. The anode and cathode each has reactant introduced thereto. A polymer electrolyte membrane is interposed between the anode and the cathode. At least a portion of the cathode catalyst is directly exposed to gaseous carbon dioxide during electrolysis. The average current density at the membrane is at least 20 mA/cm2, measured as the area of the cathode gas diffusion layer that is covered by catalyst, and CO selectivity is at least 50% at a cell potential of 3.0 V. In some embodiments, the polymer electrolyte membrane comprises a polymer in which a constituent monomer is (p-vinylbenzyl)-R, where R is selected from the group consisting of imidazoliums, pyridiniums and phosphoniums. In some embodiments, the polymer electrolyte membrane is a Helper Membrane comprising a polymer containing an imidazolium ligand, a pyridinium ligand, or a phosphonium ligand.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Dioxide Materials, Inc.Inventors: Richard I. Masel, Qingmei Chen, Zengcai Liu, Robert Kutz
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Patent number: 9481940Abstract: Disclosed are an electrodeposition system and method with an anode assembly comprising a capacitor comprising a first conductive plate (i.e., an anode) with a frontside having a surface exposed to a plating solution, a second conductive plate on a backside of the first conductive plate, and a dielectric layer between the two conductive plates. During a non-plating mode, a power source, having positive and negative terminals connected to the first and second conductive plates, respectively, is turned on, thereby polarizing the first conductive plate (i.e., the anode) relative to the second conductive plate to prevent degradation of the anode and/or plating solution. During an active plating mode, another power source, having positive and negative terminals connected to the first conductive plate (i.e., the anode) and a cathode, respectively, is turned on, thereby polarizing the anode relative to the cathode in order to deposit a plated layer on a workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Ancosys GMBHInventors: Charles L. Arvin, JĂ¼rg Stahl
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Patent number: 9481941Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods for manufacturing a metallized or metallizable felt by percolation of at least one felt element by electrodeposition.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignees: UNIVERSITE DE RENNES, CNRS-CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUEInventors: Didier Floner, Florence Geneste, Dominique Paris, Olivier Lavastre
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Patent number: 9481942Abstract: Various embodiments herein relate to methods and apparatus for electroplating metal onto substrates. The apparatus used to practice electroplating may be designed to have a geometric configuration that makes it difficult for air to travel and become trapped under the substrate. By using such apparatus, electroplating can occur at higher rates of substrate rotation than would otherwise be acceptable. The higher rate of substrate rotation allows electroplating to occur at higher limiting currents, which in turn increases throughput. The disclosed embodiments are particularly useful in the context of electrolytes that otherwise exhibit a relatively low limiting current (e.g., electrolytes having a low concentration of metal ions), though the embodiments are not so limited.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: Jian Zhou, Cian Sweeney, Zhian He, Jonathan David Reid
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Patent number: 9481943Abstract: A system for epitaxial deposition of a Group III-V semiconductor material that includes gallium. The system includes sources of the reactants, one of which is a gaseous Group III precursor having one or more gaseous gallium precursors and another of which is a gaseous Group V component, a reaction chamber wherein the reactants combine to deposit Group III-V semiconductor material, and one or more heating structures for heating the gaseous Group III precursors prior to reacting to a temperature to decompose substantially all dimers, trimers or other molecular variations of such precursors into their monomer forms.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: SOITECInventors: Chantal Arena, Christiaan Werkhoven
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Patent number: 9481944Abstract: The present invention provides improved gas injectors for use with CVD (chemical vapor deposition) systems that thermalize gases prior to injection into a CVD chamber. The provided injectors are configured to increase gas flow times through heated zones and include gas-conducting conduits that lengthen gas residency times in the heated zones. The provided injectors also have outlet ports sized, shaped, and arranged to inject gases in selected flow patterns. The invention also provides CVD systems using the provided thermalizing gas injectors. The present invention has particular application to high-volume manufacturing of GaN substrates.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: SoitecInventors: Chantal Arena, Ronald Thomas Bertram, Jr., Ed Lindow, Christiaan Werkhoven
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Patent number: 9481945Abstract: Rapid and specific detection of biological cells and biomolecules is important to biological assays across diverse fields including genomics, proteomics, diagnoses, and pathological studies. Microarrays and microfluidics increasingly dominate such detection techniques due to the ability to perform significant numbers of tests with limited sample volumes. A snap chip assembly is provided for the transfer of a microarray of reagents within semi-spherical liquid droplets on a transfer chip to a target assay microarray on an assay chip following assembly of the two chips and physical contact of the droplets with the target array. Reagents in nanoliter quantities are spotted on both chips and selectively transferred as liquid droplets between transfer chip and assay chip within the contact areas. Using the snap chip structure the inventors performed immunoassays with colocalization of capture and detection antibodies with 10 targets and bead-in-gel droplet microarrays with 9 targets in the low pg/ml regime.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING / MCGILL UNIVERSITYInventors: David Juncker, Huiyan Li
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Patent number: 9481946Abstract: The present invention concerns methods for obtaining high-tenacity aramid yarn, wherein the yarn is made of a copolymer obtained from a mixture of monomers comprising 5-(6)-amino-2-(p-aminophenyl)benzimidazole, an aromatic para-diamine, and an aromatic para-diacid. The method comprises: a) spinning said copolymer from an inorganic acid solvent to produce the aramid yarn; b) washing the yarn with a basic aqueous solution for at least 5 seconds; and c) heating the yarn; wherein the yarn is heated in at least two process steps, comprising (i) in a first step the yarn is heated at a temperature of 200 to 360° C. at a tension of at least 0.2 cN/dtex, followed by (ii) a second step wherein the yarn is heated at a temperature of 370 to 500° C. at a tension of less than 1 cN/dtex.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Warren Francis Knoff, Christopher William Newton
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Patent number: 9481947Abstract: A method for monitoring contact of a rotating component of a textile machine, in particular of a clothing roller of a card, for example a card cylinder, with a further component of the textile machine. The two components are connected to an electrical power source, but are normally electrically isolated from each other, and only in the case of a contact between the two components, a short-circuit is generated, which is detected by the monitoring device. The duration of individual short-circuits per time unit (T) is detected and summed up so as to form a total duration (t) of all short-circuits per time unit (T).Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Werner Hartmeier, Xaver Baumann
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Patent number: 9481948Abstract: A composite prepreg yarn designed and constructed is a very large, strong yarn with resin infused throughout, which can be used to prepare composite preforms via conventional Maypole braiding or other textile processes. The invention increases the loads that can be transmitted by the cured yarn in a composite structure, decreases the stickiness that can prevent their use in braiding and other textile processes, provides protection to the high-strength fibers from abrasion that is encountered during and after composite preform manufacturing via braiding.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Auburn UniversityInventors: David J. Branscomb, Roy M. Broughton, Jr., David G. Beale
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Patent number: 9481949Abstract: The present invention is directed to nanofiber yarns, ribbons, and sheets; to methods of making said yarns, ribbons, and sheets; and to applications of said yarns, ribbons, and sheets. In some embodiments, the nanotube yarns, ribbons, and sheets comprise carbon nanotubes. Particularly, such carbon nanotube yarns of the present invention provide unique properties and property combinations such as extreme toughness, resistance to failure at knots, high electrical and thermal conductivities, high absorption of energy that occurs reversibly, up to 13% strain-to-failure compared with the few percent strain-to-failure of other fibers with similar toughness, very high resistance to creep, retention of strength even when heated in air at 450° C. for one hour, and very high radiation and UV resistance, even when irradiated in air. Furthermore these nanotube yarns can be spun as one micron diameter yarns and plied at will to make two-fold, four-fold, and higher fold yarns.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Mei Zhang, Shaoli Fang, Ray H. Baughman, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Kenneth Ross Atkinson, Ali E. Aliev, Sergey Li, Chris Williams
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Patent number: 9481950Abstract: A method, a device and/or a system of proliferating a thread count of a woven textile by simultaneous insertion within a single pick insertion event of a loom apparatus multiple adjacent parallel yarns drawn from a multi-pick yarn package. In one or more embodiments, multiple texturized polyester weft yarns of denier between 15 and 65 are wound on a single bobbin in a parallel adjacent fashion such that they may be fed into an air jet pick insertion apparatus and/or a rapier pick insertion apparatus of an air jet loom to weave a textile that has between 90 to 235 ends per inch cotton warp yarns and between 100 and 965 polyester weft yarns.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Inventor: Arun Agarwal
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Patent number: 9481951Abstract: The present invention relates to a knitting needle holder, wherein a set of knitting needles can be held in a channel of the holder while allowing for a knitting project to be held through an opening in the holder while engaged in an ongoing knitting project and having a pivot opening and magnetic closure mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Inventor: David C. Fegley
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Patent number: 9481952Abstract: A double-cylinder circular machine for producing tubular knitted manufactures, particularly for making hosiery items or the like, which comprises a supporting structure which is provided with a footing for resting on the ground which supports, so that it can rotate about its own vertically-oriented axis, a lower needle cylinder. The supporting structure comprises at least one column which is extended substantially vertically, protrudes upward from the footing and supports, so that it can rotate about its own axis, an upper needle cylinder, the upper needle cylinder is supported, so that it can rotate about its own axis, by an arm, which in turn is supported by the column, elements being provided for the rotation of the arm about the axis of the main shaft with respect to the column to provide the transition of the upper needle cylinder from an active position to an inactive position.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: LONATI S.P.A.Inventors: Ettore Lonati, Fausto Lonati, Tiberio Lonati, Francesco Lonati
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Patent number: 9481953Abstract: A knitting machine with multiple feeders may be utilized to knit a knitted component. Feeders may be used to knit the knitted component and a combination feeder may also inlay an inlaid strand within the knitted component. As an example, a combination feeder may include a feeder arm that reciprocates between a retracted position and an extended position. In manufacturing the knitted component, a feeder inlays the strand when the feeder arm is in the extended position, and the strand is absent from the knitted component when the feeder arm is in the retracted position. A dispensing tip disposed at the end of the feeder arm supplies the strand for inlaying in a location disposed below the intersection of the planes of the needle beds and for one or more of knitting, tucking, and floating in a location disposed above the intersection of the planes of the needle beds.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventor: Bruce Huffa
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Patent number: 9481954Abstract: A processing apparatus and a processing method capable of producing a point-through-air nonwoven fabric wherein hot air is allowed to penetrate through spots of a web or a sheet-like material and fibers at the penetration site are heat-bonded. The processing apparatus for hot-air treatment nonwoven fabric, includes: a rotating running endless belt with holes, a hot-air blowing apparatus which blows out hot air from an internal side of the endless belt with holes toward an outer side thereof, and an endless belt for fiber conveyance which is arranged on a side opposite to the hot-air blowing side of the hot-air blowing apparatus across the endless belt with holes and the endless belt for fiber conveyance rotates while the hot-air passes therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignees: JNC FIBERS CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Taiju Terakawa, Hirokazu Terada
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Patent number: 9481955Abstract: A stitching system is configured to stitch through decorative skins with a molded seam recess representing a seam and includes a sewing machine, an image acquisition mechanism, a controller, and a rotation mechanism. The sewing machine is rotatable with respect to a support table, and includes a sewing head to receive a sewing needle and a sewing foot to selectively engage the skin. The image acquisition mechanism produces an image of the seam recess with respect to the sewing head/needle(s). The controller determines the difference between the actual recess location and a predetermined desired recess location. Based on this difference, the controller determines a sewing machine rotation angle and orientation to reduce the difference to zero, and then produces a corresponding adjustment signal that drives the rotation mechanism. A robot can move either the sewing machine or the workpiece, and still use the herein-described real time steering control.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Inventors: Gregg S. Evans, Jeff A. Sawyer
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Patent number: 9481956Abstract: A pretreatment cup comprising elongated protrusions, having a length to width ratio of greater than 2, which are spaced so that the distance between the elongated protrusions is less than the height of the elongated protrusions, can be used for pretreating both durable and delicate fabrics.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Pieter Paul Dirk Jenny Maria Van Den Bergh, Annabelle Mayeux, Mohamed Samir, Wiliam John Davis
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Patent number: 9481957Abstract: A method for optimizing a rinsing phase in a washing machine includes introducing rinsing liquid in a last step of the rinsing phase into an outer tub of the washing machine. A sensor detects a presence of fabric softener in the rinsing liquid to produce a signal which is compared with a reference signal to determine the presence of fabric softener in the rinsing liquid. Rinsing is executed with water only in the absence of fabric softener, or with water and fabric softener in the presence of fabric softener, with a washing kinetics reduced by at least 15% when rinsing involves water and fabric softener and including a switch-on time, duration of a reversing cycle, and rotational speed of a drum of the outer tub. Switch-on time and rotational speed are hereby each reduced by at least 20% whereas duration of the reversing cycle is increased by at least 20%.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventor: Ingo Schulze
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Patent number: 9481958Abstract: A washing machine which is improved so as to firmly support a clutch. The washing machine includes a main body, a tub disposed within the main body, a drum rotatably disposed within the tub, a motor provided under the tub to provide driving force to rotate the drum, a clutch connected to the motor to transmit driving force of the motor to the drum, and a mounting plate to fix the clutch and the motor to connect the clutch and the motor to the lower surface of the tub. A first flange unit connected to the clutch is provided on the lower surface of the tub, and a second flange unit connected to the outer circumferential surface of the first flange unit is provided on the mounting plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Sang Ho Park
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Patent number: 9481959Abstract: In a household cleaning appliance configured to execute a cleaning cycle on an article, having a non-bulk dispensing system that stores a single dose of treating chemistry that the dispensing system dispenses to the treating chamber in total as part of the execution of the cleaning cycle, the method includes adding bulk dispensing functionality to the non-bulk dispensing system for operating the dispensing system as a bulk dispensing system.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Colleen M. Doyle, Michael S. Hendrickson, Joel A. Luckman
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Patent number: 9481960Abstract: The container (20) comprises a base (22), a concave wall (24), a convex wall (26), and a pair of side walls (28) with all walls (24, 26, 28) extending upwardly from the base (22) to a rim (30) which presents an engaging area (50) having an apex (52) and midpoint (54). The apex (52) of the engaging area (50) is disposed a greater distance from the base (22) than the distance of the top (38) of the rim (30) from the base (22) along the side walls (28) and the convex wall (26), whereby the engaging area (50) presents a concave surface area for supporting the container (20) on the hip of a human body. The engaging area (50) further includes a second dimension (h2) which decreases in height along the rim (30) from the apex (52) and the midpoint (54) of the engaging area (50) toward each side wall (28). The engaging area (50) further includes a support plane (?3) which slants relative to vertical at an acute angle (?) allowing the engaging area (50) to rest comfortably on the human body.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: HMS MFG. CO.Inventors: Janet M. Sofy, Randal J. Petkoff
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Patent number: 9481961Abstract: A formulation is provided which comprises at least one phenolic compound in an amount of about 0.5 to about 1.2% of the mass of the formulation; at least one fragrance in an amount of about 0.3 to about 1.0% of the mass of the formulation; and at least one alcohol in an amount of about 90 to about 99% of the mass of the formulation. Said formulation is surfactant free and being capable of rendering anti-microbial finish to fabrics. And also, a process for preparing a fabric with anti-microbial finish is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Anand Parekh, Satya Pal Gomber, Sujit Kumar Barik
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Patent number: 9481962Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for treating a textile material with a crosslinkable high density polyethylene based elastomer compound, such treated material for use in reinforced elastomeric articles. In one embodiment, a crosslinkable high density polyethylene based elastomer compound is applied in particle form to a surface of a textile material having a plurality of interstices. The particles are of a size no greater than about 35 mesh and include a peroxide curing agent. Next, the particles are melted so as to impregnate the interstices of the textile material with the compound. Then, the compound is crosslinked in-situ via the peroxide curing agent. In one example, the rubber compound includes about 80 parts per hundred cross-linkable material (phcm) to 100 phcm crosslinkable high density polyethylene. The resulting textile material may be used as a facing fabric, e.g., in a reinforced elastomeric article, such as a toothed power transmission belt.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Veyance Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Douglas Wood
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Patent number: 9481963Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of a carboxymethyl cellulose nonwoven fabric which includes the carboxymethylation of cellulose fibers and the subsequent paper-making process to prepare a carboxymethyl cellulose nonwoven fabric. Comparing with the conventional method involving carboxymethylation of a nonwoven fabric, the method of the present invention has convenience and easiness of the process and thus enables production on a large scale. Further, the carboxymethyl cellulose nonwoven fabric manufactured by the present invention is susceptible to gelation upon contact with body fluids or water and thus useful as a medical nonwoven fabric or a mask pack.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Korea Institute of Industrial TechnologyInventors: Jung Nam Im, Song Jun Doh, Dae Young Lim, Ji Yun Lee
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Patent number: 9481964Abstract: A system for controlling a paving system includes a plurality of supply machines, a paving machine, and a plant. A first controller determines the position of each supply machine. A second controller determines the rate at which paving material is being applied to a work surface and transmits the rate at which the paving material is being applied. A temperature sensor is associated with one of the plurality of supply machines and the paving machine for determining a temperature of paving material at the paving machine. The plant is configured to produce a batch of paving material and a third controller determines a batch temperature, and generates instructions indicative of a desired route for each supply machine between the plant and the paving machine based upon the position of each supply machine, traffic information data, the batch temperature, and the temperature of paving material at the paving machine.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.Inventor: John L. Marsolek
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Patent number: 9481965Abstract: A system associated with a machine is provided. The system is configured to engage with a vehicle. The system includes a first frame and a second frame to support a first roller and a second roller, respectively. The first roller and the second roller are configured to abut a first and a second set of ground engaging members, respectively, of the vehicle. The system further includes a pin member to couple the first frame and the second frame. The first frame and the second frame are moveable relative to each other about a rotating axis defined by the pin member. The system further includes an actuating member coupled between the first frame and the second frame. The actuating member is configured to move the first frame and the second frame about the pin member.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.Inventor: Ryan J. Schuette