Patents Issued in April 18, 2017
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Patent number: 9623597Abstract: A hot-runner mold gate structure includes a body having a path, and a room is defined in one end of the path. A guide member is inserted in a bushing, and both of which are located in the room. A locking member is connected to the room and has a reception area in one end of the locking member. The guide member has an axial guide slot and a guide hole. The guide member has a tip which protrudes through an outlet in the distal end of the bushing. Melted PET passes through the guide hole, the guide slot and the gap between the tip and the inside of the outlet to enter into the mold set. The contact area between the locking member and the bushing is minimized to maintain a certain temperature at the outlet of the bushing to avoid the PET from being cooled.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Inventor: Chung-Hsien Lin
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Patent number: 9623598Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow of mold material to a mold cavity, the apparatus comprising: an injection molding machine and a manifold; an actuator interconnected to a valve pin having a tip end; a valve system in fluid communication with the actuator to drive the actuator at one or more rates of travel, the valve system having a start position, one or more intermediate drive rate positions and a high drive rate position, the start position holding the valve pin in a gate closed position; a controller that instructs the valve system to move from the start position to the one or more intermediate drive rate positions and to remain in the one or more intermediate drive rate positions for one or more corresponding predetermined amounts of time and further drives the valve system to move from the one or more intermediate drive rate positions to the high drive rate position on expiration of the one or more predetermined amounts of time.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Vito Galati, Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, J. Andres Lopez
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Patent number: 9623599Abstract: A seal for use in an extrusion device for producing continuous profiles, in particular plastics pipes includes an elastic sealing disc, which is arranged in a plane approximately perpendicularly to the extrusion direction and has a through-passage opening letting through the continuous profile and having a sealing rim bearing against the continuous profile. Connection members are arranged along the sealing rim, and clamping elements are provided for exerting a force on the connection members, with the force acting radially with respect to the extrusion axis. The clamping elements are arranged in a plane parallel to the sealing disc, have a passage opening for the continuous profile and include connecting members for connecting the connection members to the clamping elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: KRAUSSMAFFEI TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Aron Altmann, Mathias Geyer
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Patent number: 9623600Abstract: A method of conveying plastics material pre-forms includes the plastics material pre-forms supplied to a conveying device by a supply device. The conveying device has a first roller body and a second roller body. The plastics material pre-form is conveyed between these roller bodies. A portion of the plastics material pre-forms is supported by the two roller bodies. A further portion of the plastics material pre-forms passes through between the roller bodies. At least one first value characteristic of a state of occupation of the plastics material pre-forms is detected by a first measuring instrument. A second value characteristic is detected by a second measuring instrument downstream of the first measuring instrument in the conveying direction of the plastics material pre-forms. A setting variable of the supply device or the conveying device is controlled on the basis of the two values.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Krones, AGInventors: Martin Seger, Juergen Beutl, Johannes Vierheilig, Florian Nebl, Christian Paul, Andreas Seidl
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Patent number: 9623601Abstract: Methods and apparatus for molding a vessel, such as a bottle, with a high quality sealing surface are described herein. In one embodiment, a stepped blow pin can be used to form the sealing surface of a bottle. A stepped blow pin can include a body with a distal end and a proximal end. The blow pin can include a first region that includes a first diameter and a first engagement surface. The blow pin can further include a second region that includes a second diameter. The second region can be positioned between the first region and the distal end. A transition section can be positioned between the first region and second region. The blow pin can also include a top surface position at the proximal end, and a bottom surface positioned at the distal end.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Heartland Consumer Products, LLCInventor: Teodor H. Gelov
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Patent number: 9623602Abstract: Methods for forming discrete deformations in web materials are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method involves feeding a web into an apparatus having nips that are formed between intermeshing rolls. The apparatus may be in the form of nested or other arrangements of multiple rolls, in which the web is maintained in substantial contact with at least one of the rolls throughout the process, and at least two of the rolls define two or more nips thereon with other rolls. In some embodiments, rolls can be used to expose a different side of the web for a subsequent deformation step. In these or other embodiments, the rolls can be used to transfer the web between rolls in such a manner that it may offset the rolls and/or web so that subsequent deformations are formed at a different cross-machine direction location than prior deformations.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Timothy Ian Mullane
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Patent number: 9623603Abstract: A conduit, such as an introducer sheath, catheter, or guide catheter, incorporating two or more separate lumens to prevent the entanglement of guidewires located at least partially within the conduit. The lumens are separated by at least one disruptable barrier that allows multiple lumens to be converted into fewer lumens prior to or as a device is advanced through the introducer sheath.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Rochelle M. Hamer, Eric Gerard Johnson, Stanislaw L. Zukowski
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Patent number: 9623604Abstract: A method, system for encoding or decoding information in physical properties of an object. A tangible product comprises a three dimensional tangible object having modified physical properties; and wherein the modified physical properties are a modification of physical properties, wherein the modification encodes information. A method comprising: obtaining a representation of a three dimensional object having physical properties; obtaining information to encode; determining modified physical properties by modifying the physical properties to encode within the modified physical properties the information; and producing a tangible product, wherein the tangible product is the three dimensional object having the modified physical properties.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Glazberg Appelbaum & CoInventors: Ziv Glazberg, Nadav Applebaum, Shmuel Ur
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Patent number: 9623605Abstract: Thermally cross-linkable photo-hydrolyzable inkjet printable polymers are used to print microfluidic channels layer-by-layer on a substrate. In one embodiment, for each layer, an inkjet head deposits droplets of a mixture of hydrophobic polymer and cross-linking agent in a pattern lying outside a two-dimensional layout of the channels, and another inkjet head deposits droplets of a mixture of poly(tetrahydropyranyl methacrylate) PTHPMA (or another hydrophobic polymer which hydrolyzes to form a hydrophilic material), cross-linking agent, and a photoacid generator (PAG) in a pattern lying inside the two-dimensional layout of the channels. After all layers are printed, flood exposure of the entire substrate to UV radiation releases acid from the PAG which hydrolyzes PTHPMA to form hydrophilic poly(methacrylic acid) PMAA, thereby rendering the PTHPMA regions hydrophilic. The layers of these now-hydrophilic patterned regions together define the microfluidic channels. The cross-linking agent (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Dylan J. Boday, Joseph Kuczynski, Robert E. Meyer, III
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Patent number: 9623606Abstract: The method of manufacturing a three-dimensional structure, in which the three-dimensional structure is manufactured by laminating a layer, includes the steps of: forming the layer using a three-dimension formation composition containing a particle and a light stabilizer A; and discharging a binding solution containing a binder and a light stabilizer B to the layer, in which, when the content ratio of the light stabilizer A contained in the three-dimension formation composition is represented by A (mass %) and the content ratio of the light stabilizer B contained in the binding solution is represented by B, a relationship of 2?A/B?4 is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Chigusa Sato, Koki Hirata, Hiroshi Fukumoto, Shinichi Kato
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Patent number: 9623607Abstract: An additive manufacturing device is disclosed that enables the manufacturing of 3D objects at a short time. The device uses multiple writing heads to write simultaneously different segments of the object and thus complete the object manufacture in a shorter time as compared to a one head additive manufacturing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Massivit 3D Printing Technologies LTDInventors: Moshe Uzan, Igor Yakubov
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Patent number: 9623608Abstract: In an object generation system, consumable base materials are characterized in a characterization process wherein an object generation system can use a plurality of so-characterized base materials. User input representing a desired object and set of characteristics for that desired object are processed, using a computer or computing device, to derive a mapping of locations for placement of portions of the plurality of base materials such that when the mapping is provided to an object generator, the generated object approximates the representing a desired object and set of characteristics. The characterization of a base material might include elasticity of the base material, the user input might be a desired shape and elasticity, the object generator might be a 3D multi-material printer and the generated object might at least approximate the desired shape and elasticity as a result of being constructed from the plurality of base materials used by the printer.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Bernd Bickel, Wojciech Matusik, Miguel A. Otaduy, Markus Gross, Hanspeter Pfister
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Patent number: 9623609Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multi-material functional article, the method comprising the steps of providing a design module from a database, the design module encoded with physical characteristics, material needs, additive manufacturing equipment required, and performance outputs required for modeling a multi-material functional article, allowing a user access to the design module to integrate the design module into a functional article design, having the design module interface with available additive manufacturing equipment and allowing the user to print the multi-material functional article.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Vadient Optics, LLCInventor: George Williams
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Patent number: 9623610Abstract: A method for manufacturing rigid panels made of a composite material requires a caul sheet having a smooth surface that is formed with a plurality of grooves. A first layer of the composite material is laid on the caul sheet, and is cut to create flaps that extend into the respective grooves. Strips of composite material are then placed along the edges of the groove to extend and overlap each other in the groove. Next, a unidirectional ply is placed along the length of the groove, and this combination is then covered with a second layer of the composite material. Together, the combination of the first and second layers, the strips and the unidirectional ply are co-cured to create a rigid panel with integral stiffening members.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Spectrum Aeronautical, LLCInventors: Larry J. Ashton, Michael G. Allman, Troy L. White, Benko S. Ta'ala
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Patent number: 9623611Abstract: A fiber placement system for manufacturing components from composite materials is provided. The system includes a head system mounted to a pedestal and rotatable about a center longitudinal axis of the head system. The system also includes a robot in proximity to the head system, as well as a magazine for carrying a plurality of mold assemblies. The magazine is operable to index each mold assembly to a first location where it is retrievable by the robot, and a second location where it is outside of a working envelope of the robot.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Ingersoll Machine Tools, Inc.Inventor: Tino Oldani
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Patent number: 9623612Abstract: Composite fasteners have a high fraction of discontinuous, randomly oriented reinforcing fibers. A charge of thermoplastic fiber flakes are heated to melting temperature within a reservoir, flowed into multiple mold cavities and compression molded. The molded fasteners have high strength, exhibit quasi-isotropic properties and may be produced in high volume.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Aaron William Bartel, Nathan A. Muntz
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Patent number: 9623613Abstract: A plastic bag is provided. The plastic bag includes a first wall made of a first material with a first thickness dimension and a second wall made of the first material with a second thickness dimension, wherein an opening is formed on a first side of the first wall and the second wall and a second side of the first wall and the second wall is sealed together. The plastic bag also includes a first strip made of a second material with a third thickness dimension disposed on the first wall. The plastic bag further includes a first section on the first wall having a fourth thickness dimension. The fourth thickness dimension is smaller than the first thickness dimension. The first strip and the first section align to form a first weakened zone.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Inventor: Chih-Hung Chen
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Patent number: 9623614Abstract: The instant invention pertains to a method and a fluid composition for producing contact lenses with improved lens quality and with increased product yield. The method of the invention involves adding a Butylated Polyvinylpyrrolidone into a fluid composition including a lens-forming material in an amount sufficient to reduce an averaged mold separation force by at least about 20% in comparison with that without the Butylated Polyvinylpyrrolidone.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Troy Vernon Holland, Dawn Alison Smith
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Patent number: 9623615Abstract: A linear Fresnel lens sheet includes: a lens layer having a first surface in which a linear Fresnel lens portion, having a number of lens surfaces arranged in a first direction d1, is formed, and a second surface opposite the first surface; and a diffusion layer disposed on the side of the second surface of the lens layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiro Sasahara
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Patent number: 9623616Abstract: A mold for vulcanizing and molding a tire, this tire including a tread delimited by two sidewalls, the mold including a ring for molding the patterns of the tread of the tire and two shells for molding the sidewalls, the mold including an annular groove extending in a recessed manner in one of the shells and an insert housed in the groove, this insert having tire-molding surface features, characterized in that the molding surface features of the insert include tire tread pattern elements extending in line with the patterns of the tread.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Bernard Villeneuve, Christian Gomet
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Patent number: 9623617Abstract: A machine for retreading tires includes a rotatable hub and an expandable rim disposed around the moveable hub. The expandable rim includes a plurality of shoes, each shoe having a flange segment on either side of a rim segment of the plurality of shoes. An adapter is attached to each of the flange segments such that an expandable rim width is decreased. A method for modifying a width of an expandable rim for use in a tire retreading machine comprising is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Bridgestone Bandag, LLCInventor: Eric M. Henriksen
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Patent number: 9623618Abstract: A method of producing a rubber compound for a tread portion designed to assume, with use, a porous surface with a 75 to 800 ?m pore area. The method includes a first mixing step, in which a polymer base, recycled rubber, and silica are mixed together; and a second mixing step, in which a curing system is added and mixed to the compound from the first mixing step. 5 to 20 phr of recycled rubber is added at the first mixing step. The recycled rubber is 75 to 800 um in size, and is treated beforehand cryogenically. And the polymer base is selected from SBR, BR, NR and mixtures thereof. The invention also relates to a rubber compound for producing a tread portion, a tread portion and a winter tire comprising said tread portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Raffaele Di Ronza, Alessandra Calzetta
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Patent number: 9623619Abstract: The invention relates to a connection arrangement for connecting two profiled elements in a seamless and aerodynamically smooth manner in order to form a profiled surface around which a laminar flow is possible. A first profiled element has a first fixing strip that extends towards the second profiled element, and the surface of the first fixing strip is lower than the surfaces of the profiled elements in the outward direction. Furthermore, the second profiled element has a second fixing strip which is molded on the inside and which is arranged below the first fixing strip, and the two profiled elements are rigidly connected to each other by means of the second fixing strip. A filler region that can be found below the connecting surface between the profiled surfaces and above the fixing strip surface is tilled with at least two layers of cured filling material. A method for filling the filling region with filling material and a device for carrying out the method are also claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbHInventors: Tamas Havar, Matthias Geistbeck, Meinhard Meyer, Oliver Rohr, Thomas Meer
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Patent number: 9623620Abstract: Curing cauls formed of a one-piece three-dimensional resiliently shape-retentive fiber-reinforced body are provided, whereby the body includes a fibrous sheet coated with at least one layer of a cured elastomeric resin. The fibrous sheet may be embedded within the cured elastomeric resin, with the body having a stiffened perimetrical edge region and a stiffened ridge region vertically spaced from the edge region.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: EMBRAER S.A.Inventors: Fabricio Brizon, Lallo Kametada Nou
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Patent number: 9623621Abstract: A composite component assembly may include a composite core including a plurality of core cells between first and second ends. A connection joint is formed between the first and second ends. An adhesive layer is disposed within the connection joint between the first and second ends. The adhesive layer is configured to bond the first and second ends through a curing process. A peg splice securing joint securely connects the first and second ends together before and during the curing process.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Bruce Taylor, Geoffrey Gibbings, Rudy Braun, Kyle Christopher Advent
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Patent number: 9623622Abstract: An inflatable packaging material includes two outer films, a plurality of valve films, and a non-sealable material positioned between the valve films. The films are sealed together by a plurality of seals, including a valve seal extending across the material. The seals define a plurality of air columns and an inflation passage in communication with the columns. The non-sealable material is arranged to form valve portions positioned along the valve seal and spaced passage portions positioned along the inflation passage. The valve portions provide valve passages through the valve seal, to allow airflow into each air column. The passage portions are arranged such that one side seal passes through a space between the passage portions to seal one end of the inflation passage, and the other side seal passes through one of the passage portions to create an open inflation port.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Inventor: Michael Baines
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Patent number: 9623623Abstract: There is disclosed a computer program product for carrying out a method of calibrating a thickness of an embossing die, the embossing die being formed from a plurality of ink layers printed by an apparatus. According to the method, an average thickness of an ink layer printed by the apparatus may be calculated, and a target die thickness may be calculated as a function of the average ink layer thickness. A system for implementing a method of calibrating a thickness of an embossing die and a method of measuring a thickness of an embossing die are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V.Inventors: Shahar Stein, Eyal Peleg, George Trendafilov, Itzik Shaul
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Patent number: 9623624Abstract: An insert is assembled to a base interior part at either an edge or a corner of the part that is later wrapped with a cut and sewn jacket cover. The assembly comprises a substrate, an insert and a cover. The substrate has a base edge and the insert has a contour defining edge attached to the substrate with the contour defining edge aligned with the base edge. The cover is wrapped over the insert and the substrate to provide a wrapped edge that covers over the contour defining edge. A method of manufacturing a covered interior part of a vehicle comprises securing an insert having a contour defining edge to the interior panel and wrapping the insert and the interior panel with a cover.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: James Hadley Muiter, Alan Curtis Moran, Jr., Shariq Alam
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Patent number: 9623625Abstract: A glass substrate protective pad which protects a glass substrate in close contact with the glass substrate. The glass substrate protective pad has multiple layers, the rear layer of the multiple layers which is to be in close contact with the glass substrate containing foamed polymer. A glass substrate packing container for packing a plurality of glass substrates loaded therein, in which the above-described glass substrate protective pad is in close contact with the front surface of the plurality of glass substrates.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Corning Precision Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: BumRo Lee, Seok-Woong Kim, Sangku Moon, Kyu-Hwan Lee
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Patent number: 9623626Abstract: The invention relates to a flexible composite material. This material comprises at least 2 layers comprising high strength fibers, said at least 2 layers comprise consolidated elements and unconsolidated elements, the unconsolidated elements being in contact with the consolidated elements. The flexible composite material shows a better anti-ballistic performance compared to materials known so far.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Cyril Clerici, Harm Van der Werff
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Patent number: 9623627Abstract: A sound absorbing material comprising a nonwoven fibrous acoustic insulation material and a flow resistive nonwoven facing, wherein the flow resistive nonwoven facing is bonded to the insulation material and has an air flow resistance of from about 600 to about 1800 Rayls and a surface mass of from about 20 to about 150 g/m2.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: ZEPHYROS, INC.Inventors: Michael William Coates, Marek Kierzkowski, Philip John Gibbons
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Patent number: 9623628Abstract: A method comprises shaping an aluminum oxide ceramic material into a component for an electronic device. The component has first and second major surfaces. A selected region of one or both of the first and second major surfaces is heated to an annealing temperature. The selected region is then cooled below the annealing temperature, so that residual compressive stress is generated in the selected region.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Kelvin Kwong
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Patent number: 9623629Abstract: Provided is a molding packaging material that can have an increased use life, can suppress a decrease over time in inter-layer lamination strength, and has superior molding properties in extrusion molding, draw forming, and the like. The laminate molding packaging material contains: an outside substrate layer (2) comprising a heat-resistant resin; an inside sealant layer (3) comprising a thermoplastic resin; and a metal foil provided between the two layers as a barrier layer (4). In the heat-resistant resin of the outside substrate layer (2), a biaxially oriented polyethyleneterephthalate film is used that, when the tensile breaking strength in the M direction is MB and the tensile breaking strength in the T direction is TB, the following are satisfied: 500 MPa=MB+TB=700 MPa; and??formula (I) |MB?TB|=30 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Showa Denko Packaging Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsunobu Kuramoto, Yuuji Minamibori
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Patent number: 9623630Abstract: Release film having at least one layer based on at least one thermoplastic polymer as matrix polymer, in which solid microparticles having a melting point which is at least 10° C. higher than that of the matrix polymer are dispersed therein and surfaces of which at least one is provided with a release layer as outer layer based on at least one cured polysiloxane.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: INFIANA GERMANY GMBH & CO., KGInventor: Heinz Engelhard
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Patent number: 9623631Abstract: A radiation-curable laminating adhesive is provided which contains a) at least one urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer and b) at least one additional (meth)acrylate-functionalized component selected from the group consisting of carboxylic acid-functionalized ester-containing (meth)acrylate monomers and polybutadiene poly(meth)acrylates. The adhesive may also contain other components such as (meth)acrylic polyol (meth)acrylates. Flexible packaging laminates may be obtained by using the aforedescribed adhesive to adhere thin polymeric and/or metallic films together, the adhesive being exposed to an amount of radiation effective to cure the adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2005Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Henkel IP & Holding GmbHInventors: Alexander P. Mgaya, Balasubramaniam Ramalingam
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Patent number: 9623632Abstract: A vacuum deposition process suitable for coating discrete articles with a zinc-rich, fully alloyed layer is described. In a process step of contacting the article with metallic Zn vapor, the temperature of the article is equal to or higher than the dew point of the Zn vapor. The process results in a coating having a uniform thickness, even on less accessible surfaces. Additionally, the roughness of the steel substrate is essentially preserved. By properly engineering the surface of the substrate, coated articles can be obtained having a roughness providing for optimal paint adhesion.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: UmicoreInventors: Bruno Gay, Etienne Petit
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Patent number: 9623633Abstract: A flexible display comprises a flexible substrate made of plastic material, a display element on a first surface of the flexible substrate, and a surface residual film containing at least one of a metal material or a metal oxide material. The surface residual film is bonded to at least a part of a second surface of the flexible substrate. The second surface is opposed to the first surface. A method for manufacturing a flexible display comprises preparing a glass substrate, forming adhesive material film on the glass substrate, the adhesive material film being made of at least one of a metal material or a metal oxide material, and forming a flexible substrate from plastic material on the adhesive material film.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae-Woong Kim, Sung-Guk An, Dong-un Jin, Hyung-Sik Kim, Young-Gu Kim, Sang-Joon Seo
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Patent number: 9623634Abstract: Laminated automotive glazing including plastic layers and glass having an obscuration area produced by printing on the plastic layers of the laminate rather than printing and firing a black enamel frit onto the glass. This results in an obscuration having superior optical quality, higher strength and a lower probability of breakage as compared to a black enamel frit obscuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: AGP AMERICA S.A.Inventors: Arturo Mannheim Astete, Vincenzo Mannino, Charles S. Voeltzel
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Patent number: 9623635Abstract: Disclosed is a chip through flooring material using a PLA resin, which is environmentally friendly by using the PLA resin and can realize the texture of natural wood and the unique fragrance of trees. According to the present invention, the chip through flooring material using the PLA resin includes: a chip through layer; and a surface treatment layer which is formed on a surface of the chip through layer, wherein the chip through layer includes the PLA resin.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.Inventors: Cheng-Zhe Huang, Ji-Young Kim, Ki-Bong Park, Chang-Won Kang, Jun-Hyuk Kwon, Hyun-Jong Kwon, Sang-Sun Park, Jang-Ki Kim, Gyeong-Min Lee
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Patent number: 9623636Abstract: A laminated body of rubber layers includes: a resin layer formed from a polyester resin or a polyamide resin; a rubber layer formed from a rubber composition containing a diene rubber; and an adhesive layer disposed between the resin layer and the rubber layer. The adhesive rubber composition contains a modified rubber composition (A) or a modified rubber composition (B) both having a number average molecular weight of 70,000 to 110,000. The modified rubber composition (A) is formed from a modified butyl rubber (1) formed by reacting, with a butyl rubber, a compound having in a molecule a nitroxide free radical that is stable at ambient temperature in the presence of oxygen, a radical initiator, and a co-crosslinking agent. The modified rubber composition (B) is formed by compounding the co-crosslinking agent with a modified butyl rubber (2) formed by reacting the compound and the radical initiator with the butyl rubber.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: The Tokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ayako Joza, Takahiro Okamatsu
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Patent number: 9623637Abstract: There is provided a supported resin substrate including a supporting substrate, a release layer arranged on the supporting substrate, the release layer containing a metal oxide, and a resin substrate arranged on the release layer, the resin substrate including a first surface region opposite the release layer and a second surface region in onto t with the release layer, in which the resin substrate consists essentially of a resin material having a C?O bond, and the proportion of the C?O bond present in the second surface region of the resin substrate is lower than the proportion of the C?O bond present in the first surface region of the resin substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuji Tanaka
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Patent number: 9623638Abstract: A skin component for a vehicle for use as a roof module, an engine compartment hood or a trunk lid is disclosed. The skin component includes at least one supporting layer and a protective layer. The protective layer includes a fiber-reinforced band that is installed along at least one outer edge of the skin component.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Dirk Lungershausen, Tino Jacob
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Patent number: 9623639Abstract: An open core crash pad includes a core and a skin abutting the core to include a forming space therebetween. A foaming layer is foam-formed by injecting a foam liquid into the forming space. A foam tape prevents an overflow of the foam liquid. The skin includes a body portion and a distal end which extends from the body portion in parallel with the core. The core comprises a protrusion protruding toward the skin and formed at which the core and the distal end contact.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Byung Seok Kong
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Patent number: 9623640Abstract: Provided are a multilayer separator capable of improving interlayer peel strength and exhibiting excellent permeability due to a high degree of alignment, and a method of manufacturing the same. The method of manufacturing a multilayer separator includes: manufacturing a precursor film by co-extruding and molding a polypropylene based resin melt having a melt index (2.16 kg, 230° C.) of 0.3 to 5 g/10 min and a polyethylene based resin melt having a melt index (2.16 kg, 190° C.) of 0.1 to 1.5 g/10 min so as to be alternately laminated; and heat-treating and stretching the manufactured film, wherein a melt index ratio (A/B) of the polypropylene based resin melt (A) and polyethylene based resin melt (B) is 2 to 10.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: SK Innovation Co., Ltd.Inventors: Min Ho Jeon, Byoung Cheon Jo, Sang Bae Cheong, Sang Hyun Park, Tae Gyu Kan
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Patent number: 9623641Abstract: A method and apparatus for reinforcing an end portion of a deformable tool configured for use in forming a composite object. An insert may be placed within a hollow portion of the end portion of the deformable tool in which the insert substantially conforms to a cross-sectional shape and a size of the hollow portion of the end portion of the deformable tool. A side of the end portion of the deformable tool may be reinforced by the insert located within the hollow portion of the end portion of the deformable tool during a curing process used to form the composite object.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Michael R. Chapman, Khanh M. Pham
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Patent number: 9623642Abstract: The invention relates to a vibration welding machine (1), comprising an upper tool (2) and a lower tool (3), wherein the two tools (2, 3) each accommodate a respective welding part (4, 5), which welding parts are intended to be joined by means of vibration, and means for producing vibrations are provided, which cause at least the upper tool (2) to vibrate, wherein the means for producing vibration are designed as a stationary part, in particular an upper carrier (9), and a part arranged thereon in such a way that said part can oscillate, in particular an oscillator (11), which accommodates the upper tool (2), wherein furthermore means are provided that remove the air located in an air gap (15) formed between the stationary part, in particular the upper carrier (9), and the part that can oscillate, in particular the oscillator (11).Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: bielomatic Leuze GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Tim Trabandt, Michael Jauch, Thorsten Koch
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Patent number: 9623643Abstract: A method and an apparatus for manufacturing an optical display device by sequentially peeling a plurality of optical film sheets continuously supported on a long web of a carrier film and laminating the plurality of optical film sheets to a plurality of panel components are provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomokazu Yura, Tokuhide Koyanagi, Shoji Shibata, Takuya Nakazono
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Patent number: 9623644Abstract: A method of stencil printing includes printing a layer of non-sag adhesive onto a first substrate, adding topography to the layer of non-sag adhesive, and contacting the layer of non-sag adhesive with a second substrate. The second substrate initially contacts only about 5% or less of exposed surface area of the layer of non-sag adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Christopher J. Campbell, Karl K. Stensvad, Jonathan J. O'Hare, Daniel H. Carlson, Glen A. Jerry
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Patent number: 9623645Abstract: A discontinuous manufacturing process performs at least one processing step on a web of material unwound from a roll, applies an indicator code to the unwound web of material for indicating at least one finishing step the web of material is to be subjected to, rewinds the web of material having the indicator code on another roll and then transfers the rewound web of material to a remote finishing facility. At the remote finishing facility, the web of material is again unwound and transported towards a finishing station. The indicator code on the web of material is read at the finishing station and then directed to a location where an appropriate finishing step is performed on the web of material prior to it being rewound on a roll to form a product roll.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: JUMPSTART CONSULTANTS, INC.Inventors: Brian Baldwin, John Cahill, Chris Shepherd
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Patent number: 9623646Abstract: The described embodiments relate to a method for embedding one or more electrical components in a flexible substrate. The method includes receiving a substrate of a flexible material, wherein the substrate includes a cosmetic surface and an opposing surface. The method further includes applying a carrier form to the substrate to create a carrier assembly, wherein the carrier form includes one or more positive images representative a design to be transferred to the opposing surface of the substrate. The method further includes removing or cutting a portion of material from the opposing surface of the substrate to form a new opposing surface. Subsequently, the carrier form is removed from the substrate to reveal one or more embedding cavities extending into the substrate at the new opposing surface. In some embodiments, the embedding cavities can thereafter receive one or more electrical components.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Harry W. Smith, IV, Peter F. Coxeter, Jonathan T. Mechak, Adam L. Nekimken, Julio C. Quintero