Patents Issued in August 9, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180223423
    Abstract: A process for densifying an annular porous structure comprising flowing a reactant gas into an inner diameter (ID) volume and through an ID surface of the annular porous structure, flowing the reactant gas through an outer diameter (OD) surface of the annular porous structure and into an OD volume, flowing the reactant gas from the OD volume through the OD surface of the annular porous structure, and flowing the reactant gas through an ID surface of the annular porous structure and into the ID volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: JAMES WARREN RUDOLPH, YING SHE, Zissis A. Dardas, THOMAS P. FILBURN, BRIAN ST. ROCK, JOHN LINCK
  • Publication number: 20180223424
    Abstract: A deposition apparatus is provided to eliminate unnecessary empty spaces that may form between a substrate and a substrate supporting pin, which may be formed within a substrate supporting pin hole, by covering the substrate supporting pin, inserted into the substrate supporting pin hole formed in the substrate support, by a substrate supporting pin cover loaded on the substrate support. Accordingly, the temperature under the substrate can be maintained constant, and generation of parasitic plasma or contaminating particles can be avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Young-Jae KIM, Ki Jong KIM, Dong-Rak JUNG, Hak Yong KWON, Seung Woo CHOI
  • Publication number: 20180223425
    Abstract: A CVD reactor includes a substrate holder with one or more pockets for holding one or more substrates. The CVD reactor also includes a heating system arranged below the substrate holder and spaced apart from the lower side of the substrate holder by a gap. The lower side of the substrate holder is configured differently in a central region with respect to the heat transmission from the heating system to the substrate holder, than in a circumferential region that surrounds the central region. A gas flushing device flushes the gap with flushing gases of different heat conductivity. The gap has such a gap height that, upon a change of a first flushing gas with a first heat conductivity to a second flushing gas with a second heat conductivity, the heat supplied from the heating system to the substrate holder changes differently in the circumferential region than in the central region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Adam Boyd, Daniel Claessens, Hugo Silva
  • Publication number: 20180223426
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for improving gas distribution during thermal processing. One implementation of the present disclosure provides an apparatus for thermal processing a substrate. The apparatus includes a body, an angled gas source assembly, and a gas injection channel. The gas injection channel has a first half-angle and a second half-angle. The first half-angle is different from the second half-angle. The use of an improved side gas assembly in a processing chamber to direct gas towards the edge of the substrate advantageously controls growth uniformity throughout the substrate, i.e., from the center to the edge. Surprisingly, directing gas through a gas channel with non-uniform half-angles will significantly increase the reaction at or near the edge of the substrate, thereby leading to an improved overall thickness uniformity of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Eric Kihara SHONO
  • Publication number: 20180223427
    Abstract: A process of atomic layer deposition for the deposition of silicon oxide on a substrate, performed at room temperature, involving at least three precursors, being silicon tetrachloride, water and one Lewis base agent, being in various instances ammonia. The process comprises the steps of exposing on the substrate during an exposure time (a) the one Lewis base agent, (b) the silicon tetrachloride, and (c) the water. The process is remarkable in that at least one step of purge with nitrogen gas is performed after each of the steps (a), (b) and (c) during a purge time. Additionally, a film of silicon oxide which is remarkable in that it comprises a low level of chlorine contaminant and a significant degree of porosity with pores, the pores being in various instances micropores, mesopores or nanopores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Didier ARL, Noureddine ADJEROUD, Damien LENOBLE
  • Publication number: 20180223428
    Abstract: Organoamino-polysiloxanes, which have at least three silicon atoms, oxygen atoms, as well as an organoamino group, and methods for making the organoamino-polysiloxanes are disclosed. Methods for depositing silicon and oxygen containing films using the organoamino-polysiloxanes are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Versum Materials US, LLC
    Inventors: Xinjian Lei, Manchao Xiao, Matthew R. MacDonald, Daniel P. Spence, Meiliang Wang, Suresh Kalpatu Rajaraman
  • Publication number: 20180223429
    Abstract: A method for depositing an oxide film on a substrate by thermal ALD and PEALD, includes: providing a substrate in a reaction chamber; depositing a first oxide film on the substrate by thermal ALD in the reaction chamber; and without breaking a vacuum, continuously depositing a second oxide film on the first oxide film by PEALD in the reaction chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Atsuki Fukazawa, Hideaki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20180223430
    Abstract: A deposition apparatus including a frame and a cylindrical drum with a cylindrical surface that extends along a central axis. The drum has a first and a second end surface, which extend perpendicularly to the central axis. The drum is rotatably mounted in the frame and includes a plurality of gas zones positioned on the cylindrical surface. The included gas channels extend within the drum. At least a number of the gas zones are in gas connection with at least two channels. The deposition apparatus includes closing elements for closing off all but one of the at least two channels with which a said gas zone is in gas connection so that the type of gas supplied to the various gas zones along the drum surface is programmable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: MEYER BURGER (NETHERLANDS) B.V.
    Inventors: Pieter Jan DE ROIJ, Ernst DULLEMEIJER, Eduard Renier Francisca CLERKX
  • Publication number: 20180223431
    Abstract: Source gases are instantaneously heated, at least two kinds of generated gas molecular species generated by instantaneously heating the source gases are independently introduced and brought into contact with a substrate having a temperature lower than heating temperature of the instantaneously-heating mechanism for source gas to form a first compound film and to form a second compound film containing at least one element of elements contained in the first compound film, and a multilayer film composed of at least the first compound film and the second compound film is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Yuji FURUMURA, Noriyoshi SHIMIZU, Shinji NISHIHARA, Eri HAIKATA
  • Publication number: 20180223432
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polysilicon manufacturing apparatus that can prevent generation of popcorns in the entire CVD reaction process by cooling an upper portion of a silicon rod where a rod bridge is disposed. A polysilicon manufacturing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a reactor provided on a base and forming a reaction chamber; a pair of feedthroughs provided in the base and extending into the reaction chamber; rod filaments provided in the feedthroughs in the reaction chamber, connected with each other at upper ends thereof through a rod bridge, and where a silicon rod of polysilicon is formed from a raw material gas through a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process; and cooling spray nozzles spraying a cooling gas to the silicon rod formed as silicon deposited around the rod bridge and the rod filaments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Sung Eun PARK, Hee Dong LEE, Jiwoong KIM
  • Publication number: 20180223433
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide, as a film formation process system of remote plasma type, a radical gas generation system in which a process can be performed evenly on, for example, a target object having a large area through the use of a radical gas. In a radical gas generation system (500) according to the present invention, a process chamber apparatus (200) includes a table (201) that causes a target object (202) to rotate. A radical gas generator (100) includes a plurality of discharge cells (70). Each of the plurality of discharge cells (70) includes an opening (102). The opening (102) is connected to the inside of the process chamber apparatus (200) and faces the target object (202). Through the opening (102), a radical gas (G2) is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke WATANABE, Yoichiro TABATA, Shinichi NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20180223434
    Abstract: A vapor growth apparatus has a reaction chamber, a gas supply part to supply a gas to the reaction chamber, a heater to heat the substrate from a surface opposite to a film growth surface of the substrate, an irradiation part to emit an optical signal to the film growth surface, a light receiving part to receive the reflected optical signal, a first light receiving range determination part to determine whether a light receiving position of the optical signal in the light receiving part is out of a predetermined first light receiving range, and a position deviation detection part to judge that the substrate has caused position deviation, a rotation part to rotate the substrate via a susceptor, a purge gas supply part to supply a purge gas into the rotation part, and a control part to control a supply amount of the purge gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Hideki ITO, Takanori HAYANO
  • Publication number: 20180223435
    Abstract: A disk such as but not limited to a seed opener disk is provided along with a seed opener assembly for a planter, that comprises a hard face coating along the beveled surface region. The hard face coating is preferably a laser cladding that forms a metallurgical bond with the underlying steel base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Kondex Corporation
    Inventors: Keith A. Johnson, Andrew J. Theisen
  • Publication number: 20180223436
    Abstract: A tool includes a substrate of hard metal, cermet, ceramic, steel or high speed steel, and a multiple-ply coating. The multiple-ply coating includes a connecting layer and a wear-resistant layer deposited directly onto the connecting layer. The connecting layer has a multiple-ply design. Plies of the connecting layer, which lie one immediately over the other, have different compositions formed from carbides, nitrides, oxides, carbonitrides, oxycarbides, carboxy nitrides of at least two different metals selected from Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Hf, Ta, W, Al, Si, Y, Li and B, and solid solutions thereof. The wear-resistant layer has a single or multiple-ply design. Each of the plies of the wear-resistant layer are formed from carbides, nitrides, oxides, carbonitrides, oxycarbides, carboxy nitrides of at least two different metals selected from Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Hf, Ta, W, Al, Si, Y, Li and B and solid solutions thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Veit SCHIER
  • Publication number: 20180223437
    Abstract: The invention includes a method of promoting atomic layer etching (ALE) of a surface. In certain embodiments, the method comprises contacting a solid substrate comprising a first metal compound with an oxidant, optionally contacting the solid substrate with a second metal compound, and then contacting the modified solid substrate with a fluorinating agent, whereby ALE of the solid substrate is promoted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Steven M. George, Younghee Lee, Nicholas Johnson
  • Publication number: 20180223438
    Abstract: Lignin is electro-oxidized to commercially useful products using a binary transition metal catalyst. In particular, the transition metal catalyst includes nickel or cobalt as a first metal and any other transition metal as a second metal. The binary catalyst system prevents poisoning of the catalyst, extending the useful life of the catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: John Adams Staser, Omar Movil-Cabrera
  • Publication number: 20180223439
    Abstract: Methods for causing interaction between two sets of particles are disclosed herein. The two sets of particles are co-located in a multi-dimensional acoustic standing wave, or are co-located by acoustic streaming. This is more effective than conventional methods, for example by increasing the homogeneity of the fluid mixture containing the particles, while using reduced amounts of one particle set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: BART LIPKENS, WALTER M. PRESZ, JR., JASON DIONNE, RUI TOSTOES, GOUTAM GHOSHAL
  • Publication number: 20180223440
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrolytic device and includes an electrolytic tank and a plurality of electrodes. The electrolytic tank comprises a case for accommodating liquid water. The inner wall of the case has a plurality of engagement structures. The plurality of electrodes are set in the engagement structures respectively to be arranged at intervals in the case, wherein the case is connected to the plurality of electrodes by injection molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Hsin-Yung Lin
  • Publication number: 20180223441
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nonferrous metallurgy, in particular to the process equipment for electrolytic production of primary aluminum, namely to methods for lining cathode assemblies of reduction cells. The method for lining a cathode assembly of a reduction cell for production of aluminum comprises filling a cathode assembly shell with a thermal insulation layer, forming a fire-resistant layer followed by the compaction of layers, installing bottom and side blocks followed by sealing joints therebetween with a cold ramming paste. According to the first embodiment of the present invention, a resilient element made of a dense organic substance is placed between the thermal insulation layer and the fire-resistant layer. According to the second embodiment of the present invention, a flexible graphite foil is placed between the thermal insulation layer and the fire-resistant layer, and under the flexible graphite foil, a resilient element made of a dense organic substance is placed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: United Company RUSAL Engineering and Technology Centre LLC
    Inventors: Aleksandr Vladimirovich PROSHKIN, Vitalij Valer'evich PINGIN, Samuil Yakovlevich LEVENSON, Andrej Gennad?evich SBITNEV, Aleksej Vasil'evich MOROZOV, Aleksej Sergeevich ZHERDEV
  • Publication number: 20180223442
    Abstract: The present invention relates to bisurea derivatives and their use in aqueous plating baths for copper and copper alloy deposition in the manufacture of printed circuit boards, IC substrates, semiconducting and glass devices for electronic applications. The plating bath according to the present invention comprises at least one source of copper ions and a bisurea derivative. The plating bath is particularly useful for filling recessed structures with copper and build-up of pillar bump structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Heiko BRUNNER, Lars KOHLMANN, Agnieszka WITCZAK, Olivier MANN
  • Publication number: 20180223443
    Abstract: A method for electrodepositing aluminum and nickel using a single electrolyte solution includes forming a mixture comprising nickel chloride and an organic halide, adding aluminum chloride to the electrolyte solution in an amount at which the mixture becomes an acidic electrolyte solution, providing a working electrode and a counter electrode in the acidic electrolyte solution, and applying a waveform to the counter electrode using cyclic voltammetry to cause aluminum and nickel ions to be deposited on the working electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: University of South Florida
    Inventors: AMMAR BIN WAQAR, WENJUN CAI
  • Publication number: 20180223444
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plating apparatus capable of individually controlling a plating process on a front surface and a back surface of a substrate and a substrate holder usable for such a plating apparatus. A substrate holder for holding a substrate which is a plating target during a plating process is provided and such a substrate holder includes a body part for holding the substrate, provided with a first opening and a second opening, the body part is configured such that when the body part holds the substrate, a plated region on the front surface of the substrate is exposed through the first opening and a plated region on the back surface of the substrate is exposed through the second opening and a sealing part that protrudes from a peripheral portion is included in at least part of the peripheral portion of the body part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Toshio YOKOYAMA, Tomonori HIRAO, Sho TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180223445
    Abstract: A non alpha controlled alloy that includes a metal and an alpha emitting material is utilized as a plating anode to selectively plate the metal upon a plating cathode. The metal may be selectively plated by pulse plating the non alpha controlled alloy with current control to suppress plating of the alpha emitting material upon the plating cathode. The metal may also be selectively plated by pulse plating the non alpha controlled alloy with potential control to suppress plating of the alpha emitting material upon the plating cathode. The metal may also be selectively plated by plating out the alpha emitting material upon a filtering cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Charles L. Arvin, Michael S. Gordon
  • Publication number: 20180223446
    Abstract: Various single crystals are disclosed including sapphire. The single crystals have desirable geometric properties, including a width not less than about 15 cm and the thickness is not less than about 0.5 cm. The single crystal may also have other features, such as a maximum thickness variation, and as-formed crystals may have a generally symmetrical neck portion, particularly related to the transition from the neck to the main body of the crystal. Methods and for forming such crystals and an apparatus for carrying out the methods are disclosed as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: John Walter Locher, Steven Anthony Zanella, Ralph Lampson MacLean, JR., Herbert Ellsworth Bates
  • Publication number: 20180223447
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a method for producing a diamond substrate effective for reducing various defects including dislocation defects and a foundation substrate used for the same. This object is achieved by a foundation substrate for forming a diamond film by a chemical vapor deposition method, wherein an off angle is provided to the surface of the foundation substrate with respect to a predetermined crystal plane orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicants: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hitoshi NOGUCHI, Toshiharu MAKINO, Masahiko OGURA, Hiromitsu KATO, Hiroyuki KAWASHIMA, Satoshi YAMASAKI, Norio TOKUDA
  • Publication number: 20180223448
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for semiconductor polycrystallization are provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of ejector outlets for ejecting a heated gas to polycrystallize an amorphous semiconductor to produce a polycrystalline semiconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoonsung Um
  • Publication number: 20180223449
    Abstract: A method of producing a synthetic diamond is disclosed, the method comprising: (a) capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; (b) conducting electrolysis of water to provide hydrogen; (c) reacting the carbon dioxide obtained from step (a) with the hydrogen obtained from step (b) to produce methane; and (d) using the hydrogen obtained from step (b) and the methane obtained from step (c) to produce a synthetic diamond by chemical vapour deposition (CVD).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Dale Vince
  • Publication number: 20180223450
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a resin material that has the following surface concentration of impurities is consistently used in production of polycrystalline silicon. Values obtained from quantitative analysis by ICP-mass spectrometry using a 1 wt % nitric acid aqueous solution as an extraction liquid are: a phosphorous (P) concentration of 50 pptw or less; an arsenic (As) concentration of 2 pptw or less; a boron (B) concentration of 20 pptw or less; an aluminum (Al) concentration of 10 pptw or less; a total concentration of 6 elements of iron (Fe), chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), sodium (Na), and zinc (Zn) of 80 pptw or less; a total concentration of 10 elements of lithium (Li), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), titanium (Ti), manganese (Mn), cobalt (Co), molybdenum (Mo), tin (Sn), tungsten (W), and lead (Pb) of 100 pptw or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Miyao, Shigeyoshi Netsu, Kazunori Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20180223451
    Abstract: An electrospinning device is for manufacturing material that includes aligned nano-fibers. The device includes a rotor and more than one electrically conducting protrusions disposed on the surface of the rotor and spaced apart from one another. The protrusions are configured such that an electrostatic field created when a potential difference is applied between the rotor and a target is concentrated at the tips of the protrusions and decreases between neighboring protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: University of Surrey
    Inventors: Simon KING, Vlad STOLOJAN, Sembukuttiarachilage SILVA
  • Publication number: 20180223452
    Abstract: A highly elastic copolymerized aramid fiber of the present invention includes aramid copolymers which contain an aromatic group substituted with a cyano group (—CN), so as to have an elastic modulus of 1,100 to 1,300 g/d, a strength of 17 to 30 g/d and an elongation of 1 to 4%. According to the present invention, the content of the solvent remaining in the fiber is small in a range of less than 100 ppm, and the crystallinity, crystal size and orientation angle of the fiber are properly controlled by the heat treatment. Therefore, the elastic modulus is greatly improved even without a decrease in the strength, as compared to the conventional aramid fibers. The present invention is useful as a material for various products requiring high elasticity as well as high strength of aramid fibers such as bulletproof materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Jae Young LEE, Young Cheol PARK, Nam Dae GU
  • Publication number: 20180223453
    Abstract: A high-strength copolymerized aramid fiber according to the present invention includes aramid copolymers which contain an aromatic group substituted with a cyano group (—CN), so as to have a chord modulus of 700 to 1,100 g/d. The high strength copolymerized aramid fiber of the present invention has an orientation angle of 10 to 25° and an enhanced strength of 20 to 35 g/d. The aramid fiber of the present invention is fabricated by properly controlling a shear rate on an inner wall of a spinneret when a spinning dope passes through the spinneret, or elongating an aramid yarn that passes through a coagulation tube while coagulating the same, so as to have higher chord modulus and strength than the conventional aramid fibers. Therefore, the aramid fiber is useful as a material for various industries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Jae Young LEE, Young Cheol Park, Nam Dae GU
  • Publication number: 20180223454
    Abstract: The biocomponent fiber functions as a carrier or vehicle for delivering additives to a polymer composition. The bicomponent fiber may be “splittable segmented pie” or “island-in-the-sea” construction with the sea being the low melt temperature component and the island being the high melt temperature component. The low melt temperature polymer may be selected from the group consisting of low density polyethylene (LDPE), high density polyethylene (HDPE), polylactic acid (PLA), polyhydroxyalkenoate (PHA), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), polyvinylidene fluoride, polybutylene succinate (PBS), low melt temperature polyethylene terephthalate, polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) and low melt temperature nylons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Emanuel Lopes Martins, Carmen E. Finnessy, Melvin Glenn Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20180223455
    Abstract: In order to provide a method for preparing a chalcogenide-carbon nanofiber, capable of implementing oxidation resistance characteristics and process simplification, the present invention provides a method for preparing a chalcogenide-carbon nanofiber and a chalcogenide-carbon nanofiber implemented by using the same, the method comprising the steps of: forming a chalcogenide precursor-organic nanofiber comprising a chalcogenide precursor and an organic material; and forming a chalcogenide-carbon nanofiber by selectively and oxidatively heat treating the chalcogenide precursor-organic nanofiber such that the carbon of the organic material is oxidized and the chalcogenide is reduced at the same time, wherein the oxidation reactivity of the chalcogenide is lower than that of carbon, the selective and oxidative heat treatment is carried out through one heat treatment step instead of a plurality of heat treatment steps, and the chalcogenide can form a chalcogenide-carbon nanofiber having a structure formed with at
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Young Chang JOO, Dae Hyun NAM
  • Publication number: 20180223456
    Abstract: Jacquard loom (100) for producing a woven preform (102) from a plurality of warp yarns and a plurality of weft yarns, said loom comprising a device (106) for taking up the preform when it is being produced, in order to move it along an axis (X) as it is being formed, which axis is substantially parallel to a production direction for the preform, characterised in that said loom also comprises means (105) for rotating the preform, substantially about said axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Richard MATHON, Dominique Michel Serge MAGNAUDEIX, Claire ROUSSEAU, Bertrand Pierre Martin LEROYER
  • Publication number: 20180223457
    Abstract: A wrappable textile sleeve for protecting an elongate member and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes a plurality of warp filaments and at least one weft filament woven with one another to form a woven wall. The woven wall has opposite sides extending lengthwise between opposite ends. The opposite sides are wrappable about a central longitudinal axis into overlapping relation with one another to bound the elongate member within a cavity of the sleeve. At least one warp and/or weft filament is provided as a bulky, fluffy multifilament, wherein the bulky, fluffy multifilament is woven to form at least one float extending over 2 or more weft and/or warp yarns, wherein the at least one float provides loops sufficient to readily fix themselves to hooks of a standard hook and loop fastener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Alice Kaing, Patrick Thomas
  • Publication number: 20180223458
    Abstract: Flame resistant fabrics and garments that have improved resistance to pilling and/or abrasion are disclosed. The fabrics, the fibers or yarns that make up the fabrics, or garments made from the fabrics are treated with a finish composition that is applied to the fibers, yarns, fabrics, or garments and then cured. The finish composition increases the resistance to pilling and/or abrasion of the fibers, yarns, fabrics, or garments. The finish composition includes a polymeric abrasion resistance aid, an alkylfluoropolymer, a polyethylene, and a wetting agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Rembert Joseph Truesdale, III
  • Publication number: 20180223459
    Abstract: A sliver-knit insulating fabric is disclosed that has pile extending from both sides of a knitted base material with the insulating fabric having a weight per unit area of less than 200 g/m2. The pile is formed from a plurality of tufts of fibers secured within the knitted base material. The tufts of fibers define a plurality of end portions extending from the knitted base material with a first portion of the end portions extending from a first side of the knitted base material to form a first pile portion and a second portion of the end portions extending from a second side of the knitted base material to form a second pile portion. A method of forming the sliver-knit insulating fabric is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Daniel L. Sinykin
  • Publication number: 20180223460
    Abstract: A module element for driving and retaining braiding bobbin carriers on a predetermined bobbin path has at least one base element that can rotate about an axis of rotation, and at least one retaining element that is formed integrally with the base element. The retaining element is configured to releasably hold at least one braiding bobbin carrier offset from the rotary axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas GESSLER, Christian METZNER, Stefan MITTMANN, Bettina AROLD, Hermann SEEFRIED
  • Publication number: 20180223461
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nonwoven material having sufficient strength to be used in a pre-moistened state but also having dispersibility properties which allow the product to be flushed. The material comprises at least two nonwoven webs, at least one of which is hydroentangled. Each of the individual webs has a basis weight of 20-100 gsm. The nonwoven webs are joined together by thermal or mechanical embossing, or a combination of these.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Avinav G. NANDGAONKAR, Pramod U. SHANBHAG
  • Publication number: 20180223462
    Abstract: A primary homo staple fiber including a melt-modified polyester component having a melt temperature in the range of 100 degrees Celsius to 260 degrees Celsius and configured in staple fiber form. Also, a non-woven composite article including a primary homo staple fiber including a melt-modified polyester component configured in staple fiber form and having melt temperature in the range of 100 degrees Celsius to 260 degrees Celsius. Also, a non-woven composite article including a non-woven composite material, the non-woven composite material including a fibrous first component of singular fibers of melt-modified polyester configured in a staple fiber form, and a fibrous second component including one or more fibers of various type, the fibrous first and second components are blended together, and the melt-modified polyester includes a low melting point polyethylene terephthalate (LPET) polyester as a primary binder in the non-woven composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Garry E. Balthes
  • Publication number: 20180223463
    Abstract: A threading guide that includes: a closed loop at a first end; a straight blunt tip at a second end; and an elongated tapering construction between the blunt tip and the closed loop. The guide tapers from a first thickness near the closed loop to a second thickness at the blunt tip, wherein the closed loop is adapted to receive a drawstring. Preferably, the length of the guide is approximately 6 inches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Stephanie Hall
  • Publication number: 20180223464
    Abstract: A method of washing fabric articles in a tunnel washer that includes moving the fabric articles from the intake of the washer to the discharge of the washer and through multiple modules or sectors. Liquid can be counter flowed in the washer interior along a flow path that is generally opposite the direction of travel of the fabric articles. A dual use zone includes multiple of the modules or sectors. In a dual use zone, a module or modules can be used to both wash and thereafter rinse the fabric articles. While counterflow rinsing, the flow rate can be maintained at a selected flow rate or flow pressure head. One or more booster pumps can optionally be employed to maintain constant counterflow rinsing flow rate or constant counterflow rinsing pressure head. During rinsing, extracted water or reuse water is first used to rinse followed by a clean water rinse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: PELLERIN MILNOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Russell H. Poy
  • Publication number: 20180223465
    Abstract: A clothes processing device comprising: a cabinet; a tub which is provided inside the cabinet and stores washing water therein; a drum which is rotatably provided inside the tub and stores clothes therein; a housing fixed to the drum; an accommodation space which is provided inside the housing and forms a closed curve; a balancing unit which is provided to be movable inside the accommodation space so as to solve an unbalanced state of the drum; a ring connected to the balancing unit in order to move the balancing unit; and an operation part for moving the ring, wherein the balancing unit is rotatable by 360 degrees along the accommodation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Aekyung CHAE, Jaehyun KIM, Hyundong KIM, Junghwan LEE
  • Publication number: 20180223466
    Abstract: A washing machine suspension device having a suspension shaft, a base member fixedly connected to the lower end of the suspension shaft, an elastic member located on the base member, and a support member having a central bore surrounding the suspension shaft, and a backing surface located above the base member. The support member has at least two compression members. Each compression member has a ramp that contacts the elastic member. The ramps are oriented such that a load is applied to the backing surface generates a reaction force between the support member and the elastic member to compress the compression member against the suspension shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Fabiano Costi, Alvaro Volpato, JR., Vicente Marconcin Vanhazebrouck, Mario Sergio DaSilva Paixao
  • Publication number: 20180223467
    Abstract: A washing machine, in which a control unit for controlling a permanent magnet motor includes: a torque command generation portion for generating a torque command according to a deviation between a command value of a motor rotating speed and an estimated value of the motor rotating speed; a motor driving control portion for converting a deviation between a motor current and a current command value into motor voltage command values so as to drive the motor; and a speed estimator for estimating a motor rotating speed by using motor currents and motor voltages. A load measurement portion is arranged in the washing machine to measure the amount of washings as the load magnitude according to the estimated value of the motor rotating speed estimated by the speed estimator in a state that the command of the torque command generation portion is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicants: AQUA CO., LTD, QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO,. LTD
    Inventor: Hiroyuki HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20180223468
    Abstract: A control method of the washing machine with the washing water recycling function, the method comprises the following steps: Step 1, after the washing stage of the washing machine, feeding washing water into the flocculation barrel, step 2, stirring, flocculating and standing for layering in the flocculation barrel, step 3, refluxing flocculated clean recycling water into the washing barrel, discharging sewage with residual floc, step 4, feeding the tap water into the washing barrel till reaching the rinsing water level, step 5, performing rinsing. In the step 4, before feeding tap water into the washing barrel, it is determined whether or not the washing water inside the washing barrel reaches the rinsing water level L4. If yes, executing step 5. If no, executing step 4 until the rinsing water level L4 is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng XU, Jinzhu DENG, Dong LI, Min CHE
  • Publication number: 20180223469
    Abstract: A method and device providing that the corners of a respective laundry item are transferred one by one from a conveyor to spreading clamps of a pair of spreading clamps at the same position in each case. The respective conveyor therefore only requires a single circulatory track. Laundry items in commercial laundries are fed by at least one conveyor to spreading clamps of an input machine. In this case, each corner delimiting a front edge of the laundry item is held by a clamp of the conveyor. The respective conveyor is usually branched, in order for the corners to be transferred at the same time to the two spreading clamps of a pair of spreading clamps. Thus, the respective conveyor must have a branched track system with appropriate switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH
    Inventors: Engelbert Heinz, Andreas Olivieri
  • Publication number: 20180223470
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet defining a treatment chamber configured to accommodate hanging clothes and a cycle chamber configured to house machinery, the cycle chamber being positioned vertically below the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment apparatus also includes a partition plate that partitions the treatment chamber from the cycle chamber, a door configured to open and close the cabinet, a door liner disposed at an inside of the door and configured to guide condensed water generated in the treatment chamber to an upper side of the partition plate, a condensed water guide member disposed at the partition plate and configured to guide the condensed water from the door liner into the treatment chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Taejun Yoon, Hyungkyu Lim, Jeongryeol Choi
  • Publication number: 20180223471
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for the application of a bleaching agent to a substrate, the method comprising the treatment of the substrate in an aqueous system comprising a liquid bleaching agent in a closed container, the treatment being carried out at a ratio of liquor to substrate which does not exceed 3:1. Typically, the method is applied to the bleaching of textile fibres and may optionally comprise a bleaching and scouring treatment. The invention also provides a method for the removal of surplus bleaching agents following the bleaching treatment, the method comprising not more than three aqueous wash-off treatments of the substrate. In addition to facilitating the use of much reduced liquor levels, the method also allows for significant reductions to be achieved in usage levels of bleaching agents, auxiliary agents and rinsing agents, thereby reducing generation of waste liquors requiring disposal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: University of Leeds
    Inventor: Stephen BURKINSHAW
  • Publication number: 20180223472
    Abstract: An insulation product comprising fibers consolidated with a binder is disclosed to which a non-aqueous moisturizer has been included. The binder is disposed upon the fibers and the non-aqueous moisturizer is in contact with fibers and/or binder. The insulation product may be an uncured fiber insulation product in which the binder is an uncured binder. The insulation product may be packaged in a suitable material. Accordingly, disclosed is a packaged uncured fiber insulation product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Charles Fitch APPLEY, Gert MUELLER, Scott Lee STILLABOWER