Patents Issued in November 20, 2018
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Patent number: 10131965Abstract: A steel bar according to one embodiment of the present invention includes predetermined chemical composition, wherein a quenching deflection in a cross section is 1.5 mm or less, wherein ?max and ?min is 1.5 mm or less, wherein a structure in a surface layer area includes 10 area % or less of ferrite and a remainder including one or more selected from a group consisting of a bainite and a martensite, wherein an average value of the grain size of a bcc phase in the surface layer area is 1.0 to 10.0 ?m, wherein an average value of the grain size of the bcc phase in a center area is 1.0 to 15.0 ?m, wherein a hardness of a region of which a depth from the surface is 50 ?m is Hv200 to Hv500, and wherein a total decarburized layer thickness DM-T is 0.20 mm or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Monden, Shunta Homma, Koichi Banno
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Patent number: 10131966Abstract: A method for the heat treatment of a steel reinforcing element (F) for a tire, comprises a step of reducing the temperature of the reinforcing element by continuous cooling: from an initial temperature of the austenite range, to a final temperature of the ferrite-pearlite range, passing through at least one transformation range of the steel, the transformation range(s) being distinct from the bainite range. The temperature reduction step comprises a transformation (C2, C3) from the austenitic microstructure to the ferritic-pearlitic microstructure. The temperature of the reinforcing element is strictly decreasing during the reduction step. The mean rate of temperature reduction during the transformation (C2, C3) of the steel microstructure is greater than or equal to 30° C.·s?1 and less than or equal to 110° C.·s?1.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Pierre Morisot, Elisabeth Faucheux, Benoît Renaux, Eric Colin
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Patent number: 10131967Abstract: A scrap submergence device having an open top chamber including walls constructed of a heat resistant material is provided. The chamber includes an inlet in the side wall of the chamber for receiving molten metal, an outlet in the side wall of said chamber, and an interior wall extending from the base wall. The interior wall has a height lower than a height of the at least one side wall. The inlet is disposed on a first side of the interior wall and the outlet is disposed on a second side of the interior wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: PYROTEK, INC.Inventors: Jason Tetkoskie, Richard S. Henderson
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Patent number: 10131968Abstract: A process is disclosed for recovering lithium from a lithium-containing silicate mineral. The process comprises mixing the silicate mineral with nitric acid. The process also comprises subjecting the mixture to a leaching process having conditions such that lithium values in the silicate mineral are leached into an aqueous phase as lithium nitrate. The leaching process conditions may be controlled such that non-lithium values in the silicate mineral tend not to be leached into the aqueous phase.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Inventor: Richard Hunwick
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Patent number: 10131969Abstract: Method for forming an oxide dispersion strengthened alloy. An alloy material (24) is melted with an energy beam (28) to form a melt pool (30) in the presence of a flux material (26), and particles (36) of a metal oxide are directed into the melt pool such that the particles are dispersed within the melt pool. Upon solidification, an oxide dispersion strengthened alloy (44) is formed as a layer bonded to an underlying substrate (20) or as an object contained on a removable support.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.Inventors: Gerald J. Bruck, Ahmed Kamel
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Patent number: 10131970Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing AlMn strip or sheet for making components by brazing, as well as the products obtained by said method. In particular this method is related to fin materials used in heat exchangers. The fins can be delivered with or without a cladding depending on application. Rolling slabs are produced from a melt which contains 0.3-1.5% Si, ?0.5% Fe, ?0.3% Cu, 1.0-2.0% Mn, ?0.5% Mg, ?4.0% Zn, ?0.3% each of elements from group IVb, Vb, or VIb elements, and unavoidable impurity elements, as well as aluminum as the remainder in which the rolling slabs prior to hot rolling are preheated at a preheating temperature of less than 550° C., preferably between 400 and 520° C., more preferably between 450 and 520° C. to control the number and size of dispersoid particles, and the preheated rolling slab is hot rolled into a hot strip. The strip is thereafter cold rolled into a strip with a total reduction of at least 90%, and the cold rolled strip is heat treated to obtain a 0.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2007Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Gränges Sweden ABInventors: Anders Oskarsson, Hans-Erik Ekström, Richard Westergård, Stian Tangen
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Patent number: 10131971Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet which is high in strength and excellent in heat conductivity, and which can be given an anodic oxide coating with a white color and a suitable yellowishness is provided. An aluminum alloy ingot containing Mg: 0.80 to 1.8 mass %, Fe: 0.05 to 0.30 mass %, Si: 0.20 mass % or less, Cu: 0.03 to 0.15 mass %, Mn: 0.05 to 0.20 mass %, and Cr: 0.05 to 0.15 mass %, restricts Zn to less than 0.15 mass %, and balance of Al and unavoidable impurities is treated by holding it at 560 to 620° C. for 1 to 5 hours, then hot rolled and, either through or not through process annealing, and cold rolled by a final cold rolling reduction of 15 to 95% to obtain an aluminum alloy sheet which has a 0.2% yield strength of 180 MPa or more and a conductivity of 40 (IACS %) or more.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Oota, Fumio Otake, Takeshi Handa
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Patent number: 10131972Abstract: An iron-based sintered sliding member is provided in which solid lubricating agent is dispersed uniformly inside of powder particles in addition to inside of pores and particle interfaces of the powder, the agent is strongly fixed, and sliding properties and mechanical strength are superior. The iron-based sintered sliding member contains S: 0.2 to 3.24 mass %, Cu: 3 to 10 mass %, remainder: Fe and inevitable impurities, as an overall composition; the metallic structure includes a base in which sulfide particles are dispersed, and pores; the base is a ferrite phase or a ferrite phase in which copper phase is dispersed; and the sulfide particles are dispersed at a ratio of 0.8 to 15.0 vol % versus the base.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Fukae, Hideaki Kawata
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Patent number: 10131973Abstract: The present invention provides spring steel used for spring steel wire achieving both high strength and cold coilability and spring steel wire, that is, spring steel containing, by mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.70%, Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.015% or less, N: 0.0015 to 0.0200%, and t-O: 0.0002 to 0.01 and further limiting Al?0.01% and Ti?0.003%. Further, it is characterized by satisfying the following regarding the cementite-based spherical carbides present at an observed plane, an occupied area ratio of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 ?m or more of 7% or less, a density of presence of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 to 3 ?m of 1/?m2 or less, and a density of presence of grains with a circle equivalent diameter 3 ?m or more of 0.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Hashimura, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Takanori Miyaki, Takayuki Kisu, Kouichi Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10131974Abstract: A dual phase steel (martensite+ferrite) having a tensile strength of at least 980 MPa, and a total elongation of at least 15%. The dual phase steel may have a total elongation of at least 18%. The dual phase steel may also have a tensile strength of at least 1180 MPa. The dual phase steel may include between 0.5-3.5 wt. % Si, and more preferably between 1.5-2.5 wt. % Si.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: ArcelorMittalInventors: Hyun Jo Jun, Narayan S. Pottore, Nina Michailovna Fonstein
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Patent number: 10131976Abstract: A cold-rolled flat steel product for deep drawing applications is disclosed, composed of a steel which, in addition to Fe and unavoidable impurities (in % by weight) contains C: <0.1%, Al: 6.5-11%, REM: 0.02-0.2%, P: <0.1%, S: <0.03%, N: <0.1% and optionally one or more elements from the group of “Mn, Si, Nb, Ti, Mo, Cr, Zr, V, W, Co, Ni, B, Cu, Ca, N”, provided that Mn: <6%, Si: <1%, Nb: <0.3%, Ti: <0.3%, Zr: <1%, V: <1%, V: <1%, Mo: <1%, Cr: <3%, Co: <1%, Ni: <2%, B: <0.1%, Cu: <3%, Ca: <0.015%. For production of such a flat steel product, a steel of appropriate composition is cast to give a pre-product, which is then hot-rolled to hot strip at a hot rolling end temperature of 820-1000° C. The latter is subsequently wound at a winding temperature of up to 850° C., after winding annealed at an annealing temperature of >650-1200° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Dorothée Dorner, Christian Höckling, Harald Hofmann, Magnus Miller, Matthias Schirmer, Jonas Schwabe, Alexander Zimmermann
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Patent number: 10131977Abstract: One aspect of this ferritic stainless steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: 0.03% or less, N: 0.05% or less, Si: 1% or less, Mn: 1.2% or less, Cr: 14% or more and 28% or less, Nb: 8(C +N) or more and 0.8% or less, and Al: 0.1% or less, with a balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which a film satisfying Expression 1 is formed in a surface thereof. Expression 1 is df×Crf+5(Sif+3Alf)?2.0. In Expression 1, df represents a thickness (nm) of the film, Crf represents a Cr cationic fraction in the film, Sif represents a Si cationic fraction in the film, and Alf represents an Al cationic fraction in the film.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuhiko Hiraide, Tooru Matsuhashi, Noriyo Morihiro, Naoto Ono
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Patent number: 10131978Abstract: One embodiment provides a composition, comprising: a powder composition comprising alloy that is at least partially amorphous, the alloy comprising chromium, molybdenum, carbon, boron, and iron. One embodiment provides a method of forming a coating, comprising: providing a substrate; and disposing onto the substrate a coating, comprising: powder composition comprising an alloy that is at least partially amorphous, the alloy comprising chromium, molybdenum, carbon, boron, and iron.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLCInventor: Gerald A. Croopnick
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Patent number: 10131979Abstract: In a rolling process for reverse thermomechanically rolling an aluminum plate involving a plurality of rolling passes, identifying data are determined for thermally guiding the rolling process. Then a value of a state variable, from which a temperature of the aluminum plate can be deduced, is continuously measured and a pass schedule is determined for the rolling process on the basis of the value of the measured state variable and of the identifying data. The pass schedule provides for a rolling pause between at least two successive rolling passes, during which rolling of the aluminum plate is interrupted for cooling purposes.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES GERMANY GMBHInventors: Matthias Kurz, Birger Schmidt
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Patent number: 10131980Abstract: A method of producing a Ni-based superalloy is provided. A hot working material is used and consisting of a specific composition and has a solvus temperature of a ?? phase of 1050° C. or more. The method includes: performing heating in a temperature of 980° C. to 1050° C. with an upper limit of ?30° C. from the solvus temperature of the ?? phase, for 10 hours or longer; and performing hot working on the material at a working speed of a strain rate of 2.0/second or more in the above temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Tomonori Ueno, Takehiro Ohno
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Patent number: 10131981Abstract: The present invention provides a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet that is excellent in plating wettability and plating adhesiveness even when a base steel sheet contains Si and Mn, and a manufacturing method of the same. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet according to the present invention includes a base steel sheet containing Si, Mn, and other predetermined components, and a hot-dip galvanizing layer formed on at least one surface of the base steel sheet. In the base steel sheet, a value of HA representing average hardness in a surface layer ranging from an interface between the base steel sheet and the hot-dip galvanizing layer to 50 ?m in depth and a value of HB representing average hardness in a deep portion ranging from the interface to greater than 50 ?m in depth satisfy all the following three relational expressions. 50?HA?500??(1) 50?HB?500??(2) 0.5?HA/HB?0.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL AND SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Soshi Fujita, Shintaro Yamanaka
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Patent number: 10131982Abstract: A mask includes a graphic mask layer having a plurality of graphic mask blocks mutually spaced apart and arranged in parallel, and a covering mask layer having a plurality of covering mask blocks mutually spaced apart and arranged in parallel. The covering mask block covers a gap between adjacent graphic mask blocks. The graphic mask block includes an effective region, an ineffective region, and a marginal region between the effective region and the ineffective region, wherein each region has a plurality of pixel shaping openings, and the covering mask block further covers the pixel shaping openings of the ineffective regions of the adjacent graphic mask blocks. The motherboard is used for manufacturing the mask. The device for manufacturing mask comprises the motherboard, a base table, a stretcher and a welding machine. The system for evaporating the display substrate includes an evaporator and the mask.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Fengli Ji, Yinan Liang, Shanshan Bai
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Patent number: 10131983Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling the composition of liquid metal fed to an evaporator in a vacuum chamber used in a physical vapor deposition process.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: TATA STEEL NEDERLAND TECHNOLOGY B.V.Inventors: Edzo Zoestbergen, Jörgen van de Langkruis, Theodorus Franciscus Jozef Maalman
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Patent number: 10131984Abstract: Provided is a substrate processing apparatus. The apparatus includes: a process chamber configured to accommodate substrates which are horizontally oriented and stacked in multiple stages and process the substrates; a process gas supply unit configured to supply a process gas to the process chamber; an inert gas supply unit configured to supply an inert gas to the process chamber; and an exhaust unit configured to exhaust the process chamber. The process gas supply unit includes a process gas supply nozzle. The inert gas supply unit includes inert gas supply nozzles disposed at both sides of the process gas supply nozzle. Each of the inert gas supply nozzles includes at least one first inert gas ejection hole formed in a region where the substrates are stacked and at least one second inert gas ejection hole formed in a region where the substrates are not stacked.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi Okada
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Patent number: 10131985Abstract: A system and method for enhancing a diffusion limited CVI/CVD process is provided. The system may densify a porous structure by flowing a reactant gas around the porous structure. A mass flow controller may be configured to pulse the flow rate of the reactant gas around the porous structure. The mass flow controller may pulse the flow rate from a nominal flow rate to a first flow rate. The mass flow controller may pulse the first flow rate back to the nominal flow rate or to a second flow rate. The mass flow controller may pulse the flow rate between the nominal flow rate, the first flow rate, and the second flow rate, as desired.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventors: Ying She, Brian St. Rock
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Patent number: 10131986Abstract: There is provided a method for forming a metal film on a target substrate having a complex-shaped portion and a flat portion, the target substrate being loaded into a chamber which is maintained under a depressurized atmosphere, by sequentially supplying a metal chloride gas as a raw material gas and a reduction gas for reducing a metal chloride into the chamber while purging the chamber in the course of sequentially supplying the metal chloride gas and the reduction gas, the method including: forming a first metal film by supplying the metal chloride gas at a relatively low flow rate; and forming a second metal film by supply the metal chloride gas at a relatively high flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Kenji Suzuki, Takanobu Hotta, Koji Maekawa, Yasushi Aiba
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Patent number: 10131987Abstract: The invention provides a raw material for chemical deposition having properties required for a CVD compound, that is, which has a high vapor pressure, can be formed into a film at low temperatures (about 250° C. or less), and also has moderate thermal stability. The invention relates to a raw material for chemical deposition, for producing a ruthenium thin film or a ruthenium compound thin film by a chemical deposition method, the raw material for chemical deposition including an organoruthenium compound represented by the following formula, in which a cyclohexadienyl group or a derivative thereof and a pentadienyl group or a derivative thereof are coordinated to ruthenium: wherein the substituents R1 to R12 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a linear or cyclic hydrocarbon, an amine, an imine, an ether, a ketone, or an ester, and the substituents R1 to R12 each have 6 or less carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K.Inventors: Ryosuke Harada, Toshiyuki Shigetomi, Kazuharu Suzuki, Shunichi Nabeya, Takayuki Sone, Akiko Kumakura
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Patent number: 10131988Abstract: A sliding element, such as a piston ring, for use in diesel or highly supercharged spark-ignition engines with iron-based mating running elements is provided. The sliding element includes a base material made of cast iron or steel and a coating. The coating includes a CrN layer, an Me(CxNy) layer, and a DLC layer extending from the inside to the outer side respectively. The DLC layer consists of a metal-containing substructure layer and a metal-free DLC top layer. The Me(CxNy) layer is crystalline and Me is tungsten (W), chromium (Cr), or Silicon (Si). The hardness of the metal-free DLC top layer is harder than the metal-containing substructure layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbHInventors: Marcus Kennedy, Michael Zinnabold
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Patent number: 10131989Abstract: A method includes providing a substrate including a tube with a first opening a second opening, depositing a metal film onto a portion of the tube near the first opening, and growing a carbon nanotube by passing a carbon-based gas through the tube and metal film. The gas enters the tube through the second opening and exits the tube through the first opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Inventor: Ignacio Maria Perez de Leon
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Patent number: 10131990Abstract: In the present invention, the productivity of a processing apparatus including a plurality of process chambers is improved. There is provided a substrate processing apparatus including a plurality of process chambers, a process gas supply unit configured to supply a process gas into each of the plurality of process chambers, a purge gas supply unit configured to supply a purge gas into each of the plurality of process chambers, an exhaust unit configured to exhaust each of the plurality of process chambers and a control unit configured to control the process gas supply unit, the purge gas supply unit and the exhaust unit to supply the process gas into a first process chamber of the plurality of process chambers to which a substrate is transferred while supplying the purge gas into process chambers other than the first process chamber and exhausting the plurality of process chambers.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.Inventor: Yukitomo Hirochi
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Patent number: 10131991Abstract: A method of preparing light transmitting conducting metal oxide (TCO) films using atomic layer deposition (ALD) of a metal precursor multiple oxidizing reactants. The multiple metal oxidizing reactants may be selected to enhance growth of the TCO film. In a particular embodiment, an indium oxide TCO film is prepared using a cyclopentadienyl indium precursor and a combination of water and oxygen.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLCInventors: Jeffrey W. Elam, Joseph A. Libera
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Patent number: 10131992Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: an operation unit, which is provided with a storage unit that stores a plurality of recipes including a recipe for processing a member that constitutes the inside of a reactor in which substrate processing is performed, and a recipe for processing an exhaust pipe through which a gas released from the inside of the reactor flows, the operation unit further being provided with a display unit that displays a setting condition for executing the recipes on an operation screen; and a control unit that executes the recipe that meets the setting condition. The operation unit includes a recipe control unit, which controls, based on the setting condition, execution of the recipe for processing the member constituting the inside of the reactor in which the substrate processing is performed, and the recipe for processing the exhaust pipe, among the recipes stored in the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.Inventors: Susumu Nishiura, Kaori Inoshima, Hiroyuki Mitsui, Hiroshi Ekko
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Patent number: 10131993Abstract: A process for the large-scale manufacturing vertically standing hybrid nanometer scale structures of different geometries including fractal architecture of nanostructure within a nano/micro structures made of flexible materials, on a flexible substrate including textiles is disclosed. The structures increase the surface area of the substrate. The structures maybe coated with materials that are sensitive to various physical parameters or chemicals such as but not limited to humidity, pressure, atmospheric pressure, and electromagnetic signals originating from biological or non-biological sources, volatile gases and pH. The increased surface area achieved through the disclosed process is intended to improve the sensitivity of the sensors formed by coating of the structure and substrate with a material which can be used to sense physical parameters and chemicals as listed previously.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Nanowear, Inc.Inventors: Vijay K. Varadan, Pratyush Rai, Se Chang Oh
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Patent number: 10131994Abstract: A plasma reactor for processing a workpiece includes a reactor chamber having a ceiling and a sidewall and a workpiece support facing the ceiling and defining a processing region, and a pair of concentric independently excited RF coil antennas overlying the ceiling and a side RF coil concentric with the side wall and facing the side wall below the ceiling, and being excited independently.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nguyen, Kenneth S. Collins, Kartik Ramaswamy, Shahid Rauf, James D. Carducci, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Ankur Agarwal, Jason A. Kenney, Leonid Dorf, Ajit Balakrishna, Richard Fovell
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Patent number: 10131995Abstract: This disclosure relates to a preparation method of a low-pH controlled-release intelligent corrosion inhibitor. The low-pH controlled-release intelligent corrosion inhibitor comprises a hydrogel with low pH responsiveness and a corrosion inhibiting substance having the capacity of corrosion inhibition. That is, a corrosion inhibiting substance is wrapped in a low-pH sensitive hydrogel. The swelling degree of the pH sensitive hydrogel may be changed according to the amounts of monomers and crosslinking agents so as to control the releasing speed of the corrosion inhibiting substance. By the soaking experiment and the measurements of electrochemical polarization curves and alternating impedance spectra, the sensitive and long-lasting features of the low-pH controlled-release intelligent corrosion inhibitor are indicated.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJINGInventors: Xiaogang Li, Chaofang Dong, Xuequn Cheng, Cuiwei Du, Kui Xiao
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Patent number: 10131996Abstract: Novel complexes of various earth-abundant, inexpensive transition or main group metals that facilitate the transformation of carbon dioxide into other more useful organic products. These complexes can bind and alter the CO2 at mild conditions of temperature and pressure, enabling, according to some embodiments, the electrochemical conversion of CO2 into new products.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: STC.UNMInventors: Richard Kemp, Diane A. Dickie, Elizabeth S. Donovan, Brian Barry
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Patent number: 10131997Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for production of graphite bodies. Carbon bodies are formed from a mixture of electric calcined coke particles calcined at a temperature between 1200 and 3000° C. and a binder where the coke particles have sulphur-and nitrogen content varying between 0 and 1.5% by weight and where the coke particles have an average sulphur content less than 0.6% by weight and a nitrogen content of less than 0.6% by weight, baking of the carbon bodies at a temperature between 700 and 1400° C. and graphitizing of the baked carbon bodies at a temperature above 2300° C.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: ELKEM CARBON ASInventors: Johan Arnold Johansen, Sten Yngve Larsen, Hermann Gran
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Patent number: 10131998Abstract: A conductive grid formation system, apparatus, and related methods may include a drum having a conductive surface, an insulation layer coating said surface, and a grid pattern formed in the insulation layer to expose portions of the conductive surface. The drum surface may be rotated into and out of a chemical bath, such that a metallic grid is electrodeposited in the exposed portions of the conductive surface. A polymer sheet may be laminated to the surface of the drum and then removed, such that the metallic grid attaches to the polymer sheet and is removed with the polymer sheet. Heat, pressure, and/or adhesive may be utilized in various steps of the process, to facilitate preferential adhesion of the metallic grid to the polymer sheet.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Global Solar Energy, Inc.Inventor: Scott Wiedeman
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Patent number: 10131999Abstract: A method for producing a silicon ingot, provided with symmetrical grain boundaries, including at least steps made of: (i) providing crucible with longitudinal axis, bottom of which includes a paving formed from monocrystalline cuboid silicon seeds with a square or rectangular base and arranged contiguously, the paving, when viewed according to axis, being in shape of a grid of orthogonal directions (x) and (y) parallel to edges of seeds; and (ii) proceeding with controlled solidification of silicon by growth on seeds in a growth direction collinear to axis; wherein paving in step (i) is produced from identical silicon seeds, with two seeds contiguous in direction (x) being images of each other by turning axis (y) and two seeds contiguous in direction (y) being images of each other by turning axis (x), and misorientation 2? between crystalline arrays of two contiguous seeds being greater than 4°.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGLE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Gautier Fortin, Vanessa Amaral De Oliveira, Denis Camel, Etienne Pihan
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Patent number: 10132000Abstract: A diamond substrate is formed of diamond single crystals by preparing a base substrate; forming plural pillar-shaped diamonds formed of diamond single crystals on one side of the base substrate; causing a diamond single crystal to grow from a tip of each pillar-shaped diamond and coalescing the diamond single crystals growing from the tips of the pillar-shaped diamonds to form a diamond substrate layer; separating the diamond substrate layer from the base substrate; and manufacturing a diamond substrate from the diamond substrate layer, a shape in an in-plane direction of the diamond substrate is a circular shape or a circular shape having an orientation flat plane formed therein and has a diameter of two inches or more.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: ADAMANT NAMIKI PRECISION JEWEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Aida, Koji Koyama, Kenjiro Ikejiri, Seongwoo Kim
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Patent number: 10132001Abstract: A vapor phase growth apparatus according to an embodiment includes n reaction chambers, a main gas supply passage supplying a process gas to the n reaction chambers, a main mass flow controller arranged in the main gas supply passage to control a flow rate of the process gas flowing in the main gas supply passage, (n?1) first sub gas supply passages being branches of the main gas supply passage to supply divided process gases to the (n?1) reaction chambers among the n reaction chambers, (n?1) first sub mass flow controllers arranged in the first sub gas supply passages to control flow rates of the process gases flowing in the first sub gas supply passages, and one second sub gas supply passage being a branch of the main gas supply passage to supply a remainder of the process gas to the one reaction chamber other than the (n?1) reaction chambers.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.Inventors: Hideshi Takahashi, Shinichi Mitani, Yuusuke Sato
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Patent number: 10132002Abstract: The disclosure relates to a semimetal compound of Pt and a method for making the same. The semimetal compound is a single crystal material of PtTe2. The method comprises: providing a PtTe2 polycrystalline material; placing the PtTe2 polycrystalline material in a reacting chamber; placing chemical transport medium in the reacting chamber; evacuating the reacting chamber to be vacuum less than 10 Pa; placing the reacting chamber in a temperature gradient, wherein the reacting chamber has a first end in a temperature from 1200 degree Celsius to 1000 degree Celsius and a second end opposite to the first end and in a temperature from 1000 degree Celsius to 900 degree Celsius; and keeping the reacting chamber in the temperature gradient for 10 days to 30 days.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ke-Nan Zhang, Ming-Zhe Yan, Shu-Yun Zhou, Yang Wu, Shou-Shan Fan
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Patent number: 10132003Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein generally related to a processing chamber, and more specifically a heat modulator assembly for use in a processing chamber. The heat modulator assembly includes a heat modulator housing and a plurality of heat modulators. The heat modulator housing includes a housing member defining a housing plane, a sidewall, and an annular extension. The sidewall extends perpendicular to the housing plane. The annular extension extends outward from the sidewall. The plurality of heat modulators is positioned in the housing member.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Shu-Kwan Lau, Surajit Kumar, Joseph M. Ranish, Zhiyuan Ye, Kartik Shah, Mehmet Tugrul Samir, Errol Antonio C. Sanchez
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Patent number: 10132004Abstract: Provided is a waterproof sound-permitting sheet, including: a porous substrate having a plurality of pores; and a porous nanoweb, which is stacked on the porous substrate, has a plurality of pores, and is formed by electrospinning a polymer material to which a black or a different color pigment is added, thereby improving waterproofing performance and sound penetration performance by forming on a porous substrate, such as non-woven fabric, the porous web having the black or the different color by using the electrospinning method, and can shorten a production process by eliminating a pigment coating step by means of adding the pigment to the polymer material when manufacturing the porous nanoweb according to the electrospinning method.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: AMOGREENTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung Hoon Lee, Jun Sik Hwang, Yong Sik Jung
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Patent number: 10132005Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous, scalable and parallelizable method for preparing strong and stiff fibers (filaments) or films. The fiber or film is prepared by utilizing hydrodynamically induced alignment of the constituents of a dispersion in combination with surface-charge controlled gel transition to produce fibers with a high degree of alignment of the constituents (polymer(s), fibrils etc). The invention also relates to the fibers or films so formed.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: RISE Innventia ABInventors: Daniel Söderberg, Fredrik Lundell, Andreas Fall, Karl Håkansson, Mathias Kvick, Lars Wågberg
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Patent number: 10132006Abstract: Processes for preparing ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene yarns, and the yarns and articles produced therefrom. The surfaces of partially oriented yarns are subjected to a treatment that enhances the surface energy at the fiber surfaces and are coated with a protective coating immediately after the treatment to increase the shelf life of the treatment. The coated, treated yarns are then post drawn to form highly oriented yarns.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Ralf Klein, Henry Gerard Ardiff, John Armstrong Young, Thomas Tam
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Patent number: 10132007Abstract: The present invention provides a fabricating method for meltblown nonwoven from natural cellulose fiber blended with nano silver, which comprises following steps. Firstly, prepare nano silver colloidal sol by reduction titration for mixture of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), silver nitrate (AgNO3) and sodium borohydride (NaBH4). Secondly, prepare mixing cellulose serum by blending agitation for mixture of wood pulp, N-methylmorpholine N-oxide (NMMO) and stabilizer. Thirdly, prepare blending mucilage from mixing cellulose serum via blending process. Fourthly, produce spinning dope by blending and dehydrating the nano silver colloidal sol and mixing cellulose serum. Fifthly, produce molten filament tow by meltblown spinning method in association with coagulation, regeneration in coagulation bath, and water rinse.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: ACELON CHEMICALS AND FIBER CORPORATIONInventors: Wen-Tung Chou, Ming-Yi Lai, Kun-Shan Huang, Shao-Hua Chou, Meng-Heng Hsieh
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Patent number: 10132008Abstract: A horizontal heat treatment device continuously subjects an untreated continuous flat object to heat treatment while horizontally transferring the untreated object within a heat treatment chamber. Seal chambers are interconnected to the untreated-object loading opening and treated-object unloading opening of the heat treatment chamber. A passage is connected to an opening of each of the seal chambers, the opening located on the side opposite the heat treatment chamber. The untreated-object passage loading opening interconnected to the untreated-object seal chamber loading opening and the treated-object passage unloading opening interconnected to the treated-object seal chamber unloading opening are the untreated-object loading opening and treated-object unloading opening of the heat treatment device. A pair of gas ejection nozzles are provided at upper and lower positions of the passages. The nozzles eject gas in specific directions, and the nozzle openings have a specific shape, a direction, and a length.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Keishi Mizuno, Tetsu Yasunami, Atsushi Kawamura, Youji Hatanaka, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, Hiromasa Inada
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Patent number: 10132009Abstract: The present invention provides a fabricating method for natural cellulose fiber blended with nano silver. The fabricating method comprises following steps: Firstly, prepare nano silver colloidal sol by reduction titration for mixture of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), silver nitrate (AgNO3) and sodium borohydride (NaBH4). Secondly, prepare mixing cellulose serum by blending agitation for mixture of wood pulp, N-methylmorpholine N-oxide (NMMO) and stabilizer. Thirdly, produce spinning dope by blending and dehydrating the nano silver colloidal sol and mixing cellulose serum. Fourthly, produce fibrous tow by Dry-Jet Wet Spinning method in association with coagulation, regeneration in coagulation bath, and water rinse. Finally, obtain final product of natural cellulose fiber blended with nano silver by post treatments of dry, oil and coil in proper order.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: ACELON CHEMICALS AND FIBER CORPORATIONInventors: Wen-Tung Chou, Ming-Yi Lai, Kun-Shan Huang, Shao-Hua Chou, Meng-Heng Hsieh
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Patent number: 10132010Abstract: Processes for preparing ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene yarns, and the yarns and articles produced therefrom. The surfaces of highly oriented yarns are subjected to a treatment that enhances the surface energy at the yarn surfaces and are coated with a protective coating immediately after the treatment to increase the expected shelf life of the treatment.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Henry Gerard Ardiff, Ralf Klein, John Armstrong Young, Thomas Tam
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Patent number: 10132011Abstract: A rotatably mounted suction drum (14) of a device (VM) for compacting a fiber material (V) on a spinning machine having an annular drive element (20) which, in the operating position, rests via a portion of its inner surface (IF) on a portion of a circular peripheral surface (AU) of a projection (13) that extends coaxial to an axis of rotation (A1) of the suction drum (14) and is mounted on an end face (35) of the suction drum (14). In order to prevent fibers detached from the fiber material (V) from settling between the inner surface (IF) of the drive element (20) and the peripheral surface (AU) of the projection (13), the suction drum (14), on the end face (35) having the projection (13), has a peripheral elevation (36) and the drive element (20) on the side (46) directed toward the end face (35) of the suction drum (14) has a peripheral recess (37), wherein the elevation (36) protrudes into the recess (37) a labyrinth seal.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AGInventors: Ludek Malina, Robert Nägeli, Gabriel Schneider
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Patent number: 10132012Abstract: A woven sleeve, sleeve assembly and methods of construction thereof are provided. The sleeve has a flexible, abrasion resistant, circumferentially closed and continuous elongate wall extending lengthwise along a central axis between opposite ends. The wall is woven with warp yarns extending generally parallel to the central axis and at least one heat-shrinkable weft yarn extending generally transversely to the warp yarns. The warp yarns provide the sleeve with coverage, abrasion resistance and flexibility and the weft yarn provides the ability to shrink the wall about an elongate member being protected within a cavity of the sleeve, as well as providing enhanced crush strength and abrasion resistance. At least one of the warp yarns and/or weft yarn includes at least one low melt, heat-fusible yarn served therewith to enhance resistance to end-fray during a cutting operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLCInventors: Patrick Thomas, Delphine Henin
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Patent number: 10132013Abstract: A conductive textile is provided, including warp and weft, and the warp and the weft are interwoven. The warp includes a signal-transmitting unit, an electrical connecting unit, and at least a first warp conductive fiber. The signal-transmitting unit consists of a first signal-transmitting cable and a second signal-transmitting cable, which are intertwined. Each of the first signal-transmitting cable and the second signal-transmitting cable includes a central conductive fiber and an outer insulating layer. The electrical connecting unit consists of a first power cable and a second power cable. The first warp conductive fiber is disposed between the signal-transmitting unit and the electrical connecting unit. The weft includes a weft conductive fiber.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Chien-Lung Shen, Kun-Chuan Tsai, Chien-Fa Tang, Fen-Ling Chen
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Patent number: 10132014Abstract: In a woven fabric woven from first constituent yarns as one of warps and wefts and second constituent yarns as the other, a part of the first constituent yarns are 2 to 15 side emission type optical fibers woven in juxtaposition, and, when the number of the side emission type optical fibers is 3 or more, a twist-preventing yarn having a diameter smaller than that of the side emission type optical fibers is interposed between the one or two side emission type optical fibers and the one or two side emission type optical fibers.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DAIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamasa Yamada, Atsuhiko Ito, Takayoshi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10132015Abstract: A warp knit textile sleeve is provided. The sleeve has an elongate, wrappable wall extending along a longitudinal axis between opposite ends. The wall has opposite free edges extending lengthwise along the longitudinal axis between the opposite ends. The wall is knit from at least one warp yarn extending lengthwise between the opposite ends and a plurality of weft yarns extending circumferentially between the opposite free edges. The weft yarns form a plurality of discrete, annular bands alternating in adjacent relation along the longitudinal axis. The weft yarn of one of the adjacent bands has a first diameter and the weft yarn of the other of the adjacent bands has a second diameter, wherein the first diameter is less than the second diameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain, LLCInventors: Alexa A. Woodruff, Cassie M. Malloy