Patents Issued in November 21, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190352768
    Abstract: A deposition apparatus (20) comprising: a chamber (22); a process gas source (62) coupled to the chamber; a vacuum pump (52) coupled to the chamber; at least two electron guns (26); one or more power supplies (30) coupled to the electron guns; a plurality of crucibles (32,33,34) positioned or positionable in an operative position within a field of view of at least one said electron gun; and a part holder (170) having at least one operative position for holding parts spaced above the crucibles by a standoff height H. The standoff height H is adjustable in a range including at least 22 inches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Brian T. Hazel, Michael J. Maloney, James W. Neal, David A. Litton
  • Publication number: 20190352769
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a housing of an electronic device includes providing a substrate, forming a metal plating on a surface of the substrate, and laser-etching the metal plating to form a conductive layer. The conductive layer serves as an antenna radiator or a conductive circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: YU-TSAI WANG, JIAN-FEI JI, SHUI-YING CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190352770
    Abstract: Method of antireflection and scratch-resistant treatment of a synthetic sapphire material where the acceleration voltage of the ions is between 5 kV and 1000 kV and is chosen in order to create an implanted layer having a thickness equal to a multiple of 100 nm; the microwave-induced annealing temperatures in the implanted surface are between 800° C. and 2000° C. with annealing times of between 1 and 1000 seconds. Synthetic sapphire materials are thus advantageously obtained where the reflection on the treated face is reduced by at least half while maintaining a hardness of greater than or equal to 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Denis Busardo, Frédéric Guernalec
  • Publication number: 20190352771
    Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes: a processing chamber; a sputtered particle emitter; a substrate mounting unit; and a sputtered particle shielding plate that is provided between the sputtered particle emitter and the substrate mounting unit and has a passage hole that allows the sputtered particles emitted from the sputtered particle emitter to pass through and allows the sputtered particles to be obliquely incident on a substrate mounted on the substrate mounting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Einstein Noel Abarra
  • Publication number: 20190352772
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a deposition prevention plate and a method for manufacturing the same, a method for recycling materials, and a thin film deposition apparatus. The deposition prevention plate includes a substrate, and a carrier layer on the substrate for carrying a plating material, wherein the carrier layer can be peeled off from the substrate. By forming a peelable carrier layer on the substrate, the cleaning process of the deposition prevention plate can be simplified, thereby saving the cleaning cost of the deposition prevention plate. In addition, by recycling and reusing the plating material in a method such as distillation, filtration or physical separation, the utilization of the plating material can be further improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Peng XU, Shengkai PAN, Yongkang QIAO, Jie LIU
  • Publication number: 20190352773
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of forming a film between two surfaces, in which the film includes diamond-like carbon. Also provided herein are uses of such films, such in sliding contacts and in metal coatings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Nicolas Argibay, Michael T. Dugger, Michael E. Chandross, Tomas Farley Babuska, Brendan L. Nation, John Curry
  • Publication number: 20190352774
    Abstract: Embodiments include a processing tool for processing substrates in a low processing pressure and a high processing pressure. In an embodiment, the processing tool comprises a chamber body and a pedestal in the chamber body. In an embodiment, the pedestal is displaceable, and the pedestal has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. In an embodiment, the processing tool further comprises a first gas port for supplying gasses into the chamber body and a first exhaust positioned above the first surface of the pedestal. In an embodiment, the embodiment further comprises a second gas port for supplying gasses into the chamber body and a second exhaust positioned below the second surface of the pedestal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Kelvin Chan, Yang Guo, Ashish Goel, Anantha Subramani, Philip Allan Kraus
  • Publication number: 20190352775
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a gas line cleaning system and a method of cleaning gas lines. The gas line cleaning system includes a connector having a first end and a second end, and a fluid system. The fluid system includes a fluid source configured to flow a fluid through a fluid conduit connected to the first end, and an ultrasonic transducer coupled to the fluid conduit configured to apply an ultrasonic energy to the fluid conduit to agitate the fluid. The ultrasonic energy creates a mechanical energy that reverberates in the fluid conduit and propagates into the fluid to remove particles that may have formed on an inside surface of a gas line connected to the second end and carry away particles inside the gas line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Gang PENG, Halbert CHONG, Marcus PEREIRA, David W. GROECHEL
  • Publication number: 20190352776
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods to process one or more wafers are described. A substrate is exposed to a plurality of process stations to deposit, anneal, treat and optionally etch a film in small increments to provide self-aligned growth of the film on a substrate surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Suketu Arun Parikh
  • Publication number: 20190352777
    Abstract: Showerheads for independently delivering different, mutually-reactive process gases to a wafer processing space are provided. The showerheads include a first gas distributor that has multiple plenum structures that are separated from one another by a gap, as well as a second gas distributor positioned above the first gas distributor. Isolation gas from the second gas distributor may be flowed down onto the first gas distributor and through the gaps in between the plenum structures of the first gas distributor, thereby establishing an isolation gas curtain that prevents the process gases released from each plenum structure from parasitically depositing on the plenum structures that provide other gases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Nagraj Shankar, Jeffrey D. Womack, Meliha Gozde Rainville, Emile C. Draper, Pankaj G. Ramnani, Feng Bi, Pengyi Zhang, Elham Mohimi, Kapu Sirish Reddy
  • Publication number: 20190352778
    Abstract: A syringe or other vessel having a substrate surface coated by PECVD is provided. The PECVD coating is made by generating plasma from a gaseous reactant comprising an organosilicon precursor and optionally O2. The lubricity, hydrophobicity and/or barrier properties of the coating are set by setting the ratio of the O2 to the organosilicon precursor in the gaseous reactant, and/or by setting the electric power used for generating the plasma. In particular, a lubricity coating made by said method is provided. Vessels coated by said method and the use of such vessels protecting a compound or composition contained or received in said coated vessel against mechanical and/or chemical effects of the surface of the uncoated vessel material are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: John T. Felts, Thomas E. Fisk, Robert S. Abrams, John Ferguson, Jonathan R. Freedman, Robert J. Pangborn, Peter J. Sagona
  • Publication number: 20190352779
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a method for coating nickel on an organosiloxane polymer wherein the said method comprises the steps of; forming a transition metal oxide on the organosiloxane polymer; etching the transition metal oxide with a basic solution; contacting the organosiloxane polymer comprising the etched transition metal oxide with an aqueous solution comprising a positively charged species to attach the positively charged species on the etched transition metal oxide; depositing a metal catalyst on the positively charged species; and treating the metal catalyst with an acidic solution to develop an activated organosiloxane polymer before transferring the activated organosiloxane polymer to a solution comprising nickel and/or nickel derivatives. A nickel organosiloxane composite is provided herein comprising a transition metal oxide layer and a positively charged species attached on the said oxide layer with nickel coated in the said positively charged species.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Shengqin Wang, Yew Wei Leong
  • Publication number: 20190352780
    Abstract: A system and a method for laser-driven propulsion, comprising transferring momentum to a projectile through a low-density material at laser fluences below plasma ablation threshold, the method comprising providing a metal layer having a first surface and a second opposite surface; providing a low density layer having a first surface and a second opposite surface; positioning the low density layer with the first surface thereof in direct contact with the second surface of the metal layer; positioning a projectile on the second surface of the low density layer; and heating the metal layer with laser pulses to temperatures below the liquefaction and ionization thresholds of the metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: JEAN-CLAUDE KIEFFER
  • Publication number: 20190352781
    Abstract: A method of applying a corrosion barrier includes applying a conversion coat onto a component and applying a layer of ceramic material over the conversion coat by atomic layer deposition. The conversion coat and the ceramic material provide corrosion resistance. A component with a corrosion barrier is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Steven Poteet, Marc E. Gage, Paul Sheedy, Neal Magdefrau
  • Publication number: 20190352782
    Abstract: The use of especially an aluminum alloy on a metal substrate in a PVD-AlTiN coating results in good corrosion and erosion protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Arturo Flores Renteria, Simone Friedle, Torsten Neddemeyer
  • Publication number: 20190352783
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coating system, more particularly a corrosion control coating system, for generating cathodic corrosion protection on a metallic substrate, comprising at least two layers, and also to a method for producing it and to a substrate coated with the coating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Ewald Dörken AG
    Inventors: Marcel ROTH, Gerhard REUSMANN, Sandra BÖHM
  • Publication number: 20190352784
    Abstract: A process for treating a furan-2,5-dicarboxylic acid composition, which process comprises: introducing a furan-2,5-di-carboxylic acid composition, which furan-2,5-dicarboxylic acid composition contains an impurity compound and which impurity compound is 5-formyl-furan-2-carboxylic acid, into a cathode compartment of an electrochemical cell; and electrochemically reducing the impurity compound in the cathode compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Klaas Jan Pieter Schouten, Gerardus Johannes Maria Gruter, Jan Cornelis van der Waal
  • Publication number: 20190352785
    Abstract: A method and devices for deprotecting anchored molecular compounds is provided which relies on an electrically addressable surface S with multiple compounds C thereon. Each compound C comprises three distinct moieties, including: a first moiety A, anchored to the surface S; a second moiety, which comprises an acetylene unit U, that is a molecular backbone bonded to the first moiety; and a third moiety P, which is a protection moiety for acetylene. The protection moiety P is bonded to the acetylene unit U of the second moiety via an electrochemically breakable bond. The surface S is submerged in an electrolyte, so that the compounds C are immersed in the electrolyte. The protection moiety P of at least a subset of the compounds C can be electrochemically cleaved by applying an electric potential between the surface S and the electrolyte, so as to obtain cleaved compounds C? with free acetylene terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Manuel Hellstern, Markus Gantenbein, Gabriel F. Puebla Hellmann, Marcel Mayor, Emanuel M. Lörtscher
  • Publication number: 20190352786
    Abstract: An organic hydride production apparatus includes: an electrolyte membrane having proton conductivity; a cathode that includes a cathode catalyst layer used to hydrogenate a hydrogenation target substance using protons to produce an organic hydride and also includes a cathode chamber; an anode that includes an anode catalyst layer used to oxidize water to produce protons and also includes an anode chamber; and a gas introduction unit that introduces, into the anolyte at a certain position, a certain gas used to remove at least one of the hydrogenation target substance and the organic hydride that have passed through the electrolyte membrane and been mixed into the anolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: National University Corporation YOKOHAMA National University, DE NORA PERMELEC LTD
    Inventors: Shigenori MITSUSHIMA, Kensaku NAGASAWA, Yoshinori NISHIKI, Akihiro KATO, Setsuro OGATA, Awaludin ZAENAL, Akiyoshi MANABE, Koji MATSUOKA, Yasushi SATO
  • Publication number: 20190352787
    Abstract: The present inventive concept provides a method of manufacturing graphene using electrochemistry, the method including dipping a cathode including metal and an anode including graphite into an electrolyte and applying a DC power supply between the cathode and the anode, wherein the DC power supply is a DC switching power supply applying a positive (+) voltage and a negative (?) voltage alternately and repetitively. The method according to the present inventive concept can simply mass-produce high purity graphene by applying the DC switching power supply, thereby efficiently controlling the ions to peel the graphite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Wonoh LEE, Sungmook LIM, Jong Hun HAN
  • Publication number: 20190352788
    Abstract: A hydrogen molecule remixing device includes a base (10), a first gas and water channelling disc (30), an anode (40), a cathode (60), an ion membrane (50), a second gas and water channelling disc (70), a cover (80), a cationic water outlet connector (85) and a connector (90). In practice, the source water is electrolyzed in the anode cavities of the anode to form oxygen molecules, ozone and anionic water, and electrolyzed in the cathode cavities of the cathode to form hydrogen molecules and cationic water. The hydrogen molecules are carried by the cationic water into the collecting and guiding chambers of the second gas and water channelling disc, so that the hydrogen molecules and the cationic water produce an blending reaction, and more hydrogen molecules are dissolved into the cationic water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Wen-Shing Shyu
  • Publication number: 20190352789
    Abstract: A method for synchronous electroplating filling of differential vias and an electroplating device. Laser irradiation is adopted as an external energy field to assist synchronous electroplating filling of differential vias. A mask or digital maskless technology is used to precisely heat the vias with different positions and different sizes. The filling rate of different regions varies with the temperature difference, thereby realizing the synchronous electroplating filling of differential vias in one step. In the processes of immersion pre-wetting by the electroplating liquid and electroplating filling copper, the laser is used for preheating the wafer processed with vias. In these two steps, the laser needs to locally and precisely heat upper surfaces of the micro vias on the wafer through the mask corresponding to the micro vias on the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yun CHEN, Xin CHEN, Dachuang SHI, Xun CHEN, Qiang LIU, Jian GAO, Chengqiang CUI
  • Publication number: 20190352790
    Abstract: A tape includes: a flexible backing layer having two major surfaces, wherein the backing layer has a thickness of greater than 64 micrometers and up to 200 micrometers, and one major surface of the backing layer includes a primed surface; and a rubber-based pressure sensitive adhesive layer disposed on the primed surface of the backing layer, wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive layer has a thickness of at least 7.6 micrometers (and preferably up to 25 micrometers); wherein, when disposed on an aluminum substrate, the tape displays a peel adhesion of less than 20 oz/in (219 N/m) according to a Peel Adhesion Strength Test described in the Examples Section, and a leakage distance of less than 762 micrometers according to a Chromic Acid Anodization—Leakage Distance Test described in the Examples Section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Sarang V. Deodhar, James J. Kobe, Meredith A. Opatz, Vasav Sahni, Daniel C. Munson
  • Publication number: 20190352791
    Abstract: A method for electrolytically passivating an outermost chromium or chromium alloy layer to increase corrosion resistance thereof, including steps of (i) providing a substrate comprising said outermost chromium or chromium alloy layer, (ii) providing or manufacturing an aqueous, acidic passivation solution comprising trivalent chromium ions, phosphate ions, one or more organic acid residue anion, (iii) contacting the substrate with the passivation solution and passing an electrical current between the substrate as a cathode and an anode in the passivation solution such that a passivation layer is deposited onto the outermost layer, wherein the trivalent chromium ions are obtained by chemically reducing hexavalent chromium in presence of phosphoric acid and at least one reducing agent, with the proviso that during or after the chemical reducing the one or more than one organic acid residue anion is present for the first time in the passivation solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Berkem ÖZKAYA, Philipp WACHTER, Christina PFIRRMANN
  • Publication number: 20190352792
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for electroplating which employ seed layer detection. Such methods may operate by selecting a wafer, illuminating one or more points within an interior region of the wafer surface, measuring a first set of one or more in-process color signals from the one or more points within the interior region, illuminating one or more points within an edge region of the wafer surface, measuring a second set of one or more in-process color signals from the one or more points within the edge region, each color signal having one or more color components, calculating a metric indicative of a difference between the color signals in the first and second sets of in-process color signals, determining whether an acceptable seed layer is present on the wafer based on whether the metric is within a predetermined range, and repeating the foregoing for one or more additional wafers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Mark Dinneen, Steven T. Mayer
  • Publication number: 20190352793
    Abstract: A plating apparatus capable of preventing difference in an electrode potential between the pair of cathodes and a disturbance in a current distribution in Haring cell test and so on is provided. A plating apparatus (1) has an anode (12) and a pair of cathodes (13X) (13Y) which are provided in a plating bathtub (11); a plating power source (14) to supply an electric current between the anode (12) and the pair of cathodes (13X) (13Y); and a feedback circuit (21) to have an electrode potential of a first cathode (13X) equal to an electrode potential of a second cathode (13Y) while a summation of electric currents flowing through the pair of cathodes (13X) (13Y) is kept constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Wataru YAMAMOTO, Kimiko KOIWA, Katsunori AKIYAMA, Masazumi ISHIGURO, Yoshiaki HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20190352794
    Abstract: The invention provides a device and method for continuous VGF crystal growth through rotation after horizontal injection synthesis, and belongs to the technical field of semiconductor crystal synthesis and growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Shujie WANG, Niefeng SUN, Huisheng LIU, Tongnian SUN, Yanlei SHI, Huimin SHAO, Xiaolan LI, Yang WANG, Lijie FU
  • Publication number: 20190352795
    Abstract: FZ single crystals are pulled by melting a polycrystal with electromagnetic melting apparatus and then recrystallizing. First, a lower end of the polycrystal is melted; second, a monocrystalline seed is attached to the lower end of the polycrystal and melted beginning from an upper end thereof; third, between a lower section of the seed and the polycrystal, a thin neck is formed whose diameter (dD) is smaller than that (dI) of the seed; and fourth, between the thin neck section and the polycrystal, a conical section is formed. Before the conical growth, a switchover position (h?) of the polycrystal, the position at which the rate of polycrystal movement relative to the melting apparatus is to be reduced is determined, and the rate is reduced, in amount when the switchover position (h?) is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: SILTRONIC AG
    Inventor: Thomas SCHROECK
  • Publication number: 20190352796
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a high resistance n-type silicon single crystal ingot with small tolerance margin on resistivity in the crystal growth direction, which is suitably used in a power device. In the method of producing a silicon single crystal ingot using Sb or As as an n-type dopant, while a silicon single crystal ingot is pulled up, the amount of the n-type dopant being evaporated from a silicon melt per unit solidification ratio is kept within a target evaporation amount range per unit solidification ratio by controlling one or more pulling condition values including at least one of the pressure in a chamber, the flow volume of Ar gas, and a gap between a guide portion and the silicon melt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka HOURAI, Wataru SUGIMURA, Toshiaki ONO, Toshiyuki FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20190352797
    Abstract: The present technology relates to diamond materials and structures created using chemical vapor deposition techniques (i.e., creation of synthetic diamond). The chemical vapor deposited diamond includes a multiphase material comprising (a) a single crystalline matrix phase and (b) plurality of diamond grains, each of the plurality of diamond grains being crystallographically distinct from the single crystalline matrix phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: M7D Corporation
    Inventor: Yarden Tsach
  • Publication number: 20190352798
    Abstract: A Group VB element doped with a ?-gallium oxide crystalline material, and a preparation method and application thereof. The series doped with the ?—Ga2O3 crystalline material is monoclinic, the space group is C2/m, the resistivity is in the range of 2.0×10?4 to 1×104?·cm, and/or the carrier concentration is in the range of 5×1012 to 7×1020/cm3. The preparation method comprises steps of: mixing M2O5 and Ga2O3 with a purity of 4N or more at molar ratio of (0.000000001-0.01):(0.999999999-0.99); an then performing crystal growth. The present invention can prepare a high-conductivity ?-Ga2O3 crystalline material with n-type conductivity characteristics by conventional processes, providing a basis for applications thereof to electrically powered electronic devices, optoelectronic devices, photocatalysts or conductive substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Changtai XIA, Qinglin SAI, Wei ZHOU, Hongji Ql
  • Publication number: 20190352799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to: layered gallium arsenide (GaAs), which is more particularly layered GaAs, which, unlike the conventional bulk GaAs, has a two-dimensional crystal structure, has the ability to be easily exfoliated into nanosheets, and exhibits excellent electrical properties by having a structure that enables easy charge transport in the in-plane direction; a method of preparing the same; and a GaAs nanosheet exfoliated from the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Woo Young SHIM, Sang jin CHOI, Hyesoo KIM
  • Publication number: 20190352800
    Abstract: A GaAs-based compound semiconductor crystal includes a straight body portion having a cylindrical shape, wherein the straight body portion has a diameter of more than or equal to 110 mm and has a length of more than or equal to 100 mm and less than or equal to 400 mm, and the straight body portion has a first end surface and a second end surface having a higher specific resistance than a specific resistance of the first end surface, and a ratio R20/R10 of a specific resistance R20 at the second end surface side to a specific resistance R10 at the first end surface side is more than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio ISHIKAWA, Hidetoshi TAKAYAMA, Hirokazu OOTA, Shuuichi KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20190352801
    Abstract: The present invention is a novel gas assisted nozzle and a method for micro and nanofiber production. In this composite nozzle, a high velocity gas stream is introduced through a core protruding orifice, while a liquid is introduced via at least one satellite orifice, external to the core orifice. The liquid flow is picked-up and accelerated (blown) by the gas stream from the tip of the protruding gas nozzle. This avoids passing the high velocity gas over the surface of the slow flowing liquid and achieves the acceleration of the liquid flow on its approach to being picked-up by the gas stream. Proper control of the gas and the polymer liquid flow results in fine liquid blowing and formation of micro and nanofibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: John RAWLINS, Jin Hee KANG
  • Publication number: 20190352802
    Abstract: An electrospun fibre comprising: a polymer matrix; and a plurality of photoluminescent molecules in the polymer matrix, wherein each photoluminescent molecule comprises a hydrophobic portion and a charged portion. A method for producing an electrospun fibre, the method comprising: preparing a polymer matrix; adding a plurality of photoluminescent molecules to the polymer matrix to form a spinable solution, each photoluminescent molecule comprises a hydrophobic portion and a charged portion; and electrospinning the spinnable solution to produce the electrospun fibre. An example of the photoluminescent molecule is 1-(1-(8-pyridiniumoctyloxy)-2, 3,4,5-tetraphenylcyclopenta-2,4-dienyl)benzene chloride (structure shown below), a molecule having aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Franklin ANARIBA, Mushtaq SOBHAN
  • Publication number: 20190352803
    Abstract: Nanofiber spinning apparatuses and methods for making core-sheath materials using touch spinning are provided. The apparatus includes at least one rotating plate with an aperture through which a core yarn passes and at least one post contacting the rotating plate. A speed control device can be configured to control rotation of the rotating plate, and a dispensing device can be configured to dispense a nanofiber-forming material onto the post. To make a core-sheath yarn a core yarn is passed through an aperture in a rotating plate having at least one post. The post is contacted with a nanofiber-forming material the rotating plate is rotated to draw a fiber of nanofiber-forming material from the post to wrap the fiber around the core yarn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Suraj Sharma, Darya Asheghali, Sergiy Minko, Nataraja Sekhar Yadavalli, Huipu Gao
  • Publication number: 20190352804
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a filament comprising a core material (CM) comprising a ceramic material precursor (CMP) and the core material (CM) is coated with a layer of shell material (SM) comprising a thermoplastic polymer as a support material in a fused filament fabrication process. Further, the invention relates to three-dimensional objects and a process for the preparation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Jordan Thomas KOPPING, Marie-Claire HERMANT, Kris SCHMIDT, Nikolaus NESTLE, Alexander KOEHLER
  • Publication number: 20190352805
    Abstract: Provided is a fabric comprising a layer of yarns combined (by weaving, braiding, knitting, or non-woven) to form the fabric wherein the yarns comprise one or a plurality of graphene-based long or continuous fibers. The long or continuous fiber comprises chemically functionalized graphene sheets that are chemically bonded with one another having an inter-planar spacing d002 from 0.36 nm to 1.5 nm as determined by X-ray diffraction and a non-carbon element content of 0.1% to 40% by weight, wherein the functionalized graphene sheets are substantially parallel to one another and parallel to the fiber axis direction and the fiber contains no core-shell structure, have no helically arranged graphene domains, and have a length no less than 0.5 cm and a physical density from 1.5 to 2.25 g/cm3. The graphene fiber typically has a thermal conductivity from 300 to 1,600 W/mK, an electrical conductivity from 600 to 15,000 S/cm, or a tensile strength higher than 1.0 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Nanotek Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Aruna Zhamu, Bor Z. Jang
  • Publication number: 20190352806
    Abstract: A process for producing a fabric comprising at least a graphene-based continuous or long fiber, comprising: (a) preparing a graphene dispersion having chemically functionalized graphene sheets dispersed in a fluid; (b) dispensing, depositing, and shearing at least a continuous or long filament of the graphene dispersion onto a substrate, and removing the fluid to form a continuous or long fiber comprising aligned chemically functionally graphene sheets; and (c) inducing chemical reactions between chemical functional groups attached to adjacent graphene sheets to form the graphene fiber; (d) combining the graphene fiber with a plurality of fibers, the same type as or different than the graphene fiber, to form at least one fiber yarn; and (e) combining the at least one fiber yarn and a plurality of fiber yarns, the same type as or different than the at least one fiber yarn, to form the fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Nanotek Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Aruna Zhamu, Bor Z. Jang
  • Publication number: 20190352807
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a woven twill or percale textile fabric, the fabric including: from about 90 to about 2400 ends per inch warp of texturized polyester yarn; and from about 45 to about 600 picks per inch Cotton yarn, wherein total content of cotton present in the fabric is at least about 50% by weight of the fabric, further wherein total thread count in the fabric ranges from about 135 to about 3000. The advantageous fabric realized in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure can find utility as home textiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Sachin Jhunjhunwala
  • Publication number: 20190352808
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to integrating electronic functionality into textiles. One example provides an article including a textile, a fabric piping positioned along the textile, an electrical conductor positioned within an interior of the fabric piping, and a first electronic component and a second electronic component disposed on the article and electrically connected by the electrical conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sang Ho YOON, Kelly Marie BOGAN, James David HOLBERY, Siyuan MA
  • Publication number: 20190352809
    Abstract: A method for spreading a tow of textile non-braided filaments, preferably chemical or inorganic fibres comprises providing a tow of textile non-braided filaments extending along its own main direction and having a section transverse to the main direction with a predetermined thickness and a predetermined width, feeding the tow along a travel path and spreading the tow in order to increase its width and reduce its thickness, defining a spread tow. The step of spreading the tow includes immersing the tow in a bath and generating in the bath a sequence of transverse waves crossing the tow transversely to the main direction in order to separate and place the individual filaments side by side, thereby spreading the tow, wherein the tow entering the bath and/or the spread tow extracted from the bath is/are unsized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Marco ROVELLINI
  • Publication number: 20190352810
    Abstract: A device and a method for manufacturing a synthetic yarn, in which at least two yarn plugs (1), (2), (3) are produced by texturing, are placed in a first zone (A) on the cooling surface (6c) of a rotating cooling drum (6), moved to a second zone (B) and form more than one winding (I),(II), in which the yarn plugs are kept in the second zone (B) by a gas stream (FB) on the cooling surface (6c), and in which no gas stream or a less powerful gas stream is generated in an intermediate zone (C) in order to prevent the yarn plugs (1), (2), (3) from leaving the second zone (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: NV MICHEL VAN DE WIELE
    Inventor: Claudio FIORINA
  • Publication number: 20190352811
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stacked fabric, in which a cellulose filament is used as a ground yarn, a yarn made of a hydrophobic fiber is used as a face yarn, and the face yarn and the ground yarn are knitted by a stacking yarn. During the knitting by stacking, the feeding tension of the ground yarn is 1.5 to 3 times the feeding tension of the face yarn, the feeding vertical angle of the ground yarn is from 15 to 30 degrees, and a sandwiching yarn comprising an elastic fiber is sandwiched in a knitted course.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Huan-Chih TSENG
  • Publication number: 20190352812
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a woven twill textile fabric, the fabric including: from about 90 to about 235 ends per inch warp cotton yarn; and from about 100 to about 2765 picks per inch multi-filament polyester weft yarn, wherein the picks are woven into the fabric in a single or in a group of at least two multi-filament polyester weft yarn, and wherein total content of cotton present in the fabric is at least about 50% by weight of the fabric, further wherein total thread count in the fabric ranges from about 190 to about 3000. The advantageous fabric realized in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure can find utility as home textiles. Other aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method of manufacturing a draw textured yarn and a multi-ply separable draw textured yarn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Sachin Jhunjhunwala
  • Publication number: 20190352813
    Abstract: A weaving apparatus comprising a shuttleless loom with a weft insertion device. A transfer device and retaining disc are connected to the weft insertion device such that the retaining disc holds the weft fiber in a fixed orientation as it traverses through the shed of the loom. A plurality of sensors which are part of a microcircuit are mounted on the retaining disc for measurement of the weft fiber's position. A signaling circuit is mounted on the shuttleless loom and an electrical connector is connected to the signaling circuit to allow for external monitoring or display of the weft fiber's position. The measurements from the plurality of sensors are communicated through the electrical connector to an external device such that the position and orientation of the weft fiber can be monitored or displayed as the weft insertion device travels through the shuttleless loom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: James Tolle
  • Publication number: 20190352814
    Abstract: Certain embodiments according to the invention provide compression articles suitable for a wide variety of uses (e.g., compression socks, athletic garments, etc.). In accordance with certain embodiments, the compression article includes at least two uniform compression regions, including a first uniform compression region having a first compression pressure and a second uniform compression region having a second compression pressure, and at least one transitioning compression region, including a first transitioning compression region positioned between the first and second uniform compression regions. The first transitioning compression region comprises a first end adjacent or proximate to the first uniform compression region and a second end adjacent or proximate to the second uniform compression region. The first transitioning compression region comprises a compression pressure gradient extending from the first end to the second end of the first transitioning compression region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Moshe ROCK, Vikram SHARMA
  • Publication number: 20190352815
    Abstract: The present disclosure, in one aspect, provides an upper for an article of footwear. The upper may include a knitted component. The knitted component may include a knit element, a first tensile strand with an exposed first end, and a second tensile strand with an exposed second end. The first tensile strand may be at least partially inlaid within the knit element, the second tensile strand may be at least partially inlaid within the knit element, and the exposed first end of the first tensile element may be secured to the exposed second end of the second tensile element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Tory M. Cross, Daniel A. Podhajny
  • Publication number: 20190352816
    Abstract: An automated unspooling mechanism capable of dispensing of knitting material strands in a dynamically-controlled tension on a knitting machine. An unspooling device is configured to sense the tension of a strand fed to the knitting machine, and responsively adjust the strand deployment speed to avoid too little or too much strand dispensing without interrupting the knitting process. The unspooling device includes a variable motor drive that can rotate the strand package in various speeds, and a spring arm trigger that can sense the current tension of the dispensed material. The spring arm trigger can vary its arm position based on the sensed tension. The arm position is then processed and converted to a signal to vary the motor speed. Therefore, the deployment speed of the strands can be dynamically controlled based on a sensed tension of feeding the strand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Bruce Huffa, Concetta Maria Huffa
  • Publication number: 20190352817
    Abstract: A woven textile defines a longitudinal direction and a horizontal direction and includes a first layer, a second layer, and at least one binding thread. The first layer includes at least one first braid extending in a meandering way. The second layer includes a plurality of rows of second braid extending along the horizontal direction in a meandering way. The rows of second braid are aligned along the longitudinal direction and are separated. Each of the rows of second braid is stacked with the at least one first braid to form a plurality of overlap portions. The at least one binding thread is woven with each of the rows of second braid and the at least one first braid together at the overlap portions to fix the row of second braid and the at least one first braid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Ping-Kun LIN