Patents Issued in February 25, 2020
  • Patent number: 10569461
    Abstract: A preform for biaxial stretching blow molding. The preform being formed into a closed-end cylinder by direct blow molding and which is to be shaped into a container using a pressurizing liquid medium. The preform has either a single-layer or a multilayer structure constituted of one of a polyethylene resin having an MFR of 1.0-1.5 g/10 min. or a polypropylene resin having an MFR of 0.8 to 2.3 g/10 min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: DISCMA AG
    Inventors: Tamotsu Toyoda, Masaaki Sasaki, Shinichi Tabata
  • Patent number: 10569462
    Abstract: A feed device for a conveyor system for preforms which transports the preforms coming in an ordered manner from an upstream module of the conveyor system to a downstream module of the conveyor system in which the preforms are separated into singles, wherein the feed device has at least two oppositely arranged transport rails, on which the preforms rest in each case with a support ring. The feed device additionally includes at least two oppositely arranged belt transport units which preferably engage with a threaded portion of the preforms and transport them in a transport direction to the downstream module of the conveyor system, wherein the belt transport units each have a drive which applies a torque to the preforms accumulated in front of the downstream module, which torque the individual preforms are able to be transferred in a more reliable manner from the feed device into the downstream module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: M. TANNER AG
    Inventor: Marcel Tanner
  • Patent number: 10569463
    Abstract: A method of molding a thermoplastic resin material includes: a first molding step in which a second mold that, with a first mold, nips and presses the thermoplastic resin material and molds a product, is divided into plural sections, and one section at the divided second mold is structured so as to be able to enter into and exit from another section, and the one section is made to protrude-out with respect to the another section, and, at the one section, the thermoplastic resin material is pressed, and a portion of the product is molded; and a second molding step in which, after the first molding step, the one section is retracted into the another section, and, at the another section, the thermoplastic resin material is pressed, and a remaining portion of the product is molded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Iwano
  • Patent number: 10569464
    Abstract: A three-dimensional electronic, biological, chemical, thermal management, or electromechanical apparatus and method of configuring such an apparatus. In an example embodiment, an apparatus can include a substrate and one or more layers of a three-dimensional structure configured on and/or from the substrate. The three-dimensional structure includes one or more internal cavities configured by an extrusion-based additive manufacturing system enhanced with a range of secondary embedding processes. The three-dimensional structure can be configured with one or more structural integrated metal objects spanning one or more of the internal cavities of the three-dimensional structure for enhanced electromagnetic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Eric MacDonald, David Espalin, Isaac Varela, Ryan Wicker
  • Patent number: 10569465
    Abstract: A method of forming a three-dimensional object includes: providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, the carrier and the build surface defining a build region therebetween, filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid, irradiating the build region with light through the optically transparent member to form a solid polymer from the polymerizable liquid, and advancing the carrier away from the build surface to form the three-dimensional object from the solid polymer. The irradiating step is carried out with a plurality of tiled images projected into the build region, and each tiled image includes an array of projected pixels. An apparatus to perform the method is also discloses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Carbon, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph M. DeSimone, Nordstrom Kirk Phelps, Alexander Ermoshkin
  • Patent number: 10569466
    Abstract: A supply of build material such as a spool or cartridge is instrumented with a data tag that includes information about the build material. A three-dimensional printer can read the information from the tag and determine how to use the build material during fabrication of a three-dimensional object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MakerBot Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Ariel Douglas, Robert J. Steiner, Aric Lynn Jennings, William B. Buel, Anthony D. Moschella
  • Patent number: 10569467
    Abstract: A method of delivering build material from a build material store (404) to a supply module (102). The method comprises moving, using a rotatable vane (116), a portion of build material from the supply module (102) to the top of the supply module (102), and spreading the moved portion of build material across the support platform (104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jordi Gimenez Manent, Jose Manuel Grases, Francisco Jaime, Fernando Juan, Pau Martin Vidal, Marius Valles
  • Patent number: 10569468
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for removing industrial powder from a shaped body manufactured generatively using the industrial powder. The apparatus includes at least one container for holding the shaped body having a vertically adjustable construction platform, a vibrating screen, a tilting device for tilting the container, and at least one catching unit adjoining a transfer end of the vibrating screen for catching the shaped body. In one form, the vibrating screen, tilting device, and catching unit are arranged within a housing. In another form, the vibrating screen and catching unit are arranged within the housing and the tilting device is at least partially arranged in the housing. At least one opening in the housing is closed in an airtight manner by a glove such that a user can use the glove to grasp the shaped body caught by the catching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Koch, Bruno Alves
  • Patent number: 10569469
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tuning photolithographic processes are described. A model of a target scanner is maintained defining sensitivity of the target scanner with reference to a set of tunable parameters. A differential model represents deviations of the target scanner from the reference. The target scanner may be tuned based on the settings of the reference scanner and the differential model. Performance of a family of related scanners may be characterized relative to the performance of a reference scanner. Differential models may include information such as parametric offsets and other differences that may be used to simulate the difference in imaging behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Yu Cao, Wenjin Shao, Ronaldus Johannes Gijsbertus Goossens, Jun Ye, James Patrick Koonmen
  • Patent number: 10569470
    Abstract: Agent calibration can, in an example implementation, include generating a calibration based on a quantity of energy absorbed by a build material treated with different quantities of an agent and converting a portion of a three-dimensional object model to a quantity of agent based on the calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David H Donovan, Jacob T Wright, Erica Montei Fung
  • Patent number: 10569471
    Abstract: A 3D object forming device and a method thereof are provided. The device includes a tank used for containing a liquid forming material. A light source irradiates the liquid forming material to cure a 3D object layer-by-layer on a moving platform. In the irradiation process, when a target position currently irradiated by the light source is located on a first layer next to the moving platform, the light source is maintained to an original intensity; when the target position is not located on the first layer next to the moving platform, and when it is determined that a non-cured hollow layer exists in a predetermined number of layers at one side of the target position opposite to the light source according to the slicing data, the intensity of the light source is correspondingly decreased according to the number of layers between the hollow layer and the target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignees: XYZprinting, Inc., Kinpo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Hsiung Ding, Tsung-Hua Kuo, Wei-Chun Jau
  • Patent number: 10569472
    Abstract: A sub-printing method for a 3D printer (1) includes following steps: obtaining slicing data (3) of a printing layer by the 3D printer (1) when performing printing; executing a logical segmentation action on the slicing data (3) according to a default segment-template (101) for generating multiple printing blocks (4); labelling each printing block (4) according to a default printing rule for deciding printing orders of the multiple printing blocks (4); controlling the 3D printer (1) to perform multiple sub-printing actions successively according to the printing blocks (4) based on the decided printing orders; and, re-executing above steps before all printing layers of a 3D model are completely printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignees: XYZPRINTING, INC., KINPO ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Yan-Rong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10569473
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing method includes segmenting a CAD file of an component along an build interface to define at least a first component segment and a second component segment each of the first component segment and the second component segment sized to fit within an additive manufacturing build chamber; additive manufacturing the first component segment and the second component segment within the build chamber; and bonding the first component segment and the second component segment to form the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Steven W Burd
  • Patent number: 10569474
    Abstract: A technique for additive manufacturing that avoids the necessity of having a build plate. The illustrative embodiment comprises two anchor plates from which a structure is constructed that forms at least the initial support for the object to be manufactured. The envelope of the structure can be a cylinder, a box, an n-sided prism, a hyperboloid of one sheet, a cone, the frustum of a cone, a pyramid, and the frustum of a pyramid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Arevo, Inc.
    Inventor: Hemant Bheda
  • Patent number: 10569475
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an IR tube sealing device and method of sealing a polymer tube with infrared energy. In particular embodiments, the IR tube sealing device can be a portable, hand-held device adapted to receive and compress a polymer tube, and produce and direct infrared energy toward the compressed polymer tube to quickly form a permanent aseptic seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bryan Cassiday, Anthony P. Pagliaro, Jr., Jason B. Chapman, Sridhar K. Siddhamalli
  • Patent number: 10569476
    Abstract: A fiber composite component having a first and a second fiber composite element each bent along a transverse axis opf the fiber composite component to have, respectively, in succession, a first and second base flange, a first and second web section, a first and second top flange and a first and second stiffening web. Respectively, the first and second base flanges are parallel to the first and second top flanges, the first and second web sections are angled with respect to each of the first and second base flanges and the first and second top flanges, the first and second stiffening webs are at right angles with respect to the first and second top flanges, and the first stiffening web and the second stiffening web are congruent with respect to one another, and are connected to one another, along a longitudinal axis of the fiber composite component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventor: Manuel Jung
  • Patent number: 10569477
    Abstract: A method of attaching a thermoplastic-based workpiece and a metal workpiece involves the use of a metal reaction coating. The metal reaction coating is applied over a base metal substrate of the metal workpiece such that the metal reaction coating faces and contacts the thermoplastic-based workpiece when the two workpieces are assembled in overlapping fashion. To attach the workpieces at their faying interface, an energy source such as, for example, a laser beam or an electric arc, is directed against the metal workpiece to create a zone of concentrated heat that at least warms up the metal reaction coating and melts a portion of the thermoplastic-based workpiece. Such heated activity at the faying interface promotes interfacial chemical bonding between the thermoplastic-based workpiece and the metal workpiece that contributes to an enhanced attachment between the workpieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jing Zhang, David S. Yang, Shawn Deng
  • Patent number: 10569478
    Abstract: A method is described for opening a heat bonded sterile connection that includes a skin of material blocking flow between the connection site. The method includes applying external pressure to the connection site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schwalm, Thomas Bruckner
  • Patent number: 10569479
    Abstract: Multiple processes for preparing porous articles are described. The porous articles can be in a wide array of shapes and configurations. The methods include providing a soluble material in particulate form and forming a packed region from the material. The methods also include contacting a flowable polymeric material with the packed region such that the polymeric material is disposed in voids in the packed region. The polymeric material is then at least partially solidified. The soluble material is then removed such as by solvent washing to thereby produce desired porous articles. Also described are systems for performing the various processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Vertera, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali R. Mehrabi, Reza Mehrabi, Rishikesh K. Bharadwaj, Eugene Rozenbaoum, Frank Chica
  • Patent number: 10569480
    Abstract: The use of magnetic fields in the production of porous articles is generally described. Certain embodiments comprise exposing a matrix to a magnetic field such that particles within the matrix form one or more elongated regions (e.g., one or more regions in which the particles chain). In some embodiments, after the magnetic field has been applied, the particles and/or a liquid within the matrix can be at least partially removed. Removal of the particles and/or the liquid can leave behind anisotropic pores within the remainder of the matrix material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University
    Inventors: Jonathan Samuel Sander, Yet-Ming Chiang, Randall Morgan Erb
  • Patent number: 10569481
    Abstract: Ply layups and methods for forming composite components are provided. For example, a method for forming a composite component comprises laying up a plurality of composite plies to form a composite ply layup; partially processing the composite ply layup to form a green state layup; machining the green state layup; assembling the green state layup with one or more sub-assemblies; and processing the green state layup and the one or more sub-assemblies to form the composite component. In an exemplary embodiment, the composite component is a turbine nozzle airfoil. Another exemplary method comprises laying up a plurality of composite plies to form a composite ply layup; compacting the composite ply layup to form a green state layup; machining the green state layup; assembling the green state layup with one or more sub-assemblies; and processing the green state layup and the one or more sub-assemblies to form the composite component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kirk D. Gallier, Nathan Carl Sizemore
  • Patent number: 10569482
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a strut having a hollow central bore includes the steps of providing a mandrel and a quantity of a filament or fiber material, laying the filament or fiber material about the mandrel to form a strut having a central cylindrical section, two opposing connective end sections, a central bore extending through the strut, the central bore having two reduced diameter portions extending through each end section, and an axis extending centrally through the bore, forming a slot or slots extending inwardly from one of the connective section outer ends and terminating within the connective section or the central section, bending at least a portion of the one connective section along the slot to enlarge the bore reduced diameter section at the one end, and displacing the mandrel along the central axis and through the enlarged bore end section until the mandrel is removed from the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SKF Aerospace France S.A.S.
    Inventors: Florian Bardy, Eric Deneux, Nicolas Leboss
  • Patent number: 10569483
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system for manufacturing a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) prepreg includes a mechanism for continuously moving a fabric or mat and a resin application component that applies a methyl methacrylate (MMA) resin to the fabric or mat. The system also includes a press mechanism that presses the fabric or mat during the continuous movement subsequent to the application of the MMA resin to ensure that the MMA resin fully saturates the fabric or mat. The system further includes a curing oven through which the fabric or mat is continuously moved. The curing oven is maintained at a temperature of between 40° C. and 100° C. to polymerize the MMA resin and thereby form PMMA so that upon exiting the curing oven, the fabric or mat is fully impregnated with PMMA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Klaus Friedrich Gleich, Asheber Yohannes, Michael John Block, Jawed Asrar, Derek Cooper Bristol, Christopher P Sandoval
  • Patent number: 10569484
    Abstract: A device for compacting a contoured elongate composite layup includes flexible first and second fiber reinforced resin flexible sections flexible along their lengths. The first section is flexible within a first plane and the second section is flexible within the first plane as well as within a second plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Samuel Ray Stewart, Paul James Ballow
  • Patent number: 10569485
    Abstract: For fixating a blade segment (1a) of a rotor blade of a wind turbine to a mould (20a), in which the blade segment is manufactured, a fixing device (10) is provided comprising a first portion (11) for selectively applying a clamping force on the fixating extension and a second portion (12) for fixating the fixing device to the mould. In the fixing device (10) one of the first and second portions comprises a cylinder portion (15a) with a threaded structure, and a threaded abutment structure (15b) encircling the cylinder portion and engaging its threaded structure. The respective other portion comprises an aperture (14) and a recess with a second abutment structure (16a) within the aperture. The aperture (14) is adapted to receive the cylinder portion (15a) such that the cylinder portion (15a) protrudes the aperture (14) along its cylinder axis, and the second abutment structure (16a) is adapted to engage and exert a force on the threaded abutment structure (15b) in a direction parallel to the cylinder axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Claus Svend Simonsen, Peter Frans Thomsen
  • Patent number: 10569486
    Abstract: In some examples, a method may include injection molding an optical material in a mold defining at least one optical surface to form a molded component, and machining the molded component to form a machined optical component including a machined optical surface. In some examples, a method may include injection molding an optical material in an axially symmetric mold cavity defining at least one optical surface to form a molded component, and machining the molded component to form an optical component that does not possess axial symmetry. Optical component formed by these methods and molds for utilizing in these methods also are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Timothy L. Wong, Erin A. McDowell
  • Patent number: 10569487
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes providing a substrate on which a light source is disposed. An underfill material is ejected from a nozzle onto the substrate substantially around the light source in a circular shape, a shape of a letter ‘C’, or a rectangular shape. A covering member having a recess portion is provided above the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motokazu Yamada, Masakazu Kotani, Tetsuji Seino, Shinsaku Ikuta
  • Patent number: 10569488
    Abstract: Provided are a method for setting the embedding depth of loop coils in a conveyor belt which can enhance the durability of a loop coil without testing a large number of samples, and a method for manufacturing a conveyor belt in which the loop coil is embedded. A two-dimensional or three-dimensional FEM analysis model of an actual conveyor belt is prepared, and the appropriate embedding depth of the loop coils in the actual conveyor belt, i.e., the rubber thickness between the core layer and the loop coils is set on the basis of at least one of a principal stress or a deformation amount occurring in the loop coil in the analysis model when a falling object having predetermined specifications is dropped from above an upper cover rubber in the analysis model onto the upper cover rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Gang Hou
  • Patent number: 10569489
    Abstract: Compacting assembly comprising a shaper mold (24) defining an upwardly open housing suitable for receiving a woven preform (10a) that has previously been cut out, and a vertically movable compacting tool (128) that, together with the shaper mold (24), forms a compacting assembly for compacting said preform previously placed in the housing. The compacting tool (128) comprises at least a root portion (128A). The invention is applicable to fabricating turbine engine composite blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Yann Marchal, Matthieu Gimat
  • Patent number: 10569490
    Abstract: A compressor arrangement for automatically compressing ground coffee includes a housing having an inlet opening and an outlet opening with a retention flap which adjusts a bulk density of the ground coffee, conveying and compressing elements arranged in the housing which are driven by a first drive device, and an adjustment device which pre-adjusts the bulk density of the ground coffee. The adjustment device includes a second drive device, a retention flap shaft, a retention flap arranged on the retention flap shaft, a transmission which is operatively connected to each of the second drive device and the retention flap shaft, and an automatic dynamic pressure adjustment apparatus which enlarges or reduce a preset of the opening angle dependent on a higher dynamic pressure or a lower dynamic pressure being exerted on the retention flap. The transmission includes a transmission device which limits an opening angle of the retention flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: PROBAT-WERKE VON GIMBORN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH
    Inventor: Tilo Lechner
  • Patent number: 10569491
    Abstract: The invention below relates to a doctor blade device with an elongated doctor blade intended to operate continuously against a roll surface (2) and/or a cylinder surface (20) during scraping or wiping off material (IB) on the surface (20), which doctor blade device (5) comprises a carrier beam (10) adapted to the length of the roll surface or cylinder surface, which carrier beam has a clamping arrangement (4) for the positioning of a carrier part (3), arranged, in a groove in the longitudinal direction, to slidably carry the doctor blade (6), wherein the carrier part (3) comprises a carrier blade (30), a lip means (14) arranged at the carrier blade (30) and a spacer element (12) arranged between the lip means (14) and the carrier blade, wherein the carrier blade (30), the lip means (14), and the spacer element (12) are arranged, along a first long side edge of the carrier blade (30) between them, to form said groove (15) for slidable positioning in the longitudinal direction of the doctor blade (6) by support
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CS PRODUKTION AB
    Inventor: Tore Eriksson
  • Patent number: 10569492
    Abstract: A binding processing device includes a first pressing member including: a first convex portion; a first concave portion; and a first connection portion which is provided between the first convex portion and the first concave portion; and a second pressing member including: a second convex portion; a second concave portion; and a second connection portion which is provided between the second convex portion and the second concave portion. In a state in which the first convex portion of the first pressing member and the second concave portion of the second pressing member come in contact with each other at the first connection portion and the second connection portion, the first connection portion contacts with the second connection portion and a gap is formed between the first convex portion and the second concave portion along a pressing direction of the first and second pressing members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Nakano, Hiroaki Awano, Takuya Makita, Kojiro Tsutsumi, Katsumi Harada, Yasuhiro Kusumoto, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Emiko Shiraishi, Junichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 10569493
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an enclosure comprises walls forming the enclosure, wherein the enclosure comprises an internal space; an inhibiting element disposed in at least one wall, the inhibiting element having an internal inhibiting surface exposed to the internal space, wherein the inhibiting element has a transparency of greater than or equal to 20%; and a condensing element disposed in at least one other wall, the condensing element having an internal condensing surface exposed to the internal space; wherein at least one of the inhibiting element and the condensing element comprise a phase change material configured to form a temperature differential between an internal inhibiting surface temperature and an internal condensing surface temperature over a temperature range, and wherein when the temperature differential is formed, the internal inhibiting surface temperature is greater than the internal condensing surface temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventor: Steven Marc Gasworth
  • Patent number: 10569494
    Abstract: A multilayer metal composite includes a metal base layer having a base layer surface textured with a plurality of integral base layer barbs, and a metal substrate layer having a substrate layer surface textured with a plurality of integral substrate layer barbs. The substrate layer is impaled on the base layer barbs to secure the substrate layer to the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Nucap Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Ray Arbesman
  • Patent number: 10569495
    Abstract: A composite structure assembly includes a composite core including a flexible base and a plurality of cells extending from the flexible base. The composite core is conformable to different shapes. The plurality of cells are configured to move in response to movement of the flexible base. At least one of the plurality of cells may include a central column connected to a first flared end and a second flared end that is opposite from the first flared end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John C. Waldrop, III, Zachary Benjamin Renwick, Matthew Scott Thompson, Michael William Hayes
  • Patent number: 10569496
    Abstract: Photocatalyst microparticles are provided in a photocatalyst layer coming into contact with a base film, the photocatalyst microparticles are irradiated with ultraviolet rays, and voids are formed in a boundary region between a protective layer and the photocatalyst layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kaneuchi, Gakuei Shibata, Tomoyuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 10569497
    Abstract: A method for the production of a sealing tape roll of flexible, compressible foam with at least one barrier layer extending in the radial direction, which is arranged axially between two layers of foam. The method includes providing a foam web of a flexible foam; applying a first barrier layer to a first surface of the foam web; and introducing at least one first cut into the first surface of the foam web and introducing at least one second cut into a second surface of the foam web opposite the first surface to form parallel sealing tape strips. A connecting section remains between two adjacent sealing tape strips. The sealing tape strips are then folded over in the area of the connecting sections to produce a foam-barrier layer web, and the foam-barrier layer web is wound up into a sealing tape roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: ISO-Chemie GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Deiss
  • Patent number: 10569498
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sandwich panel and a sandwich panel structure formed by welding a plurality of the sandwich panels, each sandwich panel comprising: a flocking core layer; and skin layers laminated on both surfaces of the flocking core layer, respectively, wherein the sandwich panel comprises at least one contact portion, at which the two skin layers abut each other. In addition, the present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a sandwich panel, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a sandwich panel comprising a flocking core layer and skin layers laminated on both surfaces of the flocking core layer, respectively; and applying heat and pressure to at least one surface of the skin layers, thereby forming at least one contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Hyun Rho, Dong-Eung Kim, Ji-Won Lim
  • Patent number: 10569499
    Abstract: A preform structure is provided for the body of a motor vehicle. The structure includes a preform element which is produced from stacked fiber mats and has a peripheral area which along an edge is inclined relative to a preform surface, so as in this way to offer a load-appropriate transition from one preform element to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Hogger, Lukasz Goldyn, David Becherer
  • Patent number: 10569500
    Abstract: A method for producing an automotive equipment part includes the following steps: arranging a porous layer in a foaming mold; injection, on one side of the porous layer, of a foam precursor; expansion of the precursor material to form a foam base layer bonded to the porous layer; and extraction from the mold of the equipment part including the porous layer and the foam base layer bonded to the porous layer. The method further includes a step for injecting a pressurized fluid on a second side of the porous layer to form a counter-pressure to the expansion of the precursor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: FAURECIA AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Michel Langiny, Valérie Marcel, Ludovic Jean Raymond Dejaeger, Arnaud Duval
  • Patent number: 10569501
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a display area and a non-display area that extends from an end of the display area and is bent toward the display area; and a passivation film including a first film portion that is attached to a surface of the non-display area and is bent toward the display area, and a second film portion that is attached to a surface of the display area, and a modulus of the first film portion is lower than a modulus of the second film portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Ik Lim, Jin Woo Choi
  • Patent number: 10569502
    Abstract: A method of forming an article and associated article are provided. Multi-fiber cellulose strips are interacted with a bonding agent and layered in a plurality of layers, the layered cellulose strips collectively defining opposed major surfaces. A porous sheet member, interacted with a fire-retarding solution, is engaged with at least one of the major surfaces of the layered cellulose strips, such that the porous sheet member substantially covers the at least one major surface. The layered cellulose strips and the porous sheet member are collectively exposed to an actuating element, configured to actuate the bonding agent to facilitate cohesion of the layered cellulose strips and the porous sheet member, to form a board member, wherein the at least one major surface cooperates with the porous sheet member engaged therewith, in response to the actuating element, such that the porous sheet member forms a substantially smooth and uniform surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BLH Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Baroux
  • Patent number: 10569503
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a structure includes: a molding step of impregnating carbon fibers with a resin material and curing the resin material for molding a carbon fiber composite material; a polishing step of polishing a polishing region on a surface of the carbon fiber composite material molded in the molding step, with an abrasive that has a predetermined hardness; and a bonding step of bonding, through an adhesive, another member to a part of the polishing region polished by the polishing step. The molding step forms, in a top layer, a polishing layer that has a hardness which is lower than the predetermined hardness, and forms a surface protective layer that is lower than the polishing layer, protects the carbon fiber composite material from the abrasive, and contains a protective filler having a hardness which is higher than the predetermined hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kamihara, Yoshiro Aoshima, Toshio Abe
  • Patent number: 10569504
    Abstract: A panel comprises a first face sheet and a second face sheet spaced apart from the first face sheet. The panel further comprises a core sheet intercoupled between the first face sheet and the second face sheet. Each of the first and second face sheets is made of a material having a thermal expansion that is different from the thermal expansion of the other face sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Marc R. Matsen, Lee C. Firth, David S. Nansen, Michael R. Zolnowski, Carey E. Wilkinson, Gregory A. Foltz
  • Patent number: 10569505
    Abstract: Provided is a polarizing film laminate comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a polarizing film wherein the adhesive layer comprises: a base adhesive zone made of a transparent base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and formed over a given range from one principal surface of the adhesive layer in a thickness direction of the adhesive layer; and a refractive index adjustment zone formed over a given range from the other principal surface of the adhesive layer in the thickness direction and comprising the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and material infiltrated into the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and different from the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material, the refractive index adjustment zone having an average refractive index greater than a refractive index of the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material, and wherein the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material zone of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is located on the side of the polarizing film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Katami, Atsushi Yasui
  • Patent number: 10569506
    Abstract: Devices, systems and techniques are described for producing and implementing articles and materials having nanoscale and microscale structures that exhibit superhydrophobic, superoleophobic or omniphobic surface properties and other enhanced properties. In one aspect, a surface nanostructure can be formed by adding a silicon-containing buffer layer such as silicon, silicon oxide or silicon nitride layer, followed by metal film deposition and heating to convert the metal film into balled-up, discrete islands to form an etch mask. The buffer layer can be etched using the etch mask to create an array of pillar structures underneath the etch mask, in which the pillar structures have a shape that includes cylinders, negatively tapered rods, or cones and are vertically aligned. In another aspect, a method of fabricating microscale or nanoscale polymer or metal structures on a substrate is made by photolithography and/or nano imprinting lithography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Sungho Jin, Chulmin Choi
  • Patent number: 10569507
    Abstract: A kinetic energy absorptive composite article includes a ply containing multiple substantially parallel fibers having inherent failure strains and having inherent moduli. A matrix material at least partially encapsulates the ply. The ply includes multiple lower strength length portions or multiple lower modulus length portions. The multiple lower strength length portions are distributed along individual fibers of the multiple fibers and have failure strains less than the inherent failure strains. The multiple lower modulus length portions are distributed along individual fibers of the multiple fibers and have moduli less than the inherent moduli. A designated pattern of the lower strength length portions or of the lower modulus length portions is distributed to selected locations identified in the ply. An absorptive method includes distributing a load across the designated pattern when the ply receives a force from kinetic energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Mark S. Wilenski, Michael P. Kozar
  • Patent number: 10569508
    Abstract: A glass facer for a constructions board includes a first non-woven layer of coarse fibers and a second non-woven layer of coarse fibers and microfibers. The glass facer also includes a binder that simultaneously binds or adheres the coarse fibers of the first non-woven layer together, the coarse fibers and the microfibers of the second non-woven layer together, and the first non-woven layer to the second non-woven layer. The first non-woven layer has a porosity and air permeability that enables the first non-woven layer to absorb a material of the construction board when the glass facer is positioned atop the construction board during manufacture of the construction board. The second non-woven layer is configured to block the material of the construction board from passing through the glass facer to an exterior surface of the second non-woven layer so that the material is not externally visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Souvik Nandi, Glenda B Bennett, Thomas Matthews
  • Patent number: 10569509
    Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass enabling the laminated glass to have low transmittance for a light ray with a wavelength of 430 nm, and furthermore, being capable of achieving low excitation purity thereof. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention includes a thermoplastic resin, at least one first compound selected from yellow color-based coloring matter and red color-based coloring matter and at least one second compound selected from blue color-based coloring matter and purple color-based coloring matter, the ratio of the amount of the first compound to the amount of the second compound is 0.5 or more, and each of the blue color-based coloring matter and the purple color-based coloring matter is a kind of coloring matter with a maximum absorption wavelength of 550 nm or more and 750 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuta Tsunoda, Yasuyuki Izu
  • Patent number: 10569510
    Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which the production efficiency of laminated glass can be heightened. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention is an interlayer film for laminated glass having a one-layer structure or a two or more-layer structure and includes a first layer containing a thermoplastic resin, the softening point of the first layer is 60° C. or more, the interlayer film has an MD direction and a TD direction, and with regard to thermal shrinkage ratios obtained when the first inside portion, the second inside portion and the central portion are heated for 2 minutes at 80° C. respectively, all of the thermal shrinkage ratio MD1MAX, the thermal shrinkage ratio MD2MAX and the thermal shrinkage ratio MD3MAX are 18% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Iwamoto, Nami Minakuchi