Patents Issued in December 15, 2020
  • Patent number: 10864664
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a foam-in-bag dispensing system, including a dispensing apparatus operative to dispense foam precursor, the foam precursor being configured for expanding and solidifying into a polymeric foam, to a dispensing location between first and second web plies extending respectively on first and second sides of the dispensing apparatus; and a bag-status indicator associated for providing an indication to the operator indicative of the readiness of the bag for removal from the device for avoiding premature bag removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Pregis Intellipack LLC
    Inventor: Michael Paul Jones
  • Patent number: 10864665
    Abstract: Disclosed are injection molds, injected molded articles, and methods for using the same. The injected molds include a mold cavity and an injection molding conduit having a first end, a second end defining an outlet in fluid communication with the mold cavity, a first interior transverse dimension that is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the injection molding conduit, a second interior transverse dimension that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and to the first interior transverse dimension, and at the second end, the second interior transverse dimension is at least three times larger than the first interior transverse dimension, and the second interior transverse dimension of the injection molding conduit is substantially aligned with a thickness of a portion of the mold cavity that is adjacent to the outlet of the injection molding conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Gary S. Clark, David J. Rys, Nattapop Napkun, Timothy Holton
  • Patent number: 10864666
    Abstract: An encapsulation method of electronic components comprises steps as follows: preparing electronic components with cylindrical bodies wherein a cylindrical body has front and rear ends made of metals and a middle end made of ceramics and the front end or the rear end features an outer diameter greater than the middle end of the cylindrical body; preparing a mould consisting of upper and lower moulds; encasing the cylindrical bodies inside the upper and lower moulds, injecting heated and softened protective materials into the mould in which protective materials as protective layers are coated on the cylindrical bodies; injecting the cylindrical bodies removed from the upper and lower moulds into a roller in which excessive protective layers on the front and rear ends of the cylindrical bodies are de-coated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: WALSIN TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kao-Yuan Wang, Nai-Chuan Chuang, Shih-Long Wei
  • Patent number: 10864667
    Abstract: A molding system comprises a mold, a molding machine, a computing apparatus, and a controller. The computing apparatus is programmed to perform a first simulation to generate a velocity distribution and a temperature distribution of the molding material in a first portion of a simulating domain and a second simulation to generate a melting distribution of the solid decorating film in a second portion of the simulating domain, wherein the simulating domain corresponds to the mold cavity. The first molding simulation is to performed using a molding condition of the molding machine to set a boundary condition of the first portion, and the second molding simulation is performed using the velocity distribution and the temperature distribution of the molding material to set a boundary condition of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CORETECH SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Chung Hsu, Tung-Huan Su, Hsien-Sen Chiu, Chia-Hsiang Hsu, Rong-Yeu Chang
  • Patent number: 10864668
    Abstract: A composite film material usable in a data carrier card body includes a first outer plastic layer, an inner plastic layer and a second outer plastic layer, all the layers together forming a co-extruded composite. The plastic material of the first outer layer is a polyethylene terephthalate glycol copolymer (PETG) or contains a PETG, the plastic material of the inner layer is a thermoplastic copolyester elastomer (TPC) or contains a TPC, and the plastic material of the second outer layer is a PETG or contains a PETG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Josef Riedl, Cordula Regensburger, Andreas Braun
  • Patent number: 10864669
    Abstract: Provided is a method for extruding molten resin in a charging space from a head by converting a rotational motion of an electric motor into a linear motion of a piston disposed in the charging space through a ball screw and thus causing the piston to move vertically, the charging space being a space into which the molten resin can be charged and formed in an accumulator, the head having an extrusion port at a lower end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: KYORAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Ito, Satoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 10864670
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, an extruder and an injection molding machine for manufacturing a clamping ring, solving problems that products produced by an extrusion method needs to be processed in two steps. The key point of technical solutions lie in a molding step of acting on a pipe member in a plastic melt state via a molding die set, to form a clamping ring from the pipe member; an injection mold injects plastic materials having memory properties through an injection gate to form a pipe member in the molding cavity, the pipe member comprises a clamping ring and a sealing film provided on one end of the clamping ring, the hydraulic mechanism drives a molding cutter to cut out a joint of the sealing film and the clamping ring in a plastic melt state, thereby a limit end is formed at one end of the clamping ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Yueqing Dongbo Electromechanical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yixian You, Hongbing Li
  • Patent number: 10864671
    Abstract: The invention is an integrally blow-moulded bag-in-container obtainable by blow-moulding an injection moulded multi-layer preform. The bag-in-container includes an inner layer forming, the bag and an outer layer forming the container, and a single opening, the mouth, fluidly connecting the volume defined by the bag to the atmosphere. The container further includes at least one interface vent fluidly connecting the interface between inner and outer layers to the atmosphere, wherein the bag is anchored to the outer layer at at least one point remote from the single opening and interface vent. The invention also relates to a process and a mould for the production of the blow-moulded bag-in-container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A.
    Inventors: Sarah Van Hove, Daniel Peirsman, Rudi Verpoorten
  • Patent number: 10864672
    Abstract: A device for blow molding containers, which is provided with a supporting frame for at least one station for blow molding preforms in order to obtain containers, the blow molding station including two lateral bodies and a bottom which are adapted to provide by blow molding at least one container, at least one of the two lateral bodies being movable on command by way of means for cyclic opening and closing, with respect to the supporting frame, about an articulation axis that is substantially parallel to the axis of the at least one container, means being provided for kinematic connection between the at least one movable lateral body and the bottom and being adapted to produce cyclically the movement of the bottom along a movement direction substantially parallel to the; the cyclic opening and closing means include an actuation body which is supported by a first link rod which can be moved with respect to the supporting frame about a pivoting axis which is substantially parallel to the articulation axis (101),
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SACMI IMOLA S.C.
    Inventor: Filippo Mazzotto
  • Patent number: 10864673
    Abstract: Methods of additive manufacture using coreactive components are disclosed. Thermosetting compositions for additive manufacturing are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: David Robert Fenn, Kurt G. Olson, Reza M. Rock, Cynthia Kutchko, Susan Donaldson, Anthony J. Fogl
  • Patent number: 10864674
    Abstract: An interchangeable unit adapted to couple to a computer numerical control (“CNC”) machine is disclosed comprising a holder that couples to a spindle of the CNC machine, a controller, wherein said controller is configured to receive the rotational speed of the spindle as an input, and a material processing unit, wherein said material processing unit executes a first function in response to a first rotational speed range of the spindle and executes a second function in response to a second rotational speed range of the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Hurco Companies, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Adair, Michael Doar, Frederick W. Gross, Elias G. Pavlakos, Gregory S. Volovic
  • Patent number: 10864675
    Abstract: A method for the layered construction of a shaped body of highly viscous photopolymerizable material, where layers of said shaped body are formed one after the other and one on top of the other, includes forming a material layer of predetermined thickness (a) of the highly viscous photopolymerizable material in a tank, which has a bottom, and lowering the construction platform, or the shaped body at least partially formed on the construction platform, into the material layer so as to cause a layer of the highly viscous photopolymerizable material to form between the construction platform or shaped body and the tank bottom, which layer is cured in a position-selective manner, in particular by irradiation through the tank bottom, to provide the desired shape of the shaped body layer, in which at least one material layer includes a layer thickness variation in the lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Lithoz GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Homa, Johannes Patzer, Rafael Reiter, Manfred Spitzbart
  • Patent number: 10864676
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing articles of footwear are provided. In various aspects, the methods comprise utilizing additive manufacturing methods with foam particles. In some aspects, the disclosed methods comprise selectively depositing a binding material on foam particles in a target area such that the binding material coats at least a portion of defining surfaces of the foam particles with the binding material. The binding material is then cured to affix foam particles in the target area to one another. In various aspects, the disclosed methods can be used to manufacturer articles with sub-regions that differential levels of affixing between the foam particles, and thereby resulting in sub-regions with different properties such as density, resilience, and/or flexural modulus. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nike, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Constantinou, Harleigh Doremus, Luis Folgar, Brandon Kvamme, Denis Schiller
  • Patent number: 10864677
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system may include a head configured to discharge a matrix-coated reinforcement, a support configured to move the head during discharging, and a cure enhancer configured to cure the matrix as the matrix-coated reinforcement discharges from the head. The additive manufacturing system may also include a controller in communication with the head, the support, and the cure enhancer. The controller may be configured to receive specifications for a structure to be fabricated, and to determine an anchor point from which the matrix-coated reinforcement will be pulled during fabrication of the structure. The controller may also be configured to regulate operation of the head, the support, and the cure enhancer to manufacture the structure and the anchor point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Continuous Composites inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Tyler, Ryan C Stockett
  • Patent number: 10864678
    Abstract: A laser 3D printer presents a tubular compartment; a lifting platform slidably engaged in the tubular compartment; a dispenser for feeding a given amount of powdered material onto the lifting platform; a distributor for distributing the powdered material over the lifting platform; and a laser printing head for sintering the powdered material laid on the lifting platform; the distributor having the shape of a hopper converging downwards and being configured for receiving the powdered material from the dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: 3D4MEC SRL
    Inventors: Giuseppe Corsini, Gabriele Carloni
  • Patent number: 10864679
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic sensor (10) is provided that has a reception unit (22) having a reception optics (24), a light receiver (28), and a diaphragm (26) therebetween, wherein the diaphragm (26) is arranged in a focal plane of the reception optics (24) so that a received light beam (20) generated by the reception optics is incident through the diaphragm aperture (42) of the diaphragm (26) at the point of smallest constriction. The diaphragm (26) is manufactured as an individual diaphragm using the reception optics (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventors: Martin Marra, Oliver Ostojic
  • Patent number: 10864680
    Abstract: A method for fabricating an integrated heat pipe is disclosed. The integrated heat pipe includes a porous wick structure, a solid conducting structure, and an integrated part. In a CAD model, the porous wick structure is represented as a simple solid having a finite amount of mechanical interference; the solid conducting structure and the integrated part are represented as simple solids. After incorporating the CAD model into a 3D-printer build file, 3D-printer parameters representing the porous wick structure of the integrated heat pipe are assigned to a porous region component model within the 3D-printer build file, and standard 3D-printer parameters representing the solid conducting structure and the integrated part are assigned to a solid region component model within the 3D-printer build file. The 3D-printer build file is utilized to print the integrated heat pipe on a 3D printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey K. Torrington, Michael J. Shaw, Michael P. Mitchell, Timothy Whalen
  • Patent number: 10864681
    Abstract: The application relates to a plastic moulding for a moulding arrangement including a housing for another plastic moulding of the moulding arrangement, wherein the housing is formed within a moulding body of the plastic moulding including a weldable material in at least some areas. It is contemplated therein that a contact element is arranged on the moulding body, the contact element at least partly including an electrically conductive material and limiting a recess of the moulding body adjoining the housing in at least some areas. The application further relates to a moulding arrangement and a method for producing a moulding arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: AFT AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Christoph Wehrmann
  • Patent number: 10864682
    Abstract: A method of joining first and second layers of polymeric composite material includes disposing a portion of a molded insert having a bottom end into a top surface of a first layer of material and then applying a layer of adhesive between the top surface of the first layer and a bottom surface of a second layer of material to create a bond-line thickness. Next, a top surface of the second layer is pierced with a headless end of a fastener and interlocked into the molded insert. A layer of protective coating is then applied to the top surface of the second layer of material to cover the interlocked fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Steven Cipriano, Bradley J. Blaski, Richard C. Janis, Pei-chung Wang
  • Patent number: 10864683
    Abstract: Provided is a thermal caulking method of melting, at one time, a plurality of bosses 33 of a second member 30 protruding toward an inner circumferential surface of a conical hollow portion 11 of a first member 10 while being fitted to a plurality of holes 132 provided in the inner circumferential surface of the hollow portion 11 of the first member 10 having the substantially conical hollow portion 11 so that the plurality of bosses are joined to the first member 10, in which the plurality of bosses 33 are melted at one time by using a heat chip 51 having a continuous shape in the circumferential direction of the hollow portion 11 along the inner circumferential surface and are joined to the first member 10 while the adjacent melted bosses 33 are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsurugai, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shigeto Akahori
  • Patent number: 10864684
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a new concept for an internal metallic tank of large-scale high-pressure gasholder in which pluralities of internal tanks have been accumulated like a honeycomb structure and for the manufacturing processes of the internal metallic tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Tsukasa Nozawa
  • Patent number: 10864685
    Abstract: Provided is a tube joining device that allows a user to easily and appropriately perform setting of tubes which become a joining target, and is capable of preventing occurrence of a joining failure caused by a setting error of the tubes in advance. A tube joining device 1 includes: a first tube holding portion 41 that is capable of holding a first tube T1; a second tube holding portion 42 that is disposed in adjacent to the first tube holding portion, and is capable of holding a second tube T2 at a position that is parallel to the first tube; and a housing 2 that is provided with a cover member 20 that is closed to cover fusion-joining sites C of the first tube and the second tube. The cover member is slidable along a direction in which the first tube and the second tube are disposed in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keisuke Kanemaru
  • Patent number: 10864686
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a keyboard or other input structure having a continuous fiber material. In one aspect, the continuous fiber material is disposed in a layered fiber pattern under tension. The continuous fiber material is continuous in that it is not broken or severed within the webbing. Heat and pressure are then applied to form a structural web. The resulting structural web may be stronger than a webbing of conventional materials yet with reduced relative weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque, Ari P. Miller, Christopher I. Owen-Elia, Paul X. Wang, Robert Y. Cao
  • Patent number: 10864687
    Abstract: Radius fillers for composite structures and composite structures that include radius fillers are disclosed herein. The radius fillers include a plurality of lengths of composite tape. Each of the plurality of lengths of composite tape includes a respective plurality of lengths of reinforcing fibers and a resin material. The plurality of lengths of reinforcing fibers in each of the plurality of lengths of composite tape defines a fiber axis direction. Each of the plurality of lengths of composite tape defines a respective fiber axis direction that is based, at least in part, on material properties of a transition region defined by a plurality of plies of composite material that defines an elongate void space within which the radius filler is configured to extend. The composite structures include the radius fillers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Douglas A. McCarville, Juan C. Guzman, Jordan Oliver Birkland, Ryan Shaw Tidwell, Robert L. Anderson
  • Patent number: 10864688
    Abstract: Methods and devices of fabricating a stringer for a vehicle. The stringer can be constructed from two charges that are formed together into the stringer. During fabricating, the ends of the charges can be formed in a die cavity. When the ends are misaligned in the die cavity, one of the charges can be moved in the die cavity to align the ends. The device used for fabricating the charges can include a punch with separate punch plates that move the ends of the charges into the die cavity. The punch plates can be separately moved to adjust the position of the charges and align the ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: John Makoto Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 10864689
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a turbine engine blade from a preform (10) of composite material polymerised in a mould comprising a lower part (16) and an upper part, comprising at least one closure step, during which the upper part of said mould is placed on the lower part (16) of the mould containing the preform (10). The method comprises, prior to said closure step, at least one sub-step of inserting a position marker (28) into the preform (10), at least one sub-step of compacting the preform using an insert (34) intended to be received in the upper part of the mould (18), and at least one sub-step of checking the position of the marker (28) relative to a reference mark (30) of said insert (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Marc-Emmanuel Techer, Nicolas Ashtari
  • Patent number: 10864690
    Abstract: A positioning jig (25) and a method for manufacturing a wind turbine blade comprising moulding a first and a second blade shell portion in respective first and second mould tools; positioning a shear web (15) in a spanwise direction within a first shell portion (20) in a said first mould tool (7); anchoring said shear web in position in said first shell portion; and closing said second shell portion (21) over said first shell portion to thereby generate a wind turbine blade shell defining a chordwise extent between a in trailing edge and a leading edge thereof, and a spanwise extent between a root region and a tip thereof and wherein said shear web, bordered by a first (24) and a second longitudinal edge, extends in a thickness direction of said blade; said method further comprising: providing a positioning jig; and securing said positioning jig to said shear web, prior to its introduction into said first shell portion and guiding said shear web into its predetermined standing position in said first shell por
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Steve Wardropper, Stephen Sandercock
  • Patent number: 10864691
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a toothed belt (1) containing: a belt main body (2) containing an array of a cord, a tooth portion (2b) formed on the lower side of the array of the cord and arranged at a predetermined interval along a longitudinal direction of the cord, and a back surface portion (2a) formed on the upper side of the array of the cord and having the cord buried therein, which are integrally molded with a first thermoplastic elastomer composition; and a back sheet (3) adhered to the back surface portion side of the belt main body (2) and composed of a second thermoplastic elastomer composition, in which the back sheet (3) has an uneven shape (6) in a surface on the adhesion side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10864692
    Abstract: The curing bladder for a tire has a shape of revolution around a central axis and comprises a flexible wall made of crosslinked rubber. The surface of the wall is covered with a coating film made of a non-stick composition. When the bladder is non-inflated, the coating film has a variable thickness over the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Frédéric Pialot, Gérard Bor, Alain Faugeras, Frédéric Ramz
  • Patent number: 10864693
    Abstract: The invention presents a device and a method for placing and attaching a strip inside a tire. Specifically, the tire is positioned flat on a mounting between self-centering arms, and an adhesive device is placed inside the tire. While the tire is rotated, the strip is moved inside the tire, wherein a pressure force is applied to said strip. The strip is driven at a linear speed greater than the rotation speed of the tire, thus producing an effect of compressing said strip, the length of which becomes less than the nominal length thereof, thus creating a space between both ends of the strip such that, after release, the strip scrapes the adhesive device, which is repositioned on said ends, thus simultaneously causing said ends to be attached end to end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Paul Badaroux
  • Patent number: 10864694
    Abstract: The present invention forms bead apex rubber with good precision on the outer circumferential surface of the bead core. A molding process, in which unvulcanized rubber is made to flow into a bead apex molding chamber that is surrounded by surfaces that include the outer circumferential surface of a circular bead core and the bead apex rubber is formed directly on the outer circumferential surface of the bead core that is rotating around the core axis, is provided. The molding process comprises: a tip forming step that forms the leading end of the bead apex rubber; a middle section forming step that sequentially forms the bead apex rubber to be continuous with the leading end; and a joining step to join the back end and the leading end of the bead apex rubber by inflowing the unvulcanized rubber therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., NAKATA ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Onimatsu, Naoyasu Nakao, Hiroyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10864695
    Abstract: An apparatus for compacting waste objects includes a seat provided with a support assembly for supporting the waste object to be compacted; a push member being moveable inside the seat for compacting in use of the apparatus the waste object against an end wall of the seat; the support assembly including two support members that rotate away from each other for discharging the compacted object through an aperture. The support members can impede discharge of a compacted object of a specific type through the aperture to collect the compacted object of the specific type in a dedicated container. Protuberances can be applied to the push member and an end wall of the seat for producing depressions in the compacted object so that the compacted object does not lose the compacted condition once pressure applied by the push member is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Marco Santandrea
  • Patent number: 10864696
    Abstract: A dunnage production system for producing coiled strips of dunnage includes a supply of strip-like dunnage, a coiler adjacent the supply and rotatable about a coiling axis for coiling a strip of the strip-like dunnage into a coil having a coiled configuration, and a tube aligned with the coiling axis. The tube has an internal diameter sized to receive the coil from the coiler in a discharge direction parallel to the coiling axis. The tube is capable of holding at least one coil in its coiled configuration until it is removed from the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Ranpak Corp.
    Inventors: Nico Lammers, Erwin Methorst, Reinhard L. M. H. Rothkranz
  • Patent number: 10864697
    Abstract: The present application relates to composite members and to methods of manufacturing a composite member. In an aspect, a composite member (10) is formed as a longitudinal structure capable of being coiled about an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the member. The composite member (10) comprising plural layers (p1-p5) of material bonded together to form a laminate. At least one layer (p3) of material has a boundary (30) partway along the longitudinal extent of the member and extending between the sides of the member. The boundary (30) is angled with respect to the transverse axis (18) of the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: RTL Materials Ltd.
    Inventor: Andrew Daton-Lovett
  • Patent number: 10864698
    Abstract: A treated liquid crystal polymer resin sheet includes a main surface, a non-fiberized portion in which fibrous crystalline portions and a non-crystalline portion filling a gap between the crystalline portions are provided, and a fiberized portion in which the fibrous crystalline portions is exposed at the main surface with a gap between the crystalline portions that is unfilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Syota Chino, Hiroyuki Ohata
  • Patent number: 10864699
    Abstract: A composite material member having an FRP layer made of fiber-reinforced plastic, and a resin-rich layer that has a fiber content that is 5% or less of the fiber content of the FRP layer. The resin-rich layer is formed in at least a partial region of a surface of the FRP layer, and is formed from the same resin as a matrix resin of the fiber-reinforced plastic. A hole is bored so as to penetrate the FRP layer and the resin-rich layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Hamada, Hiroshi Ookubo
  • Patent number: 10864700
    Abstract: A foam product includes a foam core, an upper skin and a lower skin. The foam core has a top surface, a bottom surface, and a peripheral side surface. The upper skin covers both of the top surface and the peripheral side surface of the foam core, but extending not beyond the bottom surface of the foam core. And, the lower skin covers both of the bottom surface of the foam core and a peripheral end surface of the upper skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: AGIT GLOBAL IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Tzong In Yeh
  • Patent number: 10864701
    Abstract: A stretchable conductive film for textiles 1 includes a stretchable conductive layer 3, and a hot-melt adhesive agent layer 4 formed on one surface of the stretchable conductive layer 3. The stretchable conductive film for textiles 1 may also include a first peel film 2 formed on a surface of the stretchable conductive layer 3 on the opposite side from the hot-melt adhesive agent layer 4 side, and a second peel film 5 formed on a surface of the hot-melt adhesive agent layer 4 on the opposite side from the stretchable conductive layer 3 side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TATSUTA ELECTRIC WIRE & CABLE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Takahashi, Tsunehiko Terada
  • Patent number: 10864702
    Abstract: Provided is a thermal transfer sheet that can suppress thermal fusion of the thermal transfer sheet and a transfer-receiving article and can improve the durability of a printed article obtained by transferring a transfer layer onto the transfer-receiving article, even if energy applied to the thermal transfer sheet was increased upon transferring the transfer layer onto the transfer-receiving article. This thermal transfer sheet 100 comprises a thermal transfer layer 10 on one surface of a substrate 1. The transfer layer 10 comprises one or more layers, and among the layers constituting the transfer layer 10, the layer closest to the substrate 1 contains a copolymer of isobutyl (meth)acrylate and a monomer having a carboxyl group, and the acid value of the copolymer is not less than 40 mg KOH/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Oota
  • Patent number: 10864703
    Abstract: A non-transparent paper is described for non-transparent art or graphic design sketches, which prevents seepage of the inks, it accepts any type of gel, water-based, solvent-based, oil-based or mixed inks and solid materials for sketching and drawing, as well as fixatives for the solid materials. This paper consists of a lamination of at least two sheets of uncoated bond paper, inserting at least one intermediate layer of pigmented opacifying emulsion between both sheets, applied between the layers of paper to prevent transparency and the seepage of inks from one face of the lamination to the other. This layer of emulsion contains at least one opacifying pigment, at least one adhesive, agents to control viscosity and surface tension and other components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventors: Ricardo Millares-Neyra, Ricardo Millares-Sotres, Dalila Rivera-Carmona
  • Patent number: 10864704
    Abstract: A molded product includes a body including a flat part and a projection protruding from the flat part, a design member including a design surface, and an adhesive member sticking the design member to the body. The adhesive member includes a buffer portion formed by cutting off a part of the adhesive member at a position corresponding at least to the projection. Thus, the adhesive member negates differences in level on the body, allowing the design surface to be smooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., SUNARROW LTD
    Inventors: Seonghun Lee, Yuichi Takahashi, Tomoomi Kiyomiya
  • Patent number: 10864705
    Abstract: A liquid crystal laminate includes a substrate including a first diffraction surface and a second base material surface and having optical transparency, a metal layer located on a part of the first diffraction layer, an adhesion layer located on a part of the second base material layer and made of a photocured resin, and liquid crystal layer located on a surface of the adhesion layer at a side opposite to the contact surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Ichikawa, Hideki Ochiai
  • Patent number: 10864706
    Abstract: The present application relates to an encapsulating film, a reliability assessment therefor, an organic electronic apparatus comprising the encapsulating film, and a method for producing an organic electronic apparatus which has used the encapsulating film, and provides: a reliability assessment method which can predict the reliability of the encapsulating film before same is applied to the organic electronic apparatus, the encapsulating film blocking moisture or oxygen from the outside entering the organic electronic apparatus; and the encapsulating film which can block moisture with high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Suk Kim, Hyun Jee Yoo, Jung Ok Moon, Jung Woo Lee, Se Woo Yang
  • Patent number: 10864707
    Abstract: Laminated structures comprise a metal sheet including a first face and a second face with a thickness of from about 0.5 mm to about 2 mm extending between the first face and the second face. The laminated structure further includes a first chemically strengthened glass sheet including a thickness of less than or equal to about 1.1 mm and a first interlayer attaching the first chemically strengthened glass sheet to the first face of the metal sheet. In further examples, methods of manufacturing a laminated structure comprise the steps of laminating with a metal sheet and a first chemically strengthened glass sheet together with an interlayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gordon Charles Brown, Jeffrey Scott Cites, William Keith Fisher, Mark Stephen Friske, Chunhe Zhang
  • Patent number: 10864708
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-layer, preferably co-extruded, plastic film with improved modulus properties, which is suitable, in particular, for producing three-dimensionally shaped articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Heinz Pudleiner, Klaus Meyer, Juergen Winkler, Wolfgang Braeuer, Joerg Nickel, Craig Pehlert, Chunhua Li, Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 10864709
    Abstract: A heat conductive sheet having excellent adhesion between an acrylic resin layer and a supporting sheet is provided. The heat conductive sheet includes a heat conductive resin layer including a heat conductive acrylic resin composition; and a supporting resin layer (supporting sheet) containing a polyvinyl acetal resin and a styrene-vinyl isoprene block copolymer. Crosslinking of the supporting sheet with acrylic monomers of the acrylic heat conductive resin layer enables improvements in adhesion between the heat conductive resin layer and the supporting sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 10864710
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a film wherein an outer layer includes a polypropylene resin, an intermediate layer includes a polypropylene resin and a hydrogenated block copolymer (a), and an inner layer includes a polypropylene resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriko Yagi, Yasuhiro Kusanose, Hiroyuki Ichino, Masahiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10864711
    Abstract: A laminating device and method for laminating a decor layer onto a carrier part includes a lower tool with a support region for receiving the carrier part, an upper tool including a pressing surface for exerting a pressing pressure onto the decor layer which is arranged between an upper side of the carrier part and the pressing surface, and at least one movable slider for edge-folding an overhang of the decor layer around an edge of the carrier part by way of pressing the slider against the overhang of the decor layer. A distance between the lower tool and the pressing surface can be enlarged or reduced. The lower tool includes a first membrane, wherein the arrangement of the first membrane and the slider to one another is such that the first membrane is movable onto the slider, for pressing the slider against the overhang of the decor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: (Gerhard) Wilfried Schilles, Sabine Lindemann
  • Patent number: 10864712
    Abstract: A method for laminating profile and plate materials produced from processed mixed plastic waste and other plastic surfaces comprises steps of collecting and processing of mixed plastic waste for recycling for making profile and plate materials and lamination of profile and plate materials produced from processed mixed plastic waste, wherein the lamination of profile and plate materials produced from processed mixed plastic waste comprises stabilizing the profile temperature before lamination; determining the surface quality; making the surface quality of profile suitable by propane gas treatment of the profile; heating the profile surface before the lamination process; heating the adhesive right before the lamination; applying the adhesive to the laminate surface; carrying out the lamination process; and directing the laminated profiles for storying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Oü Elegro Invest
    Inventors: Andrus Valdmaa, Aivo Käsnar, Aarne Saareväli
  • Patent number: 10864713
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a curved display panel using a prefabricated flat liquid crystal panel including a lower substrate and an upper substrate formed of glass and opposite each other, each of the lower substrate and the upper substrate being provided with a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, includes separating the polarizing plates from the lower substrate and the upper substrate respectively, reducing a thickness of the liquid crystal panel, by removing an outer surface of each of the lower substrate and the upper substrate from which the polarizing plates are separated, to a designated thickness, and bending the liquid crystal panel having the designated thickness in a curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Beom Kim, Woon Yong Park