Inorganic Materials Only Patents (Class 106/286.8)
  • Patent number: 7789953
    Abstract: An aqueous phosphoric bonding solution consists essentially of phosphoric acid, a source of magnesium ions, and a leachable corrosion inhibitor. The bonding solution is stable with respect to inorganic metal particles, such as aluminum, which are admixed to the bonding solution for the preparation of a coating slurry. Metal parts coated with the coating compositions have very satisfactory properties such as heat and corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Praxair S.T. Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark F. Mosser, Kevin Eddinger, Eileen Fox, Thomas F. Lewis, III
  • Patent number: 7789960
    Abstract: A clay plaster formulation and application. The clay plaster is a mixture of various clays, and aggregate. This plaster is both functional and decorative and is for use on new and existing construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Inventor: Armin Croft Elsaesser
  • Publication number: 20100209665
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods for producing carbon-based films, for example, ultra smooth diamond nanostructured diamond films. Generally, the disclosed compositions can comprise a noble gas component, hydrogen, a carbon precursor, and nitrogen. Generally, the disclosed methods can comprise the steps of providing a mixture comprising a noble gas, hydrogen, a carbon precursor, and nitrogen, establishing a plasma comprising the mixture; and depositing carbon-containing species from the plasma onto the surface, thereby producing a film on the surface. Generally, the disclosed films exhibit superior average gain size, RMS surface roughness, hardness, relative diamond crystallinity, and surface adhesion. 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 invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Valeriy V. Konovalov, Yogesh K. Vohra, Shane A. Catledge
  • Publication number: 20100180799
    Abstract: An exhaust pipe paint for application to an exhaust pipe base includes an inorganic glass particle, an inorganic particle, and at least one of an inorganic binder and a precursor of the inorganic binder. The inorganic binder partially softens at a softening temperature of the inorganic glass particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenzo SAIKI
  • Publication number: 20100180798
    Abstract: An exhaust pipe paint for application to an exhaust pipe base includes an inorganic glass particle, an inorganic particle, and at least one of an inorganic binder and an inorganic binder precursor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenzo SAIKI
  • Publication number: 20100154676
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inorganic artificial marble having excellent impact strength and weather resistance. The inorganic artificial marble can be a substitute for natural stone and used as an exterior finishing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Joon Hyun Park, Chang Ho Son, Dong Hee Kim, Eung Seo Park
  • Publication number: 20100139525
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for coating metallic surfaces with a composition containing silane/silanol/siloxane/polysiloxane, wherein, in addition to a) at least one compound selected from silanes, silanols, siloxanes and polysiloxanes, b) at least one compound containing titanium, hafnium, zirconium, aluminium and/or boron, and c) at least one type of cation selected from cations of metals of subgroups 1 to 3 and 5 to 8, including lanthanides, and of main group 2 of the periodic table of the elements, and/or at least one corresponding compound, the composition contains at least one substance d) selected from: d1) silicon-free compounds having at least one amino, urea and/or ureido group in each case, d2) anions of nitrite and/or compounds having at least one nitro group, d3) compounds based on peroxide, and d4) phosphorus-containing compounds, anions of at least one phosphate and/or anions of at least one phosphonate, as well as e) water, and f) optionally also at least one organic solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas KOLBERG, Manfred WALTER, Peter SCHUBACH
  • Patent number: 7732049
    Abstract: Pellets encapsulating selenium or a compound of selenium comprise one hollow cavity filled with the selenium surrounded by a matrix which is able to form an eutectic with at least one of the constituents of a batch of molten raw materials for the manufacture of glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: AGC Glass Europe
    Inventors: Olivier Collart, Benoit Cherdon, Pierre Carleer
  • Publication number: 20100133166
    Abstract: The invention disclosed a composite permeable brick comprising a permeable surface layer and a permeable base layer. The surface layer and the permeable base layer, which respectively comprise an aggregate and a binder adhering to the aggregate, are closely combined together. The binder in the permeable surface layer at least comprises a hydrophilic binder. The permeable brick according to the invention has a good permeability and is of low cost, because of the compact and permeable surface of the brick. The invention also discloses a mixture for preparing the composite permeable brick, comprising an aggregate and a binder adhering to the aggregate. The binder at least comprises a hydrophilic binder, and the binder/aggregate ratio is from 1:100 to 20:100 by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2007
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: BEIJING RECHSAND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., L
    Inventors: Shengyi Qin, Weimin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20100071594
    Abstract: Stable, aqueous dispersion containing silicon dioxide powder having a hydroxyl group density of 2.5 to 4.7 OH/nm2, which is obtained from a silicon dioxide powder produced by a flame hydrolysis process under acid conditions. The dispersion is produced by incorporating the silicon dioxide powder into an aqueous solution by means of a dispersing device. The dispersion can be used to produce glass articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Kai SCHUMACHER, Monika Oswald
  • Publication number: 20100068529
    Abstract: Objects having a substrate and an oxygenated gas infused coating layer are disclosed. The coating layer provides enhanced physical durability, chemical resistance, optical transparency, and ablatability as compared to conventional coatings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Matthew C. Asplund, Robert C. Davis, Douglas P. Hansen, Matthew R. Linford, Barry M. Lunt
  • Publication number: 20100037800
    Abstract: Stable, aqueous dispersion containing silicon dioxide powder having a hydroxyl group density of 2.5 to 4.7 OH/nm2, which is obtained from a silicon dioxide powder produced by a flame hydrolysis process under acid conditions. The dispersion is produced by incorporating the silicon dioxide powder into an aqueous solution by means of a dispersing device. The dispersion can be used to produce glass articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Kai SCHUMACHER, Monika OSWALD
  • Publication number: 20100032838
    Abstract: Provided is an amorphous carbon film having a high elastic modulus and a low thermal contraction rate with a suppressed low dielectric constant, a semiconductor device including the amorphous carbon film and a technology for forming the amorphous carbon film. Since the amorphous carbon film is formed by controlling an additive amount of Si (silicon) during film formation, it is possible to form the amorphous carbon film having a high elastic modulus and a low thermal contraction rate with a suppressed dielectric constant as low as 3.3 or less. Accordingly, when the amorphous carbon film is used as a film in the semiconductor device, troubles such as a film peeling can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Yasuo Kobayashi, Kohei Kawamura, Toshihisa Nozawa, Hiraku Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20090324965
    Abstract: The invention relates to a one-component structural adhesive having a flow limit of at least 1500 Pa and an initial adhesion of more than 30 g/cm2, which contains at least one thickening agent and/or at least one filler. The invention further relates to the manufacture of such one-component structural adhesives and to the use of one or more thickening agents and/or one or more fillers for the manufacture of solid to kneadable one-component structural adhesive compounds having high initial adhesion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Horst Beck, Thomas Bachon, Nadja Hermsdorf, Sebastian Kostyra, Martin Majolo
  • Publication number: 20090305052
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous graphite dispersion including graphite particles dispersed in water along with stabilizers acting as dispersants, and additives. The graphite particles are at least partially spherical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: GRAPHIT KROPFMUHL AG
    Inventor: Werner Handl
  • Patent number: 7625635
    Abstract: A transparent film-forming coating liquid is provided which is capable of forming a transparent film that is excellent not only in scratch resistance, film hardness, scratch strength and adhesion to a substrate but also in haze and anti-glare properties. Also provided is a display device having a front panel constituted of a substrate with such a transparent film applied thereto. The transparent film-forming coating liquid comprises inorganic oxide particle groups, in each of which 2 to 10 inorganic oxide particles on an average are linked in the form of a chain, and a polar solvent. In the transparent film-forming coating liquid, the inorganic oxide particles have an average particle diameter of 4 to 200 nm. The inorganic oxide particles are silica particles, and the silica particles are porous particles and/or hollow particles each having a cavity inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: JGC Catalysts and Chemicals Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Kumazawa, Masayuki Matsuda, Toshiharu Hirai
  • Publication number: 20090272937
    Abstract: Aluminium oxide powder in the form of aggregates of primary- particles, which has a BET surface area of from 10 to 90 m2/g and comprises as crystalline phases, in addition to gamma- aluminium oxide and/or theta-aluminium oxide, at least 30% of delta-aluminium oxide. It is prepared by vaporizing aluminium chloride and burning the vapour together with hydrogen and air, the ratio of primary air/secondary air being 0.01 to 2, the exit speed vB of the reaction mixture from the burner being at least 10 m/s, the lambda value being 1 to 4, the gamma value being 1 to 3 and the value of gamma * vB/lambda being greater than or equal to 55. Dispersion comprising the aluminium oxide powder. Coating composition comprising the dispersion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: DEGUSSA GmbH
    Inventors: Kai Schumacher, Martin Moerters, Juergen Flesch, Marcus Von Twistern, Volker Hamm, Matthias Schmitt, Harald Alff, Roland Schilling
  • Publication number: 20090269585
    Abstract: The complex oxide particles of the present invention are conductive and exhibit a black color. The particles contain cobalt in an amount of 40 to 65% by mass in terms of the metal element based on the whole particles and at least one kind or two or more kinds of metals selected from copper, nickel and molybdenum. The particles are preferably prepared in the following manner: an aqueous solution of mixed metal salts prepared from water-soluble salts, wherein the aqueous solution contains cobalt and one kind or two or more kinds of metal element selected from copper, nickel and molybdenum, is mixed and neutralized with an alkali hydroxide to obtain a metal hydroxide slurry; the resultant slurry of metal hydroxides is kept at a pH of 10 to 13 and oxidized at a temperature of higher than 40° C. and 60° C. or less to obtain a precursor slurry; the resultant precursor slurry is aged at 80 to 150° C.; and then, after solid-liquid separation, the resultant solid is heated at 400 to 700° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Fujiyasu, Koichi Katsuyama, Tomoyuki Hoshino, Masahiro Miwa, Hiroyuki Shimamura
  • Publication number: 20090229776
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tissue product comprising (a) tissue fibrous web incorporated throughout the tissue product; (b) a temporary wet strength agent capable of forming hemi-acetal bonds with the fibers of the web to prevent immediate degradation of the web when the tissue product contacts water; and (c) a composition containing a degrading agent selected from the group consisting of alkaline agents, oxidizing agents, nucleophilic agents, and combinations thereof; such that the tissue product has at least one surface and the degrading agent is located substantially throughout the surface of the fibrous web in an amount sufficient to make the fibrous web exhibit (i) an immediate wet tensile strength of at least 90% of the wet strength as compared to a web that does not contain a degrading agent and (ii) a wet soak decay that is at least a ten point improvement as compared to a tissue fibrous web that does not contain a degrading agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: KEMIRA OYJ
    Inventors: Naijie Zhang, Michael Ryan
  • Publication number: 20090183650
    Abstract: Several synthetic additives have been used to improve the carbon coatings on LiFePO4 electrode materials. Pyromellitic acid (PA) added prior to calcination decreases the D/G ratios of the carbon produced in situ, while the use of both iron nitrate and PA results in increased sp2 character. Thus, the carbon coatings are structured with a greater fraction of graphitic character. The production of structured carbon coatings results in higher pressed pellet conductivities of LiFePO4/C composites and improved electrochemical performance of cells containing these cathode materials, although the carbon content is not necessarily increased. The combination of both ferrocene and PA used during LiFePO4 synthesis causes more carbon to be retained, although the structural characteristics are similar to that produced from the same amount of PA alone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Marca M. Doeff, James D. Wilcox, Robert Kostecki, Grace Y. Lau
  • Patent number: 7556189
    Abstract: Nano-structured interconnect formation and a reworkable bonding process using solder films. Large area fabrication of nano-structured interconnects is demonstrated at a very fine pitch. This technology can be used for pushing the limits of current flip chip bonding in terms of pitch, number of I/Os, superior combination of electrical and mechanical properties as well as reworkability. Sol-gel and electroless processes were developed to demonstrate film bonding interfaces between metallic pads and nano interconnects. Solution-derived nano-solder technology is an attractive low-cost method for several applications such as MEMS hermetic packaging, compliant interconnect bonding and bump-less nano-interconnects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Ankur Aggarwal, Isaac Robin Abothu, Pulugurtha Markondeya Raj, Rao R. Tummala
  • Publication number: 20090155574
    Abstract: A binder, a composition, a product and a kit, as well as a process for preparing the binder and composition, are directed to a composition useful as an inorganic phosphate binder, which binder is characterized as having calcium silicate sites which are connected the one with the other by alumina-silica phosphate bonds, and a filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: XEXOS LTD
    Inventor: Pakiza Mohammad
  • Publication number: 20090142619
    Abstract: A film forming apparatus for forming a film according to an AD method in which separation of the film or generation of hillocks is suppressed when the film formed on a substrate is heat-treated. The apparatus includes: an aerosol generating unit (1-4) for dispersing raw material powder (20) with a gas, thereby aerosolizing the raw material powder (20); a processing unit (6) for processing the raw material powder (20) aerosolized by the aerosol generating unit (1-4) to reduce an amount of impurity, which generates a gas by being heated, adhering to or contained in the raw material powder (20); and an injection nozzle (9) for spraying the aerosolized raw material powder (20) processed by the processing unit (6) toward a substrate (30) to deposit the raw material powder (20) on the substrate (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20090050018
    Abstract: To provide an inorganic waterborne coating agent and its aqueous solution: wherein, with the surface of the base material highly-hydrophilizated, the contaminant such as oil-based contaminant and inorganic dust adhered onto the surface of the base material can be removed easily with water, and at the same time, the antistatic effect can be achieved due to its dust-repelling property; which can be applied by anyone (non-skilled) with ease without considering the base material being organic or inorganic, compared with conventional coating agents, such as photocatalyst and polysilazane-based glass coating agent that have limited range of use; and which has little limit in conditions of use, and is inexpensive and applicable to any places, thereby securing the original goal of antifouling property. To provide an inorganic waterborne coating agent comprising: alkaline colloidal silica, a sodium phosphate compound and a potassium phosphate mixture, and boric acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Trade Service Corporation
    Inventor: Katsumi Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20090035469
    Abstract: A dispersible nanocomposite comprising nanotubes associated with nanoplatelets. A method for creating an exfoliated nanotubes solution, aligning nanotubes and depositing them on a substrate or in matrix. In one embodiment, the method includes a nanocomposite of at least one nanotube electrostatically associated with at least one nanoplatelet. The nanoplatelets may be removed from the suspension by altering the ionic strength to create an exfoliated nanotube solution. The exfoliated nanotube solution for injection into microchannel templates and aligned deposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
    Inventors: Hung-Jue Sue, Xing Cheng, Dazhi Sun, Huifeng Li, Chien-Chia Chu
  • Patent number: 7485186
    Abstract: A clay plaster formulation and application. The clay plaster is a mixture of various clays, and aggregate. This plaster is both functional and decorative and is for use on new and existing construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: American Clay Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Armin Croft Elsaesser
  • Publication number: 20080318033
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of a coated substrate, whereby at least one functional layer is deposited on the substrate from the vapor phase by means of chemical or physical deposition of a coating material and a temporary protective layer is applied to the functional layer by means of evaporation of a salt, in particular, an alkali metal halide. The invention further relates to a coated substrate with at least one functional layer and a temporary protective layer applied to the functional layer, which comprises a salt, in particular, an alkali metal halide, preferably a salt-like alkali metal halide and more particularly sodium chloride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: LEYBOLD OPTICS GMBH
    Inventors: Walter Zultzke, Markus Fuhr, Manfred Viet, Klaus Nauenburg
  • Publication number: 20080298910
    Abstract: A droplet-free wear-resistant coating is manufactured by depositing a wear resistant nitride coating containing a nitride layer which contains at least one metal or metal compound of a metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Al, Si and combinations thereof, on a surface of a substrate by cathodic-arc evaporation using a Venetian blind filter system in front of an arc cathode; to reduce metal microdroplets and/or metal microparticles in the wear resistant coating compared to an wear resistant coating obtained without a Venetian blind filter system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: GUEHRING OHG
    Inventors: Frank Weber, Samuel Harris
  • Publication number: 20080274347
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing a film with use of aerosol which is capable of forming a film of satisfactory quality at a high film formation rate. In the method, first, a carrier gas is mixed into a particle mixture which comprises raw fine particles comprising a brittle material as a main component and having a 50% average particle diameter of 0.010 ?m to 1.0 ?m on a volume basis, and auxiliary particles comprising a brittle material of the same type as or a different type from the brittle material of the raw fine particles as a main component and having a 50% average particle diameter of 3.0 ?m to 100 ?m on a volume basis, to form an aerosol. The aerosol is ejected onto the surface of a substrate to make the particle mixture come into collision with the substrate, so that the collision crushes or deforms the raw fine particles to form a film on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Junichi Iwasawa, Hironori Hatono, Hiroaki Ashizawa, Tomokazu Ito, Kaori Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20080264293
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plastering mortars which exhibit enhanced adhesion to concrete surfaces and comprise monofluorophosphates, to adhesion primers comprising monofluorophosphates, and to a method of improving the adhesion of cement-bound plasters to concrete surfaces, which involves applying a monofluorophosphate to the concrete surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: BK GIULINI GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Staffel, Siegbert Weber
  • Patent number: 7442247
    Abstract: A hard film contains [(Nb1-d,Tad)aAl1-a](C1-xNx), [(Nb1-d,Tad)a,Al1-a-b-c,Sib,Bc](C1-xNx), [(Cr,V)p(Nb,Ta)q(Al,Si,B)r](C1-xNx), or [(Ti,Cr,V)p(Nb,Ta)q(Al,Si,B)r](C1-xNx), in which the atomic ratios satisfy the following conditions: 0.4?a?0.6, 0<b+c?0.15, 0?d?1, 0.4?x?1, provided that one of “b” and “c” may be zero but both of them are not simultaneously zero, p+q+r=1; pTi+pCr+pV=p; qNb+qTa=q; rAl+rsi+rB=r, 0.05?q, 0.5?r?0.73, 0?rsi+rB?0.15, and 0.4?x?1.0, provided that when pTi is greater than zero, the total of pCr, pV, rSi, and rB is greater than zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventor: Kenji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20080261053
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate with an abrasion resistant and scratch-resistant coating that has a low index of refraction and comprises magnesium fluoride and at least one metal oxide or semimetal oxide. The coating can be obtained by applying a coating composition containing magnesium fluoride or a precursor thereof and at least one metal oxide or semimetal oxide, or a precursor thereof onto a substrate and then subjecting the same to a thermal treatment. The inventive coating is suitable for optical layers, particularly on translucent substrates. Examples of adequate uses include antireflection layers and interference layer assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: Leibniz-Institut Fuer Neue Materialien Gemeinnuetzige GmbH
    Inventors: Heike Arndt, Mohammad Jilavi, Martin Mennig, Peter William Oliveira, Helmut Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7435304
    Abstract: There are provided a coating composition for siliconizing, and a method for manufacturing a high silicon electrical steel sheet using the same. The coating composition includes: a Fe—Si-based composite compound sintered powder having a grain size of ?325 mesh and containing 20-70% silicon by weight; and a colloidal silica solution containing 15-30 part by weight of silica solid matter with respect to 100 part by weight of the sintered powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Kyu-Seung Choi, Jong-Soo Woo
  • Publication number: 20080223254
    Abstract: An inorganic binder for the production of ceramic, glass ceramic and other mineral materials and composite materials comprises at least one inorganic compound having a mean particle size of <100 nm and at least one solvent. The inorganic compounds are preferably compounds selected from the group consisting of the chalcogenides, the carbides and/or the nitrides. Further preference is given to the mean particle size being <50 nm, in particular <25 nm. The solvent is, in particular, a polar solvent, especially water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: ITN NANOVATION AG
    Inventors: Olaf Binkle, Ralph Nonninger
  • Publication number: 20080220233
    Abstract: Synthetic nano-sized crystalline calcium phosphate, particularly hydroxyapatite, having a specific surface area in the range of 150 m2/g to 300 m2/g, is described. The nano-sized crystalline calcium phosphate may be in the form of a powder or in the form of a coating on a surface. A method of producing a nano-sized crystalline calcium phosphate powder or coating is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: PROMIMIC AB
    Inventors: Per Kjellin, Martin Andersson
  • Publication number: 20080179571
    Abstract: Certain spin-coatable liquids and application techniques are described, which can be used to form nanotube films or fabrics of controlled properties. A spin-coatable liquid for formation of a nanotube film includes a liquid medium containing a controlled concentration of purified nanotubes, wherein the controlled concentration is sufficient to form a nanotube fabric or film of preselected density and uniformity, and wherein the spin-coatable liquid comprises less than 1×1018 atoms/cm3 of metal impurities. The spin-coatable liquid is substantially free of particle impurities having a diameter of greater than about 500 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: Nantero, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Sen, Ramesh Sivarajan, Thomas Rueckes, Brent M. Segal
  • Publication number: 20080178983
    Abstract: A composite-forming process includes impregnating a reinforcing structure with a curable composition at a temperature of about 10 to about 40° C. The curable composition includes specific amounts of an epoxy resin, a poly(arylene ether), a solvent, and a curing promoter. The poly(arylene ether) includes, on average, about 1.6 to about 2.4 phenolic hydroxy groups per molecule, and it has a polydispersity index less than or equal to 2.2 and an intrinsic viscosity of about 0.03 to about 0.2 deciliter per gram. These characteristics substantially improve the solubility of the poly(arylene ether) in the curable composition and allow the curable composition to be formed and used at or near room temperature. Composites formed by the process and circuit boards including the composites are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Christina Louise Braidwood, Hua Guo, Edward Norman Peters
  • Publication number: 20080145548
    Abstract: A premix for a coating material, comprising a lithium-containing silicate mineral, an hydraulic binder and a hardener for a water soluble silicate is provided. The premix can be mixed with water and a water soluble silicate to form a coating material that can be directly applied onto a variety of different substrates, and cured to form a coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventor: Robert John Bracher
  • Patent number: 7384470
    Abstract: An inorganic binder for the production of ceramic, glass ceramic and other mineral materials and composite materials comprises at least one inorganic compound having a mean particle size of <100 nm and at least one solvent. The inorganic compounds are preferably compounds selected from the group consisting of the chalcogenides, the carbides and/or the nitrides. Further preference is given to the mean particle size being <50 nm, in particular <25 nm. The solvent is, in particular, a polar solvent, especially water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: ItN Nanovation AG
    Inventors: Olaf Binkle, Ralph Nonninger
  • Publication number: 20080124548
    Abstract: Ceramic abradable materials, in particular thermally sprayable ceramic abradable powder materials, and abradable seals formed by thermally spraying the materials include dysprosia (Dy2O3) and zirconia (ZrO2). Coatings are porous whereby the porosity, in part, is induced by plastic or fugitive phases. Abradable seal coatings comprising dysprosia and zirconia exhibit improved thermal shock and sintering resistance and can be worn into tolerance by untreated, bare turbine blades, at least in certain regimes of relative blade speed and coating porosity. Ceramic abradable seal coatings comprising dysprosia and zirconia can be used up to 1200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Dieter R. Sporer, Ulrike Taeck, Mitchell R. Dorfman, Andrew R. Nicoll, Massimo Giannozzi, Iacopo Giovannetti
  • Patent number: 7357975
    Abstract: The carbon-containing hard coating (1) according to the invention comprises nano-crystalline grains being separated from each other by grain boundaries, wherein said hard coating comprises aluminum (Al), at least one additional metal (Me1, Me2), carbon (C) and at least one further element (E1, E2) and has the chemical composition: (AlxMe1yMe2z)CuE1vE2w wherein Me1 is a metal, and Me2 is a metal, with x>0.4 and x+y+z=1 and y,z?0, and E1 and E2 are further chemical elements with 1>u>0 and u+v+w=1 and v,w?0. The grain boundaries have a higher concentration of carbon atoms than the nano-crystalline grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Metaplas Ionon Oberflachenveredelungstechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Vetter
  • Patent number: 7237596
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an element for the casting of a liquid metal, comprising a base body made from a refractory material, said body comprising an outer surface and an inner surface defining a pouring channel for the casting of the liquid metal. This element is characterized in that at least a part of the element inner surface is coated with an insulating coating forming, at the metal liquid contact, a gas impermeable layer. Such an element has an excellent thermal shock resistance which permits its use without preheating. Then a layer reducing advantageously the gas permeability is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Vesuvius Crucible Company
    Inventors: Eric Hanse, François Delvoye, Philippe Laval
  • Patent number: 7198666
    Abstract: A coating film is formed on a substrate of sapphire by coating the substrate with a jointing material prepared by dissolving Al(OC2H5)3 and B(OCH3)3 into xylene. Subsequently, the substrate is heated to about 450 ° C. and the coating film is irradiated with, e.g., ultraviolet radiation having a wavelength of 172 nm. Thus, xylene in the coating film is vaporized, and Al(OC2H5)3 and B(OCH3)3 are thermally decomposed to form a jointing material composed of amorphous or ?-layer alumina (Al2O3) and amorphous boron oxide (B2O3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Yamatake Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 7066998
    Abstract: Materials for coating, coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture comprising a nanoparticle system or employing the same to impart surface modifying benefits for all types of hard surfaces are disclosed. In some embodiments, dispersement of nanoparticles in a suitable carrier medium allows for the creation of coating compositions, methods and articles of manufacture that create multi-use benefits to modified hard surfaces. In some embodiments, actively curing the coating composition on the hard surfaces, including, but not limited to by radiative heating the air surrounding the hard surface with the coating thereon can be used to increase the durability of the hard surface coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Henry Rohrbaugh, Michael Ray McDonald, John David Carter, Eugene Paul Gosselink, Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, Helen Frances O'Connor, Heather Anne Liddle, Marc Francois Evers, Morgan Thomas Leahy, Alan Scott Goldstein, Brian Joseph Loughnane
  • Patent number: 6921431
    Abstract: A coating admixture, method of coating and substrates coated thereby, wherein the coating contains colloidal silica, colloidal alumina, or combinations thereof; a filler such as silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide, titanium dioxide, magnesium oxide, calcium oxide and boron oxide; and one or more emissivity agents such as silicon hexaboride, carbon tetraboride, silicon tetraboride, silicon carbide, molybdenum disilicide, tungsten disilicide, zirconium diboride, cupric chromite, or metallic oxides such as iron oxides, magnesium oxides, manganese oxides, chromium oxides, copper chromium oxides, cerium oxides, terbium oxides, and derivatives thereof. In a coating solution, an admixture of the coating contains water. A stabilizer such as bentonite, kaolin, magnesium alumina silicon clay, tabular alumina and stabilized zirconium oxide is also added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Wessex Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy G. Evans, John W. Olver, John G. Dillard, Jason Andrew Simmons, Rex Allen Churchward
  • Patent number: 6903035
    Abstract: An inorganic composition comprises an inorganic matrix, wherein an inorganic layered compound is contained in the inorganic matrix. The inorganic matrix is preferably a metal oxide glass produced by a sol-gel method, and the inorganic layered compound is preferably swelling synthetic mica. A method of producing a film includes the steps of: hydrolyzing, dehydrating, and condensing an organic metal compound to obtain a reaction product; adding and dispersing the inorganic layered compound in the reaction product; coating the reaction product containing the inorganic layered compound on a substrate surface; and heating the substrate surface coated with the reaction product at a temperature of not more than 200° C. to vitrify the reaction product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Aono, Keisuke Ozeki
  • Patent number: 6899966
    Abstract: A composite surface having a thickness from 10 to 5,000 microns comprising a spinel of the formula MnxCr3?xO4 wherein x is from 0.5 to 2 and oxides of Mn, Si selected from the group consisting of MnO, MnSiO3, Mn2SiO4 and mixtures thereof which are not prone to coking and are suitable for hydrocarbyl reactions such as furnace tubes for cracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Nova Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Leslie Wilfred Benum, Michael C. Oballa, Sabino Steven Anthony Petrone
  • Patent number: 6887566
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cerium oxide particulate composition and a process for preparing a cerium oxide particulate composition comprising aggregates of approximately spherical primary particles of cerium oxide. The method involves preparing a solution of a cerium oxide precursor, aerosolizing the cerium oxide precursor solution, and heating the aerosol to provide the cerium oxide particle composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Hung Hung, Joseph D. Smith, George P. Fotou, Kenneth C. Koehlert
  • Patent number: 6872453
    Abstract: A glazing coated with at least one layer having thermochromic properties comprising vanadium oxide, and also with at least one other layer having thermal properties, such as an infrared reflecting layer, and/or at least one other layer having optical properties, such as antireflection in the visible, and/or electrical conduction properties; and having a particular application for making solar control glazing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Alain Arnaud, Fabien Beteille, Jean-Christophe Giron, Francois Lerbet
  • Patent number: RE39804
    Abstract: Inorganic resin compositions comprising, in combination, an aqueous solution of metal phosphate, an oxy-boron compound, a wollastonite compound and other optional additives, inorganic composite articles and products reinforced by fillers and fibers including glass fibers obtained from these compositions and processes for preparing said products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    Inventors: Xiao Wu, Jun Gu