Running Length Work Patents (Class 118/68)
  • Patent number: 10689742
    Abstract: A device minimizes or eliminates surface flaws caused by metal dust on a metal strip to be coated in a continuous hot-dip coating process, where at least some segments of the metal strip to be coated are conveyed through the device in an axial direction. The device may comprise a blowing/sucking unit with blow-in openings for applying protective gas to the metal strip, which blow-in openings are positionable on first and second sides of the metal strip. The blowing/sucking unit may further include suction openings for extracting protective gas laden with metal vapor and/or metal dust, which suction openings are positionable on the first and second sides of the metal strip. The blowing/sucking unit may have a blow-in region in which the blow-in openings are arranged, and a suction region downstream of the blow-in region in which the suction openings are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignees: Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sridhar Palepu, Michael Peters, Norbert Schaffrath, Sabine Zeizinger
  • Patent number: 10538014
    Abstract: The present application relates to process for producing a glass fibre-reinforced thermoplastic polymer composition, which comprises the sequential steps of: a) unwinding from a package of at least one continuous glass multifilament strand, b) applying a sheath of thermoplastic polymer around the at least one continuous glass multifilament strand to form a sheathed continuous multifilament strand; The unwound, the at least one continuous glass multifilament strand is transported through the inside of at least one protective tube over a certain distance between the location of unwinding from a package of said at least one continuous glass multifilament strand, i.e. step a), and the location of applying said sheath of thermoplastic polymer around said at least one continuous glass multifilament strand, i.e. step b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Willy Joseph Dijsselbloem, Stefan Gielen, Johannes Benedictus Joseph Martens
  • Patent number: 9932698
    Abstract: A device that attaches to a standard fabric compactor and allows narrow collar material to be processed through the standard fabric compactor. The device includes a pair of air openers. Each air opener includes an air inlet assembly and an air outlet assembly. The air inlet assembly of each air opener pulls air therein to form pulled air and pressurizes the pulled air to form pressurized air. The air outlet assembly of each air opener fluidly communicates with the air inlet assembly of an associated air opener, receives the narrow collar material therethrough, receives the pressurized air from the air inlet assembly of the associated air opener, and directs the pressurized air onto the narrow collar material, simultaneously from above and below, and in doing so, suspends the narrow collar material allowing the narrow collar material to be processed through the standard fabric compactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Teresa Catallo
    Inventor: Teresa Catallo
  • Patent number: 9798278
    Abstract: A recording medium heating device that can heat and dry a continuous recording medium, includes multiple heating rollers, including respective heaters, disposed on a conveying path of the recording medium; and a controller to control the heaters of the heating rollers. In a starting period during which the recording medium heating device is started, the controller sets temperatures of the heaters to starting temperatures where a temperature of a heating roller positioned closest to an exit side of the conveying path is lower than a temperature of a heating roller positioned away from the exit side of the conveying path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Nagayama, Takashi Ebihara, Genichiro Kawamichi, Yuuji Ohmura, Kahei Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20150140221
    Abstract: An apparatus for coating a textile includes a coating reservoir for containing a textile coating composition, and one or more coolable rollers operable to convey a textile material through the apparatus and into contact with the coating composition, in a manner which considerably reduces build-up of the textile coating composition on the one or more rollers. Methods of using apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Paul Cooper
  • Publication number: 20150083039
    Abstract: Coating apparatus including a supply zone having a supply roll that continuously feeds out a long belt-shaped web, a coating zone having a coating part that applies a coating liquid to a single side of the web fed out from the supply roll, a drying zone that dries a coating liquid film applied to the web to form a coating film, and a winding zone having a winding roll that takes up the web with the coating film by winding. The coating zone forms an entire single coating unit in which one or more feed rolls and the coating part that applies a coating liquid are arranged in a rectangular-cuboidally delimited space, and the coating unit is configured so that the entry and exit of the web is enabled through any of four imaginary planes of the rectangular-cuboidally delimited space that surround the peripheral surface of the feed roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kitamura, Hiroshi Matsuo, Akira Saki
  • Patent number: 8974859
    Abstract: Methods of pressure coating a target surface of an article comprising one or more grooves formed in an outer surface of an article include fluidly connecting a pressure masker comprising a pressurized masking fluid to one or more coolant supply holes on a first side of the article. The one or more coolant supply holes in fluidic communication with the one or more grooves. Passing the pressurized masking fluid through the one or more grooves from the first side to a second side comprising the target surface at a pressure less than the coating pressure of the coating material, and, coating the target surface with the coating material to allow the coating material to bridge over the one or more grooves and form one or more micro-channels. The pressurized masking fluid passing through the one or more grooves prevents the coating material from permanently altering a cross sectional area of the one or more grooves along its length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Ronald Scott Bunker
  • Patent number: 8960123
    Abstract: Disclosed are coating apparatus including flow coating and roll-coating that may be used for uniform sol-gel coating of substrates such as glass, solar panels, windows or part of an electronic display. Also disclosed are methods for substrate preparation, flow coating and roll coating. Lastly systems and methods for skin curing sol-gel coatings deposited onto the surface of glass substrates using a high temperature air-knife are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Enki Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Brenor L. Brophy, Sina Maghsoodi, Patrick J. Neyman, Peter R. Gonsalves, Jeffrey G. Hirsch, Yu S. Yang
  • Publication number: 20140357012
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical substrate includes: a step for preparing a long film-shaped mold; a step for preparing a sol; a step for forming a coating film of the sol on a substrate; a step for drying the coating film; a step for pressing a pattern surface of the film-shaped mold against the dried coating film with a pressing roll while feeding the film-shaped mold to the pressing roll; a step for releasing the film-shaped mold from the coating film; and a step for baking the coating film to which the concave and convex pattern has been transferred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Shigetaka TORIYAMA, Suzushi NISHIMURA, Naoto KOZASA, Yoshihiro KUMAGAI, Madoka TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20140305370
    Abstract: A device of processing a low ignition propensity cigarette paper includes a concave or convex surface portion facing a surface of a low ignition propensity cigarette paper having a coating portion, and a body portion supplied with energy from a heat source or a cooling source, and dries or cools the low ignition propensity cigarette paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: KT & G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Young-Il Jo, Harg-Jo Kwon, Jung-Yeon Park, Jong-Oh Kim, Sun-Cheol Kwon
  • Publication number: 20140290571
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid discharging apparatus that includes a supporting portion that supports a medium, a liquid discharging portion that discharges liquid onto the medium which is transported on the supporting portion, and a drying portion that has a drying path through which the medium passes and dries the liquid landing on the medium, in which a length of the drying path is variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro TOYA
  • Publication number: 20140295095
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the continuous powder coating of a non-conductive profile produced in a continuous forming process, such as pultrusion or extrusion, such that the profile is powder coated while on the profile forming machine and before the subject segment of the continuous profile is severed from the continuous profile on the forming machine (i.e. in-line).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Robert Langlois, Jeffrey Sugar, Gary Sugar
  • Patent number: 8808795
    Abstract: A method of producing a laminate film includes coating a support with coating solutions with at least two monolayer extrusion dies to provide layers. A difference in solubility parameter between the coating solution and a solute in the adjoining layer ?0.1 for respective coating solutions. Viscosity of the downstream side die coating solution is lower than that of an upstream side die. Each coating solution has a Capillary number Ca<1.7. A difference in surface tension |?2??1| between the adjoining layers satisfies |?2??1|>0.5 [mN/m], where ?1, ?2 are surface tensions of coating solution from upstream and downstream side dies, respectively. A ratio of a coating thickness h1 [?m] of the coating solution for an upper layer and a distance L [?m] of the upper layer from the support surface satisfies h1/L<0.14. Distance between discharge nozzles is ?1 mm and ?700 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Ryochi Higashi, Kazuhiro Oki
  • Publication number: 20140216340
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing an insulated electric wire, in which a primary coating layer including at least an enamel-baking layer is formed on a metallic conductor to form a primary coated electric wire, and a secondary coating layer is extrusion-formed on the primary coating layer of the primary coated electric wire. The method includes an electric wire pre-heating process where a surface of the primary coating layer is pre-heated using an electric wire pre-heating unit, and a resin extrusion process where a secondary coating layer is extrusion-formed on the pre-heated primary coating layer using a resin extrusion unit. Further disclosed is an apparatus for producing an insulated electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KUSAKA, Koji KUROMIYA, Satoshi SAITO, Takashi SHIGEMATSU, Akihiro MURAKAMI, Shinji ICHIKAWA, Haruo SAKUMA, Shingo NISHIJIMA
  • Patent number: 8798515
    Abstract: A system for fixing toner onto a receiver medium includes a reservoir containing heating liquid. A liquid-heating system warms the heating liquid to a temperature greater than a toner glass transition temperature. A rotatable liquid-blocking barrier has an inner surface and an outer surface. A media-transport system transports the receiver medium along a transport path. The transported receiver medium contacts or is entrained around the liquid-blocking member barrier so that the receiver medium is brought into contact with the outer surface of the liquid-blocking layer. The liquid-blocking barrier member and the reservoir are arranged so that an entrained portion of the receiver medium passes through the reservoir and is submerged in the warmed heating liquid, which contacts the inner surface. Heat is transferred from the warmed heating liquid to the toner, raising a temperature of the toner to a level above the toner glass transition temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Alan Richard Priebe, Donald Saul Rimai, Christopher J. White
  • Publication number: 20140134328
    Abstract: The apparatus for manufacturing the touch screen panel according to the present invention includes: a first roll by which a wound film is unwound; a second roll around which a film having an electrode pattern is wound; a guide roll disposed between the first and second rolls to guide the transfer of the film; a resin applying part applying a resin on the film to form a resin layer; a pattern molding part including a mold having a relief pattern and pressing the mold onto the resin layer to form an intaglio pattern on the resin layer; an electrode material applying part applying an electrode material on a surface of the resin; an electrode material sweeping part removing the electrode material from the surface of the resin layer; and a hardening part hardening the electrode material filled in the intaglio pattern of the resin surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: MIRAENANOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung Bae Choi, Sung Jin Ryu, Ki Won Park, Ung Sang Lee
  • Publication number: 20140134408
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a water drainage-promoting wrap for applications such as housewrap and roofing underlayment. A substrate, which may be breathable or non-breathable, is conveyed through a nip between a rotating sleeve and a roll, the sleeve having a plurality of apertures therein. A fluid resin composition is fed into the sleeve and is fed out through the apertures in the sleeve as it rotates and as the substrate moves through the nip, forming spaced-apart spacer elements on a face of the substrate. The spacer elements are then dried or cured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: L'Horizon, Gunsite Road, Brittons Hill
    Inventors: Robert Milne, Martin Vido
  • Patent number: 8714104
    Abstract: A dual-purpose facility of continuous hot-dip coating and continuous annealing is configured so as to be switched between a continuous hot-dip coated material production line and a continuous annealed material production line, and includes a gas discharge path that discharges atmosphere gas in an annealing furnace from a gas discharge port provided in an outlet side of the annealing furnace out of the annealing furnace and a path opening and closing unit for opening and closing the gas discharge path. The path opening and closing unit opens the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous hot-dip coated material production line and closes the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous annealed material production line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20140090595
    Abstract: A dual-purpose facility of continuous hot-dip coating and continuous annealing is configured so as to be switched between a continuous hot-dip coated material production line and a continuous annealed material production line, and includes a gas discharge path that discharges atmosphere gas in an annealing furnace from a gas discharge port provided in an outlet side of the annealing furnace out of the annealing furnace and a path opening and closing unit for opening and closing the gas discharge path. The path opening and closing unit opens the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous hot-dip coated material production line and closes the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous annealed material production line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20140087161
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing an adhesive-free gas barrier film comprising conveying means for conveying a film web; at least one first lock system for introducing the film web into a coating chamber of the apparatus; at least one first coating means by means of which the film web can be at least partially coated by depositing a barrier material in the coating chamber; and optionally at least one second lock system for expelling the film web out of the coating chamber; and at least one second coating means by means of which the coated film web can be at least partially coated by extrusion of a plastic melt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Dietmar HANSEL, Klaus HEILMANN, Thomas SCHULTE, Tobias PFEIL, Bjoern BREITER
  • Publication number: 20140076233
    Abstract: Provided is an integrated coating system. An integrated coating system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a unwinding means provided with a roll to supply a web; a worktable roll configured to support the web supplied from the unwinding means; a plurality of printing means configured to perform printing or coating on the web supplied from the unwinding means; a plurality of curing means each of which is modulated to cure a printing material on the web passing through at least one printing means; and a winding means around which the web, of which printing or coating work is completed by passing through the curing means, is wound in a roll shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALS
    Inventors: In Young KIM, Taik Min Lee, Seung-Hyun Lee, Dong Woo Kang, Kwang-Young Kim, Young Man Choi
  • Publication number: 20140063854
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for manufacturing a light guiding plate. The apparatus for manufacturing a light guiding plate includes an unwinding unit unwinding a film formed of a flexible material and wound in a roll shape, a winding unit winding the film provided from the unwinding unit in a roll shape, a surface treatment unit disposed between the unwinding unit and the winding unit to treat a surface of the film transferred into the winding part into a hydrophobic surface, a pattern formation unit disposed between the surface treatment unit and the winding unit to form a micro lens pattern on the surface of the film of which the surface is treated, and a pattern curing unit disposed between the pattern formation unit and the winding unit to cure the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Kyoung Soo Park, Sung Jae Lee
  • Publication number: 20140050862
    Abstract: A device for producing a composite fiber material in the form of a fiber band impregnated with a polymer includes a transport device for supplying and for transporting a fiber band along a processing path. To preheat the raw fiber band to a processing temperature a preheating device is used. An application device is used for applying the melted polymer on the whole width onto the surface of the raw fiber band. At least one pressure shearing vibration application device is used to apply pressure to the raw fiber band perpendicular to the band plane after the application of the polymer, where the application of pressure is performed by at least one pressure stamp with the simultaneous shearing vibration of the pressure stamp by a vibration movement component (y) in the band plane and transversely to a band running direction. At least one tempering device is used to keep the raw fiber band within a processing temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventor: Herbert Börger
  • Publication number: 20140041582
    Abstract: An apparatus for coating moving strip material with a metallic coating material, the apparatus including a container for holding metallic coating material, the strip running through the container during use, and including a wiping device for controlling the thickness of the coating on the strip. The container is provided with an opening for the strip leaving the container. The wiping device includes foils or sheets for producing the coating. The walls of the container forming the opening for the strip are directly coupled to the foils or sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: TATA STEEL NEDERLAND TECHNOLOGY B.V.
    Inventors: Willem Van Rijswijk, Hendrik Bart Van veldhuizen, Nicolaas Noort, Theodorus Franciscus Jozef Maalman
  • Publication number: 20140037963
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a graphene film, the method including forming graphene on a surface of a catalyst metal film; forming a first film on a surface of the graphene, on which the catalyst metal film is not formed; removing the catalyst metal film; and performing a doping process on the graphene, wherein the forming of the graphene, the forming of the first film, the removing, and the performing are performed in one direction by using a roll-to-roll method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG TECHWIN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young-il Song
  • Publication number: 20140014037
    Abstract: An electrode plate production device includes a drying device and a plurality of surface state detection devices. The drying device is configured to dry a coating film for forming an active material layer that is coated on a surface of a substrate sheet for forming a current collector while the substrate sheet travels in a traveling direction. The coating film includes at least an active material, a bonding agent and a solvent. The surface state detection devices are configured to detect a surface state of the coating film in a noncontact manner. The surface state detection devices are arranged within the drying device in the traveling direction of the substrate sheet with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Kazuhiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 8623140
    Abstract: A system and a method for providing a film having a matte finish. The system includes means for providing a coated substrate, the coated substrate comprising a first coatable material applied to a substrate, the coatable material forming a first major surface of the coated substrate; means for changing the viscosity of the first coatable material from a first viscosity to a second viscosity; a face-side roller having an outer surface positioned to contact the first major surface of the coated substrate to impart a matte finish thereon; and optionally, means for hardening the first coatable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Robert A. Yapel, Francis M. Aguirre, John P. Baetzold, Olester Benson, Jr., Andrew J. Henderson, Mitchell A. F. Johnson, Leslie A. Kreilich, Steven J. McMan, David L. Phillips, Bruce D. Shalles
  • Publication number: 20130264092
    Abstract: A die assembly (10) for extruding a polymeric coating onto a wire so as to impart a matte finish to the coating surface is provided. The die assembly (10) comprises: A) a die tip (13) comprising a tubular channel (22) through which a wire can pass, the channel (22) positioned along the central longitudinal axis (26) of the die assembly (10); B) a die body (12) comprising a trunk (15) and a head (16), the head (16) comprising a tubular channel (20), the head tubular channel (20) comprising a die land (21), the trunk (15) positioned about the die tip (13) so as to define an annular space (25) between the exterior surface (23) of the die tip (13) and the interior surface (24) of the trunk (15); C) a die holder (11) positioned about and in contact with the exterior surface (17) of the trunk (15); and D) a radiator (14) positioned about and in contact with the exterior surface (19) of the die land (21) of the die head (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Yongyong Yang, Geoffrey D. Brown, Manish Mundra, Bin Li, Journey Lu Zhu
  • Publication number: 20130260019
    Abstract: The layer-on-layer coating device of an embodiment of the invention that conveys band-shaped substrates in the longitudinal direction thereof and coats two kinds of coating materials successively on the substrate comprises: a first coating unit that coats a first coating material on one surface of the substrate; a second coating unit that coats, without drying the first coated material in a drying furnace, a second coating material by a contactless method on the first coating material coated on the one surface by the first coating unit; and a feed roller that is disposed on the downstream side, in the direction of substrate conveyance, of the second coating unit and is driven by a driving source. It is thereby possible to apply a stable tension on the substrate while stably coating two layers of coating materials layer-on-layer using respective coating units and to produce electrode plates and batteries of stable properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: Yutaka Sugie
  • Publication number: 20130247927
    Abstract: The present invention provides a machine for manufacturing low ignition propensity wrapping paper for cigarettes having combustion inhibition bands (B) intermittently formed on a web of paper by applying a combustion inhibition agent solution to the web by transfer. The machine includes a gravure roll (34) for forming combustion inhibition bands (B) on a web, the gravure roll (34) having recesses (66) in an outer circumferential surface for receiving the combustion inhibition agent solution, the recesses (66) each having a contour corresponding to the contour of the to-be-formed combustion inhibition band and having a large number of lands (68; 70) distributed therein and constituting parts of the outer circumferential surface of the gravure roll, and the recesses each being designed such that the total area of the lands within the recess is smaller than the area of the recess excluding the lands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Shinzo KIDA, Keisuke TOWATARI
  • Publication number: 20130224895
    Abstract: A support-heat unit that supports and heats a substrate from the back side of the substrate, a reaction bath having an opening for supplying a CBD reaction solution for forming a film onto a front surface of the substrate, which is supported by the support-heat unit, and a reaction bath forward-backward drive unit that can press the opening onto the front surface of the substrate by moving the reaction bath toward the front surface of the substrate, which is supported by the support-heat unit, and that can detach the opening from the front surface of the substrate by moving the reaction bath away from the front surface of the substrate are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: FUJIFILM Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130224387
    Abstract: A direct SMC production device includes an impregnation device for impregnating fibers of a material strand. The impregnation device includes at least one densification unit which is designed to densify the material strand after application of the strand to at least one substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: SCHMIDT & HEINZMANN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Matthias Feil
  • Publication number: 20130087281
    Abstract: In an indirect process, acrylic adhesive is coated on a silicone liner. A soft rubber roller is employed between a reverse anilox cylinder and an anvil cylinder in a flexo print station to reduce shear hardening in the coating process and prevent or reduce shear hardening on the print rollers. Once the coated silicone liner passes the rollers, air knives are used to speed up the drying of the adhesive on the silicone liner before the coated liner is laminated to a face stock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: WARD KRAFT, INC.
    Inventor: WARD KRAFT, INC.
  • Publication number: 20130084383
    Abstract: A method and arrangement of crosslinking or vulcanising an elongate element in which method a conductor element is coated by a layer of crosslinkable synthetic material in an extrusion step and the crosslinking reaction is carried out after the extrusion step. The conductor element is pre-heated in a pre-heating step before the extrusion step by generating inductively eddy currents inside the conductor element which will heat up the conductor element. The pre-heating step is carried out by increasing temperature of the conductor element gradually so that temperature difference between outermost region of the conductor element and the inner layer of the conductor element remains below a pre-determined level at the end of the pre-heating step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: MAILLEFER S.A.
    Inventor: Esa KARVONEN
  • Publication number: 20120318196
    Abstract: There is disclosed a system for forming a superconductor material on a substrate. The system may comprise a dispensing reel; a spooling reel; and at least two modular reaction chambers, wherein at least one modular reaction chamber is connected to a supply of buffer precursor material and at least one other modular reaction chamber is connected to a supply of superconductor precursor material. The modular reaction chambers may include connections capable of being modified to add or remove adjacent components. It is understood that at least one of the spooling reel and/or the dispensing reel are exposed to normal atmosphere. The deposition chamber may also comprise a distribution head that provides a laminar flow of precursor materials onto the substrate, as well as at least one lamp comprising a reflector that directs UV and/or visible light towards the tape substrate to enhance a growth rate of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Alex Ignatiev, Xin Zhang, Alexander A. Molodyk, Louis D. Castellani
  • Publication number: 20120301719
    Abstract: A strand is coated with a powdered material by first applying a layer of hot polymer resin to the strand, and spraying the powdered material onto the resin-coated strand from at least three nozzles disposed along the processing path and spaced radially therearound. The spray apparatus is disposed within nested containers so as to limit the escape of overspray powder. The powder-coated strand may be heat-set to increase the adhesion of the powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Willorage Rathna Perera, Gerald J. Mauretti
  • Patent number: 8281734
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a travelling web of material in a predetermined gaseous atmosphere comprising a chamber (1) through which a moving web of material (2) is transported from an inlet at a first end of the chamber (1) to an outlet at a second end and a means for introducing and controlling gas (5) intended to provide said predetermined gaseous atmosphere within said chamber (1), wherein said inlet and outlet each comprise a sealing means (4a, 4b) designed to enable passage of said web of material (2) therethrough whilst minimising the ingress of an external gas boundary layer (3) around said web of material (2) characterised in that said apparatus also comprises one or more re-circulation channels (7, 8) adapted to re-circulate gases within said chamber (1) from the second end of the chamber to the first end of the chamber thereby negating or substantially negating any pressure difference within the chamber (1) between said inlet and outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Dow Corning Ireland, Ltd.
    Inventors: John Kennedy, Richard Sibbick, Frank Swallow, Peter Dobbyn, Alan Hynes, John Brennan
  • Publication number: 20120231208
    Abstract: A female loop portion for a hook and loop self-adhesive, comprising a film (1) made of at least one thermoplastic and a plurality of filaments (2) which are separate from one another and attached to one of the surfaces of the film, each filament comprising a series of fastening sections (15) and a series of loop sections (4) alternating with the fastening sections, the filaments being attached to the film along the fastening sections while the loop sections are at a distance from the film so as to form loops, and characterized in that a cross-sectional area of one loop section of a filament is less than a cross-sectional area of one fastening section of said one filament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Ducauchuis, Anthony Mahe
  • Publication number: 20120231288
    Abstract: A low ignition propensity wrapping paper includes a paper web and bands arranged on the web at predetermined intervals in a longitudinal direction of the web. These bands are formed by applying a combustion-inhibition liquid onto the web. The combustion-inhibiting liquid contains a solvent and a combustion inhibitor that is sodium alginate or pectin dissolved in the solvent. The solvent is treated water obtained by substantially removing at least calcium ions and magnesium ions from raw water of a water supply or a well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Shinzo KIDA, Takafumi IZUMIYA, Keisuke TOWATARI
  • Publication number: 20120180721
    Abstract: A dual-purpose facility of continuous hot-dip coating and continuous annealing is configured so as to be switched between a continuous hot-dip coated material production line and a continuous annealed material production line, and includes a gas discharge path that discharges atmosphere gas in an annealing furnace from a gas discharge port provided in an outlet side of the annealing furnace out of the annealing furnace and a path opening and closing unit for opening and closing the gas discharge path. The path opening and closing unit opens the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous hot-dip coated material production line and closes the gas discharge path when the dual-purpose facility is used as the continuous annealed material production line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventor: Masanori Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20120111209
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for processing a paper web having a low surface area density not exceeding 70 g/m2, in particular a cigarette paper web, comprising: an input side, over which the paper web is fed into the arrangement; an output side, over which the paper web leaves the arrangement, wherein the paper web passes the arrangement from input side to output side in a direction of conveyance; a device (5) downstream of the input side, in particular a printing unit, preferably a gravure printing unit, for applying a liquid printing medium to the paper web; a first drying station (7) following the applying station in direction of conveyance, in particular hot-air drying, for drying the printing medium applied to the paper web; a device (9) following the first drying in direction of conveyance for moistening the paper web and a second drying station (11) following the moistening device in direction of conveyance, by which the moistened paper web is dried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: delfortgroup AG
    Inventor: Franz Burger
  • Patent number: 8088224
    Abstract: The present inventions provide method and apparatus that employ constituents vaporized from one or more constituent supply source or sources to form one or more films of a precursor layer formed on a surface of a continuous flexible workpiece. Of particular significance is the implementation of vapor deposition systems that operate upon a horizontally disposed portion of a continuous flexible workpiece and a vertically disposed portion of a continuous flexible workpiece, preferably in conjunction with a short free-span zone of the portion of a continuous flexible workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: SoloPower, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge Vasquez, James Freitag, Mustafa Pinarbasi
  • Patent number: 8056258
    Abstract: A cord drying apparatus dries cords for forming cord-inserted bands, such as belts and components of tires, such as carcasses. A plurality of cords C unwound from a plurality of reels 1a held in a wheeled creel 1 are passed through guide holes formed in a guide plate 21 and are extended to an insulation head 6. Vertically movable rollers 4 are moved down from their home positions above the cords C to cause the cords C to extend along curved heating surfaces of heating boards 5. The cords C are moved along the heating surfaces of the heating boards 5 to dry the cords C. The cords C can be easily extended along and pressed against the heating surfaces of the heating boards 5. Thus cords C can be changed in a short time and the efficiency of operations for drying cords C by a drying process can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Suda, Kiyotaka Yoshi
  • Patent number: 7985060
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for hydrodischarging and hydrocharging substrates and articles to produce enhanced ability to avoid attraction of contaminants or improved capability of removing contaminants from fluids are disclosed. In another form the method involves removal of electric charges or neutralization of charge on or within substrates. Also disclosed are methods of making using electret substrates and articles for removing particulates and mists from fluid streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Inventor: William K. Leonard
  • Patent number: 7980195
    Abstract: A transistor is formed by applying modifier coatings to source and drain contacts and/or to the channel region between those contacts. The modifier coatings are selected to adjust the surface energy pattern in the source/drain/channel region such that semiconductor printing fluid is not drawn away from the channel region. For example, the modifier coatings for the contacts can be selected to have substantially the same surface energy as the modifier coating for the channel region. Semiconductor printing fluid deposited on the channel region therefore settles in place (due to the lack of a surface energy differential) and forms a relatively thick active semiconductor region between the contacts. Alternatively, the modifier coatings can be selected to have lower surface energies than the modifier coating in the channel region, which actually causes semiconductor printing fluid to be drawn towards the channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael L. Chabinyc, Ana C. Arias
  • Publication number: 20110139067
    Abstract: An arrangement for coating of sheet-like foil substrates having an unwinding roll and a winding roll between which the foil substrate is guided under sheet tension and a coating station arranged in between the rolls, permits vacuum coating of foil substrates in which surpassing of the maximum substrate temperature is prevented and high quality substrate transport is made possible. The coating station has at least two coating sources arranged in the direction of the sheet run one behind the other opposite the coating site of the foil substrate, and a support element that generates a support force resulting from the sheet tension on the back of the foil substrate as force component. The support element is arranged between two adjacent coating sources on the back of the substrate opposite the coating side and the foil substrate is freely tightened between two support elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: VON ARDENNE ANLAGENTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Lutz Gottsman, Holger Proehl
  • Publication number: 20100291727
    Abstract: A deposition method and a system are provided to deposit a CdS buffer layer on a surface of a solar cell absorber layer of a flexible workpiece from a process solution including all chemical components of the CdS buffer layer material. CdS is deposited from the deposition solution while the flexible workpiece is elastically shaped by a series of shaping rollers to retain the process solution on the solar cell absorber layer and while the flexible workpiece is heated by contacting to a heated liquid that the shaping rollers are fully or partially immersed. The flexible workpiece is elastically shaped by pulling a back surface of the flexible workpiece into surface cavity of the shaping rollers using magnetic force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: SoloPower, Inc.
    Inventor: Jalal ASHJAEE
  • Publication number: 20100255202
    Abstract: In order to mechanically coat relatively long components under temporally and economically optimum conditions, in particular to coat the components continuously, the method is characterised by the following steps: supplying the pipe to be coated into a first processing line in which the pipe is transported axially, preheating the pipe or a portion of the pipe, applying a primer coat, heating the pipe to achieve a polarisation between primer coating and pipe, drying the pipe to completely expel all soluble constituents, feeding the pipe into a second processing line in which the pipe is transported axially, preheating the pipe, applying the coating in a cross-head extruder, heating the pipe in an induction furnace, curing the coated pipe, and cooling the coated pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: BABCOCK BORSIG SERVICE GMBH
    Inventor: Klaus Kreilos
  • Patent number: 7758327
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for hydrodischarging and hydrocharging substrates and articles to produce enhanced ability to avoid attraction of contaminants or improved capability of removing contaminants from fluids are disclosed. In another form the method involves removal of electric charges or neutralization of charge on or within substrates. Also disclosed are methods of making using electret substrates and articles for removing particulates and mists from fluid streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Inventor: William K. Leonard
  • Patent number: 7740744
    Abstract: Cellulosic based cores used in manufacture of towel and tissue products can be effectively stripped of residual product with little damage to the core using a roll stripping air knife with a longitudinal air passageway having both primary discharge passages and interconnected auxiliary orifices, the auxiliary orifices are directed laterally away from the primary discharge direction and connect with a longitudinal exterior channel configured such that air flows inwardly through the auxiliary orifices when pressurized air is supplied to longitudinal air passageway and the primary discharge passages are unobstructed but outwardly when the primary discharge passages are obstructed so that the pressure achievable when the primary discharge passages are obstructed is within safety limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP
    Inventor: Richard C. Van Winkle