To Web Of Indefinite Length Patents (Class 156/176)
  • Patent number: 11931845
    Abstract: In an example, a system is disclosed. The system comprises a one-piece mandrel, a fuselage coupled to the one-piece mandrel, and a strongback apparatus positioned on the fuselage. The strongback apparatus comprises an arcuate central body comprising a front end, a rear end, and a plurality of elongated members that connect the front end to the rear end, and actuators mounted to the plurality of elongated members. The actuators are configured to move in a radially outward direction from extended positions to retracted positions and comprise (i) proximal ends mounted to the plurality of elongated members and (ii) distal ends having vacuum suction cups. In the extended positions, the vacuum suction cups engage the fuselage on which the strongback apparatus is positioned. As the actuators moves from the extended positions to the retracted positions, the vacuum suction cups pull the fuselage away from the one-piece mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Byron James Autry, David Raines, Scott L. Smotherman, David M. Petka
  • Patent number: 10961360
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin material includes a thermoplastic resin and a bundle of reinforced fibers arranged in one direction, the thermoplastic resin being a reactive resin. The thermoplastic resin may be an epoxy resin. The reinforced fibers may be carbon fibers. A molded fiber-reinforced resin body is obtained using the fiber-reinforced resin material. The molded fiber-reinforced resin body may be formed by the application of heat and pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: KOMATSU MATERE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Hayashi, Taketoshi Nakayama, Hiroyuki Yamada, Honami Noda
  • Patent number: 10759125
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing components from fiber-reinforced thermoplastic on the basis of fiber tapes impregnated with matrix material. The method includes manufacturing a multitude of semi-finished products, each of which has a plurality of non-consolidated layers of fiber tapes. The semi-finished products are placed in a consolidation device in such a way that the semi-finished products are in direct contact with one another. The semi-finished products are then consolidated using the consolidation device and the semi-finished products are at least partially joined to one another during the consolidation process. The joined semi-finished products are then cut apart using a cutting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Juergen Beck, Daniel Heim
  • Patent number: 10532545
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a composite in which the adhesion between a sheet layer and a curable resin layer or a film layer is high, and which has high strength and high transparency. The present invention provides a composite wherein a curable resin layer or a film layer is laminated on the one or both surfaces of the sheet layer with a covering layer interposed therebetween, the sheet layer containing fine fibers with an average fiber width of 2 to 1000 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: OJI HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Fushimi, Eiichi Mikami, Hiroki Tanaka, Jintong Han
  • Patent number: 10449753
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a transparent composite material including preparing a film coated with a transparent resin, unidirectionally aligning glass fiber filaments and manufacturing a glass fiber plate by embedding the unidirectionally aligned glass fiber filaments in the transparent resin, wherein the transparent resin includes Si—O—Si bond and one of methyl, ethyl and phenyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongwon Lee, Kyungho Jung, Deokhai Park, Eunseck Kang
  • Patent number: 10399276
    Abstract: An automated in-line feed-through system and method, integrates the ability to control one or more variables during part fabrication with the layup of one or more fiber tows to form a composite part. The system includes an automated layup system configured to receive a feed-through of one or more fiber tows as an input material. The automated in-line feed-through system further includes a controller configured to respond to measurement data obtained by one or more samplings of the input material and/or a plurality of laid up plies that form a laminate. The controller in response to the obtained measurement data provides adjustment of the feed-through of the one or more fiber tows to compensate for a variation in one or more of the weights from a reference weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher James Madsen, Ram Kumar Upadhyay, Stefaan Guido Van Nieuwenhove, Thomas Kluge, Mathias Ernst Messmer, Martin Petersen
  • Patent number: 10245705
    Abstract: A flexible abrasive article is provided with a first, non-tacky base layer having opposed first and second major surfaces. An ink layer is disposed on the first major surface of the first base layer, while a second, thermoplastic base layer is disposed on the ink layer whereby the ink layer is located between the first and second base layers. Disposed on the second base layer is an abrasive layer such that the second base layer is located between the abrasive layer and the ink layer. Compared with conventional printed flexible adhesive articles, the provided articles improved robustness while avoiding manufacturing difficulties related to flexographic printing onto abrasive coated articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Paul D. Graham, Douglas A. Davis, Yugeun P. Yang
  • Patent number: 10155300
    Abstract: A flexible abrasive article is provided with a first, non-tacky base layer having opposed first and second major surfaces. An ink layer is disposed on the first major surface of the first base layer, while a second, thermoplastic base layer is disposed on the ink layer whereby the ink layer is located between the first and second base layers. Disposed on the second base layer is an abrasive layer such that the second base layer is located between the abrasive layer and the ink layer. Compared with conventional printed flexible adhesive articles, the provided articles improved robustness while avoiding manufacturing difficulties related to flexographic printing onto abrasive coated articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Paul D. Graham, Douglas A. Davis, Yugeun P. Yang
  • Patent number: 10093080
    Abstract: Disclosed are a film for forming a composite material, which is capable of improving impregnation properties by using a carrier film on which a low viscosity resin layer is formed, and a method for manufacturing a composite material using the same. The film for forming a composite material, according to the present invention, comprises: a continuous fibrous layer; and a carrier film which is adhered to any one side of the continuous fibrous layer and has a low viscosity resin layer formed on the adhered side of the continuous fibrous layer. Thus, the present invention provides the advantage of having a composite material with excellent impregnation properties and excellent mechanical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ae Ri Oh, Gi Hune Jung, Tae-Hwa Lee, Yong-Hoon Yoon, Hee-June Kim, Jae-Hoon Choi
  • Patent number: 9932136
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pouch and a method for making the same. In the inventive method, which is adapted to produce pouches having a limited amount of fusible material, a heat-sealable cord is arranged on a web forming confronting side surface of each pouch. Those confronting side surfaces are fused by heating the heat-sealable cord. The present invention furthermore provides a pouch, in particular containing a brewable or extractable commodity such as tea, with a pocket defined between confronting side surfaces of a web. The pouch of the present invention can have a limited amount of fusible material as the confronting side surfaces are joined by solidified melt of a heat-sealable cord arranged in vicinity of at least one edge of the pouch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: Teepack Spezialmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG, Molins PLC
    Inventors: Stefan Lambertz, Phil Haddow, Peter John Whitlock, Bradley Wiggett, Michael Klein, Hans Knops, Wolfgang Reichel
  • Patent number: 9717870
    Abstract: A washout vent formed of or treated with hydrophobic or hydrophilic material, or a vent coated with hydrophobic or hydrophilic material, reduces noise and/or minimizes or precludes the formation of blockage in the vent pathway due to outflow of gas from a respiratory mask. One or the other or combinations of hydrophobic and hydrophilic materials may be used to repel or wick moisture away to minimize or preclude moisture buildup on vent surfaces and/or clogging of vent pathways, particularly when using humidified air. Sintered porous plastic hydrophobic or hydrophilic materials are utilized and the porosity may be varied integrally within the vent membrane or by forming the vent from layers of materials having different porosities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Philip Rodney Kwok, Lee James Veliss, Robert Edward Henry
  • Patent number: 9381710
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a tank having a reinforcement fiber layer, the method comprising: a winding step of winding a fiber impregnated with resin by a predetermined number of windings; and a curing step of thermally curing the impregnating resin in the wound fiber to thereby form the reinforcement fiber layer. In the winding step, an end portion, being a winding end, of the fiber is tucked into an inner fiber layer which has already been wound to thereby insert at least a portion of a fixing region that is a part of the end portion into between fibers forming the outermost layer so that the end portion is fixed to the inner fiber layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Shintani
  • Patent number: 9358160
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing an absorbent is provided with a stacking unit which sequentially forms a plurality of stacks S and discharges these stacks in the machine direction separated by gaps, pattern plates respectively having deep recesses so that thick parts are formed around back ends of the stacks in the machine direction, a wrapping unit which wraps the stacks which are sequentially discharged from the stacking unit by a wrapping web to thereby form continuous wrapped stacks, a conveying unit which conveys the continuous wrapped stacks in the machine direction, a pressing unit which presses the conveyed continuous wrapped stacks to stretch the stacks and thereby form connected parts C at which adjoining stacks are connected, and a cutting unit which cuts the continuous wrapped stacks at the connected parts C to thereby form the absorbents into predetermined shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atushi Tukuda, Seiji Murakami
  • Publication number: 20150112293
    Abstract: A composite web comprising a nonwoven layer, wherein the composite web can be incorporated into an absorbent article. A volume of ink is applied to the composite web such that when the composite web is incorporated into the absorbent article, a visual signal is produced. Methods of printing on the composite web are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kasey Marie Gust, David Christopher Oetjen, Christine Marie Luzader
  • Patent number: 8986474
    Abstract: Methods related to forming superabsorbent composite core structures using superabsorbent materials, such as superabsorbent polymers (SAP). In one method superabsorbent material is sprayed simultaneously with an adhesive to form a superabsorbent layer adhered to a first flexible sheet of material. A second flexible sheet of material is applied to the superabsorbent layer to position the superabsorbent layer between the first and second flexible sheets of material. At least one of the first or second flexible sheets of material is liquid permeable to allow liquid to penetrate into the superabsorbent layer from outside the composite product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Hubert Kufner, Ernst Hering
  • Publication number: 20150053330
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing a web of corrugated cardboard comprising a first corrugating roller for producing a corrugated web. The device further has a glue application roller for applying glue to the corrugated web. The glue application roller is associated to the first corrugating roller so as to form a gap and is displaceable relative to the first corrugating roller in order to influence the glue application quantity. The device further comprises a displacement device for displacing the glue application roller relative to the first corrugating roller and a pressing device for pressing a laminating web against the corrugated web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Markus FISCHER, Florian MÜLLER
  • Patent number: 8876994
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous sheet and a method for manufacturing the porous sheet. A porous sheet including a fine-fiber web layer and a support layer and a method for manufacturing the same are provided, and it is possible to implement a porous sheet with sufficient strength and thickness to be used in peeling and laminating processes of a multilayer ceramic capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hwan Yoo, Jin Wook Na, Jea Sik Ryoo, Sun Ok Kim
  • Publication number: 20140255646
    Abstract: Interlaminar features of a composite structure are laid up by placing and steering individual chopped fiber pre-preg segments onto a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: The Boeing Company
  • Patent number: 8801879
    Abstract: A process for production of a multilayer film that comprises a step in which an adhesive layer formed on a temporary base is situated along the lengthwise direction of the temporary base at a prescribed spacing and cut in such a manner that the plurality of sections which are to serve as adhesive films are partitioned from the other sections, and a step in which the adhesive films on the temporary base are moved onto a support film at a prescribed spacing along the lengthwise direction of the support film. The spacing between the adjacent adhesive films on the temporary base is different from the spacing between the adjacent adhesive films on the support film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Tamaki
  • Patent number: 8790475
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a novel method for forming a loop member of a hook-and-loop fastener assembly. According to one embodiment, the method comprises continuously providing a plurality of yarns in a predetermined pattern; plastically deforming the yarns into a desired loop shape; continuously providing a web of substrate; and directly securing the yarns that have been plastically deformed into a desired loop shape to the substrate with a bonding process, thereby a loop member of a hook-and-loop fastener assembly having both a high fastening strength and a high engagement stability may be manufactured speedily, massively and at a low cost. The embodiments of the present invention also provide an apparatus for performing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Paiho Limited
    Inventor: Allen Cheng
  • Patent number: 8747593
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fluid-filled chamber may include obtaining a spacer textile material a stabilization structure. A tensile member is removed from an area of the spacer textile material where the stabilizing structure is absent. The tensile member is located between a first polymer element and a second polymer element. Additionally, (a) the first layer is bonded to the first polymer element, (b) the second layer is bonded to the second polymer element, and (c) the first polymer element and the second polymer element are bonded together around a periphery of the tensile member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirvan L. Chao, Klaas P. Hazenberg
  • Publication number: 20140116190
    Abstract: A bicycle cable is configured to be inserted in a hollow member of a bicycle. The bicycle cable basically includes a cable body and a pair of plastic tape pieces. The plastic tape pieces are attached to the cable body such that the cable body is interposed between the plastic tape pieces with a thermal adhesive layer sealing the plastic tape pieces to together with thermal adhesion. The plastic tape pieces form a pair of longitudinal extending fins projecting outwardly on both sides of the cable main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko SUGII, Naoya KATO, Satoru SASAKI, Takashi SAKAMOTO, Yoshihisa KOBAYASHI, Yuichi MORISHITA
  • Patent number: 8669196
    Abstract: An impact resistant membrane and methods of preparing and utilizing the membrane are disclosed. The membrane comprises a loft layer, a first polymeric layer bonded to a first surface of the loft layer, and a second polymeric layer bonded to a second surface of the loft layer. The membrane can be fabricated by providing a loft layer and applying a polymeric layer on a first surface and on a second surface of the loft layer. The membrane has a higher resistance to failure due to impact and thus protects the underlying structure membrane for a longer time. A method of facilitating protecting a structure comprises providing a single ply membrane having a loft layer and a polymeric layer disposed on at least two surfaces of the loft layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Cooley Group Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Naresh R. Mehta, Jeffrey Charles Flath, David Allen Pettey
  • Patent number: 8637134
    Abstract: Vented plastic stretch film and a method of making the film in which elongated reinforcement strips are applied to a base sheet, each reinforcement strip including a cord-like, reinforcement member formed from plastic film and a flat, narrow film strip covering the reinforcement member. Vent holes are formed from slits between the reinforcement members by applying tensional forces to the base sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Alliance Plastics, LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Norman Aronsen, Jaime Nelson Barfield, Luis Arturo Lopez, Jason Zhao
  • Patent number: 8586490
    Abstract: An extruded web is disclosed. The extruded web can be either a nonwoven material of a films. The web comprises a plasto-elastic material where the plasto-elastic material is a combination of a first polyolefin and a second polyolefin (either a polymeric blends or a polymeric mixture). The claimed combination of polyolefins results in a material that has substantially plastic properties when a sample taken from said web is subjected to an initial strain cycle (such that the web is provided with a set of at least 30% by an initial strain cycle) and substantially elastic properties when a sample taken from the web is subjected to at least a second strain cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Marie Autran, Donald Carroll Roe
  • Patent number: 8513144
    Abstract: High barrier multilayer films incorporating a biodegradable polymer layer. More particularly, biodegradable insulation facing materials and insulation articles incorporating a biodegradable polymer layer. The structures have excellent barrier properties and superior mechanical strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Inventors: Yuan-Ping R. Ting, Simon J. Porter, Alex V. Del Priore
  • Publication number: 20130153126
    Abstract: A system and method of making an open-ended, reinforced, layered belt having a profile layer, a top layer material, and tensile cords fully encapsulated there between. The method includes engaging portion of the profile layer on a rotatable cylindrical mandrel with an engaging roller, disengaging with a take-off roller, and applying and fusing the cords to the profile layer at a desired cord spacing there between. The cord may be fused by melting the profile layer surface with a heated plow and/or with heated cord. The cord is then covered with the top layer material in a lamination step involving heating to melt at least a portion of the top layer and pressing it to fuse it to the reinforced profile layer. Lamination may be done downstream or directly on the mandrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: THE GATES CORPORATION
    Inventor: The Gates Corporation
  • Patent number: 8440043
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for assembling absorbent articles, and more particularly, methods and apparatuses for severing elastic in an advancing elastic laminate. A continuous elastic laminate may be formed by bonding elastic strands between a first continuous substrate layer and a second continuous substrate layer. As discussed in more detail below, the continuous elastic laminate may advance through a cutting apparatus that intermittently deactivates or severs the elastic strands of the elastic laminate along the machine direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Michael Brian Quade, Jose Angel Mercado
  • Publication number: 20130115412
    Abstract: A fiber reinforced composite laminate with fibers generally oriented along two major axes and having a polyurethane resin matrix suitable for reinforcing wood based substrates such as trailer/container flooring, glulams, plywood, particle boards, laminated veneer lumber, and oriented strand board, is provided. The laminate is produced by pulling the fibers through a resin injection box, where a polyurethane resin is injected into the box to wet the fibers. The polyurethane resin wetted fiber layer is then covered with a release media on the top and bottom sides of the layer. The sandwich of fiber, resin and release media is fed to a double belt press capable of applying pressure and heat to consolidate and cure the laminate. The laminate thus made can be thinner than 0.080 inch and provides excellent flatness compared to pultruded thin laminates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: HAVCO WOOD PRODUCTS LLC
    Inventor: Havco Wood Products LLC
  • Patent number: 8353999
    Abstract: In a manufacturing apparatus of an absorbent product, extended elastic yarns to be a first middle elastic member and extended elastic yarns to be leg elastic members are bonded between a first sheet and a second sheet and arranged crossing each other in manufacturing an outer covering sheet. A first middle elastic member and an inclined part of the leg elastic members crossing the first middle elastic member are simultaneously and reliably cut in a crossing area of the both elastic members by first cutting blades tilted relatively to a direction where the first middle elastic member is positioned and second cutting blades tilted relatively to a direction where the inclined part is positioned. Thus, it is possible to easily form the outer covering sheet which maintains elasticity in a required portion and has high flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Livedo Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Hironobu Yokokawa, Masaru Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20120325398
    Abstract: A composite structure is fabricated by laying up at least one ply of fiber reinforcement and at least one layer of resin on a tool. The resin film layer is formed by laying strips of resin film. The fiber reinforcement is infused with resin from the resin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Michael D. Silcock, Christopher A. Howe, Brice A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8323436
    Abstract: A transparent, reinforced, composite polymeric fiber that has a polymeric body portion made from a first thermoplastic polymer that is transparent to visible light. The fiber includes polymeric reinforcement elements embedded within the polymeric body portion. The polymeric body portion extends between and about the polymeric reinforcement elements. Each polymeric reinforcement element is formed from a second thermoplastic polymer that is transparent to visible light. The peripheral portion and outer surface of the polymeric body portion defines a peripheral portion and outer surface, respectively, of the transparent, reinforced, composite polymeric fiber. A plurality of the fibers are formed into an array that is processed with a consolidation process to form a transparent, reinforced, composite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Michael Sennett, Elizabeth A. Welsh, Jean M. Herbert, Phillip M. Cunniff
  • Patent number: 8221572
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for an absorptive article according to the present invention includes: placing a continuum of the elastic members 4A and 5A in a desired layout, on at least one surface of a web 7A being transported continuously, while swinging the continuum of the elastic members 4A and 5A in a direction crossing a moving direction of the web 7A; feeding the web 7A on which the continuum of the elastic members 4A and 5A are placed, between a first roll 8, which is rotating in the moving direction, and a second roll 9; and pressing the continuum of the elastic members 4A and 5A, and the web 7A between the first roll 8 and the second roll 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8216410
    Abstract: Included is a tip end portion being a feeding position from which a filiform elastic member is fed. By an arm member guiding the elastic member, the tip end portion is alternately moved in a first direction and a second direction, and thereby the elastic member is brought into contact with the web and is arranged in a gather waveform. Here, the first direction is from the center portion of a web being conveyed in a predetermined direction and having sequentially-arranged component parts forming one part of an absorbent article, to a first end portion in a cross direction crossing with a conveyance direction, and the second direction is from the center to a second end portion which is an end portion opposite to the first end portion. At this time, in a planar view of a composite web, when a nip point exceeds a position where an angle between the conveyance direction and a tangent to the gather waveform is largest, a distance between the tip end portion and the nip point is largest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8215362
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent article includes a guide mechanism having a feeding portion for feeding an elastic member. The feed portion is alternately movable in a first direction and a second direction, and the elastic member is brought into contact with a web conveyed in a machine direction and is ananged in a waveform. The first direction is from a center portion of the web to a first end portion in a cross direction crossing the machine direction. The second direction is from the center portion to a second end portion opposite to the first end portion. A distance between the feeding portion and a nip point at which the elastic member comes in contact with the web is largest when the nip point exceeds a position in the waveform where an angle between the machine direction and a tangent to the waveform is largest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120163982
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a unique airfoil for a turbomachine. Another embodiment is a unique gas turbine engine. Yet another embodiment is a method for manufacturing an airfoil for a turbomachine. Other embodiments include apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, methods, and combinations for airfoils and turbomachinery. Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, and advantages of the present application will become apparent from the description and figures provided herewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventor: Edward Claude Rice
  • Publication number: 20120148796
    Abstract: An elastic nonwoven composite that contains an elastic film laminated to one or more nonwoven web materials is provided. The composite is formed by passing an extrusion-coated film/nonwoven laminate through a nip to create apertures through both the film and the nonwoven. The apertures are of a size sufficient to provide a desired level of texture, softness, hand feel, and/or aesthetic appeal to the composite without having a significant adverse effect on its elastic properties. Apertures are accomplished in the present invention by selectively controlling certain parameters of the lamination process, such as film content, element pattern, degree of film tension, temperature and pressure conditions, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Howard M. Welch, Glenda J. Rhodes, Lei Huang, Matthew B. Lake, Wing-Chak Ng, Akwokwo H. Redhead, Jose Augusto Vidal de Siqueira, Oomman P. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20120148824
    Abstract: The present invention relates to sandwich panels used as aircraft interior parts. In addition to provide a finishing function, the sandwich panels need to have certain mechanical properties and have sufficient fire resistance to retard the spread of fire within the vehicle interior. The present invention provides an aircraft interior panel with skins comprising natural fibre reinforced composites based either on an inorganic thermoset resin or a thermoplastic resin. Such panels provide the required flame and heat resistance, allow easy recycling and disposal, are cheaper and offer significant weight savings over conventional sandwich panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Pedro P. Martin, Ana Gonzalez-Garcia, Nieves Lapena, Sergio Fita-Bravo, Vicent Martinez-Sanz, Ferran Marti-Ferrer
  • Publication number: 20120128946
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flooring material and a fabrication method thereof. Since the invention forms the flooring material using bio-degradable resin which can be fabricated with materials extracted from the reproducible resources, the invention solves the supply and demand problem of raw materials caused by the depletion of oil resources. Further, the invention improves the production efficiency of the flooring materials by applying a calendaring method during the fabrication process, emits few environmentally-harmful materials including CO2 or the like, and provides the environmentally-friendly flooring material which is discarded easily. In addition, the invention can solve the problem caused by the size change which occurs when a bio-degradable sheet is used, whereby a stably and continuously-usable flooring material is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: LG HAUSYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunjong Kwon, Kyungtae Ha, Gyeongmin Lee
  • Patent number: 8168034
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an absorbent article according to the present invention includes the steps of: splitting an elastic member bundle having line-splitting strength within the predetermined range into multiple first elastic members by feeding the elastic member bundle in an MD via a line splitter, the line-splitting strength measured by a predetermined measuring method; applying an adhesive at least on a predetermined curved line on a web continuously conveyed; and placing the multiple elastic members thus split on the web while swinging the elastic members in a CD. The elastic member bundle is formed by splitting a single original elastic member with a slit into the multiple elastic members, and bundling and pressurizing the multiple elastic members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20120085484
    Abstract: In order to provide a sheet on which single yarns are densely adhered through a simple producing method and apparatus, and an improved channel with the same material, an apparatus for producing a sheet includes: a sheet supply roll supplying a sheet to a laminating roll; the laminating roll forming single yarns on the sheet supplied from the sheet supply roll; an extruder supplying a thermoplastic resin single yarn in a molten state to the sheet which passes the laminating roll through a nozzle; and a winding roll winding the sheet on which channels are formed by the single yarns attached to the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventor: Kyul-Joo LEE
  • Patent number: 8152949
    Abstract: A method for forming a large diameter and very long pipe comprises forming a plurality of pultruded segments via pultrusion and joining the segments along the lengthwise edges thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen L. Bailey, Alan K. Miller
  • Publication number: 20120065283
    Abstract: A composition for the manufacture of a porous, compressible article, the composition comprising a combination of: a plurality of reinforcing fibers; a plurality of polyimide fibers; and a plurality of polymeric binder fibers; wherein the polymeric binder fibers have a melting point lower than the polyimide fibers; methods for forming the porous, compressible article; and articles containing the porous, compressible article. An article comprising a thermoformed dual matrix composite is also disclosed, wherein the composite exhibits a time to peak release, as measured by FAR 25.853 (OSU test), a 2 minute total heat release, as measured by FAR 25.853 (OSU test), and an NBS optical smoke density of less than 200 at 4 minutes, determined in accordance with ASTM E-662 (FAR/JAR 25.853).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS IP B.V.
    Inventors: Thomas ADJEI, Benny Ezekiel DAVID, Dennis LOCKYER, Craig MILNE, Erich Otto TEUTSCH
  • Publication number: 20120014652
    Abstract: The present invention relates to optical-fiber cables having a tape enclosing one or more optical fibers. A plurality of discrete deposits of adhesive material are typically used to couple the optical fibers to the enclosing tape. A buffer tube may enclose the optical fibers and the tape. The buffer tube typically has a buffer-tube adhesive filling coefficient of between about 0.001 and 0.05.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: DRAKA COMTEQ B.V.
    Inventor: Don Parris
  • Patent number: 8075722
    Abstract: In a manufacturing apparatus of an absorbent product, extended elastic yarns to be a first middle elastic member and extended elastic yarns to be leg elastic members are bonded between a first sheet and a second sheet and arranged crossing each other in manufacturing an outer covering sheet. A first middle elastic member and an inclined part of the leg elastic members crossing the first middle elastic member are simultaneously and reliably cut in a crossing area of the both elastic members by first cutting blades tilted relatively to a direction where the first middle elastic member is positioned and second cutting blades tilted relatively to a direction where the inclined part is positioned. Thus, it is possible to easily form the outer covering sheet which maintains elasticity in a required portion and has high flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Livedo Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Hironobu Yokokawa, Masaru Fujioka
  • Patent number: 8062448
    Abstract: A plurality of unidirectional sheets (30a, 30b, 30c) are superposed in different directions and they are bonded together. At least one of the unidirectional sheets is made by spreading a tow so as to obtain uniform thickness, width not less than 5 cm, and a weight of no more than 300 g/m2, cohesion being imparted to the sheet so as to enable it to be handled prior to being superposed with other sheets. Advantageously, the unidirectional sheets are made of carbon fibers and are obtained by spreading out large tows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignees: Snecma Propulsion Solide, Hexcel Reinforcements
    Inventors: Bruno Bompard, Pierre Olry, Renaud Duval, Alain Bruyere, Dominique Coupe, Jean Aucagne
  • Patent number: 8025754
    Abstract: A method of preparing a reinforcing structure for use in manufacture a pultruded part where the reinforcing structure is pulled through a pultrusion die in a continuous longitudinal pull direction. The method includes arranging a plurality of first reinforcing fibers in a transverse direction and attaching a permeable transport web of staple fibers to the first reinforcing fibers such that the portion of the first reinforcing fibers oriented in the direction transverse comprises at least 30% of a volume of materials comprising the reinforcing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Pella Corporation
    Inventors: Laurence W. Davies, Peter J. Fritz, Kenneth D. Beer
  • Patent number: 8007894
    Abstract: A process for continuous, tailored lamination of aligned composite materials in such a way that either pre-formed or pre-consolidated sheets are made available for subsequent infusion molding or stamping processes, the process comprising the steps of: material placement, consolidation/stabilization, cut and kit, fabrication, and final trim. A tailored blank machine is also described. The blank machine includes a series of material placement heads arranged in a linear or serial fashion along a single moving placement table, wherein each head lays down a single angle of the prescribed stacking sequence as the conveyer passes under the head at a constant speed wherein the angle is proportional to head traverse rate divided by conveyer speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Hypercar, Inc.
    Inventor: David Taggart
  • Patent number: 7985314
    Abstract: A slip-resistant shock absorbing golf club grip that includes a felt layer, a fabric mesh formed of fibers and a polyurethane coating covering the mesh and felt, the fibers of the mesh defining grooves in the surface of the slip-resistant polyurethane which are engaged by a users' hands, with the polyurethane coating being buffed to partially expose the fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Inventor: Ben Huang
  • Publication number: 20110171866
    Abstract: A fire resistant coating system comprises an adhesive substrate coating material, a support structure including curvilinear fibers having randomly oriented loops and curls to provide reinforcement for a fire resistant coating, and a fire resistant coating. A method for installing such a material includes an adhesive application step, a support structure application step, and a coating application step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventor: Paul Craig Scott