Surface Deformation Only Of Sandwich Or Lamina (e.g., Embossed Panels) Patents (Class 156/219)
  • Publication number: 20120064271
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for creating multi-layered lightly-laminated provide films with increased or maintained strength. An increased level of strength is achieved by bonding adjacent layers of the multi-layer film together in a manner that the bond strength of the laminated layers is less than a strength of a weakest tear resistance of the individual first and second film layers. The inventors have surprisingly found that such a configuration of light bonding provides increased and unexpected strength properties to the multi-layer film as compared to a monolayer film of equal thickness or a multi-layer film in which the plurality of layers are tightly bonded together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Shaun T. Broering, Robert W. Fraser, Michael G. Borchardt, Jack A. MacPherson, Robert T. Dorsey, Scott Binger, Ken Cisek, Matthew W. Waldron, Angelli Sue Denmon
  • Patent number: 8133824
    Abstract: Fabrics and garments may include “dimensionalized” structures. The fabric may be “dimensionalized” by integrally forming a plurality of self-standing fabric surface modifying elements in the fabric material to thereby provide a fabric contact level different from (and/or reduced in surface area as compared to) the fabric base level. Garments may include this “dimensionalized” material, e.g., positioned at various locations to promote better evaporative cooling of the body or heat retention, such as along the wearer's spine, sides, and/or other locations that release substantial heat. The “dimensionalizing” structure may be formed in the material, for example, by molding, rolling, embossing, calendering, stretching, crimping, pressing, heating, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Nike, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward Louis Harber
  • Patent number: 8133340
    Abstract: A universal door skin blank comprises an exterior side and an interior side for securing to a frame member, first and second molded, spaced stiles, and a flat planar portion disposed between the stiles and lying on a plane spaced from the plane of the stiles. An interface portion is disposed between and contiguous with the stiles and the flat planar portion. The invention also relates to a door having at least one universal door skin blank, with at least two separately formed rails secured to the planar portion of the blank at opposite ends thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Steven K. Lynch, Bei-Hong Liang, Mark A. Ruggie, Jason Walsh, Henry Coghlan
  • Publication number: 20120039563
    Abstract: (1) A method for producing a flexible optical waveguide, containing: a step of forming a first cladding layer; a step of forming a first core layer by laminating a resin film for forming a core layer on at least one end portion of the first cladding layer; a step of forming a second core layer by laminating a resin film for forming a core layer on an entire surface of the first core layer and the first cladding layer; a step of forming a core pattern by patterning the first and second core layers; and a step of embedding the core pattern by forming a second cladding layer on the core pattern and the first cladding layer, (2) a flexible optical waveguide containing a lower cladding layer, a core part and an upper cladding layer, the upper cladding layer having a width that is smaller than a width of the lower cladding layer at least in a bent portion, and is equal to or smaller than a width of the lower cladding layer in an end portion, and the lower cladding layer having a width in a bent portion that is equa
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Shibata, Toshihiro Kuroda, Masatoshi Yamaguchi, Shigeyuki Yagi, Hiroshi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20120040124
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reinforced walkway system having an embossed walkway performance layer made of a polymer composite and a composite reinforcement layer thermally bonded thereto. The reinforcement layer includes a high temperature reinforcing composite which is thermally applied to the underside of the performance layer to prevent delamination and maintain the dimensional stability of the embossed performance layer at high temperatures. In one embodiment, the walkway performance layer may comprise any of polyolefin (TPO), Polyvinylchloride (PVC), and Elvaloy/Polyvinylchloride optionally mixed with other additives such as UV protection or mineral fillers. A method of forming a reinforced walkway system includes substantially simultaneously thermally bonding the performance layer to the composite reinforcement layer and embossing the performance layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: THE BILTRITE CORPORATION
    Inventor: James P. Ellis
  • Publication number: 20120034039
    Abstract: Disclosed is a landscape erosion control unit for retaining landscaping materials that includes a base structure and a plurality of retention structures attached to the base structure. Each retention structure of the plurality of retention structures includes a strip and a plurality of protruding members extending outwardly from the strip. Each protruding member of the plurality of protruding members is configured to hold the landscaping materials. Each protruding member of the plurality of protruding members has a bottom portion extending from the strip, a top portion away from the strip, and an intermediate portion between the top portion and the bottom portion. Each retention structure is configured as an integral unit from a material by at least one of cutting and patterning the material. Further, disclosed are a retention structure and a method for fabricating the landscape erosion control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventor: Victoria Lynn Hawkins-Maxwell
  • Publication number: 20120023856
    Abstract: A method for the production of grounded panels and to a panel having a core made from a wood material board. The method includes provision of a wood material board, application of a grounding in the form of a synthetic resin layer to at least one topside of the wood material board, application of a coating to an underside, lying opposite the topside of the wood material board, of the wood material board, pressing of the layer build-up consisting of the wood material board, grounding and coating under the influence of pressure and, if appropriate, temperature, division of the grounded and coated wood material board into individual panels, cutting machining of side faces of the panels for the incorporation of connection and locking means, and transport-safe packaging of the grounded panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Roger BRAUN, Norbert KALWA
  • Patent number: 8092865
    Abstract: A method for producing a building board. The method includes applying synthetic-resin layers to the top side and/or the bottom side of a support board made of a wood material or a mixture of wood material and plastic. The layered structure is compressed under the impact of pressure and temperature. At least one of the synthetic-resin layers expands during compressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Frank Oldorff, Norbert Kalwa
  • Publication number: 20110317269
    Abstract: A releasable transfer film is suitable to provide a metalized embossed composite onto a paper substrate without a release layer between the composite and a polymeric carrier layer. The transfer film includes a polymeric base layer, an embossing material layer and a metal layer. The transfer film is bonded to the paper substrate with an adhesive layer allowing the polymeric barrier layer to peel away from and to expose the metal-backed, embossing material layer. The substrate covered with the metalized embossed composite can be used to impart holographic style images to packaging, printed media products such as magazines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: TORAY PLASTICS (AMERICA) INC.
    Inventors: Tracy Paolilli, John Fitch, Bonnie Adams, Scott Narkevicius
  • Publication number: 20110309716
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing double or multilayer ferroelectret with defined cavities by: structuring at least one first surface of a first polymer film (1) forming a height profile, applying ate least one second polymer film (5, 1?) to the structured surface on the first polymer film formed in step a), joining the polymer films (1, 1?, 5) to give a polymer film composite with the formation of cavities (4, 4?) and electrically charging of the inner surfaces of the cavities (4, 4?) formed in step c) with opposing electrical charges. The invention further relates to ferroelectret multilayer composites, optionally produced by said method, comprising at least two polymer films, arranged one over the other and connected to each other, wherein cavities are formed between the polymer films. A piezoelectric element comprising a said ferroelectret multilayer composite is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Werner Jenninger, Joachim Wagner, Gunter Walze, Dirk Schapeler, Heinz Pudleiner, Gunther Stollwerck, Reimund Gerhard, Werner Wirges, Ruy Alberto Altafim
  • Publication number: 20110296726
    Abstract: An integrated laminate structure adapted for application in the context of solar technology, wafer technology, cooling channels, greenhouse illumination, window illumination, street lighting, traffic lighting, traffic reflectors or security films, including a first carrier element optionally including optically substantially transparent material enabling light transmission therethrough, a second carrier element including at least one surface relief pattern including a number of surface relief forms and having at least one predetermined optical function relative to incident light, the second carrier element optionally including optically substantially transparent material enabling light transmission therethrough, the first and second carrier elements being laminated together such that the at least one surface relief pattern has been embedded within the established laminate structure and a number of related cavities have been formed at the interface of the first and second carrier elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventor: Kari RINKO
  • Publication number: 20110297220
    Abstract: An integrated laminate structure adapted for application in the context of solar technology, including a first carrier element, optionally including optically substantially transparent material enabling light transmission therethrough, a second carrier element provided with at least one surface relief pattern including a number of surface relief forms and having at least one predetermined optical function relative to incident light, the second carrier element including optically substantially transparent material enabling light transmission therethrough, the first and second carrier elements being laminated together such that the at least one surface relief pattern has been embedded within the established laminate structure and a number of related cavities have been formed at the interface of the first and second carrier elements. An applicable method of manufacture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventor: Kari Rinko
  • Patent number: 8066839
    Abstract: Methods of making adhesive articles providing air egress by supplying a route for the air to flow out from under the construction are described. One method includes providing a release liner comprising a moldable layer having a release surface and a back surface; applying a first pattern of a first non-adhesive material to a first portion of the release surface; applying a second pattern of a second non-adhesive material to a second portion of the release surface, wherein the second pattern partially overlaps the first pattern; embedding at least one of the first or second non-adhesive materials into the moldable layer; and transferring an adhesive layer having a front and back surface and end edges onto the release liner, wherein the front surface of the adhesive layer is adhered to the release surface of the release liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Hannington
  • Publication number: 20110286222
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention include composite articles having specific optical properties. In one embodiment of this invention, a composite comprises high and low refractive index light transmitting material and surface relief features. In further embodiments, the composite comprises volumetric dispersed phase domains that may be asymmetric in shape. In one embodiment of this invention, the composite is an optical film providing light collimating features along two orthogonal planes perpendicular to the surface of the film. In another embodiment, the composite has improved optical, thermal, mechanical, or environmental properties. In further embodiments of this invention, the composite is manufactured by optically coupling or extruding two or more light transmitting materials, and forming inverted light collimating surface relief features or light collimating surface relief features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: FUSION OPTIX INC.
    Inventor: Zane Coleman
  • Publication number: 20110274883
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security and/or valuable document (2) comprising electronic components (4) and/or diffractive security elements, comprising at least one protective layer (4, 5) being arranged on one side or two protective layers (4, 5) being arranged on both sides of the electronic components (4) and/or of the diffractive security element, said protective layers (4, 5) being formed of a first base polymer, comprising polymer layers (8, 9, 12, 13) being formed of a second base polymer being different from the first base polymer, into said polymer layers (8, 9, 12, 13) the electronic components (4) and/or the diffractive security element with the protective layers (4, 5) being laminated, adhesive layers (10, 11) with a latent-reactive adhesive being arranged at least between the polymer layers (8, 9, 12, 13) and the protective layers (6, 7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Reinhard Löwe, Per Krüger, Michael Knebel, Jens Ehreke, Heinz Pudleiner, Mehmet-Cengiz Yesildag, Klaus Meyer, Dirk Pophusen, Jörg Büchner
  • Publication number: 20110266151
    Abstract: The present invention concerns microfluidic systems with printed surface structured electronically controllable wettability switches for efficient manipulation of small amounts of fluids. The high performance microfluidic systems of the invention can be used in many applications, e.g. in rapid DNA separation and sizing, cell manipulation, cell sorting and molecule detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventor: Fredrik Jansson
  • Publication number: 20110259270
    Abstract: A carbon component having a hole therein and an outer surface covered with a ceramic coating, and a method for manufacturing the carbon component are provided. The carbon component includes two carbon plate members joined together. The hole is defined by a groove formed on a mating surface of at least one of the carbon plate members and a mating portion of the other of the carbon plate members, which opposes the groove. An inner surface of the hole including a surface of the groove is entirely covered with a ceramic coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji MINOURA, Jun Ohashi, Toshiki Ito, Koji Ishida, Fumihito Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20110262675
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photo-curable transfer sheet by which an optical information recording medium having small thickness and high capacity can be advantageously prepared, the photo-curable transfer layer of the sheet cured in the production of the optical information recording medium having excellent adhesion to the reflective layer such silver alloy and easy peeling property from the stamper to easily bring about the transfer layer having an uneven surface such as pits, etc accurately formed along an uneven surface of the stamper. The photo-curable transfer sheet has a photo-curable transfer layer comprising a photo-curable composition deformable by application of pressure, wherein the photo-curable composition comprises a polymer and a reactive diluent having a photopolymerizable functional group, and the reactive diluent has at least one hydroxyl group and an acryloyl group and/or methacryloyl group, the total of acryloyl group and/or methacryloyl group being at least two.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takato Inamiya, Hideki Kitano, Hidefumi Kotsubo, Kenji Murayama
  • Publication number: 20110253288
    Abstract: An assembly including and method of forming arbitrary localized wrinkles upon a surface utilizing a shape memory polymer substrate and rigid overlay, wherein the geometrical distribution of the wrinkles is produced by recovering a lateral strain history within the substrate and buckling the overlay, and the localized wrinkles are used to create, among other things, optically three-dimensional engaging surfaces, structural colors, modified surface texturing, and haptic alerts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Tao Xie, Xingcheng Xiao, Ruomiao Wang, Joseph C. Simmer
  • Publication number: 20110240048
    Abstract: A pouched tobacco product includes a lined pouch material of a web and a water-soluble liner adjacent the web and a tobacco component contained within the lined pouch material. The water-soluble liner is interposed between the web and the tobacco component. The liner preferably reduces staining of the web by the tobacco component. Additionally, the liner may include a flavorant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Warren D. Winterson, Timothy D. Cochran, Tommy C. Holland, Karen M. Torrence, Steve Rinehart, G. Robert Scott
  • Publication number: 20110236277
    Abstract: Provided are a plastic microfluid control device having a multi-step microchannel and a method of manufacturing the same. The device includes a lower substrate, and a fluid channel substrate contacting the lower substrate and having a multi-step microchannel having at least two depths in a side coupling to the lower substrate. Thus, the device can precisely control the fluid flow by controlling capillary force in a depth direction of the channel by controlling the fluid using the multi-step microchannel having various channel depths. A multi-step micropattern is formed by repeating photolithography and transferred, thereby easily forming the multi-step microchannel having an even surface and a precisely controlled height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Dae Sik LEE, Hyun Woo Song, Kwang Hyo Chung, Seon Hee Park, Moon Youn Jung, Seung Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 8025764
    Abstract: A paper product with absorbency and moisture strike through resistance is disclosed. More particularly, a multi-ply paper product with improved strike through resistance is disclosed, wherein at least one ply is a wetting resistant ply comprising at least one wetting resistant compound and at least one ply is an absorbent ply possessing greater absorbency than the wetting resistant ply. In addition, a two-ply paper napkin with improved moisture strike through resistance is disclosed, wherein the wetting resistant ply comprises alkyl ketene dimer and the two plies are separately microembossed, glue laminated together in a point to point configuration, and macroembossed with coin edging. Furthermore, a multi-ply paper product with improved strike through resistance is disclosed, wherein a first ply comprises at least one wetting resistant compound and a second ply possesses greater absorbency than the first ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP
    Inventors: Dinesh M. Bhat, Daniel W. Sumnicht
  • Publication number: 20110226858
    Abstract: Metal-containing transaction cards, useful for the purchase of goods and/or services are disclosed. The metal-containing transaction cards may be standard-sized (i.e., about 3? inches by about 2 14 inches) or any other size yet still usable as a transaction card. Moreover, the metal-containing transaction card may include a pocket having characters embossed therein. Further, the metal-containing transaction card may include a fill panel disposed within the pocket. The metal may be titanium or stainless steel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Ellen Lasch, Lisa Ann Morrill Webb, Priscilla Gandel
  • Publication number: 20110224091
    Abstract: A device and method detect cellular targets in a bodily source by utilizing a biofunctional pad comprised of a thin film of carbon nanotubes (CNT's). When antibodies are absorbed by the CNT's, cellular targets having markers matching the antibodies may be detected in a bodily source placed upon the biofunctional pad by measuring the conductivity of the thin film using conductive contacts electrically coupled to the thin film, as the binding of the receptors in the cellular targets to the antibodies changes the free energy in the thin film. In many respects, the device functions as a Field Effect Transistor (FET) with the bodily source, e.g., blood, acting as a polyelectrolyte liquid gate electrode to create a varying electrostatic charge or capacitance in the thin film based upon the binding of cellular targets in the source to the antibodies present on the biofunctional pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventor: Balaji Panchapakesan
  • Publication number: 20110223388
    Abstract: An article includes a film and a non-woven having fibers, and an embossed seal joining a portion of the film and the non-woven. The seal includes discrete extended elements formed in the film and surrounded by lands in the film. The discrete extended elements having open proximal ends, open or closed distal ends, and sidewalls disposed between the proximal and distal ends, and portions of the discrete extended elements having a thickness less than that of the lands. Fibers of the non-woven are embedded in at least one of the lands and in the sidewalls of the discrete extended elements through the open proximal ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Keith Joseph Stone, Roger Dale Young
  • Publication number: 20110214803
    Abstract: A method of vacuum thermoforming a thermoplastic sheet together with a decorative insert. The decorative insert is placed on a first portion of a surface of a mold tool. The insert is retained in place by applying a localized vacuum to the insert via a plurality of passages through the first portion of the mold tool. The thermoplastic sheet can then be placed over the insert and over the remaining surface of the mold tool. The thermoplastic sheet is then drawn against the mold surface and over the decorative insert by applying a vacuum at a second portion of the surface. The mold surface can be grained or otherwise textured and this texture can extend continuously across the transition between the first and second portions. This permits use of the mold tool to apply a continuous textured surface when used to mold the thermoplastic sheet without the decorative insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: FAURECIA INTERIOR SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Frederick J. Homburg, JR., Christophe Baillet
  • Publication number: 20110214804
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are described for producing a volume transmission hologram and/or a volume reflection hologram from a film (10) having a backing foil (12) and a holographic layer (14). In said method, the film (10) is guided over a drum (18), on which the film (10) is brought in contact with the master hologram (22). The master hologram (22) and the film (10) are simultaneously moved through an exposure zone (20). In the exposure zone (20), the film (10) and the master hologram (22) are irradiated with a linearly expanding exposure laser beam (32) in order to reproduce the master hologram (22) in the photopolymer layer (14). Both volume reflection and volume transmission holograms can be produced in the polymer layer (14) of the film (10) that is guided over the drum by means of only one drum (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Inventor: Günther Dausmann
  • Patent number: 8012309
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing an embossed paperboard comprising the steps of: forming a wet mat including more than 60 wt % of cellulose fibers; pressure molding, with at least one embossing roll, the wet mat having 20 to 70 wt % solid to create a nested surface texture thereon; and drying the embossed wet mat to obtain the embossed paperboard with a grammage ranging between 125 and 1500 grams per square meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Cascades Canada ULC
    Inventors: Éric Paré, Yves Martin, Matieu Jacques
  • Publication number: 20110212295
    Abstract: Laminates and methods of making them are generally provided. The methods of making a laminate for use as a clothing tag can include laminating a first fibrous web to a second fibrous web. Both the first and second fibrous webs can include cellulosic fibers and a binder composition present in the respective fibrous web from about 10% by weight to about 100% by weight of the dry weight of the fibrous web. Both the first and second binder composition can include a curable latex polymer and a crosslinker. The second fibrous web can be creped and can have a thickness less than 10 mils. The laminate can be aged for at least about 1 hour at an aging temperature of greater than about 150° F. The resulting laminated and their use in clothing are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: NEENAH PAPER, INC.
    Inventors: Cheryl B. Rueckert, Rhonda S. Lassila
  • Patent number: 8002938
    Abstract: The present invention is a decorative laminated article comprising an image bearing thermoplastic interlayer wherein the image has been printed on the interlayer using an ink jet printing process, wherein the pigment comprises at least one pigment selected from the group consisting of: PY 120; PY 155; PY 128; PY 180; PY 95; PY 93; PV19/PR 202; PR 122; PB 15:4; PB 15:3; and PBI 7. The interlayer material of the present invention can be, for example, PVB, PET, or polyurethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Hamdy A. Elwakil, Ronald Roman, Rebecca L. Smith, Chaucer C. Tang
  • Publication number: 20110186208
    Abstract: A method for impermeably joining laminated three or two layer fabrics either with or without a complex structure on the joining face or fabrics with a raised pile on either one or two faces thereof comprises a preparing step for preparing a fabric material and a welding and sealing step, the fabric preparing step including three operating steps, a cauterizing step, a cutting step and an adhesive applying step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: MACPI S.P.A. PRESSING DIVISION
    Inventor: Giovanni Cartabbia
  • Publication number: 20110180143
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photovoltaic device for direct conversion of solar energy into electrical energy, which comprises a concentrator lens system and at least one solar cell. Furthermore the invention relates to a method for producing a concentrator lens system which can be used in a corresponding photovoltaic device but also in other devices for, e.g. thermal, use of radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventor: Peter Nitz
  • Publication number: 20110174884
    Abstract: The invention relates to a card (1), such as a credit card or ID card, which has several layers laminated with each other, wherein between a first card layer (21) and a second card layer (22) there is embedded a security element (2) which has a plastic or lacquer layer (4) with a relief structure (5). The relief structure has areas (5?, 5?) with different picture elements and produces a visible representation (6) and a hidden representation (7) which can be made visible with aids. The security element is adhesively bonded by adhesive layers (9, 10) to the two card layers (21, 22) between which it is embedded, the adhesives being chosen from the group which consists of physically drying adhesives and adhesives crosslinkable by heat, preferably water-based. Upon use of an adhesive crosslinkable by heat, the crosslinking temperature of the adhesive is lower than the softening temperature of the plastic or the lacquer layer (4) in which there is present the relief structure (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Gunter Endres, Berned Oweger, Karl Jurgen Stahl, Tobias Salzer
  • Publication number: 20110155917
    Abstract: A scintillator panel includes a substrate and a scintillator layer. The substrate includes a first plate having a surface provided with irregularities, and a flat second plate fixed to the first plate in a confronting relation to the irregularities of the first plate. The scintillator layer is disposed on a surface of the second plate on the side oppositely away from the first plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiichi Nomura, Satoshi Okada, Kazumi Nagano, Yohei Ishida
  • Patent number: 7967934
    Abstract: A label with top, bottom and edge surfaces is attached to a thermoplastic substrate by a method comprising the steps of: A. Placing the bottom surface of the label in contact with a surface of the substrate; B. Melting a portion of the substrate beneath the label or adjacent to an edge of the label; C. Drawing a portion of the melted substrate over an edge of and onto the top surface of the label such that the portion of the melted substrate on the top surface of the label is continuous with the substrate; and D. Solidifying the melted substrate. The attachment does not require adhesive or mechanical fasteners, and the label and thermoplastic substrate can be made of any material that will withstand the conditions of the environment to which they will be exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Brady Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard L. Seiders
  • Publication number: 20110151208
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for fabricating a decorative film. In the method of the present invention, an embossing force is applied to a pressed surface of a semi-hardened releasing layer to form a patterned structure. After the releasing layer is solidified, a protective layer covers the releasing layer to form a transfer-printed structure thereon mating with the patterned structure. A stripping force is applied to the releasing layer to separate the releasing layer from the protective layer and expose the transfer-printed structure of the protective layer. Then, the user has a 3D tactile feeling when touching the surface of the protective layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: MING-HUNG HUANG, TING-CHU HSU, CHIH-YUAN LIAO
  • Publication number: 20110146894
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of fabricating and apparatus of a flat plate display that is able to separate a substrate and an imprinting mold from each other with a relatively small force. The fabricating apparatus of a flat plate display includes an imprinting mold which is boned with a substrate to form a thin film pattern on the substrate, the imprinting mold comprising projections and grooves; and a movable separation part configured to rotatably move from a one side toward the other side of the imprinting mold to vacuum-absorb the imprinting mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventor: Seong-Pil CHO
  • Patent number: 7964051
    Abstract: A door skin comprises an exterior side and an interior side for being secured to a frame member. First and second molded, spaced stiles lie on a first plane. A flat planar portion is disposed between the stiles and lies on a second plane spaced from the first plane. A first interface portion is disposed between and contiguous with the stiles and the flat planar portion. First and second integrally molded, spaced rails lie on a third plane, wherein the third plane is intermediate the first and second planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Steven K. Lynch, Bei-hong Liang, Mark A. Ruggie, Jason M. Walsh, Henry M. Coghlan, Geoffrey B. Hardwick
  • Publication number: 20110132528
    Abstract: Flexible materials having a texture or appearance simulating the texture or appearance of cloth suitable for use in the formation of decorative flower pot covers and flower pots are disclosed. The flexible materials include polymeric materials, paper and laminates thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Publication number: 20110132527
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating a cliché that can prevent formation of a defective thin film pattern, and a method for forming a thin film pattern using the same. The method for fabricating a cliché includes providing a base substrate having first and second regions, forming a first depressed pattern having a first depth and a first width at a first region, and a second depressed pattern having a second width greater than the first width and a depth the same with the first depth at a second region, forming a protective film for exposing the second region and covering the first region, the protective film having adhesivity, forming the second depressed pattern to have a second depth deeper than the first depth of the first depressed pattern at the first region by using the protective film having the adhesivity, and removing the protective film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Yun-Ho KOOK, Chul-Ho KIM, Sang-Chul JUNG, Jeong-Hoon LEE, Nam-Kook KIM, Jun-Young YANG
  • Publication number: 20110136249
    Abstract: This invention provides a device for determining the concentration of an analyte like glucose, cholesterol, free fatty acids, triglycerides, proteins, ketones, phenylalanine or enzymes, in a physiological or aqueous fluid like blood, serum, plasma, saliva, urine, interstitial and/or intra-cellular fluid, the device having an integrated calibration and quality control system suitable for dry reagent test strips with a very small sample volume of about 0.5 ?L based on to a new sample distribution system. The production of the inventive analyte test element involves only a small number of uncomplicated production steps enabling an inexpensive production of the strips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventor: Matthias Stiene
  • Publication number: 20110128624
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a reflective object, which comprises the structure with the following layers sequentially: an adhesive layer embedded with optical components; a color layer; and a reflective layer; wherein the reflective object is characterized that the color layer is not contacted with the optical components. The present invention is also disclosed a method of producing the reflective object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: SHIH HSIN-AN
    Inventor: Hsin-An Shih
  • Publication number: 20110126911
    Abstract: This invention provides composite plastic articles and methods of making them. The articles can be fluidic or microfluidic devices having fluidic conduits and, optionally, pneumatic conduits that regulate flow in the fluidic conduits. The articles comprise a first substrate coated with a layer of a material that comprises, or onto which have been introduced, reactive groups. For example, the substrate can be a plastic coated with an oxide or a siloxane onto which hydroxyl groups have been introduced. These articles are covalently bonded with other articles comprising reactive groups on their surfaces, for example, polysiloxanes treated to have silanol groups. Certain articles have specified locations on their surfaces that are not bonded to the other piece. For example, the coating can be removed from these locations before bonding. Such locations can be useful as functional elements of various devices, such as valve seats in valves of microfluidic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: IntegenX Inc., a California Corporation
    Inventors: Boris Kobrin, Iuliu I. Blaga, William Nielsen, Shize D. Qi, Ezra Van Gelder
  • Publication number: 20110127762
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a security element (1), to a security element (1) obtainable by the method according to the invention, to transfer materials having the security elements according to the invention, and to objects of value secured by the security elements according to the invention. The security element (1) according to the invention has at least two functional layers (12, 22), whereby each functional layer forms a motif and the motifs are either congruent, or one motif represents a photographic negative of the other motif. In the method according to the invention, the motif of one functional layer (12) is transferred into the other functional layer (22) with the help of an adhesive layer (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried Hoffmuller, Patrick Renner, Manfred Heim
  • Publication number: 20110123773
    Abstract: A device for producing a multi-ply fibrous product includes an embossing roll with first and second embossing protrusions on its outer circumferential surface having at least two different heights in a radial direction, an anvil roll cooperating with the embossing roll, an application roll for applying colored adhesive or ink arranged next to the embossing roll, and a marrying roll or another embossing roll running against the embossing roll, wherein the application roll forms a negative gap with the outer diameter of the embossing roll, and the negative gap exceeds the difference in height of the first and second protrusions. A method for producing a multi-ply fibrous product and a multi-ply fibrous product are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Bernd Lofink, Harald Harlacher, Jurgen Sauter, Richard Kiehlmann
  • Publication number: 20110123772
    Abstract: A core substrate and a method of manufacturing the core substrate are disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the core substrate includes an adhesive resin layer having a mineral filler added therein, a metal sheet, which is patterned and embedded in the adhesive resin layer, and an insulation layer, which is stacked on both surfaces of the adhesive resin layer. Since a through-hole is formed to correspond to the number of via holes in accordance with a higher density of a printed circuit board, no conventional land is required to be formed, thereby reducing the defect of eccentricity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Sang-Youp Lee, Joung-Gul Ryu, Dong-Sun Kim, Jae-Hoon Choi, In-Ho Seo, Joon-Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 7947138
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for creating textured laminate press plates that account for growth of the press plate and growth of the laminate's decorative layer. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention involve printing a two-dimensional representation of the three-dimensional surface of the proposed press plate, assuming a certain amount of expansion, onto a transparent overlay, such as a cellulose acetate sheet or a plate of glass. Embodiments of the present invention further involve positioning the overlay over an un-textured sample decorative laminate to examine the alignment of the press plate's proposed texture design with the sample laminate's decorative design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Kings Mountain International, Inc
    Inventor: Martin Endert
  • Patent number: 7947139
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an improved and economical system and method for viewing proposed texture designs for textured decorative laminates without having to make a press plate and a sample laminate. Embodiments of the present invention further provide systems and methods for making sample laminates and for registering a sample press plate with the laminate's decorative design when manufacturing a sample laminate. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention utilize transparent sheets, such as acetate films, in novel ways during the design of textured laminate press plates and during the registration of the press plate and the laminate's decorative layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Kings Mountain International, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin Endert
  • Publication number: 20110117307
    Abstract: Polymer films may be discontinuously laminated by processes such as adhesive bonding, ultrasonic bonding, embossing, ring rolling, and strainable network formation. The films may be prestretched under cold process conditions before lamination. The laminates have superior properties such as tear strength. The laminates may be incorporated into bags, such as trash bags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: The Glad Products Company
    Inventors: Robert W. Fraser, Michael G. Borchardt, Jack A. MacPherson, Robert T. Dorsey, Scott Binger, Shaun T. Broering
  • Publication number: 20110098839
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a decorative board, which board includes at least one thermosetting resin impregnated paper layer. A decor paper in the form of a web or a sheet, provided with a plurality of decor sections, each decor section being intended to constitute a décor of a decorative panel, is placed as a surface layer on a base layer and bonded thereto by pressing under elevated pressure. A plurality of press plates or press foils, each press plate or press foil being provided with a surface structure intended to match at least one decor section of the decor paper, are accurately positioned on top of the thermosetting impregnated paper layer before the pressing and is after the pressing separated from the laminate achieved. The laminate will hereby be provided with a décor surface with a matching surface structure which is in register with the décor of the decor paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Krister Hansson, Ake Sjoberg