With Subsequent Cutting, Grooving, Breaking, Or Comminuting Patents (Class 264/118)
  • Patent number: 12157250
    Abstract: A composite wood panel is manufactured from thin wood laminae cut from wood unsuitable for peeler logs or dimensional lumber. At least one bonding agent is applied to the wood laminae, and they are formed into a randomly oriented mat that is compressed into a thin wood web that can be a corrugated web or a flat web that is permanently set in a single press operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: BONDCORE ÖU
    Inventor: Ronald J. Batty
  • Patent number: 12146272
    Abstract: Non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method comprising: obtaining asphalt shingle waste (ASW) and performing grinding, screening, and separating steps on the ASW. In some embodiments, granules are removed from the ASW. In some embodiments, the method transforms ASW into ASW powder. In some embodiments, the ASW powder is formed into a plurality of briquettes. In some embodiments, at least one of: the ASW powder, the plurality of briquettes, or any combination thereof is fed into a mixing process that results in an ASW powder filled coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BMIC LLC
    Inventors: Dale Kelley, James Svec, Michael T. Ferraro, Kirby Erickson, Paul Richardson, Kris Edelsward
  • Patent number: 12109302
    Abstract: Provided herein are sustained release biodegradable intracanalicular insert comprising a hydrogel and cyclosporine, methods of treating or preventing an ocular disease in a subject in need thereof by administering such inserts as well as methods of manufacturing such inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles D. Blizzard, Rami El-Hayek, Michael Goldstein, Peter Jarrett, Andrew Vanslette
  • Patent number: 11932999
    Abstract: Non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method comprising: obtaining asphalt shingle waste (ASW) and performing grinding, screening, and separating steps on the ASW. In some embodiments, granules are removed from the ASW. In some embodiments, the method transforms ASW into ASW powder. In some embodiments, the ASW powder is formed into a plurality of briquettes. In some embodiments, at least one of: the ASW powder, the plurality of briquettes, or any combination thereof is fed into a mixing process that results in an ASW powder filled coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BMIC LLC
    Inventors: Dale Kelley, James Svec, Michael T. Ferraro, Kirby Erickson, Paul Richardson, Kris Edelsward
  • Patent number: 11779536
    Abstract: Provided herein are sustained release biodegradable intracanalicular insert comprising a hydrogel and cyclosporine, methods of treating or preventing an ocular disease in a subject in need thereof by administering such inserts as well as methods of manufacturing such inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles D. Blizzard, Rami El-Hayek, Michael Goldstein, Peter Jarrett, Andrew Vanslette
  • Patent number: 11766854
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composite material for shielding electromagnetic radiation, a raw material for additive manufacturing methods and a product comprising the material as well as a method of manufacturing the product. The composite material according to the invention can serve as a material protecting electronic elements, electronic devices or living organisms from electromagnetic radiation in the microwave and terahertz range (0.3-10000 GHz).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: NANOEMI SP. Z.O.O.
    Inventors: Mariusz Zdrojek, Jaroslaw Judek, Krzysztof Jakubczak, Anna Duzynska, Klaudia Zeranska-Chudek, Anna Wroblewska, Anna Lapinska
  • Patent number: 11746478
    Abstract: Non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method comprising: obtaining asphalt shingle waste (ASW) and performing grinding, screening, and separating steps on the ASW. In some embodiments, granules are removed from the ASW. In some embodiments, the method transforms ASW into ASW powder. In some embodiments, the ASW powder is formed into a plurality of briquettes. In some embodiments, at least one of: the ASW powder, the plurality of briquettes, or any combination thereof is fed into a mixing process that results in an ASW powder filled coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BMIC LLC
    Inventors: Dale Kelley, James Svec, Michael T. Ferraro, Kirby Erickson, Paul Richardson, Kris Edelsward
  • Patent number: 11666967
    Abstract: By melting a shaping material in which a metal powder and a binder are mixed and by carrying out injection molding (primary shaping) in an injection mold, an injection molded body, or an intermediate shaped body are produced. The injection molded body or the intermediate shaped body is placed by a transfer mold and is subjected to a gravity shaping (secondary shaping) with a transformation. A sintered body is manufactured by carrying out debindering and sintering to the injection molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Syuntaro Terauchi, Hisashi Kitagaki, Kazuki Hanami, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 11602730
    Abstract: A substrate includes a double-network polymer system including a cross-linked, covalently-bonded polymer and a reversible, partially ionicly-bonded polymer, wherein the substrate has a moisture level less than or equal to 15 percent of the total weight of the substrate, wherein the substrate is porous, and wherein the substrate includes a latent retractive force. A method for manufacturing a substrate includes producing a double-network hydrogel including a cross-linked, covalently-bonded polymer and a reversible, ionicly-bonded polymer; elongating by force the double-network hydrogel in at least one direction; treating the double-network hydrogel with an organic solvent with a volatile and water-miscible organic solvent to replace a majority of water within the double-network hydrogel; evaporating the organic solvent while the double-network hydrogel is still elongated to form a substantially-dried double-network polymer system; and releasing the force to produce the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Xuedong Song
  • Patent number: 11331267
    Abstract: Provided herein are sustained release biodegradable intracanalicular insert comprising a hydrogel and cyclosporine, methods of treating or preventing an ocular disease in a subject in need thereof by administering such inserts as well as methods of manufacturing such inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles D. Blizzard, Rami El-Hayek, Michael Goldstein, Peter Jarrett, Andrew Vanslette
  • Patent number: 11291627
    Abstract: Provided herein are sustained release biodegradable intracanalicular insert comprising a hydrogel and cyclosporine, methods of treating or preventing an ocular disease in a subject in need thereof by administering such inserts as well as methods of manufacturing such inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles D. Blizzard, Rami El-Hayek, Michael Goldstein, Peter Jarrett, Andrew Vanslette
  • Patent number: 11292151
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a board as well as a profiled element for manufacturing the board. The method including the steps of providing a material mass including an organic material and a binding agent for binding the organic material together, pressing the material mass so as to form the board, and removing material from the material mass in one or more material zones before pressing so as to obtain after pressing a lower density in those zones compared to the remainder of the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventors: Bernard Thiers, Lode De Boe, Peter Hochepied
  • Patent number: 11001715
    Abstract: The invention relates to thermosetting powder coating compositions as these are disclosed herein. The compositions comprise certain unsaturated resins comprising ethylenic unsaturations, curing agents selected from vinyl urethanes, vinyl functionalized urethane resins and mixtures thereof, dilauroyl peroxide as initiator, and a co-initiator selected from the group of onium compounds and sulpho-compounds. The invention further relates to a process for making said thermosetting powder coating compositions and processes for coating an article with said thermosetting powder coating compositions. The invention further relates to cured thermosetting powder coating compositions obtained by curing of the thermosetting powder coating compositions of the invention. The invention further relates to an article having coated thereon said thermosetting powder coating composition as well as to an article having coated and cured thereon said thermosetting powder coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Gertrudis Christianus Bongaerts, Dragos Popescu
  • Patent number: 10857513
    Abstract: A biomass granulator is described herein. In some embodiments, in the biomass granulator, the primarily molded particles extruded from the ring-shaped die are subjected to an orderly, quantitative and uniform reformation via a rotating scraper provided, as well as timely delivery of the finally molded particles out of the biomass granulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: ANHUI DINGLIANG TECHNOLOGY ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nianxi Liang, Jingbo Ruan, Kelong Xiao, Lingli Lu, Jingdong Wang
  • Patent number: 10843431
    Abstract: A device for producing pellets has a machine frame, a hollow outer cylinder mounted therein with a first axis of rotation and an inner cylinder, arranged in the outer cylinder, with a second axis of rotation, wherein a wedge-shaped gap is formed between an inner surface of the outer cylinder and an outer surface of the inner cylinder, the outer cylinder and/or the inner cylinder has radial holes for pressing through material, and a pivot arm is arranged on each of the two sides next to the inner cylinder, on which pivot arms the inner cylinder is rotatably mounted. Each pivot arm is moveably mounted on the machine frame in the region of both ends of the pivot arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: JOSEF SCHAIDER PRIVATSTIFTUNG
    Inventors: Ludwig Schaider, Josef Schaider
  • Patent number: 10800064
    Abstract: A device for the longitudinal cutting of a wide food band of a soft food mass which is moved in a conveyance direction on a conveyor belt, wherein a cutting cylinder rotating in the conveyance direction is provided on which is mounted a number of cutting disks disposed coaxially to the rotational axis A for cutting into the food band with the edge thereof, wherein a comb having a plurality of comb tines is provided, which in an operating position engage into the intermediate spaces between the cutting disks during the longitudinal cutting in order to hold down the cut strips on the conveyor belt, wherein the comb is held on a comb holder so as to be pivotable about the rotational axis, wherein the comb holder can be transferred from the operating position and a maintenance position by pivoting about the rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Hochland SE
    Inventors: Andreas Erd, Andreas Biggel, Franz Stadelmann
  • Patent number: 10465048
    Abstract: An apparatus and process for forming particles. A precursor material is provided to a rotor-stator construction and fed through apertures in the cylinder. The apertures are in intermittent fluid communication with the stator. A conveyor is provided beneath the cylinder. The conveyor has recesses and the recesses move in registration with the apertures in the cylinder. The precursor material is passed through the apertures and deposited in the recesses in an amount that overfills the recesses. The deposited precursor material is cooled to form a plurality of particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: RIchard Albert Huddleston, Niteen Vasant Bapat
  • Patent number: 10450239
    Abstract: According to some demonstrative embodiments, there is provided herein a spherical fertilizer granule having a specific gravity of more than 1.94 g/cm2 and less than 3% porosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Inventors: Ruben Socolovsky, Ofir Cohen, Natalia Geinik, Khalil Abu-Rabeah
  • Patent number: 10437282
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be mounted in a display housing having multiple display housing layers. The display housing layers may include metal layers and fiber composite layers. A fiber composite display housing layer may have an array of dimples. The fiber composite display housing layer may be attached to a planar metal layer using adhesive. An array of openings may be formed in the metal layer to lighten the display housing. A foam layer or other core may be sandwiched between display housing layers. Components may be embedded in the foam. Edge members may run along peripheral edges of the display housing layers. Electrical components may be mounted on printed circuits and housed within cavities in the display housing. The electrical components may include light-emitting diodes for a display. Heat from the electrical components may be dissipated in the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Kenney, Nicholas A. Rundle, Adam T. Garelli, Sarah J. Montplaisir, Matthew W. Crowley, Dinesh C. Mathew
  • Patent number: 10351450
    Abstract: Provided is a ballast water treatment apparatus by using sodium dichloroisocyanurate. The ballast water treatment apparatus includes: a cartridge that is provided with an inlet and an outlet in order that a fresh water is introduced and discharged, that is provided with an inlet valve and an exhaust valve installed in the inlet and the outlet respectively, and that is equipped with the sodium dichloroisocyanurate; and a dissolution tank that is equipped with a agitator configured to be connected to the outlet of the cartridge to agitate the sodium dichloroisocyanurate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: TECHCROSS INC.
    Inventors: Kyuwon Park, Seongtae Kim, Haidon Lee, Gwangho Lee
  • Patent number: 10322389
    Abstract: Biochars and methods for producing biochar aggregate particles where the method for producing the aggregate particles comprise the steps of (i) producing or collecting biochar fines; (ii) adding a binding agent to the biochar fines; and (iii) forming the biochar fines and binding agent into solid aggregate particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Cool Planet Energy Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajashekharam Malyala, Vern Traxler, Matthew William Smith, Han Suk Kim, Ranko Panayotov Bontchev, Richard Wilson Belcher
  • Patent number: 10301229
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of fertilizing compositions and to the compositions obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Best Green Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Domenico Terenzio, Aldo Perotti
  • Patent number: 10039717
    Abstract: The invention provides pellet for use as a core for a pharmaceutical dosage form having an inner and an outer zone where the inner zone includes a biologically active agent and said outer zone includes a layer formed by applying a substantially dry, free flowing inert powder which forms a non-tacky surface when placed in contact with water. The invention also provides a process for making pharmaceutical pellets where the core or at least one a layer on the core is formed by (a) contacting powder particles, adhering them to each other and compacting the adhered pellets by a rolling movement, wherein the degree of densification is controlled by the rolling movement; and (b) feeding a sufficient amount of a substantially dry, free flowing inert powder which forms a non-tacky surface when placed in contact with water to provide on said particles an outer zone including a layer formed from said substantially dry, free flowing inert powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Nortec Development Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Orapin P. Rubino, David M. Jones, Frank Bretschneider, Peter Frankhauser, Armin Prasch
  • Patent number: 10023474
    Abstract: Provided are methods of petroleum sequestration, which use electrospun microtubes capable of sequestering the petroleum from the water, and method of depleting and optionally degrading petroleum from water using floating devices which comprise the electrospun microtube attached to a floating carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: NANOSPUN TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Ohad Ben Dror, Eyal Zussman, Yael Dror
  • Patent number: 9307742
    Abstract: The present invention provides an excrement treatment material capable of being treated by a water-disintegration treatment after use. The excrement treatment material contains a water retaining material including at least one material of papers, fibers, woods, plants, plastics, rubbers, organic sludge and animal waste, an adhesive and a water absorbing resin, and is formed in a granular shape, wherein the water retaining material has a grain size of 0.6 mm or less, and the adhesive is contained in an amount of 5 wt % to 20 wt % with respect to a total weight of the excrement treatment material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 9259861
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for recycling synthetic turf that includes combining a plurality of synthetic turf fragments with additives to form a mixture and extruding the mixture. The method produces a recycled material suitable for use as infill in a synthetic turf. Accordingly, an infill for synthetic turf and a synthetic turf including that infill are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Textile Management Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry Mashburn
  • Patent number: 9080288
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing paper, board or the like. In the method is obtained an aqueous filler dispersion, comprising particles of at least one first filler, the filler dispersion having a floc size distribution with original mean chord length value. The particles of the first mineral filler are brought into a contact with a cationic pre-treatment agent, which is capable of initiating flocculation of the filler particles in the dispersion, whereby a pre-treated filler dispersion comprising flocs, which comprise first mineral particles, is formed. The pre-treated filler dispersion is combined with a stock of fibers. The floc size distribution of the filler dispersion is changed with the pre-treatment agent, which is a natural and/or synthetic polymer, so that the mean chord length value increases at least with 2% from the original mean chord length value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: KEMIRA OYJ
    Inventors: Matti Hietaniemi, Mikko Virtanen, Jonni Ahlgren
  • Patent number: 9060851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to covered endoprosthetic devices. Covered endoprosthetic devices comprise an endoprosthesis and a sheath. The sheath comprises a central portion and outer portions, wherein the central portion preferentially restricts or causes a restriction of blood flow. Blood flow can be reduced by the central portion of the sheath by varying the permeability of the sheath or by having projections on the sheath that slow blood flow. Permeability may be provided by perforations or holes in the material of the sheath or by varying the polymer structure that makes up the sheath itself. The outer portions of the sheath do not substantially reduce blood flow. Methods of using sheath-covered endoprosthetic devices of the invention to treat aneurysms, especially aneurysms in proximity to small perforator vessels or arteries, are also encompassed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Medinol Ltd.
    Inventor: Jacob Richter
  • Patent number: 9056444
    Abstract: Molded planar products such as solid interior and entry doors produced by molding lignocellulosic and cellulosic composite materials. The doors can be manufactured by compressing and heating a layered mixture of fine wood particles blended with thermo-set molding resins and coarse wood particles blended with thermo-set binding resins between two molds, which may contain relief patterns. The molded products are strong, solid and have hard, smooth, paint-ready outer surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Inventor: David William Moeller
  • Publication number: 20150130261
    Abstract: A method of designing and producing the spoke section of a vehicle wheel using chopped carbon fiber pre-impregnated composite material is provided, wherein the method allows wheel designers to machine several different wheel designs, wheel diameters, and wheels with different offsets without using different material molds for each, as is customary with traditional carbon fiber reinforced plastic wheels designed using a layup procedure. The present method greatly reduces material waste, engineering design effort for each wheel, and the cost of each wheel over existing methods by using a single mold that can accommodate different wheel designs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Patrick Warren
  • Publication number: 20150133460
    Abstract: This invention provides a compound of formula (I): or a crystalline form thereof, or a pharmaceutical composition thereof, or an oral pharmaceutical dosage form thereof; processes for the synthesis or manufacture of the compound of formula (I), or a crystalline form thereof, or a pharmaceutical composition thereof, or an oral pharmaceutical dosage form thereof; and the use of said compound, or a crystalline form thereof, or a pharmaceutical composition thereof, or an oral pharmaceutical dosage form thereof, for the treatment of patients suffering from or subject to diseases, disorders or conditions involving cell survival, proliferation, and migration, including cardiovascular disease (e.g., arteriosclerosis and vascular reobstruction), cancer, (e.g., AML and malignant glioma) glomerulosclerosis, fibrotic disease and inflammation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Millennium Phamaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Armitage, Abu J. Ferdous, Michael E. Bourland, Craig S.J. Boyle, Martin Ian Cooper, Marianne Langston
  • Patent number: 8986581
    Abstract: A method for producing biochar particles or pellets which use sulphur and other additives. The method includes producing a mixture with biochar and additives selected from sulphur, lignin, and gluten. The mixture is mixed with water and passed through an extruder to produce an extrudate. The extrudate is then cut into pellets. The pellets are then tumbled/spun with each other and heated to result in mostly spheroidal pellets whose mechanical characteristics allow them to be used with well-known agricultural equipment. The biochar can be produced with sulphur incorporated as an outer coating. To produce this sulphur coated biochar, the method includes feeding a biomass feedstock to a pyrolysis reactor, pyrolyzing the feedstock into biochar particles, size-sorting the biochar particles, and coating the biochar particles with the sulphur coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Carbron Basis Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Leonard Bruce Eddy, Jack Wolstenholme, Paul Byron Tiege, Nancy Yadira Meza Trevino, Jesus Josafath Quezada Rivera
  • Patent number: 8974710
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pellet mill (20) for preparing pellets from a pelletizable material supplied to the pellet mill (20), comprising a frame (22), a main axle (28) rotatably mounted in said frame (22) and having a first end (30) and an opposite second end (32), an annular die (42) being supported by said second end (32) and having an inner surface (44) for receiving a portion of said pelletizable material (106) supplied to said pellet mill (20), an outer surface (46), and a plurality of radial channels (48) extending from said inner surface (44) to said outer surface (46) for preparing pellets from said portion of said pelletizable material (106), a roller holder (54) supported by said frame (22), a number of roller axles (64), each of said number of roller axles being moveably mounted in said roller holder (54), said roller axles may move in said roller holder (54) in the event of an overload to prevent damage to the pellet mill, a number of rollers (80), each of said number of rollers being rot
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Andritz AG
    Inventors: Jesper Blok, Tomas Kiré Hørdum, Steen G. Lassen
  • Patent number: 8961859
    Abstract: There are provided expandable polystyrene resin particles formed by granulating a polystyrene resin containing an expanding agent, wherein the weight-average molecular weight Mw of the polystyrene resin is in the range of 120,000 to 270,000, and the expanding agent contains, as an essential component, pentane at a proportion of 3 to 8 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the polystyrene resin, while the composition of the pentane is in the range of isopentane:normal pentane=10:90 to 80:20 by mass ratio. These expandable polystyrene resin particles can utilize a recycled raw material, and can produce a molded foam product having sufficient mechanical strength, while the expandable polystyrene resin particles have a long bead life and excellent low pressure moldability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sekisui Plastics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Chinomi, Hiroyuki Tarumoto, Yoshifumi Saitou
  • Patent number: 8951453
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes mixing a plurality of carbon fibers in a liquid carrier to form a mixture, depositing the carbon fiber mixture in a layer, forming a plurality of corrugations in the carbon fiber layer, and rigidifying the corrugated carbon fiber layer to form a corrugated carbon fiber preform. In another example, a method includes substantially aligning a first ridge on a first surface of a first corrugated carbon fiber preform and a first groove on a first surface of a second corrugated carbon fiber preform, bringing the first surface of the first corrugated carbon fiber preform into contact with the first surface of the second corrugated carbon fiber preform, and densifying the first corrugated carbon fiber preform and the second carbon fiber preform to bond the first corrugated carbon fiber preform and the second carbon fiber preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Mark L. La Forest, Slawomir T. Fryska
  • Publication number: 20150031737
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stabilized controlled-release pharmaceutical composition comprising gliclazide and sodium citrate as stabilizing agent; and process for the preparation of said pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Ravindra Agarwal, Ajay Kumar Dobhal, Ravi Kochhar
  • Patent number: 8932715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to maintaining bioactive molecules in their native or substantially near-native form and preventing or reduce aggregation. In particular, the present invention relates to precipitation-protective or stabilizing additives and a method of using said precipitation-protective/stabilizing additives to protect and maintain the bioactive molecules in a native or substantially near-native form and to prevent or reduce aggregation during or following precipitation to form particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: University of Strathclyde
    Inventors: Barry Douglas Moore, Jan Vos, Johann Partridge
  • Publication number: 20140374942
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a bag body that has a bag-shaped member made of an elastic and airtight material, and a granular substance filled inside of the bag-shaped member, includes a step of preparing a core for forming the bag-shaped member, by hardening the granular substance; a step of forming the bag-shaped member by forming a covering made of the elastic and airtight material around the core; and a step of breaking up the core that is inside of the bag-shaped member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirofumi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8865781
    Abstract: A method of processing waste carpet or matting material to separate constituent materials thereof, includes optionally drying the material and then cooling the material to a temperature at which at least one constituent material therein is embrittled. A mechanical force is applied to the cooled material causing the embrittled constituent material to break into fragments. Optionally, the material from the previous step is dried. The material is then separated to separate the fragments of constituent material from other constituent material. The carpet material can be initially shredded into coarse pieces. The procedure may be repeated optionally with different temperatures to selectively embrittle and fragment different components and facilitate their separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignees: Haydale Limited, Desso Group BV
    Inventor: Ian Walters
  • Publication number: 20140308519
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for recycling broad goods material into a flaked feed material. The broad goods material includes reinforcement fibers and thermoplastic material. The recycling method includes applying heat and pressure to impregnate the reinforcement fibers at a filament level with the thermoplastic material to form an impregnated fiber material. The method also includes cooling the impregnated fiber material, and cutting the cooled impregnated fiber material into flakes to produce the flaked feed material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: The Boeing Company
  • Patent number: 8821774
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing high molecular weight polyethylene fibers, including subjecting a polyethylene tape with a weight average molecular weight of at least 500,000 grams/mole, a Mw/Mn ratio of at most 6, and a 200/110 uniplanar orientation parameter of at least 3 to a force in the direction of the thickness of the tape over the entire width of the tape. A polyethylene fiber having a Mw of at least 500 000 gram/mole, a Mw/Mn ratio of at most 6, and a 020 uniplanar orientation value of at most 55°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Teijin Aramid B.V.
    Inventors: Anton Peter De Weijer, Martinus Wilhelmus Maria Gemma Peters, Joris Eem Van Der, Hendrik Van De Hee
  • Patent number: 8784587
    Abstract: Building panels and a method to produce such panels including a solid decorative surface having a decorative wear layer including fibers, binders, color substance and wear resistant particles. A method of manufacturing a building panel having a decorative surface connected to a core wherein the surface has at least two homogenous layers, a lower sub layer and an upper decorative layer, the upper decorative layer including fibers, a first color substance a binder and wear resistant particles, the lower sub layer including fibers, a second color substance, and a binder, whereby the method including the steps of applying the layers comprising a mix of fibers, binder, wear resistant particles and color substance on a core wherein the layers comprise different colors, displacing particles from their original position such that particles from the sub layer are visible on the decorative surface, and curing the layers by providing heat and pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Valinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Kent Lindgren, Jan Jacobsson, Darko Pervan
  • Publication number: 20140170312
    Abstract: A method of forming rhenium coated metal particles, the method including directly mixing ammonium perrhenate with metal particles and converting the ammonium perrhenate to a rhenium coating on the metal particles, is disclosed. Methods of forming rhenium coated cubic boron nitride particles and rhenium coated diamond particles are also disclosed. Methods of manufacturing components of tools using the rhenium coated metal particles, the rhenium coated cubic boron nitride particles and/or rhenium coated diamond particles are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Smith International, Inc.
    Inventor: Qingyuan Liu
  • Patent number: 8668853
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a three-dimensionally deformable, sheet-like reinforcing structure, wherein material attenuations (3) are incorporated into a sheet-like, cellular base material, distributed over an area of the base material, by means of cutting or sawing, said material attenuations (3) sub-dividing the base material into a plurality of material cells (1) which are delineated from each other by the material attenuations (3) but are still connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: ESC Extended Structured Composites GmbH & Co. Kg
    Inventor: Fritz Michael Streuber
  • Publication number: 20140052264
    Abstract: Porous craniomaxillofacial implants may include a plurality of polymeric particles sintered together at a plurality of contact points to form a porous network having pores; and an antioxidant disposed on a surface of at least some of the polymeric particles and/or in the pore of the porous network, so as to stabilize the implants from at least some oxidative damage during storage, transportation, and/or implementation (in vivo and/or ex vivo). Preferably, the polymeric particles include at least one of polyethylene, a polyethylene-polypropylene copolymer, a polyethylene-polybutylene copolymer, polytetrafluoroethylene, and expanded polytetrafluoroethylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Ticona LLC
    Inventors: Julia Hufen, Anthony Verrocchi, Rainer Walkenhorst
  • Patent number: 8652375
    Abstract: A method of making scrolls is provided that includes providing a tape having a first side and second side wherein the first side of the tape is has an adhesive disposed thereon and the second side of the tape has a release coating disposed thereon, affixing the adhesive to a solid surface, buff-coating exfoliatable particles on the release side of the tape to form a coating; and peeling the tape from the solid surface at an angle. The coating separates from the release side of the tape and curls inwards to form scrolls. The scrolls can include graphite. Also provided is a continuous method of making scrolls and an apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Ranjith Divigalpitiya, Tyler J. E. Clark
  • Publication number: 20140024564
    Abstract: A method of producing a compacted article according to one embodiment may involve the steps of: Providing a copper/molybdenum disulfide composite powder including a substantially homogeneous dispersion of copper and molybdenum disulfide sub-particles that are fused together to form individual particles of the copper/molybdenum disulfide composite powder; and compressing the copper/molybdenum disulfide composite powder under sufficient pressure to cause the copper/molybdenum disulfide composite powder to behave as a nearly solid mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: CLIMAX ENGINEERED MATERIALS, LLC
    Inventors: Yakov Epshteyn, Lawrence J. Corte, Carl V. Cox, Matthew C. Shaw, Alejandra Banda
  • Patent number: 8628865
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a sheet from renewable raw materials. In the method, after mixing a composition to produce a sheet from renewable raw materials, this composition is applied to a conveyor belt. Protruding materials or unevennesses are eliminated with the aid of a device, preferably a simple doctor blade. Without supplying heat, the composition is then subjected to a first drying process on the conveyor belt, before the endless sheet created in this way is cut into sections. The sections are then passed on to final drying in a storage device. After complete drying, regions at the extremities of the sections that have been adversely affected by cutting up the endless sheet are removed from these sections and chopped up into chips. These chips are returned to the further production process in a final method step by feeding them into the composition for producing a sheet from renewable raw materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Strohlos Produktentwicklung KG
    Inventor: Christian Losehand
  • Patent number: 8628843
    Abstract: The present invention provides sintered composite polymeric materials and methods of making and using the same. The sintered composite polymeric materials are made by sintering composite particles comprising a polytetrafluoroethylene component and a carbonaceous component, wherein the carbonaceous component is dispersed throughout the polytetrafluoroethylene component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Porex Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew James MacLennan
  • Patent number: 8623249
    Abstract: A method for producing leather pellets, and a method for producing compound granules from leather pellets and a polymer material, for use in molded parts or films. The leather pellets are produced through the following steps: Shavings, crust leather remnants and finished leather waste are obtained as waste products in leather production and finished leather processing; the shavings, crust leather remnants and finished leather waste are milled into ground leather stock comprising leather fibers; the ground stock is pressed into leather pellets; and the leather pellets are dried to a residual moisture content of no more than 30% by weight. The leather pellets can be mixed with a polymer material at a ratio of 10-95% by weight and bonded to one another and shaped forming compound granules. The compound granules can be used to produce molded parts by injection molding or films by calendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Bader GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Christof Bader