Deforming The Surface Only Patents (Class 264/293)
  • Patent number: 12233617
    Abstract: Systems and methods for texturing substrates (e.g., glass, metal, and the like) and the textured substrates produced using such systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary system for texturing a substrate includes a first roller and a second roller. The first roller has a first textured surface. The first textured surface has a root mean square roughness between 40 to 1000 microns and an autocorrelation function greater than 0.5 for distances less than 50 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: William S. Sweney, Michael Pilliod, Christos Gougoussis
  • Patent number: 12237292
    Abstract: A method comprises: providing a layer of curable adhesive material (4) on a substrate (2); forming a pattern of microstructures (321) on the layer of curable adhesive material (4); curing a first region (42) of the layer of curable adhesive material (4) at a first level and a second region (44) of the layer of curable adhesive material (4) at a second level greater than the first level; providing a solid circuit die (6) to directly attach to a major surface of the first region (42) of the layer of curable adhesive material (4); and further curing the first region (42) of the layer of curable adhesive material (4) to anchor the solid circuit die (6) on the first region (42) by forming an adhesive bond therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Teresa M. Goeddel, Ankit Mahajan, Mikhail L. Pekurovsky, Saagar A. Shah, Kara A. Meyers, Christopher G. Walker
  • Patent number: 12226063
    Abstract: Fibrous structures, for example pre-moistened fibrous structures, having a novel contact surface (micro protrusion surface) and methods for using the fibrous structures and making the fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Cunming Song, Hailing Bao, Antonius Lambertus De Beer
  • Patent number: 12228855
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus capable of stably maintaining the concentration of gas supplied for imprint processing is provided even after the moving direction of a substrate is changed by comprising a gas supply port, and when the moving direction or the substrate is changed so that a next target shot region is to be imprinted, the substrate is moved to a position in the order of the next target shot region, the gas supply port, and the pattern region of a mold from the upstream in a predetermined direction, the substrate is then moved in the predetermined direction so that the next target shot region and the pattern region face each other while supplying the gas from the gas supply port, and then the next target shot region is imprinted by the pattern region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12220539
    Abstract: Systems and methods for altering the geometry of a fluid channel to prevent upstream mobility of bacteria, using angled obstacles on the interior of the channel that among other things creates vortices that restrict the mobility. An optimized geometry can be realized by an artificial intelligence algorithm or similar methods based on performance of various configurations of obstacle parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tingtao Zhou, Xuan Wan, Paul W. Sternberg, Chiara Daraio, Zhengyu Huang, Zongyi Li, Zhiwei Peng, John F. Brady, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Patent number: 12204244
    Abstract: The imprint apparatus according to the present invention for forming a pattern by curing a resin in a state in which a pattern region in a mold is brought into contact with the resin on a shot region in a substrate, includes an element configured to adjust an irradiation region of light from a light source with which the substrate is irradiated, a measurement unit configured to measure a position of a mark formed in the mold, and a controller configured to control a position of the irradiation region with respect to the position of the mark in a plane parallel to a surface of the substrate, based on a measurement result of the position of the mark by the measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Arakawa, Kenichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12195382
    Abstract: A superstrate for forming a planarization layer on a substrate can include a body having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a chamfered edge between the first surface and the second surface. An opaque layer can coat the chamfered edge. In another embodiment, an opaque layer can coat the chamfered edge and a portion of the second surface. The superstrate can be used for more planarization or other processing sequences without causing extrusion defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Steven C. Shackleton, Niyaz Khusnatdinov
  • Patent number: 12179393
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a recoil pad making method and a method of using the same. According to certain embodiments, a recoil pad making method includes the steps of providing a base member attached to a first portion of a cushion member, shaping an amorphous hardening material on a first surface of the first portion to form a second portion of the cushion member, and shaping, prior to hardening of the amorphous hardening material, the amorphous hardening material around a portion of a shoulder of a user to create a second surface of the second portion that has a shoulder facing contour that matches a contour of the portion of the shoulder. The base member configured to be mounted to a buttstock of a gun. The first portion of the cushion member is pre-cured on the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventor: Gerard E. Moy
  • Patent number: 12162998
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of graphene, graphene materials, graphene oxide or reduced graphene oxide and the preparation of graphene, graphene materials, graphene oxide or reduced graphene oxide integrated in a thermoplastic and/or elastomeric polymer or polymer mixture by the effect of friction is produced by kneading, e.g., in an internal mixer with closed chamber or open chamber system, that performs the exfoliation of graphite, graphite oxide or reduced graphite oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: AVANZARE INNOVACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA SL.
    Inventors: Julio Gomez Cordon, Javier Perez Martinez, Luis Otaño Jimenez
  • Patent number: 12138847
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, the apparatus comprising: a supplier configured to supply the imprint material as a plurality of droplets onto the substrate; and a controller configured to control the supplier based on information indicating a target arrangement of the imprint material to be supplied as the plurality of droplets onto a predetermined region of the substrate, wherein the plurality of droplets in the target arrangement include a first droplet group including a plurality of first droplet arrays, a second droplet group including a plurality of second droplet arrays, and a third droplet array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshihiko Nishida
  • Patent number: 12129392
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition for imprinting excellent in imprint properties and optical properties such as high refractive index and low haze. The invention relates to a resin composition for imprinting containing: (A) a polysiloxane resin represented by the following formula (1): (R1SiO3/2)a(R22SiO2/2)b(R33SiO1/2)c(SiO4/2)d wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, a C1-C12 hydrocarbon group, or a C1-C12 substituent having one or more crosslinkable functional groups, with at least one of R1, R2, or R3 being a C1-C12 substituent having one or more crosslinkable functional groups, and when a plurality of R1s, R2s, or R3s are present, they may be different from one another; and a, b, c, and d are numbers satisfying the following conditions: 0.001?a?1.00, 0?b?0.999, 0?c?0.30, 0?d?0.30, and a+b+c+d=1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Nagase ChemteX Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Sugiura, Yohei Uetsuki
  • Patent number: 12109734
    Abstract: An imprint mold-forming substrate is manufactured by providing a starting imprint mold-forming substrate (1) having a patterned portion (2) and a non-patterned portion (5), providing a table (3) having a recess (4), bonding the substrate (1) to the table (3) such that the patterned portion (2) is received in the recess (4) of the table to define a space region (7) between the patterned portion (2) and the table (3) such that the patterned portion is not in direct contact with the table, and performing contour machining on the substrate (1) secured to the table (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamazaki, Daiyu Okafuji, Masaki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12109770
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a spectacle lens including a lens substrate and at least one coating is disclosed. The method includes at least the following steps of providing a lens substrate comprising an uncoated or precoated front surface and an uncoated or precoated back surface, covering at least one of the surfaces of the lens substrate partially or completely with at least one coating composition, drying and/or precuring the at least one coating composition, contacting the surface of the at least one coating composition with at least one mechanical means, curing and/or hardening the at least one coating composition and obtaining a spectacle lens comprising a lens substrate and at least one coating, the surface topography of the at least one coating being modified by the at least one mechanical means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Maximilian Kastner, Michel-René Christmann, Andreu Llobera Adan
  • Patent number: 12109737
    Abstract: Solution casting a nanostructure. Preparing a template by ablating nanoholes in a substrate using single-femtosecond laser machining. Replicating the nanoholes by applying a solution of a polymer and a solvent into the template. After the solvent has substantially dissipated, removing the replica from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ULTRA SMALL FIBERS, LLC
    Inventors: William Hudson Hofmeister, Alexander Yuryevich Terekhov, Jose Lino Vasconcelos da Costa, Kathleen Stacia Lansford, Deepak Rajput, Lloyd M. Davis
  • Patent number: 12097652
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus that forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate with use of a mold includes a mold holding unit configured to hold the mold, a suction unit provided at the mold holding unit and configured to suction a gas in a space in which the mold and the substrate face each other, a detector configured to detect particles included in the gas suctioned by the suction unit, and a control unit configured to perform error processing depending on a result of detection performed by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeru Terashima, Takahiro Nakayama, Yoichi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 12098087
    Abstract: This application relates to a method and system for cutting a brittle body. In one aspect, the method includes preparing a brittle body having a rotary shaft. The method may also include forming a scribing line by irradiating laser on the brittle body along a preset route by using a laser irradiation unit. The method may further include cutting the brittle body by bringing a vibration unit that vibrates at a preset frequency in contact with a first region of the brittle body, which is spaced apart from the scribing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Meere Company Inc.
    Inventors: Joon Jung Lee, Jae Woong Won, Dae Sung Park
  • Patent number: 12087604
    Abstract: A template includes a first mark surrounding a recessed portion disposed in an inside region of the first mark. The first mark is provided with, in a planar view, an inner portion having a pair of first sides opposed to each other and a pair of second sides opposed to each other. The first sides extend in a first direction along the first substrate. The second sides extend in a second direction intersecting with the first direction along the first substrate. The inner portion surrounds the recessed portion of the first mark. An outer portion has a pair of third sides opposed to each other and a pair of fourth sides opposed to each other. The third sides extend in the first direction. The fourth sides extend in the second direction. The outer portion is an outer edge portion of the first mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Takahata
  • Patent number: 12085852
    Abstract: A method of forming an imprint template. A hard mask layer is formed at a first side first side of a template plate. An imprint lithography is performed to form a patterned hard mask covering the first region, the patterned hard mask having a pattern portion and an edge portion defined in the same imprint lithography. The template plate is dry etched with the first region of the template plate covered with the patterned hard mask. An additional mask layer is formed on the patterned hard mask. A wet etch process is performed with both the patterned hard mask and the additional mask layer formed on the template plate to form a mesa under the pattern portion with the edge portion of the hard mask overhanging on the second region of the template plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Amir Tavakkoli Kermani Ghariehali
  • Patent number: 12078926
    Abstract: A molding apparatus configured to mold a cured object by bringing a mold into contact with a curable composition on a processing target substrate and curing the curable composition with the mold in contact therewith includes a priming unit configured to perform processing for applying a mold release agent onto a surface of the mold that contacts the curable composition, the priming unit being configured to apply the mold release agent onto the mold by placing a curable composition containing the mold release agent on a priming substrate, curing the curable composition while the curable composition and the mold in contact with each other, and separating the mold and the cured curable composition. The molding apparatus further includes a recovery unit configured to perform a recovery processing to recover a state of a surface of the priming substrate on which the curable composition is placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiaki Ando
  • Patent number: 12078825
    Abstract: A marker comprising: a retro-reflective layer having a first retro-reflectance capability and a border defining a retro-reflective area of the retro-reflective layer. The retro-reflective layer includes a textured surface, a portion of the textured surface having a surface topology such that surface normal vectors positioned across the portion extend from the portion of the textured surface in different directions. A plurality of retro-reflective micro elements are distributed across the textured surface. A portion of the border provides a second retro-reflectance capability lower than the first retro-reflectance capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Northern Digital Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Chen, Derek Peter Zwambag, Shaulaine White, Athanasios Tommy Balkos
  • Patent number: 12070974
    Abstract: Method for controlling the symmetry of the footprint area of a tyre miming on a straight trajectory with camber angle different from zero, wherein the method comprises the steps: —reducing the contact pressure of the tyre (2) on the footprint area at an inner shoulder (in case of negative camber) or at an outer shoulder (in case of positive camber); —disposing any medium line (Im) of the tread band (9) placed in correspondence with the footprint area substantially parallel to the ground; the invention also defines a tyre and a wheel for motor-vehicles, wherein the medium line (Im) of the tread hand (9) and the rotation axis (X-X) of the tyre (2) form an angle (a) substantially equal in absolute value to the camber angle (?); the invention also encompasses a process for manufacturing such tyres, wherein a green tyre with symmetric outer profile is deformed during the vulcanising and moulding step until a predetermined angle (a) different from zero is formed between any medium line (Im) of the tread band (9) an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: PIRELLI TYRE S.p.A.
    Inventor: Piero Losi
  • Patent number: 12065383
    Abstract: An oriented ceramic sintered body production method includes (a) a step of preparing a ceramic compact before firing into an oriented ceramic sintered body; and (b) a step of obtaining an oriented ceramic sintered body by sandwiching the ceramic compact between a pair of releasing sheets, placing the ceramic compact and the releasing sheets in a hot press firing furnace, and hot press firing the ceramic compact while applying a pressure by a pair of punches through the pair of releasing sheets, wherein each of the releasing sheets is a releasing sheet such that, after the releasing sheet is sandwiched between PET films, is then placed and vacuum-packed on a stainless steel sheet, and is isostatically pressed at 200 kg/cm2, a surface of the releasing sheet on the side opposite from the stainless steel sheet has a profile curve with a total profile height Pt of 0.8 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Morimichi Watanabe, Kei Sato, Kiyoshi Matsushima, Takahiro Maeda, Jun Yoshikawa, Tsutomu Nanataki
  • Patent number: 12036715
    Abstract: A resin sheet having hairlike bodies arranged regularly on at least one surface of an underlayer can be manufactured by forming the bodies by: melt extruding, from a die with an extrusion molding method, a thermoplastic resin having, on a log-log graph having elongational viscosity ?(t) (unit: Pa·S) as measured at a strain rate of 0.5 (unit: S?1) and at a temperature at which elongation is possible as the vertical axis and elongation time t (unit: S) as the horizontal axis, a region in which the slope (log ?/log t) in the interval 0.1<t<1.0 is no greater than 0.5 and by the temperature range wherein the adhesive force in probe tack measurement is 0.05-0.25 N/mm2 at least partially overlapping with the temperature at which elongation is possible; and casting using a transfer roll on which a relief process has been performed and a touch roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Keishi Maeda, Junpei Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 12011870
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a surface-layered part comprises: a main support that supports a surface layer member to be placed under a base member; a pulling device arranged at a periphery of the main support, wherein the pulling device includes a pulling member that pulls an edge of the surface layer member, which is in a position away from the edge of the base member, outward with respect to the base member; a base member clamping device that fixedly clamps the surface layer member, having been pulled outward by the pulling member of the pulling device, against the main support via the base member placed over the surface layer member; and a relieving device that separates the pulling member from the edge of the surface layer member, which has been moved outward with respect to the base member by the pulling device, to allow the edge of the surface layer member to wrap around the edge of the base member by an elastic restoring force of the surface layer member, thereby integrating them; and a control devi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA IRON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Usami
  • Patent number: 11999150
    Abstract: A nonwoven web for an absorbent article is provided. The nonwoven web includes a first surface and a second surface. The nonwoven web includes a repeat unit comprising a visually discernible pattern of three-dimensional features on the first surface or the second surface. The three-dimensional features comprise one or more first regions and a plurality of second regions. The one or more first regions are different than the plurality of second regions. The one or more first regions comprise a plurality of substantially linear segments. A first group of the plurality of substantially linear segments intersects with a second group of the plurality of substantially linear segments at angles of intersection. The angles of intersection are in the range of about 70 degrees to about 110 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Sara L. Giovanni, Keith Alvarado, Brittany D. Canfield
  • Patent number: 11992978
    Abstract: A method for generating a pattern of indentations in a surface of a thermoplastic textile includes processing the thermoplastic textile with a mold comprising at least one subunit adapted to create at least one subpattern of the pattern, wherein the at least one subunit is at least one of exchangeable or reconfigurable; fusing at least one indentation of the pattern of indentations into the thermoplastic textile by applying heat and pressure; and exchanging the at least one subunit with a second at least one subunit or reconfiguring a spatial arrangement of a footprint of the at least one subunit within the mold from a first spatial arrangement to a second spatial arrangement, wherein a footprint of the at least one subunit is different than a footprint of the second at least one subunit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Clemens Dyckmans, Florian Fick
  • Patent number: 11987023
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of a composite material, by bonding a supportive layer to an upper layer (1) made of polyurethane or flexible PVC, where the supportive layer (2) is a textile material, e.g. woven fabric, knitted fabric or nonwoven microfiber fabric, or a leather, in particular a split cowhide leather, and the upper layer (1) comprises, bonded to one another, a number of polyurethane layers or a number of flexible PVC layers (1?, 1?). The invention provides that in the composite of upper layer (1) and supportive layer (2), proceeding from the surface of the upper layer (1), channel-shaped cavities (6) for the passage of water vapor and/or air are formed via ablation of material by a laser in a manner such that at least some of the cavities (6) penetrate the entire thickness of the material of the upper layer (1) and/or terminate before entry into that region of the volume of the supportive layer (2) that is free from the material of the upper layer (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Konrad Hornschuch AG
    Inventors: Philipp Schaefer, Birgit Kammerer
  • Patent number: 11958211
    Abstract: A block, block system and method of making a wall block. A block with multiple embodiments of a visually exposed surface having three dimensional shaped areas and three dimensional angular valleys or joints that can be used to construct a patio, wall, fence or the like; the multiple embodiments creating a more random and natural appearance. A mold box having a moveable liner and a stripper shoe that impart three dimensional shaped areas and three dimensional angular valleys or joints onto an exposed surface of a block. The moveable liner and stripper shoe also impart a parting line onto the exposed surface of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Keystone Retaining Wall Systems LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. MacDonald, Thomas S. Riccobene
  • Patent number: 11942352
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an LED display is disclosed. The method includes picking up a plurality of LED chips spaced apart at a first interval with a stretchable stamp, spacing apart the plurality of LED chips at a second interval by stretching the stretchable stamp, and transferring the plurality of LED chips to a target substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dahl Young Khang, Byong Joo Lee
  • Patent number: 11921423
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus executes imprint processing of curing imprint material in a state in which the imprint material supplied onto a substrate and a mold are in contact with each other. The imprint apparatus includes a modulator configured to modulate incident light, a first optical system configured to guide first light from a first light source to the modulator, and second light from a second light source that has a wavelength different from that of the first light to the modulator, and a second optical system configured to guide modulated light modulated by the modulator to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Kobayashi, Tatsuya Arakawa
  • Patent number: 11904522
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus that forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate by using a mold includes a mold holder that holds the mold and an optical system that irradiates the imprint material on the substrate with irradiation light for increasing a viscosity of the imprint material. The irradiation light has a light intensity distribution such that a light intensity increases from a center of a pattern portion of the mold toward a side surface of the pattern portion when the mold is held by the mold holder. The imprint material that moves from the center of the pattern portion of the mold toward the side surface of the pattern portion in a region including the side surface of the pattern portion of the mold is irradiated with the irradiation light while the mold and the imprint material on the substrate are in contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hayashi, Tomomi Funayoshi, Kenichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11897238
    Abstract: A thermoplastic film which embodies a three-dimensional pattern. The thermoplastic film comprises a three-dimensional pattern including at least three sub-patterns of deformations. The shape, positioning, and pattern deformation density of the at least three sub-patterns of deformations cause the three-dimensional pattern to give the thermoplastic film a thicker appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: The Glad Products Company
    Inventors: Edward B. Tucker, Robert T. Dorsey, Zeljko Vidovic
  • Patent number: 11889888
    Abstract: In the present invention, a shoe sole member is composed of a foam that has a non-foamed film having a thickness of 50 ?m or more on a lateral surface of the foam constituting at least a part of an outer peripheral surface of the shoe sole, in order to provide the shoe sole member composed of the foam having both stiffness and shock absorbing properties and provide a shoe excellent in shock absorbing properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ASICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Tanabe, Kenta Moriyasu, Shinsaku Wakasugi
  • Patent number: 11874599
    Abstract: Provided is a method of providing a patterned layer (50). The method comprises providing (2, 3A, 3B) a substrate (10) having a surface (11) to which a compound is applied. The compound has at least one condensable group which is reactive with surface groups on the surface of the substrate by condensation reaction. The compound also has a basic group for accepting protons. A layer of a polycondensable imprinting composition (30) is applied (4) onto the layer of the compound. The imprinting composition layer is imprinted (5A, 5B, 5C) with a patterned stamp. During the imprinting, polycondensation of the imprinting composition leads to forming of the patterned layer. Further provided is the patterned layer itself, as well as an optical element and an etch mask, each of which comprises the patterned layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Marcus Antonius Verschuuren
  • Patent number: 11858139
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and systems are disclosed for a robotic manipulator system including a robotic manipulator, a controller, one or more sensors, and a support structure. The support structure may be non-planar and/or deformable and may be designed to support an object on an upper surface. The one or more sensors may be directed towards the support structure and object. The controller and/or another computing device in communication with the controller may determine geometry of the support structure and may know or determine a compression value of the support structure. Using the compression value and/or geometry of the support structure, the controller may cause the robotic manipulator to grasp the object from the support structure and move the object to a new location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Can Erdogan, Kiru Park, Johannes Kulick, Zoltan Beck, Michael Nalin Mistry, Lesley Yu
  • Patent number: 11840029
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a method for manufacturing a composite panel including a cellular central core interposed between two skins. The manufacturing method includes the steps of manufacture of an element with a cellular structure comprising a cellular core structure interposed between two layers of structural plies intended to form the skins, positioning of the element with a cellular structure within a mold, formation of drains on either side of the cellular core structure, infusion of the element with a cellular structure so as to impregnate it with a resin, carrying out a draining of the resin through the drains in the element with a cellular structure during the infusion step, the drains having a geometry configured to provide draining, and polymerization of the impregnated element with a cellular structure to form the composite panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Clément Rolland, Jean Baptiste Delarue, Jean Jacques Thomas, Vianney Hus, Mathieu Preau, Alain Roussel
  • Patent number: 11840053
    Abstract: The method for producing a skin material is a method for producing a skin material having a concave part formed on the front surface side, comprising heat-pressing a raw material between an embossing die and an elastic sheet to form the concave part and, at the same time, forming a convex part on a bottom surface of the concave part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Yamane, Yoshiaki Tomasu
  • Patent number: 11820068
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus that forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold is described. The apparatus includes a measurement unit that measures one of a displacement and a position of a second surface opposite to a first surface on a side of a pattern region of the mold in a portion of the mold. The portion includes the pattern region and is deformed into a convex shape toward a side of the substrate upon bringing the imprint material on the substrate and the pattern region into contact with each other. The apparatus also includes a control unit that controls a distance between the mold and the substrate based on a measurement value of the measurement unit, such that a shape of the pattern region is kept constant upon curing the imprint material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Torii
  • Patent number: 11807572
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass sheet including a first main surface and a second main surface opposing the first main surface, in which the glass sheet has an affected layer directly below the first main surface, in at least a part of the first main surface, an average element length RSm is from 2500 nm to 6000 nm, a root-mean-square height Sq is from 3 nm to 45 nm, and a skewness Ssk is a negative value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Misa Inamoto, Satoru Tomeno, Yuki Aoshima
  • Patent number: 11787352
    Abstract: A vehicle applique includes a base structure and a polymeric coating disposed on the base structure. The polymeric coating at least partially covers an outer surface of the base structure. A diffraction grating is integrally defined by the polymeric coating. The diffraction grating has a thickness in a range of from about 100 nm to about 300 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Kenneth Dellock, Richard Gall, David Brian Glickman, Stuart C. Salter, Cornel Lewis Gardner
  • Patent number: 11759994
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus for forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, includes a mold holding unit including an actuator for moving mold, a force sensor detecting force generated by actuator, a position sensor measuring a position of mold, and a controlling unit controlling operation of mold holding unit. The controlling unit controls mold holding unit according to either a force imprint profile or a position imprint profile. The force imprint profile is for controlling movement of mold based on force generated by actuator and detected by force sensor. The position imprint profile is for controlling movement of mold based on position of mold measured by position sensor. When pattern of imprint material is formed on substrate, either force imprint profile or position imprint profile is selectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Shiode
  • Patent number: 11745409
    Abstract: A storage device stores an ejection cartridge including an accommodating container that accommodates an ejection material, and an ejection head that includes an ejection port for ejecting the ejection material accommodated in the accommodating container. The storage device includes a mount on which the ejection cartridge is mounted, and includes a pressure regulating tank configured to control a pressure of an inside of the accommodating container of the ejection cartridge fixed to the mount with its ejection port not enclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuto Kawahara, Yoshimasa Araki, Yutaka Mita, Noriyasu Hasegawa, Yuichi Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11726403
    Abstract: In order to provide an information processing apparatus in which a correction work time for coating information is shortened, an information processing apparatus for an imprint apparatus configured to perform an imprint process of forming a pattern on an imprint material (R) on a substrate (W) using a mold on the basis of coating information indicating a position of the imprint material (R) includes: at least one processor or circuit which function as: an obtaining unit configured to obtain inspection information regarding a result of an inspection of the substrate (W) which has been subjected to the imprint process; an analysis unit configured to analyze the inspection information and obtain analysis information associated with the result of the imprint process; and a display control unit configured to display at least any of the inspection information and the analysis information on a screen of a display apparatus at the same time with the coating information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Sato, Sentaro Aihara
  • Patent number: 11714352
    Abstract: An imprinting apparatus which is advantageous in improving the overlay accuracy in a shot located on an outer circumference of a substrate is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Nawata
  • Patent number: 11709421
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus for forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold having a mesa including a pattern region where a pattern and a mark are formed. The apparatus includes an alignment optical system which includes an illumination system configured to illuminate the mark with illumination light and a detecting system configured to detect an image of the mark illuminated by the illumination system. The illumination system includes a limiter configured to limit incidence of the illumination light to a side of the mesa, a ridge line of the mesa, and an outer region of the side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken-ichiro Shinoda, Tooru Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11705535
    Abstract: A nano-indent process for creating a single photon emitter in a two-dimensional materials platform comprising the steps of providing a substrate, providing a layer of polymer, providing a layer of two-dimensional material, utilizing a proximal probe, applying mechanical stress to the layer of two-dimensional material and to the layer of polymer, deforming the layer of two-dimensional material and the layer of polymer, and forming a nano-indent in the two-dimensional material. A single photon emitter in a two-dimensional materials platform comprising a substrate, a deformable polymer film, a two-dimensional material, and a nano-indent in the two-dimensional material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Berend T. Jonker, Matthew R. Rosenberger, Hsun-Jen Chuang, Joshua R. Hendrickson, Chandriker Kavir Dass
  • Patent number: 11697906
    Abstract: Active agent-containing articles, for example fibrous structures, that exhibit consumer acceptable article in-use properties, such as flexibility, article dimensions, and/or dissolvability, and product-shipping assemblies for containing the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Frank William Denome, Stephen Robert Glassmeyer, Michael Sean Pratt, Gregory Charles Gordon, Mark Robert Sivik
  • Patent number: 11697904
    Abstract: Active agent-containing articles, for example fibrous structures, that exhibit consumer acceptable article in-use properties, such as article peel strength, flexibility, and/or dissolvability, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Sean Pratt, Stephen Robert Glassmeyer, Gregory Charles Gordon, Mark Robert Sivik, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Patent number: 11692323
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, methods and techniques for generating preferred concrete block products are provided. The methods and techniques involve providing addition of color to selected section within the blocks (1), as described herein, to generate enhancement effects. Typical applications involve spray applications for color pigment to visually distinct sections of the block (1) on one or more decorative surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Anchor Wall Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher W. Becker, Glenn C. Bolles, Jay J. Johnson, Jonathan M. Schlueter, Robert B. Burnquist, Steven P. Bennett
  • Patent number: 11678721
    Abstract: A variety of plates for footwear are provided including a polyolefin resin. Sole structures and articles of footwear formed therefrom are also provided. Methods of making the polyolefin resin compositions, plates, sole structures, and articles of footwear are also provided. In some aspects, the polyolefin resin composition includes an effective amount of a polymeric resin modifier. The effective amount can be an amount effective to allow the resin composition to pass a flex test, and in particular to pass a flex test without significant change in abrasion loss. In some aspects, the resin composition also includes a clarifying agent to improve optical clarity of the plate. In some aspects, the plates include a textile disposed on one or both of a first side and the second side of the plate. The textile can provide for improved bonding of the plate to other components such as a chassis or an upper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, INC.
    Inventors: Bhupesh Dua, Isaac Farr, Devon Frazier, Jeremy D. Walker, Zachary C. Wright