Metal Coating Patents (Class 427/404)
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Patent number: 12208596Abstract: An improved sheet for making a three-dimensional article for holding food, such as a food tray, and a method of making a three-dimensional article. The sheet comprises a substrate and a laminate film. The laminate film may comprise a ceramic film and a copolymer layer. The copolymer layer can repair any cracks that occur due in the ceramic film when the sheet is thermoformed. The food tray is considered a single material that is recyclable.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.Inventor: Richard A. Schwarz
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Patent number: 12186803Abstract: Disclosed are a nickel-based superalloy formed by selective laser melting and a preparation method thereof. In the method, CrFeNb alloy powder is used as a grain refiner, and its element composition is within the composition range of a nickel-based superalloy powder to ensure that the prepared nickel-based superalloy has the same element composition with the original alloy; the grain size in the nickel-based superalloy could be refined by the addition of CrFeNb alloy powder, such that the anisotropic columnar grain structure in the alloy is transformed to equiaxed grain structure, thereby improving mechanical properties of the alloy.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityInventors: Haijun Su, Yong Zhao, Meng Wang, Jun Zhang, Min Guo, Lin Liu, Hengzhi Fu
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Patent number: 12158437Abstract: XPS spectra are used to analyze and monitor various steps in the selective deposition process. A goodness of passivation value is derived to analyze and quantify the quality of the passivation step. A selectivity figure of merit value is derived to analyze and quantify the selectivity of the deposition process, especially for selective deposition in the presence of passivation. A ratio of the selectivity figure of merit to maximum selectivity value can also be used to characterize and monitor the deposition process.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventors: Charles Larson, Kavita Shah, Wei T Lee
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Patent number: 12120938Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to sub-pixel circuits and methods of forming sub-pixel circuits that may be utilized in a display such as an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The device includes a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels defined by adjacent pixel-defining layer (PDL) structures with inorganic overhang structures disposed on the PDL structures, each sub-pixel having an anode, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) material disposed on the anode, and a cathode disposed on the OLED material. The device is made by a process including the steps of: depositing the OLED material and the cathode by evaporation deposition, and depositing an encapsulation layer disposed over the cathode.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Ji Young Choung, Dieter Haas, Yu-hsin Lin, Jungmin Lee, Seong Ho Yoo, Si Kyoung Kim
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Patent number: 12085039Abstract: Provided are a composite coating, a piston, an engine, and a vehicle. The composite coating comprises a metal bonding layer, a transition layer, a ceramic layer, and a sealing layer which are sequentially laminated, wherein the metal bonding layer is configured to be bonded with a piston basic body, the metal bonding layer is a rare earth metal modified bonding layer, and the transition layer is a rare earth metal modified zirconia layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: WEICHAI POWER CO., LTD.Inventors: Fei Ma, Ninglu Wang, Lingyan Guo, Shanhong Wan, Guolong Huang, Qiangzhen Zang
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Patent number: 12010767Abstract: A glass plate according to the present disclosure includes: a coated area and an uncoated area; a heating layer that is coated on the coated area and includes a conductive material generating heat by receiving power; and two bus bars that extend along an extension direction, that are electrically connected to the heating layer to supply the power to the heating layer, and that are spaced apart from each other along a reference direction orthogonal to the extension direction. The uncoated area includes a plurality of uncoated lines having a length along the reference direction and formed as a single line bent at least once. The plurality of uncoated lines is disposed to be spaced apart along the extension direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, KCC Glass CorporationInventors: Jong Min Park, Nak Kyoung Kong, Jang Suk Hong, Chan Hee Park, Yong Jin Kong
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Patent number: 11910657Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to sub-pixel circuits and methods of forming sub-pixel circuits that may be utilized in a display such as an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The device includes a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels defined by adjacent pixel-defining layer (PDL) structures with inorganic overhang structures disposed on the PDL structures, each sub-pixel having an anode, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) material disposed on the anode, and a cathode disposed on the OLED material. The device is made by a process including the steps of: depositing the OLED material and the cathode by evaporation deposition, and depositing an encapsulation layer disposed over the cathode.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Ji-young Choung, Dieter Haas, Yu Hsin Lin, Jungmin Lee, Seong Ho Yoo, Si Kyoung Kim
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Patent number: 11824229Abstract: The present invention includes methods of manufacturing a metal infused graphitic material. Also described is how this device may be rendered impermeable. The present invention includes the electroplating/electroless deposition of metal on exposed internal and external surfaces of a porous graphitic substrate. The deposition of metal on the internal structure is accomplished by replacing the void space in the porous substrate with an electrolyte solution containing dissolved metallic species. The plating is initiated either through electrochemical means, electroless means, chemical vapor deposition means, or other means obvious to one familiar in the art of metal plating. A post-deposition bath is also described wherein the plating may be removed from one or both sides of the external surface without impacting the internal pore plating.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: NEXGEN Materials, LLCInventors: Alexander A. Bistrika, Jacob Donovan Tenhoff, Erica Viola Lewis, Jordan Loos, Gerard W. Kesselring, Bill Jay Brooks
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Patent number: 11795829Abstract: A calcium-magnesium-alumino-silicate (CMAS)-reactive thermal barrier coating includes a ceramic coating and a CMAS-reactive overlay coating, wherein the CMAS-reactive overlay coating conforms to a surface of the ceramic coating and comprises a compound that forms a stable high melting point crystalline precipitate when reacted with molten CMAS at a rate that is competitive with CMAS infiltration kinetics into the thermal barrier coating. The ceramic coating phase is stable with the CMAS-reactive overlay coating.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: RTX CorporationInventors: Brian T. Hazel, Elisa M. Zaleski, Kaylan M. Wessels
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Patent number: 11769679Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for improving film thickness uniformity, wherein a PECVD machine with twin chambers comprise a wafer heating platform, which is set to be a rotating platform with programmable speed control, by setting rotating speed of the platform, wafer is rotated for integral rounds within process time, so that a RF overlap between the twin chambers make consistent influence on edge regions of the wafer, and film around the wafer is evenly distributed, which not only eliminate abrupt change of film thickness caused by the RF overlap, but also reduce film thickness differences between edge regions and central regions of the film by a characteristic that the RF overlap improves film deposition rate, so as to ensure the film thickness more evenly in the range of the whole wafer.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI IC R&D CENTER CO., LTDInventors: Xiaolan Zhong, Xiaoxu Kang
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Patent number: 11742186Abstract: Methods and apparatus for preparing a protective coating are described. In one example aspect, a method for preparing a protective coating includes positioning one or more target objects into a chamber. The chamber comprises a movable substrate and one or more trays coupled to the movable substrate to hold the one or more target objects such that the one or more target objects are movable within the chamber. The method also includes adding a monomer vapor into the chamber and performing a chemical vapor deposition process that comprises at least one cycle, each including a pretreatment phase and a coating phase.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Jiangsu Favored Nanotechnology Co., LTDInventor: Jian Zong
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Patent number: 11713504Abstract: Described are multi-layer coatings, substrates (i.e., articles) coated with a multi-layer coating, and methods of preparing a multi-layer coating by atomic layer deposition, wherein the coating includes layers alumina and yttria.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: ENTEGRIS, INC.Inventors: I-Kuan Lin, Carlo Waldfried, Chandrasekaran Venkatraman
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Patent number: 11636982Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body and external electrodes provided on opposing end surfaces of the multilayer body. Each external electrode includes an underlying electrode layer including metal components and ceramic components, and plating layers on the underlying electrode layer. A metal of the plating layer on the underlying electrode layer diffuses into the underlying electrode layer to extend from a surface layer of the underlying electrode layer to an interface of the multilayer body, and exists at an interface where the metal components included in the underlying electrode layer are in contact with each other, an interface where the metal component and the ceramic component included in the underlying electrode layer are in contact with each other, and an interface between the metal component included in the underlying electrode layer and the multilayer body.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Taisuke Kanzaki, Kosuke Onishi
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Patent number: 11466369Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for recovering a precious metal selectively adsorbed on a porous porphyrin polymer, and to an electroless plating method capable of recovering a precious metal in a film form by desorbing and leaching the precious metal without an additional oxidizing agent and using same as a plating solution to reduce the precious metal on the surface of a substrate without an additional reducing agent.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jong-In Han, Jieun Son, Cafer Yavuz, Youngran Hong
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Patent number: 10944017Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stacked photoelectric conversion device includes forming an intermediate transparent conductive layer on a light-receiving surface of a crystalline silicon-based photoelectric conversion unit including a crystalline silicon substrate, and forming a thin-film photoelectric conversion unit on the intermediate transparent conductive layer. The stacked photoelectric conversion device includes the crystalline silicon-based photoelectric conversion unit, the intermediate transparent conductive layer, and the thin-film photoelectric conversion unit. The light-receiving surface of the crystalline silicon-based photoelectric conversion unit has a textured surface including a plurality of projections and recesses. The textured surface has an average height of 0.5 ?m or more. The intermediate transparent conductive layer fills the recesses of the textured surface and covers the tops of the projections of the textured surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Mishima, Masashi Hino, Tomomi Meguro
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Patent number: 10815161Abstract: The present invention is directed to embodiments of reactive material (RM) and an associated chemical time delay that includes an RM, according to an embodiment of the present invention. One embodiment includes a delay material that is an RM patterned on a substrate using lithographic techniques. Another embodiment includes a delay material that is an RM deposited on a patterned substrate such as a mesh. The present invention also includes a chemical time delay that includes either embodiment of the delay material, or any variation on the delay material that would be known to or conceivable to one of skill in the art.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Timothy P. Weihs, Kyle Overdeep
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Patent number: 10711370Abstract: An epitaxial growing device to increase the speed of epitaxial deposition comprises a cavity comprising a reaction chamber, a gas supply unit, a vacuum pumping unit, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a carbon nanotube structure. A gas supply unit and the vacuum pumping unit are connected to the reaction chamber, the first electrode, the second electrode, and the carbon nanotube structure being located in the reaction chamber. The carbon nanotube structure is electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode and suspended through the first electrode and the second electrode and is heatable in itself. A method for growing an epitaxial layer using such device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Peng Lei, Peng Liu, Kai-Li Jiang, Shou-Shan Fan
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Patent number: 10388590Abstract: A cooling bond layer for a power electronics assembly is provided. The cooling bond layer includes a first end, a second end spaced apart from the first end, a metal matrix extending between the first end and the second end, and a plurality of micro-channels extending through the metal matrix from the first end to the second end. The plurality of micro-channels are configured for a cooling fluid to flow through and remove heat from the cooling bond layer. In some embodiments, the plurality of micro-channels are cylindrical shaped micro-channels. In such embodiments, the plurality of micro-channels may have a generally constant average inner diameter along a thickness of the cooling bond layer. In the alternative, the plurality of micro-channels may have a graded average inner diameter along a thickness of the cooling bond layer. In other embodiments, the plurality of micro-channels may have a wire mesh layered structure.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Shailesh N. Joshi, Ercan Mehmet Dede
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Patent number: 10242763Abstract: A joined body 20 includes a first member 22 having a thermal expansion coefficient of 8 ppm/K or less, a second member 24 having a thermal expansion coefficient of 12 ppm/K or more, and a joining portion 30 composed of an electrically conductive oxide containing 50% by mass or more of a spinel-type ferrite phase, the joining portion 30 joining the first member and the second member. The electrically conductive oxide preferably contains Fe and element A (where element A represents one or more selected from the group consisting of Mg, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn). The molar ratio of element A to Fe, i.e., A/Fe, is 0.5 or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Yoshimasa Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9961819Abstract: An auxiliary adhesive dispensing apparatus is connected to a printed circuit board (PCB) through an opening on a side surface of a shielding cover above the PCB, and the auxiliary adhesive dispensing apparatus includes a flow guiding groove, an adhesive-injection opening connected to an end of the flow guiding groove, and a fixing part connecting the flow guiding groove and the PCB. The auxiliary adhesive dispensing apparatus is connected to a PCB through an opening on a side surface of a shielding cover above the PCB. By means of the auxiliary adhesive dispensing apparatus, an adhesive dispensing operation can still be performed after a shielding cover is mounted, so that the adhesive dispensing operation can be performed after second-reflow soldering processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE (DONGGUAN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Fuqiang Ma, Haixing Ding
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Patent number: 9802390Abstract: Cracking of a laminated glass assembly having a device encapsulated therein during the manufacturing process is prevented. The laminated glass assembly includes a first and a second glass sheet; a first, a second and a third intermediate film interposed between the first and second glass sheets, in that order; an organic EL panel interposed between the first and second intermediate films and provided with a terminal member; and a first wiring member consisting of a metallic thin strip connected to the terminal member in a thickness-wise direction via a first solder; wherein at least one of the two glass sheets has a thickness of 1.0 mm to 1.6 mm; and at a connecting portion of the terminal member, the first solder and the first wiring member, the first wiring member has a thickness of 0.05 mm to 0.10 mm and a width of 3 mm to 15 mm, and the first solder has a thickness of 0.01 mm to 0.20 mm; and a total thickness of the terminal member, the first solder and the first wiring member is 0.16 mm to 0.40 mm.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignees: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd., Pilkington Group LimitedInventors: Hisashi Ogawa, Hisashi Asaoka, Mark A. Chamberlain
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Patent number: 9765423Abstract: A coated substrate. The coated substrate includes a unitary substrate having a major surface. A first coating is applied to a first surface segment of the major surface. A second coating applied to a second surface segment of the major surface. The first coating is different than the second coating.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: APOGEE ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Russell Huffer, Randy Leland Stull, Henry Boyum, Keith Grubb, Kristin Sumner
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Patent number: 9452475Abstract: Various methods of treating a chromium iron interconnect for a solid oxide fuel cell stack and coating the interconnect with a ceramic layer are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Tad Armstrong, James Wilson, Harald Herchen, Daniel Darga, Manoj Pillai
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Publication number: 20150111063Abstract: This invention relates generally to an article that includes a base substrate, an intermediate layer including at least one element or compound selected from titanium, chromium, indium, zirconium, tungsten, and titanium nitride on the base substrate, and a hydrophobic coating on the base substrate, wherein the hydrophobic coating includes a rare earth element material (e.g., a rare earth oxide, a rare earth carbide, a rare earth nitride, a rare earth fluoride, and/or a rare earth boride). An exposed surface of the hydrophobic coating has a dynamic contact angle with water of at least about 90 degrees. A method of manufacturing the article includes providing the base substrate and forming an intermediate layer coating on the base substrate (e.g., through sintering or sputtering) and then forming a hydrophobic coating on the intermediate layer (e.g., through sintering or sputtering).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Sami Khan, Gisele Azimi, Adam T. Paxson, Kripa K. Varanasi
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Patent number: 9012043Abstract: A medical implant device or component thereof comprising a metal substrate and a coating layer structure provided on the substrate. The coating layer structure comprises an outermost layer of a ceramic material. A bonding structure is deposited between the metal substrate and the coating layer structure. The bonding structure comprises a chromium rich layer, which is deposited onto the metal substrate surface and has a higher concentration of chromium than the metal substrate, as well as a gradient layer having a composition gradient from the chromium rich layer towards the surface of the device providing increasing proportions of a gradient material which has structural correspondence with the layer of the coating layer structure that is most adjacent to the bonding structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Ola Wilhelmsson, Tom Eriksson, Per Mårtensson
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Patent number: 9005713Abstract: A process for improving the adherence of a thermal barrier coating to a substrate includes the steps of providing a substrate, depositing a masking layer of aluminum, an aluminum alloy, or titanium alloy, or titanium on a surface of the substrate, depositing a non-thermally grown oxide layer of alumina or titania on the masking layer, and depositing a thermal barrier coating on the oxide layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Brian S. Tryon, Joseph Parkos, Jr.
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Patent number: 8999452Abstract: The present invention provides a surface-independent surface-modifying multifunctional biocoating and methods of application thereof. The method comprises contacting at least a portion of a substrate with an alkaline solution comprising a surface-modifying agent (SMA) such as dopamine so as to modify the substrate surface to include at least one reactive moiety. In another version of the invention, a secondary reactive moiety is applied to the SMA-treated substrate to yield a surface-modified substrate having a specific functionality.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Northwestern UniversityInventors: Phillip B. Messersmith, Haeshin Lee
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Publication number: 20150090434Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include methods of disposing a metallic coating layer comprising a metal in an amorphous and/or fine grain microstructure over at least a portion of a surface of a pyrolytic graphite substrate, the metal comprising Nickel, Iron, a Nickel-Iron Alloy, or any combination thereof, and the grains of the metal being of 1 nm to 10000 nm in size. Embodiments of the invention also encompass the coated pyrolytic graphite articles. The coated substrate exhibits a thermal conductivity not less than the uncoated substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Richard James Lemak, Robert John Moskaitis
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Publication number: 20150086796Abstract: A layer system is provided that has at least: a substrate, a ceramic layer and an outermost layer, which has an aluminum-rich form, in particular directly on the ceramic layer, and optionally a metallic bonding layer between the substrate and the ceramic layer, and in which the outermost layer has aluminum particles, in particular aluminum particles with a particle size of 100 nm to 50 ?m. As a result of applying particles of aluminum to an outermost layer, the ceramic layer is better protected against what is known as CMAS (calcium, magnesium, aluminum and silicon) attacks.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Maria del Mar Juez Lorenzo, Vladislav Kolarik, Veronica Kuchenreuther, Werner Stamm
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Patent number: 8980387Abstract: A method of coating a surface, preparing a doped metal-ion precursor solution for coating, and an article including a component coated by the described method are disclosed. The method of coating includes applying a fluoro-silane doped metal-ion precursor solution on the surface to form a coated surface. The metal-ion precursor solution includes greater than about 0.6 molar percent concentration of a metal-ion precursor in a solvent comprising an alcohol. The method of preparing the doped metal-ion precursor solution includes dissolving a metal-ion precursor in a solvent comprising an alcohol at a temperature greater than about 100° C. and refluxing at a temperature greater than about 150° C. such that the concentration of metal-ion precursor in the solution is greater than 0.6 molar percent of the solution, and adding a fluoro-silane to the metal-ion precursor solution.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kevin Paul McEvoy, Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni, James Anthony Ruud
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Patent number: 8974864Abstract: A method of coating a substrate is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate; depositing an infrared reflecting layer over at least a portion of a substrate; depositing a primer layer over at least a portion of the infrared reflective layer; depositing a dielectric layer over at least a portion of the primer layer; and forming an absorbing layer. The absorbing layer includes an alloy and/or mixture of (a) a metal having an index of refraction at 500 nm less than or equal to 1.0 and (b) a material having a ?G°f of greater than or equal to ?100 at 1000° K. The metal can be silver and the material can be tin.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2010Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: James J. Finley, James P. Thiel, Harry Buhay
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Publication number: 20150050494Abstract: A multi-walled titanium-based nanotube array containing metal or non-metal dopants is formed, in which the dopants are in the form of ions, compounds, clusters and particles located on at least one of a surface, inter-wall space and core of the nanotube. The structure can include multiple dopants, in the form of metal or non-metal ions, compounds, clusters or particles. The dopants can be located on one or more of on the surface of the nanotube, the inter-wall space (interlayer) of the nanotube and the core of the nanotube. The nanotubes may be formed by providing a titanium precursor, converting the titanium precursor into titanium-based layered materials to form titanium-based nanosheets, and transforming the titanium-based nanosheets to multi-walled titanium-based nanotubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyInventors: King Lun Yeung, Shammi Akter Ferdousi, Wei Han
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Patent number: 8956510Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for producing metallic products comprising a substrate and a metallic, external coating. In preferred embodiments, the metallic products are jewelry articles.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Frederick Goldman, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Derrig
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Publication number: 20150036716Abstract: A symmetrical, flat laminate structure used to minimize variables in a test structure to experimentally gauge white bump sensitivity to CTE mismatch is disclosed. The test structure includes a flat laminate structure. The method of using the test structure includes isolating a cause of a multivariable chip join problem that is adversely impacted by warpage and quantifying a contribution of the warpage, itself, in a formation of the multivariable chip join problem.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: William E. Bernier, Timothy H. Daubenspeck, Virendra R. Jadhav, Valerie A. Oberson, David L. Questad
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Patent number: 8932663Abstract: Methods for forming bone implants for the repair of the ends of bones at orthopedic joints, which implants have a Young's modulus close to that of human cortical bone. Substrates of dense isotropic graphite are coated overall with hard, microporous, isotropic pyrocarbon of specific character such that it can be polished to serve as an articular surface and can also securely receive an anchoring first metal layer through PVD. The first layer has a character such that, by thermal spraying a second biocompatible metal layer thereupon, fusion occurs and thereby anchors an outermost layer that is formed with a network of randomly interconnected pores and a surface character of peaks and valleys designed to promote enhanced appositional growth of cortical bone at the interface therewith.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Ascension Orthopedics, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Ritz, Clive Scott
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Publication number: 20150004323Abstract: Catalysts include five-membered nitrogen containing heterocyclic compounds as ligands for metal ions which have catalytic activity. The catalysts are used to electrolessly plate metal on metal clad and un-clad substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Kristen M. MILUM, Donald E. CLEARY, Maria Anna RZEZNIK
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Patent number: 8920881Abstract: For producing a component, especially a gas turbine component, coated with a wear-protection, corrosion-protection or erosion-protection coating, a method includes the following steps: providing a component (10) to be coated on a component surface (13); at least partially coating the component (11) on its component surface with an at least two-layered protective coating (14), which includes at least one relatively soft layer (15) and at least one relatively hard layer (16); and then surface densifying the at least partially coated component on its coated component surface by ball blasting or shot peening.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2005Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Wolfgang Eichmann, Karl-Heinz Manier, Markus Uecker, Thomas Uihlein
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Publication number: 20140376349Abstract: Devices that include a near field transducer (NFT), the NFT having a disc and a peg, and the peg having five surfaces thereof; and at least one adhesion layer positioned on at least one of the five surfaces of the peg, the adhesion layer including one or more of the following: rhenium, osmium, iridium, platinum, hafnium, ruthenium, technetium, rhodium, palladium, beryllium, aluminum, manganese, indium, boron, and combinations thereof beryllium oxide, silicon oxide, iron oxide, zirconium oxide, manganese oxide, cadmium oxide, magnesium oxide, hafnium oxide, and combinations thereof tantalum carbide, uranium carbide, hafnium carbide, zirconium carbide, scandium carbide, manganese carbide, iron carbide, niobium carbide, technetium carbide, rhenium carbide, and combinations thereof chromium nitride, boron nitride, and combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Yuhang Cheng, Tong Zhao, Michael C. Kautzky, Ed F. Rejda, Kurt W. Wierman, Scott Franzen, Andrew J. Boyne, Michael Allen Seigler, Sethuraman Jayashankar
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Publication number: 20140370295Abstract: Disclosed is graphene. More particularly, disclosed are a method for manufacturing graphene to grow graphene with high quality and graphene manufactured by the same. The method includes preparing a thermal-expansion compensation substrate, forming a metal layer on the thermal-expansion compensation substrate, and forming graphene on the metal layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Minseok CHOI, Taehyeong KIM, Jinsan MOON, Mynghee JUNG
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Publication number: 20140370259Abstract: A method for depositing a metal containing material onto a porous substrate, the method comprises forming a seed coating on the substrate, wherein the seed coating at least partially covers the substrate, the seed coating being substantially free of precious metal and applying a metal containing material to the seed coating, wherein the surface area of the substrate is greater than 0.02 m2/cc, as determined prior to coating the substrate. Non-porous substrates may also be coated using a similar process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Geoffrey Allan Edwards, Quansheng Song, Peter Anthony George
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Patent number: 8900660Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a silver (Ag) coating pigment. The method for producing a silver coating pigment according to the present invention comprises: a step of forming a tin compound pretreatment layer on the matrix surface; and a step of forming a silver coating layer on the lower portion of the tin compound pretreatment layer through a reflux and electroless plating process using a diluted solution of silver nitrate, ammonia water, a citric acid solution, and a diluted solution of potassium hydroxide.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: CQV Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Min Heo, Jae-Il Jeong, Kwang-Choong Kang, Byung-Ki Choi, Kwang-Soo Lim, Kil-Wan Chang, Man-Su Lee, Gun-Eik Jang
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Patent number: 8900467Abstract: A method for making a chemical contrast pattern uses directed self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) and sequential infiltration synthesis (SIS) of an inorganic material. For an example with poly(styrene-block-methyl methacrylate) (PS-b-PMMA) as the BCP and alumina as the inorganic material, the PS and PMMA self-assemble on a suitable substrate. The PMMA is removed and the PS is oxidized. A surface modification polymer (SMP) is deposited on the oxidized PS and the exposed substrate and the SMP not bound to the substrate is removed. The structure is placed in an atomic layer deposition chamber. Alumina precursors reactive with the oxidized PS are introduced and infuse by SIS into the oxidized PS, thereby forming on the substrate a chemical contrast pattern of SMP and alumina. The resulting chemical contrast pattern can be used for lithographic masks, for example to etch the underlying substrate to make an imprint template.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2013Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Yves-Andre Chapuis, Ricardo Ruiz, Lei Wan
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Patent number: 8876949Abstract: A method of preparing a palladium-silver alloy gas separation membrane system, wherein the surface of the palladium layer or a silver layer is activated by a non-chemical activation method involving abrasion to a controlled surface roughness and abrasion pattern, thereby permitting the plating or deposition of an overlayer of silver on the palladium layer, silver on a silver layer, or palladium on a silver layer. The palladium and silver layers are preferably supported on a porous metal support to which an intermetallic diffusion barrier has been applied.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventor: John Charles Saukaitis
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Patent number: 8876948Abstract: A method of making a composite gas separation module by providing a porous support material having deposited thereon a metal membrane layer, by imposing upon the surface of the metal membrane layer certain surface characteristics including an abrasion pattern and a relatively high surface roughness that provides for surface activation that enhances the placement thereon of a subsequent metal membrane layer without the use of a chemical activating solution. The composite gas separation module is useful in the separation of hydrogen from hydrogen-containing gas streams.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventor: John Charles Saukaitis
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Patent number: 8877320Abstract: A microfluidic device comprising: a substrate having a microfluidic channel, an electrically conductive feature comprising an electrically conductive layer arranged on a primer layer and positioned with reference to the microfluidic channel, wherein the primer layer comprises: (i) an organic polymer selected from the group consisting of. (a) a homopolymer or copolymer including a vinyl lactam repeating unit, (b) a cellulose ether; (c) polyvinyl alcohol; and (d) unmodified or modified gelatin; and (ii) a porous particulate material, the organic polymer being dispersed in the porous particulate material, is provided. Methods for manufacturing the microfluidic devices and their use in a number of applications are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Sony DADC Austria AGInventors: Andrew John Naisby, Miguel Angel Torello Arevalo, Josef Kugler, Wolfgang Franz Reiter
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Patent number: 8871306Abstract: A method to improve corrosion, abrasion, and fire resistant properties of structural components for use in oil, gas, exploration, refining and petrochemical applications is provided. The structural component is suitable for as refinery and/or petrochemical process equipment and piping, include but are not limited to process vessels, transfer lines and process pipes, heat exchangers, cyclones, and distillation columns. The method comprises providing the structural component with a plurality of layers, a corrosion resistant layer in contact with the corrosive petroleum products comprising a material selected from amorphous metals, ceramic materials, or combinations thereof; a structural layer; and an outer layer comprising a fire resistive material. In one embodiment, the structural component is further provided with at least another layer selected from a metal sheeting layer, an adhesive layer, and a containment layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2010Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Edwin H. Niccolls, Grzegorz Jan Jusinski
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Publication number: 20140313100Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electromagnetic wave penetrative metal film having high mass productivity and an extremely low attenuation rate in the electromagnetic wave penetrated through, a manufacturing method of the electromagnetic wave penetrative metal film, and a radome for a vehicle-mounted radar devices using the electromagnetic wave penetrative metal film. To achieve the object, the present invention provides an electromagnetic wave penetrative metal film composed of more than 10000 of fine metal film pieces per unit area (1 mm2) provided on a surface of a substrate through an electroless plating step, wherein fine metal film pieces adjacent to each other are electrically isolated, a manufacturing method of the electromagnetic wave penetrative metal films, and a radome for a vehicle-mounted radar devices using the electromagnetic wave penetrative metal films.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Inventor: Shuji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20140310940Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method of protecting at least a liner of an explosive charge from an environment comprises: applying a material onto or adjacent to the liner of the explosive charge, wherein prior to the step of applying, the liner is capable of being exposed to the environment, and wherein the material is capable of providing a protective barrier to at least the liner against the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventor: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
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Publication number: 20140308531Abstract: An ink composition is provided, a method of metalizing a surface of an insulation substrate and an article obtainable by the method are also provided. The ink composition may comprise a metal compound and an ink vehicle, the metal compound is at least one selected from a group consisting of a compound of formula I and a compound of formula II, TiO2-?(I), M1M2pOq (II), 0.05??<1.8, M1 is at least one element selected from a group consisting of groups 2, 9-12 of the periodic table according to IUPAC nomenclature, M2 is at least one element selected from a group consisting of groups 3-8, 10 and 13 of the periodic table according to IUPAC nomenclature, and 0<p?2, and 0<q<4.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventor: Weifeng MIAO
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Patent number: 8859093Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include low emissivity (low-E) coatings and methods for forming the coatings. The low-E coating comprises a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on a glass substrate, where one surface of the SAM is disposed in contact with and covalently bonded to the glass substrate, and one surface of the monolayer is disposed in contact with and covalently bonded to a metal layer. In some embodiments, the low-E coating comprises an assembly of one or more monomeric subunits of the following structure: Si—(CnHy)-(LM)m where n is from 1 to 20, y is from 2n?2 to 2n, m is 1 to 3, L is a Group VI element, and M is a metal, such as silver. In some embodiments, (CnHy) can be branched, crosslinked, or cyclic. The coating can further comprise an antireflection coating on the metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Xuena Zhang, Dipankar Pramanik