Inorganic Coating Material Patents (Class 427/427)
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Publication number: 20120094020Abstract: A method for controlling the hydrophobicity of a surface of an article by alternately depositing solutions comprising net positively charged polymers and net negatively charged polymers onto the surface to form a polyelectrolyte film of an interpenetrating network of net positively charged polymers and net negatively charged polymers on the surface of the article.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventor: Joseph B. Schlenoff
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Publication number: 20120088845Abstract: Preparation of semiconductor nanocrystals and their dispersions in solvents and other media is described. The nanocrystals described herein have small (1-10 nm) particle size with minimal aggregation and can be synthesized with high yield. The capping agents on the as-synthesized nanocrystals as well as nanocrystals which have undergone cap exchange reactions result in the formation of stable suspensions in polar and nonpolar solvents which may then result in the formation of high quality nanocomposite films.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Inventors: Zehra Serpil Gonen Williams, Yijun Wang, Robert J. Wiacek, Xia Bai, Linfeng Gou, Selina I. Thomas, Wei Xu, Jun Xu, Rakesh Patel
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Patent number: 8153182Abstract: A head mount for use in a digital manufacturing system, where the head mount comprises a first component supported by at least one gantry of the digital manufacturing system, and a second component configured to retain a deposition head of the digital manufacturing system, and to move relative to the first component in response to a load applied to the deposition head from a platform assembly of the digital manufacturing system.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Stratasys, Inc.Inventors: James W. Comb, Troy M. Coolidge, Robert E. Styer
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Publication number: 20120082793Abstract: Dispersoids having metal-oxygen groups that are suitable for the production of metal oxide thin-films at a low temperature of 200° C. or below and for the production of homogeneous organic-inorganic hybrid materials. The dispersoid having metal-oxygen bonds may be obtained by mixing a metal compound having at least three hydrolyzable groups with at least 0.5 mole but less than 2 moles of water per mole of the metal compound in an organic solvent, in the absence of an acid, a base, and/or a dispersion stabilizer, and at a temperature at or below the temperature at which the metal compound begins to hydrolyze, then raising the temperature to at least the temperature at which hydrolysis begins.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: NIPPON SODA CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuo KIMURA, Yoshitaka FUJITA, Norifumi NAKAMOTO, Motoyuki TOKI, Akiji HIGUCHI, Kazuo ONO, Tomoya HIDAKA, Hiroyuki TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20120076946Abstract: A system for coating a surface comprising providing a source of amorphous metal that contains more than 11 elements and applying the amorphous metal that contains more than 11 elements to the surface by a spray. Also a coating comprising a composite material made of amorphous metal that contains more than 11 elements. An apparatus for producing a corrosion-resistant amorphous-metal coating on a structure comprises a deposition chamber, a deposition source in the deposition chamber that produces a deposition spray, the deposition source containing a composite material made of amorphous metal that contains more than 11 elements, and a system that directs the deposition spray onto the structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventor: Joseph C. Farmer
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Patent number: 8142859Abstract: A method of applying a cement mixture to an exposed matrix of intersecting walls of a honeycomb body is disclosed. The method may include the steps of providing an applicator, feeding the cement mixture into applicator, forcing the cement mixture to exit the applicator with a substantially uniform velocity, while depositing the cement mixture on the exposed matrix of the honeycomb body.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Jeffrey John Domey, Luiz Eduardo Ferri, Robert Daniel Parker, Srinivasa Rao Vaddiraju, Wei Xu, William Joseph Zaidel
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Patent number: 8137743Abstract: [Object] To provide a method for forming a zirconia film, which is capable of obtaining favorable film quality by an aerosol gas deposition method. [Solving Means] The method for forming a zirconia film by an aerosol gas deposition method, the method including: placing zirconia fine particles P having a mean particle diameter of 0.7 ?m or more and 11 ?m or less and a specific surface area of 1 m2/g or more and 7 m2/g or less in a closed container 2; generating aerosol A of the zirconia fine particles P by introduction of a gas into the closed container 2; conveying the aerosol A through a transfer pipe 6 connected to the closed container 2 into a deposition chamber 3 kept at a pressure lower than that of the closed container 2; and depositing the zirconia fine particles P on a substrate S placed in the deposition chamber 3. It is possible to form a zirconia thin film that is dense and highly adhesive to the substrate by zirconia fine particles satisfying the above-mentioned conditions.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2010Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Fuchita Nanotechnology Ltd.Inventor: Eiji Fuchita
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Patent number: 8124275Abstract: To smoothly deliver a thermal energy required in an active site of a catalyst carried on a carrier. A method of manufacturing a catalyst carrier of the present invention includes the steps of: forming a mixed thin film in which at least metal and ceramics are mixed on a metal base, by spraying aerosol, with metal powders and ceramic powders mixed therein, on the metal base; and making the mixed thin film porous, by dissolving the metal of the mixed thin film into acid or alkaline solution to remove this metal.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2009Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.Inventors: Mineo Washima, Kenji Shibata, Fumihito Oka
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Patent number: 8118930Abstract: An accelerating admixture for concrete, containing a liquid mixture being an aqueous solution or an aqueous dispersion, wherein a) the liquid mixture contains 13 to 43 weight % dissolved aluminium sulfate, b) the liquid mixture contains less than 1 weight % dissolved carboxylic acid, c) the liquid mixture contains at least 31 weight % water, d) the molar ratio of dissolved aluminium to dissolved sulfate in the liquid mixture is from 0.5 to 10.0.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2005Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Construction Research & Technology GmbHInventor: Terje Angelskar
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Publication number: 20120037596Abstract: According to one embodiment, a gas supply member is provided with a gas supply passage including a gas flow channel with a first diameter, and an exhaust port connected to one end portion of the gas flow channel and provided to a surface of a downstream side of the gas supply member. An yttria-containing film is formed on a surface constituting the exhaust port and the surface of the downstream side of the gas supply member. At least a part of the surface constituting the exhaust port is formed with a curved surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Inventors: Hideo ETO, Rikyu Ikariyama, Makoto Saito, Sachiyo Ito
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Patent number: 8114473Abstract: A composite structure having excellent plasma resistance includes a base material having a surface containing a ceramic polycrystal and a structure formed on the surface of the base material containing the ceramic polycrystal, wherein the structure contains a polycrystal containing a brittle material; a grain boundary layer having a glass layer does not substantially exist on a boundary face between crystals forming the polycrystal; a part of the polycrystal forms an anchor part embedded into the base material surface; and an average roughness (Ra) of an interface between the anchor part and the base material surface is 100 nm or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Toto Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Iwasawa, Hironori Hatono
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Patent number: 8101231Abstract: Photovoltaic conductive features and processes for forming photovoltaic conductive features are described. The process comprises (a) providing a substrate comprising a passivation layer disposed on a silicon layer; (b) depositing a surface modifying material onto at least a portion of the passivation layer; (c) depositing a composition comprising at least one of metallic nanoparticles comprising a metal or a metal precursor to the metal onto at least a portion of the substrate; and (d) heating the composition such that it forms at least a portion of a photovoltaic conductive feature in electrical contact with the silicon layer, wherein at least one of the composition or the surface modifying material etches a region of the passivation layer. When the surface modifying material is a UV-curable material, the process comprises the additional step of curing the UV-curable material.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Mark J. Hampden-Smith, Mark H. Kowalski
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Patent number: 8101239Abstract: A continuous process for achieving specific levels of fire retardant properties for either natural fibers or synthetic fibers. Selected fibers are mixed and opened to be formed into a web that is continuously weighed and transported to a spray station to be sprayed by a selected fire retardant solution. The sprayed web is compressed between calendar rolls and transported to a dryer; the dried web is blended to form a selected fiber having a predetermined fire retardant characteristic to meet regulatory standards. An intermediate product results from the use of the process.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2009Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Fibers Equipment LLCInventors: Tod M. Kean, James H. Kean
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Publication number: 20110318607Abstract: Provided is an Al alloy reflective film which does not require a protective film in that it has excellent alkali resistance (resistance to alkali corrosion), acid resistance (resistance to acid corrosion) and humidity resistance (resistance to a high-temperature, humid environment) even if there is no protective film, and which contains 2.5 to 20 at % of at least one element selected from Gd, La, Y, Sc, Tb, Lu, Pr, Nd, Pm, Ce, Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities. Also provided are an automobile light, illuminator, and ornamentation having such an Al alloy reflective film. Further provided is an Al alloy sputtering target, which is for forming such an Al alloy reflective film and which contains 2.5 to 35 at % of at least one element selected from Gd, La, Y, Sc, Tb, Lu, Pr, Nd, Pm, Ce, Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Nobuhiro Kobayashi, Toshiki Sato, Jun Suzuki, Shinichi Tanifuji, Yoshinori Ito, Takayuki Tsubota
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Patent number: 8075688Abstract: The invention relates to an accelerator, preferably for sprayed concrete or sprayed mortar, which is present as an aqueous mixture, preferably dispersion, particularly preferably suspension, which contains the following: (a) aluminium in oxidation state 3, (b) sulphate, (c) fluoride, and/or (semi)metal fluoro complexes, (d) stabiliser, preferably inorganic stabiliser, particularly preferably magnesium silicate and/or kaolin and/or clay minerals and/or allophane, in particular magnesium silicate and/or bentonite, particularly preferably sepiolite, especially particularly preferably Si12Mg8O30(OH)4(OH2)4 and/or Mg4Si6O15(OH)2.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Construction Research & Technology GmbHInventor: Martin Weibel
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Patent number: 8067054Abstract: A method of making a drug eluting stent comprises forming a porous stent body surface layer by ion implantation, applying a layer of ceramic particles on the porous layer and compressing the layer of ceramic particles. The layer of ceramic particles can be compressed to successively higher densities. Drugs can be loaded into the layer of ceramic materials at a relatively low density before the layer of ceramic materials is compressed to a higher density to achieve a desired low drug release rate.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2007Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Jan Weber
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Patent number: 8067057Abstract: A dispenser for a liquid crystal display panel includes a syringe having a nozzle provided at an end thereof, a body in which the syringe is mounted, a vertical driving stepping motor for moving the body in a vertical direction, a first sensor for detecting whether the nozzle of the syringe is in contact with a substrate, a second sensor for detecting a gap distance between the nozzle and the substrate, and a main unit for controlling the vertical driving stepping motor in response to an output from the second sensor to obtain a desired gap distance between the nozzle and the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung-Su Jung, Yong-Keun Kwak
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Publication number: 20110281026Abstract: The present invention relates to a pretreatment method to be applied to secondary surfaces in coating systems prior to coating. To this end, a non-stick coating is applied to the secondary surfaces, which can be easily detached from the secondary surfaces, even after coating material has been deposited thereon. In this way, the cleaning process of the coating system after the coating process is considerably simplified.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2009Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: OERLIKON TRADING AG, TRUBBACHInventors: Arno Moosbrugger, Mario Walch, Siegfried Krassnitzer, Stephan Kasemann, Jürgen Gwehenberger
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Patent number: 8044114Abstract: There is provided an ink for recording, which contains: a coloring agent; a water-dispersible resin; a wetting agent; a surfactant; and water, wherein a total solid content of the coloring agent and the water-dispersible resin is 10% by mass to 30% with respect to a total mass of the ink, a ratio B/C is 0.1 to 1.6 where B is a solid content of the coloring agent in the ink, and C is a solid content of the water-dispersible resin in the ink, a viscosity of the ink is 5 mPa·s to 20 mPa·s at 25° C., and a surface tension of the ink is 35 mN/m or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2006Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Habashi, Michihiko Namba, Mariko Kojima, Akihiko Gotoh, Tamotsu Aruga, Kiyofumi Nagai
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Publication number: 20110248451Abstract: A seal assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a first seal member having a first surface, a second seal member having a second surface, with the second surface configured to generally abut at least a part of the first surface. At least a portion of at least one of the first surface and the second surface includes a coating that includes about 30 to about 80 weight percent of a hard carbide material, and about 20 to about 70 weight percent of lubricating material incorporated with the hard carbide material. The coating defines overlapping lenticular particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Melvin Freling
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Patent number: 8025921Abstract: There is provided a film forming method capable of enhancing adhesion efficiency of a metal powder by use of a low-pressure compressed gas even in the case of spraying the metal powder remaining in a solid-phase state to a substrate, to form a film, the method being a film forming method of spraying a metal powder p in a solid-phase state to a surface 11a of a substrate 11 along with a compressed gas, to form a film 12 of the metal powder p on the surface 11a of the substrate 11, wherein a powder, which at least contains a powder for film formation having an apparent density of 1.4 to 2.0 g/cm3 and an average grain size of not larger than 25 ?m, is used as the metal powder p.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Noritaka Miyamato, Yoshihiko Tsuzuki
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Patent number: 8021715Abstract: A method for coating a workpiece by cold gas spraying is carried out using a cold gas spray nozzle which generates a particle jet that is directed onto the surface. Additional energy is introduced into the layer that is being formed by way of an electromagnetic energy source, e.g. a laser, which the energy introduced into the particles by the cold gas spray nozzle also contributes to forming the layer. The cold spraying process can be used flexibly as a result of the additional activation by way of electromagnetic radiation. Moreover, layers having a complicated structure, e.g. strip conductors, can be created with the aid of the laser without further processing. A coating unit includes a generator for electromagnetic radiation in addition to the cold gas spray nozzle and is therefore suitable for carrying out the novel method.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2006Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jens Dahl Jensen, Ursus Krüger, Raymond Ullrich
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Patent number: 8017190Abstract: A metal/fiber laminate has a plurality of adjacent layers. Each layer is porous and includes an arrangement of fibers. At least one of the layers has its fibers coated with a metal. A polymer matrix permeates each such arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventors: Stephen J. Hales, Joel A. Alexa, Brian J. Jensen, Roberto J. Cano, Erik S. Weiser
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Publication number: 20110217475Abstract: The invention relates to methods for applying wet concrete mixtures containing cement, fillers, water, one or more polymers, and possibly further admixtures or additives according to the wet-mix shotcrete method, characterized in that the wet concrete mixtures, which contain at least one polymer based on one or more vinyl esters of unbranched or branched alkyl carboxlic acids having 1 to 15 C atoms and possibly one or more further ethylenically unsaturated monomers, are put into a concrete spraying machine and are applied to a subsurface by means of the wet-mix shotcrete method with a layer thickness of ?3 cm.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2009Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: Wacker Chemie AGInventors: Klaus Bonin, Jürgen Bezler
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Patent number: 8012597Abstract: In a throttle body, a passive film and a corrosion-resistant film are stacked in that order on a substrate of aluminum. The passive film has a concave part on its corrosion-resistant film side. A metal layer is provided in the concave part. In shot blasting, upon collision of a blasting material against the corrosion-resistant film, a part of the blasting material is separated and adhered onto the resultant concaves to form the metal layer. For example, aluminum having a purity of not less than 98% is selected as the blasting material.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2006Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Keihin CorporationInventors: Botaro Watanabe, Takeshi Hirama
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Publication number: 20110206817Abstract: An anti-microbial coated device includes a device sized and configured for use in a microbe-contaminating environment. The device includes a substrate having a surface configured to be exposed in the microbe contaminating environment. A cold-sprayed anti-microbial coating is deposited on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate. The anti-microbial coating includes fused metal particles and having a thickness in a range from 100 nm to 1 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2010Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: POLYPROTECTECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Derrick G. Arnold, Jack F. Johnson, Robert J. Robinson, Bradley F. Johnson
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Patent number: 8003509Abstract: A plated film having a uniform film thickness is formed on a surface of a substrate. A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a holding mechanism for holding a substrate rotatably; a nozzle for supplying a processing solution for performing a plating process on a processing target surface of the substrate; a substrate rotating mechanism for rotating the substrate held by the holding mechanism in a direction along the processing target surface; a nozzle driving mechanism for moving the nozzle in a direction along the processing target surface at a position facing the processing target surface of the substrate held by the holding mechanism; and a control unit for controlling the supply of the processing solution by the nozzle and the movement of the nozzle by the nozzle driving mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Kenichi Hara, Mitsuaki Iwashita, Takashi Tanaka, Takayuki Toshima, Takehiko Orii
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Patent number: 8003173Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for forming a photoresist-laminated substrate including: preparing a laminated substrate having an insulating substrate and a metal layer; coating with an aerosol of metal nanoparticles on the metal layer; laminating a photoresist film on the metal layer coated with the aerosol of metal nanoparticles. The method of the present invention is a environmentally friendly method since an aerosol of metal nanoparticles is used, differentiated from the conventional wet process.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee-Sung Choi, Bae-Kyun Kim, Mi-Yang Kim, Seoung-Jae Lee
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Publication number: 20110197792Abstract: The invention relates to an accelerator, preferably for sprayed concrete or sprayed mortar, which is present as an aqueous mixture, preferably dispersion, particularly preferably suspension, which contains the following: (a) aluminium in oxidation state 3, (b) sulphate, (c) fluoride, and/or (semi)metal fluoro complexes, (d) stabiliser, preferably inorganic stabiliser, particularly preferably magnesium silicate and/or kaolin and/or clay minerals and/or allophane, in particular magnesium silicate and/or bentonite, particularly preferably sepiolite, especially particularly preferably Si12Mg8O30(OH)4(OH2)4 and/or Mg4Si6O15(OH)2.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventor: Martin Weibel
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Patent number: 7998526Abstract: A system and method for depositing a phosphor composition onto a light emitting device improves manufacturing yield, simplifies conventional processes, and decreases costs. For example, a method of dispensing a phosphor composition onto a light emitting device includes dispensing a portion of the phosphor composition onto the light emitting device utilizing a plurality of colored phosphor dispensers each for dispensing a respective type of phosphor. Power is applied to the light emitting device to emit light, and a characteristic the light emitted by the light emitting device is detected. Phosphor mixing and phosphor dispensing are dynamically controlled. Therefore the color characteristics of phosphor dispensed on LEDs are consistent. The system and method may also reduce the difference between detected characteristic of the light and a desired characteristic of the light.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Bridgelux, Inc.Inventors: Tao Xu, Rene Helbing
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Patent number: 7993708Abstract: A method of operating a power generating system including a fuel cell coupled to an electrical buffer, wherein the fuel cell is further coupled to a steam reformer, comprising adjusting operation of the reformer based on a voltage affected by the electrical buffer while maintaining a steam to carbon ratio of the reformer to control charging of the electrical buffer by the fuel cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2008Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: ClearEdge Power, Inc.Inventors: Craig Evans, Steve Ernst, Evan Rege
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Patent number: 7993701Abstract: A composite structure forming method comprises the steps of first pre-treating brittle material fine particles to impart an internal strain to the brittle material fine particles, secondly causing the brittle material fine particles in which the internal strain has been created to collide with a substrate surface at high speed or applying a mechanical impact force to the brittle material fine particles containing the internal strain therein provided on the substrate surface, to deform or fracture the brittle material fine particles, re-joining the fine particles through active new surfaces generated by the deformation or fracture, forming an anchor section made of polycrystalline brittle material of which part bites into the substrate surface at a boundary section between the new surfaces and the substrate, and further forming a structure made of polycrystalline brittle material on the anchor section.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignees: Toto Ltd., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Jun Akedo, Tomokazu Ito, Tatsuro Yokoyama, Katsuhiko Mori, Hironori Hatono, Masakatsu Kiyohara, Yuji Aso
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Patent number: 7976904Abstract: The invention relates to a curtain coating process for coating substrates with a stable curtain and a uniform coating at low flow rates wherein a free-falling curtain of an aqueous composition comprising a high solids content is coated onto the moving substrate at a flow rate per unit die length value (Q) equal to or inferior to 10?4 m3/(s·m), the said high solids content composition comprising a polymeric rheology modifier and a non-ionic surfactant. The invention relates in particular to a curtain coating process for coating fibrous substrates such as paper or board. The invention also relates to a coated product.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2005Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Arjo Wiggins Fine Papers LimitedInventors: Richard A. Barcock, Andrew Ward-Askey
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Publication number: 20110165348Abstract: A method of coating a surface comprising providing a source of amorphous metal that contains manganese (1 to 3 atomic %), yttrium (0.1 to 10 atomic %), and silicon (0.3 to 3.1 atomic %) in the range of composition given in parentheses; and that contains the following elements in the specified range of composition given in parentheses: chromium (15 to 20 atomic %), molybdenum (2 to 15 atomic %), tungsten (1 to 3 atomic %), boron (5 to 16 atomic %), carbon (3 to 16 atomic %), and the balance iron; and applying said amorphous metal to the surface by a spray.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2011Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Joseph C. Farmer, Frank M.G. Wong, Jeffery J. Haslam, Xiaoyan (Jane) Ji, Sumner D. Day, Craig A. Blue, John D.K. Rivard, Louis F. Aprigliano, Leslie K. Kohler, Robert Bayles, Edward J. Lemieux, Nancy Yang, John H. Perepezko, Larry Kaufman, Arthur Heuer, Enrique J. Lavernia
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Publication number: 20110156528Abstract: A micro actuator system includes a micro actuator and a light beam generator. The micro actuator includes a substrate, a cantilever beam, and a carbon nano-tube layer. The cantilever beam has a connection portion connected to the substrate, and the carbon nano-tube layer is disposed on the cantilever beam in a spray deposition technique. When the light beam generator generates a light beam for irradiating the carbon nano-tube layer on the connection portion of the cantilever beam, the carbon nano-tube layer drives the cantilever beam to be deformed towards a first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: Chien-Chong Hong, Sheng-Chin Su
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Patent number: 7968152Abstract: A penetration resistant composite comprises a substrate material comprising woven, layered or intertwined polarized strands of glass, polyamide, polyphenylene sulfide, carbon or graphite fibers, a salt, oxide, hydroxide or hydride of a metal selected from the group consisting of alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, transition metal, zinc, cadmium, tin, aluminum, double metal salts and/or mixtures of two or more thereof or a metal hydride polar bonded on the surface of said fibers and/or strands of fibers at a concentration of at least about 0.3 grams/cc of open substrate material volume, and a substantially water impermeable coating thereon.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2010Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Rocky ResearchInventors: Uwe Rockenfeller, Kaveh Khalili
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Publication number: 20110143910Abstract: Disclosed and described are multi-component inorganic phosphate formulations of acidic phosphate components and basic oxide/hydroxide components. Also disclosed are high solids, atomizable compositions of same, suitable for spray coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2010Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: LATITUDE 18, INC.Inventors: Arun S. Wagh, William George, Vadym Drozd, Kausik Mukhopadhyay, Sameerkumar Vasantlal Patel
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Publication number: 20110129665Abstract: A method of making a glass article with an anti-smudge surface includes providing a glass article with a target surface. The method includes providing a coating solution consisting essentially of a fluorosilane compound and a solvent that is miscible with the fluorosilane compound. The method includes spray-coating the target surface with the coating solution while controlling the spray-coating to form a coating layer having a thickness in a range from 1 to 20 nm on the target surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: John William Botelho, Jeffrey John Domey, Linda Frances Reynolds-Heffer, Lu Zhang
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Patent number: 7947334Abstract: An alkali-free accelerator for sprayed cementitious composition, such as concrete, is prepared by dissolving aluminium sulphate in water and amorphous aluminium hydroxide in water optionally containing amine, and adding at least one stabiliser which is glycolic acid, and optionally at least one defoaming agent.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Construction Research & Technology GmbHInventor: Terje Angelskaar
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Publication number: 20110097508Abstract: An apparatus and a method for coating of surfaces with a combination of a solid material and a binder, so that despite of the unevenness of the area to be coated, a desired evenness is obtained controllably. In the invention the filler is slung through the liquid binder and that binder not captured by the filler particles onto their surfaces is recovered and reused.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: FINNCABIN LTDInventors: Rauno Lautanen, Markku Karhumäki
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Publication number: 20110073602Abstract: A light weight cookware article has a foam core with exposed exterior surfaces. The foam core is formed of a carbon foam material and has a barrier layer on the exterior surfaces of the foam core. The cookware article has an upper facing food contacting side and a downward facing heat source side opposite the food contacting side.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: Calphalon CorporationInventors: David Charles Musil, Nina C. Frazier
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Patent number: 7914843Abstract: A slit coater having a pre-applying unit and a coating method using the same that minimizes the amount of washing solution used and improves the washing effectiveness of a roller by separating the coating solution attached to a pre-applying roller from the washing solution using a coating solution separating apparatus. The slit coater includes: a table on which an object to be processed is mounted; a slit nozzle applying coating solution onto a surface of the object; a pre-applying unit to which the slit nozzle pre-applies the coating solution; and a coating solution separating unit that separates the coating solution spread when the coating solution is pre-applied to the slit nozzle and discharges the separated coating solution.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2005Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeong Kweon Park, Kang Il Cho, Seong Kwon
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Publication number: 20110070793Abstract: A metal/fiber laminate has a plurality of adjacent layers. Each layer is porous and includes an arrangement of fibers. At least one of the layers has its fibers coated with a metal. A polymer matrix permeates each such arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicants: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National AeronauticsInventors: Stephen J. Hales, Joel A. Alexa, Brian J. Jensen, Roberto J. Cano, Erik S. Weiser
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Publication number: 20110042050Abstract: A composite material can include a carrier material that is coated, at least over part of the surface, with a corrosion protection layer made of an aluminum alloy. The composite material can provide a defined, effective, durable corrosion protection and simultaneously have a high recycling potential. The aluminum alloy of the corrosion protection layer can have the following composition in % by weight: ? 0.8 ?Mn ? 1.8 Zn ? 0.05 Cu ? 0.05 Si ? 1.0 Cr ? 0.25 Zr ? 0.25 Mg ? 0.10 remainder aluminum and unavoidable impurities, individually a maximum of 0.05% by weight, in total a maximum of 0.15% by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbHInventors: Manfred Mrotzek, Raimund Sicking
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Publication number: 20110033628Abstract: Method and device for ensuring high yields during spraying of a settable slurry composition. The slurry is conveyed through a length of hose to a nozzle spray-orifice, and a set accelerator is introduced into the slurry at a distance “D” from the nozzle spray-orifice. The level of accelerator is monitored using a sensor located in the slurry path at a point after the set accelerator is injected. A preferred sensor comprises two pairs of conductivity sensors each having an annular body with a bore corresponding to the diameter of the hose or nozzle bore. Voltage of the slurry can be correlated to yields obtained when a salt-based accelerator fluid is injected into the slurry, such that levels of accelerator can be finely adjusted, and consistently high yields of spray coatings can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventors: Michael Abbott, Dennis M. Hilton, Keith Lipford, Karl Taub
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Publication number: 20110023748Abstract: This disclosure relates to inorganic coatings suitable for fire protection, fire retardancy, and articles comprising same. Specifically, the disclosure relates to the manufacture and use of inorganic phosphate-based coating formulations for fire protection, preventing or reducing fire propagation, and for heat management.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventors: Arun S. Wagh, Anthony Collins
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Publication number: 20110014484Abstract: In a method for applying an electron absorber layer to a substrate, an electron absorber layer is produced from a composite material, by coating the substrate with a metallic material, and material inclusions made from an additional material are embedded in the metallic material during coating. The metallic material contains aluminum, magnesium, cobalt, iron, chromium, titanium, nickel, copper, or an alloy or mixture thereof. The additional material contains one or more of the following substances: boron, carbon or silicon, a mixture of these elements, one or more chemical compounds made from or having at least two of these elements, or a mixture of such chemical compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventors: JOERG FREUDENBERGER, OLIVER STIER
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Publication number: 20110003085Abstract: A porous metal oxide is formed by creating a metal oxide material with a hydrolysis reaction in solution. The hydrolysis reaction or reaction products of a metal oxide precursor react simultaneously or in conjunction with a metal salt or a disassociation species of a metal salt. The metal oxide material is conditioned, and is refined to produce metal oxide particles having a porous structure containing crystallites.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Treese Hugener-Campbell, Thomas Henry Vanderspurt, Wayde R. Schmidt, Steven M. Zhitnik
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Patent number: 7861386Abstract: In the annealing step of the method for manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator, the annealing in conducted in two steps: a first annealing step; and a second annealing step conducted at a temperature lower and for a time longer than those of the first annealing step. With such treatment, first, grain growth inside the piezoelectric film can be sufficiently induced, while minimizing the diffusion layer growth, by the first annealing step conducted at a high temperature within a short interval, and then lattice defects in the particles can be sufficiently corrected, while preventing the diffusion layer growth, by the second annealing step conducted at a temperature lower and for a time longer than those of the first annealing step. Accordingly, the piezoelectric characteristic can be improved by sufficiently conducting annealing, while restricting the thickness of the diffusion layer to a range where the piezoelectric characteristic is not affected.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2005Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Motohiro Yasui
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Publication number: 20100310846Abstract: Lightweight cementitious foams of the invention have excellent dynamic and dimensional stability due to use of foaming system comprising polycarboxylate surfactant foam generating agent, foam stabilizer (e.g., PVOH), and shrinkage reducing admixture to inhibit plastic shrinkage and micro-cracking of cement. The foaming system can be used in conventional cement mortars or concretes as well as with exemplary cementitious slurry systems of the invention, which include an expansive agent, a cross-linking agent for the foam stabilizer. Microfibers can be used in the foam, slurry, or both, to prevent micro-cracking. Cementitious foams can be made without use of autoclave or lightweight aggregates to achieve enhanced compressive strength and thermal insulation properties that compare favorably with conventional foams and insulation materials at comparable densities.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2009Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: Neal S. Berke, Jordan S. Merritt, Lianfang Li, Antonio J. Aldykiewicz, JR., Robert A. Wiercinski, Michael D. Morgan