Infrared Or Radiant Heating Patents (Class 427/542)
  • Patent number: 9352351
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement are disclosed for producing an electrically conductive pattern on a surface. Electrically conductive solid particles are transferred onto an area of predetermined form on a surface of a substrate. The electrically conductive solid particles are heated to a temperature that is higher than a characteristic melting point of the electrically conductive solid particles, thus creating a melt. The melt is pressed against the substrate in a nip, wherein a surface temperature of a portion of the nip that comes against the melt is lower than said characteristic melting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: STORA ENSO OYJ
    Inventors: Petri Sirviö, Juha Maijala
  • Publication number: 20150128443
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for the on-site surface coating of a structure, the structure being part of a construction including a plurality of structures, the method including the steps of: a) applying one or more layers of a coating system on-site to at least a part of the structure, b) arranging at least one gas catalytic infrared emitting unit in a position so that the infrared radiation is adapted for heating the one or more layers of the protective coating system on-site and c) irradiating the coated surface with infrared radiation emitted by the at least one gas catalytic infrared emitting unit on-site. The method allows the drying and/or curing of the one or more layers of the coating system to be accelerated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: MAERSK OLIE OG GAS A/S
    Inventor: Jonathan David Madden
  • Publication number: 20150110970
    Abstract: A method is provided for production of a module, including the steps of: providing a substrate (1) having a first surface (5) in the form of a translucent carrier; providing an open casting mold (6), wherein the formation of at least one optical element (4, 4?) is provided in the casting mold (6); covering the surface (5) with a polymeric casting compound (3) in the open casting mold, while forming the optical element from the casting compound (3); and curing the casting compound in the casting mold, wherein the translucent carrier and the casting compound (3) together form an optical system (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Peil, Susanne Schadt, Harald Maiweg, Marcus Helmling
  • Publication number: 20150093516
    Abstract: A metal-film forming method of the present invention includes a surface activation process of irradiating a laser beam to the surface of the base metal, thereby activating the surface of the basemetal, a noble-metal nanoparticle dispersion liquid coating process of coating the surface of the base metal with a noble-metal nanoparticle dispersion liquid, a solvent thereof, containing noble-metal nanoparticles in as-dispersed state, and a noble-metal nanoparticle sintering process of irradiating the laser beam to the noble-metal nanoparticle dispersion liquid coated on the surface of the base metal, thereby causing the noble-metal nanoparticles to be sintered. Further, a scudding press process of executing press forming of a base metal, and the metal-film forming process of applying noble-metal plating to the surface of the base metal are executed on the same line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Shinji ARAGA, Nobuyuki MIYAGI, Mitsugu YAMAGUCHI, Kentaro NAKATA, Mamoru MITA, Katsuhiro MAEKAWA, Kazuhiko YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20150079304
    Abstract: A Schiff base compound configured to detoxify a toxic chemical agent. The toxic chemical agent includes at least one leaving group and the Schiff base compound includes an imine having at least one Lewis base and an alkyl substituent or an aryl substituent having an electron acceptor. The at least one Schiff base nitrogen is spaced way from the electron acceptor by a distance that ranges from about 200 pm to about 1000 pm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Jeffery Ray Owens, Wallace Bruce Salter, Katherine Moss Simpson
  • Patent number: 8932687
    Abstract: A process for producing a molded printed material is provided that includes (A) a step of forming an image on a support by an inkjet method using an ink composition comprising a polymerizable monomer, a colorant, and a polymerization initiator, (B) a step of forming a surface coating layer on the image by an inkjet method using a liquid composition comprising a polymerizable monomer and a polymerization initiator and comprising substantially no colorant, (C) a step of curing the image by irradiation with actinic radiation, (D) a step of curing the surface coating layer by irradiation with actinic radiation so as to obtain a printed material having the image and the surface coating layer cured on the support, and (E) a step of molding the printed material. There is also provided a molded printed material obtained by the process for producing a molded printed material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yuuichi Hayata
  • Patent number: 8927067
    Abstract: An infrared ray cut-off material is formed of phosphorus-doped antimony tin oxide powder, in which a content of antimony in terms of SbO2 is not less than 14 parts by mass and not more than 30 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the infrared ray cut-off material, a content of phosphorus in terms of PO2.5 is not less than 1 part by mass and not more than 25 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the infrared ray cut-off material, and a balance other than antinomy oxide and phosphorus oxide is tin oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Mitsubishi Materials Electronic Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiko Yoshizumi, Akira Nakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20140363565
    Abstract: A photoresist coating apparatus is provided. The photoresist coating apparatus includes a base; and a position platform moving back and forth along a scanning direction on the base. The photoresist coating apparatus also includes an imprinter having a trench configured to hold photoresist and fixed on the position platform; and a photoresist spray nozzle disposed above the imprinter and configured to spray the photoresist into the trench. Further, the photoresist coating apparatus includes a reticle frame configured to install a cylindrical reticle and enable the cylindrical reticle to rotate around a center axis and contact with the imprinter so as to coat the photoresist in the trench on a surface of the cylindrical reticle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation
    Inventors: YANG LIU, QIANG WU, HUAYONG HU
  • Patent number: 8895656
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a cold seal adhesive material is disclosed. The cold seal adhesive material includes a latex emulsion comprising between 15 to 65 percent of the adhesive by weight and ammoniated water. The adhesive viscosity is between 10 and 450 centipoise at 25 degrees Celsius, the density is between 8.0 and 9.0 pounds per gallon at 25 degrees Celsius, and the basicity is between 9.5 and 12 pH. The adhesive is adapted to be applied as a film on a substrate by a modified flexographic printing press process at a rate of at least 1,750 square feet per minute of the substrate without agglomeration of the adhesive, where the film has a film weight between 0.01 and 0.04 grams per square inch of the substrate and must be compressed with a sealing pressure to produce a cohesive bond between two or more adhesive regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Excel Retail Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Mikula, Scott Burless
  • Publication number: 20140295099
    Abstract: A system, a method, a device, an article of manufacture, a liquid coating, a computer program manufacturing a liquid coating, and a computer program for coating a film and making a coated film product for use with digital printers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Klockner Pentaplast of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Carrie Napper, William Crawford
  • Patent number: 8828501
    Abstract: A coating solution is applied to a web to form a coating layer. Then the web is transported into a drying apparatus, in which a guide roller guides the web such that an angle of the web to a horizontal direction is smaller downstream from the guide roller. The angles at entrance and exit of the drying apparatus are named entrance and exit angles ?1, ?3, respectively, and satisfy a condition ?1>?3. The coating layer has the temperature T1 at the entrance, the temperature T2 at the exit, and the temperature T3 in the drying apparatus. The differences |T2?T1| and |T3?T1| are at most 5° C. In the drying apparatus, as the organic solvent evaporates uniformly, the generation of the unevenness is reduced. Thereafter, the drying is made at the large drying speed in the blow-drying apparatus to obtain a film product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Oki, Takeshi Kitaoka
  • Publication number: 20140220256
    Abstract: Provided is a continuous process for preparing a high quality and high performance iron electrode. The process comprises preparing a formulation comprising an iron active material and a binder and coating a continuous substrate material on a least one side with the formulation. The coated continuous substrate material is dried, compacted and blanked. A tab is then attached to the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Encell Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Randy Gene OGG
  • Patent number: 8759473
    Abstract: An high mobility structured organic film comprising a plurality of segments and a plurality of linkers arranged as a covalent organic framework, wherein the structured organic film may be a multi-segment thick structured organic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Adrien P. Cote, Matthew A. Heuft
  • Publication number: 20140147621
    Abstract: Disclosed is a ceramic honeycomb structure comprising a honeycomb body and a multilayered outer layer formed of a thick core layer applied and rapidly dried and a thin clad layer dried more gently to form a crack free dual skin layer. The core layer may have properties that are closer to those of the ceramic honeycomb body in service than the clad layer that may provide a tough outer shell to withstand handling and assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Thomas Richard Chapman, Jacob George, Ralph Henry Hagg, Amit Halder, Huthavahana Kuchibhotla Sarma
  • Publication number: 20140126166
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of forming a solder resist (SR) post, including: (A) forming an SR layer on a printed circuit board; (B) disposing a patterning film on an upper surface on the SR layer; (C) forming a plurality of openings in the patterning film or the SR layer; (D) filling SR ink in the openings and performing an exposure process to form a plurality of SR posts; (E) delaminating the patterning film; (F) removing an uncured portion of the SR ink on which the exposure process is performed; and (G) drying the plurality of SR posts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su Il Kim, Soon Jin Cho
  • Publication number: 20140109324
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transfer paper (4) for use for transferring a print of ink onto a fabric, said transfer paper comprising: i) a base paper (2); ii) an additive (8) comprising a starch component, and a binding agent; wherein said starch component being a starch selected from the group comprising unmodified starch or a modified starch or a mixture thereof; and wherein said binding agent being a binding agent selected from the group comprising: an alkyl ketene dimer, a tall oil/fumaric acid copolymer, a styrene/acrylate copolymer and an alkenyl succinic anhydride and a mixture thereof; wherein said base paper (2) comprises an amount of said additive by being impregnated therewith; and wherein said base paper (2) having a water uptake as defined by a Cobb-45 value of 10-100 g/m2 and a having a Gurley porosity of 10-140 seconds. The present invention furthermore relates to uses of the transfer paper (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Beaver Paper & Graphic Media, Inc
    Inventor: Knud Villefrance Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20140087088
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a foamed coating on a web-shaped substrate, the substrate being coated entirely or partly with a coating agent, the applied coating being dried at a temperature above 70° C., and the coating agent being applied as a foam, an aqueous coating agent containing polymers selected from poly(meth)acrylates, maleinate polymers, or ethylene vinyl acetate polymers being used, and the coating agent being foamed by means of an introduced inert gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Achim Schmitt, Daniel Wesemann, Thorsten Classen, Mario Eckers, Lothar Hendricks, Hartmut Buesching
  • Publication number: 20140004340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition that comprises a composite structure with a body of polysaccharide, into which carbonate has been precipitated. The invention also relates to a coated paper or board product, onto which the said composition has been spread on one or both sides into one or more layers; as well as to paint that is formed of the coating composition according to the invention, or that contains the said composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventor: Nordkalk OY AB
  • Publication number: 20130337187
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flow body with a desired surface texturization in order to optimize its resistance. The method can include applying a coat of clear varnish on at least the primary surface areas of the flow body, and hardening the coat of clear varnish by exposing it to infrared radiation, determining the coordinates for the coated flow body surface in the form of real flow body data, determining a real flow body model for the outer shape of the flow body with the desired surface texturization to be created, and using a material removing laser to mill the desired surface texturization out of the clear varnish coating, along with a laser material removing device for creating a desired surface texturization on a coated flow body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Jan Reh, Martin Dehn, Peter Sander
  • Publication number: 20130333790
    Abstract: The invention concerns a threaded tubular component for drilling or working hydrocarbon wells, said tubular component having at one of its ends (1; 2) a threaded zone (3; 4) produced on its outer or inner peripheral surface depending on whether the threaded end is male or female in type, in which at least a portion of the end (1; 2) is coated with at least one film of polyurethane (12), 100% solid state, with an essentially rigid structure, based on a matrix of polyurethane and polyurea, in which the urethane functionality is predominant with respect to the urea functionality in a proportion of at least 55% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC MANNESMANN OIL & GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Eliette Pinel, Eric Gard, Mikael Petit, Mohamed Gouider
  • Publication number: 20130316089
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a touch screen having a bacteria inhibition layer for prohibiting bacteria from growing thereon and a method for manufacturing the same comprising uniformly dispersing particles of nano metal material in a solution to be applied to a surface treatment so that the solution can have a concentration of 20 ppm to 500 ppm; evenly spray coating the solution on a screen of the touch screen; and subjecting the solution coated on the screen of the touch screen to a heat treatment until solvent in the solution is completely evaporated so that the particles of the nano metal material are densely adhered to the screen of the touch screen to form a bacteria inhibition layer thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: TPK Touch Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Chun-Min Hu
  • Publication number: 20130276966
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method of applying a cold seal cohesive for product packaging is disclosed, the method including the steps of delivering a cold seal adhesive to a chambered doctor blade disposed adjacent a rotating transfer roller; transferring a quantity of adhesive to a transfer surface; rotating the transfer roller to contact a printing die mounted to a rotating die roller such that at least a first portion of the quantity of adhesive is transferred to the printing die; feeding a housing between the die roller and an adjacent rotating impression roller; rotating the die roller such that the printing die contacts the housing and transfers a portion of the quantity of adhesive from the printing die to the housing; and drying the adhesive on the housing, where the adhesive is a latex-based, dry-tack adhesive, with a viscosity of no more than 450 centipoise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventor: Shane Mikula
  • Patent number: 8529997
    Abstract: Methods for making a substrate comprising structured organic film nano- to micro-features are disclosed. The methods for forming SOF micro-features may include: providing a substrate; discharging at least one droplet toward the substrate by an ink jet method, the at least one droplet including a plurality of molecular building blocks each comprising a segment and a number of functional groups; depositing the at least one droplet on the substrate; promoting a change in the deposited at least one droplet and forming at least one dry structured organic film (SOF) on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Heuft, Adrien P. Cote
  • Patent number: 8524330
    Abstract: A method for curing a paint coating applied to a workpiece includes applying radiant light energy to cure the paint coating on surfaces of the workpiece within a line of sight of a radiant light energy source, and applying ambient air to the workpiece to cure the paint coating on surfaces of the workpiece not within the line of sight of the radiant light energy source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Hua-Tzu Fan, Hong-Hsiang Kuo
  • Publication number: 20130171372
    Abstract: A wood treatment method and apparatus that includes a cart drive system for enabling the movement of at least one wood-transporting cart into and/or out of a wood treatment vessel. The wood-transporting cart can have a length greater than the maximum internal dimension of the wood treatment vessel. The cart drive system can include at least one active drive component and at least one passive drive component. The active drive component can be physically separate from the cart and permanently fixed outside the interior of the wood treatment vessel. The passive drive component can be physically coupled to the cart and operable to move with the cart as it transports the bundle of wood into and/or out of the wood treatment vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventor: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
  • Patent number: 8436130
    Abstract: A structured organic film with an added functionality comprising a plurality of segments and a plurality of linkers arranged as a covalent organic framework, wherein the structured organic film may be a multi-segment thick structured organic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Adrien Pierre Cote, Matthew A. Heuft
  • Publication number: 20130034664
    Abstract: The disclosure provides for reagent compositions for biosensors comprising release polymers, methods of making such biosensors and films of reagent compositions comprising release polymers. The reagent compositions comprise a release polymer and an effective analyte detecting amount of an enzyme an enzyme cofactor and a redox compound capable of acting in a biosensor as (i) a redox mediator associated with a working electrode (ii) a redox couple associated with a reference electrode or (iii) the redox mediator associated with the working electrode and the redox couple for the reference electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Nigel John Forrow, Shridhara Alva Karinka
  • Patent number: 8334360
    Abstract: A structured organic film comprising a plurality of segments and a plurality of linkers arranged as a covalent organic framework, wherein the structured organic film may be a multi-segment thick structured organic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Heuft, Adrien Pierre Cote, Kathy L. De Jong
  • Patent number: 8318892
    Abstract: A capped structured organic film comprising a plurality of segments and a plurality of linkers arranged as a covalent organic framework, wherein the structured organic film may be a multi-segment thick structured organic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Adrien P. Côté, Matthew A. Heuft
  • Publication number: 20120295037
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing electrodes includes applying an electrode mixture paste by coating to a first surface of an electrode current collector having the first surface and a second surface, to provide a first paste-coated member having a first surface that is a surface of the electrode mixture paste, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and drying the electrode mixture paste deposited on the first surface of the electrode current collector. In the initial stage of drying of the electrode mixture paste, the quantity of heat applied to the second surface of the first paste-coated member is made larger than the quantity of heat applied to the first surface of the first paste-coated member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Hideki HAGIWARA, Junya MORI
  • Publication number: 20120219725
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing a substrate includes an inspection system disposed in a first position to detect the location and orientation of the substrate supported on a supporting surface of a processing nest positioned in the first position and one or more processing heads disposed in the second and third positions and configured to perform a first and a second process on the substrate when the processing nest is moved to the second and third positions by an actuator assembly. A method for processing a substrate includes detecting the location and orientation of the substrate disposed on the processing nest which is positioned in the first position and aligning one or more processing heads to the substrate when the processing nest is positioned in the second and third positions and under the processing heads using data detected by an inspection system positioned in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrea Baccini, Giorgio Cellere, Luigi De Santi, Marco Galiazzo, Gianfranco Pasqualin, Tommaso Vercesi
  • Patent number: 8247142
    Abstract: A fluorinated structured organic film comprising a plurality of segments and a plurality of linkers arranged as a covalent organic framework, wherein the fluorine in the structured organic film may be distributed in a patterned uniform manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Adrien P. Cote, Matthew A. Heuft
  • Publication number: 20120202037
    Abstract: Solution derived nanocomposite (SDN) precursor solutions are disclosed that comprise one or more metal precursors that are dissolved in a liquid comprising polar protic and polar aprotic solvents. The precursor solutions are characterized by the formation of a gel after a shear force is applied to the precursor solution or to a thin layer of precursor solution. Also disclosed are methods using such precursor solutions to make thin films, thin films made using the precursor solutions, thin films having a minimum surface area and devices containing thin films as disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: ADVENIRA, INC.
    Inventor: Elmira Ryabova
  • Patent number: 8211510
    Abstract: A highly tensile dielectric layer is generated on a heat sensitive substrate while not exceeding thermal budget constraints. Cascaded ultraviolet (UV) irradiation is used to produce highly tensile films to be used, for example, in strained NMOS transistor architectures. Successive UV radiation of equal or shorter wavelengths with variable intensity and duration selectively breaks bonds in the Si—N matrix and minimizes shrinkage and film relaxation. Higher tensile stress than a non-cascaded approach may be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Novellus Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhadri Varadarajan, Gengwei Jiang, Sirish K. Reddy, James S. Sims
  • Patent number: 8211508
    Abstract: A process for producing a molded printed material is provided that includes (A) a step of forming an image by discharging an ink composition on a support by an inkjet method, the ink composition comprising at least 60 wt % relative to the entire ink composition of at least one monofunctional radically polymerizable monomer having only one unsaturated double bond group selected from the group consisting of an acrylate group, a methacrylate group, an acrylamide group, a methacrylamide group, and an N-vinyl group and having at least one cyclic structure-containing group, (B) a step of curing the ink composition by irradiating with actinic radiation the image obtained so as to obtain a printed material having the image cured on the support, and (C) a step of molding the printed material. There is also provided a molded printed material obtained by the process for producing a molded printed material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yuuichi Hayata
  • Publication number: 20120164345
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a patterned retarder includes forming a retarder material layer by applying a retarder material to a substrate; drying the retarder material layer at a first temperature; exposing the retarder material layer to linearly-polarized UV, wherein the retarder material layer has an optical anisotropic property; and heat treating the retarder material layer at a second temperature higher than the first temperature to increase the optical anisotropic property of the retarder material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Su-Bin LEE, Su-Hyun Park, Sang-Wook Lee, Jung-Min Lee, Byoung-Har Hwang
  • Patent number: 8197907
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coating a metal strip with a coating containing a solvent and for drying and/or cross-linking said coating. Accordingly, the metal strip is provided with the coating in an inner chamber of a coating device. The coated metal strip is conducted through a drying unit and in an inner chamber of the latter is exposed to a form of energy by at least one radiation source that is cooled by a cooling gas, said form of energy being converted to heat in the coating and/or the metal strip. The cooling gas that is supplied to the radiation source flows through the latter, absorbs the waste heat from said source and is then conducted into the inner chamber of the drying unit, thus saving energy and gas. The invention also relates to an installation that is suitable for carrying out said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Value & Intellectual Properties Management GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Dibon, Kai Baer
  • Patent number: 8192797
    Abstract: A fabric or cord is treated with an elastomeric compound comprises 20-80 parts per hundred cross-linkable materials of liquid elastomer. The liquid elastomer has a complex dynamic viscosity less than 5 McP (5,000 N*s/m2) at a temperature between 20° C. and the maximum flow temperature TF, and the elastomeric compound the elastomeric material, prior to cure, has a complex dynamic viscosity of less than 5 McP (5,000 N*s/m2) for at least 2 minutes at a maximum flow temperature TF. The coated fabric and cord materials are useful as facing fabrics for power transmission products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Veyance Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Bruce Wood, Thomas George Burrowes
  • Patent number: 8178165
    Abstract: A long range, periodically ordered array of discrete nano-features (10), such as nano-islands, nano-particles, nano-wires, non-tubes, nano-pores, nano-composition-variations, and nano-device-components, are fabricated by propagation of a self-assembling array or nucleation and growth of periodically aligned nano-features. The propagation may be induced by a laterally or circularly moving heat source, a stationary heat source arranged at an edge of the material to be patterned (12), or a series of sequentially activated heaters or electrodes. Advantageously, the long-range periodic array of nano-features (10) may be utilized as a nano-mask or nano-implant master pattern for nano-fabrication of other nano-structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Sungho Jin
  • Publication number: 20120111600
    Abstract: A method for producing an aqueous absorptive polymer-containing resin composition in which a resin composition is doped with an aqueous absorptive polymer includes causing the aqueous absorptive polymer to absorb and be swollen by water beforehand, and milling and microparticulating the water-absorbed and -swollen absorptive polymer at an ultrasonic flow pressure of not less than 50 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI CABLE, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa KATO, Seikichi TANNO
  • Patent number: 8093347
    Abstract: A structured organic film comprising a plurality of segments and a plurality of linkers arranged as a covalent organic framework, wherein the structured organic film may be a multi-segment thick structured organic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Heuft, Adrien Pierre Cote, Kathy L. De Jong
  • Patent number: 8062705
    Abstract: It is shown a method and apparatus for distributing a viscous liquid over a surface of a substrate, e.g. a semiconductor wafer or a datastorage media, by conditioning the substrate thermally, locally specific before or during the spin coating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Singulus Technologies AG
    Inventor: Chieh Ou-Yang
  • Publication number: 20110235203
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing mirrors and to mirrors produced in this manner. The process comprises a step fir forming a silver layer on a surface of a glass substrate, during which said surface is brought into contact with a silvering solution, and a painting step, during which the silver layer is covered by at least one paint layer. It is characterised by the fact that between the step for forming the silver layer and the painting step it comprises a step for reheating the silver layer to a temperature of at least 200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Lionel Ventelon, Bruno Cosijns, Pierre Boulager, Joseph Leclercq
  • Publication number: 20110097544
    Abstract: A coating method wherein in order to simplify the coating method and increase the flexibility thereof with respect to respective desired coatings, provision is made that a powder lacquer layer (3) is applied to a surface (2) of the component (1), and an imprint (4) is applied to the powder lacquer layer (3), preferably by an inkjet method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: DIEHL AIRCABIN GmbH
    Inventors: Mathias GRÜN, Dietmar VÖLKLE, Benedict MICHELIS, Florian HESSELBACH
  • Publication number: 20110064888
    Abstract: The present invention provides a portable apparatus for heating a surface of an object during powder coating. The object is fixed at a location, and a powder comprising a thermal plastic polymer or a thermoset polymer is applied to the surface of the object prior to heating. The apparatus comprises a portable support member, and a portable first heater for heating the surface of the object, the first heater being mounted to the support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventor: Jeffery G. Whitley
  • Publication number: 20110059266
    Abstract: A method of drying and/or curing an organic coating on a continuously running metal strip, includes heating the strip by electromagnetic induction in a tunnel furnace having an enclosure with hot internal walls and heating the enclosure. The heating of the strip by electromagnetic induction is coupled with heating by infrared radiation and heating by convection with a combustion gas. The heating of the enclosure of the furnace is performed by convection using the same combustion gas used for heating the strip by convection. A device for implementing the method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: SIEMENS VAI METALS TECHNOLOGIES SAS
    Inventor: Pierre-Jérôme Borrel
  • Publication number: 20110027501
    Abstract: Wood substrate having antique appearance effects, based on only one structural substrate, which may utilize composites such as plywood, particle board, high density board, bamboo, non-wood fiber boards and other synthetic or semi-synthetic materials. A board using a composite may be formed to desired dimensions, and optionally may have tongue and groove or other interconnection structure. The board may have holes, grooves, cracks, and other intruding formations imposed therein, and may have simulated patches formed thereon. The board may then have wood grain printed thereon. Abraded texturing may be introduced to the surface. Other treatments such a staining, sealing, sanding, drying, and coating may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventor: Jenwei Guo
  • Publication number: 20100304041
    Abstract: A ceramic coating is provided on the outer surface of a honeycomb body by applying a first layer of coating material comprising a ceramic or ceramic-forming component to the outer surface, subjecting at least part of the first layer to at least partial curing, and then adding one or more additional layers of coating material comprising a ceramic or ceramic-forming component over the previously applied and cured layer(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Tonia Havewala Fletcher, Karen Knapp, Gabrielle Lange, William Paul Ryszytiwskyj, Rebecca Lynn Schulz, Gary Graham Squier
  • Patent number: 7842354
    Abstract: The subject invention reveals a method for preparing a coated fabric which comprises (I) applying a vulcanizable elastomer composition to a layer of fabric, wherein the vulcanizable elastomer composition is made by: (1) mixing a cross-linkable functionalized polyethylene with at least one cross-linkable liquid elastomer to form a non-reactive extrudant, wherein the mixing occurs at a temperature in the range of 10° F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Veyance Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Bruce Wood, Thomas George Burrowes
  • Publication number: 20100272919
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a touch screen having a bacteria inhibition layer for prohibiting bacteria from growing thereon and a method for manufacturing the same comprising uniformly dispersing particles of nano metal material in a solution to be applied to a surface treatment so that the solution can have a concentration of 20 ppm to 500 ppm; evenly spray coating the solution on a screen of the touch screen; and subjecting the solution coated on the screen of the touch screen to a heat treatment until solvent in the solution is completely evaporated so that the particles of the nano metal material are densely adhered to the screen of the touch screen to form a bacteria inhibition layer thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: TPK Touch Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Chun-Min Hu