Hexagonally Shaped Cavities Patents (Class 428/118)
  • Patent number: 12053943
    Abstract: A method for repairing a composite structure, includes creating a repair cavity in a composite structure, placing foamable media in the repair cavity, placing a replacement skin over the repair cavity, and expanding the foamable media placed in the repair cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaoxi Wang, Gary E. Georgeson
  • Patent number: 11982391
    Abstract: A percussive pressure damper includes an entrance port, an exit port axially displaced from the entrance port, an axial flow channel extending from the entrance port to the exit port, a plurality of expansion chambers each extending radially from and in fluid communication with the axial flow channel, and an outer wall enclosing the axial flow channel and the expansion chambers. Each expansion chamber is enclosed by an inner surface of the outer wall and by interior walls, such that any cross section of the tube normal to the axial flow channel cuts through at least one interior wall between the axial flow channel and the outer wall. The expansion chambers may form a generally cylindrical honeycomb structure, each enclosing a hexagonal conical volume that expands in a radial direction, the expansion chambers axially stacked in radially symmetric and axially offset groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Versus LLC
    Inventors: David Paul Schenker, Patrick Edwin Johnston
  • Patent number: 11935751
    Abstract: Exemplary deposition methods may include delivering a boron-containing precursor and a nitrogen-containing precursor to a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include providing a hydrogen-containing precursor with the boron-containing precursor and the nitrogen-containing precursor. A flow rate ratio of the hydrogen-containing precursor to either of the boron-containing precursor or the nitrogen-containing precursor may be greater than or about 2:1. The methods may include forming a plasma of all precursors within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include depositing a boron-and-nitrogen material on a substrate disposed within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Siyu Zhu, Chuanxi Yang, Hang Yu, Deenesh Padhi, Yeonju Kwak, Jeong Hwan Kim, Qian Fu, Xiawan Yang
  • Patent number: 11870147
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a gradient structure (100) for transmitting and/or reflecting an electromagnetic signal. The gradient structure comprises a plurality of interconnected cells (110). Each cell comprises a through cavity (112) surrounded by walls (111), wherein the walls of each cell have a gradually varying thickness along a longitudinal direction of each cell. The present disclosure also relates to a cover structure (200) comprising the gradient structure (100), a system (300) comprising the cover structure (200), a structure element (400) having integrated therein the system (300) and to a method for optimizing the transmittance and/or reflectance of an electromagnetic signal of a gradient structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAAB AB
    Inventors: Sören Poulsen, Philip Bergander
  • Patent number: 11786856
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall disposed to surround a plurality of cells and a plugging portion. The partition wall defining outflow cells includes an exhaust-gas purifying catalyst at least at a part of a region of 0 to 80% of a thickness of the partition wall and includes a portion that does not include the exhaust-gas purifying catalyst in a region of exceeding 80% and being 100% or less of the thickness of the partition wall, and the partition wall defining the inflow cells is not loaded with the exhaust-gas purifying catalyst on the surface, or is loaded with the exhaust-gas purifying catalyst so that a percentage of a ratio of an area of a range loaded with the exhaust-gas purifying catalyst to a surface area of the partition wall defining the inflow cells is 10% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuya Yuki
  • Patent number: 11421428
    Abstract: A composite structure for a floating floor system including at least one layer of force muting material and a layer of formwork, wherein the layer of formwork is located on the at least one layer of force muting material wherein the layer of formwork is a half closed folded honeycomb structure or a relaxed honeycomb structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Econcore N.V.
    Inventors: Rolf-Dieter Böttcher, Alexander Siebel, Jan Mahy
  • Patent number: 11345114
    Abstract: A flexible article is provided having a core formed from a plurality of laminar panels that are inter-connected to provide an expandable structure upon movement of the panels away from each other. Opposite ends of the core terminate in a pair of end panels whereby the end panels may be moved apart to expand the expandable structure. Each of the panels are made from wood material. The panels, for example, include two wood sheets with longitudinally oriented grains and a flexible backing sheet that is sandwiched and adhered between the two wood sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: MOLO DESIGN, LTD.
    Inventors: Todd P. Macallen, Stephanie J. Forsythe
  • Patent number: 11292206
    Abstract: A method for creating a honeycomb core having venting pathways includes controlling where a resin is applied to sheets by creating a resin affinity portion and a resin repellant portion on the sheets. The resin affinity portion and the resin repellant portion forms the venting pathways. A honeycomb substrate is then formed from the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John C. Wilde, Xiaoxi Wang, Jason W. Drexler
  • Patent number: 11077397
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a plugged honeycomb structure body which has cell rows arranged along one direction, in a cross section of the honeycomb structure body and including a first cell row constituted of at least one of an inflow cell and an outflow cell, and a through-cell, and a second cell row including no through-cells. A width P1 (mm) of the first cell row, a width P2 (mm) of the second cell row and a curvature radius R (?m) of a curved shape of corner portions of a polygonal shape of each cell satisfy a relation of Equation (1) below: Equation (1): 0.4 (R/1000)/((P1+P2)/2) 100 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kato, Takahiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 11033848
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a plugged honeycomb structure body which has cell rows arranged along one direction in a cross section of the honeycomb structure body and including a first cell row in which at least the inflow cells are included and in which in the cross section perpendicular to the extending direction of the cells, a through channel area SA occupied by the inflow cells is larger than a through channel area SB occupied by the outflow cells, and a second cell row in which at least the outflow cells are included. A width P1 (mm) of the first cell row, a width P2 (mm) of the second cell row and a curvature radius R (?m) of a curved shape of corner portions of a polygonal shape of each cell satisfy a relation of Equation (1) below: Equation (1): 0.4?(R/1000)/((P1+P2)/2)×100?20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kato, Takahiro Kondo, Takahiro Honda
  • Patent number: 11020909
    Abstract: A method of producing a cellular structure via an additive manufacturing technique includes the steps of: providing a feedstock material to an additive manufacturing printer device; dispensing the feedstock material from the printer device; and controlling the dispensing of the feedstock material to form at least one layer of the cellular structure according to a first predetermined gradient. In some aspects, the cellular structure comprises an array of cells surrounded, respectively, by walls, and arranged to create a non-uniform relative density and/or cell geometry across a width and/or a height of the cellular structure. An article of manufacture produced by such methods includes a cellular structure configured to produce a controlled collapse with selectable dynamic stiffness characteristics by altering the distribution and geometry of cells within the cellular structure, while being able to maintain a substantially similar static stiffness characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: Brett Gibson Compton, Michael James Goin, Hesam Shams, Oleg Shylo
  • Patent number: 11002145
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a panel for supporting at least one cartridge of abradable material for a turbine engine casing, the panel including at least one block of material and a rigid panel covering the at least one block of material, except for a free outer surface configured to be fixed to an inner surface of the casing, including: a step of machining the outer surface of the block of material according to a three-dimensional profile configured to match that of the inner surface of the casing, and a step of fixing the machined block to the rigid panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Marc-Emmanuel Jean Francois Techer, Hubert Jean Marie Fabre, Pauline Nathalie Six
  • Patent number: 11001029
    Abstract: A honeycomb for curved surface lightweight components includes a plurality of elongate ribbons and connecting regions. The connecting regions are provided, respectively, between opposing ribbons to connect the ribbons together in a portion-wise manner in a firmly bonded relationship in a transverse direction. The connecting regions are arranged at regular spacings along the longitudinal direction of a ribbon. Honeycomb-like cells form cavities between the ribbons. With respect to three successive ribbons, a displacement of the connecting regions between first and second ribbons relative to the connecting regions between second and third ribbons toward a first side of the longitudinal direction is lesser than toward a second side of the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: EURO-COMPOSITES S.A.
    Inventors: Rolf-Mathias Alter, Willy Wintgens, Michael Willert, Ralf Schmitt
  • Patent number: 10961703
    Abstract: A corner hardware kit for completing a frame corner that is defined by a first frame element and a second frame element includes a corner bracket having a first portion for attachment to the first frame element and a second portion for attachment to the second frame element. The corner bracket has an upstanding foot that protrudes rearwardly therefrom and carries a coupling member at a distal end thereof. The kit also includes an elastic corner insert that has a curved outer surface and has a pair of first coupling elements for mating to a pair of second coupling elements that are associated with the first and second frame elements to complete the corner of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: RAYVA International LLC
    Inventors: Paul Stary, Theodore Kalomirakis
  • Patent number: 10850472
    Abstract: To provide a means capable of exhibiting high soundproofing performance over a wide range of a frequency range of 2000 Hz or less. A soundproofing material includes a sheet having elasticity and a support portion partitioning the sheet into partition portions while holding the sheet, in which a surface rigidity (k) and a surface density (m) of the sheet in the partition portion are configured to satisfy a relationship of the following Expression 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norifumi Horibe, Susumu Miura
  • Patent number: 10828484
    Abstract: A device for cleaning medical implements is disclosed, in particular a device for cleaning vascular or other fluid access sites. The device includes a cap having an opening to receive an access site. The cap may be used in the following manner: A healthcare worker may, with gloved hands, open the cap packaging and place the cap over the port of a medical implement to be cleaned. The healthcare worker may wipe the site by either applying a turning motion or by simply pushing the cap onto the port. The cap could then remain secured in place by threads other mechanisms. A cap in place on a medical implement may be a positive indication that a desired site of the medical implement is clean. The cap may include a disinfecting substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Bedoe, James Burgess, Brent Skupien, Christopher Dalton, Pere Berkowitz, David Noskowicz
  • Patent number: 10786977
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a composite structures or sandwiches that may have a relatively high bending stiffness and may have a relatively light weight as well as related methods of use and fabrication of the composite sandwiches. For example, a composite sandwich may include a core structure sandwiched between a two composite skins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: BRIGHT LITE STRUCTURES LLC
    Inventor: Antony Dodworth
  • Patent number: 10569495
    Abstract: A composite structure assembly includes a composite core including a flexible base and a plurality of cells extending from the flexible base. The composite core is conformable to different shapes. The plurality of cells are configured to move in response to movement of the flexible base. At least one of the plurality of cells may include a central column connected to a first flared end and a second flared end that is opposite from the first flared end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John C. Waldrop, III, Zachary Benjamin Renwick, Matthew Scott Thompson, Michael William Hayes
  • Patent number: 10379281
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device in an example includes a light guide plate that includes a light entering surface facing a light source; a reflecting plate below the light guide plate; an optical sheet on the light guide plate; a liquid crystal panel on the optical sheet; and a pattern adhesive layer that attaches at least one of the reflecting plate and the optical sheet to the light guide plate, wherein the pattern adhesive layer includes honeycomb shaped unit patterns that each include two first separation walls facing each other in a first direction perpendicular to the light entering surface, and second separation walls other than the first separation walls and each have an air cell defined therein, and wherein the unit patterns are arranged in the first direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju-Hun Min, Young-Hun Jeong, Min-Gyu Choi
  • Patent number: 10307979
    Abstract: A part obtained by selective melting of a powder on a support plate having a main element and rigid secondary elements arranged between the main element and the support plate, and adapted to be detached from the main element. All or part of the secondary elements comprises a body of thickness E and a head of width L greater than the thickness E of this body, the body connected to the support plate and the head connected to main element. All or part of the secondary elements includes a region of connection between the head and the body. The head of the secondary element extends over at most half the height H of this element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche Et Technique, S.A.
    Inventor: Etienne Blanchet
  • Patent number: 10196979
    Abstract: In a method for processing an acoustic panel (22), the panel comprises: a sheet (42) having a first face (44), a second face (46), and apertures (48) open to the first face and second face; and a mesh (60) along the first face. The method comprises forcing the mesh into a plurality of the apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel M. Stadtlander, Christopher S. Leoni
  • Patent number: 10195587
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for making monolithic carbon materials as single bodies containing networks of pores in the mesopore and macropores that incorporate nanoparticles of various metals and metal oxides. The disclosed methods have the advantage that such single bodies can be made by mixing the carbon precursors and metal salts together in a single pot followed by appropriate processing. The materials produced are particularly suitable for use as heterogeneous catalysts, particularly in fixed bed and monolithic reactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama
    Inventors: Martin G. Bakker, Trupti V. Kotbagi, Kevin Shaughnessy
  • Patent number: 9963879
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a multiwall sheet comprises: non-intersecting polymer walls comprising outer layers and transverse layers. The transverse layers intersect the walls to form cells. The multiwall sheet has a non-uniform cell density. In another embodiment, a multiwall sheet can comprise: non-intersecting polymer walls comprising outer layers and a transverse layer and/or a divider. The transverse layer and/or the divider extends from one of the polymer walls to another of the polymer walls to form cells. The multiwall sheet has a non-uniform cell density. In yet another embodiment, a multiwall sheet comprises: non-intersecting polymer walls comprising outer layers and transverse layers. The transverse layers intersect the walls to form cells. The multiwall sheet has a different number of inner layers, transverse layers, and/or dividers, in different portions of the sheet. The multiwall sheets can be used, for example, in a naturally light structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Chinniah Thiagarajan, Frans Adriaansen, Eelco van Hamersveld
  • Patent number: 9845600
    Abstract: A vented honeycomb structure with a plurality of honeycomb cells arranged in a hierarchical order and having a plurality of truss walls, each truss wall including a plurality of members. The vented honeycomb structure is fabricated by joining a plurality of sheets of trusses using any one of an expansion, a corrugation, and a slotting process. Fabrication can also occur by deposition, casting, additive, extrusion, or aligning and joining methods. The honeycomb cells, truss walls, truss wall openings, and truss wall members can be functionally graded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Sypeck
  • Patent number: 9840043
    Abstract: One aspect of a method of manufacturing a honeycomb core includes positioning a first thermoplastic columnar cell adjacent a second thermoplastic columnar cell, modifying a thermoplastic property of the first thermoplastic columnar cell, wherein the modified thermoplastic property permits joining a circumferential surface of the first thermoplastic columnar cell to a circumferential surface of the second thermoplastic columnar cell. The method also includes joining the circumferential surface of the first thermoplastic columnar cell having the modified thermoplastic property to the circumferential surface of the second thermoplastic columnar cell resulting in the honeycomb core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.
    Inventors: Elliott Keller Schulte, Robert Brack, Kathleen Oldham
  • Patent number: 9808794
    Abstract: A honeycomb ceramic substrate, a method of making thereof, and a honeycomb extrusion die configured to extrude a honeycomb ceramic substrate from a batch of ceramic or ceramic-forming material is provided. The substrate may include a lattice of intersecting walls defining a honeycomb network of flow channels extending between an inlet end and an outlet end of the honeycomb substrate. Each flow channel may be defined by a plurality of channel walls of the intersecting walls with at least two of the plurality of channel walls including concave inner surfaces facing a center of the corresponding flow channel from central portions of the concave inner surfaces to concave corner portions facing the center of the corresponding flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas William Brew, Jeffrey O Foster, Steven John Kremer, Bryan Michael Miller
  • Patent number: 9682515
    Abstract: The invention concerns a process for preparing a ribbon of reinforcement strands or filaments associated on each of its faces with a polymeric binder, said ribbon having a given width substantially constant over its entire length, in which the strands or filaments extend in a direction parallel to the length of the ribbon, wherein it comprises the following steps: a) adjustment of the ribbon width to the desired width thanks to a dimensioning device, b) association of the ribbon on each of its faces with a polymeric binder allowing the assurance of a homogenous cohesion of the ribbon, such that the total weight of the binder does not exceed 25% of the total weight of the obtained ribbon, as well as the ribbons obtainable by such a process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Hexcel Reinforcements
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Beraud, Alain Bruyere, Jean-Florent Lamethe, Jacques Ducarre
  • Patent number: 9475435
    Abstract: A vehicle exterior component includes a honeycomb structure having an inner plate portion arranged in the vicinity of an engine compartment, an outer plate portion arranged at an outer side of the inner plate portion, and a honeycomb portion held between the plate portions. The honeycomb portion includes a plurality of partition walls and a plurality of cells, which are separated from one another by the partition walls. Each of the partition walls of each cell has communication holes, to allow communication between the engine compartment and the interior space of the cell. Each partition wall has an absorbing portion. When external force acting inward is applied to the partition wall, the absorbing portion absorbs energy produced by the external force through deformation of the partition wall at positions corresponding to the peripheries of the communication holes, of the partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Hirose, Shigeru Yabuya, Yoshihiro Kurosaki, Shohei Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9390704
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a sound absorbing panel in which a reflective wall on one of faces of a set of sound absorbing cells. In particular, a passage on a portion of a thickness (E) of the set of sound absorbing cells is formed on an opposite face of the one of the faces, while the passage forming a main channel for a communication between sound absorbing cells and for a circulation of a de-icing fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Herve Hurlin, Pierre Caruel
  • Patent number: 9272841
    Abstract: Collapsible radiant barrier void filler, comprising: first and second scored sheets having interior and exterior surfaces and fold lines to attain collapsed and expanded configurations; a cell core being collapsible to a closed cell configuration and expandable to an open cell configuration, the cell core having end portions secured to oppositely disposed portions of the interior surfaces of the scored sheets, and the cell core having oppositely disposed cell side portions; and a radiant barrier having a reflective first side and an opposing second side wherein the second side is disposed upon at least one of the interior surfaces of one of the scored sheets and wherein the first reflective side is juxtaposed adjacent at least one of the oppositely disposed cell side portions in the expanded open cell configuration so as to maintain an air space adjacent the first reflective side that extends into the cell core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sunrise Mfg. Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Watson Sewell, Eric Daniel Kvilhaug
  • Patent number: 9266313
    Abstract: A method of making a core-stiffened structure includes the steps of providing a honeycomb core having an adhesive disposed on first and second surfaces thereof, providing a first skin and a second skin, and assembling the first skin, the second skin, and the honeycomb core to form the core-stiffened structure. The method further includes the steps of curing the core-stiffened structure and inhibiting at least one of the first skin and the second skin from protruding into at least one cell of the honeycomb core during the step of curing the core-stiffened structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Hethcock, Jr., Kenneth E. Nunn, Jr., Carl A. May
  • Patent number: 9084954
    Abstract: The honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure part having porous partition walls, and porous plugged portions, and when there is drawn a straight line as an inner boundary line which is positioned at a distance of 30% of a distance between an outer end surface and an inner end surface, from the inner end surface, and there is drawn a straight line as an outer boundary line which is positioned at a distance of 70% of the distance between the outer end surface and the inner end surface, from the inner end surface, each of the plugged portions has an outer region, and an inner region which is the region between the inner end surface and the inner boundary line and whose porosity is larger than a porosity of the outer region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Suenobu
  • Patent number: 9073299
    Abstract: A method for the repair of a sandwich plate having a core structure, a top surface layer and a bottom surface layer and a plurality of honeycomb-shaped cells includes providing at least one penetrating drill hole in at least one of the top surface layer and the bottom surface layer above one of the plurality of honeycomb-shaped cells in a damaged region of the sandwich plate, injecting a stabilising material into the honeycomb-shaped cell, and filling the damaged region with a filler material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Berend Schoke, Michael Doecker
  • Publication number: 20150147520
    Abstract: In order to provide a sintered, hexagonal boron nitride body (2a, 2b), same is produced by at least one pressing process and subsequent sintering process from a powder (P) made of a hexagonal boron nitride, its density being deliberately set to a value of <1.6 g/cm3. Studies have shown that, due to the selection of this lower density, the boron nitride body (2a, 2b) exhibits very high isotropy, when compared with conventional hexagonal boron nitride bodies. This relates in particular to thermal conductivity and the coefficient of thermal expansion, which are also largely temperature-independent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Rudolf K. Grau, Rodrigue N. Yappi, Hubert J. Schweiger
  • Patent number: 9012770
    Abstract: Optoelectronic devices and thin-film semiconductor compositions and methods for making same are disclosed. The methods provide for the synthesis of the disclosed composition. The thin-film semiconductor compositions disclosed herein have a unique configuration that exhibits efficient photo-induced charge transfer and high transparency to visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC
    Inventors: Mircea Cotlet, Hsing-Lin Wang, Hsinhan Tsai, Zhihua Xu
  • Publication number: 20150079336
    Abstract: A processing chamber component and method for fabricating the same are provided. The processing chamber component is fabricated in the manner described herein and includes the creation of at least a macro texture on a surface of the chamber component. The macro texture is defined by a plurality of engineered features arranged in a predefined orientation on the surface of the chamber component. In some embodiments, the engineered features prevent formation of a line of sight surface defined between the features to enhance retention of films deposited on the chamber component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Jianqi WANG, William Ming-ye LU, Yukari NISHIMURA, Joseph F. SOMMERS, Sio On LO, Rajan BALESAN
  • Publication number: 20150072105
    Abstract: A laminated composite interior component, including: a first member that has a predetermined mating surface; and a second member made of an elastically deformable resin material, the second member having a plate-like portion that is substantially parallel to the mating surface and that has multiple protrusions which are formed integrally with plate-like portion and which protrude toward the mating surface such that a space is formed between the mating surface and the plate-like portion, the second member being arranged so as to be laminated on the first member with the protrusions in contact with the mating surface, cushioning characteristics being imparted to the laminated composite interior component when distal ends of the protrusions are pressed against the mating surface and elastically deformed, the laminated composite interior component being configured such that the multiple protrusions have the same shape, the plate-like portion is dotted with the multiple protrusions, bending stiffness of each of th
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: TOYODA IRON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Miyashita, Hideaki Sakai
  • Patent number: 8966861
    Abstract: A lining board includes: a plate-like support structure which is made of a multi-layered fiber sheet and has a plurality of hollows; and an upper plate which is attached to the top of the support structure and has a plurality of LED leading lightings formed on the top of the upper plate. The honeycomb-structured lining board including fiber sheets stacked with a predetermined thickness has advantages of lightness, high impact-resistance and high noise-proofing due to high sound absorptiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Keinyung University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventor: Chun Ho Chang
  • Patent number: 8951623
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a composite panel with a first cover layer, a second cover layer and a first core layer that is arranged between the first cover layer and the second cover layer and features a plurality of cells that are separated from one another by walls at least in certain areas, wherein the first cover layer features a draining layer. The inventive composite panel may be distinguished from a composite panel according to the state of the art in that a second core layer with a plurality of cells that are separated from one another by walls at least in certain areas is arranged between the first cover layer and the first core layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Hoetzeldt
  • Publication number: 20150037533
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a core stiffened structure includes orienting the plurality of core wafers in a non-uniform pattern onto a first face sheet, the non-uniform pattern producing non-uniform spacing between adjacent core wafers; assembling a second face sheet onto the plurality of wafers; and curing an adhesive to create a bond between the plurality of wafers, the first face sheet, and the second face sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip A. Kendrick, Paul K. Oldroyd, David G. Carlson
  • Publication number: 20150017384
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cover element for covering an opening in an in particular horizontal surface of a drainage body, with an edge region which is configured to support the cover element on the drainage body, and with a cover region which has a grid-like or perforated structure with supporting elements It is distinguished in that the supporting elements have a thickness increasing in the vertical direction starting from the edge region in the direction of the regions remote from the edge, such that the cover element has a substantially plano-convex outer contour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Thorsten Wichmann, Arne Meincke, Jan Mieze
  • Publication number: 20150004355
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a void filler and a hollow door employing the void filler as a door core. Generally, the void filler expands from a compact collapsed state into an expanded state in which the void filler has an open-cell structure including three groups, such as columns, of six sided cells, such as generally hexagonal cells. The cells of the outer columns are substantially the same size, while the cells of the middle column are wider than the cells of the outer columns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Joseph Anthony Diaz, Randolph L. Gray, George C. Boyse, Brian A. Swenson
  • Patent number: 8911098
    Abstract: In a substrate, particularly in a substrate for a mirror support, in which recesses are introduced in one surface, preferably in the back side of the substrate, as a result of which, in particular, bridging pieces are defined between the recesses, in order to achieve the situation that despite a reduced weight, a high rigidity still remains, which means only a slight sagging after its correct uptake in a holding device provided for it, it is provided that at least one first portion of the bridging pieces has a width that is different than a second portion of the bridging pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Martin Schaeffer, Thorsten Doehring, Volker Seibert, Thomas Westerhoff, Hans-Joachim Nowak
  • Patent number: 8846176
    Abstract: A honeycomb composite plate of plastic foam comprises at least a support body and a plastic surface sheet. The support body comprises at least a support core, which has a honeycomb structure and is formed of plastic foam. The plastic surface sheet is fixed to the support body and supported by it. Further, the support core and the plastic surface sheet are fixed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventor: Luhao Leng
  • Publication number: 20140272278
    Abstract: A system and method for making a slip resistant mat can include assembling parts with predetermined geometries to form a mold that can be used for making slip resistant mats that have channels to account for moisture between the mat and the floor. The unique geometries of the parts which form the mold can be manufactured efficiently and with reduced costs. The mold of this invention can be used to make slip resistant mats with channels that can both dissipate water and offer a high degree of mat to floor surface contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Cintas Corporation
    Inventors: Ian S. Malpass, Jeffery L. Cofer, Edin Kurtovic
  • Publication number: 20140272279
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure body constituted of a first region which is an inside region and a second region which is an outside region surrounding a periphery of the first region. An open area ratio in the first region is 83% or more and a porosity of partition walls is from 20 to 60%. A thickness t1 of the partition walls constituting the first region is 0.11 mm or less, a thickness t2 of the partition walls constituting the second region is larger than the thickness t1 of the partition walls, a ratio (t3/t1) between a thickness t3 of the partition walls forming first complete cells from the outermost periphery of the honeycomb structure body toward a center thereof in the second region and the thickness t1 of the partition walls is from 1.2 to 1.4, and a partition wall strength index A is 4.0 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomokatsu AOYAMA
  • Patent number: 8837149
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic component includes disposing a heat radiation material including a plurality of linear structures of carbon atoms and a filling layer of a thermoplastic resin provided among the plurality of linear structures above a first substrate, disposing a blotting paper above the heat radiation material, making a heat treatment at a temperature higher than a melting temperature of the thermoplastic resin and absorbing the thermoplastic resin above the plurality of linear structures with the absorption paper, removing the blotting paper, and adhering the heat radiation material to the first substrate by cooling to solidify the thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi Hirose, Taisuke Iwai, Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, Yohei Yagishita, Yukie Sakita, Masaaki Norimatsu
  • Publication number: 20140255647
    Abstract: A three-dimensional part printed using an additive manufacturing technique, which includes sets of printed cell layers, each defining an array of hollow cells with wall segments, and sets of printed transition layers, each being disposed between adjacent printed cell layers, where the sets of printed transition layers each comprise sloped walls that diverge from a first portion of the wall segments and that converge towards a second portion of the wall segments to interconnect the hollow cells of adjacent printed cell layers, and where the sloped walls of adjacent printed transition layers have printing orientations that are rotated from each other in a build plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: STRATASYS, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Johnson, William J. Swanson
  • Publication number: 20140237940
    Abstract: A process of manufacturing a cardboard building construction material, said cardboard building construction material comprising a plurality of glued cardboard plies, wherein the cardboard plies are rolled on a drum (122) into a roll (114) and wherein glue (134) is circumferentially applied in spaced apart strips (238) thereby defining a non-glued region between the strips, in which region a cutter (246) cuts the cardboard plies from an outer diameter toward an inner diameter of the roll (114).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Alfred Iseli
  • Patent number: 8813339
    Abstract: Multi-layered cellular metallic glass structures and methods of preparing the same are provided. In one embodiment, the cellular metallic glass structure includes at least one patterned metallic glass sheet and at least one additional sheet. The at least one patterned metallic glass sheet may include multiple sheets connected together to form a group of sheets, and the structure may include a group of sheets sandwiched between two outer sheets. The patterned metallic glass sheets may be patterned by thermoplastically forming two- and/or three-dimensional patterns in the metallic glass sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Robert D. Conner, Marios D. Demetriou, LeRoy A. Dunning, William L. Johnson