Discontinuous Or Differential Coating, Impregnation Or Bond (e.g., Artwork, Printing, Retouched Photograph, Etc.) Patents (Class 428/195.1)
  • Patent number: 10228789
    Abstract: A conductive film for a touch panel used for a touch panel and including, a base member comprising a concave portion or a protruding portion and having a stepped portion having a pattern corresponding to a pattern for touch sensing in an effective area; and a sensor electrode comprising a sensor electrode portion formed over the stepped portion in the effective area so as to correspond to the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jihyun Lee, Jonggoo Park, Jaemin Lyu
  • Patent number: 10224205
    Abstract: This present invention discloses a method for preparing graphene, a thin-film transistor, an array substrate, and a display panel. Above all, an amorphous carbon thin film and a catalyst metal thin film are formed on a base substrate in this order. Then, the catalyst metal thin film and the amorphous carbon thin film are allowed to form a eutectic at a high temperature caused by an excimer laser in a manner of excimer laser irradiation. When the irradiation is finished, the surface temperature of the catalyst metal thin film is drastically decreased, allowing most of carbon atoms of the amorphous carbon thin film to be locked in the catalyst metal thin film and only a small amount of carbon atoms to be precipitated on the lower surface of the catalyst metal thin film, so that a graphene thin film is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tuo Sun
  • Patent number: 10217564
    Abstract: A capacitor including: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a dielectric material situated between the first electrode and the second electrode, where the dielectric material is a self-assembled block-copolymer film with a periodic morphology. The self-assembled block-copolymer film may have a lamellar morphology that is horizontally oriented into layers of copolymer parallel to the first electrode and second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: The University of Akron
    Inventors: Alamgir Karim, Saumil Prashant Samant
  • Patent number: 10214920
    Abstract: A composite epoxy resin board, made from a raw material which includes the following weight percentage of components: waste prepreg powders of 5% to 100%, and waste printed circuit board (PCB) powders of 0% to 95%, is disclosed. The present invention adopts the waste prepregs as the main preparation raw material, which not only recycles and reuses prepreg scraps, but also reduces or even eliminates the use of adhesives due to the high epoxy resin content in the prepregs, while also reducing the glue-mixing time in the forming process, thereby simplifying the forming technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OUMING NEW MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Dangji Song
  • Patent number: 10212315
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus controls an operation of a printer apparatus that prints an image on a sheet being attachable to skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayo Shinoda
  • Patent number: 10203597
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a structure for suppressing in-mask curing corrosion while minimizing influence on shape stability of a fine pattern to be transferred to a resin layer. A method of manufacturing a structure is provided including: lamination forming, forming a lamination including, on a transparent substrate, a resin layer of an imprinting photo curable resin composition containing a photopolymerizable monomer and 0.1 parts or more respectively of a photo initiator and a polymerization inhibitor based on 100 parts of the monomer; covering, pressing a fine pattern of a mold on the resin layer and covering the lamination with a shading mask to cause a part of a region where the mold is pressed on to be exposed; curing the resin layer in the exposed region by radiating curing light to the resin layer; and repeating steps by moving the mold to an uncured area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SOKEN CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukihiro Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 10204912
    Abstract: A method of forming a micro-pattern including forming a mold layer and a supporting material layer on a substrate, patterning the mold layer and the supporting material layer to form recess patterns, forming conductor patterns in the recess patterns, removing a portion of an upper portion of the supporting material layer for causing upper portions of the conductor patterns to protrude, forming a block copolymer layer on the supporting material layer, processing the block copolymer layer to phase-separate the block copolymer layer into a plurality of block parts, selectively removing some of the phase-separated plurality of block parts, and removing the supporting material layer to expose the mold layer at a position corresponding to each of the removed block parts may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon-mok Ha, Jae-hee Kim, Chan Hwang, Jong-hyuk Kim
  • Patent number: 10195830
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a decorative panel which, while having weather resistance, exhibits an excellent gloss-matte effect through relative gloss differences, and can present tone gradations in surface gloss areas. A decorative panel has at least a surface coat layer, and a surface printing layer that is provided to part of the surface, said layers being laminated in the stated order on a heat-resistant substrate, wherein the surface coat layer is formed to a thickness of 5 ?m or greater from a resin composition that contains a fluororesin and a delustering agent, the gloss value of the surface printing layer (at a light incidence angle of 60°) being 10 or less, and the gloss value of the surface printing layer (at a light incidence angle of 60°) being higher by 10 or greater than the gloss value of the surface coat layer surface (at a light incidence angle of 60°).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Miyake
  • Patent number: 10195886
    Abstract: A thermal transfer recording sheet set includes an image-receiving sheet that includes an image-receiving layer containing a compound represented by general formula (1) or (2) and an ink sheet that includes a yellow coloring material layer containing a particular dye and a cyan coloring material layer containing a particular dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Santo, Yuko Katsumoto, Koromo Shirota, Taichi Shintou, Hajime Muta, Tomoyuki Noda
  • Patent number: 10199177
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the synthesis of a nanocomposite compound comprising TiO2 nanoparticles bound to carbon nanostructures, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a) mixing carbon nanostructures and at least one TiO2 precursor in a first liquid in order to form a stock suspension; b) nebulizing said stock suspension and transporting it into a reaction chamber by means of a gaseous flow; and c) carrying out laser pyrolysis of said stock suspension in said reaction chamber in order to simultaneously form TiO2 nanoparticles and graft them onto the nano structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES
    Inventors: Nathalie Herlin, Jin Wang, Mathieu Pinault, Johann Boucle
  • Patent number: 10195788
    Abstract: In some examples, an agent distributor may be to selectively deliver agent through nozzles of the agent distributor to portions of layers of build material in patterns derived from agent delivery control data representing slices of a three-dimensional object such that the portions are to solidify to form the slices in accordance with the patterns. While generating the three-dimensional object, the agent distributor may be primed such that a particle of the build material is removed from the agent distributor through at least one of the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Salvador Sanchez Ribes, David Ramirez Muela, Pol Fornos Martinez, Sergio Puigardeu Aramendia
  • Patent number: 10197933
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles including an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin, wherein, when the toner particles are subjected to a measurement by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) before and after being stored at a temperature of 50° C. and a humidity of 90% RH for 24 hours, a relationship between an onset temperature T1 (° C.) of an endothermic peak having the lowest peak temperature in a first heating step with respect to the toner particles before being stored and an onset temperature T2 (° C.) of an endothermic peak having the lowest peak temperature in a first heating step with respect to the toner particles after being stored satisfies Expression (1): 2<T2?T1<10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Nakashima, Akira Matsumoto, Yasuo Kadokura, Yukiaki Nakamura, Satoshi Miura
  • Patent number: 10178868
    Abstract: The print system includes a 3D-printer system having a housing, a CNC robot having food silos for storing toppings, an electronic device may be coupled to the 3D-printer system and the CNC robot and receive input via a user interface. The print system also includes a cart that may include a plurality of wheels to facilitate movement of the print system. The cart is also configured to support the 3D-printer system, the CNC robot and the electronic device. The interior of the cart may also house an air compressor as well as a water and food residue receptacle that receives water and food residue resulting from an auto-cleaning process of the print system, which is discussed below in detail. The cart may (i) house a coupling to a clean water source and as containers for storing cleaning solution, and (ii) be configured to support a cleaning compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: BeeHex, LLC
    Inventors: Anjan Contractor, Chintan Kanuga, Benjamin Feltner
  • Patent number: 10179469
    Abstract: A method of inkjet printing a color image including a metallic or pearlescent color includes the steps of applying on part of an ink receiver a layer containing a pearlescent or metallic pigment having a volume mean particle size of at least 3.0 ?m as measured by laser diffraction; and inkjet printing on part of the layer containing the pearlescent or metallic pigment a layer with a white inkjet ink containing a white pigment having an average particle size between 250 and 400 nm as measured by differential centrifugal sedimentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Roel De Mondt
  • Patent number: 10173355
    Abstract: The invention relates to as method for producing a molded part in an injection mold, which molded part is made of plastic and provided with a UV-cured paint, wherein the UV-cured paint forms a visible surface designed as a functional surface. The invention further relates to such a molded part provided with a UV-cured paint, said molded part having a visible surface designed as a functional surface, wherein the UV-cured paint forms said visible surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Konstantin Leonhardt, Roland Künzel, Björn Herdt, Hans-Jörg Dahmen, Holger Mundstock, Dirk Pophusen
  • Patent number: 10167380
    Abstract: A composite material is provided. The composite material includes a plurality of beads in which each bead has a diameter. The composite material also including a plurality of fibers in which each fiber has a length and a width. The composite material further includes a resin binder. In the composite material, the length of each fiber is greater than the width of each fiber, and the width of each fiber is less than the diameter of each bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: FiberSpec LLC
    Inventor: David Forkins, Sr.
  • Patent number: 10166785
    Abstract: A method of fixing an artwork on a surface of a rigid substrate includes providing an ink receptive layer comprised of a dispersing pigment in a binder selected from the group consisting of: PVOH, EVA, PUD, latex polymer, and combinations of these, applying the ink receptive layer to the surface of the rigid substrate, drying the ink receptive layer, and printing the artwork onto the ink receptive layer by inkjet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Inventor: Albert Marco
  • Patent number: 10167379
    Abstract: Embodiments of a hybrid fiber layup used to form a fiber-reinforced polymeric composite, and a fiber-reinforced polymeric composite produced therefrom are disclosed. The hybrid fiber layup comprises one or more dry fiber strips and one or more prepreg fiber strips arranged side by side within each layer, wherein the prepreg fiber strips comprise fiber material impregnated with polymer resin and the dry fiber strips comprise fiber material without impregnated polymer resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Cornerstone Research Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Barnell, Sean P. Garrigan, Michael D. Rauscher, Benjamin A. Dietsch, Gary N. Cupp
  • Patent number: 10170731
    Abstract: A mask for forming a pattern on a substrate is provided. The mask includes an anodic oxide film formed by anodizing metal, at least one transmission hole configured to vertically penetrate the anodic oxide film and formed in a corresponding relationship with the pattern, a plurality of pores formed in the anodic oxide film so as to have a smaller diameter than the transmission hole, and a magnetic material provided in each of the pores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Point Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bum Mo Ahn, Seung Ho Park, Sung Hyun Byun
  • Patent number: 10160876
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes recording an image by discharging an ink composition which contains water and a coloring material on a recording surface of a recording medium having low absorbency or non-absorbency to ink, and forming a protective layer, which contains first resin particles where a glass transition temperature is 50° C. or higher and second resin particles where a glass transition temperature is less than 50° C. and which substantially does not contain a coloring material, on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohta, Kazuaki Tsukiana
  • Patent number: 10146125
    Abstract: A glass substrate for a mask blank includes a rectangular-shaped main surface on which a film having a circuit pattern is to be formed. The main surface includes a quadrangular peripheral frame and a square-shaped center area defined by excluding the frame. The center area has a longitudinal length of 142 mm and a lateral length of 142 mm. A surface morphology of the center area is expressed by { z ? ( x , y ) = ? k = 0 N 1 ? ? l = 0 N 2 ? a kl ? P k ? ( x ) ? P l ? ( y ) P k ? ( x ) = 1 2 k ? k ! ? d k dx k ? [ ( x 2 - 1 ) k ] P l ? ( y ) = 1 2 l ? l ! ? d l dy l ? [ ( y 2 - 1 ) l ] . A flatness of a sum of compositing all of aklPk(x)Pl(y) is less than or equal to 20 nm when a sum of k and l is greater than or equal to 3 and less than or equal to 9. The flatness is less than or equal to 20 nm when a sum of k and l is greater than or equal to 10 and less than or equal to 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hirabayashi, Yuzo Okamura, Nobuhiko Ikenoya
  • Patent number: 10146126
    Abstract: A glass substrate for a mask blank includes a rectangular-shaped main surface on which a film having a circuit pattern is to be formed. The main surface includes a quadrangular peripheral frame and a square-shaped center area defined by excluding the frame. The center area has a longitudinal length of 142 mm and a lateral length of 142 mm. A surface morphology of the center area is expressed by the following formulas. A flatness of a sum of compositing all of aklPk(x)Pl(y) is less than or equal to 20 nm when a sum of k and l is greater than or equal to 3 and less than or equal to 9. The flatness is less than or equal to 20 nm when a sum of k and l is greater than or equal to 10 and less than or equal to 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hirabayashi, Yuzo Okamura, Nobuhiko Ikenoya
  • Patent number: 10147632
    Abstract: A wafer processing laminate including support, temporary adhesive material layer formed on support, and wafer stacked on temporary adhesive material layer, wafer having front surface on which circuit is formed and back surface to be processed, wherein temporary adhesive material layer includes a three-layered complex temporary adhesive material layer that includes first temporary adhesive layer composed of thermoplastic organopolysiloxane polymer layer (A) having thickness of less than 100 nm and releasably laminated to front surface of wafer, second temporary adhesive layer composed of thermosetting siloxane-modified polymer layer (B) releasably laminated to first temporary adhesive layer, and third temporary adhesive layer composed of thermoplastic organopolysiloxane polymer layer (A?) having thickness of less than 100 nm, releasably laminated to second temporary adhesive layer, and releasably laminated to support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shohei Tagami, Michihiro Sugo, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Masahito Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10137699
    Abstract: An image forming method of the present invention is an image forming method of forming a halftone image on a corrugated fiberboard recording medium using an inkjet recording device that uses magenta ink and other inks with two or more colors other than the magenta ink, and is an efficient method that does not generate a mottle in an image printed in multicolor on a corrugated fiberboard recording medium using an inkjet recording device by determining a droplet ejection position of the magenta ink and then determining droplet ejection positions of the other inks with two or more colors to be positions different from the droplet ejection position of the magenta ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Mizuno
  • Patent number: 10136638
    Abstract: A synthetic polymer film (34A), (34B) having a surface which has a plurality of first raised portions (34Ap), (34Bp), wherein a two-dimensional size of the plurality of first raised portions (34Ap), (34Bp) is in a range of more than 20 nm and less than 500 nm when viewed in a normal direction of the synthetic polymer film (34A), (34B); and the surface has a microbicidal effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miho Yamada, Kiyoshi Minoura, Takahiro Nakahara, Seiji Takami
  • Patent number: 10139657
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transfer plate. The transfer plate includes a base film, and a dot array arranged on the base film and consisting of a plurality of dots. The base film includes an active region corresponding to a display region and a non-active region surrounding the active region. The dot array at the active region is of a first dot angle, and the dot array at the non-active region is of a second dot angle less than the first dot angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianfeng Zheng, Sangwoog Kim, Jianzheng Zhang, Jinyan Cheng
  • Patent number: 10131124
    Abstract: A printed multiple ply paper article and a method of producing it are described. The method comprises providing a first paper stock having a first surface and a second surface, applying a pressure activated adhesive (33) to the second surface, printing (34) upon the first surface, and bringing together two portions of the second surface under pressure in registration (35, 36) to form a multiple ply product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: MOO PRINT LIMITED
    Inventor: Paul Thorogood
  • Patent number: 10135073
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a dispersant for a resin current collector which can uniformly disperse a conductive filler to attain sufficient charge and discharge characteristics without impairing the output power per unit weight of a battery. The present invention provides a dispersant for a resin current collector comprising a polymer having a resin-philic block (A1) and a conductive filler-philic block (A2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukumoto, Yasuhiro Shindo, Manabu Watanabe, Hiroshi Akama, Hideaki Horie
  • Patent number: 10120411
    Abstract: An electronic device may include flexible printed circuits. A flexible printed circuit may have metal traces supported by a polymer substrate. The flexible printed circuit may extend between an upper laptop computer housing and a lower laptop computer housing or other structures that move relative to each other in an electronic device. The flexible printed circuit may have a low-friction coating and a matte finish. The flexible printed circuit may have a fluoropolymer coating on the polymer substrate, a fluoropolymer coating on a matte coating on the polymer substrate, a fluoropolymer coating that includes a matting agent on the polymer substrate, a fluoropolymer layer or other polymer layer that is attached to the substrate with a layer of adhesive, a textured surface layer, and/or other structures that help provide the flexible printed circuit with desired physical properties and a desired appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan W. Posner, Adam T. Garelli
  • Patent number: 10113919
    Abstract: Provided are a temperature sensor that is hard to increase resistance in the electrode structure with respect to a Ti—Al—N thermistor material layer even under a high-temperature environment, and has a high reliability with a high heat resistance as well as a method for producing the same. The temperature sensor includes an insulation substrate; a thin film thermistor portion formed on the insulation substrate; and a pair of pattern electrodes formed on the insulation substrate with a pair of opposed electrode portions being arranged so as to be opposed to each other on the thin film thermistor portion, wherein the thin film thermistor portion is made of a Ti—Al—N thermistor material, and the pair of pattern electrodes has a Ti—N bonding layer formed on the thin film thermistor portion and an electrode layer made of a noble metal formed on the bonding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki Nagatomo, Hitoshi Inaba, Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10101660
    Abstract: In a method of forming patterns, an object layer is formed on a substrate. Guide patterns are formed on the object layer. A brush layer is formed using a brush polymer on surfaces of the guide patterns. The brush polymer includes at least one of a first brush polymer and a second brush polymer. The first brush polymer includes a hydrophobic repeating unit and a hydrophilic terminal group having at least two hydroxyl groups. The second brush polymer includes a hydrophobic repeating unit and a hydrophilic random repeating unit having a hydroxyl group. A self-aligned layer is formed using a block copolymer on the brush layer to form blocks aligned around the guide patterns. At least a portion of the blocks is transferred to the object layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Ju Park, Seung-Chul Kwon, Eun-Sung Kim, Kyeong-Mi Lee, Shi-Yong Yi, Tsuyosh Kurosawa, Katsumi Ohmori, Tasuku Matsumiya
  • Patent number: 10096626
    Abstract: A pixel array includes first signal lines, second signal lines, active elements, pixel electrodes, and selection lines. The second signal lines are intersected with and electrically insulated to the first signal lines to define pixel regions. The active element and the pixel electrode are disposed in the pixel regions. The active elements are electrically connected to the first signal lines and the second signal lines. The pixel electrodes are electrically connected to the active elements. The selection lines are disposed over the first signal lines and intersected with the first signal lines to form first intersections and second intersections. The selection lines are electrically connected to the first signal lines at the first intersections and electrically insulated to the first signal lines at the second intersections. The selection lines and the pixel electrodes are leveled. The selection lines are electrically insulated to the second signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Ni-Yeh Wu, Po-Chun Chuang, Pei-Lin Huang
  • Patent number: 10093119
    Abstract: A recording medium including a substrate and an ink-receiving layer. The ink-receiving layer contains an inorganic particle, a binder and at least one surfactant. The binder contains at least one resin selected from the group consisting of an acrylic resin, a polycarbonate-modified urethane resin and a polyether-modified urethane resin. The at least one surfactant comprises an acetylene-based surfactant. The contact angle of water to a surface of the ink-receiving layer at 60 seconds after contact of the water with the surface of the ink-receiving layer is 40 degrees or more to 80 degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nagase, Masaya Asao, Olivia Herlambang, Takeshi Ota
  • Patent number: 10090876
    Abstract: An electronic device may have transparent structures. The transparent structures may include a transparent member such as a transparent button member, a transparent member that serves as a display cover layer, a transparent member that covers a sensor such as a touch sensor, or other transparent member. The transparent member may have an inner surface that is covered with an opaque masking layer that is free of materials that discolor upon light exposure and that is formed from a layer of polymer and light-scattering inclusions such as solid particles, hollow microspheres, porous particles, and voids. A protective layer such as an inorganic layer may be formed over the polymer layer. A fingerprint sensor, touch sensor, or other structures may be attached to the opaque masking layer using a layer of adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Naoto Matsuyuki, James R. Wilson, Matthew S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 10086627
    Abstract: Problems such as blocking are suppressed and more appropriately perform printing, in a case of using a configuration in which each medium is wound after printing. A printing device for performing printing on a medium includes a printing head configured to form an overcoat layer on the medium, an after-heater configured to heat the medium having the overcoat layer formed thereon, and a winding roller which is a medium winding unit configured to wind the medium heated by the after-heater, and the after-heater heats the medium such that the temperature of the overcoat layer becomes a temperature equal to or higher than a glass-transition point, and the winding roller winds the medium having a state where the temperature of the overcoat layer is a temperature lower than the glass-transition point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akifumi Seki, Masaru Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 10087270
    Abstract: Provided is a diblock copolymer comprising a first block having a repeating unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, and a second block having a repeating unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 2:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: SK Innovation Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Jin Su Ham, Yeon Sik Jung, Sun Young Kim, Yoon Hyung Hur, Kwang Kuk Lee, Seung Won Song
  • Patent number: 10076030
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible hybrid substrate for a display and a method for manufacturing the same and, more specifically, to a flexible hybrid substrate for a display, which has a reduced occurrence of cracks, an improved level of flexibility, and can be used in a high-temperature process for manufacturing a display element, and a method for manufacturing the same. To this end, the present invention provides a flexible hybrid substrate for a display and a method for manufacturing the same, the flexible hybrid substrate for a display comprising: an ultra-thin plate glass; a first transparent thin film formed on one surface of the ultra-thin plate glass; and a second transparent thin film formed on the other surface of the ultra-thin plate glass, wherein the second transparent thin film includes a transparent conductive polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Precision Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Nyoung Heo, Tae Hyo Park, Dong Keun Shin, Jong Taek Kim, Sang Yoon Oh, Jin Sung Lim
  • Patent number: 10070516
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are s extruded and multilayer films suitable for use as a substrate for printed circuits that afford the simultaneous achievement of both excellent mechanical properties, printability and ink curing stability, flexability and stretchability, and electronic performance. The films can be prepared from cycloaliphatic polymers and polyester elastomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Wayne Ken Shih, Kimberley Carmenia Carico
  • Patent number: 10067421
    Abstract: A negative photosensitive resin composition comprising an alkali-soluble resin or alkali-soluble monomer which has a photo-curability, a photopolymerization initiator, and an ink repellent agent which has a fluorine atom content of from 1 to 45 mass % and which is a partially hydrolyzed condensate of a hydrolyzable silane compound mixture containing a hydrolyzable silane compound having a hydrolyzable group and an organic group having a polyfluoroalkyl group which has an etheric oxygen atom; a cured resin film and partition walls formed by using the negative photosensitive resin composition; and an optical element having the partition walls located between a plurality of dots and their adjacent dots on a substrate surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kotaro Yamada, Keigo Matsuura
  • Patent number: 10067499
    Abstract: A system and method for additive manufacturing of otherwise thermosetting polymers, such as PAI, is disclosed. The system includes fast-curing hardware that facilitates curing each deposited layer before a successive layer is deposited. This reduces the time to provide a finished part from weeks to hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Arevo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hemant Bheda, Riley Reese
  • Patent number: 10059037
    Abstract: A multi-layer sheet for forming an expanded foam container, the multi-layer sheet including a first layer of an expanded foam material including a first polyolefin-based material including at least one polypropylene-based polymer and a second layer of an unexpected material including a second polyolefin-based material including at least one polypropylene-based polymer that is co-extruded, extrusion coated, or laminated on a first side of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Dart Container Corporation
    Inventors: Chengtao Li, Gary R. Wilkes, Wayne J. Myer, Peter Matysiak
  • Patent number: 10054853
    Abstract: A monomer having an onium salt structure represented by formula (1) gives a polymer which is fully compatible with resist components. A resist composition comprising the polymer has advantages including reduced acid diffusion, high sensitivity, high resolution, a good balance of lithography properties, and less defects, and is quite effective for precise micropatterning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10052237
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for mechanically bonding substrates together. The apparatuses may include a pattern roll having three or more pattern elements protruding radially outward, wherein each pattern element includes a pattern surface. The pattern surfaces are also separated from each other by gaps having minimum widths. The pattern roll may be adjacent an anvil roll to define a nip between the pattern surfaces and the anvil roll, wherein the pattern roll is biased toward the anvil roll to define a nip pressure between pattern surfaces and the anvil roll. As substrates advance between the pattern roll and anvil roll, the substrates are compressed between the anvil roll and the pattern surfaces to form a discrete bond region between the substrates. During the bonding process, some of yielded substrate material also flows from under the pattern surfaces and into the gaps to form gap grommet regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Theresa Lynn Galie, Joseph Allen Eckstein, Hailing Bao
  • Patent number: 10049874
    Abstract: A self-assembled nanostructure comprises first domains and second domains. The first domains comprise a first block of a block copolymer material and an activatable catalyst. The second domains comprise a second block and substantially without the activatable catalyst. The activatable catalyst is capable of generating catalyst upon application of activation energy, and the generated catalyst is capable of reacting with a metal oxide precursor to provide a metal oxide. A semiconductor structure comprises such self-assembled nanostructure on a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Hendricks, Adam L. Olson, William R. Brown, Ho Seop Eom, Xue Chen, Kaveri Jain, Scott Schuldenfrei
  • Patent number: 10040961
    Abstract: Provided is a cleaning solution used for cleaning an ink containing a resin in an amount of 5 percent by mass or greater, the cleaning solution including a mixture solvent containing water and a solvent, wherein a hydrogen bond term of a Hansen solubility parameter of the mixture solvent is 7.0 (cal/cm3)1/2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shizuka Kohzuki, Akiko Bannai
  • Patent number: 10032807
    Abstract: An array substrate and a fabrication method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; an isolation layer on the base substrate; and a first thin film transistor on the isolation layer and a first gate line extending in a gate line direction, wherein the first thin film transistor includes a first gate electrode and a first active layer, the isolation layer includes a protrusion portion which extends in the gate line direction and protrudes upwards with respect to the base substrate, and each of orthogonal projections of the first active layer and the first gate electrode of the first thin film transistor on the main surface of the base substrate is overlapped with an orthogonal projection of the first lateral surface of the protrusion portion on the main surface of the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingyu Peng, Fuqiang Li
  • Patent number: 10024814
    Abstract: A molecularly imprinted polymer sensor for sensing a target molecule includes (a) a polymer film that is molecularly imprinted with the target molecule and includes a conductive polymer having resistance sensitive to binding with the target molecule and a structural polymer providing porosity to the polymer film, and (b) interdigitated electrodes, located on a surface of the polymer film, for measuring a change in the resistance to sense said binding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
    Inventor: Joseph J. Belbruno
  • Patent number: 10017384
    Abstract: The physical and chemical properties of surfaces can be controlled by bonding nanoparticles, microspheres, or nanotextures to the surface via inorganic precursors. Surfaces can acquire a variety of desirable properties such as antireflection, antifogging, antifrosting, UV blocking, and IR absorption, while maintaining transparency to visible light. Micro or nanomaterials can also be used as etching masks to texture a surface and control its physical and chemical properties via its micro or nanotexture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: NANOCLEAR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Harold Frank Greer, Ryan Morrow Briggs
  • Patent number: 10017696
    Abstract: A thermosetting composition with a photo-alignment property includes a copolymer containing a photo-alignment constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1) and a thermal cross-linking constitutional unit represented by the following formula (2). Here, in the formula (1), X represents a photo-alignment group, L1 represents a divalent linking group or a single bond, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group, and k represents 1 to 5; in the formula (2), Y represents a thermal cross-linking group, L2 represents a divalent linking group or a single bond, R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group, and 1 represents 1 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mami Motooka, Ken-ichi Okuyama
  • Patent number: 10017697
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a thermosetting composition with a photo-alignment property, including a copolymer containing a photo-alignment constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1) and a thermal cross-linking constitutional unit. In the formula (1), X represents a photo-alignment group causing a photo-isomerization reaction or a photo-dimerization reaction, L1 represents a single bond, —O—, —S—, —COO—, —COS—, —CO—, —OCO—, —OCO(CH2)nCOO—, —OCOCH2CH2OCH2CH2COO—, —OCOC6H4O—, —OCOC6H10O—, —COO(CH2)nO—, —COOC6H4O—, —COOC6H10O—, —O(CH2)nO—, —OC6H4O—, —OC6H10O—, or —(CH2)nO—, n represents 1 to 4, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group, and k represents 1 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mami Motooka, Ken-ichi Okuyama