Silicic Material Patents (Class 428/331)
  • Publication number: 20040191503
    Abstract: A thermal interface material is a nanocomposite phase change thermal interface material that includes one or more matrix polymers, one or more thermally conductive fillers, and one or more clay materials. An electronic device includes at least two surfaces joined using the nanocomposite phase change thermal interface material that includes one or more matrix polymers, one or more thermally conductive fillers, and one or more clay materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: James Christopher Matayabas, Paul A. Koning
  • Publication number: 20040191502
    Abstract: An article that includes substrate and a coating of the reaction product of a metal oxide composition, a solvent and a surfactant. A method of making such an article that includes applying the reaction product of a metal oxide composition, a solvent, and a surfactant to a substrate; and drying the reaction product on the substrate to form a hydrophilic coating over at least a portion of the substrate. In some embodiments, the article is a window and the method is used to coat a window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Michael William Howe, Roderic Gernet Mathews
  • Patent number: 6797359
    Abstract: The invention relates to a metalized or ceramic-coated, biaxially oriented, sealable polyester film with at least one base layer (B), with a sealable outer layer (A), and with a further non-sealable outer layer (C). The sealable outer layer (A) has a minimum sealing temperature (fin) of not more than 110° C. and a seal seam strength (fin) of at least 1.3 N/15 mm of film width. The two outer layers (A) and (C) are characterized by particular features. The film of the invention is particularly suitable for use in flexible packaging, and particularly and specifically for use on systems which operate in a vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Polyester Film GmbH
    Inventors: Bart Janssens, Herbert Peiffer, Stefan Bartsch
  • Publication number: 20040185282
    Abstract: The invention relates to an opaque biaxially oriented film made of at least one layer that contains COC. This layer contains a cycloolefin copolymer (COC) in a concentration of 0.5 to 30 wt % with regard to this layer and contains a polymer made from aliphatic hydroxycarboxylic acid units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Sonja Rosenbaum, Marlies Rosenbaum, Manfred Rosenbaum, Petra Hade, Detlef D. Busch, Karl-Heinz Kochem
  • Patent number: 6794016
    Abstract: A water-resistant corrugated fiber board sheet having a high water resistance and capable of being recycled after the use contains a water-resistant linerboard adhered to both surfaces of a corrugated, water-resistant core sheet, The water repellency (JIS P8137) of at least one of both surfaces of the corrugated, water-resistant core sheet and the core sheet-side surface of the water-resistant linerboard in the recyclable water-resistant corrugated fiber board sheet is at least R 6 and the Cobb water absorption (JIS P8140; contact time: 30 minutes) of the surface of the corrugated fiberboard sheet is not higher than 30 gm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kumabe, Fumito Ogawa, Masaru Yamakoshi, Tatsuhiko Nishiyauchi
  • Publication number: 20040180193
    Abstract: A resin composition comprises a thermoplastic resin, and an oxidized compound having a hydrophobic group and a polar group on the surface thereof. The resin composition of the present invention has high rigidity, dimensional stability, transparency and impact strength by dispersing the oxidized compound having the hydrophobic group and the polar group on the surface thereof in the thermoplastic resin, and is thus preferably applied to various molded products and parts of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Oda, Yasuaki Kai, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20040175563
    Abstract: A thick thermoplastic composite extrusion such as a railroad crosstie, marine piling, timber (such as a bridge timber), utility pole, highway guardrail, highway guardrail post, residential or marine decking material, fence post, fence rail, or house siding which is fabricated from a mineral filled thermoplastic composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventor: C. Albert Okerson
  • Publication number: 20040175572
    Abstract: Single-layer or multilayer color and/or effect films comprising a color and/or effect layer, preparable by
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Bruning, Frank Strickmann, Walter Lassmann
  • Patent number: 6787236
    Abstract: Provided is a hard coat film which has an inorganic hard coat layer having excellent scratch resistance and weatherability and inhibited from generation of curling and which is particularly suited for sticking on outside faces of window glasses in lofty buildings. The hard coat film is prepared by laminating in order a primer layer and a hard coat layer comprising metal oxide particles and a cured matter of a silane compound on one face of a base material and further providing, if necessary, a coating layer having various functions on the above hard coat layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: LINTEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kimura, Yutaka Onozawa, Tomoo Ohrui, Toshio Sugizaki
  • Patent number: 6787202
    Abstract: A polyester film composite material comprising a biaxially oriented polyester film having a thickness of 5 at least 50 gm but not more than 200 gm and an easy-adhesion coating applied onto one or each surface thereof, and having a haze value of less than 2% and a total light transmissivity of at least 90%, and a light-diffusing plate comprising a light-diffusing layer 10 laminated on the surface of the easy-adhesion coating thereof. According to the present invention, a light-diffusing plate having excellent optical properties when used in a liquid crystal display and a substrate 15 therefor are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Kei Mizutani, Takashi Saigo, Masayuki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 6783847
    Abstract: To accommodate recent progress in printing technologies including conversion to offset printing, color printing, high-speed mass printing and automation of printing, by providing a coating layer containing an inorganic surface preparation agent mainly comprising silica sol and colloidal silica or a coating layer containing an inorganic surface preparation agent, to which an inorganic pigment, surface-sizing agent, inorganic salt and/or organic binder accordingly added in addition to silica sol or colloidal silica, offset paper serviceable for newsprint paper, which has improved qualities such as high whiteness, excellent water absorption resistance and ink acceptability, few adhesion troubles such as surface tack and curling caused by adhesion, and low chemical oxygen demand COD) load in wastewater when recycled, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Minami, Toshimi Satake, Yukiko Oohira, Toshiyuki Takano, Jyunichi Komai, Mitsutoshi Nakamura, Hideki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 6783836
    Abstract: A lithographic sheet product having a substrate with a roll textured surface covered by a pretreatment layer. The pretreatment layer enhances adhesion of a printing composition to the sheet product and is composed of a polymer selected from the group consisting of polymers of acrylic acid, polymers of methacrylic acid, an organophosphorous polymer and copolymers of an organophosphorous compound and acrylic acid or methacrylic acid. Dopant particles of alumina, silica, titanium dioxide or a black dye or pigment may be added to the pretreatment layer to reduce the gloss and reflectance of the pretreatment layer in a printing process. Etching of the substrate also reduces gloss and reflectance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Alcoa Inc.
    Inventors: David Bennett, Sallie L. Blake, Robert E. Bombalski, Joseph D. Guthrie, Daniel L. Serafin
  • Patent number: 6780927
    Abstract: A conductive paste based on an elastomer of the polyoxypolyolefin type or on a member of the polyolefin family is described, provided with an admixture of conductive particles for the production, in the electronics industry, of a sealing element, of a contact element or of a heat-conduction element. This material is particularly suitable for the production of EMI-RFI gaskets, and, compared with materials known hitherto and based on silicone, has improved performance characteristics and environmental properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Laird Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Alec Ducros, Mohamed Aït El Cadi
  • Patent number: 6777097
    Abstract: On a surface of a rare earth permanent magnet R—T—M—B wherein R is a rare earth element, T is Fe or Fe and Co, M is Ti, Nb, Al, V, Mn, Sn, Ca, Mg, Pb, Sb, Zn, Si, Zr, Cr, Ni, Cu, Ga, Mo, W or Ta, 5 wt %≦R≦40 wt %, 50 wt %≦90 wt %, 0 wt %≦M≦8 wt %, and 0.2 wt %≦B≦8 wt %, a solution comprising a flake fine powder of Al, Mg, Ca, Zn, Si, Mn or an alloy thereof and a silicone resin is applied and baked to form an adherent composite coating, thereby providing a corrosion resistant rare earth permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuji Hamada, Takehisa Minowa
  • Patent number: 6773121
    Abstract: An antireflection film having a hard coat layer prepared on one side of a transparent substrate directly or through other layers, and further an antireflection layer laminated on a surface of the hard coat layer, wherein the antireflection layer is formed by a dry cured film obtained from a solution comprising a siloxane oligomer (A) obtained by condensation polymerization after partial hydrolysis of a hydrolyzable alkoxy silane that contains a tetra alkoxy silane represented by a general formula (1): Si(OR)4 (where R represents methyl group or ethyl group) as a principal component and a compound (B) having a fluoro alkyl structure and a polysiloxane structure, is excellent scratch-proof property, stain resistance, and cured in a short period of time at comparatively low temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Miyatake, Tomoaki Masuda, Takayuki Shigematsu, Masahiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 6773801
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a fine particle layer laminated film configured in such a manner that a plurality of fine particle layers containing the fine particles, of which average particle diameters are in the range of 1 nm and 95 nm, are laminated; wherein the fine particles in the fine particle layer laminated film are accreted by polymer molecules; there are air spaces within a film of the fine particle layer laminated film; and a density of the fine particles in the fine particle layer laminated film is in the range of 40% and 80% in percentage by volume. According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain a laminated film sufficiently having a property of the fine particle, for example, a property such as a low index of refraction or the like. Therefore, the present invention has an effect such that the fine particle layer laminated film according to the present invention can be preferably used for an application such as an antirelection film or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideshi Hattori
  • Patent number: 6773797
    Abstract: Breathable, flushable, porous films and articles made therewith and a process for making these films. The present invention is directed to composites comprising a polymer that is water-soluble or water-degradable and a filler. The films are made by extruding the composite materials into a precursor film and, preferably, stretching the precursor film to achieve the desired breathability and water-dispersibility of the finished film. In one embodiment, the composition of the invention comprises a polymer of ethylene oxide and a filler such as calcium carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: James H. Wang, David M. Schertz, Dave A. Soerens, Vasily A. Topolkaraev
  • Patent number: 6773802
    Abstract: A biaxially oriented layered polyester film which is excellent in suitability for winding and processability while retaining the flatness of the flat surface and which gives a magnetic recording medium, especially a metal coating type high-recording-density magnetic recording medium, having excellent electromagnetic characteristics. The biaxially oriented layered polyester film comprises a second polyester layer and superposed on one side thereof a first polyester layer containing an ester of a C12 or higher aliphatic monocarboxylic acid with a polyhydric alcohol and three inert particulate materials differing in average particle diameter. In the film, one of the Young's moduli respectively in the longitudinal direction and transverse direction is 6 GPa or higher and the other is 4 GPa or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Ieyasu Kobayashi, Shinji Muro, Hirofumi Murooka
  • Publication number: 20040151899
    Abstract: A colored metal sheet useful as a decorative member, a multi-colored signboard, etc. is provided by transfer-printing a topcoat or clear paint layer 4 formed on a substrate metal sheet 1 with a sublimation dye. A basecoat paint layer 2 and a primer paint layer 3 may be formed between the substrate metal sheet 1 and the paint layer 4. A sublimation dye penetrates into the paint layer 4 to form colored parts 5 extending along thickness direction of the paint layer 4. Glass flakes 6 (of 8 &mgr;m or less in thickness and 10-70 &mgr;m in length) and calcium silicate (of 1-8 &mgr;m in primary particle size) may be dispersed in the paint layer 4, to improve slippage-proof property and wear-resistance. Powdery silica (of 0.5-8 &mgr;m in particle size) may be dispersed in the paint layer 4, to improve anti-scratching property and wear-resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Sato, Kaoru Kojima, Seiju Suzuki, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Hiroshi Entani
  • Publication number: 20040146707
    Abstract: The invention provides a heat radiating sheet which is not restricted by the shape and arrangement of a part to be cooled and which can be easily manufactured. A flexible heat radiating film having the effect of radiating infrared rays is formed on the front surface of a flexible heat absorbing layer having heat conductivity, and an adhesive layer consisting of a heat conductive adhesive agent is formed on the rear surface of the absorbing layer, so that the heat radiating sheet is formed to have flexibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicants: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Ceramission Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Machida, Akira Ohta, Kouichiro Shimizu, Yuuichi Deushi, Masahito Nozue
  • Patent number: 6764734
    Abstract: A substract for use in a data storage system is disclosed. The substrate includes at least one core layer comprising at least one plastic or plastic composite material exhibiting a modulus of about 350 kpsi or greater, and damping agents, reinforcing agents, or combinations thereof. The damping agents, reinforcing agents, or combinations thereof, are substantially uniformly distributed within the plastic or plastic composite material. Optionally, one or more skin layers are disposed adjacent the at least one core layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Stanley Dale Vierk, Hong Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 6761968
    Abstract: A biaxially oriented polyester film which has excellent productivity while ensuring a transferred image having excellent shape reproducibility and gradation and is particularly suitable for use as a base film for a heat-sensitive transfer ribbon. This film is formed by simultaneous biaxial orientation and contains 0.1 to 2 wt % of inert inorganic particles having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 5 &mgr;m. This biaxially oriented polyester film has a value of 0.028 or less obtained by dividing the heat shrinkage factor (HS) (%) in a longitudinal direction at 200° C. by the F-5 value (N/mm2) (F5) in the longitudinal direction measured at normal temperature (about 23° C.) of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kusume, Koji Furuya
  • Publication number: 20040126573
    Abstract: A layered structure comprising in sequence a substrate, a scratch-resistant layer and a covering layer is disclosed. The scratch-resistant layer contains an at least partially cured polycondensate of a first reaction mixture that contains at least one silane, and the covering layer contains a cured polycondensate of a second reaction mixture that contains a silane compound having at least one non-hydrolyzable substituent that carries an epoxy group. The invention finds applicability for the uniform coating of three-dimensional substrates, especially motor vehicle windows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Bier, Reiner Meyer, Peter Capellen
  • Patent number: 6756115
    Abstract: The invention relates to particles with opalescent effect—especially 3-D structural color pigments-based on solid colloidal crystals of monodispersed spheres and the manufacturing processes suitable for large-scale production of such solid colloidal crystal products. The particles with opalescent effect contain a sphere based crystal structure (or super-lattice) built up by monodisperse spheres and one or more secondary types of much smaller colloidal particles occupying partially or completely the empty spaces between the monodisperse spheres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: EM Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Guoyi Fu, Diane Lewis
  • Publication number: 20040121145
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wet type friction material comprising a paper base material and binder, in which the paper base material includes silica having an average particle diameter of 1 to 10 &mgr;m and disc-shaped diatom earth, and the binder comprises a cured substance of liquid resin composition material obtained by mixing resol type phenol resin with silicone resin, where a weight ratio between non-volatile components of the resol type phenol resin and the silicone resin is adjusted to a range of 95/5 to 85/15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, NSK-Warner K.K.
    Inventors: Masataka Kawabata, Atsushi Suzuki, Hideki Tatewaki, Katsumi Takezawa
  • Publication number: 20040121255
    Abstract: A fusing-station member, which member can be a compliant fuser roller or a compliant pressure roller, for use in a fusing station of an electrostatographic machine, and which member includes a base cushion layer formed on a core member, with the base cushion layer coated by a thin protective gloss control layer. In certain preferred embodiments, the base cushion layer is a highly cross-linked condensation-polymerized polyorganosiloxane material made by thermal curing of a formulation which includes three types of filler particles, namely hollow flexible microballoon particles, strength-enhancing solid particles, and thermal-conductivity-enhancing solid particles. In other preferred embodiments, expandable microspheres are included in lieu of the hollow flexible microballoon particles in an otherwise similar uncured formulation, which expandable microspheres are transformed into expanded hollow microballoon particles during the thermal curing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Jiann-Hsing Chen, Joseph A. Pavlisko, Muhammed Aslam, Po-Jen Shih
  • Patent number: 6749928
    Abstract: The invention is to offer electronic parts and a method of producing the same in which a producing time is shortened, crack or warp are hard to occur, and cost-down can be attained. Core substrates are made by forming a resin or a compound material made by mixing powder-like functional materials with this resin into thin plates, and hardening them. Conductor patterns are formed on at least any of front and back surfaces of the core substrates through any of an evaporation process, an ion plating process, an ion beam process, a sputtering process, and a vapor deposition process, followed by patterning. Half-hardened prepregs are produced by forming the resin or the compound material made by mixing powder-like functional materials with this resin into the thin plates. The prepregs and the core substrates are alternately laminated and laminated layers are made by unifying through a hot pressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Takaya, Toshikazu Endo
  • Patent number: 6749920
    Abstract: Using a combination of relatively coarse filler and latex binder, a high solids coating which has a minimum solids content of about 60% by volume, can be produced with a relatively low working viscosity. These very high solids coatings can be applied in thick single layers and oven cured without cracking. They maintain more than 80% of their original wet thickness. The resulting coating provides an extremely hard and durable surface, even on relatively soft mineral fiber board ceiling tiles or wall panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: AWI Licensing Company
    Inventors: Kenneth G. Caldwell, James L. Work
  • Publication number: 20040109996
    Abstract: A composite material having a support which is at least partially covered by a hydrophobic polymer comprising fluorine moieties obtainable by a process comprising the steps of
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Dmitri Valerjewich Kapoustine, Larisa Leonidovna Zavada, Georgy Borisovich Barsamyan, Nikolaj Nikolaievich Ponomarev, Robert-Matthias Leiser, Lutz Plobner, Elena Markovna Iarochevskaia, Vitali Pavlovich Zubov
  • Publication number: 20040107650
    Abstract: A composition and associated methods for chemical mechanical planarization (or other polishing) are described. The composition may comprise an abrasive and a dispersed hybrid organic/inorganic particle. The composition may further comprise an alkyne compound. Two different methods for chemical mechanical planarization are disclosed. In one method (Method A), the CMP slurry composition employed in the method comprises comprise an abrasive and a dispersed hybrid organic/inorganic particle. In another method (Method B), the CMP slurry composition employed in the method comprises comprise an abrasive and an alkyne compound. The composition may further comprise an oxidizing agent in which case the composition is particularly useful in conjunction with the associated methods (A and B) for metal CMP applications (e.g., tungsten CMP).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Junaid Ahmed Siddiqui, Timothy Frederick Compton
  • Publication number: 20040105973
    Abstract: A water-soluble semiconductor nanocrystal comprising semiconductor core and shell as well as a cap of one or more additional compounds comprising water-solubilization agents. The water-solubilization agent is chosen from the group consisting of: hydroxamates or derivatives of hydroxamic acid or a combination thereof, multidentate complexing agents or a combination thereof, a bilayer of a TOPO layer attached to the surface of the nanocrystal and an appropriate surfactant layer, a polymeric bead comprising carboxylic groups or amino groups or a combination thereof at the surface of the bead comprising one or more nanocrystal embedded within, a molecule of structural formula (R1)a—R2—{(R3)b(R4)c}d. Application to non-isotopic detection systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventors: Igor Nabiev, Alyona Sukhanova, Mikhail Artemyev, Oleg Sharapov, Alexandre Baranov, Jean-Claude Jardillier
  • Patent number: 6740396
    Abstract: A cable comprising at least one conductor and at least one coating layer based on a composite material comprising: at least one polymer containing a predetermined quantity of polar groups; and at least one inorganic material with lamellar structure surface-treated with a predetermined quantity of a compatibilizer; in which said predetermined quantity of polar groups and said predetermined quantity of compatibilizer are selected in such a way that said inorganic material exhibits, in the composite material, a d-spacing value in X-ray diffraction analysis at least 20% higher with respect to the d-spacing value of the inorganic material as such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi S.p.A.
    Inventors: Antonio Carrus, Antonio Zaopo
  • Patent number: 6737157
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coating type reinforcement composition of sheet metal which can be applied under warming for ensuring satisfactory levels of tensile rigidity and resistance to dent of a thin sheet metal mainly due to weight reduction of an automobile body, or for collision safety, and which improve a bending strength and a rigidity of the sheet metal without causing a distortion to the sheet metal. The coating type reinforcement composition of sheet metal according to the present invention comprises a liquid epoxy resin, a latent curing agent and an inorganic filler having an aspect ratio (L/D) of 5 or higher, an amount of the inorganic filler contained being 20 to 50% by weight and the composition being a viscous preparation with a high viscosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Sunstar Giken Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Ukai, Yutaka Sugiura, Mutsuhisa Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20040091698
    Abstract: The invention relates to a construction-material body or coating, containing a hydraulic agglutinant, aggregate material and glass granulate as the principal components. The surface of said glass granulate is coated with a protective layer, which contains at least one organic silicon compound and/or at least one duroplastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventor: Heinz Marohn
  • Patent number: 6733872
    Abstract: A laminated glass having a surface density of at most 12 kg/m2 and comprising a plurality of glass sheets laminated one on another with an interliner provided between the respective adjacent glass sheets, wherein the interliner has an ability to shield infrared rays and an ability to insulate sounds having a frequency of 5,000 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Kuniko Nagai
  • Publication number: 20040081823
    Abstract: A proton conductive membrane according to the invention includes layered clay mineral powder which is a cation exchanger or an anion exchanger, and a crosslinking structure including an —O—SO2—O— group which crosslinks particles of the layered clay mineral powder. The proton conductive membrane may be obtained by applying a modifying agent which contains one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of sulfuric acid and metal sulfates, to the layered clay mineral powder, each particle of the layered clay mineral powder having an acid site on a surface thereof. Thus, a phosphoric acid-derived compound which crosslinks the particles of the layered clay mineral powder is replaced by the sulfuric acid which is a stronger acid, whereby the proton conducting ability of the proton conductive membrane can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuichi Arai
  • Publication number: 20040081818
    Abstract: The invention relates to self-cleaning paint coatings that exhibit the Lotus effect® and to an agent and a method for producing the same. The inventive paint coatings comprise a paint base coat and a top coat, which has structure-forming particles with an average particle diameter of <100 nm; said top coat is at least partially hydrophobic and has elevations interspaced at a distance of >50 nm. The agent contains a liquid medium, at least one hydrophobing agent that has been dissolved therein and the aforementioned structure-forming particles held in suspension. The method comprises the following steps: coating of a substrate with a paint coat, application of the liquid to pasty agent that forms the top coat to the partially cured or uncured paint base coat and curing of the top coat and if required, the paint base coat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventors: Martin Baumann, Klaus-Dieter Fritsche, Dagmar Korbelarz, Stephan Ludwig, Lutz Poth
  • Patent number: 6727001
    Abstract: A laminated film is provided which is constituted essentially of a resin substrate and a coated film disposed thereon. The coated film comprises a montmorillonite containing a cation exchanger other than sodium ions and a water-soluble polymer. The laminated film offers a high oxygen-permeability barrier at high humidity and firm bonding between the coated film and the resin substrate at high humidity. A packaging material derived from the laminated film is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Motonori Hochi, Shigeru Tanaka, Kusato Hirota
  • Patent number: 6723769
    Abstract: A process for the production and treatment of a stereoregular propylene polymer such as isotactic polypropylene. The isotactic polypropylene can be produced by catalysis employing a metallocene catalyst or employing a Ziegler-Natta catalyst. A polymerization reactor is operated to provide for the reaction of propylene supplied to the reactor to produce a stereoregular propylene polymer fluff. A product stream containing unreacted propylene and the propylene polymer fluff is withdrawn from the polymerization reactor. The product stream is treated to separate at least a portion of the unreacted propylene from the product stream. The polymer fluff is heated to a temperature sufficient to melt the propylene polymer. Incorporated into the propylene polymer fluff in an amount within the range of 0.01-0.08 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Fina Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark B. Miller, Scott D. Cooper
  • Patent number: 6723424
    Abstract: A molded article such as a floor tile is made from recycled carpet waste which includes a polyvinyl chloride component in the backing material and fiber component having a melting point above the melting point of polyvinyl chloride. A mixture of the recycled carpet material is shredded and additional polyvinyl chloride is fed to an extruder where the polyvinyl chloride is melted without melting the carpet fibers. The resulting mixture is discharged and molded, such as by injection molding, to form a molded product. The molded product includes a continuous matrix of polyvinyl chloride having recycled carpet fibers uniformly dispersed therein. The molded article contains about 45% to about 85% of polyvinyl chloride, about 5% to about 20% of recycled carpet fibers, up to about 5% of a plasticizer and up to about 5% of an ethylene copolymer by weight based on the total weight of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Selectech, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Ricciardelli, Michael H. King, Michael P. Slater, Steven F. Raposo
  • Patent number: 6720049
    Abstract: This invention relates to low-tack thin-walled articles comprising a polyurethane elastomer, for example surgical gloves, clean-room gloves, condoms, and the like. More particularly, the invention relates to such elastomeric articles containing specific amounts of molecular sieve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: William G. DiMaio, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6716513
    Abstract: A hydrophilic material comprises a substrate and a hydrophilic layer provided as the outermost layer on the substrate. The hydrophilic layer comprises hydrophilic metal oxide particles and a hydrophilic inorganic amorphous material. The hydrophilic layer has profile peaks on its surface. The hydrophilic layer has roughness properties such that, when a segment is set in only a portion not containing the profile peaks, the ten-point mean roughness (Rz) and the mean distance between concaves and convexes (Sm) obtained from a profile curve in the segment are 10 nm≦Rz≦40 nm and 10 nm≦Sm≦300 nm, respectively, while, when a segment is set so as to pass through the profile peaks, the ten-point mean roughness (Rz) and the mean distance between concaves and convexes (Sm) obtained from a profile curve in the segment are 40 nm≦Rz≦200 nm and 300 nm≦Sm≦500 nm, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroto Hasuo, Yoshiyuki Nakanishi, Hideki Kobayashi, Takayuki Kato
  • Patent number: 6713170
    Abstract: The present invention provides heat-curable or UV-curable transparent hard coating materials suitable for forming a low refractive antireflection coating on a substrate such as a film or sheet to reduce reflection of external light or increase light transmittance. A UV-curable or heat-curable transparent hard coating material comprising a UV-curable resin having one or more (meth)acryloyl groups in one molecule or a heat-curable resin and silica-magnesium fluoride hydrate composite colloidal particles such that the transparent film obtained by curing said transparent hard coating material has a refractive index of 1.48 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignees: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha, Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Kaneko, Takeshi Takahashi, Yoshitane Watanabe, Keitaro Suzuki, Osamu Tanegashima, Yoshinari Koyama
  • Patent number: 6713160
    Abstract: An ink jet recording material which enables the recorded ink images to exhibit enhanced light fastness, water resistance and hot moisture resistance, includes an ink receiving layer formed on a support material and containing a light fastness-enhancing agent containing hydroquinone-&bgr;-D-glucoside, a salt of pyrocatechol-3,5-disulfonic acid and/or salt of p-hydroxybenzenesulfonic acid, and an inorganic pigment and a cationic polymeric material which are in the form of a plurality of composite particles prepared by mixing an aqueous dispersion of inorganic pigment particles with a cationic polymeric material having a molecular weight of 100,000 or more, to cause the aqueous dispersion of the inorganic pigment particles to be coagulated with the cationic polymeric material, and subjecting the resultant coagulate of the inorganic pigment with the cationic polymeric material to pulverization to form inorganic pigment-cationic polymeric material composite particles having an average composite particle size of 10
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryu Kitamura, Eriko Endo, Tomomi Takahashi, Kazuaki Ohshima
  • Publication number: 20040058148
    Abstract: This dispersion for preventing electrification contains as a primary component high-resistance fine particles having a specific resistivity of 106 to 109&OHgr;·cm. This dispersion is applied by a simple and easy method such as spray coating or brushing and baked to obtain an antistatic film having a reduced dependency of a resistance value on a thickness of a film and environments and having stable antistatic properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Takeo Ito, Tsuyoshi Oyaizu, Akira Mikami, Hitoshi Tabata
  • Patent number: 6709740
    Abstract: Ultra low haze, co-extruded, thermoplastic polymer film prepared by co-extrusion of a blend of polyethyleneterephthalate with organic and inorganic fillers in at least one skin layer on a virtually particle-free polyethyleneterephthalate core layer; the inorganic fillers are aluminum oxide particles and/or silicon oxide of average particle size of about 0.035 &mgr;m to about 0.3 &mgr;m, and wherein particles of the organic filler have a particle size of less than or equal to about 0.8 &mgr;m and are present in an amount less than about 0.04% by weight, based on the weight of the polyethyleneterephthalate, the skin layer being less than about 3 &mgr;m in thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Toray Plastics, (America), Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Butera, Hiroshi Furuya, William Fritz, Yasuo Nishigaki, Steven J. Sargeant
  • Patent number: 6706387
    Abstract: Ultra low haze, co-extruded, thermoplastic polymer film prepared by co-extrusion of a blend of polyethyleneterephthalate with organic and inorganic fillers in at least one skin layer on a virtually particle-free polyethyleneterephthalate core layer; the inorganic fillers are aluminum oxide particles and/or silicon oxide of average particle size of about 0.035 &mgr;m to about 0.3 &mgr;m, and wherein particles of the organic filler have a particle size of less than or equal to about 0.8 &mgr;m and are present in an amount less than about 0.04% by weight, based on the weight of the polyethyleneterephthalate, the skin layer being less than about 3 &mgr;m in thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Toray Plastics (America), Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Butera, Hiro Furuya, William Fritz
  • Publication number: 20040048057
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to abrasive articles comprising a resin transfer additive and methods of abrading a workpiece with the abrasive article. The resin control additive is a metal salt of a long chain fatty acid. The abrasive article comprises a backing having a major surface, and an abrasive layer secured to at least a portion of the major surface. The abrasive layer comprises a binder, abrasive particles distributed in the binder, and a resin control additive distributed in the binder, and wherein the abrasive layer has a substantially uniform thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Philip E. Kendall
  • Publication number: 20040043210
    Abstract: A reflection reducing coating allowing a durability represented by wear resistance to be compatible with a reflection reducing function, comprising a binder layer and a plurality of particulates, wherein the inside porosity of the binder layer is 50 volume% or less and the averaged value of the depths of the particulates buried in the binder layer is equivalent to ¼ to ½ of the averaged particulate diameter of the plurality of particulates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Yasunori Seto, Toshifumi Tsujino, Katsuhiko Kinugawa, Masahiro Hirata
  • Patent number: 6696148
    Abstract: A plastic window panel for an automotive vehicle comprises a plastic panel of a transparent noncrystalline organic high polymer. Silica particulate is dispersed in the plastic panel and has a particle size not larger than wavelengths of visible light. The plastic window panel is produced by one of a first method and a second method. The first method comprises (a) providing a first solvent in which the silica particulate having the particle size not larger than wavelengths of visible light is dispersed, and a second solvent in which the transparent noncrystalline organic high polymer is dissolved; (b) mixing the first solvent and the second solvent to obtain a resin composition; and (c) molding the resin composition under heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Seino, Kouichi Handa