Surface Property Or Characteristic Of Web, Sheet Or Block Patents (Class 428/409)
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Patent number: 8147991Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing a high quality bulk single crystal of silicon carbide in a seeded growth system by reducing the separation between a silicon carbide seed crystal and a seed holder until the conductive heat transfer between the seed crystal and the seed holder dominates the radiative heat transfer between the seed crystal and the seed holder over substantially the entire seed crystal surface that is adjacent the seed holder.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2010Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Jason Ronald Jenny, David Phillip Malta, Hudson McDonald Hobgood, Stephan Georg Mueller, Mark Brady, Robert Tyler Leonard, Adrian Powell, Valeri F. Tsvetkov
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Patent number: 8129440Abstract: An antioxidant combined with UHMWPE prior to subjecting the UHMWPE to crosslinking irradiation. In one exemplary embodiment, the antioxidant is tocopherol. After the antioxidant is combined with the UHMWPE, the resulting blend may be formed into slabs, bar stock, and/or incorporated into a substrate, such as a metal, for example. The resulting product may then be subjected to crosslinking irradiation. In one exemplary embodiment, the UHMWPE blend is preheated prior to subjecting the same to crosslinking irradiation. Once irradiated, the UHMWPE blended product may be machined, packaged, and sterilized in accordance with conventional techniques.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Zimmer, Inc.Inventors: Alicia Rufner, John Knight, Toni Rowe, Dirk Pletcher, Ray Gsell, Werner Schneider, Hallie E. Brinkerhuff
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Glass for information recording media substrate, glass substrate for magnetic disk and magnetic disk
Patent number: 8119268Abstract: To provide a glass for an information recording media substrate, which is excellent in weather resistance. A glass for an information recording media substrate, which comprises, as represented by mol % based on oxide, from 61 to 66% of SiO2, from 11.5 to 17% of Al2O3, from 8 to 16% of Li2O, from 2 to 8% of Na2O, from 2.5 to 8% of K2O, from 0 to 6% of MgO, from 0 to 4% of TiO2 and from 0 to 3% of ZrO2, provided that Al2O3+MgO+TiO2 is at least 12%, and Li2O+Na2O+K2O is from 16 to 23%, wherein in a case of where B2O3 is contained, its content is less than 1%. The above glass for an information recording media substrate, wherein when the glass is left under steam atmosphere at 120° C. at 0.2 MPa for 20 hours, and the amount of Li, the amount of Na and the amount of K, which precipitate on a surface of the glass are represented as CLi, CNa and CK respectively, CNa is at most 0.7 nmol/cm2, and CLi+CNa+CK is at most 3.5 nmol/cm2.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2010Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Tetsuya Nakashima, Kei Maeda, Noriaki Shimodaira, Atsuyoshi Takenaka -
Patent number: 8114503Abstract: Clear or tinted window panes of glass or plastic having a pattern or dots, vertical lines, horizontal lines or a combination of vertical and horizontal lines in a regular pattern on a surface of the pane, the pattern being visible to the avian eye to prevent birds from striking or colliding with the window pane and having optical characteristics of ultraviolet reflection separated by ultraviolet absorption.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Inventor: Daniel Klem, Jr.
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Patent number: 8101263Abstract: A cooling system comprising a plurality of coolant channels comprising a fluid-impervious surface comprising a base surface, at least one distinct region of the base surface covered by a mixed monolayer, the mixed monolayer comprising a species having a functional group M1 and a species having a functional group M2 where M1 and M2 have different surface energies, the mixed monolayer forming a surface energy gradient within the region and wherein any portions of the surface that border the at least one distinct region have substantially equal surface energies.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Inventor: Brian David Babcock
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Patent number: 8075999Abstract: A strengthened glass article having a central tension that is below a threshold value above which the glass exhibits frangible behavior. The central tension varies non-linearly with the thickness of the glass. The glass article may be used as cover plates or windows for portable or mobile electronic devices such as cellular phones, music players, information terminal (IT) devices, including laptop computers, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2009Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Kristen L Barefoot, James Joseph Price, Jose Mario Quintal, Ronald Leroy Stewart
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Patent number: 8071187Abstract: A fabrication method for metallized a ceramics substrate including the steps of: forming a first conductive paste layer containing metallic powder on a sintered ceramics substrate; forming a second conductive paste layer containing metallic powder of which average particle diameter is different from that of metallic powder constituting the first conductive paste layer; and forming a first conductive layer and a second conductive paste layer. The surface roughness of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer is different. By this method, it is possible to secure airtightness of the metallized ceramics substrate even if it is a multilayered substrate having a plurality of metallized layers.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2007Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Tokuyama CorporationInventors: Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Osamu Yatabe, Masakatsu Maeda
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Patent number: 8062749Abstract: An aircraft transparency in a glass piece, wherein the glass piece includes a chemically tempered first major surface and a chemically tempered opposite second major surface, a first case depth begins at the first major surface, a second case depth begins at the second major surface, and a tensile stress zone is within the glass piece between the end points of the first and the second case depths. The glass between the end points of the first and second case depth has a glass composition including: Ingredient Percent by weight SiO2 60 to 75; Al2O3 18 to 28; and Li2O 3 to 9, and the glass has at least one of the following properties (a) a log 10 viscosity temperature of at least 1413° F. and (b) a liquidus temperature of at least 2436° F.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, IncInventors: Larry J. Shelestak, George B. Goodwin, Amarendra Mishra, James M. Baldauff
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Patent number: 8057884Abstract: A glass pane is provided. A marking field that includes an uneven surface structure is located on a limited area of a smooth side surface of the glass pane. The limited area is smaller than a total area of the side surface of the glass pane, and the uneven surface structure is more rough than portions of the side surface of the glass pane that are outside of the limited area of the side surface of the glass pane. A marking layer is located on the marking field so as to create an intimate adhesive bond between the marking layer and the marking field. The marking layer includes a color containing a thermochromic pigment that visually indicates that a heat treatment has been carried out on the glass pane by being irreversibly modified at a temperature at which the heat treatment is conducted.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass FranceInventors: Hubert Hauser, Herbert Stadelmann, Andreas Kasper
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Publication number: 20110274944Abstract: The present invention provides articles comprised of a single resin system that has a surface and a core of different compositions, the surface having more extractable component and less fillers than the core. This arrangement provides for increased peel strength in articles formed from or including such articles. The present invention also provides methods of making the articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventor: Andri Elia Elia
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Patent number: 8043682Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet with a release liner has a bubbles containing pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a release liner in contact with at least one surface of the bubbles containing pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The release liner comprises at least three layers including an intermediate layer and surface layers, and the surface layers are positioned on both surfaces of the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer comprises at least one polyolefin resin. Each of the surface layers comprises a low-density polyethylene and an olefinic elastomer and independently has a thickness of 15 ?m or less. The ratio of the thickness of the intermediate layer to the total thickness of the surface layers (the intermediate layer/the surface layers) is in the range of 4 to 19.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Akiko Nonaka, Shinji Inokuchi, Hiroshi Wada
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Patent number: 8043731Abstract: A III-V nitride, e.g., GaN, substrate including a (0001) surface offcut from the <0001> direction predominantly toward a direction selected from the group consisting of <10-10> and <11-20> directions, at an offcut angle in a range that is from about 0.2 to about 10 degrees, wherein the surface has a RMS roughness measured by 50×50 ?m2 AFM scan that is less than 1 nm, and a dislocation density that is less than 3 E6 cm?2. The substrate may be formed by offcut slicing of a corresponding boule or wafer blank, by offcut lapping or growth of the substrate body on a corresponding vicinal heteroepitaxial substrate, e.g., of offcut sapphire. Both upper and lower surfaces may be offcut. The substrate is usefully employed for homoepitaxial deposition in the fabrication of III-V nitride-based microelectronic and opto-electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Xueping Xu, Robert P. Vaudo, Jeffrey S. Flynn, George R. Brandes
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Patent number: 8038970Abstract: Disclosed are adhesive coating compositions containing a metal peroxide for producing clear colorless adhesive coatings on substrates, particularly micro particulate substrates. In one preferred embodiment the nanoparticle coatings are chemically active and function at a high level of efficiency due to the high total surface area of the micro particulate substrate. Also disclosed are coated substrates and compositions having nanoparticles bound to a substrate by the coating compositions.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: PURETI, Inc.Inventor: John W. Andrews
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Patent number: 8031381Abstract: An image reading apparatus which is capable of appropriately performing show-through reduction processing and foundation color reduction processing in accordance with an operation for changing the color of a background member to another one having different color that is read along with an original. An image reading unit reads an image of a conveyed original. A background member has a white-colored member and a black-colored member and is disposed in such a manner that it opposed to the image reading unit. A moving unit moves the background member. A CPU determines a degree of image processing to be applied to read image data depending on the color of an opposing portion of the background member, which is opposed to the image reading unit that is reading an original.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2007Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Canon Denshi Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Satomi Yotsuyanagi
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Patent number: 8025729Abstract: A device for heat treating (annealing) a III-V semiconductor wafer comprises at least one wafer support unit which is dimensioned such that a cover provided above the wafer surface is either spaced without any distance or with a distance of maximally about 2 mm to the wafer surface. A process for heat treating III-V semiconductor wafers having diameters larger than 100 mm and a dislocation density below 1×104 cm?2 is carried out in the device of the invention. SI GaAs wafers produced have an at least 25% increased characteristic fracture strength (Weibull distribution), an improved radial macroscopic and mesoscopic homogeneity and an improved quality of the mechano-chemically polished surface. The characteristic fracture strength is higher than 1900 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Freiberger Compound Materials GmbHInventors: Manfred Jurisch, Stefan Eichler, Thomas Bünger, Berndt Weinert, Frank Börner
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Publication number: 20110217532Abstract: An optical component includes a multilayered optical thin film formed on a substrate. A critical load value of the optical thin film that includes at least one layer that is formed by a vacuum deposition method is greater than or equal to 30 mN. The critical load value is a value evaluated by a measurement method complying with JIS R3255 “Testing methods for adhesion of thin films on a glass substrate”.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Takeshi Deguchi, Yoshito Ito, Kei Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi Toyohara
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Publication number: 20110212300Abstract: Methods and articles providing for precise aligning, positioning, shaping, and linking of nanotubes and carbon nanotubes. An article comprising: a solid surface comprising at least two different surface regions including: a first surface region which comprises an outer boundary and which is adapted for carbon nanotube adsorption, and a second surface region which is adapted for preventing carbon nanotube adsorption, the second region forming an interface with the outer boundary of the first region, at least one carbon nanotube which is at least partially selectively adsorbed at the interface. The shape and size of the patterns on the surface and the length of the carbon nanotube can be controlled to provide for selective interfacial adsorption.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Inventors: Chad A. MIRKIN, Yuhuang Wang, Daniel Maspoch
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Patent number: 8003194Abstract: The present invention relates to touch screen articles comprising an antiglare layer. The antiglare layer comprises aggregate inorganic oxide particles in a cured inorganic polymer matrix.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Paul J. Richter, Darran R. Cairns, Frank J. Bottari
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Publication number: 20110200818Abstract: A description is given of a surface-coating material, comprising a double-bond-containing, OH-functional component A with a solids fraction between 30% and 100% by weight, a double-bond density between 2 and 5 eq/kg and an OH content of between 4% and 7% by weight, a double-bond-containing, NCO-functional component B with a solids fraction between 30% and 100% by weight, a double-bond density between 1 and 4 eq/kg and an NCO content of between 4% and 7% by weight, and, if desired, a double-bond-containing component C having a glass transition temperature Tg between ?10 and 20° C., a solids fraction of between 30% and 100% by weight and a double-bond density of between 3 and 6 mol/kg, a flexible laminate featuring such a surface-coating material, and also the use of the surface-coating material and of the laminate in the production of surface-coated substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2008Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: KARL WÖRWAG LACK-UND FARBENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Terry Djunaidi, Helge Warta
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Patent number: 7998558Abstract: A glass sheet assembly includes a glass sheet having an edge surface and a shaped fiber. The shaped fiber has a first surface bonded to the edge surface of the glass sheet and a convex second surface not bonded to the edge surface for receiving a load.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Xin Chen, Anping Liu, Ji Wang, Liming Wang, Wei Xu, Naiyue Zhou
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Patent number: 7998591Abstract: A tape yarn, woven fabric or carpet backing produced from a polymeric film material formed from an impact copolymer and having increased toughness relative to films that are monoaxially-oriented at conventional temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2008Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Shaw Industries Group, Inc.Inventors: Larry L. English, Jeffrey W. Adams
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Patent number: 7984566Abstract: An air drying system and process employs a turbofan jet engine for producing high quality dried products. The air drying system uses both thermal and non-thermal air drying. The turbofan jet engine is housed within an air distribution chamber for directing exhaust air and bypass air from the jet engine into a product drying tube, where it is dried through a combination of thermal drying from heat content in an engine exhaust, and by the kinetic energy of air flowing past the product traveling through the drying tube, that may include a physical impediment for retarding retard the speed of the product solids flowing in the air stream through the tube.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2007Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Inventor: Wesley A. Staples
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Patent number: 7972675Abstract: A friction material has a resin amount distribution that is the largest at a portion near a non-friction surface, that becomes lower toward an inside and that is the lowest at a portion near a friction surface. For example, such friction material is manufacture as follows. First, two friction materials are overlapped while the friction surfaces faced with each other. Then, the friction materials are dried at a room temperature. At this time, the resin has such a characteristic as to move while dragged by a solvent that dries from the non-friction surface located outside. Using such characteristic, the resin amount at the portion near the friction surface is lessened. Then, a temperature at the friction surface is made low and a temperature at the non-friction surface is made high in a drying step of the friction material. Thereby, the resin amount at the portion near the friction surface is lessened.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Aisin Kako Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihito Fujimaki, Yuko Higashijima
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Patent number: 7960043Abstract: Methods and articles are disclosed in which a substrate is provided with a photo-induced hydrophilic surface by forming a photo-induced hydrophilic coating on the substrate by spray pyrolysis, chemical vapor deposition, or magnetron sputter vacuum deposition. The coating can have a thickness of 50 ? to 500 ?, a root mean square roughness of less than 5, preferably less than 2, and photocatalytic activity of less than 3.0×10?3 cm?1 min?1±2.0×10?3 cm?1 min?1. The substrate includes glass substrates, including glass sheets and continuous float glass ribbons.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Caroline S. Harris, Janos Szanyi
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Patent number: 7951462Abstract: A monoaxially-oriented polymeric film material formed from an impact copolymer and having increased toughness relative to films that are monoaxially-oriented at conventional temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Shaw Industries Group, Inc.Inventors: Larry L. English, Jeffrey W. Adams
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Patent number: 7935428Abstract: The invention relates to a component made from a substrate with a coating, whereby that coating forms a surface of the component with reduced wettability. The invention further relates to production of said component. The coating which forms a surface with projections and recesses, brings about a reduction in wettability, in particular, by means of an effect based on the properties of lotus blossom. According to the invention, a metal with antimicrobial properties, in particular silver is provided under the coating, which is not fully covered, in other words, regions remain free of the coating in which the surface of the component is formed by the antimicrobial properties.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2006Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian Doye, Ursus Krüger, Manuela Schneider
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Patent number: 7931248Abstract: A mold for manufacturing a corner-shaped simulated stone product has a mold cavity configured to imprint a stone texture on at least a first side face and a front face of the corner-shaped product. The mold also provides a back face with a desirable molded interior angle. The mold cavity can have a flexible edge around a perimeter of the mold cavity to impart a textured surface to a second side face of the corner-shaped product.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2005Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Boral Stone Products LLCInventors: Michelle L. Korwin-Edson, Douglas H. Walden, Robert E. Embrey, Larry E. Targett
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Patent number: 7914915Abstract: A highly charged ion modified device is provided that includes a first metal layer or layers deposited on a substrate and an insulator layer, deposited on the first metal layer, including a plurality of holes therein produced by irradiation thereof with highly charged ions. The metal of a further metal layer, deposited on the insulator layer, fills the plurality of holes in the insulator layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2008Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Commerce, The National Institutes of Standards and TechnologyInventors: Joshua M. Pomeroy, Holger Grube, Andrew Perrella, Fern Slew, legal representative
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Patent number: 7910795Abstract: A technique for imparting latent elasticity to components of an absorbent article is provided. More specifically, a latent elastic film that contains a crosslinkable semi-crystalline polyolefin is initially incorporated into an absorbent article. The film is not highly elastic prior to crosslinking and is thus dimensionally stable. Consequently, the film need not be maintained in a mechanically stretched condition during attachment to other components of the absorbent article, which provides for greater freedom in the location and manner in which the components are attached together. Once incorporated into the absorbent article, the semi-crystalline polyolefin is crosslinked to form a three-dimensional network having elastic memory. The film may also be heat activated, either through crosslinking or an additional step, to cause the film to shrink and further improve its stretch characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Oomman P. Thomas, C. Allen Smith, James Austin
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Patent number: 7887920Abstract: A borate for a near-infrared ray absorption material, having an anion represented by the formula (1): [BR1mR24-m]? (wherein R1 represents an aryl group having an electron withdrawing group; R2 represents an organic group, a halogen group or a hydroxyl group; and m is an integer in the range of 1 to 4) is provided. The borate of the present invention enables to improve durability, in particular, heat resistance and moisture resistance of a near-infrared ray absorbing dye.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2006Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akio Ito, Satoshi Ishida, Toshiya Iida, Takako Ishii, Nobuhiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7883760Abstract: A method of restoring a section of a component having a honeycomb bonded to a skin includes the steps of separating a first honeycomb from the skin, wherein the honeycomb includes an uneven surface. At least a portion of the uneven surface is removed to form a bonding surface on the skin. A conformable layer is bonded to the uneven surface. Then a replacement honeycomb is then bonded to the conformable layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2009Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: William Bogue
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Publication number: 20110020620Abstract: Disclosed is a transfer-foil raw fabric and a peeling film therefore having no printed layer for partially controlling peel property and having no foil fall when slitting a transfer-foil into proper width for transfer. The transfer-foil raw fabric is characterized in that a peeling layer is formed all over a peeling film, at least a pattern layer is laminated over the peeling layer, and in that the peeling face of the peeling film which corresponds to the slitting position of the transfer-foil raw fabric is subjected to an easy-adhesion treatment by a surface modification in a band-like shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Inventor: Kentaro Fujii
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Patent number: 7875335Abstract: The present invention provides a polishing pad. The polishing pad comprises a transparent part and a high molecular weight layer. The transparent part has an uneven side surface and the profile of the uneven side surface is selected from a group consisting of a serrated shape, a wavy shape and a toothed shape. The high molecular weight layer encircles the transparent part.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2006Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: IV Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wen-Chang Shih, Yung-Chung Chang, Min-Kuei Chu, Lung-Chen Wei
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Publication number: 20110014474Abstract: In certain exemplary embodiments of the present invention, three-dimensional micro-mechanical devices and/or micro-structures can be made using a production casting process. As part of this process, an intermediate mold can be made from or derived from a precision stack lamination and used to fabricate the devices and/or structures. Further, the micro-devices and/or micro-structures can be fabricated on planar or nonplanar surfaces through use of a series of production casting processes and intermediate molds. The use of precision stack lamination can allow the fabrication of high aspect ratio structures. Moreover, via certain molding and/or casting materials, molds having cavities with protruding undercuts also can be fabricated. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: MIKRO SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Michael P. Appleby, Iain Fraser, James E. Atkinson
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Patent number: 7871703Abstract: A glass composition for chemical tempering includes oxides in wt % ranges of: SiO2 60 to 75; Al2O3 18 to 28; Li2O 3 to 9; Na2O 0 to 3; K2O 0 to 0.5; CaO 0 to 3; MgO 0 to 3; ZrO2 0 to 3; where MgO+CaO is 0 to 6 wt %; Al2O3+ZrO2 is 18 to 28 wt %, and Na2O+K2O is 0.05 to 3.00 wt %. The glass has a log 10 viscosity temperature in the temperature range of 1328° F. (720° C.) to 1499° F. (815° C.); a liquidus temperature in the temperature range of 2437° F. (1336° C.) to 2575° F. (1413° C.), and a log 7.6 softening point temperature in the temperature range of 1544° F. (840° C.) to 1724° F. (940° C.). The chemically tempered glass has, among other properties, an abraded modulus of rupture of 72 to 78 KPSI, and a modulus of rupture of 76 to 112 KPSI.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2009Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Larry J. Shelestak, George B. Goodwin, Amarendra Mishra, James M. Baldauff
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Publication number: 20110003157Abstract: The purpose of the invention is a process for obtaining a material comprising a substrate at least part of whose surface and at least one of whose faces is based on organic compounds, the said process being implemented at atmospheric pressure comprises moreover the following stages: In the immediate vicinity of the said substrate a zone containing active species of a non-thermal plasma is created; into the said zone is injected at least one precursor of a chemical element so as to deposit upon at least one face of the said substrate (at least part of whose surface comprises an organic compound base), a first thin layer capable of protecting the said substrate against oxidation reactions, specifically those due to radicals. A further purpose of the invention is the material obtainable according to this process.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Sophie BESSON, Maxime DURAN, Emmanuel GARRE, Carole GENTILHOMME, Emilie VIASNOFF, Corinne VICTOR, Thierry GAY
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Publication number: 20100331571Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a molding and a method for producing the same; a catalyst for the production of an unsaturated aldehyde and an unsaturated carboxylic acid, and a method for producing the same; and a catalyst for the production of methacrylic acid, and a method for producing the same. The molding of the present invention shows a shape including a plurality of columnar portions disposed with a predetermined gap; and bridge portions which are provided at both ends in longitudinal directions of two adjacent columnar portions and join adjacent columnar portions each other; and including through holes surrounded by a plurality of columnar portions in the longitudinal directions of the columnar portions, and openings formed on a peripheral surface by a gap between the plurality of adjacent columnar portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hirofumi Saito, Yuya Takahashi, Toyohisa Hoshikawa, Kazuya Tsuchimoto, Osamu Yamanishi
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Publication number: 20100327472Abstract: A sheet (10, 20) for use in a model vacuum thermoforming process, wherein the sheet (10, 20) has a thickened area (11) that may be in a preselected three-dimensional form such as arch-shape (12). The thickened area (11) or three-dimensional area (12) is placed over an area of the model (21) where the plastic sheet is to be stretched during the thermoforming process. This ensures a uniform or a preselected thickness in the stretched areas than would otherwise occur.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: MIKE C. ANDERSON, John F. Bozman
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Publication number: 20100317261Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing pad having a polishing layer with an integral window and a polishing surface adapted for polishing a substrate selected from a magnetic substrate, an optical substrate and a semiconductor substrate, wherein the formulation of the integral window provides improved defectivity performance during polishing. Also provided is a method of polishing a substrate using the chemical mechanical polishing pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Mary Jo Kulp, Shannon Holly Williams
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Patent number: 7851534Abstract: There is provided a thermally conductive sheet containing: a binder component, a modified liquid polyolefin, and at least one thermally conductive filler selected from the group consisting of metal oxide and metal hydroxide. The thermally conductive sheet can have good moldability, and the surface of the sheet is inhibited from being contaminated by bleeding or the like. Further, the sheet can have good flexibility maintained for a long period of time and is inhibited from deteriorating or emitting an offensive odor due to decomposed matter of an organic phosphorous compound even when an organic phosphorous compound is contained.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2005Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Masaki Yoda, Yoshinao Yamazaki
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Patent number: 7851055Abstract: A graphite-particles-dispersed composite produced by compacting graphite particles coated with a high-thermal-conductivity metal such as silver, copper and aluminum, the graphite particles having an average particle size of 20-500 ?m, the volume ratio of the graphite particles to the metal being 60/40-95/5, and the composite having thermal conductivity of 150 W/mK or more in at least one direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2005Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventor: Hideko Fukushima
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Publication number: 20100301725Abstract: The present invention provides a white film comprising a thermoplastic resin composition containing 25-100 parts by mass of an inorganic filler based on 100 parts by mass of a thermoplastic resin, wherein the average reflectance at a wavelength of 400-800 nm is 70% or more, the average linear expansion coefficient in the machine direction and the transverse direction is 35×10?6/° C. or less, and the decreasing rate in reflectance at a wavelength of 470 nm after thermal treatment at 200° C. for 4 hours is 10% or less; and the invention provides a metal laminated body. These exhibit high thermal resistance, high reflectance within visual light range, and small decrease in reflectance under a high heat load environment, but also be applicable for a large sized printed circuit boards for mounting LEDs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2008Publication date: December 2, 2010Inventors: Jun Matsui, Shingetsu Yamada, Shuuji Suzuki
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Publication number: 20100304146Abstract: This invention relates to a plasma surface modification process (and a corresponding a system) of a solid object (100) comprising creating plasma (104) by a plasma source (106), application of the plasma (104) to at least a part of a surface (314) of the solid object (100), generating ultrasonic high intensity and high power acoustic waves (102) by at least one ultrasonic high intensity and high power acoustic wave generator (101), wherein the ultrasonic acoustic waves are directed to propagate towards said surface (314) of the object (100) so that a laminar boundary layer (313) of a gas or a mixture of gases (500) flow in contact with said solid object (100) is thinned or destructed for at least a part of said surface (314). In this way, the plasma can more efficiently access and influence the surface of the solid object to be treated by the plasma, which speeds the process time up significantly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2008Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicants: FORCE TECHNOLOGY, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARKInventors: Niels Krebs, Alexander Bardenshtein, Yukihiro Kusano, Henrik Bindslev, Henrik Junge Mortensen
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Publication number: 20100291390Abstract: A method for coloring or figuring a surface of a soft magnet includes steps of: preparing a soft magnet having a surface to be colored or figured; previously printing a color layer or a figure layer on a surface of a low-extensibility medium material; disposing an elastic attachment material layer on a surface of the color layer (or the figure layer) or the surface of the soft magnet; and stamping the medium material and the soft magnet to detach the color layer or the figure layer from the medium material and affix the color layer or the figure layer to the surface of the soft magnet via the elastic attachment material layer at high adhesion. During the stamping process, the soft elastic attachment material layer is expandable to absorb the expansion of the soft magnet to overcome the problem of poor precision existing in the conventional soft magnet printing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Inventor: Chin-Mei FAN CHIANG
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Publication number: 20100279147Abstract: A structural component suitable for use as refinery and/or petrochemical process equipment and piping is provided. The structural component has improved corrosion, abrasion, environmental degradation resistance, and fire resistant properties with a substrate coated with a surface-treated amorphous metal layer. The surface of the structural component is surface treated with an energy source to cause a diffusion of at least a portion of the amorphous metal layer and at least a portion of the substrate, forming a diffusion layer disposed on a substrate. The diffusion layer has a negative hardness profile with the hardness increasing from the diffusion surface in contact with the substrate to the surface away from the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Grzegorz Jan Kusinski, Jan P. Kusinski
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Publication number: 20100266849Abstract: An injection-molded part according to the invention has at least one thermoplastic inlay part and one thermoplastic composite element injection-molded onto the inlay part. The at least one inlay part on its boundary face with the composite element has at least one raised feature for material-locking sealing between the inlay part and the composite element. The raised feature protrudes with a height H1 into the composite element and forms a narrowed cross section in the composite element having a height H2. The at least one raised feature, on its flux leading end, has a first chamfer, and the ratio of the height of the narrowed cross section to the height of the raised feature is in the range between 0.6 and 0.9.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2008Publication date: October 21, 2010Inventors: Guenter Krenz, Gerold Kohlberger, Alexander Ziegler, Bjoern Billep, Wolf-Ingo Ratzel, Bernd Beiermeister, Zdenek Frcek, Vaclav Straus
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Publication number: 20100261016Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of polypropylene articles with improved response to a surface energy increasing treatment, wherein the polypropylene comprises a metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene. The present invention further relates to the use of metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene as an additive for improving the response of polypropylene to surface energy increasing treatments.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2008Publication date: October 14, 2010Inventors: Fabienne Radermacher, Elke Berges
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Patent number: 7807257Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic sheet having uniform quality over its entire surface with a decreased number of detects such as foreign matters and flaws. When the ceramic sheet was divided into sections of 30 mm square or smaller, each divided section has 5 or less defects detected based on an image obtained with a charge coupled device (CCD) camera. The present invention also relates to a method for producing the ceramic sheet. In this method, a green sheet or a calcined sheet mainly including spherical ceramic particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to less than 5 ?m was used as a spacer. By using this spacer, the green sheet for ceramic sheet slides smoothly on the spacer surface when it shrinks in baking, and the friction resistance between the green sheet for ceramic sheet and the spacer is lowered. In this manner, the method of the present invention can mass-produce the above-described high quality ceramic sheets.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2006Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Hata, Norikazu Aikawa, Keijirou Takasaki
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Patent number: 7803450Abstract: UHMWPE panels of large width may be prepared by a continuous ram extrusion process by employing a slit die which preferably narrows from both sides in a direction transverse to the machine direction, and/or which employs a plurality of transversely positioned cooling zones located on the top and the bottom of the die, proximate the exit thereof. The panel exits the die at a temperature lower than the crystalline melt temperature.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Quadrant EPP AGInventors: Joseph V. Gregg, Wesley Allen Kohler
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Patent number: 7799415Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool according to the present invention includes a base material and a coated film formed on the base material. The coated film serves as an outermost layer on the base material and has compressive stress. The compressive stress is varied so as to have strength distribution in a direction of thickness of the coated film. The strength distribution is characterized in that the compressive stress at a surface of the coated film continuously decreases from the surface of the coated film toward a first intermediate point located between the surface of the coated film and a bottom surface of the coated film and the compressive stress attains a relative minimum point at the first intermediate point.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Moriguchi, Haruyo Fukui, Shinya Imamura, Koji Yamaguchi, Junji Iihara