O-containing Patents (Class 428/702)
  • Patent number: 11739410
    Abstract: High temperature stable thermal barrier coatings useful for substrates that form component parts of engines such as a component from a gas turbine engine exposed to high temperatures are provided. The thermal barrier coatings include a multiphase composite and/or a multilayer coating comprised of two or more phases with at least one phase providing a low thermal conductivity and at least one phase providing mechanical and erosion durability. Such low thermal conductivity phase can include a rare earth zirconate and such mechanical durability phase can include a rare earth a rare earth aluminate. The different phases are thermochemically compatible even at high temperatures above about 1200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Douglas E. Wolfe, Michael P. Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11718567
    Abstract: Provided are a powder for laser manufacturing which can be stably manufactured and from which a three-dimensional manufactured object ensuring a manufacturing accuracy can be obtained and a using method thereof. A powder for ceramic manufacturing for obtaining a manufactured object by repeatedly sintering or fusing and solidifying in sequence a powder in an irradiation portion with laser light, in which the powder includes a plurality of compositions, at least one composition of the compositions is an absorber that relatively strongly absorbs the laser light compared to other compositions, and at least a part of the absorber changes to a different composition that relatively weakly absorbs the laser light by irradiation with the laser light and a using method of a powder in which the powder is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Yasui, Hisato Yabuta, Kanako Oshima, Hiroshi Saito, Yoshihiro Ohashi, Makoto Kubota, Akira Uebayashi
  • Patent number: 11479862
    Abstract: A component of a turbine, in particular a gas turbine, wherein the component has a coating for increasing the erosion and corrosion resistance, wherein the coating is preferably applied directly to the component, wherein the coating consists of a functional layer and an intermediate layer, wherein the intermediate layer is arranged between the turbine blade substrate and the functional layer and wherein the functional layer consists of the elements Al, Cr, O and N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventors: Juergen Ramm, Hamid Bolvardi, Oliver Jarry, Lin Shang, Beno Widrig, Carmen Jerg
  • Patent number: 11414584
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for a rheologically modified well fluid are provided. A method includes combining an amount of a synthetic functionalized additive with an intermediate well fluid composition to form a synthetic functionalized additive-containing well fluid composition, and subjecting the synthetic functionalized additive-containing well fluid composition to shear stress for a period of time such that the synthetic functionalized additive-containing well fluid composition is rheologically modified to produce the rheologically modified well fluid. The synthetic functionalized additive comprises a synthetic layered magnesium silicate that is covalently bonded to a functional group, and the intermediate well fluid composition comprises a water-based continuous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventors: Hasmukh Patel, Ashok Santra, Carl Thaemlitz
  • Patent number: 11385258
    Abstract: A method for acquiring a signal from an encapsulated test point on a device under test, includes forming a hole in an encapsulant adjacent to the test point, the hole extending through the encapsulant to the test point, delivering a UV-curable conductive adhesive into the hole such that the delivered adhesive contacts the test point, applying UV light from a UV light source to cure the delivered adhesive, and connecting a conductive element between the cured adhesive and a test and measurement instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Julie A. Campbell, Karl A. Rinder, Regina R. Mrozik
  • Patent number: 11371131
    Abstract: The present invention relates a coating powder comprising a rare earth oxyfluoride (Ln-O—F) and having: an average particle size (D50) of 0.1 to 10 ?m, a pore volume of pores having a diameter of 10 ?m or smaller of 0.1 to 0.5 cm3/g as measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry, and a ratio of the maximum peak intensity (S0) assigned to a rare earth oxide (LnxOy) in the 2? angle range of from 20° to 40° to the maximum peak intensity (S1) assigned to the rare earth oxyfluoride (Ln-O—F) in the same range, S0/S1, of 1.0 or smaller in powder X-ray diffractometry using Cu-K? rays or Cu-K?1 rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON YTTRIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Sato, Naoki Fukagawa, Yuji Shigeyoshi, Kento Matsukura
  • Patent number: 11220820
    Abstract: A cross-laminated timber (CLT) decorative panel and a connecting device thereof are provided, and belongs to the field of construction materials. The CLT decorative panel includes a first decorative layer, a buffer layer, a CLT layer and a second decorative layer, where the first decorative layer, the buffer layer, the CLT layer and the second decorative layer are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, and the buffer layer is internally provided with a non-Newtonian fluid. The connecting device includes a support body and a connecting block arranged on the support body; the support body has a rectangular solid structure; a cross section of the support body is square with a side length the same as a thickness of the decorative panel; the connecting block is fit with the connecting groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Guanben Du, Chunlei Dong
  • Patent number: 11130315
    Abstract: Heat ray shielding fine particles, heat ray shielding fine particle dispersion liquid, heat ray shielding film, heat ray shielding glass, heat ray shielding dispersion body, and heat ray shielding laminated transparent substrate that exhibit heat ray shielding properties and suppress scorching sensation on skin when employed in window materials and the like, also enable usage of communication devices, imaging devices, sensors, etc. that employ near-infrared light across these structures. The particles are composite tungsten oxide fine particles having a heat ray shielding function; and when a visible light transmittance is 85% when computed for light absorption by the particles alone, the average value of transmittance in the wavelength region from 800 nm to 900 nm is 30%-60%, and the average value of transmittance in the wavelength region from 1200 nm to 1500 nm is 20% or lower, and the transmittance at a wavelength of 2100 nm is 22% or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mika Okada, Kenji Adachi
  • Patent number: 11127569
    Abstract: A plasma-resistant member that includes a base material and a layer structural component is provided, wherein the layer structural component includes an yttria polycrystalline body, is formed at a surface of the base material, and has plasma resistance; crystallites that are included in the yttria polycrystalline body included in the layer structural component are not bonded to each other via a heterogenous phase; the yttria polycrystalline body included in the layer structural component has a crystal structure including only cubic, or a crystal structure in which cubic and monoclinic coexist; and an average value of a proportion of monoclinic to cubic inside the yttria polycrystalline body included in the layer structural component is greater than 0% and not more than 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventor: Junichi Iwasawa
  • Patent number: 11111394
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a primer coating composition including an aqueous polyolefin-based resin (A), an aqueous epoxy resin (B), a hydrophilicized-modified carbodiimide compound (C), and an aqueous polyurethane resin (D), in which the aqueous polyolefin-based resin (A) includes an aqueous polypropylene-based resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 50,000 to 200,000, and the hydrophilicized-modified carbodiimide compound (C) is a hydrophilicized-modified carbodiimide compound (C) having a prescribed structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiromi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11059751
    Abstract: A coated member includes a heat-shielding coating layer made of a zirconia-dispersed silicate in which ytterbia-stabilized zirconia is precipitated as a dispersed phase in a matrix phase which is any one of a rare earth disilicate, a rare earth monosilicate, and a mixed phase of the rare earth disilicate and the rare earth monosilicate. The rare earth disilicate is a (Y1-a[Ln1]a)2Si2O7 solid solution wherein Ln1 is any one of Sc, Yb, and Lu, or a (Y1-c[Ln2]c)2Si2O7 solid solution wherein Ln2 is any one of Nd, Sm, Eu, and Gd. The rare earth monosilicate is Y2SiO5, [Ln1?]2SiO5, a (Y1-b[Ln1?]b)2SiO5 solid solution wherein Ln1? is any one of Sc, Yb, and Lu, or a (Y1-d[Ln2?]d)2SiO5 solid solution wherein Ln2? is any one of Nd, Sm, Eu, and Gd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineaki Matsumoto, Takayuki Kurimura, Kosuke Nishikawa, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 11047040
    Abstract: Methods are provided for dual selective deposition of a first material on a first surface of a substrate and a second material on a second, different surface of the same substrate. The selectively deposited materials may be, for example, metal, metal oxide, or dielectric materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: ASM IP Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Suvi P. Haukka, Raija H. Matero, Eva Tois, Antti Niskanen, Marko Tuominen, Hannu Huotari, Viljami J. Pore
  • Patent number: 10950648
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor element, a manufacturing method of a semiconductor element, and an electronic apparatus, which enable suppression of crack occurrences and leaks. The present technology has a laminated structure including an insulating film having a CTE value between those of metal and Si and disposed under a metal wiring, and P—SiO (1 ?m) having good coverage and disposed as a via inner insulating film in a TSV side wall portion. As the insulating film having a CTE that is in the middle between those of metal and Si, for example, SiOC is used with a thickness of 0.1 ?m and 2 ?m respectively in the via inner insulating film and a field top insulating film continuous to the via inner insulating film. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging element used in an imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naoto Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10950384
    Abstract: A method used in forming an electronic device comprising conductive material and ferroelectric material comprises forming a composite stack comprising multiple metal oxide-comprising insulator materials. At least one of the metal oxide-comprising insulator materials is between and directly against non-ferroelectric insulating materials. The multiple metal oxide-comprising insulator materials are of different composition from that of immediately-adjacent of the non-ferroelectric insulating materials. The composite stack is subjected to a temperature of at least 200° C. After the subjecting, the composite stack comprises multiple ferroelectric metal oxide-comprising insulator materials at least one of which is between and directly against non-ferroelectric insulating materials. After the subjecting, the composite stack is ferroelectric. Conductive material is formed and that is adjacent the composite stack. Devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Manuj Nahar, Ashonita A. Chavan
  • Patent number: 10933624
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to an apparatus and methods for removing a glue residue from a photomask. The glue residue may be exposed when a pellicle is removed from the photomask. Before a new pellicle can be adhered to the photomask, the glue residue may be removed. To remove the glue residue, a laser beam may be projected through a lens and focused on a surface of the glue residue. The glue residue may be ablated from the photomask by the laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Banqiu Wu, Eli Dagan
  • Patent number: 10882790
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cementitous composite specifically engineered to possess self-cleaning abilities while maintaining their unique strain-hardening behaviour and the preparation of the said composite. The cementitious composite comprises a hydraulic cement, a plurality of fibers, in particular polyvinyl alcohol fibers wherein the ratio of the plurality of fibers to the hydraulic cement is in a range from 1 to 3% by volume; a self-cleaning agent, in particular nanoparticulate titanium dioxide (TiO2) wherein the weight ratio of the self-cleaning agent to the hydraulic cement is in a range from 0.01 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Nanyang Technological University
    Inventors: En-hua Yang, Aiqin Zhao
  • Patent number: 10787394
    Abstract: A thermally-insulating composite material with co-shrinkage in the form of an insulating material formed by the inclusion of microballoons in a matrix material such that the microballoons and the matrix material exhibit co-shrinkage upon processing. The thermally-insulating composite material can be formed by a variety of microballoon-matrix material combinations such as polymer microballoons in a preceramic matrix material. The matrix materials generally contain fine rigid fillers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Powdermet, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian P. Doud, Mark V. Grogan, Andrew Sherman
  • Patent number: 10780493
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that overcome problems with conventional filters for high temperature casting materials. According to embodiments, uniform, engineered filters enable consistent and repeatable metal flow rates without becoming a secondary source of contamination. Proven Additive Manufacturing (AM) methods generate engineered filters that achieve consistent filtration efficiency and predictable metal flow into a casting mold. Through this application of AM for ceramics, the resulting filter incorporates features that can be adjusted on-demand to address the needs of specific alloys and geometries applied in the production of castings. According to an embodiment, the method includes generating, using an additive manufacturing apparatus, a plurality of layers, wherein each layer includes individual ceramic ligaments arranged in a grid pattern having a two-dimensional rotational orientation. The method further includes stacking the layers along a thickness direction to form the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Renaissance Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Z. Sokol, Ricky Lynn Pressley, Bryan Deptowicz, Scott Morris
  • Patent number: 10654069
    Abstract: In a method for applying an easily cleanable surface to a domestic article, a polymer surface layer is deposited by one or more nozzles on at least a part of the surface of the domestic article by plasma polymerization in the presence of an atmospheric pressure plasma based on at least one precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Jördens, Jürgen Salomon, Philipp Schaller, Gerhard Schmidmayer
  • Patent number: 10656135
    Abstract: A method for determining a mixing ratio A of n organic, miscible components in a mixture of the components. The method includes the following steps: i) preparing n components in pre-defined quantities, where n is an integer ?2; ii) mixing a respective inorganic marker with one of the respective components in a pre-defined mixing ratio for each of the respective inorganic markers to the respective component, at least one component being mixed with one inorganic marker, and the inorganic markers being of different chemical natures; iii) producing a mixture of the components; (iv) performing an analysis for the quantitative determination of the quantities of the inorganic markers; and v) determining the mixing ratio A of the n components from the defined quantities of the inorganic markers by means of the pre-defined mixing ratios for each of the respective inorganic markers to the respective component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Laessig, Ines Nikoleizig, Florian Hessing
  • Patent number: 10612120
    Abstract: To provide thermal spray slurry capable of forming a thermal sprayed coating having a high adhesion strength on a thermal spray target surface of a substrate, disclosed is thermal spray slurry for forming a thermal sprayed coating on the thermal spray target surface by spraying the thermal spray slurry on the thermal spray target surface of the substrate, the thermal spray slurry containing: thermal spray particles having a 50% particle diameter D50 equal to or larger than 1 ?m and equal to or smaller than 5 ?m in volume-based cumulative particle diameter distribution; and a dispersion medium in which the thermal spray particles are dispersed. In addition, a ratio D10/Ra between a surface roughness Ra (unit: ?m) of the thermal spray target surface and a 10% particle diameter D10 (unit: ?m) of the thermal spray particles in the volume-based cumulative particle diameter distribution satisfies a formula “0.4<D10/Ra?0.9”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIMI INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Takaya Masuda, Hiroyuki Ibe, Kazuya Sugimura
  • Patent number: 10604831
    Abstract: A ceramic coating is coated on a body of an article, wherein the ceramic coating includes Y2O3, Y4Al2O9, Y3Al5O12, or a solid-solution of Y2O3 mixed with at least one of ZrO2, Al2O3, HfO2, Er2O3, Nd2O3, Nb2O5, CeO2, Sm2O3 or Yb2O3. The ceramic coating is applied to the body by a method including providing a plasma spraying system having a plasma current in the range of between about 100 A to about 1000 A, positioning a torch standoff of the plasma spraying system a distance from the body between about 60 mm and about 250 mm, flowing a first gas through the plasma spraying system at a rate of between about 30 L/min and about 400 L/min, and plasma spray coating the body to form a ceramic coating, wherein splats of the coating are amorphous and have a pancake shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Yikai Chen, Biraja Prasad Kanungo
  • Patent number: 10600965
    Abstract: Structures and methods that include selective electrostatic placement based on a dipole-to-dipole interaction of electron-rich carbon nanotubes onto an electron-deficient pre-patterned surface. The structure includes a substrate with a first surface having a first isoelectric point and at least one additional surface having a second isoelectric point. A self-assembled monolayer is selectively formed on the first surface and includes an electron deficient compound including a deprotonated pendant hydroxamic acid or a pendant phosphonic acid group or a pendant catechol group bound to the first surface. An organic solvent can be used to deposit the electron rich carbon nanotubes on the self-assembled monolayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu-Jen Han, Bharat Kumar, George S. Tulevski
  • Patent number: 10533103
    Abstract: Provided is a lustrous coating material composition comprising a flaky titanic acid, a phosphoric acid group-containing resin, and an acrylic resin and being capable of forming a lustrous resin film which has a good silky texture with a high luster and which is sufficiently excellent in not only initial adhesion but also water-resistant adhesion with the occurrence of peeling being sufficiently suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Azusa Tsukigase, Makoto Kato, Hidetaka Asano, Masahiko Ishii, Yu Takada
  • Patent number: 10472286
    Abstract: Embodiments of a microstructure that allows arrest of contaminant infiltration includes an inter layer and at least one highly reactive ceramic layer. The inter layer is not reactive to an infiltrating reactive species. The HRC layer includes materials that react with a reactive contaminant species to slow or arrest infiltration of such contaminant species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    Inventors: Eric H Jordan, Maurice Gell, Rishi Kumar, Chen Jiang
  • Patent number: 10287212
    Abstract: There is provided a plasma-resistant member, including: a base material; and a layer structural component formed by aerosol deposition at a surface of the base material, the layer structural component being plasma-resistant and including an yttria polycrystalline body, the yttria polycrystalline body included in the layer structural component having a crystal structure in which cubic and monoclinic coexist, a proportion of monoclinic to cubic inside the yttria polycrystalline body included in the layer structural component being not less than 0% and not more than 60%, a crystallite size of the yttria polycrystalline body included in the layer structural component being not less than 8 nm and not more than 50 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventor: Junichi Iwasawa
  • Patent number: 10196729
    Abstract: To provide a slurry for thermal spraying. In the slurry, even when spray particles precipitate, the precipitates easily disappear. The present invention provides a slurry for thermal spraying including spray particles and a dispersion medium. The spray particles have an average circularity in a plan view of 0.85 or less. The spray particles preferably have an average circularity of 0.6 or more. The spray particles may include yttrium fluoride and an yttrium oxyfluoride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIMI INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ibe, Kazuto Sato, Kazuyuki Tsuzuki, Takaya Masuda
  • Patent number: 10196728
    Abstract: To manufacture a coating for an article for a semiconductor processing chamber, the article including a body of at least one of Al, Al2O3, or SiC is provided and a ceramic coating is coated on the body, wherein the ceramic coating includes a compound of Y2O3, Al2O3, and ZrO2. The ceramic coating is applied to the body by a method including providing a plasma spraying system having a plasma current in the range of between about 100 A to about 1000 A, positioning a torch standoff of the plasma spraying system a distance from the body between about 60 mm and about 250 mm, flowing a first gas through the plasma spraying system at a rate of between about 30 L/min and about 400 L/min, and plasma spray coating the body to form a ceramic coating, wherein splats of the coating are amorphous and have a pancake shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Yikai Chen, Biraja Prasad Kanungo
  • Patent number: 10125277
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sliding member that has a coating layer serving as a sliding surface thereof so that even when foreign matter enters between the coating layer and a partner member, smoothness between them is maintained to prevent the occurrence of seizing. When the coating layer has an elastic recovery ratio of less than 60%, foreign matter that has entered between the coating layer and the sliding surface of a partner member is efficiently embedded in the coating layer. When the coating layer is formed of a resin composition, the resin composition contains a binder resin, a solid lubricant, and metal particles having a Young's modulus of 10 GPa or more but 100 GPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Erina Yasuda, Hiroki Kobayakawa, Kenji Nimura
  • Patent number: 10106913
    Abstract: In various embodiments, non-zero thermal gradients are formed within a growth chamber both substantially parallel and substantially perpendicular to the growth direction during formation of semiconductor crystals, where the ratio of the two thermal gradients (parallel to perpendicular) is less than 10, by, e.g., arrangement of thermal shields outside of the growth chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: CRYSTAL IS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert T. Bondokov, Shailaja P. Rao, Shawn Robert Gibb, Leo J. Schowalter
  • Patent number: 10074589
    Abstract: A multi-layer structure includes a substrate with a surface and with particles partially covering and partially embedded in the surface. The particles have high thermal conductivity and low electrical conductivity. A dielectric layer on the surface partially covers the partially embedded particles. A metal layer on the dielectric layer covering the partially covered particles forms a thermal interface material (TIM) for electronic packaging applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Raja Kountanya, Michael Paul Humbert, Joseph V. Mantese, Matthew E. Lynch, Daniel V. Viens
  • Patent number: 10040094
    Abstract: In one example, article comprising a substrate defining an outer surface; a plurality of joint conduits formed in the outer surface of the substrate, wherein each conduit of the plurality of joint conduits exhibits an undercut configuration; and a coating formed on the outer surface of the substrate, wherein the coating substantially fills the plurality of joint conduits formed in the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Lazur, Kang N. Lee, Adam Lee Chamberlain
  • Patent number: 10035711
    Abstract: A dielectric film containing an alkaline earth metal oxide having a NaCl type crystal structure as a main component, wherein the dielectric film has a (111)-oriented columnar structure in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the dielectric film, and in a Cu—K? X-ray diffraction chart of the dielectric film, a half width of the diffraction peak of (111) is in a range of from 0.3° to 2.0°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Uchiyama, Raitarou Masaoka, Shohei Fujii, Maiko Shirokawa
  • Patent number: 9988702
    Abstract: The present invention provides a component for a plasma processing apparatus, the component comprising: a base material; an underlayer covering a surface of the base material; and an yttrium oxide film covering a surface of the underlayer, wherein the underlayer comprises a metal oxide film having a thermal conductivity of 35 W/m·K or less, the yttrium oxide film contains at least either particulate portions made of yttrium oxide or non-particulate portions made of yttrium oxide, the particulate portions being portions where a grain boundary demarcating an outer portion of the grain boundary is observed under a microscope, and the non-particulate portions being portions where the grain boundary is not observed under a microscope, the yttrium oxide film has a film thickness of 10 ?m or more and a film density of 96% or more, and when a surface of the yttrium oxide film is observed under a microscope, an area coverage ratio of the particulate portions is 0 to 20% in an observation range of 20 ?m×20 ?m and an ar
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Sato, Takashi Hino, Masashi Nakatani
  • Patent number: 9976037
    Abstract: Treatment compositions and methods of treating the surface of a substrate by using the treatment composition, and a semiconductor or MEMS substrate having the treatment composition thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: VERSUM MATERIALS US, LLC
    Inventors: Seiji Inaoka, William Jack Casteel, Jr., Raymond Nicholas Vrtis, Kathleen Esther Theodorou, Tianniu Chen, Mark Richard Brown
  • Patent number: 9893315
    Abstract: A display device includes a display device including a substrate, and a display unit disposed on the substrate. An encapsulating unit encapsulates the display unit. The encapsulating unit includes a barrier organic layer. The barrier organic layer includes a plurality of organic materials and a plurality of inorganic materials. The inorganic materials are arranged in free volumes between the organic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Seungyong Song, Hyojeong Kwon, Seunghun Kim, Myungmo Sung, Kwanhyuck Yoon
  • Patent number: 9822438
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a coated cutting tool in which a coating with at least one oxide layer is applied to a base layer by means of a PVD method. The method includes voltage-pulsed sputtering of at least one cathode metal selected from the group of aluminum, scandium, yttrium, silicon, zinc, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, chromium, niobium, and tantalum, as well as mixtures and alloys thereof in the presence of a reactive gas; and the depositing of at least one oxide layer formed by converting the reactive gas with the sputtered cathode metal onto the base body. The cathode metal includes at least aluminum. Dinitrogen oxide is used as the reactive gas. The at least one oxide layer is in the form of an oxide, mixed oxide, or oxide mixture of the at least one cathode metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventor: Joern Kohlscheen
  • Patent number: 9773962
    Abstract: A BÏ2212 article may be formed by mixing metallic precursor powders including bismuth, strontium, calcium and copper in an oxygen-free atmosphere, mechanically alloying the metallic precursor powders in an oxygen-free atmosphere, and heating the metallic precursor alloy according to a temperature profile. The profile may include a ramp-up stage during which the alloy is heated to a peak temperature in an oxygen-free atmosphere, a dwell stage during which the alloy is held at the peak temperature for a dwell time, and a ramp-down stage during which the alloy is cooled from the peak temperature. During at least a portion of the dwell stage, the oxygen-free atmosphere is switched to an oxygen-inclusive atmosphere, wherein the alloy is oxidized to form a superconducting oxide, which may be sintered during or after oxidation. The alloy may be formed into a shape, such as a wire, prior to oxidizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Justin Schwartz, Carl C. Koch, Yun Zhang, Xiaotao Liu
  • Patent number: 9724762
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool with a hard coating layer exhibits excellent chipping resistance and wear resistance in a high-speed cutting process. The surface-coated cutting tool comprises a lower layer consisting of a titanium compound layer and an upper layer consisting of an aluminum oxide layer deposited on a surface of a tool substrate constituted of a tungsten carbide-based cemented carbide as a hard coating layer. In the upper layer, a (006) plane texture coefficient TC(006) is 1.8 or more, a ratio I(104)/I(110) of a peak intensity I(104) of an (104) plane to a peak intensity I(110) of an (110) plane is in a range of 0.5 to 2.0, and furthermore, an absolute value of a residual stress in the aluminum oxide layer is 100 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Sobana, Shin Nishida, Takahiro Okuyama, Yoko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9708187
    Abstract: A thermal spray material comprising granules containing a rare earth oxyfluoride has a particle diameter of 1 to 150 ?m at a cumulative volume of 50 vol % before ultrasonic dispersion and 10 ?m or smaller after ultrasonic dispersion at 300 W for 15 minutes as determined by laser diffraction/scattering particle size distribution analysis. The particle diameter after ultrasonic dispersion is one-third or less of that before ultrasonic dispersion. The thermal spray material has an average aspect ratio of 2.0 or lower and a compressibility of 30% or less. When the granules further contain a rare earth fluoride, upon being analyzed by X-ray diffractometry using Cu-K? or Cu-K?1 radiation, S1/S2 is preferably ?0.10. S1=intensity of the maximum peak assigned to the rare earth oxyfluoride. S2=intensity of the maximum peak assigned to the rare earth fluoride, both observed in a 2? angle range of 20° to 40°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON YTTRIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Fukagawa, Satoshi Ariyoshi
  • Patent number: 9665022
    Abstract: A method of producing an electrophotographic toner is disclosed in an embodiment. A colorant dispersion liquid that contains colorant particles having an average particle diameter of 6 ?m or greater is formed. A resin dispersion liquid that contains resin particles is formed. A wax dispersion liquid that contains wax particles is formed. In a first aggregation, the resin dispersion liquid and the wax dispersion liquid are added to the colorant dispersion liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Araki, Maiko Yoshida, Taishi Takano, Takashi Urabe
  • Patent number: 9643156
    Abstract: An oxygen-absorbing film (1) is composed of an oxygen-absorbing layer (2) and thermoplastic resin layers (3) provided on both surface of the oxygen-absorbing layer (2), wherein the oxygen-absorbing layer (2) comprises both a thermoplastic resin and an oxygen-deficient cerium oxide, and the content of the oxygen-deficient cerium oxide exceeds 50 wt % and is less than 85 wt %. The oxygen-absorbing layer is formed preferably from a resin composition which contains an oxygen-deficient cerium oxide in an amount exceeding 50 wt % and which exhibits a melt flow rate of 1.0 to 18.0 g/10 min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: KYODO PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Natsuki Sakamoto, Tatsuya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 9580833
    Abstract: In various embodiments, non-zero thermal gradients are formed within a growth chamber both substantially parallel and substantially perpendicular to the growth direction during formation of semiconductor crystals, where the ratio of the two thermal gradients (parallel to perpendicular) is less than 10, by, e.g., arrangement of thermal shields outside of the growth chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: CRYSTAL IS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert T. Bondokov, Shailaja P. Rao, Shawn R. Gibb, Leo J. Schowalter
  • Patent number: 9583424
    Abstract: An embodiment integrated circuit structure includes a substrate, a metal pad over the substrate, a post-passivation interconnect (PPI) structure over the substrate and electronically connected to the metal pad, a first polymer layer over the PPI structure, an under bump metallurgy (UBM) extending into an opening in the first polymer layer and electronically connected to the PPI structure, and a barrier layer on a top surface of the first polymer layer adjacent to the UBM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing-Cheng Lin, Jui-Pin Hung, Hsien-Wen Liu, Min-Chen Lin
  • Patent number: 9556339
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an anticorrosion coating, wherein (1) an anticorrosion primer comprising (A) at least one organic resin as binder and (B) at least one synthetic layered double hydroxide comprising organic anions is applied directly to a metallic substrate and (2) a polymer film is formed from the anticorrosion primer applied in stage (1), the method being characterized in that the at least one synthetic layered double hydroxide (B) comprises at least one organic anion of the following formula (I): where R1?COO?, SO3?, R2/R3?NH2, OH, H. The present invention relates, furthermore, to coated metallic substrates coated by the method of the invention. The present invention relates not least to the use of the anticorrosion primer for use in the method of the invention for improving the corrosion resistance of metallic substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignees: BASF Coatings GmbH, UNIVERSITE BLAISE PASCAL—Clermont II
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Jan-Bernd Kues, Sebastian Sinnwell, Kristof Wapner, Fabrice Leroux, Thomas Stimpfling
  • Patent number: 9476123
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention describe a method for continuous manufacture of a gel material comprising the steps of: forming a gel sheet by dispensing a gel precursor mixture onto a moving element at a rate effective to allow gelation to occur to the gel precursor mixture on the moving element; and cooling the formed gel thereby reducing the rate of solvent evaporation therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ASPEN AEROGELS, INC.
    Inventors: George L. Gould, Kevin A. Schmidt, Christopher L. Marlette, Shahrooz Zaghi
  • Patent number: 9428837
    Abstract: The thermal barrier coating system comprises a matrix of a first chemistry with multiple embedded second phases of a second chemistry. The matrix comprises a stabilized zirconia. The second regions comprise at least 40 mole percent of oxides having the formula Ln2O3, where Ln is selected from the lanthanides La through Lu, Y, Sc, In, Ca, and Mg with the balance zirconia (ZrO2), hafnia (HfO2), titania (TiO2), or mixtures thereof. The second phases have a characteristic thickness (T6) of less than 2.0 micrometers (?m). The spacing between second phases has a characteristic thickness (T5) of less than 8.0 micrometers (?m).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Litton, Brian S. Tryon
  • Patent number: 9269472
    Abstract: Fluorine-doped tin oxide particles having a structure characterized by peaks at at least 123±5 cm?1, 139±5 cm?1, and 170±5 cm?1 in Raman spectroscopy. The particles preferably have additional Raman spectral peaks at 78±5 cm?1, 97±5 cm?1, 109±5 cm?1, 186±5 cm?1, and 207±5 cm?1. The particles preferably have a specific surface area of 10 to 300 m2/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Mogi, Kazuhiko Kato, Kenji Suzuoka, Yasunori Tabira, Isamu Yashima
  • Patent number: 9234257
    Abstract: A method for producing high-purity lanthanum having a purity of 4N or more excluding rare earth elements other than lanthanum and gas components, wherein lanthanum having a purity of 4N or more is produced by reducing, with distilled calcium, a lanthanum fluoride starting material that has a purity of 4N or more excluding rare earth elements other than lanthanum and gas components, and the obtained lanthanum is subjected to electron beam melting to remove volatile substances. The method for producing high-purity lanthanum, in which Al, Fe, and Cu are respectively contained in the amount of 10 wtppm or less. The method for producing high-purity lanthanum, in which total content of gas components is 1000 wtppm or less. The present invention aims to provide a technique capable of efficiently and stably providing high-purity lanthanum, a sputtering target composed of high-purity lanthanum, and a thin film for metal gate that contains high-purity lanthanum as a main component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahata, Takeshi Gohara
  • Patent number: 9206510
    Abstract: Cutting tool insert has a substrate and a coating with a total thickness of 5 to 40 ?m, the coating being one or more refractory layers of which at least one layer is an ?-Al2O3 layer having thickness of 1 to 20 ?m. The length of ?3-type grain boundaries in the at least one ?-Al2O3 layer is more than 80% of the total length of the sum of grain boundaries of ?3, ?7, ?11, ?17, ?19, ?21, ?23 and ?29-type grain boundaries (grain boundary character distribution measured by EBSD). The at least one ?-Al2O3 layer is deposited by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) using reaction gases comprising H2, CO2, AlCl3 and X and optional additions of N2 and Ar, with X being gaseous H2S, SO2, HF, SF6 or combinations thereof. The volume ratio of CO2 and X in the CVD reaction chamber lies within the range 2<CO2/X<10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventors: Dirk Stiens, Sakari Ruppi