O-containing Patents (Class 428/702)
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Patent number: 8124236Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas-barrier laminate for hydrothermal treatment which comprises a base plastic film, a coating layer formed on at least one surface of the base plastic film, an inorganic thin film formed on a surface of the coating layer which is made of a metal compound, and a heat-sealable plastic film laminated on the inorganic thin film or the base plastic film, wherein the inorganic thin film before laminating the heat-sealable plastic film thereon has a rubbing strength of not less than 20 times as measured under a load of 70 g, and the coating layer has a hardness of 0.15 to 0.40 GPa. The laminate of the present invention is excellent in interlaminar bonding property, hardly undergoes breakage of the inorganic thin film owing to the hydrothermal treatment, and can maintain an excellent gas-barrier property even after subjected to the hydrothermal treatment.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2006Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.Inventors: Chiharu Okawara, Shigenobu Yoshida, Tooru Hachisuka
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Patent number: 8124240Abstract: A protective film structure of a metal member for use in an apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor or the like, the protective film structure including a first coating layer of faultless aluminum oxide formed by direct anodic oxidation of a base-material metal of an aluminum alloy; and a second coating layer formed on the first coating layer and made of yttrium oxide by a plasma spraying method.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignees: Tohoku University, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Nihon Ceratec Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Yasuyuki Shirai, Hitoshi Morinaga, Yasuhiro Kawase, Masafumi Kitano, Fumikazu Mizutani, Makoto Ishikawa, Yukio Kishi
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Patent number: 8124251Abstract: Thin films of ferroelectric material with a high mole fraction of Pb(A2+1/3B5+2/3)O3 substantially in a perovskite phase, wherein A is zinc or a combination of zinc and magnesium, and B is a valence 5 element such as niobium or tantalum, have been prepared. Typically, the mole fraction of Pb(A2+1/3B5+2/3)O3 in the ferroelectric material is >0.7. The method for preparing the thin films of ferroelectric material comprises providing a precursor solution containing lead, A2+, and B5+; modifying the precursor solution by addition of a polymer species thereto; applying the modified precursor solution to a surface of a substrate and forming a coating thereon; and (d) subjecting the coating to a heat treatment and forming the film in the perovskite phase. Optimal results have been obtained with PEG200 as the polymer species.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2006Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and ResearchInventors: Kui Yao, Shuhui Yu, Francis Eng Hock Tay
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Patent number: 8119232Abstract: The present invention provides a flake compound which is useful for a conductive film. The flake compound comprises a conductive layer containing M and O, wherein M represents at least one metal element, preferably at least one transition metal element in mixed valent state.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2008Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Kazuo Sadaoka, Takeshi Hattori
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Patent number: 8119226Abstract: A cutting tool includes a substrate on which at least on the functioning parts of the surface thereof a thin, adherent, hard and wear resistant coating is applied, wherein the coating includes a laminated multilayer of alternating PVD or PECVD metal oxide layers, Me1X+Me2X+Me1X+Me2X . . . , where at least one of Me1X and Me2X is a metal oxide+metal oxide nano-composite layer composed of two components with different composition and different structure which components include a single phase oxide of one metal element or a solid solution of two or more metal oxides, wherein the layers Me1X and Me2X are different in composition or structure and have individual layer thicknesses larger than about 0.4 nm but smaller than about 50 nm and where said laminated multilayer layer has a total thickness of between about 0.2 and about 20 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Ingrid Reineck, Marianne Collin, Torbjörn Selinder
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Patent number: 8119261Abstract: The invention relates to a layer system for the formation of a surface layer on a surface of a substrate, in particular on the surface of a tool, wherein the layer system includes at least one first hard layer of the composition (AlaMgbCrcMedBeAXmSik)?(NuCvOw)? with (a+b+c+d+e+m+k)=?, (u+v+w)=?, and (?+?)=100, wherein 40???60 and wherein Me is at least one element of the group of the chemical elements consisting of: the secondary groups IVb, Vb and VIb of the periodic system of the chemical elements. The component AX is at least one element of the group of the chemical elements consisting of: the elements of the main group Ia and the elements Be, Ca, Sr, Ba and the elements of the secondary groups VIIb, VIIIb, Ib, IIb, IIIb and the elements of the group of the lanthanoids, of the periodic system of the elements, wherein 0.004?m<60, and preferably 0.01?m<50. In accordance with the invention 0.4?a?58 and 0.04?b?12 and 18?c?42.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2008Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Sulzer Metaplas GmbHInventor: Jörg Vetter
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Patent number: 8119234Abstract: An aluminum titanate-based ceramic is provided having an anisotropic microstructure which includes the reaction products of a plurality of ceramic-forming precursors. The batch contains at least one precursor in fibrous form. The inorganic ceramic has low thermal expansion. Porous ceramic bodies and the method of manufacture are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2008Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Monika Backhaus-Ricoult, Christopher Raymond Glose, James William Zimmermann
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Patent number: 8119227Abstract: A cutting tool includes a substrate on which at least on the functioning parts of the surface thereof a thin, adherent, hard and wear resistant coating is applied, wherein the coating includes a laminated multilayer of alternating PVD or PECVD metal oxide layers, Me1X+Me2X+Me1X+Me2X . . . , where at least one of Me1X and Me2X is a metal oxide+metal oxide nano-composite layer composed of two components, wherein the layers Me1X and Me2X are different in composition or structure, the laminated multilayer layer has a compositional gradient, with regards to a concentration, in a direction from an outer surface of the coating towards the substrate, the gradient being such that a difference between an average concentration of an outermost portion of the multilayer and an average concentration of an innermost portion of the multilayer is at least about 5 at-% in absolute units.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Ingrid Reineck, Marianne Collin, David Huy Trinh, Hans Högberg, Lars Hultman
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Publication number: 20120040192Abstract: The present invention provides a method to effectively inhibit the oxidization of VO(acac)2 in solution for months. It is believed that VO(acac)2 forms a ?-complex with as many as three allylic alcohols which precludes reaction with any oxygen in the system. Although saturated and homo-allylic alcohols were also tested, this effect appears only in the allylic-alcohol based solutions. This ability to inhibit oxidation of VO(acac)2 allows these solutions to be used for making thermochromic VO2 film much more easily and economically as it avoids the requirement of operating under low oxygen level conditions. Thus the present invention provides a method of stabilizing vanadium oxyacetylacetonate (VO(acac)2) in solution against oxidation for extended periods of time, comprising the steps of mixing the oxyacetylacetonate precursor in an allylic alcohol prior to spin-coating for VO2 film formation. The allylic alcohol may be (?-methallyl alcohol.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2009Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: The University of Western OntarioInventors: Robert H. Lipson, Cheng Lu
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Patent number: 8114509Abstract: A gas permeable membrane for the optical measurement of the partial pressure and/or the concentration of a gas species, the membrane comprises a porous light-transmissible membrane matrix containing a metal oxide, wherein the membrane matrix is at least partially charged with at least one gas-selective compound whose optical characteristics change upon an interaction with a corresponding gas species.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2006Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignees: Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Universidad De GranadaInventors: Ursula Spichiger-Keller, Stephan Spichiger, Jorge Fernando Fernandez-Sanchez
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Patent number: 8114488Abstract: This invention relates to a window designed to prevent or reduce bird collisions therewith. In certain example embodiments, the window may include an insulating glass (IG) window unit having first and second substrates spaced apart from one another, wherein at least one of the substrates supports an ultraviolet (UV) reflecting coating for reflecting UV radiation so that birds are capable of more easily seeing the window. By making the window more visible to birds, bird collisions and thus bird deaths can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Guardian Industries Corp.Inventor: Jemssy Alvarez
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Publication number: 20120034491Abstract: A process for forming a coating system on a turbine engine component comprises the steps of providing a substrate, depositing a thermal barrier coating on the substrate, depositing a reactive with known CMAS reaction kinetics on the thermal barrier coating, and activating the reactive layer prior to the component being placed in service. As a result of the foregoing process, there is provided a turbine engine component which has a substrate, a thermal barrier coating deposited on the substrate, a reactive layer deposited on the thermal barrier coating, which reactive layer has known CMAS reaction kinetics and is activated prior to the turbine engine component entering into service.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Masamichi Hongoh
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Patent number: 8110295Abstract: A process for extracting fluorine from a fluoro-refractory coating includes the steps of providing an article having a fluoro-refractory coating; treating hydrothermally the fluoro-refractory coating at a temperature and for a period time sufficient to liberate a quantity of fluoride from the fluoro-refractory coating; and drying a hydrothermally treated article.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2007Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Mark R. Jaworowski, James T. Beals
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Patent number: 8110297Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to articles supporting photocatalytic layers that also include UV-reflecting underlayers, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the inclusion of a UV-reflecting underlayer surprisingly and unexpectedly results in the reduction of dosing time to enable quick activation of the photocatalytic coating. For example, dosing time may be reduced from a few hours to a few minutes or even seconds in certain example embodiments. The UV-reflecting underlayer may be a single-layer coating or a multi-layer stack.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2009Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Guardian Industries Corp.Inventors: Pramod K. Sharma, Nathan P. Mellott
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Publication number: 20120026456Abstract: An optical article comprising: an optical base material; and a translucent layer that contains TiOx (0<x?2), the translucent layer is formed on the optical base material either directly or via some other layer, and the translucent layer has an argon concentration higher on a surface side of the translucent layer than on an optical base material side of the translucent layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Keiji NISHIMOTO, Takashi NOGUCHI, Hiroyuki SEKI
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Publication number: 20120028075Abstract: A thin film manufacturing method includes placing a substrate in a raw material solution with which a thin film is formed on a first principal plane of the substrate; forming the thin film on the first principal plane of the substrate by applying light to a first principal plane side from a light source; measuring a distance from the first principal plane of the substrate to a liquid surface of the raw material solution by applying light from the light source; and adjusting a position of the substrate in a height direction on the basis of a measurement result obtained at the measuring.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventors: Masahiro YAGI, Eiichi Ohta, Yoshikazu Akiyama, Ryoh Tashiro, Osamu Machida
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Patent number: 8105695Abstract: The present invention relates to a glazing coated with an assembly of thin layers using vacuum deposition, said glazing having reflective properties for infrared radiation, while retaining a high transmission in the visible range, and retaining its properties when subjected to a thermal treatment such as bending/toughening. The glazing comprises one or more silver-based layers and dielectric layers, of which at least one underlying dielectric layer in relation to at least one silver-based layer is a titanium oxide- or oxynitride-based layer such as TiMOx or TiMOxNy, in which M is a metal or a plurality of metals or silicon, wherein these metals or silicon are contained in sufficient atomic proportions to prevent a significant transformation of the crystallographic structure of the previously deposited titanium oxide-based layer under the action of the thermal treatment.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: AGC Glass EuropeInventors: Jean-Michel Depauw, Gaëtan Di Stefano
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Patent number: 8105702Abstract: The invention relates to an indexable insert of hard metal or cermet with a multi-layer surface coating for a machining of objects essentially made of metal or an alloy, in particular those of a polyphase material such as casting alloys and the like. To increase the service life of the tools with optionally improved machining surface, it is provided with a multi-layer coating that the outermost layer or cover layer is formed as an oxide layer, in particular of ?-Al2O3, whereby the layer beneath the cover layer and connected threto is composed of TiN.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2005Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Boehlerit GmbH & Co. KG.Inventors: Reinhard Pitonak, Ronald Weissenbacher
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Patent number: 8105652Abstract: A decomposable thin film comprising a plurality of polyelectrolyte layers of alternating charge, wherein decomposition of the thin film is characterized by degradation of at least a portion of the polyelectrolyte layers.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2006Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Kris C. Wood, Helen F. Chuang, Robert D. Batten, David M. Lynn, Paula T. Hammond Cunningham
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Patent number: 8105981Abstract: This invention provides a thin superconducting oxide film, which can realize a high critical current, and a superconducting member having a high level of electric power resistance. The superconducting member comprises a sapphire R face substrate, a buffer layer formed of grain lumps of an oxide provided on the sapphire R face substrate, and a superconducting layer provided on the buffer layer. The nearest neighbor distance between oxygen atoms in the oxide and the grain diameter of grain lumps of the oxide have been specified. The superconducting member can be used as a member for superconducting filters.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kohei Nakayama, Mutsuki Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20120021195Abstract: An optical member produced from a ceramic in which transparency in each wavelength region can be selectively improved, and a process for producing the optical member. The optical member is obtained by bringing a treatment gas comprising a fluorine atom into contact with an optical material comprising a specific ceramic under conditions according to the specific ceramic to thereby from a fluorinated film capable of improving the transmittance of light having wavelengths in a specific region, on at least some of the surface of the optical material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: STELLA CHEMIFA CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Hashiguchi, Kazutaka Hirano, Akira Mori
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Publication number: 20120021210Abstract: A article made by vacuum deposition, includes a substrate; and a color layer deposited on the substrate, wherein the color layer has an L* value between about 75 to about 80, a a* value between about ?5 to about ?10, and a b* value between about 15 to about 20 in the CIE LAB color space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD.Inventors: HSIN-PEI CHANG, WEN-RONG CHEN, HUAN-WU CHIANG, CHENG-SHI CHEN, CHUANG MA
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Publication number: 20120021252Abstract: Depositing one or more layers of material on a substrate using atomic layer deposition (ALD) followed by surface treating the substrate with radicals of inert gas before subjecting the substrate to further deposition of layers. The radicals of the inert gas appear to change the surface state of the deposited layer to a state more amenable to absorb subsequent source precursor molecules. The radicals of the inert gas disconnect bonding of molecules on the surface of the substrate, and render the molecules on the surface to have dangling bonds. The dangling bonds facilitate absorption of subsequently injected source precursor molecules into the surface. Exposure to the radicals of the inert gas thereby increases the deposition rate and improves the properties of the deposited layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: SYNOS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Sang In LEE
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Patent number: 8101270Abstract: A bonding material for a honeycomb structure comprises inorganic particles in which D90/D10 is from 10 to 500, D10 is 100 ?m or less and D90 is 4 ?m or more, and the D10 and D90 are the values of 10% diameter and 90% diameter from a smaller particle diameter side, respectively, in volume-based integrated fractions of a particle diameter distribution measurement by a laser diffraction/scattering method.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Suguru Kodama, Shuichi Ichikawa, Fumiharu Sato
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Patent number: 8101269Abstract: A porous fired body including a structure that aggregates are bonded by a bonding material, wherein the aggregates include oxide particles having a larger thermal capacity per unit volume than an SiC particle and SiC, the bonding material includes metallic Si, volume ratio of the metallic Si in the whole porous fired body is between 8 and 43% by volume, volume ratio of the particles of the oxide in the whole aggregates is between 14 and 55% by volume, the SiC particles and the oxide particles respectively include one or more particle groups, and an average particle size of each particle group is within a range of between 5 and 100 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2008Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Kawai, Kenji Morimoto
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Patent number: 8101278Abstract: A coated article is provided with an absorbing layer(s). The coating is, in certain example embodiments, designed so that significant changes in visible transmission can be made by adjusting thickness of the absorbing layer without significantly affecting certain other characteristics such as certain color values. Such coated articles may be used monolithically or in the context of insulating glass (IG) units in different embodiments of this invention, and may or may not be heat treated.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Guardian Industries Corp.Inventors: Ronald E. Laird, Carole Laird, legal representative
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Patent number: 8101291Abstract: The present invention relates to coated cutting tool inserts particularly useful for heavy roughing turning operations of very large steel components, such as drive shafts for ships and shafts for wind power plants. The inserts are large with an iC, inscribed circle diameter, of greater than or equal to about 19 mm and a thickness of greater than or equal to about 6 mm with a composition of from about 5 to about 10 wt-% Co, from about 5 to about 12 wt-% cubic carbides or carbonitrides of the metals Ti, Ta and/or Nb, and balance WC with a stratified binder phase enriched surface zone from about 15 to about 40 ?m thick. The inserts have an edge rounding before coating of 35-95 ?m. The coating comprises a first, innermost layer of TiCxNyOz and a total thickness from about 0.1 to about 1.5 ?m, a second layer of TiCxNy with a thickness of from about 4.5 to about 9.5 ?m with columnar grains, a third layer of TiCxNyOz with a thickness of from about 0.3 to about 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Leif Åkesson, Kenneth Westergren
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Publication number: 20120013845Abstract: This invention relates to an optical article having antistatic and antireflection or reflective properties, comprising a substrate having at least one main surface coated with an antireflection or reflective coating, said coating comprising at least one electrically conductive layer comprising at least 30% tin oxide (SnO2) by weight relative to the total weight of the electrically conductive layer, said electrically conductive layer having been deposited by ion-assisted deposition, and said substrate having a water uptake rate equal to or greater than 0.6% by weight relative to the total weight of said substrate, the water uptake rate being measured after predrying said substrate and then storing it for 800 hours in a chamber at 50° C. under 100% relative humidity and at atmospheric pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'OptiquInventors: Dominique Conte, Delphine Passard, Karin Scherer, Jean-Louis Sirjean
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Patent number: 8097344Abstract: An electronic device housing is provided. The electronic device housing includes a substrate, a metallic coating formed on the substrate, and a top paint coating formed on the metallic coating. The top paint coating contains nano-titanium dioxide powder. The top paint coating has a self-cleaning property. It can oxygenize and clean off dust and sweat accumulated on the surface of the electronic device housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., FIH(Hong Kong) LimitedInventors: Chwan-Hwa Chiang, Qi-Jian Du
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Patent number: 8097330Abstract: A transparent conductive multilayer body of the invention comprises a transparent film substrate with a thickness of 2 to 120 ?m; a first transparent dielectric thin film, a second transparent dielectric thin film and a transparent conductive thin film laminated in this order on one side of the transparent film substrate; and a transparent substrate bonded to the other side of the film substrate through a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the second dielectric thin film is made of an inorganic material or a mixture of an organic material and an inorganic material, and the conductive thin film contains a crystalline material in which the content of crystal particles whose maximum particle sizes are at most 300 nm is higher than 50% by area. Such a transparent conductive multilayer body fully satisfies the pen input bending durability for a touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2005Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Tomotake Nashiki, Hidetoshi Yoshitake, Hideo Sugawara
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Patent number: 8097332Abstract: An indexable cutting insert (1) includes a base (8) and a coating layer, wherein the coating layer includes an inner sublayer and an outer sublayer, each of subsublayer constituting the inner sublayer is composed of a compound containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of Group IVa elements, Group Va elements, Group VIa elements in the periodic table, Al, and Si, the outer sublayer is an alumina sublayer or a sublayer containing aluminum, and in portions of the outer sublayer participating in cutting, when an average thickness on the flank face (3) side is represented by A ?m and an average thickness on the rake face (2) side is represented by B ?m, A/B?0.95.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.Inventors: Naoya Omori, Yoshio Okada, Minoru Itoh, Susumu Okuno, Shinya Imamura
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Publication number: 20120009840Abstract: Disclosed are certain partially fluorinated amide compounds and composite materials containing the compounds. Also disclosed are methods for making the composite materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Keith Ward Hutchenson, Anilkumar Raghavanpillai, Stefan Reinartz
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Publication number: 20120009834Abstract: An architectural membrane assembly including an interior membrane layer having a first inner surface, an exterior membrane layer having a second inner surface, an aerogel material disposed between the interior membrane layer and the exterior membrane layer, wherein the first and second inner surfaces are adjacent to the aerogel material and a vapor barrier deposited on one of the first and second inner surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: Birdair, Inc.Inventors: Martin J. AUGUSTYNIAK, Thomas D. MCCOY
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Patent number: 8092916Abstract: An FeO layer including fine crystal grains having random orientation is formed as inner layer scale on the surface of the steel wire rod containing C: 0.05-1.2 mass % (hereinafter referred to as “%”), Si: 0.01-0.50%, Mn: 0.1-1.5%, P: 0.02% or below, S: 0.02% or below, N: 0.005% or below, an Fe2SiO4 layer with the thickness: 0.01-1.0 ?m is formed in the boundary face between the FeO layer of the inner layer scale and steel, and the thickness of the inner layer scale is 1-40% of the total scale thickness. In another aspect, the maximum grain size of the crystal grain of the inner layer scale is 5.0 ?m or below and the average grain size is 2.0 ?m or below.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Mikako Takeda, Shohei Nakakubo, Takashi Onishi, Masumi Nishimura, Hidenori Sakai, Tomotada Maruo
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Patent number: 8092929Abstract: An optical element is configured to have a base composed of a LuAg substrate having a refractive index of 2.14±0.01 for a wavelength of 193 nm and an antireflection film formed on the base, and the optical element being configured to contact a liquid having a refractive index of 1.64±0.01 for the wavelength of 193 nm. The antireflection film includes a high refractive index layer that is formed on the base, contains Al2O3 having a refractive index of 1.87 to 1.92 for the wavelength of 193 nm, and has an optical film thickness of 0.21? to 0.34? for a design center wavelength ? of 193 nm and a low refractive index layer that is closer to the liquid than the high refractive index layer, contains Al2O3 having a refractive index equal to or smaller than 1.78 but larger than the refractive index of the liquid for the wavelength of 193 nm, and has an optical film thickness of 0.29? to 0.52? at the design center wavelength ?.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Keisui Banno
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Patent number: 8092928Abstract: The disclosed invention relates to a reinforced ceramic refractory made from an as-batched composition comprising alumina; a rare earth oxide; an oxide of a transition metal comprising Sc, Zn, Ga, Y, Cd, In, Sn, Tl or a mixture of two or more thereof; and chopped ceramic fibers containing nanofibrils; the refractory exhibiting a modulus of rupture measured at 2500° F. (1371° C.) of at least about 2500 psi, as determined by the test method ASTM C583. A process for making the reinforced ceramic refractory is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Stanton Advanced Ceramics, Inc.Inventors: Karl-Heinz Schofalvi, Evelyn McGee DeLiso
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Patent number: 8092917Abstract: A gas-barrier laminate comprises a plastic substrate (A), an inorganic thin film (B) formed on at least one surface of the plastic substrate (A), and a polyester-based resin layer (C) formed by applying a coating material containing a polyester-based resin on a surface of the inorganic thin film (B), wherein the polyester-based resin has a glass transition temperature of 50 to 70° C., a molecular weight of 1500 to 15000 and a hydroxyl value of 10 to 60 mg KOH/g, and the gas-barrier laminate has an oxygen permeability of not more than 5 cc/m2/day/atm and a water vapor permeability of not more than 5 g/m2/day.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2004Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.Inventors: Shigenobu Yoshida, Tooru Hachisuka, Chiharu Okawara
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Publication number: 20120003502Abstract: Provided are an organic solvent dispersion of titanium oxide containing at least titanium oxide fine particles each having an average primary particle diameter of 3 nm or more to 50 nm or less; a titanate-based surface treatment agent formed of a compound represented by the following general formula (1): (R1O)m—Ti—Xn ??(1) where R1 represents a methyl, ethyl, or isopropyl group; X represents —O—SO2—R2 or —O—P(OH)O—O—PHO—O—R2; R2 represents an alkyl or aryl group having 1 to 16 carbon atoms; m represents a numerical value of 1 or more to 3 or less, and n represents a numerical value of 1 or more to 3 or less, provided that m+n=4; a polyether-based dispersant; and an alcohol-based solvent, and an optical material containing the organic solvent dispersion of titanium oxide and a resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidefumi Iwasa, Shigeo Kiso, Terunobu Saitoh
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Patent number: 8088502Abstract: A durable coating made up of superimposed microlayers of preselected materials, and a method of making and utilizing such a coating. In one embodiment of the invention, at least 200 microlayers of at least one transparent material, having a thickness of less than 50 nms are superimposed in a sequential manner so as to obtain a desired arrangement between the layers. This structure then forms a transparent coating that has strength characteristics that are substantially greater than the strength of a layer of the coating material alone.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2007Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Peter M. Martin, Charles H. Henager, Jr., Wendy D. Bennett, Ralph E. Williford
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Patent number: 8088503Abstract: A superconducting article includes a substrate having an untextured metal surface; an untextured barrier layer of La2Zr2O7 or Gd2Zr2O7 supported by and in contact with the surface of the substrate; a biaxially textured buffer layer supported by the untextured barrier layer; and a biaxially textured superconducting layer supported by the biaxially textured buffer layer. Moreover, a method of forming a buffer layer on a metal substrate includes the steps of: providing a substrate having an untextured metal surface; coating the surface of the substrate with a barrier layer precursor; converting the precursor to an untextured barrier layer; and depositing a biaxially textured buffer layer above and supported by the untextured barrier layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignees: UT-Battelle, LLC, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, Srivatsan Sathyamurthy, Tolga Aytug, Paul N Arendt, Liliana Stan, Stephen R Foltyn
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Patent number: 8088232Abstract: Molybdenum, sputtering targets and sintering characterized as having no or minimal texture banding or through thickness gradient. The molybdenum sputtering targets having a fine, uniform grain size as well as uniform texture, are high purity and can be micro-alloyed to improved performance. The sputtering targets can be round discs, square, rectangular or tubular and can be sputtered to form thin films on substrates. By using a segment-forming method, the size of the sputtering target can be up to 6 m×5.5 m. The thin films can be used in electronic components such as Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Displays, Plasma Display Panels, Organic Light Emitting Diodes, Inorganic Light Emitting Diode Displays, Field Emitting Displays, solar cells, sensors, semiconductor devices, and gate device for CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) with tunable work functions.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2005Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: H.C. Starck Inc.Inventors: Brad Lemon, Joseph Hirt, Timothy Welling, James G. Daily, III, David Meendering, Gary Rozak, Jerome O'Grady, Peter R. Jepson, Prabhat Kumar, Steven A. Miller, Richard Wu, Davd G. Schwarz
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Publication number: 20110318544Abstract: In a method of fabricating a flexible display panel, a rigid substrate is provided. A flexible substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface is provided. A plurality of releasing-regions are formed on the first surface, and bonding strength of an area outside the releasing-regions is greater than bonding strength of the releasing-regions. An adhesive layer is formed between the rigid substrate and the first surface of the flexible substrate. A plurality of display units are formed on the second surface, and each of the display units is located over one of the releasing-regions, respectively. The flexible substrate is patterned to obtain a plurality of flexible carriers, and each of the flexible carriers carries one of the display units, respectively. The flexible carriers and the adhesive layer are de-bonded.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Cheng-Chung Chen, Keh-Long Hwu, Chih-Jen Hu
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Patent number: 8084082Abstract: Provided is an optical member capable of keeping a high performance antireflection effect over a long period of time with respect to an arbitrary substrate. The optical member has plural layers on a substrate, and includes at least one metal oxide layer having a void, and at least one layer containing an organic resin as a main component formed between the substrate and the metal oxide layer. The metal oxide layer is a plate crystal layer formed of a plate crystal containing aluminum oxide as a main component and a surface of the plate crystal layer has an uneven profile. The organic resin has an aromatic ring and/or a hetero ring in at least a part thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomonari Nakayama, Masayuki Yamada
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Patent number: 8084382Abstract: There is described a Ceramic Powder, a Ceramic Layer and a Layer System with Pyrochlore Phase and Oxides. Besides a good thermal insulation property, thermal insulation layer systems must also have a long lifetime of the thermal insulation layer. A described layer system has a layer sequence of a metallic bonding layer, an inner ceramic layer and an outer ceramic layer, which are specially matched to one another.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2008Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Ramesh Subramanian
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Publication number: 20110311805Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool having a substrate base body and a single or multi-layered coating attached thereupon, wherein at least one layer of the coating is a metal oxide layer produced in the PVD process or in the CVD process and the metal oxide layer has a grain structure wherein there is structural disorder within a plurality of the existing grains that are characterized in that in electron diffraction images of the grains, point-shaped reflections occur up to a maximum lattice spacing dGRENZ and for lattice spacing greater than dGRENZ no point-shaped reflections occur, but rather a diffuse intensity distribution typical for amorphous structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2010Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: WALTER AGInventors: Veit Schier, Oliver Eibl, Wolfgang Engelhart
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Publication number: 20110311828Abstract: Provided are a thin film transistor substrate having a transparent electroconductive film in which residues and so on resulting etching are hardly generated; a process for producing the same; and a liquid crystal display using this thin film transistor substrate. A thin film transistor substrate, comprising a transparent substrate, a source electrode formed over the transparent substrate, a drain electrode formed over the transparent substrate, and a transparent pixel electrode formed over the transparent substrate, wherein the transparent pixel electrode is a transparent electroconductive film which is made mainly of indium oxide, and further comprises one or two or more oxides selected from tungsten oxide, molybdenum oxide, nickel oxide and niobium oxide, and the transparent pixel electrode is electrically connected to the source electrode or the drain electrode; a process for producing the same; and a liquid crystal display using this thin film transistor substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Inventors: Kazuyoshi INOUE, Shigekazu TOMAI, Masato MATSUBARA
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Patent number: 8080323Abstract: A coated cutting insert for use in a chip-forming material removal operation wherein the coated cutting insert includes a substrate that has a flank surface and a rake surface and the flank surface intersects the rake surface to form a cutting edge at the intersection. There is a wear-resistant coating scheme that adheres to at least a portion of the substrate. The wear-resistant coating scheme includes one or more coating layers of one or more of alumina, hafnia and zirconia. There is a wear indicating coating that adheres to at least a portion of the wear-resistant coating scheme. The wear indicating coating includes M(OxCyNz) wherein M is selected from the group comprising one or more of the following titanium, hafnium, zirconium, chromium, titanium-aluminum alloy, hafnium-aluminum alloy, zirconium-aluminum alloy, chromium-aluminum alloy, and their alloys, and x>0, y?0, z?0 and y+z>0.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Zhigang Ban, Mark J. Rowe, Yixiong Liu, Alfred S. Gates, Jr., Kent P. Mizgalski, Mark S. Greenfield
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Patent number: 8080182Abstract: The oxide sintered body mainly consists of gallium, indium, and oxygen, and a content of the gallium is more than 65 at. % and less than 100 at. % with respect to all metallic elements, and the density of the sintered body is 5.0 g/cm3 or more. The oxide film is obtained using the oxide sintered body as a sputtering target, and the shortest wavelength of the light where the light transmittance of the film itself except the substrate becomes 50% is 320 nm or less. The transparent base material is obtained by forming the oxide film on one surface or both surfaces of a glass plate, a quartz plate, a resin plate or resin film where one surface or both surfaces are covered by a gas barrier film, or on one surface or both surfaces of a transparent plate selected from a resin plate or a resin film where the gas barrier film is inserted in the inside.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tokuyuki Nakayama, Yoshiyuki Abe
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Patent number: 8080312Abstract: A coated body that includes a substrate and a coating scheme on the substrate. The coating scheme includes a CVD titanium carbonitride coating layer containing titanium carbonitride grains that are of a pre-selected grain size. The coating scheme further includes a first titanium/aluminum-containing coating layer containing first titanium/aluminum-containing grains applied so as to be farther away from the substrate than the titanium carbonitride coating layer. The first titanium/aluminum-containing grains are of a pre-selected grain size. The coating scheme also includes a CVD alumina coating layer containing alumina grains applied so as to be farther away from the substrate than the first titanium/aluminum-containing coating layer. The alumina grains are of a pre-selected grain size.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2006Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Charles G. McNerny, Pankaj K. Mehrotra, Alfred S. Gates, Jr., Peter R. Leicht
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Patent number: 8076005Abstract: High density oxide films are deposited by a pulsed-DC, biased, reactive sputtering process from a titanium containing target to form high quality titanium containing oxide films. A method of forming a titanium based layer or film according to the present invention includes depositing a layer of titanium containing oxide by pulsed-DC, biased reactive sputtering process on a substrate. In some embodiments, the layer is TiO2. In some embodiments, the layer is a sub-oxide of Titanium. In some embodiments, the layer is TixOy wherein x is between about 1 and about 4 and y is between about 1 and about 7. In some embodiments, the layer can be doped with one or more rare-earth ions. Such layers are useful in energy and charge storage, and energy conversion technologies.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: SpringWorks, LLCInventors: Richard E. Demaray, Hong Mei Zhang, Mukundan Narasimhan, Vassiliki Milonopoulou