O-containing Patents (Class 428/702)
  • Patent number: 8778502
    Abstract: A glass ceramic composition includes a SrZrO3 ceramic, a Li2O—MgO—ZnO—B2O3—SiO2-based glass, Mg2SiO4 in an amount of about 5 to 40 weight percent, and a SrTiO3 ceramic in an amount in the range of about 0 to about 6 weight percent of the total. The Li2O—MgO—ZnO—B2O3—SiO2-based glass accounts for about 1 to about 12 weight percent of the total.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Sugimoto, Sadaaki Sakamoto, Hiroshige Adachi
  • Patent number: 8778514
    Abstract: A transparent dielectric composition comprising tin, oxygen and one of aluminum or magnesium with preferably higher than 15% by weight of aluminum or magnesium offers improved thermal stability over tin oxide with respect to appearance and optical properties under high temperature processes. For example, upon a heat treatment at temperatures higher than 500 C, changes in color and index of refraction of the present transparent dielectric composition are noticeably less than those of tin oxide films of comparable thickness. The transparent dielectric composition can be used in high transmittance, low emissivity coated panels, providing thermal stability so that there are no significant changes in the coating optical and structural properties, such as visible transmission, IR reflectance, microscopic morphological properties, color appearance, and haze characteristics, of the as-coated and heated treated products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: Intermolecular, Inc., Guardian Industries Corporation
    Inventors: Minh Huu Le, Zhi-Wen Sun, Guowen Ding, Mohd Hassan, Sandeep Jaggi, Muhammad Imran, Jingyu Lao, Yiwei Lu, Richard Blacker
  • Patent number: 8778513
    Abstract: An article including a perovskite manganese (Mn) oxide thin film, includes a substrate having an oriented perovskite structure that is (m10) oriented, where 19?m?2, and having an [100] axis direction; and a perovskite manganese (Mn) oxide thin film having a perovskite crystal lattice containing barium Ba and a rare earth element Ln in A sites of the perovskite crystal lattice, the perovskite manganese (Mn) oxide thin film being formed on the substrate so as to cover at least part of a surface of the substrate, and having atomic planes stacked in a pattern of LnO—MnO2—BaO—MnO2-LnO . . . in the [100] axis direction of the substrate. The perovskite manganese (Mn) oxide thin film provided thoroughly exploits the resistance changes caused by charge and orbital ordering in the perovskite manganese oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasushi Ogimoto
  • Publication number: 20140191137
    Abstract: An element having an immersible portion for contact with an aqueous liquid, the immersible portion having a contact surface for contact with the aqueous liquid, the contact surface configured to have strong acidity, a radiation (e.g., ultraviolet radiation) source assembly, a radiation (e.g., ultraviolet radiation) source module and a fluid (e.g., water) treatment system incorporating this element applicable to any surface in contact with fluid that is susceptible to build-up of fouling materials. The embodiments obviates or mitigates the rate of accumulation of fouling on surfaces in contact with aqueous solution, such as the protective (e.g., quartz) sleeves in an ultraviolet radiation fluid treatment system, by modifying at least a portion of the surface of those sleeves in contact with fluid (e.g., water) to have an inherent strong surface acidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: TROJAN TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: William Kevin O'Keefe
  • Publication number: 20140185202
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising a cover plate is disclosed. The cover plate comprises one or more sapphire layers, wherein at least one of the layers has a low level of inclusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventor: Kurt Schmid
  • Patent number: 8758889
    Abstract: Disclosed is a gas barrier film comprising a substrate film, an organic layer and an inorganic layer provided directly on the surface of the organic layer, wherein the organic layer laid under the inorganic layer has a thickness of from 0.3 ?m to 10 ?m; the organic layer laid under the inorganic layer has a hardness, measured by the nanoindentation, of 0.03 to 0.5 GPa; and the organic layer laid under the inorganic layer, assumed to have a thickness “a”, and the inorganic layer on the organic layer, assumed to have a thickness “b”, satisfying a relation of a/b>10. The gas barrier film is excellent in the barrier performance, adhesiveness, bending resistance and scratch resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoo Murakami
  • Patent number: 8758908
    Abstract: Aqueous precursor solutions are described that comprise at least one monazite-based material precursor, at least one xenotime-based material precursor or a combination thereof; and a plurality of fine suspended particles of an oxide material. Contemplated oxide composites, as described herein, comprise a plurality of fibers surrounded by at least one monazite or xenotime-based material, wherein the oxide composite has nearly a fully dense matrix. Contemplated embodiments disclosed herein provides a method for producing an oxide composite with nearly fully dense matrix and with all fibers surrounded by a monazite- or xenotime-based material that prevents embrittlement at temperatures at least as high as 1200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC
    Inventors: David B. Marshall, Janet B. Davis, Peter E. D. Morgan
  • Patent number: 8758907
    Abstract: Provided is a surface coated cutting tool in which a hard coating layer exhibits excellent chipping resistance in high-speed intermittent cutting processes. In the surface coated cutting tool having the hard coating layer including a lower layer (Ti compound layer) and an upper layer (Al2O3 layer) formed by vapor-deposition on the surface of the cutting tool body constituted by a WC-based cemented carbide or TiCN-based cermet, the ratio b/a of the number a of crystal grains in the Ti compound layer present in the interface to which the lower layer and the upper layer are adjacent to the number b of crystal grains in the Al2O3 layer is 4?b/a?20, and, furthermore, the average grain diameter of crystal grains in the Ti compound layer immediately below the Al2O3 layer is 0.5 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Igarashi, Kohei Tomita, Eiji Nakamura, Akira Osada
  • Patent number: 8758899
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dense-coverage, adherent phosphorous-based coating on the native oxide surface of a material. Disclosed phosphorous-based coatings include phosphate and organo-phosphonate coatings. The present invention also provides further derivatization of the phosphorous-based coatings to yield dense surface coverage of chemically reactive coatings and osetoblast adhesion-promoting and proliferation-promoting coatings on the native oxide surface of a titanium material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventors: Jeffrey Schwartz, Michael J. Avaltroni, Kim S. Midwood, Jean E. Schwarzbauer, Ellen Gawalt
  • Patent number: 8753758
    Abstract: A low emissivity and EMI shielding transparent composite film typically for use in association with window glazing and comprising a transparent film substrate having on one side thereof an underlayer of abrasion resistant hardcoat material with at least one infrared reflective layer covering the underlayer, typically a metallic layer which may be encased in metal oxide layers, which is then covered with a thin external protective top coat of a cured fluorinated resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: CPFilms Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Nicholas Van Nutt, James Peyton Enniss, Jaime Antonio Li, Anthony Brian Port, Scott Evan Pickett, Jeremy B. Stegall, Coby Lee Hubbard, Rita Maxine Phillips, Steven Allen Barth
  • Patent number: 8753987
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a metal oxide film to be formed through the following processes: a coating process of forming a coating film on a substrate by using a coating liquid for forming metal oxide film containing any of various organometallic compounds; a drying process of making the coating film into a dried coating film; and a heating process of forming an inorganic film from the dried coating film under an oxygen-containing atmosphere having a dew-point temperature equal to or lower than ?10° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Yukinobu, Yuki Murayama, Takahito Nagano, Yoshihiro Otsuka
  • Patent number: 8753749
    Abstract: Provided are a thermal expansion suppressing member having negative thermal expansion properties and a metal-based anti-thermally-expansive member having small thermal expansion. More specifically, provided are a thermal expansion suppressing member, including at least an oxide represented by the following general formula (1), and an anti-thermally-expansive member, including a metal having a positive linear expansion coefficient at 20° C., and a solid body including at least an oxide represented by the following general formula (1), the metal and solid being joined to each other: (Bi1-xMx)NiO3 (1) where M represents at least one metal selected from the group consisting of La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Y, and In; and x represents a numerical value of 0.02?x?0.15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Kyoto University
    Inventors: Makoto Kubota, Kaoru Miura, Hisato Yabuta, Yoshihiko Matsumura, Yuichi Shimakawa, Masaki Azuma
  • Patent number: 8747998
    Abstract: A coated article is described. The coated article includes an aluminum or aluminum alloy substrate and a compound corrosion resistant layer formed on the substrate. The compound corrosion resistant layer includes a plurality of first non-crystalline films and an equal number of second non-crystalline films. Each the first non-crystalline film interleaves with each the second non-crystalline film. The first non-crystalline film is an aluminum nitride film or an aluminum oxide film. The second non-crystalline film is a silicon nitride film or a silicon dioxide film. A method for making the coated article is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin-Pei Chang, Wen-Rong Chen, Huann-Wu Chiang, Cheng-Shi Chen, Nan Ma
  • Patent number: 8748006
    Abstract: The invention relates to a slide bearing composite material having at least one carrier layer and a sintered bearing metal layer. The sintered bearing metal layer is designed in at least one layer region as a gradient layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Wiesbaden GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Schmitt, Thomas Enghof, Daniel Meister
  • Patent number: 8741428
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool according to the present invention includes a base material and a coating film formed on the base material. The coating film includes at least one TiCN layer. The TiCN layer has a columnar crystal region. The columnar crystal region is characterized by having a composition of TiCxNy(in which 0.65?x/(x+y)?0.90), having a (422) plane having a plane spacing of 0.8765 ? to 0.8790 ? and having TC (220) showing a maximum value in an orientation index TC (hkl).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Anongsack Paseuth, Yoshio Okada, Chikako Kojima, Hideaki Kanaoka, Erika Iwai, Hiroyuki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 8741451
    Abstract: A crystal foundation having dislocations is used to obtain a crystal film of low dislocation density, a crystal substrate, and a semiconductor device. One side of a growth substrate (11) is provided with a crystal layer (13) with a buffer layer (12) in between. The crystal layer (13) has spaces (13a), (13b) in an end of each threading dislocation D1 elongating from below. The threading dislocation D1 is separated from the upper layer by the spaces (13a), (13b), so that each threading dislocation D1 is blocked from propagating to the upper layer. When the displacement of the threading dislocation D1 expressed by Burgers vector is preserved to develop another dislocation, the spaces (13a), (13b) vary the direction of its displacement. As a result, the upper layer above the spaces (13a), (13b) turns crystalline with a low dislocation density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Etsuo Morita, Yousuke Murakami, Goshi Biwa, Hiroyuki Okuyama, Masato Doi, Toyoharu Oohata
  • Patent number: 8741436
    Abstract: A window glass with a conductive ceramic fired body includes at least one glass plate having main surfaces, and the conductive ceramic fired body including a feeding point and a linear portion which is disposed on either one of the main surfaces of the glass plate, at least a part of the linear portion being placed in a visible region of the window glass and formed by successively laminating a first colored layer, a conductor layer and a second colored layer on the main surface, wherein the first colored layer and the second colored layer each include a pigment and a glass component, and the conductor layer includes silver and the glass component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Ono, Yota Yano
  • Patent number: 8741437
    Abstract: Substrate with Antimicrobial Properties An antimicrobial substrate (glass, ceramic or metallic) coated on at least one of its surface with at least one mixed layer deposited by a sputtering under vacuum magnetically enhanced process is described. The layer comprising at least one antimicrobial agent mixed to binder material chosen amongst the metal oxides, oxynitrides, oxycarbides or nitrides. This substrate present antimicrobial properties, in particular bactericidal activity even when no thermal treatment has been applied. If a tempered and antimicrobial glass is required, the same co-sputtering process can be used, optionally an underlayer can be added. Antimicrobial properties are maintained even after a tempering process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: AGC Glass Europe
    Inventors: Georges Pilloy, Andre Hecq, Kadosa Hevesi, Nadia Jacobs
  • Patent number: 8741425
    Abstract: The present invention provides an all ceramics solid oxide cell, comprising an anode layer, a cathode layer, and an electrolyte layer sandwiched between the anode layer and the cathode layer, wherein the electrolyte layer comprises doped zirconia and has a thickness of from 40 to 300 ?m; wherein the anode layer and the cathode layer both comprise doped ceria or both comprise doped zirconia; and wherein the multilayer structure formed of the anode layer, the electrolyte layer and the cathode layer is a symmetrical structure. The present invention further provides a method of producing said solid oxide cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Technical University of Denmark
    Inventor: Peter Halvor Larsen
  • Patent number: 8741419
    Abstract: Disclosed is a nanocarbon material-composite substrate including a substrate, a three-dimensional structural pattern formed on the substrate, and a nanocarbon material formed on a surface of the substrate, wherein the nanocarbon material is disposed at least on side surfaces of the three-dimensional structural pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidenori Gamo, Yoshihiro Kodama, Akira Tamura
  • Publication number: 20140147615
    Abstract: A multilayer thermal insulation composite for fire protection applications. The composite includes a fibrous insulation layer, at least one inorganic heat absorbing layer disposed on one side of the fibrous insulation layer, and at least one superinsulation layer disposed on at least one side of the composite adjacent the heat absorbing layer or the fibrous insulation layer. The composite may further include a scrim layer comprising a high temperature resistant, flexible, woven or non-woven scrim or scrim and high temperature resistant material disposed around the multilayer thermal insulation composite partially or substantially totally encapsulating the composite. The composite is lightweight and flexible, exhibits reduced heat transfer to the cold-face, with improved thermal insulation capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: UNIFRAX I LLC
    Inventors: Joseph A. FERNANDO, Kennth B. MILLER
  • Publication number: 20140147698
    Abstract: Provided is a novel composite optical material with which positive abnormal dispersion can be obtained. The optical material includes a matrix material and inorganic fine particles, and the inorganic fine particles contain at least indium phosphorus oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori YOGO, Shinya HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 8734954
    Abstract: A transparent porous SiO2-coating for a transparent substrate material has improved optical properties. These properties can be obtained, in particular, by plasma treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Florian Eder
  • Publication number: 20140141264
    Abstract: An interlayer configured for a composite substrate surface, the interlayer having a higher concentration of at least one first chemical element at the interface of the substrate surface and the innermost interlayer surface and a higher concentration of at least one second chemical element at the outermost interlayer surface is disclosed. Methods of forming the interlayer and providing functional properties to said composites are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: The Boeing Company
  • Publication number: 20140141257
    Abstract: Forming and depositing a high temperature inorganic coating on a polymeric composite substrate surfaces having deposited thereon an interlayer, and articles produce therefrom. Methods of providing functional properties to said composites are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: THE BOEING COMPANY
  • Patent number: 8728636
    Abstract: A low-e insulating glass unit has a suspended, coated IR reflecting polymer sheet under tension, e.g. from heat shrinkage. The polymer sheet is coated with a multilayer stack of dielectric and metallic layers, including at least one silver layer deposited upon a zinc oxide seed layer that is at most 15 nm thickness. The use of zinc oxide ensures good seeding for high quality silver layer growth, thereby providing low emissivity. The thinness of the zinc oxide ensures that it resists cracking when the polymer sheet is tensioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Southwall Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Ronny Kleinhempel, Julius G. Kozak, Roland C. Thielsch, Richard T. Wipfler, Christian H. Stoessel, Lee C. Boman
  • Patent number: 8728634
    Abstract: A transparency includes a substrate having a first major surface and a second major surface. A first coating is provided over at least a portion of the first major surface, the first coating including one or more metal oxide layers. A second coating is provided over at least a portion of the second major surface, the second coating including one or more metallic layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Medwick, James P. Thiel, Andrew V. Wagner
  • Patent number: 8728635
    Abstract: An oxide sintered body having zinc oxide as a main component and containing magnesium, and a transparent conductive substrate are provided, and an oxide sintered body having zinc oxide and magnesium, wherein content of magnesium is from 0.02 to 0.30 as atom number ratio of Mg/(Zn+Mg); an oxide sintered body having zinc oxide, magnesium, gallium and/or aluminum, wherein content of gallium and/or aluminum is over 0 and equal to or lower than 0.09 as atom number ratio of (Ga+Al)/(Zn+Ga+Al), and content of magnesium is from 0.02 to 0.30 as atom number ratio of Mg/(Zn+Ga+Al+Mg); a target obtained by processing these oxide sintered bodies; and a transparent conductive film formed on a substrate by a sputtering method or an ion plating method, by using this target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tokuyuki Nakayama, Yoshiyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 8728967
    Abstract: This invention relates to high purity yttria or ytterbia stabilized zirconia powders comprising from about 0 to about 0.15 weight percent impurity oxides, from about 0 to about 2 weight percent hafnium oxide (hafnia), from about 6 to about 25 weight percent yttrium oxide (yttria) or from about 10 to about 36 weight percent ytterbium oxide (ytterbia), and the balance zirconium oxide (zirconia). Thermal barrier coatings for protecting a component such as blades, vanes and seal surfaces of gas turbine engines, made from the high purity yttria or ytterbia stabilized zirconia powders, have a density greater than 88% of the theoretical density with a plurality of vertical macrocracks homogeneously dispersed throughout the coating to improve its thermal fatigue resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Praxair S.T. Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Alan Taylor, Danny Lee Appleby, Albert Feuerstein, Ann Bolcavage, Neil Hitchman, James Munroe
  • Patent number: 8728615
    Abstract: A new transparent conductive laminated thin film is provided which not only has a high transmittance of light in the visible region and a low surface resistance (6-500?/?), but also combines high transmittances of light in the visible region of short wavelengths of 380-400 nm and the near-ultraviolet region of shorter wavelengths of 300-380 nm. The transparent conductive film has a lamination structure that the surfaces of the metallic thin film 11 are coated with the transparent oxide thin films 10 and 12. Each of the transparent oxide thin film 10 and 12 is an amorphous oxide thin film chiefly composed of gallium, indium, and oxygen or composed of gallium and oxygen, and the gallium content of each transparent oxide thin film ranges from 35 at. % to 100 at. % with respect to all metallic atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tokuyuki Nakayama, Yoshiyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 8721336
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-colored shaped body having layers arranged on top of one another for producing dental restorations, a process for its production and its use for the manufacture of dental restorations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Volker M. Rheinberger, Marcel Schweiger, Robert Kruse, Harald Kerschbaumer
  • Patent number: 8722179
    Abstract: A substrate comprises a first mark and a second mark. The first mark comprises a first pattern with at least one mark feature formed by a first material and at least one further region formed by a second material. The first and second materials have different material characteristics with respect to a chemical-mechanical polishing process such that a step height in a direction substantially perpendicular to the surface of the substrate may be created by applying the chemical-mechanical polishing process. The second mark can be provided with a second step height by applying the chemical-mechanical polishing process. The second step height is substantially different from the first step height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Richard Johannes Franciscus Van Haren, Bartolomeus Petrus Rijpers, Harminder Singh, Gerald Arthur Finken
  • Patent number: 8722210
    Abstract: The present invention relates to low emissivity glass and to a method for manufacturing the same. The low emissivity glass comprises: a low emissivity layer; and a dielectric layer formed on the low emissivity layer, wherein the glass has an emissivity of 0.01 to 0.3 and a visible transmittance of 70% or more. According to the present invention, low emissivity glass having good emissive performance while also exhibiting high visible transmittance can be provided. Further, according to the present invention, the manufacturing process for the above-described low emissivity glass can be simplified, and initial investment amount can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: LG Hausys, Ltd.
    Inventors: Youn-Ki Jun, Keum-Shil Cho, Il Joon Bae, Sung Seock Hwang
  • Patent number: 8715839
    Abstract: An electrical component provides a ceramic element located on or in a dielectric substrate between and in contact with a pair of electrical conductors, wherein the ceramic element includes one or more metal oxides having fluctuations in metal-oxide compositional uniformity less than or equal to 1.5 mol % throughout the ceramic element. A method of fabricating an electrical component, provides or forming a ceramic element between and in contact with a pair of electrical conductors on a substrate including depositing a mixture of metalorganic precursors and causing simultaneous decomposition of the metal oxide precursors to form the ceramic element including one or more metal oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventor: L. Pierre de Rochemont
  • Patent number: 8715823
    Abstract: There are disclosed a piezoelectric thin film having less non-uniform portions and holding satisfactory piezoelectric characteristics, a method of manufacturing the film, a piezoelectric element using the piezoelectric thin film, and an ink jet system recording head using the piezoelectric element. In the piezoelectric thin film of perovskite crystals formed on a substrate by a sol-gel process and represented by a general formula Pb(1-x)Lax(ZryTi1-y)O3 (where 0?x<1, 0.05?y?1), a film thickness of the thin film is 1000 nm or more and 4000 nm or less, and a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of y in an arbitrary portion of the thin film is 0.05 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Fuji Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kubota, Motokazu Kobayashi, Shinji Eritate, Fumio Uchida, Kenji Maeda, Chiemi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8715838
    Abstract: Wear resistance and chipping resistance are both highly established for a surface-coated cutting tool. The surface-coated cutting tool of the present invention includes a base material and a coat film formed on the base material. A first coat layer at a chamfer portion has residual stress that exhibits a minimal value at a depth A within 2 ?m from the surface, and that is greater than or equal to ?7 GPa and less than or equal to ?1 GPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okada, Minoru Itoh, Hideaki Kanaoka, Chie Suzuki, Anongsack Paseuth
  • Patent number: 8715811
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vanadium oxide thin film pattern which is fabricated by using APTS (3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane, H2NC3H5Si(OCH3)3) or the like to prepare an APTS-SAM or the like on the surface of a substrate, irradiating this APTS-SAM with vacuum ultraviolet light through a photomask to thereby modify amino-terminal silanes into silanol groups in the exposed area, and then depositing vanadium oxide in a liquid phase using a patterned self-assembled monolayer having the amino-terminated silane surface and silanol group surface as a template for patterning the vanadium oxide, to a method of fabricating the same, and to a vanadium oxide device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yoshitake Masuda, Kunihito Koumoto
  • Patent number: 8715817
    Abstract: A low-expansion glass ceramic plate, in which a black coating is applied directly or indirectly to at least some areas of at least one side of the plate and the coating contains precious metal. In order to produce a glass ceramic plate of this type that is opaque, while simultaneously retaining a sufficient degree of its thermal stability, according to this invention, the precious metal content in the coating is ?50 wt. %, the bismuth oxide content in the coating is at most 20 wt. %, and the layer thickness of the coating is at least 200 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Harald Striegler, Otmar Becker
  • Patent number: 8709962
    Abstract: Provided is an anti-reductive high-frequency ceramic dielectric material sintered at low temperature and matched with copper internal electrode, which can be used for producing multi-layer ceramic capacitor with a copper internal electrode. The ceramic dielectric material consists of main crystalline phase, modifying additive and sintering flux. The formula of the main crystalline phase is MgxBa(1-x)ZrySi(1-y)O3, wherein 0.8?x?0.95, 0.05?y?0.2. The modifying additive is one or more of MnO2, CaO, Li2O, Bi2O3 and TiO2, and the sintering flux is one or more of B2O3, SiO2, ZnO, CuO, K2O and BaO. The ceramic dielectric material meets the requirements of COG characteristics by EIA standard, has such characteristics as uniform particle size distribution, high dispersiveness, optimized molding process, eco-friendliness and excellent dielectric properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Guangdong Fenghua Advanced Technology Holding Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beibei Song, Yongsheng Song, Fangce Mo, Juan Li, Xiaoguo Wang, Jinghua Guo
  • Patent number: 8709960
    Abstract: Provided here is a method of producing a monolithic body from a porous matrix, comprising: (i) providing a porous matrix having interstitial spaces and comprising at least a first reactant; (ii) contacting the porous matrix with an infiltrating medium that carries at least a second reactant; (iii) allowing the infiltrating medium to infiltrate at least a portion of the interstitial spaces of the porous matrix under conditions that promote a reaction between the at least first reactant and the at least second reactant to provide at least a first product; and (iv) allowing the at least first product to form and fill at least a portion of the interstitial spaces of the porous matrix, thereby producing a monolithic body, wherein the monolithic body does not comprise barium titanate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Inventors: Richard E. Riman, Vahit Atakan
  • Patent number: 8709583
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cutting tool comprising a main body and a multi-layer coating applied thereto. To provide improved cutting tools which have increased resistance to comb cracking, tribochemical wear and cratering caused thereby the main body comprises a hard metal which includes 5 to 8% by weight of Co, 0 to 2% by weight of TaC, 0 to 1% by weight of NbC and 89 to 95% by weight of WC with a mean grain size of 1 to 5 ?m, and the coating has a first layer of TiAlN having a layer thickness of 1 to 5 ?m, and a second layer of aluminum oxide having a layer thickness of 1 to 4 ?m, wherein the coating further additionally includes on the second layer of aluminum oxide n alternately mutually superposedly applied layers of TiAlN and layers of aluminum oxide respectively having a layer thickness of 0.1 to 0.5 ?m, wherein n relates to each individual layer and is an even number of 0 to 10, and wherein the total layer thickness of the coating is 2 to 16 ?m and the coating is produced in the PVD process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventors: Veit Schier, Jörg Drobniewski
  • Patent number: 8709604
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to Ni-inclusive ternary alloy being provided as a barrier layer for protecting an IR reflecting layer comprising silver or the like. The provision of a barrier layer comprising nickel, chromium, and/or molybdenum and/or oxides thereof may improve corrosion resistance, as well as chemical and mechanical durability. In certain examples, more than one barrier layer may be used on at least one side of the layer comprising silver. In still further examples, a NixCryMoz-based layer may be used as the functional layer, rather than or in addition to as a barrier layer, in a coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Guardian Industries Corp.
    Inventors: Muhammad Imran, Bernd Disteldorf, Marcus Frank, Richard Blacker
  • Patent number: 8709547
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a super-slippery thin-layer film or coating for enhancing the lubrication capacity of a part to be subjected to great friction and wear. The film of the invention for improving the lubrication capacity of parts to be subjected to important friction and wear includes at least: a layer (3) of a hard material selected from titanium nitride (TiN), chromium nitride (CrN), titanium carbide (TiC), chromium carbide (CrC), tungsten carbide (W2C) and tungsten carbide-carbon composites (WC/C), alumina (AI2O3), molybdenum sulphide (MoS2), and materials of the hydrogenated amorphous carbon type (a: CH), the layer including on one surface thereof a series of dips and protrusions; and a layer (4) of an oleophilic material. The invention can particularly be used in the field of mechanics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Cedric Ducros, Jerome Gavillet
  • Publication number: 20140113127
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon nanotube composite electrode having carbon nanotubes which are firmly fixed to an electrode substrate so as to utilize the characteristics of the carbon nanotubes, and having the intrinsic electrode characteristics of carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotube composite electrode has a surface layer containing a porous oxide material and carbon nanotubes on the surface of the electrode substrate, wherein the carbon nanotubes are generated from the porous oxide material, and at least some of the carbon nanotubes are electrically connected to the electrode substrate. The carbon nanotube composite electrode is firmly fixed to the electrode substrate, and has the intrinsic electrode characteristics of carbon nanotubes, and thus may preferably be used in applications for electrodes and the like in various electronic devices such as electrochemical sensors and batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventors: Masato Tominaga, Shingo Sakamoto, Yuichi Fukamichi, Ayako Iwaoka, Terutaka Hashiguchi, Makoto Togami, Noriaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8703294
    Abstract: The present invention provides a functionally graded bioactive glass/ceramic composite structure or bioactive glass/ceramic/bioactive glass sandwich structure for use in such applications as damage resistant, ceramic dental implants, immediate tooth replacement, endodontic posts, orthopedic prostheses, orthopedic stems, bone substitutes, bone screws, plates, and anchors, nonunion defects repair, alveolar ridge augmentation, missing small bone parts (e.g. fingers, toes, etc), maxilla facial reconstruction, spinal fusion, and scaffolds for bone regeneration, comprising a residual bioactive glass or glass-ceramic layer at all accessible surfaces, followed by an underlying graded glass-ceramic layer, and then an dense interior ceramic. Further, the invention provides methods for making the same structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: New York University
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Racquel Legeros, Jae-Won Kim
  • Patent number: 8703282
    Abstract: A core-shell type magnetic particle comprises magnetic metal particle and an oxide coating layer formed on the surface of the magnetic metal particle. The magnetic metal particle contains a magnetic metal containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co and Ni, a nonmagnetic metal and at least one element selected from carbon and nitrogen. The oxide coating layer is constituted of an oxide or a composite oxide containing the nonmagnetic metal which is one of the constituents of the magnetic metal particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomohiro Suetsuna, Kouichi Harada, Seiichi Suenaga
  • Patent number: 8703295
    Abstract: A glass material for mold pressing, comprised of a core portion and a covering portion. In one embodiment, the core portion comprises a multicomponent optical glass containing at least one readily reducible component selected from among W, Ti, Bi, and Nb and the covering portion comprises a multicomponent glass containing none or a lower quantity of the readily reducible component than is contained in the core portion. In another embodiment, the core portion comprises a fluorine-containing multicomponent optical glass, and the covering portion comprises a multicomponent glass containing none or a lower quantity of fluorine than is contained in the core portion. A method for manufacturing an optical glass element employing the above glass material that comprises heat softening a glass material that has been preformed into a prescribed shape, and conducting press molding with a pressing mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Xuelu Zou, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Hiroshi Kohno, Kohichiro Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 8703280
    Abstract: Provided is a high-shielding reflective film, and its manufacturing method. This film is fabricated from an optical reflective film and a polarizer. The optical reflective film and the polarizer are combined by a means of a specific scheme. The optical reflective film is formed by stacking multiple layers of dielectric optical interference films with different materials. The optical reflective film particularly applies a principle of optical interference to reflect the most of the incident light, and allow some transmission. The polarizer is to absorb half of the incident light, and allow the other half to pass through. Since the characteristics of reflection between the reflective film and the polarizer are different, the reflectance difference therefor may increase. By which, the high-shielding reflective film achieves a one-way mirror with anti-peep effect since it substantially increases the reflectance difference among the incident lights from the various directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Extend Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Jen-Huai Chang, Chao-Ying Lin
  • Patent number: 8697248
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an aluminum alloy product having a first outer layer, a central layer, and a second outer layer. The central layer of the aluminum alloy product has a higher concentration of particulate matter than said first or second outer layers. The particular matter has a size of at least about 30 microns. And, the aluminum alloy product has a thickness ranging from between about 0.004 inches to about 0.25 inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Alcoa Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Tomes, Jr., Gavin F. Wyatt-Mair, David W. Timmons, Ali Unal
  • Patent number: 8697242
    Abstract: The invention provides a glass member provided with a sealing material layer, which suppresses generation of failures such as cracks or breakage of glass substrates or a sealing layer even when the distance between two glass substrates is narrowed, and thereby makes it possible to improve the sealing property between the glass substrates and its reliability. A glass substrate has a surface provided with a sealing region, on which a sealing material layer having a thickness of at most 15 ?m is formed. The sealing material layer includes a fired material of a glass material for sealing containing a sealing glass, a laser absorbent and optionally a low-expansion filler, wherein the total content of the laser absorbent and the low-expansion filler being the optional component in the glass material for sealing is within the range of from 2 to 44 vol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Sohei Kawanami, Atsuo Hiroi