Processes Of Forming Or Modifying A Solid Polymer By Laser; Or Compositions Therefore Patents (Class 522/2)
  • Patent number: 12139289
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for manufacturing a medical package, in particular a foil bag made of plastic. A print image with variable information is first applied by means of a thermal transfer printer which is formed as a negative print image and comprises blank spaces. The blank spaces are filled by means of a hot stamp printing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Brückner, Benjamin Fritz, Gerald Wegner, Stefan Faber, Alexander Stojmanovski, Marko Krenzlin
  • Patent number: 11951677
    Abstract: A three dimensional manufactured product is manufactured A speed of filing an uncured light curing resin in a space for a next layer is enhanced, to improve a manufacturing speed. One surface of a container housing a light curing resin is configured by a gas-permeable sheet that faces the light curing resin, and transmits irradiation light of a light irradiating apparatus, and a light transmitting plate disposed at an outer side of the container from the gas permeable member. A pressurizing chamber controllable in pressure by a pressure controlling apparatus is defined between the gas-permeable sheet and the light transmitting plate. At moving a manufacturing stage, an inside of the pressurizing chamber is de-pressurized to cause the gas-permeable sheet to perform concave surface deformation, and at a time of performing light irradiation, gas in the pressurizing chamber is caused to permeate into the light curing resin by pressurizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Arai, Yasuhiro Sekine, Akio Kashiwazaki, Toshiki Ito
  • Patent number: 11471566
    Abstract: Implant comprising composite powder with microstructured particles, obtained by a process in which large particles are bonded to small particles, wherein the large particles have a mean particle diameter in the range from 10 ?m to 10 mm, the large particles comprise at least one polymer, the small particles are arranged on the surface of the large particles and/or are non-homogeneously spread within the large particles, the small particles comprise a calcium salt, the small particles have a mean particle size in the range from 0.01 ?m to 1.0 mm, wherein the particles of the composite powder have a mean particle size d50 in the range from 10 ?m to less than 200 ?m and the fine fraction of the composite powder is less than 50 vol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Frank Reinauer, Siegmund Luger, Marijan Vucak
  • Patent number: 11397372
    Abstract: Provided is a molded article which contains a first enclosure; a second enclosure adjoined with the first enclosure; and a transparent member held by the second enclosure, each of the first enclosure and the second enclosure being independently made from a resin composition that contains a polyamide resin having a semi-crystallization time of 10 to 60 seconds, and a melting point of 200 to 280° C., and the transparent member having a pencil hardness of 8H or larger, and a linear expansion coefficient of 1×10?6 to 9×10?6/° C., where the semi-crystallization time means a time measured by depolarization photometry at a temperature 20° C. higher than the melting point of the polyamide resin, for a melting time of polyamide resin of 5 minutes, and at a temperature of crystallization bath of 150° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ENGINEERING-PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fumihito Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10634966
    Abstract: A display substrate is disclosed, comprising a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The display substrate is fixed to a counter substrate in the peripheral area by a frame sealant. The display substrate comprises a substrate and a curing energy transmissive layer. A projection of the frame sealant on the substrate falls within or coincides with that of the curing energy transmissive layer. Since the curing energy transmissive layer transparent for the curing energy beam is provided in the display substrate, the frame sealant can be irradiated from the display substrate side through the curing energy transmissive layer, instead of from the counter substrate side. This improves the efficiency for curing the frame sealant. A display panel, a method for fabricating the display substrate and the display panel, and a display device are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huan Ni, Fengzhen Lv, Qun Li
  • Patent number: 10377897
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laser-markable polyamide composition comprising: a first phase comprising Sb2O3 and an aliphatic polyamide with an amide density AD1, and a second phase comprising an aliphatic polyamide with an amide density AD2, wherein AD1-AD2 is at least 0.01, and wherein the amount of Sb2O3 is between 0.1 and 5 wt %, a halogen-free flame retardant in an amount of between 1 to 25 wt %, wherein the amount in weight percentage are based on the total amount of composition. The invention also relates to a process for preparing a laser-markable polyamide composition, as well as laser-marked products comprising the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Raul Marcelino Perez Graterol, Franciscus Gerardus Henricus Van Duijnhoven, Franciscus Wilhelmus Maria Gelissen, Johannes Hoekstra
  • Patent number: 10232190
    Abstract: A system and method for light stimulation within a medium. The system has a reduced-voltage x-ray source configured to generate x-rays from a peak applied cathode voltage at or below 105 kVp, and a plurality of energy-emitting particles in the medium which, upon radiation from the x-ray source, radiate at a first lower energy than the x-ray source to interact with at least one photoactivatable agent in the medium. The method introduces the plurality of energy-emitting particles into the medium, radiates the energy-emitting particles in the medium with x-rays generated from a peak applied cathode voltage at or below 105 kVp; and emits a lower energy than the x-ray source to interact with the medium or with at least one photoactivatable agent in the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: IMMUNOLIGHT, LLC., DUKE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Frederic A. Bourke, Jr., Harold Walder, Zakaryae Fathi, Michael J. Therien, Mark W. Dewhirst, Ian N. Stanton, Jennifer Ann Ayres, Diane Renee Fels, Joseph A. Herbert
  • Patent number: 9580551
    Abstract: For laser sintering, a material includes at least one powder that has been treated by heat to modify at least one of: a melting temperature of the at least one powder; and a recrystallization temperature of the at least one powder and results in the narrowing of the melting curve of the treated material relative to the untreated material. The heating can include a series of heating steps. The treatment improves the efficacies of the SLS process and product quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced Laser Materials, LLC
    Inventors: Donald Lewis Vanelli, Richard Benton Booth, Bruce Thornton
  • Patent number: 9067450
    Abstract: A method of color laser marking a security document precursor including at least: a transparent biaxially stretched polyethylene terephthalate foil; at least one colorless color forming layer for generating a color different from black containing at least an infrared absorber a color forming compound and a polymeric binder; and a laser markable polymeric support or a laser markable layer for generating a black color; comprising the steps of: laser marking the colorless color forming layer through the transparent polymeric foil with a infrared laser used in continuous wave mode to generate a color different from black; and laser marking the laser markable polymeric support or the laser markable layer through the transparent polymeric foil with the same infrared laser but used in a pulsed mode to generate a black color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Bart Waumans, Paul Callant, Ingrid Geuens
  • Publication number: 20150068419
    Abstract: Disclosed is a resin composition for laser engraving, comprising (Component A) a hydrocarbon-based plastomer and (Component B) a polyester resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yuichi YASUHARA
  • Patent number: 8974871
    Abstract: A curing machine to cure a UV-curable adhesive adhering on a workpiece, the workpiece having a slot thereon and a hole on a sidewall of the slot. The hole receives the UV-curable adhesive, the curing machine can include a curing mechanism. The curing mechanism can include a base plate holding a curing assembly and the curing assembly can include a holding member, at least one UV lamp being coupled to the holding member. Axis of the at least one UV lamp can intersect with the holding member at an angle of less than 90 degrees. A workpiece being positioned on the base plate, the UV lamp can irradiate directly an inside or an outside of a sidewall through the hole in the sidewall of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignees: Fu Ding Electronical Technology (Jiashan) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Min Fei, Huo-Zhong Wu, Jian-Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 8957124
    Abstract: A laser can be used to modify a glazing 100, 300 so as to improve its suitability for use with a signal-receiving device 350 or a signal-transmitting device 350. This is done by using the laser to provide a region of reduced opacity 110, 202, 340 to the signal within the glazing. Preferably, the laser is be used to reduce the opacity of a selected region 340 of a tinted interlayer in situ. The glazing may be for a vehicle, especially an automotive vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Pilkington Group Limited
    Inventors: Michael Lyon, Michael Robert Greenall
  • Publication number: 20150044425
    Abstract: There is provided with a method for manufacturing a resin product. One embodiment includes performing a modification process on a portion of a surface of the resin product not less than two times by different methods to modify the portion such that a plating metal can be deposited on the portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Taisuke IWASHITA, Yoshihisa NEGISHI, Yoshihiro HATTORI, Naoki TATEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8901190
    Abstract: A method for modifying the refractive index of an optical, hydrogel polymeric material. The method comprises irradiating predetermined regions of an optical, polymeric material with a laser to form refractive structures. To facilitate the formation of the refractive structures the optical, hydrogel polymeric material comprises a photosensitizer. The presence of the photosensitizer permits one to set a scan rate to a value that is at least fifty times greater than a scan rate without the photosensitizer in the material, yet provides similar refractive structures in terms of the observed change in refractive index. Alternatively, the photosensitizer in the polymeric material permits one to set an average laser power to a value that is at least two times less than an average laser power without the photosensitizer in the material, yet provide similar refractive structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: University of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Thomas Smith, Wayne H. Knox, Li Ding, Dharmendra Jani, Jeffrey G. Linhardt
  • Patent number: 8846160
    Abstract: A method for building three-dimensional articles using a thermal polymerization process in provided. The articles are built by using a composition that includes a thermally polymerizable composition, a thermal initiator, and a nonlinear light-to-heat conversion material such as a reverse saturable dye. The article is built by the sequential exposure of adjacent voxels with a laser beam. Microlens arrays can be used to expose more than one voxel at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Pingfan Wu, Ying-Yuh Lu, Robin E. Wright, Robert J. DeVoe, Travis L. Potts, Douglas S. Dunn, Wayne S. Mahoney, Dong-Wei Zhu
  • Publication number: 20140243443
    Abstract: A system/method allowing hydrophilicity alteration of a polymeric material (PM) is disclosed. The PM hydrophilicity alteration changes the PM characteristics by decreasing the PM refractive index, increasing the PM electrical conductivity, and increasing the PM weight. The system/method incorporates a laser radiation source that generates tightly focused laser pulses within a three-dimensional portion of the PM to affect these changes in PM properties. The system/method may be applied to the formation of customized intraocular lenses comprising material (PLM) wherein the lens created using the system/method is surgically positioned within the eye of the patient. The implanted lens refractive index may then be optionally altered in situ with laser pulses to change the optical properties of the implanted lens and thus achieve optimal corrected patient vision. This system/method permits numerous in situ modifications of an implanted lens as the patient's vision changes with age.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: PERFECT IP, LLC
    Inventors: Ruth Sahler, Stephen Q. Zhou, Josef F. Bille
  • Publication number: 20140238255
    Abstract: Disclosed is a resin composition for laser engraving, comprising (Component A) a binder polymer and (Component B) a crosslinking agent, and a crosslinked relief-forming layer formed from the composition being depolymerizable. Component A preferably comprises (Component A-1) a depolymerizable binder polymer. Component A-1 preferably comprises any one selected from the group consisting of a polyester resin, a resin containing at least 50 mol % of a (meth)acrylic acid ester as a monomer unit, and a resin containing at least 50 mol % of ?-methylstyrene as a monomer unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi SUGASAKI
  • Patent number: 8747958
    Abstract: The present invention provides an actinic ray curable ink composition for inkjet recording, which has a high sensitivity for inhibiting a blocking phenomenon and capability for forming an image, obtained by curing, which exhibits excellent shaping suitability and punching suitability, and which includes: a colorant; a polymerization initiator; a polymerizable monomer; and organic fine particles, the polymerizable monomer containing a monofunctional monomer in an amount of 90% by mass or more with respect to a total mass of the polymerizable monomer, and organic fine particles that are crosslinked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yokoi, Kenjiro Araki
  • Patent number: 8669307
    Abstract: A subject-matter of the invention is the use of a polyamide powder possessing a fireproofing property in a process for the manufacture of an object made of polyamide by sintering this powder using radiation, the said powder comprising, by weight, 2 to 40% of at least one flame retardant for respectively 98 to 60% of at least one polyamide, the flame retardant being a blend of at least one organic phosphinate of a metal and of at least ammonium polyphosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Patrick Douais, Gregory Filou
  • Patent number: 8563668
    Abstract: A resin composition is provided that includes two or more types of compounds selected from the group consisting of (Component A) a compound comprising a silicon atom having a total of one or two alkoxy and hydroxy groups, (Component B) a compound comprising a silicon atom having a total of three alkoxy and hydroxy groups, and (Component C) a compound comprising a silicon atom having a total of four alkoxy and hydroxy groups. There are also provided a relief printing plate precursor that includes a relief-forming layer formed from the resin composition, a process for producing a relief printing plate precursor that includes a layer formation step of forming a relief-forming layer from the resin composition and a crosslinking step of thermally crosslinking the relief-forming layer so as to form a crosslinked relief-forming layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8557503
    Abstract: A relief printing plate precursor for laser engraving is provided that includes above a support, as a crosslinked relief-forming layer, a thermally crosslinked layer of a resin composition for laser engraving that includes (Component A) a compound containing a hydrolyzable silyl group and/or a silanol group and that does not include (Component B) a binder polymer or includes it at less than 2 wt % relative to the total weight on a non-volatile component basis. There are also provided a process for making a relief printing plate that includes a step of preparing the relief printing plate precursor for laser engraving and a step of forming a relief layer by laser-engraving the crosslinked relief-forming layer, and a relief printing plate that includes a relief layer formed by the process for making a relief printing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Kawashima
  • Patent number: 8546480
    Abstract: A relief printing plate precursor for laser engraving, including a relief forming layer formed by thermally crosslinking a resin composition including (A) a polymer having an ethylenically unsaturated bond in a side chain wherein the polymer is an acrylic resin or a polyvinyl acetal, (B) carbon black, and (C) a thermopolymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta Yoshida, Takashi Kawashima
  • Patent number: 8541534
    Abstract: A resin composition for laser engraving, including: a compound (A) having at least one of a hydrolyzable silyl group or a silanol group; and a binder polymer (B) having a functional group capable of forming a crosslinked structure by reacting with at least one of a hydrolyzable silyl group or a silanol group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugasaki, Takashi Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20130237625
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to biodegradable and biocompatible elastomeric polymers that are amorphous and have a glass transition temperature below both room temperature and body temperature, and which will homogenously degrade to water soluble by-products with no reported toxicity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventor: Husam Younes
  • Patent number: 8530596
    Abstract: A polymer and composition useful in forming an insulating film provided with a low permittivity, a high heat resistance, and a high mechanical strength and an insulating film obtained from these and an electronic device having the same are provided. The polymer for forming an insulating film according to the present invention is characterized by being obtained by polymerizing a reactive compound represented by Formula (1). The insulating film according to the present invention is formed using a composition for forming an insulating film including that polymer, has molecular spaces having an average space size of 0.7 nm to 5 nm, and has a permittivity of 2.3 or less. The electronic device according to the present invention has the insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohko Sano, Kazuyoshi Fujita, Sumitoshi Asakuma
  • Patent number: 8524847
    Abstract: An organic insulating material includes a prepolymer of a cage structure compound having a polymerizable unsaturated bond-containing group and a cage structure with an adamantane structure as the minimal unit. The prepolymer has a number-average molecular weight of between 2,000 and 500,000 based on polystyrene and measured by gel permeation chromatography. The prepolymer includes unsaturated bonds produced by reaction between the polymerizable unsaturated bonds and the unreacted polymerizable unsaturated bonds. The prepolymer has a residue rate of unreacted polymerizable unsaturated bonds of between 20% and 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohko Sano, Mihoko Matsutani, Kazuyoshi Fujita
  • Patent number: 8431637
    Abstract: There are provided a resin composition for laser engraving that can give a relief printing plate having excellent hardness, film elasticity, printing durability, and aqueous ink transfer properties and that has excellent rinsing properties for engraving residue generated when laser-engraving a printing plate and excellent engraving sensitivity in laser engraving, a relief printing plate precursor employing the resin composition for laser engraving, a process for producing a relief printing plate employing the same, and a relief printing plate obtained thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kenta Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8426505
    Abstract: A process for making a relief printing plate is provided that includes (1) a step of crosslinking by means of heat and/or light a relief-forming layer formed from a resin composition containing (Component A) a compound having a hydrolyzable silyl group and/or a silanol group, (Component B) a thermoplastic elastomer, and (Component C) a polymerizable compound, and (2) a step of forming a relief layer by laser-engraving the crosslinked relief-forming layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kenta Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8389592
    Abstract: Optical elements, in particular for holographic applications, have a gradient structure formed by a refractive index gradient and include one or more organic polymers and at least one ionic liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien Gemeinnuetzige GmbH
    Inventors: Peter William de Oliveira, Michael Veith, Peter Rogin, Hechun Lin, Marcus Geerkens
  • Publication number: 20130045575
    Abstract: An adhesive includes an epoxy resin and a hardener. The hardener includes trioxdiamine, diaminodicyclohexylmethane, toluene diamine, and bisphenol-A dianhydride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Bert Gorczyca, Paul Alan McConnelee
  • Patent number: 8377634
    Abstract: This invention relates to acrylic functional resin compositions. More particularly, this invention relates to Poly [organ-co-(meth)acryloxyorgano]silsequioxane resins that are curable upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation with photo initiator or upon heating with or without a free radical generator. The resin compositions have high storage stability at room temperature and produces films that are useful as planarization layer, interlayer dielectric, passivation layer, gas permeable layer, negative photoresist, antireflective coating, conformal coating and IC packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: John Dean Albaugh, Gregory Scott Becker, Sina Maghsoodi, Eric Scott Moyer, Sheng Wang, Craig Rollin Yeakle
  • Publication number: 20130041061
    Abstract: A subject-matter of the invention is the use of a polyamide powder possessing a fireproofing property in a process for the manufacture of an object made of polyamide by sintering this powder using radiation, the said powder comprising, by weight, 2 to 40% of at least one flame retardant for respectively 98 to 60% of at least one polyamide, the flame retardant being a blend of at least one organic phosphinate of a metal and of at least ammonium polyphosphate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventor: Arkema France
  • Patent number: 8367300
    Abstract: A resin composition for laser engraving, including: a binder polymer; and a metal compound containing a metal selected from the group consisting of metals in Group 1 to Group 15 in the periodic table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kawashima, Atsushi Sugasaki
  • Publication number: 20120265164
    Abstract: This relates to fluid delivery devices and methods and, more particularly, to implantable fluid delivery devices and methods of use. A flow restrictor for medical devices is described with particularly useful properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC, INC.
    Inventors: Markus W. Reiterer, Dale F. Seeley, Kimberly A. Chaffin
  • Patent number: 8278387
    Abstract: The invention provides a resin composition for laser engraving, containing at least (A) a polymerizable compound having two or more ethylenic unsaturated bonds, a carbon-sulfur bond being contained at the site where two among the two or more ethylenic unsaturated bonds are connected and (B) a binder polymer. The invention further provides an image forming material containing the resin composition, a relief printing plate precursor having a relief forming layer which contains the resin composition, a relief printing plate precursor having a relief forming layer which contains a product formed by subjecting the resin composition to cross-linking, a method for manufacturing a relief printing plate including subjecting the relief printing plate precursor having the relief forming layer which contains the resin composition to cross-linking, and a relief printing plate manufactured by the manufacturing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kawashima, Atsushi Sugasaki, Kenta Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20120196948
    Abstract: Disclosed are photo sensitizers that include a polyol moiety covalently bonded to a fused aromatic moiety. Also disclosed is a method for improving UV laser ablation performance of a coating, such as a cationic UV curable coating, by incorporating an oxalyl-containing additive into the cationic UV curable or other coating. Oxalyl-containing sensitizers having the formula Q-O—C(O)—C(O)—O—R1 wherein Q represents a fused aromatic moiety and R1 is an alkyl or aryl group, are also disclosed, as are oxalyl-containing oxetane resins, oxalyl-containing polyester polyols, and cationic UV curable coating formulations that include oxalyl-containing additives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: NDSU Research Foundation
    Inventors: Dean C. Webster, Zhigang Chen
  • Patent number: 8226878
    Abstract: A method of forming articles having closed microchannels includes the steps of providing a substrate including a composite material, the composite having metal nanoparticles dispersed in a polymer matrix. The substrate is irradiated with a laser beam at an intensity and time sufficient to selectively remove the polymer below a surface of said substrate to form at least one microchannel, wherein the intensity and time is low enough to avoid removing the polymer above the microchannel, wherein an article having at least one closed microchannel is formed. A metal nanoparticle/polymer composite composition can have functionality that can undergo addition reactions to seal or join pieces of polymers or composites upon irradiation of the composition placed on one or more pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Qun Huo, Hui Chen
  • Patent number: 8216647
    Abstract: An insulating film formed by a method comprising: coating a film-forming composition containing a compound having a cage structure; and drying the coated composition, wherein the coated composition is irradiated with a light having a wavelength of 200 nm or less in at least one of during the drying and after the drying; a process for producing the same; and an electronic device having the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yutaka Adegawa
  • Patent number: 8183540
    Abstract: A technique for shaping droplets is disclosed. Multiple optical traps, or at least one variable geometry trap, are used to deform a droplet. The surface tension of the droplet is lowered to be comparable with the force which can be applied using the optical traps, for example by using a surfactant such as Aerosol OT, with heptane droplets in a solution of sodium chloride. Solidification of deformed droplets can be achieved using polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: The Science and Technology Facilities Council
    Inventors: Andrew David Ward, Colin David Bain, Christopher Daniel Mellor
  • Patent number: 8119041
    Abstract: The present invention provides a two-photon light-emitting compound represented by formula (1), an optical data recording medium comprising a compound represented by formula (1), a two-photon polymerizable composition comprising a polymerizable monomer or polymerizable oligomer and at least compound represented by formula (1), and a photopolymerization process: X2—(—CR4?CR3—)m—C(?O)—(—CR1?CR2—)n—X1??(1) wherein X1 and X2 may be the same or different and each represent a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; R1, R2, R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or substituent; some of R1, R2, R3 and R4 may be connected to each other to form at least one ring; and n and m each independently represent an integer of from 1 to 4, with the proviso that when n and m are 2 or more, the plurality of R1's, R2's, R3's, and R4's each may be the same or different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Akiba, Jun Kawamata
  • Publication number: 20110300096
    Abstract: An alternating copolymer comprising a backbone of residues of a maleic anhydride derivative and those of a compound containing vinylic unsaturation, which also comprises residues of an active compound containing a nucleophilic group, bound to the backbone by a residue of the nucleophilic group, including such a copolymer comprising residues of an active compound containing an alcohol, thiol or amine group. The chemical and biological properties of actives, such as protease inhibitors, neurotransmitter drugs, and other small molecule active drugs, are enhanced, and new applications enabled. Also, artefacts, including a solid medical implant device, dressing or scaffold or a fluid adhesive or medicinal composition comprising such a polymer, and a method of use of such a polymer, including a method for the treatment or prophylaxis of wounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventor: Bryan GREENER
  • Publication number: 20110293896
    Abstract: A resin composition for laser engraving is provided that includes (Component A) a compound having a hydrolyzable silyl group and/or a silanol group, (Component B) a depolymerization catalyst and/or a depolymerization catalyst precursor, and (Component C) a depolymerizable binder polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi SUGASAKI
  • Publication number: 20110288194
    Abstract: One subject of the present invention is a composition that combines at least one polyamide having at least one MXD entity, MXD denoting meta-xylylenediamine or a mixture of meta-xylylenediamine and of para-xylylenediamine, with a bioresourced reinforcement. The invention also relates to the conversion of these compositions, by injection moulding or extrusion, into objects that have good mechanical properties, said objects corresponding to technical application specifications such as may be found, for example, in the automotive industry, construction, sport and in electrical or electronic fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Benoit Brule, Philippe Bussi, Gilles Hochstetter, Guillaume Le, Barbara Ramfel
  • Publication number: 20110269865
    Abstract: A method for building three-dimensional articles using a thermal polymerization process in provided. The articles are built by using a composition that includes a thermally polymerizable composition, a thermal initiator, and a nonlinear light-to-heat conversion material such as a reverse saturable dye. The article is built by the sequential exposure of adjacent voxels with a laser beam. Microlens arrays can be used to expose more than one voxel at a time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventors: Pingfan Wu, Ying-Yuh Lu, Robin E. Wright, Robin J. DeVoe, Travis L. Potts, Douglas S. Dunn, Wayne S. Mahoney, Dong-Wei Zhu
  • Publication number: 20110242631
    Abstract: A composition for producing optical elements having a gradient structure, particularly for holographic applications, is formed by a refractive index gradient. The composition is produced from one or more polymerizable and/or polycondensable monomers and at least one biological polymer. A potential difference is generated for the directed diffusion of the monomers by inducing a local polymerization or polycondensation. The result is the formation of a refractive index gradient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Peter William de Oliveira, Michael Veith, Peter Koenig, Jenny Kampka, Anette Kraegeloh
  • Publication number: 20110236698
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pulverulent composition for the manufacture of articles having a metallic appearance that is stable over time and an improved resistance to pencilling, said composition comprising: from 50 to 99.9% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polymer, from 0.1 to 5% by weight of at least one effect pigment, from 0 to 0.3% by weight of at least one metallic pigment relative to the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Gregory Filou, Cyrille Mathieu
  • Patent number: 7980596
    Abstract: the invention provides a composition having laser engraving properties, comprising a host material and a laser enhancing additive. The host material comprises a material, such as a polymer, modified by a first process, whereby the host material as modified by the first process has increased thermal conductivity as compared to the host material before the first process. The laser enhancing additive comprises a first quantity of at least one of copper potassium iodide (CuKI3), Copper Iodide (CuI), potassium iodide (KI), sodium iodide (NaI), and aluminum iodide (AlI), and a second quantity of at least one substance selected from the group consisting of zinc sulfide (ZnS), barium sulfide (BaS), alkyl sulfonate, and thioester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: L-1 Secure Credentialing, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian C. Labrec
  • Patent number: 7973094
    Abstract: A metal nanoparticle supported on or dispersed in a polymer is irradiated with photons from a laser source to address the nanoparticles. The polymer is transmissive to the photons and addressed nanoparticles transform the energy of the photon to heat which is transferred to a material in the vicinity of the nanoparticle. The locally heated material undergoes a physical or chemical transformation upon heating. The transformed material can be a material in the proximity of the metal nanoparticle supported polymer or metal nanoparticle/polymer composite. In this manner thermally induced physical or chemical transformations can be carried out in very small volumes of material without significant heating to the bulk of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Qun Huo, Jianhua Zou, Hui Chen
  • Patent number: 7922859
    Abstract: The present invention relates to laser-weldable polymers which consist of a laser-transparent part and a laser-absorbent part and can be welded to one another by means of laser light and are distinguished by the fact that the laser-absorbent part comprises, as absorber, copper hydroxide phosphate and/or copper phosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventor: Silvia Rosenberger
  • Publication number: 20110021653
    Abstract: A method for creating 3D structures using two-photon direct writing includes mixing a resin having a monomer structure with a solvent to create a resin-solvent mixture. A chromophore initiator is added to the resin-solvent mixture to create a second mixture, where the chromophore initiator is comprised of a first constitutional unit derived from a compound having the formula Two-photon lithography is applied to the second mixture to produce a 3D structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Lixin Zheng, Cody A. Young