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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8142605 | Circuit-connecting material and circuit terminal connected structure and connecting method A circuit-connecting material which is interposed between circuit electrodes facing each other and electrically connects the electrodes in the pressing direction by pressing the facing electrodes against each other; the circuit-connecting material comprising as esse... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7264796 | Termite resistant and fungal resistant oriented strand board and methods for manufacturing The present invention provides for wood based panels (e.g., OSB or plywood) that are termite resistant, fungal resistant, or a combination thereof; and methods of manufacturing the same. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7229514 | Method of making curved hose The present invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a curved hose. The method is comprised of the steps of (a) forming a hose assembly, the hose assembly comprising: (i) an innermost layer of a halogenated polyolefin rubber; (ii) a polyester reinforcemen... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7144937 | Adhesion promoters for sealants A sealant composition comprising a sealant, an adhesive resin, and a long chain ester, particularly dimerate and trimerate esters, is capable of unexpected adhesion to substrates such as ceramic substrates (e.g., concrete), glass substrates, metal substrates such as... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7107703 | Shoe sole The present invention is a shoe sole formed from cotton fabric and bonded together with what in the prior art was thought to be a water soluble glue. As used in the specific construction of the present invention, millet glue is not substantially water soluble after ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7097734 | System and method for forming wood products Methods for securing wood members together are disclosed. The methods include the use of an adhesive that quickly cures without heating. Adhesives may be impingement sprayed or splattered onto a contact surface. The methods may be used to form high-strength bonds be... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6940177 | Semiconductor package and method of preparing same A semiconductor package comprising a semiconductor wafer having an active surface comprising at least one integrated circuit, wherein each integrated circuit has a plurality of bond pads; and at least one cured silicone member covering at least a portion of the acti... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6931184 | Dry tube fiber optic assemblies, cables, and manufacturing methods therefor A fiber optic dry tube assembly and a method of manufacturing the same includes at least one optical waveguide and a tube. The tube houses at least a portion of the at least one optical fiber and is formed from a bimodal polymeric material. The tube has an average o... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6830646 | Radiation curable resin layer A radiation curable resin formulation suitable for planarizing an ink jet heater chip. The resin formulation includes a multifunctional epoxy component, a difunctional epoxy component, a silane coupling agent, an aryl sulfonium salt photoinitiator, and a non-photore... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6734275 | Method of gluing wood based materials The present invention relates to a method of gluing wood based materials by providing an adhesive system onto wood based materials followed by curing, the adhesive system comprises a urea based amino resin and a hardener composition, wherein the hardener composition... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6730385 | Perfluororubber laminate and processes for producing the same A laminate, which is in the form of an O-ring, a square ring, a rubber roll, a diaphragm, a rubber hose, a rubber tube or a vial stopper, comprising a layer of a perfluororubber, a layer of other rubber and an adhesive layer containing a polyfunctional compound whic... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6703104 | Panel configuration composite armor A method and apparatus comprising combining ballistic and fragment resistant fabrics in multiple layers with a central geometrically shaped composite core in a resin forming a composite armor panel, wherein the multiple layers present a fragment projectil... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6645341 | Two part epoxide adhesive with improved strength A two-component epoxy-based adhesive comprising a resin component and a curing agent. The resin component comprises an epoxy resin, a polymer polyol, and fumed silica. The curing agent comprises a polyoxyalkyleneamine, an amine terminated butadiene-acrylo... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6613182 | Light attenuating evaporative cooling pad The present invention comprises a evaporative cooling pad and method of making the same. The cooling pad features a non-reflective, non-light transmissive surface finish incorporated directly into the cooling pad. In one embodiment, this surface finish wo... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6602379 | Adhesive compositions and methods of use thereof A composition for the promotion of adhesion between a rubber formulation and a textile substrate is provided. The inventive composition comprises either a mixture of specific amine functional silanes and organo-functional silanes having reactive groups or... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6568148 | Covering element for building surfaces or the like and method for the production thereof The present disclosure involves a covering element for building surfaces and a method for the production thereof. The covering element includes a decorative visible side generally having a support plate having top and bottom surfaces, an upper transparent... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6464813 | Process for coating and laminating film using 100% solids adhesive at room temperature A laminating and coating system is employed with a gravure or flexographic set up using an enclosed doctor blade system with recirculation to coat adhesive onto a film and then laminate it to another film. The preferred adhesive is a two-stage epoxy consi... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6461469 | Method for the manufacture of a finished product from a lignocellulosic material A finished product from lignocellulose, such as a length of wood or chipboard, is impregnated with a composition containing a thermosetting resin in a nonaqueous solvent, and a styrene polymer in a nonaqueous solvent. Excess impregnating composition is re... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6440255 | Process for producing fast curing molding compounds bonded with phenolic resin A process is provided for producing fast curing bonded with phenolic resin, which comprises pulverulent phenolic resins mixed with or applied to the substrate to be adhered together with pulverulent addition polymers selected from the group consisting of ... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6432254 | Wood composite prepared with a B-stageable resin A method for making a consolidated wood product comprising coating wood components with a B-stageable, phenol-formaldehyde resole resin; heating the coated wood components to about 80 to 140° C. for a time sufficient to advance the resin to a B-stage; fo... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6402869 | Method for gluing plywood and LVL boards The invention relates to a method of gluing veneers to form LVL and plywood boards from veneers laid one over the other in several layers by curing the adhesive placed between the single layers in a heated press. The invention consists in the fact that th... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6306241 | Wax sizing and resin bonding of a lignocellulosic composite There is provided a method for producing lignocellulosic composites. This method is useful in reducing the thickness swell of these composites on their exposure to water. This method also is useful in reducing the hot-press times required to make lignocel... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6132885 | Composites prepared with ready-to-use resin/wax emulsion adhesives A single package, ready-to-use (RTU) resin/wax emulsion adhesive and a method of preparing the same by heating a thermosetting resin and adjusting the pH of the wax emulsion prior to combining the resin and wax emulsion. The use of the adhesive in making ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6132549 | Wood-product laminated composites Discloses compositions of urea dissolved in aqueous, polymerizable phenolic resole resins, wood-product laminated composite products produced with such resins, with or without the urea, and methods for the production of wood-product laminated composites w... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6113729 | Wax sizing and resin bonding of a lignocellulosic composite There is provided a method for producing lignocellulosic composites. This method is useful in reducing the thickness swell of these composites on their exposure to water. This method also is useful in reducing the hot-press times required to make lignocel... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6042935 | Friction element Disclosed is a friction element designed for frictional contact with a body and for use, in particular, in brakes or clutches. The friction element has at least one freely accessible surface formed by a carbon-fiber-reinforced porous carbon block, at leas... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6022947 | Light-colored, low molecular weight phenolic-modified rosin esters Light-colored phenolic-modified rosin esters, suitable for use as, for example, tackifiers in adhesive compositions, are prepared by reacting together rosin, a phenolic compound, formaldehyde or a reactive equivalent thereof, and a non-phenolic hydroxyl-c... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6019867 | Use of glycol production unit waste streams for production of resole bonded laminates Mixed glycols, as exist in the waste stream from a glycol production unit, are utilized for production of a liquid resole resin in an aqueous alcoholic solvent. The solvated resole resin is employed as a binder for production of laminates.... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6008150 | Binder composition for producing fibrous webs and a process for producing fibrous web mouldings A process and a binder for producing fibrous webs and fibrous web moldings, preferably in molding tools, in which fibrous webs are chemically bonded with powdered binders which consist wholly or partly of powder coating material, preferably recycled powde... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5942058 | Co-adhesive system for bonding wood, fibers, or agriculture based composite materials The invention provides an adhesive system comprising a blend of resin and a co-adhesive conjugated triglyceride drying oil acting as a internal release agent which is mixed with fibers for bonding composite panels such as oriented strand board, particle b... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5912062 | Utilization of waste fibers in laminates The present invention provides compositions and processes wherein recycling of waste carpets and textiles is achieved by coating the individual yarn fibers with a low viscosity adhesive that is dispersed or dissolved in a suitable solvent to affect covera... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5907333 | Ink jet print head containing a radiation curable resin layer This invention relates to an ink jet print head having ink passage ways formed in a radiation cured resin layer which is attached to a substrate. The passageways are connected in fluid flow communication to an ink discharging outlet provided by an orifice... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5902442 | Method for bonding lignocellulosic material with phenol-formaldehyde resin and carbon dioxide Subjecting lignocellulosic components coated with an aqueous alkaline phenolic resole resin solution to carbon dioxide inhibits overpenetration of resin and improves bond strength when the coated components are heated to cure the resin by application of s... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5847029 | Method and novel composition board products A process for the preparation of composition board, particleboard, fiberboard, waferboard and oriented strandboard as well as new and useful products thereof are provided for by the separation of one portion of the solid constituents of the composition bo... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5763559 | Phenol-formaldehyde resins modified with guanidine salts A guanidine-modified phenol-formaldehyde resole resin by reacting formaldehyde and phenol at a formaldehyde to phenol mole ratio above about 1.5:1 in the presence of an effective amount of an alkaline catalyst and in the presence of a catalytic amount of ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5717053 | Co-condensation product and rubber composition containing the same There is provided a co-condensation product obtainable by subjecting a p-alkylphenol to reaction with formaldehyde in the presence of an alkali catalyst to prepare a resol type condensate, and subjecting the resulting resol type condensate to reaction wit... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5714030 | Plastisol type adhesive composition used in filter for alcohol-containing fuel A plastisol type adhesive composition used to bond a filer paper and end caps of an filter element of a fuel filter for filtering a mixture fuel of gasoline and methanol. The adhesive composition comprises a polymer (vinyl chloride polymer and/or copolyme... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5700587 | Resorcinol-glutaraldehyde resin as an accelerator for curing phenol-formaldehyde resins The invention relates to the use of a resorcinol-glutaraldehyde reaction product as an accelerator for thermosetting phenolic resin and to a method of making the accelerator. Further, the invention relates to a resin blend comprising phenol-formaldehyde a... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5674338 | Method of joining wood The invention comprises a method for joining pieces of unseasoned or undr wood, by finger jointing or other joining technique. The wood may have a moisture content above the fibre saturation point of the wood, and as high as 50% to 100% or higher moistur... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5654099 | Method of improving adhesion between alkylated chlorosulfonated polyethylene (ACSM) or chlorosulfonated polyethylene (CSM), and resorcinol formaldehyde latex (RFL) treated polyester cord A method for improving the adhesion of alkylated chlorosulfonated polyethylene (ACSM) and chlorosulfonated polyethylene (CSM) rubber compounds to a resorcinol-formaldehyde latex (RFL) treated polyester reinforcing element using lower than conventional hea... | 08/05/1997 |