An aircraft having vertical takeoff and landing capability provided with at least first and second laterally extending paddle wheels rotatable on a central axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft fuselage and between its nose and tail.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7906207 | Coating composition, optical film, anti-reflection film, polarizing plate, and display unit using them A coating composition comprises: a fluoro-aliphatic group-containing copolymer comprising a repeating unit A corresponding to a fluoro-aliphatic group-containing monomer, and a repeating unit B corresponding to at least one monomer, wherein each of the I/O values of... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7824767 | Fluorescent material with semiconductor nanoparticles dispersed in glass matrix at high concentration and method for manufacturing such fluorescent material The present invention provides a thin-film fluorescent material in which semiconductor nanoparticles in a stable condition maintain a high fluorescence quantum yield and can be held at a high concentration in a glass matrix. The present invention also provides optic... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7413800 | Co-extruded biaxially oriented sealable, peelable film and process for its production A peelable sealable co-extruded film, comprising: i. a skin layer capable of heat sealing against a rim of a container, to itself, or to another film and adapted to be peeled there from and comprising a hot melt adhesive resin; and... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7361724 | Self assembling monolayer compositions A surface coating composition for providing a self-assembling monolayer, in stable form, on a material surface or at a suitable interface, as well as a method of preparing such a composition and a method of using such a composition to coat a surface, such as the sur... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362454 | Method and system for measuring overcoat layer thickness on a thin film disk A method for measuring the thickness of a thin film disk overcoat layer includes radiating x-rays on a thin film disk comprising at least one base layer and an overcoat layer, collecting fluorescence data on electromagnetic radiation fluoresced from the thin film di... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357981 | Optical filter An optical filter comprising a transparent support having a tensile impact strength of 392 kJ/m2 or more having provided thereon a filter layer having an absorption maximum in the range of from 560 to 620 nm. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357875 | Hybrid coating for magnetic heads A system and method for providing corrosion protection for a magnetic read/write head is disclosed. A monolayer surface coating is applied to cover those portions of the under layer of a magnetic read/write head not already covered by a previously applied diamond-li... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354625 | Gas barrier film The invention provides a gas barrier film having a support including a hydrophilic surface or a non-ionic hydrophobic surface on which a graft polymer chain having a polar group is present, and an inorganic thin film formed on the surface. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348041 | Antireflection film made of a CVD SiOfilm containing a fluoro and/or alkyl modifier A low refractive index SiO2 film is provided which uses a starting material for forming an SiO2 film and has a lower refractive index than the conventional SiO2 film. A starting material gas comprising a gas containing a fluorine ato... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342715 | Multilayer film reflector for soft X-rays and manufacturing method thereof A multilayer film reflector for X-rays has alternately stacked layers formed on a substrate and comprising a layer (high refractive index layer) comprising a material having a large difference between a refractive index to soft X-ray and a refractive index in vacuum... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341648 | Method for coating piston rings for internal combustion engine The invention relates to a method for coating piston rings (10) for internal combustion engines, wherein at least the bearing surface of the piston ring is provided with an anti-abrasion and anti-corrosion coating (12) by means of a PVD or electroplati... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7332216 | Film-reinforced glasses The present invention provides a film-reinforced glass, which has excellent impact resistance, penetration resistance and durability and which can be easily prepared. The constitution of the glass consists of one glass plate and a film comprising an organic polymer ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7326526 | Films with photoresponsive wettability In various aspects, the present invention provides substantially monolayer thick molecular films with photoresponsive wettability, the molecules of said films comprising a photochromic molecule coordinated to a metal atom, which is coordinated to an organic tetherin... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327535 | Hybrid coating for magnetic heads A system and method for providing corrosion protection for a magnetic read/write head is disclosed. A monolayer surface coating is applied to cover those portions of the under layer of a magnetic read/write head not already covered by a previously applied diamond-li... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7303809 | Process for forming electrodes Substantially transparent electrodes are formed upon a substrate by forming on the substrate, in order, a high index layer, a metallic conductive layer, and a conductive or semi-conductive top layer; and patterning the top layer and the conductive layer, preferably ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7258924 | Polar ordering of reactive chromophores in layer-by-layer nonlinear optical materials Thin films exhibiting second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties, as well as materials and methods for producing such films, are provided. The films are formed by depositing, on a substrate, alternate layers of a polyelectrolyte and a low molecular weight chrom... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252869 | Microtextured antireflective surfaces with reduced diffraction intensity A microstructured antireflective texture is disclosed comprised of an engineered array of protuberances arranged on a non-periodic lattice. The average distance between said protuberances is in the subwavelength regime of the waveband for which the antireflective ef... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247082 | Polishing composition A polishing composition comprising an improver of a ratio of a polishing rate of an insulating film to that of a stopper film, wherein the polishing rate of the stopper film is selectively decreased, comprising one or more compounds selected from the group consistin... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244493 | Coated article In one embodiment, a coated article comprises a substrate with a coating comprising diamond like carbon layer, wherein the diamond like carbon layer comprising carbon and sulfur as terminal sulfur functional groups, wherein greater than or equal to about 70 wt % of ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236296 | Multilayer infrared reflecting film with high and smooth transmission in visible wavelength region and laminate articles made therefrom A multilayer film article is disclosed. The film includes an infrared light reflecting multilayer film having alternating layers of a first polymer type and a second polymer type and an infrared light absorbing or reflecting layer adjacent the multilayer film. The f... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235619 | Silsesquioxane derivative A silsesquioxane derivative represented by Formula (2): wherein R is hydrogen, an alkyl, an aryl, or an arylalkyl; and X is hydrogen, chlorine, a functional group, or a group having a functional group. ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7226651 | Article with composite hardcoat layer and method for forming composite hardcoat layer The present invention provides inexpensively an article with a hard coat excellent in anti-staining property, lubricity, scratch resistance and abrasion resistance. The present invention also provides a method for forming the hard coat. A hard coat agent composition... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7202954 | Target detecting apparatus, target detection method and target detection substrate A target detection apparatus is provided which can detect and quantitatively measure various detection targets such as pathogens. For this purpose, the apparatus comprises an optical irradiation unit which irradiates light; an optical interference unit which can int... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198829 | Conductive organic thin film, process for producing the same, electronic device employing the same, electrical cable, electrode, pyrrolyl compound, and theienyl compound It is an object to provide a conductive organic thin film having organic molecules that include at one end a terminal bonding group that is covalently bonded to a substrate surface, a conjugate bonding group that is located at any portion of the organic molecules an... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192643 | Toughened cementitious composites The present invention relates to the field of toughening and reinforcing brittle matrix materials, and more specifically to the structural fibers made from an oriented film, which enhance the toughness of matrix materials such as concrete, cement, and other cementit... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7189479 | Phototool coating A phototool having a fluorinated phosph(on)ate coating and methods of using the phototool. ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7186772 | Coating composition for forming self-layering or self-coating lacquer systems Self-coating or self-layering lacquer systems from at least two different resins, oligomers, or polymers, which are emulsifiable or dispersible in water, have different surface tensions, and form self-layering phases. After the application, the phases separate into ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7179527 | Substrate with transparent conductive oxide film, process for its production and photoelectric conversion element A substrate with a transparent conductive oxide film (especially a substrate with a transparent conductive oxide film useful as a substrate for a thin-film silicon-based solar cell) being excellent in mass production efficiency and being characterized by having a lo... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7175897 | Adhesive articles which contain at least one hydrophilic or hydrophobic layer, method for making and uses for same The present invention relates to an adhesive article which can be used as a layer in or a cover for various articles in which a hydrophilic or hydrophobic surface is desired. The adhesive article includes a base layer having a first surface and a second surface and ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7169307 | Process for the extraction of paclitaxel and 9-dihydro-13-acetylbaccatin III from This invention teaches a purification technology to extract an organic solution of paclitaxel by using a “Load and Lock Axial Compression Column” for industrial scale preparative high performance liquid chromatography. The “Load and Lock Axial Compression Colu... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166495 | Method of fabricating a multi-die semiconductor package assembly An apparatus and method for increasing integrated circuit density comprising an upper die and a lower die, the latter preferably a flip chip, which are connected to a conductor-carrying substrate or a leadframe. The upper die is attached back-to-back to the lower di... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7166244 | Thermally crosslinked polymers Crosslinking between polymer chains having olefin groups occurs by heating the polymer chains in the presence of a catalyst. Mixtures of polymer and catalyst can be dried and cast into films at ambient temperatures and remain non-crosslinked and soluble for extended... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7146064 | System and method for producing optical circuits A method of fabricating a plurality of composite optical assemblies is disclosed. Each optical assembly includes a first optical element and a second optical element. The method includes the steps of providing a first composite substrate that may be divided into a p... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7141299 | Electronic junction devices featuring redox electrodes An electronic junction of the present invention comprises: (a) a first conductive component comprising: (i) a substrate having a contact surface; and (ii) at least one layer of molecular units having first and second ends, wherein at least one layer of molecular uni... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7138186 | Hydrophobic coatings and methods Substrates have a hydrophobic surface coating comprised of the reaction products of methyltrichlorsilane (MTCS) and dimethyldichlorosilane (DMDCS). Most preferably the substrate is glass. An anchor layer is most preferably formed directly onto the glass substrate su... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7138182 | Temperable high shading performance coatings The invention provides temperable high shading performance low-emissivity coatings. The invention also provides insulating glass units, monolithic panes, and other substrates bearing such coatings. Further, the invention provides methods of producing coated substrat... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7132837 | System and method for measuring conductivity on molecular level A conductivity measurement system measures conductivity of molecules. A substance to be measured is applied to the first and second electrodes. A potential is applied across the electrodes. A computer-controlled motion controller moves a first electrode relative to ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7125578 | Photoinduced charge-transfer materials for nonlinear optical applications A method using polyelectrolyte self-assembly for preparing multi-layered organic molecular materials having individual layers which exhibit ultrafast electron and/or energy transfer in a controlled direction occurring over the entire structure. Using a high molecula... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7122252 | High shading performance coatings The invention provides high shading performance, low-emissivity coatings. The invention provides a monolithic pane bearing a high shading performance, low-emissivity coating. The invention also provides an insulating glass unit bearing a high shading performance, lo... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7112366 | Chemical monolayer and micro-electronic junctions and devices containing same The present invention includes a chemical monolayer construction that comprises: (a) a substrate having a contact surface; and (b) a plurality of substantially parallel molecular units, wherein said molecular units are attached to said substrate so as to be strongly... | 09/26/2006 |