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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7351672 | Convertible top fabric A convertible roofing material which includes an outer fabric layer formed at least partially of polymeric coated, core yarns such as a polyester core coated with polyvinyl chloride. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341806 | Battery having carbon foam current collector A battery cell includes a negative current collector and at least one carbon foam positive current collector disposed within the cell such that the negative current collector at least partially surrounds the at least one carbon foam positive current collector. An in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7311751 | Filter medium A filter medium includes at least a first and a second layer. Both first and second layers have a layer volume VLq and a layer filtering surface SLq, where SLq is the accumulation of all mantle surfaces of the fibers present in this layer q. The first layer has a SL... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7293403 | Combustion chamber with internal jacket made of a ceramic composite material and process for manufacture A combustion chamber, in particular for a rocket drive, includes at least one jacket madeof a composite material with a ceramic matrix. The composite material contains a fibrous structure made of carbon-containing fibers, and the fibrous structure comprises layers o... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292440 | Heat dissipating sheet and plasma display device including the same A plasma display device entirely distributes the temperature of a heat generator, and improves the detachability of a heat dissipating sheet and coherence with the heat generator. The plasma display device includes a plasma display panel for displaying an image, a c... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291391 | Electrically conductive yarn An electrically conductive yarn comprises stainless steel fibers with a specific stainless steel electrical resistance. The stainless steel fibers are coated with a metal coating, consisting of a metal material having a specific electrical resistance, smaller than t... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285173 | Desoldering systems and processes A process for recovering a solder contaminant from a substrate surface with a wick structure comprising a plurality of heat conductive metal strands and a desoldering flux comprising a mixture of a first component of a partially polymerized rosin having a melting po... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7204461 | Wire cloth A wire cloth includes metallic warp wires and metallic weft wires interwoven with one another, wherein the weft wires have each a diameter which is equal or smaller than a clear distance between two neighboring warp wires, and wherein the weft wires are constricted ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7150046 | Protective garment Protective clothing comprises at least one protective material including an array of one or more superposed layers of woven fabric, wherein each fabric layer is flexible and includes at least one fabric, made of yarns having a strength of at least 900 MPa, that is j... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7134590 | Desoldering sheath A desoldering sheath that comprises at least one hollow metal wire molded to conform to the tip of a desoldering tool. In one implementation, the desoldering sheath is formed using a hollow metal wire that is coiled around a male cone-shaped mold. The coiled, hollow... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7081293 | Metallic nanowire and method of making the same A metallic nanowire having an aspect ratio of at least 100 and a diameter less than 200 nanometers composed of at least one of bismuth, indium, tin, lead, zinc, antimony and alloys of the same and a method of making the same from a thin film composite. ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7077937 | Large surface area electrode and method to produce same A large surface area electrode well-suited to electrochemical applications is produced by winding many turns of a metallic fiber tow on to a sheet metal rectangle. In the preferred embodiment, an anode that can be used to purify water by electrochemical production o... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7045219 | Short metal fibers The present invention relates to short metal fibers. A set of short metal fibers, with an equivalent diameter ranging from 1 to 150 $(m)m, comprises entangled and curved fibers. At least 10% of the short metal fibers are entangled, whereas the length of the curved f... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7033703 | Composite material and current collector for battery A composite material including a first carbon foam structure including a network of pores and a second carbon foam structure including a network of pores. An intermediate bonding structure is disposed at least in part between the first and second carbon foam structu... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7003977 | Cryogenic cooling system and method with cold storage device A cooling system for providing cryogenic cooling fluid to an apparatus comprises a re-circulation device, a passive cold storage device having a porous matrix of material which directly contacts the cryogenic cooling fluid as the cryogenic cooling fluid passes throu... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6979513 | Battery including carbon foam current collectors A battery having a current collector constructed of carbon foam. The carbon foam includes a network of pores into which a chemically active material is disposed to create either a positive or negative plate for the battery. The carbon foam resists corrosion and exhi... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6821601 | Stitchbonded fabric and process for making same An improved stitchbonded fabric has a pattern of stitches formed by a multi-needle stitched set of contractible stitching threads in a planar material that comprises a non-fibrous layer of polymer or metal, such as a metallic foil, a polymeric film, or a leather. Co... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6667110 | Hybrid steel cord for tires A hybrid steel cord and method of making such cord which includes, in contact with one or more carbon steel wire(s), at least one stainless steel wire whose microstructure contains less than 20% of martensite (% by volume). Articles made of plastic and/or... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6548185 | Feathery copper fiber body, process for production thereof, and copper microcoil To provide a feathery copper fiber body which can be uniformly dispersed in a resin composition, rubber composition, low melting metal, coating compound, adhesive, etc. to exert an effect of electrically and mechanically modifying the matrix. A fiber body... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6475636 | Steel cord for protection plies of pneumatic tires A steel cord particularly adapted for reinforcement of a protection ply in a tire has under compression in rubber a deformation Wk at instability of at least 3% and is stress-relieved so that its total elongation at rupture in rubber exceeds 3.... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6465110 | Metal felt laminate structures A laminate comprises first and second metal layers, and a metallic felt layer disposed between the metal layers and attached to each to provide vibrational damping and thermal insulation. In one embodiment, the layers are tubular in shape and form an auto... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6360437 | Electrical contact having surface coating layer with irregular surface due to hard particles dispersed in the surface coating layer In an electrical contact having a contacting portion to be brought into contact with and electrically connected with a terminal member, the contact comprises a metallic body having a body surface and a metallic plated layer formed on the body surface of a... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6287446 | High porosity three-dimensional structures in chromium based alloys The invention relates to metallic products and a process for producing these which allows, despite the complexity of their structure, for them to be produced in refractory alloys based on chromium. The chromium is deposited by electrolysis, this being car... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6276173 | Covering for structures that come into contact with glass objects during their moulding process The invention relates to a contact member or covering (1) for covering structures (4,9) that come into contact with glass objects (12) during their forming process. The covering is a relatively compact non-woven fiber web (2) with apertures (10) and compr... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6270913 | Apparatus for manufacturing metallic fibers, method of manufacturing twine of metallic fibers, twine of metallic fibers and method of coloring metallic fiber A method of manufacturing a metallic fiber in which from a convergent extended wire, which is formed by a metallic fiber and a matrix member which is formed of a metallic material and whose dissolvability is higher than the dissolvability of the metallic ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6228509 | Electromagnetic wave shielding sheet The present invention provides a thin and flexible electromagnetic wave shielding material having excellent electromagnetic wave shielding properties and mainly usable in electronic equipment. The electromagnetic wave shielding sheet according to the pres... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6113722 | Microscopic tube devices and method of manufacture The invention comprises devices composed of at least one microscopic hollow tube having a wall of single or multiple layers with a thickness of at st one nanometer and a diameter of at least 5 nanometers. The walls of the tubes can be formed from a wide... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6074752 | Metal fibre agglomerate and process for manufacturing the same The invention relates to a metal fiber agglomerate comprising fibers with an equivalent diameter of between 1 μm and 30 μm and with a length of between 1 mm and 20 mm, with the feature that the core of the agglomerate contains at least one bundle of fib... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6045926 | Thin textile fabric comprising bundles of metal filaments The invention relates to a textile fabric comprising bundles of metal filaments obtained by bundled drawing whereby the bundles in the sheet consist of filaments running substantially parallel and whereby the fabric has a thickness of preferably less than... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6025282 | Textile fabric comprising bundles of machined metal filaments Textile fabrics are formed of bundles of machined metal filaments disposed in nearly parallel arrangement in the bundles. The machined filaments have a predominantly quadrilateral cross-section, and an equivalent filament diameter of between 15 and 150 μ... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5922460 | Composite materials A metal matrix composite material made of a fiber reinforcement having a coating of gadolinium and gadolinium boride, preferably as discrete layers, each having a thickness of 1 to 6 microns. This composite is made by coating reinforcing fibers with gadol... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5830415 | Filter member for purifying exhaust gas and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides a car exhaust purifying filter member which is high in the capacity to collect solid and liquid contents in exhausts and which has such high heat resistance as to be capable of withstanding heat when burned for cleaning and ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5733620 | Roof for vehicles, particularly for convertibles A roof for vehicles, particularly convertibles: A roof material including an upper fabric layer, a lower fabric layer, a rubberizing layer arranged between the upper and lower fabric. Possibly a ceiling inner lining is arranged below the roof material. A ... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5709914 | Thermal storage and transfer device A selected endothermic agent having a heat of reaction is embedded within an absorbent supporting open cell network matrix. The matrix is capable of being shaped into a form retaining body for the controlled transfer of heat by radiation, convection, and ... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5660938 | Fe-Ni-Cr-base superalloy, engine valve and knitted mesh supporter for exhaust gas catalyzer An FE--Ni--Cr-base superalloy consists essentially of, by weight, up to 0.15% C, up to 1.0% Si, up to 3.0% Mn, 30 to 49% Ni, 10 to 18% Cr, 1.6 to 3.0% Al, one or more elements selected from Groups IVa and Va whose amount or total amount is 1.5 to 8.0%, th... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5643684 | Unwoven metal fabric An unwoven metal fabric suitable for use as a battery electrode, a catalyst or a filter, and a method of manufacturing such fabric. An unwoven carbon fabric made up of carbon fibers bound together by a resin is heated to carbonize the binder resin and thu... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5571628 | Metal fiber preforms and method for making the same A preform useful in forming fiber reinforced cementitious composites is disclosed. The preform consists of a free-standing network of metal fibers. In one embodiment, the preform has a shape which bounds a substantial non-interstitial volume devoid of fib... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5525423 | Method of making multiple diameter metallic tow material An apparatus and method is disclosed for an improved fiber tow having plural diameter metallic wires, comprising the drawing of a first cladded metallic wire to provide a first drawn cladding of reduced diameter. The first cladding is separated into a pri... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5518833 | Nonwoven electrode construction A negative electrode, and hydrogen storage cell incorporating the negative electrode, wherein the negative electrode is a porous mat of conductive fibers. These fibers, which are capable of reversible hydrogen storage, have high aspect ratios, typically g... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5378426 | Oxidation resistant metal particulates and media and methods of forming the same with low carbon content Metal particulates and porous metal media, which have enhanced resistance to undesirable oxidation, and methods of producing the same are provided. The porous metal media comprise sintered metal particulates each typically having a core and a surface and ... | 01/03/1995 |
