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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8075948 | Transparent conductive film The present invention provides a transparent conductive film having: a transparent base film; a transparent SiOx thin film having a thickness of from 10 to 100 nm, a refractive index of from 1.40 to 1.80 and an average surface roughness Ra of from 0.8 to ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7390531 | Method for producing a tool which can be used to create surface structures in the sub-μm range The invention is a method for producing a tool which can be used to create optically active surface structures in the sub-μm range, having a support surface onto which relief surface structures are applied over the support surface by means of material deposition. T... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7374641 | Papermaking belt and method of manufacturing papermaking belt A papermaking belt, used for a shoe pressing belt, a calender belt and a sheet transfer belt, is prevented from cracking and inhibited from growth of a crack, and comprises a reinforcing substrate (6) embedded in a thermosetting polyurethane layer (7) ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7361382 | Method for manufacturing coated sheet, optical functional layer, optical element, and image display device A method for manufacturing a coated sheet that forms a coated layer having a uniform film thickness by a coating liquid even when a substrate has a large area. A method for manufacturing a coated sheet to form a coated layer by a process including a process (1 | 04/22/2008 |
| 7318948 | Light transmissive films A thin film of zinc oxide is deposited by sputter deposition in a partial pressure of oxygen on a suitable at a low temperature, such as less than 300 degrees Centigrade, to provide an amorphous film. This should take place in a sputtering environment which will pro... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316831 | Tilted vertical alignment of liquid crystals employing inorganic thin film composition and ion beam treatment A liquid crystal display device includes an alignment layer with constituent materials. The constituent materials have a stoichiometric relationship configured to provide a given pretilt angle. Liquid crystal material is provided in contact with the alignment layer.... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7294360 | Conformal coatings for micro-optical elements, and method for making the same A micro-optical element is produced through vapor deposition techniques, such as atomic layer deposition. An optical structure having a surface with uneven structures is exposed to one or more precursor vapors to create a self-limiting film growth on the surface of ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291357 | Thin film deposition method and thin film deposition apparatus A thin film deposition method for producing an optical film with an optical characteristic on a deposition substrate in a vacuum chamber is provided. The method may include preparing in the vacuum chamber a deposition source which is a source of the film producing m... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7261843 | Photochromic optical article Describes a photochromic article, e.g., an ophthalmic photochromic plastic article, such as a lens, in which the article includes (1) a rigid substrate, e.g., a transparent substrate such as a glass or organic polymeric substrate, as for example, a thermoset or ther... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7244465 | Method for manufacturing coated sheet, optical functional layer, optical element, and image display device A method for manufacturing a coated sheet that may form a coated layer having a uniform film thickness by a coating liquid even when a substrate has a large area. A method for manufacturing a coated sheet to form a coated layer by a process including a process (1) f... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7217440 | Process for replacing an initial outermost coating layer of a coated optical lens with a different coating layer or by depositing thereon a different coating layer The invention concerns a process for replacing an initial outermost coating layer of a coated optical lens with a layer of a new final coating having surface properties different from those of said initial outermost coating which comprises: (a) providing a co... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7189456 | Photochromic optical article Describes a photochromic plastic article, e.g., an ophthalmic photochromic article, such as a lens, in which the article includes (1) a rigid substrate, e.g., polymeric substrate, such as a thermoset or thermoplastic substrate, (2) a photochromic polymeric coating a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7169441 | Method for making a UV-reflecting interference layer system There is provided a UV-reflective interference layer system for transparent substrates with broadband anti-reflection properties in the visible wavelength range. The interference layer system includes at least four individual layers. Successive layers have different... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7153584 | Hybrid film, antireflection film comprising it, optical product, and method for restoring the defogging property of hybrid film Hybrid films, such as those having good abrasion-resistance and defogging properties, antireflection films including it, optical products, and methods for restoring the defogging property of the hybrid films are disclosed. The hybrid films having a defogging propert... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7144598 | Rapid, thermally cured, back side mar resistant and antireflective coating for ophthalmic lenses Disclosed is a process to rapidly spin-apply an AR coating system to a backside of a prescription lens. The AR coating system comprises a polyurethane primer layer, a siloxane thermally cured scratch resistant coating layer, a two-layer sol-gel AR coating, and a hyd... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7122223 | Method for vacuum deposit on a curved substrate The invention concerns a method which consists in a process known per se in producing, on the curved substrate (10) to be treated, a film of material derived from a specific material source (13). The invention is characterized in that it consists in in... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7122222 | Precursors for depositing silicon containing films and processes thereof Processes for precursors for silicon dielectric depositions of silicon nitride, silicon oxide and silicon oxynitride on a substrate using a hydrazinosilane of the formula: [R12N—NH]nSi(R2)4−n | 10/17/2006 |
| 7095088 | System and device including a barrier layer Systems and devices are disclosed utilizing a silicon-containing barrier layer. A semiconductor device is disclosed and includes a substrate, a gate oxide, a silicon-containing barrier layer and a gate electrode. The gate oxide is formed over the substrate. The sili... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7051290 | Graphical interface for receiving eyeglass prescription information A high volume lens curing system is described. The high volume lens curing system is configured to cure multiple eyeglass lenses in a continuous manner. The lens curing system includes a computer-implemented method configured to collect prescription information, sav... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7037591 | Cleaning-friendly apparatus with an easily cleanable, heat-resistant surface coating The cleaning-friendly article, such as a household kitchen appliance, which is suitable for heating food and/or directly connected with this unit, has a suitable long-lasting or permanent easily cleaned coating on its surfaces that are accessible to dirt. In order t... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7012125 | Spin-on-glass anti-reflective coatings for photolithography Anti-reflective coating materials for deep ultraviolet photolithography include one or more organic dyes incorporated into spin-on-glass materials. Suitable dyes are strongly absorbing over wavelength ranges around wavelengths such as 248 nm and 193 nm that may be u... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6991826 | Antisoiling coatings for antireflective substrates This invention relates to antisoiling compositions for antireflective substrates. More particularly, this invention relates to methods for depositing antisoiling compositions onto antireflective substrates. In particular, this invention relates to a method of deposi... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6958191 | Lens with stain resistant surface layer A lens including a lens substrate, a surface layer, and a backing member provided beneath the surface layer, in which the backing member may be either the same as the lens substrate or a separate layer from the lens substrate, and wherein the surface layer includes ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6955833 | Coating glass A process for the production of a heat-treatable low emissivity coated glass that comprises the steps of depositing an underlayer onto a glass substrate and subsequently depositing a reflective metal layer by a vacuum deposition process, wherein the underlayer is de... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6937398 | Highly reflective optical components Optical components may be made with reflectors that increase the reflectivity of the resulting device. Increasing in the reflectivity may reduce the need for higher power light sources. In particular, the use of deposited silver layers may dramatically increase the ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6929822 | Method for manufacturing optical member having water-repellent thin film A method for manufacturing an optical member by vapor depositing an antireflective film on a plastic optical member and vapor depositing a water-repellent thin film over the antireflective film. The vapor deposition of the water-repellent thin film is conducted by e... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6929830 | Plasma treatment method and method of manufacturing optical parts using the same A method for treating a non-planar surface of an object by employing a plasma treatment apparatus in which a microwave dielectric has a non-planar surface corresponding to the surface of the object. A method for forming an optical part is also provided. ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6926926 | Silicon carbide deposited by high density plasma chemical-vapor deposition with bias A SiC-based layer is deposited on a substrate having an electrical resistivity between about 1 and 100 Ω cm. The substrate is disposed in a process chamber. A gaseous mixture having a silicon-containing gas and a hydrocarbon-containing gas is flowed to the process ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6893543 | Information carrier and method for producing the same A method and apparatus for producing an information carrier which has at least two solid material interfaces at which information is, or may be applied and where the information is stored by local modulation of at least one characteristic of the solid material. Refl... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6887514 | Method of depositing optical films To deposit optical quality films by PECVD (Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition), a six-dimensional space wherein five dimensions thereof correspond to five respective independent variables of which a set of four independent variables relate to the flow-rate of... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6852376 | Antiglare film An antiglare film applicable to polarizers or displays includes a light-transparent resin, first light-transparent particles dispersed on surface of the light-transparent resin and second light-transparent particles dispersed inside the resin. The first light-transp... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6846556 | Substrate with a photocatalytic coating The subject of the invention is a glass-, ceramic- or vitroceramic-based substrate (1) provided on at least part of at least one of its faces with a coating (3) with a photocatalytic property containing at least partially crystalline titanium oxide. | 01/25/2005 |
| 6833159 | Method for applying hydrophobic anti-reflection coatings to lenses and lens blanks A method provides high-vacuum vapor coating methods, with the methods producing novel coating compositions with surprisingly increased performance levels over coatings produced from the same materials under different processing conditions. Compounds of the general f... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6805903 | Method of forming optical thin film A method for forming an optical thin film used for optical elements of laser systems including high-energy lasers and an optical element of optical apparatuses is provided. The optical thin film can be easily formed on a desired substrate with reproducibility by vap... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6780786 | Method for producing a porous silicon film A membrane structure comprising a silicon film having a grain structure including grains defining pores therebetween. ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6716476 | Method of depositing an optical quality silica film by PECVD A method is disclosed for depositing an optical quality silica film on a wafer by PECVD. The flows rates for a raw material gas, an oxidation gas, a carrier gas, and a dopant gas are first set at predetermined levels. The total deposition pressure is set at a predet... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6695458 | High-reflectance silver mirror and reflecting optical element A high-reflectance silver mirror has a high-reflectance film comprising a silver layer formed on a base material made of phosphorus-containing glass. The high-reflectance film is formed by a wet film-forming process on an acid-resistant protection film co... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6692832 | Anti-reflective hydrophobic coatings and methods Substrates have anti-reflective hydrophobic surface coatings comprised of the reaction products of a vapor-deposited chlorosilyl group containing compound and a vapor-deposited alkylsilane. Most preferably the substrate is glass. In one preferred form of ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6682899 | Apparatus and method for detecting and identifying infectious agents Solid phase methods for the identification of an analyte in a biological medium, such as a body fluid, using bioluminescence are provided. A chip designed for performing the method and detecting the bioluminescence is also provided. Methods employing biom... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6643078 | Aluminum reflecting mirror and method of making the same Within a chamber in a vacuum atmosphere, SiO is deposited on a glass substrate so as to form a first layer as a protective film, Al is deposited on the first layer so as to form a second layer as an aluminum reflective film, MgF2 is deposited o... | 11/04/2003 |
