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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8097304 | Method of forming nano-particle array by convective assembly, and convective assembly apparatus for the same A method of forming a nano-particle array by convective assembly and a convective assembly apparatus for the same are provided. The method of forming nano-particle array comprises: coating a plurality of nano-particles by forming a coating layer; performing a first ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8084091 | Non-aqueous quinacridone dispersions using dispersion synergists A non-aqueous pigment dispersion includes a quinacridone pigment, a polymeric dispersant, and a dispersion synergist in a non-aqueous dispersion medium wherein the dispersion synergist is a quinacridone derivative substituted on one of the two nitrogen atoms of the ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8084090 | Aqueous ink for inkjet recording The present invention relates to (1) a water dispersion for ink-jet printing which includes a self-dispersible pigment (A) containing a salt-forming group and polymer particles (B) containing a constitutional unit derived from a salt-forming group-containing monomer... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8084092 | Water-insoluble colorant dispersion, production method thereof, and recording liquid, ink set, image-forming method and image-forming apparatus using the same A water-insoluble colorant dispersion prepared by a production method including a step of codissolving a water-insoluble colorant and a polymer compound having one or more acid groups selected from carboxylic acid group, sulfonic acid group and phosphoric acid group... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8071168 | Micrometric direct-write methods for patterning conductive material and applications to flat panel display repair A new, low temperature method for directly writing conductive metal traces with micron and sub-micron sized features. In this method, a flat beam is used, such as an AFM cantilever, with or without a tip, to draw traces of metal precursor ink onto a substrate. The d... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8071169 | Droplet discharge method, electro-optical device, and electronic device A droplet discharge method includes performing a plurality of scans in which a discharge head and a substrate are scanned relative to each other, discharging droplets of a plurality of types of functional liquid from the discharge head onto a plurality of prescribed... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8067063 | Stretch composites and methods of making the composite A stretch composite having one or more elastomeric members disposed on at least one region of an extensible fibrous substrate to provide stretch properties to a targeted region of the substrate. The composite has been incrementally stretched to at least partially br... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8057857 | Phase separation in patterned structures Novel phase-separation behavior by a mixture, including binary mixture, of patterning compounds, including alkanethiols, when deposited onto a surface, including a gold surface, using micro and nano-deposition tools such as tip and stamp methods like micro-contact p... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8039055 | Method to increase the efficiency of polymer drag reduction for marine and industrial applications A method for increasing the efficiency of additive drag reduction by establishing a drag-reducing viscoelastic coating on a surface. The method includes mixing a polymer into a concentrated solution that has approximately the same density as a fluid flowing over the... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8034412 | Treatment of items A method of forming a ramp of material on a stepped portion of an item, comprises applying material in liquid form to the item in the vicinity of the stepped portion, the liquid having properties such that the liquid moves by capillary attraction to the stepped port... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8012538 | Method of manufacturing at least one projecting section of nozzle plate, nozzle plate, inkjet head and image forming apparatus A method of manufacturing at least one projecting section of a nozzle plate used in a liquid ejection head, includes: a partial lyophilic rendering step of rendering a lyophilic characteristic to a portion of a lyophobic film provided on an ejection surface side of ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7998528 | Method for direct fabrication of nanostructures An all-additive method for direct fabrication of nanometer-scale planar and multilayer structures comprises the steps of acquiring a transferable material with a submillimeter-scale tip, depositing at least a portion of the acquired first transferable material at a ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7989026 | Method of use of epoxy-containing cycloaliphatic acrylic polymers as orientation control layers for block copolymer thin films Disclosed herein is a method of controlling the orientation of microphase-separated domains in a block copolymer film, comprising forming an orientation control layer comprising an epoxy-containing cycloaliphatic acrylic polymer on a surface of a substrate, irradiat... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7989025 | Film forming method, method for manufacturing organic electroluminescent device, organic electroluminescent device, and electronic apparatus A film forming method for forming a film including arranging a liquid composition on a substrate and drying the liquid composition, the liquid composition being obtained by dissolving a functional material in a solvent with a plurality of species of liquid mixed the... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7964242 | Formation of carbon-containing material A method includes forming ionic clusters of carbon-containing molecules, which molecules have carbon-carbon sp2 bonds, and accelerating the clusters. A surface of a substrate is irradiated with the clusters. A material is formed on the surface using the c... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7959974 | Nanotube assembly Methods and articles providing for precise aligning, positioning, shaping, and linking of nanotubes and carbon nanotubes. An article comprising: a solid surface comprising at least two different surface regions including: a first surface region which comprises an ou... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954166 | Independently-addressable, self-correcting inking for cantilever arrays An improved method of loading tips and other surfaces with patterning compositions or inks for use in deposition. A method of patterning is described, the method comprising: (i) providing at least one array of tips; (ii) providing a plurality of patterning compositi... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7951424 | Selective placement of carbon nanotubes on oxide surfaces The present invention provides a method for the selective placement of carbon nanotubes on a particular surface. In particular, the present invention provides a method in which self-assembled monolayers formed on an unpatterned or patterned metal oxide surface are u... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7951423 | Surface-structured substrate and production thereof The invention relates to a method for production of a surface-structured substrate, comprising the steps: (i) production of a first substrate, nanostructured with inorganic nanoclusters on at least one surface, (ii) application of a substrate material for a second s... | 05/31/2011 |
| RE42372 | Apparatus for dispensing liquid crystal and method for controlling liquid crystal dropping amount A liquid crystal dispensing apparatus and a method of controlling a liquid crystal dropping amount are provided to drop liquid crystal onto a substrate corresponding to at least one unit panel area. In one aspect, the apparatus uses a liquid crystal dispensing unit ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7939132 | Film pattern forming method for forming a margin band and filling the margin band A film pattern forming method is for forming a film pattern on a predetermined region of a substrate that has a predetermined shape. The film pattern forming method includes: rendering a surface of the substrate liquid-repellent; applying droplets of a liquid contai... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939133 | Method of transferring patterned non-densely packed interfacial particle films onto substrates A process for transferring patterned non-densely packed interfacial particle films onto substrates by providing a substrate, modifying the substrate so that it is non-water wetting, providing an interfacial film of charged particles, applying a surface modifying pro... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7931939 | Dyeing method of aluminum-based member, and aluminum-based member In a dyeing method of an aluminum-based member, a first color forming material is held in a hole of a first region of an anodized film, a second color forming material is held in holds of a second region that is smaller than the first region by diagonally spraying, ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7914850 | Method for producing nanostructures on a substrate A method for producing nanostructures on a substrate, by dripping a solution of nanostructure-forming material in water onto the substrate heated to a temperature above the temperature at which a drop of the solution is initially suspended on a vapor cushion after b... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7897211 | Method for forming film pattern and method for manufacturing an organic EL device, a color filter substrate and a liquid crystal display device A method for forming a film pattern made of a high-performance material by arranging a functional fluid on a base substrate and drying the functional fluid, the functional fluid being the high-performance material dissolved or dispersed in a solvent is provided. The... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897212 | Method of marking material, marked and verification of genuineness of a product The invention relates to the marking of a material (18) with identifier marks (16), the material thus marked, and verification of the genuineness of a product on the basis of the marks. In accordance with the invention, an optical brightener is incorpo... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897213 | Methods for contained chemical surface treatment An apparatus, system and method for preparing a surface of a substrate using a proximity head includes applying a non-Newtonian fluid between the surface of the substrate and a head surface of the proximity head. The non-Newtonian fluid defines a containment wall al... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7867561 | Circuit pattern forming method and circuit pattern forming device A circuit pattern forming method includes a first ejection step of ejecting large droplets of a circuit pattern forming liquid onto a substrate, by causing a liquid ejection head to scan the substrate, to form first dots of the liquid on the substrate with gaps betw... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7867562 | Method of controlling coating edge thickness in a web process One method for controlling edge thickness includes applying a coating to a moving substrate, thereby forming a film having a cross direction and a machine direction and one or more edges. The method also includes modifying a thickness of a first portion of the coati... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7851020 | Droplet discharge method, electro-optic device, and electronic apparatus A method for discharging droplets includes: discharging droplets of a plurality of variations of functional liquids by a plurality of discharge heads, on a coated area from a plurality of nozzles installed in each of the discharge heads, while scanning relatively ov... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7815971 | Method for making nanostructures with chromonics Methods of forming nanostructures with chromonic materials are disclosed. A method includes coating a substrate surface with a chromonic solution to form a chromonic layer, removing at least a portion of the water to form a dried chromonic layer, and exposing the dr... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7811635 | Patterning of solid state features by direct write nanolithographic printing The present invention includes a method of fabricating organic/inorganic composite nanostructures on a substrate comprising depositing a solution having a block copolymer and an inorganic precursor on the substrate using dip pen nanolithography. The nanostructures c... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7807226 | System, device, and method for producing thin plastic lenses Light transmission devices, such as lenses and windows for portable electronic devices, are produced using an injection/compression molding technique in which a light transmission device mold includes an integral runner in substantially the same plane and with subst... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7794790 | Method of printing a fluid material using a continuous jet printing technique and curable compositions for use in said method The invention relates to a method for printing a fluid material using a continuous jet printing technique, wherein the material is passed under pressure from a reservoir through a channel to at least one outflow opening of the channel, after which the material is pa... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7763319 | Method of controlling orientation of domains in block copolymer films A method of orienting microphase-separated domains is disclosed, comprising applying a composition comprising an orientation control component, and a block copolymer assembly component comprising a block copolymer having at least two microphase-separated domains in ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7722928 | Nanolithography methods and products therefor and produced thereby In one aspect, a method of nanolithography is provided using a driving force to control the movement of a deposition compound from a scanning probe microscope tip to a substrate. Another aspect of the invention provides a tip for use in nanolithography having an int... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7687111 | Method for structuring a substrate surface In a method for structuring the surface of a substrate, a substrate is elastically expanded by the application of a tensile stress so that a surface area of the substrate in which a structure is to be created, is enlarged. Then, in the surface area, a structure is p... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7651735 | Orienting, positioning, and forming nanoscale structures Methods and a structure. A first film of a first block copolymer is formed inside a trough integrally disposed on an energetically neutral surface layer of a substrate. Line-forming microdomains are assembled of the first block copolymer, and form first self-assembl... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7638171 | Artificial finger print liquid, testing method for optical information medium using it, and optical information medium A method for using a low-cost artificial fingerprint liquid for quantitatively and with a good reproducibility evaluating an anti-staining property, and a fingerprint adhering property or a fingerprint removing property on the surface of an optical disk such as a re... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7629027 | Method for making chromonic nanoparticles A chromonic nanoparticle mixture prepared by combining (i) a continuous water-soluble polymer phase and (ii) a discontinuous chromonic phase comprising a chromonic material; and non-covalently crosslinking the resulting chromonic nanoparticles with a polyvalent cati... | 12/08/2009 |
