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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7833630 | Weldable metal composites and methods The present invention is directed to improved weldable metal composites and methods. A metal composite structure (10) features two metal members (12) (14) sandwiching a viscoelastic layer (26) where the viscoelastic layer entrains electri... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7405010 | Metal/rubber composite for tire A metallic body of carbon steel covered with an adhesive layer capable of adhering to a rubber matrix based on diene elastomer. The carbon content of the steel is between 0.35 and 1.2% by weight. The adhesive layer is formed of a metallic layer bearing aluminum oxid... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7354354 | Article comprising a fine-grained metallic material and a polymeric material Lightweight articles comprising a polymeric material at least partially coated with a fine-grained metallic material are disclosed. The fine-grained metallic material has an average grain size of 2 nm to 5,000 nm, a thickness between 25 micron and 5 cm, and a hardne... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354637 | Damper and process thereof A fitting type damper and a process thereof being capable of increasing largely slipping torque in strength are ones that the large slipping torque can be increased not only when the damper is a new product but also after a heat aging test and/or a durability test a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354658 | Oil seal The present invention provides a metal part in which a rubber is adhered to a portion or the whole of a surface thereof, and a surface treating method of the metal part, in order to improve adhesive property between the metal and the rubber, to easily form a surface... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351082 | Electrical connector including silicone elastomeric material and associated methods An electrical connector may include a connector body having a passageway therethrough. The connector body may include a first layer adjacent the passageway, a second layer surrounding the first layer and comprising an insulative silicone elastomeric material, and a ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7312534 | Interlayer dielectric and pre-applied die attach adhesive materials The present invention relates to interlayer dielectric materials and pre-applied die attach adhesives, more specifically pre-applied die attach adhesives (such as wafer and other substrate-applied die attach adhesives), methods of applying the interlayer dielectric ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7275463 | Tong with a continuous composite belt and methods for making and using same A manual tong is disclosed which includes a continuous composite continuous belt, a handle assembly, and a jaw assembly, where the continuous composite continuous belt is designed to take the place of the convention linked chains used currently in manual tongs. The ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7261932 | Composite structural laminate plate construction A composite structural laminate plate construction comprises two outer metal layers, a form between them and an elastomer layer bonded to the outer metal layers and filling the space between them other than that occupied by the form. The form may be foam and may be ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7201970 | Automobile insulated wire An insulated wire for an automobile coated with an insulating material which is a fire retardant polypropylene-based resin composition, wherein the fire retardant polypropylene-based resin composition comprises a polypropylene-base... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7191585 | Elevator rope An elevator rope comprising an elastomer coated, multistrand steel wire cable is claimed. In such a cable strands have a lay-length of at least 6.5 times the diameter of the bare cable diameter D. The cable is further coated with an elastomeric jacket, which adheres... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7182995 | Plated-polyester article and production process thereof Disclosed herein is a plated-polyester article with a plating layer formed on the surface of a polyester article. The polyester article is irradiated with ionizing radiation to crosslink a polyester resin, the arithmetic mean roughness Ra of the surface of the plati... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7152644 | Rubber reinforcing steel cord, manufacturing method of rubber reinforcing steel cord and pneumatic tire A method of manufacturing a rubber reinforcing steel cord is provided, wherein the steel cord has a steel wire plated with metal containing copper and having on its surface an oil layer containing a cobalt compound, and includes an application step in which the oil ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7104823 | Enhanced separable connector with thermoplastic member and related methods A connector body may have a passageway therethrough and may include a first layer adjacent the passageway and having a relatively low resistivity, a second layer surrounding the first layer and including a material having a relatively high resistivity, and a third l... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7104822 | Electrical connector including silicone elastomeric material and associated methods An electrical connector may include a connector body having a passageway therethrough. The connector body may include a first layer adjacent the passageway, a second layer surrounding the first layer and comprising an insulative silicone elastomeric material, and a ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7097914 | Composite structural material, and method of producing the same A plate-shaped composite material has a first member and a second member. The first member is an expanded metal formed of a metal plate. The coefficient of linear expansion of the metal plate is less than or equal to 8×10−6/degrees Celsius. The first m... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7066228 | Metal/rubber composite for tire A (metal/rubber) composite comprising a rubber matrix reinforced with a metallic body adhering to the rubber matrix by means of an adhesive interphase; the rubber matrix is based on diene elastomer; the metal is a carbon steel, the carbon content of which is between... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7048343 | Endless elastomeric track with corrosion resistant cables This invention relates to annular or endless elastomeric track 10 for use in vehicles for civil engineering, construction works and agricultural works. The track 10 has a thin belt 20 which includes a primary table 59 made of corrosion re... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6984432 | Damper and process thereof A fitting type damper and a process thereof being capable of increasing largely slipping torque in strength are ones that the large slipping torque can be increased not only when the damper is a new product but also after a heat aging test and/or a durability test a... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6935008 | Method for making metallic cord A method for making a metallic cord made up of one or more metallic wires comprises: making at least two layers of at least two metallic elements including copper and zinc on the surface of a base wire; heating the layers to cause the metallic elements thermodiffusi... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6905356 | Electrical connector including thermoplastic elastomer material and associated methods An electrical connector may include a connector body having a passageway therethrough. The connector body may include a first layer adjacent the passageway, a second layer surrounding the first layer and comprising an insulative thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) materia... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6896932 | Method of treating metallic cord A method of treating a metallic cord to improve its ability to adhere to rubber is disclosed. The method involves contacting the metallic cord with a naphthenic oil containing from 1 to 53 percent by weight of a soluble cobalt salt and thereby deposit from 0.002 to ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6830826 | Coated metal reinforcement element and coating materials A coated metal reinforcement element for polymeric or elastomeric materials comprises a coating of: a polymer or prepolymer compatible with and co-polymerizable, co-vulcanizable or crosslinkable with said polymeric or elastomeric material to be reinforced, and beari... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6790537 | Composite elements containing polyisocyanate-polyaddition products Composite elements have the following layer structure: (i) from 2 to 20 mm of metal, (ii) from 10 to 300 mm of polyisocyanate polyaddition products obtainable by reacting (a) isocyanates with (b) compounds which are reactive toward isocyanates in the p... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6770376 | Coated article with polymeric basecoat An article is coated with a multi-layer coating having the appearance of nickel. The coating comprises a polymeric layer on the surface of said article and vapor deposited on the polymeric layer a refractory metal nitride or refractory metal alloy nitride where the ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6770374 | Composite elements containing compact polyisocyanate polyaddition products Composite elements having the following layer structure: (i) 2-20 mm of metal, (ii) 10-100 mm of compact polyisocyanate polyaddition products obtainable by reacting (a) isocyanates with (b) polyether polyalcohols, if desired in the presence of (c) cata... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6759117 | Multilayer ceramic composite and process for forming the composite A multilayer ceramic composite is described which contains at least one supporting zone having oxidation-sensitive reinforcing fibers as well as a matrix. The matrix optionally contains oxidation-sensitive components. The composite further contains at least one surf... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6716535 | Method for gluing together large-surfaced workpieces with opposed expansion coefficients in a stable manner and composite structure produced in this way The invention relates to the field of machine elements for designing a composite of two parts, one of which is a rare-earth permanent magnet and the other of which is a metallic support. ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6709702 | Cover tape for electronic part conveyance and electronic part conveying member A cover tape for the electronic-part conveyance comprises at least four laminated layers of: a substrate; at least one layer of a base coating layer and an intermediate layer, provided on the substrate; an adhesive layer, provided on the at least one layer of the co... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6630249 | Composite steel structural plastic sandwich plate systems A composite structural laminate plate suitable for building maritime vessels or for building civil structures such as double hull oil tankers, bulk carriers, barges decks for roll-on roll-off ferries, orthotropic bridge decks or for building any structura... | 10/07/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6451155 | Method using a thin adhesion promoting layer for bonding silicone elastomeric material to nickel and use thereof in making a heat sink assembly A heat sink assembly and method for attaching a multi-chip module cap to a polymeric heat sink adhesive by means of a thin adhesion-promoting metal film layer, which provides an interfacial bond between the cap and polymeric adhesive meeting package perfo... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6322907 | Composite wire comprising a carbon-steel core and a stainless-steel outer layer Composite wire comprising a core made of carbon steel the chemical composition of which consists, by weight, of: 0.15%ࣘCࣘ0.6%; 0.1%ࣘSiࣘ0.3%; 0.3%ࣘMnࣘ1%; 0% Vࣘ0.3%; the remainder being iron and impurities resulting from processing; and an ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6310144 | Reinforced rubber article, production thereof and rubber composition suitable therefor A base rubber selected from natural rubber and diene rubber is blended with, based on 100 parts by weight of the base rubber, 0.5 to 5 parts by weight of a 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,2-dihydroquinoline polymer having a primary amine content of not more than 1% by ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6242097 | Cable There is disclosed a cable having a covering layer on the outside of a multicore stranded wire composed of plural insulated conductors that are intertwined, wherein at least an outermost layer of the covering layer is made of a crosslinked product of a re... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6202462 | Method of forming noise-damping material with ultra-thin viscoelastic layer A noise-damping composite is formed by providing a laminate of two metal layers separated by a much thinner viscoelastic layer which has an initial thickness of at least 1 mil., and then cold rolling the laminate to proportionally permanently reduce the t... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6193835 | Process for producing rubber-based composite material A process for producing a rubber-based composite material including steps of laminating a rubber compound onto a substrate, with a bonding layer of metal or metal compound interposed therebetween, and subsequently vulcanizing the rubber compound, characte... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6162550 | Tagging material A tagging material comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive tape incorporating electromagnetic sensor material whose presence can be detected. Tags are cut from the tagging material as the tagging material and articles are conveyed along converging paths a... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6120911 | Zinc-rich coated steel article There is disclosed a zinc-rich coated steel article which is characterized by an outer layer of rubber containing a weight ratio of sulfur vulcanizing agent to total accelerator ranging from 0.4:1 to 0.8:1.... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6090490 | Zirconium compound coating having a silicone layer thereon An article is coated with a multi-layer coating comprising a polymeric layer deposited on the surface of the article, a zirconium compound, titanium compound or zirconium/titanium alloy compound layer deposited on the polymeric layer, and a silicone resin... | 07/18/2000 |
