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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8147985 | Diamond coating by living polymerization A method for coating a diamond where an initiation site is provided on the diamond surface or initiation of a living polymerization on the site and the initiation site is reacted with a monomer having a site the reacts with and bonds to the initiation site to form a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8057915 | Acoustical gypsum board panel and method of making it The acoustical product of the present invention comprises an acoustical product including a matrix of calcium sulfate dihydrate crystals and expanded perlite distributed throughout the matrix. The expanded perlite has a particle size distribution with at least 10% o... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8012601 | Cold gas spraying method In a cold gas spraying method, a gas jet (15) into which particles (19) are introduced is generated with the aid of a cold gas spray gun (20). The kinetic energy of the particles (19) results in a layer being formed on a substrate (13 | 09/06/2011 |
| 7972711 | Large area, uniformly low dislocation density GaN substrate and process for making the same Large area single crystal III-V nitride material having an area of at least 2 cm2, having a uniformly low dislocation density not exceeding 3×106 dislocations per cm2 of growth surface area, and including a plurality of distinct reg... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7897268 | Composite structure According to the present invention, a structure made of yttrium oxide is formed on a surface of a substrate comprises yttrium oxide polycrystals as a main component, a boundary layer made of hyaline does not substantially exist on a boundary face between crystals wh... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7776454 | Ti brazing strips or foils A method for producing titanium alloy brazing strips and the resulting brazing strips and/or foils. The method uses a cold-rolling process without heat treating to generate a titanium based multi-layer alloy strip or foil made up of discrete layers of titanium and a... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7722964 | Fiber reinforced cement board and manufacturing process Provided is a fiber reinforced cement board having good installation properties such as nail performance, flexibility performance and handling performance, as well as other favorable physical properties. The board has an absolute dry specific gravity of not l... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7635525 | Gas barrier laminate film and method for producing the same A gas barrier laminate film including at least one inorganic layer and at least one organic layer on a base material film, wherein the organic layer is a layer formed by ring opening polymerization of at least one kind of oxetanyl group-containing monomer. The gas b... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7435473 | Printed substrate and printing method The invention refers to a printed substrate comprising a substrate with an oleophilic surface having a Gurley-Hill permeance value bigger than 5000 s/100 ml, the ink printed on the substrate having an IGT ink set-off value bigger than 0.60 print density units at 30 ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435480 | Infusion solution bag and laminated film therefor An infusion solution bag is made of a particular laminated film which contains a heat-resistant resin layer, an oxygen gas barrier layer and a sealant layer laminated through an adhesive resin layer by thermal lamination, which is a solventless method. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435468 | Multi-layer structure and method of drawing microscopic structure therein, optical disc master and method of fabricating the same using the multi-layer structure, and optical disc manufactured using the optical disc master A multi-layer structure whose volume changes when a temperature exceeds a predetermined threshold value, a microscopic structure drawing method that involves emitting a laser beam onto the multi-layer structure to create a temperature distribution within a beam spot... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7431984 | Hybrid lens using translucent ceramic A hybrid lens (3) has a structure in which a resin layer (2) composed of an ultraviolet curable resin is formed on the surface of a lens base material (1) composed of translucent ceramic. The lens base material (3) is composed of transluc... | 10/07/2008 |
| RE40531 | Ultrabarrier substrates A barrier assembly. The barrier assembly includes at least one barrier stack having at least one barrier layer and at least one polymer layer. The barrier stack has an oxygen transmission rate of less than 0.005 cc/m2/day at 23° C. and 0% relative humidi... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7422790 | Methods of processing nanocrystals, and compositions, devices and systems including same Methods of processing nanocrystals to remove excess free and bound organic material and particularly surfactants used during the synthesis process, and resulting nanocrystal compositions, devices and systems that are physically, electrically and chemically integrata... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7399532 | Corrosive resistant metal material covered with conductive substance A corrosive resistant metal material covered with a conductive substance suitable for use in a component material requiring conductivity and corrosion resistance like electrical conductive material, electrical contact, electromagnetic wave shield, electrochemical el... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7396788 | Glass composition and glass substrate A glass substrate for use as the substrate of an information recording medium such as a magnetic disk, magneto-optical disk, DVD, or MD or of an optical communication device, and a glass composition for making such a glass substrate, contains the following glass ing... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7372016 | Calibration standard for a dual beam (FIB/SEM) machine Calibration of measurements of features made with a system having a micromachining tool and an analytical tool is disclosed. The measurements can be calibrated with a standard having a calibrated feature with one or more known dimensions. The standard may have one o... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368168 | Low-friction sliding member A low-friction sliding member is used under a wet condition employing a lubricant, and includes a substrate having a surface, and an amorphous hard carbon film formed on the surface of the substrate for contacting slidably with a mating member. The amorphous hard ca... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364805 | Crystal film, crystal substrate, and semiconductor device A crystal foundation having dislocations is used to obtain a crystal film of low dislocation density, a crystal substrate, and a semiconductor device. One side of a growth substrate (11) is provided with a crystal layer (13) with a buffer layer (12 | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364615 | Method of forming pavers containing waste glass particles A method for forming pavers includes mixing cement, water and sand to form a cement composition, and mixing waste glass particles with the cement composition to form a cement-glass particle composition. Thereafter the cement glass particle composition is poured into... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361941 | Calibration standards and methods Parameters of a metrology tool may be determined by measuring a dimension of a feature on a calibration standard with the tool and using the measured dimension and a known traceable value of the dimension to determine a value for the parameter. If the dimension of t... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358722 | Integrated three-dimensional magnetic sensing device and method to fabricate an integrated three-dimensional magnetic sensing device An integrated three-dimensional magnetic or any field sensing device and a method to fabricate an integrated three-dimensional magnetic sensing device is presented. An integrated three-dimensional magnetic sensing device comprises an apparatus that defines at least ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352061 | Flexible core for enhancement of package interconnect reliability An IC package is disclosed that comprises a core region disposed between upper and lower build-up layer regions. In one embodiment, the core region comprises a low modulus material. In an alternative embodiment the core region comprises a medium modulus material. In... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351993 | Rare earth-oxides, rare earth-nitrides, rare earth-phosphides and ternary alloys with silicon Atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) is applied to the fabrication of new forms of rare-earth oxides, rare-earth nitrides and rare-earth phosphides. Further, ternary compounds composed of binary (rare-earth oxides, rare-earth nitrides and rare-earth phosphides) mixed with sil... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351282 | Cutting method and apparatus for ingot, wafer, and manufacturing method of solar cell Cutting method of ingot into wafers along cleavage plane. Onto surface of single crystal ingot 10 is implanted ion beam 23 to generate lattice defects in a direction defined by the crystal axes that corresponds to the cleavage plane. Cleavage is genera... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351470 | Removable antireflection film An antireflection film and method of making same includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, an inorganic layer deposited on the first surface of the substrate, and an optically active polymer layer formed by curing a curable composition in sit... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348060 | Porous and spherical calcium phosphate particle comprising metal ion, and porous multilayer calcium phophate particle A porous and spherical calcium phosphate particle which is substituted with a metal ion or has a metal ion carried on the surface thereof, and has a particle diameter of 0.1 to 100 μm. The calcium phosphate particle is a novel functional particle which is useful, f... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7332002 | Low sulfur coal additive for improved furnace operation The present invention is directed to additives for coal-fired furnaces, particularly furnaces using a layer of slag to capture coal particles for combustion. The additive(s) include iron, mineralizer(s), handling aid(s), flow aid(s), and/or abrasive material(s). The... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324281 | Refractive boundary elements, devices, and materials An optical device includes an interface between two or more media. The refractive indices, orientations of media, and alignment relative to a propagating wave define a refractive boundary at which reflections may be reduced or eliminated, and at which, for certain i... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312182 | Rare earth metal compounds for use in high critical temperature thin film super-conductors Rare earth metal containing compounds of the formula Sr2LuSbO6 and Sr2LaSbO6 have been prepared as high critical temperature thin film superconductor structures, and can be used in other ferroelectrics, pyroelectrics, piez... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311977 | Highly-oriented diamond film, method for manufacturing the same, and electronic device having highly-oriented diamond film A highly-oriented diamond film which has a flat surface but does not have non-oriented crystals in the surface can be provided by depositing a first diamond layer on a substrate by {111} sector growth of diamond crystals by a CVD method using a gaseous mixture of me... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7306855 | Rare earth metal compounds for use in high critical temperature thin film structures for super-conductors, ferroelectrics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics, and hybrids Rare earth metal containing compounds of the general formula Sr2RESbO6, wherein RE is a rare earth metal, have been prepared as dielectric substrates and buffer layers in thin film superconductor structures, and can be used in other ferroelectr... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301638 | Dimensional calibration standards A calibration standard, for calibrating lateral or angular dimensional measurement systems, is provided. The standard may include a first substrate spaced from a second substrate. The standard may be cross-sectioned in a direction substantially perpendicular or subs... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297414 | Gas barrier film and method for producing the same Disclosed is a gas barrier film alternately comprising at least one inorganic layer and at least one organic layer on a resin base material having a glass transition temperature of 250° C. or higher. The gas barrier film can exhibit superior gas barrier property wh... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7294553 | Plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition process for depositing silicon nitride or silicon oxynitride, process for producing one such layer arrangement, and layer arrangement A plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition process for depositing relatively high dielectric constant silicon nitride or oxynitride to form an MIM capacitor is described. The flow rate ratios for the silicon nitride layer are: silane-to-ammonia between 1:20 and 6:5... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7294588 | In-situ-etch-assisted HDP deposition A process is provided for depositing an silicon oxide film on a substrate disposed in a process chamber. A process gas that includes a halogen source, a fluent gas, a silicon source, and an oxidizing gas reactant is flowed into the process chamber. A plasma having a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291657 | Ultraviolet light curing compositions for composite repair An ultraviolet (UV) light curable formulation useful for repairing composite materials, comprising: an acrylic oligomer, an acrylic monomer, and a photoinitiator. This formulation may include fiberglass. The photoinitiator can be a combination of a bis-acylphosphine... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291672 | Paste composition and uses thereof The paste composition of the present invention is a paste composition comprising (i) a polyurethane resin which comprises (a) a recurring unit represented by the formula (1) and (b) a recurring unit represented by the formula (2), a molar fraction of said recurring ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287370 | NOx-trap A NOx-trap composition comprises: (a) at least one first NOx storage component comprising at least one alkali metal supported on at least one first support material; and (b) a platinum oxidation catalyst and at least one second NOx storage component not being an alk... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7282100 | Method of cleaning automobile painted surfaces and automobile glass surfaces A system for cleaning acid rain and mineral deposits from glass and/or painted surfaces includes powdered kaolin clay. The glass is preferably cleaned with this system, then a system for more effectively delivering Fibershield 218 and like protectants to glass is us... | 10/16/2007 |
