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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8137784 | Vacuum insulation panel A housing with a first main wall and a second main wall which each extend perpendicularly of a temperature gradient, and auxiliary walls connecting both main walls and extending parallel to the temperature gradient, wherein the auxiliary walls connect with ribs to t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8092894 | High strength polymerics Provided is a method for making strong load-bearing plastics which includes, forming a mixture of magnetically tagged, electrically tagged, and untagged polymeric rods and flowing the mixture of the three types of rods through a forming tool across which, electric a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8039082 | Rubber access mat A rubber access mat includes a rubber slab having opposed side edges defining a width and opposed end edges defining a length. A rigidifying grid of reinforcing wire is embedded within the rubber slab. The grid consists of a plurality of parallel spaced wires extend... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7989045 | Elastic sheet structure and array type elastic sheet device using the same An elastic sheet structure including a fixing section, a body section perpendicularly connected to the fixing section, an elastic section, and two support sections is provided. The elastic section perpendicularly connects to the body section so that a portion of the... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7972675 | Friction material A friction material has a resin amount distribution that is the largest at a portion near a non-friction surface, that becomes lower toward an inside and that is the lowest at a portion near a friction surface. For example, such friction material is manufacture as f... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7807248 | Solar control low-emissivity coatings A substrate bearing a solar control low-emissivity coating. The solar control low-emissivity coating includes one or more dielectric absorber films. In some embodiments, the dielectric absorber film has an absorption ratio of k380 | 10/05/2010 |
| 7704586 | Plastic molded bodies having two-dimensional and three-dimensional image structures produced through laser subsurface engraving The present invention relates to plastic molded bodies having two-dimensional or three-dimensional image structures produced in the interior through laser subsurface engraving. The plastic molded bodies are made of plastic materials which have a content of nanoscale... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7695795 | Fluorinated lactide-based copolymers Disclosed is a process for producing lactide-based copolymers and the copolymers produced by this process. Disclosed copolymers are formed in one embodiment through the copolymerization of a lactide monomer with a fluorinated diol, for example a perfluorinated polye... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7648749 | Anti-slosh devices for damping oscillation of liquids in tanks An anti-slosh device for attenuating oscillations of liquids in tanks caused by movement of vehicles in which the tank is located comprises an elongated flat, rectangularly, shaped, uniform thickness strip of a liquid impervious material such as polyethylene or poly... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7608315 | Insulator with high thermal conductivity and method for producing the same A high thermal conduction insulator exhibiting thermal conductivity, insulating properties and heat radiating properties is produced by supplying a molding material composed of an insulating resin, a diamagnetic material powder and a paramagnetic material (inclusive... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7431975 | Textured composite material A laminated multilayer textured composite has an embossed fibrous outer layer bonded to one side of an adhesive layer to form a three-dimensional structure defined by all of fibers in depressed areas between elevated areas being fully embedded in the adhesive and mo... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7427172 | Temporary roadway element A plurality of wood planks are embedded and encased in a one-piece rubber mat to form a monolithic one-piece roadway element. A special coupling means is used to couple one roadway element to an adjacent roadway element to form a roadway surface over which heavy equ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425359 | Textured composite material A floor covering composite made from at least a fibrous outer layer and an adhesive layer is disclosed. These layers are laminated and/or embossed to form elevated areas and depressed areas. Within the depressed areas, fibers from the fibrous outer layer are anchore... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7390841 | Compostable vinyl halide polymer compositions and composite sheets Compositions of vinyl halide polymers such as PVC are rendered compostable by a prodegradant system of an organotitanate or zirconate and an organotin. PVC sheets and composites are compostable in landfills. ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7368160 | Packaging film A film of biodegradable polylactic acid polymers and copolymers is produced by coextrusion which displays improved winding and manufacturability and end use performance. The film is coextruded from polylactic acid (PLA) polymers and copolymers and biaxially oriented... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7361290 | Electroconductive resin, composition useful for forming electroconductive resin, and method of producing electroconductive resin An object of the present invention is to provide a composition useful for forming an electroconductive resin, the composition comprising a resin and a vapor-growth carbon fiber compounded with the resin, and which can be easily formed into a thin film, and to provid... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360343 | Raised access floor A raised access floor has panels suspended by pedestals. Each panel may have a top surface and a frame extending around the top surface. Each panel may have extruded aluminum components including four edge members, two intermediate members, and a center member. Each... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349140 | Triple alignment substrate method and structure for packaging devices A method for aligning multiple substrates. The method includes providing a handle substrate, providing a spacer substrate, and forming a plurality of first alignment marks on a first surface of the handle substrate. The method also includes forming a plurality of se... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348080 | Low temperature polyimide adhesive compositions and methods relating thereto The present invention relates to a polyimide adhesive composition having a polyimide derived from an aromatic dianhydride and a diamine component, where the diamine component is preferably about 50 to 90 mole % of an aliphatic diamine and about 10 to 50 mole % of an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341627 | Fiber reinforced concrete products and method of preparation Concrete products and mixes with reinforcing carbon graphite fibers, the carbon fibers being provided in the form of resin coated warped beam fabric, and a method for producing reinforced concrete products, where semi-cured carbon fibers are mixed with concrete and ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341498 | Method of irradiating field emission cathode having nanotubes Field emission devices comprising carbon nanotube mats which have been treated with laser or plasma are provided. Mats are formed from carbon nanotubes, also known as carbon fibrils, which are vermicular carbon deposits having diameters of less than about one micron... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7338711 | Enhanced nanocomposite combustion accelerant and methods for making the same Nanoparticles having designed or engineered coatings that provide enhanced or improved characteristics to the coated nanoparticles and methods for forming the improved nanoparticles from oxide or ceramic coated nanoparticles. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338038 | Impact absorption structure The present invention includes an article of manufacture with a layer with a plurality of corrugations to form an energy absorbing structure, where each corrugation has a floor and two walls connecting the floor to the base layer and the length of each corrugation i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7326454 | Laminated glass with embrittled zone A composite pane having at least one weak point for closing a vehicle opening, which includes at least one glass pane and at least one further pane, and an intermediate layer that cormects the at least one glass pane and the at least one further pane to one another.... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326044 | Rapid thermoform pressure forming process and apparatus This invention relates to a novel apparatus and process for producing thermoplastic articles. In one aspect, the invention pertains to a process for manufacturing fiberglass products using a fiberglass material consisting of fiberglass strands commingled with heat-f... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320773 | Biodegradable laminate sheet and molded item from biodegradable laminate sheet A biodegradable laminate sheet having as its object to provide a formed body superior in heat resistance, shock resistance, transparency and formability, and having non-stretched polylactic acid-family resin layer of which the crystallinity is 20% or less, and a lay... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7306813 | Nonwoven webs treated with fixed mobile materials The present invention describes a means for fixing skin care ingredients on the surface of non-woven webs and cellulosic mats. The active ingredients can be released (deposited) onto the skin by normal triggering mechanisms, which include the action of water or urin... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7297394 | Biodegradable films and sheets suitable for use as coatings, wraps and packaging materials Biodegradable polymer blends suitable for laminate coatings, wraps and other packaging materials are manufactured from at least one “hard” biopolymer and at least one “soft” biopolymer. “Hard” biopolymers tend to be more brittle and rigid and typically h... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7294385 | Fixture with integral stops An improved fixture is provided for securely mounting attachments to an underlying substrate. The fixture includes an outer support member, an inner retainer, a biasing means for biasing the inner retainer relative to the outer support member, and stops for controll... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7285595 | Synergistic fluorochemical treatment blend Disclosed herein are fluorochemical blends suitable for producing repellency to low surface tension fluids such as, for example, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and hydrophilic liquids, such as those containing surfactants. The fluorochemical blends may be beneficially... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7279832 | Phosphor materials and illumination devices made therefrom This invention provides a phosphor material capable of absorbing primary light and converting that light into white light having a high color rendering index and illumination devices made from the phosphor material. The white light may have a color rendering index o... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7267884 | Ethylene copolymer-modified polyamide product Disclosed are films, tapes, and melt-spun fibers comprising or prepared from a composition comprising (a) at least one polyamide polymer; and (b) from about 0.1 to 20 weight % of at least one ethylene copolymer such as ethylene/vinyl acetate dipolymers, ethylene/vin... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7250124 | Structural reinforcement article and process for preparation thereof The invention is a process for the preparation of article comprising placing a film on each inner surface of each part of a two part mold; placing an article in the mold with film located between the surface of the mold and the article such that there is a small spa... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250386 | Quantum limit catalysts and hydrogen storage materials A quantum limit catalyst. The instant quantum limit catalyst is comprised of atomic aggregations whose dimensions correspond to the quantum limit. In the quantum limit, the atomic aggregations acquire structural configurations and electronic interactions not attaina... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7243471 | Friction stir welding method, and hollow shape member for friction stir welding Face plates 11 and 12 of a hollow shape member 10 are abutted against face plates 21 and 22 of a hollow shape member 20. Grooves 18 formed to said face plates 11 and 12 at the abutted region receive proj... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7235287 | Biodegradable laminated sheet The biodegradable sheet is a laminated sheet including at least two layers. Each of the layers forming the laminated sheet is a resin composition comprising 75 to 25% by mass of a polylactic acid resin, and 25 to 75% by mass of a polyester resin having a glass trans... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7205036 | Anti-telescoping adhesive tape product An adhesive tape product comprises a length of adhesive tape mounted on a core with a reduced tendency to telescope. A layer of compressible foam is provided between the core and the body of tape wound on the core. Alternatively, the core is fabricated to have a sli... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7201777 | Nonwoven fabric having low ion content and method for producing the same The present invention relates to a nonwoven fabric having a relatively low level of ionic contaminates which is achieved by exposing the fabric to a deionized water wash, preferably, in-line with the nonwoven production process, thereby eliminating, or at least redu... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202322 | Heat resistant high moisture vapor transmission thermoplastic polyurethane A thermoplastic polyether polyurethane having high moisture vapor transmission, high melting point and static dissipative properties is disclosed. The thermoplastic polyether polyurethane is prepared by reacting a hydroxyl terminated polyether intermediate, an aroma... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7182040 | Personnel guidance and location control system A personnel location control system for controlling and guiding a group of individuals in a selected path to a waiting point and then to an activity in advance of that waiting point. The system in one embodiment relies upon a plurality of disks or like guide path-fo... | 02/27/2007 |