Stock material or miscellaneous articles inventions 06/07

20070148386 - Method for improving the resistance of fumigant sorption in an expandable polymer produce container and a related container: A method for improving the resistance of fumigant sorption in a produce container made of expandable polystyrene particles in a fumigation process, and related produce container. Expandable polystyrene particles having a density ranging from 40.0 to 32.0 pounds per cubic foot and a blowing agent amount ranging from 2.5 to... Agent: Gary F. Matz Nova Chemicals Inc.

20070148385 - Methods for improving the resistance of fumigant sorption in a produce container and a related produce containers: Methods for improving the resistance of fumigant sorption in produce containers made from expandable polystyrene particles in a fumigation process, and related produce containers. An embodiment involves pre-expanding the expandable polystyrene particles to form pre-expanded particles; applying a coating comprised of a chemical selected from the group consisting of mineral... Agent: Gary F. Matz Nova Chemicals Inc.

20070148394 - Flat material for leadthroughs: A flat material (10) for forming leadthroughs and including a first layer (11) formed of strip-shaped plates (14) adjoining each other along their narrow sides and separated from each other by a slot (15), a second layer (13) formed of an elastic material, and an intermediate layer (12) located between... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070148395 - Multilayer optical recording medium: A multilayer optical recording medium is provided with a totally reflective first information layer provided on a substrate and a second information layer being a translucent information layer provided via a spacer layer. The second information layer is composed of a TiO2 layer, a first dielectric layer, a reflective film,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070148369 - Liquid crystal display device: In a liquid crystal display device using a photodecomposition type light orientation film, the deterioration of display performance due to an impurity resulting from a light orientation treatment of the orientation film is suppressed to enable high-quality image display. In the orientation film to which a liquid crystal orientation function... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070148370 - Method and apparatus for alkaline saponification of polymer film: The present invention provides a method for alkaline saponification of a polymer film, comprising the steps of: alkaline saponification of the polymer film with an alkaline solution; and washing away the alkaline solution from the alkali-saponified polymer film, wherein the washing step includes a plurality of water-washing steps of washing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070148371 - Method of manufacturing cellulose film, manufacturing apparatus, optical film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display: An optical film characterized by a high degree of flatness that can be used as a phase difference film of a liquid crystal display, and a method for manufacturing this optical film according to melt-casting film forming method. A melt including a cellulose resin is extruded onto a rotary support... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070148372 - Image sensor: Embodiments relate to a method of manufacturing an image sensor. According to embodiments, the method may include preparing a semiconductor substrate formed with a plurality of photodiodes, forming an interlayer dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate, forming a color filter layer on the interlayer dielectric layer, forming a planar layer... Agent: Sherr & Nourse, PLLC

20070148373 - Image sensor: Embodiments relate to an image sensor and a method of manufacturing an image sensor. In embodiments, the method may include preparing a semiconductor substrate formed with a plurality of photodiodes, forming an interlayer dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate, forming a color filter layer on the interlayer dielectric layer, forming... Agent: Sherr & Nourse, PLLC

20070148374 - Method of incorporating a mark in cvd diamond: A method of incorporating a mark of origin, such as a brand mark, or fingerprint in a CVD single crystal diamond material, includes the steps of providing a diamond substrate, providing a source gas, dissociating the source gas thereby allowing homoepitaxial diamond growth, and introducing in a controlled manner a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070148375 - Ink jet recording medium with lenticular lenses: Disclosed is a recording medium with a lenticular lens for ink jet recording. The recording medium includes: a lenticular lens layer having a convex part surface, on which a plurality of semicylindrical or arcuate and elongated convexes are arranged in parallel, and a backside surface; and an ink absorptive layer... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070148376 - Mailing ink, and ink tank for mailing, ink jet recording method for mailing and ink jet recording apparatus for mailing using the same: The invention provides a mailing ink, an ink tank for mailing, an ink jet recording method for mailing and an ink jet recording apparatus for mailing that can reconcile preferable tint and visibility as indicia with readability by a 2-D bar code reader. The ink is a mailing ink used... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070148377 - Pigment coated paper base: The present invention is directed to a pigment coated paper base. Further this invention is directed to a printing paper comprising a pigment coated paper base provided with one or more polymer layers. According to the invention there is provided a pigment coated paper base comprising a paper base and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070148378 - Heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet and method of producing the same: A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet having, on a support, at least one receptor layer containing a latex polymer and at least one heat insulation layer containing a hollow polymer, and further having, between the support and the heat insulation layer, at least one intermediate layer which contains one or both... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070148379 - High r-value window unit: In certain example embodiments of this invention, a window unit may include a vacuum IG (VIG) unit as an inboard lite and a monolithic lite (e.g., with an optional low-E coating thereon) as an outboard lite. A dead air space may separate the inboard and outboard lites. A highly insulated... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070148381 - Bowl-shaped or plate-shaped component: A bowl-shaped or plate-shaped structural element, consisting of a first layer (A), an intermediate layer (C), and a second layer (B), wherein the first layer (A) and the second layer (B) are profiles (1a, 1b) having anchorage couplers (2a, 2b) projecting into the intermediate layer (C), which couplers regionally interlock... Agent: Anton P. Ness, Esquire

20070148380 - Paintball and method of manufacture: The present invention relates to a paintball comprising a shell containing an inner filler composition. The shell comprises a mixture of gelatin and mineral oil; the inner filler composition comprises a mixture of starch, oil, an emulsifying agent and a spreading and surfacting agent. The shell further comprises a non-crystallizing... Agent: Mila Shvartsman

20070148382 - Tubular film, device and method for producing the same: The novelty and inventive step of said process is that before the joining process of the film tube, the metal film material (A-E) exists in the form of at least one film web (A-E). The edges of this film web (A-E) are joined to one another in a joining process... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070148383 - Biodegradable polymer: A biodegradable polymer is disclosed having the composition g) from 8 to 80% by weight of a starch modified to include an hydroxyalkyl C2-6 group or modified by reaction with an anhydride of a dicarboxylic acid, preferably hydroxypropylated high amylose starch, a) from 0 to 87.9% of starch, b) from... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070148387 - Matching pattern fixture covering system and method: A method and system of decoration that includes selecting a particular wall covering pattern, selecting a particular fixture, and continuing the wall covering pattern substantially over the surface of the fixture. The fixture can be an electrical fixture such as a receptacle and/or receptacle cover or switch and/or switch cover... Agent: Clifford H. Kraft

20070148384 - Processes for filming biodegradable or compostable containers: This present invention relates to methods for filming biodegradable or compostable containers, and as well as the containers formed by such methods. In particular, the invention relates to methods for filming biodegradable or compostable containers that can hold hot beverages and foods.... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070148388 - Coolant line: A coolant line which comprises the following layers: I. an outer layer comprising a polyamide molding composition and II. an inner layer comprising polypropylene and at least 0.02% by weight of a heat stabilizer, has a high thermal aging resistance and bursting strength.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070148390 - Fluorinated coatings: Conformal coatings are disclosed. A fluorinated thin film, for example, is formed by vapor phase polymerization on a variety of sensitive surfaces that may include electronic and automotive sensors, biochips, implantable sensors and biomedical devices.... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070148391 - Fluoropolymer composition for oil pipe: The present invention relates to a composition of tetrafluoroethylene/perfluoro(ethyl vinyl ether) copolymer particles and metal powder which enables the composition to the used for rotolining an interior surface of a hollow article, wherein the resultant lining adheres to such surface. The invention further relates to oil pipe having its interior... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070148389 - Multilayer tube: A multilayer tube including at least three layers including a layer (a) formed of (A) polyamide 11 and/or polyamide 12, a layer (b) formed of (B) a polyamide (semi-aromatic polyamide) including a dicarboxylic acid unit containing a terephthalic acid and/or naphthalenedicarboxylic acid unit in a proportion of 50 mol %... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20070148392 - Pad assembly: A pad assembly comprising, a plurality of flexible rectangular sheets (42), each sheet being generally of the same size and said sheets (42) having front (41) and rear (43) surfaces and peripheral edges including first (15) and second (16) opposite edges, said sheets having a band (40) of repositionable pressure... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070148393 - Reactive labels and methods of making and using the same: The label, system, and method include a first label portion having a pre-print, a first adhesive means for affixing the first label portion substantially about the circumference of the object, and a composition coating at least one of a portion of the first label and a portion of the second... Agent: Louis M. Heidelberger, Esq. Reed Smith, LLP

20070148396 - Phase-change optical recording medium: A phase-change optical recording medium has a recording film that brings about reversible phase-change between a crystalline phase and an amorphous phase upon irradiation with light and an interface film formed in contact with at least one surface of the recording film and comprising hafnium (Hf), silicon (Si), oxygen (O)... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070148397 - Flocked multi-colored adhesive article with bright lustered flock: A design and process are provided in which a plurality of differently colored adhesives underlie differently colored flock fibers.... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070148398 - Synthetic-grass flooring and method for laying same: A flooring, for example for pitches for soccer, five-a-side football, American football, rugby, etc. which includes a polyolefin-based impermeable layer and an elastic mattress laid on top of the impermeable layer which includes a core layer having an agglomerate granular material and an envelope that envelops the core layer. A... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20070148399 - Method of fabricating a conductive textile: A method of fabricating a conductive textile is provided. First, erect-interlaced fibers are formed on a textile. Then, a conductive layer is formed on the erect-interlaced fibers and the surface of the textile to form a conductive textile.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070148400 - Flexible molded end cap cushion: A cushion apparatus that may be advantageously utilized as an end cap for packaging shock sensitive products is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the cushion apparatus includes a base member having one or more side walls having inner product bearing surfaces defining a product receiving cavity. The product receiving cavity... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070148401 - Protective coverings: A protective cover for preventing damage from vehicle tires. The cover can comprise a strip of material adapted to be wrapped around a running surface of a tire, and to cover at least part of the tire side walls. In this case, the ends of the strip can be adapted... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070148403 - Method for manufacturing honeycomb structured body and honeycomb structured body: A method for manufacturing a honeycomb structured body according to the present invention comprises manufacturing a pillar-shaped honeycomb molded body having a large number of cells longitudinally placed in parallel with one another with a cell wall therebetween; forming a honeycomb fired body by degreasing and firing the honeycomb molded... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070148402 - Honeycomb structured body: A honeycomb structured body of the present invention is a honeycomb structured body in which a plurality of cells are placed in parallel with one another in the longitudinal direction with a cell wall therebetween, either one of the end portions of the cells being sealed, wherein a porosity is... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070148404 - Method for producing honeycomb structure and honeycomb structure: A method for producing a honeycomb structure where a body containing a forming formulation composed of a cordierite forming material and an organic binder is formed into a honeycomb shape to prepare a honeycomb formed article, and the honeycomb formed article is fired to obtain a honeycomb structure, wherein the... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070148405 - Hexagonal-cell honeycomb structure: A hexagonal-cell honeycomb structure having a plurality of cell walls having a hexagonal shape in cross-section and forming a plurality of hexagonal cell passages, and a tubular skin layer surrounding the cell walls, The thickness of the basic cell walls is 140 μm or less and an inscribed circle diameter... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070148406 - Hexagonal cell honeycomb structure body: A hexagonal cell honeycomb structure body has a plurality of hexagonal cells. Each hexagonal cell is surrounded by six cell walls in a hexagonal lattice shape. A R-shaped corner part of an approximate circular-arc shape is alternately formed at interior angle parts of the six cell walls forming each hexagonal... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070148407 - Water-repellent structure and method for making the same: A water-repellent structure and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The method adopts an atmospheric pressure plasma deposition (APPD) technique to form a hardened coating having a rough surface on a substrate, and form a water-repellent coating on the rough surface. Because the water-repellent structure includes the hardened... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20070148408 - Method for simulating raised-stone ornaments on a surface of three-dimensional decoration and its formation: A method for simulating raised-stone ornaments on a surface of three-dimensional decoration and its formation, and more particularly to a simulation method which can provide the raised-stone ornaments on the surface of decoration, such that an ornament with a distribution of raised-stone particles can be formed on the surface of... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070148409 - Silicone compositions, methods of manufacture, and articles formed therefrom: A silicone grip comprising a cured silicone film layer with a Shore A Durometer of less than or equal to about 60 wherein the silicone film layer is formed from a curable silicone composition comprising a catalyst that promotes cure of the silicone composition, a higher molecular weight organopolysiloxane having... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070148411 - Mold goods and insert molding method: For a skin, a non-formed polyurethane resin layer at the surface side and a foamed polyurethane resin layer between the non-foamed polyurethane resin layer and a base member are configured to form an integral and uniform layer over and extent from an injection point to a distant point on a... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070148410 - Textured structure and method of making the textured structure: The present application is directed to textured surfaces and methods for forming textured surfaces. The textured surfaces of the present application comprise a conformable film, which conforms to a texture pattern. In certain embodiments, the texture pattern comprises inks having a desired thickness. The methods of the present application may... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20070148412 - Sandwich panel: The invention can be defined in its most general form as a building unit, namely the sandwich panel with light core from corrugated sheet material in the form of zigzag crimp, and can be used in aircraft construction, as well as in shipbuilding and construction. Making use of the claimed... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070148417 - Decorative molded body, key top for a pushbutton switch, and key sheet for the pushbutton switch: Disclosed is a decorative molded body, which is structured such that an inside thereof looks three-dimensional from a surface thereof, the decorative molded body being a substituted for a decorative molded body of the related art. A decorative molded body is characterized by including a three-dimensional base pattern layer having,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070148418 - Image-receiving sheet for electrophotography and image forming process: The present invention provides an image-receiving sheet for electrophotography which contains a support, and a raw paper, wherein the support contains at least one layer of a polymer coating layer on both surfaces of the raw paper and at least one layer of a toner image-receiving layer on a surface... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070148416 - Layered structures on thin substrates: A thin substrate has a layered structure on one surface, and can also have a layered structure on the other. Each layered structure can include a part of at least one patterned layer that, if patterned by photolithography, would frequently result in damage to the substrate due to fragility. For... Agent: Leading Edge Law Group, PLC/xerox-parc

20070148415 - Mesoporous membranes with complex functional architectures and methods for making: In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to methods of making structures with complex functional architectures, where such structures generally comprise at least two mesoporous regions comprising different chemical activity, and where such methods afford spatial control over the placement of such regions of differing chemical activity. In some... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070148413 - Multi-stack fluorescent information carrier with electrochromic materials: The invention relates to an information carrier for scanning information by means of an optical beam having a wavelength. The information carrier comprises at least two information stacks. Each stack comprises a counter electrode (13, 17), an electrolyte layer (12, 16) and an information layer (11, 15). The information layer... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070148414 - Radiation curable composition: A composition includes at least one radiation curable (alkyl)acrylate-polyester oligomer, at least one photoinitiator, and at least one surfactant, wherein the composition has a viscosity of from about 50 cP to about 3000 cP at about 25° C., and a surface tension of from about 15 to about 40 dynes/cm... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070148419 - Polyvinyl acetal-containing film with improved uniformity of length variations over its width: The invention relates to a film based on plasticizer-containing polyvinyl acetals having improved uniformity of length variations over the width of the film for manufacturing laminated glazing and its use in laminated glazing or solar modules.... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20070148420 - Method of making a substrate using laser assisted metallization and patterning with electroless plating without electrolytic plating: A printed circuit is made with a via-defining substrate including a microelectronic substrate defining via openings therein. Interconnects are provided on the via-defining substrate according to a predetermined interconnect pattern. The interconnects include a conductive layer having a pattern corresponding to the predetermined interconnect pattern. The conductive layer further being... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070148421 - Printed circuit board material for embedded passive devices and preparing method thereof: A printed circuit board material for embedded passive devices, which has excellent electromagnetic properties and reliability is provided. The invention provides a printed circuit board material comprises: a conductive copper foil layer; a resin bonding layer formed on the conductive layer and including above 70-100 vol % of resin and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070148422 - Semiconductor wafer substrate for power semiconductor components and method for producing the same: In a semiconductor wafer substrate (20) for power semiconductor components (1) and in a method for producing the same, the semiconductor wafer substrate (20) has a large-area, buried rear side electrode (3) in form of a layer arranged between a self-supporting wafer substrate (4) and a non-self-supporting monocrystalline silicon wafer... Agent: Baker Botts, L.L.P.

20070148423 - Biaxially stretched laminated polyester film and polyester film for covering: A biaxially stretched laminated polyester film having tensile break strengths in the machine and transverse directions of 40 to 200 MPa, and satisfying at least one of the following items: (1) wetting tension of at least one side of the film is not less than 48 mN/m; (2) surface resistivity... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070148428 - Friction material and manufacturing method thereof: A friction material is provided with a matrix fiber, a binder, and a filler. The friction material contains a stabilized zirconia having a lattice constant in a range from 99.93 to 99.95% as compared with a lattice constant of a single crystal of stabilized zirconia. The lattice constant scarcely changes,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070148425 - Thermal interface material and semiconductor device incorporating the same: A thermal interface material (13) and a semiconductor device (10) using the thermal interface material are provided. The thermal interface material is formed as a sheet, comprising a pair of cured sheets (131) and a reinforcement member (132) arranged between the cured sheets. The reinforcement member, which improves the physical... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070148426 - Blowable insulation clusters made of natural material: A blowable insulation material comprising random shaped blowable clusters which are comprised of natural fibers or material. In preferred embodiments, the clusters also comprise man-made fibers or materials. A process to produce the blowable clusters is also disclosed.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070148424 - Photocatalyst sheet and methods of welding and manufacturing the same: The present invention provides the photocatalyst sheet and the methods of welding and manufacturing the same, by which the substrate and resin of the photocatalyst-containing layer are not decomposed by photocatalyst particles, mutual welding of sheets is easy, and the photo-redox effect of a photocatalyst can be obtained. A photocatalyst... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070148429 - Tri-excluded wucs glass fiber reinforced plastic composite articles and methods for making such articles: Disclosed are a series of composite polymer composite structures formed by the coextrusion of at least two distinct polymeric components. A first polymeric component includes a structural composition and a second polymeric component includes a coating composition. The primary structural frame formed from the structural composition includes at least one... Agent: Owens Corning

20070148427 - Trim cover for seat: A trim cover comprising a first cover element and a second cover element. The first cover element comprises a leather top cover layer and a wadding layer adhered at one surface thereof to an entire reverse surface of the leather top cover layer, whereas the second cover element at least... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070148430 - Perforated, coated nonwoven mat: A novel coated nonwoven fibrous mat having properties particularly suited for a facer on gypsum wallboard, laminates made therefrom and the method of making the mat is disclosed. The mat preferably contains a major portion of glass fibers and a minor portion of a resinous binder. The coating is of... Agent: Johns Manville

20070148431 - Quaternary ammonium compounds with novel mode of action for protection of wood structures: The present invention relates to cellulosic substrates in direct or indirect contact with the ground, the cellulosic substrates comprising quaternary ammonium compounds.... Agent: Edgar Spielman Albemarle Corporation

20070148433 - Elastic laminate made with absorbent foam: An absorbent elastic laminate includes an elastic backing layer and a flexible thermoplastic absorbent foam layer. The flexible absorbent foam layer gathers when the laminate is in the relaxed state, permitting the elastic backing and the overall laminate to exhibit elastic stretch and recovery properties. The absorbent elastic laminate is... Agent: Maxwell J. Petersen Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20070148432 - Hybrid absorbent foam and articles containing it: A hybrid absorbent foam includes an integrated hybrid foam layer having an open surface, a closed surface, and a foam body extending between the open and closed surfaces. The integrated hybrid foam layer has an open-cell content of at least 50%, while the closed surface provides a barrier to aqueous... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson Suite 365

20070148434 - Insulated panel for mine safe rooms: A structural insulated panel for use in a mine safe room, which includes a carbon foam core having a high ratio of compressive strength to density, desirable fire retardant properties, and resistance to environmental stress. The carbon foam structural insulated panel also includes a first layer and a second layer... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070148435 - Silica films and method of production thereof: A method of producing a silica coating by forming a silica precursor formulation that is coated on a substrate as a continuous liquid phase. The silica precursor formulation is then cured in an ammoniacal atmosphere to produce a continuous, interconnected, nano-porous silica network.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070148436 - Process for preparing polymeric films useful for blocking the transmission of near infra red light: The present invention is an infra red (IR)-blocking coating and a process for applying the IR-blocking coating onto the surface of a polymer. The process comprises the steps of dispersing an IR-blocking material in a mixture of solvent comprising a dissolved polymer and using standard printing processes to coat at... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070148438 - Fuser roller and method of manufacture: The present invention is a coating for a fuser roller having an elastomer layer that includes fluoroplasfic particles dispersed through the elastomer layer wherein the surface of the particles has been contacted with a solution comprising a group I or a group II metal hydride while being exposed to ultraviolet... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070148437 - Thermosensitive, biocompatible polymer carriers with changeable physical structure for therapy, diagnostics and analytics: The invention relates to biocompatible, thermosensitive polymers that can be heated, with the aid of a high-frequency magnetic alternating field, by encapsulating magnetic and/or metallic colloids or magnetic nanoparticles. As a result of the inductive heating of the polymer matrix, physical structure changes are triggered in the polymer matrix that... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070148439 - Communication state activation material, communication state activation sheet and communication state activation apparatus: The present invention is a communication state activation material characterized in that a composition containing at least zirconium oxide and thorium oxide is contained. Preferably, the composition further contains at least one component selected from among aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide, ferric oxide, rare earth oxide, phosphorus pentoxide, calcium oxide, magnesium... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070148440 - Overvoltage protection materials and process for preparing same: The invention provides a process for preparing an overvoltage protection material comprising: (i) preparing a mixture comprising a polymer binder precursor and a conductive material; and (ii) heating the mixture to cause reaction of the polymer binder precursor and generate a polymer matrix having conductive material dispersed therein, wherein the... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070148441 - Process for preparing a thin film having alternating monolayers of a metal-metal bonded complex monolayer and an organic monolayer by layer-by layer complex: The present invention provides a process for preparing a thin film having alternating monolayers of a metal-metal bonded complex monolayer and an organic monolayer by layer-by-layer growth. The process comprises the steps of: (1) applying onto a surface of a substrate a first linker compound to produce a primer layer;... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP (for IBM Yorktown)

20070148442 - Thermosetting resin composition, material for substrate and film for substrate: Disclosed is a thermosetting resin composition which enables to obtain a molded article that is excellent in mechanical properties, dimensional stability and heat resistance and is further capable of maintaining the shape of the article molded before curing even after the resin composition is cured. The thermosetting resin composition contains... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070148443 - Sealing tape for adhesive bonding of vapour barrier films and vapour retarder films, and process for its manufacture: Self-adhesive, flexible sealing tapes, comprising at least one flexible, self-adhesive core or at least one flexible, self-adhesive carrier layer provided with an envelope or two-sided coating consisting of a second adhesive system.... Agent: D. Peter Hochberg Co. L.p.a.

20070148444 - Removable water-dispersible acrylic adhesive compositiion and adhesive sheet: The purpose of the invention is to obtain a water-dispersible adhesive composition capable of coating in an aqueous system and, particularly, an adhesive composition capable of preparing a removable water-dispersible acrylic adhesive sheet with less contamination to the surface of an adherend and having high resistance to water intrusion during... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070148445 - Laminating adhesives containing polyurethane and epoxide resin: Aqueous composition comprising a polyurethane (A) an epoxy resin (B) obtainable by reacting compounds having epoxide groups with diols or polyols, and a crosslinker (C) for the epoxy resin.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070148448 - Microencapsulated delivery vehicles including cooling agents: Microencapsulated delivery vehicles comprising an active agent are disclosed. In one embodiment, the microencapsulated delivery vehicles are heat delivery vehicles capable of generating heat upon activation. The microencapsulated heat delivery vehicles may be introduced into wet wipes such that, upon activation, the wet wipe solution is warmed resulting in a... Agent: Senniger Powers (kcc)

20070148447 - Wipes including microencapsulated delivery vehicles and phase change materials: Microencapsulated delivery vehicles comprising an active agent are disclosed. In one embodiment, the microencapsulated delivery vehicles are heat delivery vehicles capable of generating heat upon activation. The microencapsulated heat delivery vehicles may be introduced into wet wipes such that, upon activation, the wet wipe solution is warmed resulting in a... Agent: Senniger Powers (kcc)

20070148446 - Wipes including microencapsulated delivery vehicles and processes of producing the same: Microencapsulated delivery vehicles comprising an active agent are disclosed. In one embodiment, the microencapsulated delivery vehicles are heat delivery vehicles capable of generating heat upon activation. The microencapsulated heat delivery vehicles may be introduced into wet wipes such that, upon activation, the wet wipe solution is warmed resulting in a... Agent: Senniger Powers (kcc)

20070148449 - Multi-functional yarns and fabrics having anti-microbial, anti-static and anti-odor characterisitics: The present invention is directed to yarns and fabrics that exhibit anti-static, anti-odor, and anti-microbial properties. The yarn is comprised of several groups of predetermined fibers. One of these groups of predetermined fibers comprises fibers that exhibit anti-microbial, anti-odor and anti-static characteristics. In one embodiment, the yarn comprises a first... Agent: U.s. Army Soldier Systems Center

20070148450 - Polyester yarn and process for producing: A multi-filament poly(trimethylene terephthalate) yarn is provided. The poly(trimethylene terephthalate) yarn has a crystal orientation function of at least 0.6 and an elongation at break of between 65% and 110%. A process for producing the yarn is also provided in which poly(triemethylene terephthalate) is melt-spun into a multi-filament yarn, the... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20070148451 - Method of forming carbon fibers using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition: A method of forming carbon fibers at a low temperature below 450° C. using an organic-metal evaporation method is provided. The method includes: heating a substrate and maintaining the substrate at a temperature of 200 to 450° C. after loading the substrate into a reaction chamber; preparing an organic-metal compound... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070148455 - Fire retardant compositions and methods and apparatuses for making the same: A method for forming yarn provides for forming an intermediate product being a fire retardant and heat resistant cohesive elongated network of fibers in a single operation by stretching and breaking filaments of a ribbon like tow starting material of longitudinally aligned filaments. The intermediate product may be wool-like with... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070148452 - High strength polyethylene fiber: SOLUTION: A high strength polyethylene multifilament consisting of a plurality of filaments which are characterized in that the crystal size of monoclinic crystal is 9 nm or less; the stress Raman shift factor is −5.0 cm−1/(cN/dTex) or more; the average strength is 20 CN/dTex or higher; the knot strength retention... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070148456 - Metal wiring, method of forming the metal wiring, display substrate having the metal wiring and method of manufacturing the display substrate: In a metal wiring, a method of forming the metal wiring, a display substrate having the metal wiring and a method of manufacturing the display substrate, the metal wiring includes a metal film and a first amorphous carbon film. The metal film is formed on a base substrate using a... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070148453 - Sized glass fibres with fast impregnation for the reinforcement of polymer materials: The invention relates to glass strands coated with a sizing composition which comprises, as film-forming adhesion agents, at least one polyester, at least one polyvinyl acetate and at least one polyurethane. The glass strands obtained are used as reinforcements in the manufacture of molded components comprising a thermostatic matrix by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070148454 - Treatment of brittle, high-modulus yarns to yield improved processing characteristics: Multifilamentary core yarns of brittle, high-modulus materials are partially encased in a “wrapper” of another material. The wrapped core yarn is then coated with an adhesive that remains tacky over time. The coated wrapped yarn can then be spooled and stored indefinitely; when it is desired to be used, the... Agent: Michael M. De Angeli, P.C. Attorney At Law

20070148457 - Radiation absorptive composites and methods for production: Disclosed are a radiation absorptive material and more particularly a method of economically coating halloysite or other mineral tubules (including nanotubules and microtubules) with a conductive metal (Cu) in order to produce an absorptive composite material capable of providing shielding and attenuation of radio-frequency signals.... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070148458 - Encapsulated chromonic particles: A method of making encapsulated chromonic nanoparticles includes exposing crosslinked chromonic nanoparticles to an acid selected from the group consisting of carbonic acid, phosphoric acid, lactic acid, citric acid, boric acid, sulfuric acid, and mixtures thereof in the presence of water to encapsulate the crosslinked nanoparticles in a shell comprising... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070148459 - Microencapsulated delivery vehicles: Microencapsulated delivery vehicles comprising an active agent are disclosed. In one embodiment, the microencapsulated delivery vehicles are heat delivery vehicles capable of generating heat upon activation. The microencapsulated heat delivery vehicles may be introduced into wet wipes such that, upon activation, the wet wipe solution is warmed resulting in a... Agent: Senniger Powers (kcc)

20070148460 - Pigments sheathed with polyaddition products, method for their produciton and use thereof: A process for producing aqueous primary dispersions of polymer-ensheathed pigment, which comprises (a) at least one polyfunctional isocyanate and (b) at least one compound having isocyanate-reactive groups selected from polyetherols, polyesterols, polyhydric alcohols having up to 8 carbon atoms, polycarbonate diols, polyhydroxyolefins, polyhydroxyurethanes, polyisobutenediols, polysiloxanes having on average at least... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070148461 - Nanoparticle precursor structures, nanoparticle structures, and composite materials: Nanoparticle precursor structures, nanoparticle structures, and composite materials that include the nanoparticle structures in a polymer to form a composite material. The nanoparticle structures have chemical linkage moieties capable of forming non-covalent bonds with portions of a polymer for the composite material. Such composite materials are useful as biomaterials in... Agent: Brooks & Cameron, PLLC Suite 500

20070148462 - Article having diamond-like carbon composite film and method for manufacturing the same: An exemplary article has a body made of steel, an electroless nickel layer electroless-plated on the body, and a diamond-like carbon layer formed on the electroless nickel layer. An exemplary method for manufacturing the article includes the steps of: providing a body made of steel; electroless plating an electroless nickel... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070148463 - Method of coating the surface of an inorganic substrate with an organic material and the product obtained: A method of coating the surface of an inorganic substrate of glass, silicon dioxide, ceramics or carbon, which method comprises a step of cleaning the surface of the substrate by subjecting the surface to a reducing gas plasma and forming a first layer on the substrate surface using a plasma... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070148464 - Display apparatus: Although sintered wire with lower resistance was preferable as a scan line and a signal line in conventional art in order to make a voltage drop small, there was a problem in electric connection with an electrode which constructs a cathode. In the present invention, a cathode which has an... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070148466 - Multilayer film optical member and method for manufacturing multilayer film optical member: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a multilayer film optical member, includes an injection step in which an UV-curable liquid crystal is injected into a space between a pair of transparent substrates, with a transparent conductive film disposed on each of the transparent substrates; a first radiation step in which parallel... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070148468 - Pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for exterior portion of vehicle: In a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for an exterior portion of a vehicle comprising a substrate and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the substrate is made to have a storage modulus at 80° C. of not less than 3.0×101 MPa, and a storage modulus at 5 to 40° C. in a range... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070148465 - Shape-memory resin performing remoldability and excellent in shape recovering property, and molded product composed of the cross-linked resin: It is possible to provide a shape-memory molded product having excellent shape-memory properties and recycling efficiency by using a shape-memory resin having a glass transition temperature (Tg) within the range of 40° C. to 200° C. and a dissociation temperature (Td) of a thermo-reversible reaction within the range of 50°... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070148467 - Thermal management circuit materials, method of manufacture thereof, and articles formed therefrom: A thermal management circuit material comprises an electrically conductive layer; a dielectric layer comprising a polymer matrix and a thermally conductive, electrically non-conductive particulate filler, wherein the dielectric layer is disposed on and in at least partial contact with the electrically conductive layer, and wherein the circuit material has a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070148469 - Encapsulation composition for pressure signal transmission and sensor: An encapsulation composition for pressure signal transmission including a flexible and low modulus epoxy resin as a substance in combination with plastic balls with pressure signal transmission properties as filler is provided. Therefore, the pressure signal is transmitted by utilizing the property of easy deformation of the flexible epoxy resin... Agent: J. C. Patents, Inc.

20070148470 - Damage-resistant epoxy compound: A composition includes a cross-linkable epoxy resin, a polystyrene-polybutadiene-polymethylmethacrylate tri-block copolymer, and a filler material. The polystyrene-polybutadiene-polymethylmethacrylate tri-block copolymer has a concentration ratio of from about 1:1:1 to about 1:1:1.5.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070148471 - Impact resistant polyurethane and poly(ureaurethane) articles and methods of making the same: The present invention provides polyurethane materials including a first portion of crystalline particles having self-orientation and bonded together to fix their orientation along a first crystallographic direction and a second portion of crystalline particles having self-orientation and bonded together to fix their orientation along a second crystallographic direction, the first... Agent: Ppg Industries Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070148472 - Laminated glass for vehicle: The present invention provides, in a HUD device employing a high-functional windshield such as a sound-insulation glass having a multi-layer interlayer, a windshield for a vehicle which does not produce double images and has excellent visibility without deteriorating functionality of the windshield. In a laminated glass having a multi-layer interlayer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070148476 - Siloxane encapsulants: Silicone-based polymers and polymeric compositions, methods of preparation of the silicone-based polymers and polymeric compositions, and methods of use thereof with high intensity applications are presented.... Agent: Rohm And Haas Company Patent Department

20070148473 - Adhesive article, composite article, and methods of making the same: An adhesive article comprising a fluorothermoplastic film having a major surface; and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer adhered to at least a portion of the first major surface, wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive comprises a silicone polyurea block copolymer and an MQ tackifying resin. Composite articles preparable from the adhesive... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070148475 - Adhesive compositions: Polydiorganosiloxane polyoxamide, linear, block copolymers and methods of making the copolymers are provided. The method of making the copolymers involves reacting a diamine with a polydiorganosiloxane precursor having oxalylamino groups. The polydioroganosiloxane polyoxamide block copolymers are of the (AB)n type.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070148474 - Polydiorganosiloxane polyoxamide copolymers: Polydiorganosiloxane polyoxamide, linear, block copolymers and methods of making the copolymers are provided. The method of making the copolymers involves reacting a diamine with a precursor having at least one polydiorganosiloxane segment and at least two oxalyamino groups. The polydiorganosiloxane polyoxamide block copolymers are of the (AB)n type.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070148477 - Aluminum and plastic compound decorative plate: A new aluminum and plastic compound decorative plate comprises a substrate board and an aluminum and plastic sheet adhered to the substrate board by in-between adhesive layer. Because the compound plate comprises two layers, there is no need to make the substrate board with high thickness. Therefore, the compound plate... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070148478 - Component with thermal barrier coating and erosion-resistant layer: The invention relates to components of a steam turbine comprising a thermal insulation layer and a metallic anti-erosion layer that is applied to the thermal insulation layer.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070148479 - Corrosion-protection by electrochemical deposition of metal oxide layers on metal substrates: The present invention relates to a process for providing a metal substrate with corrosion-protection and corrosion-resistance, respectively, as well as to the products thus obtainable. Said process comprises coating said metal substrate with a thin layer of at least one metal oxide selected from the group consisting of TiO2, Bi2O3... Agent: Henkel Corporation

20070148480 - Laminate: A laminate which is advantageously used as an insulating layer for electronic package application and as an adhesive film for fixing a semiconductor wafer for semiconductor device application, laminates comprising the same and a process for manufacturing the above laminate. The laminate (I) comprises a base layer (A) and an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070148482 - Functioning optical lens and production method thereof: A functioning optical lens includes a molded polyamide layer, and an optical sheet including a polyamide sheet layer and an optical film layer. Such a functioning optical lens may be prepared by bending an optical sheet including an optical film layer and a polyamide sheet layer, and injection molding a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070148481 - Laminated article: A disclosed laminated article is excellent in appearance at a retort treatment, delamination resistance, gas barrier property, further, long-run processability, performance of preventing odor and coloring and the like. The laminated article includes a layer (I) containing a saponified product of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (A) and a polyamide resin... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070148483 - Adhesive for polarizing plate, polarizing plate, method for producing same, optical film and image display: An adhesive of the invention for polarizing plates used for forming an adhesive layer in a polarizing plate in which a polarizer and a transparent protective film is are adhering with each other via the adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive for polarizing plates is an aqueous solution containing a polyvinyl... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070148484 - Economical oxygen barrier structures utilizing evoh/polyolefin blends: A laminate structure for both packaging and non-packaging applications, including a five layer coextrusion composite containing an EVOH/polyolefin composite barrier layer coated or applied to a paper or paperboard substrate. The laminated structure may contain a layer of linear low density polyethylene or other layers, as needed for the application.... Agent: International Paper Company

20070148485 - Pressure-sensitive adhesive for polarizing plates, polarizing plate with pressure-sensitive adhesive and production process for the same: The pressure-sensitive adhesive for polarizing plates is prepared by irradiating a pressure-sensitive adhesive material comprising (A) an acrylic base polymer comprising a monomer having a carboxyl group in a monomer composition ratio of 0.5 mass % or less and (B) an active energy beam-curable compound with an active energy beam,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070148486 - High impact strength, elastic, composite, fibre, metal laminate: A damage resistant High Strength, Impact Resistant, Elastic Composite Laminate primary (singular) structure with optionally having first (4) and second (4) outer face layers, having first (2) and second (2) inner reinforced plies being located between the first and second outer layers, and (1) a dissipating element located between the... Agent: David A. Guerra International Patent Group, LLC

20070148487 - Wear-protection device for a protective guide or steering plate: A wear-protection device for a protective guide or steering plate with a steel plate, which has at least one front face subjected to a load and lateral surfaces, which are separated by edge areas. The lateral surface is covered, at least partially, by a lateral wear-protection device which has at... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20070148488 - Flat bar strip and metal profile part: The present invention relates to a metal strip, which can be wound up into a coil (1; 14) and which has at least two joined-together portions (2, 3; 4, 5, 6); these portions (2, 3; 4, 5, 6) are joined together, adjacent one another, substantially in the transverse direction of... Agent: Charles P. Boukus ,jr Suite 202

20070148489 - Tin-silver coatings: The present invention relates to improved coatings for electrical or electronic connectors such as contacts or terminals used in automotive applications. Coatings in accordance with the present invention preferably comprise binary tin-silver coatings consisting of more than 1.0 wt % to about 20 wt %, preferably from 2.0 wt %... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070148490 - Brazing method and brazed structure: A brazing method which provides a braze joint having excellent corrosion resistance and a brazed structure including such a braze joint includes assembling a first member and a second member to be joined into a temporary assembly, the first member including a base plate made of a ferrous material and... Agent: Neomax Co., Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070148493 - Organic electroluminescence device: The invention provides an organic electroluminescence device having a pair of electrodes at least one of which is transparent or translucent and plural organic compound layers positioned between the pair of electrodes, at least one of the plural organic compound layers being a hole transport layer in which an electron... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070148491 - Conjugated polymer end-capped with phosphorescent organometallic complex, light-emitting element and light-emitting device: wherein M is a metal selected from the group consisting of Ir, Os, Pt, Pb, Re, and Ru; R1 and R2 may be the same or different and each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Ar1 and Ar2 may be the same or different and each represent a substituted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070148494 - Display device: A display device including an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer provided with at least a light emitting layer interposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic layer is provided with an electron injection layer which is provided in a state that it comes into contact with... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070148492 - Light-emitting device: A light emitting device includes a plurality of luminescent materials, two of the plurality of luminescent materials being phosphorescent materials producing phosphorescence from the MLCT excited state.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070148495 - Organic light-emitting devices: Disclosed are electrophosphorescent organic metal complexes with formula (I) or (II), of either geometrical isomers, comprising two bidentate NN-type ligandsor a tetradentate NNNN-type ligand, and a transition metal. These electrophosphorescent materials are valuable to the application in organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs), including red-, orange-, or yellow-light OLEDs.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070148497 - Coated cutting tool insert: The present invention discloses a coated cutting tool insert particularly useful for dry and wet machining, preferably milling, in low and medium alloyed steels, stainless steels, with or without raw surface zones under severe conditions such as vibrations, long overhang and recutting of chips. The insert is characterized by WC—Co... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070148496 - Cutting tool made of surface-coated cubic boron nitride-based ultrahigh pressure sintered material: A cutting tool made of surface-coated cubic boron nitride-based ultrahigh pressure sintered material, comprising a cutting insert main body formed by ultrahigh pressure sintering of compact composed of titanium nitride, aluminum and/or aluminum oxide, and boron nitride, and a hard coating layer vapor deposited on the main body. The main... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070148498 - Coating materials for a cutting tool / an abrasion resistance tool: Disclosed herein is an α-Al2O3 coating layer, which is applied on the surface of a cutting tool substrate made of cemented carbide, cermet or ceramic material. The α-Al2O3 layer is deposited on a TiMewCxNyOz (Me=Zr, Hf, w+x+y+z=1, w, x, y, z≧0) layer to a thickness of 2-1 5 μm through... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070148499 - Perpendicular magnetic recording disk and manufacturing method thereof: A magnetic disk 10 for use in perpendicular magnetic recording has at least a magnetic recording layer on a substrate 1. The magnetic recording layer is composed of a ferromagnetic layer 5 of a granular structure containing silicon (Si) or an oxide of silicon (Si) between crystal grains containing cobalt... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070148500 - Magnetic recording medium, manufacturing method for the magnetic recording medium, and magnetic read/write apparatus: A magnetic recording medium 62 wherein a substrate 11, undercoating layers 13 and 14 formed on the substrate 11, and a magnetic recording layer 15, which include the magnetic crystal grain and the grain boundary field which encloses magnetic crystal grains, are included. The grain boundary field includes Ti oxide,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070148501 - Ferromagnetic powder for a magnetic recording medium, method of producing the powder, and magnetic recording medium using the powder: A ferromagnetic metal powder for a magnetic recording medium that combines good magnetic properties and oxidation stability, and a magnetic recording medium using the powder. A method of producing the magnetic powder comprises using oxygen to form an oxide film, then changing the state of the oxide film by using... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070141280 - Substrate carrier having an interior lining: The invention provides apparatus and manufacturing methods for a liner adapted to enclose a space within a substrate carrier and further adapted to prevent gas from reaching the enclosed space. The liner may be removable from the substrate carrier. The liner may be self-supporting and/or the liner may be supported... Agent: Dugan & Dugan, PC

20070141288 - Double coated pressure sensitive adhesive tape: A double coated pressure sensitive adhesive tape comprising pressure sensitive adhesive layers which comprise an acrylic ester-based copolymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 700,00 or greater and a content of a butyl acrylate unit of 90% by mass or greater and 40 to 60% by mass of a tackifier... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070141275 - Liquid crystal composite: A liquid crystal composite comprises anisometric particles suspended in a liquid crystalline compound. The composite is characterised in that the particles are aligned in relation to the molecules of the liquid crystalline compound, and the orientation of the particles may be reversibly changed by the application of an electric field.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070141276 - Novel 14 and 15 membered ring compounds: l

20070141277 - Inkjet recording element and a method of use: An inkjet recording element having a support having thereon in order: a) a fusible, porous ink-receptive layer of fusible polymeric particles and a binder; b) a fusible, porous ink-transporting layer of fusible, polymeric particles and a film-forming, hydrophobic binder. The invention is also directed to an inkjet printing process wherein... Agent: Andrew J. Anderson Patent Legal Staff

20070141278 - Overcoat composition for image recording materials: The invention relates to an overcoat composition for an imaged image-recording element, the overcoat composition comprising an aqueous carrier, an optional humectant, an optional surfactant, and 0.05 to 20 weight percent, based on the total weight of the overcoat composition, of an addition polymer having an acid number greater than... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070141279 - Envelope for image display device, hermetic sealing material, sealing method and image display device: An envelope for an image display device, having envelope-constituting members including an image display portion made of glass, sealed with a hermetic sealing material layer, wherein the hermetic sealing material layer includes an organic hermetic sealing material layer obtained by firing an organic hermetic sealing material preferably including a primer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070141281 - Method of insulating a pipeline and materials therefor: Thermal insulation is provided to a subsea pipeline by disposing a thermally insulating tape on the pipeline. The insulating tape has a layer of a syntactic foam composition disposed between layers of a thermoplastic polymer. The syntactic foam composition may be a curable composition, and this composition may be cured... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070141282 - Flexible barrier membranes employing poly (hydroxy amino ethers): A multi-layer composite has at least one elastomer layer and at least one barrier layer. In various embodiments, the composite contains at least two elastomer layers alternating with at least two barrier layers. In other embodiments, the composite comprises at least ten alternating barrier and elastomer layers. The barrier layer... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070141283 - Package for consumable products with separately sealed compartments: A package for consumable products is disclosed. The package includes a plurality of subpackages connected together by a connecting member. For instance, the package may contain two subpackages or alternatively four subpackages all connected at one end to a connecting member. The package is particularly well suited to holding relatively... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20070141284 - Smooth bore flexible fluid conduit: A fluid conduit including an inner layer is provided. The inner layer includes a polymer and has an interior surface and an exterior surface. The interior surface has an Ra not greater than about 50 microns. The exterior surface is convoluted.... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070141285 - Pipe preformed liner comprising metal powder: The present invention relates to a preformed liner of tetrafluoroethylene/perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer adhered to the surface of a pipe, and in particular, an oil well pipe, without the need for either a primer layer or an adhesive. The liner comprises an effective amount of metal powder which provides adhesion... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070141286 - Foamed sheet of polylactic acid resin, foam molding of polylactic acid resin and method of preparing foam molding: A foamed sheet of a base resin containing 50 to 100% by weight of a polylactic acid resin and having an apparent density of 63 to 630 kg/m3, a thickness of 0.5 to 7 mm and endothermic and exothermic calorific values of ΔHendo:2 and ΔHexo:2, respectively, as measured by heat... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070141290 - Electrophotographic recording sheet and label paper: A label paper including a thermoplastic resin sheet (A) formed by stretching along at least one axis and heat treating at 50 to 250° C., an adhesive layer (B), and a release paper (C). Under a thermomechanical analysis with heating from a room temperature to 150° C., α is in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070141287 - Label laminate and a method for manufacturing a label laminate: A label laminate and a method for manufacturing a label laminate. The laminate includes a first label material layer and a second label material. The method includes forming a pattern in which adhesive areas and non-adhesive areas alternate on the face side of the first label material layer and on... Agent: Venable LLP

20070141289 - Peel ply masking device for an adhesive bonded attachment: A peel ply conformable masking device for protectively overlying a pre-cleaned bonding surface of an adhesive attachment adapted for bonded affixation to a selected substrate, such as an adhesive attachment of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,013,391 and 6,773,780 having a bonding surface circumscribing a temporary attachment member... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20070141291 - Removable opaque coating providing on a pressure sensitive piggyback label intermediate configuration and package containing same: The present invention is a pressure sensitive intermediate assembly that can be produced in a number of continuous configurations that may be used by small business owners, non-profits and other similarly situated groups. The intermediate assembly has a series of individual printed portions on the substrate of each roll or... Agent: Ward/kraft, Inc.

20070141292 - Printable snap-breakable sheet: A card sheet including a top material having punched lines, the front side of the top material being printable. A carrier material of at least one polymer layer is directly applied as by extruding to the back side of the top material. The polymer has a stress-at-break in the range... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20070141293 - Optical data storage article having a physical surface modification as an anti-theft feature and a system and method for inhibiting theft of same: An optical data storage article is configured to transform from a pre-activated state of functionality to an activated state of functionality. The optical data storage article includes a physical surface modification configured to alter an optical integrity of the optical data storage article upon interaction with an external stimulus.... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070141296 - Ag alloy reflective film for optical information recording medium, optical information recording medium and ag alloy sputtering target for forming ag alloy reflective film for optical information recording medium: The invention relates to an Ag alloy reflective film for an optical information recording medium, including Ag as a main component, at least one kind of Nd, Gd, Y and Sm in a total amount of more than 0.1 atomic percent and not more than 3.0 atomic percent and at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070141295 - Optical disc: The present invention provides an optical disc which includes a substrate, a groove, a first recordable material layer, a reflective layer, a second recordable material layer, a protective layer, and a label layer. The groove is formed on a surface of the substrate. The reflective layer is formed over the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070141294 - Optical recording medium: An optical recording medium using Sn as the recording material to improve the jitter is provided, in which on the surface of a disc substrate 11 where a concave and convex shape dividing a track area is formed, are formed on the surface of the concave and convex shape a... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070141297 - Plug member: A plug member (10) for retaining grout in a cable bolt hole or a rockbolt hole or inside a rockbolt in underground excavations, comprising a cylindrical cap portion (20) with a means to wedge (26) the cap portion in the hole. The means to wedging means (26) may comprise a... Agent: Bliss Mcglynn

20070141298 - Composite material, method for the production of a composite material and the utilization thereof: The invention relates to a composite material which is formed of several assembled discs of matrix material, wherein preferably in each disc at least one groove is formed in which at least one fiber (14) is inserted. According to the invention a composite of matrix material and fiber (14) is... Agent: Fasse Patent Attorneys, P.A.

20070141299 - Fabrics having stiff fibers and high-absorbable fibers arranged alternatively and mop thereof: The present invention relates to a fabric having stiff fibers and high-absorbable fibers alternatively arranged, in which said stiff fibers of polypropylene, polyethylene and the like, said high-absorbable fibers of polyester microfibers, polyester-nylon composite microfibers and the like having a size of 1.0 denier or less are weaved/knitted and processed... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, P.l.l.c.

20070141300 - Composite webs and closure systems: Composite webs having one or more polymeric structures located on a substrate, closure systems comprising composite webs, and methods of attaching articles are disclosed. The polymeric structures are formed using thermoplastic compositions and are attached to a surface of a substrate. The polymeric structures include an area that is attached... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070141301 - Low cte cordierite honeycomb article and method of manufacturing same: Disclosed is a honeycomb ceramic article that exhibits a primary crystalline phase of cordierite having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), wherein CTE<1.5×10−7/° C. over the temperature range of about 25° C. to about 800° C.; a total porosity, P, of at least 28%, a transverse I-ratio, IT, of less... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20070141302 - Method of applying adhesive: This invention involves a method for applying adhesive to the narrow side of thin, film-type workpieces, in particular veneer strips or sheets, wherein the workpiece and at least one nozzle dispensing the adhesive substantially perpendicular to the narrow side of the workpiece are guided at a short distance from each... Agent: Thomas M. Saunders Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP

20070141303 - Sheet materials with zoned machine direction extensibility and methods of making: A sheet material with zoned machine direction extensibility is disclosed. The sheet material includes a plurality of discontinuous slits, wherein the plurality of discontinuous slits define at high extensibility zones extending in the machine-direction and further define low extensibility zones extending in the machine-direction. The sheet materials exhibit stable machine... Agent: Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

20070141304 - Perforated board formed from cementitious material and process and system for producing same: A process for producing a perforated board comprising a cementitious layer and first and second facers is provided, the process comprising: (a) providing a substrate comprising a first facer; (b) applying a slurry comprising a cementitious material on the substrate; (c) providing a second facer above the slurry; and (d)... Agent: Johns Manville

20070141306 - Process for preparing a superhydrophobic coating: A process comprises (a) applying a coating consisting essentially of at least one hydrophobic material to at least a portion of at least one surface of a substrate to form a water repellent layer; (b) disposing a plurality of particles on the water repellent layer, the particles being selected from... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070141305 - Superhydrophobic coating: A coating comprises a polymer binder layer and a plurality of porous protrusions projecting from the surface of the polymer binder layer, the polymer binder layer and the protrusions independently (a) consisting essentially of at least one hydrophobic material; and/or (b) bearing a film that consists essentially of at least... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070141307 - Viscoelastic support structure with improved energy absorption properties: The present invention provides a viscoelastic support structure having improved energy absorption properties. The support structure generally comprises a frame, at least one resilient filler layer, a flexible covering, and at least one gel insert interposed between the covering and the frame. The support structure finds particular use in vehicles,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070141308 - Foaming surface treatment: A coating for a substrate includes a foaming material that foams when activated by an activating agent. The coating also includes the activating agent. The coating is applied to an exposed surface of the substrate and cures thereon to form a surface treatment on the exposed surface of the substrate.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070141309 - Method of creating an addition to an existing building: A method of adding an additional room to an existing building includes selecting an exterior wall to be a common wall between the existing building and the additional room, adding the additional room to the existing building along the common wall, removing exterior layers of the common wall to expose... Agent: Owens Corning

20070141310 - Printed circuit board and method of manufacturing the same: Disclosed are a printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same, in which a fluorine resin coating layer is formed on a resin substrate, and then a copper layer is formed using a dry process including ion beam surface treatment and vacuum deposition instead of a conventional wet... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070141311 - Differentially-stretched elastic laminate: An elastic material that lowers extension tension over a given range without a significant impact on the retractive tension or stress relaxation. The elastic laminate includes a first set of elastic members attached to one or more substrates while the elastic members are stretched, and a second set of elastic... Agent: Melanie I. Rauch Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20070141312 - Multilayered polishing pads having improved defectivity and methods of manufacture: The present invention provides a composite chemical mechanical polishing pad for polishing a semiconductor substrate comprising, a polishing layer having a first compressibility, an intermediate layer having a second compressibility less than the first compressibility and a bottom layer having a third compressibility greater than the second compressibility and less... Agent: Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials Cmp Holdings, Inc.

20070141313 - Plastic gas barrier packaging laminate: The invention relates to a gas barrier packaging laminate (10) having durability to stress crack formation and yet a bending stiffness and good integrity between the laminate layers, comprising outer layers of heat-sealable polyolefin (16, 17), two polymer carrier layers (11, 12) each being coated with a SiOx gas barrier... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070141314 - Evaporation barrier: An evaporation barrier having a water resistant bottom layer and a UV resistant top layer. The bottom layer includes first and second opposite ends, and first and second opposite edges. The top layer overlaps at least part of at least one edge of the bottom layer. In one non-limiting embodiment,... Agent: Wood And Eisenberg, PLLC

20070141315 - Metal-based carbon fiber composite material and method for producing the same: A method is provided for producing a metal-based carbon fiber composite material lightweight, high in the thermal conductivity and also capable of controlling the direction of heat flow, while inhibiting metal carbide formation. The method for producing the metal-based carbon fiber composite material comprises the steps of: obtaining a metal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070141316 - Tri-extruded wucs glass fiber reinforced plastic composite articles and methods for making such articles: Disclosed are a series of composite polymer composite structures formed by the coextrusion of at least two distinct polymeric compositions including a structural composition and a coating composition whereby the primary structural frame formed from the structural composition includes at least one, and typically a plurality, of longitudinal recesses or... Agent: Owens Corning

20070141317 - Wood composite material containing albizzia: Disclosed is a wood composite board comprising albizzia strands.... Agent: Carlos Nieves, Esq. J.m. Huber Corporation

20070141318 - Composition and method of manufacture for a fiber panel having a finishable surface: A panel is provided having a surface layer. The surface layer includes a surface that is the exterior surface of the panel. The surface layer includes a blend of nucleated binder fibers and synthetic fibers and forms a finishable, substantially defect and porosity free surface layer based on visual inspection.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070141320 - Substrate having photocatalytic and activated carbon constituents and process for producing: Provided herein is a photocatalytic substrate comprising a textile support and a finish on at least a first surface thereof. The finish on at least the first surface of the textile support comprises a particulate photocatalytic material and a binder. On the opposite surface of the textile support is disposed... Agent: Milliken & Company

20070141319 - Photocatalytic substrate and process for producing the same: A photocatalytic substrate comprises a textile support and a finish on the surface thereof. The finish on the surface of the textile support comprises a particulate photocatalytic material and a binder. A process for producing a photocatalytic substrate comprises the steps of providing a textile support having at least one... Agent: Legal Department (m-495)

20070141321 - Fluid control device and method of manufacturing the same: A fluid control device has very fine pores with an average diameter not greater than 10 nm and provides a large flux. The fluid control device comprises an anodized alumina film having fine pores and a silicon based micro-porous film having very fine pores and made from an AlSi mixed... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070141322 - Sorptive storage unit for gases: The present invention relates to a storage unit for gases, in particular a sorptive storage, with the storage unit comprising a sorbent for the reversible uptake of the gases to be stored and the sorbent being based on discrete sorptive particles. The sorptive particles are embedded in a solid gas-permeable... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070141323 - Compositions and aqueous dispersions: An aqueous dispersion including (A) at least one base polymer selected from the group consisting of an ethylene-based co-polymer and a propylene-based co-polymer; (B) at least one polymeric stabilizing agent; and at least one filler; wherein the polymeric stabilizing agent is different from the at least one base polymer and... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070141324 - Multi-layered platelet structure: An electrical insulation paper that is made of mica flakelets (22), having an average size range of 0.01 to 0.05 mm in their thinnest dimension, hexagonal boron nitride (26), which has an average size range of 10 to 1,000 nm in their longest dimension, and a resin matrix. The mica... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070141325 - Novel nanocomposites and their application as monolith columns: Novel materials for chromatographic separations, processes for their preparation, and separation devices containing the chromatographic materials. In particular, hybrid inorganic/organic monolith materials comprising a polymerized scaffolding nanocomposite (PSN), wherein the nanocomposite contains a scaffolding functionality capable of chemically interacting with a surface of a second material are described. The hybrid... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070141326 - Film for packing liquids or the like and method for manufacturing such a film: Film for packaging liquid products or the like, which mainly consists of a first polyolefin layer, a jointing layer and a layer of polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE), wherein the PCTFE Layer has a thickness of at least 10 micrometer (μm) and whereby the film is obtained by means of extrusion lamination.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070141327 - Carbon-containing paper and panel: The invention relates to a paper and panels made therefrom for flooring.... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070141328 - Decorative protective film: The present invention provides a protective film which can be adhered to a substrate having a three-dimensional characteristic. This can be achieved even when the operation is conducted in-situ at temperatures of 40° C. to 60° C. The decorative protective film comprises a toughening layer, a protective (preferably embossable) layer,... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070141330 - Method of producing a semiconductor device, and wafer-processing tape: A wafer-processing tape, having a removable adhesive layer(2), and an adhesive layer (3), formed on a substrate film(1), wherein the tape is used in a process involving the steps of: grinding a back face of a wafer circuit substrate (5) having convex-type metal electrodes (4), and dicing the wafer circuit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070141329 - Optically clear and antistatic pressure sensitive adhesives: The present invention is directed to an antistatic pressure sensitive adhesive. The antistatic pressure sensitive adhesive comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive, and an antistatic agent comprising at least one organic salt. Certain embodiments of the antistatic pressure sensitive adhesive also have a luminous transmission of greater than about 89% according... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070141331 - Finely divided glass filler for rubber latex adhesive compositions: Embodiments relate to adhesive compositions for use in carpet backing and other textiles. The adhesive compositions contain a rubber latex formulation including a conjugated diene, finely divided glass particles, and optionally additional fillers. The adhesive compositions provide carpet products having improved lamination strength, and enable higher run speeds, and consequently,... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070141332 - Cast glass-coated microwire for x-ray protection: A glass-coated microwire includes a metal wire coated with a glass. The metal wire can contain, in weight %, 20-25% Bi, 6-12% Sn, 4-8% In, 3-5% Cu, 0.6-1.5% Si, 0.05-1.2% Ce, and a balance of Pb. The glass coating can contain, in mol. %, 12-15% SrO, 10-12% B2O3, 1-3% Al2O3,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070141333 - Emulsion-based control of electrospun fiber morphology: The invention provides a fiber having different morphology and a method of making such fiber in a predictable manner. The method includes providing a first component including water, wherein the first component has a first evaporation rate, providing a second component including a polymer, wherein the second component has a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070141335 - Expansible yarns and threads, and products made using them: A precursor yarn or thread is made by passing a central element, e.g., a filament, a tow, or a flat member, through a bath of a binder, such as a low-temperature hot-melt adhesive, and aqueous urethane, or an acrylic material, with which is mixed a quantity of hard-shelled microspheres which... Agent: Michael De Angeli

20070141336 - Prestressing strand having corrosion protection double coatings: To improve tensile strength without impairing flexibility and adhesion to concrete, and to form a thick coating in a surface layer part for preventing a basis material from being exposed by damage to the coating, a method of forming double coatings on a prestressing strand includes a primary painting process... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070141334 - Rotational vacuum assisted resin transfer molding: Thickness gradients in large, cobonded composite structures resulting from gravity-induced resin migration during curing is substantially reduced by rotating the structure during the resin infusion and curing stages. The layup for the structure is placed on a rotatable tool fixture and vacuum bagged. The tool fixture is mounted on a... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20070141337 - Cellulosic-reinforced composites having increased resistance to water absorption: Cellulosic-reinforced composites having increased resistance to water absorption are provided. The improved composites are obtained using a mixture of high density polyethylene and silane copolymer with the cellulosic filler.... Agent: Equistar Chemicals, L.p.

20070141339 - Block copolymer particles: Block copolymer particles, and related compositions and methods, are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070141340 - Block copolymer particles: Block copolymer particles, and related compositions and methods, are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070141338 - Particulate water absorbing agent with irregularly pulverized shape: The present invention provides a particulate water absorbing agent for a thin type absorbing substrate suitable for actual use. A particulate water absorbing agent having irregularly pulverized shape, characterized by comprising, a surface crosslinked water-absorbing resin obtained by crosslinking polymerization of an unsaturated monomer with an acid group and/or salts... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070141341 - Coating containing denatured aloe vera, for covering either chlorine-generating compositions or other hazardous chemicals and method for making: Hazardous chemicals, particularly chlorine-generating compositions, are coated with a colloidal suspension of denatured aloe vera and a lipid wherein the coating has improved inertness against chlorine reactivity and resistance to chlorine diffusion from within and resistance to atmospheric moisture from outside.... Agent: Haverstock, Garrett & Roberts LLP

20070141342 - Physical color new concepts for color pigments: An electromagnetic radiation-absorbing particles comprising cores; a first shell encapsulating the core; and at least one additional shell encapsulating the first shell. The first shell has the refractive index different from the refractive index of the core and the refractive index of the at least one additional shell.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070141343 - Carbon foam structural insulated panel: A structural insulated panel, which includes a carbon foam core having a high ratio of compressive strength to density, desirable fire retardant properties, and resistance to environmental stress. The carbon foam structural insulated panel also includes a first layer and a second layer bound to a first surface and second... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070141347 - Hard carbon film, production method thereof, and sliding member: A hard carbon film formed on a substrate via an intermediate layer is made up of a diamond-like carbon layer and a graphite particle deposition layer formed on the diamond-like carbon layer. The ID/IG of the graphite particle deposition layer that is a ratio of the integrated intensity ID of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070141346 - Insert for milling of steel: and a coating which is essentially an aperiodic multilayer consisting of layers A+B+A+B+A . . . where the sublayers A and B consist of AlxTi1−xN and TiyAl1−yN respectively. The typical average thickness of each A+B sequence is in the range from about 30 to about 300 nm and the total... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070141344 - Laminated carbon foam sandwich for naval decking: A laminate sandwich structure useful for, inter alia, decking for naval vessels, which includes a core formed of carbon foam having a ratio of compressive strength to density of at least about 7000 psi/g/cc.... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070141345 - Transparent and electrically conductive single wall carbon nanotube films: An optically transparent and electrically conductive single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) film comprises a plurality of interpenetrated single walled carbon nanotubes, wherein for a 100 nm film the film has sufficient interpenetration to provide a 25° C. sheet resistance of less than 200 ohm/sq. The film also provides at least... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070141348 - Refractory material and its use, and method for treating refractory material: The invention relates to a method for treating refractory material which consists of fireclay, light-weight refractory bricks, silimanite bricks, zirconium and zirconium-containing bricks, and fusion-cast bricks with compositions from Al2O3, SiO2, ZrO2 and/or MgO or CrO in order to render it corrosion-resistant so that it withstands contact with a glass... Agent: Striker Striker & Stenby

20070141349 - Alkaline glasses with modified glass surfaces and process for the production thereof: The invention concerns alkaline glasses with modified glass surfaces. The technical object of the invention is to stabilize the modified glass surface so that reverse sodium diffusion out of the volume is substantially avoided even at elevated temperatures and in particular in the case of post-treatment procedures using a flame.... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20070141350 - Visible light optical polarizer made from stretched h2-treated glass and method of making same: The invention is directed to a method for preparing visible light optical polarizers using a non-halide silver salt and any glass composition that the non-halide silver salts is soluble, provided that the glass composition, including the silver salt, was a halide content that is, on a molar basis, 10% or... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20070141354 - Elastic-powered shrink laminate: An elastic-powered shrink laminate includes a shrinkable layer and an elastic layer bonded together while the elastic layer is in a dimensionally unstable, stretched state. The elastic layer remains substantially in the stretched state prior to shrinkage of the shrinkable layer. When the shrinkable layer is activated, the laminate retracts,... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson Suite 365

20070141352 - Cross-directional elastic films with machine direction stiffness: A multilayer film including an elastomeric polymeric core layer and a polymeric skin layer on each side of the core layer. The polymeric skin layers are not elastomeric and the multilayer film is elastic in the cross-direction. The multilayered film is elastic in the cross-direction, has a non-tacky surface feel,... Agent: Mark D. Swanson Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20070141353 - In mold lamination of decorative products: A method of manufacturing decorative plastic composites having a decorative layer, a backing layer and a clear outer layer which provides exceptional “depth of image” is disclosed. Decorative or protective appliqués' having a wide range of decorative patterns may be formed by injection molding a backing layer behind and a... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20070141351 - Multilayered chromonic structures: A method of making a multilayered chromonic structure comprises (a) preparing a first aqueous mixture comprising (i) a first continuous water-soluble polymer phase and (ii) a first discontinuous chromonic phase comprising a chromonic material, to form chromonic nanoparticles;(b) non-covalently crosslinking the resulting chromonic nanoparticles with a multivalent cation salt; (c)... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070141355 - Plastic lens and process for preparing the lens: m

20070141356 - Powder coating composition suitable for coil coating: The present invention provides a powder coating composition comprising (A) 40 to 99 wt % of at least one saturated carboxylic functional polyester resin having an acid value in the range 5 to 200, (B) 1 to 60 wt % of at least one glycidylester and/or glycidylether selected from the... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070141357 - Composite structure having a fluoroelastomeric anti-reflective coating with non-fluorinated cross-linking agent: Optical articles, such as displays, optical lenses, windows, optical polarizers and transparent films are made as a composite structure comprising a substrate and an anti-reflective coating applied to the substrate. The anti-reflective coating comprises: A) a fluoroelastomer having cures sites selected from the group consisting of bromine atoms, chlorine atoms,... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070141359 - Glassy film suitableto the method surface coatings and coated articles obtained thereby: The present invention relates to glassy inorganic films, characterized by a high chemical stability and a high adhesion, containing, among the others, titanium dioxide, employable to coat metal surfaces characterized by the presence of oxides, particularly stainless steel sheets. The coated structures obtained thereby, which are the second object of... Agent: Venable LLP

20070141358 - Method for improving the edging of an optical article by providing a temporary layer of an organic material: The invention relates to a method for edging an optical article comprising the following steps: providing an optical article having two main faces, at least one of which being coated with an outermost layer; fixing the optical article to a chuck by means of a holding pad, the surface of... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070141360 - Method for eliminating punctual defects comprised in an electrochemical device: A method of eliminating, using a beam of laser radiation, defects lying within a laminate formed from at least a first substrate and from at least a second substrate. The laminate incorporates, between the first and second substrates, at least one smart active system. The method locates at least one... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070141364 - Backfilled, self-assembled monolayers and methods of making same: Backfilled, self-assembled monolayers and methods of making the same are disclosed. The self-assembled monolayer comprises at least one functional organosilane species and a substantially random dispersion of at least one backfilling organosilane species among the functional organosilane species, wherein the functional and backfilling organosilane species have been sequentially deposited on... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20070141362 - Composition for coating substrate to prevent sticking: A release agent composition to prevent sticking and facilitate separation of surfaces, such as patterns and core boxes from foundry molds and cores comprises (a) a styrene-diene block copolymer; (b) a functional silicone; (c) a solvent; and optionally, one or both of (d) a catalyst and (e) a crosslinking agent.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070141361 - Polymer comprising 3-(n-silylalkyl) aminopropenoate groups and use thereof: The invention relates to a moisture-curing single-component composition which comprises at least one polymer that contains 3-(N-silylalkyl)-amino-propenoate groups and is described by formula (I). The inventive composition is useful as an adhesive, sealant, coating, or lining. Said polymer of formula (I) is characterized by a low viscosity, has a long... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070141365 - Silane coating compositions, coating systems, and methods: The present invention relates to coating systems and coating systems on substrates. In an embodiment, the invention includes an article including a substrate, a base layer disposed on the substrate, the base layer comprising a silane compound with a photoreactive group, or the reaction product of a silane compound with... Agent: Pauly, Devries Smith & Deffner, L.L.C.

20070141363 - Triazole-containing fluorocarbon-grafted polysiloxanes: e

20070141366 - Multilayer film with hot tack property: A multilayer film includes a first layer comprising a blend of a polyolefin, a cyclic olefin copolymer, and polypropylene, and a second layer comprising a polymeric composition having a melting point of less than 130° C. An alternative multilayer film includes a first layer comprising a polyolefin; a second layer... Agent: Mark B. Quatt Sealed Air Corporation

20070141369 - Strain tolerant corrosion protecting coating and spray method of application: A corrosion resistant coating for gas turbine engine includes a glassy ceramic matrix wherein the glassy matrix is silica-based, and includes corrosion resistant particles selected from refractory particles and non-refractory MCrAlX particles, and combinations thereof. The corrosion resistant particles are substantially uniformly distributed within the matrix, and provide the coating... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20070141367 - Composite thermal barrier coating with improved impact and erosion resistance: A thermal barrier coating (TBC) for a component intended for use in a hostile environment, such as a component of a gas turbine engine. The TBC exhibits improved impact and erosion resistance as a result of being a composite material consisting essentially of particles of a ceramic reinforcement material dispersed... Agent: Hartman And Hartman, P.C.

20070141368 - Gas turbine nozzle segment and process therefor: A gas turbine engine nozzle segment and process for producing such a nozzle segment to exhibit improved durability and aerodynamic performance. The process produces a nozzle segment having at least one vane between and interconnecting a pair of platforms. The nozzle segment is cast from a gamma prime-strengthened nickel-base superalloy,... Agent: Hartman And Hartman, P.C.

20070141370 - Nanoparticle surface treatment: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for reducing damaging oxidation of metals. In particular, the present invention relates to nanoparticle surface treatments and use of nanoparticle surface treatments to reduce the damaging oxidation and corrosion of stainless steel and other alloy components in oxidating and corrosive conditions.... Agent: Medlen & Carroll, LLP

20070141371 - Particulate corrosion resistant coating composition, coated turbine component and method for coating same: A composition comprising a glass-forming binder component and a particulate corrosion resistant component. The particulate corrosion resistant component comprises corrosion resistant particulates having: a CTEp of at least about 4 and being solid at a temperature of about 1300° F. (704° C.) or greater; and a maximum median particle size... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20070141372 - Polypropylene multi-layer barrier films: A biaxially oriented laminate film having a first skin layer of a blend of ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer and amorphous nylon or nylon-containing ionomer; and a core layer comprising a blend of polypropylene resin and optionally an adhesion promoting resin that promotes adhesion between said blend and said polypropylene resin... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070141373 - Segmented copolyesterether adhesive compositions: The instant invention concerns a composition that is useful as an adhesive in laminating applications. The composition comprises 100 parts of a segmented block copolyesterether and 3-45 parts of a metallocene catalyzed polyethylene co alpha-olefin plastomer, wherein the co alpha olefin is C3-C12. The adhesive heterophase blend is substantially free... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070141374 - Environmentally resistant disk: An environmentally resistant gas turbine engine disk is disclosed. The disk includes a substrate metal having locally enriched surface regions, the locally enriched surface regions comprising alloying elements present in a higher percentage than found in the substrate metal. A method for making the disk and other articles is also... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20070141375 - Braze cladding for direct metal laser sintered materials: A direct metal laser sintered material including a substrate formed from a laser sintering process, the substrate having at least one surface, and a cladding material brazed onto at least a portion of the surface.... Agent: General Electric Company

20070141376 - Method for production of sandwich panels with zigzag corrugated core: The invention can be defined in its most general form as a method for production of sandwich panels with zigzag corrugated core (2) from sheet material used in aircraft construction, shipbuilding, and other branches of industry. With the aim to improve the quality and ease of sheet blank folding into... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070141377 - Copper foil having blackened surface or layer: A copper foil with a blackened surface or layer wherein one or both surfaces of a copper foil is subject to black treatment, and having a color difference ΔL*≦−70 and chroma C*≦15 of a black-treated surface when measured by a color difference meter represented by black; ΔL*=−100, white; ΔL*=0. The... Agent: Howson And Howson

20070141379 - Powder-coated spinning wire and fabrication method thereof: The invention relates to a powder-coated spinning wire used for a main cable of a suspension bridge and a fabrication method thereof. The powder-coated spinning wire has a shot-blasted plating layer and a powdered coat formed in their order on a core wire. The plated core wire is shot-blasted to... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20070141378 - Low melting temperature alloy structure for enchanced thermal interface: A method and associated apparatus for providing an enhanced thermal interface. The interface is formed by application of a structure or foil embedded in an alloy in solid form between two surfaces. Once heat is applied from one or both surfaces, the alloy melts forming the desired interface.... Agent: Lily Neff IBM Corporation

20070141380 - Support layer for thin copper foil: A composite material useful for the manufacture of a circuit has a support layer, a metal foil layer having opposing first and second sides and a thickness of 15 microns or less and a release layer effective to facilitate separation of the metal foil layer from the support layer, the... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20070141381 - Ultrathin copper foil with carrier and printed circuit board using same: c

20070141382 - Precoated metal sheet with little affect on environment: The present invention provides a precoated metal sheet excellent in the coating material adhesion and having little affect on environment. The precoated metal sheet of the invention is a precoated metal sheet comprising a metal or plated metal sheet having stacked on the surface thereof at least a coat layer... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070141383 - Core insert and method for manufacturing the same: An exemplary core insert includes a main body having a central protruding portion and a peripheral flange portion surrounding the central protruding portion, and a multilayer film formed on the central protruding portion. The multilayer film comprising a nickel-phosphorus layer formed on the central protruding portion, a chromium layer formed... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070141384 - Layered composite including cubic boron nitride: In a layered composite including a substrate comprising a number of individual layers disposed on the substrate, at least one of the individual layers includes cubic boron nitride formed by material deposition, the cubic boron nitride including oxygen added during deposition of the material.... Agent: Klaus J. Bach & Associates Patents And Trademarks

20070141385 - Method of coating gas turbine components: A method of forming a metal coating on surfaces of internal passages of a turbine blade, the turbine blade having an outer surface and comprising at least one internal passage. The method includes injecting a paint into at least one of the internal passages of the turbine blade, and heat... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070141386 - Protected air-activated organotin catalysts for polyurethane synthesis: This invention relates to a protected organotin-based catalyst system for polyurethane synthesis that is useful in coatings applications. The catalyst has low activity in the absence of oxygen. When a coating mixture comprising the catalyst is sprayed and/or applied to a substrate as a thin film in air, the catalyst... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070141395 - Organic electroluminescent display device and method of preparing the same: An organic EL display device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. One embodiment of the organic EL display device includes: a light-emitting layer between a first electrode and a second electrode; a hole injection layer and a hole transport layer between the first electrode and the light-emitting... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070141396 - Organic luminescence display device and method of manufacturing the same: An organic luminescence display device having an emission layer between a first electrode and a second electrode is disclosed. One embodiment of the device includes: a first hole injection layer and a second hole injection layer between the first electrode and the emission layer; and a charge generation layer doped... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070141393 - Amino anthracene compounds in oled devices: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, and having therebetween a light emitting layer, the device further comprising a layer on the cathode side of the emitting layer containing an anthracene compound bearing a diarylamine group; provided either (1) there is present an organic layer contiguous to the cathode... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Eastman Kodak Company

20070141390 - Bifunctional compounds and oled using the same: This invention discloses a new class of bifunctional blue emitting materials for organic electroluminescent (EL) applications. These compounds contain two functionalities: an emission chromophore comprised of an anthryl group and an electron transport group. Employment of these compounds improves device efficiency and stability.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070141388 - Electroluminescent device containing a butadiene derivative: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode and a light-emitting layer therebetween, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a host containing an anthracene nucleus and a light-emitting material comprising a 1,3-butadiene nucleus, wherein the butadiene nucleus is substituted in the 1 and 4 positions with independently selected aromatic groups, and... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070141392 - Hexatriene derivatives for use as blue emitting materials for organic electroluminescent devices:

20070141391 - Host material for organic electroluminescence devices: wherein R2 may be a substituent selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, heteroaryl, and alicyclic alkyl; wherein at least one of the R1 substituents is different from R2 and chosen from Group A where Group A consists of substituted or unsubstituted aryl, heteroaryl, phenyl,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070141389 - Indenofluorene compounds and organic electroluminescent devices using the same: wherein R and R′ are independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, cyano, alky, alkoxyl, alicyclic alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl, and dialkylamino; m and n are numbers of 0 to 4; R1, R2, R5, and R6 are independently selected from the group... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070141394 - Light-emitting element and iridium complex: wherein each of Z1 and Z3 represents an atomic group for forming a nitrogen-containing heteroaryl group or a nitrogen-containing heterocycloalkenyl group; Z2 represents an atomic group for forming an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, a cycloalkenyl group or a heterocycloalkenyl group; Y represents an atomic group for forming a 5-membered... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070141387 - Material for organic electroluminescence device and electroluminescence device employing the same: A material for organic electroluminescence devices comprising a compound having a specific structure and an organic electroluminescence device comprising an organic thin film layer which comprises one layer or a plurality of layers comprising at least a light emitting layer and disposed between a cathode and an anode, wherein at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070141398 - Metal complex compound and organic electroluminescence device using the compound: Provided are an organic electroluminescence device whose wavelength of light emission is short and which can emit blue light having a high color purity, and a metal complex compound for realizing the device. The metal complex compound is of a specific structure having a partial structure including a tridentate ligand.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070141397 - Transition metal complex compound and organic electroluminescence device using the compound: The present invention relates to a transition metal complex compound of a specific structure having a metal carbene bond and an organic electroluminescent device in which an organic thin film layer comprising a single layer or plural layers having at least a light emitting layer is interposed between an anode... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070141399 - Laminate of magnetic substrates and method of manufacturing the same: A laminate of magnetic substrates comprising a high molecular compound layer and a magnetic metal thin plate is used, wherein the volume resistivity defined in JIS H 0505 in a direction perpendicular to the high molecular compound layer surface of the laminate is less than 108 Ωcm. The laminate is... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070141400 - Perpendicular magnetic recording disk with ultrathin nucleation film for improved corrosion resistance and method for making the disk: A perpendicular magnetic recording disk has a granular cobalt alloy recording layer (RL) containing an additive oxide or oxides, an intermediate layer (IL) as an exchange-break layer on the “soft” magnetic underlayer (SUL), and an ultrathin nucleation film (NF) between the IL and the RL. In the method of making... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20070141401 - Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus: According to one embodiment, a multilayered underlayer including a first underlayer containing Cu aligned in a (111) plane and a second underlayer formed on the Cu underlayer and containing Cu and nitrogen as main components is formed.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070141402 - Magnetic recording medium: The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium which has a back coat layer excellent in surface smoothness and durability and is excellent in electromagnetic conversion property. A magnetic recording medium, comprising at least a non-magnetic support, a lower non-magnetic layer on one surface of the non-magnetic support, an upper... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070134438 - Diffuse multilayer optical assembly: An optical assembly includes a light diffusing layer attached to a reflective polarizing layer. An intermediate region between the light diffusing layer and the reflective polarizing layer includes an intermediate structure that defines voids between the light diffusing layer and the reflective polarizing layer.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070134440 - Lateral oxirane compound and polymer thereof: wherein Ra is alkyl or the like; Rb is hydrogen, alkyl or the like; A is 1,4-cyclohexylene, 1,4-phenylene or the like; Z is a single bond, alkylene or the like; Y is a single bond, alkylene or the like; and m and n are each an integer of approximately 0... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20070134439 - Liquid crystal display panel having a conductive polymer: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel having a conductive polymer is described. On an upper surface and a lower surface of the LCD panel, a first conductive polymer and a second conductive polymer are coated so that charges accumulated on the LCD panel when the polarizer and the LCD panel... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070134444 - Liquid crystal polymer film with improved stability: The invention reports on the use of multi-reactive polymerizable surfactants in mixtures of polymerizable mesogenic materials. The polymerizable surfactants are readily polymerized into the liquid crystal film and build a protective topcoat layer. The invention also relates to a method of producing polymeric optical films with improved stability by using... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20070134443 - Method and apparatus for alkaline saponification of polymer film: The present invention provides a method for alkaline saponification of a polymer film, comprising: an alkaline-solution coating step of coating a polymer film with an alkaline solution; a temperature keeping step of keeping the polymer film coated with the alkaline solution at temperature equal to or higher than room temperature;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070134442 - Micropattern retardation element: The present invention relates to a micropattern retardation element requiring no stretch processing and no extremely high positioning accuracy in cutting films, and the like, and having the retardation region controlled in width of a micron unit, and a producing method therefore. Said micropattern retardation element can be obtained by... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20070134441 - Retardation film, method for manufacturing retardation film, method for manufacturing laminated retardation film, optical film, and image display apparatus: The present invention provides a retardation film on which birefringent layers having different alignment directions can be formed directly. A surface of a polymer film showing birefringence is irradiated with polarized light so as to change an alignment direction of only the surface of the film to be different from... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070134447 - Lateral a-substituted acrylate compound and polymer thereof: wherein Ra is alkyl or the like; Rb is fluorine or —CF3; A is 1,4-cyclohexylene, 1,4-phenylene or the like; Z is a single bond, alkylene or the like; Y is a single bond, alkylene or the like; and m and n are an integer of approximately 0 to approximately 5.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20070134445 - Pva-free hydrous glue for polarizing films with improved resistance to heat and moisture: PVA-free hydrous glue for adhering a PVA film to a TAC film of a polarizing film is disclosed. The ingredients of the PVA-free hydrous glue include water, dicarboxylic acid, protonic acid, Lewis acid, and masking agent. The resultant polarizing film formed by employing the PVA-free hydrous glue has improved resistance... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070134446 - Retardation film, method for producing the same, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display: A method of producing a long roll retardation film comprising the sequential steps of: (a) casting a film forming material on an endless support to form a long roll film; (b) stretching the long roll film in a lateral direction of the long roll film while both edges of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070134448 - Image-recording material support, method for producing the same, and image recording material: The present invention provides an image recording material support which contains a paper, wherein the paper contains at least a pulp; and the content ratio of long fiber pulp having a fiber length of 0.7 mm or more in the paper relative to the entire pulp content is 20% or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070134449 - Inkjet recording element: The present invention relates to an inkjet recording element having good dye keeping properties in time, good image quality, as well as instant dryness. Said inkjet recording element comprises a porous polyester support and at least one ink-receiving layer, said ink-receiving layer comprising at least one aluminosilicate polymer obtainable by... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070134450 - Inkjet recording media comprising precipitated calcium carbonate: The invention relates generally to the field of inkjet recording media and inkjet printing methods. More specifically, the invention relates to a porous base layer of an inkjet recording element, the base layer comprising precipitated calcium carbonate having scalenohedral morphology.... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070134451 - Printing medium coating solution, ink-jet ink, image forming method, set of printing medium coating solution and ink-jet ink, and ink-jet recording apparatus: The present invention can sufficiently suppress curling phenomenon of a recorded product and facilitate handling of a printed product produced by using plain paper, in particular. The present invention provides a printing medium coating solution including water and a water-retentive, water-soluble organic compound, wherein the water-soluble organic compound includes only... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070134452 - Component and use thereof and method for the production thereof: The invention relates to a component (1), especially a hybrid component for a crossrail of a vehicle, comprising a metal base body (2) which is at least partially provided with a plastic structure (6). The metal base body (2) comprises a fixing element (12) which is formed on the edge... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070134453 - Cardboard and a method of manufacture thereof: The invention relates to cardboard used in authenticity products, comprising a fiber matrix having two surfaces, whereby the second surface of the fiber layer has a layer of surface sizing containing a marking agent in a particle form, its particle size being smaller than 50 μm. By incorporating the marking... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20070134454 - Perforated bag placemat: The present invention relates to a bag which is used to carry and store food, which can then be further used as a placemat for the meal that was carried in the bag.... Agent: Weiss & Weiss

20070134455 - Method for the manufacture of parts made of a synthetic material and having a hollow annular section and part thus obtained: The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of parts which are made of a synthetic material and which have a hollow annular section, said parts being manufactured by prior injection of melted synthetic material into a mold, followed by injection of a pressurized fluid in order to force... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070134456 - Multi directional fibers in a shell: Disclosed herein are various embodiments, including but not limited to a bicycle that includes, among other features, an elongated down tube and a single elongated seat tube, the longitudinal axis of the seat tube intersecting the longitudinal axis of the down tube at a location substantially intermediate between the first... Agent: Hanes & Schutz, LLC

20070134457 - Article for preventing items from falling behind furniture: The device prevents the loss of articles otherwise susceptible to falling behind furniture, appliances, fixtures or equipment or other large objects placed next to a wall which are not easy to move or reach under such as, but not exclusively, couches, wardrobes, desks, washers, dryers, refrigerators, filing cabinets and dressers.... Agent: Michael E. Zall

20070134458 - Aromatic polyamide tubing for vehicle applications: A vehicle tube (14) includes a layer of aromatic polyamide (22). In one example, an outer layer of aromatic polyamide (24) is bonded to the layer aromatic polyamide (22). In another example, the layer of aromatic polyamide (22) includes filler and modifying agents (34) and is electrically modifying agents (34)... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070134459 - Optical film composite having spatially controlled adhesive strength: The present invention generally relates to optical films useful in the manufacture of polarizer plates, an improved method for producing polarizing plates, and a Liquid Crystal Display employing the same. More particularly, the invention relates to an optical film composite comprising a temporary carrier substrate having a center area and... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070134460 - Universal sticker: A universal sticker includes two soft rubber magnets respectively having an upper end tightly connected together; a hook fixed on a front surface of the front one of the two magnets; and a peel-pap. The rear magnet has a layer of glue coated on its rear surface with a peel-paper... Agent: Han-chin Chen

20070134461 - Pad: A pad includes an array of rigid elements that are grouped into rows and columns of the rigid elements, a plurality of flexible sheets disposed to alternate with the columns of the rigid elements, and a plurality of strings, each of which extends through a respective one of the rows... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070134462 - Storage media and associated method: An optical storage medium is provided. The optical storage medium may include a light transmissive layer secured to the surface of a data layer and a curable hard coat layer secured to the surface of the light transmissive layer. The data layer may be read, written to, or both read... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070134463 - Storage media and associated method: An optical storage medium is provided. The optical storage medium may include a data layer and a curable hard coat layer secured to the surface of the data layer. The data layer may be read, written to, or both read and written to using a laser having a wavelength of... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070134464 - Spacer fabric: A material comprises a cover layer and a porous material layer. The cover layer may include a rigid, semi-rigid or flexible material and the porous spacer material layer may include a reticulated foam, nonwoven textile, or a spacer fabric. The material is configured to have a high air flow rate... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070134465 - Hook fasteners and methods of making the same: Methods of making touch fasteners include forming lanes of polymeric material into a sheet-form base and forming discrete elements extending from the sheet-form base. Corresponding touch fasteners are also disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070134466 - Sandwich panels with subsonic shear wave speed: Aircraft panels are formed of a honeycomb core material and the skin. The honeycomb core material and the skin are selected to provide subsonic wave speed across the panel, thereby reducing sound transmission.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070134467 - Three dimensional tomographic fabric assembly: The invention provides a method comprising the steps of laminating a series of layers of film material and cutting perforations in the films of the laminate to provide a foraminous fabric. Further the method comprise seamed or unseamed industrial fabrics made according to the method.... Agent: Voith Fabrics

20070134468 - Enhanced friction reducing surface and method of making the same: A process for producing an enhanced friction reducing surface by bonding a dry lubricant to a substrate by way of high velocity mechanical impact and low temperature diffusion bonding, and the friction-reduced surface produced thereby. Kinetic energy produced from the mechanical impact drives the lubricant against the surface of the... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070134470 - Multilayer, white, biaxially oriented polyester film: This invention relates to a white, biaxially oriented polyester film, preferably formed of PET, with a base layer and with at least one outer layer. The base layer includes a concentration of from 3 to 15% by weight of a whitening pigment, and the outer layer includes a concentration of... Agent: Propat, L.L.C.

20070134469 - Transparent film with uv-shielding and water/oil repellent functions: A transparent film, which has a rugged surface with tiny cilia, is prepared by the tetrapod-shaped ZnO (zinc oxide) nanopowders coated with polymers including CFx and/or CHx functional group(s). This transparent film possesses UV-shielding and water/oil repellent functions, which can be applied to textiles, glass, woods, ceramics, tiles, plastics, and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070134471 - Methods and apparatuses for releasably attaching microfeature workpieces to support members: Methods and apparatuses for releasably attaching microfeature workpieces to support members are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes applying a first material to a first region on a first side of a microfeature workpiece. The method then includes releasably attaching the first side of the workpiece to a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070134472 - Substrate structure and method for manufacturing same: An exemplary method for manufacturing a substrate structure includes steps of: providing a substrate; forming a plurality of isolated protrusions on the substrate; depositing ink onto the protrusions; and solidifying the ink to form a plurality of ink layers on the respective protrusions. This method can create ink layers with... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070134473 - Flexible circuit film and display panel assembly having the same: A flexible circuit film whose signal lines are resistant to cracking even upon bending is presented. The flexible circuit film includes a base substrate, a signal transmission line and a crack-preventing portion. The signal transmission line is formed on a first surface of the base substrate. The crack-preventing portion is... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070134474 - Color filter layer having color decision layer, image sensing device having the same, and method of forming color filter layer: A color filter layer for use in an image sensing device includes first inorganic layers, each first inorganic layer having a first refractive index, and second inorganic layers, each second inorganic layer having a second refractive index, wherein the second refractive index is higher than the first refractive index, wherein... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070134475 - Substrate of the surface protective film and surface protective film: A substrate of the surface protective film giving a film attached to the surface of a building material, a painted steel sheet, etc. for the purpose of prevention of damage easy applicability and easy removability and a surface protective film using the same, that is, a substrate of the surface... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070134477 - Guarded cover sheet for lcd polarizers and method of making the same: The invention generally relates to polymer films used as protective cover sheets for polarizer plates, their manufacture, and to a method for producing polarizing plates employing such polymer films. More particularly, the invention provides a guarded cover sheet composite comprising a temporary carrier substrate having a first cover sheet comprising... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070134476 - Multilayer film: A multi-layer film having a layer structure that a polyvalent metal compound-containing layer adjoins one side or both sides of a polymer layer containing a carboxyl group-containing polymer and a polyvalent metal salt of the carboxyl group-containing polymer, wherein the polymer layer has a concentration gradient structure that the concentration... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070134478 - Polyethylene-based, soft nonwoven fabric: The present invention concerns a nonwoven fabric the fibers of which have polyethylene on at least part of their surface, where the fibers are thermally bonded and the non-woven fabric exhibits an abrasion of less than 0.5 mg/cm2, in particular of less than 0.4 mg/cm2, and an embossed area fraction... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070134480 - Bismaleimide prepreg systems: Prepreg composite materials that include a fiber layer and a prepreg resin composed of a bismaleimide resin component, a thermoplastic toughening agent and a resin distribution stabilizer. The bismaleimide component is an amorphous mixture of at least three different bismaleimide monomers and a co-curing agent. The prepreg is useful in... Agent: Hexcel Corporation

20070134482 - Long fiber thermoplastic process for conductive composites and composites formed thereby: The present invention relates to a polymer article that includes electrically conductive fibers to provide electrical electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and their method of manufacture. The invention includes a method for forming shielding materials by impregnating conductive fibers in a polymer material via direct injection of the conductive fibers into... Agent: Owens Corning

20070134479 - Noise-absorbable and adiabatic panel: Disclosed is a lightweight, noise-absorbable and adiabatic polyester panel, which has excellent fire-retardancy, and horizontal and vertical drag forces. The noise-absorbable and adiabatic panel includes a middle plate, having a plurality of strips attached to each other and then subjected to a fire-retardant treating process using a fire-retardant agent liquid.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070134481 - Soluble patch: An article, preferably a patch, containing: a support in the form of at least one sheet containing fibres that are water-soluble at a temperature of 0-30° C., and a composition carried by the support, containing at least one water-soluble gelling agent which swells in less than 30 seconds in water... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070134483 - Plasma-treated textile surfaces for adsorption filter materials: The invention relates to an adsorption filter material (1) that provides protection against chemical toxins, chemical weapons and pollutants, with a preferably multi-layer composite construction (2). The layer construction (2) includes at least one planar support layer (3) with two opposing sides (3′, 3″) and an adsorption layer (4), provided... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070134485 - Blow molded articles having capped or inserted thermoplastic vulcanizate foam surfaces: Molded article and process for forming a molded article. The process includes integrally bonding foamed thermoplastic sheet or a foamed thermoplastic insert to form a capped or inserted surface onto an expanding parison during a molding process. Air between the expanding parison and the foamed thermoplastic material is evacuated into... Agent: William G. Muller

20070134486 - Glove having chemical and biological particulate barrier properties: A glove having chemical barrier properties includes, in an exemplary embodiment, an outer shell and an insert. The insert includes a first layer formed from a gas permeable liquid impermeable microporous membrane and a second layer including activated carbon. Optionally the insert includes a third layer formed from a textile.... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22402)

20070134484 - Porous film, process for producing the same, and lithium-ion secondary cell made with the same: The present invention provides an inexpensive separator satisfactory in shutdown properties and meltdown properties and having excellent insulating properties. A porous film having a thickness of 5 to 100 μm, characterized by including a porous layer of a polyamide-imide resin which has a glass transition temperature of 70° C. or... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070134487 - Interlayer film for laminated glasses and laminated glass: It is the object of the present invention to provide an interlayer for laminated glass having an excellent heat ray shielding property and an excellent transparent property which looks a natural color and laminated glass. The present invention is an interlayer for laminated glass, which is formed by laminating a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070134488 - Non-stick coating composition comprising diamond particles and substrate having the composition applied thereto: A non-stick coating composition comprising diamond particles of relatively large size, i.e., greater than 1 micrometer, preferably greater than 10 micrometers, and a fluoropolymer, can be applied to a substrate. In addition, a structure comprising a substrate and an undercoat is applied to the substrate, where the undercoat comprises a... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070134489 - Fastening tape for a hygiene item, diaper,method of closing a diaper, tape material and winding of a tape material: A fastening tape for a hygiene item with a targeted design of a mechanical closing area and a closing area of the tape that is closable by means of an adhesive is extremely versatile and also allows very inexpensive production.... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070134490 - Sizing composition for sheet molding compound roving: An aqueous glass fiber sizing composition that includes a polymeric film forming component, at least one silane coupling agent, and one or more lubricants is provided. The polymeric film forming component of the sizing composition includes a silanated polyvinyl acetate, an epoxidized polyvinyl acetate, and a modified epoxy emulsion. In... Agent: Owens Corning

20070134492 - Absorbent cores for absorbent diapers having reduced thickness and improved liquid handling and retention performance and comprising a super absorbent polymer: The present invention relates to absorbent cores for absorbent articles, which are intended to receive and retain bodily discharges such as urine. Such articles are disposable hygiene articles like baby diapers, training pants, adult incontinence articles, feminine care articles and the like. The improvement essentially is based on the recognition... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20070134491 - Metal nano-particles and method for preparing the same, dispersion of metal nano-particles and method for preparing the same, and thin metallic wire and metal film and method for preparing these substances: Each of the metal nano-particles present in a dispersion, which comprises at least one metal selected from the group consisting of precious metals and transition metals or an alloy of at least two metals selected from the foregoing metals, comprises a metal particle in which an organic metal compound of... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070134493 - Compositions and capsules with stable hydrophilic layers: Several embodiments of the present invention provide a capsule including a hydrophobic inner core layer and at least one hydrophilic outer layer. The outer layer may be seamless and may include at least one hygroscopic polyol and at least one polyol with a low hygroscopicity. The at least one outer... Agent: Barry H. Jacobsen Attorney For Applicant

20070134494 - Cubic boron nitride sintered body and method for making the same: A cubic boron nitride sintered body is provided having improved strength and hardness for serving as a cutting tool. The sintered body includes cBN dispersed in a binder material, wherein the binder includes alumina, at least one other aluminum compound, and a non-aluminum material such as a carbide, nitride, carbonitride,... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070134495 - Two-layered olefin-based resin pellets for insecticidal resin composition: A two-layered olefin-based resin pellet comprising a core layer formed of an olefin-based resin composition (A) and a sheath layer formed of an olefin-based resin composition (B) and laminated on the outer surface of the core layer, wherein said olefin-based composition (A) contains an insecticidal compound, a granular inorganic filler,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070134496 - Carbon nanotube-dispersed composite material, method for producing same and article same is applied to: The present invention has an object of providing a carbon nanotube dispersed composite material utilizing as much as possible excellent electric conductivity, heat conductive property and strength property owned by a carbon nanotube itself and taking advantage of characteristics of ceramics having corrosion resistance and heat resistance such as zirconia... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070134497 - Thermoplastic vulcanizate adhesive compositions: The invention described is a thermoplastic vulcanizate comprising dynamically-cured rubber, a functionalized thermoplastic polymer, and a functionalized hydrocarbon resin, which thermoplastic vulcanizate can be advantageously adhered to a polar substrate, for example by overmolding. In one or more embodiments of the present invention an article of commerce comprising: a) a... Agent: William G. Muller

20070134499 - Interlayers comprising stabilized infrared absorbing agents: The present invention is in the field of polymer sheets and multiple layer glazing panels comprising infrared absorbing agents, and, more specifically, the present invention is in the field of polymer sheets and multiple layer glazing panels comprising infrared absorbing agents that selectively absorb infrared radiation. In various embodiments of... Agent: Brenc Law Andrew Brenc

20070134498 - Resin composition for protective film: The present invention relates to a resin composition for protective films which comprises an epoxy resin having two or more epoxy groups, a curing agent, a curing accelerator, a solvent, and a colloidal slurry of fine silica particles having an average particle diameter, as determined by conversion from the specific... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20070134501 - Self-cleaning coatings applied to solar thermal devices: A process for preparing a self-cleaning coating on a substrate such as glass comprises providing a coating composition, adding to the coating composition nanocrystals of a photoactive material, and applying the mixture of coating composition and photoactive material to a surface of a substrate at an elevated temperature, to deposit... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20070134500 - Sputtering targets and methods for depositing film containing tin and niobium: Sputtering targets and sputtering methods for depositing a film that includes tin and niobium. Substrates bearing coatings comprising tin and niobium, for example, low-emissivity coatings including blocker films comprising tin and niobium, or solar control coatings (e.g., conductive oxide coatings) including tin and niobium methods of manufacturing sputtering targets comprising... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20070134502 - Aqueous dispersion coating composition having noise and/or friction abatement properties: An aqueous dispersion coating for rubber and polymer substrates comprises a blend of a polysiloxane and a curable polyurethane and various additives such as a urethane crosslinking agent, a heat resistant filler, and the like. The aqueous dispersion coating reduces the noise upon contact or movement of the coated substrate... Agent: Lord Corporation Patent & Legal Services

20070134503 - Anticorrosion coating composition in aqueous dispersion comprising an organic titanate and/or zirconate: The present invention relates to an anticorrosion coating composition for metallic parts based on particulate metal in aqueous dispersion comprising an organic titanate or zirconate compatible in aqueous phase or in organic phase, optionally a silane-based binder, and water. The present invention likewise relates to an anticorrosion coating of metallic... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070134504 - Material for laser welding and laser welding method: A laser welding material and laser welding method which can satisfactorily weld resin members of different resin materials that have no or little adhesive property is provided and includes a set of resin materials constituting a first resin member, a second resin member and a third resin member in which... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20070134505 - Pla film with good sliding and antistatic properties: The invention relates to a multi-layer biaxially oriented film comprising a base layer and at least one covering layer. Said covering layer comprises at least one polymer of at least one hydroxycarboxylic acid, and contains between 2 and 10 wt. % of a glycerine fatty acid ester and up to... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070134506 - Propylene elastomers for electrical wire and cable compounds: The present disclosure is directed to an electrical device comprising a propylene-alpha olefin polymer, wherein the propylene-alpha olefin polymer comprises from about 5 to about 25 wt % alpha olefin, from about 75 to about 95 wt % propylene and optionally ≦10 wt % diene, wherein the propylene-alpha olefin polymer... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company Law Technology

20070134507 - Highly moisture proof film and method of manufacturing the same: The present invention makes it possible to provide a film exhibiting an excellent oxygen-gas barrier properties and an excellent moisture proofness, the film containing at least a multivalent metal salt of a polycarboxylate-based polymer (A), the film having the density which is not lower than 1.80 g/cm3; the surface ratio... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070134508 - Sliding bearing element and method of producing: A sliding bearing element is characterized in that a bearing material that is bonded to the backing is disposed at least at the edges of the backing in form of wires in the circumferential direction and that a soft material is located at least in a space between said wires.... Agent: Robert L Stearns Dickinson Wright

20070134509 - Copper interconnection structure and method for forming same: A method for forming a Copper interconnection may include at least one of the following. Forming an insulating layer over a semiconductor substrate. Electroplating a barrier metal layer over a insulating layer, with the barrier metal layer having a reduction potential higher than Copper. Electroplating a Copper layer over a... Agent: Sherr & Nourse, PLLC

20070134513 - Chemiluminescent system: A chemiluminescent reactant solution and a layer containing a solid oxidizer. An embodiment of the invention has the layer containing a solid oxidizer supported by a substrate such as paper. The reactant solution includes an oxalate and a fluorescer and reacts with the oxidizer after it is applied to the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070134512 - Electroluminescent device containing an anthracene derivative: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, and located therebetween a light emitting layer, the device comprising a further layer between the light-emitting layer and the anode but not contiguous to the light-emitting layer, the further layer containing a 2,6-diamino-substituted anthracene compound and containing a larger volume percentage of... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070134514 - Electroluminescent host material: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, and has therebetween a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent emitter and a host comprising a first aluminum or gallium complex containing at least one 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)pyridine ligand and at least one phenoxy ligand, wherein the phenoxy ligand is substituted by an amine or... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070134511 - Organic electroluminescence device: wherein Ar1 to Ar4 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring having 6 to 50 nucleus carbon atoms, R1 and R2 may be the same or different substituents and linked to each other to form a saturated or unsaturated ring, and p is an integer of 1 to 6.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070134515 - Organic electroluminescence device emitting white light: An organic electroluminescence device emitting white light which emits white light and exhibits properties sufficient for practical applications, i.e., a high efficiency of light emission and a long life, is provided. The organic electroluminescence device emitting white light comprises a pair of electrodes and a layer of a light emitting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070134510 - Organic electroluminescent element: The invention relates to the improvement of phosphorescent organic electroluminescent devices, by the use of materials of formulas (1) to (4), as indicated in diagram 1, in the hole blocking layer.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070134517 - Coated cutting tool insert: The present invention discloses coated cutting tool inserts particularly useful for turning of nodular cast iron preferably at high speeds, comprising a cemented carbide substrate comprising from about 5 to about 9 wt-% Co and from about 1 to about 5 wt % cubic carbides and balance WC of 86-94... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070134516 - Light scattering layer for electronic device comprising nano-particles, junction structure for thin film transistor comprising light scattering layer, and methods of forming the same: A light scattering layer for an electronic device comprising nano-particles, a junction structure for a thin film transistor comprising the light scattering layer, and methods of forming the same are provided. The light scattering layer for the electronic device comprises a carbide-semimetal or a carbide-metal comprising nano-particles comprising Si or... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070134518 - Coatings and a method of optically detecting corrosion in coatings: A method for optically detecting hot corrosion of a thermal barrier coating (TBC), comprising: providing a TBC which includes an indicator material which has an optical emission which is altered by corrosion of the coating; irradiating the TBC with an excitation beam of light; receiving an opticla emission from the... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070134519 - Rare-earth magnet and manufacturing method thereof and magnet motor: The object of the present invention is to provide a rare earth magnet which enables to achieve a good balance between high coercive force and high residual magnetic flux density, and its manufacturing method. The present invention provides a rare earth magnet in which a layered grain boundary phase is... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070128376 - Resin sheet, liquid crystal cell substrate, liquid crytal display device, substrate for an electroluminescence display device, electroluminescence display device, and substrate for a solar cell: There is provided a resin sheet that achieves improvement in lightweight, low-profile and high impact characteristics, suppresses thermal shrinkage and expansion and is excellent in light transparency so as to prevent the display quality or the like of a display device from being deteriorated, as well as a substrate for... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070128379 - Homeotropically aligned liquid crystal film and process for producing the same: e

20070128377 - Method for producing alignment layer for liquid crystal panel: A method for producing an alignment layer for a liquid crystal panel, which is produced by modifying an alignment film in a fixed direction and at a fixed angle by using an atmospheric pressure plasma source to form a uniform and isotropic alignment layer on the surface of the substrate.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070128378 - Method of producing liquid crystal aligning layer, liquid crystal aligning layer produced using the same, and liquid crystal display including liquid crystal aligning layer: Disclosed is a method of producing a liquid crystal aligning layer, a liquid crystal aligning layer produced using the same, and a liquid crystal display including the liquid crystal aligning layer. In the liquid crystal aligning layer that is produced using the method, ultraviolet rays are radiated on movable chains... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070128380 - Cellulose ester film, its manufacturing method, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display: Disclosed is a cellulose ester film comprising cellulose ester and a phosphonite compound.... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070128382 - Elliptically polarizing plate and method of producing the same: A rolled elliptically polarizing plate that is made by laminating a compensation film 13 having a coated layer made by a coating agent performing a compensation function on the surface of a rolled linear polarizing plate, the compensation film being a rolled film formed by application of a coating agent... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070128381 - Rolled optical film: A rolled optical film includes a cellulose ester film which has a width of from 1 m to 3 m and a length of 500 m or more and is shaped in a rolled film. The cellulose ester film includes streaks from 1 line to 20 lines per 10 mm... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070128383 - Laser addressable thermal transfer imaging element with an interlayer: A thermal transfer donor element is provided which comprises a support, a light-to-heat conversion layer, an interlayer, and a thermal transfer layer. When the above donor element is brought into contact with a receptor and imagewise irradiated, an image is obtained which is free from contamination by the light-to-heat conversion... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070128385 - Methods and systems for turbine rotor balancing: Methods and apparatus for a balance weight access assembly are provided. The assembly includes an access cover, and an access tube including a first opening, a second opening, and a substantially hollow body extending therebetween. The first opening is positioned proximate to a balance weight retainer, the second opening is... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070128384 - Notebook case structure: This new invention is related with computer, which specially focuses on light in weight and excellent heat transfer character of high intensity notebook case structure design.... Agent: Shui-yuan My

20070128386 - Laminate structure for sealing channel leakers: In the disclosed invention, a laminate film for a food package comprises a high melt polymer that flows, upon pressure and/or temperature from sealing jaws, into triangular areas created by overlapping films. In one aspect, the high melt polymer comprises a melt index of between about 10 dg/min and about... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20070128390 - Article comprising light absorbent composition to mask visual haze and related methods: A transparent article includes a continuous polyester matrix having at least one incompatible filler dispersed therein. The incompatible filler provides domains in the polyester matrix, each domain having a particular dimension, thus providing a range of dimensions for the domains in the article. To create haze, the dimensions are within... Agent: M&g Usa, Corporation

20070128387 - Control of oxygenation: A container assembly for controlling rate of oxygen transfer from the atmosphere into a liquid stored in the container assembly comprising, a container with an oxygen permeability of 50ml to 300ml of oxygen per square metre of area of walls of the container for each millimeter of the thickness of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070128388 - Polymer compositions for reduced shrinkage: A polymeric composition comprising a polymer and a nucleation agent, and having isotropic shrinkage of less than about 20% and a differential shrinkage of less than about 20%.... Agent: Fina Technology Inc

20070128389 - Process for manufacturing co-polyester barrier resins without solid-state polymerization, co-polyester resins made by the process, and clear mono-layer containers made of the co-polyester resins: A process for producing compositions having improved gas barrier properties, and compositions containing a polyester resin and one or more of another thermoplastic resin and a filler, and may be used to form containers that exhibit improved resistance to gas permeation.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070128391 - Thermal insulating component and a garment, article of footwear, etc., provided with such component: An insulating component having a layer of insulating material and a sealed envelope around the layer of insulating material, the envelope being is made of elastomer material. The envelope is sealed by a peripheral weld. In a particular exemplary embodiment, the insulating component is part of an article of footwear,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070128392 - Angle-laminated composite tube with double layer of materials: An angle-laminated composite tube with double layer of materials uses an inner layer material and an outer layer material with different functional properties. The two materials are cut into a plurality of slices in a specific shape. They are laminated alternately with a mismatching angle inside a mold with a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070128393 - Heat sealable pctfe film and tubing using high vf2 containing copolymers of ctfe/vf2: Heat sealable fluoropolymer-containing films and articles. More particularly, heat sealable films, tubes, packages, and other articles formed from a chlorotrifluoroethylene/vinylidene fluoride copolymer containing about 5% to about 25% vinylidene fluoride. The copolymers are capable of being formed into single or multilayer films that are heat sealable using conventional heat sealing... Agent: Richard S. Roberts Roberts & Roberts, L.l.p, Attorneys At Law

20070128394 - Improved multiple layered membrane with thin fluorine containing polymer layer: A multi-layer membrane includes a fluorine containing layer and a substrate which are joined through spray coating and heat treatment in a multi-step technique.... Agent: Stamford Scientific International, Inc.

20070128396 - Adhesives having a microreplicated topography and methods of making and using same: Adhesives having a microreplicated topography are prepared from contacting a microembossed pattern to a layer of adhesive. When an adhesion interface is established between the layer of adhesive and a supporting substrate, the topography of the adhesive surface controls the performance of the adhesion interface. Articles having microreplicated adhesive surfaces... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070128395 - Peel-away technical information label: This invention relates to labeling systems. More specifically, the invention relates to multi-part labeling systems for use on reagent or specimen bottles for labeling the bottle and providing information on a removable portion. Thus the invention provides a label with a peel-away portion containing important information that may be reapplied... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070128397 - Performed pot cover formed of polymeric materials having a texture or appearance simulating the texture or appearance of paper: A decorative preformed flower pot cover is formed of at least one sheet of polymeric material and has a base and a decorative border and is provided with at least a portion of one surface thereof having a texture or appearance simulating the texture or appearance of paper. The texture... Agent: Dunlap, Codding & Rogers P.C.

20070128398 - Roll of a label web in the form of an archimedean spiral of labels disposed one behind another: Roll of a label web in the form of an Archimedean spiral of labels disposed one behind another and composed at least of a backing coated on one side with an adhesive, the labels being lined with a liner on the adhesive side, characterized in that the liner is diecut... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus, Pa

20070128399 - Hybrid coating structure and method for making the same: A hybrid coating structure (500) includes a substrate (510) and a hybrid coating (100). The hybrid coating further includes a number of diamond-like carbon grains (110), each grains containing a number of superhard nano-particles (120) incorporated therein; and a number of corrosion-resistant nano-particles (130). The superhard nano-particles are comprised of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070128400 - Disk divider: A divider for organizing and/or separating a plurality of disks stacked on a spindle storage device is provided. The divider includes a planar body having a tab portion which includes a surface for providing an identifier. The divider is constructed to be insertable and removable between adjacent disks stacked on... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070128401 - Electrode separator: The present invention discloses an electrode separator, which is formed on a substrate that has strip-like first electrodes and is perpendicular to the first electrodes, wherein a common positive type photoresist material is firstly obliquely exposed and then vertically exposed and then developed to form the electrode separator by the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070128402 - Information recording medium: An information recording medium comprising: a first recording layer in which a first recording track path to record therein record information is formed; and a second recording layer which is laminated on said first recording layer and in which a second recording tack path to record therein the record information... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070128403 - Composite shoe insole: A composite shoe insole includes an EVA material having at least one bonding zone, and at least one PU material mounted in the bonding zone of the EVA material. Thus, the composite shoe insole closely combine the EVA material with the PU material, so that the composite shoe insole has... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070128404 - Hexalobal cross-section filaments with three major lobes and three minor lobes: A filament comprising a synthetic polymer and characterized by a hexalobal cross-section having three major lobes and three minor lobes, and a major radius (R1) and a minor radius (R2). Each lobal cross-section having essentially straight side portions extending outwardly and tangent to a convex tip at each end. The... Agent: Invista North America S.a.r.l.

20070128405 - Honeycomb structured body, method for manufacturing honeycomb structured body and exhaust gas purifying device: A honeycomb structured body in which a plurality of porous ceramic members are combined with one another by interposing an adhesive layer, each of the porous ceramic members having a plurality of cells placed in parallel with one another in a longitudinal direction with a cell wall therebetween and having... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070128406 - Packing member and method for manufacturing packing member: A packing member for packing a packed material where plastic films are superimposed on one another and a space for air chambers is formed inside by performing thermal adhesion on the plastic films to seal the plastic films, the packing member using three or more plastic films and including a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070128407 - Silicone-coated furniture: The invention provides a method of laminating a furniture item with silicone elastomer, having a cured Shore hardness of at least about 10. A silicone-laminated furniture item is also provided. The furniture item may be used in high-traffic areas, and is expected to have particular application in health care and... Agent: William B. Patterson Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20070128409 - Polymeric articles having a textured surface and frosted appearance: Disclosed is a polymeric article having a frosted and/or surface textured finish made from a polymeric resin comprised of a polymeric matrix and polymeric particles which are substantially spherical, highly crosslinked, have a mean particle size of between 15 and 70 micrometers and have a particle size distribution between 10-110... Agent: Arkema Inc. Patent Department - 26th Floor

20070128408 - Roof surfacing having increased reflectance: A roof surfacing having increased reflectance comprises a roof membrane with a bituminous layer and a layer of generally flat particles placed in a generally overlapping geometry so as to substantially cover the bituminous layer. The composition of the particles includes a polymer and a filler. The polymer may be... Agent: Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.

20070128410 - Component for a vehicle interior having a soft-feel touch: A component for an interior of a vehicle including a substrate, a skin cooperating with the substrate to define a cavity, and foam disposed within the cavity. The skin includes first and second skin components cooperating to define an outer show surface and a hidden support portion that extends away... Agent: Visteon

20070128411 - Bulky sheet: The present invention relates to a bulky sheet 10 having a fiber aggregate 11 formed by hydroentanglement of fiber webs 11a and 11b. The fiber aggregate 11 has a first region 21 having a high fiber density and a small thickness and second regions 22 having a lower fiber density... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070128413 - Optical sheet: An optical sheet includes a substrate, a light diffusion layer formed on the substrate, and a light gathering layer formed on the light diffusion layer. The light diffusion layer includes a polymeric resin having a plurality of bubbles mixed therein. The light gathering layer has at least one microstructure. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070128412 - Structure of an electromagnetic shield layer for a plasma display panel and method for manufacturing the same: A structure of an electromagnetic shield layer for a plasma display panel and a method for manufacturing the same. The manufacturing method of the electromagnetic shield layer uses integrated technologies of hot embossing, coating, and electroplating. The structure according to the present invention is a metal layer with an electromagnetic-wave... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070128414 - Dewatering and thickening belt and manufacturing method thereof: A dewatering and thickening belt having an endless fabric woven by a synthetic resin filament, a bending-resistant element and a guide protrusion, wherein the fabric is a two-layer fabric obtained by binding an upper surface layer composed of upper surface side warps and upper surface side wefts and a lower... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070128415 - Dewatering and thickening belt having improved guide performance and manufacturing method thereof: A dewatering and thickening belt having an endless fabric woven with synthetic resin filaments, a bending-resistant element and a guide protrusion, wherein the guide protrusion is fusion-bonded to a bending-resistant portion to which the bending-resistant element has been attached so that the outer end portion of the guide protrusion is... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070128416 - Method of controlling contact angle of water: The present invention fundamentally differs from conventional methods in which an external force is directly applied to a surface of an article to be modified, and relates to a method of hydrophobilization (increasing a contact angle of water) which comprises bringing a hydrophobilization substance (a substance for increasing a contact... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070128417 - Wired circuit board: A wired circuit board is provided which can reduce transmission loss with a simple layer structure and also features excellent long-term reliability by preventing the occurrence of an ion migration phenomenon between a metal foil and an insulating layer to improve the adhesion between the metal foil and the insulating... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070128418 - Multi-layer security paper: The invention relates to a security paper consisting of at least two paper fibre webs, wherein the first web is embodied in the form of an external we provided with at least one authentication element and the second web comprises a reinforcing element which is substantially absent in the first... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070128419 - Laminated film: An object of the invention is to provide a laminated film which hardly gives transmission loss based on reflection or scattering, is excellent in heat resistance and humidity resistance, and has an arbitrarily-controlled refractive index distribution. Accordingly, the invention is a laminated film comprising 5 or more laminated resin layers;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070128420 - Hybrid composite for biological tissue interface devices: The present invention provides a hybrid composite for medical devices that interface with biological tissues. The hybrid composite comprises at least one first layer of conformable polymeric material, a second layer of insulating polymeric material, and one or more active components and/or one or more passive components, wherein the one... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070128421 - Refractory composite: A refractory composite article includes a plurality of continuous, polycrystalline stoichiometric silicon carbide reinforcing fibers in an inhibited carbon matrix; the carbon matrix is an organic resin containing an inhibitor compound that has been subjected to carbonization and thereafter to densification by chemical vapor infiltration of at least carbon to... Agent: Curatolo Sidoti Co., Lpa

20070128422 - Impregnation process: The invention relates to a process for impregnating wood or wood based material. A working solution is preheated to a temperature above the atmospheric boiling point (“a super hot temperature”) above the atmospheric boiling point (“a super hot temperature”) of the working solution, at an elevated pressure sufficient to maintain... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070128423 - Imprinting a substrate for separation of a target molecule from a fluid medium: The present invention is directed to a method of producing a substrate suitable for separation of a target molecule from a fluid medium. This method includes providing an emulsion comprising a water phase in an oil phase, where the oil phase contains a polymerizable monomer and the water phase contains... Agent: Michael L Goldman Nixon Peabody

20070128424 - Porous formed article and method for production thereof: A porous formed article which comprises an organic polymer resin and an inorganic ion absorbing material, and has communicating pores opening at an outer surface, wherein it has cavities in the interior of a fibril forming a communicating pore, at least a part of said cavities opens at the surface... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070128425 - Reinforced ion-conductive membranes: An ion-conductive membrane that includes a first layer comprising a first ionomer, and a porous polymer substrate, where at least a portion of the first ionomer is interpenetrated within the porous polymer substrate by ionomer-induced phase separation.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070128426 - Composite structure body and method for manufacturing thereof: The present invention provides a composite structure body obtained through processes of forming composite fine particles by way of a process in which a surface of brittle material fine particles is coated with at least one type of ductile material, bombarding the composite fine particles at a high velocity against... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070128427 - Moisture permeable polyester-based elastomer film and process for the manufacture thereof: A moisture permeable polyester-based elastomer film that has been subjected to a stretching treatment and has a tension set of not more than about 10 percent when elongated by 50 percent is provided. A process for the manufacture of the moisture permeable polyester-based elastomer film is disclosed. A moisture permeable... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070128428 - Weather-resistant synthetic wood material: The present invention provides a synthetic wood including a body containing a polystyrene- or polypropylene-based resin as the major component and a weather-resistant outer layer with excellent adhesion to the body. A synthetic wood 1A includes a body 2 defining a core thereof and formed of a polystyrene or polypropylene... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070128429 - Safety mat: A device and method for protecting objects or people from damage is shown. In one example, a floor mat is designed to absorb impact forces and reduce injury of persons falling from a bed in a heath care environment. Design features are shown that protect the human body from the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070128431 - Pre-coated metal sheet for slot-in drive cases: A pre-coated metal sheet for slot-in drive cases which has a metal sheet; chemical conversion coatings formed on both sides of the metal sheet; and a coating film formed on one of the chemical conversion coatings and containing at least one base resin selected from a polyester-series resin, an epoxy-series... Agent: Carrier, Blackman & Associates, P.C.

20070128430 - Retardation layer forming coating solution, retardation optical product, and manufacturing method of retardation optical product: A main object of the present invention is to provide a retardation layer forming coating solution capable of forming a retardation layer showing the property as the optically negative C plate on an optional substrate. To achieve the object, the invention provides a retardation layer forming coating solution used for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070128432 - Adhesive tape for automatic replacement of rolls: The invention concerns an adhesive tape for automatic replacement of rolls around which is wound a material in the form of a flat strip. Said adhesive tape comprises a main support and a self-adhesive substance on the front surface, and at least a fissile self-adhesive system on the rear surface.... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus, Pa

20070128433 - Optical disc capable of revealing preservation condition: The present invention is to provide an optical disc which comprises a substrate and a multi-layer structure. The multi-layer structure is formed over the substrate, and at least one layer of the multi-layer structure contains an indicating material. Furthermore, the indicating material has a respective color changeable in response to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070128435 - Aluminum conductor composite core reinforced cable and method of manufacture: This invention relates to an aluminum conductor composite core reinforced cable (ACCC) and method of manufacture. An ACCC 303 cable (300) has a composite core surrounded by an outer film (305) and at least one layer of aluminum conductor (306). The composite core (303) comprises a plurality of fibers from... Agent: The Mcintosh Group

20070128437 - Filament or fibre: A filament or fibre (2) comprising: a first conductive layer (4); an electro-optically active layer (6); a second conductive layer (8); wherein the filament or fibre has an off-state and an on-state, the electro-optically active layer comprising a combination of an electro-optically active substance and a polymer.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070128434 - Filler-affixed fiber, fiber structure, and fiber molded body, and method for producing the same: The filler-affixed fiber of the present invention is a filler-affixed fiber that includes a fiber (2), a binder resin (1) on the fiber surface, and filler (3) affixed to the binder resin (1). The binder resin (1) is a heat-and-humidity gelling resin that is caused to gel by heating in... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070128436 - Poly(trimethylene terephthalate)/poly(alpha-hydroxy acid) bi-constituent filaments: This invention relates to poly(trimethylene terephthalate)/poly(alpha-hydroxy acid) biconstituent filaments, methods for making the same and end uses thereof.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070128438 - Composite black oxide particle, method for producing same, black coating material and black matrix: Disclosed is a composite black oxide particle which is composed of oxide of cobalt, copper and manganese. The copper/cobalt molar ratio is 0.1-0.5, and the manganese/cobalt molar ratio is 0.2-1.0. The composite black oxide particle further contains silicon, and the silicon content to the total oxide particle is 0.1-3 mass... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070128439 - Core-shell type nanoparticles and method for preparing the same: Disclosed herein are core-shell type nanoparticles comprising nanoparticle cores made of a metal or semiconductor, and shells made of crystalline metal oxide formed on the surfaces of the nanoparticle cores, as well as a preparation method thereof. According to the disclosed invention, the core-shell nanoparticles, consisting of metallic or semiconductor... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070128440 - Cellular probes: Probing tools compnsing nanotubes partially coated with a biocompatible coating capable of absorbing or imbibing bio-reactive materials. Also within are probing systems comprising nanoprobes and microscopes. Methods are also provided comprising partially coating a nanotube with a biocompatible coating, contacting a membrane with the resulting nanoprobe, and, in some embodiments,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070128444 - Diffusion sheet for tft-lcd: Disclosed herein is a diffusion sheet for use in a backlight unit of a TFT-LCD. Specifically, this invention provides a diffusion sheet including a transparent base sheet, a light-diffusing layer laminated on one surface of the base sheet, and an antiblocking layer laminated on the other surface of the base... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070128442 - Materials composites of a moulded article of transparent or translucent dyeable plastics moulding compounds: The present invention relates to materials composites of a moulded article of at least one transparent or translucent dyeable plastics moulding compound which moulded article is bonded to at least one transparent or translucent surface layer and/or to decorative films, functional films or coats or rubbers or other plastics, wherein... Agent: John B Hardaway Iii Nexsen Pruet

20070128443 - Method for altering the shape of a tube: A method for altering the shape of a tube having two alternatives. In the first alternative optionally a tube is heated and then placed in a mold having a nonlinear portion of an inner surface so that gravity causes the tube to bend over the inner surface; a pressurized liquid... Agent: Thompson E. Fehr Suite 300

20070128441 - Process for the production of strongly adherent coatings: The invention relates to a process and to the corresponding apparatus for the production of strongly adherent coatings on an inorganic or organic substrate, wherein in a first step a) a low-temperature plasma, a corona discharge or a flame is caused to act on the inorganic or organic substrate, in... Agent: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation Patent Department

20070128445 - Method of making and inspecting an in mold coated article: A method of making an article is disclosed in which an in-mold coating is applied to a mold over with a polyurethane forming mixture is applied. A fluorescent dye is mixed with a polyurethane forming mixture to form an ultraviolet enhanced mixture. After forming, the coated article is exposed to... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20070128447 - Corrosion inhibiting ceramic coating and method of application: A corrosion resistant coating for engine components such as turbine disks, turbine seal elements and turbine shafts. This coating may also find application to other turbine components that are subjected to high temperatures and corrosive environments, such as turbine components located within or on the boundary of the gas fluid... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20070128446 - Window glass for automobile: The present invention relates, in an automotive window glass having a ceramic color layer formed thereon, to the automotive window glass being characterized in that a ceramic color layer is formed on an entire surface or part of the automotive window glass by using a ceramic color paste containing a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070128448 - Window glass for vehicle: To provide a window glass for vehicles, which is obtained by fixing a conductor formed on the glass plate, and an electronic material, by means of a lead-free solder, thereby to secure sufficient adhesive strength and glass strength. A window glass for vehicles, which comprises a glass plate, a conductor... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070128451 - Coated article with low-e coating including ir reflecting layer(s) and corresponding method: A coated article is provided with a low-emissivity (low-E) layer stack for use in a window unit or the like. The layer stack, or coating, may permit the coated article to achieve one or more of a low solar factor (SF) value, a high selectivity (Tvis/SF) value, substantially neutral color... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070128450 - Glass ceramic composition, glass-ceramic sintered body, and monolithic ceramic electronic component: A glass ceramic composition for glass ceramic layers laminated in multilayer ceramic substrate included in multilayer ceramic module is provided. The glass ceramic composition contains a first ceramic powder mainly composed of forsterite, a second ceramic powder mainly composed of at least one material selected from CaTiO3, SrTiO3 and TiO2,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070128449 - Ig window unit and method of making the same: An insulating glass (IG) window unit, and/or a method of making the same is/are provided. The IG window unit includes two spaced apart substrates that are separated from one another by at least one seal and/or spacer. One of the substrates supports both a solar management coating for blocking significant... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070128452 - Multiple layer glass panels having adjustable tint: The present invention is in the field of polymer sheets and multiple layer glass panels having adjustable tint, and, more specifically, the present invention is in the field of polymer sheets and multiple layer glass panels comprising agents that cause a change in light transmission properties when subjected to an... Agent: Brenc Law Andrew Brenc

20070128453 - Microlithographic exposure apparatus: The disclosure relates to optical systems, such as illumination devices or projection objectives of microlithographic projection exposure apparatuses, that include at least one optical element having at least one curved lens surface which carries an interference layer system. The interference layer system includes an alternating sequence of layers. At least... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070128454 - Silicone-based coating composition with middle and high refractive index, method of preparing the same, and optical lens prepared therefrom: The present invention relates to a silicone-based coating composition with middle and high refractive index, a method of preparing the same, and an optical lens prepared therefrom, and more specifically to a silicone-based coating composition including organosilanes, inorganic oxides having a refractive index of from 1.7 to 3.0, an aluminum... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070128455 - Highly stable surface plasmon resonance plates, microarrays, and methods: An article, process, and method for surface plasmon resonance plates are described. A substrate is covered with a thin metal film onto which a second thin metal film is deposited. The surface of the second thin metal film is converted to the metal oxide which is used to covalently bond... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070128457 - Aluminizing composition and method for application within internal passages: An aluminizing composition includes an aluminum-based powder, an inert organic pyrolysable thickener, and a binder selected from the group consisting of colloidal silica, at least one organic resin, and combinations thereof. A method for aluminizing an internal passage of a metal substrate comprises injecting the organic-based aluminizing composition into the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070128456 - Sputtering target material: This invention provides sputtering target materials having high reflectance and excellent heat resistance, which are formed of Ag base alloys formed by adding a specific, minor amount of P to Ag and alloying them.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070128458 - Protection of metallic surfaces against thermally-inducted wrinkling (rumpling): Gas turbine blades in power units or for electric power generation are subject to high thermal stress which is cyclic in nature and leads to a roughening of the metallic surface. According to the invention, the metallic surface is provided with a thin ceramic coating having a thickness of less... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070128459 - Poly(trimethylene terephthalate)/poly(alpha-hydroxy acid) films: This invention relates to poly(trimethylene terephthalate)/poly(alpha-hydroxy acid) films, methods for making the same and end uses thereof.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070128460 - Paper coating composition: Coating compositions, methods of applying the coating compositions, and articles incorporating the coating compositions are provided. The coating compositions are useful for coating a variety of substrates to improve the appearance and printability of the substrates. The coating compositions incorporate pigment system, a binder, and an optical brightener. The binder... Agent: M. Susan Spiering C/o Celanese Ltd.

20070128461 - Polarization film and fabrication thereof: A method for forming a polarization film is disclosed. A polyvinyl alcohol, PVA film is provided. The PVA film is swollen, and then dyed and stretched in a solution, wherein the solution comprises iodine, potassium iodide, EDTA and calcium ions. The dyed PVA film is re-stretched, and the dyed PVA... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070128462 - Method to produce an element subject to wear, and element subject to wear thus obtained: Method to produce an element (10) subject to wear, such as a mechanical member, an abrasion or crushing tool or suchlike, comprising a metal matrix (14) and at least a core (12) of ceramic material. The method comprises a preliminary step wherein the core (12) is prepared by mixing at... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070128463 - multi-alloy monolithic extruded structural member and method of producing thereof: The present invention provides a structural member of a multi-alloy monolithic extrusion comprising a first aluminum alloy and a second aluminum alloy; wherein the first aluminum alloy is metallurgically fused to the second aluminum alloy. In another aspect of the present invention, an extrusion method is provided including the steps... Agent: Harry A. Hild, Jr. Alcoa Technical Center

20070128464 - Sheet molding compound flow field plate, bipolar plate and fuel cell: This invention provides a highly electrically conductive sheet molding compound (SMC) composition and a fuel cell flow field plate or bipolar plate made from such a composition. The composition comprises a top sheet, a bottom sheet, and a resin mixture sandwiched between the top sheet and the bottom sheet. At... Agent: Bor Z. Jang

20070128465 - Transparent electrode for organic electronic devices: Described herein is a transparent electrode comprising at least one optically transparent electrically conductive layer; and at least one optically transparent intermediate layer, wherein said optically transparent conductive layer is in contact with said optically intermediate layer, and wherein said optically transparent conductive layer and said optically transparent intermediate layer... Agent: Andrew J. Caruso General Electric Global Research

20070128467 - Material for organic electroluminescent device and organic electroluminescent device using same: Provided is a material for an organic electroluminescence device, which is composed of a compound having a specific structure; and is capable of providing an organic electroluminescence device having a high luminous efficiency, excellent heat resistance, and a long lifetime while having no pixel defects, and an organic electroluminescence device... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070128466 - Metal coordination compound, polymer composition, and organic electroluminescent device employing same: (in the formulae, M is Ir, Rh, Ru, Os, Pd, or Pt, and n is 2 or 3; when M is Ir, Rh, Ru, or Os and n is 2, another bidentate ligand further bonds to M; ring A is a cyclic compound containing a nitrogen atom bonded to M.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070128468 - Red phosphorescent compounds and organic electroluminescent devices using the same: is selected from 2,4-pentanedione, 2,2,6,6,-tetramethylheptane-3,5-dione, 1,3-propanedione, 1,3-butanedione, 3,5-heptanedione, 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,4-pentanedione, 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedione and 2,2-dimethyl-3,5-hexanedione. Further disclosed herein is an organic electroluminescent (EL) device comprising an anode, a hole injecting layer, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, an electron injecting layer, and a cathode laminated in this order... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070128469 - Surface-coated cutting insert and method for manufacturing the same: A surface-coated cutting insert includes an insert body having a substrate of tungsten carbide-based cemented carbide, titanium carbonitride-based cermet or ceramics, a base layer, an intermediate layer and an outermost layer, the base layer and the outermost layer are made of a single layer or two or more layers formed... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070128470 - Tunnel magnetoresistance element: By varying only the thickness of a known material having superior magnetic characteristics to increase spin polarization without changing the chemical composition, a tunnel magnetoresistive element capable of producing a larger magnetoresistive effect is provided. The tunnel magnetoresistive element includes an underlayer (nonmagnetic or antiferromagnetic metal film); an ultrathin ferromagnetic... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070128471 - Magnetic disk and magnetic disk manufacturing method: In a magnetic disk having at least a glass substrate, a plurality of underlayers formed over the glass substrate, and a magnetic layer formed over the plurality of underlayers, at least one of the underlayers is an amorphous underlayer containing a VIa group element and carbon and, given that the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC