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Stock material or miscellaneous articles September archived by title and patent number 09/08

20080233312 - Polarizing-plate-protecting film and polarizing plate: A polarizing-plate-protecting film 10 comprising a polyester film 1 such as polyethylene terephthalate film, and an adhesion-facilitating layer 2 formed on one surface of the polyester film 1, made of a hydrophilic cellulosic resin such as acetyl cellulose. On the other surface of the polyester film 1, a variety of... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080233311 - Retardation film, polarizing plate, liquid crystal display and manufacturing method of retardation film: A retardation film comprising a cellulose derivative and a plasticizer, wherein a total haze, Htotal, of the retardation film meets the following condition: 0.1%≦Htotal≦0.4%; and a ratio of a internal haze, Hi, to the total haze, Hi/Htotal, of the retardation film meets the following condition: Hi/Htotal≦0.5.... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080233310 - Method for manufacturing thermoplastic resin film, and optical compensation film and polarization plate for liquid crystal display panel: In an aspect of the present invention, since the maximum linear pressure when a sheet-like melted resin is nipped between an elastic roller and a cooling roller is controlled at 0.3 MPa to 3 MPa, the development of retardation in film forming can be prevented. According to the aspect, since... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080233313 - Multi-colored images viewable under non-visible radiation: A set of colorants for printing a multi-colored image when viewed under non-visible radiation outside of the visible spectrum can include a first colorant and a second colorant. The first colorant can be capable of absorbing non-visible radiation and shifting the wavelength of the non-visible radiation to a visible wavelength,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080233315 - Lithographic printing plate precursor and method of preparing lithographic printing plate: A lithographic printing plate precursor includes a support and an ink-receptive layer containing a microcapsule.... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080233314 - Media sheet coatings: A coating for a substrate is formed by milling cationic pigment particles in the presence of a water-soluble polymer, where the water-soluble polymer acts as a binder and a dispersant for the cationic pigment particles.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080233316 - Coated media for improved output stacking performance: The present invention is drawn to a coated substrate for ink-jet ink printing. The substrate can have an ink-receiving coating on the imaging side. On the opposite, or back, surface, the substrate can have two coatings: a curl control coating and a photo feel coating designed to provide scratch resistance.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080233317 - Recording medium for water-based ink and method for determining ink absorbing characteristic thereof: A mat type recording medium for ink jet printing is provided which exhibits optimum printability no matter which of dye ink and pigment ink may be used in printing. The recording medium, which is for recording with use of water-based ink containing an ink colorant, comprises a paper base and... Agent: George M Kaplan Dilworth & Barrese LLP

20080233318 - Flexible composite tubular assembly with high insulation properties and method for making same: The present invention is directed to an improvement over the flexible composite tubing described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,491,779, 6,804,942, and 7,073,978, wherein said improvement provides for void space or otherwise insulating region along the length of the tubing. The present invention is additionally directed to methods for implementing such... Agent: James W. Pravel Pravel Intellectual Property Law, PC

20080233319 - Multicolor development glass vessel and process for producing the same: (2) Step of forming a multilayer film composed of two types of vapor deposition layers having different refractive indices directly or indirectly provided on the external-surface and internal surface, or either one thereof of the glass vessel by a vapor deposition or sputtering technique.... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080233320 - Heat-shrinkable multilayer material: A heat-shrinkable multilayer material for packaging, in particular food packaging, comprises a first layer made of heat-shrinkable material, a microwave susceptible material covering at least a part of the first layer, at least one second layer made of shrinkable or non-shrinkable material, the first and second layer can be connected... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080233321 - Inflatable structure: An inflatable structure includes a hollow fabric body having three hydrophilic and vapor-transmissible plastic layers sequentially applied over an inner surface thereof, and including at least one continuous S-shaped bonding line, along which areas on an outer surface of the hollow fabric body at two opposite sides thereof are bonded... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080233322 - Pressureless pipe comprising a multimodal polyethylene composition with an inorganic filler: The present invention relates to a pipe or a supplementary pipe article comprising a polyethylene composition comprising a base resin which comprises (A) a first ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, and (B) a second ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, wherein fraction (A) has a lower average molecular weight than fraction... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080233323 - Orienting, positioning, and forming nanoscale structures: A method. A first copolymer is provided. A substrate is provided having an energetically neutral surface layer with at least one trough integrally disposed thereon with sidewalls. A first film of the first copolymer is coated inside the trough. Line-forming microdomains are assembled of the first copolymer forming first self-assembled... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080233324 - Sheet structure and method for adhesive image transfer: The present invention generally relates to a convenient and aesthetically pleasing way to label a wide variety of objects. The invention includes both an adhesive image transfer sheet assembly and a method for labeling a disc using standard computer equipment typically found in a home or office, such as an... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080233325 - Multi-layered liner, a multi-layered product which includes the release liner and a method for making the release liner: The invention relates to a manufacturing substrate of sheet-like products. The substrate comprises a paper layer (9) having a first surface and a second surface, a barrier layer (10) formed on the first surface of the paper layer (9), and a release layer (11) formed on the barrier layer (10).... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080233326 - Adhesive cover for consumer devices: A personalized adhesive cover for a consumer device includes multiple layers. In one implementation, an adhesive cover includes a top laminate layer adhered to a base layer that is adhered to a bottom adhesive layer. The base layer is treated to facilitate acceptance of a personalized design applied to the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080233327 - Print media having detachable cards affixed thereto and method for forming the print media: Print media having detachable cards affixed thereto and method for forming the print media including providing a first preprinted roll of web paper having a first thickness and providing a second preprinted roll of web paper having a second thickness, where the first the thickness is greater than the second... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080233328 - Information medium: An information medium includes a reflective layer with Ag as a main constituent, a sulfide species dielectric layer, and a recording layer in the mentioned order on a surface of a substrate. Data is recorded and reproduced by emitting a laser beam from an opposite side of the recording layer... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080233331 - Method and device for producing a nanopatterned disc: The invention relates to a method and a device according to the preambles of claims 1 and 10, and also to the use of a nanopatterned die, a disc with a defined nanopattern and a hard disk drive comprising a disc of this type. In order to propose a more... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20080233329 - Minute structure and information recording medium: There is disclosed a minute structure including a sulfur compound and a silicon oxide. There is also disclosed a write-once information recording medium including a substrate and a recording layer formed of a mixed inorganic material and deposited on the substrate, wherein the mixed inorganic material contains a sulfur compound... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080233330 - Silicon substrate for magnetic recording media and method of fabricating the same: A liquid material containing a silicone material or organosilica is applied to a roughly polished surface of a polycrystalline silicon substrate to form a smooth thin film covering steps and grain boundary portions; thereafter, the thin film is subjected to a heat treatment at an appropriate temperature to allow the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080233332 - Thermal insulation material: A thermal insulation material, and a method for its manufacture, in which the material is suited to underwater use. The material includes a matrix 20 of cured polymer material, most preferably polyurethane, in which are embedded insulation bodies 10 each including a core 12 of foamed material and an outer... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080233333 - Fibrous products having reduced formaldehyde emissions: A method for reducing formaldehyde emission from a fibrous product prepared using a binder based on a formaldehyde-containing resin, the method comprising isolating the fibrous product in an enclosed space, introducing a gaseous formaldehyde scavenger into the space and maintaining the gaseous scavenger in the space for a time sufficient... Agent: Patent Group Ga30-43 Georgia-pacific LLC

20080233334 - Fibrous products having reduced formaldehyde emissions: A method for reducing formaldehyde emission from a fibrous product prepared using a binder based on a formaldehyde-containing resin, the method comprising isolating the fibrous product in an enclosed space, introducing a gaseous formaldehyde scavenger into the space and maintaining the gaseous scavenger in the space for a time sufficient... Agent: Patent Group Ga30-43 Georgia-pacific LLC

20080233335 - Mold for the production of molded concrete bricks, and molded concrete brick using it: A mold for the production of molded concrete bricks has mold recess bodies guided in openings in side walls of a mold insert, which openings are adapted to the contours of the recess bodies, in order to produce recesses in a molded concrete brick produced using this mold. The recesses... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080233336 - Carpet tiles and methods of making same: Modular carpet tiles having multiple layers are described, including a laminate layer having a compatibilizing agent. The laminate layer can include at least one polyolefin functionalized with at least one unsaturated organic acid and/or at least one unsaturated organic acid anhydride, such as maleic anhydride. The functionalized polyolefin can have... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20080233337 - Floor covering for liquid dispersion: A floor covering for the dispersion of a liquid. The floor covering includes an upper layer that is permeable to liquid, a base layer that is substantially impermeable to liquid, and a wicking layer disposed between the upper and base layers. The wicking layer is configured to disperse and promote... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. Intl. Automotive Components Group

20080233338 - Fabricating method for cover of portable electronic device and related portable electronic device utilizing the same: The present invention provides a fabricating method for a cover of a portable electronic device. The fabricating method includes the following steps of: (a) providing a chunk of timber laminate having an exterior circumferential surface, a first surface, and a second surface, and forming a recess on the second surface;... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080233339 - Laminated container seal with removal tab bound by adhesive: A sealing member for a container comprises a heat actuated sealant or adhesive layer for securing the sealing member to a container, a metal foil layer over and covering and adhesively bonded to the heat actuated sealant or adhesive layer, and a polyethylene or polypropylene foam or film layer over... Agent: Perry Hoffman And Associates, P.C.

20080233340 - Adhesive tape for preventing implosion of a cathode ray tube and a process for reinforcing a cathode ray tube: The present invention relates to an adhesive tape for preventing implosion of a cathode ray tube. It comprises a polyester backing or polyolefin film, a scrim layer made of glass filament yarns in both directions without yarn torsions in which the junction is made by special adhesive bond and lastly... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080233341 - Special aminoalkylsilane compounds as binders for composite materials: The present invention relates to composite materials based on (a) at least one cellulose- or lignocellulose-containing material and (b) at least one aminoalkylsilane of the formula (I) R1R2N(CHR4)aSi(R3)r(OR)3-r (I), in which groups R1 and R2 are identical or different and in each case are H or a linear, branched or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080233343 - Orienting, positioning, and forming nanoscale structures: Methods and a structure. A first film of a first block copolymer is formed inside a trough integrally disposed on an energetically neutral surface layer of a substrate. Line-forming microdomains are assembled of the first block copolymer, and form first self-assembled structures within the first film normal to the sidewalls... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080233342 - Recyclable composite plastic for automotive headliner: A method of producing a panel having at least one feature comprising a discontinuation in curvature of surface in the surface, the method comprising the steps of: providing a first reinforced layer of long and/or continuous parallel fibre reinforced thermoplastic of a first polymer (102a, 104a); providing a core layer... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080233345 - Face finished honeycomb structures and methods of manufacturing same: A method for producing a ceramic honeycomb structure comprises providing a honeycomb body having a side surface, a first cut end surface, a second cut end surface opposite the first end surface, and a maximum width (W), and removing material from at least one of the cut end surfaces of... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20080233346 - Repair of a composite sandwich structure having a perforated skin: A method of restoring a section of a composite having a honeycomb bonded to a perforated skin includes the steps of separating a first honeycomb from the perforated skin to expose a portion of the perforated skin, inserting pins through perforations in the perforated skin, extending the pins through a... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080233347 - Structural element, especially laminated panel and process for the manufacturing of such structural element: The invention relates to a structural element that has a layer containing cells bordered by stiff lamellas (4) with a cover plate (6) at least on one side attached with adhesive to the edges of the lamellas (4), and which is characterised by that the cover plate (6) is a... Agent: Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

20080233344 - Airplane component as well as method for manufacturing an airplane component: The invention refers to a method for manufacturing an airplane component, as well as the airplane component itself. According to the invention it is suggested here that a side of laminate is coated with a connection resin, and a honeycomb core is placed upon the coated laminate side, and the... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080233348 - Adhesive sheet article: An adhesive tape comprising a hot-melt pressure sensitive adhesive layer that comprises a lattice pattern formed by at least two linear strips that intersect; wherein the lattice pattern forms a plurality of parallelogrammic openings, having a major diagonal line (A) and a minor diagonal line (B), wherein the ratio of... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080233349 - Functional device: The present invention provides a low-cost MEMS functional device by improving air tightness of a jointed section by anode junction in wafer level packaging for MEMS based functional devices. The MEMS functional device comprises a function element section formed by processing a substrate mainly made of Si, a metallized film... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080233350 - Structured perforated plastic sheet: A structured perforated plastic sheet includes a plastic sheet body having a tri-layer configuration that includes a planar top layer of a top net-like structure, a planar middle layer of a middle net-like structure that is disposed below and that is parallel to the top net-like structure, and a planar... Agent: Butzel LongIPDocketing Dept

20080233351 - Synthetic leather with high infrared radiation reflectance: A synthetic leather (1) comprises a plurality of superposed layers of polymeric material, obtained by spreading, in at least one (4) of which are dispersed one or more pigments capable of colouring the leather, preferably of a dark colour. The pigments have overall a reflectance to radiation of the near... Agent: Castellano PLLC

20080233352 - High contrast decorative sheets and laminates: An image-bearing article comprising an interlayer bearing an image and a white layer or another colored layer. The image-bearing article can be coated on the image-bearing side and over the image with an adhesion promoter.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080233353 - Recess formation method, recess formation device, and formation material for recess: In the present invention, a sheet is disposed inside a material that is the target for forming a recess, the sheet having a first physical property that is different from a physical property of the material and having a planar shape identical to the planar shape of a recess to... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080233354 - Uncoated facestock for adhesive-backed labels: Disclosed is an uncoated facestock product having enhanced printability, holdout, and edge wick properties, which are attained through a combination of manufacturing techniques including increased refining of the furnish, sizing, increased hard nip calendering, and the use of extended nip calendering. The resulting uncoated facestock product has the following properties:... Agent: International Paper Company

20080233355 - Glass ceramic article with diffusion barrier and method for producing a glass ceramic article with a diffusion barrier: In order to avoid haloing when burning in a decoration on a glass ceramic substrate, the invention provides a method for producing a decorated glass ceramic substrate, in which a glass substrate is produced or provided, a layer containing silicon oxide is deposited on the substrate, decorative ink is applied... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080233356 - Method for the application of a structured coating upon a smooth surface: A roll coating method for preparing a coated substrate with structured surface of the coating is described. Said method comprises application of a polymer based coating fluid to a substrate surface by means of a coating fluid application roll and then curing the applied coating, wherein the polymer based coating... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080233357 - Sandwich structures and methods of making same: Sandwich structures and methods of making same. A core material structure based on blow molded segments has been developed to facilitate the use of very thick sandwich panels, 4 to 72 in. thick. The basic concept uses an array of hollow rectangular segments arranged in a sheet, to form the... Agent: Gfd Patents, LLC

20080233358 - Universal barrier system: A universal barrier system includes universal barrier components that may be assembled together to shield floors and walls from moisture and provide a thermal break in an operational area of the universal barrier component. A lap zone of the universal barrier component may allow universal barrier components to be assembled... Agent: Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C

20080233359 - Method for producing a component provided with a multipart cover layer and said component: The method according to the invention for the production of a component comprises the steps: a) insertion at least of two skins (3, 4; 20, 21; 41, 42; 81, 82) into the second tool half of a tool having a cavity-forming first tool half (1) and second tool half (2;... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080233361 - Pattern-formed substrate, pattern-forming method, and die: A pattern-formed substrate is provided. The pattern-formed substrate includes a substrate base, an organic thin film and an inorganic resist film stacked on the substrate base in this order, and patterns having predetermined aspect ratios formed on the organic thin film and the inorganic resist film, respectively. The pattern of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080233363 - Recording ink, ink/media set, ink cartridge, inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus: To provide a recording ink which contains at least a water-dispersible colorant, a water-dispersible resin, a wetting agent, a surfactant and water, wherein the content of the wetting agent in the recording ink is in the range of from 20% by mass to 35% by mass, the total solid content... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080233360 - Transparent sheet having a pattern for infrared reflection: An infrared ray reflection pattern-printed transparent sheet is provided which can be applied to a data input system of a type of handwriting directly on a screen of a display device and provides a coordinate detect means and which is lightweight, low in a cost, readily increased in an area,... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20080233362 - Yellow ink composition, inkset for inkjet, inkjet recording method, and recorded matter: A yellow ink composition for inkjet recording, containing one or more pigments selected from a group consisting of C. I. Pigment Yellow 213, 185, and 155 as a colorant.... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080233364 - Dimensionally stable laminate and method: Various embodiments of a dimensionally stable laminates and the method of producing the laminates are provided. In one embodiment, a dimensionally stable laminate structure includes a reinforcement layer having a polymer selected from polyester, phenolic, epoxy and mixtures thereof, and from about 20% to about 80% by weight fiber reinforcement.... Agent: Roetzel & Andress

20080233365 - Decorative laminate with graffiti resistance and improved combustion reaction properties: A decorative laminate (10) includes a polymer or engineered film with fluorine (100), a decorative pattern (20) visible through the polymer film (100), and a substrate (200) supporting the polymer film (100) and decorative pattern (20). An embossing layer (70) may be included between the polymer film (100) and substrate... Agent: James C Scott Roetzel & Anoress

20080233367 - Radio wave transmission cover and method of manufacturing the same: The present invention provides a radio wave transmission cover, which is provided in front of a radar device for vehicles, and a method of manufacturing the radio wave transmission cover. In the radio wave transmission cover, cover-side wall surfaces (50) are formed in a second cover layer (35) at positions... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080233366 - Structure and method for sicoh interfaces with increased mechanical strength: Disclosed is a structure and method for forming a structure including a SiCOH layer having increased mechanical strength. The structure includes a substrate having a layer of dielectric or conductive material, a layer of oxide on the layer of dielectric or conductive material, the oxide layer having essentially no carbon,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080233368 - Articles having enhanced reversible thermal properties and enhanced moisture wicking properties to control hot flashes: A coated article for providing a phased response to rapid temperature changes, comprises a substrate and a coating disposed on a portion of the substrate. The coating comprises a polymeric material, a first temperature regulating material having a transition temperature between 22° C. and 50° C. and disposed within a... Agent: Neugeboren O''dowd PC

20080233369 - Recording support: c

20080233371 - Decorative safety glass:

20080233370 - Strain sensor and method for manufacture thereof: The invention presents a strain sensor includes a substrate, a crystallized glass laminated on the substrate, a strain sensitive resistor laminated on the crystallized glass, in which the crystallized glass is formed by baking a plurality of types of crystallized glass powder having different thermomechanical constants. As a result, the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080233372 - Composite material for turbine support structure: A composite material for use in turbine support structures. The composite material may include a first material having a positive coefficient of thermal expansion and a second material having a negative coefficient of thermal expansion, a negative Poisson ratio, or both a negative coefficient of thermal expansion and a negative... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080233373 - Method of reducing film density and related product: A microvoided film formed by mixing a microvoid forming additive with a composition including a polymeric material. The microvoided film includes a printability additive. The microvoids formed during the processing of the composition to convert it into a film result in a reduction of the density of the film, making... Agent: Chris A. Caseiro

20080233374 - Wear resistant hard coating for a workpiece and method for producing the same: The present invention provides an optimized hard coating and a workpiece, especially a cutting tool coated with a hard coating to increase tooling performance with difficult to machine materials such as high speed steels, titanium alloys, nickel alloys, austenitic steels and especially hard materials like hardened tool steel having a... Agent: Notaro And Michalos

20080233376 - Automotive parts prepared from ethylene/alpha-olefins compositions: The invention relates to automotive parts comprising at least one component formed from an ethylene/α-olefin composition containing at least one ethylene/α-olefin random interpolymer and at least one polydiene diol-based polyurethane, and where the at least one ethylene/α-olefin interpolymer has a PRR from −6 to 75, and a density less than,... Agent: The Dow Chemical Company

20080233375 - Films for use in high strength bags: Thermoplastic films particularly suited for use in bags including at least a core layer comprising an ethylene copolymer, wherein the films are subjected to post-quench biaxial orientation are provided. Optionally, the films may have a first skin layer and/or a second skin layer located on each side of the core... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company Law Technology

20080233377 - High contrast high strength decorative sheets and laminates: An image-bearing article comprising an interlayer bearing an image and a white layer. The image-bearing article can be coated on the image-bearing side and over the image with an adhesion promoter.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080233378 - Transparent, electrically conductive layer, a process for producing the layer and its use:

20080233379 - Industrial fabric having a thermochromic sensor: The present invention is directed to endless belts and fabrics incorporating thermochromic material such as polythiophene for use as a process control aid which can be used in thermal profiling of industrial thermal process, the industrial fabrics used in such a process, the manufacture of the industrial fabrics thereof and/or... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080233380 - Off-axis fiber reinforced composite core for an aluminum conductor: A composite core for an electrical cable, the composite core defining a longitudinal axis that defines a center of the composite core, the core comprising a plurality of longitudinally extending reinforcing fibers embedded in a resin matrix, the fibers oriented substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis and a sheath surrounding... Agent: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP

20080233381 - Industrial absorbents and methods of manufacturing the same: An industrial absorbent and methods of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the industrial absorbent includes a first scrim made from at least one thermoplastic material; a second scrim made from at least one thermoplastic material; and a middle layer positioned between the first and second scrims. The middle layer... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080233382 - Nonwoven fibrous structure comprising compressed sites and molded elements: A nonwoven fibrous structure comprising compressed sites and molded elements. The combination of compressed sites and molded elements may provide for a fibrous structure comprising structural integrity in use, dispersability when flushed, and assistance to the user in cleansing.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20080233383 - Polymeric insulating materials: A heat insulating article comprises a first outer polymeric layer and a second outer polymeric layer. At least one of the first outer polymeric layer and the second outer polymeric layer further comprises hollow spherical particles incorporated with the at least one of the first outer polymeric layer and the... Agent: Rosenbaum & Associates, P.C.

20080233384 - Method for forming syntactic foams: h

20080233385 - Papers providing great fat and oil penetration resistance, and method for the production thereof: Different papers known in prior art develop only moderate resistance to fats or contain fluorocarbon compounds or chromium complexes in the mass or in an impregnating liquor in order to develop great fat and oil penetration resistance. Said fluoride or chromium compounds represent substances that are known to be or... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20080233387 - Organic electroluminescent device and display device: An electroluminescent device is provided with an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer having at least a light-emitting layer and held between the anode and the cathode. A layer with a nitrogen-containing heterocycle derivative therein is arranged between the anode and the light-emitting layer. The layer with the nitrogen-containing... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080233386 - Thermosetting resin composition, resin sheet and resin sheet for insulated substrate: A thermosetting resin composition capable of providing a molding, such as a resin sheet, that excels in not only dielectric characteristics but also dimensional stability at high temperature and even after exposure to high temperature thermal history, exhibits little dimensional change by the thermal history, namely, exhibiting low linear expansion... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080233389 - Optical recording medium and its manufacturing method: An optical recording medium having an inorganic recording film, wherein the inorganic recording film has: a first recording film containing titanium Ti; and a second recording film containing oxides of germanium Ge and tin Sn.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080233390 - Polymer composition for corrosion protection: The present invention relates to a composition for coating metallic surfaces, comprising a binder component; a corrosion inhibitor polymer based on an ethylenically monocarboxylic and dicarboxylic acid and, if appropriate, further ethylenical monomers, a solvent component, and, if appropriate, crosslinkable components, and also pigment/filler components. The invention further relates to... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080233388 - Surface-coated cutting tool made of hard metal and manufacturing method for same: A surface-coated cutting tool comprising: a hard substrate; a lower layer which is formed on a surface of the hard substrate, contains a composite compound consisting of at least one element selected from Ti and Al, and at least one element selected from N and C, and has an average... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080233391 - Photonic crystals for thermal insulation: The invention relates to photonic crystals which have units having a refractive index of greater than 3 and units having a refractive index of less than 1.6 in a periodic sequence and separations of the individual units of from 1 to 20 μm, and also to the use of these... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080233392 - Adhesive sheet: An adhesive sheet includes a substrate and an energy-ray curable adhesive layer formed on the substrate. The energy-ray curable adhesive layer includes an energy-ray curable acrylic copolymer and an energy-ray curable urethane acrylate. The energy-ray curable acrylic copolymer is formed by copolymerizing dialkyl(meth)acrylamide and includes a side chain with an... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080233393 - Film to enclose composite structures: A multilayer film used to wrap composite structures under fabrication. The multilayer film includes a structural layer and an adhesion layer. The adhesion layer includes a composition formulated to cause the adhesion layer to soften and become tacky at temperatures associated with making the composite structure, while the structural layer... Agent: Chris A. Caseiro

20080233394 - Adhesive tape comprising a polyacrylate foam support: The invention relates to an adhesive tape comprising a support that is provided with a first and a second face. Said support is embodied as an acrylate foam tape while the first face and the second face are provided with at least two respective segments which are coated with different... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080233395 - Flame retardant artificial polyester hair: Artificial polyester hair, which retains fiber physical properties of general polyester fibers such as heat resistance and a degree of strength and elongation, are excellent in the setting property, transparency and touch feeling, and has excellent flame retardancy, is provided. The flame retardant artificial polyester hair, which retains fiber properties... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080233396 - Methods of forming carbon nanotubes architectures and composites with high electrical and thermal conductivities and structures formed thereby: Methods and associated structures of forming microelectronic devices are described. Those methods may include method of forming a layered nanotube structure comprising a wetting layer disposed on a nanotube, a Shottky layer disposed on the wetting layer, a barrier layer disposed on the Shottky layer, and a matrix layer disposed... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080233397 - D1370 r radiation curable secondary coating for optical fiber: t

20080233398 - Method for the production of plant cutting filaments and plant cutting filaments: The invention relates to a method for the production of a cutting filament for a device used to cut vegetation such as a strimmer or border cutter. The filament is made of a synthetic material having extended molecular chains. According to the invention (a), the filament (10) is brought to... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080233400 - Nanofibers from polyaniline derivatives and methods of synthesizing and using the same: Embodiments of this invention are directed to polyaniline derivatives and methods of synthesizing and using the same. The invention is also directed to polyaniline derivatives that can be synthesized without the need for templates or functional dopants by using an initiator as part of a reaction mixture.... Agent: Venable LLP

20080233399 - Vinyl-cis-polybutadiene rubber and butadiene rubber composition using the same: A vinyl.cis-polybutadiene rubber is provided containing 1,2-polybutadiene and a polymer substance of a melting point lower than that of the 1,2-polybutadiene and with at least one unsaturated double bond per repeating unit, where the 1,2-polybutadiene and the polymer substance are dispersed at physically and/or chemically adsorbed states in the cis-polybutadiene... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080233401 - Surface treated flake: The instant invention provides an asymmetrical orientable flake for use in a carrier. The flake includes a metal reflector layer and a coating of a carrier-repellent material coated on a single side of the flake, for orienting the flake in the carrier so that the flake rests upon the carrier... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080233402 - Carbon black with attached carbon nanotubes and method of manufacture: A novel composition of matter comprises carbon black as a catalyst support for the growth of carbon nanotubes that directly adhere to the carbon black. When the composition of matter is mixed in plastic, oil, water, rubber, etc., the carbon nanotubes are carried as part of the carbon black aggregates... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20080233403 - Method of making ceramic reactor components and ceramic reactor component made therefrom: A method of improving the adhesion of processing materials on a ceramic component is described. The method includes the steps of forming a green ceramic component and texturing the surface of the green ceramic component. The as-textured component is then fired to harden the ceramic material. In an alternative embodiment... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20080233404 - Microreplication tools and patterns using laser induced thermal embossing: Laser induced thermal embossing (LITE) films used to make microreplication tools, liners, and products such as laser induced thermal imaging (LITI) donor films. The LITE tools or liners have a microstructured surface selectively imposed upon them as determined by an area of imaging the LITE films against one or more... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080233405 - Techniques for labeling of plastic, glass or metal containers or surfaces with polymeric labels employing an activated hydrophilic: The invention provides a method for fastening a polymeric label to a glass, plastic or metal container or surface by means of a water based composition containing at least 30% by dry weight of animal glue that is activated into an adhesive by the following steps: (a) applying a layer... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20080233406 - Translucent ceramic, method for producing the same, optical component, and optical device: A translucent ceramic having a high linear transmittance and a high refractive index, substantially not causing double refraction, and exhibiting a high anomalous dispersion has a pyrochlore compound represented by the general formula AxByOw (wherein 1.00≦x/y≦1.10 and w represents a positive number maintaining electroneutrality) as a main component. The main... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080233407 - Dielectric composition for plasma display panel: A dielectric composition for plasma display panels is disclosed. The dielectric composition includes 15 to 60 weight percent of ZnO, 10 to 50 weight percent of B2O3, 0 to 10.0 weight percent of Li2O, and 2 to 20 weight percent of RO, wherein R is an alkaline earth metal. Such... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080233408 - Method for manufacturing water-using household equipment and water-using household equipment: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing water-using household equipment of which hydrophilicity, surface hardness and appearances are good and the water-using household equipment. The water-using household equipment includes a coat including silicic acid, and a coat constituted by composition of 44 to 97% by mass of Si by... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080233409 - Method for manufacturing substrate for making microarray: e

20080233411 - Preform for an electronic device material and method of forming a functional layer: An electronic device material preform is used when manufacturing an electronic device material where a predetermined functional layer is formed on a surface of a substrate by sputtering. The electronic device material preform includes a discharge-guiding film that conducts electricity and guides abnormal discharge that occurs when the sputtering is... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080233410 - Transition metal complex compound: The present invention provides a transition metal complex compound of a specific structure having a metal carbene bond, a production process for the same and an organic EL device in which an organic thin film layer comprising a single layer or plural layers having at least a luminescent layer is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080233414 - Extruded molten polymeric film bonding of solid polymeric film to flat-rolled sheet metal continuous strip: Method steps and apparatus combinations for continuous in-line polymeric coating of rigid corrosion-protected flat-rolled sheet metal continuous-strip substrate utilizing a thermoplastic polymeric material having adhesive characteristics, capable of molten thin-film extrusion for chemical-bonding with an activated-surface of the flat-rolled sheet metal substrate, and substantially-simultaneously bonding with a solid-film polymeric material;... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080233412 - High contrast high strength decorative films and laminates: Described is image-bearing article comprising an opaque layer bearing an image which is coated on the image-bearing side and over the image with an adhesion promoter and laminated to an ionomer interlayer sheet. Also described is a process of preparing an image-bearing article comprising a coated image-bearing opaque layer laminated... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080233413 - Polypropylene films employing recycled commercially used polypropylene based films and labels: A method of this invention for making a multilayer film including a core layer with recycled plastic therein includes the steps of: separating a plastic film or label from a package of commercial product; pelletizing the plastic film or label into pellets for introduction into an extruder of a film... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080233415 - Structure of lialo2 substrate having zno buffer layer: A lithium aluminum oxide (LiAlO2) substrate suitable for a zinc oxide (ZnO) buffer layer is found. The ZnO buffer layer is grown on the LiAlO2 substrate. Because the LiAlO2 substrate has a similar structure to that of the ZnO buffer layer, a quantum confined stark effect (QCSE) is effectively eliminated.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080233417 - Optical polymer material and optical component: The optical polymer material is characterized in that the material contains a fluorene compound having four (meth) acryloyl groups and a (meth) acrylate having an aryl group and may further contain -M-O-M- bond (M is a metal atom), an organometallic polymer having an aryl group, a monofunctional (meth)acrylate and/or a... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080233416 - Paste composition, green ceramic body, and methods for manufacturing ceramic structure: A paste composition comprises inorganic particles; and a binder containing a copolymer made by copolymerizing a mixture. The mixture comprises a first (meth)acrylic ester whose homopolymer has a first glass transition temperature Tg[h]; and a second (meth)acrylic ester whose homopolymer has a second glass transition temperature Tg[l] lower than the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080233418 - Films and articles with reversible opacity change upon stretching, and methods of making and using same: A composition which exhibits a reversible non-linear reduction in opacity as the composition is stretched from a first length to a second length is disclosed. One embodiment is a film comprising an elastomeric polymer medium and regions having crystalline properties disposed in the polymer medium, where the film exhibits the... Agent: Christopher M. Goff (27839) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080233419 - Semifinished product made of a composite material and method for producing a semifinished product from a composite material: The invention relates to a method for producing a semifinished product from a composite material. The semifinished product is made of a composite material consisting of a metallic matrix material and of high-tensile fibers embedded in the matrix material, whereby the metallic matrix material is formed from titanium or from... Agent: Fasse Patent Attorneys, P.A.

20080233421 - Iron-based sintered material and production method thereof: An iron-based sintered material, including a mixed structure of martensite, bainite, and pearlite and multiple voids formed in the mixed structure, wherein the ratio of martensite and bainite in the mixed structure is 70% or more; the ratio of martensite and/or bainite in the mixed structure forming the void surface... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080233420 - Production of high-purity tantalum flake powder: The present invention relates to a high-purity tantalum flake powder, produced by a hydride-dehydride process including: (a) cold working tantalum metal into a thin sheet; (b) hydriding the thin sheet, forming a brittle tantalum foil; (c) adjusting the tantalum foil to a desired particle size; and (d) removing hydrogen from... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080233422 - Coated nickel-containing powders: Nickel powder batches and methods for producing nickel powder batches. The powder batches include particles having a small particle size, narrow size distribution and a spherical morphology. The present invention is also directed to devices incorporating the nickel metal powders.... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080233423 - Thin film support substrate for use in hydrogen production filter and production method of hydrogen production filter: In a through hole closing process, a metal plate is attached to one surface of a conductive base member having a plurality of through holes by the use of a magnet, in a copper plating process, a copper plating layer is formed on the conductive base member and the metal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080233424 - Container seal with removal tab and piercable holographic security seal: A holographic sealing member for a container comprises a heat actuated sealant or adhesive layer that secures the sealing member to a container, a metal foil sealing layer over and covering and adhesively bonded to the heat actuated sealant or adhesive layer, a holographic layer over and covering and adhesively... Agent: Perry Hoffman And Associates, P.C.

20080233425 - Substrate coated with a layered structure comprising a tetrahedral carbon coating: The invention relates to a metal substrate (11) coated at least partially with a layered structure. The layered structure comprises an intermediate layer (14) deposited on said substrate (11) and a tetrahedral carbon layer (16) deposited on said intermediate layer. The intermediate layer comprises at least one amorphous carbon layer... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080233426 - Steel sheeting for use in room size radio frequency shielded enclosures and method for making improved steel sheeting: A radio-frequency shield comprised of a sheet of steel and tin-plating on at least one side of said sheet of steel. In addition, a method of making a radio-frequency shielding consisting of tin-plating at least one side of at least one sheet of steel. In addition, a backer material can... Agent: Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP

20080233427 - Component with a platinum-aluminum substrate area, platinum-aluminum coating and production method: A component having a platinum-aluminum substrate surface region which is formed in the area of the substrate surface of the component by diffusion of platinum and aluminum into the substrate surface and which contains platinum and aluminum as well as the constituents of the substrate composition. The integrated aluminum content... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080233428 - Mechanical parts having increased wear resistance: The present invention relates to wear-resistant mechanical parts.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080233430 - Light-emitting device and aromatic compound: A light-emitting device comprising a pair of electrodes and a light-emitting layer or a plurality of organic layers comprising a light-emitting layer disposed therebetween, the light-emitting layer or at least one of a plurality of organic layers comprising the light-emitting layer comprising at least one compound represented by the following... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080233431 - Organic electroluminescent element, illuminator and display: An organic electroluminescent element comprising an anode and a cathode having therebetween an emission layer containing a phosphorescent compound and an layer adjacent to the emission layer, the layer adjacent to the emission layer being provided between the emission layer and the cathode, wherein the layer adjacent to the emission... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080233429 - Polymer compound and polymer light-emitting device using the same: (wherein, ring A and ring B represent each independently an aromatic hydrocarbon ring optionally having a substituent, at least one of ring A and ring B is an aromatic hydrocarbon ring composed of a plurality of condensed benzene rings, Rw and Rx represent each independently a hydrogen atom, alkyl group,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080233432 - Composition, method for fabricating light-emitting element, light-emitting element, light-emitting device, and electronic device: Objects of the present invention are to provide a composition in which an organometallic complex is dissolved and a method for fabricating a light-emitting element using the composition, and to provide a light-emitting element, a light-emitting device, and an electronic device each fabricated using the composition in which the organometallic... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20080233434 - Aromatic amine derivatives and electroluminescence device using the same: An aromatic amine derivative with a specific structure and an organic electroluminescence device which comprises at least one organic thin film layer comprising a light emitting layer sandwiched between a pair of electrode consisting of an anode and a cathode, wherein at least one of the organic thin film layer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080233433 - Organic electroluminescent device: An organic electroluminescent device is provided and includes: a pair of electrodes; and at least one organic layer between the pair of electrodes, the at least one organic layer including a light-emitting layer. At least one of the at least one organic layers contains an iridium complex having a 5-membered... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080233435 - Polymer thin film, patterned substrate, patterned medium for magnetic recording, and method of manufacturing these articles: A polymer thin film in which cylindrical phases are distributed in a continuous phase and are oriented in a pass-through-direction of the film includes at least: a first block copolymer including at least a block chain A1, as a component of the continuous phase, composed of polymerized monomers a1, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080226844 - Space-variant liquid crystal waveplate: The invention provides a space-variant liquid-crystal (LC) photo-aligned waveplate having a vortex optic axis pattern, and an apparatus and method for fabricating thereof. The method in it preferred embodiment includes exposing a substrate coated with a photo-alignable material such as LPP to linearly polarized UV radiation through a wedge-shaped aperture,... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080226845 - Polyamic acid-based composition and liquid crystal orienting film: A polyamic acid-based composition includes: a polyamic acid A prepared by a process including reacting an aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydride and an aromatic diamine; and a polyamic acid B prepared by a process including reacting an aliphatic tetracarboxylic dianhydride, an aromatic diamine having a side chain, and a non-aromatic diamine. A... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080226846 - Structural assembly with a tied, flexurally deformed panel: An assembly includes a flexurally deformed panel, which is connected to a membrane tie by a linear connector and is tied by the membrane tie to form a geometrically stable pre-stressed structure. More than one panel may be flexurally deformed and tied together in an assembly and more than one... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080226847 - Spalted wood veneers, spalted engineered wood flooring and method of making: Spalted wood veneer, which can be used in the commercial production of engineered wood flooring having a spatted wood veneer decorative layer, is produced by forming a wood veneer piece, inoculating the wood veneer piece with spalting spores, subjecting the inoculated veneer piece to a predetermined environment, then inspecting the... Agent: Douglas E. Winters Armstrong World Industries, Inc.

20080226848 - Rice petals: Environmentally-friendly materials 1000 intended to be tossed into the air are constructed of water soluble materials which dissolve in the rain. These may also be made of materials which birds and squirrels may eat without doing them any harm. One preferred material, based upon its density and rigidity is rice... Agent: Zale Patent Law

20080226849 - Recording paper: A recording paper contains a pulp fiber and a magnetic fiber having a large Barkhausen effect. The fiber orientation ratio of this recording paper by an ultrasonic propagation velocity method is in a range of more than 1.3 to less than 1.8, and the degree of shrinkage in an MD... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080226850 - Alternating spacer frame line control: Each of the multiple spacer frame fabricating machines executes its portion of a schedule, then alerts an operator(s) he or she should move to another spacer frame machine that is simultaneously providing spacer frames for the same schedule. The multiple controllers running the multiple spacer machines continue to prompt the... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080226851 - Gas barrier packaging board: A paperboard structure having a four layer product side construction of a tie layer, a gas barrier layer comprising at least one of aliphatic nylon, aromatic nylon, a blend of nylons, a copolymer of nylons and a blend of nylon with polyethylene terephthalate, a tie layer and a polyolefin layer.... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20080226852 - Gas barrier packaging board: A paperboard structure having a five layer product side construction with a gas barrier layer which is a blend of nylon and polyethylene terephthalate.... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20080226853 - Food casing having a transferable additive layer: The invention relates to a single-layer or multilayer, flat or tubular food casing having a support based on a water-insoluble thermoplastic polymer, a polymer of animal or plant or chemical origin, or regenerated or precipitated cellulose, an adhesion layer (binder layer) firmly bound to the support and a transferable layer... Agent: Propat, L.L.C.

20080226854 - Metallized films: Provided herein are multilayer film structures that may be used in packaging applications, for example. The multilayer film structures include a first metallized thermoplastic film and a second thermoplastic film. These first and second films are joined directly to each other over at least a portion of their surface area... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080226855 - High impact strength film and non-pvc containing container and pouch and overppouch: A monolayer film of a polymer blend of a first component selected from the group consisting of an ethylene containing polymer, the first component present in an amount by weight of the film from about 60% to about 1%, the first component having a first melting point temperature determined by... Agent: Baxter Healthcare Corporation

20080226856 - Polyester resins and polyester containers having reduced frictional properties: The invention embraces polyester resins and containers that include surface-modified talc. The invention also embraces a method for the late introduction of surface-modified talc via a reactive carrier to achieve a polyester resin that is capable of being formed into low-haze, high-clarity bottles possessing reduced coefficient of friction.... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20080226857 - Thermoplastic resin composition and molded article: The present invention is a polycarbonate resin composition containing a polycarbonate resin and comprising at least two resins contained as components, wherein the intensity ratio of the absorption peak appearing in a range of 2933±5 cm−1 to the absorption peak appearing in a range of 2965±5 cm−1 is 0.43 or... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20080226858 - Peroxide crosslinked ethylene polymer pressure pipe and a method for the preparation thereof: A peroxide crosslinked ethylene polymer pressure pipe and a method for the preparation thereof are described. The pipe is characterised in that it comprises an ethylene polymer with a density of less than 950 kg/m3 obtained by polymerisation with a single-site catalyst and having a shear thinning index, SHI5/300 of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080226859 - Flotation objects for outdoor ponds: A flotation object floats on the surface of outdoor ponds and other bodies of water. The flotation object includes a circular middle portion and first and second hexagonal end portions. When the flotation objects are placed in a pond the objects contact each other in such a way that the... Agent: Keely Schneiter

20080226860 - Cyanine dyes and use thereof: f

20080226861 - Wet friction lining: The invention relates to a wet friction lining with a textile fabric which is displaced with a resin or resin mixture. The textile fabric is made from staple fibers.... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080226862 - Barrier gasket: A barrier gasket (20, 120, 220, 320, 420, 520) uses two different materials to seal between components (22, 24). The first relatively inexpensive material (30, 130, 230, 330, 430, 530) is used for the base material and a second material (40, 140, 240, 340, 440, 540) is used to form... Agent: Freudenberg-nok General Partnership Legal Department

20080226863 - Glass enamel screen printing composition: Glass enamels, methods of manufacture, methods of application, and articles including glass enamels applied thereto are described. According to one or more embodiments, the glass enamel comprises a glass frit; a vehicle comprising a polymeric energetic binder; and an oxidizing agent. In one or more embodiments, the glass enamels may... Agent: Basf Catalysts LLC

20080226864 - Skin contacting product and method of making same: The present disclosure is directed to a skin contacting product and a method of making same wherein the skin contacting product is formed of a laminated material having at least two distinct layers including a fabric layer and a film layer. The laminated material also has a film-like surface on... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (hollister)

20080226865 - Panel, method of fabricating a panel, and a maching for fabricating panels: The invention relates to a panel (1), preferably floor panel comprising a decorative layer (4) with a decorative pattern a support layer (3) for supporting the decorative layer and a carrier (2) for supporting the support layer (3) and the decorative layer (4) wherein the support layer (3) is arranged... Agent: David I. Roche Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20080226866 - Sealant material: There is disclosed a sealant material for providing sealing to a substrate and preferably an interface. The sealant material may include a locator mechanism.... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20080226867 - Hard wood strand products: A strand lumber or board product based on eucalypt species and an iso-cyanate binder such as PMDI.... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20080226868 - Chemical vapor deposited silicon carbide articles: Chemical vapor deposited silicon carbide articles and the methods of making them are disclosed. The chemical vapor deposited silicon carbide articles are composed of multiple parts which are joined together by sintered ceramics joints. The joints strengthen and maintain tolerances at the joints of the articles. The articles may be... Agent: John J. Piskorski Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials LLC

20080226869 - Methods of joining structures and joints formed thereby: A product including a first structure. A joint element is attached to the first structure. The joint element has a base and at least two legs extending from the base, the legs defining a slot having opposing sides and a bottom. A second structure is positioned in the slot. An... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080226870 - Multifunctional periodic cellular solids and the method of making thereof: A cellular material that can provide a unique combination of properties and characteristics for a variety of applications requiring a cellular solid that possesses one or more of the following characteristics: (1) efficient load support in one or more directions, (2) excellent mechanical impact energy absorption and vibration suppression potential,... Agent: University Of Virginia Patent Foundation

20080226871 - Layer system, use and process for producing a layer system: Layered systems, which are used at high temperatures, often degrade rapidly when a layer has been lost, leading to the damage or loss of the component that consists of said layered system. A described layered system comprises at least one cooling safety orifice, which is e.g. covered by an intermediate... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080226872 - Plastic sheet product offering matte appearance and method of preparation: A plastic sheet product having a matte finish comprises a core layer of a thermoplastic polymer and at least one layer of a capstock composition which overlies, and is bonded to, at least one face of the core layer. The capstock composition comprises the same or different thermoplastic polymer and... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20080226873 - Material with a shock absorbing capability and related manufacturing methods: A material having a shock absorbing capability and related method is disclosed. The method of forming the material having a shock absorbing capability is performed by sequentially coating the adhesive agent and utilizing a heating roller to the first substrate layer made of cloth, the second substrate layer made of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080226875 - Electronic components on trenched substrates and method of forming same: A method of mounting an electronic component on a substrate includes forming at least one trench in a surface of the substrate. The trenches formed in the substrate reduce a stiffness of the substrate, which provides less resistance to shear. Accordingly, the trenches reduce the amount of strain on the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080226874 - Method for finishing a wood material board: A revised Abstract is attached hereto. The Abstract attached hereto should replace the original Abstract.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080226877 - Method for mounting a semiconductor package onto pcb: A method for mounting a semiconductor package onto PCB is disclosed. A semiconductor package is provided, which comprises a plurality of outer terminals exposed out of an encapsulant. A PCB is provided and has a surface with a plurality of contact pads. Each contact pad has a first exposed side,... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080226876 - Method for producing a core material reinforcement for sandwich structures and said sanwich structures: A sandwich structure reinforcement carried out by a gripper, which pierces the sandwich structure or the core material, only at one side, thereby obtaining a hole penetrating through, e.g., a polymer rigid foam. At the opposite side, the gripper catches the reinforcing structure (for example a sewing thread, pultruded fiber-plastic... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080226878 - Dielectric composite and a method of manufacturing a dielectric composite: A composite for a transducer facilitates an increased actuation force as compared to similar prior art composites for transducers. The composite facilitates increased compliance of the transducer in one direction, an improved reaction time as compared to similar prior art composites for transducers, and provides an increased lifetime of the... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080226879 - Low stress metallic based coating: A composition for deposition as a coating includes a matrix material having a molten fraction of between about 33% and about 90% by volume and a filler material interspersed within the matrix.... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080226880 - Solvent borne polyurethane composition: A solvent borne polyurethane composition with a polymodal molecular weight distribution comprising: i) 10 to 90 wt % of at least a polyurethane A with a Mw in the range of from 4,000 up to 25,000 g/mol, ii) 90 to 10 wt % of at least a polyurethane B with... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080226881 - Solvent borne polyurethane process: A process for obtaining a solvent borne polyurethane composition comprising preparing an isocyanate-terminated prepolymer A; reacting the isocyanate groups of isocyanate-terminated prepolymer A with 0.1 to 1.8 stoichiometric equivalents of at least one active-hydrogen containing chain terminating compound and or chain-extending compound; optionally introducing an isocyanate-terminated compound B; and reacting... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080226882 - Glazing provided with a stack of thin films acting on the sunlight: The subject of the invention is a transparent substrate, especially a glass substrate, provided with a thin-film multilayer acting on solar radiation, the multilayer being deposited by magnetron sputtering, characterized in that it includes at least a lubricating film of high optical index n, this lubricating film being associated with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080226883 - Photochromic optical article and method of producing the same: A photochromic optical article comprising an optical substrate having a photochromic layer which is formed on at least one surface thereof and contains a photochromic compound is dispersed in a resin, and a thin metal oxide layer formed on the photochromic layer, wherein an indenonaphthopyran compound is used as the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080226884 - Adhesive film for stacking semiconductor chips: The invention concerns an adhesive film for stacking chips which enables chips to be stacked in layers without using a separate spacer usually provided to keep a given distance between wires of an upper chip and a lower chip to have the same area. The adhesive film of the invention... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080226885 - Fiber-reinforced heat-resistant sound-absorbing material and process for producing the same: A production process which comprises a preform formation step of forming a fiber preform made of silicon carbide short fibers having heat resistance of 1000° C. or greater; a sol-gel preparation step of preparing a sol-gel solution containing a heat resistant compound having heat resistance of 1000° C. or greater;... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080226886 - Odour-absorbing sheet-like structure, method for its production and use of zinc ricinoleate in finely divided solid form on odour-absorbing sheet-like structures: Odour-absorbing sheet-like structure comprising vegetable and/or manmade fibres, in particular a sheet-like structure having an air permeability suitable for filters and vacuum cleaner bags, which sheet-like structure has zinc ricinoleate in an amount in the range of 0.1 to 20% by weight, based on the weight of the sheet-like structure,... Agent: Ursula B. Day Law Office Of Ursula B. Day

20080226888 - Cellulose acylate film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device using the same: o

20080226889 - Curable compositions: Curable compositions are disclosed. Also disclosed are optical media comprising said curable compositions when cured and methods of making such optical media.... Agent: Jonathan D. Baskin Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials LLC

20080226887 - Low resistivity light attenuation anti-reflection coating with a transparent surface conductive layer: A low resistivity light attenuation anti-reflection coating with a transparent surface conductive layer is disclosed. The multi-layered structure of the low resistivity light attenuation anti-reflection coating is HL (HL)6HL (H: a material scoring high on the refractive index, L: a material scoring low on the refractive index). There are 8... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080226890 - Superlattice and turbostratically disordered thermoelectric materials: Layered materials are provided that have surprisingly low thermal conductivities. A plurality of layers of a selected material such as, for example, tungsten diselenide, is formed by a modulated elemental reactants method to produce a low thermal conductivity material. The layers are generally stacked but substantially randomly arranged as stacked.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080226891 - Method for making multilayer coating film: This invention provides a multilayer coating film-forming method which comprises applying a first clear paint onto a coating object, applying onto so formed first clear coating film which is either uncured or cured by heating, a second clear paint such that its heat-cured film thickness falls within a range of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080226892 - Fiber-filled molded articles: Polymer molding processes, such as injection-molding processes, include use of a viscosity-reducing supercritical fluid additive resulting in less breakage of reinforcing fibers upon introduction into the mold.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080226893 - Methods for increasing the strength and controlling the architecture and composition of ceramic articles: Ceramic porous and non-porous articles are made by a process that includes a hardening step in which a fluid-containing ceramic composition is exposed to a solvent in which the fluid in the composition is soluble before the ceramic composition is solidified into the final ceramic article.... Agent: Howard Eisenberg, Esq.

20080226894 - Yttrium oxide-containing material, component of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and method of producing yttrium oxide-containing material: There is provided an yttrium oxide-containing material with excellent mechanical characteristics. The yttrium oxide-containing material becomes strong by adding silicon carbide (SiC) and yttrium fluoride (YF3) to yttrium oxide (Y2O3), and yield, handling, reliability can be improved accordingly when this strengthened yttrium oxide-containing material is applied to components of semiconductor... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080226896 - Nanoparticles with covalently bonded stabilizer: An apparatus composed of: (a) a substrate; and (b) a deposited composition comprising a liquid and a plurality of metal nanoparticles with a covalently bonded stabilizer.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080226895 - Use of nanoparticles with a metal core and an organic double coating as catalysts and nanoparticles that are useful as catalysts:

20080226897 - Cubic boron nitride compacts: The cubic boron nitride compact contains a secondary hard phase, which comprises at least one aluminium magnesium boride compound, such as AlMgB14. The aluminium magnesium boride present in the secondary hard phase may consist of AlMgB14 only or a mixture of AlMgB14 and one or more other aluminium magnesium boride... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080226898 - Coated water-swellable material: e

20080226899 - High-frequency magnetic material and method for producing the same: A high-frequency magnetic material is provided and includes: an oxide phase including: a first oxide of a first element being at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, a rare-earth element, Ba, and Sr, and a second oxide of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080226900 - Substrate with film and glass for formation film: A substrate with film having an inorganic amorphous film having a softening temperature of from 100 to 800° C. formed on at least one surface of a substrate; or a substrate with film having an inorganic amorphous film having a glass transition temperature of from 50 to 500° C. formed... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080226901 - Paints containing particles: Coating formulations of improved scratch resistance suitable for use in automotive clear and top coatings contain a functional group-containing film forming resin, a curative having functional groups reactive with the film forming resin, and particles having functional groups reactive with at-least one of the functional groups of the resin or... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080226902 - Getter systems comprising one or more deposits of getter material and a layer of material for the transport of water: Getter systems are provided including one or more deposits of getter materials, wherein at least one of the deposits is in contact with a layer of a material having H2O transport properties.... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080226903 - Method for making a light emitting diode having a p-n junction doped with one or more luminescent activator ions: A light emitting diode (LED) includes a p-n junction containing luminescent activator ions. The visible emission from the activator ions preferably complementing the band edge emission of the LED in order to produce an overall white emission from the LED. In a preferred embodiment, the LED has double heterojunction structure... Agent: Osram Sylvania Inc

20080226904 - Linerless two-sided adhesive tape: A linerless two-sided adhesive tape made of a translucent vellum that is coated with a primer formulated to bond adhesives tightly to the paper. The adhesive consists of a microsphere formulation applied via a gravure-transfer method. The adhesive is comprised of discreet, internally crosslinked, solid spheres of acrylic adhesive, generally... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080226905 - Method for producing low anisotropy pressure-sensitive adhesives: The invention relates to a method for producing pressure-sensitive adhesives that have low or no anisotropy, the process elements including an adhesive supply system, an application unit and a placement element. A melt strip of the pressure-sensitive adhesive is produced between the outlet of the application unit and the point... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20080226906 - Retroreflective sheeting: The invention provides an enclosed lens-type retroreflective sheeting comprising at least a large number of micro glass beads (3), a holding layer (2) made of a light-transmissive resin, which holds the glass beads (3), a specular reflective layer (6) to reflect incident light, and a focusing layer (4) which is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080226907 - Label comprising a liquid-sensitive adhesive coating, use of such a label, method for automatically applying a label comprising a liquid-sensitive adhesive coating, and method for the production of a label paper: The invention relates to a label comprising a liquid-sensitive adhesive coating on the rear face thereof. The adhesive coating is based on natural biopolymers and the derivatives thereof and/or synthetic polymers that can be activated by means of liquid. Also disclosed are the use of such a label, a method... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20080226908 - Bi-component electrically conductive drawn polyester fiber and method for making same: The invention is directed to a multi-component electrically conductive fiber (FIG. 1) and the method of making the same (FIG. 2). The fiber contains two polyester components which has a 10° C. melt temperature difference between the first and second polyesters.... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20080226909 - D1381 supercoatings for optical fiber: e

20080226910 - Method of making a load bearing member for an elevator system: A method of making a load bearing member (30) for an elevator system (20) includes placing at least one tension member (32) adjacent one side (60) of a first layer (36) of a polymer material. A second layer (38), comprising a urethane in a disclosed example, is added adjacent to... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20080226916 - D1363 bt radiation curable primary coatings on optical fiber: Radiation curable coatings for use as a Primary Coating for optical fibers, optical fibers coated with said coatings and methods for the preparation of coated optical fibers. The radiation curable coating comprises at least one (meth)acrylate functional oligomer and a photoinitiator, wherein the urethane-(meth)acrylate oligomer CA/CR comprises (meth)acrylate groups, at... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080226912 - D1365 bj radiation curable primary coating for optical fiber: Radiation curable coatings for use as a Primary Coating for optical fibers, optical fibers coated with said coatings and methods for the preparation of coated optical fibers. The present invention provides a radiation curable Primary Coating composition comprising: an oligomer; first diluent monomer; a second diluent monomer; a third diluent... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080226914 - D1368 cr radiation curable primary coating for optical fiber: wherein said catalyst is selected from the group consisting of dibutyl tin dilaurate; metal carboxylates, including, but not limited to: organobismuth catalysts such as bismuth neodecanoate; zinc neodecanoate; zirconium neodecanoate; zinc 2-ethylhexanoate; sulfonic acids, including but not limited to dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid, methane sulfonic acid; amino or organo-base catalysts, including,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080226913 - D1369 d radiation curable secondary coating for optical fiber: e

20080226911 - D1378 ca radiation curable primary coating for optical fiber: Radiation curable coatings for use as a Primary Coating for optical fibers, optical fibers coated with said coatings and methods for the preparation of coated optical fibers. A radiation curable Primary Coating composition comprising: an oligomer; a diluent monomer; a photoinitiator; an antioxidant; and an adhesion promoter; wherein said oligomer... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080226915 - D1379 p radiation curable primary coating on optical fiber: Radiation curable coatings for use as a Primary Coating for optical fibers, optical fibers coated with said coatings and processes to coat the optical fiber are described and claimed. The radiation curable coating is a radiation curable Primary Coating composition comprising: an oligomer; a first diluent monomer; a second diluent... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080226917 - Core-shell nanoparticles with multiple cores and a method for fabricating them: The present invention is directed toward core-shell nanoparticles, each comprising a ligand-capped metal shell surrounding a plurality of discrete, nonconcentric, metal-containing cores. Methods of making and using these nanoparticles are also disclosed.... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080226918 - Cable semiconducting shield: e

20080226920 - Multilayer elastic film structures: Multi-layer elastic air quenched blown film structures are disclosed which include: a first layer incorporating a propylene-based copolymer and optionally, a linear low density polyethylene or a low density polyethylene; and at least one second layer incorporating a linear low density polyethylene copolymer and optionally, a propylene-based copolymer and/or a... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.c.

20080226919 - Water-soluble film roll and method for paying out water-soluble film: To provide a water-soluble film roll 3 having end faces 4 with masking materials 5 adhered thereto. By using the water-soluble film roll 3 and paying out a water-soluble film 1 while holding the masking materials 5 adhered to the end faces 4, it is possible to prevent moisture from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080226921 - Thermoplastic composite materials for wear surfaces and methods for making same: The present techniques provide a method for making wear surfaces comprising a thermoplastic matrix blended with ceramic particles. The wear surfaces may optionally contain other materials, such as friction modifying additives. Wear surfaces formed according to these techniques may be used to protect such surfaces as the side rails of... Agent: Michael G. Fletcher Fletcher Yoder PC

20080226922 - Cross-linkable polyionic coatings for medical devices: e

20080226923 - Weldable corrosion-protective agent and binder therefor: The invention relates to a binding agent comprising at least one titanium and/or one zircon compound (at least 0.5 wt. % in relation to 100 wt. % binding agent), at least one organo-functional silan, in particular, a monosilan, and a solution. The invention is characterised in that the binding agent... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080226924 - Transparent conductive film, method for producing transparent conductive film and organic electroluminescent device: A transparent conductive film comprising at least a transparent plastic film, a gas barrier layer and a transparent conductive layer is characterized in that the refractive index thereof is so regulated as to decrease continuously or stepwise from the side having the transparent conductive layer to the other side. Also... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080226925 - Low-e coated articles and methods of making same: In certain example embodiments, low-E coated articles may be designed so as to realize a combination of good visible transmission (Tvis) and an excellent solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC), thereby realizing an improved (i.e., higher) Tvis/SHGC ratio. In certain example embodiments of this invention, if heat treated (HT), the low-E... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080226926 - Scratch resistant coated glass article including layer(s) resistant to fluoride-based etchant(s), and method of making article using combustion cvd: A scratch resistant coated article is provided which is also resistant to attacks by at least some fluoride-based etchant(s) for at least a period of time. In certain example embodiments, an anti-etch layer(s) is provided on a glass substrate in order to protect the glass substrate from attacks by fluoride-based... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080226927 - Dielectric ceramics and multilayer ceramic capacitor: (in which ABO3 is a general formula for a perovskite structure, wherein the A cation sites are predominantly occupied by Ba and optionally one or more of Ca and Sr, and wherein the B cation sites are predominantly occupied by Ti and Zr, wherein Re represents at least one oxide... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080226928 - Hydrophilic member and process for producing the same: A hydrophilic member includes, in the following order: a substrate; an undercoat layer; and a hydrophilic layer formed by heating a hydrophilic composition containing a hydrophilic polymer having a structural unit represented by the formula (I-a) defined herein and a structural unit represented by the formula (I-b) defined herein, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080226929 - Silicon-rich silicon nitrides as etch stop in mems manufacture: The fabrication of a MEMS device such as an interferometric modulator is improved by employing an etch stop layer between a sacrificial layer and a an electrode. The etch stop may reduce undesirable over-etching of the sacrificial layer and the electrode. The etch stop layer may also serve as a... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080226930 - Method for adhering polybutadiene formed article, polybutadiene composite formed article manufactured thereby, medical member, and infusion fluid set: A method for adhering a polybutadiene formed article, which comprises (1) the step of reducing the water contact angle of a surface of the polybutadiene formed article by ozone treatment, electron beam treatment, corona discharge treatment, plasma discharge treatment, ultraviolet laser treatment or chemical treatment, and (2) the step of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080226931 - Optical element, optical low pass filter, solid-state imaging device: [Means to solve the problem] An optical lowpass filter includes a first birefringent plate, an IR-cut glass, a ¼ retardation film, a second birefringent plate, and a pressure sensitive adhesive as a bonding layer bonding these members. The pressure sensitive adhesive primarily contains a pressure sensitive adhesive main agent polymer... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080226932 - Use of modified wood materials for producing articles: The present invention relates to the use of modified wood materials for producing articles which comprise at least one wood material.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080226933 - Slide bearing composite material: The invention relates to a slide bearing composite material (2) comprising a metallic supporting layer (4), a metallic porous carrier layer (6) that is sintered or sprayed on the supporting layer and has a thickness of between 100 and 500 μm. especially between 200 and 350 μm. and a sliding... Agent: Dreiss, Fuhlendorf, Steimle & Becker

20080226934 - Nanoreactors and method of making: Described herein are nanoreactors having various shapes that can be produced by a simple chemical process. The nanoreactors described herein may have a shell as thin as 0.5 nm and outside diameters that can be controlled by the process of making and have a nanoparticle enclosed therein. The nanoreactors have... Agent: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

20080226935 - Tubular product and manufacturing method and manufacturing device thereof: A tubular product comprises a side section having outer surfaces disposed along a parallelogram and a bottom section formed on one end of the side section. The outer surfaces of the side section are pressure formed by a roller. The tubular product preferably is manufactured from a tubular material by... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080226936 - Centrifugally cast external layer for rolling roll and method for manufacture thereof: A method for producing an outer layer for a roll having a structure having MC carbide dispersed at an area ratio of 20-60%, comprising the steps of (1) centrifugally casting a melt having a composition comprising, by mass, 2.2-6.0% of C, 0.1-3.5% of Si, 0.1-3.5% of Mn, and 8-22% of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080226937 - Material for heat resistant component: A heat resistant material, wherein one type or plural types of materials that do not generate interdiffusion with an Ni-based superalloy are coated on the Ni-based superalloy to prevent the interdiffusion of elements through the substrate/coating interface even at such high temperatures as 1100° C. or above 1100° C., is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080226938 - Wear resistant ceramic coated aluminum alloy article and method for making same: A method for forming a wear resistant ceramic coating on an aluminum alloy article. The alloy preferably contains from about 85 to about 92 percent aluminum with a plurality of other oxidizable metals selected from copper, magnesium, zinc, and chromium. Less that about 2 percent total of other elements is... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20080226940 - Dibenzo[c,g]triphenylene derivative and organic electroluminescence device using the same: The present invention relates to a dibenzo[c,g]triphenylene derivative, a material for an organic EL device comprising the same, a light emitting material for an organic EL device, a light emitting organic solution, an organic EL device in which an organic compound layer comprising a single layer or plural layers including... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080226942 - Method of manufacturing organic electroluminescence element and manaufacturing apparatus: An objective is to provide a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence element possessing a thin film exhibiting relatively low film-strength formed via a continuous wet coating process. Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence element possessing a substrate film and provided thereon at least an organic layer... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080226939 - Protection film and organic el device: The disclosed is a protection film to be formed on a thin film device formed on a substrate, which is characterized by having a hydrogen content of not less than 30 at %. It is possible to provide a protection film of high reliability and with a thick film thickness... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080226941 - Solvent mixtures for organic semiconductors: The present invention relates to solutions of at least one organic semiconductor in at least one organic solvent with at least one aliphatic or cycloaliphatic alkene, and to the use thereof for the production of layers of organic semiconductors on substrates, in particular for the electronics industry.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080226943 - Composite articles: A composite article includes a first composite material and a second composite material. The first composite material and the second composite material individually comprise hard particles in a binder. A concentration of ruthenium in the binder of the first composite material is different from a concentration of ruthenium in the... Agent: Allegheny Technologies Incorporated

20080226944 - Dielectric ceramic composition and electronic device: A dielectric ceramic composition comprises a main component including BaTiO3, a first subcomponent including BaZrO3, a second subcomponent including an oxide of Mg, a third subcomponent including an oxide of rare earth, a fourth subcomponent including an oxide of at least one element selected from Mn, Cr, Co and Fe,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080226945 - Imidazopyrimidine-based compound and organic light-emitting device employing organic layer including the same: Imidazopyrimidine-based compounds and organic light-emitting devices employing organic layers including the imidazopyrimidine-based compounds are provided. Organic light-emitting devices employing organic layers including the imidazopyrimidine-based compounds feature low driving voltages, high efficiency, high brightness, long lifetimes, and low power consumption.... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080226946 - Magnetic disc, stamper for making magnetic disc, and method for making magnetic disc: A magnetic disc has a data area including a magnetic data zone and nonmagnetic portions for physically separating the magnetic data zone, and also has a servo area provided with a magnetic pattern made up of magnetic portions and nonmagnetic portions. The servo area includes a belt-like area elongated in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080226947 - Magneto-resistance effect element having free layer including magnetostriction reduction layer and thin-film magnetic head: A magnetoresistance effect element includes a pinned layer having a fixed magnetization direction, a free layer having a magnetization direction variable depending on an external magnetic field, and a nonmagnetic spacer layer disposed between the pinned layer and the free layer. The free layer includes a Heusler alloy layer and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080226948 - Magneto-resistance effect element having diffusion blocking layer and thin-film magnetic head: A magnetoresistance effect element (MR element) for use in a thin-film magnetic head has a buffer layer, an antiferromagnetic layer, a pinned layer, a spacer layer, a free layer, and a cap layer that are successively stacked. A sense current flows in a direction perpendicular to layer surfaces via a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080226949 - Damper for use in data storage applications: A damper for a data storage device having a viscoelastic material and a constraint material disposed on the viscoelastic material, the constraint material covers the sides of the viscoelastic material to reduce exposure of the viscoelastic material from debris in the surrounding environment.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20080226950 - Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and method of manufacturing the medium: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium is disclosed in which a soft magnetic layer used as a low Ku layer can be stably produced with high performance. Thermal stabilization of magnetization, ease of writing by a magnetic head, and SNR also are improved. A method of manufacturing the medium is disclosed.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080220183 - Ferroelectric composite, method of manufacturing the same and liquid crystal display apparatus having the ferroelectric composite: A ferroelectric composite includes a core including a ferroelectric material and a skin layer including a carbon structure comprising carbon atoms.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080220184 - Electro-optic device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optic device includes an electro-optic panel, a transparent protective member disposed at a viewer side of the electro-optic panel, an adhesive provided between the electro-optic panel and the transparent protective member, and a gas barrier film provided on a surface of the transparent protective member at a side opposite... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080220185 - Fabric stimulating the plant structure for moisture management: A fabric having moisture management function, which has a structure simulating plant structure and comprises at least two layers as follows: a bottom layer, which is of a leno or matt structure simulating main stem of plant, in which a number of yarns are grouped together to form a plurality... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080220186 - Security film: An optically active film laminate (10) for providing colour shift effects in the visible and non-visible spectrums and which comprises a transparent film substrate (11), typically PET, which at least in part has been dyed to a dark colouration by dye or dyes applied to one side of the substrate,... Agent: Paul E. Milliken

20080220187 - Document and method of making document including invisible information for security applications: A document includes paper having an average surface roughness of at least about 0.5 microns and including one or more optical brighteners, and includes at least one image thereon wherein the at least one image includes clear binder and light absorbing material that absorbs light only at wavelengths below 350... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc.

20080220189 - Inkjet recording element: The present invention relates to an inkjet recording element showing good dye keeping in time and then good image stability. Said element comprises a support and at least one ink-receiving layer, said ink-receiving layer comprising at least allophane-type amorphous spherical or ring-shaped aluminosilicate particles, said aluminosilicate particles having been submitted... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080220190 - Aqueous subbing for extruded thermal dye receiver: The present invention relates to an image recording element comprising a support having thereon an aqueous subbing layer and an extruded dye receiving layer, wherein the image recording element is a thermal dye receiver. The present invention also relates to a method of making a thermal dye receiving element comprising... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080220191 - Thermal transfer receiving sheet: There is provided a thermal transfer receiving sheet comprising a sheet-like support and an image receiving layer formed on at least one side of the sheet-like support, wherein the image receiving layer contains a polyester resin with a branched structure obtained by polycondensation of a polyhydric carboxylic acid component and... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080220188 - Method and system for printing electrostatically or electrographically generated images to contoured surfaces of ceramic and glass items such as dishware: A glass or ceramic dishware item having a contoured surface with an image disposed thereon is provided. The image is transferred to the contoured surface from a layered ink composite. The layered ink composite is created by depositing a first layer of thermoplastic ink onto a silicone substrate. A ceramic... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080220192 - Multilayer structures of poly(1,3 propylene 2,6-naphthalate) and poly(ethylene terephthalate): Multilayer shaped articles, including films, preforms and containers, and method for forming the same, having at least one layer of poly(l, 3-propylene 2,6-naphthalate) and at least one layer of poly(ethylene terephthalate). Poly(1,3-propylene 2,6-naphthalate) can be co-stretched with poly(ethylene terephthalate) to form oriented multilayer structures which have superior barrier properties. The... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080220193 - Catalyst for olefin polymerization, method for producing olefin polymer, method for producing propylene-based copolymer, propylene polymer, propylene-based polymer composition, and use of those: wherein in Formula [1-1], R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R8, R9, and R12 are each selected from a hydrogen, a hydrocarbon group and a silicon-containing group; the four groups of R6, R7, R10, and R11 are not hydrogen atoms, and are each selected from a hydrocarbon group or a silicon-containing... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080220195 - Athletic information display: A product and method for displaying athletic data and certain information on skin is described. Said information being, but not limited to, an athlete's pacing goals for an athletic event, a course map, or other event information helpful to an athlete while competing in an athletic event. Said information preferably... Agent: Michael B. Mcmurry, Esq.

20080220194 - Kit for adhesive products: The present invention provides a kit for an adhesive product comprising a coil of non-foam double-sided adhesive tape, a plurality of substantially flat segments of non-foam double-sided adhesive tape, or combinations thereof, and a display package having a storage volume sized to enclose therewithin and allow removal therefrom the tape.... Agent: Bemis Company, Inc. Patent And Trademark Department

20080220196 - Pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet with release liner: A release liner formed of a polypropylene resin sheet that can be highly recyclable and that can provide an excellent performance in a wide range of operating temperature is provided. A release-lined pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) sheet constituted with the release liner is also provided. A release-lined PSA sheet 1 according... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080220197 - Phase-change recording film with stable crystallization rate, target and process for producing the phase-change recording film: A phase-change recording film with stable crystallization rate and a composite target for producing the film are composed of 10 to 50 atomic percent of phase-change material containing Te or Sb and 50 to 90 atomic percent of dielectric material. Another target for producing the film is composed of dielectric... Agent: Patenttm.us

20080220198 - Method for producing laminate, barrier film substrate, device and optical member: p

20080220199 - Method for manufacturing a tufted product, tufted product, and use thereof: The object of the invention is to provide a method which is as simple and economical as possible for manufacturing a tufted product, in particular a tufted top layer of a carpet, having improved nep adhesion properties. For this purpose splittable fibers are used which split on or in the... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc

20080220200 - Tufted pet fiber for automotive carpet applications: A tufted PET carpet assembly and a method of forming the same. The carpet assembly comprising a face layer comprised of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) yam comprised of PET fibers and tufted at a pre-determined gauge, the face layer having a face weight, a first backing layer adjacent the face layer,... Agent: Butzel Long Ip Docketing Dept

20080220201 - Cloth carpet: The object of the invention is a cloth carpet. The cloth carpet is characterised by the fact that at least one layer, usually the surface one, is made of a cloth (1) of basis weight between 1100 and 1500 g.s.m. produced of yarn of 100% wool or yarn made of... Agent: Power Del Valle LLP

20080220202 - Laminated substrates for mounting electronic parts and methods for making same: e

20080220203 - Cell structure and method of manufacturing the same: There is provided a cell structure, where the outer wall portion has high heat-insulating ability, the cell structural portion has a high temperature rise rate, and a temperature distribution is more uniform, and a method for manufacturing the cell structure. The cell structure 1 includes: a cell structural portion 4... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080220204 - Display panel, method of manufacturing a display panel, and display unit: A display panel includes a sheet having first and second spaced apart surfaces defining a space therebetween and a plurality of partitions extending from the first surface to the second surface and dividing the space into a plurality of cells, wherein the thickness of each partition is in a range... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080220205 - Honeycomb structure and honeycomb catalyst: A honeycomb structure 1 for a catalyst carrier including partition walls 4 arranged so as to form a plurality of cells 3 which connect two end faces 2a, 2b, the partition walls 4 being porous and having a large number of pores; the structure further including plugging portions 10 arranged... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080220206 - Semiconductor die for increasing yield and usable wafer area: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor die for increasing usable area of a wafer and for increasing yield has a substantially hexagonal shape. The wafer can have, for example, a circular shape. The semiconductor die can be diced by, for example, using a water-jet-guided laser. In one embodiment, the semiconductor... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080220207 - Composite structure: Use of composite structures in assemblies for components such as vanes in a gas turbine engine has advantages in terms of weight, but can have problems with regard to stress and strain in operational use. Such problems with regard to stress and strain occur particularly about fillets. By providing reinforcing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080220208 - Taped component and method of mounting product using the same: A taped component includes a career tape having an upper surface having recesses provided therein, and products stored in the recesses, respectively. Each of the recesses has a bottom on which each of the products is placed. The bottom has an aperture provided therein, and the aperture faces a position... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080220209 - Thermally sprayed coatings: This invention relates to thermally sprayed coatings of a high purity yttria or ytterbia stabilized zirconia powder, said high purity yttria or ytterbia stabilized zirconia powder comprising from about 0 to about 0.15 weight percent impurity oxides, from about 0 to about 2 weight percent hafnium oxide (hafnia), from about... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20080220210 - Membranes and electrochemical cells incorporating such membranes: One aspect of the invention provides an ion-conducting membrane comprising an ion-conducting region and a non-ion-conducting region. The ion-conducting region is formed by a plurality of ion-conducting passageways that extend through the membrane. The passageways are filled with ion-conducting material and may be surrounded by non-ion conducting material. The membrane... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080220211 - Lay flat book sheets: A sheet stock having a flexible hinge area is described. The sheet stock includes a substrate having an opening and gap stiffener, and a flexible film covering the opening and defining a flexible hinge area in the region of the opening and gap stiffener covered by the film. Methods for... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080220212 - Composite film for packing foods and the process of making it: A composite film for packaging foods enable to regulate pressure inside automatically when being heated and the progress of making it are provided. The composite film comprises a substrate film provided with a plurality of micro-gap regions processed by impressing process and an adhesive film attached to an airtight film.... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.a.

20080220213 - Zeolite - carbon doped oxide composite low k dielectric: A method for forming a zeolite-carbon doped oxide (CDO) composite dielectric material is herein described. Zeolite particles may be dispersed in a solvent. The zeolite solvent solution may then be deposited on an underlying layer, such as a wafer or other dielectric layer. At least some solvent may then be... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080220214 - Light regulating film, laminated light regulating film, and method for producing light regulating film and laminated light regulating film: [Constitution] Linear notch patterns at fixed intervals are formed by contacting blades 6a on a drum 6 with a film F and mechanically transferring the shape of the blades 6a to the film F. The notch pattern is formed to be approximately parallel to the axial direction of the drum... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080220215 - Method and apparatus for engraving a decorative item and the item decorated thereby: A method of engraving includes providing a computer data system capable of receiving information, transmitting information, creating files, storing files, and editing files. Providing an engraving software compatible with such computer data system. Operably connecting the engraving software to such computer data system. Creating a file within such computer data... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080220216 - Microfabricated elastomeric valve and pump systems: A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080220217 - Reboundable optical structure: A reboundable optical structure includes a base layer; and an optical element layer formed with a reboundable polymeric material and attached to the base layer. The optical structure can include a diffuser, fresnel lens, linear prism film, collimating film, lenticular elements, and retroreflective structures. A method for forming a reboundable... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080220218 - Ornamental soft solid magnet and a manufacturing method thereof: An ornamental soft solid magnet and a manufacturing method thereof. The soft solid magnet includes at least one magnetic substrate made of magnetic material and a facial layer with figures or characters. The facial layer is combined with the substrate to form an integrated sheet body. The sheet body is... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.a.

20080220219 - Combination floor drawing mats: A combination floor drawing mat is made up from individual foam pieces that can be inter-connected with one another. Each piece is made up basic geometric shape, such as square, triangle, or pentagon. With the layer of lamination affixed to one side of said foam pieces, children and do all... Agent: Law Offices Of J.f. Lee

20080220220 - Semiconductor die having increased usable area: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor die having increased usable area has at least six sides. The semiconductor die has a reduced stress at each corner of the die, resulting in smaller keep out zones near the corners of the semiconductor die, which allow the placement of bond pads near... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080220221 - Cookware and dinnerware scratch prevention liner: The present invention is an article for protecting the surface of non-stick cookware comprising a flexible main body and a flexible border about the perimeter of said main body to protect the lower surface and side walls of cookware.... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.a.

20080220224 - Decorative material: A decorative material including a pattern layer formed from an aqueous composition, which can be easily handled without receiving any scratches on the surface upon loading or unloading, allows no possibility of load collapse when stacked, and has durable surface staining resistance. The decorative material includes a substrate, a sealer... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, Llc

20080220225 - Filter and display apparatus including the same: A filter includes a base film having a first surface and a second surface, and a plurality of first color patterns on the first surface of the base film, the first color patterns having a stripe pattern with first predetermined intervals therebetween.... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080220222 - Photosensitive polymer composition, method of producing pattern and electronic parts: f

20080220223 - Resist cover film forming material, resist pattern forming method, and electronic device and method for manufacturing the same: where R1 represents at least one of a monovalent organic group, hydrogen atom and hydroxyl group, R2 represents at least one of a monovalent organic group and hydrogen atom (where R1 and R2 each may appear twice or more, and at least one of R1 and R2 contains an alkali-soluble... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080220226 - Biaxially oriented polypropylene film with heat sealable matte layer: A laminate film including a first polyolefin heat sealable matte resin layer including a blend of 15-30 wt % metallocene-catalyzed butene-propylene elastomer and 85-70 wt % of a matte resin including ethylene homopolymer and propylene homopolymer or copolymer is disclosed. The laminate film could further have additional layers such as... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080220227 - Coated printing stock for use as labels and the like: A label incorporates slip agent and antistat directly into the polymer layers from which the label is constructed.... Agent: King & Schickli, Pllc

20080220228 - Electrophoretic display medium and method of forming partition members and substrates therein: The present invention provides an electrophoretic display medium including a first substrate and a second substrate disposed in opposition to each other, a dispersion medium provided between the first substrate and the second substrate with charged particles dispersed therein, and partitioning parts partitioning a space between the first substrate and... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080220229 - Method for structured application of molecules to a strip conductor and molecular memory matrix: The invention relates to a method for a structured application of molecules on a strip conductor and to a molecular memory matrix. The inventive method makes it possible, for the first time, to economically and simply apply any number of molecular memory elements on the strip conductor in a structured... Agent: K.f. Ross P.c.

20080220230 - Process for the fractionation of mixtures of phthalocyanine dyes: e

20080220231 - Core-shell type magnetic particle and high-frequency magnetic material: A core-shell type magnetic particle comprises magnetic metal particle and an oxide coating layer formed on the surface of the magnetic metal particle. The magnetic metal particle contains a magnetic metal containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co and Ni, a nonmagnetic metal and at... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080220235 - Amorphous thermoplastic resin and extruded film or sheet: To provide an amorphous thermoplastic resin and a film or sheet each having high transparency and high heat resistance and a UV-absorbing ability, which can be used in various optical materials which needs to have excellent optical characteristics and well-balanced mechanical strength, molding processability, and surface hardness. An amorphous thermoplastic... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080220234 - Method of preparing wear-resistant coating layer comprising metal matrix composite and coating layer prepared thereby: The invention provides a method of preparing a wear-resistant coating layer comprising metal matrix composite and a coating layer prepared by using the same and more particularly, it provides a method of preparing a wear-resistant coating layer comprising metal matrix composite, which comprises the steps of providing a base material,... Agent: Lexyoume Ip Group, Llc

20080220232 - Silicon carbide single crystal, silicon carbide single crystal wafer, and method of production of same: The present invention provides a high resistivity, high quality, large size SiC single crystal, SiC single crystal wafer, and method of production of the same, that is, a silicon carbide single crystal containing uncompensated impurities in an atomic number density of 1×1015/cm3 or more and containing vanadium in an amount... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080220236 - Soft magnetic materials: An article including a monolithic body including iron, cobalt, and nitrogen is provided. The monolithic body includes a matrix phase and a plurality of particles disposed within the matrix phase. The particles include a phase comprising nitrogen.... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080220233 - Synthetic nano-sized crystalline calcium phosphate and method of production: Synthetic nano-sized crystalline calcium phosphate, particularly hydroxyapatite, having a specific surface area in the range of 150 m2/g to 300 m2/g, is described. The nano-sized crystalline calcium phosphate may be in the form of a powder or in the form of a coating on a surface. A method of producing... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080220237 - Three-dimensional structure consisting of natural fibers in the form of matting, panels, hollow bodies, molded parts or the like: Disclosed is a three-dimensional structure (4) consisting of natural fibers in the form of matting, panels, hollow bodies, molded parts or the like, wherein the natural fibers are fibers of the hop plant, particularly the stems (1) of the hop. Hitherto, only the umbellae of hops were used, particularly for... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080220238 - Environmental protection and safety sign pad and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention discloses an environmental protection and safety pad and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method includes: providing a continuously outputted central mesh fabric; coating a soft polymer raw material onto the central mesh fabric according to a predetermined pattern by a plurality of material releasing/flow control systems... Agent: Hsu Tang, Su-tuan

20080220239 - Ink-jet recording medium for dye- or pigment -based ink-jet inks: The present invention is drawn to a method of preparing a porous media substrate, comprising combining metal or semi-metal oxide particulates with a polymeric binder, wherein the metal or semi-metal oxide particulates are associated with at least one water soluble coating formulation additive. At least a portion of the water... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080220240 - Composite article and fabrication method: A refractory metal composite article includes a refractory metal ceramic section and a refractory metal ceramic coating that together form a porous matrix. A solid filler is within pores of the porous matrix to, for example, reduce a porosity of the refractory metal composite article.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20080220241 - Nanoporous filter: A nanoporous filter comprises a porous support having an essentially flat surface on which is deposited a nanoporous layer having a substantially regular pore structure and uniform pore size within the range from 1 to 50 nm.... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20080220242 - Anodic structure and method for manufacturing same: A method for manufacturing an anodic structure includes the steps of: providing a carbon nanotube slurry and a glass structure; applying a carbon nanotube slurry layer onto the glass structure; drying the carbon nanotube slurry layer on the glass structure; applying a phosphor layer on the carbon nanotube slurry layer;... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080220243 - Composition, sintered product of silicon nitride, article of manufacture, and cutting method: A sintered product of silicon nitride includes a crystal phase mainly having silicon nitride crystal grains and an amorphous grain-boundary phase located on the grain boundaries of the silicon nitride crystal grains. The grain-boundary phase contains lanthanum, aluminum, magnesium, silicon, and oxygen. The sintered product described above contains 0.1% by... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080220244 - Supercritical fluids in the formation and modification of nanostructures and nanocomposites: Embodiments of nanostructures and nanocomposites and embodiments of methods for forming and modifying these nanostructures and nanocomposites are disclosed. The methods can include transporting a metal, metallic compound or precursor to a surface of a nanostructure substrate in a carrier while the carrier is in supercritical fluid form. Embodiments of... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080220248 - Corrosion resistant coating based on silicon, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen: The invention relates to a coating comprising a thin film which is intended to protect a corrodible part against corrosion and, to some extent, against wear and friction, said coating essentially comprising a composition containing silicon, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen such that: the atomic hydrogen concentration, measured using the ERDA... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080220247 - Ferroelectric media manufacturing method thereof and information storage device using the same: A ferroelectric medium, a manufacturing method thereof and an information storage device are disclosed. The manufacturing method includes the steps of: forming an electrode layer on a substrate; forming an insulation layer on the electrode; and forming on the insulation layer a ferroelectric layer. Dielectric breakdown does not occur at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080220246 - Optical compensation sheet, process for producing the same, and polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device using the same: A novel optical compensation sheet is disclosed. The sheet comprising a polymer layer formed by coating and drying a solution comprising a polymer compound and a solvent composition comprising 20% by weight or more of water; and an optically anisotropic layer formed on the surface of the polymer layer by... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080220245 - Transparent sealing material for organic el device: The present invention provides a transparent sealant for organic EL element, which is excellent in flexibility and can seal the organic EL element sufficiently, and thus can suppress generation of dark spots thereby capable of enhancing visibility of an image when an organic EL display is produced. The transparent sealant... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080220249 - Adhesive sheet for glass protection and protective film for automobile glass: Disclosed is a pressure sensitive adhesive sheet for glass protection which is excellent in weather resistance, adhesion reliability, transparency and impact resistance. Also disclosed is a protective film for automobile glasses which uses such a pressure sensitive adhesive sheet for glass protection. Specifically disclosed is a pressure sensitive adhesive sheet... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080220250 - Flexible layer composite comprising a support and a layer of curable surface coating composition applied thereto: s

20080220251 - Ultra violet-cured pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or film without supporting substrate: A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or film obtained by curing a UV-curable pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing a UV-curable polymer or oligomer, wherein the UV curing is controlled to give a higher degree of cure to one surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or film than that on the opposite surface and... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080220252 - Double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes for producing lc display having light-reflective and light-absorbing properties: The invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape, intended in particular for producing or bonding optical liquid-crystal data displays, having two PSA layers and at least one carrier sheet, characterized in that the PSA tape has light-reflecting properties on both its top and its bottom faces and at the... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus, Pa

20080220253 - Adhesive sheet: e

20080220254 - Decorative woven fibrous furniture: A decorative woven fibrous furniture includes a framework and a slender body formed of a plurality of stranded core elements made of a natural fiber, then the core elements are enclosed with a protective sheath made of a polymer added with natural fibrous powder. The outer surface of the protective... Agent: Hdsl

20080220255 - Caco3/sio2 nh2o nanocomposite particles and sio2 nh2o hollow-structures nanomaterials and synthesizing method: The invention provides CaCO3/SiO2·nH2O nanocomposite particles and method of producing the same. A template nucleus is used calcium carbonate and the surface of nucleus is encapsulated by a SiO2·nH2O nanolayer. The invention also provides a CaCO3/SiO2·nH2O nanocomposite particles having hollow structure, in which n=0-2. The nanocomposite particles according to the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080220256 - Methods of coating carbon/carbon composite structures: Embodiments of a method of preparing a coated C/C composite structure comprises the steps of: providing a C/C composite structure; applying a silicon based composition over the C/C composite structure by physical vapor deposition; forming a first layer comprising silicon carbide over the C/C composite by annealing the silicon based... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080220257 - Substrate coated with a layered structure comprising a tetrahedral carbon layer and a softer outer layer: The invention relates to a metal substrate coated at least partially with a layered structure. The layered structure comprises an intermediate layer deposited on the metal substrate and an amorphous carbon layer deposited on the intermediate layer. The amorphous carbon layer has a Young's modulus lower than 200 GPa. The... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080220258 - Helical substituted polyacetylene structure, method for producing the same, device structure, ion transport film and gas separation film: A helical substituted polyacetylene structure including a substrate and a substituted polyacetylene with a periodic main chain having a helical periodic structure, wherein the substituted polyacetylene is disposed inclined on the surface of the substrate with the inclination angle between the main helical axis of the substituted polyacetylene and the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080220259 - Adhereable, pre-fabricated, self-healing, anti-puncture coating for liquid container: A bulk, generally elastomeric and pliable, layered mat formed to permit selective trimming into size-chosen mat trims/tiles, each of which is structured to perform as a self-puncture(wound)-sealing, defined-liquid-reactive, anti-puncture-leakage coating element applicable bondedly to the outside surface of a selected wall in a container holding the defined-liquid. The mat is... Agent: Robert D. Varitz, P.c.

20080220260 - Light emitting device with a ceramic sialon material: The invention relates to a light emitting device, especially a LED comprising a SiAION material with a transparency of ≧10% to ≦85% for light in the wavelength range from ≧550 nm to ≦1000 nm.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080220261 - Temperable glass coating: The invention relates to a silver low-E coating for glass which is temperable and can be applied by means of sputter processes onto the glass. The individual layers of the coating are cost-effective standard materials. One embodiment of the invention for example is comprised of a glass substrate, an Si3N4... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080220262 - Coating for external device for thermo-optical control of space vehicles, method for forming same by micro-arcs in ionized environment, and device coated with same: The invention concerns a coating produced by conversion treatment of an outer surface of a semiconductor metal support component (12) and comprising an inner layer (11) adhering to the support component (12) and accepting differential expansion constraints relative thereto, and an outer layer (19) having low solar absorptivity characteristic α... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080220263 - Finishing material panel for construction material: A finishing material panel for a construction material is disclosed, which comprises an expanded vermiculite of 35˜45 weight % having heat keeping, adiabatic and inflammable functions, a yellow earth of 5˜15 weight % or white earth of 5˜15 weight %, a fibroid component of 5˜15 weight %, water of 30˜40... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080220265 - Cross-linkable iridium complexes and organic light-emitting devices using the same: Organic devices comprising an organic layer, wherein the organic layer is non-electroluminescent and comprises a cross-linked metal complex. The cross-linked metal complex may be formed by cross-linking a cross-linkable iridium complex, which comprises a set of ligands coordinated to a central iridium atom. One or more of the ligands have... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080220264 - Fluorochemical compounds having pendent silyl groups: Fluorochemical silane compounds and coating compositions derived therefrom are described. The compounds and compositions may be used in treating substrates, in particular substrates having a hard surface such as ceramics or glass, to render them water, oil, stain, and soil repellent.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080220266 - Silicone resin composition: A silicone resin composition is provided, which includes an alkenyl group-containing polysiloxane represented by the following average composition formula (PSA(1)), a hydro group-containing polysiloxane represented by the following average composition formula (PSA(2)), two kinds of polysiloxane, both having opposite ends sealed with a vinyl group, which are represented by the... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080220267 - Glyceride compounds and uses thereof: A glyceride compound comprising a first aliphatic group and a first substituent group bonded to said first aliphatic group. The first substituent group has the formula —O(CH2CH2O)nP where n is 1 to 14 and P is a polymerisable group. An aqueous emulsion of the glyceride can be used in an... Agent: Swanson & Bratschun, L.l.c.

20080220268 - Manufacturing cementitious reinforcing support devices: Lightweight trays are fabricated containing a multitude of cavities in shapes for molding dobies for supporting concrete reinforcing, such as rebar. The trays are sized to fit boxes of a convenient size and weight. The trays are also designed in a way that when placed into the box they make... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080220269 - Camouflage material: A camouflage material for use in a snowy environment includes a laminated, extruded polyethylene sheet; an aluminum coating on one surface of the sheet and a layer of nylon on the other surface of the sheet. The resulting white material is reflective to radar and to thermal properties which are... Agent: George A. Seaby Seaby & Associates

20080220270 - Fabricating tall micro structures: A micro structure includes a seed electrode layer on a substrate and a plurality of conductive layers on the seed electrode layer. The combined thickness of the seed electrode layer and the plurality of conductive layers can be more than 0.1 mm and the lateral dimensions of the seed electrode... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080220271 - Use of thermoplastic for the thermal protection of substrates: The invention relates to the use of a thermoplastic composition in a nanostructured form, said composition essentially comprising a grafted copolymer with polyamide blocks, consisting of a polyolefin trunk selected from the maleic ethylene anhydride and maleic alkyl anhydride ethylene (meth)acrylate copolymers, and at least one polyamide graft, for the... Agent: Arkema Inc. Patent Department - 26th Floor

20080220273 - Ethylene/alpha olefins compositions, articles made therefrom and methods for preparing the same: The invention relates to ethylene/α-olefin compositions containing at least one ethylene/α-olefin random interpolymer and at least one polydiene diol-based polyurethane, and where the at least one ethylene/α-olefin interpolymer has a PRR from −6 to 75, and a density less than, or equal to, 0.93 g/cc.... Agent: The Dow Chemical Company

20080220272 - Multilayer film: Use and process for manufacture of a multilayer film with a longitudinal and transverse direction, comprising: (a) a base layer; (b) a coating layer comprising a soluble polymer, pigment and/or dye, wherein the composition and/or concentration of the pigment and/or dye varies in the direction parallel to the film surface;... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Gail C. Silver

20080220274 - Acrylic/thermoplastic olefin composite: The invention relates to a composite consisting of an impact-modified acrylic capstock or film on a thermoplastic olefin (TPO). A tie-layer containing a functionalized olefin-acrylic is used to improve the adhesion of the acrylic layer to the TPO and to improve the overall melt processing of the three-layer composite.... Agent: Arkema Inc. Patent Department - 26th Floor

20080220275 - Water-based one package coat and multilayer coating film-forming method: The invention provides water-based one package coat comprising acrylic resin having specific long chain primary hydroxyl-containing side chains as crosslinking functional groups and a solubility parameter of 9.30-11.20, and blocked polyisocyanate compound having a solubility parameter of 9.00-11.50, the difference ΔSP between the solubility parameter (SP1) of the acrylic resin... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080220276 - Veneered cutting board with resin-impregnated core: A laminate board for use as a cutting board is disclosed having a core made of a resin-impregnated cellulosic material and a first wood veneer bonded to an exterior of the core. A second wood veneer bonded to an exterior of the core opposite the first wood veneer may be... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080220277 - Lignocelluosic material which is low in formaldehyde and method for the production thereof: The invention relates to a lignocellulose material comprising a crosslinkable nitrogen compound, technically a formaldehyde condensate, in crosslinked form in a constituent amount (N) of at least 1% by weight, calculated as nitrogen and based on the total weight of the lignocellulose material, in which the ratio (FA/N) of formaldehyde... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080220278 - High rate electrochemical device: A device and system useful for highly efficient chemical and electrochemical reactions is described. The device comprises a porous electrode and a plurality of suspended nanoparticles diffused within the void volume of the electrode when used within an electrolyte. The device is suitable within a system having a first and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080220279 - Highly charged ion modified oxide device and method of making same: A highly charged ion modified device is provided that includes a first metal layer or layers deposited on a substrate and an insulator layer, deposited on the first metal layer, including a plurality of holes therein produced by irradiation thereof with highly charged ions. The metal of a further metal... Agent: Stites & Harbison Pllc

20080220280 - Defect-free hybrid orientation technology for semiconductor devices: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor material having two crystal orientations. The semiconductor material forms an active area of the device. A device channel is formed on the two crystal orientations, which include a first region formed in a first crystal orientation surface of the semiconductor material, and a second... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20080220281 - Copper alloy plumbing hardware, such as valves and tube couplings, and the treatment method for reducing elution of lead: This invention relates to a plumbing device made of a copper alloy containing nickel salt, that includes a valve and a tube coupling having at least a liquid-contacting part washed with a cleaning fluid incorporating therein nitric acid and hydrochloric acid as an inhibitor under conditions of a temperature and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080220282 - Highly conductive, multi-layer composite precursor composition to fuel cell flow field plate or bipolar plate: This invention provides a moldable, multiple-layer composite composition, which is a precursor to an electrically conductive composite flow field plate or bipolar plate. In one preferred embodiment, the composition comprises a plurality of conductive sheets and a plurality of mixture layers of a curable resin and conductive fillers, wherein (A)... Agent: Bor Z. Jang

20080220283 - Substituted polyacetylene, complex and device structure: A substituted polyacetylene having an organic functional group bondable to the surface of a metal, a metal oxide or an alloy at least one of the polymer terminals, and a device structure having the substituted polyacetylene and two or more independent electrodes. A helical substituted polyacetylene having a helical structure... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080220286 - Dinaphthyl ethylene derivativce, process for preparing it, film prepared from it, and oled including the film: s

20080220284 - Fluorescent substance and plasma display panel: A fluorescent substance comprising a plurality of particles of ZnxSiO4:Mny (1.4≦x<2.0, 0<y≦0.3), wherein a half-band width in a profile of “charge amount vs. number distribution” of the particles measured by a charge amount distribution analyzer is 0.5-2.0 (fC/10 μm).... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080220288 - Light-emitting device, and method for the manufacture thereof: A light-emitting device comprising an anode; a cathode; a light-emitting layer arranged between said anode and said cathode; and a buffer layer, comprising a conducting polymer and a polymeric acid, arranged between said anode and said light-emitting layer, is disclosed. Acidic groups of said polymeric acid have been converted to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080220285 - Novel materials for organic electroluminescent devices: The present invention relates to the improvement of organic electroluminescent devices, in particular blue-emitting devices, by using compounds of the formula (1) as dopants in the emitting layer.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080220287 - White organic illuminating diodes (oleds) based on exciplex double blue fluorescent compounds: and at least one blue light-emitting arylamine derivative as component B, the HOMO energies and LUMO energies of components A and B being different, with the condition that the LUMO energy of component A is higher than the HOMO energy of component B; to a composition comprising at least one... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080220289 - Organic light emitting device and ink composition each using oligofluorene compound and display apparatus: wherein: R1 and R2 each represent an alkyl group, and may be identical to or different from each other, and R1's and R2's by which different fluorene rings are substituted may be identical to or different from each other, provided that at least four substituents of all substituents each represented... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080220290 - Magnetic recording medium and manufacturing method for the same: To provide a magnetic recording medium manufacturing method capable of transferring a pattern that can serve as a source for forming anodized alumina-nanoholes with high precision and realizing high productivity, and a large-capacity magnetic recording medium capable of achieving high density recording. The method includes forming a metallic layer on... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080220291 - Method for preparing magnetic paint and magnetic recording medium comprising the same: A magnetic paint is prepared by a method comprising a surface-treating step for magnetic powder, to obtain a first composition by mixing and stirring a composition which comprises a magnetic powder, a dispersant and/or a binder resin, and an organic solvent, and which contains 40% by weight or less of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080213508 - Color purity improving sheet, optical apparatus, image display, and liquid crystal display: The present invention provides a highly practicable color purity improving sheet that while preventing unevenness in color and brightness from occurring, allows light with an improved color purity to be used for an image display efficiently and can improve color reproducibility of the image display. The color purity improving sheet... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080213507 - Polymer film, process for producing the same, and polarizing plate and liquid crystal display using the same: A polymer film has a coefficient of fluctuation in degree of out-of-plane orientation of a polymer molecular chain in a thickness direction of the film as represented by the following numerical expression (1) as defined herein of from 15% to 80%.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080213509 - Composition for lc alignment film using diamine having dendron side chain: Disclosed herein is an LC aligning agent using diamine having dendron side chains. In detail, the present invention relates to a composition for an LC alignment film which employs diamine having dendron side chains to produce polyamic acid, followed by imidization. When the LC alignment film is applied to a... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080213510 - Liquid crystal aligning agent and liquid crystal alignment layer formed using the same: A liquid crystal aligning agent suitable for use in the production of a liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal aligning agent comprises at least one polymer selected from a polyamic acid and a soluble polyimide, an aprotic polar solvent and monoethylene glycol dimethyl ether or dipropylene glycol... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20080213512 - Method for manufacturing cellulose ester film, and cellulose ester film, optical film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device using the same: A method for manufacturing a cellulose ester film comprising the steps of 1) mixing a cellulose ester exhibiting a water content of not greater than 3.0 weight %, at least one plasticizer selected from the groups A and B in an amount of one to thirty weight % of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080213511 - Optical compensation film, process for producing optical compensation film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device: An optical compensation film with optically biaxial properties, wherein the longer the wavelength is, the larger the wavelength dispersion of a retardation Re in an in-plane direction and a retardation Rth in a thickness direction against light in a visible light region is; the film contains at least one inorganic... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080213513 - Antiglare film: The present invention includes an antiglare film including an antiglare layer which layer includes a silica particle and a binder matrix, wherein refractive index of the silica particle is 1.46-1.50, wherein the silica particle is an amorphous silica which includes an aggregate of fine silica particles, wherein average particle diameter... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080213514 - Display panel including patterned spacer: (wherein each of R1-R5 has the same meaning as defined herein). A photosensitive resin composition for use in a patterned spacer is also disclosed, the composition comprising: (a) a triazine-based photopolymerization initiator represented by the following formula 1; (b) an alkali-soluble photopolymerizable reactive resin binder; (c) a polymerizable compound; and... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080213515 - Backfixing of artificial turf stock material with hotmelts based on amorphous poly-alpha-olefins and/or modified amorphous poly-alpha-olefins: The invention relates to the backfiring of artificial turf stock material with hotmelts based on amorphous poly-α-olefins and/or modified amorphous poly-α-olefins, to a process to production thereof and to the use of hotmelts based on amorphous poly-α-olefins and/or modified amorphous poly-α-olefins for backfixing artificial turf stock material.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080213516 - Method for the creation of color effect images: There is described a method of producing color effect images on a carrier substrate, wherein it is provided that a latent magnetic image comprising magnetic pixels and non-magnetic pixels is produced on a magnetisable printing form, a carrier substrate with a decorative layer applied to the carrier substrate and provided... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080213518 - Ink set, ink-jet recording method, and recorded material: An ink set includes a metallic ink composition containing a metal pigment and at least one curable ink composition selected from the group consisting of a chromatic ink composition, a black ink composition, and a white ink composition.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080213517 - Processing method for the production of amorphous/nanoscale/near nanoscale steel sheet: The present disclosure relates to an iron alloy sheet comprising α-Fe, and/or γ-Fe phases wherein the alloy has a melting point in the range of 800 to 1500° C., a critical cooling rate of less than 105 K/s and structural units in the range of about 150 nm to 1000... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080213519 - Polypropylene film and laminated material thereof: A polypropylene film comprising 70-90 wt. % polymer (a), 2-10 wt. % polymer (b), 2-10 wt. % polymer (c) and 3-20 wt. % polymer (d) and having a haze of 8-30% (wherein the polymer (a) is a block copolymer prepared by producing a polymer part (component a1) by polymerizing in... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20080213520 - Multi-layer film with triple coextrusion film: The invention relates to a multi-layer film with a deriving barrier layer and a plastic layer with reduced electrical resistance, whereby the plastic layer with reduced electrical resistance forms the middle layer of coextrusion film formed from three coextruded layers. The barrier layer is connected to the coextrusion film and... Agent: Bohan Mathers

20080213522 - Coated films: This invention relates to a coated polymeric film for use in a method of wrapping a ream of paper in a packaging film using a high speed, wrapping machine which is provided with tucker plates, the film having a coating on each major surface, each coated surface having a film... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080213521 - Geotechnical articles: A multiphase polymeric material comprises a first rigid continuous phase and a second elastic phase dispersed in the first phase. The multiphase polymeric material may be formed into polymeric strips and used to make a cellular confinement system which is suitable for use in cold areas.... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080213523 - Bacterial toxin adsorbing material, method of removing the toxin by adsorbing, and an adsorber formed by filling the adsorbing material therein: m

20080213524 - Method for making three-dimensional structures on a substrate having micron dimensions, and an article of manufacture three-dimensional objects on a substrate with micron dimensions: A method and article of manufacture for three-dimensional structures having micron dimensions includes coating a substrate with layers of photo resist. Each layer of photo resist is exposed with its own two-dimensional mask defining one slice of an object. Subsequent layers of photo resist are exposed with different patterns. Once... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080213525 - Label comprising a transponder and a system comprising a transponder: This relates to a label to be attached to a surface, the label comprising a transponder. The label comprises a non-adherent flap which contains the transponder. This also relates to a web comprising a backing web and labels, and to a system comprising a surface and a label.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080213526 - High tensile strength adhesive tape: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to adhesive tapes having high tensile strength properties. In particular, embodiments of the present invention relate to adhesive tapes having tensile strength greater than 50 pounds/inch, while maintaining hand tearability characteristics. In one embodiment, a high tensile strength adhesive tape comprises a backing... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon LLC

20080213527 - Release liner and pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet using the same: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet with a release liner has a bubbles containing pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a release liner in contact with at least one surface of the bubbles containing pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The release liner comprises at least three layers including an intermediate layer and surface layers, and the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080213528 - Customized printing with depth effect: A moiré pattern display sheet defined by a surface is described. A first layer has a pattern printed thereon. The pattern includes a series of visual elements in a first row that have been distorted at least in a first direction. The series of visual elements is generated from an... Agent: Kagan Binder, PLLC

20080213529 - System and method for floor covering installation: Connectors for joining adjacent modular floor covering units. Embodiments of the connectors include a film and an adhesive layer coated on one side of the film. The connectors can have a conductive component that allows electrical continuity to be maintained between adjacent tiles. In yet another embodiment, the connectors can... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080213530 - printing blanket for mounting on a rotating supporting cylinder of a printing machine: The invention relates to a printing blanket for mounting on a rotating supporting cylinder of a printing machine. The printing blanket is in the form of a sheet whose ends are configured as leading edges and trailing edges that are adapted for being engaged in an axial fixing gap of... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080213531 - Method for manufacturing a tufted nonwoven fabric, tufted nonwoven fabric, and use thereof: The invention relates to a method for the manufacture and use of a tufted nonwoven fabric, wherein fibers for tufts in tuft backing which deviate from a circular fiber cross section are used which exhibit an adhesive force of greater than 40 mN with respect to a tuft yarn, the... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080213532 - Decorative surface veneer: A process for the manufacture of veneer and a decorative surface veneer that comprises gluing board-like, plane pieces of wood together with an adhesive to form a beam-like block of wood. The humidity content of the beam-like block of wood is increased. Veneer is cut from the beam-like block of... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080213533 - Paper machine clothing: A paper machine clothing includes a reinforcing matrix, which includes a plurality of linear reinforcing elements oriented in at least three different directions and/or non-linear reinforcing elements.... Agent: Todd T. Taylor Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20080213534 - Grained parting lines in mold for foam articles: A multi-section mold and method for molding a foam article. Micro-groove vents are formed in the parting line to expel gases from the mold cavity. Flashing that solidifies in the micro-groove vents takes the form of fringe-like elements. The roof of the mold cavity can be provided with similar micro-groove... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080213535 - Oriented zeolite material and method for producing the same: An oriented zeolite material comprises a plurality of zeolite crystals (2) arranged on a substrate (4), each one of said crystals having a proximal face (6) adjacent to said substrate and a distal face (8) opposed therefrom and substantially parallel to said proximal face. Each one of said crystals has... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080213537 - Floor mat having a retention feature: A floor mat having a first surface, a second surface disposed opposite the first surface; and a V-shaped retention feature. The V-shaped retention feature extends from the second surface and has first and second ramp surfaces disposed at an angle relative to the second surface.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. Intl. Automotive Components Group

20080213536 - Silicon carbide single crystal wafer and method for manufacturing the same: The invention provides a method for manufacturing the silicon carbide single crystal wafer capable of improving the utilization ratio of the bulk silicon carbide single crystal, capable of improving characteristics of the element and capable of improving cleavability, and the silicon carbide single crystal wafer obtained by the manufacturing method.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080213538 - Cushion tennis court surface: A padded surface for tennis courts (adhered over surface foundation such as asphalt or concrete) that includes a soft padding layer including granulated SBR rubber added to a polyurethane elastomer, and a top wear layer with a sand dispersion. The polyurethane elastomer is formed by mixing a first component of... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Attorneys At Law

20080213540 - Floor mat and method of manufacture: A floor mat having a first layer and a second layer. The second layer has a hinge that at least partially separates the second layer into a body section and a flap section. The hinge allows the flap section to be folded relative to the body section.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. Intl. Automotive Components Group

20080213539 - Thin film getter protection: The invention relates to a method of maintaining the optimal properties of a thin film getter (10) in a cavity (8) of a microelectronic device (1), consisting in coating the getter film (10) with a protective film (12) and installing a reaction element (14). According to the invention, an increase... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080213541 - Multi-layer film, injection molded article decorated therewith and process for the production of the decorated injection molded article: The invention concerns multi-layer films for back-molding with a liquid plastic material in an inmold process for the production of a decorated injection molded article of high optical quality and utilitarian suitability, in particular having curved surfaces, wherein the multi-layer film has at least one replication lacquer layer which at... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080213542 - Laser processing of metal nanoparticle/polymer composites: A method of forming articles having closed microchannels includes the steps of providing a substrate including a composite material, the composite having metal nanoparticles dispersed in a polymer matrix. The substrate is irradiated with a laser beam at an intensity and time sufficient to selectively remove the polymer below a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080213543 - Method and device for manufacturing semiconductor compound materials by means of vapour phase epitaxy: A semiconductor compound material, preferably a III-N-bulk crystal or a III-N-layer, is manufactured in a reactor by means of hydride vapour phase epitaxy (HVPE), wherein in a mixture of carrier gases a flow profile represented by local mass flow rates is formed in the reactor. The mixture can carry one... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080213544 - Gap fill materials and bottom anti-reflective coatings comprising hyperbranched polymers: New anti-reflective or fill compositions having improved flow properties are provided. The compositions comprise a dendritic polymer dispersed or dissolved in a solvent system, and preferably a light attenuating compound, a crosslinking agent, and a catalyst. The inventive compositions can be used to protect contact or via holes from degradation... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP Suite 400

20080213545 - Encapsulated panel assemblies and methods for making same: A panel assembly, and method of making it, that includes a substrate and a coating proximate at least one edge of the substrate for defining a coated edge portion, the coating including one or more film forming resins having at least one functional group capable of polymerization; an initiator for... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20080213547 - Composite composition for micropatterned layers having high relaxation ability, high chemical resistance and mechanical stability: A polymerizable composite composition comprising a) a hydrolysate and/or condensate of at least one hydrolysable alkylsilane having at least one alkyl group, at least one hydrolysable arylsilane having at least one aryl group or at least one hydrolysable alkylarylsilane having at least one alkylaryl group, and at least one hydrolysable... Agent: Cahn & Samuels LLP

20080213548 - Ink composition for ink jet recording, recording method, and recorded matter: There is provided an ink composition for ink jet recording, which can yield images having excellent gloss with good color reproduction even on various recording media having a low level of water absorption, especially synthetic paper and printing paper for running-on. The ink composition for ink jet recording comprises a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080213550 - Ink composition, inkjet recording method, printed material, method for producing planographic printing plate, and planographic printing plate: There are provided an ink composition including a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable monomer and a phosphoric acid group-containing polymer having a weight-average molecular weight in a range of 10,000 to 30,000; an inkjet recording method using the ink composition; a printed material recorded by the inkjet recording method; a method... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080213549 - Photoresist composition, coating method thereof, method of forming organic film pattern using the same and display device fabricated thereby: Disclosed herein is a photoresist composition suitable for coating onto a large substrate and having improved coating uniformity to prevent occurrence of stains, a coating method thereof, a method of forming an organic film pattern using the same, and a display device fabricated thereby. The present invention thus provides a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080213546 - Resin sheet having fine decorative patterns and method of producing the same: The present invention is characterized by a resin sheet having fine decorative patterns. The resin sheet is consisted of a transparent resin sheet and a three dimensional cured resin layer laminated thereon, and the decorative patterns are formed on the three dimensional cured resin layer. Any characters and numbers are... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080213551 - Metallization process and product produced thereby: A layered structure produced by metallizing a substrate including: (a) providing a transfer film including film layer and metal layer bonded together by a cured breakaway layer; (b) providing a substrate; (c) applying electron beam curable transfer adhesive to a portion of the substrate; (d) securing the transfer film to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080213552 - Transparent decoratable multilayer film: l

20080213555 - Heat-resistant, light-shielding film, production thereof, and aperture and light intensity adjusting device using the same: The heat-resistant, light-shielding film comprising a heat-resistant resin film base (A) resistant to 200° C. or higher, coated, on one or both sides, with an Ni-base metallic film (B) having a thickness of 50 nm or more by sputtering and then with a low-reflectivity film (C) of Ni-base oxide also... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080213553 - Privacy securing film: The present invention relates to a privacy securing film, and more particularly, to a privacy securing film having a louver film, wherein the louver film is manufactured through a process including the steps of i) alternately laminating and thermo-compressing transparent film layers and opaque adhesive ink layers, and ii) cutting... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080213554 - Protective glove for technical work: The invention relates to means of individual protection for the skin of the hands from the outside aggressive environments, namely, while conducting technical work: remodeling and construction work such as painting; agricultural work, such as gardening or harvesting; servicing a car, etc. The protective glove for conducting technical work is... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080213556 - Materials having predefined morphologies and methods of formation thereof: A material and an associated method of formation. A self-assembling block copolymer that includes a first block species and a second block species respectively characterized by a volume fraction of F1 and F2 with respect to the self-assembling block copolymer is provided. At least one crosslinkable polymer that is miscible... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080213557 - Carbon porous body, method of manufacturing carbon porous body, adsorbent and biomolecular element: There are provided a carbon porous body having a larger pore capacity and a larger specific surface area that can advantageously diffuse the substance it adsorbs into the inside and a method of manufacturing such a carbon porous body. The method of manufacturing a carbon porous body is characterized by... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080213558 - Fluorescent material with semiconductor nanoparticles dispersed therein at high concentration and method for manufacturing such fluorescent material: The present invention provides a thin-film fluorescent material in which semiconductor nanoparticles in a stable condition maintain a high fluorescence quantum yield and can be held at a high concentration in a glass matrix. The present invention also provides optical devices using the thin-film fluorescent material, such as high-brightness displays... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080213559 - Phosphor film and method of producing the phosphor film: A phosphor film high in efficiency and less in luminescence irregularity and a method of producing the phosphor film are provided. The phosphor film includes a zinc sulfide compound containing an additive element(s). The additive element is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Cu and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080213560 - Electrically conductive glass yarn and constructions including same: p

20080213561 - Process for producing polyphenylene sulfide filament yarns: The present invention relates to a process for producing a polyphenylene sulfide multifilament yarn, a polyphenylene sulfide multifilament yarn and the use of a polyphenylene sulfide multifilament yarn. The process for producing a polyphenylene sulfide multifilament yarn is characterized in that only after time period between 0.1 sec and 0.3... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080213562 - Plastic composites using recycled carpet waste and systems and methods of recycling carpet waste: An extruded composite utilized as a building material includes a base polymer, unseparated processed recycled carpet waste, and a filler material, which may be a wood filler or other natural fiber. Carpet waste may be separated into components that may be utilized in a variety of plastics applications, including extruded... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080213564 - Modified porous materials and method of forming the same: Modified porous materials are disclosed having interconnected, complexly shaped three-dimensional surfaces. The modification is accomplished by crosslinking the three-dimensional surfaces or by incorporating, in situ, an inorganic material onto or into three-dimensional surfaces. The porous materials are macro structures including at least one of nano-features, micro-features, and combinations thereof. The... Agent: Julia Church Dierker Dierker & Associates, P.C.

20080213563 - Polypropylene film for electron-beam hardening applications: The invention relates to a Co-extruded, multilayer and biaxially-oriented polypropylene film, which comprises of at least one first sealable covering layer and at least one vacuolate layer, having a thickness of at least 5 μm, is further treated by laminating, pasting, printing, varnishing and/or coating; the result registered as follows:... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080213565 - Conductive polymer foams, method of manufacture, and uses thereof: Articles are disclosed, comprising a polymer foam layer having a first surface and an opposite second surface; a plurality of cells between the first surface and the opposite second surface of the polymer foam layer, wherein the thickness of the polymer foam layer between the first surface and the opposite... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080213566 - Flame laminable hydrophilic ester polyurethane foams: A hydrophilic ester polyurethane foam is flame laminated to a substrate using a thin sacrificial layer, preferably a sacrificial foam layer. The sacrificial layer in the resulting laminate structure has a thickness of 1.5 mm or less, and preferably is substantially burnt away. The resulting laminate exhibits good bond strength... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080213567 - Hetero-junction membrane and method of producing the same: Provided is a hetero-junction membrane including: a first layer comprising first nanoparticles of a first conductive type; and a second layer comprising second nanoparticles of a second conductive type, wherein the first layer and the second layer are joined to each other. The hetero-junction membrane has advantages in that actuating... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080213569 - Film for pressure roller: The invention aims to provide a film for a pressure roller, without requiring an adhesive layer and capable of maintaining or improving conventionally obtained characteristics such as a tensile strength, a tear strength and an excellent releasing property with a recording material. The invention provides a film for a pressure... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080213568 - Polyether polymer matrix: The present invention relates to polyether resins, methods for their manufacture and uses thereof. In one aspect of the invention the polyether resin comprises a plurality of functional groups and is obtained by polymerisation of a mixture of alkoxylated reactive compounds selected from a) alkoxylated compounds having a functionality of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080213570 - Self-assembled conductive deformable films: An apparatus (and a method of making the apparatus) that includes a flexible base material and a flexible conductive material formed on the flexible base material. Both the flexible base material and the flexible conductive material have shrinkable and/or stretchable properties. The flexible base material may include a shrinkable polymer... Agent: Sherr & Nourse, PLLC

20080213571 - Sintered magnesium oxide, and plasma display panel prepared therefrom: The sintered magnesium oxide according to one embodiment has a density of less than 3.5 g/cm3 and an average grain size of about 3 to about 10 μm. A MgO protective layer made from the sintered magnesium oxide reduces a discharge voltage of a plasma display panel, improves its response... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080213574 - Amphiphilic fibers and membranes and processes for preparing them: The present invention relates to the fields of chemistry and biology and more particularly to the field of biomaterials. The present invention includes amphiphilic fibers and membranes, which can be used for biomembranes and biocompatible devices. The present invention also relates to processes for preparing amphiphilic fibers and membranes from... Agent: Latimer, Mayberry & MatthewsIPLaw, LLP

20080213576 - Ceramic slurry composition, method for producing thin green sheet by extrusion, and electronic device fabricated using the green sheet: A ceramic slurry composition includes 20˜50 wt. % of a ceramic powder, 2˜10 wt. % of a polymer having average molecular weight of 400,000 or more, 0.1˜2 wt. % of a polymer having hydrogen bond-forming functional groups, and 40˜75 wt. % of a solvent. If necessary, the ceramic slurry composition... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080213572 - High performance geosynthetic article: Geotechnical article, and process for making it, the article having coefficient of thermal expansion less than about 150 ppm/° C. at ambient; resistance to acidic media greater than polyamide 6 resin and/or resistance to basic media greater than PET resin; resistance to hydrocarbons greater than that of HDPE; creep modulus... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080213575 - Piezoelectric/electrostrictive element: In the manufacture of a laminated piezoelectric/electrostrictive element by lamination of a piezoelectric/electrostrictive film and an electrode film containing either platinum or an alloy composed mainly of platinum and having a thickness of 2.0 μm or less, both or either one of yttrium oxide (Y2O3) and cerium oxide (CeO2) is... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080213573 - Pigmented film with improved aesthetic properties: The present invention provides a pigmented thermoplastic film comprising one or more mineral filler agents at an amount effective to prevent or reduce the occurrence of discolouration when the film is stretched and/or to prevent or reduce the loss of the mechanical properties of the film, such as elasticity, stretchability,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080213577 - Easy tear biaxially stretched polyester based film: The present invention provides an easy-to-tear biaxially-stretched polyester laminate film comprising at least two layers of a layer substantially free of a molecular orientation and a layer having a molecular orientation, which shows a difference (Nx−Ny) between the refractive index Nx in the longitudinal direction and the refractive index Ny... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080213578 - Heat conductive silicone grease composition and cured product thereof: Provided is a heat conductive silicone grease composition, including: an organopolysiloxane containing 2 or more alkenyl groups bonded to silicon atoms within each molecule, an organopolysiloxane with a specific structure and with a kinematic viscosity at 25° C. of 10 to 10,000 mm2/s, an alkoxysilane containing specific substituent groups, an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080213579 - Organic light emitting device having a protective barrier: In an organic light emitting device package including a plurality of layers of materials formed on a substrate the plurality of layers of materials including an organic light emitting layer a protective barrier for protecting the organic light emitting device from environmental degradation the protective barrier comprising a first semi-crystalline... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080213581 - Input device for a man-machine interface: An input device for a man-machine interface includes an upper board and a lower board. Each of the boards provides a plastic based resistant film structure or a glass based resistant film structure. The resistant film structure is formed with a printed silver conductor layer being printed on the surface... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20080213582 - Protective structure for attachment to a surface and method therefor: Embodiments of the invention described herein include a protective structure for protecting a surface, the structure including a substantially planar polymeric member that is substantially free of dioctyl phthalate (DOP), whereby the protective structure more readily adheres to a separate surface. Another embodiment includes a method for attaching a protective... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080213584 - 2-octyl (meth)acrylate adhesive composition: A pressure sensitive adhesive composition comprising a 2-octyl (meth)acrylate/(meth)acrylic acid copolymer is described. The adhesive composition may be derived from renewable resources and provides good peel, shear and high temperature stability.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080213583 - Electrically-conductive laminated film, touch panel electrode plate, touch panel, and pressure-sensitive adhesive for use in electrically-conductive laminated film: An electrically-conductive laminated film of the invention comprises a first transparent substrate having first and second surfaces; an electrically-conductive film comprising a second transparent substrate having first and second surfaces and a transparent electrically-conductive thin layer provided on the first surface of the second transparent substrate; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080213585 - Pressure sensitive adhesive composition for optical members, pressure sensitive adhesive layer for optical members, pressure sensitive adhesive optical member and image display: Provided are a pressure sensitive adhesive composition for optical members and a pressure sensitive adhesive composition for optical members. The pressure sensitive adhesive composition for optical members according to the present invention comprises 100 parts by weight of an acrylic polymer (A) having a weight-average molecular weight of 500,000 or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080213586 - Polysaccharide structures comprising an unsubstituted polysaccharide and processes for making same: Polysaccharides, more particularly, polysaccharide structures, especially fibers, comprising an unsubstituted polysaccharide, webs comprising such polysaccharide structures and processes for making such polysaccharide structures and/or webs are provided.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080213587 - Functionality-latent polyolefin article and process for the production thereof and process for the production of functionality-developed polyolefin article: A functionality-latent polyolefin fiber that is capable of effectively exhibiting a predetermined function such as water repellency by heat treatment and has an oil agent and a function-imparting agent adhering to the surface thereof and that is to be heat-treated whereby the adherence amount of said oil agent is substantially... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080213588 - Synthesis of composite nanofibers for applications in lithium batteries: A uniform composite nanofiber includes a tubular first nanofiber, and a second nanofiber formed inside or outside the first nanofiber. The first nanofiber is first formed within a plurality of nano-scale pores of a template placed on a current collector, and then the second nanofiber is formed on inner or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080213589 - Element wire, electric wire and process for producing element wire: An element wire, an electric wire including the element wire or the element wires, and a process for producing an element wire are provided, by which ductility of a core wire consisting of the element wires can be improved. The element wire is made of metal, at least one element... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080213590 - Invention concerning agricultural active substances: The invention relates to supports consisting of nanoscalar polymer fibres, polymer tubes or hollow fibres for the application and targeted and/or delayed release of ingredients, in particular, agricultural active ingredients. The invention also relates to a method and a device for the production of supports of this type in a... Agent: Clark & Brody

20080213591 - Granules based on pyrogenically prepared silicon dioxide, method for their preparation and use thereof: Whereas a pyrogenic silicon dioxide powder with a BET surface area of 30 to 90 m2/g, a DBP index of 80 or less, a mean aggregate area of less than 25000 nm2 and a mean aggregate circumference of less than 1000 nm, wherein at least 70% of the aggregates have... Agent: Venable LLP

20080213592 - Method of manufacturing silver platelets: The invention provides an aqueous solution-based method for producing nanosized silver platelets, which employs the controlled mixing of a silver ion solution, a reducing solution, and an acidic solution in the presence of palladium ions.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080213593 - Systems and methods for forming fluidic droplets encapsulated in particles such as colloidal particles: The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for forming fluidic droplets comprising particles such as colloidal particles, which may be distributed on the surfaces of the fluidic droplets in some cases, thereby encapsulating the fluidic droplets. The particles at least partially surrounding the fluidic droplet may be colloidal... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080213594 - Laser (230nm) ablatable compositions of electrically conducting polymers made with a perfluoropolymeric acid applications thereof: An aqueous composition including (a) a dispersion of at least one electrically conductive polymer doped with at least one highly-fluorinated acid polymer and (b) a second material which can be a second polymeric acid, an acid salt of the second polymeric acid, or a combination thereof.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080213595 - Surfactant composition having stable hydrophilic character: Hydrophilic surfactant compositions are disclosed that include a surfactant component and a stabilizer component. The surfactant can be coated on a surface by depositing a surfactant solution on at least a portion of the surface, then drying the surfactant solution to form the dry coating. The surfactant compositions, when applied... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080213596 - Photosensitive laminate film for forming top plate portion of precision fine space and method of forming precision fine space: A photosensitive laminate film for forming a top plate portion, which is suitably used for efficiently and inexpensively forming various precision fine spaces, particularly the precision fine spaces formed in an electronic part such as inkjet head, and a method of forming the precision fine space using the photosensitive laminate... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080213597 - Formaldehyde-free adhesives and lignocellulosic composites made from the adhesives: A first variant of an adhesive composition for making a lignocellulosic composite includes soy protein and/or lignin; at least one substantially formaldehyde-free curing agent that includes at least one amine, amide, imine, imide, or nitrogen-containing heterocyclic functional group that can react with at least one functional group of the soy... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080213598 - Materials and processes for coating substrates having heterogeneous surface properties: f

20080213600 - Process for producing sheets (f) bearing a coating (b), the resultant sheets (f), and their use for producing moldings, especially for use in the autombile construction: A process for producing sheets, in which a free-radically crosslinkable coating composition (K) which after crosslinking to completion gives a transparent coating (KE) is applied to a backing sheet (T), a coating (KT), dried but not yet crosslinked to completion, is produced from the coating composition (K), on (KT) a... Agent: Basf Corporation Patent Department

20080213599 - Thermoset siloxane-urethane fouling release coatings: A polymeric material may be prepared by reacting a mixture comprising an amino functional polyorganosiloxane, polyisocyanate, and polyol. The polyol may comprise a hydroxy-functional poly(meth)acrylate. The polymeric material may be used as a coating for a substrate and may inhibit fouling on a surface exposed to aquatic conditions.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080213601 - High-water-repellency and high-slidability coating member, fabrication method for same, and high-water-repellency and high-slidability product using same: A high-water-repellency and high-slidability coating member according to the present invention comprises a base material and a silica coating film made of silica and silane hybrid modified fluororesin, wherein the silica coating film is applied to a surface of the base material.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080213602 - Antireflection film forming composition, anitreflection film and optical device: An antireflection film forming composition, includes: a polymerized product of Compound (I) having m number of RSi(O0.5)3 units, in which m stands for an integer of from 8 to 16, and Rs each independently represents a non-hydrolyzable group, with the proviso that at least two of Rs each represents a... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080213603 - Methods of forming nanostructures on metal-silicide crystallites, and resulting structures and devices: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods of forming nanostructures on non-single crystal substrates, and resulting nanostructures and nanoscale functional devices. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method of forming nanostructures includes forming a multi-layer structure comprising a metallic layer and a silicon layer. The... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080213604 - Organic matrix composite structures and thermal oxidative barrier coating therefor: A tailorable polyimide resin system may be used to form an organic matrix composite (OMC) structure for use in high temperature applications. A thermal oxidative barrier coating on the OMC may include a bond coat comprising a tailorable polyimide resin system. The bond coat may include nano-particles such as clay... Agent: General Electric Company

20080213605 - Multi-functional circuitry substrates and compositions and methods relating thereto: The invention is directed to substrates for electronic circuitry. The substrates of the invention have a first polyimide layer having a functional filler and a second polyimide layer having a functional filler. The first layer is non-identical to the second layer, and a surface of the first layer is in... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080213606 - Thermoplastic transparent resin: A thermoplastic transparent resin which is produced by hydrogenating 70% or more of aromatic double bonds of a copolymer. The copolymer is produced by polymerizing a monomer composition containing at least one (meth)acrylic ester monomer and at least one aromatic vinyl monomer and has a molar ratio (A/B) of from... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080213607 - Antistatic multilayer sheet and production method thereof: The present invention provides a transparency antistatic multilayer sheet prepared by extrusion sheet molding that is favorable in appearance and retains its antistatic action consistently, and a production method of producing a thick antistatic multilayer sheet reliably by extrusion sheet molding, while preventing generation of contamination of the polishing roll... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080213608 - Milled submicron chlorothalonil with narrow particle size distribution, and uses thereof: A method of milling chlorothalonil to form a sub-micron product having a narrow particle size distribution is presented. The milling involves wet milling of the chlorothalonil with high density milling media having a diameter between 0.1 mm and 0.8 mm, preferably between 0.2 mm and 0.7 mm, and a density... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080213609 - Shielding based on metallic nanoparticle compositions and devices and methods thereof: Disclosed are cohesive metallic structures, comprising sintered metallic nanoparticles, suitable for shielding against electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference. Also disclosed are methods for forming such structures. Devices for shielding electromagnetic radiation and methods of shielding electromagnetic radiation using such devices are also provided.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080213610 - Method of manufacturing iron member: An iron member having a coating film on at least part of its surface is manufactured by a step of projecting zinc particles to the surface of a base material made of an iron material to form a base film, and a step of forming a coating film of resin... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080213611 - Porous, non-degradable implant made by powder molding: The exemplary embodiment of the present invention are provided which relate to porous implants and methods for manufacture thereof which use powder molding techniques. For example, a suspension can be provided comprising a plurality of first particles of at least one organic polymer, a plurality of second particles of at... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080213612 - Method of bonding solid materials: Improved methods of bonding solid materials include a step of fabricating a micro-column array (MCA) on at least one surface to be bonded. The MCA formation process can be modified to cause and/or prevent chemical alteration of the surface being treated or to deposit a coating on the surface. In... Agent: Burleson Cooke L.L.P.

20080213613 - Solder precoating method and workpiece for electronic equipment: In the present invention, an excess amount of solder powder is dispersed atop an adhesive applied to a substrate, and then excess solder powder which is not adhered to the adhesive is removed. The surface on with solder powder is dispersed is then stacked on a workpiece to which flux... Agent: Michael Tobias

20080213614 - Honeycomb body with an end-side brazing zone, exhaust-gas treatment component and motor vehicle having a honeycomb body and method for producing a honeycomb body: A honeycomb body includes two opposite end sides, at least one housing and at least one metallic layer forming channels. At least one of the end sides has at least one brazed zone forming a belt-shaped, brazing material-free zone adjacent the housing. A method for producing the honeycomb body, an... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080213615 - Ferrite sheet: A ferrite sheet includes a ferrite sintered body capable of being in direct and sufficiently close contact with a signal cable and has good noise removal properties. The ferrite sheet includes a flexible sheet having a foldable portion, a plurality of ferrite sintered bodies located in a region other than... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080213616 - Door skin, a method of etching a plate, and an etched plate formed therefrom: The present invention relates to a door skin comprising an exterior surface having outer portions lying on a first plane, spaced grooves recessed from the plane of the outer portions, and tonal portions having a planar area and a plurality of spaced depressions recessed from the plane of said planar... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080213617 - Coated articles: This invention relates to articles coated with a thermally sprayed coating of a high purity yttria or ytterbia stabilized zirconia powder, said high purity yttria or ytterbia stabilized zirconia powder comprising from about 0 to about 0.15 weight percent impurity oxides, from about 0 to about 2 weight percent hafnium... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20080213618 - Anodising aluminum alloy: An anodic oxide film is formed on an aluminium or aluminium alloy work piece by forming an anodic oxide film on the work piece by AC electrolysis followed by subjecting the work piece to DC electrolysis. The AC anodizing step may be conducted at a voltage of 5 to 30V... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080213619 - Sports equipment comprising diffused titanium nitride: A method for diffusing titanium and nitride into a sports equipment component. The method generally includes the steps of providing a sports equipment component providing a salt bath which includes sodium dioxide and a salt selected from the group consisting of sodium cyanate and potassium cyanate; dispersing metallic titanium formed... Agent: Eugene M. Cummings, P.C.

20080213621 - Method of forming organic compound layer, method of manufacturing organic el element and organic el element: A method of forming an organic compound layer for producing organic EL element exhibiting high quality and high productivity without increasing cost; a relevant process for producing an organic EL element. There is provided a method of forming an organic compound layer of organic EL element using production apparatus including... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080213622 - Organic electroluminescence element: Provided is an organic EL element in which an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, an emissive layer, an electron transport layer, an electron injection layer, and a cathode are stacked up on top of a substrate. Into at least one of the organic layer—the hole injection... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080213620 - Organic light-emitting device including fluorine-containing compound and carbon-based compound: An organic light-emitting device includes a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; a hole transport layer disposed on the first electrode; an emitting layer disposed on the hole transport layer; and a second electrode disposed on the emitting layer, wherein an organic layer is interposed between the first... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080213624 - Organic electronic device: There is provided an organic electronic device having an anode and a cathode and having organic layers therebetween. The organic layers are, in order: a buffer layer including a conductive polymer and a fluorinated acid polymer; a hole transport layer; a photoactive layer including a dopant material and a host... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080213623 - Synthesis of phenyl-substituted polyfluoroanthenes and the use thereof: The invention relates to a method for producing polyfluoroanthenes containing repeat units of general formula (I), said method consisting of the following steps: a) a monomer fluoroanthene derivative of formula IIa is produced; b) optionally the monomer fluoroanthene derivative of formula IIa is converted into another monomer fluoroanthene derivative of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080213625 - Optical data storage and retrieval based on fluorescent and photochromic components: An optical storage medium 100 has a multilayer structure that includes a photochromic layer 110 having a thermally-stable photochromic compound, and a fluorescent layer 120 having a fluorescent compound. The photochromic compound is transformable between a first form and a second form. The fluorescent compound has an excitation wavelength centered... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080213626 - Method of manufacture of glass substrate for information recording medium, method of manufacture of magnetic recording disk, and magnetic recording disk: A method of manufacture of a glass substrate for a magnetic recording medium, which has both high substrate strength and low alkaline elution, includes an etching process of etching the inner-edge face of a donut-shaped glass substrate having an aluminosilicate composition, formed by removing the center portion of a die-molded... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080213627 - Magnetoresistance effect device and method for manufacturing same, magnetic memory, magnetic head, and magnetic recording apparatus: A magnetoresistance effect device includes: an insulator layer; a first and second ferromagnetic layer laminated to sandwich the insulator layer; a magnetic bias layer laminated with the second ferromagnetic layer; and a connecting section formed discontinuously on a side face of the insulator layer. The connecting section is not interposed... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080213628 - Perpendicular recording media with ta transition layer to improve magnetic and corrosion resistance performances and method of manufacturing the same: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprising a substrate, an underlayer, a Ta-containing seedlayer, a magnetic layer, wherein the underlayer comprises a soft magnetic material and the Ta-containing seedlayer is between the underlayer and the magnetic layer, and a process for improving corrosion resistance of the recording medium and for manufacturing... Agent: Seagate Technology C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080213629 - Perpendicular magnetic recording medium having an interlayer formed from a niwcr alloy: Perpendicular magnetic recording media and methods of fabricating perpendicular magnetic recording media are described. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium of one embodiment includes an interlayer, an underlayer, and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The interlayer is formed from a NiWCr alloy.... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080213630 - Perpendicular magnetic recording medium having a multi-layer interlayer that includes bcc material: Perpendicular magnetic recording media and methods of fabricating perpendicular magnetic recording media are described. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium of one embodiment includes a soft magnetic underlayer (SUL), an interlayer, and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The interlayer comprises a layer formed from a first material (e.g., NiWCr) having a... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP