Stock material or miscellaneous articles inventions 10/08

20080260971 - Liquid-crystalline medium and liquid-crystal display comprising 1,2-difluoroethene compounds: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium comprising 1,2-difluoroethene compounds of the general formula I, in which R1, ring A, Z1, Z2, m, X and L1-6 are as defined in claim 1. The invention also relates to the use of the medium for electro-optical purposes and to displays containing... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20080260970 - Organic electroluminescence device: An organic electroluminescence device having a light emitting layer between an anode and a cathode wherein the device has a layer (L) between said cathode and said light emitting layer so as to contact the cathode, and the layer (L) comprises an organic compound (A) containing an aromatic hydrocarbon ring... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080260972 - Cellulosic substance composition, cellulosic substance film, retardation film, optical compensation film, antireflection film, polarizing plate and image display: A cellulosic substance composition contains a cellulosic substance having an aliphatic acyl group containing a branched structure having from 5 to 30 carbon atoms.... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080260973 - Method for manufacturing cake decorating accessory and the decorating accessory: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a cake decorating accessory and the decorating accessory, which is used in producing a more dramatic and attractive atmosphere at a celebratory event by displaying a congratulatory message using heat. The method includes a step (S100) of preparing a base paper (77),... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080260974 - Artificial turf: An artificial turf has a base layer, a multiplicity of blades fixed to and projecting upward from the base layer, and a mass of infill between the blades and on the base layer. The infill is formed of elongated plastic fibers each having a longitudinally extending inner part of a... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080260975 - Artificial turf: An artificial turf has a base layer and a multiplicity of blades fixed to and projecting upward from the base layer. Each of the blades is formed of an elongated plastic filament having a longitudinally extending inner part of plastic and a longitudinally extending outer part bonded to the inner... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080260976 - Carrier for carrying a packaged chip and handler equipped with the carrier: A carrier for carrying a packaged chip includes a housing having a space into which the packaged chip is placed and at least one guiding hole formed between outside and inside lateral surfaces thereof A moving block moves along the guiding hole and engages with a latch, which is also... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080260977 - Decorative sleeving used in event decorating: Disposable, flexible, decorative sleeving with a consistent diameter and two open ends. The sleeving is adapted to cover a pole, series of poles or other suitable framing used in event decorating.... Agent: Mary Michele Finch

20080260978 - Integral two layer preform, process and apparatus for the production thereof, process for producing a blow-moulded bag-in-container, and bag-in-container thus produced: The invention is an integral two-layer preform for the production of integrally blow-moulded bag-in-containers. The preform has an inner layer and an outer layer, wherein the preform forms a two layer container upon blow-moulding, and wherein the thus obtained inner layer of the container releases from the thus obtained outer... Agent: Levy & Grandinetti

20080260979 - Polyester resin, molded object thereof, and processes for producing these: A polyethylene terephthalate resin which is obtained by melt polymerization at a reduced pressure or in an inert gas atmosphere and has the following properties (A) to (F): (A) the intrinsic viscosity [η] is 0.4-2.5 Dl/g; (B) the content of carboxy groups present at polymer ends is 30 meq/kg or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080260980 - Resinous oil-retaining article and method for production thereof: The present invention provides a porous resinous oil-retaining article, containing lubricating oil, which is excellent in the utilization efficiency of the lubricating oil, has a high mechanical strength, and further allows the resin and the lubricating oil to be combined with each other according to a use and a specification.... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20080260981 - Antistatic silicone rubber mold-making material: An antistatic silicone rubber mold-making material is provided. This mold-making material comprises a silicone rubber composition which is curable by an addition reaction, and which contains an tonically conductive antistatic agent. The article produced by curing this antistatic silicone rubber mold-making material retains the insulator performance and the article exhibits... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080260982 - Sheet to form a protective shield for chips: A sheet to form a protective film for chips includes a release sheet and a protective film forming layer formed on a detachable surface of the release sheet. The protective film forming layer includes a thermosetting and/or energy ray-curable component and a binder polymer component.... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080260983 - Irreversible optical recording medium comprising a track with low raised zones and method for using same: s

20080260984 - Optical informaton recording medium: In a write-once optical information recording medium including a substrate, a groove-shaped track such as a guiding groove, and an optical recording layer containing an organic dye material and disposed on the guiding groove, wherein information is recorded by irradiating a short-wavelength laser beam from a surface of the optical... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080260985 - Information-recording medium: An information-recording medium includes first and second recording layers each of which is formed of a phase-change material containing Bi, Ge, and Te, wherein the first recording layer is arranged nearer to a light-incident side of the laser beam than the second recording layer; a composition of Bi, Ge, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080260986 - System and method for forming a non-linear channel within a molded component: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for forming a non-linear channel through a molded component. The system includes a forming device having a molding chamber, and a malleable core-out pin positioned within the molding chamber. The malleable core-out pin includes at least one curve. Liquid plastic... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20080260987 - Trim part with decor surface: A trim panel includes a decorative surface, one sub-section of which consists of leather. The trim panel consists of a flat support that also covers the sub-section and at least one additional layer on a visible face of the support. In addition, the layer is recessed in the sub-section or... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080260988 - Method for stabilizing a pile fabric such as pile carpet with a reinforcing back and web according to the method: A conventional method for producing pile carpet, e.g. pile carpet whose pile fibers are tufted into a support layer, consists in providing the back side of the support layer with a non-woven and in linking said nonwoven with the support layer and with the dorsal fibers of the pile fibers... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080260989 - Loop material for loop and hook type fastener used in a disposable article or garment: A loop material for a hook and loop type fastener is a composite nonwoven. The composite nonwoven consists of a loop layer, a backing layer, and a plurality of bond regions. The loop layer may be a carded nonwoven of thermoplastic crimped staple fiber. The staple fiber may be between... Agent: Hammer & Associates, P.C.

20080260990 - Nonwoven towel with microsponges: A nonwoven fabric with microsponges containing a nonwoven base containing fibers, having a first side and a second side, and having a weight of greater than about 2 oz/yd2. The nonwoven fabric also contains elongated spaced apart rows of stitches with a stitching yarn, where the stitching yarns form a... Agent: Legal Department (m-495)

20080260991 - Catalyst supporting honeycomb and method of manufacturing the same: A catalyst supporting honeycomb including a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure having a plurality of cells formed in parallel with one another in a longitudinal direction with a cell wall interposed therebetween, and catalyst particles supported on the honeycomb structure. The catalyst particles include an oxide catalyst, an average particle diameter of... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080260992 - Sandwich panel including honeycomb structure body and method of producing the sandwich panel: The height and width of a sheet-like filler material before it is placed in a cell of ahoneycomb material is set greater than those of the honeycomb material, and after the placement, peripheral edges of the honeycomb material are fringed with filler materials to prevent a filler material from falling... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080260993 - Moisture drainage product having limited bearing surface, wall system incorporating such and method therefore: A moisture drainage product and a wall system utilizing such product adapted to allow drainage of moisture from a wall of a structure and a method of draining moisture from a wall structure. A sheet of material forms a plurality of ridges and grooves on opposite sides of the sheet... Agent: Iplm Group, P.A.

20080260994 - Structure for eyeglass parts: The object of the invention is to provide a structure for eyeglass parts which assures excellent connecting strength between the metal core material and the rubber-like elastic material and is free from easy separation of connection surfaces of both materials. Eyeglass parts such as a temple, lens frame, bridge, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080260997 - Anti-dazzling optical laminate: There is provided an anti-dazzling laminate which has anti-dazzling properties, has a high level of transparency by virtue of freedom from a milky-white impression caused by light diffusion, and can realize excellent black color reproducibility and scintillation preventive properties. The anti-dazzling laminate is an optical laminate comprising a light transparent... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080260996 - Apparatus and process for producing a web substrate having indicia disposed thereon and elastic-like behavior imparted thereto: An apparatus for providing a printed and textured web substrate is disclosed. The apparatus has a printing apparatus and an apparatus for imparting elastic-like behavior. The printing apparatus has at least one rotatable ink roller for transferring an ink to the web substrate. The apparatus for imparting elastic-like behavior has... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20080260995 - Ink composition and metallic material: An ink composition having fine metallic copper particles and/or fine copper hydride particles, and fine silver oxide particles or fine metallic silver particles, dispersed in a water-insoluble organic liquid, which composition has a solid content concentration of from 10 to 80 mass % and contains from 5 to 90 parts... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080260998 - Metal-coated textile: An improved metal coated textile and its production method where the coating of metal is deposited onto the textile through sputtering process in thickness between 20 to 2000 angstroms, with less than 5% variance in thickness across the entire length and width of the textile with width up to and... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080260999 - Glass sheet bending station and method for glass sheet bending: A glass sheet bending method for glass sheet bending utilizes a primary actuating mechanism (154) for moving mold support linkages to provide glass sheet bending with a constant radius and utilize control link detachable connections (39) that allow a secondary actuating mechanism (155) to provide bending of a glass sheet... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080261000 - Laminate chair mat: A laminate mat, particularly a chair mat, comprises a wear layer, a decorative layer and a transparent or translucent wear layer. Each of the layers is formed from a plurality of resin impregnated papers. A resin impregnated decal may be interposed between the decorative layer and the wear layer to... Agent: Douglas E. Winters Armstrong World Industries, Inc.

20080261001 - Mounting substrate suitable for use to install surface mount components: Disclosed is a low thermal resistance surface mount component and a mounting substrate bump-connected therewith, capable of removing a soldered low thermal resistance surface mount component from a circuit board without harming the performance of the circuit board or the performance of the low thermal resistance surface mount component. The... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261002 - Reflective camouflage material: A camouflage material comprising a reflective layer disposed beneath a camouflage layer. The camouflage layer includes a plurality of spots forming a camouflage pattern. The camouflage layer is also characterized by the ability of light to transmit through a portion of the camouflage layer and reflect off of the reflective... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080261003 - Improvements in and relating to image articles: c

20080261004 - Textile surface coverings and methods for making them: A surface covering having a decorative show surface and particle backing structure. The show surface is preferably a printed or dyed textile or fabric. The show surface decorative textile is optionally saturated with a protective composition. The backing may be resilient.... Agent: Legal Department (m-495)

20080261005 - Multilayer ceramic electronic component, multilayer ceramic substrate, and method for manufacturing multilayer ceramic electronic component: In a multilayer ceramic electronic component, a pedestal portion is provided on a region of a first main surface of a multilayer ceramic body and includes a non-metallic inorganic powder and a resin so that the pedestal portion is fixed to the first main surface with at least the resin,... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080261006 - Chemically-directed electrostatic self-assembly of materials: A self-assembled article includes a surface comprising an chemical functionality having an immobilized charge; and a plurality of particles assembled on the surface of the core, said particles having a surface comprising an immobilized chemical functionality of a charge opposite that of the core.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080261008 - Anti-reflection film: An anti-reflection film, including: a transparent base film; and an anti-reflection stacked member provided on the hard coating, having, in alternation, a high-refractivity oxide thin film layer and a low-refractivity oxide thin film layer, wherein: an outermost layer of the anti-reflection stacked member is the low-refractivity oxide thin film layer;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080261007 - Post-functionalized roofing granules, and process for preparing same: Roofing granules having a color coating layer are covered with a clear, transparent or translucent outer coating composition including a functional material, such nanoparticles of anatase titanium dioxide.... Agent: Paul And Paul

20080261009 - Organism simulative phantom: Provided is a tissue mimicking phantom technology capable of controlling an ultrasonic echo intensity and hardness and offering excellent stability. A tissue mimicking phantom includes a first portion and a second portion which is incorporated in the first portion and whose hardness and/or ultrasonic echo intensity is different from that... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261011 - Microporous material containing a security feature: Provided is a microporous material, e.g., a microporous sheet material, having a matrix of polyolefin, finely-divided, substantially water insoluble particulate filler, a network of interconnecting pores communicating throughout the microporous material, and at least one retrospectively identifiable taggant material embedded within the matrix, wherein the polyolefin is present in the... Agent: Deborah M. Altman Ppg Industries, Inc.

20080261010 - Polyamide blend film: o

20080261012 - Heat-reflecting adhesive tape: Heat-reflecting adhesive tape (1), preferably for wrapping elongate material such as, more particularly, leads or cable harnesses, having a tapelike backing (2) composed of an assembly comprising at least one first layer (2a), formed by a glass fabric having a basis weight of 30 to 200 g/m2, and at least... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20080261013 - Method for functional coating of basalt fiber and of basalt fiber core twisted yarn, basalt fiber and basalt fiber core twisted yarn by using the method and fabric woven therefrom: Disclosed herein is a method of functionally coating a basalt fiber, including: coating a basalt fiber by passing the basalt fiber through an aqueous fluorine-based solution including 50˜60 wt % of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), 2˜5 wt % of a nonionic surfactant and water at a passing speed of 1˜2 m/minute, the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080261014 - Composite articles comprising protective sheets and related methods: Methods of the invention include those for applying protective sheets to composite articles. According to these methods and resulting composite articles, a protective sheet is applied to at least a portion of an exterior surface formed from a composite material and where protection is desired. At least one exterior surface... Agent: The Griffith Law Firm, A P.C.

20080261015 - Long molded article: The long molded article having a decoration layer of a thermoplastic elastomer and molded by extrusion molding, wherein the decoration layer contains 2 to 10 parts by weight of an OBSH-based foaming agent and 3 to 10 parts by weight of an one or more organic acid salt selected from... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080261016 - Blow molded article with surface skin and method for production thereof: Provided are a blow molded article with a surface skin, which allows the formation of a blow molded article having a desired expansion ratio and retains a required expansion ratio from the time of extruding and is free from the generation of a sink mark or a warp in a... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20080261017 - Hollow fiber membrane and preparing method thereof: The present invention relates to a polyvinylidene difluoride hollow fiber membrane and a method of preparing the same, and more particularly, to an improved polyvinylidene difluoride hollow fiber membrane and a preparation method thereof, in which a spinning solution consisting of polyvinylidene fluoride, alcohol dendrimer and organic solvent is prepared,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080261018 - Articles providing non-magnetic adherence to surfaces: An apparatus comprises a display item having a substantially rigid support piece and a non-magnetic adherence layer comprised of polyvinyl chloride foam configured to adhere to non-ferromagnetic surfaces. Additionally, the apparatus includes an adhesive layer applied between the adherence layer and the support piece of the display item. The adhesive... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080261019 - Pvc/wood composite: The present invention relates to a thermoplastic/natural cellulosic fiber composite, and more specifically to a high molecular weight compatibilizer within that composite resulting in both a high flex strength and high modulus and significant reduction in water absorption. The compatibilizer is preferably a terpolymer comprising: a) 0.5-20 percent by weight... Agent: Arkema Inc. Patent Department - 26th Floor

20080261020 - Adhesive layer for resin and a method of producing a laminate including the adhesive layer: An adhesive layer for resin according to the present invention is formed of copper or a copper alloy for adhering a resin to a layer of copper or a copper alloy. The adhesive layer is formed of a metal layer of a coralloid structure made of an aggregation of a... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080261021 - Coated paper for sheet-fed offset printing: The specification pertains to a single or multiple coated printing sheet in particular but not exclusively for sheet-fed offset printing with an image receptive coating layer on a paper substrate. The printing sheet has the property that it can be printed in an offset printing process without spraying a fine... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261022 - Polyurethane composite, its preparation and use: A polyurethane composite is disclosed comprising rigid polyurethane and foamed thereupon a flexible integral skin (surface pore closed) polyurethane foam, wherein the rigid polyurethane having a density range of 600 kg/m3 to 1200 kg/m3, a Shore A hardness range of 90 to 99, a Shore D hardness range of 40... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080261023 - Crystalline resin sandwich films: A resin composition that is storable at ambient temperatures. The resin composition forms a cured resin when exposed to a curing agent and heated to a curing temperature that is relatively close to ambient temperature. The resin composition includes a crystalline resin component that is sandwiched between two non-crystalline resin... Agent: Hexcel Corporation

20080261024 - Silica-based coating composition and its use for coating cement-bonded objects: The invention relates to a composition comprising a binder, filler particles and water, wherein the binder comprises amorphous silica and a vinyl-functional silicone polymer. The invention also relates to a method of making this composition as well as to a method of coating a substrate comprising applying the composition onto... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080261026 - Element substrate and method of manufacturing the same: A method of manufacturing an element substrate including: forming a release layer on a first support substrate; forming a metal layer having a predetermined pattern on the release layer; applying a sol-gel solution including a material for an inorganic substrate to the first support substrate; removing a solvent from the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080261027 - Engineered self healing cementitious composites: Cementitious composites engineered for self-healing, combining self-controlled tight crack width and extreme tensile ductility. Self-healing takes place automatically at cracked locations without external intervention. In the exemplary embodiment, fiber-reinforced cementitious composites with self-controlled tight crack width less than 50 μm and tensile ductility more than 2% are prepared. Self-healing in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080261025 - Metallic surface enhancement: A method and composition for enhancing corrosion resistance, wear resistance, and contact resistance of a device comprising a copper or copper alloy substrate and at least one metal-based layer on a surface of the substrate. The composition comprises a phosphorus oxide compound selected from the group consisting of a phosphonic... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080261028 - Ablatable elements for making flexographic printing plates: Flexographic printing plates and other relief images can be formed from a laser-ablatable element having a laser-ablatable layer that is at least 20 μm in thickness. The laser-ablatable layer includes a film-forming material that is a laser-laser-ablatable material or the film-forming material has dispersed therein a laser-ablatable material. The laser-ablatable... Agent: Andrew J. Anderson Patent Legal Staff

20080261034 - Electrolytic deposition of coatings for prosthetic metals and alloys: An article coated with an electrolytically deposited bio-compatible composite layer useful as an internal prosthetic device is disclosed. The bio-compatible composite coating that is electrolytically deposited onto the article comprises hydroxyapatite and chitosan. The introduction of chitosan into the crystal matrix of brushite/hydroxyapatite significantly improves the adhesive and chemical and... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080261032 - Method for coating substrates with coating systems containing reactive hydrophobic inorganic fillers:

20080261033 - Motor vehicle component comprising sol-gel coating: The invention relates to a motor vehicle component, particularly a motor vehicle attachment part, preferably a motor vehicle exterior component, particularly preferred a motor vehicle trim component, made of anodized aluminum or an anodized aluminum alloy. The motor vehicle component is provided—at least partially—with a sol-gel coating. The invention further... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080261029 - Non-stick metal product coated by pvd with a hydrophobic metal oxide: A non-stick product is described. It comprises a metal substrate (2), such as steel, with a hydrophobic oxide layer (1) having a substantially amorphous microstructure. The non-stick product is preferably produced by means of PVD. A suitable process to be used is electron beam evaporation (FE). It may be used... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt

20080261030 - Transparent conductive laminate and touch panel therewith: A transparent conductive laminate of the invention comprises: a transparent film substrate; a transparent conductive thin film provided on one side of the transparent film substrate; and a transparent base substrate bonded to another side of the transparent film substrate with a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive layer interposed therebetween, wherein the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080261035 - Transparent substrate coated with at least one thin layer: A transparent glass substrate (1, 1′, 1″) coated with one or more thin layers (6, 16, 28) is disclosed, wherein the thin layer most distant from the glass substrate is a composition comprising silicon nitride, carbonitride, oxynitride or oxycarbonitride, said thin layer most distant from the glass substrate being covered... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261031 - Vehicle antifogging element: The present invention provides a vehicle antifouling element that comprises a layer comprising a p-type semiconductor and a thin film that comprises an n-type semiconductor that is laminated on the surface of the p-type semiconductor layer. The thin film comprises a photocatalytic activity and the film thickness thereof is equal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261036 - Compound flooring and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention relates to a compound flooring material. The compound flooring such as thermoplastic/wood compound flooring is produced by adhering two layers through adhesive cementing. According to an embodiment, a first sheet is a high quality wood veneer and the second sheet is a low foaming, environment friendly, UPVC... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080261037 - Fluoropolymer coated film, process for forming the same, and fluoropolymer liquid composition: A process for forming a multilayer film includes coating a polymeric substrate film with a liquid fluoropolymer coating. The liquid fluoropolymer coating includes a fluoropolymer, solvent, a compatible cross-linkable adhesive polymer, and a cross-linking agent. The process further includes cross-linking the compatible cross-linkable adhesive polymer to form a cross-linked polymer... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080261038 - Adhesive sheet for processing semiconductor substrates: An adhesive sheet for processing semiconductor substrates comprises a UV rays- and/or radiation-transmittable base film and an adhesive layer that undergoes a polymerization curing reaction by means of UV rays and/or radiation, wherein the adhesive layer is formed using a multifunctional acrylate oligomer and/or monomer having a double bond, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261039 - Adhesive sheet and method for manufacturing the same, semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor device: An adhesive sheet comprising a release substrate 10, a substrate film 14, and a first tacky-adhesive layer 12 placed between the release substrate 10 and the substrate film 14, wherein an annular incision D is formed on the release substrate 10 from the surface of the first tacky-adhesive layer 12... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261040 - Artificial rattan: An artificial rattan includes a thread of a plastic material having a base portion extending along the length thereof, and a plurality of wing portions extending along the length thereof and cooperating with the base portion to define at least one recess thereamong. At least one filament of a second... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080261041 - Composite facers, wallboards with protective composite facers and methods of manufacture: Composite facers used for the top and/or bottom facings of wallboard cores, with the facers made from resin impregnated synthetic veils and randomly oriented glass fiber reinforcements, wallboard made with the composite facers, and methods of manufacture of the facers and of the wallboard.... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20080261042 - Fiber reinforced rebar: A composite reinforcing bar is formed by providing a reinforcing material supply of fiber strands rovings; a resin supply bath, and a puller for pulling the resin-impregnated reinforcing material through the resin bath. The reinforcing fibers include a series of inner rovings longitudinal to the bar with a first and... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20080261043 - Method for producing nanofibres and mesofibres by the electrospinning of colloidal dispersions: Processes for forming polymer fibers, comprising: (a) providing a colloidal dispersion of at least one essentially water-insoluble polymer in an aqueous medium; and (b) electrospinning the colloidal dispersion; polymer fibers prepared by such processes; and colloidal dispersions comprising: at least one essentially water-insoluble polymer in an aqueous medium; and at... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080261044 - Rapidly self-assembled thin films and functional decals: The present invention relates to methodologies for the self-assembly of nanoparticles onto a release support that is capable of covalent integration into flexible free-standing films. Such films display useful constitutive properties, such as permittivity, permeability, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and nonlinear optic properties. The type of property is dependant upon... Agent: Jennifer Hoyt Lalli

20080261045 - Composite and layered particles for efficient delivery of polyelectrolytes: The invention provides a method of making composite particles for efficient delivery of polyelectrolytes to a target. Composite particles are made by two methods: 1) by first forming disperse polyelectrolyte condensates, by mixing the polyelectrolyte with a condensing agent, and then combining the disperse polyelectrolyte condensates with particles so that... Agent: Dr. David Schultz, Seashell Technology LLC

20080261047 - Coating device and coating method: A coating device (10), comprising coating liquid supply means (15) for supplying a coating liquid and coating means (18) for forming a coating film having a predetermined film thickness on a continuously conveyed band-like support body (16) at a location apart by a predetermined distance from the coating liquid supply... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261046 - Method for producing molded bodies from thermoplastic material: The invention makes possible the one-step production of molded bodies (1) of different types out of thermoplastic material with or without reinforcing fibers. For this purpose, a tool with a lower and an upper shell mold (10a, 10b), which form defined surfaces on both sides, is utilized. The shell molds... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080261048 - Laminating adhesive for retort pouches: A method for producing a two-component bonding agent composition. The method uses a mixture whose first component contains: (i) 50 to 98 wt % of a hydroxy-terminated polyester having a hydroxyl number from 50 to 350 and hydroxyl functionality from 2 to 3; (ii) 1 to 30 wt % of... Agent: Rohm And Haas Company Patent Department

20080261049 - Electroconductive paste and substrate using the same for mounting electronic parts: The conductive paste of the invention comprises a conductive powder and a binder component, wherein the conductive powder is composed of metal powder which is copper powder or copper alloy powder partially covered on the surface with silver, and is either a mixture of roughly spherical metal powder and flat... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261051 - Electrically conductive ptfe tape: The present invention is directed to a fluoropolymer tape having an electrically conductive surface. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) tape and method for producing an electrically conductive tape by blending vapor-grown carbon fiber or carbon nanotubes or combinations of both with PTFE.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080261050 - Multilayer fluoropolymer films: The invention relates to a multi-layer film having at least one fluoropolymer layer, useful for high-purity contact applications. Preferably the fluoropolymer layer(s) are polyvinylidene fluoride polymers and copolymers.... Agent: Arkema Inc. Patent Department - 26th Floor

20080261052 - Coated substrates and polymer dispersions suitable for use in making the same: A coated substrate comprises a substrate and a coating on at least one surface of the substrate. The coating comprises a prepolymer, polymer, or resin produced, for example, by the reaction of (i) an isocyanate (e.g., a polyisocyanate), (ii) an active hydrogen-terminated colorant, and optionally (iii) at least one reactant... Agent: Lagal Department (m-495)

20080261053 - Abrasion-resistant and scratch-resistant coatings having a low index of refraction on a substrate: c

20080261054 - Methods of fabricating glass-based substrates and apparatus employing same: Methods and apparatus provide for a glass or glass ceramic substrate, comprising: a bulk layer; an enhanced positive ion concentration layer; and a reduced positive ion concentration layer, wherein the enhanced positive ion concentration layer contains substantially all modifier positive ions from the reduced positive ion concentration layer as a... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20080261055 - Preparation of high quality strained-semiconductor directly-on-insulator substrates: A method for achieving a substantially defect free SGOI substrate which includes a SiGe layer that has a high Ge content of greater than about 25 atomic % using a low temperature wafer bonding technique is described. Similarly, a method for forming thin to ultra-thin strain Si, SiC, or SiC/Si... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080261057 - Bezelless display system: A display system is provided including a display assembly with a display region of a first size, an overlay having a first substantially transparent section corresponding to the size of the display region of the display assembly and a second customized section extending beyond the first substantially transparent section, and... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080261056 - Photocatalytic substrate active under a visible light: The invention relates to a substrate provided with a mechanically resistant, long-lasting coating, and suitable for being handled by a user. Said substrate is characterised in that the coating comprises a first photocatalytic compound which is intimately associated with a second compound containing an energy jump between the upper level... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261058 - Coated cutting tool, cutting member or wear part: A coated metal substrate has at least one layer of titanium based hard material alloyed with at least one alloying element selected from the list of chromium, vanadium and silicon. The total quantity of alloying elements is between 1% and 50% of the metal content, the layer having a general... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080261059 - Clad textured metal substrate for forming epitaxial thin film thereon and method for manufacturing the same: The present invention provides an oriented substrate for forming an epitaxial thin film thereon, which has a more excellent orientation than that of a conventional one and a high strength, and a method for manufacturing the same. A clad textured metal substrate for forming the epitaxial thin film thereon according... Agent: Roberts & Roberts, LLP Attorneys At Law

20080261060 - Process for producing polyimide film, and polyimide film: A solution containing a polyamic acid oligomer having at least one terminal alkoxysilyl group is applied to one side or both sides of a self-supporting film of a polyimide precursor solution, and then the self-supporting film is heated to effect imidization, thereby providing a polyimide film with reliably improved adhesiveness.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080261061 - Laminated film and its manufacture: This invention relates to a laminated film for packaging food comprising a heat-resistant substrate layer, an elusion barrier layer and a sealant substrate layer arranged in this order, wherein said substrate of the heat-resistant substrate layer is polyester or polyamide, said elusion barrier layer does not pass decomposition products of... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080261062 - Facilatated dispersion of nanofillers for the preparation of nanocomposites: Compositions of thermoplastic polyesters and sepiolite-type clay in which the clay is dispersed in the polyester as often fibrous particles whose smallest dimension is less than 100 nm are made by polymerizing the polyester precursors in the presence of the clay. The compositions have good physical properties and can be... Agent: Jarnholm, Arne R. E.i. Du Pont De Nemours And Company

20080261063 - Resin-coated metal sheet: The resin-coated metal sheet has: a metal sheet; a lower polyester resin layer having 0.03 or smaller plane orientation factor and 5 to 20 μm of thickness, being formed on at least one side of the metal sheet; and an upper polyester resin layer containing 0.1 to 5% by mass... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20080261064 - Extrusion coating polyethylene: A polymer composition for extrusion coating with good process properties comprising a multimodal high density polyethylene (A) and a low density polyethylene.... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20080261065 - Resin welded body and manufacturing method thereof: A resin welded body where a first resin part that is absorbent with respect to laser light and a second resin part that is transparent with respect to laser light are fitted together and the laser light is emitted to a predetermined position from the side of the second resin... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261066 - Fabricating a contact rhodium structure by electroplating and electroplating composition: A contact rhodium structure is fabricated by a process that comprises obtaining a substrate having a dielectric layer thereon, wherein the dielectric layer has cavities therein into which the contact rhodium is to be deposited; depositing a seed layer in the cavities and on the dielectric layer; and depositing the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080261067 - Metallic composite material: c

20080261068 - Honeycomb body for an exhaust gas treatment unit: A honeycomb body for an exhaust treatment unit has at least one honeycomb structure and a least one housing, which at least partially surrounds the at least one honeycomb structure. At least one region between the honeycomb structure and the housing is formed with a brazed joint and at least... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080261069 - High temperature component with thermal barrier coating: A ceramic top coat is formed over a heat resistant alloy including Ni as a main component through a bond coat which contains Ni essentially as a main component, Cr, and Al. The alloy for the bond coat can include Si in the range from 0 to 10 wt. %.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261070 - Amorphous semiconducting and conducting transparent metal oxide thin films and production thereof: Metal oxide thin films and production thereof are disclosed. An exemplary method of producing a metal oxide thin film may comprise introducing at least two metallic elements and oxygen into a process chamber to form a metal oxide. The method may also comprise depositing the metal oxide on a substrate... Agent: Paul J White, Patent Counsel National Renewable Energy Laboratory (nrel)

20080261071 - Preserving solderability and inhibiting whisker growth in tin surfaces of electronic components: A method for reducing whisker formation and preserving solderability in tin coatings over metal features of electronic components. The tin coating has internal tensile stress and is between about 0.5 m and about 4.0 m in thickness. There is a nickel-based layer under the tin coating.... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080261072 - Clad textured metal substrate for forming epitaxial thin film thereon and method for manufacturing the same: The present invention provides an oriented substrate for forming an epitaxial thin film thereon, which has a more excellent orientation than that of a conventional one and a high strength, and a method for manufacturing the same. The present invention provides a clad textured metal substrate for forming the epitaxial... Agent: Roberts & Roberts, LLP Attorneys At Law

20080261073 - Coating suitable for use as a bondcoat in a thermal barrier coating system: A coating suitable for use as a bondcoat for a thermal barrier coating system includes about 5 to about 10 weight percent of aluminum (Al), about 10 to about 18 weight percent of cobalt (Co), about 4 to about 8 weight percent of chromium (Cr), about 0 to about 1... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080261074 - Structure for preventing peeling of reaction product, process for its production and process for the production of a semiconductor device using the structure: The peeling of a reaction product deposition film 50 is prevented, reducing the particle contamination of a material to be treated 16 by roughening the surfaces (adhesion preventing surfaces) of an outer liner 40 and inner liner 42 both made of aluminum installed as an adhesion preventing plate inside a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080261075 - Light emitting element, light emitting device, and electronic device: The present invention provides a light emitting element which includes an electron transporting layer and a hole transporting layer between an anode and a cathode, and a first layer and a second layer between the electron transporting layer and the hole transporting layer, wherein the first layer includes a first... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20080261076 - Phosphorescent materials: Phosphorescent materials and devices with high device efficiency, stability, and processibility.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080261077 - Paste composition, display device including the same, and associated methods: A paste composition for an electrode includes a conductive material, a colored glass frit, the glass frit exhibiting a blackness (L*) value of about 85 or less, a binder, and a solvent.... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080261078 - Perpendicular magnetic recording exchange-spring type medium with a lateral coupling layer for increasing intergranular exchange coupling in the lower magnetic layer: A perpendicular magnetic recording system and medium has a multilayered recording layer that includes an exchange-spring structure and a ferromagnetic lateral coupling layer (LCL). The exchange-spring structure is made up of two ferromagnetically exchange-coupled magnetic layers (MAG1 and MAG2), each with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. MAG1 and MAG2 may have a... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20080261079 - Thin film device and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention relates to a thin-film device whose bump has an improved surface property. A thin-film element of the thin-film device includes at least one of an electromagnetic conversion element, a passive element and an active element. A lead conductor film containing Cu as a main component is connected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261080 - Longitudinal magnetic recording medium: A magnetic recording medium includes as formed on a non-magnetic substrate, a seed layer, an underlayer of a bcc structure-having Cr alloy, an interlayer of an hcp structure-having Ru alloy, a lower recording layer of a Co—Cr—Pt—B base alloy, an upper recording layer having the same alloying base components as... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080261081 - Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and method of manufacturing the same: Provided is a perpendicular magnetic recording medium and a method of manufacturing the same. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a buffer layer formed on the substrate, a soft magnetic underlayer formed on the buffer layer, and a recording layer formed on the soft magnetic underlayer.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261082 - Tunneling magnetoresistive element including multilayer free magnetic layer having inserted nonmagnetic metal sublayer: A tunnel magnetoresistive element includes a laminate including a pinned magnetic layer, an insulating barrier layer, and a free magnetic layer. The insulating barrier layer is composed of Ti—Mg—O or Ti—O. The free magnetic layer includes an enhancement sublayer, a first soft magnetic sublayer, a nonmagnetic metal sublayer, and a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080260971 - Liquid-crystalline medium and liquid-crystal display comprising 1,2-difluoroethene compounds: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium comprising 1,2-difluoroethene compounds of the general formula I, in which R1, ring A, Z1, Z2, m, X and L1-6 are as defined in claim 1. The invention also relates to the use of the medium for electro-optical purposes and to displays containing... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20080260970 - Organic electroluminescence device: An organic electroluminescence device having a light emitting layer between an anode and a cathode wherein the device has a layer (L) between said cathode and said light emitting layer so as to contact the cathode, and the layer (L) comprises an organic compound (A) containing an aromatic hydrocarbon ring... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080260972 - Cellulosic substance composition, cellulosic substance film, retardation film, optical compensation film, antireflection film, polarizing plate and image display: A cellulosic substance composition contains a cellulosic substance having an aliphatic acyl group containing a branched structure having from 5 to 30 carbon atoms.... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080260973 - Method for manufacturing cake decorating accessory and the decorating accessory: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a cake decorating accessory and the decorating accessory, which is used in producing a more dramatic and attractive atmosphere at a celebratory event by displaying a congratulatory message using heat. The method includes a step (S100) of preparing a base paper (77),... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080260974 - Artificial turf: An artificial turf has a base layer, a multiplicity of blades fixed to and projecting upward from the base layer, and a mass of infill between the blades and on the base layer. The infill is formed of elongated plastic fibers each having a longitudinally extending inner part of a... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080260975 - Artificial turf: An artificial turf has a base layer and a multiplicity of blades fixed to and projecting upward from the base layer. Each of the blades is formed of an elongated plastic filament having a longitudinally extending inner part of plastic and a longitudinally extending outer part bonded to the inner... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080260976 - Carrier for carrying a packaged chip and handler equipped with the carrier: A carrier for carrying a packaged chip includes a housing having a space into which the packaged chip is placed and at least one guiding hole formed between outside and inside lateral surfaces thereof A moving block moves along the guiding hole and engages with a latch, which is also... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080260977 - Decorative sleeving used in event decorating: Disposable, flexible, decorative sleeving with a consistent diameter and two open ends. The sleeving is adapted to cover a pole, series of poles or other suitable framing used in event decorating.... Agent: Mary Michele Finch

20080260978 - Integral two layer preform, process and apparatus for the production thereof, process for producing a blow-moulded bag-in-container, and bag-in-container thus produced: The invention is an integral two-layer preform for the production of integrally blow-moulded bag-in-containers. The preform has an inner layer and an outer layer, wherein the preform forms a two layer container upon blow-moulding, and wherein the thus obtained inner layer of the container releases from the thus obtained outer... Agent: Levy & Grandinetti

20080260979 - Polyester resin, molded object thereof, and processes for producing these: A polyethylene terephthalate resin which is obtained by melt polymerization at a reduced pressure or in an inert gas atmosphere and has the following properties (A) to (F): (A) the intrinsic viscosity [η] is 0.4-2.5 Dl/g; (B) the content of carboxy groups present at polymer ends is 30 meq/kg or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080260980 - Resinous oil-retaining article and method for production thereof: The present invention provides a porous resinous oil-retaining article, containing lubricating oil, which is excellent in the utilization efficiency of the lubricating oil, has a high mechanical strength, and further allows the resin and the lubricating oil to be combined with each other according to a use and a specification.... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20080260981 - Antistatic silicone rubber mold-making material: An antistatic silicone rubber mold-making material is provided. This mold-making material comprises a silicone rubber composition which is curable by an addition reaction, and which contains an tonically conductive antistatic agent. The article produced by curing this antistatic silicone rubber mold-making material retains the insulator performance and the article exhibits... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080260982 - Sheet to form a protective shield for chips: A sheet to form a protective film for chips includes a release sheet and a protective film forming layer formed on a detachable surface of the release sheet. The protective film forming layer includes a thermosetting and/or energy ray-curable component and a binder polymer component.... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080260983 - Irreversible optical recording medium comprising a track with low raised zones and method for using same: s

20080260984 - Optical informaton recording medium: In a write-once optical information recording medium including a substrate, a groove-shaped track such as a guiding groove, and an optical recording layer containing an organic dye material and disposed on the guiding groove, wherein information is recorded by irradiating a short-wavelength laser beam from a surface of the optical... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080260985 - Information-recording medium: An information-recording medium includes first and second recording layers each of which is formed of a phase-change material containing Bi, Ge, and Te, wherein the first recording layer is arranged nearer to a light-incident side of the laser beam than the second recording layer; a composition of Bi, Ge, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080260986 - System and method for forming a non-linear channel within a molded component: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for forming a non-linear channel through a molded component. The system includes a forming device having a molding chamber, and a malleable core-out pin positioned within the molding chamber. The malleable core-out pin includes at least one curve. Liquid plastic... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20080260987 - Trim part with decor surface: A trim panel includes a decorative surface, one sub-section of which consists of leather. The trim panel consists of a flat support that also covers the sub-section and at least one additional layer on a visible face of the support. In addition, the layer is recessed in the sub-section or... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080260988 - Method for stabilizing a pile fabric such as pile carpet with a reinforcing back and web according to the method: A conventional method for producing pile carpet, e.g. pile carpet whose pile fibers are tufted into a support layer, consists in providing the back side of the support layer with a non-woven and in linking said nonwoven with the support layer and with the dorsal fibers of the pile fibers... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080260989 - Loop material for loop and hook type fastener used in a disposable article or garment: A loop material for a hook and loop type fastener is a composite nonwoven. The composite nonwoven consists of a loop layer, a backing layer, and a plurality of bond regions. The loop layer may be a carded nonwoven of thermoplastic crimped staple fiber. The staple fiber may be between... Agent: Hammer & Associates, P.C.

20080260990 - Nonwoven towel with microsponges: A nonwoven fabric with microsponges containing a nonwoven base containing fibers, having a first side and a second side, and having a weight of greater than about 2 oz/yd2. The nonwoven fabric also contains elongated spaced apart rows of stitches with a stitching yarn, where the stitching yarns form a... Agent: Legal Department (m-495)

20080260991 - Catalyst supporting honeycomb and method of manufacturing the same: A catalyst supporting honeycomb including a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure having a plurality of cells formed in parallel with one another in a longitudinal direction with a cell wall interposed therebetween, and catalyst particles supported on the honeycomb structure. The catalyst particles include an oxide catalyst, an average particle diameter of... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080260992 - Sandwich panel including honeycomb structure body and method of producing the sandwich panel: The height and width of a sheet-like filler material before it is placed in a cell of ahoneycomb material is set greater than those of the honeycomb material, and after the placement, peripheral edges of the honeycomb material are fringed with filler materials to prevent a filler material from falling... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080260993 - Moisture drainage product having limited bearing surface, wall system incorporating such and method therefore: A moisture drainage product and a wall system utilizing such product adapted to allow drainage of moisture from a wall of a structure and a method of draining moisture from a wall structure. A sheet of material forms a plurality of ridges and grooves on opposite sides of the sheet... Agent: Iplm Group, P.A.

20080260994 - Structure for eyeglass parts: The object of the invention is to provide a structure for eyeglass parts which assures excellent connecting strength between the metal core material and the rubber-like elastic material and is free from easy separation of connection surfaces of both materials. Eyeglass parts such as a temple, lens frame, bridge, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080260997 - Anti-dazzling optical laminate: There is provided an anti-dazzling laminate which has anti-dazzling properties, has a high level of transparency by virtue of freedom from a milky-white impression caused by light diffusion, and can realize excellent black color reproducibility and scintillation preventive properties. The anti-dazzling laminate is an optical laminate comprising a light transparent... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080260996 - Apparatus and process for producing a web substrate having indicia disposed thereon and elastic-like behavior imparted thereto: An apparatus for providing a printed and textured web substrate is disclosed. The apparatus has a printing apparatus and an apparatus for imparting elastic-like behavior. The printing apparatus has at least one rotatable ink roller for transferring an ink to the web substrate. The apparatus for imparting elastic-like behavior has... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20080260995 - Ink composition and metallic material: An ink composition having fine metallic copper particles and/or fine copper hydride particles, and fine silver oxide particles or fine metallic silver particles, dispersed in a water-insoluble organic liquid, which composition has a solid content concentration of from 10 to 80 mass % and contains from 5 to 90 parts... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080260998 - Metal-coated textile: An improved metal coated textile and its production method where the coating of metal is deposited onto the textile through sputtering process in thickness between 20 to 2000 angstroms, with less than 5% variance in thickness across the entire length and width of the textile with width up to and... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080260999 - Glass sheet bending station and method for glass sheet bending: A glass sheet bending method for glass sheet bending utilizes a primary actuating mechanism (154) for moving mold support linkages to provide glass sheet bending with a constant radius and utilize control link detachable connections (39) that allow a secondary actuating mechanism (155) to provide bending of a glass sheet... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080261000 - Laminate chair mat: A laminate mat, particularly a chair mat, comprises a wear layer, a decorative layer and a transparent or translucent wear layer. Each of the layers is formed from a plurality of resin impregnated papers. A resin impregnated decal may be interposed between the decorative layer and the wear layer to... Agent: Douglas E. Winters Armstrong World Industries, Inc.

20080261001 - Mounting substrate suitable for use to install surface mount components: Disclosed is a low thermal resistance surface mount component and a mounting substrate bump-connected therewith, capable of removing a soldered low thermal resistance surface mount component from a circuit board without harming the performance of the circuit board or the performance of the low thermal resistance surface mount component. The... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261002 - Reflective camouflage material: A camouflage material comprising a reflective layer disposed beneath a camouflage layer. The camouflage layer includes a plurality of spots forming a camouflage pattern. The camouflage layer is also characterized by the ability of light to transmit through a portion of the camouflage layer and reflect off of the reflective... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080261003 - Improvements in and relating to image articles: c

20080261004 - Textile surface coverings and methods for making them: A surface covering having a decorative show surface and particle backing structure. The show surface is preferably a printed or dyed textile or fabric. The show surface decorative textile is optionally saturated with a protective composition. The backing may be resilient.... Agent: Legal Department (m-495)

20080261005 - Multilayer ceramic electronic component, multilayer ceramic substrate, and method for manufacturing multilayer ceramic electronic component: In a multilayer ceramic electronic component, a pedestal portion is provided on a region of a first main surface of a multilayer ceramic body and includes a non-metallic inorganic powder and a resin so that the pedestal portion is fixed to the first main surface with at least the resin,... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080261006 - Chemically-directed electrostatic self-assembly of materials: A self-assembled article includes a surface comprising an chemical functionality having an immobilized charge; and a plurality of particles assembled on the surface of the core, said particles having a surface comprising an immobilized chemical functionality of a charge opposite that of the core.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080261008 - Anti-reflection film: An anti-reflection film, including: a transparent base film; and an anti-reflection stacked member provided on the hard coating, having, in alternation, a high-refractivity oxide thin film layer and a low-refractivity oxide thin film layer, wherein: an outermost layer of the anti-reflection stacked member is the low-refractivity oxide thin film layer;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080261007 - Post-functionalized roofing granules, and process for preparing same: Roofing granules having a color coating layer are covered with a clear, transparent or translucent outer coating composition including a functional material, such nanoparticles of anatase titanium dioxide.... Agent: Paul And Paul

20080261009 - Organism simulative phantom: Provided is a tissue mimicking phantom technology capable of controlling an ultrasonic echo intensity and hardness and offering excellent stability. A tissue mimicking phantom includes a first portion and a second portion which is incorporated in the first portion and whose hardness and/or ultrasonic echo intensity is different from that... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261011 - Microporous material containing a security feature: Provided is a microporous material, e.g., a microporous sheet material, having a matrix of polyolefin, finely-divided, substantially water insoluble particulate filler, a network of interconnecting pores communicating throughout the microporous material, and at least one retrospectively identifiable taggant material embedded within the matrix, wherein the polyolefin is present in the... Agent: Deborah M. Altman Ppg Industries, Inc.

20080261010 - Polyamide blend film: o

20080261012 - Heat-reflecting adhesive tape: Heat-reflecting adhesive tape (1), preferably for wrapping elongate material such as, more particularly, leads or cable harnesses, having a tapelike backing (2) composed of an assembly comprising at least one first layer (2a), formed by a glass fabric having a basis weight of 30 to 200 g/m2, and at least... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20080261013 - Method for functional coating of basalt fiber and of basalt fiber core twisted yarn, basalt fiber and basalt fiber core twisted yarn by using the method and fabric woven therefrom: Disclosed herein is a method of functionally coating a basalt fiber, including: coating a basalt fiber by passing the basalt fiber through an aqueous fluorine-based solution including 50˜60 wt % of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), 2˜5 wt % of a nonionic surfactant and water at a passing speed of 1˜2 m/minute, the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080261014 - Composite articles comprising protective sheets and related methods: Methods of the invention include those for applying protective sheets to composite articles. According to these methods and resulting composite articles, a protective sheet is applied to at least a portion of an exterior surface formed from a composite material and where protection is desired. At least one exterior surface... Agent: The Griffith Law Firm, A P.C.

20080261015 - Long molded article: The long molded article having a decoration layer of a thermoplastic elastomer and molded by extrusion molding, wherein the decoration layer contains 2 to 10 parts by weight of an OBSH-based foaming agent and 3 to 10 parts by weight of an one or more organic acid salt selected from... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080261016 - Blow molded article with surface skin and method for production thereof: Provided are a blow molded article with a surface skin, which allows the formation of a blow molded article having a desired expansion ratio and retains a required expansion ratio from the time of extruding and is free from the generation of a sink mark or a warp in a... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20080261017 - Hollow fiber membrane and preparing method thereof: The present invention relates to a polyvinylidene difluoride hollow fiber membrane and a method of preparing the same, and more particularly, to an improved polyvinylidene difluoride hollow fiber membrane and a preparation method thereof, in which a spinning solution consisting of polyvinylidene fluoride, alcohol dendrimer and organic solvent is prepared,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080261018 - Articles providing non-magnetic adherence to surfaces: An apparatus comprises a display item having a substantially rigid support piece and a non-magnetic adherence layer comprised of polyvinyl chloride foam configured to adhere to non-ferromagnetic surfaces. Additionally, the apparatus includes an adhesive layer applied between the adherence layer and the support piece of the display item. The adhesive... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080261019 - Pvc/wood composite: The present invention relates to a thermoplastic/natural cellulosic fiber composite, and more specifically to a high molecular weight compatibilizer within that composite resulting in both a high flex strength and high modulus and significant reduction in water absorption. The compatibilizer is preferably a terpolymer comprising: a) 0.5-20 percent by weight... Agent: Arkema Inc. Patent Department - 26th Floor

20080261020 - Adhesive layer for resin and a method of producing a laminate including the adhesive layer: An adhesive layer for resin according to the present invention is formed of copper or a copper alloy for adhering a resin to a layer of copper or a copper alloy. The adhesive layer is formed of a metal layer of a coralloid structure made of an aggregation of a... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080261021 - Coated paper for sheet-fed offset printing: The specification pertains to a single or multiple coated printing sheet in particular but not exclusively for sheet-fed offset printing with an image receptive coating layer on a paper substrate. The printing sheet has the property that it can be printed in an offset printing process without spraying a fine... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261022 - Polyurethane composite, its preparation and use: A polyurethane composite is disclosed comprising rigid polyurethane and foamed thereupon a flexible integral skin (surface pore closed) polyurethane foam, wherein the rigid polyurethane having a density range of 600 kg/m3 to 1200 kg/m3, a Shore A hardness range of 90 to 99, a Shore D hardness range of 40... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080261023 - Crystalline resin sandwich films: A resin composition that is storable at ambient temperatures. The resin composition forms a cured resin when exposed to a curing agent and heated to a curing temperature that is relatively close to ambient temperature. The resin composition includes a crystalline resin component that is sandwiched between two non-crystalline resin... Agent: Hexcel Corporation

20080261024 - Silica-based coating composition and its use for coating cement-bonded objects: The invention relates to a composition comprising a binder, filler particles and water, wherein the binder comprises amorphous silica and a vinyl-functional silicone polymer. The invention also relates to a method of making this composition as well as to a method of coating a substrate comprising applying the composition onto... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080261026 - Element substrate and method of manufacturing the same: A method of manufacturing an element substrate including: forming a release layer on a first support substrate; forming a metal layer having a predetermined pattern on the release layer; applying a sol-gel solution including a material for an inorganic substrate to the first support substrate; removing a solvent from the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080261027 - Engineered self healing cementitious composites: Cementitious composites engineered for self-healing, combining self-controlled tight crack width and extreme tensile ductility. Self-healing takes place automatically at cracked locations without external intervention. In the exemplary embodiment, fiber-reinforced cementitious composites with self-controlled tight crack width less than 50 μm and tensile ductility more than 2% are prepared. Self-healing in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080261025 - Metallic surface enhancement: A method and composition for enhancing corrosion resistance, wear resistance, and contact resistance of a device comprising a copper or copper alloy substrate and at least one metal-based layer on a surface of the substrate. The composition comprises a phosphorus oxide compound selected from the group consisting of a phosphonic... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080261028 - Ablatable elements for making flexographic printing plates: Flexographic printing plates and other relief images can be formed from a laser-ablatable element having a laser-ablatable layer that is at least 20 μm in thickness. The laser-ablatable layer includes a film-forming material that is a laser-laser-ablatable material or the film-forming material has dispersed therein a laser-ablatable material. The laser-ablatable... Agent: Andrew J. Anderson Patent Legal Staff

20080261034 - Electrolytic deposition of coatings for prosthetic metals and alloys: An article coated with an electrolytically deposited bio-compatible composite layer useful as an internal prosthetic device is disclosed. The bio-compatible composite coating that is electrolytically deposited onto the article comprises hydroxyapatite and chitosan. The introduction of chitosan into the crystal matrix of brushite/hydroxyapatite significantly improves the adhesive and chemical and... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080261032 - Method for coating substrates with coating systems containing reactive hydrophobic inorganic fillers:

20080261033 - Motor vehicle component comprising sol-gel coating: The invention relates to a motor vehicle component, particularly a motor vehicle attachment part, preferably a motor vehicle exterior component, particularly preferred a motor vehicle trim component, made of anodized aluminum or an anodized aluminum alloy. The motor vehicle component is provided—at least partially—with a sol-gel coating. The invention further... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080261029 - Non-stick metal product coated by pvd with a hydrophobic metal oxide: A non-stick product is described. It comprises a metal substrate (2), such as steel, with a hydrophobic oxide layer (1) having a substantially amorphous microstructure. The non-stick product is preferably produced by means of PVD. A suitable process to be used is electron beam evaporation (FE). It may be used... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt

20080261030 - Transparent conductive laminate and touch panel therewith: A transparent conductive laminate of the invention comprises: a transparent film substrate; a transparent conductive thin film provided on one side of the transparent film substrate; and a transparent base substrate bonded to another side of the transparent film substrate with a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive layer interposed therebetween, wherein the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080261035 - Transparent substrate coated with at least one thin layer: A transparent glass substrate (1, 1′, 1″) coated with one or more thin layers (6, 16, 28) is disclosed, wherein the thin layer most distant from the glass substrate is a composition comprising silicon nitride, carbonitride, oxynitride or oxycarbonitride, said thin layer most distant from the glass substrate being covered... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261031 - Vehicle antifogging element: The present invention provides a vehicle antifouling element that comprises a layer comprising a p-type semiconductor and a thin film that comprises an n-type semiconductor that is laminated on the surface of the p-type semiconductor layer. The thin film comprises a photocatalytic activity and the film thickness thereof is equal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261036 - Compound flooring and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention relates to a compound flooring material. The compound flooring such as thermoplastic/wood compound flooring is produced by adhering two layers through adhesive cementing. According to an embodiment, a first sheet is a high quality wood veneer and the second sheet is a low foaming, environment friendly, UPVC... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080261037 - Fluoropolymer coated film, process for forming the same, and fluoropolymer liquid composition: A process for forming a multilayer film includes coating a polymeric substrate film with a liquid fluoropolymer coating. The liquid fluoropolymer coating includes a fluoropolymer, solvent, a compatible cross-linkable adhesive polymer, and a cross-linking agent. The process further includes cross-linking the compatible cross-linkable adhesive polymer to form a cross-linked polymer... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080261038 - Adhesive sheet for processing semiconductor substrates: An adhesive sheet for processing semiconductor substrates comprises a UV rays- and/or radiation-transmittable base film and an adhesive layer that undergoes a polymerization curing reaction by means of UV rays and/or radiation, wherein the adhesive layer is formed using a multifunctional acrylate oligomer and/or monomer having a double bond, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261039 - Adhesive sheet and method for manufacturing the same, semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor device: An adhesive sheet comprising a release substrate 10, a substrate film 14, and a first tacky-adhesive layer 12 placed between the release substrate 10 and the substrate film 14, wherein an annular incision D is formed on the release substrate 10 from the surface of the first tacky-adhesive layer 12... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261040 - Artificial rattan: An artificial rattan includes a thread of a plastic material having a base portion extending along the length thereof, and a plurality of wing portions extending along the length thereof and cooperating with the base portion to define at least one recess thereamong. At least one filament of a second... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080261041 - Composite facers, wallboards with protective composite facers and methods of manufacture: Composite facers used for the top and/or bottom facings of wallboard cores, with the facers made from resin impregnated synthetic veils and randomly oriented glass fiber reinforcements, wallboard made with the composite facers, and methods of manufacture of the facers and of the wallboard.... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20080261042 - Fiber reinforced rebar: A composite reinforcing bar is formed by providing a reinforcing material supply of fiber strands rovings; a resin supply bath, and a puller for pulling the resin-impregnated reinforcing material through the resin bath. The reinforcing fibers include a series of inner rovings longitudinal to the bar with a first and... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20080261043 - Method for producing nanofibres and mesofibres by the electrospinning of colloidal dispersions: Processes for forming polymer fibers, comprising: (a) providing a colloidal dispersion of at least one essentially water-insoluble polymer in an aqueous medium; and (b) electrospinning the colloidal dispersion; polymer fibers prepared by such processes; and colloidal dispersions comprising: at least one essentially water-insoluble polymer in an aqueous medium; and at... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080261044 - Rapidly self-assembled thin films and functional decals: The present invention relates to methodologies for the self-assembly of nanoparticles onto a release support that is capable of covalent integration into flexible free-standing films. Such films display useful constitutive properties, such as permittivity, permeability, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and nonlinear optic properties. The type of property is dependant upon... Agent: Jennifer Hoyt Lalli

20080261045 - Composite and layered particles for efficient delivery of polyelectrolytes: The invention provides a method of making composite particles for efficient delivery of polyelectrolytes to a target. Composite particles are made by two methods: 1) by first forming disperse polyelectrolyte condensates, by mixing the polyelectrolyte with a condensing agent, and then combining the disperse polyelectrolyte condensates with particles so that... Agent: Dr. David Schultz, Seashell Technology LLC

20080261047 - Coating device and coating method: A coating device (10), comprising coating liquid supply means (15) for supplying a coating liquid and coating means (18) for forming a coating film having a predetermined film thickness on a continuously conveyed band-like support body (16) at a location apart by a predetermined distance from the coating liquid supply... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261046 - Method for producing molded bodies from thermoplastic material: The invention makes possible the one-step production of molded bodies (1) of different types out of thermoplastic material with or without reinforcing fibers. For this purpose, a tool with a lower and an upper shell mold (10a, 10b), which form defined surfaces on both sides, is utilized. The shell molds... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080261048 - Laminating adhesive for retort pouches: A method for producing a two-component bonding agent composition. The method uses a mixture whose first component contains: (i) 50 to 98 wt % of a hydroxy-terminated polyester having a hydroxyl number from 50 to 350 and hydroxyl functionality from 2 to 3; (ii) 1 to 30 wt % of... Agent: Rohm And Haas Company Patent Department

20080261049 - Electroconductive paste and substrate using the same for mounting electronic parts: The conductive paste of the invention comprises a conductive powder and a binder component, wherein the conductive powder is composed of metal powder which is copper powder or copper alloy powder partially covered on the surface with silver, and is either a mixture of roughly spherical metal powder and flat... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261051 - Electrically conductive ptfe tape: The present invention is directed to a fluoropolymer tape having an electrically conductive surface. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) tape and method for producing an electrically conductive tape by blending vapor-grown carbon fiber or carbon nanotubes or combinations of both with PTFE.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080261050 - Multilayer fluoropolymer films: The invention relates to a multi-layer film having at least one fluoropolymer layer, useful for high-purity contact applications. Preferably the fluoropolymer layer(s) are polyvinylidene fluoride polymers and copolymers.... Agent: Arkema Inc. Patent Department - 26th Floor

20080261052 - Coated substrates and polymer dispersions suitable for use in making the same: A coated substrate comprises a substrate and a coating on at least one surface of the substrate. The coating comprises a prepolymer, polymer, or resin produced, for example, by the reaction of (i) an isocyanate (e.g., a polyisocyanate), (ii) an active hydrogen-terminated colorant, and optionally (iii) at least one reactant... Agent: Lagal Department (m-495)

20080261053 - Abrasion-resistant and scratch-resistant coatings having a low index of refraction on a substrate: c

20080261054 - Methods of fabricating glass-based substrates and apparatus employing same: Methods and apparatus provide for a glass or glass ceramic substrate, comprising: a bulk layer; an enhanced positive ion concentration layer; and a reduced positive ion concentration layer, wherein the enhanced positive ion concentration layer contains substantially all modifier positive ions from the reduced positive ion concentration layer as a... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20080261055 - Preparation of high quality strained-semiconductor directly-on-insulator substrates: A method for achieving a substantially defect free SGOI substrate which includes a SiGe layer that has a high Ge content of greater than about 25 atomic % using a low temperature wafer bonding technique is described. Similarly, a method for forming thin to ultra-thin strain Si, SiC, or SiC/Si... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080261057 - Bezelless display system: A display system is provided including a display assembly with a display region of a first size, an overlay having a first substantially transparent section corresponding to the size of the display region of the display assembly and a second customized section extending beyond the first substantially transparent section, and... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080261056 - Photocatalytic substrate active under a visible light: The invention relates to a substrate provided with a mechanically resistant, long-lasting coating, and suitable for being handled by a user. Said substrate is characterised in that the coating comprises a first photocatalytic compound which is intimately associated with a second compound containing an energy jump between the upper level... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261058 - Coated cutting tool, cutting member or wear part: A coated metal substrate has at least one layer of titanium based hard material alloyed with at least one alloying element selected from the list of chromium, vanadium and silicon. The total quantity of alloying elements is between 1% and 50% of the metal content, the layer having a general... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080261059 - Clad textured metal substrate for forming epitaxial thin film thereon and method for manufacturing the same: The present invention provides an oriented substrate for forming an epitaxial thin film thereon, which has a more excellent orientation than that of a conventional one and a high strength, and a method for manufacturing the same. A clad textured metal substrate for forming the epitaxial thin film thereon according... Agent: Roberts & Roberts, LLP Attorneys At Law

20080261060 - Process for producing polyimide film, and polyimide film: A solution containing a polyamic acid oligomer having at least one terminal alkoxysilyl group is applied to one side or both sides of a self-supporting film of a polyimide precursor solution, and then the self-supporting film is heated to effect imidization, thereby providing a polyimide film with reliably improved adhesiveness.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080261061 - Laminated film and its manufacture: This invention relates to a laminated film for packaging food comprising a heat-resistant substrate layer, an elusion barrier layer and a sealant substrate layer arranged in this order, wherein said substrate of the heat-resistant substrate layer is polyester or polyamide, said elusion barrier layer does not pass decomposition products of... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080261062 - Facilatated dispersion of nanofillers for the preparation of nanocomposites: Compositions of thermoplastic polyesters and sepiolite-type clay in which the clay is dispersed in the polyester as often fibrous particles whose smallest dimension is less than 100 nm are made by polymerizing the polyester precursors in the presence of the clay. The compositions have good physical properties and can be... Agent: Jarnholm, Arne R. E.i. Du Pont De Nemours And Company

20080261063 - Resin-coated metal sheet: The resin-coated metal sheet has: a metal sheet; a lower polyester resin layer having 0.03 or smaller plane orientation factor and 5 to 20 μm of thickness, being formed on at least one side of the metal sheet; and an upper polyester resin layer containing 0.1 to 5% by mass... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20080261064 - Extrusion coating polyethylene: A polymer composition for extrusion coating with good process properties comprising a multimodal high density polyethylene (A) and a low density polyethylene.... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20080261065 - Resin welded body and manufacturing method thereof: A resin welded body where a first resin part that is absorbent with respect to laser light and a second resin part that is transparent with respect to laser light are fitted together and the laser light is emitted to a predetermined position from the side of the second resin... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261066 - Fabricating a contact rhodium structure by electroplating and electroplating composition: A contact rhodium structure is fabricated by a process that comprises obtaining a substrate having a dielectric layer thereon, wherein the dielectric layer has cavities therein into which the contact rhodium is to be deposited; depositing a seed layer in the cavities and on the dielectric layer; and depositing the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080261067 - Metallic composite material: c

20080261068 - Honeycomb body for an exhaust gas treatment unit: A honeycomb body for an exhaust treatment unit has at least one honeycomb structure and a least one housing, which at least partially surrounds the at least one honeycomb structure. At least one region between the honeycomb structure and the housing is formed with a brazed joint and at least... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080261069 - High temperature component with thermal barrier coating: A ceramic top coat is formed over a heat resistant alloy including Ni as a main component through a bond coat which contains Ni essentially as a main component, Cr, and Al. The alloy for the bond coat can include Si in the range from 0 to 10 wt. %.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080261070 - Amorphous semiconducting and conducting transparent metal oxide thin films and production thereof: Metal oxide thin films and production thereof are disclosed. An exemplary method of producing a metal oxide thin film may comprise introducing at least two metallic elements and oxygen into a process chamber to form a metal oxide. The method may also comprise depositing the metal oxide on a substrate... Agent: Paul J White, Patent Counsel National Renewable Energy Laboratory (nrel)

20080261071 - Preserving solderability and inhibiting whisker growth in tin surfaces of electronic components: A method for reducing whisker formation and preserving solderability in tin coatings over metal features of electronic components. The tin coating has internal tensile stress and is between about 0.5 m and about 4.0 m in thickness. There is a nickel-based layer under the tin coating.... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080261072 - Clad textured metal substrate for forming epitaxial thin film thereon and method for manufacturing the same: The present invention provides an oriented substrate for forming an epitaxial thin film thereon, which has a more excellent orientation than that of a conventional one and a high strength, and a method for manufacturing the same. The present invention provides a clad textured metal substrate for forming the epitaxial... Agent: Roberts & Roberts, LLP Attorneys At Law

20080261073 - Coating suitable for use as a bondcoat in a thermal barrier coating system: A coating suitable for use as a bondcoat for a thermal barrier coating system includes about 5 to about 10 weight percent of aluminum (Al), about 10 to about 18 weight percent of cobalt (Co), about 4 to about 8 weight percent of chromium (Cr), about 0 to about 1... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080261074 - Structure for preventing peeling of reaction product, process for its production and process for the production of a semiconductor device using the structure: The peeling of a reaction product deposition film 50 is prevented, reducing the particle contamination of a material to be treated 16 by roughening the surfaces (adhesion preventing surfaces) of an outer liner 40 and inner liner 42 both made of aluminum installed as an adhesion preventing plate inside a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080261075 - Light emitting element, light emitting device, and electronic device: The present invention provides a light emitting element which includes an electron transporting layer and a hole transporting layer between an anode and a cathode, and a first layer and a second layer between the electron transporting layer and the hole transporting layer, wherein the first layer includes a first... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20080261076 - Phosphorescent materials: Phosphorescent materials and devices with high device efficiency, stability, and processibility.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080261077 - Paste composition, display device including the same, and associated methods: A paste composition for an electrode includes a conductive material, a colored glass frit, the glass frit exhibiting a blackness (L*) value of about 85 or less, a binder, and a solvent.... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080261078 - Perpendicular magnetic recording exchange-spring type medium with a lateral coupling layer for increasing intergranular exchange coupling in the lower magnetic layer: A perpendicular magnetic recording system and medium has a multilayered recording layer that includes an exchange-spring structure and a ferromagnetic lateral coupling layer (LCL). The exchange-spring structure is made up of two ferromagnetically exchange-coupled magnetic layers (MAG1 and MAG2), each with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. MAG1 and MAG2 may have a... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20080261079 - Thin film device and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention relates to a thin-film device whose bump has an improved surface property. A thin-film element of the thin-film device includes at least one of an electromagnetic conversion element, a passive element and an active element. A lead conductor film containing Cu as a main component is connected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080261080 - Longitudinal magnetic recording medium: A magnetic recording medium includes as formed on a non-magnetic substrate, a seed layer, an underlayer of a bcc structure-having Cr alloy, an interlayer of an hcp structure-having Ru alloy, a lower recording layer of a Co—Cr—Pt—B base alloy, an upper recording layer having the same alloying base components as... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080261081 - Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and method of manufacturing the same: Provided is a perpendicular magnetic recording medium and a method of manufacturing the same. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a buffer layer formed on the substrate, a soft magnetic underlayer formed on the buffer layer, and a recording layer formed on the soft magnetic underlayer.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080261082 - Tunneling magnetoresistive element including multilayer free magnetic layer having inserted nonmagnetic metal sublayer: A tunnel magnetoresistive element includes a laminate including a pinned magnetic layer, an insulating barrier layer, and a free magnetic layer. The insulating barrier layer is composed of Ti—Mg—O or Ti—O. The free magnetic layer includes an enhancement sublayer, a first soft magnetic sublayer, a nonmagnetic metal sublayer, and a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080254236 - Optical cellulose acylate film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device: An optical cellulose acylate film comprising a polymer component which is a cellulose acylate obtained by substituting hydroxyl groups of a cellulose by an acetyl group and an acyl group having 3 or more carbon atoms, wherein a substitution degree A of the acetyl group and a substitution degree B... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080254237 - Polymer film, and optically-compensatory film, polarizer and liquid-crystal display device comprising the same: A polymer film that has an in-plane retardation Re(λ) and a thickness-direction retardation Rth(λ) satisfying formula (i) and (ii), and that further has a surface energy of at least one surface is from 50 mN/m to 80 mN/m: (i) 0≦Re(630)≦10, and |Rth(630)|≦25; and (ii) |Re(400)−Re(700)≦10, and |Rth(400)−Rth(700)|≦35. in the formulae,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080254238 - Method and apparatus for scaled up reproduction of detailed features: Producing a scaled multiple parallax compound lens is accomplished by providing an insect eye having multiple ommitidia and creating a polymer mold of the insect eye. A casting is then created from the polymer mold with an expandable polymer mold. A second casting is then created from the second polymer... Agent: The Boeing Company C/o Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20080254240 - Printable articles including coating/ink-receiving layers and methods of preparation thereof: Printable articles having a single coating/ink receiving layer are disclosed. In addition, printable articles having a single coating/ink receiving layer disposed on the printable article and a second coating layer disposed on the coating/ink receiving layer are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080254241 - Heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet and production method thereof: A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet containing at least one heat insulation layer and at least one receptor layer on a support, wherein said heat insulation layer contains at least one kind of hollow polymer particles and said receptor layer contains at least one latex polymer and at least one water-soluble... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080254239 - Method for preparation of thermally sensitive recording medium: A thermally sensitive recording medium characterized to be superior in writing aptitude, printing aptitude, causes less head debris, possesses good water resistance, causes less sticking and is excellent in preservative stability of developed color in nature environment such as heat, water, humid or light, to sebum when handled with hand,... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080254242 - Method for producing welded resin material and welded resin material: A method for producing a welded resin material contains steps of: superimposing a resin member having transmissibility to laser light and a resin member having absorptivity to laser light to form a contact part where the resin members are in contact with each other; forming a closed space that is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080254243 - Apparatus and method of fabricating a door: A method for fabricating a door having a window, the door having a first door skin and a second door skin, the method including the following steps in the order named: forming a first door light opening perimeter having a first plurality of tabs arranged about the first door light... Agent: Robert C. Atkinson, Esq. Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20080254244 - Textile sleeve for protecting elongate members and method of construction: A textile sleeve for protecting elongate members and method of construction thereof provides a sleeve having a wall constructed at least in part from generally round monofilaments. The sleeve wall provides a central space extending along a longitudinal axis between opposite ends for receipt of the elongate members. The monofilaments... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080254245 - Container constructions: A container, according to various embodiments of the invention, includes a co-extruded, blow molded wall that comprises: (1) a first, inner surface layer, (2) a second, interior layer; and (3) a third layer. In one embodiment, the inner surface layer comprises an extrusion blow-molding-capable grade of PET; the second, interior... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080254246 - Pressure 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 homopolymer fraction, and (B) a second ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, wherein fraction (A) has a lower average molecular weight than fraction (B), and... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080254247 - Heat conductive cured product and making method: A silicone rubber composition comprises (a) an organopolysiloxane having alkenyl radicals, (b) a heat conductive filler, (c) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane, (d) a platinum group metal compound, (e) a reaction regulator, and (f) a silicone resin. A heat conductive cured product is prepared by intimately mixing components (a) to (f), applying the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080254248 - Bonding intermediate for silicone coated textile: Bonding intermediate between two textiles each having a coating layer of silicone-based polymer, the said intermediate comprising a composition based on a non-crosslinked silicone elastomer, and a release film positioned on a first side of the said intermediate, characterized in that it has the shape of a planar rectilinear section... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080254249 - Work subject material, surface protection sheet and method of working: A work subject material comprising a metal plate for use in punching and/or bending and, attached thereto, a surface protection sheet, characterized in that the surface protection sheet comprises a support base material and an adhesive layer superimposed on one surface of the support base material and that the surface... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080254250 - Image recording media and image layers: Imaging layers, image recording media, and methods of preparation of each, are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080254251 - Optical information recording medium and method of recording and reproducing information: a

20080254252 - Optical information recording medium, method of recording information, and azo metal complex dye: The optical information recording medium comprises a recording layer on a surface of a support. The surface of the support has pregrooves with a track pitch ranging from 50 to 500 nm, the recording layer comprises an azo metal complex dye, the azo metal complex dye is a complex of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080254253 - Interchangeable and removably connected geometric carpet sections: Interchangeable and removably connected geometric carpet sections or runners that are suitable for use in homes, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, and the like are described. The carpet sections have geometric configurations wherein the various sections are removably joined together to follow a given path or direction. Alternatively, a plurality of... Agent: Cleveland R. Williams

20080254254 - Honeycomb structure and method for manufacturing honeycomb structure: A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure has a plurality of cells longitudinally placed in parallel with one another with a wall portion therebetween, wherein the honeycomb structure mainly includes inorganic fibers which form the honeycomb structure without lamination interfaces.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080254255 - Gel foam elastomer and method of manufacturing said gel foam elastomer: The present invention provides an innovative gel foam elastomer and method of manufacturing thereof, which blends raw gel with the powdery foaming/bridging agent, and then adds some assistants to begin the foaming procedure. The raw gel molecules and foaming agent molecules generate a bonding effect of virtual key or elastic... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080254256 - Heat-resistant light-shading film and production method thereof, and diaphragm or light intensity adjusting device using the same: The heat-resistant light-shading film is a film comprising a resin film substrate (A) having a heat resistance of 155° C. or higher and a light-shading layer (B) of crystalline metal carbide film (MeC) formed on one side or both sides of the resin film substrate (A), characterized in that the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080254257 - Poly (phenylene ether) resin composition, prepreg, and laminated sheet: e

20080254258 - Teflon® replacements and related production methods: The methods and compositions described herein generally relate to methods and compositions for providing a non-stick surface on selected materials. In a method aspect, the methods and compositions described herein provide a method of making a non-stick surface on a metal substrate. The method includes the following steps: a) applying... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080254259 - Polyamide based mixed resin film roll and process for producing the same: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a biaxially oriented polyamide based mixed resin film roll with which bag forming processing by lamination is able to be performed smoothly and with high yield ratio and at the same time with which packages free of S-shaped... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080254260 - Wide ultra high molecular weight polyethylene sheet and method of manufacture: A wide sheet of highly oriented ultra high molecular weight polyethylene comprising a plurality of strips of highly oriented ultra high molecular weight polyethylene partially overlapped or abutted longitudinally to define joints between adjoining strips wherein the thickness of the joint is less than about 80% of the thickness of... Agent: Auzville Jackson, Jr.

20080254261 - Interior automotive trim part and process for producing the same: An interior article for automobiles is provided having a light-weight and suitable rigidity without lowering moldability even if the amount of use of a thermoplastic resin is decreased. A panel having a hollow double-wall structure and constituting an interior part for automobiles is formed from a mixture of polyolefin resins... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20080254262 - Optical recording medium and method of manufacturing the same: An optical recording medium includes a first substrate having a groove on the side of an outer peripheral portion thereof; a second substrate in contact with the first substrate in the outer peripheral portion; and a recording layer being disposed in a gap between the first substrate and the second... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080254263 - Composite fabric material exhibiting three-dimensional structural change upon water absorption, and textile products: The composite fabric material of the invention comprises a water-absorbing woven or knitted fabric, the area and thickness of which, or the area or thickness of which, increases by at least 10% in its water-absorbed state relative to its dried state; and an area change-restricting means composed of a woven... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080254264 - Textile sleeve for protecting elongate members and method of construction: A textile sleeve for protecting elongate members and method of construction thereof provides a sleeve having a wall constructed at least in part from generally round monofilaments. The sleeve wall provides a central space extending along a longitudinal axis between opposite ends for receipt of the elongate members. The monofilaments... Agent: Robert L. Stearns Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080254265 - Ink set and ink jet recording method: Disclosed is an ink set that can realize printing of images having excellent image reproduction, color reproduction, and fixation. The ink set comprises a black ink composition and a chromatic color ink composition, wherein the black ink composition comprises at least a surface-treated pigment dispersible and/or dissolvable in water without... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080254266 - Gas barrier film and gas barrier laminate: The gas barrier film of the present invention is a gas barrier film comprising a base material, and an inorganic thin film composed of a silicon oxide film formed on one or both surfaces of the base material, wherein radical density of the Pb center of the silicon oxide film... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080254267 - Printed matter and fabrication method thereof: A printed matter including a base and a printed pattern layer disposed on the base is provided. The printed pattern layer includes printing ink and photocatalytic powders. The printing ink is disposed on the base. The photocatalytic powders are dispersed in the printing ink. A fabrication method of a printed... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080254268 - Color toner for electro printing, and process for producing glass plate provided with ceramic color print, employing it: A color toner for electro printing, whereby a ceramic color print excellent in adhesion can be printed on a glass plate surface by a simple process without using a screen plate. The color toner for electro printing comprises toner matrix particles containing from 10 to 50 parts by mass of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080254269 - Nbo capacitors with improved performance and higher working voltages: A capacitor is described with an NbO anode. The capacitor has an NbO anode and an NbO anode lead extending from the NbO anode. A dielectric is on the NbO anode and a conductor is on the dielectric.... Agent: Nexsen Pruet, LLC

20080254270 - Moisture vapor permeable film including ethylene copolymer and articles including the same: A continuous film that includes ethylene copolymer selected from the group consisting of ethylene vinyl acetate, ethylene n-butylacrylate carbon monoxide, ethylene vinyl acetate carbon monoxide, and combinations thereof. The film exhibits a moisture vapor transmission rate of at least 100 g/m2/day when measured according to MVTR Test Method I.... Agent: H.b. Fuller Company Patent Department

20080254272 - Multi-layer sheet for use in electro-optic displays: A multi-layer film (300), useful as a barrier film in electro-optic displays, comprises a light-transmissive adhesive layer (316), a light-transmissive first protective layer (312), a light-transmissive first moisture barrier layer (308B), an intermediate layer (typically an adhesive layer) (310), a light-transmissive second moisture barrier layer (308A) and a light-transmissive second... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080254271 - Si-sic based fired body and method for manufacturing the same: A Si—SiC based fired body includes a plurality of silicon carbide (SiC) particles serving as an aggregate, and silicon (Si) which serves as a binder and which is filled into gaps between the above-described silicon carbide particles, wherein the maximum particle diameter of the above-described silicon carbide particles is 0.5... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080254273 - Low permeability fabric: A fabric comprising a plurality of coiled yarns arranged in side-by-side intermeshing relationship and having elongated pintles extending through intermeshed portions of the yarn. Elongated stuffer elements extend through central portion of each of the coils in between adjacent pintles. The stuffer elements respond to a given input after insertion... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20080254274 - Polymer composite structure reinforced with shape memory alloy and method of manufacturing same: A prepreg material infused with a bulk resin, where the bulk resin has shape memory alloy (SMA) particles intermixed in the resin to toughen the material when the material is used in an application and is cured. The SMA particles may be of various shapes and sizes. The material may... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080254275 - In-mold label, and labeled resin-labeled article: An in-mold label comprising an olefinic resin substrate layer (A) having a wetting index (α) of from 34 to 74 mN/m and a heat-sealable resin layer (B) with an antistatic layer having a wetting index (β) of from 30 to 54 mN/m, wherein the absolute value of the initial frictional... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080254277 - Process for manufacturing cellular structures based on amorphous thermoplastic polymers:

20080254276 - System for applying a continuous surface layer on porous substructures of turbine airfoils: A system for forming a surface coating on an outer surface of a foam for use with cooling system of turbine engines. The system may include removing filler from the outer surface of the foam to expose a porous structure of the foam, whereby portions of the porous structure extend... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080254278 - Microporous layers, an article comprising a microporous layer, and a method of manufacture thereof: A microporous layer comprising a microporous xerogel comprising pores that are substantially continuously interconnected from a first outermost surface of the microporous xerogel through to a second outermost surface of the microporous xerogel; and a crosslinked polymer binder comprising a polymer having a glass transition temperature of about 50° C.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080254279 - Multilayer structure and process for producing the same: A multilayer structure having a layer of an adhesive resin composition (A) and a layer of another resin (B), wherein the adhesive resin composition (A) includes a thermoplastic resin (a1) containing functional groups of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a boronic acid group and boron-containing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080254280 - Silicate-coated particles in a metal layer: The invention relates to an electrodeposited metal layer on a substrate with embedded particles, especially inorganic particles, which have a silicate coating, and to the use of such layer for coating machine parts.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080254281 - Microlayer structures and methods: Improved microlayer structures and methods typically employing at least 4 stacked layers of polymers (e.g., including alternating layers of components A and B), such as that obtained by coextrusion. The layers each have a thickness of less than about 50 microns. One optional approach involves forming an intermediate form that... Agent: The Dow Chemical Company / Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20080254282 - Cbn sintered body for high surface integrity machining and cbn sintered body cutting tool: The cBN sintered body related to the present invention has not less than 60% and not more than 95% of cBN components in volume, and has a thermal conductivity of 70 W/m·K or more; and the outermost surface thereof is coated with a heat resistant film comprising a compound of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080254284 - Epoxy-based electroplating composition: An electrocoating composition and a coating formed from the composition, where the electrocoating composition comprises an epoxy-functional compound, an isocyanate-functional compound, a polyethylene wax, and aluminum oxide.... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080254283 - Method for forming surface-treating film: This invention relates to a method for forming on a metal substrate a surface treating film excelling in corrosion resistance and stability of film-forming agent, by applying a film-forming agent thereto by a multistage electrification system comprising at least two stages.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080254285 - Rare earth magnet and method for producing same: A rare-earth magnet includes a magnet body made of an R—Fe—B based rare-earth magnet material (where R is at least one rare-earth element) and a metal film that has been deposited on the surface of the magnet body. The magnet further includes a plurality of reaction layers between the magnet... Agent: Hitachi Metals, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080254286 - Method of evaluating adhesion property, low-adhesion material, and mold for molding resin: A mold surface of an upper mold with which a fluid resin comes into contact has an oxide therein. The oxide contains a metal cation and an ion. Field strength is calculated based on a valence of the metal cation and ionic radius of the ion. Based on predetermined relationship... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080254287 - Silicon carbide-silicon carbide fiber composite and making method: A silicon carbide-silicon carbide fiber composite consists of silicon carbide particles and silicon carbide fibers. The composite has excellent oxidation resistance and finds a wide range of application as heat resistant material. The silicon carbide conversion method is simple and consistent enough to ensure production of silicon carbide-silicon carbide fiber... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080254288 - Curable liquid resin composition: The invention relates to a curable liquid resin composition comprising the following components (A), (B), and (C): (A) a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, (B) a monomer shown by the following formula (1), CH2═CR1COOR2 (1) wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and R2 represents a monovalent organic group,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080254289 - Scorch-retarding polymer composition: The present invention relates to crosslinkable polymer composition, comprising an unsaturated polyolefin having a total amount of carbon-carbon double bonds/1000 carbon atoms of at least 0.1, at least one scorch retarder, and at least one crosslinking agent.... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080254290 - Sizing composition for glass fibre granules with a high glass content: e

20080254291 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing radial addressing of nanowires: Disclosed is a method to construct a device that includes a plurality of nanowires (NWs) each having a core and at least one shell. The method includes providing a plurality of radially encoded NWs where each shell contains one of a plurality of different shell materials; and differentiating individual ones... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080254292 - Pvc fibers and method of manufacture: Improved PVC filaments for use as wig material for toy dolls are described. PVC resin may be mixed with a stabilizing agent, lubricants, and a processing aid and pounded into PVC resin pellets. The PVC resin pellets may be subsequently spun or extruded in a conventional spin-draw machine. Undrawn PVC... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Welsh & Katz

20080254293 - Reduction method: Processes comprising: melting a mixture comprising a valve metal precursor and a diluting agent in at least one first vessel under a first set of temperature and residence time conditions; transferring the mixture to at least one second vessel; and initiating, in the at least one second vessel, a reaction... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080254295 - Method for preparing surface-modified, nanoparticulate metal oxides, metal hydroxides and/or metal oxyhydroxides: Methods are disclosed comprising: (a) mixing (i) an aqueous solution of at least one salt of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum, magnesium, cerium, iron, manganese, cobalt, nickel, titanium, zinc, zirconium and mixtures thereof with (ii) an aqueous solution of at least one polymer, at... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080254294 - Multi-functional coating material, method of making and products made therefrom: The present invention relates to a liquid multi-functional coating material having a multi-pigment/additive portion, and a liquid organic solvent portion and methods of making and utilizing the same.... Agent: Marshall & Melhorn, LLC

20080254296 - Carbon fibrous conjunct and composite material using thereof: Carbon fibrous conjunct is provided by adding to carbon fibrous structures, which each comprises a three dimensional network of carbon fibers each having an outside diameter of 15-100 nm, wherein the carbon fibrous structure further comprises a granular part with which the carbon fibers are bound in the state that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080254298 - Method for treating a substrate: A method for treating a substrate is described. In accordance with one aspect, the method includes applying a polymer coating to a substrate, and bringing the polymer coating into contact with a heated surface in a pressure nip while the coating is still in a wet state. Optionally the polymer... Agent: Meadwestvaco Corporation

20080254297 - Photoresist coating to apply a coating to select areas of a medical device: Methods and devices for coating a medical device, such as a stent, including the steps of coating the medical device with a photoresist polymeric coating, irradiating a portion of the medical device, optionally applying a post-exposure bake step, and removing all or a portion of the coating from the irradiated... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080254299 - Scratch-resistant layered composite and articles: Multi-layer composites having a blend of a dimethyl bisphenol cyclohexane polycarbonate and a bisphenol A polycarbonate as a top layer joined to a bisphenol-A polycarbonate second layer provide both surface scratch resistance and the ability to form molded and die cut articles. In the top layer, repeat units of dimethyl... Agent: Marina Larson & Associates, LLC

20080254300 - Resin composition, resin-attached metal foil, base material-attached insulating sheet and multiple-layered printed wiring board: A multiple-layered printed wiring board is manufactured, which exhibits higher thermal resistance and lower thermal expansion so that no flaking and/or no crack would be occurred in a thermal shock test such as a cooling-heating cycle test and the like, in addition to exhibiting a fire retardancy. The present invention... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080254301 - Uv-radiation absorbing glass with reduced absorption of visible light and method of making and using same: The PbO-free UV-absorbing glass is made under oxidative conditions and has a composition, in % by weight, of: SiO2, 55-79; B2O3, 3-25; Al2O3, 0-10; Li2O, 0-10; Na2O, 0-10; K2O, 0-10; MgO, 0-2; CaO, 0-3; SrO, 0-3; BaO, 0-3; ZnO, 0-3; ZrO2, 0-3; CeO2, 0-1; Fe2O3, 0-1; WO3, 0-3; Bi2O3, 0-3;... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080254302 - Multiple layer polymer interlayers having a melt fractured surface: e

20080254304 - Article with lubricated surface and method: A method for preparing one or more lubricated surfaces of an article to reduce the break-out force and sliding frictional force. A lubricant is applied to one or more surfaces, and the lubricant-coated surface is treated by exposing the surface to an energy source, wherein the energy source is an... Agent: David P. Hendricks Law Office Of David P. Hendricks

20080254303 - Monomer matt additives and uses thereof: Disclosed are monomer matt additives that include actinic-radiation curable monomers and between about 10% and about 40% by weight of amorphous silica. Also disclosed are methods for producing the monomer matt additives. Further disclosed are uses of the monomer matt additives in forming actinic-radiation curable, substantially all solids coating compositions... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080254306 - Method of manufacturing organic light-emitting device and organic light-emitting device manufactured using the method: Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting device, the method including: forming an anode; forming an intermediate layer including an emission layer on the anode; and forming a cathode on the intermediate layer, wherein the forming the cathode includes: thermally depositing indium oxide with plasma generated in a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080254305 - Organic el device: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL device including an electron injection layer having the state which can be specified with a physical quantity that can be measured with a simple measuring unit. The organic EL device includes, as an electron injection layer, a co-deposited... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080254307 - Systems and methods for manufacturing composite materials using thermoplastic polymers: Apparatuses and methods for bonding together two or more layers of oriented polymer material or secondary material to form a rigid member. Two or more layers of material are initially restrained along an orientation axis to prevent contraction and loss of orientation. Then, the contact surfaces of each layer of... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080254308 - Multilayered polymeric structure and methods: Multilayered structures formed from two or more polymeric layers are fabricated to obtain a single structure preferably having advantages of each of the separate layers. Polyolefin-based substrates can provide a layer with a good balance of stiffness and impact resistance, excellent processability, and relatively lower cost. Tie layers, preferably physically... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080254309 - Functionally graded metal matrix composite sheet: The present invention discloses a method of making a functionally graded metal matrix composite (MMC) sheet having a central layer of particulate matter. The method includes providing a molten metal containing particulate matter to a pair of advancing casting surfaces. Solidifying the molten metal while advancing the molten metal between... Agent: Intellectual Property

20080254310 - Article comprising a fine-grained metallic material and a polymeric material: Lightweight articles comprising a polymeric material at least partially coated with a fine-grained metallic material are disclosed. The fine-grained metallic material has an average grain size of 2 nm to 5,000 nm, a thickness between 25 micron and 5 cm, and a hardness between 200 VHN and 3,000 VHN. The... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080254312 - Coated porous metal medium: The invention relates to a coated porous medium comprising metal particles. The metal particles define a free area surface S. The free area surface S is substantially completely coated with a coating layer. The coating layer is substantially conformal, substantially uniform in composition and has substantially the same thickness over... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080254311 - Palladium-containing plating solution and its uses: A palladium-containing electroplating solution and method for providing a palladium or palladium alloy membrane on a porous metal support are provided. The subject invention uses electroplating to manufacture a palladium or palladium alloy membrane on a porous metal with a decreased preparation time and simplified preparation procedure. Moreover, the palladium... Agent: Venable LLP

20080254313 - Circuit materials, multilayer circuits, and methods of manufacture thereof: A circuit assembly comprises two or more circuit laminates, each comprising a conductive metal layer disposed on a poly(arylene ether ketone) substrate layer, wherein at least one of the conductive metal layers has been patterned to form a circuit, and a bond ply layer comprising a thermoplastic or thermosetting material.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080254314 - Methods for forming an enriched metal oxide surface: Methods of forming a metal oxide surface that is enriched with metal oxide in its higher oxidation state are provided. A metal oxide surface that is enriched with metal oxide in its higher oxidation state is also provided.... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080254315 - Chromium-free solution for treating metal surfaces: An acidic chromium-free solution for treating a metal surface containing: a vanadium cation source and/or a vanadyl cation source; an organic acid as an anion source; and at least one oxoacid as another anion source is provided. The oxoacid is selected from oxoacids of nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, boron, and chlorine.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080254316 - Plain-bearing material, plain-bearing composite-material and uses thereof: The invention relates to a sintered plain bearing material consisting of a copper alloy, which is characterized by between 10 and 15 wt. % tin, between 0.5 and 10 wt. % bismuth, between 5 and 12 wt. % graphite and a residual amount of copper. Said plain bearing material can... Agent: Robert L Stearns

20080254317 - Gypsum wallboard with improved nail pull strength and the method for making same: Repulped fiber that has been treated with an aqueous solution of a caustic selected from sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide and sodium carbonate, is used to make wallboard paper that is used to make a gypsum wallboard having improved nail pulling strength compared to gypsum wallboard made with fiber wallboard paper... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP Anthony P. Venturino

20080254318 - Carbazole derivative, and light-emitting element and light-emitting device using the carbzole derivative: The present invention provides a material having excellent hole injecting and hole transporting properties. Moreover, the present invention provides a light-emitting element and a light-emitting device using the material having excellent hole injecting and hole transporting properties. The present invention provides a carbazole derivative represented by the general formula (1).... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080254319 - Organic electroluminescence device and display: In an organic electroluminescence device including a cathode and an anode, at least an emitting layer and an electron transporting layer are provided between the cathode and the anode. The emitting layer contains a host material formed of a naphthacene derivative represented by the following formula (1) and a dopant... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080254320 - Polymer compound, luminescent material, and light emitting element: This invention provides a luminescent composition comprising a polymer and at least one phosphorescent compound, characterized in that the electronic conjunction chain coefficient Ze of the main repeating minimum unit of the polymer falls within the following range: 0<Ze≦2.00 (1) wherein the electronic conjunction chain coefficient Ze is defined as... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080254321 - Coatings for particle reduction: Coatings for particle suppression are provided. Such coatings comprise fluorochemical moieties and reactive pendant groups.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080254322 - Apparatus with increased magnetic anisotropy and related method: An apparatus includes a thermally insulating substrate, an energy absorbing layer on the thermally insulating substrate, and a flash annealed magnetic layer on the energy absorbing layer. The flash annealed magnetic layer may be configured for data storage. A method includes providing a thermally insulating substrate, depositing an energy absorbing... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP

20080254323 - Magnetic recording medium: A magnetic recording medium includes a metal thin-film magnetic layer formed on a non-magnetic substrate. The metal thin-film magnetic layer is formed so that the coercivity measured when a magnetic field is applied with an angle of intersection of 120° between the plane of the non-magnetic substrate and magnetic field... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080254324 - Perpendicular magnetic recording medium with exchange-coupled magnetic layers and improved coupling layer: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium has an “exchange-spring” type magnetic recording layer (RL) with an improved coupling layer (CL). The RL includes the first or lower ferromagnetic layer MAG1, sometimes called the “media” layer, the second or upper ferromagnetic layer MAG2, sometimes called the “exchange-spring” layer, and the intermediate CL... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20080248219 - Anti-reflection coating with low resistivity function and transparent conductive coating as outermost layer: An anti-reflection coating anti-reflection coating with low resistivity function and transparent conductive coating as outermost layer is disclosed. The anti-reflection coating contains a transparent conductive oxide as a surface layer and has a photo reflectance below 0.5%. The resistivity of the anti-reflection coating is between 0.5Ω and 0.7Ω per square,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080248220 - Light-emitting material and light-emitting device using the same:

20080248221 - Christmas bell ornament: A Christmas bell ornament is disclosed, which is reduced in overall thickness to improve bulkiness in prior art. The bell ornament is made by adjoining two formed metal plates via the junction surface around the periphery with their inner surfaces facing each other. In horizontal cross sectional view, the width... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080248222 - Metallic glass laminates, production methods and applications thereof: A metallic glass laminate of the present invention is characterized in that a metallic glass layer of amorphous phase is formed on the substrate surface, and there is no continuous pore (pinhole) through the metallic glass layer. The metallic glass laminate is preferably obtained by solidification and lamination of at... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080248224 - (meth)acrylic coated ceramic article: A coated ceramic article wherein the coating comprises a crosslinked (meth)acrylic resin.... Agent: Ppg Industries Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080248223 - Epoxy urethane coated ceramic article: A coated ceramic article wherein the coating comprises an epoxy urethane resin is disclosed.... Agent: Ppg Industries Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080248225 - Cold shrinkable article including a fluoroelastomer composition: A tubular cold shrinkable material can include an elastomeric composition including a fluoroelastomer composition, where the elastomeric composition is substantially free of an epichlorohydrin composition. The tubular cold shrinkable material can further include a filler material including a reinforcement-grade carbon black. The tubular cold shrinkable material can further include a... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080248226 - Multi-layer tubes: The disclosure is directed to a method of forming multi-layer tubes including providing a heat-shrinkable fluoropolymer liner and extruding an elastomeric cover over the heat shrinkable fluoropolymer liner. The disclosure is further directed to a method of forming multi-layer tubes including providing a non-fibrillated, high flex fluoropolymer liner and extruding... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080248228 - Produce packaging: Disclosed is a produce package made from a gas permeable, non-perforated polyethylene film. The polyethylene film is made from a blend of a linear low density polyethylene and a high pressure low density polyethylene. The film has an absolute oxygen transmission rate that is greater than the weighted average of... Agent: James R. Franks

20080248227 - Thermoplastic resin composition and resin molding: The present invention provides a thermoplastic resin composition producing an extremely small amount of outgas and providing a molded article having excellent antistaticity. The present thermoplastic resin composition comprises a thermoplastic resin and is characterized in that the amount of outgas is 1500 μg/g or less. The composition may comprise... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20080248229 - Twist-wrap film and use thereof as packaging film: The invention relates to a twist-wrap film (1, 2, 3) which is produced by coextrusion of a plurality of plastic layers. The inventive film is characterized in that at least a) one or more plastic layer(s) (4, 4′) consist of one or more semicrystalline polyolefin(s) having a uniform structure and... Agent: Ferrells, PLLC

20080248230 - Polymer emi housing comprising conductive fibre: An electromagnetic shielding housing is presented that is made up out of one or more shells. The shells comprise polymer and conductive fibres and have a polymer rich surface that covers the fibres except for predefined areas where the fibres are substantially uncovered. The conductive fibres can be metal-coated non-metallic... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080248231 - Double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or sheet for use in wiring circuit board and wiring circuit board having the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape: The present invention relates to a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or sheet for use in a wiring circuit board, which includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed of a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprising an acrylic polymer and a tackifier resin containing a phenolic hydroxyl group; and a release liner comprising a... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080248232 - Adhesive tape roll: The present invention relates to an adhesive tape roll. The adhesive tape roll is formed by connecting several adhesive plates to one another, wherein a mark portion is formed between every two adhesive plates to be recognized easily after use of the adhesive plates for facilitating tearing off of the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080248233 - Tobacco suction tape: Briefly the invention relates to a tobacco conveyer belt, for example a suction tape with improved mechanical properties. More specifically, the present invention is directed to an endless suction tape that is formed from a continuous polymeric film containing a polymer chosen to maximize the wear resistance and minimize toxicity... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080248234 - Damage protection device for aircraft structure: An apparatus to protect exposed structures on an aircraft which includes a core; a securing mechanism coupled to the core; and an outer coating applied to the core to encapsulate the core and facilitate the attachment of the securing mechanism. A thermal protection layer may be applied to the apparatus... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080248235 - Carbon nanotube film structure and method for fabricating the same: A carbon nanotube film structure includes at least two overlapped carbon nanotube films, with adjoining films being aligned in different directions. Each carbon nanotube film includes a plurality of successive carbon nanotube bundles aligned in the same direction. The carbon nanotube structure further includes a plurality of micropores formed by/between... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080248238 - Bonding material, process for producing the same, and honeycomb structure made with the same: There is provided bonding material having a Young's Modulus after hardening of not less than 20% of articles to be bonded, and an average linear coefficient of thermal expansion after hardening of not more than 70% of the articles to be bonded. This bonding material can suppress deformation of a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080248236 - Cellular confinement system: The present invention discloses cellular confinement systems (CCSs) with improved friction with infill at low normal pressure. The invention especially presents novel flaps-containing CCS that includes inter alia a plurality of elongated strips arranged in a side by side pattern, each of the strip is segmentally bonded to an adjacent... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080248237 - Honeycomb material from thermofusible material: The invention relates to a honeycomb material. The material is comprised of sections of a thermofusible textile material and the sections are welded together in such a manner as to define cells.... Agent: Mccarter & English LLP Cityplace I

20080248239 - Wet wipes having increased stack thickness: A product including a plurality of sheets formed from a basesheet material comprising at least 1.0 percent natural fibers. The plurality of sheets impregnated with a liquid, and having a moisture content between about 150 weight percent to about 600 weight percent. Each of the plurality of sheets folded to... Agent: Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc. Catherine E. Wolf

20080248240 - Cavity electroluminescent devices and methods for producing the same: Aspects of the invention include electroluminescent devices and methods for making the same. In certain embodiments, the devices include a substrate, a hole-injection electrode layer, a dielectric layer, an electroluminescent layer, an electron-injection electrode layer, and a cavity. In certain embodiments, the hole-injection electrode layer is positioned above the substrate,... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20080248243 - Laminate thermoplastic sheet, apparatus, and method: A laminate thermoplastic sheet, and an apparatus and a method of making the sheet are disclosed. The laminate sheet has a substrate layer, a middle foam layer, and a cap layer bonded together. Each layer is chemically compatible with the others, thereby facilitating a recycling thereof. The apparatus and the... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080248241 - Multilayer roofing sheet with mechanical interlock laminate structure: A multilayer roofing sheet includes a laminate formed from an upper sheet having a textured lower surface and a lower sheet having a fusible upper surface mechanically interlocked together.... Agent: Paul And Paul

20080248242 - Surfacing media with flame retarding effects and high solar reflectance, and method of making same: A roofing material includes a fire-retardant particulate material on its upper surface. A solar-reflective surface coating encapsules the fire-retardant particulate.... Agent: Paul And Paul

20080248244 - Fire resistant roofing products: A fire resistant roofing material includes a core sheet and a sheet of conductive material having a thermal conductivity greater than about 25 W/m-K. The sheet of conductive material is coextensively bonded with the core sheet, and coated with a polymer-modified bituminous material having fire-resistant properties.... Agent: Paul And Paul

20080248245 - Soft magnetic material, method of manufacturing soft magnetic material, dust core, and method of manufacturing dust core: A soft magnetic material includes a plurality of composite magnetic particles. Each of the plurality of composite magnetic particles has a metal magnetic particle including iron, a lower film surrounding the surface of the metal magnetic particle and including a nonferrous metal, and an insulating upper film surrounding the surface... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080248246 - Mineral surfaced asphalt-based roofing products with encapsulated healing agents and methods of producing the same: An asphalt-based sheet roofing material includes capsules on its upper surface. When struck, as by hailstones, the capsules break to release a film forming fluid that spreads over the surface to heal the damage created by the hailstones.... Agent: Paul And Paul

20080248247 - Method and apparatus for controlling a skin texture surface on a device using a shape memory alloy: A portable electronic device (100) includes a controllable skin texture surface that includes a skin texture surface actuation structure having a plurality of hinged elements (802-808) with a shape memory alloy (812) coupled thereto to effect movement of the hinged elements and a flexible skin structure (320) to change a... Agent: Motorola Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20080248248 - Method and apparatus for controlling a skin texture surface on a device using a gas: A portable electronic device (100) includes a controllable skin texture surface that includes a skin texture surface actuation structure that includes an expandable gas actuation structure. The expandable gas actuation structure includes a gas (1802) and a flexible skin structure (1804) that moves in response to movement of the gas... Agent: Motorola Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20080248250 - Compositions and methods to fabricate a photoactive substrate suitable for shaped glass structures: This invention provides an inexpensive and rapid method for fabricating a high-anisotropic-etch ratio, shaped glass structures using a novel photosensitive glass composition. Structures of the photosensitive glass may include micro-channels, micro-optics, microposts, or arrays of hollow micro-needles. Furthermore, such shaped glass structures can be used to form a negative mold... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20080248251 - Semiconductor substrates having useful and transfer layers: A semiconductor substrate that includes a relatively thin monocrystalline useful layer, an intermediate layer transferred from a source substrate, and a relatively thick layer of a support present on one of the useful layer of the intermediate layer. The support is made of a deposited material that has a lower... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080248249 - Sliding surface of sliding member: Convex portions are formed by directly quenching the sliding surface of the sliding member in a line shape or a dot shape, and concave portions are formed in indirectly quenched portions adjacent to the directly quenched portions, whereby an irregular surface is formed on the sliding surface by the directly... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080248252 - Piece of trim having a skin, and a method of manufacturing it: The invention relates to a piece of trim comprising a visible skin (16), in which an edge part of the visible surface is positioned adjacent to a concealed surface part of a rigid support (10) and held in place by a plastic foam (20) that is disposed between the skin... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080248253 - Procedural functional element of a stack of films: For a procedural functional element formed from a stack of films or plates provided with microstructures, on at least one side of the films a thin film coating is provided, which extends into the microstructures from the coated side so that the thin film coating forms both a surface seal... Agent: Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP

20080248254 - Method of manufacturing optical information recording medium and the optical information recording medium: An optical information recording medium of which the commercial value is not reduced is provided, in which a light reflection layer, an optical recording layer, a first light transmission layer, and a second light transmission layer are provided in this order on one main surface of a disk-shaped substrate, and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080248255 - Three-dimensional orientation of grated flakes: The invention relates to a coating on a surface, including a carrier and a plurality of flakes dispersed therein. The flakes are oriented quasi-normally to the surface and have grooves extending quasi-parallel to the surface, wherein the plurality of flakes forms at least 50% of all grated flakes in the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080248257 - Highly reflective and highly emissive film laminate: A reflective and emissive surface film laminate specially designed to form a top surface of modified bituminous roof covering composite such as membranes, underlayments and shingles to constitute a roof with thermal characteristics with substantially reduced amount of radiant energy entering a structure with such a covering.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080248258 - Mounting support for retaining a flexible printed circuit board: An exemplary mounting support for retaining a flexible printed circuit board is provided. The flexible printed circuit board has a first portion and a second portion. A thickness of the first portion is greater than that of the second portion. The mounting support includes a supporting platform and an adhesive... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080248256 - Transparent optical film comprising damage prevention layer having particles distributed therein: Disclosed herein is a transparent optical film, including an optically structured layer, which is a sheet formed of a transparent polymeric material and composed of a first surface having three-dimensional structures thereon and a second surface opposite the first surface, and a damage prevention layer formed on the second surface... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080248259 - Gallium nitride/sapphire thin film having reduced bending deformation: s

20080248264 - Material pattern, and mold, metal thin-film pattern, metal pattern using thereof, and methods of forming the same:

20080248263 - Method of creating super-hydrophobic and-or super-hydrophilic surfaces on substrates, and articles created thereby: The present invention is related to a chemical vapor deposition method of depositing layers of materials to provide super-hydrophilic surface properties, or super-hydrophobic surface properties, or combinations of such properties at various locations on a given surface. The invention also relates to various product applications which make use of super-hydrophobic... Agent: Peter Martine, Esq. Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080248262 - Press-on fragrance product applicator: A press-on applicator for applying cosmetic colors to arms or other regions of a customer body leaves indicia identifying a product brand and leaves fragrance material producing a fragrance corresponding to the identified brand, so that after sufficient time has passed for the fragrance to mix and react with customer... Agent: Frank L. Kubler

20080248261 - Printed article: An article having a printed image is formed from a substrate, an adhesive disposed over the substrate, a sheet disposed over the adhesive, a digitally printed image directly printed on the sheet, and an elastomer disposed over the printed image.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080248260 - Recording ink, ink cartridge, ink record, inkjet recording apparatus, and inkjet recording method: The object of the invention to provide a recording ink with excellent discharge stability and storage stability, which rapidly penetrates into a recording medium and forms a coating, and which will never generate smearing upon high-speed printing or double-sided printing, and which excels in marker resistance, and which enables high... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080248266 - Method of manufacturing laminated material for security tag: A laminated material suitable for fabricating miniaturized security tags which have the uniform resonance frequency, and security tags obtained by using the laminated material, are provided. A manufacturing method of a laminated material for security tags characterized in that metal foils are laminated on both sides of a previously formed... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080248265 - Patterned inorganic film, piezoelectric device, and process for producing the same: An inorganic film formed of an inorganic material on a metal film having a surface including surface-oxidized areas. The surface-oxidized areas are surface oxidized to different degrees. For example, the surface-oxidized areas are one or more lowly-surface-oxidized areas and one or more highly-surface-oxidized areas. The inorganic film includes regions which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080248267 - Building up diffractive optics by structured glass coating: Ultrasonic pulser-receiver circuitry, for use with an ultrasonic transducer, the circuitry comprising a circuit board; ultrasonic pulser circuitry supported by the circuit board and configured to be coupled to an ultrasonic transducer and to cause the ultrasonic transducer to emit an ultrasonic output pulse; receiver circuitry supported by the circuit... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080248268 - Biaxially drawn tubular film comprising three adjacent polyamide-based layers: The invention relates to a biaxially drawn multilayer tubular film consisting of at least five layers, in which the external and two other layers contain aliphatic (co)-polyamide in a quantity equal to or greater than 50% by weight and are differently assembled. The inventive tubular film is produced by coextrusion... Agent: Propat, L.L.C.

20080248269 - Slide member for compressor: Since the slide member of the present invention is such that it is possible to form it at low temperature, the deterioration of the substrate is suppressed; moreover, it is a slide member having a superficial layer, which includes a polyaryl ketone resin which is good in terms of the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080248270 - Substrate for thin chip packagings: A substrate for chip packaging comprises a carrier layer, an etching stopper and an active layer. The carrier layer is made of a conductive metal sheet with a predetermined thickness. The etching stopper is disposed on a side of the carrier layer. The active layer is made of conductive metal... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080248272 - Expandable granulates based on vinyl-aromatic polymers having an improved expandability and process for the preparation thereof: s

20080248271 - Flat sealing material in the form of a reinforced composite film: The invention relates to a stable high-performance flat sealing material for application at a temperature up to 330° C. which is compacted by heat and pressure in such a way that a composite film, i.e. a reinforced (fibrous) film is obtainable by compressing one or several non-woven fabrics or one... Agent: John B. Hardaway Nexsen Pruet

20080248277 - Ceramic sheet, method for producing the same, and method for producing crystallographically-oriented ceramic: A ceramic sheet is self-supported and planar and has a thickness of 10 μm or less, wherein a surface of the sheet includes a specific crystal plane, and the number of crystal grains present in the thickness direction of the sheet at any one point is substantially one. Preferably, the... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080248274 - High damping, high stiffness multilayer metal polymer sandwich structure and method: An improved multilayer laminate is provided that provides increased flexural stiffness and increased damping. The laminate includes a thick and stiff lightweight core layer; a first and second constraining layer flanking the core layer; a first damping layer in contact with one of the first and the second constraining layers... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20080248275 - Nano-scaled graphene plate films and articles: Disclosed is a nano-scaled graphene article comprising a non-woven aggregate of nano-scaled graphene platelets wherein each of the platelets comprises a graphene sheet or multiple graphene sheets and the platelets have a thickness no greater than 100 nm (preferably smaller than 10 nm) and platelets contact other platelets to define... Agent: Bor Z. Jang

20080248273 - Polymer, method for producing the polymer, optical film, and image display device: s

20080248276 - Self-repair and enhancement of nanostructures by liquification under guiding conditions: In accordance with the invention, the structure (1OA, 10B) of a patterned nanoscale or near nanoscale device (“nanostructure”) is repaired and/or enhanced by liquifying the patterned device in the presence of appropriate guiding conditions for a period of time and then permitting the device to solidify. Advantageous guiding conditions include... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080248280 - process for preparing a dispersion liquid of zeolite fine particles: The invention provides a preparation process of organic-group-modified zeolite fine particles excellent in stability of particle size and to be used for electronic materials or the like. The preparation process comprises a first step of obtaining a liquid containing zeolite seed crystals having a particle size of 80 nm or... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080248278 - Fiber reinforced thermoplastic sheets with surface coverings and methods of making: A composite sheet material comprises a porous core layer adjacent to a skin layer. The porous core layer comprises a thermoplastic material and 20 to 80 weight percent (wt %) fibers based on a total weight of the porous core layer. The thermoplastic material comprises poly(arylene ether) and an additive... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Sabic (noryl)

20080248279 - Paper machine fabrics: A composite paper machine fabric substrate of a base and batt formed from polyamide is reinforced by a polymer having a glass transition temperature (TG) of −40 to 15° C. that is dispersed at below the face side surface of the fabric substrate to mechanically bond to the substrate. The... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20080248281 - Organic-inorganic composite coating film and aqueous coating composition: The organic-inorganic composite coating film of the present invention is a composite coating film wherein a complex having a polyamine segment is combined in a matrix composed of an inorganic oxide, and has a fine pore pattern on the surface. The aqueous coating composition of the present invention includes a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080248282 - Method for fixing a polymer gel component: A method is provided for fixing a silicone gel component, including a step of contacting the gel component with a sheet made of microporous material, such that the silicone gel is attracted upon contact with the sheet, thereby forming an assembly in which the component is fixed to the sheet... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080248283 - Expanded polymer material for cryogenic applications apparatus and method: A structural and insulating material for cryogenic power transformers uses nonwoven fibers, such as polyester matting, embedded within epoxy made highly porous with a blowing agent. The open cell foam of the material is characterized by controlled pore size and density, tolerance of extreme thermal gradients, and strength at cryogenic... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080248284 - Paper articles exhibiting water resistance and method for making same: This invention relates to a process for preparing sized paper and paperboard which incorporates in the paper and paperboard at the size press size a composition comprising one or more “hydrophobic polymers” wherein hydrophobic polymers, the amount of such polymers and the weight ratio of starch to such polymer in... Agent: International Paper Company

20080248285 - Polyester compositions having high dimensional stability: The present invention relates to thermoplastic compositions having; high dimensional stability at high temperatures. In particular it is directed to polyester compositions containing mica for use in dual-ovenable trays and clear lids for hot food containers. According to one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a polyester composition comprising... Agent: Invista North America S.a.r.l.

20080248286 - Semiconductor ceramic and multilayered-type semiconductor ceramic capacitor: A semiconductor ceramic has a mixing molar ratio m between the Sr site and the Ti site satisfying the relationship 1.000≦m<1.020, a donor element in an amount of 0.8 to 2.0 moles relative to 100 moles of the Ti element dissolved in the Sr site to form a solid solution,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080248287 - Gas barrier coating having high thermal resistance: A coating composition comprising a silylated polyvinyl alcohol and colloidal silica in an aqueous vehicle, where the solids content of the composition is not greater than 7.5% w/w, the silyl monomer content of the silylated polyvinyl alcohol is not greater than 3.0% (based on the monomers forming the silylated polyvinyl... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro

20080248288 - Semiconductor materials and methods of producing them: A method of producing particles containing metal oxide for use in semiconductor devices includes the steps of heating metal-containing particles in a flame produced by a mixture of oxygen and a fuel component comprising at least one combustible gas selected from hydrogen and hydrocarbons, the oxygen being present in the... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080248289 - Zinc oxide nanoparticles: The invention relates to zinc oxide nanoparticles having an average particle size in the range from 3 to 50 nm, dispersed in an organic solvent, according to one or more of claims 1 to 6, characterised in that in a step a) one or more precursors of the nanoparticles are... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20080248290 - Method for surface treatment of shells: A method for producing a shell (100) with three-dimensional decoration, via a surface treatment process, is provided. The method includes four steps as follows. A base body (10) of the shell is firstly formed or otherwise provided. A base-coat layer (20) is then sprayed and formed on an exterior surface... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080248291 - Methods of obtaining photoactive coatings and/or anatase crystalline phase of titanium oxides and articles made thereby: A method of forming a material having a predetermined crystalline phase includes forming a film, forming a material, and heating one of a substrate, the film, or the material to have the material have at least one predetermined crystalline phase. The formed film includes a baddeleyite crystalline phase of zirconium... Agent: Ppg Industries Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080248293 - Inorganic substrates with hydrophobic surface layers: m

20080248292 - Process for the production of multi-layer coatings in light metallic color shades: wherein the base coat layer is applied from an unmodified water-borne metallic base coat having a ratio by weight of pigment to resin solids of 0.3:1 to 0.45:1, wherein the pigment content consists 60 to 100% by weight of at least one non-leafing aluminum pigment with a platelet thickness over... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080248295 - Articles comprising rubber, thermoplastic polyurethane and engineering polymer: Item comprising thermoplastic polyurethane, which has, respectively, direct-contact adhesive bonding not only to rubber but also to engineering plastic.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080248294 - Low moisture absorbing acrylic sheet: The invention relates to a low moisture-absorbing multi-layer acrylic sheet, film, profile or other shaped multi-layer object having of an acrylic substrate, a tie layer, and at least one layer of a moisture-resistant material. Preferably, the acrylic sheet, film, profile or other shaped multi-layer object is transparent.... Agent: Arkema Inc. Patent Department - 26th Floor

20080248296 - Pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for processing: The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for processing, which includes a substrate; a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing a radiation-polymerizable compound; and an interlayer containing an acrylic polymer having a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or higher as a main component, the interlayer being disposed between the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080248297 - Cold transfer sticker and method for making the same: A cold transfer sticker is made by preparing a releasing film and an oil layer with patterns and/or character is coated on the releasing film to form the sticker. The surface of the object is first cleaned and a glue layer is spread on the object. The sticker is attached... Agent: Phillip Liu

20080248299 - Pressure-sensitive adhesive and method for producing same, and pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet: A pressure-sensitive adhesive, comprising a polymer (A), which is formed by polymerization of a radical polymerizable monomer, contains carboxyl groups, and has a glass transition temperature within a range from −80 to 0° C. and a weight average molecular weight within a range from 500,000 to 1,500,000, a tricyclic diterpene... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080248298 - Method for surface hardening substances by application of particularly transparent polymethacrylate layers: The present invention describes a process for the surface finishing of materials via application of specific polymethacrylate layers. The polymethacrylate layers are composed of blends of at least two (co)polymers of polymethacrylates, and specific “reactive monomers” are present here in a polymerized mixture which forms the polymethacrylate layer. At the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080248300 - Processes for repairing erosion resistant coatings: A process for applying erosion resistant coatings includes the steps of applying a fluoroelastomer based solution to at least a portion of at least one perforated surface of an article, at least one perforated surface includes a plurality of perforations, and each of the perforations has a pre-coating diameter of... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (p&w)

20080248301 - Semi-continuous vapor grown carbon fiber, method for fabricating the same and applications thereof: A method for fabricating a semi-continuous vapor grown carbon fiber, comprising: (a) providing a substrate which has a catalyst on its surface; (b) placing said substrate in a furnace; (c) loading said furnace with hydrogen, ammonia, or combinations thereof; (d) adjusting a temperature of said furnace to 400° C. to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080248303 - Post addition of amine-based compounds to reduce formaldehyde emmission in insulation products: A method of reducing the emission of formaldehyde from fibrous insulation having thereon a formaldehyde-based binder is provided. In particular, an amine-based compound is added after the formaldehyde-based has been cured and prior to the insulation being processed for storage or shipment to customers. The amine-based compound may be added... Agent: Owens Corning

20080248302 - Rod member and method for producing the same: A rod member includes a rod-shaped reinforcing layer formed of a fiber, a resin layer formed on an outer circumference of the reinforcing layer, and a garnet layer formed in/on the resin layer.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080248304 - Growth of single crystal nanowires: The present invention provides nanowires which are substantially straight and substantially free of nanoparticles and methods for making the same The nanowires can be made by seeded approaches, wherein nanocrystals bound to a substrate are used to promote growth of the nanowire. Nanocrystals in solution may also be used to... Agent: Fortkort & Houston P.C.

20080248306 - Method for attaching manoparticles to substrate particles: The invention relates to the deposition of nanoparticles from the gas phase of the a thermal plasma of a gas discharge and the subsequent attachment of said nanoparticles to the substrate particles. The invention can be used for increasing the flowability of solid bulk material. Particularly the pharmaceutical industry utilizes... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080248305 - Superabrasive particle synthesis with controlled placement of crystalline seeds: An improved method for synthesizing superabrasive particles provides high quality industrial superabrasive particles with high yield and a narrow size distribution. The synthesis method can include forming a growth precursor of a substantially homogeneous mixture of raw material and catalyst material or layers of raw material and metal catalyst. The... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080248307 - Stably passivated group iv semiconductor nanoparticles and methods and compositions thereof: Group IV semiconductor nanoparticles that have been stably passivated with an organic passivation, layer, methods for producing the same, and compositions utilizing stably passivated. Group IV semiconductor nanoparticles are described. In some embodiments, the stably passivated Group IV semiconductor nanoparticles are luminescent Group IV semiconductor nanoparticles with high photoluminescent quantum... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080248308 - Method of making graphite-coated particulate materials: An coated particulate is provided with a graphite-impregnated resin coating. The oil field particulates may comprise any of gravel-pack sand, granular betonite, ground Gilsonite, calcium carbonate, glass beads, rock wool, shredded paper, metal spheres, ceramic beads, nut hulls, ground rubber, plastic beads, muscovite mica, calcined petroleum coke, and perlite. The... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20080248311 - Antistatic polymer films with improved antistatic properties: Disclosed herein is a technology for preparing a novel conductive polymer film or sheet, which is used for antistatic purposes. Specifically, the antistatic polymer film comprises antistatic layers formed on a monolayer or multilayer polymer film using a conductive polymer as an active ingredient, and has a surface resistivity of... Agent: Park Law Firm

20080248310 - Carbon nanotube hybrid system using carbide-derived carbon, a method of making the same, an electron emitter comprising the same, and an electron emission device comprising the electron emitter: A carbon nanotube hybrid system includes: a carbide-derived carbon prepared by reacting a carbide compound and a halogen group containing gas to extract elements of the carbide compound except carbons; metals supported on the carbide-derived carbon or remaining in the carbide-derived carbon; and carbon sources from which carbon nanotubes are... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080248309 - Metal-based carbon fiber composite material and producing method thereof: The invention provides a metal-based carbon fiber composite material that can be prepared with commonly used cheap materials and less energy than in a melt method, has a wide range of dimensions and shapes (particularly large area) and is excellent in the thermal conductivity and light in weight. The metal-based... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080248312 - Method of preparing nano-structured surface coatings and coated articles: The invention relates to new processes for the preparation of antireflective coatings and coated substrates, as well as articles produced by these processes. These coatings can include one or more layers made of materials which form nano-structured and/or nano-porous surfaces. The process can include applying a cross-linkable hard coat to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080248313 - Sulfonation of conducting polymers and oled, photovoltaic, and esd devices: Conducting polymer systems for hole injection or transport layer applications including a composition comprising: a water soluble or water dispersible regioregular polythiophene comprising (i) at least one organic substituent, and (ii) at least one sulfonate substituent comprising sulfonate sulfur bonding directly to the polythiophene backbone. The polythiophene can be water... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080248314 - Water dispersible polythiophenes made with polymeric acid colloids: Devices are provided comprising conductive or semiconductive layers comprising compositions comprising aqueous dispersions of polythiophenes having homopolymers or co-polymers of Formula I(a) or Formula I(b) and at least one colloid-forming polymeric acid. Methods of making such compositions and using them in organic electronic devices are further provided.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080248315 - Photochromic laminate of glass and polyvinyl butyral resin: A laminate has first and second layers of glass between which are sandwiched first and second layers of polyvinyl butyral resin wherein the first polyvinyl butyral resin layer consists essentially of polyvinyl butyral resin and an ultraviolet absorber and the second polyvinyl butyral resin layer consists essentially of a polyvinyl... Agent: Ronald L. Hofer

20080248316 - Inorganic composition article: An inorganic composition article used in disk substrate for information recording media, with a low melting point and a high productivity, combining superior surface characteristics capable of sufficiently dealing with a ramp load system for high density recording in both an in-plane magnetic recording system and a perpendicular magnetic recording... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080248317 - Metal surface treating agent, surface treated steel material and treating method, and coated steel material and its production method: A chromate-free metal surface treating agent which is well adapted for use with a metal-coated steel material is provided. This agent provides excellent workability, adhesion, and corrosion resistance when used as a pretreatment before providing an overcoat, for example, by applying a coating composition. A steel material which has been... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080248318 - Low-opacity release paper, release-paper backing and methods: Release papers and release paper backings (10) are disclosed. The release papers and release paper backings (10) can include a network of fibers (12) and yellow and/or red dye and a first coating (14) on a first surface (16). Light transmission through the release paper and release-paper backings (10) can... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080248320 - Coating for parts made of titanium or the alloy thereof or preventing cold welding: l

20080248319 - High barrier compositions and articles employing same: A high barrier composition to a gas or organic liquid usable as a coating or layer on an article. The composition includes a blend of polyetheramine resin and at least one additive being a highly hydrolyzed organic compound, preferably of a low molecular weight, either with our without boric acid.... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080248321 - Method for the production of single-and/or multiple-coated substrates: A process for the production of singly and/or multiply coated paper and/or board, except for photographic papers and self-adhesive labeling papers, which are particularly suitable for printing, packaging and inscription, is described. The substrate, for example base paper or board, is coated once or several times with a free-falling liquid... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080248323 - Leather care using lipophilic fluids: The present invention relates to processes and systems for treating leather articles, especially lipophilic fluid systems for treating leather articles. More particularly, the present invention relates to processes and systems employing treating agents that treat, for example clean, leather articles without causing damage to the appearance of the leather articles... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20080248322 - Leather production method and products suited thereof: e

20080248324 - Piezoelectric element and film formation method for crystalline ceramic: In a piezoelectric element having a substrate, a lower electrode layered on the substrate, a piezoelectric body made of ceramic layered on top of the lower electrode and an upper electrode layered on the piezoelectric body, wherein a first metal layer is provided between the substrate and the lower electrode,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080248325 - Magnesium alloy part and production method thereof: A magnesium alloy part includes a part body composed of a magnesium alloy containing aluminum; a paint film at least partially covering the part body; and a magnesium fluoride layer provided immediately under the paint film. The magnesium alloy has an aluminum content of about 6.5 weight % or less.... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080248326 - Ai/ain joint material, base plate for power module, power module, and manufacturing method of ai/ain joint material: A base plate for a power module includes: a metal plate, a ceramic base plate joined to the metal plate, and a release agent provided in a joint surface between the metal plate and the ceramic base plate. A remaining amount of the release agent is less than 5 as... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080248327 - Method and system for making thin metal films: A method of forming a structure useful in all forms of deposited metals, elemental metals, metal alloys, metal compounds, metal systems, including refractory metals such as tungsten and tantalum is provided. The structure generally comprises a substrate, a first layer formed atop the substrate, and a second layer formed atop... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20080248328 - Process for preparing a zeolite-containing film: The invention provides a preparation process of a zeolite-containing film which can raise a zeolite component therein, control the physical properties of the surface, and provide a highly smooth film. The process for preparing a zeolite-containing film has a step of forming a precursor film containing an amorphous silicon oxide... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080248331 - Coating composition: The invention relates to organic coating compositions useful for photolithographic processes including the manufacture of semiconductors and other electronic devices. Compositions of the invention comprise component that comprise a nitrile-containing component, such as a resin component that contains nitrile moieties. Compositions of the invention are particularly useful as an underlayer... Agent: Peter F. Corless Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials LLC

20080248330 - Dendrimer with triphenylamine core, organic memory device having the same, and manufacturing method thereof: A dendrimer according to example embodiments may include a triphenylamine core, wherein a conjugated dendron having no heteroatoms is coupled to the triphenylamine core. An organic memory device according to example embodiments may include an organic active layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the organic active... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080248329 - Transition metal complex and light-emitting device: d

20080248332 - Synthetic resin card and method for producing the same: A synthetic resin card having a substantially planar core section and a first outer layer and a second outer layer laminated on front and back surfaces of the core section, respectively, the first outer layer and the second outer layer having molecular orientations, the difference Δ in the angle of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080248333 - Mold structure, imprinting method using the same, magnetic recording medium and production method thereof: The present invention provides a mold structure including: a concavo-convex pattern formed on its surface, wherein the mold structure is used for transferring the concavo-convex pattern onto an imprint resist layer formed on a surface of a substrate having a thickness of 0.3 mm to 2.0 mm by placing the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080248334 - Mold structure, imprinting method using the same, magnetic recording medium and production method thereof: To provide a mold structure which is excellent in the transfer quality of a pattern to a substrate and superior in its separability from an imprint resist layer and which allows a high-quality pattern to be transferred and formed on discrete track media and patterned media. Specifically, there is a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241426 - Liquid crystal alignment layer: This invention relates to a photopolymer mixture capable of use for a liquid crystal alignment layer and to an alignment layer formed from such a photopolymer mixture. The mixture comprises at least two polymerisable materials which are blended together in proportion so as to give a predetermined, preferably low, surface... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080241429 - Color filter and liquid crystal dislay panel using the same: A color filter including a substrate, a bank and a plurality of color filter films is provided. The bank is disposed on the substrate and has many openings. The bank has both a bottom surface contacting the substrate and a top surface exceeding the bottom surface. An outline of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080241427 - Liquid crystal display having improved wavelength dispersion characteristics: A multilayer optical retardation compensation film having at least one positive C-plate and at least one negative C-plate is used in an LCD device. The multilayer film may have a substantially flat wavelength dispersion curve, or the multilayer film combined with other layers in the LCD device may have a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080241428 - Optical compensation films with disk groups for liquid crystal display: Optical compensation films (positive C-plate) with disk anisotropic subunits (OASUs) that have high positive birefringence throughout the wavelength range 400 nm<λ<800 nm are provided. The optical compensation films may be processed by solution casting to yield a polymer film with high birefringence without the need for stretching, photopolymerization, or other... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080241431 - Polymerizable liquid crystal composition: Such a polymerizable liquid crystal composition is to be provided that is excellent in stability in a solution state, shows good coating property on a supporting substrate, and has a uniform homeotropic alignment property. The polymerizable liquid crystal composition contains an acrylate compound, an epoxy compound and a bisphenol fluorene... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080241430 - Cellulose compound composition, cellulose compound film, optically compensatory sheet, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device: A cellulose compound composition includes a cellulose compound that includes (A) an aliphatic acyl group having a carbon number of 5 to 30 and (B) an acyl group containing an aromatic group.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080241432 - Pocket wallpaper border with printed \"blank areas or regions\": A wallpaper border display apparatus having a wallpaper border, a blank region on the wallpaper border which is separately identifiable and distinguishable from the wallpaper border, and a receptacle attached to the blank region, the receptacle configured to receive therein an item and having a surface through which said item... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080241433 - Artificial hedge structure: An artificial hedge structure (10) comprising at least two panels, with each panel having a multiplicity of equidistant vertical members (26) and a multiplicity of equidistant horizontal spacers (28). A hinge assembly (44) comprising four hinge tabs (46), a hinge pin (50) and vertical spacers (52) is located between a... Agent: Albert O Cota

20080241435 - Non-transparent microvoided biaxially stretched film, its use in synthetic paper and an image recording element comprising same: A non-transparent microvoided biaxially stretched self-supporting non-laminated polymeric film, the film comprising linear polyester as a continuous phase and dispersed uniformly therein an amorphous high polymer comprising at least one chain-polymerized block with a higher glass transition temperature than the glass transition temperature of the continuous phase and isotactic poly(4-methyl-1-pentene),... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080241436 - Inkjet recording medium: An inkjet recording medium including a water-resistant support, and on the water-resistant support, two or more ink receiving layers including an upper ink receiving layer and a lower ink receiving layer, each of the two or more ink receiving layers containing a pseudo boehmite alumina hydrate, wherein the upper ink... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241437 - Inkjet recording medium and method of manufacturing the same: There are provided an inkjet recording medium having on a substrate an ink-receiving layer containing inorganic fine particles and a sulfur compound, with the sulfur compound being contained in a greater quantity in half of the ink-receiving layer at a side nearer to the substrate than in half of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241438 - Inkjet recording medium and method of manufacturing the same: An inkjet recording medium having on a substrate an ink-receiving layer containing inorganic fine particles and organic nitrogen-containing cationic polymer, with the organic nitrogen-containing cationic polymer being contained in a greater quantity in a half of the ink-receiving layer at a side nearer to the substrate (a near-substrate side) than... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241434 - Thermal transfer ink sheet, ink cartridge, coating composition for dye layer of thermal transfer ink sheet, and thermal transfer recording method:

20080241439 - Heat-sensitive transfer recording material and method of producing the same:

20080241440 - Detachably-affixable, flat components, in particular floor covering parts, and component: The invention relates to detachable, flat components (10, 12) that can be fastened to each other, in particular floor covering components. Each of said components has an edge region and said regions fit together by the displacement of the components in relation to one another, in such a way that... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080241445 - Flower vase and blank for the production thereof: Flower vase made of a watertight, cardboard-like material. Starting from a blank, after fold lines suitably applied have been introduced, a vase is obtained, which is watertight without glue or sealing techniques. In particular it is proposed to design the folding structure such that there are elastic material flaps in... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080241444 - Honeycomb structure and manufacturing method therefor: A honeycomb structure including a ceramic block having two ends. The ceramic block is formed of a plurality of honeycomb units having cell walls, which define a plurality of cells that extend from one end to the other end. The honeycomb units are bonded together by interposing bonding layers therebetween.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080241442 - Image input/output apparatus with free stop function and support arm therewith: A support arm is connected a main body and an open/closed body. An opening is disposed on the main body. The open/closed body is pivoted to the main body in a foldable manner. The support arm includes a connecting part connected to the open/closed body, and a wedge part connected... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080241441 - Overmolding of a tube head on a skirt end to give a tube with a high restitution rate: Manufacturing process for a flexible tube, in which a tubular blank is fitted around a punch so that an end portion of the tubular blank protrudes by a height H from the side wall of the punch; a die is brought up to the punch and the end portion is... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20080241443 - Topologically controlled composite structure: A composite structure is provided. In another aspect of the present invention, a composite structure has relative layer-to-layer fiber orientations of between approximately 5° and 15°, inclusive. A further aspect of the present invention employs relative fiber offset angles less than 30° on a curved section. Yet another aspect of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080241446 - Composite material and methods of filament winding, pultrusion and open molding that material: A composite material is provided. The composite material includes a continuous roving made from a material selected from a group consisting of natural fibers, mineral fibers, synthetic fibers, kenaf fibers, hemp fibers, carbon fibers, glass fibers, aramid fibers and mixtures thereof impregnated with a water-based matrix binder including gypsum, a... Agent: Owens Corning

20080241447 - Blow molded polyester container with an over-molded thermoplastic layer: The invention is directed to polyester containers that are produced from polyester preforms, the preforms preferably having a thermoplastic over-mold layer on at least a part of the exterior surface of the preform. The preform is made by over-molding the thermoplastic layer onto the preform surface in one or more... Agent: Colgate-palmolive Company

20080241448 - Resin coated seamless can: A resin-coated seamless can of the present invention is a resin-coated seamless can formed of a resin-coated metal sheet 1 which is produced by coating a polyester resin layer 3 containing polyethylene terephthalate onto a surface of a metal substrate 2, wherein the density of a polyester resin layer of... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080241449 - Hydrin rubber composition and heat-resistant hose using the same as material: A hydrin rubber composition free from nickel and excellent in heat aging resistance, ozone resistance, storage stability, and the like is provided which essentially contains the following components: (A) a hydrin rubber containing 10 to 40 mol % of ethylene oxide; (B) an amine-based antioxidant; (C) a phenol-based antioxidant; (D)... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080241450 - Thermoplastic polymer additive compositions: Use of a hindered amine light stabiliser as an additive in a thermoplastic moulding composition comprising polyethylene terephthalate and an acetaldehyde scavenger for reducing the degree of discolouration and/or degree of light transmission of a moulded article formed from the composition.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080241451 - Reinforced capollary membranes and process for manufacturing thereof: A process for manufacturing asymmetric braid reinforced capillary ultra- or micro-filtration membranes (1), including the subsequent steps of pulling a tubular braid (5) through a spinneret (7) and coating the braid with a dope. Prior to the coating step, the braid is impregnated with a non-coagulation liquid, being a liquid... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080241452 - Flame retardant adhesive composition, and adhesive sheet, coverlay film and flexible copper-clad laminate using same: p

20080241453 - Fragrance advertising assembly:

20080241454 - Folder or foldable sheet for fastening on a printed product or on another flat object: A folded or foldable sheet (1) which is divided by a fold line (2) into two fold parts (1.1 and 1.2), on the inner side of the one fold part (1.1) comprises an adhesive region (3), in which it is coated with a pressure-sensitive adhesive. In order for the sheet... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080241455 - Encapsulated members, and processes and apparatuses for forming same: An encapsulated member made with open molds for forming the exterior surface of the encapsulated member, wherein the encapsulation is accomplished with at least an outer skin configuration of a plastic, metal, ceramic or other moldable material for encapsulating pre-forms, reinforcements, sheeted materials, metallic pre-forms and other core materials that... Agent: Cargill & Associates, P.l.l.c.

20080241456 - Decorative sheet, decorative molded body, decorative key sheet, and decorative sheet manufacturing method: To provide a decorative sheet having enhanced durability of an edge portion of a soft feel layer and is unlikely damaged, a manufacturing method for a decorative sheet, a decorative molded body, and a decorative key sheet, a decorative sheet with a soft touch feeling has a foamed layer having... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080241457 - Interior trim component and method of forming the same: An interior trim component includes an aerated skin layer and a glass-reinforced urethane substrate layer. A method for manufacturing an interior trim component is also disclosed. The method includes the steps of aerating a skin layer into a molding tool and depositing a glass-reinforced urethane substrate layer over the aerated... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20080241459 - Needled woven and nonwoven layers: A material having a woven layer and a nonwoven layer needled together. The woven layer contains a plurality of interwoven polypropylene tape elements and the nonwoven layer contains a plurality of intermingled polyester fiber elements.... Agent: Legal Department (m-495)

20080241458 - Polyurethane carpet backings made using fatty acid amide polyols: Polyurethane carpet backings are made using a polyurethane-forming composition that includes fatty acid amide polyols. The formulation allows a significant replacement of conventional polyols with polyols derived from annually renewable resources, while maintaining important properties like edge curl, tuftbind, viscosity and curing rates.... Agent: The Dow Chemical Company

20080241461 - Resin film formed product and image forming apparatus: The object is to provide a resin film capable of retaining a predetermined bent shape, so that the resin film may be employed in a handy and effective manner in the image forming apparatus as such a component as a guide, a cover, etc. The resin film formed product includes... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080241460 - Trophy display apparatus: A trophy display apparatus includes a trophy display board unit. A ferro-magnetic plate can be connected to the trophy display board unit. A plurality of individual trophies, each having a trophy-attached magnet, are connected to the trophy display board unit by means of magnetic attraction between the ferro-magnetic plate and... Agent: John A. Porter, Jr.

20080241462 - Deflectable structure, micromechanical structure comprising same, and method for adjusting a micromechanical structure: A deflectable structure includes a layer having a first area and a second area, a trench structure in the layer which penetrates the layer and separates the first area from the second area, a first junction between the first area and the second area, and a second junction between the... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett , LLP

20080241463 - Promotional scarf: A fabric article made of at least four layers of fabric-such as fleece-with each of the fabric layers being a solid color selected from a combination of more than one color. The length portion of each fabric layer being greater than the width portion, e.g., five times longer than wide,... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski Market Square

20080241464 - Stable fiber laminate, and method and device for the production thereof: The invention relates to a fiber laminate comprising two supporting fleeces and an absorptive fiber material which is disposed between the two supporting fleeces and is strengthened by means of a hydroentanglement process. Also disclosed are a method and a device for producing such a fiber laminate. The inventive fiber... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080241465 - Catalyst carrier: A catalyst carrier includes a honeycomb structure where cells extending in a longitudinal direction are divided by cell walls; and a coating layer provided at a peripheral part of the honeycomb structure. The honeycomb structure and the coating layer contain at least one of inorganic fibers and whiskers. At least... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080241466 - Method of producing honeycomb structure and honeycomb structure: A method of producing a honeycomb structure includes a step of forming a ceramic block by bonding a plurality of honeycomb units that have a plurality of cells partitioned by cell walls using a bonding layer, or steps of forming a ceramic block of a single honeycomb unit and providing... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080241468 - Method of providing marking on a ceramic structure with a chemically reactive ink: A method is provided for marking a ceramic structure by applying a substance, such as an ink, onto a surface of a ceramic-forming green body structure, wherein the substance has an agent that chemically reacts with an ingredient of the green body structure during firing of the green body to... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20080241467 - Mixed particles and honeycomb structure for gas conversion apparatus: Mixed particles including noble metal particles of a noble metal, first particles of one or more metal oxides, and second particles of a metal oxide. The first particles of one or more metal oxides are selected from Al2O3, SiO2, ZrO2 and TiO2. The second particles of a metal oxide have... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080241469 - Etching structure: An etching structure includes a substrate, a to be etched filmcovering the principal surface of the substrate, and an exposure region exposing the principal surface of the substrate and obtained by removing a part of the to be etched film. A region of the to be etched film constitutes a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080241470 - Method for molding a profiled weatherstrip on a glazing: The invention relates to a process for molding a profiled bead (1) made of a plastics material composed of a plurality of components, especially of a polyurethane-based material, onto at least a peripheral part of a glazing unit (2) with the aid of at least one injection head (3), in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241471 - Organic el panel and method for manufacturing organic el panel: An organic EL panel including: a substrate; an organic EL device including an anode, an organic EL layer and a cathode layered on the substrate; and a sealing member for sealing the organic EL device on the substrate, and further including a drying agent layer that contacts the organic EL... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080241472 - Solar heat-reflective roofing granules, solar heat-reflective shingles, and process for producing same: Solar-reflective roofing granules having improved solar heat-resistance are formed by coating colored mineral particles with a coating composition including titanium dioxide nanoparticles.... Agent: Paul And Paul

20080241473 - Metallic fine particle dispersed film, and process for producing the same: The present invention is related to a process for producing a metallic fine particle dispersed film which includes metallic fine particles dispersed densely within a silicon oxide layer without aggregation. The process includes hydrolyzing and polycondensing an organosilane to form a silicon oxide layer with hydroxyl and/or alkoxide groups remaining... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241475 - Graphite-silicon carbide composite and making method: A graphite-silicon carbide composite comprises a graphite substrate and a silicon carbide layer formed thereon and comprising silicon carbide particles in fused and contact bonded state. The composite has excellent oxidation resistance and finds a wide range of application as heat resistant material. The method of forming a silicon carbide... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080241474 - Process for producing dispersion of hollow fine sio2 particles, coating composition and substrate with antireflection coating film: g

20080241476 - Asymmetric elastic film nonwoven laminate: An elastic nonwoven laminate comprising an elastic film layer extrusion laminated along at least one face to an asymmetric nonwoven web. The elastic film layer is extrusion laminated along a plurality of cross direction extending bond lines were the asymmetric nonwoven fibers are at least partially embedded into the extruded... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080241477 - Embossing of flexible sheet material: The present invention includes the application of heat and pressure to a flexible sheet: material, preferably a natural or synthetic animal hide, over a duration of time. A flexible sheet material having a raised design permanently embossed therein includes capturing the flexible sheet material between mating die halves, each die... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080241478 - Decorative products created by lazing graphics and patterns directly on substrates with painted surfaces: A painted surface is processed by a laser beam to remove at least one layer of paint. The surface that is exposed may be the raw substrate material, e.g., wood or wood laminate, or may be another painted surface. The laser may engrave a pattern, e.g. a wood grain pattern.... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20080241479 - Antifouling material and production method thereof: The subject of the invention is the use of a material composed of a substrate equipped with a coating based on titanium oxide surmounted by a thin hydrophilic layer forming at least one part of the outer surface of said material and that is not composed of titanium oxide, as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241481 - Decorative material: The present invention provides a decorative material that represents recesses and protrusions by means of difference in the state of luster of the surface, and does not allow an oily substance to infiltrate and remain therein.... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080241480 - Diamond films and methods of making diamond films: The present invention provides films and substrates coated with films that comprise a nano-crystalline diamond matrix that is substantially free of graphite inclusions. The present invention also provides a method of chemical vapor deposition to prepare the films. The method of chemical vapor deposition operates at a DC bias voltage... Agent: Everman Law Firm, Pa

20080241483 - Recording support: e

20080241482 - Rhodium electroplated structures and methods of making same: A halide based stress reducing agent is added to the bath of a rhodium plating solution. The stress reducing agent reduces stress in the plated rhodium, increasing the thickness of the rhodium that can be plated without cracking. In addition, the stress reducing agent does not appreciably decrease the wear... Agent: N. Kenneth Burraston Kirton & Mcconkie

20080241485 - Ink composition and image recording method and image recorded matter using same: where R1 represents an (m+n)-valent organic linking group, R2 represents a single bond or divalent organic linking group; A1 represents a monovalent organic group having a pigment adsorption structure that contains at least one selected from organic pigment structure, heterocyclic structure, acidic group, group having a basic nitrogen atom, urea... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241486 - Liquid crystal display device with evaluation patterns disposed thereon, and method for manufacturing the same: Direct exposure equipment having a multiple heads generally conducts overlapping exposure at an exposure area boundary between the heads. In such a case, if the heads are misaligned, a flaw will occur in a pattern shape at an area that is subject to overlapping exposure. To overcome this, TEGs are... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080241487 - System and method for rendering an image onto an object: A system and method for rendering an image onto an object is described which can provide an improved method for transferring images onto the surface of a three dimensional object. The image is created onto paper-based or vinyl-type material which is then applied to, or forms the surface of an... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080241484 - Patterned substrate and method for producing same: Disclosed is a patterned substrate having a conductor pattern. The conductor pattern is obtained by forming a layer (B) containing an organic polysilane on a conductive substrate (A), irradiating a certain region of the layer (B) with a radiation for oxidizing the organic polysilane constituting the layer (B) in the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241488 - Thermally conductive sheet and method of manufacturing the same: A thermally conductive sheet comprises a thermally conductive polymer layer, an adhesive layer provided on an outer surface of the thermally conductive polymer layer, and a thermal diffusion layer, which is a functional layer provided on the adhesive layer. The thermally conductive polymer layer is formed of a thermally conductive... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080241489 - Method of forming resist pattern and semiconductor device manufactured with the same: A method of forming a resist pattern through liquid immersion exposure in which exposure is performed such that a liquid film is formed between a substrate for a semiconductor device on which a processed film is formed and an objective lens arranged above the substrate is provided, and the substrate... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080241490 - Sprayable aerogel insulation: An insulation structure and a method for forming an insulation structure on a surface provide both mechanical integrity and insulative capabilities in applications and environments involving extreme temperatures and compressive forces. The insulation structure includes aerogel agglomerates formed by combining ceramic particles with aerogel particles. The insulation structure may further... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080241491 - Method of preparing a substrate having a layer or pattern of metal on it: A method and associated substrate is provided for applying a layer or pattern of metal on a substrate. The method includes providing a target substrate, immobilizing a layer of polymeric material on the target substrate, and applying and immobilizing a layer or pattern of metal on the layer of polymeric... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241492 - Ir-absorbing intaglio ink: Pasty ink for the engraved steel die printing process, having a viscosity value above 3 Pa·s, preferably above 5 Pa·s at 40° C., and comprising an infrared absorbing material, wherein said infrared absorbing material is a transition element compound whose IR-absorption is a consequence of electronic transitions within the d-shell... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20080241493 - Substrate structure and manufacturing method of the same: With TiN being a base material, TiN fine particles are deposited on a silicone substrate by, for example, a laser ablation method so that diameters of the TiN fine particles are about 3 nm, and thereafter, Co fine particles are deposited on the silicon substrate on which the TiN fine... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080241494 - Method to create an environmentally resistant soft armor composite: Fibrous substrates and articles that retain their superior ballistic resistance performance after exposure to liquids such as sea water and organic solvents, such as gasoline and other petroleum-based products. The fibrous substrates are coated with a multilayer polymeric coating including at least two different polymer layers wherein at least one... Agent: Richard S. Roberts Roberts & Roberts, L.L.P.

20080241496 - Diamond films and methods of making diamond films: The present invention provides films and substrates coated with films that comprise a nano-crystalline diamond matrix that is substantially free of graphite inclusions. The present invention also provides a method of chemical vapor deposition to prepare the films. The method of chemical vapor deposition operates at a DC bias voltage... Agent: Everman Law Firm, Pa

20080241495 - Magnetic publication apparatus: A magnetic publication apparatus is provided. The magnetic publication apparatus is comprised of a magnetic layer, which contacts a support containing a magnetic component, a substrate layer which contacts the magnetic layer, a publication layer, including a graphic, which serves as a guide for publication, and contacts the substrate layer,... Agent: Wasserman, Comden & Casselman, L.L.P.

20080241497 - Process for producing polyimide film, and polyimide film: A solution containing a silane coupling agent, in which 5% or more of the alkoxy group bound to an Si atom is hydrolyzed, and substantially no water, is applied to one side or both sides of a self-supporting film of a polyimide precursor solution, and then the self-supporting film is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080241498 - Lignocellulose-based molded product and process of making same: A lignocellulose-based molded product is made by mixing furan resin with steam-treated lignocellulose-based material, and molding the resulting mixture by applying heat and pressure.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080241499 - Method for treating a damaged porous dielectric: In the manufacture of electronic devices that use porous dielectric materials, the properties of the dielectric in a pristine state can be altered by various processing steps. In a method for restoring and preserving the pristine properties of a porous dielectric layer, a substrate is provided with a layer of... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080241500 - Multi-layer foil and packaging made of this foil: For the packaging of consumables and feed stuffs, which are to be protected from oxygen, however emit moisture, a multilayer foil is proposed, which includes at least one blocking layer and one sealing layer. The blocking layer is characterized by a high barrier function for gas, in particular oxygen, and... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080241501 - Honeycomb structure and method for manufacturing honeycomb structure: A honeycomb structure includes a plurality of pillar-shaped honeycomb fired bodies bound with one another by interposing a adhesive layer. Each of the honeycomb fired bodies has a large number of cells longitudinally placed in parallel with one another with a cell wall therebetween. An adhesive strength A between central... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080241502 - Molded body, method for producing the body and use thereof: A molded body comprises a film with a film thickness D ranging from 1 μm to 1000 μm, with at least one hollow structure configured into the film. Each hollow structure has an outside diameter d equal to at least double value of film thickness D, a height h is... Agent: Venable LLP

20080241504 - Coated asymmetric membrane system having oleophobic and hydrophilic properties: A porous membrane assembly includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a porous membrane substrate having hydrophobic properties. The membrane substrate includes a first side, an opposing second side and a plurality of pores extending therethrough. The membrane substrate also includes a discontinuous layer of an oleophobic coating applied to the first... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080241503 - Process for forming microporous membranes: A method for forming a microporous membrane having a microstructure is described. Dope and coagulant formulations are simultaneously cast, where the coagulant formulation diffuses into the dope formulation through an interface effecting a phase inversion forming a microstructure.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080241505 - Functional particle carried sheet and manufacturing method thereof: The invention provides a functional particle carried sheet constituted by a particle layer having a two-layer structure with a reduced pressure loss, in which a function of a functional particle is increased. The sheet is formed as a sharp shape in a peak portion and a trough portion of a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080241506 - Protected polymeric film: A protected polymeric film comprises a polymeric film substrate having a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface, and a protective structure provided on at least the first major surface of the substrate, wherein the protective structure comprises a layer of boron oxide and... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080241507 - Conductive tape and method for making the same: A conductive tape includes an adhesive layer and a base. The adhesive layer is formed on a surface of the base. The adhesive layer contains carbon nanoscale materials. A method for making the conductive tape includes the steps of: fabricating a carbon nanoscale material conductive solution and an adhesive agent;... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080241508 - Optical layered product: An optical layered product has a translucent substrate having at least an optically functional layer, containing translucent microparticles, provided directly or via another layer onto one or both sides of the substrate. The standard deviation of area dispersion variability of the translucent microparticles in the optically functional layer is in... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080241509 - Poly lactic acid and veneer laminar structure: A poly lactic acid and veneer laminar structure, in which a poly lactic acid layer is adhered to one surface or two surfaces of a wood veneer, thereby preventing the wood veneer from easily splitting apart, wherein the poly lactic acid is a polymer, the raw material of which is... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080241510 - Polyethylene resin with narrow particle size distribution: The present invention relates to a polyethylene resin comprising A) a first ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, and B) a second ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, wherein fraction (A) has a lower molecular weight than fraction (B), characterized in that the polymer resin powder obtained directly after the final polymerisation... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20080241512 - Articles with super-hydrophobic and-or super-hydrophilic surfaces and method of formation: The present invention is related to a chemical vapor deposition method of depositing layers of materials to provide super-hydrophilic surface properties, or super-hydrophobic surface properties, or combinations of such properties at various locations on a given surface. The invention also relates to electronic applications which make use of super-hydrophobic surface... Agent: Shirley L. Church, Esq.

20080241514 - Method for forming plating film, polymer member, and method for producing the same: A method for forming an electroless plating film on surfaces of various types of polymer members is provided, the electroless plating film being formed economically with high adhesion strength. The method for forming the plating film on the polymer member comprises preparing a polymer member including a metal substance, in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080241511 - Production of silver sulfate grains using inorganic additives: An aqueous precipitation process for the preparation of particles comprising primarily silver sulfate, comprising reacting an aqueous soluble silver salt and an aqueous soluble source of inorganic sulfate ion in an agitated precipitation reactor vessel and precipitating particles comprising primarily silver sulfate, wherein the reaction and precipitation are performed in... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080241513 - Rare earth magnet and manufacturing method thereof: A structure of a magnet wherein a magnet consisting of a magnetic body including iron and rare earths, a plurality of fluorine compound layers or oxyfluorine compound layers are formed interior of the magnetic body, and the fluorine compound layer or oxyfluorine compound layer has a major axis which is... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080241515 - Sliding member: In a sliding member, a coating layer containing a binder resin and a solid lubricant is formed on a surface of a bearing alloy layer or a base material. A flaky metal is added as a thermally conductive filler to the coating layer. The flaky metals are close to one... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080241516 - Photocatalytic colored roofing granules: Algae-resistant roofing granules include a mineral core; and an exterior coating including clay, colloidal silica, phosphate, a metal oxide, and a photocatalytic particulate having an average size under 100 nm.... Agent: Paul And Paul

20080241517 - Aluminum-plated components of semiconductor material processing apparatuses and methods of manufacturing the components: Aluminum-plated components of semiconductor material processing apparatuses are disclosed. The components include a substrate and an optional intermediate layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate. The intermediate layer includes at least one surface. An aluminum plating is formed on the substrate, or on the optional intermediate layer.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080241520 - Hydrophilic elements: The hydrophilic element comprising a base and a hydrophilic layer formed of an inorganic oxide on a surface of the base, the hydrophilic layer having a columnar structure composed of columns that form angles of 10 to 70 degrees with respect to a line normal to the base, exhibits not... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241518 - Organic electroluminescence element: An organic electroluminescence element having at least one organic layer including a light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes, wherein the organic electroluminescence element has an electron transport layer containing a phosphine oxide compound and an electron transport layer that does not substantially contain the phosphine oxide compound between the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080241519 - Semiconductor wafer and process for its production: a monocrystalline first oxide layer (3) having a cubic Ia-3 crystal structure, a composition of (M12O3)1-x(M22O3)x wherein each of M1 and M2 is a metal and wherein 0≦x≦1, and a lattice constant which differs from the lattice constant of the material of the substrate wafer by 0% to 5%. The... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080241521 - Oxygen absorbing plastic structure: Multilayer oxygen absorbing structure comprising at least two reactive oxygen scavenging layers arranged in sequence: a rapidly absorbing highly reactive oxygen-scavenging system, comprising an oxygen permeable matrix polymer and an oxygen scavenger, and a long life layer comprising high passive oxygen barrier matrix polymer, and an oxygen scavenger.... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080241522 - Thermal spraying powder, thermal spray coating, and hearth roll: A thermal spraying powder contains 30 to 50% by mass of chromium carbide with the remainder being an alloy containing chromium, aluminum, yttrium, and at least one of cobalt and nickel. The thermal spraying powder has an average particle size of 20 to 60 μm. The thermal spraying powder may... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20080241524 - Protective film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device: The present invention provides a protective film which achieves high surface hardness and low moisture permeability, a polarizing plate using the protective film, and a liquid crystal display device having a high surface hardness and excellent durability using the polarizing plate. The protective film of the present invention contains a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080241526 - Semiconductor light-emitting device having stacked transparent electrodes: This application is related to a semiconductor light-emitting device including a substrate, a semiconductor epitaxial layer over the substrate and having a first surface distant from the substrate, a first transparent conductive layer formed on the first surface, and a second transparent conductive layer formed on the first transparent conductive... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080241525 - Stamper for optical information recording medium, master for magnetic transfer, and manufacturing methods thereof: A method of manufacturing a stamper for an optical information recording medium comprises the steps of: preparing a mother stamper having a surface layer in which a grooved pattern is formed; forming a conductive layer on the mother stamper; and forming an electroplating layer on the conductive layer by electroplating... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241523 - Substrate, such as a glass substrate, with a hydrophobic surface and improved durability of hydrophobic properties: The invention relates to a substrate of which at least one part of the surface thereof has been rendered hydrophobic and, for said purpose, has a hydrophobic surface structure consisting of an essentially-mineral silicon-containing sub-layer and an outer layer comprising a hydrophobic agent which is grafted onto said sub-layer. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241527 - Abradable and anti-encrustation coating for rotating fluid machines: An abradable and anti-encrustation coating is described for a rotating fluid machine (10) of the type comprising a casing (12), in which a shaft (14) equipped with at least one rotor (16) having a series of circumferential vanes (18) is rotatingly assembled and at least one diffuser (20) integral with... Agent: General Electric Company Global Patent Operation

20080241528 - Polyester-amide based hot melt adhesives: The use of a polyester-amide in a hot melt adhesive formulation, wherein the polyester-amide includes a short aliphatic dicarboxylic acid functionality and a short symmetrical, crystallizing amid diol functionality.... Agent: The Dow Chemical Company

20080241529 - Flameproofed adhesive and sealing materials: e

20080241530 - Antimicrobial, antifungal and antiviral rayon fibers: The invention provides an antimicrobial, antifungal and antiviral polymeric material, comprising rayon fibers and a single antimicrobial, antifungal and antiviral component consisting essentially of microscopic water insoluble particles of copper oxide incorporated in said fibers wherein a portion of said particles in said fibers are exposed and protruding from the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080241531 - Viral fibers: Long rod shaped M13 viruses were used to fabricate one dimensional (1D) micro- and nanosized diameter fibers by mimic the spinning process of the silk spider. Liquid crystalline virus suspensions were extruded through the micrometer diameter capillary tubes in cross-linking solution (glutaraldehyde). Resulting fibers were tens of micrometers in diameter... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080241532 - Composition for yarns, yarns possessing improved properties and use of these yarns: The invention relates to a composition for yarns, fibres or filaments which can be deposited on these yarns, fibres or filaments in order to improve the properties of these yarns, fibres or filaments, in particular the resistance to abrasion. The invention also relates to a process for producing these yarns,... Agent: Jean-louis Seugnet Rhodia Inc.

20080241534 - Fluorine-containing resin for electric wire jacket and electric wire jacket produced from same: The present invention provides a fluorine-containing resin being excellent in mold-processability and providing an electric wire jacket having excellent flame retardance, low smoke releasing property, flexibility and mechanical properties. The fluorine-containing resin is a resin for an electric wire jacket substantially comprising, as a resin component, only a fluorine-containing copolymer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241533 - Sizing compositions and glass fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites: The present invention relates to sizing compositions, glass fibers at least partially coated with sizing compositions, and glass fiber reinforced composite materials. In one embodiment, a sizing composition comprises at least one maleic anhydride copolymer, at least one coupling agent, and a reaction product of an alkoxylated amine and a... Agent: J. Jason Link, Esquire Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080241535 - D1364 bt secondary coatings on optical fiber: The invention relates to a Radiation Curable Secondary Coating composition for use on an Optical Fiber. The Radiation Curable Secondary Coating composition is a urethane-free Alpha Oligomer prepared by reaction of the following: (a) an acrylate compound selected from an alcohol-containing acrylate or alcohol-containing methacrylate compound, (b) an anhydride compound,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080241536 - Method for processing cellulose in ionic liquids and fibers therefrom: The present application is directed to a process of dissolving cellulose in an ionic liquid, regenerating the fibers and forming a nonwoven web. In particular it is directed to fibers produced from cellulose dissolved in ionic solvents and extruded by the meltblowing process. Bonded nonwoven webs can be obtained in... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20080241537 - Transparent, reinforced, composite fiber and articles made therefrom: A transparent, reinforced, composite polymeric fiber that has a polymeric body portion made from a first thermoplastic polymer that is transparent to visible light. The fiber includes polymeric reinforcement elements embedded within the polymeric body portion. The polymeric body portion extends between and about the polymeric reinforcement elements. Each polymeric... Agent: U.s. Army Soldier Systems Center

20080241538 - Filament bundle type nano fiber and manufacturing method thereof: A filament type nano-sized long fiber and a method of producing the same are disclosed. In the method, a spinning solution or a spinning melt is electro-spun in drops using a spinneret to which a critical voltage is applied, and the spun drops are continuously collected on a multi-collector. The... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080241539 - Glass fiber package, method for packing of glass fiber and glass fiber product using the same: A glass fiber package of the present invention includes a glass fiber aggregate which contains alkali-containing glass wool fiber having an average fiber size of 5 μm or less and containing 5% or more by weight of alkali metal oxide components is packed in a compressed state so as to... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080241540 - Method for producing solid ceramic particles using a spray drying process: Methods for producing solid, substantially round, spherical and sintered particles from a slurry of a calcined, uncalcined or partially calcined raw material having an alumina content of greater than about 40 weight percent. The slurry is processed with spray drying methods into solid, substantially round, spherical and sintered particles having... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080241541 - Elastic laminates having fragrance releasing properties and methods of making the same: An elastic laminate having fragrance releasing microcapsules embedded within a nonwoven web layer of the laminate is generally disclosed. The elastic laminate is configured to release the encapsulated fragrance upon stretching the laminate. The elastic laminate can continue to release fresh fragrance even after the first stretching force is applied,... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080241543 - Silver/carbon-based material and method for producing the same:

20080241542 - Tungsten oxide photocatalyst: To provide a tungsten oxide photocatalyst which shows a high photocatalytic activity by irradiating with visible light even under the environment where ultraviolet light is not irradiated, the tungsten oxide photocatalyst has tungsten oxide particles and Pt particles having a primary particle size of 3 to 20 nm supported on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241544 - Dispersion of metal oxide fine particles and method for producing the same: To provide a method for producing a dispersion of metal oxide fine particles including subjecting a titanium oxide precursor to heat treatment in the presence of an acid so as to prepare a dispersion of titanium oxide fine particles, mixing a metal oxide precursor with the dispersion of titanium oxide... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241545 - Thermal interface material and method for fabricating the same: A thermal interface material includes an array of carbon nanotubes with interspaces defined therebetween; and a low melting point metallic material filled in the interspaces. A method for fabricating a thermal interface material, the method includes (a) providing an array of carbon nanotubes with interspaces defined therebetween; and (b) depositing... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080241546 - Machining features in laser shock peened regions: A method for laser shock peening an article includes laser shock peening the article forming at least one pre-stressed region having deep compressive residual stresses imparted by the laser shock peening and machining a feature into article in the pre-stressed region after the laser shock peening. The feature may be... Agent: Steven J. Rosen

20080241547 - Methods of laser surface modification of ceramic packages for underfill spread control and structures formed thereby: Methods and associated structures of forming a microelectronic device are described. Those methods may include heating a portion of a ceramic substrate adjacent to a C4 area with a defocused laser, wherein a smooth region of the substrate is created, and applying an underfill material to the C4 area, wherein... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080241548 - Laminated material and method for producing the same, wave plate, and optical film: A laminated material, method for producing thereof, wave plate, and optical film are provided. A laminated material includes a plurality of members bonded together, each of the members including a polymer material. At least one of bonded surfaces of the members bonded together is subjected to a corona treatment.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080241549 - Method for forming uv-patternable conductive polymer film and conductive polymer film formed by the same: Example embodiments provide a method for forming a UV-patternable conductive polymer film. According to the method, vapor-phase polymerization (VPP) may be employed to synthesize a conductive polymer and a UV-curable polymer resin may be used as a binder to form a conductive polymer film. Example embodiments also provide a conductive... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080241550 - Photocatalytic coating: a

20080241551 - Graded glass/zirconia/glass structures for damage resistant ceramic dental and orthopedic prostheses: The present invention provides a functionally graded glass/ceramic/glass sandwich system for use in damage resistant, ceramic and orthopedic prosthesis. The functionally graded glass/substrate/glass composite structure comprises an outer residual glass layer, a graded glass-ceramic layer, and a dense interior ceramic. The functionally graded glass/substrate/glass composite structure may further comprise a... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20080241552 - Solder alloy and glass bonded body using the same: e

20080241553 - Silicon-containing ethylene-based polymer blends, methods for making same, and articles made therefrom: The present invention relates to polymer blends comprising: (a) from 5 wt % to 95 wt % of a HDPE having a density from 0.941 g/cm3 to 0.980 g/cm3 and an I22 of 10 dg/min or more; and (b) from 95 wt % to 5 wt % of a grafted... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20080241554 - Hard coat film: One example of the present invention is a hard coat film in which a hard coat liquid is caked and forms a hard coat layer (D) stacked on at least one side of a triacetylcellulose film (A), the hard coat liquid contains a solvent (E) in which the triacetylcellulose film... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080241556 - Composite structure and method for forming the same: A composite structure forming method comprises the steps of first pre-treating brittle material fine particles to impart an internal strain to the brittle material fine particles, secondly causing the brittle material fine particles in which the internal strain has been created to collide with a substrate surface at high speed... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080241557 - Hydrophilic member and undercoating composition: A hydrophilic member includes: a substrate; a first layer and a hydrophilic layer in this order, wherein the first layer contains a polymer and is joined with the substrate and the hydrophilic layer by a chemical bond; and the hydrophilic layer contains a hydrophilic polymer and a metal element selected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080241558 - Method for forming corrosion-resistant film and high-temperature apparatus member: There is provided a method for forming a corrosion-resistant protective film, which can preventing peel off of the protective film and enables long-term stable use of the film under high-temperature conditions. The corrosion-resistant film forming method includes the steps of: carrying out Ni (or Ni—B) plating of a surface of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080241555 - Strained metal nitride films and method of forming: A method for forming a strained metal nitride film and a semiconductor device containing the strained metal nitride film. The method includes exposing a substrate to a gas containing a metal precursor, exposing the substrate to a gas containing a first nitrogen precursor configured to react with the metal precursor... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241559 - Dendrimer having metallocene core, organic memory device using the same and manufacturing method thereof: Disclosed herein is a dendrimer, in which metallocene, which is an oxidation-reduction material, is located at a core, and a conjugated dendron is connected to the metallocene core by a linker compound, an organic active layer having the dendrimer, an organic memory device having the organic active layer and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080241560 - Ceramic thermal barrier coating: A ceramic thermal barrier coating (8) for coating the surface (7) of a component (1) of a nickel-based superalloy, and an adhesive coating optionally applied thereon (6), preferably a gas turbine component, includes zirconium oxide (ZrO2) stabilized by yttrium oxide (Y2O3) and production-related impurities, as well as at least one... Agent: Cermak Kenealy & Vaidya LLP

20080241561 - Organic light emitting display device and method of fabricating the same: An organic light emitting display device and a method of fabricating the same, in which a resonance effect is suppressed and transmittance is substantially the same in a wavelength band of visible light. The organic light emitting display device includes: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080241562 - Impact-modified polyamide film: Films made from impact-modified polyamide.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241564 - Circuit architecture on an organic base and related manufacturing method: A method comprises providing a bottom electrode, depositing, on the bottom electrode, an active material comprising a first structural portion having an absorption peak at a UV wavelength, wherein such first structural portion is photo-activatable at such wavelength and which is constituted by monomers or oligomers that, when irradiated at... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080241563 - Polymer substrate for electronic components: In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a method for fixedly and electronically coupling an electronic component to a polymer substrate. In this embodiment, a polymer substrate is received. The polymer substrate has an electronic component disposed proximate a bonding agent which is coupled to the polymer substrate. The present... Agent: Synaptics C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20080241566 - Damping composition with improved bakability: Compositions for damping the vibration of mechanical components, such as those used in vehicles, are disclosed and described. The compositions comprise a water-based polymer resin and a drying control agent. The drying control agent minimizes the occurrence of cracks and swelling in the damping coating films when the coating films... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080241565 - Optical compensation films with birefringence enhancing substituents for liquid crystal display: Optical compensation films (positive C-plate) with anisotropic subunits (OASUs) that are aromatic rings substituted with birefringence enhancing substituents (BES) and have high positive birefringence throughout the wavelength range 400 nm<λ<800 nm are provided. The optical compensation films may be processed by solution casting to yield a polymer film with high... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080241567 - Frosting methods, frosted articles, & frosting liquids: A solid frosted article including, in certain aspects, a substrate, a film formed on the substrate, the film made with a frosting coating, the frosting coating including thermoset acrylic resin, polymethyl methacrylate, polyacrylate copolymer, methylated melamine-formaldehyde resin, and any two or all three of an adhesion promoter, an ultraviolet light... Agent: Guy Mcclung

20080241568 - Manufacturing method of metal product and metal product: In sintering a metal powder after pressure molding into a given configuration, random amorphous flaky metal fine powders (10) are used as metal powder materials. In addition, spherical particulate metal powders 11 are used as main materials, and random amorphous flaky metal fine powders 10 having finer particle size than... Agent: Venable LLP

20080241569 - Encapsulation of raman active nanoparticles: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for coating nanoparticles with polymeric coatings and nanoparticles that are coated with polymeric coatings. The polymeric coatings typically comprise two or more layers wherein the first layer has a charge that is opposite to that of the second layer. In further embodiments, the... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080241570 - Method for fabricating a medical component from a material having a high carbide phase and such medical component: A method of fabricating a medical implant component. The method may comprise producing a substrate from a first material in which the substrate has a bearing portion, and causing particles of a second material to be formed onto at least the bearing portion of the substrate. The second material may... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080241571 - Clamshell chassis assembly: A method of manufacturing a chassis is provided. The method comprises casting a first segment having a plurality of connected walls such that a window is cast in each of two of the plurality of connected walls in the first segment; casting a second segment having a plurality of connected... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080241572 - Bonding method of dissimilar materials made from metals and bonding structure thereof: Disclosed is a bonding method for dissimilar materials made from metals and its resulting structures. The materials to be bonded are formed by layering three or more sheets such that a dissimilar material interface and a same material interface are formed. A first current is conducted between a three-sheet layered... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20080241573 - Self cleaning aluminum alloy substrates: Self-cleaning aluminum alloy substrates and methods of making the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a substrate is provided, the substrate including an aluminum alloy body, an anodic oxide zone having micropores within a surface of the aluminum alloy body, the anodic oxide zone being substantially impermeable to contaminants, and... Agent: Intellectual Property

20080241575 - Selective aluminum doping of copper interconnects and structures formed thereby: Methods and associated structures of forming a microelectronic device are described. Those methods may include heating a substrate comprising a patterned metallic region to about 145 C or below in a reaction space, introducing an aluminum co-reactant into the reaction space, wherein an aluminum material is formed on the patterned... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080241574 - Semiconductor device having structure with sub-lithography dimensions: A method for forming a semiconductor device is provided including processing a wafer having a first layer and a second layer, the second layer is over the first layer, forming a vertical post from a sidewall spacer formed from the second layer, forming a filler over the first layer and... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080241576 - Composite materials: Light weight composites with high flexural strength comprise epoxy foam sandwiched between two layers of facing material have high strength and low weight and can be used to replace steel structures. The facing layer may be fibrous material especially glass or carbon fibres, the facing material is preferably embedded into... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20080241577 - Conversion coatings including alkaline earth metal fluoride complexes: An aqueous composition for pretreating and depositing a coating on metal substrates is provided. The coating composition includes from about 1,500 to about 55,000 ppm based on the aqueous composition of a Group IIA dissolved metal ion, from about 100 to about 200,000 ppm based on the aqueous composition of... Agent: Ppg Industries Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080241578 - Halogen-free flame retardant epoxy resin composition, prepreg, and copper clad lamination: Disclosed is an epoxy resin composition featured by comprising a phosphate with phenolic or benzoxazine groups for enhancing flame retardancy. The phosphate used herein has higher molecular weight and higher viscosity than conventional ones. Because the phosphate is able to react with the epoxy resin at high temperatures, greater amounts... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080241579 - Method for casting a component: A cast component having localized areas of improved physical properties is disclosed. The component may initially be produced having a void portion in a predetermined area requiring improved physical properties. A second molten material may be added to the void portion such that it chemically bonds to the void portion.... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20080241580 - Filler metal composition and method for overlaying low nox power boiler tubes: An alloy for use as a welding overlay for boiler tubes in a low NOx coal-fired boiler comprising in % by weight: 36 to 43% Cr, 0.2 to 5.0% Fe, 0-2.0% Nb, 0-1% Mo, 0.3 to 1% Ti, 0.5 to 2% Al, 0.005 to 0.05% C, 0.005 to 0.020% (Mg+Ca),... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080241581 - Epitaxial layer structures and precursors for topotactic anion exchange oxide films: This invention disclosure describes methods for the fabrication of metal oxide films on surfaces by topotactic anion exchange, and laminate structures enabled by the method. A precursor metal-nonmetal film is deposited on the surface, and is subsequently oxidized via topotactic anion exchange to yield a topotactic metal-oxide product film. The... Agent: Ryndak & Suri LLP

20080241582 - Multi-ply cookware with copper-aluminum-stainless steel: Multi-ply composite cookware consisting of different metal combinations to include the beauty of copper on the exterior coupled with its excellent heat distribution/conductivity properties within the interior to provide thermally efficient, durable and cosmetically pleasing cookware. In several embodiments of the present invention, a layer of silver is also preferably... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080241583 - High chromium ferritic steel with 0.5 atomic % hafnium, part of which is ion implanted: The application relates to the problem of improving the corrosion resistance and creep properties of standard Cr-steels like E911 (table 1) at high temperatures. To solve this problem, a method of adding up to 0.5 atomic % Hf both during casting or molding and by ion implantation is provided. The... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20080241584 - Hardfacing alloy, methods and products: Disclosed is a hardfacing alloy capable of withstanding service abrasion of the order of silicious earth particles and weldable on industrial products, such as tool joints and stabilizers used in oil and gas well drilling, and other industrial products. The hardfacing alloy has a low coefficient of friction resulting from... Agent: Strasburger & Price, LLP Attn:IPSection

20080241585 - Voltage non-linear resistance ceramic composition and voltage non-linear resistance element: As for the voltage non-linear resistance element layer 2, a sintered body having ZnO as a main component is used. In this sintered body, Pr, Co, Ca, and either Cu or Ni are added. The ranges are; 0.05 to 5.0 atm % of Pr, 0.1 to 20 atm % of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080241587 - Film-forming apparatus and film-forming method: For increasing the film-forming rate and enabling uniform film formation and waste elimination of raw material, a film-forming method and a film-forming apparatus can reach an evaporated film-forming material to a surface of a substrate by the flow of a transport gas so as to control the film-forming conditions by... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080241586 - Light emitting element and light emitting device using the same: An object of the prevent invention is to provide a light emitting element having slight increase in driving voltage with accumulation of light emitting time. Another object of the invention is to provide a light emitting element having slight increase in resistance with increase in film thickness. In an aspect... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20080241590 - Method of coating sulfide phosphor and light emitting device employing coated sulfide phosphor: A method of coating phosphor powder with a composite oxide, and a light emitting device that employs the phosphor powder coated with the composite oxide are disclosed. The method includes mixing a silicon oxide precursor and a precursor of another oxide in water and alcohol to form a primary coating... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080241588 - Organic electroluminescence device and display: In an organic electroluminescence device including a cathode and an anode, at least an emitting layer and an electron transporting layer are provided between the cathode and the anode. The emitting layer contains a host material formed of a naphthacene derivative represented by the following formula (1) and a dopant... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241591 - Organic electroluminescence device and phenylenediamine derivative: The invention is to provide an organic EL device having a long life time that can reduce the driving voltage of the organic EL device, and to provide a material having a small ionization potential and exhibiting a large hole mobility by using as a layer or a zone. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241589 - Organic electroluminescent device: An organic electroluminescent device is provided and includes: a pair of electrodes; and an organic compound layer between the pair of electrodes, the organic compound layer including a light-emitting layer. The at least one organic compound layer contains at least one of a compound represent by formula (I) and a... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080241592 - Organic electroluminescent device: An organic electroluminescent device includes a light-emitting layer containing at least one host material and at least one luminescent dopant serving as a guest. The host material is a polymer having repeating units linked to each other by non-conjugated bonds and the luminescent dopant is a Π-conjugated oligomer.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080241594 - Novel compound and organic thin film transistor:

20080241593 - Polyparaxylylene composite film: The present invention provides a composite film that excels in strength, even if its area is large, and in handleability, and has longer operating life. The present invention is a composite film including: a first film that contains at least one selected from the group consisting of metallic oxides, metallic... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080241595 - Magnetic recording medium: A magnetic recording medium includes a soft magnetic underlayer formed on a substrate, magnetic patterns made of a ferromagnetic material and provided separately on the soft magnetic underlayer, and a nonmagnetic layer including two sublayers or more of a same material and formed on the soft magnetic underlayer between the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080241596 - Magnetoresistive multilayer film: This application discloses a magnetoresistive multilayer film having the structure where an antiferromagnetic layer, a pinned-magnetization layer, a non-magnetic spacer layer and a free-magnetization layer are laminated in this order. An opposite-side layer is provided on the side of the antiferromagnetic layer opposite to the pined-magnetization layer. The opposite-side layer... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080241597 - Radio-frequency oscillator with spin-polarised current: This radio-frequency oscillator includes a magnetoresistive device in which a spin-polarised electric current flows. This device comprises a stack of at least a first so-called “anchored” magnetic layer having a fixed magnetisation direction, a second magnetic layer, an amagnetic layer inserted between the above-mentioned two layers, intended to ensure magnetic... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080241598 - Magnetic random access memory having magnetoresistive element with nonmagnetic metal layer: A magnetic random access memory in which a plurality of magnetoresistive elements are laid out in an array, the magnetoresistive element includes a lower ferromagnetic layer, an upper ferromagnetic layer which has a planar shape smaller than a planar shape of the lower ferromagnetic layer, a first nonmagnetic insulating layer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241599 - Carbonic acid ester and magnetic recording medium: (In the formula, R1 and R2 independently denote a saturated hydrocarbon group, R1 is a branched chain, and R2 is a straight or branched chain). There is also provided a magnetic recording medium that includes a non-magnetic support and, above the support, at least one magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241600 - Magnetic recording medium and process for producing the same: The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium wherein a fine non-magnetic inorganic powder, the dispersibility of which is improved, is used to improve the surface smoothness of a lower non-magnetic layer, thereby giving an excellent surface smoothness of an upper magnetic layer and electromagnetic conversion property; and a production... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241601 - Mold structure, imprinting method using the same, magnetic recording medium and production method thereof: The present invention provides a mold structure including: a concavo-convex pattern formed on its surface, wherein the mold structure is used for transferring the concavo-convex pattern onto an imprint resist layer formed on a surface of a substrate having a thickness of 0.3 mm to 2.0 mm by placing the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080241602 - Magnetic recording medium and process for producing the same: The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium wherein both of a reduction in the particle diameter of a ferromagnetic powder and an increase in the filling ratio of the powder in a magnetic layer are attained and the magnetic layer is excellent in surface smoothness and electromagnetic conversion property.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080241603 - Magnetic disk glass substrate: e