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20080230469 | DRAIN FILTER ASSEMBLY - The disclosure relates to a drain filter assembly that attempts to prevent drain blockages from forming by collecting particles such as food, hair and lint prior to entering the drain. In one embodiment, the filter assembly for filtering fluid passing into a drain comprises a housing and a filter. The housing has an upper portion, a lower portion adjacent the drain, and a perimeter surrounding the drain. The perimeter includes a plurality of openings having a height extending from the lower portion. The filter is adjacent the drain. The filter is contained within the perimeter of the housing. | 09-25-2008 |
20080300339 | POLYMERIC BEADS AND METHODS OF MAKING POLYMERIC BEADS - Polymeric beads and methods of making the polymeric beads are described. The polymeric beads are crosslinked hydrogels or dried hydrogels. The polymeric beads are formed from droplets of a precursor composition that are exposed to radiation. The droplets are totally surrounded by a gas phase. The precursor composition contains a polar solvent and a polymerizable material miscible in the polar solvent. The polymerizable material has an average number of ethylenically unsaturated groups per monomer molecule equal to at least 1.2. | 12-04-2008 |
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20110077358 | Functional Polymer With Pendant Color Changing Indicator - A functionalized polymer is disclosed that comprises the reaction product of a polymer having one or more pendant reactive functional groups and a color changing indictor having a co-reactive functional group. The co-reactive functional group of the color changing is able to react with the reactive functional group of the polymer to form a covalent bond. Therefore, the color changing indicator is pendant from the polymer. The color changing indicator maintains its ability to produce a visually discernable color change in the presence of an associated stimulus. | 03-31-2011 |
20120010327 | COATING COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME - Compositions include an aqueous continuous liquid phase and core-shell particles dispersed in the aqueous continuous liquid phase. Each core-shell particle includes a polymer core surrounded by a shell consisting essentially of nonporous spherical silica particles disposed on the polymer core, wherein the nonporous spherical silica particles have a volume average particle diameter of 60 nanometers or less. Methods of making and using the compositions to coat a substrate are also disclosed. | 01-12-2012 |
20120029141 | AQUEOUS COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING SPHERICAL SILICA PARTICLES AND METHOD OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME - Compositions include a polymer and silica nanoparticles dispersed in an aqueous continuous liquid phase. The polymer is a water-soluble copolymer of acrylic acid and an acrylamide, or a salt of the same. Methods of making and using the compositions to coat a substrate are also disclosed. | 02-02-2012 |
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20100321835 | SELF-ALIGNED, TRAILING EDGE PARTIAL SIDE SHIELD AND METHOD OF MAKING - A magnetic writer includes a write pole, a first partial shield and a second partial shield. The write pole has a leading edge, a trailing edge, a first side and a second side. The first partial side shield is located on the first side of the write pole, and the second partial side shield is located on the second side of the write pole. The first partial side shield and the second partial side shield extend along side of the write pole from the trailing edge to a location intermediate that trailing edge and the leading edge so that the first partial side shield and the second partial side shield do not shield the leading edge. | 12-23-2010 |
20110006033 | Magnetic Device Definition with Uniform Biasing Control - A method of fabricating a magnetic device is described. A mask removing layer is formed on a layered sensing stack and a hard mask layer is formed on the mask removing layer. A first reactive ion etch is performed with a non-oxygen-based chemistry to define the hard mask layer using an imaged layer formed on the hard mask layer as a mask. A second reactive ion etch is performed with an oxygen-based chemistry to define the mask removing stop layer using the defined hard mask layer as a mask. A third reactive ion etch is performed to define the layered sensing stack using the hard mask layer as a mask. The third reactive ion etch includes an etching chemistry that performs at a lower etching rate on the hard mask layer than on the layered sensing stack. | 01-13-2011 |
20110007425 | MAGNETIC SENSOR WITH COMPOSITE MAGNETIC SHIELD - A magneto-resistive reader includes a first magnetic shield element, a second magnetic shield element and a magneto-resistive sensor stack separating the first magnetic shield element from the second magnetic shield element. The first shield element includes two ferromagnetic anisotropic layers separated by a grain growth suppression layer. | 01-13-2011 |
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20140326972 | PHOSPHORESCENT ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES WITH HIGH EFFICIENCY AND BRIGHTNESS - An organic light emitting device including a) an anode; b) a cathode; and c) an emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the emissive layer comprising an organic host compound and a phosphorescent compound exhibiting a Stokes Shift overlap greater than 0.3 eV. The organic light emitting device may further include a hole transport layer disposed between the emissive layer and the anode; and an electron transport layer disposed between the emissive layer and the cathode. In some embodiments, the phosphorescent compound exhibits a phosphorescent lifetime of less than 10 μs. In some embodiments, the concentration of the phosphorescent compound ranges from 0.5 wt. % to 10 wt. %. | 11-06-2014 |