Sabic Global Technologies B.v.

General Electric Company

Tesla, Inc.

Corning Incorporated

Michael Matthew Laurin

Christianus Johannes Jacobus Maas

Charlie Woodrow Wood

Javier Verdura

Franz Von Holzhausen

Michael Kane Pilliod

Matthew Frank Niemeyer

Scott Michael Davis

Gabrie Hoogland

Frans Adriaansen

Radu I Muntean

Christos Gougoussis

Caroline Park

Scott Tandoi

Paul Honigfort

Dante Lamastra

Adelbert Hermannus Leonardus Groothuis

Kate Kuzina

Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo

Daniel R Olson

Bret Ja Chisholm

James Norman Cawse

Michael John Moore

Chinniah Thiagarajan

George F Medford

Michael John Davis

Safwat Ebeid Tadros

Rein Mollerus Faber

Anurag Jain

Michael Aaron McDonald

Sandeep Kumar Dhawan

Hariklia Dris Reitz

Jian Zhou

Mohammad Moniruzzaman

Bernd Jansen

Craig Lawrence Milne

Yuanqing He

Manish K Nandi

Constantin Donea

Przemyslaw Olszynski

Shuailei Ma

Andrei Sharygin

Jamuna Chakravarti

Hendrik Cornelis Jacobus De Nooijer

Amit Israeli

Hochul Jung

Keshav Gautum

David Clinnin

A solar panel includes a plurality of photovoltaic cells embedded in a layer of encapsulant. A textured and/or colored layer is positioned on a back side of the layer of encapsulant. The textured and/or colored layer matches a color and/or texture of the plurality of photovoltaic cells. A top layer is positioned on a front side of the layer of encapsulant.

Obscuring, color matching, and camouflaging solar panels

A fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composition includes a polypropylene polymer component including a low flow grade polypropylene and a high flow grade polypropylene, and a fiber reinforcement component. The fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composition is capable of being vacuum formed. In another aspect a thermoplastic composition includes a homopolymer component including polypropylene, a co-polymer component, an impact modifier, and one or more of a flame retardant component and a fiber reinforcement component. The thermoplastic composition is capable of being vacuum formed. The fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composition may be formed into an article such as an enclosure for an electrical component, and it may be chemically resistant to a medical grade cleaner.

Glass-filled polypropylene compositions

A solar panel includes a backsheet layer, a bottom encapsulant layer adjacent the backsheet layer, a plurality of photovoltaic cells adjacent the bottom encapsulant layer, a top encapsulant layer adjacent the plurality of photovoltaic cells having a plurality of louvers constructed therein to block side view of the plurality of photovoltaic cells, and a top layer adjacent the top encapsulant layer.

A laminate structure having a first chemically strengthened glass layer, a second chemically strengthened glass layer, and a polymer interlayer structure intermediate the first and second glass layers. The polymer interlayer structure can include a first polymeric layer adjacent to the first glass layer, a second polymeric layer adjacent to the second glass layer, and a polymeric rigid core intermediate the first and second polymeric layers.

Light-weight, high stiffness glass laminate structure

In one embodiment, a polymeric sheet, comprising: a foamed layer comprising a polymeric material, wherein the polymeric material has a Tg of greater than or equal to 100&#xb0; C.; and wherein the sheet has a weight reduction of 10% to 60%, as compared to a solid sheet of the same geometry and size formed from the same polymeric material. The sheet, at the thickness of 1.0 mm, has a smoke density of less than or equal to 200 particles after four minutes of burning according to ASTM E662-06. The sheet is thermoformable.

Polymeric sheets, methods for making and using the same, and articles comprising polymeric sheets

A multiwall sheet comprises a sheet, comprising walls, wherein the walls comprise a first wall; a second wall; and an outermost rib extending between the first wall and the second wall, wherein the first wall extends longitudinally past the outermost rib to a first wall end and wherein the second wall extends longitudinally past the outermost rib to a second wall end; and an end cap comprising a top wall having a top wall end, a bottom wall having a bottom wall end, and a connecting wall disposed between the top wall end and the bottom wall end; wherein the end cap is disposed over the first wall end and the second wall end and wherein the top wall and the bottom wall extend longitudinally along the first wall and the second wall past the outermost rib.

Multiwall sheet, methods of making, and articles comprising the multiwall sheet

In another embodiment, a connector assembly comprises a first side collector, comprising a first panel engagement region comprising a first receiving area that has a size to attach onto an edge of a first panel; and a second side collector, comprising a second panel engagement region comprising a second receiving area that has a size to attach onto an edge of a second panel. The first side collector and second side collector can be configured to directly mate with each other to hold to panels together.

Connector assemblies for connecting panels

In an embodiment, a coated thermoplastic film, comprises a polymeric film substrate; and a coating formed from a coating composition comprising a urethane acrylate having a functionality of 2.0 to 6.0 acrylate functional groups; an acrylate monomer having a functional group; and an epoxy acrylate oligomer; and an additive comprising at least one of a silicone based additive, palmitic acid, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing. In an embodiment, a method of molding an article comprises decorating and forming the coated thermoplastic film to form a shaped film, and placing the shaped film into a mold, and injecting a resin into the mold cavity space behind the shaped film, wherein the shaped film and the injection molded resin form a single molded part.

Coated film for insert mold decoration, methods for using the same, and articles made thereby

In one embodiment, a connector assembly comprises: a connector; and a pair of side collectors, each comprising a connector engagement region having a size and geometry to mate with the connector so as to hold ends of two adjacent panels together; and a panel engagement region comprising a receiving area and having a size to attach onto an edge of the panel; and a clip, wherein the clip has a base that can be attached to a support, an engagement, and a stem extending therebetween, wherein the engagement has an extension projecting from a side of the engagement, wherein the panel engagement region further comprises an opening in a joint wall on a side of the panel engagement region opposite the receiving area, wherein the opening is configured to receive the extension of the engagement.

Connector assemblies for connecting panels, panels with connector assemblies

An article comprises a formed polymeric base comprising a substantially transparent cycloaliphatic polyester resin having a decorative surface area which may have an opening for exposing the transparent polymeric base resin to the exterior of the molded article, and a process for making the molded structure is described.

Formed decorative article

This invention relates to methods for testing elongation and cracking of coating arrays. The method includes simultaneously applying an elongating force to each of a plurality of coatings, and monitoring the coating integrity including cracks and thickness decrease in each coating. A relative performance characteristic of each coating is then determined based on a correlation between a detected crack and/or thickness decrease in the coating, and the corresponding elongating force.

Formability testing of small-size coatings and materials

A molded structure comprises a decorative film or substrate, and an adjacent injection molded polymeric base comprising a substantially transparent cycloaliphatic polyester resin which may have an opening for exposing the transparent polymeric base resin to the exterior of the molded article, and a process for making the molded structure is described.

Insert molded article

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Pittsfield, MA, United States of America

Michael Matthew Laurin