Dupont Electronics, Inc.

Lg Chem, Ltd

Michael R Moseley

Gregory Scott Blackman

Wei Wu

Fazel Zare Bidoky

Timothy S Wyant

Barry D Olson

Weiying Gao

Weishi Wu

Kerwin D Dobbs

Viacheslav V Diev

Michael Henry Howard, Jr

John D Allen

Mehrdad Mehdizadeh

Gene M Rossi

Mark Allan Lamontia

Chi Zhang

John David Allen

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of forming a self-sanitizing structure. The method includes forming a body region that includes scattering elements in a host composite material. The body region further includes a contact surface that can be contacted by a person during an intended use of the self-sanitizing structure. The method further includes forming an energy source configured to generate electromagnetic radiation and direct the electromagnetic radiation through the body region to the contact surface. Forming the body region further includes configuring the body region to scatter the electromagnetic radiation and pass the scattered electromagnetic radiation through the body region to the contact surface in a manner that maintains the scattered electromagnetic radiation that reaches the contact surface as sanitizing electromagnetic radiation. The sanitizing electromagnetic radiation is electromagnetic radiation that is at or above a minimum irradiance level that neutralizes infectious agents.

Self-sanitizing structure for automatically neutralizing infectious agents on the structure's commonly touched surfaces

Provided herein are a fused polycyclic compound, and an electronic device having at least one organic layer comprising the fused polycyclic compound as an electroactive compound.

Electroactive materials

Embodiments of the invention include a self-sanitizing structure and method of forming the same, where the self-sanitizing structure includes a body having a contact surface that can be contacted by a person, along with an energy source formed as an array of addressable energy sources. The energy source generates electromagnetic radiation and directs the electromagnetic radiation through the body to the contact surface. The body scatters the electromagnetic radiation and passes it through the body to the contact surface in a manner that maintains the scattered electromagnetic radiation that reaches the contact surface as sanitizing electromagnetic radiation at or above a minimum irradiance level that neutralizes infectious agents. A sensor system generates touch data in response to the contact surface being touched, and a controller uses the touch data to control the addressable energy sources.

Self-sanitizing structure for implementing sanitization patterns that neutralize infectious agents on the structure's surfaces

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a self-sanitizing structure that includes a body having a contact surface that can be contacted by a person, along with an energy source formed as an array of addressable energy sources. The energy source generates electromagnetic radiation and direct the electromagnetic radiation through the body to the contact surface. A sensor system is coupled to the contact surface, and a controller is coupled to the energy source and the sensor system. The body scatters the electromagnetic radiation and passes it through the body to the contact surface in a manner that maintains the scattered electromagnetic radiation that reaches the contact surface as sanitizing electromagnetic radiation at or above a minimum irradiance level that neutralizes infectious agents. The sensor system generates touch data in response to the contact surface being touched, and the controller uses the touch data to control the addressable energy sources.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a self-sanitizing structure that includes a body region having a contact surface that can be contacted by a person during an intended use of the self-sanitizing structure. The self-sanitizing structure further includes an energy source configured to generate electromagnetic radiation and direct the electromagnetic radiation through the body region to the contact surface. The body region is configured to scatter the electromagnetic radiation and pass the scattered electromagnetic radiation to the contact surface in a manner that maintains the scattered electromagnetic radiation that reaches the contact surface as sanitizing electromagnetic radiation. The sanitizing electromagnetic radiation is electromagnetic radiation that is at or above a minimum irradiance level that neutralizes infectious agents.

There is disclosed a compound Formula I In Formula I:

This invention provides gloves and socks containing printed heaters. The glove or sock with a heater comprises a glove or sock, a substrate with the outline of the glove or sock, and a heater printed on the substrate wherein the substrate is laminated to the glove or sock. The heater comprises two printed conductive bus bars with extensions traversing the substrate and an array of printed resistive areas arranged so that each area is between and overlaps and is contiguous to two conductors, one of which is one of the bus bars or its extensions and the second is the other bus bar or its extensions.

Hand and foot heaters

There is provided a compound having Formula I In Formula I: Arand Arare the same or different and are aryl, heteroaryl, or deuterated analogs thereof; Land Lare the same or different and are H, D, halogen, aryl, arylamino, crosslinkable groups, deuterated aryl, deuterated arylamino, or deuterated crosslinkable groups; R-Rare the same or different at each occurrence and are D, F, CN, hydrocarbon aryl, heteroaryl, aryloxy, fluoroaryl, alkyl, fluoroalkyl, alkoxy, fluoroalkoxy, amino, silyl, siloxane, siloxy, germyl, deuterated hydrocarbon aryl, deuterated heteroaryl, deuterated aryloxy, deuterated fluoroaryl, deuterated alkyl, deuterated fluoroalkyl, deuterated alkoxy, deuterated fluoroalkoxy, deuterated amino, deuterated silyl, deuterated siloxane, deuterated siloxy, or deuterated germyl, wherein adjacent groups selected from R-Rcan be joined together to form a fused ring; a is 0 or 1; b is 0 or 1; x and x1 are the same or different and are an integer from 0-5; y and y1 are the same or different and are an integer from 0-4; n is an integer greater than 0, with the proviso that when n=1, Land Lare selected from Cl, Br, crosslinkable groups and deuterated crosslinkable groups; and BzF is benzofluorene.

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New Castle, DE, United States of America

Michael R Moseley