Avery Dennison Corporation

Pradeep S Iyer

Prakash Mallya

David Nicholas Edwards

Kai Yi Li

Michael E Hannington

Mark Anthony Licon

Ian J Forster

James P Coleman

Yukihiko Sasaki

Liviu Dinescu

Sriram Venkatasanthanam

Chia-Hsi Chu

Le Hoa Hong

Nagarajan Srivatsan

Ghanshyam H Popat

Ali Reza Mehrabi

Yi-Hung Chiao

Frank Yenjir Shih

Jesse C Ercillo

Jay Raghunandan Akhave

John F Hughen

Haochuan Wang

William Becker

Neal Carty

Eugene Rozenbaoum

Paul B Germeraad

Juan M De Santos Avila

Srikant Pathak

Timothy L Paris

Evgueni Rozenbaoum

Jessie C Reaves

Xin-Jiu Wang

Tien Ly

Timothy Ryan Eckhardt

Kal Li

Gerhild Lamb

Anne M Dehlinger

Michael J Moore

The present invention relates to dew resistant coatings and articles having the dew resistant coating adhered thereto. The dew resistant coatings comprise elongate silica particles. These coatings are useful on articles or surfaces used in outdoor applications and articles and surfaces used in moist indoor environments.

Dew resistant coatings

A method of forming an electrically-conductive pattern includes selectively electroplating the top portions of a substrate that corresponds to the pattern, and separating the conductive pattern from the substrate. The electroplating may also include electrically connecting the conductive pattern to an electrical component. Conductive ink, such as ink including carbon particles, may be selectively placed on the conductive substrate to facilitate plating of the desired pattern and/or to facilitate separation of the pattern from the substrate. An example of a conductive pattern is an antenna for a radio-frequency identification (RFID) device such as a label or a tag. One example of an electrical component that may be electrically connected to the antenna, is an RFID strap or chip.

Method of making conductive patterns

Various systems, methods and materials are disclosed that enable efficient delivery of an agent into an adhesively adhered article, in which the agent elicits a desired outcome, on demand. This strategy, though general in scope, is also more specifically described with regard to enabling painless or atraumatic removal of products adhering to mammalian tissues such as skin and hair by suitably exploiting the ingress of an appropriate agent or like fluid. Other techniques and articles that aid in the handling or removal of such adhesive products are also disclosed.

Disruptable adhesive layer for fluid activated debonding

Systems, methods and materials for delivery and debonding on demand

Methods and/or systems for printing or otherwise evincing temporary indicia on media with disappearing inks are described along with suitable disappearing ink formulations and media constructions for executing the same. In particular embodiments, the methods and/or systems described employ a plurality of disappearing inks with different disappearing rates. In one embodiment, a barrier layer that is selectively used to cover a major surface of the media is employed to substantially block or otherwise regulate a rate of phase transitions (e.g., evaporation and/or sublimation) experienced by ink borne by the media.

Systems, methods, and materials for temporary printing and indicia

Method of making conductive pattern

Conductive pattern and method of making

The present invention relates to dew resistant coatings and articles having the dew resistant coating adhered thereto. The dew resistant coatings comprise elongate silica particles. These coating are useful on articles or surfaces used in outdoor applications and articles and surfaces used in moist indoor environments.

This invention relates to an adhesive article which provides air egress. Air egress is provided by supplying a route, such as areas of no initial adhesion for the air to flow out from under the construction. The invention relates to an adhesive article comprising a facestock having a front surface and a back surface, a continuous layer of adhesive having an upper surface and a lower surface wherein the upper surface of the adhesive layer is adhered to the back surface of the facestock, and a plurality of spaced-apart non-adhesive material which is in contact with the lower surface of the adhesive layer wherein the lower surface of the adhesive layer has a Sheffield roughness of at least about 10 and the adhesive article provides air egress. The invention also relates to methods of preparing the adhesive articles. These articles have usefulness as industrial graphics images, as well as decorative coverings, etc. The articles provide air egress and optionally repositionability and slideability.

Adhesive articles with improved air egress and methods of making the same

Adhesive articles with improved air egress

A laminate, comprising a substrate and at least two controlled droplet-formed layers further comprising an array of discrete placed material volumes having a thickness extent, each material volume having a selected magnitude and a selected position relative to adjacent material volumes, said array being formed by deposition of droplets of selected volume at selected locations with respect to one another.

Controlled droplet formed layered structures

The present invention is directed to an electrically switchable laminate construction for applications including smart windows, and other uses and applications in which light management is desired. The electro-optical laminate construction has scattering and transparent modes of operation for dynamically controlling electromagnetic radiation flow.

Switchable electro-optical laminates

Fluoropolymers containing the benzocyclobutenone moiety are provided.

Benzocyclobutenone-functional fluoropolymers

Acrylate copolymer pressure-sensitive adhesive constructions are described which provide excellent retention of rivet properties. Tenting around rivets is minimized even after undergoing thermal aging while in contact with additive rich films like PVC. This is achieved by the inclusion of a synergistic amount of an N-vinyl lactam monomer and acid monomer with the bulk of the monomers being an alkyl acrylate save and/or methacrylate esters. A concomitant increase in cohesive strength is also achieved which affords good removal characteristics. The use of appropriate adhesive blends is further disclosed which allows retention of these features while also improving cold temperature properties.

Adhesives with improved rivet properties and laminates using the same

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Hacienda Heights, CA, United States of America

Pradeep S Iyer