Patents Represented by Attorney Wallace L. Oliver
  • Patent number: 5505773
    Abstract: A thixotropic gel composition is disclosed as a fiber optic buffer tube compound. The composition as a fiber optic buffer tube compound is resistant to syneresis and phase separation, and to ingress of water and water vapor. The composition has low temperature flowability at -40.degree. C. as determined by a cone penetration test and has continued high temperature consistency at +80.degree. C. The composition retains its low temperature flowability property after a heat aging test at 93.degree. C. The composition comprises polybutene, polyethylene wax, hydrophobic fumed silica, and, optionally, an antioxidant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1996
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Egils Vitands, Robin M. Gryziecki
  • Patent number: 5504830
    Abstract: An optical glass fiber coated with a protective layer of photocurable polyimide coating which can be prepared from the polymeric condensation product of 6FDA, DMDE, and a photosensitizing moiety. More particularly, the present invention relates to a photocurable polyimide coated glass fiber useful for optic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: David D. Ngo, Paul J. Cahill, John J. Greczek
  • Patent number: 5504166
    Abstract: An advanced control method is disclosed for the polymerization of an alpha-olefin in a substantially horizontal, quench-cooled, stirred bed reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Alberto Buchelli, Malamas Caracotsios
  • Patent number: 5502247
    Abstract: Processes are disclosed for recovery and purification of dibasic aromatic acids or esters thereof from waste polyester film, fiber, bottles, manufacturing residues, and other manufactured articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas M. Bartos, Bruce I. Rosen, Jeffrey I. Rosenfeld
  • Patent number: 5501804
    Abstract: In a mechanical cell for blending elastomer particles and solution into uniform mixtures, a solid core with an entrance surface, an exit surface spaced apart from and substantially parallel to the entrance surface, and a plurality of minute core passageways therebetween for flow of an elastomer-containing hydrocarbon solution from the entrance surface to the exit surface, the passageways have a characteristic dimension of predetermined size to reduce globules of elastomer to small particles distributed evenly in liquid hydrocarbon solution without plugging the passageways. Typically the passageways have a characteristic dimension of predetermined size to reduce globules of elastomer selected from the group consisting of natural rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, polybutadiene rubber, polyisoprene, a nitrile rubber, and a copolymer of a 1,4-conjugated diene and a vinyl aromatic monomer, to small particles distributed evenly in liquid hydrocarbon solution comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Hall, Michael G. O'Connell, Evelyn A. Taylor
  • Patent number: 5501941
    Abstract: A photoimageable polyimide coating which can be prepared from the polymeric condensation product of 6FDA, DMDE or MEDA, and a photosensitizing moiety. More particularly, the present invention relates to a photoimageable polyimide coating useful for microelectronic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventor: David D. Ngo
  • Patent number: 5473102
    Abstract: Processes are disclosed for recovery and purification of dibasic aromatic acids from waste polyester film, fiber, bottles, manufacturing residues, and other manufactured articles. The processes comprises: depolymerization of polyester resin in a molten polyester resin containing solvent with superheated stem, and vaporization of the aromatic carboxylic acid and other volatile products of hydrolysis to obtain a vaporized mixture containing aromatic acid, dihydric alcohol, other volatile products of hydrolysis, and water. This vapor mixture is, advantageously, substantially free of less volatile and non-volatile impurities including metals, and many colored and color causing compounds, which are, typically, found in post-consumer polyester resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Floyd Johnson, David L. Sikkenga, Kalpana Danawala, Bruce I. Rosen
  • Patent number: 5453538
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of aromatic dicarboxylic acids is disclosed using a low bromine to metals ratio facilitated by the use of cerium along with the cobalt and manganese catalyst. Aromatic dicarboxylic acids such as terephthalic acid are useful in the manufacture of fiber, films, bottles and molded products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Broeker, Walter Partenheimer, Bruce I. Rosen
  • Patent number: 5449742
    Abstract: Polyimide optical waveguide structures comprising a core within a cladding wherein at least one of the core and the cladding is a polyimide containing 6FDA, BTDA, an aromatic diamine having bulky methyl groups ortho to the amine, and a co-diamine wherein the polyimides have the properties of low optical loss, low optical absorbance, controllable refractive index, and high thermal stability, and wherein the polyimides are photosensitive and solvent resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Allyson J. Beuhler, David A. Wargowski
  • Patent number: 5446229
    Abstract: A process for the production of olefins in an olefin plant, which includes an olefin pyrolysis furnace having pyrolysis tubes in which hydrocarbon feedstock is cracked, comprises introducing hydrocarbon feed substantially free of phosphorous-containing compounds into the pyrolysis furnace and operating the furnace under pyrolysis conditions producing olefin-containing effluent therefrom wherein the pyrolysis tubes have an effective passivator of metal catalytic sites bonded to the exposed metal surface by injecting an effective passivator into the furnace at a point above the dew point of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Don M. Taylor, Lynn M. Allen, Myron E. Schroeder
  • Patent number: 5439861
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for preparing a synthesis gas comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide by partial oxidation of hydrocarbyl compounds using a source of oxygen comprising molecular oxygen, carbon dioxide, or mixtures thereof in the presence of a catalyst comprising thermally stable mixtures formed by heat treating a hydrotalcite-like compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Alakananda Bhattacharyya, Mark S. Kleefisch, Carl A. Udovich
  • Patent number: 5427862
    Abstract: An optical glass fiber coated with a protective layer of photocurable polyimide coating which can be prepared from the polymeric condensation product of 6FDA, DMDE, and a photosensitizing moiety. More particularly, the present invention relates to a photocurable polyimide coated glass fiber useful for optic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: David D. Ngo, Paul J. Cahill, John J. Greczek
  • Patent number: 5419833
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for an anaerobic process to reduce caustic requirements and to facilitate dissolution of organic acid having limited solubility by combining effluent from an anaerobic reactor having dissolved carbon dioxide with fresh feed containing the organic acid and stripping the carbon dioxide from the mixture to raise the pH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen R. Ely, George P. Olsen
  • Patent number: 5414113
    Abstract: Processes are disclosed for recovery and purification of dibasic aromatic acids from waste polyester film, fiber, bottles, manufacturing residues, and other manufactured articles. The processes comprises: depolymerizing polyester resin in a solvent under conditions suitable for hydrolysis of ester bonds to obtain a mixture containing a solution of aromatic acid and impurities consisting of alcohol and/or other components of the resin; burning impurities in a liquid-phase oxidation with an oxygen-containing gas in the presence of an oxidation catalyst at elevated pressures and temperatures, to obtain an oxidation product containing the desired aromatic acid; and crystallizing and separating from the oxidation system a resulting crude dibasic aromatic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Broeker, John A. Macek, Mossman: Allen B., Bruce I. Rosen, Thomas M. Bartos
  • Patent number: 5412108
    Abstract: A method for preparing cis, cis, cis-1,2,4-cyclohexanetricarboxylic acid comprising contacting trimellitic acid with molecular hydrogen at an elevated temperature and pressure in the presence of a solvent and a catalyst comprising a transition metal deposited on a carbon support having a surface area of at least about 940 m.sup.2 /gram, and the anhydride formed by dehydrating cis, cis, cis-1,2,4-cyclohexanetricarboxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventor: Allison M. Fisher
  • Patent number: 5403904
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for preparation of telechelic difunctional unsaturated oligomers and polymers having at least one internal carbon-to-carbon double bond wherein the functional groups are terminal reactive groups. The reactants are acyclic polyenes with terminal carbon-to-carbon double bonds and olefins with at least one functional group. The polymerization process is substantially free of side reactions comprising double bond migration and cyclization. The telechelic difunctional unsaturated oligomers and polymers have a functionality of about 2 and are suitable for preparation of block copolymers, ion exchange resins, adhesives, and flocculants and for further functionalization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Philip O. Nubel, Robert B. Morland, Howard B. Yokelson
  • Patent number: 5401892
    Abstract: A method for preparing one or more specific dimethyltetralins from either 5-(o-, m-, or p-tolyl)-pent-1- or -2-ene or 5-phenyl-hex-1- or -2-ene, and optionally for preparing one or more specific dimethylnaphthalenes from the aforesaid dimethyltetralins is disclosed wherein the orthotolylpentene or phenylhexane is cyclized to the dimethyltetralin using an ultra-stable crystalline aluminosilicate molecular sieve Y-zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: David L. Sikkenga, Ian C. Zaenger, Joyce D. Lamb, Gregory S. Williams
  • Patent number: 5401705
    Abstract: Improved catalysts and a method for preparing improved catalysts suitable for the selective dehydrogenation of dehydrogenatable organic compounds which method comprises contacting a composition comprising a platinum group metal component and a halide component on an alumina support material with an aqueous alkaline solution of an alkali metal salt, the amount of solution being in excess of the amount absorbed by the composition; partitioning the composition from remaining solution to form a treated composition and a filtrate containing solubilized halide removed from the composition; and drying the treated composition to form the catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Amelse
  • Patent number: 5393856
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for the preparation of liquid and aqueous solutions of amorphous colorless poly (vinyl methyl ether) polymer with low level of impurities from purified vinyl methyl ether. The polymer has relatively high molecular weight, narrow molecular weight distribution and does not degrade readily due to the presence of impurities. The purification of the monomer uses a procedure selected from the group consisting of a vapor-liquid separation, a solid-liquid separation and combinations thereof to remove the impurities at a temperature within the range of from -20.degree. C. to +30.degree. C. The aqueous solution is prepared by devolitilization of solvent solutions of the polymerized purified vinyl methyl ether monomer. The solid polymer is prepared by heating the aqueous solution of the poly(vinyl methyl ether). The amorphous polymers of poly(vinyl methyl ether) are particularly suited for adhesive applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Kulzick, Paul A. Koning
  • Patent number: 5364979
    Abstract: A catalyzed, continuous vapor phase process to convert a C.sub.2 or higher alcohol and, optionally, one or more C.sub.1 or higher alcohols, for example methanol and ethanol, to a mixture containing at least one higher molecular weight alcohol, for example, isobutanol, over a catalyst which is essentially magnesium oxide. The process also may have a lower aldehyde and/or ketone in the feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Cecelia A. Radlowski, Gary P. Hagen, Lewis E. Grimes, David F. Tatterson