Patents Assigned to TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
  • Patent number: 10588834
    Abstract: Emollient composition comprising at least one hydrocarbon oil having an isoparaffin content of 90 to 100% by weight, a normal paraffin content of 0 to 10% by weight and a content of carbon of biological origin greater than or equal to 90% with respect to the total weight of hydrocarbon oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventor: Benjamin Swoboda
  • Publication number: 20200071633
    Abstract: A product resulting from the reaction of at least: a hydroxybenzoic acid, optionally substituted by a hydrocarbyl group, a boron compound, an amine component selected from a di-fatty-alkyl(ene) polyalkylamine composition including one or more polyalkylamines of formulae (I) or (II). A lubricant composition includes this product. Use of this product as a lubricant for two-stroke marine engines and four-stroke marine engines, more preferably two-stroke marine engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventors: Isabelle ROGUES DE FURSAC, Valérie DOYEN
  • Publication number: 20200054546
    Abstract: A gelled composition includes at least 50% by weight of at least one hydrocarbon oil that includes a content by weight of isoparaffins ranging from 90 to 100%, a content by weight of normal paraffins ranging from 0 to 10% and a content of carbon of biological origin greater than or equal to 90% relative to the total weight of the hydrocarbon oil, and at least 1% by weight of at least one gelling agent chosen from among: polymers chosen from homopolymers and copolymers obtained from at least one monomer chosen from among isoprene, butadiene, styrene and (meth)acrylates, and the mixtures of same, and non-polymer gelling agents, relative to the total weight of the gelled composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventors: Benjamin SWOBODA, Philippe CONTI, Rachida FRANCIS
  • Patent number: 10566474
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a solar cell is disclosed. The method can include forming a dielectric region on a surface of a solar cell structure and forming a first metal layer on the dielectric region. The method can also include forming a second metal layer on the first metal layer and locally heating a particular region of the second metal layer, where heating includes forming a metal bond between the first and second metal layer and forming a contact between the first metal layer and the solar cell structure. The method can include forming an adhesive layer on the first metal layer and forming a second metal layer on the adhesive layer, where the adhesive layer mechanically couples the second metal layer to the first metal layer and allows for an electrical connection between the second metal layer to the first metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: SunPower Corporation, Total Marketing Services
    Inventors: Matthieu Moors, Taeseok Kim
  • Patent number: 10563229
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of a switch for the production of heterologous non-catabolic compounds in microbial host cells. In one aspect, provided herein are genetically modified microorganisms that produce non-catabolic compounds more stably when serially cultured under aerobic conditions followed by microaerobic conditions, and methods of producing non-catabolic compounds by culturing the genetically modified microbes under such culture conditions. In another aspect, provided herein are genetically modified microorganisms that produce non-catabolic compounds more stably when serially cultured in the presence of maltose followed by the reduction or absence of maltose, and methods of producing non-catabolic compounds by culturing the genetically modified microbes under such culture conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: Amyris, Inc., Total Marketing Services
    Inventors: Penelope R. Chua, Adam Meadows
  • Publication number: 20200048525
    Abstract: The invention is a fluid having a kinematic viscosity from 3 to 6 mm2/s, a flash point of higher than 120° C. and a pour point lower than ?40° C., having a boiling point in the range of from 200° C. to 400° C. and a boiling range below 80° C., said fluid comprising more than 95% isoparaffins and less than 3% of naphthens by weight, a biocarbon content of at least 95% by weight, containing less than 100 ppm aromatics by weight. The invention is also a drilling fluid and the use of the fluid to improve the viscosity of the drilling fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventors: Laurent GERMANAUD, Clarisse DOUCET, John Philippe ROBINSON
  • Publication number: 20200048522
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use, as a liquid phase heat-transfer medium, of a fluid having a boiling point in the range of from 200° C. to 400° C. and a boiling range below 80° C., said fluid comprising more than 95% by weight isoparaffins and less than 3% by weight of naphthens, a biocarbon content of at least 95% by weight, containing less than 100 ppm by weight aromatics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventors: Clarisse DOUCET, Laurent GERMANAUD
  • Patent number: 10557102
    Abstract: A lubricant composition for engines has at least one base oil and one fatty amine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventor: Valérie Doyen
  • Publication number: 20200040187
    Abstract: Granules of material usable as a road binder or sealing binder, including a core and a coating layer, where: the core is made of a first composition including at least one material chosen from: a bitumen base, pitch, and clear binder, and the coating layer is made of a second composition including: at least one viscosifying compound, at least one first anticaking agent selected from alkali and alkaline-earth metal silicates, and at least one second anti-caking agent distinct from the silicates. Also, a method for producing granules of material that can be used as a road binder or sealing binder, and the use thereof as a road binder, in particular for the production of coated materials. Also, a method for producing coated materials from granules of material that can be used as a road binder or as a sealing binder and a method for transporting and/or storing and/or handling granules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventor: Yvong HUNG
  • Patent number: 10538643
    Abstract: Composition including at least one hydrocarbon-containing cut of petroleum origin or obtained from biomass conversion (a) and at least one copolymer (b) resulting from the copolymerization of: at least one monomer selected from: acrylic acid and any salt thereof, optionally at least one monomer selected from: methacrylic acid and any salt thereof, at least one monomer selected from the monomers of formula (I): R—X—R???(I) according to which R represents a polymerizable unsaturated function, R? denotes hydrogen or an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, X represents a structure including n unit(s) of ethylene oxide EO and m unit(s) of propylene oxide PO, m and n are two integers in the range from 0 to 150, at least one of which is not zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignees: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES, COATEX
    Inventors: Franck Bardin, Thorsten Bauer, Jean-Marc Suau, Clémentine Champagne
  • Patent number: 10538714
    Abstract: An additive composition improves the stability and the engine performances of gas oils, including gas oils of the non-road type in compliance with the decree of 10 Dec. 2010. The additive composition includes: at least one metal deactivator or chelating agent, at least one antioxidant of the hindered phenol type (alkylphenol), at least one dispersant and/or detergent, and at least one metal passivator, wherein the composition includes improved properties, in particular relative to the oxidation resistance, storage stability, thermal stability, reduction in fouling of the injectors, reduction in loss of power, reduction in the tendency of filters to clog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Total Marketing Services
    Inventors: Frédéric Tort, Christian Vermorel
  • Patent number: 10535785
    Abstract: Approaches for foil-based metallization of solar cells and the resulting solar cells are described. For example, a method of fabricating a solar cell involves locating a metal foil above a plurality of alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions disposed in or above a substrate. The method also involves laser welding the metal foil to the alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions. The method also involves patterning the metal foil by laser ablating through at least a portion of the metal foil at regions in alignment with locations between the alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions. The laser welding and the patterning are performed at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: SunPower Corporation, Total Marketing Services
    Inventors: Taeseok Kim, Gabriel Harley, John Wade Viatella, Perine Jaffrennou
  • Patent number: 10535790
    Abstract: Approaches for fabricating one-dimensional metallization for solar cells, and the resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a solar cell includes a substrate having a back surface and an opposing light-receiving surface. A plurality of alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions is disposed in or above the back surface of the substrate and parallel along a first direction to form a one-dimensional layout of emitter regions for the solar cell. A conductive contact structure is disposed on the plurality of alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions. The conductive contact structure includes a plurality of metal lines corresponding to the plurality of alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions. The plurality of metal lines is parallel along the first direction to form a one-dimensional layout of a metallization layer for the solar cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: SunPower Corporation, Total Marketing Services
    Inventors: Richard Hamilton Sewell, David Fredric Joel Kavulak, Lewis Abra, Thomas P. Pass, Taeseok Kim, Matthieu Moors, Benjamin Ian Hsia, Gabriel Harley
  • Patent number: 10533144
    Abstract: A composition of fuel additives includes at least a first additive having a partial ester derivative of polyols and a second additive having a quaternary ammonium salt. The first additive includes at least 50% by mass of a compound A selected from the partial esters of polyols and saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, cyclic or acyclic C4 to C36 monocarboxylic aliphatic hydrocarbarbons, the partial esters being able to be used alone or in a mixture. The disclosure also relates to a diesel fuel including such a composition and the use of the fuel for limiting the deposits in a diesel engine. In particular, the disclosure relates to the use of the fuel containing the composition of additives of the present disclosure in direct-injection diesel engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Total Marketing Services
    Inventors: Géraldine Papin, Thomas Dubois, Julien Gueit
  • Publication number: 20200002626
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing a fluid having a boiling point in the range of from 150 to 260° C. and comprising more than 80% by weight of isoparaffins and less than 50 ppm of aromatics, comprising the step of catalytically hydrogenating a feed comprising more than 85% by weight of oligomerized olefins, at a temperature from 115 to 195° C. and at a pressure from 30 to 70 bars. The invention also provides the fluid obtainable by the process of the invention and the use of said fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventors: Carole DUPUY, Katell LE LANNIC DROMARD
  • Patent number: 10516071
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of fabricating solar cells. In an example, a method of fabricating a solar cell includes forming an amorphous dielectric layer on the back surface of a substrate opposite a light-receiving surface of the substrate. The method also includes forming a microcrystalline silicon layer on the amorphous dielectric layer by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The method also includes forming an amorphous silicon layer on the microcrystalline silicon layer by PECVD. The method also includes annealing the microcrystalline silicon layer and the amorphous silicon layer to form a homogeneous polycrystalline silicon layer from the microcrystalline silicon layer and the amorphous silicon layer. The method also includes forming an emitter region from the homogeneous polycrystalline silicon layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignees: SunPower Corporation, Total Marketing Services
    Inventors: Taiqing Qiu, Gilles Olav Tanguy Sylvain Poulain, Perine Jaffrennou, Nada Habka, Sergej Filonovich
  • Patent number: 10513953
    Abstract: This drive system for a motor vehicle includes a top end and a bottom end that are coupled together, a kinematic drive chain, a compressor, a main lubrication system, that includes a main circuit and a main pump, which supplies at least the bottom end with a main lubricant via the main circuit, and a secondary lubrication system, that includes at least one secondary circuit separated from the main circuit and at least one secondary pump separate from the main pump, the secondary pump supplying the top end and/or the compressor with a secondary lubricant via the secondary circuit. The secondary lubrication system includes at least one secondary actuator mechanically separate from the kinematic drive chain and that drives the secondary pump to supply the top end and/or the compressor with the secondary lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventors: Anthony Pelletier, Philippe China
  • Patent number: 10513713
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for improving microbial tolerance to alpha olefin compounds, host cells having increased tolerance to such compounds, and method of using the host cells to produce alpha olefin compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, Total Marketing Services
    Inventors: Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Florence Mingardon, Angelique Chanal
  • Publication number: 20190382583
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a binder, in divided form, that is solid at ambient temperature, including at least one oil selected from a hydrocarbon oil of petroleum or synthetic origin and mixtures of same, and at least one chemical organogelator additive, for the production of asphalt mixes from recycled asphalt mix aggregates. The solid-at-ambient-temperature binder can be used for the production of asphalt mixes obtained from recycled asphalt mix aggregates, said binder including at least one oil selected from a hydrocarbon oil of petroleum or synthetic origin and mixtures of same, at least one pitch and at least one chemical organogelator additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventor: Régis VINCENT
  • Publication number: 20190382679
    Abstract: The invention concerns additive compositions obtained by mixing at least two thermoassociative and exchangeable compounds and at least one boronic ester compound that enables the association of these two copolymers to be controlled; a lubricating composition obtained by mixing at least one lubricating base oil, at least two thermoassociative and exchangeable compounds, and at least one boronic ester compound that enables the association of these two copolymers to be controlled; a method for adjusting the viscosity of a lubricating composition obtained by mixing at least one lubricating base oil and at least two thermoassociative and exchangeable compounds; and the use of a boronic ester compound to adjust the viscosity of a lubricating composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicants: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE PHYSIQUE ET DE CHIMIE INDUSTRIELLES DE LA VILLE DE PARIS
    Inventors: Thibault DEROUINEAU, Fanny BRIAND, Gregory DESCROIX, Renaud NICOLAY