Patents Examined by Alexander Kollias
  • Patent number: 9695282
    Abstract: Polyhexahydrotriazine (PHT) and polyhemiaminal (PHA) materials form highly cross-linked polymers which can be used as binder resins in composite materials. A filler element functionalized with a primary amine group can be covalently bonded to the PHA/PHT polymer resins. Example filler elements include, without limitation, carbon nanotubes, silica materials, carbon and glass fibers, and nanoparticles. Filler materials are incorporated into polymeric materials to improve the mechanical strength or other characteristics of the polymeric material for various applications. Typical composite materials use thermosetting materials that, once set, are intractable. PHT and PHA materials can be reverted to starting materials by exposure to acids. Thus, composite components formed using these materials are recyclable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dylan J. Boday, Jeannette M. Garcia, James L. Hedrick, Rudy J. Wojtecki
  • Patent number: 9685618
    Abstract: There is provided a compound having Formula I In the formula: R1-4 are the same or different and are H, D, alkyl, silyl, aryl, deuterated alkyl, deuterated silyl, deuterated aryl, or an electron-withdrawing group; R5 is H, D, alkyl, aryl, deuterated alkyl, or deuterated aryl; and R6-R9 are the same or different and are H, D, alkyl, silyl, aryl, deuterated alkyl, deuterated silyl, or deuterated aryl. At least one of R1-4 is an electron-withdrawing group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventor: Kyung-Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9677635
    Abstract: One variation includes a friction material wherein the friction material may be fabricated from fibers, particles, a chemical binder, and a resin bonding agent wherein the particles are aggregated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: BORGWARNER INC.
    Inventors: Jason Bares, Robert C. Lam
  • Patent number: 9670355
    Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic resin composition for use as a vehicle interior material, including: a biomass-derived resin having biomass-derived polyethylene; and an ASTM D6866 composition having a pMC value of 35 wt %. The thermoplastic resin composition for use as a vehicle interior material uses biomass-derived resin as a replacement for petroleum-based thermoplastic resin in order to reduce the amount of CO2 emissions and have an environmentally friendly effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yun-Ho Lee, Yong-Bae Jung
  • Patent number: 9670372
    Abstract: An inkjet ink composition including one or more volatile organic solvents and one or more colorants, said ink being characterized in that it includes one or more humectants and a terpene phenolic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Domino Printing Sciences PLC
    Inventors: Julie Cross, Cindy Cham, Florie Claudine Plais
  • Patent number: 9660198
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element in which a compound represented by the general formula below is used in a light-emitting layer exhibits a high emission efficiency and is inexpensive to provide. At least one of R1 to R8 and R17 represent an electron-donating group and the others represent a hydrogen atom; at least one of R9 to R16 represent an electron-withdrawing group that does not have an unshared electron pair at the ?-position thereof and the others represent a hydrogen atom; Z represents a single bond or >C?Y; Y represents O, S, C(CN)2 or C(COOH)2; provided that when Z is a single bond, then at least one of R9 to R16 is an electron-withdrawing group that does not have an unshared electron pair at the ?-position thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: KYULUX, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakagawa, Chihaya Adachi, Hiroko Nomura, Gabor Mehes, Keiro Nasu
  • Patent number: 9657149
    Abstract: A plasticizer-containing film of polyvinyl acetal having a softening temperature Tg of less than 74° C. contains at least one cyclohexane dicarboxylic acid ester as a plasticizer. The plasticizer-containing films have a low tendency for sweating of the plasticizer, and are useful in producing laminate safety glasses and photovoltaic modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Kuraray Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Keller
  • Patent number: 9642249
    Abstract: A disclosure provides a resin composition, a prepreg, and a substrate employing the same. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, the resin composition includes a polyphenylene ether compound, and a bismaleimide. The prepreg includes a cured product of the resin composition. The substrate includes a product fabricated by the resin composition or the prepreg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wei-Ta Yang, Li-Chun Liang, I-Hong Lin, Chung-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 9634266
    Abstract: Organic metal compounds, organic light-emitting devices, and lighting devices employing the same are provided. The organic metal compound has a chemical structure represented by Formula (I): wherein M is Ir, Pt, Ru, Os, Cu, Au, or Pd; n is 1, 2, or 3; m is 0, 1, or 2, and the sum of m and n is equal to a valence of M; L is a bidentate ligand; R1 is hydrogen, C1-9 alkyl group, C5-10 cycloalkyl group, or C5-12 aromatic group; each of R2 is independent and can be hydrogen, halogen, cyano group, C1-9 alkyl group, C1-6 fluoroalkyl group, C5-10 cycloalkyl group, or C5-12 aromatic group; R3 is halogen; and, R4 and R5 are independently the same or different hydrogen, hydroxyl group, amine group, alkyl amine group, halogen, cyano group, C1-9 alkyl group, C1-6 fluoroalkyl group, C5-10 cycloalkyl group, or C5-12 aromatic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yi-Rong Wang, Chih-Lung Chin, Wan-Chi Chen, Shih-Hsien Liu, Kung-Lung Cheng
  • Patent number: 9631102
    Abstract: A pigment dispersion liquid is a pigment dispersion liquid for a solvent-based ink including a base metal pigment and an organic solvent, in which the base metal pigment is subjected to a surface treatment by a fluorine-based compound, and in which the concentration of a fluorine element is from 8 atm % to 35 atm % when an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis of the surface of the base metal pigment is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Toyoda, Masaru Terada, Hiroshi Takiguchi, Tomohiro Ogawa, Atsushi Denda
  • Patent number: 9598284
    Abstract: Polyhexahydrotriazine (PHT) and polyhemiaminal (PHA) materials form highly cross-linked polymers which can be used as binder resins in composite materials. A filler element functionalized with a primary amine group can be covalently bonded to the PHA/PHT polymer resins. Example filler elements include, without limitation, carbon nanotubes, silica materials, carbon and glass fibers, and nanoparticles. Filler materials are incorporated into polymeric materials to improve the mechanical strength or other characteristics of the polymeric material for various applications. Typical composite materials use thermosetting materials that, once set, are intractable. PHT and PHA materials can be reverted to starting materials by exposure to acids. Thus, composite components formed using these materials are recyclable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dylan J. Boday, Jeannette M. Garcia, James L. Hedrick, Rudy J. Wojtecki
  • Patent number: 9593251
    Abstract: A non-aqueous pigment ink includes a pigment, a non-aqueous solvent, a non-water-soluble resin and a water-soluble resin, wherein the non-water-soluble resin is an acrylic polymer formed by a copolymer of a monomer mixture containing at least an alkyl (meth)acrylate (A) having a C8 to C18 alkyl group and a monomer (B) having a ?-diketone group or ?-keto acid ester group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Hosoya, Toshihiro Endo, Naofumi Ezaki, Shinichiro Shimura, Naoyuki Torita, Marie Morinaga
  • Patent number: 9593237
    Abstract: Disclosed are oil-extended olefin block copolymer compositions with low, or no, tack. A unique comonomer content in the soft segment of the OBC in conjunction with the presence of a polyolefin provides the present oil-extended OBC composition with softness, low (or no) tack, and low (or no) oil-bleed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ashish Batra, Dana R. Breed, Pradeep Jain, Jose M. Rego, Robert T. Johnston, Alec Y. Wang, Jeffrey C. Munro
  • Patent number: 9586856
    Abstract: Glass fibers are presented having a composition of about 48-54 weight percent SiO2; about 7-14 weight percent Al2O3, about 10-16 weight percent CaO, about 7-13 weight percent TiO2, and about 9-19 weight percent ZnO. A composite material is also provided formed of a polymer matrix and glass fibers of the present invention. The fibers of the present invention have a refractive index between about 1.60 and 1.66 at 590 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: OCV Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Alan Hofmann, Peter Bernard McGinnis, Rebecca Elaine Cochran
  • Patent number: 9590196
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dinuclear metal-carbene complexes comprising a central atom selected from platinum and palladium, where both metal atoms are cyclometalated to the same aromatic group, to OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) which comprise such complexes, to a device selected from the group consisting of illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED, to the use of such a metal-carbene complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Strassner, Alexander Tronnier, Ute Heinemeyer
  • Patent number: 9586824
    Abstract: Polyhexahydrotriazine (PHT) and polyhemiaminal (PHA) materials form highly cross-linked polymers which can be used as binder resins in composite materials. A filler element functionalized with a primary amine group can be covalently bonded to the PHA/PHT polymer resins. Example filler elements include, without limitation, carbon nanotubes, silica materials, carbon and glass fibers, and nanoparticles. Filler materials are incorporated into polymeric materials to improve the mechanical strength or other characteristics of the polymeric material for various applications. Typical composite materials use thermosetting materials that, once set, are intractable. PHT and PHA materials can be reverted to starting materials by exposure to acids. Thus, composite components formed using these materials are recyclable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dylan J. Boday, Jeannette M. Garcia, James L. Hedrick, Rudy J. Wojtecki
  • Patent number: 9556370
    Abstract: A material for protecting a surface from heat made of a mixture comprising cork granules and resin as a binding agent, which also includes short fibers of heat-resistant material, and phenolic resin or epoxy resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: ASTRIUM SAS
    Inventors: Cédric Plaindoux, Jean-Marc Bouilly
  • Patent number: 9534111
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rubber composition including (A) at least one rubber component selected from the group consisting of a synthetic rubber and a natural rubber; (B) a polymer of farnesene; and (C) carbon black having an average particle size of from 5 to 100 nm, a content of the carbon black (C) in the rubber composition being from 20 to 100 parts by mass on the basis of 100 parts by mass of the rubber component (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: KURARAY CO., LTD., AMYRIS, INC.
    Inventors: Shigenao Kuwahara, Kei Hirata, Daisuke Koda
  • Patent number: 9512305
    Abstract: The invention provides a rubber composition for tires, enabling a balanced improvement of processability, rubber strength, fuel economy, and crack growth resistance; and a pneumatic tire formed from the rubber composition. The invention relates to a rubber composition for tires, including: a butadiene rubber (a) having a cis content of 96% by mass or more, a Mooney viscosity of 35 to 75, and a ratio of (Weight average molecular weight (Mw))/(Number average molecular weight (Mn)) of 2.7 or less; and a butadiene rubber (b) containing 1,2-syndiotactic polybutadiene crystals with a melting point of 90 to 140° C., and having a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 to 500,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Soh Ishino
  • Patent number: 9496507
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an emitting compound of following formula: wherein “A” is represented by and “B” is represented by
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Ju Kim