Patents Examined by Douglas McGinty
  • Patent number: 9388435
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for the production of dielectric fluids from lipids produced by microorganisms are provided, including oil-bearing microorganisms and methods of low cost cultivation of such microorganisms. Microalgal cells containing exogenous genes encoding, for example, a sucrose transporter, a sucrose invertase, a fructokinase, a polysaccharide-degrading enzyme, a lipid pathway modification enzyme, a fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase, a desaturase, a fatty acyl-CoA/aldehyde reductase, and/or an acyl carrier protein are useful in manufacturing dielectric fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: TerraVia Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Franklin, Walter Rakitsky, George Rudenko, Xinhua Zhao, Felipe Arana Rodriguez, Wenhua Lu, Janice Wee
  • Patent number: 9384867
    Abstract: A new approach is conceived for the development of organic polymeric conducting materials synthesized from nanocomposites of nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) and polyaniline (PANI). The process involves oxidative-radical polymerization of aniline in the presence of NCC using either in situ or emulsion polymerization. The resulting NCC-PANI nanocomposite material can be obtained in film or powder form and exhibits electrical conductive properties typical of semiconducting materials. Unlike PANI, a brittle conductive polymer, NCC-PANI nanocomposite materials can be engineered to possess significant flexibility, strength and/or hardness as a result of the NCC acting as a reinforcing scaffold. Depending on the preparation conditions, electrical conductivities for the NCC-PANI nanocomposite materials prepared according to this disclosure range from 9.98×10?5 to 1.88×10?2 S·cm?1; they could also have hardness ?0.189 GPa or be formed into flexible films of tensile strength of the order of 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: FPINNOVATIONS
    Inventors: Wadood Yasser Hamad, Siham Atifi
  • Patent number: 9379335
    Abstract: Disclosed is the synthesis of benzodipyrrolidone and their polymers and small molecules for electronic and optoelectronic applications. Also disclosed are devices that incorporate such polymers and small molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Weibin Cui, Fred Wudl
  • Patent number: 9376332
    Abstract: Described herein are elements comprising a p-type semiconductor comprising mixed valence oxide compounds and an n-type semiconductor having a deeper valence band than the p-type semiconductor valence bands wherein the semiconductor types are in ionic communication with each other. The elements enhance photocatalytic activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ekambaram Sambandan, Bin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9373801
    Abstract: The invention relates to benzo[h]benz[5,6]acridino[2,1,9,8-klmna]acridines, methods of their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, and to OE devices comprising them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Changsheng Wang, William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Steven Tierney
  • Patent number: 9365760
    Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising: a base oil; a sulfide compound; and a gallate, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the gallate is 10 to 500 ppm by mass based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Saito, Hiroko Shimpo, Kuniko Adegawa
  • Patent number: 9365759
    Abstract: The present invention relates, in part, to heat transfer and refrigerant compositions and methods that include HFC-32; HFO-1234ze and HFC-125.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Samuel F. Yana Motta, Mark W. Spatz, Elizabet Del Carmen Vera Becerra, Ankit Sethi, Thomas Morris
  • Patent number: 9359541
    Abstract: A composition including 2,4,4,4-10-tetrafluorobut-1-ene and cis-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluorobut-2-ene, and also the use thereof in particular as a heat transfer fluid. The composition may include: from 1% to 99% of 2,4,4,4-tetrafluorobut-1-ene and from 1% to 99% of cis-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluorobut-2-ene; preferably from 5% to 70% of 2,4,4,4-tetrafluorobut-1-ene and from 30% to 95% of cis-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluorobut-2-ene; preferably from 20% to 65% of 2,4,4,4-tetrafluorobut-1-ene and from 35% to 80% of cis-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluorobut-2-ene; preferably from 25% to 60% of 2,4,4,4-tetrafluorobut-1-ene and from 40% to 75% of cis-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluorobut-2-ene; preferably from 28% to 51% of 2,4,4,4-tetrafluorobut-1-ene and from 49% to 72% of cis-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluorobut-2-ene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventor: Wissam Rached
  • Patent number: 9359540
    Abstract: A ternary composition including: from 5 to 50% of difluoromethane; from 2 to 20% of pentafluoroethane; and from 30 to 90% of tetrafluoropropene. The tetrafluoropropene may be 1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene or 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene. This composition can be used as a heat-transfer fluid in vapor compression circuit. A process for heating or cooling a fluid or a body using a vapor compression circuit containing a heat transfer fluid, said process successively including evaporation of the heat transfer fluid, compression of the heat transfer fluid, condensation of the heat fluid and depressurization of the heat transfer fluid, in which the heat transfer fluid is a composition as described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventor: Wissam Rached
  • Patent number: 9353303
    Abstract: To provide a working medium for heat cycle, of which combustibility is suppressed, which has less influence over the ozone layer, which has less influence over global warming and which provides a heat cycle system excellent in the cycle performance (capacity), and a heat cycle system, of which the safety is secured, and which is excellent in the cycle performance (capacity). A working medium for heat cycle comprising 1,1,2-trifluoroethylene is employed for a heat cycle system (such as a Rankine cycle system, a heat pump cycle system, a refrigerating cycle system or a heat transport system).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Masato Fukushima
  • Patent number: 9331283
    Abstract: The method of manufacturing nanoparticles of a target material includes mixing graphene oxide with an aqueous solvent to prepare an aqueous solution, mixing the target material with an organic solvent to prepare an organic solution, mixing the aqueous solution with the organic solution, and preparing nanoparticles of the target material by the graphene oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jung Ah Lim, Yong-Won Song, Jae-Min Hong, Dong Youn Yoo, Hee-Suk Kim
  • Patent number: 9328220
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ionic liquid comprising an anion and a cation, wherein the cation is a primary, secondary or tertiary ammonium ion containing a protonated nitrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Innovia Films Limited
    Inventor: Adam John Walker
  • Patent number: 9324889
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel compound represented by formula (1) below. In the formula, A represents an optionally substituted aromatic hydrocarbon ring or aromatic heterocyclic group, B represents a group including a chain of one to four pieces of one or more groups selected from groups represented by specific formulae (B-1) to (B-13) (such as —C?C— or —N?N—, specifically see the description), R1 to R3 each represent an optionally substituted hydrocarbon or hydrocarbonoxy group, at least one of R1 to R3 represents an optionally substituted hydrocarbonoxy group, R4 and R5 each represent an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, R4 and R5 may be linked together to form a ring, and R4 and R5 may be each independently linked with A to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Hanaya, Kenji Kakiage, Masafumi Unno, Yohei Aoyama, Toru Yano, Daisuke Sawamoto, Hiroyuki Osada
  • Patent number: 9318245
    Abstract: What is described is the use of alcohols, alcoholamines, diols, polyols or mixtures thereof in heat carrier media or as heat carrier media which are in contact with magnetocaloric materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Fabian Seeler, Georg Degen
  • Patent number: 9315708
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane for increasing the miscibility of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene with a lubricating oil, and in particular with a polyalkylene glycol oil. In this regard, the invention provides heat-transfer compositions and also equipment and processes using these compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Sophie Guerin, Laurent Abbas, Wissam Rached
  • Patent number: 9315707
    Abstract: Provided is a lubricating oil composition for a refrigerator which uses a base oil including as the main component at least one kind of oxygen-containing compounds selected from polyoxyalkylene glycols, polyvinyl ethers, copolymers of poly(oxy)alkylene glycols or monoethers thereof and polyvinyl ethers, polyol esters, and polycarbonates. The lubricating oil composition for a refrigerator is used for a refrigerator that uses, as a refrigerant, a fluorine-containing organic compound, which is a refrigerant applicable to current car air conditioner systems or the like and has a specific polar structure, and has favorable sealing property, a low coefficient of friction factor in a sliding part, and excellent stability as well as excellent compatibility with the refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masato Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9309451
    Abstract: An azeotropic mixture-like composition containing 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroisopropylmethylether (HFE-356mmz) and hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) is provided. 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroisopropylmethylether may be contained at a ratio higher than or equal to 0.1% by mass and lower than or equal to 99.9% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: CENTRAL GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshio Nishiguchi, Satoru Okamoto, Masatomi Kanai, Takuya Tonomura
  • Patent number: 9312495
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, and to electronic devices which comprise these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Christof Pflumm, Amir Hossain Parham, Constanze Brocke, Elvira Montenegro, Frank Voges, Holger Heil, Arne Buesing
  • Patent number: 9310661
    Abstract: An electrophoretic medium comprises an electrophoretic layer, a layer of lamination adhesive and a polymeric layer disposed between the electrophoretic layer and the lamination adhesive layer, the polymeric layer being impermeable to the fluid. A second form of electrophoretic medium has a layer of a complex of an alkali metal and a polymer in contact with the electrophoretic layer. A third form of electrophoretic medium comprises a plurality of discrete droplets of internal phase in a binder, and further comprises a salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Bin Wu, Charles Howie Honeyman, Stephen P. Dudek, Anthony Zalesky, Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Craig A. Herb, George G. Harris
  • Patent number: 9303136
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of increasing optical density by incorporating carbon black in to a colored polyimide composition to obtain a colored polyimide film. The colored polyimide film has 48 to 94 weight percent of a polyimide, 5 to 25 weight percent pigment and 0.05 to 2 weight percent carbon black.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: EI DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Becks, Kuppusamy Kanakarajan