Patents Examined by Douglas McGinty
  • Patent number: 9303900
    Abstract: The invention relates to heat transfer agents and heat transfer compositions containing hydrocarbon lubricating oils and halogenated alkene heat transfer fluid that promote oil flow and provide for improved oil return. The heat transfer compositions are useful in various heat transfer systems such as refrigeration, cooling, air conditioning, chiller operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Arkema Inc.
    Inventors: Brett L. Van Horn, Philippe Bonnet, Benjamin Bin Chen, Maher Y. Elsheikh, Richard M. Crooker
  • Patent number: 9298114
    Abstract: Oxotitanium phthalocyanine nanoparticles in the crystal form of phase-Y (Y-TiOPc) having particle diameters of 2˜4 nm, preparation, and applications thereof are disclosed. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing a concentrated sulfuric acid solution of TiOPc with water or dilute sulfuric acid, or water or dilute sulfuric acid with a surfactant dissolved therein, or an aqueous solution of a low molecular weight organic compound to form a suspension or hydrosol; adding into the resulting suspension or hydrosol chlorinated hydrocarbons to extract TiOPc into an organic phase, so as to form a colloidal solution of Y-TiOPc nanoparticles; and then, washing and drying the above nanoparticles to give rise to a powder of the Y-TiOPc nanoparticles. Such a nanoparticle powder can disperse in chlorinated hydrocarbons to form stable colloidal solutions, thereby providing an alternative approach for solving the problem of poor dispersibility for Y-type TiOPc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: PEKING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yuan Wang, Dejian Liang, Wenlian Peng
  • Patent number: 9297092
    Abstract: The present inventions relate to optical components which include quantum confined semiconductor nanoparticles, wherein at least a portion of the nanoparticles include a ligand attached to a surface thereof, the ligand being represented by the formula X-Sp-Z, wherein: X represents: a primary amine group, a secondary amine group, a urea, a thiourea, an imidizole group, an amide group, a carboxylic acid or carboxylate group, a phosphonic or arsonic acid group, a phosphoric acid group, a phosphate group, a phosphite group, a phosphinic acid group, a phosphinate group, a phosphine oxide group, a phosphinite group, a phosphine group, an arsenic acid group, an arsenate group, an arsenous acid group, an arsenite group, an arsinic acid group, an arsine oxide group, or an arsine group; Sp represents a group capable of allowing a transfer of charge or an insulating group; and Z represents a multifunctional group including three or more functional groups capable of communicating a specific property or chemical reactivit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: QD VISION, INC.
    Inventors: Craig Breen, John R. Linton
  • Patent number: 9287504
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers containing repeating units based on benzodifuran, benzodipyrrole or benzodithiophene, monomers and methods for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Nicolas Blouin, Steven Tierney, William Mitchell, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Frank Egon Meyer
  • Patent number: 9273240
    Abstract: A method for preparing a ternary or higher zeotropic refrigerant mixture comprising components of different volatilities is described. The method comprises: mixing together the less volatile components of the mixture in a pre-blending process; and separately adding the most volatile component to the pre-blended mixture by pressure or mass flow control so that the desired initial liquid composition is attained. The liquid zeotropic refrigerant mixture that is prepared may be transferred from a container in which it is held to another container or to a piece of equipment that is to use the refrigerant mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: MEXICHEM AMANCO HOLDING S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventors: Robert E. Low, Stuart Corr
  • Patent number: 9267066
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising (E)-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluorobat-2-ene as a mixture with at least one hydrocarbon, hydrofinorocarbon or fluoroolefin compound having a boiling point less than or equal to ?12° C., and also to the use of this composition as a heat transfer fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventor: Wissam Rached
  • Patent number: 9254468
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulated refrigerant systems of 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (R-1233zd) that are sufficiently thermally and chemically stable such that they can be effectively used sans additional stabilizers. The formulations of the present invention are particularly useful compositions for refrigeration, heat transfer and foam blowing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Arkema Inc.
    Inventors: Brett L. Van Horn, Maher Y. Elsheikh, Benjamin Bin Chen, Philippe Bonnet
  • Patent number: 9249347
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising HFO-1234yf, or trans-HFO-1234ze, or a mixture thereof; HFC-32; and HFC-152a, HFO-1243zf, or a mixture thereof, wherein said composition is selected from the group consisting of: (I) a first composition, wherein said HFO-1234yf or trans-HFO-1234ze or a mixture thereof is at least 56 weight percent of said first composition; (II) a second composition, wherein said HFC-32 is at most 29 weight percent of said second composition; (III) a third composition, wherein said HFC-152a is at least 56 weight percent said third composition; (IV) a fourth composition, wherein said HFC-32 is at least 56 weight percent of said fourth composition; (V) a fifth composition comprising trans-HFO-1234ze, HFC-32, and HFC-152a, HFO-1243zf, or a mixture thereof; and (VI) a sixth composition, wherein said HFO-1243zf or mixture thereof with HFC-152a is at most 20 weight percent of said sixth composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: THE CHEMOURS COMPANY FC, LLC
    Inventors: Barbara Haviland Minor, Joachim Gerstel
  • Patent number: 9249348
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is heat transfer system, comprising a brazed aluminum component, and a heat transfer fluid in fluid communication with the brazed aluminum component, wherein the heat transfer fluid comprises a liquid coolant, an oxy-anion of molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, phosphorus, antimony, or a combination thereof, and a corrosion inhibitor. Also disclosed is a method of preventing corrosion in the heat transfer system, and a heat transfer fluid and additive package for use in the heat transfer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Prestone Products Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Yang, Peter M. Woyciesjes, Aleksei V. Gershun, Filipe J. Marinho
  • Patent number: 9243178
    Abstract: A thermally conductive polyamide compound is disclosed. The compound comprises a polyamide matrix with pitch-based carbon fiber, boron nitride, and organophosphinate flame regardant dispersed in the matrix. The compound can be extruded or molded into a heat dissipating article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: PolyOne Corporation
    Inventors: Haiyan Chen, Ching Lee Joseph Lim, Lai Chang Fong
  • Patent number: 9234101
    Abstract: Colored metalorganic fluids for electrowetting, electrofluidic, and electrophoretic devices are disclosed. The colored fluid can include a polar or nonpolar solvent including silicon and/or germanium and a modified, oligomeric, or polymeric dye. The dye includes a chromophore attached to a low molecular weight group with molecular weight 10 to 800 or an oligomeric or polymeric chain, which includes silicon and/or germanium. The dye has a molecular weight from 100 to 100,000, solubility in the solvent of at least 5% wt at 25° C., and a dynamic viscosity from 0.5 cPs to 2,000 cPs at 25° C. If the solvent is polar, the fluid has a conductivity from about 0.01 pS/cm to 3000 pS/cm, a surface tension of 15 dynes/cm to 90 dynes/cm at 25° C., and a total content of monatomic ions with radii smaller than 2.0 A and polyatomic ions with radii smaller than 1.45 A less than 500 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sun Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Stanislav G. Vilner, Lisa Clapp, Russell Schwartz
  • Patent number: 9234123
    Abstract: A composition of matter for the self-pressurized (aerosol) spraying of dusters and similar products. The composition includes a fluorinated propene-based propellant and fluorinated butene-based volatile solvent. The composition is totally non-flammable under all reasonably foreseeable conditions of use. The fluorinated propene-based propellant may include trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoroprop-1-ene, as typified by Honeywell Fluorine Products Division's SOLSTICE® HFO-1234ze(E) product. The fluorinated butene-based volatile solvent may include cis. (or cis./trans.) 1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene, as typified by the DuPont Fluorochemicals Division's FORMACEL® 1100 (HFO-1336mzz) product. The fluorinated propene-based propellant component may be present at about 60 to 95%. The fluorinated butene-based volatile solvent component may be present at about 5% to 40%, but preferably between about 20% to 25% and ideally at about the azeotropic concentration of about 22%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: HSI Fire & Safety Group, LLC
    Inventor: Montfort A. Johnsen
  • Patent number: 9236574
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel dinaphtho[2,3-a:2?,3?-h]phenazine compounds, to methods for their preparation and intermediates used therein, formulations comprising them, the use of these compounds and formulations as semiconductor material in organic electronic (OE) devices, and OE devices comprising these compounds and formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Changsheng Wang, William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Steven Tierney
  • Patent number: 9224518
    Abstract: The conductive composition contains at least (a) conductive metal fibers, and (b) at least one compound selected from a compound represented by the following Formula (1) and a compound represented by the following Formula (2). In Formula (1), each of R1 and R2 independently represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, or a halogen atom, and R3 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group. The compound represented by Formula (1) may include a structure that plural compounds represented by Formula (1) are linked to each other in a single molecule. In Formula (2), each of R4 and R5 independently represents an alkyl group. The compound represented by Formula (2) may include a structure that plural compounds represented by Formula (2) are linked to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tokihiko Matsumura, Toyohisa Oya, Kazushi Furukawa
  • Patent number: 9214250
    Abstract: A heat-treated polymer particle comprising an addition polymer core particle which has had swollen and polymerized therein a blend of an aromatic alcohol with an aldehyde or a blend of an aromatic amine or urea with an aldehyde and which has been subsequently heat treated, e.g. to a temperature of at least 150° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Conpart AS
    Inventors: Keith Redford, Helge Kristiansen, Heidi Johnsen, Ruth Schmid, Justyna Justynska
  • Patent number: 9206352
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel formulations comprising an organic semiconductor (OSC) and one or more organic solvents. The formulation comprises a viscosity at 25° C. of less than 15 mPas and the boiling point of the solvent is at most 400° C. Furthermore, the present invention describes the use of these formulations as inks for the preparation of organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells and OLED devices, to methods for preparing OE devices using the novel formulations, and to OE devices, OLED devices and OPV cells prepared from such methods and formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philip Edward May, Mark James, Piotr Wierzchowiec, Stephen Bain, Paul Craig Brookes, Edgar Kluge, Li Wei Tan, David Sparrowe, Magda Goncalves-Miskiewicz
  • Patent number: 9200189
    Abstract: Present invention relates to a refrigerant composition comprising tetrafluorethane, difluoromethane and pentafluoroethane for use in heating and cooling applications, especially for inverter air-conditioners/heat pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: ECO D'GAS AS
    Inventor: Charles P. McKenna
  • Patent number: 9174238
    Abstract: A particle has a permanent dipole moment, a film includes the particle, and a method of forming the film includes aligning the particle on a surface. The particle has a permanent dipole moment and includes heterogeneous materials, wherein a positive pole is located in a first material and a negative pole is located in a second material different from the first material. The method includes aligning a particle such that the particle has one dipole moment direction. The film includes the aligned particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-sang Cho, Dae-young Chung, Sang-jin Lee
  • Patent number: 9168587
    Abstract: Provided are fine coated copper particles, which are fine with a narrow particle size distribution and superior storability, and which can be sintered at low temperatures. Specifically provided is a method for producing fine coated copper particles which is characterized by including: a step of mixing a copper-containing compound and a reducing compound to form a composite compound that is capable of thermal decomposition to generate copper in an alkylamine; and a step of heating the composite compound in the alkylamine to produce fine copper particles coated with the alkylamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Masato Kurihara
  • Patent number: 9171654
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pellet composition having enhanced thermal stability for use in a thermally-actuated, current cutoff device. Certain inorganic stability additive particles, such as silica, talc, and siloxane, can be mixed with one or more organic compounds to form a thermal pellet composition. A solid thermal pellet maintains its structural rigidity up to a transition temperature (Tf), but further has improved overshoot temperature ranges. Therefore, the improved thermal pellets have a maximum dielectric capability temperature (Tcap), above which the pellet composition may lose substantial dielectric properties and conducts current that is at least 50° C. greater than the Tf. In certain variations, maximum dielectric capability temperature (Tcap) is greater than or equal to about 380° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Therm-O-Disc, Incorporated
    Inventors: Katherine Hinrichs, Changcai Zhao