Patents by Inventor William Blackwood
William Blackwood has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10774467Abstract: An air bag coated with a cured organopolysiloxane composition, characterized in that the air bag is top coated with an antifriction coating comprising at least one solid lubricant dispersed in an organic polymer binder.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Dow Silicones CorporationInventors: Marita Barth, William Blackwood, Vittorio Clerici, Andrew William Mountney
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Patent number: 10392743Abstract: An inflatable vehicle safety device is provided that comprises an inflator, a fluid compartment, and a heat shield. The inflator is capable of providing an inflation fluid used to inflate the fluid compartment. The heat shield, which is located within the fluid compartment, comprises a fabric layer and a thermal barrier layer located adjacent to the fabric layer. The thermal barrier layer includes at least one layer of silicone elastomer and one or more silicone topcoats. The heat shield has a thermal resistance value of six seconds or more at 725° C. when tested in a hot rod thermal resistivity test.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Dow Silicones CorporationInventors: William Blackwood, Michael Dipino, Lawrence Rapson
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Patent number: 10301771Abstract: This relates to the coating of air bags, which are used for safety purposes to protect occupants of vehicles such as automobiles, and of air bag fabrics intended to be made into air bags. In particular the invention relates to the top coating of air bags and air bag fabrics which have been pre-coated with a cured organic resin coating composition. The top-coat is an anti-blocking coating composition comprising at least one solid lubricant dispersed in an organic polymer binder. A process for applying the top-coat is also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Dow Corning CorporationInventors: Marita Barth, William Blackwood, Vittorio Clerici, Andrew William Mountney
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Publication number: 20180313030Abstract: An air bag coated with a cured organopolysiloxane composition, characterized in that the air bag is top coated with an antifriction coating comprising at least one solid lubricant dispersed in an organic polymer binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Marita Barth, William Blackwood, Vittorio Clerici, Andrew William Mountney
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Patent number: 10023994Abstract: An air bag coated with a cured organopolysiloxane composition, characterized in that the air bag is top coated with an antifriction coating comprising at least one solid lubricant dispersed in an organic polymer binder.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: DOW SILICONES CORPORATIONInventors: Marita Barth, William Blackwood, Vittorio Clerici, Andrew William Mountney
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Publication number: 20180195232Abstract: This relates to the coating of air bags, which are used for safety purposes to protect occupants of vehicles such as automobiles, and of air bag fabrics intended to be made into air bags. In particular the invention relates to the top coating of air bags and air bag fabrics which have been pre-coated with a cured organic resin coating composition. The top-coat is an anti-blocking coating composition comprising at least one solid lubricant dispersed in an organic polymer binder. A process for applying the top-coat is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Marita BARTH, William BLACKWOOD, Vittorio CLERICI, Andrew William MOUNTNEY
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Patent number: 9932706Abstract: This relates to the coating of air bags, which are used for safety purposes to protect occupants of vehicles such as automobiles, and of air bag fabrics intended to be made into air bags. In particular the invention relates to the top coating of air bags and air bag fabrics which have been pre-coated with a cured organic resin coating composition. The top-coat is an anti-blocking coating composition comprising at least one solid lubricant dispersed in an organic polymer binder. A process for applying the top-coat is also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: DOW CORNING CORPORATIONInventors: Marita Barth, William Blackwood, Vittorio Clerici, Andrew Mountney
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Publication number: 20160339863Abstract: An aqueous coating composition for reducing friction and/or blocking at a surface, said composition comprising a solid lubricant and a modified or synthetic clay mineral having thickening properties such that a 2% by weight aqueous dispersion of the modified or synthetic clay mineral thickener has a viscosity of at least 1000 mPa·s. Preferred clay minerals used as thickeners are preferably smectite clays such as saponite, hectorite, stevensite, sauconite, bentonite, beidellite, nontronite, or montmorillonite.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: William BLACKWOOD, Seiji HORI, Kazuhiko KOJIMA, Tsugio NOZOE, Masaru OZAKI, Yuichi TSUJI
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Publication number: 20150267344Abstract: An inflatable vehicle safety device is provided that comprises an inflator, a fluid compartment, and a heat shield. The inflator is capable of providing an inflation fluid used to inflate the fluid compartment. The heat shield, which is located within the fluid compartment, comprises a fabric layer and a thermal barrier layer located adjacent to the fabric layer. The thermal barrier layer includes at least one layer of silicone elastomer and one or more silicone topcoats. The heat shield has a thermal resistance value of six seconds or more at 725° C. when tested in a hot rod thermal resistivity test.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: William Blackwood, Michael Dipino, Lawrence Rapson
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Patent number: 8777238Abstract: A medical emergency portable lift chair assembly adapted to be tiltably wheeled through a doorway and to safely, slowly lift a person off of the ground. It may be powered through a supplied DC battery or through an AC power source. The unit is capable of lifting several hundred pounds up to a safe seating height. It utilizes a high torque linear actuator mounted onto a base frame that raises or lowers a ram coupled to a moveable platform by a pair of redundant pulley arrangements. The base frame sits directly on the floor when the chair assembly is not being wheeled to provide support for the load to be raised. The moveable platform descends to the floor within the framework of the base frame and has a thin graspable chair affixed thereto that resides approximately no more than ¾? off the floor.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Inventor: William A Blackwood
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Patent number: 8372497Abstract: Air bags which are used for safety purposes to protect occupants of vehicles such as automobiles are described together with a process for coating air bags and air bag fabrics with silicone rubber compositions.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Dow Corning CorporationInventors: William Blackwood, Robert Alan Ekeland, Randall Paul Sweet
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Publication number: 20120301644Abstract: Air bags which are used for safety purposes to protect occupants of vehicles such as automobiles are described together with a process for coating air bags and air bag fabrics with silicone rubber compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2010Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventors: William Blackwood, Robert Alan Ekeland, Randall Paul Sweet
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Publication number: 20120289110Abstract: Silicone rubber compositions for coating air bags, used for safety purposes to protect occupants of vehicles such as automobiles are described together with air bag fabrics coated with the composition and to air bags made from the coated fabric. The compositions are silicone rubber coating compositions which cure by hydrosilylation comprising an organopolysiloxane (A) having aliphatically unsaturated hydrocarbon or hydrocarbonoxy substituents, an organosilicon crosslinker having at least 3 silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms, a catalyst able to promote the reaction of the aliphatically unsaturated hydrocarbon or hydrocarbonoxy substituents with Si—H groups and a silica reinforcing filler, wherein the silica filler is pre-treated with 2% to 60% by weight based on the weight of the silica filler of an oligomeric organopolysiloxane containing Si-bonded methyl and vinyl groups and silanol end groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2010Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: William Blackwood, David Danielson, Robert W. Pippenger, Randall Paul Sweet
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Publication number: 20120288649Abstract: An aqueous coating composition for reducing friction and/or blocking at a surface, said composition comprising a solid lubricant and a modified or synthetic clay mineral having thickening properties such that a 2% by weight aqueous dispersion of the modified or synthetic clay mineral thickener has a viscosity of at least 1000 mPa·s. Preferred clay minerals used as thickeners are preferably smectite clays such as saponite, hectorite, stevensite, sauconite, bentonite, beidellite, nontronite, or montmorillonite.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2010Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: William Blackwood, Seiji Hori, Kazuhiko Kojima, Tsugio Nozoe, Masaru Ozaki, Yuichi Tsuji
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Publication number: 20120280479Abstract: This relates to the coating of air bags, which are used for safety purposes to protect occupants of vehicles such as automobiles, and of air bag fabrics intended to be made into air bags. In particular the invention relates to the top coating of air bags and air bag fabrics which have been pre-coated with a cured organic resin coating composition. The top-coat is an anti-blocking coating composition comprising at least one solid lubricant dispersed in an organic polymer binder. A process for applying the top-coat is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2010Publication date: November 8, 2012Inventors: Marita Barth, William Blackwood, Vittorio Clerici, Andrew Mountney
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Patent number: 8287685Abstract: A process for assembling an airbag for use in vehicle applications is disclosed. The airbag has a seam made from two or more different materials (102, 104). The combination of the materials and the process for assembling the airbag minimize the need for sewn seams.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Dow Corning CorporationInventors: Anh Be, William Blackwood, Loren Dale Lower, Robert Nelson, Todd Starke
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Publication number: 20120225228Abstract: An air bag coated with a cured organopolysiloxane composition, characterized in that the air bag is top coated with an antifriction coating comprising at least one solid lubricant dispersed in an organic polymer binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2010Publication date: September 6, 2012Inventors: Marita Barth, William Blackwood, Vittorio Clerici, Andrew William Mountney
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Publication number: 20100015407Abstract: A process for assembling an airbag for use in vehicle applications is disclosed. The airbag has a seam made from two or more different materials (102, 104). The combination of the materials and the process for assembling the airbag minimize the need for sewn seams.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Anh Be, William Blackwood, Loren Dale Lower, Robert Nelson, Todd Starke
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Patent number: 7410695Abstract: Nylon compositions prepared by the melt mixing of a nylon thermoplastic resin and the siloxane based amide are disclosed. The modified nylons are useful in applications requiring nylons with increased hydrophobicity.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2003Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Dow Corning CorporationInventors: Richard Rabe, William Blackwood, Kimmai Nguyen, Kevin Ryan
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Publication number: 20080003370Abstract: A curable coating composition that exhibits improved cure and adhesion to various substrates, especially synthetic textiles used in the manufacture of air bags, comprises a composition curable by a hydrosilylation reaction, and includes a silicone resin, a hydrosilylation reaction inhibitor; and an adhesion promoting additive which comprises (i) an acryloxy functional alkoxysilane or a methacryloxy functional alkoxysilane, (ii) an alkenylsilanol, (iii) an organotitanium compound, (iv) a metal chelate compound, and (v) an epoxy functional alkoxysilane. A filler and a cyclic alkenyl group bearing polysiloxane can also be included in the curable coating composition. The curable coating composition is especially useful for application to synthetic textiles such as automotive air bags.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2005Publication date: January 3, 2008Inventors: Randall Sweet, William Blackwood, Tsugio Nozoe