Silicon Dioxide, Silicic Acid, Orthosilicate, Or Metasilicate, Including Surface-treated (e.g., Clays, Onium Clays, Estersils, Etc.) Patents (Class 508/136)
  • Publication number: 20030022797
    Abstract: A composition having lubricity such as a low degree of friction and wear and capable of supplying a lubricant continuously to a surface of a slide surface is disclosed. Also, a slide bearing, a retainer for a rolling bearing, and a seismically isolated apparatus formed by molding the composition are disclosed. The composition is composed by adding a porous silica and a lubricant to a base material; adding the lubricant-impregnated porous silica to the base material; or adding the lubricant-impregnated porous silica and the lubricant to the base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Kouya Oohira, Masaki Egami, Eiichirou Shimazu, Hideyuki Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20030013617
    Abstract: A composition that can be used as lubricant for high electric field including spark plug boots is disclosed. The composition comprises, or is produced by combining, a halogenated oil such as a perfluoropolyether, a polytrichlorofluoroethylene, a fluorosilicone, or combinations of two or more thereof; a basic thickener; and optionally an additional thickener in which the basic thickener is a metal hydroxide, a metal salt, an ammonium salt, or combinations of two or more thereof. The optional additional thickener is polytetrafluoroethylene, talc, silica, clay, boron nitride, metal soaps, titanium dioxide, polydimethylsiloxane, polyurea, polyurethane, or combinations of two or more thereof. Also provided is a spark plug boot that comprises the composition applied thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Jon L. Howell, H. Carl Walther, Gregory A. Bell
  • Patent number: 6429175
    Abstract: A lubricating grease composition including the combination of an oil base, a thickener, and bismuth preferably in the form of a bismuth carboxylate. The grease has excellent film strength, improved “anti-washout” capabilities, and, depending on the thickener used, may have no dropping point, meaning that the oil will not separate out at elevated temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: New Age Chemical, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Stuart, Jr., Douglas A. Wallace
  • Publication number: 20020098989
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to improved gel/grease compositions as well as grease compositions capable of imparting improved corrosion resistance. The grease includes a silica/silicate mixture that can imparts a relatively high pH and corrosion resistant properties to the grease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, Nancy M. Heimann, William M. Dalton, Donald W. Taylor, Todd W. Scrivens
  • Patent number: 6331509
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to improved gel/grease compositions as well as grease compositions capable of imparting improved corrosion resistance. The grease includes a silica/silicate mixture that can imparts a relatively high pH and corrosion resistant properties to the grease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Elisha Technologies Co LLC
    Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, Nancy M. Heimann, William M. Dalton, Donald W. Taylor, Todd W. Scrivens
  • Publication number: 20010044386
    Abstract: The invention includes a compositon of matter comprising a heavy oil having dispersed therein surface modified solid wherein said surface modified solids comprise solids having adsorbed thereon air oxidized polar hydrocarbons from said heavy oil and wherein said surface modified solids have a diameter of about 10 microns or less and a method for preparing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, James Chi Sung
  • Patent number: 6316392
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to improved gel/grease compositions as well as grease compositions capable of imparting improved corrosion resistance. The grease includes a silica/silicate mixture that can imparts a relatively high pH and corrosion resistant properties to the grease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Elisha Technologies Co LLC
    Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, Nancy M. McGowan, William M. Dalton, Daniel I. Crosby, Donald W. Taylor
  • Patent number: 6294505
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an integrated additive composition which contains anti-blocking agents and at least one organic component and is characterized in that the organic component(s) is (are) localized in a concentration of 5 to 65 wt.-%, relative to the total weight of the composition, in the pores of the anti-blocking agent, the volume of the organic component(s) not being greater, however, than the pore volume of the anti-blocking agent. The invention also describes processes for the preparation of this integrated additive composition and its use in polyolefin films and in injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.
    Inventors: Georg Luers, Andreas Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6251839
    Abstract: An open gear lubricant has a lubricant base comprising a major amount of a vegetable oil and a minor amount of a solid inorganic lubricant, thickened with a bidegradable organoclay gellant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Castrol Limited
    Inventor: Hocine Faci
  • Patent number: 6228816
    Abstract: An aqueous cutting liquid comprises a cationic water-soluble resin having an amine value of 20 to 200 mgKOH/g, and at least one rheology control agent selected from the group consisting of an inorganic bentonite, an organic bentonite and an aqueous silica sol, wherein the content of a nonvolatile matter of the rheology control agent is 0.1 to 30 percent by weight of the amount of the nonvolatile matter of the cationic water-soluble resin. An aqueous cutting agent comprises the aqueous cutting liquid, and an abrasive grain, wherein the content of the abrasive grain is 100 to 1000 percent by weight of the amount of the nonvolatile matter of the aqueous cutting liquid. A hard and brittle material is cut by a cutting device using the aqueous cutting agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignees: NOF Corporation, Fujimi Incorporated
    Inventors: Kenji Ito, Shunji Maemichi, Hutoshi Nakanishi, Masahiro Ishidoya, Takashi Tanaka, Toshihiko Nakamichi, Kazuyuki Mori, Shigehiro Hayashi, Hideki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 6225265
    Abstract: In a miniature electric motor with reduction worm gear unit, a reduction worm gear unit is mounted on a motor portion and an output of the motor portion is subjected to a speed reduction through the unit. In lubricant for lubricating worm gears of the unit, fine silica grain is added and mixed to base oil, and a content of the fine silica grain is in a range of about 3 to about 10 wt. %. It is possible to always maintain reverse rotation proof while always keeping a desired gear transmission efficiency in a wide environmental temperature range. As a result, it is possible to miniaturize a motor and also to increase a life cycle number to prolong service life of the motor. The motor may be applied to an electric window device of an automotive vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Shibuya, Junya Kurata
  • Patent number: 6221814
    Abstract: An aqueous cutting fluid which can reduce the impact on working environment and the global environment, and can achieve both preventing precipitates from becoming a hard cake and keeping high dispersibility for abrasive grains is provided. Such an aqueous cutting fluid is obtained by a method comprising dispersing abrasive grains (G) in an aqueous composition comprising a dispersion medium (M) containing a hydrophilic alcohol compound such as ethylene glycol, a lipophilic alcohol compound such as propylene glycol and water, and silica colloid particles dispersed stably in the medium. The dispersion medium (M) is odorless and not flammable. The abrasive grains (G) may settle out after a time, but they do not closely contact with one another, and therefore the resulting precipitates do not become a hard cake, which allows the re-dispersion and reuse of precipitated grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignees: Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd., Ohtomo Chemical Ind., Corp.
    Inventors: Shingo Kaburagi, Akio Ashida, Etsuo Kiuchi
  • Patent number: 6130256
    Abstract: An organophilic clay thickener for natural oil systems comprising the reaction product of a smectite-type clay and an organic cation in an amount of from about 75% to about 150% of the cation exchange capacity of the smectite-type clay. Said organophilic clay comprising at least one naturally occurring, resulting in increased efficiency as a thickener in natural oil systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Rheox, Inc.
    Inventor: Hemi Nae
  • Patent number: 6056072
    Abstract: A heavy-duty lubricating grease is shown which includes a synthetic fluid base and a thickener system. The heavy-duty grease can be used in both rolling element and journal type rock bit bearings to drill in heavy-duty, high temperature applications, such as in the bearing structures of rock bits used to drill hot subterranean formations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Inc.
    Inventors: Terry J. Koltermann, Thomas F. Willey
  • Patent number: 6033678
    Abstract: Microclustered water is produced from a starting water. First, the starting water is boiled to produce steam. Next, the steam is passed across a magnetic field, and the steam is condensed at a temperature greater than 0.degree. C. in the presence of light in the far infra-red to ultraviolet spectrum range to produce condensed steam. At least one metasilicate salt stabilizer and a dietary supplement template are added to the condensed steam. The concentration of dietary supplement template is 1% or less. The condensed steam is exposed to a pressure greater than 1 atmosphere; and then depressurized to produce the microclustered water. The microclustered water produces an .sup.17 O NMR resonance signal less than 115 Hz, has a conductivity of at least 3.7 .mu.s/cm, and has a surface tension of less than 61 dynes/cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Inventor: Lee H. Lorenzen
  • Patent number: 6017857
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to improved gel/grease compositions as well as grease compositions capable of imparting improved corrosion resistance. The grease includes a silica/silicate mixture that can imparts a relatively high pH and corrosion resistant properties to the grease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Elisha Technologies Co LLC
    Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, Nancy M. McGowan, William M. Dalton, Daniel I. Crosby
  • Patent number: 6015777
    Abstract: Low bleed silicone grease compositions are prepared by blending high viscosity silicone oils with filler materials and/or silicone elastomers. Greases comprise three main types: I) grease comprising high viscosity silicone oil and filler material, II) grease comprising high viscosity silicone oil and silicone elastomer, and III) grease comprising high molecular weight silicone oil and filler material and silicone elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: University of Connecticut
    Inventors: Richard T. Lostritto, Jr., Joseph H. Groeger
  • Patent number: 6010985
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to improved gel/grease compositions as well as grease compositions capable of imparting improved corrosion resistance. The grease includes a silica/silicate mixture that can imparts a relatively high pH and corrosion resistant properties to the grease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Elisha Technologies Co L.L.C.
    Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, Nancy M. McGowan, William M. Dalton, Daniel I. Crosby
  • Patent number: 6010984
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to improved gel/grease compositions as well as grease compositions capable of imparting improved corrosion resistance. The grease includes a silica/silicate mixture that can imparts a relatively high pH and corrosion resistant properties to the grease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Elisha Technologies Co. LLC
    Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, Nancy M. McGowan, William M. Dalton
  • Patent number: 5976560
    Abstract: The present invention is a replacement for petroleum jelly as a base for products suitable for application to the skin. It is comprised of vegetable oil and silica. The vegetable oil is preferably a canola oil and more preferably a high oleic acid/low linolenic acid canola oil. The silica is preferably untreated fumed silica powder. The vegetable oil is preferably present in the range of 50-90% and most preferably 80%. The silica is present in the range of 5-15% and most preferably 10%. Other ingredients which may be added include vitamin E, margarine or butter, starch, and sunscreen. The base of the present invention has a significantly higher melting temperature than petroleum jelly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Inventors: Nam Fong Han, Xiao Ying Zhang
  • Patent number: 5939475
    Abstract: A novel pourable organophilic clay polyamide composition useful as a rheological additive for organic fluid system comprisinga) from about 5 to 15 weight percent of an organophilicly modified smectite-type clay,b) from about 25 to about 35 weight percent of one or more rheologically active polyamides andc) from about 40 to 60 weight percent of one or more organic solvents preferably selected from the group consisting of n-propanol, toluene and mineral spirits.The organophilic clay polyamide composition is used in non-aqueous fluid systems such as paints, inks, and coatings to provide improved rheological properties to the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Rheox, Inc.
    Inventors: William Reynolds, Glen Hawthorne
  • Patent number: 5939367
    Abstract: A base material for a lubricant mixture or a lubricant for use in the fifth wheel plate/king pin plate bearing area including polybutene, polybutylene and/or other similar elastomer and/or viscous non drying liquid, the combined mixture with a Saybolt Universal viscosity at 99.degree. C. using ASTM method D-2161, of greater than 500 SUS. In addition, the lubricant may include synthetic oil(s), mineral oil(s), natural oil(s), polyols and/or esters, in any combination, having a final, mixed or blended viscosity of between 2-60 measured in centistokes at 150.degree. C. using ASTM method D-445 and thermoplastic polymer(s) and/or wax(es) with a melting point of between 160.degree. F.-500.degree. F. The above combination of materials may constitute 60 percent or more by weight of the final lubricant mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Inventor: Arthur R. Cuse
  • Patent number: 5856281
    Abstract: Gas contaminants generated from the grease of bearings operating in a magnetic disk device adhere to the magnetic head and causing stiction and magnetic head crash. Such bearings are typically spindle bearings and pivot bearings. In operation, heat is generated that causes the bearing grease to generate the gases. By heat treating the grease, slow evaporating substances of hydrocarbon compounds with carbons of C9 to C13 in the grease are reduced to not more than 0.001 wt. % of the grease. The grease can then be used to lubricate the bearings. The heat treatment is performed at a temperature of 60.degree. to 100.degree. C. at a pressure of 10.sup.-3 to 10.sup.-8 torr. The assembled, lubricated bearings can be heat treated separately from the magnetic disk device or the heat treatment can take place after the bearings have been assembled in the magnetic disk device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Otsuka, Iwao Matsuyama, Mitsuhiko Oguchi, Kazuhisa Murakami, Nobuyuki Ishii, Masayuki Katsumoto, Tsuneyuki Hasegawa, Satomi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5854185
    Abstract: The present invention provides lubricant mixtures for use as base fluid in bearing grease comprising 25 to 90 percent w/w of a liquid ester having a viscosity at 40.degree. C. in the range 100 to 200 mm.sup.2 /s, and 75 to 10 percent w/w of a liquid poly-.alpha.-olefin having a viscosity at 100.degree. C. in the range 2 to 10 mm.sup.2 /s, and bearing grease compositions containing a major proportion of such lubricant mixtures, particularly such compositions containing a clay thickener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert John Gordon Roth, Georgina Ann Winterburn
  • Patent number: 5792808
    Abstract: An anti-blocking agent comprising silicon dioxide or mixtures of silicon dioxide and zeolite is described, which is characterized in that it has a bimodal pore size distribution, the first maximum of the bimodal pore size distribution being in the pore size range<5 nm and the second maximum of the bimodal pore size distribution in the pore size range>6 nm. The anti-blocking agent is obtainable by micronizing a mixture comprising silicon dioxide of a certain pore size and silicon dioxide and/or zeolite having a different pore size. It can be produced together with lubricating agent as a combined anti-blocking and lubricating agent. Incorporation of the anti-blocking agent or of the combined anti-blocking agent and lubricating agent into a polymer in the form of a master batch is preferable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Grace GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Sobuttka, Georg Luers, Andreas Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5743121
    Abstract: A reducible glass lubricant on a metal workpiece provides a duplex film during hot working of the workpiece. A silicate glass powder which contains from about 3 to 50 mole percent of an oxide of bismuth, tin or copper is used for the reducible glass lubricant. During preheating in a preheat furnace the glass lubricant is reduced to the duplex glass film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Mark Lloyd Miller
  • Patent number: 5739087
    Abstract: Organoclay compositions which comprise the reaction product of a smectite-type clay having an ion exchange capacity of at least 50 meq. wt. per 100 g. clay (active basis), and a branched chain quaternary ammonium compound are useful self-activating and self-dispersing additives to liquid organic systems such as grease and ink formulations. Also included are grease and ink formulations using these organoclay compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Southern Clay Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Harry Ryan Dennis
  • Patent number: 5718841
    Abstract: A novel organophilic clay comprising the reaction product of:(a) a smectite-type clay; and(b) a quaternary ammonium compound or compounds selected from the group consisting of: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an unsaturated alkyl-ester group having 8 to 30 carbon atoms as described below and R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently selected from the group consisting of (i) R.sub.1, (ii) long chain linear or branched alkyl (including methyl), aliphatic or aromatic groups having 1 to 30 carbon atoms (such groups can also include hydroxylated groups); (iii) aralkyl groups, which are benzyl and substituted benzyl moieties, including such groups having fused ring moieties having linear chains or branches of 1 to 30 carbon atoms; (iv) aryl groups such as phenyl and substituted phenyl including fused ring aromatic substituents; (v) beta, gamma unsaturated groups having six or less carbon atoms or hydroxyalkyl groups having 2 to 6 carbon atoms; and (vi) hydrogen and M.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Rheox, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilbur Mardis, Jose Sanchez, Henry Basson
  • Patent number: 5711950
    Abstract: A method for preparing microclustered water comprising boiling water to produce steam includes passing the steam across a magnetic field, exposing the steam to light having a wavelength of between 610 nm and 1 mm, condensing the steam at a temperature greater than 0.degree. C., adding at least one stabilizer comprising a metasilicate salt to the condensed steam, adding yeast cells or an antiviral pharmaceutical agent at a concentration of 1% or less to the condensed steam, exposing the condensed steam to a pressure greater than one atmosphere, and depressurizing the condensed steam. The method is useful in the preparation of medicaments, catalysts, agricultural products and other products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Inventor: Lee H. Lorenzen
  • Patent number: 5614478
    Abstract: The present invention includes an aerosol grease precursor composition adapted to be sprayed and a pressurized aerosol grease precursor composition in a dispensing container. The present invention also includes a method of dispensing an aerosol grease composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Aerospace Lubricants, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen E. Gates
  • Patent number: 5609679
    Abstract: The use of a composition based on silicon dioxide as antiblocking agent is described which is characterized in that it has silicon dioxide having a particle size of 2 to 8 .mu.m, a specific surface of 150 to 850 m.sup.2 /g and a specific pore volume of 1.4 to 2.0 ml/g which has been treated with polyol. This silicon dioxide can be used together with a slip agent as combined antiblocking agent and slip agent. The working-in of the antiblocking agent or of the combined antiblocking agent and slip agent into a polymer is preferably in the form of a masterbatch. A preferred antiblocking agent contains as polyol ethoxylated pentaerythritol in which the pentaerythritol/ethoxy ratio lies in the range from 1:0.5 to 1:25. The antiblocking agent can be obtained by micronizing silicon dioxide to the given particle size and impregnating it with the polyol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.
    Inventors: Georg L uers, Richard Sobottka, Paul M. Dunn
  • Patent number: 5605957
    Abstract: A silicone composition containing: (A) 100 parts by weight of organopolysiloxane; 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of thickening agent (C) 0.01 to 20 parts by weight of fluorine-containing surfactant; and (D) 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of volatile water-soluble solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiro Yoshida