The Compound Contains -c(=o)oh Or Salt Thereof (e.g., Alkali Metal Soap) Soap) Patents (Class 516/75)
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Patent number: 11446032Abstract: Stapling assemblies for use with a surgical stapler are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the stapling assembly includes a cartridge having a plurality of staples disposed therein and a non-fibrous adjunct formed of at least one fused bioabsorbable polymer and configured to be releasably retained on the cartridge. Adjunct systems for use with a surgical stapler are also provided. Surgical end effectors using the stapling assemblies are also provided. Methods for manufacturing stapling assemblies and using the same are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Jason L. Harris, Michael J. Vendely, Frederick E. Shelton, IV
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Patent number: 10987285Abstract: Methods for reclaiming formula components of an antiperspirant composition and recycling formula into its component parts for recycling into an antiperspirant composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Steven Misner, Pablo Molina, Richard Blume, Ronald Growe, Jr., Frederick Eckert, Peter Wisniewski
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Patent number: 10611890Abstract: A method of producing a polymer part comprising the following steps: (a) incorporating a hydrophobic small molecule into the polymer before, during or after manufacture of the polymer part, the hydrophobic small molecule and the polymer being essentially inert to one another; and (b) annealing the polymer part to induce migration of the hydrophobic small molecules to a surface of the polymer part to provide that surface with a specified degree of hydrophobicity defined by the combination of the polymer and the hydrophobic small molecule; is described. Polymer parts made according to the method are also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: STRATEC CONSUMABLES GmbHInventors: Andrew Naisby, Werner Balika, Johann Hofer, Georg Bauer
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Patent number: 9321915Abstract: A solvent free method for making an ethylene propylene diene terpolymer latex by blending water with 1 weight percent to 50 weight percent surfactant; blending solvent free ethylene propylene diene terpolymer with the water and surfactant at a low pressure to form a terpolymer mixture; high shear mixing the terpolymer mixture at 0.5 atm to 1.5 atm for 5 minutes to 24 hours at a temperature from 20 degrees Celsius to 100 degrees Celsius to form a solvent free ethylene propylene diene terpolymer latex formation, wherein the solvent free ethylene propylene diene terpolymer latex formation has a viscosity from 1 centipoise to 2000 centipoise; a density from 0.8 to 1.1; and a shelf life of from 7 days to 365 days without separating or stratifying.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: LION COPOLYMER GEISMAR, LLCInventor: Zhiyong Zhu
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Patent number: 8492445Abstract: An emulsifying composition, characterised in that it contains by weight, excluding impurities, (i) 1 to 98% by weight of a mixture of alkyl glycosides R1O(G1)g1(G2)g2(G3)g3(G4)g4(G5)g5, (ii) 1 to 90% by weight of a mixture of alcohol esters R2OZ, (iii) 1 to 90% of an alcohol R3OH, and (iv) 4 to 90% of a mixture of alkyl glycoside esters R4O(X1)x1(Z)z1(X2)x2(Z)z2(X3)x3(Z)z3(X4)x4(Z)z4(X5)x5(Z)z5, is disclosed In accordance with the composition, R1 is a hydrocarbon radical, linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated, having 10 to 22 carbon atoms. G1, G2, G3, G4, G5 are identical or different residues of -oses selected from glucose, galactose, mannose, fructose, ribose, xylose and arabinose, g1, g2, g3, g4 and g5 being equal to 0 or 1, the sum of g1, g2, g3, g4 and g5 being at least equal to 1. The composition has emulsifying capacity in the presence of electrolytes or in the case of paraffin-based emulsions.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignees: Bioamber SAS, Universite de Reims Champagne Ardenne (U.R.C.A.), Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.)Inventors: Benjamin Renault, Boris Estrine, Charles Portella, Cedric Ernenwein, Fabien Massicot, Sinisa Marinkovic
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Patent number: 8475774Abstract: Aqueous compositions including a discontinuous oil phase containing an ultraviolet radiation-absorbing polymer stabilized in a continuous aqueous phase, an oil-gelling polymer, and which are substantially free of non-polymeric ultraviolet radiation-absorbers.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc.Inventors: Rudy Clemente, Curtis Cole, Susan Daly
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Publication number: 20110002824Abstract: The present invention relates ways to increase the output of a high quality product from the precipitation liquor crystallization process exemplified through the aluminum hydroxide recovery processes such as the Bayer process. The invention is a method of increasing the size of precipitated of a liquor. The invention in one embodiment relates to the use of a crystal growth modifier compositions added to the precipitation process to increase the particle size distribution of the precipitated alumina trihydrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Dmitri L. Kouznetsov, Jianjun Liu, Kir Richard Coleman, Ryan Travis Chester, John David Kildea
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Patent number: 7776799Abstract: The invention concerns a method for cold rolling metals using an aqueous lubricant comprising: (1) at least a mixture based on at least an acid selected among saturated or unsaturated mono- or poly-carboxylic acids, comprising 5 to 40 carbon atoms; at least an acid phosphate ester of formula (RO)x-P(?O)(OH)x?, wherein: R is a hydrocarbon radical, optionally polyalkoxylated; x and x? being equal to 3; the carboxylic acid and/or the acid phosphate ester being optionally neutralized by an organic or mineral base; and (2) at least a natural or synthetic wax exhibiting a melting point not less than 50° C. and having an average particle size ranging between 0.5 and 10 ?m. The use of said lubricant enables to increase the productivity of the method by at least 15% relative to a method using a conventional lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Rhodia ChimieInventors: Dominique Raison, Jean-Guy Le Helloco
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Patent number: 7718709Abstract: A fat or oil composition comprising a polyvalent unsaturated fatty acid component and an emulsifying agent having an HLB of 4 or less, wherein the amount of the emulsifying agent having an HLB of 4 or less is from 25 to 300 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the polyvalent unsaturated fatty acid component. The fat or oil composition can be used as an oil-in-water droplet emulsion composition. The fat or oil composition and the oil-in-water droplet emulsion composition can be used for foodstuff and the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2003Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignees: Taiyo Kagaku Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult HonshaInventors: Makoto Ishikawa, Hironobu Nanbu, Lekh Raj Juneja, Nobuhiro Ogasawara, Masatoshi Nakano, Ryoichi Akahoshi
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Patent number: 7662753Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for treating subterranean formations. A treatment fluid that comprises an aqueous liquid, and a degradable surfactant derived from a degradable polymer is provided. Also provided are emulsified treatment fluids and foamed treatment fluids that comprise degradable surfactants derived from degradable polymers.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Rajesh K. Saini
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Patent number: 7608567Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for treating subterranean formations. A method, that comprises providing a treatment fluid that comprises an aqueous fluid, and a degradable surfactant derived from a degradable polymer; and introducing the treatment fluid into a well bore that penetrates the subterranean formation, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2005Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Rajesh K. Saini
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Publication number: 20090163606Abstract: Suspensions having additives for controlled dispersion including a solvent, an ion source, a particle source selected from a partially dissolving colloid or a non-dissolving colloid, and an additive where the additive is added to the solvent prior to the ion source and the particle source when the particle source is the partially dissolving colloid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: GLEN HAROLD KIRBY, Brett Allen Boutwell
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Patent number: 7345093Abstract: This invention concerns novel methods of enhancing the solubility of a compound. Compositions prepared using such methods are also disclosed. Compositions prepared using the methods have various advantages over conventionally known compositions.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Formatech, Inc.Inventors: John G. Augustine, Kaliappanadar Nellaiappan, Benjamin S. Isaacs, Indu J. Isaacs
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Patent number: 7273892Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable emulsion of an immiscible fluid and of an aqueous phase having a determined pH value. The emulsion is optimized in that it comprises an ionic surfactant and a polyampholytic polymer whose charge depends on the pH value. The respective amounts of surfactant and of polymers are determined according to the charges. Stabilization or destabilization of the emulsion is adjusted by controlling the pH value. The invention also relates to a method of stabilizing and destabilizing an emulsion comprising a surfactant combined with an ampholytic polymer.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2002Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: Institut Francais du PetroleInventors: Jean-Francois Argillier, Isabelle Henaut
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Patent number: 7214474Abstract: A wash composition that includes a polymeric surfactant and methods for using the wash composition are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Hai Deng
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Patent number: 7196041Abstract: A surfactant has the formula (R1—X)nZ, where R1 is an aliphatic group comprising a C10–C25 principal straight chain bonded at a terminal carbon atom thereof to X, and comprising at least one C1–C6 side chain. X is a charged head group, Z is a counterion, and n is an integer which ensures that the surfactant is charge neutral.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2001Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Timothy Gareth John Jones, Gary John Tustin
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Patent number: 7105579Abstract: The invention concerns a method for controlling the stability of an emulsion comprising a hydrophobic phase dispersed in an aqueous phase, or an aqueous phase dispersed in a hydrophobic phase, and less than 4% by weight of a surfactant, said process comprising the step of using in the emulsion a block copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2003Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Rhodia ChimieInventors: Herve Adam, Mathieu Joanicot, Jon D. Kiplinger, Mikel Morvan
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Patent number: 7098250Abstract: The invention provides a surfactant for emulsion polymerization represented by the formula (I), (II) or (VI). The invention also provides a method of producing a polymer emulsion using this surfactant. wherein A represents an alkylene group having 3 to 18 carbon atoms or an alkoxymethylethylene group (alkoxy group has 4 to 18 carbon atoms), EO represents an oxyethylene group, a denotes a number of 0 to 50, b denotes a number of 0 to 200 wherein a and b are not 0 at the same time and M represents a cation; wherein A?O represents an oxyalkylene group having 3 to 18 carbon atoms, E?O represents an oxyethylene group, m denotes a number of 0 to 50 and n denotes a number of 5 to 200, provided that the -(A?O)— groups m in number [-(A?O)m-] may be the same as or different from one another.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2001Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Hiroki Sawada, Yasuo Ishii, Takayuki Ikenaga
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Patent number: 7094395Abstract: A method for producing a colored cosmetic composition having inorganic pigments resistant to agglomeration in an oil-in-water emulsion. The method includes the following: preparing an oil dispersion by adding inorganic pigments directly to an oil; preparing an aqueous base that includes water; combining the oil dispersion and aqueous base; and partitioning the inorganic pigments between the oil and the aqueous phase under controlled conditions, for example, hydrophile-lipophile balance, agitation time and speed, and cooling rate. The present invention provides a process to easily disperse iron-oxide pigments, even black iron-oxide pigments, in oil-in-water emulsions. The present invention provides colored cosmetic compositions that have excellent properties, such as smoothness, adhesion to skin, uniform color, ease of removal, smudge resistance and non-oiliness.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2002Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Access Business Group International LLCInventors: Di Qu, Jesse C. Leverett
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Patent number: 7026361Abstract: This invention relates to a composition comprising ubiquinone having superior dispersion-stability in an aqueous solution and high bioavailability. The ubiquinone(s) is dispersed and emulsified in an aqueous solution of a water-soluble material in the presence of an organic acid(s) to form a protective colloid, the average particle size of the suspended particles being not more than 5 ?m. The liquid composition can be adsorbed in or carried on an excipient, or dried.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2002Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignees: Nisshin Pharma Inc., Freund Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Minemura, Hironori Kubota, Shigeo Takagi, Yoshiyuki Nishizawa
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Patent number: 6984610Abstract: Acid based micro-emulsions are disclosed comprising water, an acid blend, an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, a co-solvent, a solvent and an oxidizer. The micro-emulsions have particular utility in cleaning oil sludges and drilling mud residues from well cuttings, well formations and down hole and surface oil well drilling and production equipment.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2003Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Integrity Industries, Inc.Inventors: James R. VonKrosigk, William M. Duncan
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Patent number: 6806238Abstract: The invention concerns the use as extreme pressure additive in aqueous lubricants used for deforming or transforming metals, lamellar crystallites having a length (L) ranging between 0.1 and 100 &mgr;m, a width (I) ranging between 0.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2002Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: Rhodia ChimieInventors: Gilles Lorentz, Jean-Marie Georgees
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Patent number: 6780824Abstract: Emulsifier system containing a) ethoxylates/propoxylates of fatty alcohols with 8 to 18 C atoms in the alcohol with 2 to 6 ethylene oxide units and 4 to 8 propylene oxide units, b) fatty alcohols and/or fatty alcohol propoxylates with 12 to 24 C atoms in the alcohol and 0 to 3 propylene oxide units and/or distillation residue of these fatty alcohols and c) phosphates, selected from: c1) mono- and/or diesters of phosphoric acid with alkanols with 10-20 C atoms, c2) mono- and/or diesters of phosphoric acid with ethoxylated and/or propoxylated alkanols with 10-20 C atoms and/or c3) phosphates of polyethylene glycol ethers and/or polypropylene glycol ethers, and the water-soluble salts of each of these, in a weight ratio a:b:c=1:0.3:0.1 to 1:4:1; anti-corrosive and emulsifier system with these components, emulsion concentrate with these components, oil-in-water emulsion obtainable therefrom and use thereof as a cleaning, anti-corrosive and low-temperature lubricant emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2002Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (Henkel KGaA)Inventors: Hans-Peter Oelscher, Juergen Geke
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Patent number: 6749673Abstract: Furniture polishes, and methods for their use, are disclosed. The polishes are liquids in the form of a dispersion which is a biliquid foam with a thickener, where the foam is structured as an oil-in-water complex. The dispersion has an oil portion having a polysiloxane and/or a hydrocarbon oil such as a mineral oil. There is also surfactant such as one nonionic surfactant and one more polar surfactant. Water is also provided. The polish is preferably essentially free alcohols.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2002Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.Inventors: Timothy I. Moodycliffe, Ralph W. Oakeson, Lynn M. Werkowski
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Patent number: 6642307Abstract: In the emulsion obtained by forcedly emulsifying by applying a high shearing force on the water insoluble liquid in the presence of a small amount of emulsifying agent, at least one of fluorine-containing monomers being in the form of gas at ordinary temperature at atmospheric pressure is emulsion-polymerized stably and efficiently. An amount of the emulsifying agent is an amount which does not change the number of water insoluble liquid particles in the emulsion during the polymerization.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2001Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Sogabe, Tatsuya Morikawa, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Masanori Kitaichi, Mitsuru Kishine
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Patent number: 6593376Abstract: A process for preparing amphiphilic compounds having at least two hydrophilic and at least two hydrophobic groups by reacting an olefinic substrate having at least two double bonds with an organic hydroperoxide to form an oxirane ring, opening, the oxirane ring with an alcohol in the presence of a catalyst system comprising a molybdenum compound as a first catalyst component and a second catalyst component selected from the group consisting of boron trifluoride, alumina, 1,8-diazzabicyclo-(5.4.0)-undec-7-ene, 1,4-diazabicyclo-(2,2,2)-octane.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1999Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: SASOL Germany GmbHInventors: Mark Rüsch gen. Klaas, Klaus Kwetkat, Siegfried Warwel
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Patent number: 6593279Abstract: Acid based micro-emulsions are disclosed comprising water, an acid blend, an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, a co-solvent, a solvent and an oxidizer. The micro-emulsions have particular utility in cleaning oil sludges and drilling mud residues from well cuttings, well formations and down hole and surface oil well drilling and production equipment.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1999Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Integrity Industries, Inc.Inventors: James R. Von Krosigk, William M. Duncan, Jr.
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Patent number: 6569939Abstract: The invention provides a polymer composition for flexibilizing building materials, in the form of their aqueous dispersion or of powder redispersible in water, containing a) at least one water-insoluble, film-forming polymer of one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers capable of free radical polymerization, b) at least one compound from the group consisting of the water-soluble polymers of one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers capable of free radical polymerization, and the ionic and nonionic emulsifiers, and c) a mixture of at least two organosilicon compounds, at least one of which is an amino-functional organosilicon compound present in salt form.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Wacker-Chemie GmbHInventors: Herbert Eck, Klaus Adler, Hermann Lutz, Heinrich Hopf
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Patent number: 6387840Abstract: A method for making an oil soluble coking process additive, includes the steps of: providing mixture of a metal salt in water wherein the metal salt contains a metal selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and mixtures thereof; providing a heavy hydrocarbon; forming an emulsion of the mixture and the heavy hydrocarbon; heating the emulsion so as to react the metal salt with components of the heavy hydrocarbon so as to provide a treated hydrocarbon containing oil soluble organometallic compound, wherein the organometallic compound includes the metal and is stable at a temperature of at least about 300° C. The oil soluble additive and a process using same are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2000Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Intevep, S.A.Inventors: Ramon Salazar, Monsaris Pimentel, Alice Dupatrocinio, Pedro Pereira, Jose Guitian, Jose Cordova
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Patent number: 6365774Abstract: The present invention relates to a (a) dicarboxylated surfactant, (b) a method for its preparation and (c) application in industrial and personal care applications. The compounds of the present invention are made by reacting epoxy succinic acid and a salt of an alkyl non-ionic surfactant. The resulting compounds are quite stable and offer excellent emulsification properties.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Applied Carbo Chemicals Inc.Inventor: Anthony J. O'Lenick, Jr.
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Patent number: 6316396Abstract: The invention relates to amphiphilic compounds of the general formula (I) with at least two hydrophilic and at least two hydrophobic groups based on di, oligo or polyolethers. The amphiphilic compounds of this invention are highly surface active and are suitable as emulsifiers, demulsifiers, detergents, dispersants and hydrotropes for industrial and domestic purposes, e.g. in the fields of metalworking, ore separation, surface treatment, washing and cleaning, cosmetics, medicine and food processing and preparation.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1999Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: RWE-DEA Aktiengesellschaft fuer Mineraloel und ChemieInventors: Klaus Kwetkat, Wolfgang Schröder
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Publication number: 20010006156Abstract: A method for making an oil soluble coking process additive, includes the steps of: providing mixture of a metal salt in water wherein the metal salt contains a metal selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and mixtures thereof; providing a heavy hydrocarbon; forming an emulsion of the mixture and the heavy hydrocarbon; heating the emulsion so as to react the metal salt with components of the heavy hydrocarbon so as to provide a treated hydrocarbon containing oil soluble organometallic compound, wherein the organometallic compound includes the metal and is stable at a temperature of at least about 300° C. The oil soluble additive and a process using same are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2001Publication date: July 5, 2001Inventors: Pedro Pereira, Jose Guitian, Jose Cordova, Ramon Salazar, Monsaris Pimentel, Alice Dupatrocinio
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Patent number: 6176243Abstract: A non-hazardous, non-flammable, biodegradable composition for use in removal of paraffin accumulations in oilfield equipment may contain limonene, a glycol ether an ethoxylate(alcohol surfactant, an aliphatic alcohol having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or mixtures thereof, a non-hazardous and biodegradable organic acid, and, sufficient water as a carrier and comprising such a major weight component of the composition as to virtually eliminate a measurable flashpoint therefor. Preferably the aliphatic alcohol is one or methanol, ethanol, or admixtures thereof. Preferably the organic acid is one of acetic acid, citric acid, or formic acid. The glycol either is preferably ethylene glycol monopropyl ether.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1999Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Inventor: Joe A. Blunk
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Patent number: 6169054Abstract: A method for making an oil soluble coking process additive, includes the steps of: providing mixture of a metal salt in water wherein the metal salt contains a metal selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and mixtures thereof; providing a heavy hydrocarbon; forming an emulsion of the mixture and the heavy hydrocarbon; heating the emulsion so as to react the metal salt with components of the heavy hydrocarbon so as to provide a treated hydrocarbon containing oil soluble organometallic compound, wherein the organometallic compound includes the metal and is stable at a temperature of at least about 300° C. The oil soluble additive and a process using same are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1998Date of Patent: January 2, 2001Assignee: Intevep, S.A.Inventors: Pedro Pereira, Jose Guitian, Jose Cordova, Ramon Salazar, Monsaris Pimentel, Alice Dupatrocinio
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Patent number: 6153657Abstract: An organic solvent-less O/W type emulsion having an excellent stability for storage and water-dilution is produced by a specific process in which (1) a mixture of (a) water with (b) an oily substance selected from oily effective materials and oily liquid materials, the oily substance and water being capable of forming an interface therebetween, (c) a high molecular weight surfactant and (d) a low molecular weight surfactant is stirred at a temperature of 40.degree. C. or less, to provide an O/W type emulsion; (2) the emulsion is heated to gel the emulsion; (3) the gel is heated to phase invert from O/W to W/O; (4) the W/O emulsion is cooled to a temperature below the gelling temperature; and (5) the resultant O/W emulsion is further stirred, and optionally in or after the cooling step (4), a particulate solid substance or an aqueous suspension thereof is mixed with the emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1998Date of Patent: November 28, 2000Assignee: Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Kisuno, Tatsuo Ansai, Shihoko Aizawa
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Patent number: 6037380Abstract: Ultra-fine microcrystalline cellulose compositions are disclosed which produce highly stable suspensions and/or dispersions in which substantially all of the microcrystalline cellulose has a particle size not greater than about 0.7 .mu.m. The compositions include an attriting aid which has a dual functionality, assisting in reducing the size of the cellulose microcrystals and adding a desired property or ingredient to the dispersions or other product in which the compositions are utilized.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1998Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: FMC CorporationInventors: Aaron C. Venables, Gregory S. Buliga, Sheila M. Dell, John A. Colliopoulos
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Patent number: 5990180Abstract: An aqueous composition which comprises an aqueous medium (component C) and an oil-soluble substance (component B) solubilized or dispersed therein by the action of a solubilizing or dispersing agent (component A), said component A comprising a polyglycerol saturated fatty acid ester which has a cloud point of 20.degree. C. or higher and in which at least 70% by weight of the fatty-acid moieties thereof are derived from a saturated fatty acid having 12 to 14 carbon atoms; and the amount of said component A being from 1 to 10 parts by weight per part by weight of said component B.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1996Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Kaoru Shioguchi, Akifumi Yuki
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Patent number: 5941812Abstract: The invention relates to a storage-stable, concentrated, aqueous surfactant composition comprisinga) 40 to 75% by weight of one or more alkylglucosides of the formulaR.sup.1 O--?G!.sub.p (I)whereinR.sup.1 is an alkyl radical having 6 to 22 C atoms, in particular 12 to 18 C atoms, andG is the glucoside radical andP is a number from 1 to 3,b) 1 to 15% by weight of a fatty acid,c) 0 to 5% by weight of an electrolyte of alkali metal or alkaline earth metal halides andd) 5 to 59% by weight of water.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1996Date of Patent: August 24, 1999Assignee: Th. Goldschmidt AGInventors: Burghard Gruning, Christian Weitemeyer