Patents Represented by Attorney R. C. Gaffney
  • Patent number: 4785019
    Abstract: N-cyanoalkyl-N-haloalkylthio alkyl-, aryl- and aralkyl-carboxamides of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R is alkyl of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl of 3 to 10 carbon atoms, lower alkenyl of 2 to 6 carbon atoms or lower alkynyl of 2 to 6 carbon atoms, all optionally substituted with 1 to 4 halogen atoms; lower alkoxyalkylene; aryl of 6 to 12 carbon atoms; aralkyl of 7 to 16 carbon atoms; or substituted aryl or substituted aralkyl both substituted with 1 to 3 substituents independently selected from phenyl, lower alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, lower alkoxy of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, lower alkylthio of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, halogen, nitro, cyano, ##STR2## wherein R.sup.4 is hydrogen or lower alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, ##STR3## wherein R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are independently hydrogen or lower alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently hydrogen, or lower alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: Joseph E. Moore
  • Patent number: 4782074
    Abstract: The substituted heteroaryl compounds of this invention are good fungicides. In particular, they possess especially good activity against Bean Powdery Mildew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: David M. Spatz
  • Patent number: 4780278
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon-soluble corrosion inhibitor composition comprising the reaction product obtained by the acid-catalyzed oligomerization of an alkylaniline and formaldehyde, wherein the alkylaniline has from 4 to 30 carbon atoms in the alkyl substituent. Also disclosed is a method of inhibiting corrosion of a corrodible metal utilizing said composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: Robert Bacskai, Albert H. Schroeder
  • Patent number: 4780517
    Abstract: A water thickening terpolymer of polymerized units of (A) about 50 to 98 mole percent of acrylamide, (B) about 1.9 to 49.9 mole percent of an alkali metal salt or ammonium salt of acrylic acid, and (C) about 0.1 to 5 mole percent of a copolymerizable ionic surfactant containing (1) an acrylyl or methacrylyl group, (2) a pendant hydrophobic group of 6 to 24 carbon atoms, and (3) an ionic polar group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: Ta Yen Ching
  • Patent number: 4778654
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon-soluble corrosion inhibitor composition comprising the reaction product obtained by the acid-catalyzed oligomerization of alkylaniline, formaldehyde, and an aromatic compound selected from aniline, phenol, alkylphenol and an ethoxylated alkylphenol. Also disclosed is a method of inhibiting corrosion of a corrodible metal utilizing said composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: Robert Bacskai, Albert H. Schroeder
  • Patent number: 4778481
    Abstract: A diesel fuel composition and method for improving the operation and efficiency of a compression ignition or diesel engine is disclosed comprising operating the engine using a fuel comprising a major amount of hydrocarbon fuel boiling in the diesel range and from about 600 to about 10,000 ppm of an additive comprising a polyoxyalkylene amine or polyamine of from about 500 to about 2,500 molecular weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: Richard L. Courtney
  • Patent number: 4762565
    Abstract: A paving composition comprising about 80 to 97% by weight of an open-graded aggregate and about 3 to 20% asphalt, said composition being formed by successively mixing two asphalt-containing emulsions A and B with said aggregate wherein:emulsion A comprises about 40 to 75% by weight of a soft asphalt having a viscosity in the range of 50 to 1000 centistokes at 210.degree. F. and 0.25 to 5% by weight of a emulsifier, and water as a continuous phase of said emulsion to make up 100% by weight; andemulsion B comprises about 40 to 75% by weight of a hard asphalt having a penetration 5 to 25 dmm at 77.degree. F. and 0.25 to 5% by weight of a emulsifier, and water as a continuous phase of said emulsion to make up 100% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: Peter E. Graf
  • Patent number: 4757042
    Abstract: A polymerization catalyst comprising a complex of nickel or palladium and certain fluoro-organo sulfur ligands and an organometal reducing agent. The catalyst is especially useful for the oligomerization of olefins to higher molecular weight olefins having a high degree of linearity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: Richard S. Threlkel
  • Patent number: 4755312
    Abstract: Disclosed are additives which are useful as dispersants in marine crankcase oils and hydraulic oils, lubricating oils. In particular, disclosed are nitrogen-containing lubricating oil dispersants having at least one primary or secondary amino group which have been modified by treatment with a cyclic carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: Robert H. Wollenberg
  • Patent number: 4753943
    Abstract: 2-Haloalkyl-3-oxo-4-substituted quinazolines represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkyl substituted with one to three of the same or different halogens, phenyl or phenyl substituted with 1 to 3 of the same or different substituents selected from a group consisting of lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, lower alkylthio, fluoro, chloro, bromo, iodo, nitro, cyano, or lower alkyl substituted with one to three of the same or different halogens, R.sup.1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, or lower alkyl substituted with one to three of the same or different halogens, Y.sub.1, Y.sub.2, Y.sub.3 and Y.sub.4 are independently selected from a group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, lower alkylthio, fluoro, chloro, bromo, iodo, nitro, cyano, or lower alkyl substituted with one to three of the same or different halogens and X is fluoro, chloro, bromo, iodo, cyano, lower alkoxy, thiocyano and ##STR2## where R.sup.3 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: William F. King, Malcolm S. Singer
  • Patent number: 4747963
    Abstract: Disclosed are polyaminoalkenyl or alkyl succinimides which have been modified by treatment with a compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein W is oxygen or sulfur; X is oxygen or sulfur; R.sub.4 is an alkylene group of from 2 to 3 carbon atoms or an alkylene group of from 2 to 3 carbon atoms substituted with from 1 to 3 alkyl groups of from 1 to 2 carbon atoms each; and R.sub.5 is hydrogen or alkyl of from 1 to 20 carbon atoms. The modified polyamino alkenyl or alkyl succinimides of this invention have been found to possess dispersancy and detergency in lubricating oils. These modified succinimides are also useful as dispersants and detergents in fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: Robert H. Wollenberg
  • Patent number: 4747965
    Abstract: Disclosed are additives which are useful as dispersants in lubricating oils, gasolines, marine crankcase oils and hydraulic oils. In particular, disclosed are multiply adducted alkenyl or alkyl succinimides which contain carbamate functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: Robert H. Wollenberg, Frank Plavac
  • Patent number: 4747850
    Abstract: Disclosed are additives which are useful as dispersants in lubricating oils, gasolines, marine crankcase oils and hydraulic oils. In particular, disclosed are multiply adducted alkenyl or alkyl succinimides which contain carbamate functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: Robert H. Wollenberg, Frank Plavac
  • Patent number: 4747971
    Abstract: Amine-containing dispersants, such as succinimides, Mannich Bases and Viscosity-index improvers are reacted with fluorophosphoric acid. The reaction of the dispersant with the fluorophosphoric acid passivates the dispersant to fluorocarbon compositions used as seals, for example in automobile engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: Timothy R. Erdman
  • Patent number: 4746446
    Abstract: Disclosed are additives which are useful as dispersants in lubricating oils, gasolines, marine crankcase oils and hydraulic oils. In particular, disclosed are polyamino alkenyl or alkyl succinimides which contain carbamate functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: Robert H. Wollenberg, Frank Plavac, Timothy R. Erdman
  • Patent number: 4746447
    Abstract: Disclosed are additives which are useful as dispersants in marine crankcase oils and hydraulic oils, lubricating oils. In particular, disclosed are hydrocarbyl-substituted polyamines having at least one primary or secondary amino group which have been modified by treatment with a cyclic carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: Robert H. Wollenberg
  • Patent number: 4734537
    Abstract: Disclosed is a catalytic process for the production of higher molecular weight hydrocarbons from lower molecular weight hydrocarbons. More particularly, disclosed is a catalytic process for the conversion of methane to C.sub.2 + hydrocarbons, particularly hydrocarbons rich in ethylene or benzene, or both. The process utilizes a metal-containing catalyst, high reaction temperature of greater than 1000.degree. C., and a high gas hourly space velocity of greater than 3200 hr.sup.-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: Louis Devries, P. R. Ryason
  • Patent number: 4734212
    Abstract: Disclosed are Bis-Mannich base deposit inhibitors; lubricating oil compositions containing these inhibitors and a process for preparing these inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: James J. Harrison
  • Patent number: 4732894
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein Het is a 5- or 6-membered aromatic heterocyclic ring containing 1 to 2 ring nitrogen atoms and the remaining ring atoms carbon atoms optionally substituted with 1 to 2 substituents independently selected from halo, nitro, trihalomethyl, lower alkyl of 1 to 3 carbon atoms, or lower alkoxy of 1 to 3 carbon atoms; R is alkyl of 1 to 7 carbon atoms; R.sup.1 is aryl of 6 to 10 carbon atoms, lower alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl of 3 to 8 carbon atoms, all optionally substituted with 1 to 3 halogen atoms; and a is 0 or 1 are fungicidal and insecticidal, with the proviso that a ring nitrogen is not bonded to the hydroxamic acid ##STR2## moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: William F. King
  • Patent number: 4731498
    Abstract: In a continuous catalytic process for the production of higher molecular weight hydrocarbons from lower molecular weight hydrocarbons in which a lower molecular weight hydrocarbon containing reaction gas is contacted in a reaction zone with a higher molecular weight hydrocarbon synthesis catalyst under C.sub.2 + hydrocarbon synthesis conditions, the improvement comprising increasing the production of higher molecular weight hydrocarbons by the addition of an effective amount of aluminum metal vapor to the reaction gas, said synthesis conditions including a temperature greater than 1000.degree. C. and a gas hourly space velocity of greater than 3200 hr.sup.-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: Louis Devries, P. R. Ryason