Patents Assigned to division
  • Gum combination for liquid condiment systems
    Patent number: 6544573
    Abstract: An oil-in-water emulsion containing a gum system having a solids level of 22% or less, which provides a clear to translucent appearance and includes carrageenan, xanthan gum and propylene glycol alginate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Lamuel P. Pajela, Christopher Wilson, Thomas John Wajda, Jr.
  • Soap bar comprising high levels of specific alkoxylated triglycerides which provide enhanced sensory properties and process well
    Patent number: 6544938
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the composition comprising soap and alkoxylated triglyceride wherein said bars have improved sensory properties (e.g., reduced drag and stickiness; and enhanced slipperiness) relative to identical bar with non-alkoxylated triglyceride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Yury Yarovoy, Michael Massaro, Rajesh Patel
  • Method for imaging skin surface intercellular and intracellular structure using a compound to enhance contrast
    Patent number: 6544183
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods to image the skin surface in order to view intercellular and intracellular structure. In particular, the invention relates to use of a compound (e.g., fluorescent dye) to enhance contrast and obtain better imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Thorn Leeson, Krishna Kumar Subramanyan, Kavssery Parameswaran Ananthapadmanabhan
  • Dishwashing composition
    Patent number: 6544941
    Abstract: A dishwashing composition for removing protein soils is described. The dishwashing composition has a serine protease and a metallo-protease and displays protein soil removal when applied to soiled utensils in domestic, industrial and hand dishwashing cleaning applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Christine Marie Nixon Lee, Naresh Dhirajlal Ghatlia
  • Dosing device
    Patent number: 6543259
    Abstract: A device for dosing rinse conditioner to a drum of a washing machine comprises three chambers connected in series to an interior of a drum of a washing machine. The first chamber receives the composition prior to a start of the wash cycle and includes an outlet through which the composition is transferred to a holding chamber under centrifugal forces generated during a first spin cycle. During a second spin cycle the treatment composition is similarly transferred from the holding chamber to a dispensing chamber from which the composition is delivered onto the fabrics upon completion of the second spin cycle. A washing process employing the device of the invention is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Robertson Sherratt, Mark Shickle
  • Integrated retarder and accessory device
    Patent number: 6543588
    Abstract: The invention comprises a retarder system for use with road vehicles. The retarder system can combine an electromagnetic retarder with up to four functions: 1) a brushless DC alternator; 2) a brushless DC starter; 3) an active damper that replaces the vehicle's flywheel and smooths out residual torque pulsations; and, 4) a transmission-synchronizing inertia brake; and, 5) a transient engine booster to offset the lag associated with turbo-charged engines. The device may be integrated within the engine or within the transmission, preferably using the vehicle heat exchanger for its cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Pacific Scientific-Electro Kinetics Division
    Inventor: Bernard A. Raad
  • Black tea manufacture
    Publication number: 20030064130
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a fast infusing black leaf tea. The process involves (a) withering tea leaves to a moisture content between 64 and 70%, (b) macerating the withered leaves tea leaves by the controlled application of both shear and compression forces sufficient to disrupt the majority of cells within the tea leaf, to introduce morphological changes in the tissue and to redistribute the cell contents, (c) fermentating the resulting dhool, (d) firing the leaves to arrest the fermentation and (e) drying and sorting the fired leaves to give black leaf tea. The black leaf tea shows a rate and degree of infusion typical of CTC teas, while maintaining the appearance of orthodox tea.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruth Louisa Blair, Michael Alan Cooper, Clive Stanbra Harris, Stephen Mwaniki Muasya, Andrew David Parry
  • Hair care compositions
    Publication number: 20030064047
    Abstract: This invention relates to an aqueous hair care composition comprising water-insoluble particles having a layered structure comprising oxygen atoms and silicon and/or phosphorus atoms, and comprising organic functional groups which are bonded to silicon and/or phosphorus atoms in the layers by covalent bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Elena Maria Gabriella Barbuzzi, Wolfgang Robert Bergmann, Mrunalini Dhamdhere, Kevin Ronald Franklin, Cheryl Anne Taylor, Nicola Whilton
  • Transparent container
    Publication number: 20030064186
    Abstract: A container for containing a consumer product wherein the container comprises a means for dispensing said product and a resilient wall, which wall comprises amorphous polyamide (APA), characterised in that the wall is substantially transparent or translucent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Cezar Mourtada Anselmo, Mark Graham Branch, Luisa Franzone
  • Fabric conditioning compositions
    Publication number: 20030064904
    Abstract: A fabric conditioning composition comprises (a) less than 7.5% by weight of a ester-linked quaternary ammonium fabric softening material comprising at least one mono-ester linked component and at least one tri-ester linked component, and (b) a fatty complexing agent wherein the weight ratio of the mono-ester linked component of compound (a) to fatty complexing agent (b) is from 5:1 to 1:5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: David Stephen Granger, Andrew David Green, John Francis Hubbard, Mansur Sultan Mohammadi
  • Antiperspirant formulations
    Publication number: 20030064041
    Abstract: Structured antiperspirant emulsion formulations for topical application to human skin in a cosmetic method for controlling sweat and body odor generation can suffer from problems of impaired sensory properties and impaired efficacy (sweat reduction), which are ameliorated or overcome in structured antiperspirant emulsions in which (% s by weight of the emulsion)
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Sven Jorg Willi Max Abend, Jean-Philippe Andre Roger Courtois, Martin Peter Cropper, Neil Robert Fletcher, Lynda Grainger, Angela Mary Murphy
  • Cosmetic effervescent cleansing pillow
    Publication number: 20030064042
    Abstract: An article for cleansing body surfaces is provided which includes an effervescent cleansing composition capable of generating a foam upon contact with water and a pouch for housing the composition. The pouch features first and second substrates, the latter constructed of a non-woven sheet selected from meltblown, spunbond and sheet combinations thereof. Advantageously, a high loft sheet may be bonded to the non-woven sheet. Escape of effervescent gas is controlled by the second substrate thereby maintaining a billowed pouch profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Roland Bergquist, Craig Stephen Slavtcheff
  • Process and device for the treatment of atrial arrhythmia
    Patent number: 6540744
    Abstract: A process for the treatment of atrial arrhythmia by use of ablation procedures comprising circumferential ablation of vessels, particularly pulmonary veins, associated with the left atrium of the heart. Also medical devices for such process including a pair of balloons secured to a catheter with one balloon located within the other balloon and an ablation catheter located within one of the balloons, which devices are used for the formation of a circumferential ablation lesion in the pulmonary vein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Daig Division, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Hassett, John F. Swartz, Michael C. Bednarek
  • Self-warming rinse out hair care compositions
    Patent number: 6540989
    Abstract: An anhydrous or substantially anhydrous self-warming rinse-out composition which comprises: a) a glycol, b) a quaternary ammonium compound, c) an amidoamine, and d) a silicone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Ben Janchitraponvej
  • Powdered composition for cosmetic effervescent cleansing pillow
    Publication number: 20030059387
    Abstract: An article for cleansing body surfaces is provided which includes an effervescent cleansing composition capable of generating a foam upon contact with water and a pouch for housing the composition. The composition is a substantially dry flowable powder which includes an alkaline material, an acid, and a particulate composition, the latter pre-formed as a carrier solid of surface area greater than 10 m2/g onto which is absorbed at least one liquid or semi-liquid skin benefit agent. Calcium silicate is particularly useful as a carrier solid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Roland Bergquist
  • Hair styling compositions
    Publication number: 20030059377
    Abstract: Hair styling compositions comprise from 0 to 35% by weight of an aerosol propellant and from 0.01% to 30% by weight wax particles in aqueous dispersion. The wax particles have an average particle size in the range of from 1 &mgr;m to 500 &mgr;m and a melting point in the range of from 30° C. to 150° C. The compositions, which may be in the form of a foaming aerosol hair mousse, have good styling, softness and/or conditioning properties, whilst reducing the feeling of stickiness on the hands or the hair which is associated with corresponding compositions without the wax particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert George Riley
  • Method of treating hair with heat and a cap which provides a signal regarding treatment
    Publication number: 20030059459
    Abstract: A hair covering which comprises a woven or nonwoven substrate comprising synthetic or natural materials, which are impregnated, or coated, or both, with a mutable dye is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Raymond Pyles
  • HETEROCYCLIC DRY-CLEANING SURFACTANT AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20030060386
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a surfactant comprising a heterocyclic group that results in superior cleaning in a dry cleaning system. The surfactant can have one or more heteroatom and can result in reverse micelle formation in a densified gas like densified carbon dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Stephen Murphy, Robert Joseph Ahart
  • Utensil cleaning sachet
    Patent number: D472799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Naresh Dhirajlal Ghatlia, Natasha Pfeiffer, Isaac Israel Secemski
  • Shuttle for fixing to inside of washing machine
    Patent number: D473026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Shickle, Paul Robert Sherratt