Patents Assigned to division
  • Patent number: 6466110
    Abstract: A coaxial cavity resonator is described. The resonator includes a tapered inner conductor for increasing the Q of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Kathrein Inc., Scala Division
    Inventors: Torsten R. Wulff, Shawn A. Hogan
  • Patent number: 6466958
    Abstract: An apparatus and method allow receivers to quickly acquire a pseudorandom noise signal. A receiver advantageously detects frequency shifts using a compact parallel process hardware implementation of a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). The simultaneous detection of multiple frequencies allows the receiver to search the frequency range of the transmitted signal in larger increments of frequency, thereby increasing the speed of acquisition. One receiver does not use coherent integration before computation of the transform and advantageously maintains a flat frequency response. The flat frequency response of the DFT circuit enables searching of multiple frequency offsets without CPU intensive processing to compensate for frequency response variations. A receiver can include a Doppler correction circuit, which permits correlation data with frequency shift in the code to be non-coherently integrated among relatively fewer addresses or tap positions in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Interstate Electronics Corporation, a division of L3 Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Van Wechel, Michael F. McKenney
  • Patent number: 6465530
    Abstract: A process is described for synthetizing hydrocarbons from a mixture comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst comprising at least one group VIII metal supported on a silica-alumina prepared by co-precipitating and calcining at a temperature in the range from about 500° C. to about 1200° C. for at least 6 hours such that said silica-alumina has a specific surface area of less than 260 m2/g. Said catalyst is used in a fixed bed or in suspension in a liquid phase of a three-phase reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignees: Institut Francais du Petrole, AGIP Petroli S.p.A., ENI S.p.A. division of AGIP
    Inventors: Magalie Roy-Auberger, Philippe Courty, Laurent Normand, Roberto Zennaro
  • Patent number: 6463939
    Abstract: A process for washing articles in a mechanical washing machine including the steps of: (i) treating the articles with a wash liquor including a dishwashing composition; said composition when undiluted including greater than 20 wt.% of a bicarbonate salt followed by (ii) treating the articles with a rinsing solution including rinse aid the rinse aid when undiluted comprising at least 20 wt. % of a water soluble acid builder or salt thereof; wherein minimal rejuvenation of ion exchange material within the machine is needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilma Kornaat, Alastair Richard Sanderson, Alan Digby Tomlinson
  • Publication number: 20020146376
    Abstract: A cosmetic method of reducing the acidity of sweat excreted from human eccrine glands, said method comprising the topical application of a V-ATPase inhibitor to the skin in the vicinity of the eccrine glands. Said method may result in a range of benefits, including enhanced appreciation of topically-applied perfume and enhanced efficacy of topically-applied antiperspirant salt. Cosmetic products and compositions comprising a V-ATPase inhibitor and selected other components are also claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Samuel Beck, Jason Shaun Burry, Richard Livesey Evans, Dominic Granger, Raynald Laprade, Mireille Marsolais
  • Patent number: 6462004
    Abstract: The invention provides bar compositions comprising anionic surfactant, soap, free fatty acid and source of divalent cation sufficiently soluble to precipitate soluble soaps found in the molten process used to make the bars. By this interaction, improved finishing properties are observed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence James Farrell, John Richard Nicholson, Keith Francis
  • Patent number: 6461387
    Abstract: A system for dry cleaning soils from fabrics comprising densified carbon dioxide and a surfactant in the densified CO2. The densified carbon dioxide is in a temperature range of about −78.5° C. to about 100° C. and a pressure range of about 14.7 to about 10,000 psi. At least 0.1% by volume of a modifier is preferably present. The surfactant has a polysiloxane a branched polyalkylene oxide or a halocarbon group which is a functional CO2-philic moiety connected to a CO2-phobic functional moiety. The surfantant either exhibits an HLB of less than 15 or has a ratio of siloxyl to substituted siloxyl groups of greater than 0.5:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Sharon Harriott Jureller, Judith Lynne Kerschner, Dennis Stephen Murphy
  • Patent number: 6461653
    Abstract: A frozen ice confection of fixed shape is described which has its opacity controlled in relation of the temperature of the confection. The confection may also have an imbedded indicia which becomes view able as the transparency of this frozen confection increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Good-Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: David Robert Graham Cox
  • Patent number: 6461141
    Abstract: An adjustable cam track for a mold assembly including a first mold portion, a second mold portion movable with respect to the first mold portion, a third mold portion movably interposed between the first and second portions and having at least one pair of space defining surfaces which together with the first and second mold portions defines in a closed position space for receiving plastic material to form at least one molded article. The adjustable cam track includes a guide coupled to the second mold portion, the guide defining a first portion of the adjustable cam track and a cam insert including a second portion of the adjustable cam track defining a point of release of the molded article from the space defining surfaces, the cam insert being adjustably positionable with respect to the guide to adjust the point of release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Wentworth Mold, Inc., Electra Form Industries Division
    Inventors: Kevin R. Harrison, Jeffrey P. Roark
  • Publication number: 20020138928
    Abstract: An electric toothbrush comprises a handle and a head, characterized in that the head has a rubbery cleaning element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Calabrese
  • Publication number: 20020139384
    Abstract: A hair styling and conditioning composition, for use in heat styling hair, and which are dual-phased until shaken, and wherein said composition comprises:
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberly Kamis, Mark(II) Dailey, Matthew Kuznitz, Keith Leslie Rutherford, Robert George Riley
  • Publication number: 20020142932
    Abstract: A dry cleaning composition comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Machiel Goedhart, Fred Kerpels, Cornelis Gerhard Van Kralingen, Pieter E. Overdevest, Karin Vrieswijk
  • Publication number: 20020142088
    Abstract: Water continuous, pourable compositions comprising more than 50 to 80 wt % fat, an emulsifier having a hydrophilic/lipophilic balance value of at least 7, an antispattering composition and optionally a biopolymer in an amount of at most at most 0.3 wt % on total composition weight are suitable frying compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jurgen Heinz Fabian, Arjen Sein, Jan Adrianus Verheij, Andrea Williams
  • Publication number: 20020138931
    Abstract: Toothbrush comprising a handle (1) and a head (2), the handle (1) made out of a plastics material and having a general handle surface (3) and a grip portion (4), characterized in that the grip portion (4) comprises a projection (5) made out of said plastics material and which projects from the handle surface (3), said projection (5) having a gripping surface (6) which is raised from the handle surface (3) and has an elastomeric edge (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Huw Davies
  • Patent number: 6458345
    Abstract: The sensory attributes and/or visibility of deposits of wax-structured antiperspirant or deodorant sticks in the form of emulsions can vary significantly depending on the formulation employed. A particularly beneficial balance of attributes is obtained in emulsion sticks by employing a composition comprising a continuous phase which comprises from 10 to 35% volatile silicone oil, and from 5 to 15% non-volatile hydrophobic oil, from 40 to 75% of ta disperse aqueous phase which contains from 1 to 35% of an antiperspirant or deodorant active, from 7 to 25% of a wax structurant, from 0.1 to 10% of an emulsifier, and preferably contains up to 5% insoluble particulate materials, %s being by weight based on the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Steven Emslie, Graham Andrew Turner
  • Patent number: 6458344
    Abstract: A cosmetic composition preferably an antiperspirant composition, in solid or soft-solid form has a continuous phase which contains a water-immiscible liquid carrier and also contains a structurant which is partially or fully esterified cellobiose of the formula wherein each Z is independently hydrogen or an acyl group of the formula where R denotes a hydrocarbyl group containing from 4 to 22 carbon atoms. Not more than half of the Z groups are hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Ronald Franklin, Adam Jan Kowalski, David Terence Parrott, Kathryn Elizabeth Rowe, Michael Stephen White
  • Patent number: 6458756
    Abstract: A process for applying relatively volatile ingredients, such as perfume, to powdered detergents minimizes the loss of the ingredients to the atmosphere and increases plant efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: William Karpusiewicz, Roy Dennis Ray, Philip Glassman
  • Publication number: 20020137654
    Abstract: There is provided an enzymatic detergent composition which comprises: (a) surfactant; and (b) 10-20,000 LU per gram of the detergent composition of a lipolytic enzyme obtainable from Humicola lanuginosa, Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes, Rhizomucor miehei and (c) a non-cross-bridged polydentate N-donor ligand capable of forming a complex with a transition metal, wherein said complex is capable of catalysing the bleaching of stains on fabrics by means of atmospheric oxygen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Hage, Jan Klugkist, Ton Swarthoff, Patrick Van Der Waal
  • Publication number: 20020137656
    Abstract: A built laundry detergent composition contains anionic surfactant in combination with a minor amount of a highly ethoxylated nonionic surfactant which is a C8-C16 alcohol ethoxylated with an average of from 20 to 50 ethylene oxide groups. The composition exhibits improved oily soil detergency especially under hard water conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandra Ann Blything, Amrat Paul Singh, Thelma Christine Titley
  • Publication number: 20020136700
    Abstract: A vehicle, and a fragrance concentrate are described for providing a customized, personal care product to a consumer at a location, typically the point of sale, that is remote from a second location in which a personal care product base composition is prepared. The custom personal care product typically includes a product base, a fragrance concentrate, and one or more performance agent concentrates that may contain benefit agents, botanical extracts, active ingredients for skin and hair, and the like. The inventive vehicle is substituted to the extent that an insufficient amount of performance agents are selected by the consumer to obtain optimum, final product, component concentrations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA,Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marion Louise Margosiak, Christy A. Bridges, Marcina Siciliano, Rosa Paredes, Brian John Dobkowski, Craig Stephen Slavtcheff