Patents Assigned to division
  • Patent number: 6380146
    Abstract: There is provided a bleaching detergent composition comprising one or more surfactants, a phenol oxidizing enzyme and a compound which acts as enhancer for the phenol oxidizing enzyme, said composition having an Enhancer Index as herein defined of at least 12 and prefereably in the range of 15-50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Greta Johanna Breel, Daniel Convents, Willem Van Liemt, Ton Swarthoff, Robin Stefan Twisker
  • Publication number: 20020046833
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a coiled tubing injector head comprised of a plurality of endless chains, each of which are at least three links wide, that are positioned around a plurality of sprockets and/or idler rollers within the injector head. The invention further comprises a plurality of gripper assemblies that are positioned around the middle links of the endless chains. The present invention further comprises a bearing skate positioned within the injector head, the bearing skate be comprised of a plurality of bearings in a staggered configuration, the bearings being adapted for rolling engagement with a portion of the gripper assemblies. The invention further comprises an injector head comprised of a plurality of halves, each of said halves being coupled to a positioning bar, said positioning bar having a plurality of openings formed therein, said openings adapted for use in varying the distance between said first and second halves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: Drilling & Coiled Technology, Inc. a division of Gotco International, Inc.
    Inventor: Dudley Joseph Perio
  • Publication number: 20020049148
    Abstract: Compounds are provided that may be used as ligands in transition metal complexes, in turn useful as bleach catalysts. Also provided are complexes, bleaching compositions and methods using the compounds. Particularly preferred are such compounds as 1,4,6-trimethyl-6-(n-(pyridin-2-ylmethyl)-N-methylamino)-1,4-diazacycloheptane which can be used in manganese, iron and cobalt transition metal complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrianus Cornelis Appel, Ronald Hage, Stephen William Russell, David Tetard
  • Publication number: 20020049146
    Abstract: There is provided a targeted bleaching composition comprising an organic substance which forms a complex with a transition metal, the complex catalyzing bleaching of a substrate by a precursor selected from atmospheric oxygen and/or a peroxyl species. The complex is bound to a recognizing portion having a high binding affinity for stains present on fabrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Lucas Feringa, Ronald Hage, Steven Howell, Neil James Parry, Johannes Gerhardus Roelfes, Cornelis Theodorus Verrips
  • Patent number: 6376441
    Abstract: A multi-phase melt cast toilet bar which has at least one interface along a plane perpendicular to the plane formed by the x and y-axis of said bar, and a process of making the bar is described. Each phase, containing a cleansing agent, is reproducibly positioned in the bar to be used simultaneously thereby allowing the user to simultaneously derive benefits from the use of the cleansing agents contained in the bar's layers. The process for making the bar is a continuous one, whereby the molten cleansing agents are simultaneously or separately poured into the mold, simultaneously or separately allowed to harden, and where the mold divider is not removed or removed either after hardening of the adjacent molten cleansing agent but before the pouring of the next molten cleansing agent, or removed while at least one phase remains flowable. The hardened multi-phase toilet bar is finally ejected from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Edward Ross, Thomas Daniel Arkins, Robert Alfread Bennett, Syed Husain Abbas
  • Patent number: 6376004
    Abstract: Provided are soup or sauce base concentrates which are ambient stable concentrates which yield, upon dilution with an aqueous liquid, a finished sauce, soup or gravy. Ambient stability is helped by a low water activity wherein the soup or sauce base concentrate includes at least on water activity lowering component such that the composition has a water activity of below 0.92 and where salt and starch are present in the soup or sauce base concentrate in a ratio of at least 1:0.5 to at most 1:7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Gijsbert Kuil, Johannes Frederik Mulder
  • Patent number: 6377174
    Abstract: An intrusion detector has a housing with an infrared device disposed therein, an infrared sensor, a detector window provided in the housing wall for the passage of infrared radiation from the external space onto the infrared sensor, an element for focusing the infrared radiation incident through the detector window onto the infrared sensor and having a sabotage surveillance device including an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver. The infrared transmitter and the infrared receiver are disposed inside the housing and the detector window is substantially transparent to radiation emitted by the infrared transmitter. The sabotage surveillance of the detector takes place by measuring the proportion of the radiation reflected onto the infrared receiver from the inside of the detector window and the radiation transmitted onto the infrared receiver from the surrounding space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Technologies AG, Cerberus Division
    Inventors: David Siegwart, Peter Stierli
  • Patent number: 6375961
    Abstract: Cosmetic skin care compositions containing cumic alcohol. The inventive compositions improve transglutaminase-1 and ceramide expression in skin cells, and enhance the cell uptake of glucose and ascorbic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care (USA), division of Conopoco, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Carson, Krupa Patel, Sreekumar Pillai, Stewart Paton Granger, Beth Anne Lange
  • Patent number: 6376252
    Abstract: Test devices and methods are provided for detection of feline lower urinary tract disease. The test devices comprise a matrix impregnated with a color indicator and a stabilizer wherein the indicator remains stable when exposed to ambient conditions and wherein a positive color response remains stable for a sufficient time for the color response to be observed. The test devices may be provided for use in combination with conventional cat box filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignees: Environmental Test Systems, Inc., Golden Cat Division of Ralston Purina
    Inventors: Michael A. Van Lente, Robert Bauer, Carol J. Allen, Ronald A. Lewis, II, Glenn E. Gibson
  • Patent number: 6375210
    Abstract: A junction for the head tube of a bicycle frame with top tube and down tube members is fabricated in such a way that the top tube and down tube members are jointed. The method of mitering the top tube and down tube members to form the requested joint is cutting off a portion of walls of both the top tube and down tube members at the head ends to form a miter joint. The method of mitering provides for optimum contact area and ease of manufacturing, especially for tubes with non-traditional cross-sectional shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Rocky Mountain Bicycles, a division of Procycle Group Inc.
    Inventor: Duhane Lam
  • Patent number: 6376456
    Abstract: The present application relates to the inclusion of one or more wrinkle reducing ingredients in a laundry fabric softening product. The benefits are delivered to the laundered item either during the rinse step of the washing procedure or in the dryer. The need for further wrinkle reducing steps when the items are taken from the dryer or after hang drying are thereby reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Stephen Murphy, Daniel Joseph Fox, Francoise Meyer
  • Patent number: 6375864
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and molded, extruded or formed phosphorescent plastic articles produced therefrom that contain non-radioactive, non-sulfide phosphorescent phosphor pigments that emit light in the visible spectrum, preferably metal oxide aluminate:europium-activated phosphorescent phosphor pigments, preferably in combination with polymer-soluble daylight fluorescent dyes, in transparent or translucent resins. The plastic articles produced from the compositions of the invention exhibit a remarkably rich, attractive, clear, brilliant fluorescent daylight color and a strong, long-lasting glow-in-the-dark luminescence having a color similar to that of the daylight color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: M.A. HannaColor, a division of M.A. Hanna Company
    Inventors: Tracy L. Phillips, Jerry Alan Bodi
  • Patent number: 6376439
    Abstract: A composition for a soap bar comprises: (i) from about 0.01 to about 7% by weight of silicone; (ii) from about 0.5% to about 5%,by weight of a first emollient selected from the group consisting of from polyols, selected from the group consisting of glycerin, sorbitol, and mixtures thereof; (iii) about 0.1 to about 5% by weight, of a second emollient selected from the group consisting of vegetable, animal or mineral oils, free fatty acids and mixtures thereof; (iv) about 60% to 90% by weight fatty acid soap; wherein bar has L% light transmittance under 40%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcia de Ferran, Adolfo Gutmann, Sergio Roberto Leopoldino
  • Publication number: 20020044999
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising emulsifier, cold hydrating viscosifying agent, and optionally fat and protein, which composition is suitable for use in the preparation of an oil in water emulsion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Elisabeth Coote, Donald Bernard Farrer, Roger Morley Finlayson, Timothy John Foster, Alison Louise Russell
  • Publication number: 20020045558
    Abstract: A laundry washing composition comprises:
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Martin Creeth, Philippus Cornelis Van Der Hoeven, Edwin John Staples
  • Patent number: 6372795
    Abstract: Cosmetic methods and compositions containing selected substituted amide aromatic compounds. The inventive compositions provide control of sebum secretion from sebocytes, improved oil control and improved feel, and prevent shine and stickiness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, A Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: John Steven Bajor, David Joseph Pocalyko
  • Patent number: 6372707
    Abstract: A tablet of compacted particulate cleaning composition which contains surfactant and detergency builder, and is suitable for fabric washing, also includes water-insoluble, water-swellable polymeric material, and disintegration-promoting particles containing at least 40% (by weight of the particles) of one or more materials selected from: compounds with a water-solubility exceeding 50 grams per 100 grams water phase 1 sodium tripolyphosphate sodium tripolyphosphate which is partially hydrated so as to contain water of hydration in an amount which is at least 0.5% by weight of the sodium tripolyphosphate in the disintegration-promoting particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jelles Vincent Boskamp, Edwin Leo Lempers
  • Patent number: 6370899
    Abstract: A single package wall mounted HVAC unit comprising a cabinet assembly including a primary cabinet subassembly, a back panel subassembly adapted to close the open back of the back panel subassembly, and cabinet connection means for removably attaching the primary cabinet subassembly to the back panel subassembly so that the back panel subassembly can be attached to the wall of a structure and then the primary cabinet subassembly can be positioned on and attached to the back panel subassembly. Also disclosed is a blower mounting arrangement for selectively mounting the air circulation blower within the cabinet subassembly in different positions to attenuate the blower noise transmitted to the conditioned space. An interlock is disclosed for the control box to prevent the control box cover from being removed without disconnecting the HVAC unit from the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Crispaire, a division of Airxcel, Inc.
    Inventors: Shelton P. Hobbs, Paul F. Fay
  • Patent number: D455655
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin Christopher Bunce
  • Patent number: D456269
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Giles Hopley, Colin Watt Kerr, Nina Oden