Patents Assigned to E
  • NON-STICK COATING HAVING IMPROVED ABRASION RESISTANCE, HARDNESS AND CORROSION ON A SUBSTRATE
    Publication number: 20120034448
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a substrate coated with a multi-layer non-stick coating which resists abrasion force and corrosion. The coating comprises a pre-primer base coat layer and at least two further coating layers, wherein at least two of said further coating layers comprise one or more fluoropolymer. The pre-primer base coat layer is substantially free of fluoropolymer, and comprises a heat resistant non-fluoropolymer polymer binder composition and inorganic filler particles, wherein greater than 50% of the inorganic filler particles are titanium dioxide, and wherein at least 10 weight % of said inorganic filler particles are large ceramic particles having an average particle size of at least 14 micrometers, and wherein some or all of the large ceramic particles extend from the pre-primer base coat layer at least into the next adjacent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventor: YUQING LIU
  • Fermentation process starting from cellulosic biomass and involving the recirculation of detoxified stillage into the process
    Patent number: 8110383
    Abstract: A method for preparing a target chemical derivable from cellulosic biomass, involving detoxification of spent hydrolysate is provided. The method comprises the steps of providing cellulosic biomass, subjecting the cellulosic biomass to aqueous pretreatment, aqueous hydrolysis, and fermentation under conditions in which at least a part of the fermentable sugars are fermented into a primary target chemical, separating the primary target chemical from the fermented hydrolysate to provide a spent hydrolysate comprising inhibitory substances and detoxifying the spent hydrolysate by decreasing the concentration of at least one of the inhibitory substances using a detoxification biocatalyst selected from the group consisting of wild type, mutant and recombinant filamentous fungi and recirculating at least a part of the detoxified spent hydrolysate, optionally after further purification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sekab E-Technology AB
    Inventors: Leif Jönsson, Björn Alriksson
  • Process for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide
    Patent number: 8110382
    Abstract: A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from Acidovorax facilis 72W (ATCC 57746). Glycolic acid is recovered in the form of the acid or salt from the aqueous ammonium glycolate solution using a variety of methods described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Robert DiCosimo, Anna Panova, Jeffery Scott Thompson, Robert D. Fallon, F. Glenn Gallagher, Thomas Foo, Xu Li, George C. Fox, Joseph J. Zaher, Mark S. Payne, Daniel P. O'Keefe
  • Device, system and method for monitoring animal posture pattern
    Patent number: 8111166
    Abstract: A device for determining a posture pattern of an animal comprises a housing configured and adapted to be attached to a part of the animal; the housing comprises a posture sensor operative to sense an orientation of the part of the animal indicating the posture of the animal; and an interface unit operative to output the orientation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: S.A.E. Afikim Milking System Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.
    Inventors: Hagai Flexer, Eli Heimlich
  • Methods for reducing cholesterol in a milk product
    Patent number: 8110235
    Abstract: Systems and methods according to the present invention yield milk products having reduced cholesterol. A method according to the present invention includes the steps of adding an edible oil to skim that was separated from whole milk; standardizing the particle size of the skim-and-oil mixture; combining the skim-and-oil mixture with homogenized cream that was separated from whole milk; and separating the oil from the reduced cholesterol cream and skim. A method according to the present invention may further include the steps of separating the reduced cholesterol cream and skim and then recombining them to form a reduced cholesterol milk product having desired properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Alliance Enterprises of S.E. Wisconsin, LLC
    Inventors: I. Edward Salinas, Eduardo Segovia Cantu, Jacquelyn S. Brandenburg
  • Method of making a microwave field director structure having V-shaped vane doublets
    Patent number: 8108992
    Abstract: A method of making a self-supporting field director structure for use in heating an article in a microwave oven comprises in any operative order, the steps of folding a first and a second elongated vane blank along a central fold line to form at least two V-shaped vane doublets; inserting each of the vane doublets into a slotted annular support member so that each vane in each vane doublet extends through an adjacent slot in the annular support member; and attaching the vane doublets at their vertices to define a vane array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: William R. Corcoran, Jr.
  • Combine having a cutting mechanism and a feed mechanism
    Patent number: 8109815
    Abstract: A combine has a cutting mechanism (12) for cutting a crop and a feed mechanism (13) for feeding the cut crop towards a threshing and/or separating rotor (21) which rotates within a housing (20) about an axis disposed generally longitudinally relative to the combine, the cut crop moving between the rotor and the housing from an inlet end of the housing towards an outlet end of the housing across a grating (22) through which separated grain leaves the housing. The harvested crop is fed by a final feed section (18) of the feed mechanism into the inlet end (20a) of the housing across a transition edge (A-A, B-B, C-C) of the housing which is split into a number of sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: AGCO Do Brasil Comercio e Industria Ltda
    Inventor: Brian Hollatz
  • Poly(hydroxyalkanoic acid) and thermoformed articles
    Patent number: 8110138
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process comprising extruding a poly(hydroxyalkanoic acid) (PHA) to produce a first article; thermoforming the first article in a heated mold having a temperature ? about 90° C. to produce a second article; and heat treating the second article by holding the second article in the heated mold for less than about 40 seconds to produce a thermoformed article wherein the PHA composition comprises or consists essentially of PHA and 0 to about 4%, based on the weight of the composition, of a nucleator; and the first article is a film or sheet and is partially crystallized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Julius Uradnisheck
  • Method and device for an imaging ultrasonic inspection of a three-dimensional workpiece
    Patent number: 8109147
    Abstract: A method for an imaging ultrasonic inspection of a three-dimensional workpiece, in which ultrasonic waves are coupled into the workpiece with at least one ultrasonic transducer and ultrasonic waves reflected within the workpiece are received by ultrasonic transducers and converted into ultrasonic signals forming the basis of the non-destructive imaging ultrasonic inspection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Kröning, Andrey Bulavinov, Krishna Mohan Reddy, Ludwig Von Bernus
  • ORDERED COBALT-ALUMINUM AND IRON-ALUMINUM INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS AS HYDROGENATION CATALYSTS
    Publication number: 20120029254
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the hydrogenation, in particular the selective hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds, such as the selective hydrogenation of acetylene to ethylene, using a hydrogenation catalyst comprising an ordered intermetallic compound, namely an ordered cobalt-aluminum or iron-aluminum intermetallic compound. According to another aspect, the present invention relates to a catalyst comprising a support and at least one specific ordered cobalt-aluminum and/or iron-aluminum intermetallic compound supported thereon, as well as to the use of specific ordered intermetallic cobalt-aluminum and iron-aluminum intermetallic compounds as catalysts. The ordered cobalt-aluminum and iron-aluminum intermetallic compounds proved to be highly selective and long-term stable catalysts, e.g. in the selective hydrogenation of acetylene to ethylene in a large excess of ethylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicants: MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V., FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH, LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN
    Inventors: Marc Armbruster, Kirill Kovnir, Juri Grin, Robert Schlogl, Peter Gille, Marc Heggen, Michael Feuerbacher
  • PROCESS AND REACTOR SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING AMMONIA USING IONIC LIQUIDS
    Publication number: 20120027661
    Abstract: A process and a reactor system for producing ammonia is described. The ammonia produced, such as by the Haber process, is absorbed into an ionic liquid. The removal of ammonia shifts the reaction equilibrium toward the production of ammonia, resulting in higher yields of ammonia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark Brandon Shiflett, Akimichi Yokozeki
  • CROSS-LINKABLE IONOMERIC ENCAPSULANTS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS
    Publication number: 20120024348
    Abstract: Provided herein is a blend composition useful as a cross-linkable encapsulant layer and consisting essentially of two ethylene copolymers and optionally one or more additives. The first ethylene copolymer comprises copolymerized units of ethylene, optionally a first olefin having the formula CH2?C(R1)CO2R2, and a second olefin having the formula CH2?C(R3)COOH. At least a portion of the carboxylic acid groups have been neutralized to form carboxylate salts. The second ethylene copolymer consists essentially of copolymerized units of ethylene, optionally a first olefin having the formula CH2?C(R1)CO2R2, and a third olefin having the formula CH2?C(R4)D. R1, R3 and R4 represent hydrogen or an alkyl group; R2 represents an alkyl group; and D represents a moiety containing an epoxy group. Further provided are solar cell modules comprising the encapsulant layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: GEORGE WYATT PREJEAN, Alison Margaret Anne Bennett
  • MULTILAYER STRUCTURES CONTAINING A FLUORINATED COPOLYMER RESIN LAYER AND AN ETHYLENE TERPOLYMER LAYER
    Publication number: 20120024450
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayer film laminate comprising a layer consisting essentially of a fluorinated copolymer resin and a layer consisting essentially of an ethylene terpolymer. The ethylene terpolymer layer can be used as an encapsulant layer for solar cells and the multilayer laminate is useful as a component of photovoltaic modules. Methods for preparing photovoltaic modules are also included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: SAM LOUIS SAMUELS, George Wyatt Prejean
  • POLYAMIDE COMPOSITIONS WITH IMPROVED SALT RESISTANCE AND HEAT STABILITY
    Publication number: 20120029134
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polyamide composition including at least one semi-aromatic copolyamide, said semi-aromatic copolyamide consisting essentially of about 25 to about 55 mole percent repeat units of the formula —C(O)(CH2)mC(O)NHCH2ArCH2NH—??(I) and about 45 to about 75 mole percent repeat units of the formula —C(O)(CH2)mC(O)NH(CH2)2NH—(II) wherein m is 8, 10, and/or 12, n is 6, 10 and/or 12 and Ar is a meta-substituted benzene ring; and said polyamide has a melting point equal to or less than 225° C.; and 0.1 to 15 weight percent of one or more polyhydric alcohols having more than two hydroxyl groups and having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of less than 2000. Also disclosed are molded or extruded articles including the polyamide composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: SHAILESH RATILAL DOSHI, Annakutty Mathew, Marvin M. Martens
  • COLOR DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120026209
    Abstract: A color display device including a lower substrate, a driving array, a display layer, a color filter substrate and a transparent substrate is provided. The driving array is disposed on the lower substrate. The display layer is disposed on the driving array and includes a first region and a second region. The color filter substrate is disposed on the display layer and is located in the first region. The transparent substrate is disposed on the display layer and is located in the second region. The color display device has a high light reflectivity, thereby improving the display quality of the color display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: YI-CHING WANG, Tung-Liang Lin, Lee-Tyng Chen
  • MICRONIZED POLYMER POWDER AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION THEREOF
    Publication number: 20120029076
    Abstract: The invention provides a micronized polymer powder compos Won for the use in personal care and cosmetics, the micronized polymer powder composition comprising at least one thermoplastic polyester based on at least one diol and at least one dicarboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of cyclic and branched aliphatic dicarboxylic acids having 4-12 carbon atoms and aromatic dicarboxylic acids having 8-12 carbon atoms. The present invention provides also a cosmetic composition comprising the at least one micronized polymer powder composition according to the invention. The composition according to the invention provides a high-performed gentle exfoliation property of skin care and cosmetic compositions without creating micro cuts and irritation of the skin surface while still providing the range of desired care properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Oliver Magnin, Carole Gherardi, Vincent Raspail, Ludovic Granjou
  • FLUOROPOLYMER COATED FILMS USEFUL FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE
    Publication number: 20120024352
    Abstract: A photovoltaic module backsheet includes a polyester film having opposite first and second surfaces, and first and second fluoropolymer coatings on the first and second surfaces of the polyester film. The first and second fluoropolymer coatings each include fluoropolymer selected from homopolymers and copolymers of vinyl fluoride and homopolymers and copolymers of vinylidene fluoride polymer blended with compatible adhesive polymer. The compatible adhesive polymer includes a backbone that is compatible with the fluoropolymer and pendant functional groups. The pendant functional groups are selected from carboxylic acid, sulfonic acid, aziridine, anhydride, amine, isocyanate, melamine, epoxy, hydroxy and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael DeBergalis, Larry Glen Snow
  • MULTILAYER FILMS CONTAINING A FLUORINATED COPOLYMER RESIN LAYER AND AN ENCAPSULANT LAYER
    Publication number: 20120024351
    Abstract: A multilayer film comprises a layer consisting essentially of a fluorinated copolymer resin film and a layer consisting essentially of a blend of two ethylene copolymers. The first ethylene copolymer comprises copolymerized units of ethylene, optionally a first olefin having the formula CH2?C(R1)CO2R2, and a second olefin having the formula CH2?C(R3)COOH. The second ethylene copolymer consists essentially of copolymerized units of ethylene, optionally a first olefin having the formula CH2?C(R1)CO2R2, and a third olefin having the formula CH2?C(R4)D. R1, R3 and R4 represent hydrogen or an alkyl group; R2 represents an alkyl group; and D represents a moiety containing an epoxy group. The multilayer film is useful as an integrated frontsheet or backsheet for photovoltaic modules. Methods for preparing the multilayer film and the photovoltaic modules are also included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: George Wyatt Prejean, Sam Louis Samuels
  • DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20120026577
    Abstract: A display device includes an active element array substrate, a display layer and a transparent shock absorption layer. The display layer is disposed on the active element array substrate. The transparent shock absorption layer is disposed on the display layer. The transparent shock absorption layer is formed by curing liquid adhesive material. A manufacturing method of display device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Yuan-Chih Tsai, Chi-Ming Wu, Ming-Sheng Chiang, Hung-Yi Tsai, Jen-Shiun Huang, Ta-Nien Luan, Wen-Chang Lu, Lee-Tyng Chen, You-Chi Tsai
  • CROSSLINKABLE MATERIALS FOR SAFETY LAMINATES
    Publication number: 20120028049
    Abstract: A safety laminate comprises an interlayer that comprises a crosslinkable blend of ethylene copolymers. The first ethylene copolymer comprises copolymerized units of ethylene, optionally a first olefin having the formula CH2?C(R1)CO2R2, and a second olefin having the formula CH2?C(R3)COOH. The first ethylene copolymer is optionally at least partially neutralized. The second ethylene copolymer consists essentially of copolymerized units of ethylene, optionally a first olefin having the formula CH2?C(R1)CO2R2, and a third olefin having the formula CH2?C(R4)D. R1, R3 and R4 represent hydrogen or an alkyl group; R2 represents an alkyl group; and D represents a moiety containing an epoxy group. The crosslinkable blend is useful as an interlayer in safety laminates. Methods for preparing the safety laminates are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: George Wyatt Prejean, Sam Louis Samuels, Alison Margaret Anne Bennett