Patents Assigned to E
  • Catalytic Production Processes for Making Tetrafluoropropenes and Pentafluoropropenes
    Publication number: 20110237845
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for making CF3CF?CHF. The process involves contacting at least one hexafluoropropane selected from the group consisting of CF3CF2CH2F and CF3CHFCHF2 with a chromium oxyfluoride catalyst in a reactor to obtain a product mixture comprising CF3CF?CHF, and recovering CF3CF?CHF from the product mixture. A process is disclosed for making CF3CH?CHF. The process involves contacting CF3CH2CHF2 with a chromium oxyfluoride catalyst in a reactor to obtain a product mixture comprising CF3CH?CHF, and recovering CF3CH?CHF from the product mixture. A process is disclosed for making CF3CF?CH2. The process involves contacting CF3CF2CH3 with a chromium oxyfluoride catalyst in a reactor to obtain a product mixture comprising CF3CF?CH2, and recovering CF3CF?CH2 from the product mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: MARIO Joseph NAPPA, Velliyur Nott Mallikarjuna Rao
  • SOUND WAVE RESONANCE GENERATOR
    Publication number: 20110233941
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sound wave resonance generator that is placed on underground railways of subways, in tunnels of surface streets, and around a landing field of the airplane of an airport, from which big noises are generated, thereby collecting surrounding noises around there, converting the collected noises into vibration motions of resonators, converting the vibration motions of the resonators into an electrical energy, and making the use of the electrical energy as a power source for driving a load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: TAE CHANG N.E.T. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: In-Ho Jee
  • Defensin polynucleotides and methods of use
    Patent number: 8026415
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding defensin proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Carl R. Simmons, Pedro A. Navarro Acevedo, Leslie Harvell, Rebecca Cahoon, Billy Fred McCutchen, Albert L. Lu, Rafael Herrmann, James F. H. Wong
  • Broadband passive distributed tuned vibration and acoustic absorber for modally dense structures
    Patent number: 8025124
    Abstract: A passive distributed vibration absorber that utilizes multiple discrete mass elements and a viscoelastic layer and that effectively attenuates vibration in modally dense structures excited by a broadband input noise excitation. and is tunable to multiple natural frequencies in such modally dense vibrating structures including low frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Natalia V Levit, Mark Allan Lamontia, David M Mellen, Joseph A King, Jr., Kathleen Kondylas, Christopher R Fuller
  • Protected air-activated organotin catalysts for polyurethane synthesis and processes therefore
    Patent number: 8026333
    Abstract: This invention relates to a protected organotin-based catalyst system for polyurethane synthesis that is useful in coatings applications. The catalyst has a formula according to; R1aR2bR3cSn[CH(OX)R4]d, wherein R1, R2, and R3 are the same or different and represent an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl, aromatic, alkoxide, amide, halide or stannyl group, R4 represents an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl or optionally substituted aryl group. a, b, and c are independently 0, 1, 2, or 3; d is 1, 2 or 3; and a+b+c+d=4; and X is an acid-labile or moisture-labile protecting group. When a coating mixture comprising the catalyst is sprayed and/or applied to a substrate as a thin film in air, the catalyst is activated. For solvent-based refinish systems comprising hydroxyl and isocyanate species at high solids levels, the catalyst system therefore provides extended viscosity stability, i.e., pot life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Jerald Feldman, Stephan J. McLain, Robert John Barsotti, James William O'Neil
  • Mutant ?8 desaturase genes engineered by targeted mutagenesis and their use in making polyunsaturated fatty acids
    Patent number: 8026089
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mutant ?8 desaturase genes, which have the ability to convert eicosadienoic acid [20:2 ?-6, EDA] to dihomo-?-linolenic acid [20:3, DGLA] and/or eicosatrienoic acid [20:3 ?-3, ETrA] to eicosatetraenoic acid [20:3 ?-3, ETA]. Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments encoding ?8 desaturase along with methods of making long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) using these mutant ?8 desaturases in plants and oleaginous yeast are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Howard Glenn Damude, Hongxian He, Der-Ing Liao, Quinn Qun Zhu
  • Fungicidal heterocyclic amines
    Patent number: 8026359
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R9a, R9b, G, W, X, Y, and Z are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling plant disease caused by a fungal pathogen comprising applying an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Yuzhong Chen
  • Soybean MTH1 promoter and its use in constitutive expression of transgenic genes in plants
    Patent number: 8026412
    Abstract: The promoter of a soybean metallothionein protein (MTH1) and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-independent or constitutive manner in plants are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Zhongsen Li
  • Methods of fabricating display device and felxible color display medium module thereof
    Patent number: 8027079
    Abstract: A method of fabricating the flexible color display medium module includes the steps of: forming a flexible substrate on a rigidly substrate; forming a color filter film comprising a plurality of color filter patterns; forming the display medium layer on the color filter film; and separating the flexible substrate from the rigidly substrate. Since the display medium layer is immediately disposed on the color filter film, the accuracy of aligning the display medium layer and the color filter film may be improved and the parallax resulted from the light passed through the display medium layer and the color filter film may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Su-Cheng Liu, Ted-Hong Shinn, Yi-Ching Wang
  • Glass/polyvinylbutyral laminates having directional surface patterns and a process for preparing same
    Patent number: 8025826
    Abstract: De-airing of PVB/glass laminates can be improved, while haze in the pre-press is minimized and sleep time reduced as a result using a PVB sheet having a roughened surface with directionality. A roughened surface with a washboard pattern that is useful in this regard can be obtained by varying certain conditions of a melt-fracture extrusion process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Chul Won Choi, Sang Gyu Lee
  • Method for leak detection in heat transfer systems
    Patent number: 8024937
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for detecting a leak in a closed loop heat transfer system comprising monitoring the pressure of the heat transfer composition inside said heat transfer system, wherein a drop in pressure indicates a leak. Also disclosed is a heat transfer system comprising an evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, an expander and a device for measuring internal system pressure. The system pressure measuring device is disposed inside the closed loop heat system. The internal system pressure measuring means may be located either between the evaporator and the condenser, between the expander and the evaporator, between the compressor and the condenser, or between the condenser and the expander.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Barbara Haviland Minor
  • Process for forming fluoropolymer coated film
    Patent number: 8025928
    Abstract: A process for forming a multilayer film includes coating a polymeric substrate film with a liquid fluoropolymer coating. The liquid fluoropolymer coating includes a fluoropolymer, solvent, a compatible cross-linkable adhesive polymer, and a cross-linking agent. The process further includes cross-linking the compatible cross-linkable adhesive polymer to form a cross-linked polymer network in the fluoropolymer coating, removing the solvent from the fluoropolymer coating, and adhering the fluoropolymer coating to the polymeric substrate film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Larry Glen Snow
  • Cyanate-based, carbon-dioxide-filled structured foams and method for their production
    Patent number: 8026292
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a polycyanurate foam with a structural element A and either terminal amino groups and/or at least one of the following structural elements B, C, or D: wherein the foam has closed pores that contain carbon dioxide. This foam can be produced in that a substance is worked into the starting material for the polycyanurate that releases water or alcohol approximately at the start of polymerization either spontaneously or thermally or catalytically induced. The water/alcohol reacts with free cyanate groups under cleavage of CO2. The resulting amino groups can react further in the polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Siegfried Vieth, Monika Bauer
  • Bag hanger device and bag for product dispensing system for materials
    Patent number: 8025259
    Abstract: A bag hanger device for holding a flexible bag containing a flowable material having a multi-sided, D-shaped or circular frame; a cross-member having two ends wherein one end is attached to one side of the frame and an opposite end is unattached to the frame; a closing device attached to an opposite end of the cross-member; a locking device attached to the frame opposite the closing device and in alignment with the closing device attached to the cross-member; at least one hanging means attached to the cross-member for holding the bag hanger device and a flexible bag attached thereto in a dispensing system; wherein the bag hanger device when inserted into the flexible bag having at least one pocket enables engagement of the closing device with the locking device and holds the flexible bag in a position to prevent collapse, wrinkling or deformation of the flexible bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Lawrence Doka Gaultney, Louis G. Rosanio, David Carlton Visser
  • LED lighting system for retrofitting an aircraft cabin fluorescent lighting system
    Patent number: 8025423
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for retrofitting a fluorescent lighting system, for example a passenger cabin fluorescent lighting system on a vehicle such as an aircraft. The present system may include at least one LED lighting unit for replacing, in situ, at least one fluorescent light of the fluorescent lighting system, and a control module for replacing, in situ, at least one ballast-type unit of the fluorescent lighting system that illuminates the at least one fluorescent light. The present system may further include a master control module, which may replace, in situ, an inverter of the fluorescent lighting system. The present method may include steps of: replacing at least one fluorescent light, in situ, with at least one LED lighting unit; and replacing at least one ballast-type unit, in situ, with at least one control module configured to control illumination of the LED lighting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Hancock, Eric Johannessen
  • Thin-film resistor with a layer structure and method for manufacturing a thin-film resistor with a layer structure
    Patent number: 8026788
    Abstract: A thin-film resistor with a layer structure with a Ti layer and a TiN layer is described, wherein a layer thickness of the Ti layer and a layer thickness of the TiN layer are selected such that a resulting temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) is smaller than 1000 ppm/° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignees: Fraunhofer—Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Universitaet Duisburg—Essen Forsthausweg
    Inventors: Heinz Deiters, Susanne Linnenberg, Dirk Nachrodt, Uwe Paschen, Holger Vogt
  • Honeycomb containing poly(paraphenylene terephthalamide) paper with aliphatic polyamide binder and articles made therefrom
    Patent number: 8025949
    Abstract: This invention relates to a honeycomb having cells of paper, comprising by weight 3 to 30 parts by weight aliphatic polyamide binder, and 70 to 97 parts of a poly(paraphenylene terephthalamide) fiber having a modulus of 600 grams per denier (550 grams per dtex) or greater, based on the aliphatic polyamide binder and PPD-T fiber in the paper. In another embodiment, the honeycomb is made from paper comprising by weight 30 to 50 parts aliphatic polyamide binder, and 50 to 70 parts of a poly(paraphenylene terephthalamide) fiber having a modulus of 600 grams per denier (550 grams per dtex) or greater, based on the aliphatic polyamide binder and PPD-T fiber in the paper. Both papers have an average specific tensile index of 60 (lbs/in)/opsy (310 Nm/g) or greater. Articles made from the honeycombs include a panel or an aerodynamic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Mikhail R. Levit, Subhotosh Khan, Gary Lee Hendren
  • Artificial diets for honey bees
    Patent number: 8025552
    Abstract: The invention is directed to water-dispersible, substantially homogeneous artificial diets and diet formulations which provide honey bees with a fully nutritious, complex mixture of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins in an easily digestible form. The diets of the invention support growth and development of honey bees, sustain brood rearing, and maintain hive vigor, and thus make possible the continuous rearing of bees using an artificial diet. The invention diets are useful for many purposes, and are particularly advantageous for providing nutrition sources for bees that are moved during commercial crop pollination or for other migratory beekeeping uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignees: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona, S.A.F.E. Research & Development, LLC
    Inventors: Allen C. Cohen, Gordon I. Wardell, Fabiana Ahumada-Segura
  • Film forming material and preparation of surface relief and optically anisotropic structures by irradiating a film of the said material
    Patent number: 8026021
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a film forming, photoactive, homogeneously mixed material comprising a complex prepared from (a) at least one ionic photosensitive compound which may undergo a photoreaction, selected from photoisomerizations, photocycloadditions and photoinduced rearrangements, and/or (a?) at least one photosensitive polyelectrolyte (“second polyelectrolyte”) carrying residues which may undergo said photoreaction, and (b) at least one (“first”) polyelectrolyte carrying charges which are opposite to those of the active groups of the photosensitive material. This material has unique photochemical properties in that non-scattering, optically clear films may prepared therefrom which allow light-induced generation of optical anisotropy and of topological surface structures, e.g. such as surface relief gratings (SRG).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Joachim Stumpe, Leonid Goldenberg, Olga Kulikovska
  • Fluorinated polyoxyalkylene glycol diamide surfactants
    Patent number: 8026289
    Abstract: A fluorinated polyoxyalkylene glycol diamide surfactant of formula 1 B—X—COCH2O—[—CpH2pO—]n—CH2CO—X—Ra??(1) wherein B is M or Ra, M is an ionizable hydrogen, ammonium, alkali metal, or alkaline earth metal, p is from about 2 to about 4, n is from about 5 about 43, each X is independently NR, SCH2CH2NR, SO2NRCH2CH2NR, or SO2CH2CH2NR; R is hydrogen, or a linear or branched alkyl group CbH(2b+1) wherein b is 1 to about 18, Ra is Rf(CH2CF2)d—(CgH2g)—; Rf(OCF2CF2)r—(CgH2g)—; RfOY—; Rf(CH2)h[(CF2CF2)i(CH2CH2)j]k—; Rf(CgH2g)—; or H(CcF2c)—(CgH2g)—; Y is CFHCF2O(CwH2w)—; or CF(CF3)CONH—(CgH2g)—; and each Rf is independently CcF(2c+1) wherein c is 1 to about 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Peter Michael Murphy, Anilkumar Raghavanpillai