Patents Assigned to E
  • Publication number: 20090225397
    Abstract: An electro-optic display comprises a layer (130) of a solid electro-optic material, at least one electrode disposed adjacent the layer (130) of electro-optic material, and a layer (180) of a lamination adhesive interposed between the layer (130) of electro-optic material and the electrode, the lamination adhesive (180) having a higher electrical conductivity in a direction perpendicular to the layer of lamination adhesive than in the plane of the layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Karl R. Amundson, Robert W. Zehner, Richard M. Webber, Katharine Geramita, Libing Zhang, Andrew Loxley, Gregg M. Duthaler, John E. Ritter, Michael L. Steiner, Mavyn M. Holman, Justin J. Abramson, Glen Crossley
  • Publication number: 20090225398
    Abstract: The invention provides an electrophoretic medium comprising at least two types of particles having substantially the same electrophoretic mobility but differing colors. The invention also provides article of manufacture comprising a layer of a solid electro-optic medium, a first adhesive layer on one surface of the electro-optic medium, a release sheet covering the first adhesive layer, and a second adhesive layer on an opposed second surface of the electro-optic medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: E INK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregg M. Duthaler, Karl R. Amundson, Holly G. Gates, John E. Ritler, Russell J. Wilcox, Robert W. Zehner, Barrett Comiskey, Alberto Goenaga, Michael L. Steiner, Anthony Edward Pullen
  • Publication number: 20090225416
    Abstract: A reflection-type projection screen is provided having uniformly high gain over a wide range of viewing angles. The projection screen includes a dual-purpose light reflective, supportive substrate including at least one unpigmented flash-spun plexifilamentary film-fibril sheet having a light reflectance of greater than about 85% and a gloss of less than about 10% when measured at a 60° incident angle, and an optical diffusion layer of a light transmissive melt-processible polymer containing diffusion-enhancing particles covering at least one surface of the substrate. The projection screen has an optical gain of between about 0.90 and about 2.0 and the optical gain deviates by no more than about 8% over viewing angles between ?60° and +60°. The projection screen has good drapeability, rollability the ability to lay and hang flat. The projection screen can also be recycled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Eric W. Teather, Steven William Macmaster
  • Publication number: 20090226364
    Abstract: A process for treating acid gases comprising hydrogen sulfide comprises introducing a first acid gas and a first oxygen-containing gas into a reducing furnace to produce a first oxidized gas stream, cooling the first oxidized gas stream in a first heat recovery system, introducing the cooled gas stream into a sulfur condenser to produce a sulfur-stripped gas, introducing the sulfur-stripped gas and a second oxygen-containing gas into an oxidizing furnace to produce a second oxidized gas stream and cooling the second oxidized gas stream in a second heat recovery system. The first acid gas can be acid gas comprising hydrogen sulfide produced in refineries. The spent acid can be spent sulfuric acid from a sulfuric acid alkylation process. The cooled second oxidized gas stream can be further treated in a spent acid recovery plant or a sulfur recovery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Zeru Berhane Tekie, Luis Alberto Chu, Eugene F. Hartstein
  • Publication number: 20090226642
    Abstract: Perfluorinated polyimides (and co-polyimide) compositions, particularly films are disclosed, comprising at least 50 mole percent of a polymeric repeat unit derived from contacting 3,3?,4,4?-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride (BDPA) and 2,2?-bis(trifluoromethyl) benzidine (TFMB) monomers. The perfluorinated polyimide (and co-polyimide) films of the invention have an in-plane coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) between ?5 and +20 ppm/° C. and a average light transmittance percent of from about 65.0 to about 99.0 (on a 75-micron thick film basis). The films of the present invention were converted to a polyimide using a chemical conversion method instead of typically employed thermal conversion step thus yielding these desirable properties. The films of the present invention can be an excellent substrate in an optical display device and can be used to replace rigid glass substrates. Finally, the polyimide films of the invention can also be used to manufacture flexible display devices (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER DENNIS SIMONE, Brian C. Auman, Peter Francis Carcia, Richard A. Wessel
  • Publication number: 20090227739
    Abstract: The present invention is a composition useful as an impact modifier for polyamide compositions. In one embodiment, impact modifiers of the present invention are ethylene maleic anhydride copolymers having at least 3% maleic anhydride functionality. Compositions comprising copolymers of ethylene and maleic anhydride or its functional equivalents and ethylene copolymers with polar comonomers are disclosed. The compositions provide miscible blends and exhibit improved properties, such as increased temperature resistance and mechanical strength, compared to pure ethylene copolymers with polar comonomers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventor: RICHARD T. CHOU
  • Publication number: 20090227447
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions of matter that are ionic liquids, the compositions comprising any of eleven cations combined with any of three fluorinated sulfonated anions. Compositions of the invention should be useful as solvents and, perhaps, as catalysts for many reactions, including aromatic electrophilic substitution, nitration, acylation, esterification, etherification, oligomerization, transesterification, isomerization and hydration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Harmer, Christopher P. Junk, Jemma Vickery
  • Patent number: 7586198
    Abstract: Innerlayer panels are provided with high density fiducials during manufacture. The fiducials can be identified using X-rays without etching away portions of the innerlayer panel to expose the fiducials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: William J. Borland, Saul Ferguson, Diptarka Majumdar, Matthew C. Snogren, Richard H. Snogren
  • Patent number: 7586622
    Abstract: A method for measuring a layer of a device is provided. In an embodiment, a set of baseline reflectance profiles may be generated from a corresponding set of baseline devices. Each of the baseline devices may include a layer with a known thickness. A reflectance profile may also be generated from the device, which may include a layer with an unknown thickness. The reflectance profile generated from the device may then be compared to the set of reflectance profiles generated from the set of the baseline devices to determine the thickness of the layer of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Ed Sundaram Ramakrishnan, Alberto Goenaga
  • Patent number: 7585999
    Abstract: 2,5-dihydroxyterephthalic acid is produced in high yields and high purity from 2,5-dihaloterephthalic acid by contact with a copper source and a ligand that coordinates to copper under basic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Joachim C. Ritter
  • Patent number: 7586656
    Abstract: The invention is a process for producing an optimised printing form comprising printing onto a substrate with a printing form with predetermined raster percentages on the printing press to obtain a test print in form of a stepped wedge with raster patches, measuring the reflectance spectrum of each raster patch, determining associated colorimetric values L*,a*,b* from the reflectance spectrum, transforming the colorimetric values L*,a*,b* for each raster patch in linear correlation with the color perception of the human eye, using the formula RCD = ( L * ? rasterpatch - L * ? substrate ) 2 + ( a * ? rasterpatch - a * ? substrate ) 2 + ( b * ? rasterpatch - b * ? substrate ) 2 ( L * ? solidshade - L * ? substrate ) 2 + ( a * ? solidshade - a * ? substrate ) 2 + ( b * ? solidshade - b * ? substrate ) 2 · 100 ? [ % ] wherein RCD is the relative colorimetric difference expresse
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Carsten Gasczyk
  • Patent number: 7586103
    Abstract: Provided are compositions suitable for use as immersion liquids in immersion lithography, and immersion lithography processes and apparatus for using the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Jerald Feldman
  • Patent number: 7585495
    Abstract: A method for identifying shampoo-resistant hair-binding peptides is described. The shampoo-resistant hair-binding peptides bind strongly to hair from a shampoo matrix and are stable therein. Peptide-based benefit agents, such as peptide-based hair conditioners and hair colorants, based on the shampoo-resistant hair binding peptides are described. The peptide-based hair conditioners and hair colorants consist of a shampoo-resistant hair-binding peptide coupled to a hair conditioning agent or a coloring agent, respectively. Hair care and hair coloring product compositions comprising these peptide-based hair conditioners and colorants are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: John P. O'Brien, Hong Wang, Antoinette E. Wilkins, Ying Wu
  • Patent number: 7585924
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a novel high temperature polymerization process operating at high pressures for producing a polymer. The process includes conveying hybrid reactor mixtures, which include one or more hybrid reactor monomers and one or more hybrid reactor initiators to one or more hybrid reactors. The hybrid reactors are maintained at effective hybrid polymerization temperatures and sub-reflux polymerization gage pressures to cause polymerization of a portion of the hybrid reactor monomers into the polymer. The process further includes conveying hybrid reactor contents from the hybrid reactors to one or more batch reactors maintained at effective batch polymerization temperatures and reflux polymerization pressures to cause polymerization of a remaining portion of the hybrid reactor monomers into the polymer. The hybrid reactors are smaller in volume than the batch reactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Michael Charles Grady
  • Patent number: 7585950
    Abstract: This invention relates to an isolated polypeptide having Myb-related transcription factor activity and fusion proteins comprising the polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Joan T. Odell
  • Publication number: 20090218719
    Abstract: A thin, uniform membrane comprising polymeric fibrils or a combination of fibrils and particles, wherein the fibrils have randomly convoluted cross-sections, and a process for making the membrane are disclosed. The membrane may be on the surface of a substrate as part of a composite sheet, or as a stand-alone structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert Anthony Marin, Larry R. Marshall, Amanda Dawn Miller, Lewis Edward Manring
  • Publication number: 20090221466
    Abstract: A composition of formula I [Rf(CH2)m(O)n]x-A wherein Rf is a straight or branched perfluoroalkyl group having from about 2 to about 20 carbon atoms, or a mixture thereof, m is a positive integer equal to or greater than 3, n is 0 or 1, x is 1 to about 3, and A is —P(O)(OR1)y(OM+)3?y?x, —C(O)CH(SO3?M+)CH2C(O)?, ?(CH2CH2O)d(CH2CHR2O)eR3, or ?SO2B, M+ is an alkali metal ion, NH4+, or NH2(CH2CH2OH)2, B is N(R)2 or N(CH2CH3)(CH2CH2OH), R1 is C1 to C3 alkyl, and R2 is C1 to C4 alkyl, R3 is H or CH3, y is 0 to about 1, d is 0 to about 16, e is 0 to about 16, provided that (d+e) is from about 3 to about 16 is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Alexander Borisovich Shtarov, Michael Joseph Michalczyk, Charles Kenneth Taylor
  • Publication number: 20090220949
    Abstract: The present invention is based on the identification of new mutations in KCNQ1 (also termed KvLQTI), KCNH2 (also termed HERG), SCN5A, KCNE1 (also termed minK), KCNE2 (also termed MiRP) genes that encode ionic channels involved in cardiac electrical activity and are potentially responsible for the Long QT Syndrome. According to a main aspect, the invention relates to nucleic acids, oligonucleotides and polynucleotides and mRNA, containing sequences of KCNQ1, KCNH2 SCN5A, KCNE1, KCNE2 genes and cDNAs in a mutated form and to respective variant proteins thereof. A preferred embodiment of the present invention is represented by a diagnostic method based on the identification of a group of about 70 non-private mutations in the KCNQ1, KCNH2 and SCN5A genes, detected at high frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicants: Fondzione Salvatore Maugeri Clinica Del Lavoro E Della Riabilitazione I.R.C.C.S., Universita' Degli Studi Di Pavia
    Inventor: Silvia Giuliana Priori
  • Patent number: D600204
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: E-Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kim Jong Woon
  • Patent number: D600273
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Rythmes & Sons (Sociét é à responsabilité limitée)
    Inventor: Claude Walter