Patents Assigned to E
  • Coating agents which can be used for multi-layer enameling
    Patent number: 6743867
    Abstract: A coating compound comprising a binder/crosslinking agent system that comprises 20 wt. % to 80 wt. % of one or more carboxyl-functional components A) and 80 wt. % to 20 wt. % of one or more epoxy-functional (meth)acrylic copolymers B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Carmen Flosbach, Friedrich Herrmann, Claudia Drewin, Walter Schubert, Astrid Tueckmantel
  • Electrical power transmission system using superconductors
    Patent number: 6743984
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical power transmission system using superconductors which is compatible with conventional transmission systems. In a first aspect, a method for installing in an electrical power transmission system a connection using a coaxial superconducting cable, includes determining a reactance of a conventional cable suitable for the connection; installing the coaxial superconducting cable, and increasing a reactance of the coaxial superconducting cable, in such a way that the reactance of the superconducting cable is substantially equal to the reactance of the conventional cable. In particular, increasing the reactance of the coaxial superconducting cable includes connecting in series with the coaxial superconducting cable an inductive element, preferably made from a superconducting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Pirelli Cavi E Sistemi S.P.A.
    Inventors: Marco Nassi, Pierluigi Ladie′
  • PROCESS OF OBTAINMENT OF RACEMIC CETAMINE ENANTIOMERS; PROCESS OF OBTAINMENT OF PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALTS FROM RACEMIC CETAMINE ENANTIOMES AND USE OF PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALTS OBTAINED BY MEANS OF SAID MENTIONED PROCESS
    Patent number: 6743949
    Abstract: The present invention describes a new process for obtainment of the cetamine enantiomers, from the racemic cetamine resolution with the aid of an agent of chiral resolution, which provides the selective crystallization of its enantiomers. The resolution agent is employed in special concentration conditions, which provides stability, reproducibility and high enantiomeric purity to the precipitated diasteromer salt, making feasible the industrial production of the S-cetamine and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Cristália Produtos Químicos e Farmacêuticos Ltda.
    Inventors: Valter Freire Torres Russo, Elisa Mannochio de Souza Russo
  • Process for repairing coated substrate surfaces
    Patent number: 6743466
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for repairing coated substrate surfaces comprising the following successive steps: a) optionally preparing a blemished area to be repaired, b) providing a backing film coated on one side with an uncured or at least partially cured coating layer of a coating composition curable by means of high energy radiation, c) applying the backing film with its coated side onto the blemished area to be repaired, d) irradiating the coating applied in this manner onto the blemished area to be repaired with high energy radiation and e) removing the backing film, wherein the coating is irradiated through the backing film and/or after removing the backing film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Carmen Flosbach, Karl-Friedrich Doessel, Werner Lenhard, Oliver Reis, Thomas Fey
  • Method and system for printing with an inkjet printer to simulate screen printing
    Patent number: 6742869
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for ink jet printing of wide format substrates such as textiles in a manner to simulate screen printing, in which image data in one or more acceptable formats is input, transformed into a suitable L*a*b* file format, further converted into a driver format for a printer, then communicated to such printer. Optionally, the color gamut of the image in the L*a*b* file format is checked against an estimated screen gamut of a screen printer, and limited to the estimated screen gamut as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Martin E. Redding, John Stephen Locke, Robert Clifton Strum, Tony Z. Liang, Michael Lee Rudolph, Waifong Liew Anton, Hisanori Omura
  • Method and system for insuring users of electronic trading systems or exchanges and traditional established commodity exchanges against weather-related risks and hazards
    Publication number: 20040103003
    Abstract: Method and system for bundling a weather-related risk management product to the trading of commodities, such as agriculture, food, electricity, natural gas, oil and other products being traded through independent electronic commerce exchanges including business-to-consumer, business-to-business and traditional established commodity exchanges. A weather-related insurance product is created for a commodity which will specify the weather-related risk premium and compensation to be paid if certain defined events occur. The exchange offers the insurance product to its members, and for those that purchase the insurance product, a premium is added to the cost for each transaction in which the member is a party. By bundling a weather-related insurance product together with each trade or transaction, the weather-related risk premium is incorporated as an added transaction cost at the time the trade is confirmed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Applicant: E-COMM CONNECT, LLC
    Inventors: Mark M. Mayers, David M. Fromer
  • Manufacture of alpha-olefins
    Patent number: 6740715
    Abstract: Alpha-olefins are manufactured in high yield and with very high selectivity by contacting ethylene with an iron complex of a selected 2,6-pyridinedicarboxaldehyde bisimine or a selected 2,6-diacylpyridine bisimine, and in some cases a selected activator compound such as an alkyl aluminum compound. Novel bisimines and their iron complexes are also disclosed. The &agr;-olefins are useful as monomers and chemical intermediates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignees: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, University of North Carolina
    Inventors: Maurice S. Brookhart, III, Brooke L. Small
  • Scorpian toxins
    Patent number: 6740743
    Abstract: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding scorpion toxins that are K-channel modifiers. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a substantial portion of the K-channel modifier, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the K-channel modifier in a transformed host cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Rafael Herrmann, James F. Wong
  • Radiation-curable coating compounds
    Patent number: 6740365
    Abstract: Coating compounds curable by means of high-energy radiation, comprising as binder A) at least one (meth)acrylic copolymer containing olefinic double bonds capable of free-radical polymerization and hydroxyl groups with a C═C equivalent weight from 100 to 10,000 and an OH-value from 20 to 250 mg KOH/g, which is prepared from monomers comprising: A1) at least one olefinically unsaturated, epoxy-functional monomer capable of free-radical polymerization, A2) at least one olefinically unsaturated, carboxy-functional monomer capable of free-radical polymerization and A3) at least one further olefinically unsaturated monomer capable of free-radical polymerization which is different from A1) and A2), and B) at least one component with free isocyanate groups and process for multilayer coating using the coating compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Morenike Awokola, Carmen Flosbach, Helmut Loeffler, Volker Paschmann
  • Ambient cure fast dry solvent borne coating compositions
    Patent number: 6740359
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to fast dry ambient temperature curable coating compositions especially suited for use in automotive refinish applications. A binder component of the two pack coating composition includes an epoxy resin having at least one acetoacetate functionality and at least one epoxy group, and one or more reactive components provided with at least two acetoacetate functionalities. Some of the suitable reactive components include structured reactive diluent, an acrylic polymer, a polyester, or a combination thereof. A crosslinking component of the coating composition includes polyamine, a blocked polyamine or a mixture thereof. The present invention is further directed to a method of producing a coating on a substrate from the coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignees: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Renner Dupont Tintas Automotives E Industrials S.A.
    Inventors: Uday Kumar, Patrick H. Corcoran, Cesar A. Rodrigues
  • Equipment for hot moulding of articles made of thermoplastic material
    Patent number: 6739856
    Abstract: A process for the hot moulding of articles (L) made of thermoplastic material includes the steps of: heating at least one plate of thermoplastic material (L) to a plasticizing temperature; compressing the heated plate (L) between two moulding surfaces (14, 16), set opposite one another, of a pair of half-moulds (10, 12); and forming, by injection moulding, at least one component (22) anchored to a surface of the plate (L), while the plate is being compressed between the moulding surfaces (14, 16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: CRS Srl Centro Ricerche e
    Inventor: Franco Cesano
  • Process for preparing pigmented shaped articles comprising poly (trimethylene terephthalate)
    Patent number: 6740276
    Abstract: A process of making a pigmented shaped article comprising: (a) providing polytrimethylene terephthalate chips and two or more colored pigmented chips each containing at least one different color pigment; (b) heating the polytrimethylene terephthalate chips and colored pigmented chips to a temperature of about 200-about 280° C. to melt the chips and form a polymer composition comprising the polytrimethylene terephthalate and at least one color pigment; and (c) forming a shaped article from the polymer composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Nirmal K. Agarwal, Jing C. Chang, Richard Lee Dommel, Joseph V. Kurian, Raymond Longhi
  • Spray applicator
    Patent number: 6739518
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for efficiently applying a test substance to a test unit by atomizing a solution or suspension of the test substance and electrostatically attracting the atomized droplets to the test unit. This apparatus and method can be used to apply small quantities of test substances to organisms such as plants or insects to assay their utility as crop protection agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: James Scott Davis, Constance Meta Smith
  • Mixed matrix nanoporous carbon membranes
    Patent number: 6740143
    Abstract: The invention concerns nanoporous carbon membranes which have been synthesized by pyrolysis of selected polymers on porous substrates to produce thin mixed matrix carbon film with pores for separation of small molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: David Richard Corbin, Henry Charles Foley, Mark Brandon Shiflett
  • Transparent paramagnetic polymer
    Patent number: 6741770
    Abstract: This invention provides a transparent, paramagnetic polymer composition in which a polymer is complexed with sufficient rare earth ions, particularly ions selected from ions in the group of elements 64-69, to provide a polymer with a magnetic mass susceptibility greater than 20×10−6 emu/g measured at 298° K. This invention provides optically responsive devices that employ these transparent, paramagnetic polymers as an element that is responsive to a magnetic field and a means for providing magnetic field. This invention provides transparent labels or markings employing these transparent, paramagnetic polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: David M. Dean, Charles J. Molnar
  • System for the control and monitoring of functional device for the disabled with energy from outside the body and a method for the remote control thereof
    Patent number: 6740123
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for the control and monitoring of functional devices for the disabled with energy from outside the body, comprising actuator element(s), data-processing element(s), and control element(s) connected to the actuator element(s) to the processing element(s). The system further comprises a sensor element which is connected to the control element(s) and can transmit one or more signals for the control and monitoring of functional devices for the disabled. The present invention also relates to the procedures necessary for the remote control and monitoring of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: I.N.A.I.L. Centro per la Sperimentazione Ed Applicazione di Protesi e Presidi Ortopedici per Gli Infortuni Sul Lavoro
    Inventors: Angelo Davalli, Rinaldo Sacchetti
  • Cable with coating of a composite material
    Patent number: 6740396
    Abstract: A cable comprising at least one conductor and at least one coating layer based on a composite material comprising: at least one polymer containing a predetermined quantity of polar groups; and at least one inorganic material with lamellar structure surface-treated with a predetermined quantity of a compatibilizer; in which said predetermined quantity of polar groups and said predetermined quantity of compatibilizer are selected in such a way that said inorganic material exhibits, in the composite material, a d-spacing value in X-ray diffraction analysis at least 20% higher with respect to the d-spacing value of the inorganic material as such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi S.p.A.
    Inventors: Antonio Carrus, Antonio Zaopo
  • Branched polyolefin synthesis
    Patent number: 6740723
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the synthesis of addition polymers containing branches upon branches and having a polymerizable olefin end group by a convenient one-pot polymerization of selected vinyl monomers with chain polymerization initiators and a method to provide olefinic end groups by chain termination agents; and polymers produced thereby characterized by branch-on-branch structure and lower inherent viscosity than heretofore possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Lech Wilczek
  • Fluorinated treatment for soil resistance
    Patent number: 6740251
    Abstract: A soil resist agent comprising a dispersion of a polyfluoro organic compound having a least one of a urea, urethane or ester linkage, and at least one anionic surfactant wherein the ratio of polyfluoro organic compound to surfactant is from about 0.075:1.0 to about 5:1 for treatment of fibrous substrates is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Joyce Monson Materniak, Peter Michael Murphy
  • Alkyl cobalt(III) dioximates and process for forming the same
    Patent number: 6740618
    Abstract: This invention is directed to alkyl cobalt (III) dioximates and methods for making these dioximates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Alexei A. Gridnev, Gregorii A. Nikiforov