Patents Assigned to Ecolab
  • Patent number: 8207102
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions including a mixture of hardness ions (e.g., magnesium and calcium ions) in an amount greater than the amount of threshold agent, which have a beneficial effect on etch or corrosion during cleaning. The present compositions can reduce corrosion or etch of glass and aluminum. The present invention also relates to methods employing these compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventor: Kim R. Smith
  • Patent number: 8206511
    Abstract: A method of cleaning an uncoated surface includes providing a composition having a pH of between about 7 and about 11 and applying the composition to the uncoated surface. The composition includes a fatty acid salt constituting between about 5% and about 40% by weight of the composition, a gloss-enhancing agent constituting between about 0.1% and 20% by weight of the composition, an anti-slip agent constituting between about 0.5% and about 10% by weight of the composition, and water constituting between about 20% and about 94.6% by weight of the composition. The composition can be applied at least three times a week.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Melissa Collazo-Martinez, Minyu Li, Robert D. Hei
  • Patent number: 8207231
    Abstract: The invention relates to agents which combat the hepatitus A virus, containing only minimal amounts of chlorine-containing and/or chlorine cleaving active ingredients, or none of said substances. The inventions also relates to the use of these agents and to a method for their production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Friedrich Von Rheinbaben, Holger Biering, Klaus-Peter Bansemir, Sabine Glaeser
  • Publication number: 20120156313
    Abstract: Corrosion inhibitor compositions and methods of use are disclosed. Sugar acids and calcium corrosion inhibitors combined with hypochlorite sources provide use solutions for effective corrosion inhibition for metal surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Kim R. Smith, Erik C. Olson, Steven E. Lentsch
  • Patent number: 8204758
    Abstract: A network advisory system that provides advisory information to a field service provider is disclosed. The network advisory system receives collected data from one or more destination facilities and analyzes the information to generate advisory information. The advisory information is used by the field service provider to provide a service at the destination facility. The field service provider may receive the advisory information while in transit to the destination facility or while located at a destination facility. The field service provider receives the advisory information through a network connection. The network connection may be either a wireless connection or a land-based connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventor: John E. McCall, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8202830
    Abstract: A cleaning composition for removing soils includes an aluminum salt, a hydroxydicarboxylate, an alkalinity source and optionally, a surfactant system. The cleaning composition has a pH of between about 9 and about 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Altony Miralles, Gina Fasching Danielson, Richard D. Johnson, Michel Lawrence, Jocelyn Heltemes Chopskie
  • Patent number: 8202373
    Abstract: A warewash machine includes a rinse sump and a wash sump. A controllable deflector, under control of a control module, directs wash agent dispensed during a wash phase to the wash sump, directs rinse agent to the wash sump for a predetermined period of time after initiation of an auxiliary rinse phase, and directs the rinse agent to the rinse sump after the predetermined period of time and for a remaining duration of the auxiliary rinse phase. The controllable deflector directs water dispensed during a final rinse phase to the rinse sump such that the water combines with the rinse agent therein. The rinse agent is re-used during at least one subsequent auxiliary rinse phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: Louis M. Holzman, Adrian Hartz, Eddie D. Sowle, Lee J. Monsrud
  • Publication number: 20120148830
    Abstract: A soil resistant floor surface treatment composition is provided. In particular, a composition comprises a maleic/olefin copolymer and an optional cleaning agent. Methods for treating a porous floor surface with a soil resistant agent and kits comprising a floor treatment composition, an applicator, a removal agent for removing a plurality of soils from a treated surface, and instructions for use are further provided by the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Kim R. Smith, Catherine Hanson, Minyu Li, Andrew Steven Wold, Mark D. Levitt
  • Publication number: 20120149121
    Abstract: A use composition monitor determines the concentration of peracid and/or peroxide in a use composition using a kinetic assay procedure. A sample mixture containing a sample of the use composition, a diluent and at least one reagent is prepared and analyzed using, for example, an optical detector. A reduced-turbulence optical detector can be used to improve collected response data. A reduced-turbulence optical detector can include a cell body disposed about a length of transparent tubing. The cell body positions one or more emitter/receiver pairs about the transparent tubing. Thus, tube junctions are eliminated and sample flow within the tube is substantially turbulence free.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Eugene Tokhtuev, Christopher Owen, Anna Pilipchenko, Paul Schilling, Daniel Kamben
  • Publication number: 20120145188
    Abstract: A soil resistant floor surface treatment composition is provided. In particular, a composition comprises a maleic/olefin copolymer and an optional cleaning agent. Methods for treating a porous floor surface with a soil resistant agent and kits comprising a floor treatment composition, an applicator, a removal agent for removing a plurality of soils from a treated surface, and instructions for use are further provided by the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Kim R. Smith, Catherine Hanson, Minyu Li, Andrew S. Wold, Mark D. Levitt
  • Publication number: 20120149628
    Abstract: A solidification matrix includes a polycarboxylic acid polymer, sodium carbonate, and water. Exemplary polycarboxylic acid polymers include a polyacrylic acid polymer having a molecular weight of between about 1,000 and about 100,000, a modified polyacrylic acid polymer having a molecular weight of between about 1,000 and about 100,000, and a polymaleic acid polymer having a molecular weight of between about 500 and about 5,000. The polycarboxylic acid polymer, sodium carbonate, and water interact to form a hydrate solid. The solidification matrix may be used, for example, in a solid detergent composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Brenda L. Tjelta, Lisa M. Sanders, Michael E. Besse
  • Publication number: 20120148751
    Abstract: Anti-microbial compositions comprising (a) a quaternary ammonium compound and (b) a cationic biocide. Applicant has discovered a synergistic combination of the two components with the ration of cationic biocide to quaternary ammonium being less than 1:10 or with a single quaternary compound in a ratio of less than 1.6 to 1 provide a film forming coating that has residual anti-bacterial activity and improved durability with strong resistance to general wear between applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Brandon Herdt, Richard Staub, Kevin Tauer, Kim R. Smith
  • Publication number: 20120149623
    Abstract: A cleaning composition includes a fatty acid salt constituting up to about 50% by weight of the composition, an anti-slip agent constituting up to about 20% by weight of the composition, a soil resistant agent constituting up to about 20% by weight of the composition and water. Methods of cleaning coated and uncoated surfaces, and particularly stone surfaces, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Minyu Li, Catherine Hanson, Kim R. Smith, Robert D. Hei, Robert Crowley, Traci Gioino, Andrew Steven Wold, Mark D. Levitt
  • Patent number: 8198228
    Abstract: A solidification matrix includes a biodegradable aminocarboxylate, sodium carbonate, and water. The biodegradable aminocarboxylate, sodium carbonate, and water interact to form a hydrate solid. The solidification matrix may be used, for example, in a solid detergent composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Brenda L. Tjelta, Lisa M. Sanders, Michael E. Besse
  • Patent number: 8196224
    Abstract: A surgical protective assembly having an air movement device and a head gear assembly carrying the air movement device. The head gear assembly includes an outer wall, an inner wall, a front end, a back end and a middle portion between the front end and the back end. The outer wall has an upper opening, the inner wall has an array of openings, and the inner and outer wall define a front opening at the front end. The head gear assembly has a passageway that fluidly connects together, the upper opening, the array and the front opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Salvatore Manzella, Jr., David K. Platt, Michael C. Shaughnessy, Kevin T. Pullen, Keith A. Larson, Alison J. Sanders
  • Publication number: 20120138089
    Abstract: The present invention refers to an aqueous composition comprising one or more amphoteric, organic polynitrogen-compounds having at least 3 nitrogen atoms contained in the molecule in the form of an amine and/or amide and one or more types of inorganic nanoparticles, a concentrate comprising said composition and to a method for treating and/or cleaning a surface which uses said composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan UHL, Jacqueline Thöne
  • Publication number: 20120142576
    Abstract: A solid block or unit dosed detergent composition as described which can be utilized in a variety of applications for cleaning surfaces and objects, removing suspending soils, and rinsing easily. The detergent composition, when exposed to an aqueous solution such as water, dissolves quickly and completely to create the use solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Michael Bartelme, Julie Marquardt, Steve E. Lentsch, Victor F. Man, Brian Robert Leafblad
  • Patent number: 8191703
    Abstract: Methods for initiating one or more maintenance procedures on a conveyer system employ a load cell assembly that is supported by a link of a conveyor chain of the system in order to collect tension measurements. According to preferred methods, one or more threshold values for a rate of change in tension along particular portions of a circuit, around which the chain is driven, and/or for a variation in tension profile, from one cycle to another around the circuit, are established for comparison with tension measurements that are collected and/or processed by the load cell assembly, in order to detect operating issues and initiate the appropriate maintenance procedure(s). According to some methods, plots of the rate of change of tension versus time are generated and displayed for an operator to view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Tokhtuev, Joseph P. Erickson, Christopher J. Owen, Paul S. Schilling
  • Patent number: 8192553
    Abstract: A soaking composition including an alkalinity source, a metal protector, a surfactant, water, a threshold agent, a binding agent, and a polymer blend that functions as a binding agent and a hard water modifier. The polymer blend includes a polymaleic acid, a polycarboxylic acid and a sodium polyacrylate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Edward J. Snodgrass, Jaclyn J. Steep
  • Publication number: 20120136051
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to rheology modified, low foaming aqueous antimicrobial compositions. The compositions are phase stable under acidic conditions, and do not need to be rinsed from the surface to which they are applied. The present disclosure further relates to methods of use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Junzhong Li, Steven J. Lange, Richard K. Staub, David D. McSherry