Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Vinyl ether polymer fluids made using controlled living cationic polymerization and their use as synthetic lubricant basestocks
    Patent number: 8980810
    Abstract: The synthesis of high performance polyvinyl ether (PVE) fluids using a Lewis acid based cationic polymerization process is disclosed. The polyvinyl ether fluid have repeating vinyl ether units of the general formula —[CH2—CH(O—R)]n, wherein R is comprised of a branched or linear alkyl group having at least 4 carbon atoms and n is a whole number representing the average number of repeating units in the polyvinyl ether. The resulting PVE fluids exhibit excellent lubricant properties, similar to poly-alpha olefins (PAOs), but the PVE fluids have the benefit of higher polarity than PAOs and thus have better solubility and dispersity of polar additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Abhimanyu O. Patil, Satish Bodige, Ranjan Tripathy
  • Apparatus for supporting substrate and plasma etching apparatus having the same
    Patent number: 8980049
    Abstract: Provided are a substrate supporting apparatus and a plasma etching apparatus having the same. There is provided a substrate supporting apparatus that can separately provide powers to a central region and an edge region by disposing an electrode supporting a substrate at the central region of the substrate supporting apparatus, and disposing an electrode receiving radio frequency (RF) power at the edge region of the substrate supporting apparatus. There is provided a substrate edge etching apparatus having the substrate supporting apparatus for removing layers or particles deposited in an edge region of a semiconductor substrate and preventing damage of a center region of the semiconductor substrate during an etching process of the substrate edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Charm Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Haeng Lee, Kwan Goo Rha, Jung Hee Lee, Chul Hee Jang, Hyang Joo Lee, Dong Wan Kim
  • Lubricant base stocks with improved filterability
    Patent number: 8980803
    Abstract: Provided for are lubricant base stocks with improved filterability. The lubricant base stock includes a bright stock or a heavy neutral and an effective amount of a pour point depressant. The filterability of the base stock as measured by the Membrane Filtration Method is less than or equal to 400 seconds. Also provided for are lubricating oils with improved filterability and methods of improving the filterability of lubricant base stocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Kristen Amanda Lyon, Charles L. Baker, Jr., Serge Riffard
  • Jet impingement cooling apparatuses having non-uniform jet orifice sizes
    Patent number: 8981556
    Abstract: Jet impingement cooling apparatuses having non-uniformly sized jet orifices for producing an array of impingement jets that impinge a target surface are disclosed. In one embodiment, a cooling apparatus includes at least one fluid inlet channel, at least one fluid outlet channel, a target surface, and a jet orifice surface that is offset from the target surface. The jet orifice surface includes an array of jet orifices fluidly coupled to the at least one fluid inlet channel, wherein each individual jet orifice of the array of jet orifices has an area corresponding to a distance of the individual jet orifice to the at least one fluid outlet channel such that individual jet orifices closer to the at least one fluid outlet have an area that is smaller than individual jet orifices further from the at least one fluid outlet. Power electronics modules are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Shailesh N. Joshi
  • HOOD STRUCTURE FOR AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20150069786
    Abstract: A panel for a vehicle. The panel includes an outer panel and an inner panel. The outer panel has an exterior surface and an underside surface, and the inner panel is located adjacent to and along the underside surface of the outer panel, but spaced apart from the outer panel. The inner panel also exhibits a bow over a substantial portion of its length, with the bow being in a direction toward the outer panel. The bow induces a moment in the inner panel during impact of the vehicle in a collision that causes the inner panel and, resultantly, the outer panel to undergo a predetermined deformation in an upward direction relative to the vehicle. The panel may be provided as the hood of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Blaine C. Benson, Mark D. Clauser, Min Zhu
  • Water-Treatment Membrane Module Unit
    Publication number: 20150068970
    Abstract: A water-treatment membrane module with raw-water manifolds connected in common to both end portions of spiral membrane modules and allowing raw water to flow in or out of the spiral membrane modules, in which each of the manifolds comprises a box and cover which may be opened for inspection and access to a treated water manifold in fluid communication with the water collecting pipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuji Cho, Makoto Naito, Shunsuke Yamazaki
  • HYDRAULIC OIL COMPOSITIONS WITH IMPROVED HYDRAULIC MOTOR EFFICIENCY
    Publication number: 20150072909
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of lubricating a hydraulic motor by using a lubricating composition that contains a friction modifier selected from the group consisting of a fatty phosphite, a fatty imidazoline and combinations thereof and supplies improved motor efficiency performance. The invention further provides the lubricating compositions used therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicants: The Lubrizol Corporation, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Tomasz M. Young, David G.L. Holt, Angela S. Galiano-Roth, Allan R. Barber, Brian B. Filippini
  • Outboard Marine Drive
    Publication number: 20150072577
    Abstract: An outboard marine drive with an engine is described. The marine drive may include a drive housing with an upper drive housing and lower drive housing. The drive housing may be configured to be attached to a transom of a marine craft. An upper drive assembly may be located in the upper drive housing. A lower gear drive assembly may be located in the lower drive housing. A cone clutch may be located in the lower drive housing to engage the upper drive assembly with the lower gear drive assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Arkmos Engineering, LLC
    Inventor: Glenn D. Foreman
  • VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION ORIGINATING FROM A MOBILE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150073701
    Abstract: Vehicle navigation systems and methods for presenting information originating from a mobile device on a vehicle navigation system display of a vehicle are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of presenting information originating from a mobile device on a vehicle navigation system display of a vehicle includes receiving, by a vehicle navigation system, application data from an application operating on the mobile device, wherein the application data from the application represents an entity in proximity to the vehicle. The method further includes displaying an icon representing the application data from the application on a map presented on the vehicle navigation system display. The icon is positioned on the map according to a geographic location of the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey E. Pierfelice
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE TO A USER
    Publication number: 20150070129
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing navigation assistance to a user are disclosed. A method for providing navigation assistance to a user includes defining at least one virtual wall along at least a portion of a path for navigation through an environment. The at least one virtual wall is offset from the path by an offset distance. The method further includes determining a location of the user and providing tactile feedback to the user, automatically by a processor, when the location of the user is within a threshold distance of the at least one virtual wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas A. Moore, Joseph M.A. Djugash, Emrah A. Sisbot
  • VEHICLE DOOR LOCK ACTUATION PREVENTION APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150069764
    Abstract: A vehicle door opening actuation prevention apparatus includes a thin cross-section spacer coupled to a plate attached to a door handle frame. One end of the spacer is positioned relative to a door lock mounted within a vehicle door to limit the maximum amount of lateral inward movement of the door handle assembly toward the door lock during a side impact force on the vehicle door to prevent movement of the door lock actuator pin to the second door lock unlatch position via movement of the fork coupled to the door handle and engaged with the door lock actuator pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Norman Charles Kerr, III
  • INTER-BED MIXING IN FIXED BED REACTORS
    Publication number: 20150071834
    Abstract: A stator-type mixing device is used as a mixing device between fixed catalyst beds in a reactor. The mixing device includes a plurality of blades or surfaces arranged around a central hub. The blades are arranged at an angle relative to vertical so that a fluid cannot pass vertically through the mixing device without contacting at least one blade or surface. The blades or surfaces allow the stator-type mixing device to span the full cross-sectional surface area of the reactor, so that concentration of liquids in a localized portion of the reactor cross-sectional area is reduced or minimized. For reactors where at least part of the process fluid is a liquid under reaction conditions, a distributor tray can be included below the stator-type mixing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Hans Georg KORSTEN, Benjamin Santiago UMANSKY, Anastasios Ioannis SKOULIDAS, Antonio O. RAMOS, Keith WILSON
  • SHAFT ROTATION AND POSITION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150068019
    Abstract: An attachment system includes a friction drive roller subsystem, a nut driver subsystem, and a control subsystem in communication with the friction drive roller subsystem and the nut driver subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Leontin Drasovean
  • SYNTHESIS AND ANNEALING OF MANGANESE BISMUTH NANOPARTICLES
    Publication number: 20150068646
    Abstract: The claimed invention provides a wet chemical method to prepare manganese bismuth nanoparticles having a particle diameter of 5 to 200 nm. When annealed at 550 to 600K in a field of 0 to 3T the nanoparticles exhibit a coercivity of approximately 1T and are suitable for utility as a permanent magnet material. A permanent magnet containing the annealed MnBi nanoparticles is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Paul ROWE
  • Hub-Rotor Adapter
    Publication number: 20150069818
    Abstract: A hub-rotor adapter for use with a disc brake assembly having an axle hub and rotor. The hub-rotor adapter may include an adapter body having a wall forming an annular opening at an inboard end thereof; the adapter body having an inboard flange shaped to be attached to the rotor, and an outboard flange shaped to be attached to the axle hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Walther Engineering and Manufacturing Company, Inc
    Inventors: Larry Bennett Hester, Russell Edward Rike
  • Connection assembly for connecting metallic and plastic components and method of connecting plastic and metallic components
    Patent number: 8973248
    Abstract: A connection assembly for attaching metallic and plastic components by a heat staking operation includes a first component, a second component, a compressible protrusion, an annular collar, and a deformable stud. The first component is formed of a metallic material and includes an inner surface. The second component includes an interior surface facing the inner surface of the first component and an opposite exterior surface. The second component includes a plurality of apertures which extend between the interior surface and the exterior surface. During the heat staking operation the deformable stud is deformed so as to restrain relative movement between the first and second components. The compressible protrusion plastically deforms to absorb pressure to prevent cracking of the second component and the annular collar absorbs heat to prevent the second component adjacent the aperture from melting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Shashikumar Honnikoppa
  • Systems, methods and vehicles for providing route guidance
    Patent number: 8977488
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a navigation system may include one or more processors, a display, a satellite antenna, one or more memory devices, and map data. A route distance icon can be presented on the display, automatically, when the current location is not coincident with the route and the start offset distance is less than a predetermined distance. The route distance icon can provide the on-the-route distance. A geodesic distance icon can be presented on the display, automatically, when the current location is not coincident with the route and the start offset distance is greater than the predetermined distance. The geodesic distance icon can provide a geodesic distance from the current location to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey E. Pierfelice
  • Regulation of toxin and antitoxin genes for biological containment
    Patent number: 8975061
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the regulation of a toxin and/or antitoxin genes in a genetically engineered microorganism, such as cyanobacterial or eukaryotic algal strains, in particular for preventing unintentional and/or uncontrolled spread of the microorganisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Vincent A. Bielinski, Nicholas Bauman, Kate Lyons Boyd, Srividya Akella, Stanley Bower, Paul G. Roessler
  • Determination of cores or building blocks and reconstruction of parent molecules in heavy petroleums and other hydrocarbon resources
    Patent number: 8975084
    Abstract: A method for the determination of the aromatic cores or building blocks of a vacuum resid by controlled fragmentation. Molecules can be generated from these building blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Kuangnan Qian, Kathleen E. Edwards, Anthony S. Mennito, Howard Freund
  • Dental cleanser composition for improving adhesion to teeth
    Patent number: 8974805
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dental cleanser composition for improving adhesion to teeth, and more particularly to, a dental cleanser composition which functions to remove not only a smear layer from the dentin surface of an exposed tooth root, but also oral bacteria, and thus is effective in improving adhesion to teeth in periodontal surgery. The present invention provides a dental cleanser composition containing sodium ethylene diaminotetraacetate and octyl phenol ethoxylate which is a surfactant. Sodium ethylene diaminotetraacetate in the composition functions to remove a smear layer on the tooth root surface and has antibacterial activity, and octyl phenol ethoxylate in the composition functions to lipopolysaccharide. Thus, the composition improves adhesion to teeth in periodontal surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Nano Intelligent Biomedical Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Chong-Pyoung Chung, Yoon-Jeong Park, Jue-Yeon Lee