Patents Assigned to Performance IT
  • Dispensing pump having piston assembly arrangement
    Patent number: 8777592
    Abstract: A pump includes a pump body defining a fluid chamber and inlet and outlet ports in fluid communication with the fluid chamber, an inlet check valve connected to the inlet port, an outlet check valve connected to the outlet port, and a piston housing coupled to the pump body and defining a piston chamber. A piston assembly is disposed at least partially within the piston chamber and at least partially within the fluid chamber and includes a piston and a poppet connected to the piston in proximity to the pump body. In addition, the pump includes a gland disposed between a portion of the piston housing and the pump body. Further, the pump includes the poppet having a poppet head axially connected to a diaphragm coupled to a poppet flange. The poppet head is connected to the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Hy Nguyen
  • Method And Apparatus For Sharing TCAP Traffic Load
    Publication number: 20140192814
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a point code emulation apparatus and method for dividing a Common Channel Signaling System No. 7 (or SS7) signaling network into two or more networks. The point code emulator is adapted to receive TCAP messages from two or more subnets and converts, for the messages crossing over the subnets, the information of the TCAP messages, including originating point code, destination point code, and transaction identifier, (and optionally, calling party number and called party number), and forwards to the other one of the two or more subnets. Correspondence among the two or more subnets may be provisioned by an authorized user of the system, may be learned automatically by the system based on ISUP message correspondences or previous TCAP transactions, or may be automatically discovered by the system broadcasting messages to nodes in the destined one of the two or more subnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Performance Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Normand Glaude, Charles Wesley-James, Christine Aubry, Pierre Laporte
  • Method And Apparatus For Sharing TCAP Traffic Load
    Publication number: 20140192805
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a point code emulation apparatus and method for dividing a Common Channel Signaling System No. 7 (or SS7) signaling network into two or more networks. The point code emulator is adapted to receive TCAP messages from two or more subnets and converts, for the messages crossing over the subnets, the information of the TCAP messages, including originating point code, destination point code, and transaction identifier, (and optionally, calling party number and called party number), and forwards to the other one of the two or more subnets. Correspondence among the two or more subnets may be provisioned by an authorized user of the system, may be learned automatically by the system based on ISUP message correspondences or previous TCAP transactions, or may be automatically discovered by the system broadcasting messages to nodes in the destined one of the two or more subnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Normand Glaude, Charles Wesley-James, Christine Aubry, Pierre Laporte
  • LAMINATES WITH FLUOROPOLYMER CLOTH
    Publication number: 20140194023
    Abstract: A laminate includes a first layer of a first fluoropolymer. The laminate can further include a second layer of at least one ply of a fluoropolymer fabric overlying the first layer. The laminate can further include a third layer of a second fluoropolymer overlying the second layer opposite to the first layer. The laminate can have a strain of not more than 50% at a stress of 15 MPa as measured by DIN EN ISO 527 with a sample width of about 1 inch, at a clamp distance of about 50 mm, and a speed of about 50 mm/min. Embodiments of such laminates can find applications, for example, as diaphragm membranes, solenoid valves, conveyor belts, or bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Schwiegel, Andreas Waldöfner
  • Irradiation And Molding Unit
    Publication number: 20140191445
    Abstract: The invention relates to an irradiation and molding unit which can be cooled for curing light-curable polymer compositions, a method for preparing cured polymer moldings or articles coated with cured polymers by using the irradiation and molding unit which can be cooled, as well as the use of such irradiation unit for preparing polymer moldings or polymer coated articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Momentive Performance Materials GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Rist, Clemens Trumm, Holger Albrecht
  • Siloxane monomers containing hydrolysis resistance carbosiloxane linkage, process for their preparation and thin films containing the same for contact lens application
    Patent number: 8772367
    Abstract: There is provided new mono-(meth)acrylate functionalized silicone monomers containing carbosiloxane linkage for improved hydrolysis resistance, useful in making water absorbing silicone-hydrogel films for contact lens applications. This invention also provides homo-polymers and copolymers made from the mono-(meth)acrylate functionalized hydrophilic silicone monomers described herein. Also provided is a process for producing the monomers and polymers described herein and contact lenses produced from the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Anubhav Saxena, Umapathy Senthilkumar, Kenrick M. Lewis
  • Polymer composites of silicone ionomers
    Patent number: 8772422
    Abstract: A polymer composite composition wherein at least one of the constituents is a silicone ionomer and the other constituent is polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Anubhav Saxena, Srividhya Marimuthu, Alok Sarkar, Pranav Ramchandra Joshi
  • STABILIZED POLYESTER BASED COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20140186563
    Abstract: A polyester or polyester copolymer based composition, such as a polylactic acid based composition, is provided herein. The polyester or polyester copolymer based composition may include a plasticizer, such as an ether based, an ester based, and/or an ether-ester based plasticizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shaw Ling Hsu, Sahas Rathi, Edward Bryan Coughlin, Thomas J. McCarthy, Charles S. Golub, Gerald H. Ling, Michael J. Tzivanis
  • Thin Film Silicon Nitride Barrier Layers On Flexible Substrate
    Publication number: 20140183498
    Abstract: An article comprising a polymeric substrate and at least one inorganic barrier layer, wherein the inorganic barrier layer has a stress not greater than about 400 MPa and a density of at least about 1.5 g/cm3. The article is preferably an optical device, such as an organic light emitting diode (OLED) or a photovoltaic (PV) module, wherein a silicon nitride barrier layer has been directly deposited on a flexible polymeric substrate via plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Anirban Dhar, Alessandro Giassi
  • DAMPING VALVE ARRANGEMENT FOR A SEMIACTIVE VIBRATION DAMPER
    Publication number: 20140182696
    Abstract: A damping valve arrangement is provided for controlling a pilot pressure that exerts influence on a control chamber of a damping device of a vibration damper through a control fluid, with an armature that is displaceable by the activity of an electrically energizable coil and provided in a housing, which armature includes a guide pin on which a first spring washer is provided and braces the guide pin. The first spring washer is designed for changing the area of a flow-through opening of the damping valve arrangement through which a control fluid is able to flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: WP Performance Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Wimmer
  • Tolerance Ring With Discrete Tolerance Ring Panels
    Publication number: 20140185164
    Abstract: A tolerance ring for a hard disc drive assembly is disclosed and can include a plurality of discrete tolerance ring panels. Each tolerance ring panel can include an arcuate sidewall that can include an unformed portion and at least one projection extending from the arcuate sidewall. The projection can be surrounded by the unformed portion of the arcuate sidewall and the tolerance ring can be configured to be deployed in an interference fit between an inner component and an outer component to provide torque coupling between an inner component and an outer component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Rencol Limited
    Inventors: Benjamin Nias, Nik S. Woodhead, Thomas B. Francis
  • FLEXIBLE TUBE
    Publication number: 20140186564
    Abstract: A flexible tube includes a polymer composition of a poly vinyl chloride having a molecular weight greater than about 1.0 inherent viscosity (IV) and a bio-based plasticizer. Further, a method of forming a flexible tube is provided. The method includes compounding a poly vinyl chloride having a molecular weight greater than about 1.0 inherent viscosity (IV) with a bio-based plasticizer to form a polymer composition and extruding the polymer composition into the flexible tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Josef E. Guesman, Wayne E. Garver, Kathryn J. Morris, Nathan Klettlinger, Mark F. Colton
  • Torque Limiting Assembly
    Publication number: 20140187336
    Abstract: A torque limiting assembly is disclosed and can include a generally cylindrical bearing and a tolerance ring disposed around the generally cylindrical bearing. The torque limiting assembly is configured to be installed between and rotatably couple an inner and an outer component. The torque limiting assembly is configured to rotate with respect to at least one of the inner and outer components when a threshold torque, T, is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy J. Hagan
  • Protective substrate for a device that collects or emits radiation
    Patent number: 8766280
    Abstract: This substrate (11) for a device (50) that collects or emits radiation comprises a transparent polymer layer (1) and a barrier layer (2) on at least one face (1A) of the polymer layer. The barrier layer (2) consists of an antireflection multilayer of at least two thin transparent layers (21, 22, 23, 24) having both alternately lower and higher refractive indices and alternately lower and higher densities, wherein each thin layer (21, 22, 23, 24) of the constituent multilayer of the barrier layer (2) is an oxide, nitride or oxynitride layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Claire Thoumazet, Emmanuel Valentin, Stephanie Roche
  • Article for holding product and methods
    Patent number: 8764292
    Abstract: The present invention relates to articles such as bags and related methods. In an embodiment, the invention includes an article including a first sheet, a second sheet coupled to the first sheet defining an interior volume between the first sheet and the second sheet, and a handle region defining an aperture passing through the first sheet and the second sheet. The handle region including a first flap and a second flap, the first flap coupled to the first sheet and the second sheet along a first axis, the second flap coupled to the first sheet and the second sheet along a second axis, the first axis and second axis perpendicular to one another, the first flap and the second flap configured to flex away from the handle region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Performance Seed
    Inventor: Sheldon Sturgis
  • In-situ activation of metal complexes containing terdentate nitrogen ligands used as hydrosilylation catalysts
    Patent number: 8765987
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for the hydrosilylation of a composition containing a silyl hydride and a compound containing at least one unsaturated group, the process comprising contacting a non-previous metal based complex as a catalyst precursor with an activator being a reducing agent shortly before, simultaneously or after contacting the complex with the composition, to cause the silyl hydride to react with the compound containing at least one unsaturated group to produce a hydrosilylation product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Cornell University, Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Paul J. Chirik, Aaron M. Tondreau, Johannes G. P. Delis, Kenrick M. Lewis, Keith J. Weller, Susan A. Nye
  • Modular building
    Patent number: D708348
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Performance Contracting, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Yoder, Bart David Yoder, Richard Carmona, Frank Robert Dellaguzzo, Jerry Eldon Frisch
  • Modular building
    Patent number: D708349
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Performance Contracting, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Yoder, Bart David Yoder, Richard Carmona, Frank Robert Dellaguzzo, Jerry Eldon Frisch
  • Light fixture
    Patent number: D708778
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: JST Performance, Inc.
    Inventors: Pete D. Sibitzky, Stephen P. Adams
  • Automotive valve cover
    Patent number: D709099
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Performance Machine LLC
    Inventor: Mark Finnnie