Patents Assigned to Performance IT
  • Linear motion assemblies and bearings for use in linear motion assemblies
    Patent number: 10518666
    Abstract: A seat track assembly including a first rail and a second rail spaced apart by a distance and extending parallel with respect to one another, wherein at least one of the first and second rails having a first receiver, a second receiver, the first and second receivers longitudinally translatable with respect to each other, and a sliding member disposed therebetween, wherein the sliding member defines an aperture extending at least partially therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS PAMPUS GMBH
    Inventors: Timothy J. Hagan, Jens Speicher, Lukas Plioska, Alexander Jindra, Abe Sanchez, Chloe Echikson
  • Brake master cylinder with curved lands
    Patent number: 10518759
    Abstract: A brake master cylinder comprising a housing having an inner surface defining a bore, and a piston movable in the bore along a piston axis. The piston includes two spaced apart lands defining the radially outermost surfaces capable of contacting the inner surface. At least one of the lands is longitudinally curved at the radially outermost surface. For example, the land can be curved at a radius of less than 1 inch (e.g., between 0.15 inch and 0/75 inch) and preferably less than 0.5 inch. In one embodiment, the longitudinally curved land includes two edges that define an axial length of the land. The two edges have a radius of less than 0.2 inch, and preferably about 0.1 inch. The relative position of the edges and lands is such that neither of the two edges is capable of contacting the inner surface of the bore during reciprocating movement of the piston in the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: HB Performance Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Osterberg, Randall Holland
  • Dissipating heat from an electronic device in a protective housing
    Patent number: 10522442
    Abstract: An enclosed digital power amplifier has features for accommodating thermal cycling. The digital power amplifier includes an amplifier board and a controller board, both of which are in a protective housing. The amplifier board includes electronic components mounted on a copper circuit layer that is disposed on a dielectric layer that is disposed on an aluminum substrate layer. The housing includes slotted mounting projections that extend from sidewalls to isolate fasteners from the aluminum substrate layer, and thereby accommodate expansion of the aluminum substrate layer while the digital power amplifier is secured to a surface by the fasteners. Bottom edges of the sidewalls contact a top outer edge of the amplifier board. The mounting projections contact side outer edges of the first circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Performance Motion Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Emanuel Gustav Lewin, Peter Fransiscus Vandermeulen, Peng Li, David Chanan Horovitch Shmelzer, Ahmad Radey Shouman, Guy Richard Raiti
  • METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A 3D ELEMENT, PARTICULARLY AN ELEMENT USED TO PRODUCE A COMPLEX PRODUCT COMPRISING SAID ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20190391564
    Abstract: A method is for identifying a 3D element by a 2D or 3D marking, particularly a QR code. The element is used alone or integrated into a complex product. The method includes manufacturing the 3D element without shaping; producing, during the manufacturing, the initial 2D or 3D marking element with an initial deformation DI; shaping the element; and simultaneous shaping of the initial marking into final marking, which can be read by a flat marking reader. Also described is the element obtained by the method and the complex product integrating at least one element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS FRANCE
    Inventors: Pierre CONZE, Jerome BRAVARD
  • Shock Absorber Assembly
    Publication number: 20190390730
    Abstract: A shock absorber is provided having a cylinder, a piston rod, a piston body, and a valve. The cylinder is configured to receive fluid. The piston body is connected to the piston rod and is configured to reciprocate within the cylinder between a compression chamber and a rebound chamber. The valve is provided by the piston body having a fluid flow port, a valve seat, a circumferential valving element, and a spring configured to urge the valve body into the valve seat. A primary damping valve and an auxiliary damping valve are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: N10Z Performance Shocks LLC
    Inventor: Peter Russell
  • Crosslinked polyorganosiloxane and personal care composition containing same
    Patent number: 10512602
    Abstract: A crosslinked polyorganosiloxane is obtained from the free radical-initiated addition polymerization of polymerizable polyorganosiloxane containing at least two free radical polymerizable groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Zhimin Xing, Yun Huang, Sigfredo Gonzalez, Benjamin Falk, Anne Dussaud
  • Platinum catalyzed hydrosilylation reactions utilizing cyclodiene additives
    Patent number: 10513584
    Abstract: A process and composition for the hydrosilylation of an unsaturated compound comprising reacting (a) a silyl hydride with (b) an unsaturated compound in the presence of (c) a platinum compound and (d) a cyclodiene, with the proviso that when the unsaturated compound is a terminal alkyne, the silyl hydride is other than a halosilane. The process and composition optionally comprise an inhibitor (e). The process and composition may be employed to form a variety of hydrosilylation products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS INC.
    Inventors: Aroop K. Roy, Julie L. Boyer
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A SIGNAL INDICATOR LIGHT
    Publication number: 20190387594
    Abstract: A lighting module is shown and described having a housing with an opening therethrough. A forward portion of the opening may be enclosed by a cap and a rearward portion of the opening may be enclosed by a transparent media. A second media may extend from the opening through a wall of the housing. The cap may be securable to a bar via a mounting apparatus. A PCBA with one or more operational groups of LEDs may be secured within the opening, such that light may be emitted through the media. A second PCBA with one or more operational groups of LEDs may be secured within the opening, such that light may be emitted through the second media. Each operational group may be integrated with a control system of a vehicle, and may be operated individually or collectively. Each operational group may correspond to similar or different colors of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: JST Performance, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley J. LaMarche, Pete D. Sibitzky, Edgar A. Madril
  • Floating rotor disc brake with marcel expander ring attachment
    Patent number: 10508699
    Abstract: A floating disc brake assembly, and method of assembly, comprising a disc brake rotor comprising an outer friction ring, an inner circumferential flange having a plurality of rotor tabs spaced about the flange and a circumferential groove about the inner circumferential flange, a hat comprising a cylindrical axial body, an outer circumference, a rotor mounting flange extending radially about the outer circumference and having a plurality of rotor mounting tabs spaced about the rotor mounting flange and forming slots interspersed therebetween structured and arranged for receiving the rotor tabs, and a circumferential groove about the outer circumference of the axial body, structured and arranged to align with the circumferential groove of the disc brake rotor, and at least one expander ring structured and arranged to fit within the circumferential grooves of both the rotor and the hat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: PERFORMANCE FRICTION CORPORATION, WHITE OAK COMMERCIAL FINANCE, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Rankin, Darin Cate
  • Combination gas pulsation dampener, cross and strainer
    Patent number: 10508763
    Abstract: An apparatus and method provide for a hybrid pulsation dampener. The hybrid pulsation dampener includes an inlet, a flow-through reactive dampener, a gas charged pulsation dampener, and an outlet. The inlet receives a fluid. The flow-through reactive dampener dampens the received fluid. The gas charged pulsation dampener further dampens the dampened fluid as the received fluid flows through the flow-through reactive dampener. The outlet discharges the further dampened fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Performance Pulsation Control, Inc.
    Inventor: John Thomas Rogers
  • Bearing for use in seat back assemblies
    Patent number: 10507751
    Abstract: A head restraint assembly including a headrest including an inner member, a seat back including an outer member, and a bearing disposed between the inner member and the outer member, the bearing including at least one leaf spring adapted to bias the inner member, where the leaf spring includes a substrate and a low friction layer overlying the substrate, where the leaf spring includes an inner portion and a plurality of outer portions, where the outer portions include end portions of the leaf spring that are folded over such that the outer portions overlie the inner portion, forming a folded edge, where the headrest is adapted to translate with respect to the seat back, and where the seat back is adapted to receive the headrest such that the headrest is height adjustable relative to a seat back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS RENCOL LIMITED
    Inventors: Neil James, Llewelyn Pickering, James K. Burgess, Alfred J. Lethbridge, Ciaran Morrison
  • Methods and means of increasing the water use efficiency of plants
    Patent number: 10508283
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of producing a desired phenotype in a plant by manipulation of gene expression within the plant. The method relates to means which inhibit the level of PK220 gene expression or activity, wherein a desired phenotype such as increased water use efficiency relative to a wild type control plant. The invention also relates to nucleic acid sequences and constructs useful such methods and methods of generating and isolating plants having decreased PK220 expression or activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Performance Plants, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangxin Wan, Yafan Huang, Shujun Yang, Monika Kuzma
  • ADDITION-CURABLE SILICONE RUBBER COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20190375937
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an addition-curable silicone rubber composition having self-bonding capability. The addition-curable silicone rubber composition exhibits self-bonding capability in particular to substrates that contain residual hydroxyl groups or other residual hydrosilyl-reacting groups on their surface, including polycarbonate, polyester, polyamide, polysulfone, polyurethane, phenolic resin, epoxy resin, cellulose, glass and the mixture thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Huiping ZHANG, Srividhya MARIMUTHU, Gunnar HOFFMUELLER, John Mitchell HUGGINS, Enise MICHALSKI
  • GASKETS WITH A NON-COMPRESSIBLE CORE AND ONE OR MORE COMPRESSIBLE LAYERS
    Publication number: 20190376601
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a multi-layer gasket with a non-compressible core, formed of any material that is relatively rigid and incompressible and can serve as a carrier for a gasket, and compressible layers, formed of any flowable or compressible sealing material with appropriate rheology for a particular sealing application, in the form of edge or surface coatings, is presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Lydall Performance Materials (US), Inc.
    Inventors: Brian C. Lehr, Krishna Venkataswamy, Jeffery L. Barrall
  • TUNABLE NANOFIBER NONWOVEN PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20190376215
    Abstract: A method for tuning characteristics of a polyamide nanofiber nonwoven comprising the step of targeting a specific average nanofiber diameter and/or a specific relative viscosity for the polyamide nanofiber nonwoven. The specific average nanofiber diameter is within a range from 100 nm to 1000 nm and/or the specific relative viscosity is within a range from 5 to 75, e.g., from 15 to 50. The process further comprises the steps of extruding a polyamide composition having a moisture content with a pressurized gas through a fiber forming channel having a channel temperature to form the polyamide nanofiber nonwoven having the target average nanofiber diameter and/or relative viscosity and controlling the moisture content, the pressure of pressurized gas, and/or the channel temperature based on the specific average nanofiber diameter and/or the specific relative viscosity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC
    Inventors: Wai-Shing Yung, Chris Schwier, Albert Ortega, Scott E. Osborn
  • Silicone coating composition containing surface sheen modifier
    Patent number: 10501657
    Abstract: There is provided herein an opaque one-part room temperature vulcanizing silicone polymer composition comprising: (a) a silanol-terminated diorganopolysiloxane, (b) an opaque reinforcing filler; (c) a polyalkoxysilane crosslinking agent; (d) a condensation cure catalyst; (e) an organo-functional alkoxy silane adhesion promoter; and, (f) a cyclic siloxane. There is also provided a method for the continuous production of such a silicone polymer composition, and a paint containing such a silicone polymer composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Morgan Lucas
  • Bellhousing alignment device and method
    Patent number: 10502306
    Abstract: The present invention is a device and method for aligning a bellhousing without a centered opening at the transmission mounting surface to an engine block. The device and method of using the device permit the alignment of the bellhousing to be performed without requiring the user remove a portion of the transmission for use in the alignment process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Accel Performance Group LLC
    Inventor: Ross A. McCombs
  • Methods of conferring fire retardancy to wood and fire-retardant wood products
    Patent number: 10500756
    Abstract: A process is provided for treating wood products including lumber, plywood and other engineered wood products comprising the steps of applying an aqueous fire-retardant impregnate and applying a coating to the surface of the wood product. In one embodiment, said process confers fire-retardant properties to the wood products sufficient to pass the extended burn test of ASTM E-84. The present invention also provides fire retardant wood products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Koppers Performance Chemicals Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, John Horton, Xinhao H. Gao
  • Vehicle grille
    Patent number: D869998
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Polestar Performance AB
    Inventor: Maxime Celerier
  • Vehicle, toy replica and/or other replica
    Patent number: D871262
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: POLESTAR PERFORMANCE AB
    Inventors: Theodore Jonathan Mayer, Jurgen Jose