Patents Assigned to Performance IT
  • Dirt pick-up resistant silicone coating composition
    Patent number: 10457819
    Abstract: There is provided herein an elastomeric coating composition containing (a) at least one condensation polymerization-effective polymer bearing two or more silicon atoms; (b) a surface wetting agent, (c) a filler; (d) a condensation catalyst; and, (e) optionally, one or more crosslinking agents. There are also provided architectural coatings including the same, as well as single coat anti-dirt, and/or anti-stain, and/or anti-fouling coatings including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Mayank Dubey, Anubhay Saxena, Indumathi Ramakrishnan, Sumi Dinkar
  • Method of stabilizing imino-functional silane
    Patent number: 10457697
    Abstract: A method of stabilizing imino-functional silane involving adding thereto at least one Brønsted-Lowry base to inhibit, suppress or prevent the addition reactions of the imino-functional silane with itself to form a imino- and amino-functional silane and the subsequent deamination reactions to form conjugated carbon-carbon double bond-containing imino-functional silanes and stabilized imino-functional silanes containing the at least one Brønsted-Lowry base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Richard W Cruse, Matthew Pinnow
  • Siloxane crosslinking processes employing sulfur compounds and platinum catalysts
    Patent number: 10457795
    Abstract: Provided is a composition and process for producing a crosslinked product. The composition comprises a mixture constituting (a) an alkenyl silicone, (b) a hydrogen siloxane, (c) a cure inhibitor and (d) a hydrosilylation catalyst, optionally in the presence of a solvent, and (e) sulfur compounds in order to produce the crosslinked product, and the process comprises reacting such a composition to form a crosslinked product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Julie L. Boyer, Aroop Kumar Roy
  • Gas bearings
    Patent number: 10451104
    Abstract: A gas bearing system has at least one gas bearing (30, 32, 34) with a moving part and a static part and which can be operated in both aero-dynamic and aero-static modes. The system has a source (36) of pressurized gas fluidly connected with the bearing and a control system (134) for regulating the supply of pressurized gas to the bearing in dependence on the rotational speed of the moving part. The system has particular application in a turbocharger (1) where a flow of pressurized gas from the source is introduced into the bearing at the start-up and slow down phases of operation of the turbocharger, the flow being stopped, or reduced, when the turbocharger has reached normal operating speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Birmingham High Performance Turbomachinery Limited
    Inventors: Kyle Jiang, Guang Pu
  • Composite belt profile
    Patent number: 10450141
    Abstract: A composite belt may include a profile, and a belt. The profile may have a strip, and nodules. The profile may be attached to the belt such that each nodule extends out from the belt. The composite belt may be included in a cooking apparatus that may also include a housing, a heat source, and a drive roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Timothy P. Pollock
  • Drilling machine with optimized tool unloading system
    Patent number: 10443306
    Abstract: A drilling machine has a drilling tool, a rotary, a main engine that actuates a high-pressure pump, a hydraulic motor, actuated by the high-pressure pump and connected to the rotary at least one pressure sensor disposed in a discharge pipe. The fluid flows from the high-pressure pump to the hydraulic motor. An adjustment valve is disposed in a discharge pipe such that the fluid flows from a low-pressure circuit to the hydraulic motor in order to adjust the cylinder capacity of the hydraulic motor according to the pressure measured by the pressure sensor when the tool is unloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: HPM—HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE MACHINES SRL
    Inventors: Giuseppe Cartechini, Luca Urbani
  • Wood treatment for dimensional stabilization
    Patent number: 10442110
    Abstract: A process is provided for treating wood products including lumber, plywood and other engineered wood products comprising the steps of contacting a composition comprising a polypropylene glycol, a high molecular weight polyethylene glycol, a polyether polyol having low solubility in water, or a polytetrahydrofuran, or hydrophobic polyether polyol, with the wood product. The invention also provides wood products comprising a polypropylene glycol, a high molecular weight polyethylene glycol, a polyether polyol having low solubility in water, or a polytetrahydrofuran, or hydrophobic polyether polyol, that have greater dimensional stability compared to an untreated wood product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Koppers Performance Chemicals Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Xinhao H. Gao, John Horton, Richard Ziobro
  • Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media facilitating mobile device guest network access
    Patent number: 10447685
    Abstract: Mobile device access to a guest network is facilitated. A method comprises: detecting a home network having an associated access point based on the device being within a first defined proximity of the associated access point; and transmitting information indicative of a request to establish a guest network via the associated access point of the home network and providing authentication information for an entity associated with the device. The method also comprises establishing the guest network according to one or more assigned resources based on receipt of an acknowledgement message received from a cloud device, wherein receipt of the acknowledgment message from the cloud device is based on cloud device determination that the entity associated with the device is authenticated and based on receipt of an authorization by an entity associated with the home network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NETWORK PERFORMANCE RESEARCH GROUP LLC
    Inventors: Terry F K Ngo, Seung Baek Yi, Erick Kurniawan, Kun Ting Tsai
  • Method and apparatus for a signal indicator light
    Patent number: 10448476
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: JST Performance, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley J. LaMarche, Pete D. Sibitzky, Edgar A. Madril
  • Method and apparatus for use of simultaneous multiple channels in the dynamic frequency selection band in wireless networks
    Patent number: 10448424
    Abstract: The present invention relates to wireless networks and more specifically to systems and methods for selecting available channels free of radar signals from a plurality of 5 GHz radio frequency channels. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a standalone multi-channel DFS master that includes a switch and embedded processor that are programmed to switch a 5 GHz radio transceiver to a first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels, cause a beacon generator to generate a beacon in the first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels, cause a radar detector to scan for the radar signal in the first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channel, and then repeat these steps for each of the other channels of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels during a single beacon transmission duty cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NETWORK PERFORMANCE RESEARCH GROUP LLC
    Inventors: Terry F K Ngo, Seung Baek Yi, Erick Kurniawan, Kun Ting Tsai
  • Polymer modified asphalt reaction products
    Patent number: 10435560
    Abstract: In a process for producing a cross-linked asphalt/polymer composition (“polymer-modified asphalt” or PMA) that comprises or is produced from asphalt and an ethylene copolymer, an anhydride is used as a promoter. The ethylene copolymer comprises copolymerized units derived from ethylene and an epoxy-containing comonomer. An improvement in asphalt properties is demonstrated without the use of an acid catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Performance Materials NA, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Dubois, George Wyatt Prejean
  • Variable vapor barrier for humidity control
    Patent number: 10435550
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vapor permeable composition comprising a copolymer comprising copolymerized units of ethylene and copolymerized units of a comonomer providing an amine-reactive site; a short chain polymer having one primary amine active amine site, and comprising propylene oxide, ethylene oxide, or mixture thereof. The composition is useful as a vapor barrier for moisture control of buildings. Also disclosed are articles comprising the vapor permeable composition and methods of their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: PERFORMANCE MATERIALS NA, INC.
    Inventors: Richard T Chou, Loic Pierre Rolland
  • Cables made of phase change material
    Patent number: 10435606
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cable comprising a core and a PCM layer surrounding the core wherein the PCM layer consists of a PCM composition wherein the PCM composition comprises a PCM and an ethylene copolymer; and the core consists of a yarn, strand, or wire each made of a natural or synthetic polymeric material or a metal. The invention is useful for thermal management in a variety of applications in such as, for example, automotive, building, packaging, garments, and footwear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Performance Materials NA, INC.
    Inventors: Loic Pierre Rolland, Jacques Andre, Jacques Roulin
  • CERIUM-STABILIZED POLYAMIDES AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20190300709
    Abstract: A heat-stabilized polyamide composition comprising from 25 wt % to 90 wt %% of an amide polymer from 0.01 wt % to 10 wt % of a cerium-based heat stabilizer, a second heat stabilizer, a halide additive, and less than 0.3 wt % of a stearate additive. A weight ratio of halide additive to stearate additive is less than 45.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC
    Inventors: Bradley J. Sparks, Ryan M. Hensarling, Nanayakkara L. SOMASIRI
  • Sliding component and method of forming the same
    Patent number: 10428874
    Abstract: A sliding component including a sliding layer, and an intermediate component including at least one undercut portion, the intermediate component coupled to the sliding layer, wherein the intermediate component has a thickness, T, and wherein an exposed thickness, TE, of the intermediate component is less than T. A method of forming a sliding component including providing an intermediate component including at least one undercut portion, the intermediate component having a thickness, T, and coupling a sliding layer to the intermediate component, wherein the intermediate component is partially embedded into the sliding layer, and wherein an exposed thickness, TE, of the intermediate component is less than T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS PAMPUS GMBH
    Inventors: Juergen Hartmann, Torsten Recktenwald, Simon Hufnagel
  • Video game controller
    Patent number: 10427037
    Abstract: A video game controller can include a body with a top surface and a bottom surface, multiple control inputs (e.g., thumbsticks, directional pads, buttons), and a face plate removably coupleable to the body over the top surface so that the plurality of control inputs extend through the face plate. One or more of the multiple control inputs are removable and replaceable without the use of tools by decoupling the face plate from the body and decoupling the control input from the body without disassembling the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLC
    Inventors: Bradley M. Strahle, Yannik Wiggemans
  • Low pressure natural gas direct injection fuel injector assembly
    Patent number: 10428767
    Abstract: A fuel injector assembly is adapted to inject a compressed fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The compressed fuel is stored in a fuel storage tank at a fuel storage pressure and delivered to the fuel injector assembly through a fuel supply line at a fuel supply pressure. The fuel supply pressure is lower than the fuel storage pressure. The fuel injector assembly includes a fuel injector and an adapter valve. The fuel injector injects the compressed gas fuel. The adapter valve is positioned between the fuel injector and the combustion chamber. The adapter valve allows the compressed gas fuel injected by the fuel injector to be discharged from an outlet of the adapter valve into the combustion chamber in an injection direction while preventing blowback gas entering the outlet from passing through the adapter valve in an ingress direction opposite the injection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: CRAZY DIAMOND PERFORMANCE INC.
    Inventor: Kevin Fern
  • Multivitamin capable of beneficial gene regulation through microRNA (miRNA)
    Patent number: 10426756
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for modifying the expression of microRNAs comprising: one or more plant secondary metabolites capable of beneficially regulating different genes in the human genome by modifying the expression of one or more microRNAs, wherein the one or more plant secondary metabolites are selected and provided in an amount selected to target the modification of one or more specific microRNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: PERFORMANCE LABS PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Daniel Gubler
  • Control panel
    Patent number: D862325
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: JST Performance, LLC
    Inventors: Johnathan J. Heiner, Gustavo G. DaSilva Ramos
  • Face plate for a video game controller
    Patent number: D864302
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLC
    Inventors: Bradley M. Strahle, John M. Alpay