Patents Examined by Christina H.W. Rosebach
  • Patent number: 11926724
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a foam rubber by foaming a polymer latex is provided, wherein the polymer latex used has a solids content of 60.0 wt % or more, has a volume particle size distribution where the volume cumulative particle size d10 is more than 140 nm, and comprises 0.001 to 1.0 part by weight of antifoaming agent relative to 100 parts by weight of polymer in the polymer latex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Taniyama, Hidekazu Haneda
  • Patent number: 11891492
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a foam rubber by foaming a polymer latex is provided, wherein the polymer latex used has a solids content of 60.0 wt % or more, comprises 0.001 to 1.0 part by weight of antifoaming agent relative to 100 parts by weight of polymer in the polymer latex, and has a viscosity at 25° C. of 370 cps or less when the solids content is controlled to 66.0 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Taniyama, Hidekazu Haneda
  • Patent number: 11884764
    Abstract: The invention concerns the field of polymer chemistry and relates to membranes, such as those that can be used, for example, for the preparation of aqueous solutions using microfiltration or ultrafiltration. The object of the present invention is to specify membranes which have improved anti-fouling properties and sliding friction properties. The object is attained with membranes comprised at least predominantly of multiblock copolymers of the general formula (1) where X=connection point E=C2 to C4 alkyl ether A=other block component not containing silicone R=C1 to C4 alkyl radical and/or phenyl radical m=1<m<500 n=0?n<100 o=1<o<10 p=1<p<10 z=1<z<25, the molar ratio of the silicone-containing block component and the other block component A in the multiblock copolymer is between 5:1 and 1:5, and wherein the silicon-containing block components are predominantly arranged at the surface of the membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER POLYMERFORSCHUNG DRESDEN E.V.
    Inventors: Jochen Meier-Haack, Wladimir Butwilowski, Tim Oddoy, Kornelia Schlenstedt
  • Patent number: 11884792
    Abstract: An anti-biofouling shape-memory composite aerogel includes a unidirectional chitosan aerogel channel, a plant polyphenol coating, and a polyphenol/iron ion chelate. The plant polyphenol coating is evenly distributed on an inner wall of the unidirectional chitosan aerogel channel, and the polyphenol/iron ion chelate is located at a top end of the unidirectional chitosan aerogel channel. The anti-biofouling chitosan-based composite aerogel has an evaporation rate of 1.96 kg·m?2·h?1 at an illumination intensity of 1 kW/m2. The composite aerogel has shape-memory properties, and can quickly restore its original shape in water after extrusion, thereby accelerating the diffusion of substances to complete the modification of inner channels. In this way, desirable anti-biofouling ability is achieved, and excellent structural stability as well as continuous and efficient photothermal water evaporation are guaranteed in a complex water environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hefei University of Technology
    Inventors: Jingzhe Xue, Yang Lu, Hao Xu, Hanye Xing, Qian Wang, Wenshu Wu, Sheng Chen, Kangkang Li, Yaxin Du, Zongshun Peng
  • Patent number: 11884786
    Abstract: Elastic Parylene films produced via chemical vapor deposition polymerization (CVDP) on a substrate are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SPECIALTY COATING SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Andreas Greiner, Tobias Moss, Rakesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 11879038
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer foam, said polymer foam comprising pores forming an open-cell polymer foam, said polymer foam comprising a supramolecular gel inside pores, and said polymer foam comprising at least one enzyme. The present invention relates to a supramolecular gel; its preparation and its applications, notably in chemical synthesis and kinetic resolution, in particular of organic compounds. The present invention also relates to flow chemistry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS), INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE
    Inventors: Loïc Jierry, Christophe Serra, Pierre Schaaf, Jennifer Rodon Fores, Fouzia Boulmedais
  • Patent number: 11873373
    Abstract: Disclosed is a preparation method of a renewable epoxy asphalt material and a regeneration process. The preparation method comprises: I Vanillin and 4-aminophenol are reacted in water with stirring to obtain VAN-AP; II. VAN-AP is mixed with epichlorohydrin, to which tetrabutylammonium bromide is added and heated at 80 to 90° C. for reaction; sodium hydroxide solution is then added dropwise for reaction; the mixture is concentrated to obtain GE-VAN-AP; III. Preheated asphalt is mixed with a polyetheramine curing agent and a polyetheramine accelerator to form component A; GE-VAN-AP is melted as component B; the component A is evenly mixed with the component B to obtain a renewable epoxy asphalt material. During the regeneration, the resin phase structure in the epoxy asphalt is gradually depolymerized, whereby asphalt regenerant is used to restore the properties of the aged asphalt phase and reshape the resin phase structure to complete the regeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Harbin Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Junyan Yi, Wenyi Zhou, Decheng Feng, Zhongshi Pei, Pengjian Cheng, Xinman Ai
  • Patent number: 11845833
    Abstract: Useful thermoplastic polymer powders are formed by a method comprising: cooling a foam comprised of a thermoplastic foam below the brittleness temperature of the thermoplastic polymer, wherein the foam has an average strut dimension of 10 to 500 micrometers, and comminuting the cooled foam to form a thermoplastic polymer powder. The method allows for the efficient grinding of the thermoplastic polymer having improved morphology and desirable characteristics such as dry flow without flow aids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Jabil Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas John Dippel, Steven Kubiak, Zachary Peterson, Mathew Artin Torosian, John Gordon Eue, Thomas Fry
  • Patent number: 11845812
    Abstract: Provided are supramolecular polypseudorotaxane hydrogel compositions and 3-D structures capable of reversible 3-D structural deformation which include (a) a solvent; (b) an at least partially linear polymer, where the polymer further comprises groups capable of covalent crosslinking between the polymers; (ii) at least one first macrocyclic ring which forms a pseudorotaxane with a polymer in the polymer network; and (iii) at least one second macrocyclic ring that does not form the pseudorotaxane. The hydrogel composition has a viscosity which allows for 3-D printing of the hydrogel to form a 3-D structure, and a storage (elastic) modulus after crosslinking that allows for the 3-D structure to undergo reversible 3-D structural deformation upon change of solvent conditions. Also provided are methods of manufacturing the compositions and 3-D structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Trustees of Dartmouth College
    Inventors: Chenfeng Ke, Qianming Lin
  • Patent number: 11834568
    Abstract: A latex composition for dip forming, and more particularly, to a latex composition for dip forming includes carboxylic acid-modified nitrile-based copolymer latex; and a phenolic emulsifier, wherein the phenolic emulsifier is included in an amount of 0.08 parts by weight to 6 parts by weight (based on a solid content) based on 100 parts by weight of the carboxylic acid-modified nitrile-based copolymer latex. A method for preparing the latex composition and a formed article produced using the latex composition are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yong Seok Jung, Won Sang Kwon, Ji Hyun Kim, Seung Whan Oh
  • Patent number: 11833257
    Abstract: Disclosed is a porous structure including water-soluble chitosan; and a carboxymethyl cellulose-based compound, wherein a weight ratio of the water-soluble chitosan and the carboxymethyl cellulose-based compound is from 65:35 to 25:75, and a process for preparing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tae Hee Kim, Jung Nam Im, Song Jun Doh, Chaehwa Kim, Yoonjin Kim, Gyu Dong Lee
  • Patent number: 11827004
    Abstract: A method for producing a foamed body includes: forming a foamed layer precursor including applying a coating liquid onto a base to form a liquid film and applying an ink onto the liquid film by an inkjet method, where the coating liquid contains a foaming agent and an active energy ray curable material having a radical-polymerizable functional group, the active energy ray curable material contains a multifunctional active energy ray curable material having two or more radical-polymerizable functional groups, and the ink contains a foaming accelerator having a radical-polymerizable functional group; and foaming a desired position of the foamed layer precursor by heating to form a foamed layer. A functional group equivalent of the radical-polymerizable functional group in the foaming accelerator is greater than a functional group equivalent of the radical-polymerizable functional group in the active energy ray curable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Fujiwara, Yuuma Usui
  • Patent number: 11820114
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a porous silicone sheet comprising a freezing step of freezing a wet gel of a porous silicone body having communicating pores and a three-dimensional network silicone skeleton which forms the pores and which is formed by a copolymerization of a bifunctional alkoxysilane and a trifunctional alkoxysilane, to obtain a frozen body, a sheet forming step of forming the frozen body into a sheet to obtain a porous silicone sheet, and a cleaning step of cleaning the porous silicone sheet. According to the method of the present invention, a porous silicone body from which impurities have been sufficiently removed can be produced. In the course of the production, occurrence of fracture of a wet gel can be effectively prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoyuki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11814497
    Abstract: An organic polymer aerogel that includes an organic polymer gel matrix and microstructures dispersed or embedded within the aerogel is disclosed. The aerogel can have an at least bimodal pore size distribution comprising a first peak of less than or equal to 65 nm and a second peak greater than or equal to 100 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BLUESHIFT MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Alan Sakaguchi, David Irvin, Alysa Joaquin
  • Patent number: 11773272
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a highly fluorinated nanostructured polymer foam as well as to its use as a super-repellent coating of substrates. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a composition and to a method for producing the highly fluorinated nanostructured polymer foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Glassomer GmbH
    Inventors: Bastian Rapp, Dorothea Helmer, Christiane Richter, Nico Keller
  • Patent number: 11746207
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing particles with pore structures, by means of a hybrid process of atomization via drying-cooling, from a water-in-oil-type emulsion of a composition of a non-solubilized and in melt state matrix. The production method comprises: i) forming a water-in-oil-type emulsion consisting of a composition of a solvent that is aqueous or soluble in water (dispersed phase) and a composition of a non-solubilized and in melt state matrix (continuous phase); ii) forming discrete particles from the emulsion via atomization, using a flow of gas at high pressure and temperature; iii) immediately removing the solvent via evaporation; and iv) subsequently cooling the formed discrete particles, resulting in porous particles that are substantially free from solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION EN QUIMICA APLICADA, INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGIA, A.C.
    Inventors: Carlos Jose Espinoza Gonzalez, Noe Benjamin Navarro Guajardo, Edgar Miguel Garcia Carrillo, Oliverio Santiago Rodriguez Fernandez, Salvador Fernandez Tavizon, Claudia Anahi Perez Torres
  • Patent number: 11718726
    Abstract: Provided is a superabsorbent structure based on a covalently crosslinked copolymer having a microstructure of a HIPE, and characterized by hydrophobic and hydrophilic segments of at least five residues; the unique chemical and structural properties of the copolymer afford a polymeric superabsorbent structure that is capable of swelling in polar as well as apolar media. Also provided are processes of manufacturing the superabsorbent structure, and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Michael S. Silverstein, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11718716
    Abstract: An aerogel and drying method, the aerogel having a larger size, good productivity, and high transparency. The aerogel has a silsesquioxane structure and exhibits two exothermic peaks observed in a temperature range of 300 to 600° C. as measured by TG-DTA (thermogravimetry-differential thermal analysis) under an inert gas atmosphere containing 80% by volume of an inert gas and 20% by volume of oxygen. A method for producing aerogel includes a drying step including a first step in which an aerogel which has undergone condensation of a hydrolysate is placed in a liquid phase system having a first liquid phase and a second liquid phase; a second step in which a first solvent constituting the first liquid phase is evaporated from the first liquid phase at a temperature greater than room temperature; and a third step in which heating is still continued after the first liquid phase is evaporated off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TIEM FACTORY INC.
    Inventors: Noboru Kawase, Mamoru Aizawa
  • Patent number: 11702525
    Abstract: Although polyolefin elastomers are widely employed commodity polymers, there are shortcomings of this class of polymers for certain applications. For example, the rheological properties of some polyolefin elastomers may be insufficient to provide the green strength or low shear viscosity necessary to form stable foams, or to provide sufficient viscosity modification effects when present in a solvent. Cationomeric modification of polyolefin elastomers may alleviate these difficulties. Such polyolefin elastomers may feature a random cationomeric polyolefin copolymer comprising at least a first monomer and a second monomer, in which the first monomer is a neutral monomer and the second monomer has a side chain bearing a cationic moiety. The polyolefin elastomers may be present in foamed polyolefin compositions comprising a gas component and/or in liquid compositions comprising a solvent in which the polyolefin elastomer is dissolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventor: Jason A. Mann
  • Patent number: 11697715
    Abstract: The invention provides a polymerizable composition and a hydrogel obtained or obtainable from the polymerizable composition. The polymerizable composition comprises cucurbituril and a first monomer having a guest for the cucurbituril, wherein the total monomer concentration, Cmon, within the polymerizable composition is at least 0.5 M. The composition may be an aqueous composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Inventors: Oren Scherman, Ji Liu