Patents Examined by Daniel C. McCracken
  • Patent number: 12286352
    Abstract: Methods for the production of carbon-based and other nanostructures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
    Inventors: Stephen D. Tse, Hua Hong, Bernard H. Kear
  • Patent number: 12286726
    Abstract: Provided are a diamond composite body capable of shortening a separation time for separating a substrate and a diamond layer, the substrate, and a method for manufacturing a diamond, as well as a diamond obtained from the diamond composite body and a tool including the diamond. The diamond composite body includes a substrate including a diamond seed crystal and having grooves in a main surface, a diamond layer formed on the main surface of the substrate, and a non-diamond layer formed on a substrate side at a constant depth from an interface between the substrate and the diamond layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Nishibayashi, Natsuo Tatsumi, Hitoshi Sumiya
  • Patent number: 12280359
    Abstract: An integrated filter material, a preparation method and an application. The filter material is composed of a commercial dust removal filter material and a catalyst that is grown on the filter material and that has a function of simultaneously decomposing nitrogen oxides and dioxins. In the preparation method, a precursor solution of manganese and cerium oxides is impregnated on the filter material, and manganese and cerium oxides are grown on the filter material by means of a chemical reaction; and vanadium oxychloride is used as a precursor of vanadium oxide and is impregnated on the filter material, reacts in water, and prepared by drying, hydrothermal and other processes. The composite filter material may remove three kinds of pollutants in flue gas at the same time, and the catalyst is firmly loaded and does not easily fall off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: 1. NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY, NANJING GEKOF INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY & EQUIPMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Haitao Xu, Xiaohuan Zhi, Chaoqiang Mei, Mingbo Li, Jing Song
  • Patent number: 12281275
    Abstract: A biomass-derived carbon material is provided, the carbon material having a carbon content of 60 to 75% by weight and an integrated heat of oxidation reaction of 5 kJ/kg or less when maintained in air at 107° C. for 20 minutes. A method for producing a carbon material is provided, the method including: a carbonization step of obtaining biomass chars having a carbon content of 61 to 75% by weight from biomass; and an oxidation step of heating the biomass chars to 200° C. or higher in an atmosphere having an oxygen concentration of 2 to 13% by volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichiroh Mori, Kenichi Sekimoto, Sugura Takeda, Yukio Kowaki
  • Patent number: 12269743
    Abstract: A method of manufacture can comprise: treating a surface of a polymeric substrate with a laser induced graphene; and bonding a metallic layer to the laser induced graphene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin R. Bordage, Lara Naomi Huapaya Rojas, Steven Poteet
  • Patent number: 12269746
    Abstract: The embodiments herein provide a method for producing activated carbonaceous balls. The method includes a step of crushing and sizing raw coconut shells to form coconut shell granules having a diameter of about 0.02 mm-2.36 mm, preferably 0.075 mm-1.18 mm. The method includes a step of mixing pure water to a food grade powder appropriately and boiling it slowly at 15° C.-80° C. to obtain a water-food grade powder mixture. The method includes a step of adding the water-food grade powder mixture 20-40% by weight to the coconut shell granules 100% by weight to obtain a slurry in a pourability condition. The method includes a step of pouring the slurry into a pill making machine equipped with a mold of 3 mm, 5 mm, and 8 mm in diameters selectively to produce the spherical carbon tablets. The method includes a step of drying the spherical carbon tablets and carbonizing the spherical carbon tablets to obtain the activated carbonaceous balls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: AURA7 USA Inc
    Inventor: Richard Jonghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12269742
    Abstract: Provided are a carbon nanotube production device and production method capable of realizing high-temperature heating of a catalyst raw material in a floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (FCCVD) method, and improving the quality and yield of carbon nanotubes synthesized. A carbon nanotube production device 1 includes a synthesis furnace 2 for synthesizing carbon nanotubes; a catalyst raw material supplying nozzle 3 for supplying a catalyst raw material used to synthesize carbon nanotubes to the synthesis furnace 2; and a nozzle temperature adjusting unit 6 capable of setting a temperature of an inner portion 4 of the catalyst raw material supplying nozzle 3 higher than a temperature of a reaction field 5 of the synthesis furnace 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: WASEDA UNIVERSITY, MEIJO NANO CARBON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Suguru Noda, Katsuya Namiki, Zihao Zhang, Toshio Osawa, Hisashi Sugime
  • Patent number: 12264071
    Abstract: A carbon-based material post-modification reactor includes: a feeding port located upstream from the carbon-based material post-modification reactor and adapted to feed a carbon-based raw material into the reactor; a discharging port located downstream from the carbon-based material post-modification reactor and adapted to output a modified carbon-based material; and a screw conveying device disposed in the reactor to simultaneously convey and turn over the carbon-based raw material in the reactor, between the feeding port and the discharging port; and an intake device for inputting ozone gas to the interior of the carbon-based material post-modification reactor. The screw conveying device includes a shaft portion, reverse inner spiral blade group and forward outer spiral blade group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Linyuan Advanced Materials Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jheng-Guang Li, Cheng-Han Hsieh, Te-Wang Ku
  • Patent number: 12264381
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of a wetting agent such as a non-ionic wetting agent and a reagent comprising a thiocarbonyl functional group, for example, in a method/process or use for extracting a base metal such as copper from a material comprising the base metal. Such methods/processes can comprise contacting the material under acidic conditions with the wetting agent and the reagent comprising the thiocarbonyl functional group; and optionally recovering the base metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Jetti Resources, LLC
    Inventors: Zihe Ren, Nelson Mora Huertas, David Dixon, Edouard Asselin
  • Patent number: 12264109
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing essentially crack-free carbon foam structures and carbon foam structures made in single-piece flow through a continuous kiln under inert atmosphere at atmospheric pressure. This process greatly reduces the cost to manufacture by reducing manufacturing time and increasing the ability to integrate automation equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: CONSOL Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Rudolph Andrew Olson, III, Douglas R. Amie, Bruce M. Hines, Brian H. Nichols, Tatianna Englebert
  • Patent number: 12264073
    Abstract: Provided is a composite material that has improved dispersibility of an exfoliated layered substance in a resin or the like and can thus significantly improve the properties, such as impact resistance, of a synthetic resin. A composite material in which the surface of an exfoliated layered substance is coated with a compound having a reactive group, wherein the compound having a reactive group is a compound having at least one reactive group selected from the group consisting of an epoxy group, an oxetanyl group, an isocyanate group, an acrylic group, a methacrylic group, a vinyl ether group, a vinyl ester group, and a hydrolyzable silyl group, and the compound having a reactive group is contained in an amount of 0.1 to 100 parts by mass, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the exfoliated layered substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki Saiki, Hideyuki Yokota, Ryo Taniuchi, Toru Yano
  • Patent number: 12264066
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for regenerating a spent acid stream or other stream, such as a spent acid stream or other stream containing sulfur, by decomposing the spent sulfuric acid stream and/or other sulfur-containing streams to recover sulfur dioxide from the stream. Also provided is a process for preparing sulfuric acid from the sulfur dioxide recovered by the apparatus and process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Messer Industries USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Richardson, Frank Fitch, Blake Stapper
  • Patent number: 12258277
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of manufacture of zeolite. A sol-gel formulation includes a water-soluble fraction of ODSO as an additional component. The resulting products include zeolite with increased SAR relative to comparable sol-gel formulations without ODSO as a precursor. In addition, the SAR is increased by increasing the ODSO content during synthesis. In additional embodiments, zeolite yield is also increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert P. Hodgkins, Omer Refa Koseoglu
  • Patent number: 12258268
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for purifying hydrogen peroxide, and more particularly, to a method including purifying a crude product of hydrogen peroxide using a primary purification system, and purifying a primarily purified hydrogen peroxide solution using a secondary purification system. One of the primary purification system and the secondary purification system includes an electrodeionization system, and the other one of the primary purification system and the secondary purification system includes at least one from among a distillation system, a resin system, a reverse osmosis system, and a combination system thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: OCI COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Deokyun Kim, Hyejin Kim, Kyungyeol Kim, Yongil Kim
  • Patent number: 12261305
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of fuel cells, and in particular to a method for preparing highly stable catalyst coating slurry for fuel cells. The method for preparing highly stable catalyst coating slurry for fuel cells, includes at least two mixing and dispersing steps. The first mixing and dispersing step is carried out to mix and disperse the catalyst, perfluorosulfonic acid resin and solvent to obtain a first-stage mixed dispersion, and the other mixing and dispersing steps are carried out to mix and disperse the previous-stage mixed dispersion and the newly added perfluorosulfonic acid resin, wherein at least one mixing and dispersing step has a surfactant is added for mixing and dispersing. The catalyst in the catalyst slurry prepared by the method has good dispersion stability and less sedimentation, and good performance is achieved when the catalyst slurry is applied to membrane electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SINOHYKEY TECHNOLOGY GUANGZHOU CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Mingquan Zhao, Shanyun Mo, Jiaqiang Zhong, Yunsong Yang, Siyu Ye, Yuquan Zou, Junke Tang, Dennis Sun, Tom Wu
  • Patent number: 12258276
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a carbonaceous material which has a benzene adsorption of 25 to 40% and a vitamin B12 adsorption of 13.0 to 50.0 mg/g, while having a pore volume of mesopores of 0.070 to 0.150 cm3/g as calculated from a nitrogen adsorption isotherm by means of a BJH method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Ishida, Tetsuya Hanamoto, Hiroe Yoshinobu
  • Patent number: 12246966
    Abstract: The present invention includes novel, low porosity, functionalized carbon micro-powders derived from natural sugars and methods for producing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: CTI Consulting, LLC
    Inventor: Allen D. Clauss
  • Patent number: 12240762
    Abstract: A material with pine-branch like samarium oxide/graphene/sulfur gel structure, and a preparation method and use thereof. The material is reduced graphene oxide carrying pine-branch like samarium oxide on the surface to form a cross-linked gel structure, and sulfur is loaded on the gel structure. The preparation method includes: subjecting graphene oxide and a samarium salt to hydrothermal reduction to prepare a reduced graphene oxide/samarium precursor; under an inert atmosphere, thermolysing the reduced graphene oxide/samarium precursor to obtain a reduced graphene oxide/pine-branch like samarium oxide gel; and melting and diffusing the sulfur onto the reduced graphene oxide/pine-branch like samarium oxide gel. The material with pine-branch like samarium oxide/graphene/sulfur gel structure greatly improves the electrochemical performance of lithium-sulfur batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Guowei Zhou, Shaonan Gu, Bingjie Liu, Yinan Wang, Xiaoyi Song, Tingting Hu, Pei Cao
  • Patent number: 12234149
    Abstract: The present subject matter relates to co-producing H-CNG and CNTs. The process comprises adding catalyst to a first reactor (110) and activating the catalyst and performing a reaction to obtain H-CNG and CNTs. At a first predetermined time after reaction has progressed in the first reactor (110), catalyst is added to a second reactor (120), activated, and then the reaction proceeds simultaneously in the first reactor (110) and second reactor (120). The use of multiple reactors with staggered start times helps in the continuous co-production of H-CNG and CNTs. Catalyst preparation process is integrated with the co-production process for efficient heat recovery. The first and second reactors are fluidized bed reactors with cantilever trays having weirs for controlling the residence time of the catalyst in the reactor and thereby controlling the purity of CNTs produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventors: Lavanya Meesala, Pramod Kumar
  • Patent number: 12234155
    Abstract: A process for producing functionalized activated carbon product includes creating grafting sites on a surface of an activated carbon product, to yield a precursor activated carbon product; exposing the precursor activated carbon product to at least a first vinyl monomer; and initiating a polymerization reaction to graft at least the first vinyl monomer to the grafting sites and polymerize the first vinyl monomer to yield the functionalized activated carbon product. A functionalized activated carbon product includes an activated carbon product having a surface and at least a first polymer grafted to the surface. A process for removing contaminants from water includes adding a functionalized activated carbon product to contaminated water, wherein the functionalized activated carbon product includes an activated carbon product having a surface and at least a first polymer grafted to the surface; and allowing the functionalized activated carbon product to adsorb contaminants from the contaminated water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: CARBONIX INC.
    Inventors: Paul Raivo Pede, Andrew James Vreugdenhil, Oliver Kenneth Luke Strong, Kevin Malcolm Scotland, Sarah Julie Bégin