Patents Examined by Fred M Teskin
  • Patent number: 11174408
    Abstract: A peroxide-curable polyolefin composition comprising a peroxide-curable polyolefin prepolymer, an organic peroxide, and 4-[[4,6-bis(octylthio)-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-2,6-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-phenol. Also, a peroxide-cured polyolefin product prepared therefrom, methods of making and using same, and articles containing or made from same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Manish Talreja, Jeffrey M. Cogen
  • Patent number: 11173472
    Abstract: The invention aims to provide a crosslinked polymer having excellent moisture retention properties, an excellent ethanol absorption capacity, excellent adhesiveness to the skin when applied to the skin as a cosmetic, and a high concentration of an effective component. The invention relates to a N-vinyl lactam-based crosslinked polymer including: a structural unit derived from a N-vinyl lactam; and a structural unit derived from a crosslinking agent, the N-vinyl lactam-based crosslinked polymer having an ethanol absorption capacity of 3 to 40 g per 1 g of the N-vinyl lactam-based crosslinked polymer, the N-vinyl lactam-based crosslinked polymer containing a particle having an aspect ratio determined by the following method of 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yui Ikemoto, Kazuhiro Okamura
  • Patent number: 11168157
    Abstract: This disclosure provides for polymerization processes of polyolefins wherein the melt index can be regulated. For example, there is provided a process for producing a polyethylene, the process comprising: (1) in a polymerization reactor, contacting (a) a polymerization catalyst, (b) ethylene, (c) an optional ?-olefin comonomer, and (d) (x+y) ppm by weight of an antistatic agent on an ethylene basis; and (2) applying reaction conditions to the reaction mixture suitable to produce the polyethylene having a desired set of characteristics, such as desired target melt index. The disclosed polymerization processes allow for production of polyolefins having higher melt indices, and in the alternative to produce polyolefins having a desired target melt index at lower polymerization temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Daniel M. Hasenberg, Jeffrey S. Lowell
  • Patent number: 11161921
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a polyethylene resin in which gel or fish eye formation is greatly reduced, by controlling various reaction conditions such as the supply flow rate ratio of the monomers to each reactor, the temperature range of each reactor, and the temperature range of the mixing region, in the method for producing a polyethylene resin which is applied to produce a polyethylene resin for a protective film of display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventors: Seung Won Choi, Eun Jung Joo, Ung Sagong, Jung Seok Kwon, Dae Young Shin
  • Patent number: 11155649
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of ethylene homopolymers or copolymers in a facility having a high-pressure tubular reactor and a preheater, wherein a reaction fluid introduced into the reactor at a reactor inlet is heated in the preheater and the average velocity of the reaction fluid in the preheater is lower than the average velocity of the reaction fluid in the tubular reactor and the ratio of the average velocity in the tubular reactor to the average velocity of the reaction fluid in the preheater is in the range from 1.5 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Wolf, Dieter Littmann, Michael Deuerling, Andre-Armand Finette, Danir Khayrullin, Juergen Mohrbutter
  • Patent number: 11136420
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a water-absorbent resin comprising a step of polymerizing a water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer in the presence of an internal-crosslinking agent, and a step of performing post-crosslinking, wherein: the step of polymerizing comprises one or more polymerization steps; all the polymerization steps are performed in the presence of both one or more azo based compounds and peroxides so that the both are coexistent in the all steps; in each polymerization step, a proportion of the azo compounds is 40-95 mass % relative to an amount of the azo compounds and the peroxides; the water-absorbent resin has a water-absorption capacity of physiological saline under a load of 4.14 kPa at 120 minutes passed from the start of water absorption of 20 ml/g or more; and the degree of swelling under a load at 30 minutes is 70%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Hinayama, Masahiro Murakami, Hiroki Yabuguchi, Hideki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11130829
    Abstract: A curable composition that includes an amorphous, peroxide-curable fluoropolymer having a first solubility parameter, a solvent having a second solubility parameter, and a peroxide. The amorphous, peroxide-curable fluoropolymer is present from 60 percent to 97.5 percent by weight versus the weight of the curable composition, and the solvent is present from 1 percent to 39 percent by weight versus the weight of the curable composition. The absolute value of the first solubility parameter minus the second solubility parameter is less than or equal to 8.2 (MPa)1/2. The solvent may have a solubility parameter in a range from 9.6 (MPa)1/2 to 26 (MPa)1/2. Methods of making a cured fluoroelastomer from the curable composition are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Tatsuo Fukushi
  • Patent number: 11130110
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (100) for injecting and mixing a reactive fluid in a flow of a process fluid for the preparation of polyolefins, comprising: •an annular part (101) having an outer wall and an inner wall (102), wherein the annular part (101) is arranged for having a flow of the process fluid in a transport direction (F); •a support structure (103) connected to the inner wall (102) of the annular part (101); •an injector part (104) mounted on the support structure (103), wherein the injector part (104) is cylindrically shaped and wherein the cylindrical axis A-A? of the injector part is parallel with a central axis of the annular part and is in the central part of the annular part (101); wherein the injector part (104) comprises a nozzle (105) for injecting the reactive fluid, disposed at a downstream side of the injector part relative to the transport direction (F); •a supply channel (106) extending from the outer wall of the annular part (101) through the support structure (103) to the nozzl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Carolina De Los Angeles Toloza Porras, Diego Mauricio Castaneda Zuniga, Hua Bai, Robert Cornelis Van Bodegom, Mohsen Nikkhoo, Bas Eugene Hans Megens
  • Patent number: 11130831
    Abstract: A curable composition contains one or more betaine monomers selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by Formula (1) and a compound represented by Formula (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Yamamoto, Yuta Shigenoi, Atsushi Sugasaki
  • Patent number: 11124583
    Abstract: Provided is an alkoxy magnesium supported olefin polymerization catalyst component, comprising the reaction products of the following components: at least one alkoxy magnesium compound of Mg(OR1?)N(OR2?)2-N, at least one titanium compound of general formula Ti(OR)nX4-n, at least one ortho-phenylene diester electron donor compound a, and at least one diether electron donor compound b, wherein the molar ratio of a to b is 0.05 to 20. The catalyst component has an ultrahigh polymerization activity when used for olefin polymerization, and does not require the use of an external electron donor, but can also obtain a polymer with a high isotacticity, and the resulting polymer has a relatively wide molecular weight distribution and a relatively low ash content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING LIHE TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Zhiwu Wang, Shuhang Li, Huashu Li, Junwei Zhang, Le Hu, Jinsong Dai, Qingli Ma, Yong Gao, Wenjie Jiao, Xinghuo Wang, Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11124027
    Abstract: Display assemblies as disclosed herein are configured for attachment with a vulcanized rubber article and are provided in the form of different material layers. Display assemblies generally comprise one or more display layers of elastomeric material configured to provide a desired display indicia, an intermediate layer formed from an elastomeric material different from that of the one or more display layers, and an adhesive layer wherein the intermediate layer is interposed between the adhesive layer and the one or more display layers. The one more display layers may be configured to act together or separately to provide a desired display indicia to provide a desired visual display or feature on the surface of the vulcanized rubber article, which may be a sidewall surface of a tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventors: Keith George Ferry, Jason Michael Busch
  • Patent number: 11125680
    Abstract: Methods for determining the catalytic activity of an activated chemically-treated solid oxide using a color measurement technique are described, and these methods are integrated into transition metal-based catalyst preparation processes and systems, as well as into olefin polymerization processes and related polymerization reactor systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Qing Yang, Max P. McDaniel, Richard M. Buck, Tony R. Crain, Ryan N. Rose
  • Patent number: 11124591
    Abstract: Metallic complexes having indenyl ligands can be used as an ingredient of a catalyst system. The catalyst system can be used in polymerizations of ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon monomers that include both olefins and polyenes. Embodiments of the catalyst system can provide interpolymers that include polyene mer and from 40 to 75 mole percent ethylene mer, with a plurality of the ethylene mer being randomly distributed. The catalyst system also can be used in solution polymerizations conducted in C5-C12 alkanes, yielding interpolymers that include at least 10 mole percent ethylene mer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua P. Abell, Zengquan Qin
  • Patent number: 11117993
    Abstract: To provide a fluorinated elastic copolymer having a low content of metal elements and being excellent in crosslinkability. This fluorinated elastic copolymer has iodine atoms and has units a based on tetrafluoroethylene, units b based on a monomer having one polymerizable unsaturated bond (but excluding tetrafluoroethylene), and units c based on a fluorinated monomer having at least two polymerizable unsaturated bonds, wherein the metal content is at least 0.3 ppm by mass and at most 20.0 ppm by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yukiko Hattori, Takehiro Kose
  • Patent number: 11111324
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and apparatus for withdrawing polymer agglomerates from a fluidised bed polymerisation reactor, the polymerisation reactor comprising a bottom zone having a generally conical shape and no fluidisation grid. The agglomerates are withdrawn by using an agglomerate trap below the bottom zone. A value of a process variable indicative of the content of agglomerates in the agglomerate trap is measured and the opening time of the valves transferring polymer to and from the agglomerate trap is adjusted based on the measured value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Mohammad Al-Haj Ali, Vasileios Kanellopoulos, Apostólos Krallis, Klaus Nyfors, Pablo Ivan Aguayo Arellano, Gunter Weickert, Eric-Jan Prinsen
  • Patent number: 11110401
    Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there are provided a method of hydrophilizing a porous membrane which includes treating a porous membrane with plasma in the presence of a mixed gas containing sulfur dioxide (SO2) and oxygen (O2), and a method of preparing an ion-exchange membrane using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: W-SCOPE KOREA CO., LTD., W-SCOPE CHUNGJU PLANT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Seok Yoon, Byung Hyun Kim, Won Sun Ryoo, Myung Su Jung, Bom Yi Lee
  • Patent number: 11104770
    Abstract: A method and system to produce treated Cellulose Filaments (CF) and CF products are provided. Feedstock comprising CF in a water solution are mixed with a debonder to produce a mixed stream. The mixed stream is filtered yielding separate filtered and filtrate streams. The filtrate stream comprises at least a portion of the debonder. The filtered stream is dried to produce treated CF. The debonder is one of an alcohol, glycol ether, ester-containing quaternary ammonium salt, amido amine quaternary ammonium salt, disubstituted amide or a mixture thereof. The filtrate stream may be recycled. The mixed stream may be washed before filtering to remove debonder. A thermoplastic polymer-treated Cellulose filament composite material is formable by associating the treated CF with a thermopolymer such as polyolefin, polyurethane (PU), polypropylene (PP), polyester (PE), polylactic acid (PLA), polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), polyamide (PA), and ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) or a mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: KRUGER INC.
    Inventors: Abdou Khadri Diallo, Claire Jahier, Daniel Montplaisir
  • Patent number: 11098225
    Abstract: Provided is an adhesive composition having high adhesiveness to polyamides. An adhesive composition for bonding adherends comprising a polyamide, comprising the following components (1) to (4): (meth)acrylates (1), excluding the component (2), comprising the following ingredients (1-1), (1-2), and (1-3): a (meth)acrylate (1-1), excluding an ingredient (1-3), having an aromatic group; a (meth)acrylate (1-2) having a hydroxy group; and a (meth)acrylate (1-3) represented by general formula (A); an acidic phosphate compound (2); a polymerization initiator (3); and a reducing agent (4) comprising a transition metal salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Makiko Sasaki, Takako Hoshino, Gosuke Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11091578
    Abstract: The present invention provides a copolymer of 1,3,7-octatriene and isoprene having a narrow molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) and a hydride thereof. Furthermore, in a production method of a copolymer containing a structural unit derived from 1,3,7-octatriene and a structural unit derived from isoprene, high raw material conversions are achieved for a short polymerization time. Specifically, the copolymer is a copolymer containing a structural unit derived from 1,3,7-octatriene and a structural unit derived from isoprene and is a copolymer having a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of less than 1.44, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Sunaga, Tomoaki Tsuji, Takashi Hori, Yasutaka Inubushi
  • Patent number: 11078314
    Abstract: A copolymer includes a repeating unit of Formula (I) and a repeating unit of Formula (II), a composition includes the copolymer, and an optical film has a layer formed of the composition, in the Formulae (I) and (II), R1 and R2 represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, L3 and L1 represent a divalent linking group, L2 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, and L4 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, L4 does not represent a linking group including —O(C?O)—NH—, X represents a perfluoropolyether group, an alkyl group having a branched structure in which hydrogen is all substituted into fluorine, an alkenyl group, or an alkynyl group, and Y represents a crosslinking group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Fukagawa, Miho Asahi