Patents Examined by Hui H Chin
  • Low odor water-based coating composition
    Patent number: 11634588
    Abstract: A low odor aqueous coating composition is described. The composition is a waterbased latex coating composition that includes a binder component with at least one copolymer and a neutralizing component. The composition dries in less than about 10 minutes at a temperature between about 5 to 35° C. and a relative humidity between about 30 and 95% with a pH of 9.5 or less. The coating composition can be used for applications such as road marking and coating exterior surfaces, where use of a low-odor coating is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Emile Stevens, Andrew Hearley
  • Gemstone coatings and methods of making and using the same
    Patent number: 11627786
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are coated gemstones, coatings for gemstones, methods of coating gemstones, and methods of using coatings on gemstones to avoid blemishes on gemstones. In some embodiments, diamonds are functionalized with anchor molecules that bind hydrophilic cyclodextrin molecules to confer hydrophilicity on the diamond. In some embodiments, the diamonds resist dirt and grime build-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Glisten LLC
    Inventors: Jean Dousset, Heidi Renate McMahon, James Nathan Hohman, Moonhee Kim
  • Resin composition for laminated glass interlayer film or solar cell encapsulant, laminated glass interlayer film, laminated glass, solar cell encapsulant, and solar cell module
    Patent number: 11628651
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition used for forming a laminated glass interlayer film or a solar cell encapsulant, the resin composition including an ionomer (A) of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid-based copolymer, wherein metal ions constituting the ionomer (A) of the ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid-based copolymer includes two or more kinds of polyvalent metal ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: DOW-MITSUI POLYCHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Harunobu Komatsu, Kei Nagayama, Norihiko Sato, Kana Fukuyama, Motoaki Isokawa
  • Liquid composition set, cured product forming method, and liquid composition
    Patent number: 11629262
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiment of the present invention, a liquid composition set is provided. The liquid composition set includes a first liquid composition and a second liquid composition. The first liquid composition comprises: a compound represented by general formula (1): where X and Y each independently represent a functional group, and at least one of X and Y represents an electron-withdrawing functional group; and an acidic substance. The second liquid composition comprises a compound having vinyl group or acryloyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Takao Hiraoka
  • Systems and methods for making thermoplastic products and compositions
    Patent number: 11613655
    Abstract: Thermoplastic compositions useful for roadway markings may be produced using a continuous systems and process methods that can reduce costs and improve product quality. Systems may comprise a feed system comprising a plurality of feeders and a mixing system comprising a mixer and a smoothing system. Each feeder may be configured to discharge a material at a feed rate according to a selected product formulation The mixing system may be configured to receive, heat, and combine the materials to produce a thermoplastic material, and discharge the thermoplastic material at a determined discharge rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ennis-Flint, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Hoover Cross, Alex Cady, Bradley Hepler, Andy Parker, Vince Wilkins
  • Water-based paint composition
    Patent number: 11613660
    Abstract: A water-based paint composition has the ability to decompose ozone and includes a manganese oxide-based catalyst, an activated carbon, a polyacrylate-based dispersant, a water-soluble resin, a pH adjuster, and a water-based solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: AISIN KAKO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi Takahira, Toru Tanaka, Yasunari Iwata
  • Disposable eggshell eco-friendly material and manufacturing method
    Patent number: 11608429
    Abstract: A disposable eggshell eco-friendly material and manufacturing method are disclosed. The disposable eggshell eco-friendly material, for volume ratio, includes 50%-80% of calcined eggshell powder, 10%-48% of biodegradable polymer, 1%-5% of natural degradation agent, and 1%-5% of natural binding agent, which are subjected to a mixing and stirring step according to such ratios, and then subjected to a pelletizing step to be first prepared as a plurality of disposable eggshell eco-friendly material pellets, and the disposable eggshell eco-friendly material pellets being then subjected to a shaping and forming step by means of one of film blowing, extruding, vacuum forming, bottle blowing, injecting, and drawing, to obtain a disposable eggshell eco-friendly material product that is disposed of after one time of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Listen Green Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Lin, Chin Chih Huang, Yen Wen Wang
  • Polyamide composition containing a metallic pigment
    Patent number: 11608423
    Abstract: The polymer composition containing a polyamide resin, a metallic pigment, and a carrier is disclosed that exhibits a metallic appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ticona LLC
    Inventors: Bruce M. Mulholland, Coralie Adéle Richard
  • Silane functionalized fibre based coating composition and a process of preparation thereof
    Patent number: 11608442
    Abstract: The present disclosure envisages a coating composition. The coating composition comprises a polymeric emulsion, silane functionalized fibres and a fluid medium. The silane functionalized fibres are present in an amount in the range of 0.05 wt. % to 10 wt. % of the coating composition. The polymeric emulsion is present in an amount in the range of 20 wt. % to 60 wt. % of the coating composition. The fluid medium is present in an amount in the range of 5 wt. % to 40 wt. % of the coating composition. The silane functionalized fibre comprises at least one polymer bonded to at least one silane group. The coating composition of the present disclosure exhibit improved properties such as better coverage when applied on a surface, mechanical properties, stain resistance properties and the like, when compared to coating composition without fibres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Reliance Industries Limited
    Inventors: Ramanand Namdeo Jagtap, Arun Arora, Gaurav Gupta, Nilesh Shankar Revagade, Nivedita Dnyaneshwar Nandanwar, Prashil Dharmesh Desai
  • Acrylic polymers and compositions containing such polymers
    Patent number: 11602768
    Abstract: Coated articles, methods and coating compositions containing (a) a crosslinkable carboxyl-functional acrylic polymer made by polymerizing monomers including acidic monomer, multi-ethylenically unsaturated monomer and optional styrene or substituted styrene, and (b) a nitrogen-containing carboxyl-reactive crosslinking agent such as a beta-hydroxyalkylamide or beta-hydroxyalkylurea compound. The coating composition is useful in coating metal substrates including interior or exterior surfaces of food or beverage cans. The cured coating compositions can exhibit both good flexibility and high Tg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SWIMC, LLC
    Inventors: Sebastien Gibanel, Marie Braillon, Samuel Puaud
  • High-carbon recovered paper and plastic materials with reduced endotoxin levels
    Patent number: 11603450
    Abstract: Provided herein are composite materials comprising at least 70 wt. % thermally consolidated recovered paper and plastic fragments and less than 5,000 ng water-soluble endotoxin per gram of composite materials, as well as methods of preparing said composite materials and methods of sanitizing recovered waste materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Continuus Materials Intellectual Property, LLC
    Inventor: Jack G. Winterowd
  • Phosphate surfactant compositions
    Patent number: 11584857
    Abstract: A phosphate surfactant composition including a phosphate surfactant formed from a secondary alcohol alkoxylate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Cheng Shen, Jieying Chen, Zeyu Zhong
  • Three-dimensional printing
    Patent number: 11577454
    Abstract: A three-dimensional printing system can include polymeric build material and jettable fluid(s). The polymeric build material can have an average particle size from 20 ?m to 150 ?m, a first melt viscosity, and a melting temperature from 75° C. to 350° C. In one example, the jettable fluid can include water, from 0.1 wt % to 10 wt % of electromagnetic radiation absorber, and from 10 wt % to 35 wt % of an organic solvent plasticizer. Contacting a first portion of a layer of the polymeric build material with the jettable fluid can provide an organic solvent plasticizer loading from 2 wt % to 10 wt % based on the polymeric build material content. The first melt viscosity of the polymeric build material at the first portion can be reduced and the melting temperature of the polymeric build material at the first portion can be decreased by 3° C. to 15° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kristopher J. Erickson, Paul Olubummo, Aja Hartman, Lihua Zhao
  • Dimensionally stable acrylic alloy for 3-D printing
    Patent number: 11560473
    Abstract: The invention relates to an acrylic alloy composition that can be 3-D printed by a material extrusion additive manufacturing process, to an acrylic filament that has a very uniform diameter useful in the extrusion additive manufacturing process, to acrylic articles made from the acrylic alloy composition by a material extrusion additive process, and to a material extrusion additive manufacturing process for producing the acrylic articles. The acrylic alloy composition is an alloy of an acrylic polymer, and a low melt viscosity polymer, such as polylactic acid. The alloy may optionally be impact modified, preferably with hard core core-shell impact modifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: David Shin-Ren Liu, Jack J. Reilly, Mark A. Aubart
  • Coated steel sheet and painted member
    Patent number: 11555125
    Abstract: A coated steel sheet has a coating film on at least one side of a plated steel sheet. The coating film contains a binder resin, non-oxide ceramic particles containing V (excluding VC particles), and doped zinc oxide particles. The respective contents of the non-oxide ceramic particles containing V and the doped zinc oxide particles relative to the coating film satisfy the expressions: [(1) CZn?10.0, (2) CV?0.5·CZn, (3) CV?70?CZn, (4) CV?0.125·CZn, and (5) CV?2.0], where CV represents the content (mass %) of the non-oxide ceramic particles containing V, and CZn represents the content (mass %) of the doped zinc oxide particles. The coated steel sheet is excellent in both corrosion resistance before electrodeposition coating, and weldability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Kawamura, Yoichiro Mori, Ikuro Yamaoka
  • Polymer composition with improved mechanical properties
    Patent number: 11555106
    Abstract: A composition including a melt blend of at least one thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) and at least one non-crosslinked elastomer and optionally at least one catalyst for catalyzing chain extension and/or crosslinking and/or coupling reactions of the at least one non-crosslinked elastomer. Further, a method for producing a polymer composition, to a shaped article including a substrate layer composed of the composition, to a method producing a shaped article, and to a method for covering a roof using the shaped articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Robert Roskamp, Dorothee Quinzler, Peter Hübscher, Roy Z'Rotz, Herbert Ackermann, Frank Höfflin
  • Formulation and methods for coating metal surfaces
    Patent number: 11549021
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are described which provide a protective coating to coils or springs via a polymerization process such as by covalent bonding that includes grafting to the metal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Winimac Coil Spring, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Thottathil, John M. Ryan, Purushothaman Kesavan, Satyabrata Mukherjee
  • Multifunctional particle additive for enhancement of toughness and degradation in biodegradable polymers
    Patent number: 11542392
    Abstract: Disclosed is a biodegradable resin composite material including a biodegradable polymer resin and multifunctional particles, wherein: (a) the multifunctional particles include 10-70 wt. % of a hydrophobic active ingredient, 21-72 wt. % of a polysaccharide, 3.80-20 wt. % of a crosslinking agent, 1.00-6 wt. % of a catalyst, 0.10-5 wt. % of a silica flow aid, optionally 0.10-5 wt. % of a desiccant, optionally 0.20-20 wt. % emulsifier, optionally 1-10 wt. % of a degradation enhancer, and optionally 1-10 wt. % of particle dispersion aids; (b) the multifunctional particles are anhydrous; and (c) the hydrophobic active ingredient is encapsulated in a crosslinked polysaccharide matrix. Alternative multifunctional particles useful in the invention are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TRUCAPSOL LLC
    Inventor: Caroline Multari
  • Aqueous coating compositions for forming anti-grain-puffing coatings on wood substrate, aqueous paints and articles
    Patent number: 11535768
    Abstract: The present invention relates to aqueous coating compositions for forming an anti-grain-puffing coating, aqueous primers comprising the aqueous coating composition, and articles comprising the anti-grain-puffing coating. In particular, the aqueous coating composition comprises: (a) an aqueous dispersion of polymeric particles, wherein the polymer particles comprise polymer having an anionic hydrophilic group on its molecule chain, and the aqueous dispersion of polymeric particles has a pH of less than 7.0; and (b) an aqueous dispersion of nano-silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Jiahua Ke
  • Resin member and sheet using same, and heat storage material and heat control sheet using same
    Patent number: 11535782
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention provides a resin member comprising a copolymer of ethylene and an olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms, and a straight-chain saturated hydrocarbon compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Nagai, Tsuyoshi Morimoto, Teiichi Inada