Patents Examined by James Corno
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Patent number: 9090466Abstract: Provided are methods and devices for storing and generating oxygen from a low temperature oxygen generating liquid. The oxygen storage method may use lithium chlorate plus water to store oxygen wherein all solids that may be present enter solution for delivery as a liquid to a reaction vessel. The oxygen production method may be a batch process with steps to heat the liquid, boil out the water, thermally decompose the lithium chlorate and then rinse out the remaining product. The apparatus for oxygen generation may use multiple reaction vessels operating sequentially to produce a continuous flow of oxygen with a rinse step in a separate area from the heat application area to remove end product solid. The device for oxygen storage includes a storage vessel and is configured to heat the oxygen generating liquid using waste heat present in the rinse liquid.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: API Engineering, LLCInventors: Kenneth Lee Presley, Scott Clarence Meyers
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Patent number: 9061266Abstract: The invention discloses a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas apparatus having a Three-way Catalyst (TWC) superior in purification performance of, particularly, NOx, among carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), and nitrogen oxides (NOx), in exhaust gas discharged from a gasoline automobile. It is provided by a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas containing a Rhodium (Rh)-loaded porous inorganic oxide and barium sulfate (BaSO4), with loaded or not-loaded onto alumina. At least a part of Rh is present independently from Ba inside a catalyst layer, and Rh—Ba deviation rate determined from EPMA analysis is 10% to 80%. It is preferable that loaded amount of Rhodium is 0.05 g/L to 2.0 g/L, and amount of barium sulfate is 0.5 g/L to 25 g/L and 0.5 g/L to 15 g/L, in the case of being loaded or not-loaded onto alumina, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro Fujimura, Yoshinori Takahashi
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Patent number: 8980786Abstract: The present invention relates to a metal oxide-platinum compound catalyst comprising 5 to 95 parts by weight of a metal oxide and 95 to 5 parts by weight of platinum as the balance. The platinum has a form to reticulately cover at least a part of a particle of the metal oxide. The wires constituting the platinum mesh have an average wire diameter of 5 nm or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Shinshu UniversityInventors: Yasushi Murakami, Wataru Shimizu, Kazuyoshi Okada
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Patent number: 8980784Abstract: Silicon-aluminum mixed oxide powder having a weight ratio of (Al2O3/SiO2)ttl in the total primary particle of from 0.003 to 0.05, a weight ratio (Al2O3/SiO2)surface of the primary particles in a surface layer having a thickness of about 5 nm which is less than in the total primary particle and a BET surface area of from 50 to 250 m2/g. It is prepared by igniting one or more silicon compounds selected from the group consisting of CH3SiCl3, (CH3)2SiCl2, (CH3)3SiCl and (n-C3H7)SiCl3, a hydrolysable and oxidizable aluminum compound, at least one fuel gas and air and burning the flame into a reaction chamber, subsequently separating the solid from gaseous materials and subsequently treating the solid with water vapor. The silicon-aluminum mixed oxide powder can be used as catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Christian Schulze Isfort, Horst-Werner Zanthoff, Thomas Quandt, Christian Boeing
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Patent number: 8969235Abstract: Disclosed are WC/CNT, WC/CNT/Pt composite material and preparation process therefor and use thereof. The WC/CNT/Pt composite material comprises mesoporous spherical tungsten carbide with diameter of 1-5 microns, carbon nanotubes and platinum nanoparticles, with the carbon nanotubes growing on the surface of the mesoporous spherical tungsten carbide and expanding outward, and the platinum nanoparticles growing on the surfaces of the mesoporous spherical tungsten carbide and carbon nanotubes. The WC/CNT composite material comprises mesoporous spherical tungsten carbide with diameter of 1-5 microns, and carbon nanotubes growing on the surface of the mesoporous spherical tungsten carbide and expanding outward. The WC/CNT/Pt composite material can be used as an electro-catalyst in a methanol flue battery, significantly improving the catalytic conversion rate and the service life of the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignees: Zhejiang University of Technology, Queen's University BelfastInventors: Chun-An Ma, Zhao-Yang Chen, Wen-Feng Lin, You-Qun Chu
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Patent number: 8962703Abstract: Iron/carbon (Fe/C) nanocomposite catalysts are prepared for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction. A preparation method includes steps of mixing iron hydrate salts and a mesoporous carbon support to form a mixture, infiltrating the iron hydrate salts into the carbon support through melt infiltration of the mixture near a melting point of the iron hydrate salts, forming iron-carbide particles infiltrated into the carbon support through calcination of the iron hydrate salts infiltrated into the carbon support under a first atmosphere, and vacuum-drying the iron-carbide particles after passivation using ethanol. Using such catalysts, liquid hydrocarbons are produced.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Korea Institute of Energy ResearchInventors: Jichan Park, Heon Jung, Hotae Lee, Jungil Yang, Donghyun Chun, Sungjun Hong
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Patent number: 7851398Abstract: Catalytic titanium dioxide mixtures comprising: a first anatase titanium dioxide having a BET surface area greater than 15 m2/g and a hydrogen uptake for the reduction of Ti4+ to Ti3+ of from 5 to 20 ?mol/m2; and a second anatase titanium dioxide having a BET surface area less than or equal to 15 m2/g and a hydrogen uptake for the reduction of Ti4+ to Ti3+ of from 0.6 to 7 ?mol/m2, processes for preparing catalysts containing the same, catalysts containing active compositions including such titanium dioxide mixtures on support materials, and catalyst systems using the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2005Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Samuel Neto, Sebastian Storck, Jürgen Zühlke, Frank Rosowski
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Patent number: 7816550Abstract: This invention relates to processes for the production of organometallic compounds represented by the formula M(L)3 wherein M is a Group VIII metal, e.g., ruthenium, and L is the same or different and represents a substituted or unsubstituted amidinato group or a substituted or unsubstituted amidinato-like group, which process comprises (i) reacting a substituted or unsubstituted metal source compound, e.g., ruthenium (II) compound, with a substituted or unsubstituted amidinate or amidinate-like compound in the presence of a solvent and under reaction conditions sufficient to produce a reaction mixture comprising said organometallic compound, e.g., ruthenium (III) compound, and (ii) separating said organometallic compound from said reaction mixture. The organometallic compounds are useful in semiconductor applications as chemical vapor or atomic layer deposition precursors for film depositions.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2005Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventor: David Michael Thompson
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Patent number: 7776787Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst has a front end high concentration coating area coated with a precious metal of a high concentration, and a rear end complex coating area coated at different precious metal densities according to the flowing amount of the exhaust gas and a method for manufacturing an exhaust gas purifying catalyst, which is capable of simultaneously coating a rear end complex coating area at different precious metal densities according to the flowing amount of the exhaust gas. The exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes a front end high concentration coating area coated with a precious metal of a high concentration and a rear end complex coating area having at least two areas of different coating densities on the rear side of the front end high concentration coating area.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2009Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Sung Mu Choi
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Patent number: 7759271Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing an activating support for metallocene complexes in the polymerisation of olefins comprising the steps of: I) providing a support prepared consisting in particles formed from at least one porous mineral oxide; II) optionally fixing the rate of silanols on the surface of the support; III) functionalising the support with a solution containing a fluorinated functionalising agent; IV) heating the functionalised and fluorinated support of step c) under an inert gas and then under oxygen; V) retrieving an active fluorinated support. That activating support is used to activate a metallocene catalyst component for the polymerisation of olefins.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2006Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Total Petrochemicals Research FeluyInventors: Floran Prades, Christophe Boisson, Roger Spitz, Abbas Razavi
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Patent number: 7732540Abstract: A process for producing an olefin copolymerization catalyst, comprising the step of contacting, with one another, (A) a solid catalyst component containing a titanium atom, a magnesium atom and a halogen atom, (B) an organoaluminum compound and/or organoaluminumoxy compound, and (C) a nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic compound, whose one or more carbon atoms adjacent to its nitrogen atom are linked to an electron-withdrawing group, or a group containing an electron-withdrawing group; and a process for producing an olefin copolymer using the an olefin copolymerization catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2007Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Shinya Nakahara, Shin-ichi Kumamoto
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Patent number: 7718114Abstract: A ceramic precursor, and ceramic filter prepared therewith, with 35-70 wt % refractory aluminosilicate; 10-30 wt % colloidal silica; 0-2 wt % modified bentonite; 0-35 wt % fumed silica; 0-10 wt % pore formers and liquid.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2006Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Porvair PLCInventors: Rudolph A. Olson, III, Leonard S. Aubrey, Feng Chi, Christopher J. Plantec, Myron K. Redden, David P. Haack
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Patent number: 7700517Abstract: Octahedral molecular sieve sorbents and catalysts are disclosed, including silver hollandite and cryptomelane. These materials can be used, for example, to catalyze the oxidation of COx (e.g., CO), NOx (e.g., NO), hydrocarbons (e.g., C3H6) and/or sulfur-containing compounds. The disclosed materials also may be used to catalyze other reactions, such as the reduction of NO2. In some cases, the disclosed materials are capable of sorbing certain products from the reactions they catalyze. Silver hollandite, in particular, can be used to remove a substantial portion of certain sulfur-containing compounds from a gas or liquid by catalysis and/or sorption. The gas or liquid can be, for example, natural gas or a liquid hydrocarbon.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2006Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Liyu Li, David L. King
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Patent number: 7670714Abstract: A battery pack for an electrical device has a base body, a locking element for locking the base body to the electrical device, and an actuating element for actuating the locking element. The locking element has a retaining region, which is provided for retaining the actuating element at least in the unlocked state of the base body.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2007Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Wolf Matthias
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Patent number: 7670988Abstract: An aerosol-assisted method for synthesis of nanostructured metallic electrocatalysts and the electrocatalysts formed thereby. The electrocatalyst may be formed from metals such as, but not limited to, platinum, platinum group metals, and binary and tertiary compositions thereof such as, for example, platinum-ruthenium and platinum-tin. The resulting unsupported electrocatalyst is homogenous and highly disperse.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2007Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: STC, UNMInventors: Elise Switzer, Plamen Atanassov, Abhaya Datye
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Patent number: 7645716Abstract: The novel binuclear, oxygen-bridged, bimetallic complexes of the general formula (I): [(LM1R1)(Cp2M2R2)](?-O)??(I) are suitable as polymerization catalysts for olefin polymerization. (M1=Al, Ge, Zr or Ti; M2=Zr, Ti or Hf; Cp=cyclopentadienyl; R1, R2=methyl, ethyl, i-propyl, t-butyl, halogen, phenyl, alkylphenyl, SiMe3; L=a bidentate, doubly heteroatom-coordinated organic chemical ligand, which together with the metal M1 forms a 5 or 6-membered ring.) They display very good catalytic activities, good operating lives, and require little cocatalyst.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Georg-August-Universitaet GoettingenInventors: Herbert Roesky, Guangcai Bai, Vojtech Janicik, Sanjay Singh
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Patent number: 7632581Abstract: A battery box includes a housing, a positive electrode member, and a negative electrode member. The housing includes a receiving space in a side thereof for receiving at least one battery therein. The receiving space defines two slots at opposite ends thereof. The positive electrode member is mounted to the housing and includes two positive electrode terminals each located at a corresponding one of the slots of the housing, respectively. The negative electrode member is mounted to the housing and includes two negative electrode terminals extending into the receiving space of the housing and each at a side of a corresponding slot of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2007Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hung-Yi Wu, Ke Sun, Zhen-Xing Ye, Xiao-Zhu Chen
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Patent number: 7629078Abstract: A cylindrical battery, comprising: a cylindrical casing having a bottom, and has a short-diameter part near an opening thereof; an electrode assembly that is housed in the casing; and a sealing plate that seals the opening, wherein an insulating ring is inserted in a gap between the electrode assembly and the short-diameter part, the insulating ring including a main body, and at least three projections that are dispersively located and project outward from an outer edge of the main body in a diameter direction, and a distance between a design center point of the insulating ring and an outer edge of the main body is not longer than D/2 and a distance between the design center point and an outer edge of each of the projections is longer than D/2 and not longer than 102D/200, where D is an inside diameter of the casing measured within the space.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki Shimozono, Hiroyuki Inoue, Akifumi Nagao
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Patent number: 7625666Abstract: A lead plate-attached coin-type battery is constituted from a combination of a coin-type battery and a positive lead plate. In the coin-type battery, a negative cap seals the aperture of a positive outer can. In a lateral view, the positive lead plate is crank-shaped, and one end thereof is attached to the outer surface of the positive outer can of the coin-type battery. A lead plate is not attached to the negative cap. One or more projections that project in the Z axis direction are provided on the negative cap. In the lead plate-attached coin-type battery, the positive lead plate and negative cap have been attached to respective conductive lands on a circuit board by a solder reflow method.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., Sanyo Energy Tottori Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyuki Shose, Katsuyuki Kida, Masao Kondou, Yasuo Akai
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Patent number: 7622071Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing compacted irons of the reduced materials containing fine reduce irons and an apparatus for manufacturing molten irons provided with the same. The apparatus for manufacturing compacted irons according to the present invention includes a couple of rollers for compacting reduced materials containing fine reduced irons and manufacturing compacted irons, a guide chute for guiding compacted irons which are discharged from the couple of rollers; and crushers for crushing compacted irons which are guided into the guide chute. A guiding surface of the guide chute, which guides the compacted irons, includes a straight slanted surface and a curved slanted surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2005Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: PoscoInventors: Kwang-Hee Lee, Sung-Kee Shin, Min-Chul Park, Sang-Hoon Joo, Deuk-Chae Kim, Soo-Young Bang, Kwang-Soo Choi, Il-Hyun Cho, Seung-Ho Choi, Myung-Sik Kim, Chong-Won Choi
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Patent number: 5427316Abstract: A sucking straw has a substantially flat configuration and is provided with a plurality of adjoining beverage sucking channels. The straw fits the contour of the lips so that no air may go through when liquid is being sucked by the user. The amount of liquid being sucked is substantially greater than with conventional straws.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1994Date of Patent: June 27, 1995Inventor: Marcello Leone