Patents Examined by Kaj K. Olsen
  • Patent number: 9079840
    Abstract: A process for producing geometric shaped catalyst bodies K whose active material is a multielement oxide of stoichiometry [Bi1WbOx]a[Mo12Z1cZ2dFeeZ3fZ4gZ5hOy]1, in which a finely divided oxide Bi1WbOx with the particle size d50A1 and, formed from element sources, a finely divided intimate mixture of stoichiometry Mo12Z1cZ2dFeeZ3fZ4gZ5h with the particle size d90A2 are mixed in a ratio of a:1, this mixture is used to form shaped bodies and these are treated thermally, where (d50A1)0.7·(d90A2)1.5·(a)?1?820. A shaped catalyst body obtained by the process. A catalyst obtained by grinding the shaped catalyst body. A process for heterogeneously catalyzing the partial gas phase oxidation of an alkane, alkanol, alkanal and/or an alkenal of 3 to 6 carbon atoms using the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Raichle, Catharina Horstmann, Frank Rosowski, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel, Holger Borchert, Gerhard Cox, Ulrich Cremer
  • Patent number: 9078753
    Abstract: A surgical implant component comprising an implant component body manufactured from an alloy comprising from about 23 to about 33 wt % Cr, from about 8 to about 20 wt % Mo, from about 0.05 to about 1.5 wt % Si, from about 0.35 to about 3.5 wt % C, from about 40 to about 60 wt % Co, and incidental impurities. The implant component alloy has an atomic % ratio of (Cr+Mo+Nb)/Co of at least 0.59, a matrix metallurgical microstructure comprising between about 45% and about 85% by volume face-centered cubic structure, and between about 15% and about 55% by volume hexagonal close-packed structure; and a Rockwell C hardness of greater than 35. A method for manufacturing a surgical implant component body for a surgical implant by a manufacturing method selected from the group consisting of casting, forging, and powder metallurgy pressing-plus-sintering from an alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Yao, Rachel Collier, Danie DeWet
  • Patent number: 9067824
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for controlling the chemical composition of a first pozzolan by blending it with a different pozzolan having a different chemical composition. The method includes intimately mixing the two pozzolans and using a chemical analyzer to determine a chemical characteristic of the pozzolan fraction being produced. The output from the chemical analyzer is then used to control the blending of the first and second outputs to maintain the chemical characteristic within a desired range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: ROMAN CEMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew S. Hansen, John M. Guynn
  • Patent number: 9067827
    Abstract: During the production of cement clinker by preheating cement raw meal in a preheater and calcining and sintering the preheated cement raw meal, the exhaust gases which are produced during the calcination and the sintering process are used for preheating and are subsequently cleaned in an SCR catalytic convertor. There are used during the clinker production replacement fuels which contain carbon-containing odorous substances and/or ammonia-containing compounds which are previously dried, wherein a drying exhaust gas which is produced during the drying operation and/or exhaust vapor condensate being used at least partially for exhaust gas quenching upstream of the SCR catalytic convertor, and the carbon-containing odorous substances and/or ammonia-containing compounds in the drying exhaust gas and/or exhaust vapor condensate being converted on the SCR catalytic convertor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG
    Inventors: Timo Stender, Anna Dinkova
  • Patent number: 9061264
    Abstract: A polycrystalline diamond cutting element for use in rock drilling or other operations that requires very high abrasion resistance with high transverse rupture strength at temperatures above 700 degrees centigrade. The cutting element includes a diamond layer that contains pre-sintered polycrystalline diamond agglomerate (PPDA) bonded to a supporting substrate. The PPDA can be made thermally stable and can be selected to produce a cutting element with any desired abrasion resistance characteristic without affecting internal stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Inventor: Robert H. Frushour
  • Patent number: 9062364
    Abstract: A method for producing a carbonitrided member comprising the steps of carburizing a steel part having a composition of, by mass percent, C: 0.10 to 0.35%, Si: 0.15 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.30 to 1.0%, Cr: 0.40 to 2.0%, S: 0.05% or less with the balance being Fe and impurities in a carburizing atmosphere of 900 to 950° C. The carburized steel part is carbonitrided in a carbonitriding atmosphere with the temperature of 800 to 900° C. and the nitrogen potential of 0.2 to 0.6%. The carbonitrided steel part is qhenched and then shot peened. The shot peening treatment may be further performed while heating to a temperature not higher than 350° C. or immediately after heating to a temperature not higher than 350° C. After quenching, the shot peening treatment may be further performed after tempering in the temperature range exceeding 250° C. and not higher than 350° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sano, Masayuki Horimoto, Yoshinari Okada, Masaki Amano, Akihito Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 9056792
    Abstract: A method of curing cementitious material comprising added a fibrillated carboxyalkyl cellulose, cellulose alkylsulfonic acid, phosphorylated cellulose or sulfated cellulose having a degree of substitution of 0.01 to 0.45 to the material during mixing. The fibrillated carboxyalkyl cellulose, cellulose alkylsulfonic acid, phosphorylated cellulose or sulfated cellulose may also include bleached or partially bleached wood pulp fiber. The fibrillated carboxyalkyl cellulose, cellulose alkylsulfonic acid, phosphorylated cellulose or sulfated cellulose has a substituent content of from 10 to 150 meq/100 g cellulose fiber. The fibrillated carboxyalkyl cellulose, cellulose alkylsulfonic acid, phosphorylated cellulose or sulfated cellulose is 0.1 to 5% by weight of the dry weight of the cementitious material. The structure produced by the method. The autogenous shrinkage of the cementitious material is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Weyerhaeuser NR Company
    Inventors: S. Ananda Weerawarna, David J. O'Callaghan
  • Patent number: 9056790
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods including hydraulic cement, supplementary cementitious material, and/or self-cementing material. Methods for making the compositions and using the compositions are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Calera Corporation
    Inventors: Irvin Chen, Miguel Fernandez, Joshua Patterson, Martin Devenney
  • Patent number: 9050655
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous reactor a method for manufacturing nanoparticles. The reactor of the present invention includes: a plurality of first inputs for individually inputting a plurality of reagents; a first mixing part connected to the first inputs to mix the reagents; N number of first reaction units, each comprising a plurality of first diverging channels and a first converging channel to form a channel having the first diverging channels and the first converging channels alternately connected to one another in series for N times of diverging-converging actions, wherein N?1, and the first diverging channels of a 1st one of the first reaction units are connected to the first mixing part; and a first output connected to the first converging channel of an Nth one of the first reaction units, so as to output a product of nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Kan-Sen Chou, Yu-Chun Chang, Yi-Chu Chen, Yu-Chieh Lu
  • Patent number: 9051218
    Abstract: Cellulose ethers, wherein at least a part of the hydroxyl groups of the cellulose backbone are substituted by methoxy groups and hydroxyalkoxy groups, and optionally alkoxy groups being different from methoxy groups, having an unconventional distribution of methoxy substituents at the 2-, 3- and 6-positions of the anhydroglucose units are described. Such cellulose ethers exhibit significantly higher thermoreversible gel strengths than any known hydroxyalkyl methyl celluloses of comparable viscosity and kind and level of substitution rendering them useful as additives for building compositions such as cement based tile adhesives. In particular, such cellulose ethers can be used to improve the attainable adhesion strength after heat storage conditioning and the temporal setting characteristics of a building composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Rene Kiesewetter, Grit Grote, Meinolf Brackhagen, Matthias Knarr, Roland Adden
  • Patent number: 9051631
    Abstract: A wear- and corrosion-resistant alloy, and related application method, where the alloy has by approximate weight %, C 0.12-0.7, Cr 20-30, Mo 7-15, Ni 1-4, and Co balance, wherein the alloy further contains one or more carbide-former elements from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, and Ta in a cumulative concentration to stoichiometrically offset between about 30% and about 90% of the C in the alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: James B. C. Wu, Matthew X. Yao
  • Patent number: 9046029
    Abstract: A heat-resistant, ferritic cast steel having excellent melt flowability, gas defect resistance, toughness and machinability, which has a composition comprising by mass, C: 0.32-0.45%, Si: 0.85% or less, Mn: 0.15-2%, Ni: 1.5% or less, Cr: 16-23%, Nb: 3.2-4.5%, Nb/C: 9-11.5, N: 0.15% or less, S: (Nb/20?0.1) to 0.2%, W and/or Mo: 3.2% or less in total (W+Mo), the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and a structure in which the area ratio of a eutectic (?+NbC) phase of ? ferrite and Nb carbide (NbC) is 60-80%, and the area ratio of manganese chromium sulfide (MnCr)S is 0.2-1.2%, and an exhaust member made thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Kawabata, Hideo Kuribayashi, Junji Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 9039796
    Abstract: In the production method for abrasive grains according to the invention, an aqueous solution of a salt of a tetravalent metal element is mixed with an alkali solution, under conditions such that a prescribed parameter is 5.00 or greater, to obtain abrasive grains including a hydroxide of the tetravalent metal element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Iwano, Hisataka Minami, Hirotaka Akimoto
  • Patent number: 9039964
    Abstract: Provided is one aspect of copper alloy sheet containing 4.5% by mass to 12.0% by mass of Zn, 0.40% by mass to 0.90% by mass of Sn, 0.01% by mass to 0.08% by mass of P, as well as 0.005% by mass to 0.08% by mass of Co and/or 0.03% by mass to 0.85% by mass of Ni, the remainder being Cu and unavoidable impurities. The copper alloy sheet satisfies a relationship of 11?[Zn]+7×[Sn]+15×[P]+12×[Co]+4.5×[Ni]?17. The one aspect of copper alloy sheet is produced by a production process including a finish cold rolling process at which a copper alloy material is cold-rolled. An average grain size of the copper alloy material is 2.0 ?m to 8.0 ?m, circular or elliptical precipitates are present in the copper alloy material, and an average particle size of the precipitates is 4.0 nm to 25.0 nm, or a percentage of precipitates having a particle size of 4.0 nm to 25.0 nm makes up 70% or more of the precipitates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Shindoh Co., Ltd., MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichiro Oishi
  • Patent number: 9040448
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a spherical mesoporous silica structure containing silver nanoparticles dispersed therein by adding a silver nitrate solution to an aqueous surfactant solution and performing a sol-gel process and to spherical mesoporous silica prepared thereby. The spherical mesoporous silica is cost-effective compared to a conventional method that uses silver nanoparticles as a raw material, because the silver nitrate solution that is inexpensive compared to silver nanoparticles is used. Also, the spherical mesoporous silica can be with high productivity in large amounts, and thus is easily commercialized. Moreover, because silver nanoparticles are incorporated into the pores of the mesoporous silica, the silver nanoparticles are used stably and do not change color and odor. In addition, the spherical mesoporous silica exhibits various additional effects, including far-infrared ray emission and deodorization, attributable to silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: THERMOLON KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung Kwon Park, Sang Cheol Han
  • Patent number: 9039849
    Abstract: Provided is a method of preparing a nanocrystalline titanium alloy at low strain to have better strength. The present invention is characterized in that an initial microstructure is induced as martensites having a fine layered structure, and then a nanocrystalline titanium alloy is prepared at low strain by optimizing process variables through observation of the effects of strain, strain rate, and deformation temperature on the changes in the microstructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Chan Hee Park, Chong Soo Lee, Sung Hyuk Park, Young Soo Chun
  • Patent number: 9039798
    Abstract: A method for making a super-hard construction comprising a first structure comprising a first material joined to a second structure comprising a second material, in which the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and Young's moduli of the materials of each material are substantially different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: ELEMENT SIX ABRASIVES S.A.
    Inventors: Lai Hong Lai Sang, Nedret Can, Tleyane Jonas Sono
  • Patent number: 9034101
    Abstract: The method includes subjecting the pozzolans in crushed state to a high energetic mechanical processing by grinding in a grinding equipment, whereby the pozzolan particles receive mechanical impulses, and the grinding is carried out for a predetermined time resulting in a compressive strength of a 2 inch side cube of mortar having 80% Portland cement and 20% natural pozzolan in a ratio of 1:2.75 to standard sand and in addition water required to obtain a flow of the mortar according to American standard ASTM C 109, which has been properly compacted under vibration and hardened at +20° C. in sealed condition, which after 28 days is ?75% of the compressive strength of a 2 inch side cube, treated as the cube, of a mortar having a ratio of Portland cement:sand of 1:2.75 and water corresponding to 48.5% of the weight of Portland cement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: PROCEDO ENTERPRISES ETABLISSEMENT
    Inventor: Vladimir Ronin
  • Patent number: 9034063
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing grooved polishing layers for use in chemical mechanical polishing pads is provided, wherein the formation of defects in the polishing layers are minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey James Hendron, Kenneth Vavala, Jeffrey Borcherdt Miller, Brian T. Cantrell, James T. Murnane, Kathleen McHugh, George H. McClain, Durron A. Hutt, Robert A. Brady, Christopher A. Young
  • Patent number: 9034064
    Abstract: Methods for preparing a silicon bonded PCD material involving a one step, double sweep process and drilling cutters made by such processes are disclosed. The PCD material includes thermally stable phases in the interstitial spaces between the sintered diamond grains. The method sweeps a diamond powder with a binder to form sintered PCD, reacts said molten binder with a temporary barrier separating said binder and said diamond from a silicon (Si) source, and sweeps said sintered PCD with said Si source to form SiC bonded PCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Inventor: Abhijit Suryavanshi